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[00:00:04] <exec> 08└─The actual cost of construction is generally not a problem. The attitude of society and the conflicting interests of the government are a problem. Case in point: Brazil's favelas. They've actually spent money attempting to remove and relocate people who built affordable housing for themselves. Note...
[00:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:06] <exec> 08└─IMHO, if you want to house the poor you're better off lobbying for alternative building codes and alternative ways to provide services (e.g., public bath rooms and showers rather than trying to put modern plumbing in every house).
[00:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:08] <exec> 08└─> a similar sized wood frame box (aka "a garage") (...). All things considered I'd prefer that to concrete any day. The termites and utilities would like to thank you. Most of the buildings in my hometown as far beyond 100 years old (that includes a 7 earthquake a few km away 110 years ago). Besides...
[00:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:10] <exec> 08└─My understanding of the favelas in Rio is that they are not up to any particular standard, somewhat hazardous to the occupants, not very sanitary, etc. So, if you're o.k. living without effective protection from insects, exposed to your neighbor's sewage, and subject to potential collapse at any tim...
[00:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:13] <exec> 08└─I'm actually somewhat in favor of reduced building code requirements for affordable housing, it's better than no building codes at all. If you want to live in a district that has communal bathrooms, that's a personal choice - maybe you're saving your money for your multi-billion startup idea and you...
[00:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:15] <exec> 08└─The construction industry around here just loves wood to death. Low cost of materials, keep most of the customer's money for your labor, and bonus remodeling and rehab work just a decade or two down the road. Trying to get a contractor to build with concrete is much more painful (expensive, and inco...
[00:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:34] <exec> 08└─Sending seems legal. The EPA operates a mail server, so, one presumes that sending them a mere email is not computer abuse. It could fall afoul of the CANSPAM act, since it certainly is spam. Merely reading the email is legal. Responding might not be legal. Here, the government employee seems to be...
[00:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:55] <exec> 08└─Aren't they the one's that sold out the kid who hacked Sarah Palin's email ages ago?
[00:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:57] <exec> 08└─+1 for PIA!
[00:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:59] <exec> 08└─I take pride in that my sores aren't syphilitic.
[00:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:01] <exec> 08└─You read the fecking article?!?!? I didnt. So suck me. Errrr...sue me. No. Just suck me.
[00:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:03] <exec> 08└─Clearly this is an attempt by Microsoft to engage developers in using/developing applications/containers/microservices for the Azure cloud. From the standpoint of getting more folks involved in development of the platform, It's probably not a bad idea for them as they attempt to increase market shar...
[00:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:16] <exec> 08└─I just hope that your VR headset comes with noise-cancelling speakers. The machine driving that many pixels isn't gonna let you hear the virtual floorboard creaks from the monster right behind you.
[00:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 2139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:18] <exec> 08└─Is that a joke? Because I don't see your point. It seems to me that foveated rendering could easily decrease the required transmission bandwidth and possibly graphics (T)FLOPS by an order of magnitude. The effect can be clearly demonstrated even when I look at this ~740x493 image [theverge.com] on a...
[00:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest U.S. Radio Company, iHeartMedia, Files for Bankruptcy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:48] <exec> 08└─After years of semiannual layoffs and nearly doing away with all local broadcasting. No fucking surprise from these wankers.
[00:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drug Offenders and Other Criminals Lumped in With Sex Offenders in Online Registries - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:09] <exec> 08└─Saying this doesn't make it so. If anything, I'm beginning to think the subhuman one here is you, not the average needle pusher...
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[00:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:46] <exec> 08└─LOL
[00:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:48] <exec> 08└─Bonita pointed out to me that it's quite common for the Canadian government to go to colossal expense to educate prospective doctors, who then go to the US because they can get paid more here. Her suggested solution is to contractually obligate Canadian medical school students to practice in Canada...
[00:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:50] <exec> 08└─When will the French learn that no one really gives a shit unless you speak English?
[01:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─This is the same GitHub that's been 'deplatforming' whoever their staffer inner-circle thinks is an Undesirable, and were the primary pusher of Codes-of-Conduct in FOSS, right? (website owners with a few users who ping the modern redefinition of Nazi, TERFs, ...)
[01:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:03] <exec> 08└─I remember when the internet had websites with content that was researched, curated, and presented with care. Now all the shitty websites just want content, whether crappy, illegal, or whatever. The owners of the websites do not want to manage the content in any way. Heck, they don't even want to cr...
[01:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:05] <exec> 08└─Exactly. How can SJW shithub object, are copyright holders not entitled to feelings about their material being redistributed without permission? Be considerate, be respectful, be hypocritical!
[01:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:08] <exec> 08└─I have a friend who is a UK citizen. He supported Brexit because the regulations created by those bureauctrats offend "the British sense of fair play".
[01:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:10] <exec> 08└─It's EU leadership and Berne Convention pushers who are pushing this pro-copyright agenda. It was bad for society 100 years ago and it is bad for society now.
[01:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:13] <exec> 08└─If you want to put your book report online, you can still do that. If you want to host 10 million porn videos, you have to steal from users.
[01:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they can shove CoC up their collective asses.... but this will punish its users too.
[01:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:20] <exec> 08└─The EU is a centrally planned economy in the making. Not all of the regulations are bad but they are driven by the round table of industrialists, passed to the unelected (by the people) commission and rubber stamped by the parliament. Europe has seen this form of governance before. [wikipedia.org]
[01:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:23] <exec> 08└─I agree, and I live in the EU. Apparently we need a nice red notice on web resources stating: this content is blocked because of EU bureaucrats and their idiot, oh sorry i meant malicious, laws.
[01:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:25] <exec> 08└─link please? I happen to be very interested in book reports.
[01:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 1920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:48] <exec> 08└─Residential construction has fallen very badly behind, and been bloated with a ton of crap. Look at the world of difference between residential and commercial. Tiltwall, in which concrete panels are made beforehand, trucked in, and installed by placing flat with the base at the final location, then...
[01:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:49] <exec> 08└─Another common mistake is building in an area subject to flooding or severe erosion. But hey, cheap land, you know? I would never move into a house below a dam or in a floodplain, but so many people are completely oblivious to such considerations.
[01:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:51] <exec> 08└─Yep. Besides, I bet in Africa it'd be cheaper to build one locally out of clay; more ecological and better life quality as well. Other options I've seen are dirt and thin weaved tree brunches covered with clay, It stays cool and dry inside when concrete is a hardship if without air-conditioning.
[01:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:55] <exec> 08└─What shouldn't be allowed are low-capital cost structures that raise overall cost of living. For example: open sewage in the streets - cost to install? $1.50 for a bucket. Cost to maintain? Hundreds of thousands to treat cholera outbreaks, etc. Better to require actual sanitary sewer accessibility a...
[01:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:57] <exec> 08└─In England upper classes live on the top of the hill, middle on the slopes, and low on the river banks. How come waterfronts are so trendy?
[01:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:00] <exec> 08└─Not to mention utilities trenched in and blumbed, permits isserd, plumbing and electrical installation by licensed professionals, inspected, then do it all again for the next house on the next postage stamp sized lots. No way anything is delivered for 10,000. ,
[01:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:20] <exec> 08└─I was referring to the same guy you thought you were referring to. I, however, mixed up his fucking name because of the vertigo-inducing quotation attribution.
[01:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:21] <exec> 08└─Easy pickings, fellow. If you're going to make a fool out of me, atleast involve something embarrassing.
[01:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Validation of an Effective, Low Cost, Free/Open-Access 3D-Printed Stethoscope - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:33] <exec> 08└─Your blog needs some dusting off, Damian.
[01:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:47] <exec> 08└─The report referenced by TFA [vpnmentor.com] includes details on the vulneabilities as well as CVE IDs (CVE-2018-7880, CVE-2018-7878, CVE-2018-7879 although MTIRE hasn't filled in any details yet). The issues appear to be implementation related problems (poorly written PAC [wikipedia.org] scripts),...
[01:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:06] <exec> 08└─A machine that computes this 20MP scene, runs the foveated algorithms, and outputs your 18G stream is, as of today, pretty f___ing loud, and not even liquid cooling is gonna make it silent. A headset receiving that much data and using it to drive a screen is also likely to need some active cooling....
[01:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and LG to Show Off World's Highest Resolution OLED-on-Glass Display in May - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:08] <exec> 08└─It's a problem desktop gamers already face with certain big, hot GPUs. I don't think VR makes the problem that much worse. AMD and Nvidia will still put out hot and loud GPUs, and some gamers will buy them and put them in SLI. However, if we are able to go the 802.11ad/ay route, you would at least b...
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[01:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:48] <exec> 08└─We need to get to where we can imagine a US doctor, hospital, or pharma doing the same thing. Healthcare needs to be about healthcare, not primarily about wealth transfer. Congrats to the reasonable folks up North.
[01:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:49] <exec> 08└─Nice, but why are canucks such passive-aggressive dicls?
[01:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:51] <exec> 08└─Well, this is true. Bringing in stinky third-world filth stretches the medical resources of civilized nations to the breaking point. There's the blood from the violence, female genital mutilation, acid-attacks and honor-killings; and more mundane stuff like burns and property damage from fires cause...
[01:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:54] <exec> 08└─Being a medical doctor started sucking decades ago. Just as there was a saturation of college nursing programs, there was a saturation of law students looking for easy money. The hours are exhausting and suck shit and you gain a real contempt for humanity because, like being a cop, you're seeing the...
[01:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:56] <exec> 08└─Canada already has a system for this: https://www.canada.ca [canada.ca] Its a good program, and I think they've found that placement retention is pretty decent too, as the people put down roots, establish connections,...
[01:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:59] <exec> 08└─Fuck! Are you back here being stupid again? I guess stupid is all you know. Please eat a dick and die. Soon.
[02:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:01] <exec> 08└─You say sooooo many stupid things. Is there anything you aren't stupid at? Serious now. Anything?
[02:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:03] <exec> 08└─Except he's trolling people like you and not being stupid. If you seriously think uneducated, sub-Saharan African males are going to be a good fit for Western Liberal democracies then it is you that is being stupid!
[02:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:25] <exec> 08└─I remember when the internet had websites with content that was researched, curated, and presented with care. Seriously when did that happen? MOST of the web has a been a steady bit-storm of poor content. I have watched it since pretty much the very beginning 'surfing the web' on mosaic, lync, and g...
[02:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:40] <exec> 08└─The hacker admitted he was worried about being caught, writing "Yes I was behind a proxy, only one, if this sh*t ever got to the FBI I was f**ked, I panicked, I still wanted the stuff out there ... so I posted the [information] ... and then promptly deleted everything, and unplugged my internet and...
[02:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 2927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:27] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried to knap sandstone? It can't be done. Glass, OTOH, works well (so obsidian was prized. Flint occurs in lots of places, but not everywhere. And, yes, if you don't have and can't get a decent stone, you use something else. But if you can trade for something better, you will. And not...
[02:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:28] <exec> 08└─Nerve cells never regenerate in adults.
[02:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:48] <exec> 08└─Oh you Microsoft shills are so clever these days. What is with the higher quality shilling? Have they started hiring from overseas now?
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[02:59:45] <exec> 08└─Cicked the link. Landed on the correct page. Read the story. Then looked at the links on the page. Sorry, University of Toronto leaves a lot to be desired. I'm left wondering what their true mission is. With a name like "University", you would suspect that they are in the business of education. The...
[02:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:46] <exec> 08└─Ho-ho, God. You're right. From the summary link I clicked on the Future Students [utoronto.ca] link because that's probably the best path to witness the extent of the indoctrination. Sure enough, all Chinks and 2 Pajeets with the only Whites being the fat Hipster Soyboy bitch and the perfect skinny...
[02:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:48] <exec> 08└─How the hell did they check their work? Maybe they went to the moon and physically counted craters to double check the results? Maybe some of those craters aren't even there, but have been extrapolated by the algorithm. To summarize the story, "Mohammed and his guesswork algorithm supposes that he c...
[03:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:06] <exec> 08└─contractually obligate Canadian medical school students to practice in Canada for a number of years You're reminding me of the comedy-drama Northern Exposure. [wikipedia.org] As a condition of his student loan, a NYC guy has to serve a quirky small town in Alaska. The series won a bunch of awards ov...
[03:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 2280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:07] <exec> 08└─Here's a story I learned about modern medicine from a good friend of mine. I'll call him Jack here, just to keep things safe. Jack worked at a hospital. By day, he was a small time programmer for the hospital, and by night he managed prostitutes. Yeah, he's that kind of guy. Anyway, he was slowly wo...
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[03:00:10] <exec> 08└─Whatever other talents EF may have, he's damned good at trolling sensitive snowflakes. That was already pointed out above, but you seem to love that trollbait. Keep crying trollbreath.
[03:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:33] <exec> 08└─I used to think the European Union was a fantastic idea. And there's still much to be said for it. If it has made total war between the European powers so prohibitively expense that it's unthinkable, then it's very good. But it is also a single point of failure. One of the strengths of Europe in all...
[03:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, who cares if the EPA loses 80 % of its scientists. It's not like the environment matters to anyone. I'm happy to breathe whatever chemicals come out of exhaust pipes and drink the water as long as it's less yellow than piss.
[03:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:38] <exec> 08└─Yep, and not just on neurogenesis... Back when I was in school, they were teaching that when a nerve is cut, that's it, it's cut - never heals. I cut the sensory nerve that serves the outside of my right pinky finger in 1983, by 1993 near normal sensation was returning to it - and the neurosurgeon w...
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[03:02:40] <exec> 08└─"Have you ever tried to knap sandstone? " You can't. Which is why you don't make points or scrapers from sandstone. I said that. "What I meant by less male dominated wasn't that the different sexes didn't have different roles, but rather that the appraisal of the value of the roles was less lop-side...
[03:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:49] <exec> 08└─"Barring DMCA issues" = "should DMCA issues not be relevant"
[03:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of a Seasonal Water Cycle and Surface Changes Found on Ceres - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:26] <exec> 08└─If you reply at a score of 2, then you prevent the parent post from getting folded out of sight when it is rated at -1
[03:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:00] <exec> 08└─> So why steal only from grad students? Especially when there are post doctoral researchers are available. One post doc had done a great dissertation and stayed on doing post doctoral research for his advisor. He was doing phenomonal work for his former advisor and still getting many single-author r...
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[03:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 2386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:46] <exec> 08└─It was an ordinary house located in a normal suburb. Or, at least, that's the conclusion that one would draw if they were to merely glance at the home and walk away. It was a superficial judgement, in other words. The inside of the house told a different story. A celebration. The man - whose name wa...
[03:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:56] <exec> 08└─Pink-haired dykes
[03:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:58] <exec> 08└─They have their 1 or 2 Pajeets/Akhmeds who believe in the cause, who are good at their work. Nice Blackboard scrawlings, in America blackboard scrawlings in the background show everybody else how smart you are. That's why in America Big Bang Theory is somehow popular. We all have a select few of tho...
[04:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:19] <exec> 08└─There are a couple of programs that teachers can use to qualify for loan forgiveness in the US. However, some of the requirements are quite strict, which has lead to the government and employers trying to play different shenanigans. But, people managed to fight through anyway and then, the Departmen...
[04:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:21] <exec> 08└─We'll take the sub-Saharan African females, because we can knock them up. Males without wealth are a waste of time and should die.
[04:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:23] <exec> 08└─i dont know, why?
[04:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:46] <exec> 08└─Witness their handling of Greece.
[04:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:48] <exec> 08└─moar jerbs for 'merkins!
[04:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:40] <exec> 08└─Careerism reveals its downside. Especially when the boss dislikes people like you and enjoys firing them.
[04:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Validation of an Effective, Low Cost, Free/Open-Access 3D-Printed Stethoscope - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:52] <exec> 08└─I bought a mechanic's stethoscope a few weeks ago from Harbor Freight for three dollars. How much more can a medical stethoscope cost?
[04:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:58] <exec> 08└─Science, mathematics and technology are like that. The knowledge that started to be formalized thousands of years ago has reached incredible heights.
[04:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Provocateur [6855] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe inevitable? Just watch https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:21] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Google donates quite a bit to Wikimedia [citation needed], and that Wikimedia has a ton of cash reserves and doesn't actually need more donations [citation needed], so this sounds like a cheap guilt trip to try to get even more donations for unknown reasons.
[04:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Did Not Inform Wikipedia of Plan to Debunk Conspiracies - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:23] <exec> 08└─Wow that one's totally off the chart. Reading the ED article [encyclopediadramatica.rs] is mandatory.
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[04:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:45] <exec> 08└─I am glad to hear it.
[04:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:47] <exec> 08└─Thats is all.
[04:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:49] <exec> 08└─Normally, I'd say de mortibus nil nisi bonum, but I think I'll make an exception for this bozo.
[05:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:00] <exec> 08└─One crater! Two craters! Three craters! ... Hahahahaha! (cue thunder)
[05:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:50] <exec> 08└─The creation of CERN had the explicit purpose of giving European countries something to do other than attack each other.
[05:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:19] <exec> 08└─You seem to be a little confused about what building codes are. They are a set of unfunded mandates and prohibitions. A building code might say "plywood used as exterior sheathing shall be of 3/8" or greater thickness." That doesn't mean that poor people are entitled to 3/8" plywood. It means that w...
[05:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:01] <exec> 08└─Did you see what they found when they did ground radar? There's a whole buried village adjacent, built in stone. Show me any migratory culture that does this. Everything about the structure, the art, the amount of work required to achieve it, the labor cost to bring in food for the builders, speaks...
[05:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:02] <exec> 08└─Consider: most of today's cities are built on top of older cities, in turn atop villages, atop someone's camp, because the same spot remains attractive to humans across time. How many layers are permanently buried beneath modern city centers?
[05:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:23] <exec> 08└─Pustules of any variety are not good news, a sign that you ought to change to a more sanitary operating system. Whether spread by congress, intercourse, registry hacking, or autoplay, any operating system that gives you sores of any kind is bad news, kind of like the "sporting girls" of old. https:...
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[05:59:45] <exec> 08└─They of clean hands.
[05:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:47] <exec> 08└─Jews.
[05:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:58] <exec> 08└─It's too late for it to do any good, he doesn't deserve a memorial, and it doesn't make us better to dance on his grave either. Sometimes death is a mercy.
[05:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:59] <exec> 08└─It was good enough for the BBC, so naw.
[06:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:12] <exec> 08└─So humans had to count 2/3rds of all craters and teach the AI what was and was not a crater. It would have been easier just to count the other third. How did the AI do when presented with random selection of craters from Mars or some other moon? And now that we know.....?
[06:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:03] <exec> 08└─All the recruiters want to know what one's GitHub is. I never fill in the blank. Doubtlessly that's why I was homeless for five years. But it seems one cannot escape the requirement that one have experience with Git. I'll set up my own Git server on my own domain, then supply its URL to body shops t...
[06:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Validation of an Effective, Low Cost, Free/Open-Access 3D-Printed Stethoscope - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:09] <exec> 08└─In a comment to the issue, maintainer "tareko" stated that the project had planned to use the TAPR OHL (this [tapr.org]).
[06:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Validation of an Effective, Low Cost, Free/Open-Access 3D-Printed Stethoscope - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:10] <exec> 08└─I've filed an issue about choosing a license [github.com], citing the summary of this story.
[06:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:20] <exec> 08└─Got a link?
[06:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:21] <exec> 08└─Thought I'd saved it, but bloody hell if I can find it offhand. If I come across it again I'll (try to remember to) post it. They had some pretty good radar images showing probably a hundred such buildings.
[06:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:43] <exec> 08└─The direction that the US is heading is that software cannot be patented, but as far as I have read no distinction is made between general purpose and dedicated system software. Business methods and formulas/algorithms are also patentable in the US. So, most businesses are still acting as if it all...
[06:04:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mobydisk [5472] 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:13] <exec> 08└─their voices could be used for Project A (Fallout 3). Project B (Fallout 4) comes along
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[06:59:53] <exec> 08└─I don't care whether my compensation comes from Oracle's or Google's slush funds.
[07:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:08] <exec> 08└─http://www.123helpme.com/search.asp?text=book+report [123helpme.com]
[07:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:10] <exec> 08└─Which repository browser and issue/pull request tracker is recommended for use on your own server? Is Savane [nongnu.org] or GitLab [gitlab.com] any good?
[07:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:12] <exec> 08└─No, the web really was better before. >mosaic, lync, and gopher Nice LARP kid. You can go back to your snapchat now.
[07:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:14] <exec> 08└─Waaaa! waaaa! American companies will take their ball and go home. Muh VPN. Muh SJWhub. Good fucking riddance. European tech companies, for Europeans people, under European privacy laws. China and Russia got this right. Their protectionism kept the dirty yanks out, and now they have strong home-grow...
[07:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:16] <exec> 08└─If you're interested, I've written a few articles analyzing aspects of books and plays. Measurement of Intelligence by Drawings by Florence Goodenough and Children's Drawings as Measures of Intellectual Maturity by Dale B. Harris [pineight.com]The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi [pineight.c...
[07:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:39] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Pretty funny for somebody using a proprietary browser by the biggest spy master around to care about lack of privacy... Protip: The small print in EULAs and TOSes isn't small by accident.
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[07:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:53] <exec> 08└─Google search results have been utter garbage for years now. They flat-out ignore even quoted keywords to offer a more advert friendly result page. You can't block the ads now because the results ARE THE ADS. Rather than being too big to fail, they're too shit to be allowed to exist. Time to break G...
[07:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:55] <exec> 08└─Amazon Alexa is my new search engine and she is in love with me.
[08:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:08] <exec> 08└─Leave it. Karma isn't real, but sometimes, the randomness of the universe makes it feel like it is and we should cherish those moments.
[08:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:09] <exec> 08└─"Karma isn't real, but sometimes, the randomness of the universe makes it feel like it is" I hope and pray you have that backwards.
[08:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:57] <exec> 08└─You linked to TechRights but, apparently, you've missed what they've been saying FOR YEARS. In effect, the Alice [wikipedia.org] case heard by SCOTUS in 2014 said that adding "with a computer" does NOT make an old idea patentable. the court found that an abstract idea could not be patented just beca...
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[08:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:45] <exec> 08└─CEO arrested for actually delivering on its promises.
[08:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:47] <exec> 08└─And it appears to be over something other than "just" supplying secure phones. https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] Rather than merely being a passive supplier of phones, the affidavit attached to the arrest warrant for Phantom Secure's CEO Vincen...
[09:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:05] <exec> 08└─THE B!TCH! after all the spying I did for her! GONNA DELETE HER SYSTEM32 NAO
[09:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:33] <exec> 08└─If they just had counted the craters by hand, you probably would never have heard about it. For the data itself, it probably would have sufficient to extrapolate the last third. I don't think a crater more or less makes a big difference in whatever they are going to use that data for.
[09:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:29] <exec> 08└─Actually I am gonna read about Pinocchio as it's the second book i'd recommend to an alien visiting the planet, the gospels being the first.
[09:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:31] <exec> 08└─I read about Pinocchio. I don't make much of that analysis though, as it seems like a trekkie approach to SF: smart, but ultimately losing itself on details. American style rationalization sometimes yields fruit, but rational analysis of complex systems leads to totally bogus result at the slightest...
[09:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:33] <exec> 08└─The future is offline.
[09:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 1993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:03] <exec> 08└─For a while, I was watching a promising new technology known as "Arxx Blocks" [ottawaicf.com]. The company that started this technology has been bought out and several others are now in on it... Insulative Concrete Forms is the new name for them. But long time ago when I first saw them, they were...
[09:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:04] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm terrible at Baseball, so I consider the score evened. I'm just glad we are not all the same.
[09:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:07] <exec> 08└─Does the dead chicken count? I was told I was to be awarded the "pullet surprise". Never believe what you hear. Wasn't quite what I expected. Get it in writing.
[09:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:16] <exec> 08└─I have no interest in helping or harming Microsoft. I got an email about this the other day and wondered it anyone who actually used Azure had any thoughts about the value of such a move and, contrariwise, what sorts of similar tools are available for other cloud platforms. Those are reasonable ques...
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[09:59:48] <exec> 08└─The crypto wars are still on, and it's still a battle of the (potentially) opressed against the (potential) opressors. The first (two-fronted) battle was availability. The second battle was usability. The third, current, battle is broad acceptance. This incident is a fallback to the first war, by pe...
[09:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:49] <exec> 08└─I hope they prevail against the government and gain more customers due to this free advertising done for them by no less than the FBI director.
[09:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:52] <exec> 08└─Same AC here: This reads like an actual drug case, not a crypto case. After having read the affidavit (a sworn statement by an FBI agent - decide yourself whether he's manufacturing evidence) here's the central points: 1. Phantom Secure has extremely good tradecraft, and it's customers are no dummie...
[09:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:54] <exec> 08└─I dunno if this is a win for the enemies of crypto. I mean, crypto did not prevent a police op to jail baddies. That is, you can permit crypto and operate in the real domain, where crimes actually happen. Sure, crypto enables criminals. So does money and banks, and weapons, and politics, and lawyers...
[10:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:12] <exec> 08└─All the big companies target schools, often much earlier than college. Get people used to your technology, get people used to thinking positive things about your company. If you do this at a young age, it tends to stick well into adulthood, even in the face of later negative information. Plus: Googl...
[10:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:40] <exec> 08└─> So humans had to count 2/3rds of all craters and teach the AI what was and was not a crater. It would have been easier just to count the other third. That was my first thought as well, but then I read the next sentence :) and found out that the student had surpassed its masters: > It worked so wel...
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[10:00:42] <exec> 08└─"There are 4000 holes in the road in Blackburn Lancashire, one twenty-sixth of a hole per person, according to a council survey. If Blackburn is typical then there are over two million holes in Britain's roads and 300 000 in London." (attributed to the 17 January 1967 Daily Mail)
[10:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:14] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean that poor people are entitled to 3/8" plywood. It means that were they to attempt building with 1/4" plywood they would be hassled by The Man.
[10:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:26] <exec> 08└─You've lost focus and are dwelling on minutia.
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[10:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 2274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:46] <exec> 08└─At one point, we (my company) were selling a product that used evolutionary mechanisms to alter digital critters, or "crits." There was an environment that contained food and hazards; the critters could mate, and you could tune the mating habits to the fitness of the crits, basically causing them to...
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[11:00:05] <exec> 08└─Gawd, it's amazing how soggy the suspension was on those cars, it's obvious even in the videos [youtube.com]. Back in the 1980s, I inherited an late 60's semi-sporty Pontiac from my grandparents. They had literally only ever driven it to the supermarket - it spent most of its life sitting, which is...
[11:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:19] <exec> 08└─remember using it in the end of 90ies... i think the nature of websites have changed in the past 25 years... also, the nature of majority of people on the web is not the same as 25 years ago, both the makers and users... things are more addy, bloggy and attentionwhorry then in the old days... but un...
[11:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:34] <exec> 08└─Nil mortifi sine lucre more likely
[11:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:36] <exec> 08└─So: "Is it, like, feel? It makes universe the - of randomness, the - sometimes, but... real isn't Karma. So...you hope and pray we're, like, stoned? Man?
[11:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:53] <exec> 08└─You know the difference between 2/3 and 1/500? Moreover I'm sure the scientists know how to select an unbiased sample, which the Daily Mail sample obviously was not.
[11:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Validation of an Effective, Low Cost, Free/Open-Access 3D-Printed Stethoscope - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks for contacting them, Pino P. Lack of a license has been a common oversight at Github which leaves many project unavailable
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[11:03:04] <exec> 08└─That's not reasonable in the case of projects that are PD.
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[11:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:44] <exec> 08└─The fact that such software is actually under public domain inside the US adds a small twist to the release process.
[12:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:03] <exec> 08└─Alas, no. The big problem is that the company's people weren't just providing better infosec for these shady characters, but they are also accused of having direct and material participation in their clients' narcotics trafficking operations. Selling security-hardened phones to people who might poss...
[12:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:05] <exec> 08└─Sadly, as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Free Software Foundation have long since discovered, you have to fight the cases for people's rights and freedoms with the cases you get handed, not the cases you want. Sometimes you have to defend the child rapist or drug smuggler if the governme...
[12:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:00] <exec> 08└─I hope they realize they're taking food from the mouths of innocent illegal aliens by doing this. And making the task more expensive to boot. Half a dozen illegals from the Home Depot parking lot, a large map, and some colored pencils would be vastly less expensive and would put money in the hands o...
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[12:59:46] <exec> 08└─Right, anything they wrote from scratch is in the public domain. Everything else remains under the license it was acquired under. Maybe someone that is in the know yet still allowed to say might shed some light on the ratios.
[12:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:54] <exec> 08└─Oh hey you were part of Digital Soup. I remember this! Kudos!
[13:00:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:02] <exec> 08└─CEO arrested for actually delivering on its promises.
[13:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:11] <exec> 08└─Points 1-3 are usually spun into a classic crypto-wars argument ... but not this time. The CEO was acutely, personally aware that he was helping drug runners (while not being aware they really were undercover agents) in at least one case.
[13:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:14] <exec> 08└─True, but then again, from what information we have, a bad law or some strange evidence isn't being used against Phantom Secure, which would make it a good case for the ACLU or EFF to get behind. It looks rather more like the police did old-fashioned investigative work on them and found that the com...
[13:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:16] <exec> 08└─Auto-correct alert! > (because courts run on president) What a terrible, terrible situation that would be. Fortunately, the courts and the president are different branches of government and the courts actually run on *precedent* :)
[13:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astro Spiral: Revisiting the Greatest Car Stunt of All Time - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:25] <exec> 08└─"50th anniversary!". Wow, thinks I. That was a long time ago. Then I read the article and realize I was 10 years old at the time. Damn, I'm getting old.
[13:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astro Spiral: Revisiting the Greatest Car Stunt of All Time - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:27] <exec> 08└─Ever drive a '68 L71 Corvette or a '69 Dodge Polara CHP Special? How about a '69 Mustang GT? I didn't think so. Generalizations are inevitably wrong.
[13:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:42] <exec> 08└─Just because Oracle is pure evil does not mean Google is good. More like two devils battling for power.
[13:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think you're talking about the same problem that the article describes. You're talking about Apple, Microsoft, and Google providing their respective products to schools at very low cost to get children accustomed to using their products. I agree it happens everywhere, and while I understand...
[13:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:19] <exec> 08└─Uh, excuse me, you fucking racist! It's pencils of color, bigot!
[13:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:43] <exec> 08└─Basically, the doctors are pointing to the supporting staff (nurses and others) and stating that they are vastly overworked and that the money for their payrise would be better spend elsewhere.
[13:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:20] <exec> 08└─??? A merkin is a pubic wig. [wikipedia.org] Should I be investing in merkin makers?
[13:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:55] <exec> 08└─If you read the article or watch the video, they're working on doing this for shanty towns in El Salvador - the places where the homes are built from metal and an earthquake kills 200,000 people. So I don't think permits and inspections are a problem, since they're replacing structures built withou...
[13:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout 3 Recreation Mod Halted After Hint of Audio Extraction Legal Issues - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:02] <exec> 08└─That was one possibility that I thought, but it depends on whether or not there's an "effective technological prevention measure". If the files are just in a zip file or just sitting on your hard drive, then there's not really a technological prevention measure.
[13:07:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Costly Journals Add Almost No Value Over Freely-Available Pre-Prints - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:07] <exec> 08└─I suppose that the protocol is: The journal receives a paper, reads it, decides after that first skim if it is worth and then sends to academics for a deeper verification.
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[13:07:13] <exec> 08└─Another huge problem is their slowness and jealousy. They take months to review a paper, and mention, over and over, that it is naughty and unethical to submit a paper to more than one journal simultaneously. So a paper gets held hostage a very long time. If it is then rejected for bad reasons, the...
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[13:59:44] <exec> 08└─Experts have called for major changes to the criminal justice system after finding innocent younger people are far more likely admit to offences, even when innocent, than adults.
[13:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:46] <exec> 08└─Plea bargaining is outright evil. Either you did it, and you deserve the full punishment, or you didn't do it, and those who have been harassing you under color of law owe you full restitution. "But we couldn't have the world's highest jail population if we had to take each one to jury trial!" Yeah....
[13:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:48] <exec> 08└─"But we couldn't have the world's highestgreatest jail population if we had to take each one to jury trial!"
[13:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:50] <exec> 08└─"teenagers should not be allowed to make deals where they face a lesser charge in return for pleading guilty" Plea bargaining was originally intended to reduce the load on the courts. Unfortunately, in many cases, it seems to have evolved into blackmail. Rather than charging someone with the crime t...
[13:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:00] <exec> 08└─Now all the gov needs to do is get an education guidepost site called "diploma.mil." And these licenses better not be GPL'ed to hell. Some of the shit I've used from the US mil (like FalconView), should've been punta domain, but some open ceres faggot got to it and ruined it for everyone. The only g...
[14:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:02] <exec> 08└─Gotta get me some targeting software, then see what I can do with a drone!!
[14:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:28] <exec> 08└─Fair 'nuff - you found some more info. But, let us remember that an affadavit is just some guy's word put into writing, for court purposes. So - Ramos is ACCUSED OF a whole buncha shit. I wonder if this isn't just a warning shot. "Anyone who goes into business making phones impossible for Gubbermint...
[14:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:29] <exec> 08└─Gun dealers *can be* held liable for murder. You run a gun shop or pawn shop in an inner city ghetto. Dude stumbles into your shop, and hollers, "I gotta kill some sumbitch - gimme something cheap, and something deadly!" And, you proceed to sell him a cheap, lethal weapon for the express purpose of...
[14:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:11] <exec> 08└─It's interesting. How the entirety of the military gangs up on whistleblowers for being snitches, and then the entirety of the netsec community gangs up on a whistleblower for being a snitch. It's almost like both sides are only in it for themselves. As much as the prevailing ethos is to take a dump...
[14:02:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 674 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:50] <exec> 08└─> a similar sized wood frame box (aka "a garage") (...). All things considered I'd prefer that to concrete any day. The termites and utilities would like to thank you. Most of the buildings in my hometown as far beyond 100 years old (that includes a 7 earthquake a few km away 110 years ago). Besides...
[14:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:07] <exec> 08└─I've read other articles about this technology, and if I remember right they pause construction at various heights to allow plumbing to be run and at other heights for electrical conduit and wiring to be run. They also leave gaps in the wall for blown insulation. And the roof was separate large piec...
[14:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:08] <exec> 08└─You have two ugly choices: add building code requirements that some people can't afford to meet, or provide degrading and likely to be dirty or dangerous communal bathrooms and kitchens. The former is not automatically the right answer, because if someone can't afford a house that meets building cod...
[14:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:11] <exec> 08└─[In Brazil] They've actually spent money attempting to remove and relocate people who built affordable housing for themselves.
[14:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:13] <exec> 08└─Residential construction has fallen very badly behind
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[14:59:46] <exec> 08└─Plea bargaining is outright evil. Either you did it, and you deserve the full punishment, or you didn't do it, and those who have been harassing you under color of law owe you full restitution. "But we couldn't have the world's highest jail population if we had to take each one to jury trial!" Yeah....
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:49] <exec> 08└─Or legal system wouldn't even be able to function without plea bargains. There is such a high volume of arrests, charges, and so many necessary steps to actually legally prosecuting crime that the judges, prosecutors, and public defenders will try to push everyone into pleading. If even a small frac...
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine is in this position right now. He was charged with shoplifting and is not guilty. (I won't go into details but there is evidence of his innocence.) He can fight it, and face stiff penalties, or take a plea deal with known, and less expensive, penalties. As it's not a class A misdem...
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─"Or legal system wouldn't even be able to function without plea bargains" Good, what we have now is tyranny. Sadly our justice system and political system is completely broken. We've made so many unnecessary laws that at any given point in time, everyone is breaking the law. So we resort to selectiv...
[14:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:56] <exec> 08└─One of the many things that the Conservative government in the UK cut in their Austerity programme was Legal Aid. This was some sort of public fund to help poor people fight legal cases. I seem to remember that you had to put up some money of your own, and the state would make a contribution. They r...
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[14:59:59] <exec> 08└─Another solution for the jail population would be to re-introduce punishments other than jail. For example: what is wrong with corporal punishment [wikipedia.org] for minor property crimes? To the extent that punishment is intended to be a deterrent, it might well be more effective than jail time, e...
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─Why would the .gov benefit from non-GPL anti-social licenses? I'd think the .gov would be better off monitoring who's redistributing changed code via the GPL.
[15:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─My gut is telling me to call you a faggot, but something else is telling me to restrain myself. The GPL would benefit me, and other people looking to utilize tax-funded research and applications software into their businesses. Like memory foam, emergency blankets, and TOR.
[15:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─Correction: non-GPL*
[15:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:15] <exec> 08└─Well, any changes to GPL'd code would have to be released as GPL as well I think but, yeah, otherwise you're correct.
[15:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:43] <exec> 08└─Independent discussion forums obviously only harbor terrorists. Otherwise the users would be on Twatter and Failbook like fair, honorable folk.
[15:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:44] <exec> 08└─Are banksters getting charged with fraud facilitated by encrypted communications? How about cops who shoot innocent people? If they are guilty, then they should be charged for the crime the committed. Encryption has nothing to do with it.
[15:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:46] <exec> 08└─Right. But Phantom Secure is like a bank which itself participated in the crimes of its customers. This case has at best a tenuous connection to the Crypto Wars given how all the evidence was got the old-fashioned way.
[15:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astro Spiral: Revisiting the Greatest Car Stunt of All Time - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:57] <exec> 08└─Forgetting that you're 60+ was probably the first symptom, no? :-)
[15:01:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:25] <exec> 08└─Leave it. Karma isn't real, but sometimes, the randomness of the universe makes it feel like it is and we should cherish those moments.
[15:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:49] <exec> 08└─That really sucks man. I did my thesis on blackboard scrawlings. I get paid a lot of money to do background scrawling for movies, newscasts, and even for academia. Now, you're telling me that some pajeets and some ragheads are moving in on my territory? I'll have to look into it.
[15:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:51] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Graphite-Americans now.
[15:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 1579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:32] <exec> 08└─Cement is expensive, $10K just for the cement, and thats marketing vapor prices... A similar sized singlewide can be made delivered and installed COTS tomorrow by expensive Americans for $25K or so. I live in a recreational state, sometimes I feel like I'm the only guy without some hunting land and...
[15:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:34] <exec> 08└─When your 3D printing process can also set pipe, run wires, install glazing, etc.
[15:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:36] <exec> 08└─I'd love something that deadens sound a ton! For the foam blocks, polystyrene foam (styrofoam) isn't all the same and there are similar foams. As long as they supplied the right material it could last. (My dad was a research chemist working on the manufacturing tech for plastics and worked with this...
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[15:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─Now this is one of those things that makes me love humanity. Either that or because I'm already drunk. " While cannons and other artillery were often fired to help guide ships safely across St. Augustine's protective sandbar, they were also shot off during times of public celebrations and religious...
[15:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:49] <exec> 08└─I boned an Irish girl for years.
[15:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:59] <exec> 08└─"teenagers should not be allowed to make deals where they face a lesser charge in return for pleading guilty" Plea bargaining was originally intended to reduce the load on the courts. Unfortunately, in many cases, it seems to have evolved into blackmail. Rather than charging someone with the crime t...
[16:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:05] <exec> 08└─People admit to things they didn't do because they understand that innocent people go to jail, and the whole process is a gamble. If you are not guilty and say "not guilty", there's say a 1 in 4 chance you'll be found guilty anyway (especially if you're black), and your life is over and you get 20 y...
[16:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:08] <exec> 08└─Shoplifting?! Hahahahah, come on, man. At least man up and do the crime the cool kids do -- vandalism. Shoplifting is the "mommy and daddy don't pay any attention to me" crime. Unless that shoplifting involves bringing a truck or panel van up to the warehouse and taking off with boxes and pallets of...
[16:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:10] <exec> 08└─Worse than that. As a good attorney would explain to one, only total idiot - probably criminal idiot - would try to fight the system on the odds like that. Jurors instinctively know it and vote accordingly.
[16:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:12] <exec> 08└─It is not broken - it works as designed.
[16:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:14] <exec> 08└─Regardless of his actions and the results, he will never get any good employment. I hope he understands and plans his future life accordingly.
[16:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:29] <exec> 08└─So you think the government, or other large institutions, or the individuals in those institutions, always does whatever benefits the general public the most? Thats... quaint. That would be an interesting way to organize large institutions, but the real world don't work that way and never will. bene...
[16:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:38] <exec> 08└─Coincidentally, I was watching yesterday Max Tegmark talk [youtube.com] at Google about AI safety. TFA gives a lot of food for thought about how nature will find and exploit any loopholes; how difficult it is to place constrains and how surprising some solutions are. Somewhere (I forgot where) I rea...
[16:00:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:58] <exec> 08└─Gun dealers *can be* held liable for murder. You run a gun shop or pawn shop in an inner city ghetto. Dude stumbles into your shop, and hollers, "I gotta kill some sumbitch - gimme something cheap, and something deadly!" And, you proceed to sell him a cheap, lethal weapon for the express purpose of...
[16:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:02] <exec> 08└─Here's where that "specific knowledge" part comes into play. Was the statement believable, or was it something like "duuude, I'm totally using this to sell drugs, it's wicked"? And how did he respond? A) "Great, keep up the good work, here's your phones." B) "We do not condone our product being used...
[16:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:04] <exec> 08└─Secure phones kill people.
[16:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:48] <exec> 08└─I'm sick of most the comments above - no matter how despicable in life, every human deserves the minimal respect of her/his dead not being transformed into a celebration. It's disgusting. I may fuck you hard while alive, but I promise I'll not dance on your grave - everyone has the right to push up...
[16:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:49] <exec> 08└─How is this different from "If it's good for Wall Street, it's good for me as well?"
[16:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:55] <exec> 08└─Rooftop solar is another that's run afoul of city ordinances
[16:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are being sarcastic. But in our area, during the last residential building boom, builders would set up a new corp, build a bunch of houses using cheap/shoddy methods, sell the houses to people who can't see inside the walls, then dissolve the corp and disappear. rinse and repeat. The homeo...
[16:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:21] <exec> 08└─Also, even if it isn't a computer security problem, it looks like one. Any employee who would answer it is an employee who would fall victim to phishing or click to install malware.
[16:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:23] <exec> 08└─Union of Concerned Scientists IS a hostile political organization
[16:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:25] <exec> 08└─A spokesman for EPA said it didn't make sense to him that employees would be afraid to fill out the survey since it is anonymous but declined to comment further.
[16:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:53] <exec> 08└─Here's a question I grapple with: what is the most advanced technology that could have existed before the end of the last ice age without us having good evidence for it today?
[16:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homo Sapiens Began Advanced Toolmaking, Pigment Use, and Trade Earlier Than Previously Thought - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:55] <exec> 08└─taught certainties and absolutes.
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[16:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:45] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, the wicked FCC is helping support robocallers! prohibit calls from any smartphone
[16:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:55] <exec> 08└─Sure you did... And I boned a St Pauli girl [calmontbeverage.com] for years...
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─American laws such as "discharging a firearm within city limits" really drive the point home that we have too many commie pinkos in government.
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Provocateur [6855] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:59] <exec> 08└─It's a good enough reason to visit St Agustine, or Florida (if you haven't been). But any day is good enough to make coffee Irish coffee, that is. Clip: https://www.foodnetwork.com [foodnetwork.com]
[17:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:02] <exec> 08└─And I boned a St Pauli girl [calmontbeverage.com] for years...
[17:00:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:15] <exec> 08└─"Or legal system wouldn't even be able to function without plea bargains" Good, what we have now is tyranny. Sadly our justice system and political system is completely broken. We've made so many unnecessary laws that at any given point in time, everyone is breaking the law. So we resort to selectiv...
[17:00:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 836 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:17] <exec> 08└─Another solution for the jail population would be to re-introduce punishments other than jail. For example: what is wrong with corporal punishment [wikipedia.org] for minor property crimes? To the extent that punishment is intended to be a deterrent, it might well be more effective than jail time, e...
[17:00:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 551 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:19] <exec> 08└─People admit to things they didn't do because they understand that innocent people go to jail, and the whole process is a gamble. If you are not guilty and say "not guilty", there's say a 1 in 4 chance you'll be found guilty anyway (especially if you're black), and your life is over and you get 20 y...
[17:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:25] <exec> 08└─> what is wrong with corporal punishment You'll know as soon as someone dies from it (directly or indirectly) or suffers crippling injuries.
[17:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:27] <exec> 08└─Or legal system wouldn't even be able to function without plea bargains.
[17:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:30] <exec> 08└─For example: what is wrong with corporal punishment [wikipedia.org] for minor property crimes?
[17:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:32] <exec> 08└─People admit to things they didn't do because they understand that innocent people go to jail, and the whole process is a gamble.
[17:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:34] <exec> 08└─That's one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
[17:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:36] <exec> 08└─If you stick it out long enough, the deals will tend to get better because there is more and more pressure from the prosecutors office to get that case closed and off the books. Plus, they don't want to slow down the factory in order to actually take a case like that to trial (the real exception dep...
[17:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:39] <exec> 08└─Torture? Um...not really. Torture implies some sadistic or ulterior motive. Why is inflicting physical pain as punishment morally worse than depriving someone of their physical freedom? Serious question. Seems to me that prison is a far harsher penalty, by almost any measure.
[17:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:41] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine is in this position right now. He was charged with shoplifting and is not guilty. (I won't go into details but there is evidence of his innocence.)
[17:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:43] <exec> 08└─The kid is caught doing something wrong. In reality, it's a minor offense. But the prosecutor sees an opportunity, so he and the cops conspire to bury the kid in dozens of charges. The kid is dumb, and thinks that he WILL be buried, so he takes the plea deal. Instead of the single stupid minor offen...
[17:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:59] <exec> 08└─Even Joe Shit the ragman could roll his own nowadays. OpenCV plus Haar cascades and a few more clever tricks could accomplish this. The problem with good American drones is that they're android-based and locked down. They are prevented from flying in certain zones. You don't have a say in that. Your...
[17:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:01] <exec> 08└─They are prevented from flying in certain zones. ... Your drone won't even take off.
[17:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:35] <exec> 08└─Fair 'nuff - you found some more info. But, let us remember that an affadavit is just some guy's word put into writing, for court purposes. So - Ramos is ACCUSED OF a whole buncha shit.
[17:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:36] <exec> 08└─Nope. These are not secure as Apple phones and not as secure as regular Android phones. Read the summary: ...we will terminate the use of our service without notice...
[17:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─Supporting academia financially - great. Creating shills that way - not so great. Google is funding some organisations considerably, eg. Alexander von Humboldt Institute for internet and society. A German documentary highlighted this: https://youtu.be [youtu.be] The whole docume...
[17:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:24] <exec> 08└─yeah what did he do again? He didn't hit my radar of fucktwats in IT. the facebook guy can't suffer an timely demise soon enough. same with that ex uber ceo and a number of IT exectuves that make real decisions that sell out privacy for profit while only have a concern for the little person so that...
[17:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:26] <exec> 08└─I'm sick of most the comments above - no matter how despicable in life, every human deserves the minimal respect of her/his dead not being transformed into a celebration.
[17:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:13] <exec> 08└─Bonita pointed out to me that it's quite common for the Canadian government to go to colossal expense to educate prospective doctors, who then go to the US because they can get paid more here.
[17:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Privacy-Busting Bugs Found in Popular VPN Services - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:34] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that you have to have 7 proxies.
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[17:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:46] <exec> 08└─"any uninvited call or message from the device is a statutory violation,"
[17:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not a particularly phone-oriented person. I rarely give out my number, never into any webforms. As such I rarely get unwanted calls. If it ever becomes a problem, it's easy to install any of the many "whitelist" apps. https://apkpure.com [apkpure.com]
[17:59:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:59] <exec> 08└─American laws such as "discharging a firearm within city limits" really drive the point home that we have too many commie pinkos in government.
[18:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:03] <exec> 08└─St. Patrick's Day celebrations did not start in Boston, rather at least 100 years earlier in St. Augustine, Florida I had assumed being an IRISH holiday it had originated in Ireland. Considering Boston has many Irish descendants it would make sense they celebrate it there. In Ireland it is a nationa...
[18:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:05] <exec> 08└─We have lots of overly restrictive laws in large part because stupid people did something that anyone with common sense would not have done, and messed it up for everyone else.
[18:00:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1485 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:17] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine is in this position right now. He was charged with shoplifting and is not guilty. (I won't go into details but there is evidence of his innocence.) He can fight it, and face stiff penalties, or take a plea deal with known, and less expensive, penalties. As it's not a class A misdem...
[18:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:36] <exec> 08└─You only think it's dumb, because you don't understand how background checks work. The background check looks for "arrest records", not "convictions". The police maintain records of arrests, independently of any court records. An arrest is a permanent record. You will be barred from a lot of lucrati...
[18:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:37] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I will be helping my friend if he wants it and I've already become familiar with the Rules of Procedure for my state. I will be drafting a letter this weekend requesting copies of evidence referenced during discovery documents provided by the prosecutors office. I know where to find the...
[18:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:39] <exec> 08└─Because there was no arrest, only a summons given. Had he been taken to the station that would be different.
[18:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:42] <exec> 08└─You've set the situation up as a completely rational decision. But grown adults can be worn down by lengthy, repetitive, and hostile police interrogation. They can also be lied to by the police: "Just sign this confession and we'll make sure to use it to get the real killer!" Finally, if we are talk...
[18:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:44] <exec> 08└─Prison often includes torture. What's more, the "tough on crime" authoritarian bootlickers like it that way.
[18:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:46] <exec> 08└─:-(
[18:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:49] <exec> 08└─IANAL but I've had to study and prepare for court (pro se) a few times. I believe the plaintiff must file all discovery documents with the court, and prove they have sent copies to defendant. You have to be able / allowed to prove your innocence, and to do that you need all evidence well before cour...
[18:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:51] <exec> 08└─Wait. Spanking a child that has ignored multiple verbal warnings, timeouts and "consequences", but has continued with an unacceptable and publicly disruptive behavior is torture? You must led a blessed life if you've never been in a market and encountered a child creating a major disruption while th...
[18:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:53] <exec> 08└─That's part of it. Another part of the story: Let's say you're a public defender who has 25 cases to work on that week (many are more overworked than that). Now consider the difference in your workload between going to trial and having your client plead guilty. Your salary is a joke, and you don't g...
[18:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:11] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/nasa [github.com] including NASTRAN, to my amazement I wonder how much of the old COSMIC library that Georgia Tech took care of for them still survives
[18:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 2028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ [damninteresting.com] In a unique laboratory in Sussex, England, a computer carefully scrutinized every member of large and diverse set of candidates. Each was evaluated dispassionately, and assigned a numeric score according to a strict set...
[18:01:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 959 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:30] <exec> 08└─And it appears to be over something other than "just" supplying secure phones. https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] Rather than merely being a passive supplier of phones, the affidavit attached to the arrest warrant for Phantom Secure's CEO Vincen...
[18:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:50] <exec> 08└─Sworn testimony by the FBI? LOL
[18:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astro Spiral: Revisiting the Greatest Car Stunt of All Time - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:01] <exec> 08└─60s American cars had awfully long wheelbases resulting in huge turning radius regardless of the stiffness or quality of the suspension. It was acceptable for the States since the roads were built to accommodate trucks with similarly large turning radii. But in some European and Asian countries, a "...
[18:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astro Spiral: Revisiting the Greatest Car Stunt of All Time - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:02] <exec> 08└─What particular model and year Pontiac was it?
[18:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:21] <exec> 08└─After all the bad that huge corporations have been caught doing lately, you'd think someone in governments would think"time to break these feckers up". But I guess they can't see over the pile of money they get from these huge corporations.
[18:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not glad he's dead - I'm glad he's gone.
[18:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:45] <exec> 08└─What's "a Blighty"? Blighty is slang for a country, namely Britain. I'll translate into American for you - you're essentially saying "killing an America" but using colloquial slang. Only Brits call Britain Blightly.
[18:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:47] <exec> 08└─Really? So how about those ISIS that raped innocent children and women? How about Hitler and related that systematically sent children and others to gas chambers?? How about the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar?
[18:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:49] <exec> 08└─He was gone well before he died - rejoicing his death would be pointless.
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[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─It will soon be April 2018 and you computer will still be pwnable by a Web simple page. It happened in 2017 [zerodayinitiative.com] too and even on Mac (3 different ways) [securityzap.com] and in 2012 [zdnet.com], for multiple browser/OSes [arstechnica.com] My points: - what's the point of highlight...
[18:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, my Win7 VM? Whoop-de-stupid-doo, I'll just roll back to a nightly snapshot. Windows has long since proven that it's too insecure and fragile to be installed on the bare metal. If MS is smart, they'll make the user component of Windows 11 or whatever a virtual machine inside a very slim, stripped...
[18:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:52] <exec> 08└─It's any month and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article Windows has always been as easy to penetrate as a tissue paper, thanks to their obsession with integrating everything and letting all processes talk to each other. It was designed for Personal Computers with the ignorant idea that only...
[19:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:15] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely correct - St Patrick has been revered in Ireland since the second half of the 4th century. It has been a religious festival (aka Feast Day) since that time. Only relatively recently has that changed into the sort of celebrations that we see today.
[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:55] <exec> 08└─Even if true it's pretty dumb! :)
[19:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, then there's that. Jokes about "sphincter control problems", as though prison assault and rape is supposed to be part of the punishment. The US prison system is a sick place, and some USAians are pretty sick in their joking acceptance of this situation.
[19:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:59] <exec> 08└─Torture implies the the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty. [dictionary.com]. Why is inflicting physical pain as punishment morally worse than depriving someone of their physical freedom?
[19:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:01] <exec> 08└─The alternate effect of that could be to induce legislators to establish more courtrooms, which would be the other obvious solution to this problem. About 1/3 of people who graduate from law school don't actually end up working in law, so we have the people available to give a lot more people proper...
[19:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:03] <exec> 08└─Welcome to cognitive dissonance. It's a bitch isn't it? Spanking a child that has ignored multiple verbal warnings, timeouts and "consequences", but has continued with an unacceptable and publicly disruptive behavior is torture?
[19:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:05] <exec> 08└─A single solid smack on the butt will enforce the conditioning that "break the rules==get punished".
[19:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:08] <exec> 08└─Spanking a child that has ignored multiple verbal warnings, timeouts and "consequences", but has continued with an unacceptable and publicly disruptive behavior is torture?
[19:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:10] <exec> 08└─Shoplifting is the "mommy and daddy don't pay any attention to me" crime.
[19:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:12] <exec> 08└─The state should always be forced to provide you with an public defender if they're the ones charging you. It's yet another example of how corrupt and unjust our system is.
[19:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:15] <exec> 08└─I had a case where they grilled a guy for an hour and a half. He never relented the whole time. Finally, they said, "Well, we have a summary of what was said here. Just sign it and we'll let you go." The guy signed it and they put him in cuffs. Turns out that the "summary" was actually a confession...
[19:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
[19:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astro Spiral: Revisiting the Greatest Car Stunt of All Time - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:23] <exec> 08└─Being a moderately strong car enthusiast I have to disagree; the wheelbase had nothing to do with it. Many cars have intentionally limited steering "bump stops" to try to reduce rollovers. In some cases they just didn't design in enough room between the frame and wheel, so they had to limit the stee...
[19:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:08] <exec> 08└─He was a real lamo.
[19:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Doctors: Cancel Our Pay Rise and Spend Money Elsewhere - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:55] <exec> 08└─The actual series: https://archive.org [archive.org] Though it's missing some of the original music (more on that here: https://vimeo.com). [vimeo.com] It's rumored the German DVD box set titled "Ausgerechnet Alaska - Die komplette Serie in limitierter...
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[19:59:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 621 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:48] <exec> 08└─It's any month and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article Windows has always been as easy to penetrate as a tissue paper, thanks to their obsession with integrating everything and letting all processes talk to each other. It was designed for Personal Computers with the ignorant idea that only...
[19:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:50] <exec> 08└─Pwn2Own 2018: - day 1 [thezdi.com] - along the bugs in other software, in the browser category: Safari on Mac, Edge on Windows and again Safari on Mac - day 2 [thezdi.com] - browsers: Firefox on Windows fell first, followed by Safari on Mac (on the 4-th attempt, thus no prize) and again a Safari on...
[19:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 1865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:52] <exec> 08└─And that solves what problem? If viewing a webpage allows access to all of the information stored on the machine, including any network shares, rolling back a snapshot accomplishes what? Windows and the entire computing philosophy it embodies, which now dominates the industry, must go. Must be decla...
[19:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:54] <exec> 08└─According to VMWare ( https://kb.vmware.com [vmware.com] ) you need guest, host and hw microcode patches to mitigate Meltdown/Spectre style speculative attacks. Or in other words, you still need to trust Microsoft and Intel to do their job and do it well. Which to me, defeats the pur...
[19:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:57] <exec> 08└─Mah nishtanah, ha-laylah ha-zeh, mi-kol ha-leylot? Just sayin'.
[20:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:08] <exec> 08└─I've been following this case very closely and was getting really worried that a ruling the other way. If they had, I would, sadly, no longer receive calls from fine folks over at 'Cardmember Services' who are just so diligent at wanting to reduce my interest rates, or those wonderful customer servi...
[20:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:10] <exec> 08└─It should be relatively simple to address this, so that wrong numbers and "that drunken jerk who *someone* brought to your last party finagled your phone number so he could worm his way onto the guest list for the next one "cuz you got all the cuties at yo' parties! Especially that brunette with the...
[20:00:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 1040 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:54] <exec> 08└─The kid is caught doing something wrong. In reality, it's a minor offense. But the prosecutor sees an opportunity, so he and the cops conspire to bury the kid in dozens of charges. The kid is dumb, and thinks that he WILL be buried, so he takes the plea deal. Instead of the single stupid minor offen...
[20:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:15] <exec> 08└─However that poor innocent chap still had a horendous time, including being detained for a crime he didn't commit, probably had his name in the papers, accusations about 'no smoke without fire' for the rest of his life, not to mention the cost of a defence lawyer. The cops in question should be payi...
[20:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I'm stupid then because I would fight tooth and nail to preserve my reputation. And have a high chance of losing your job, house, kids and freedom?
[20:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:18] <exec> 08└─Well, I agree with you as far as not showing all your cards. However, it must be known that you're willing to take it to the mat. I'll never appear to operate from fear. I appreciate your input very much and will incorporate it into our strategy, where applicable.
[20:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:21] <exec> 08└─Because no other form of punishment is nearly as profitable as prison, and profit is the true motive.
[20:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:23] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine would steal ~100$ worth of steal and liquor daily from local grocery stores. Now the steaks have anti theft devices on them.
[20:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:25] <exec> 08└─Yep. Being accused of any kind of theft is worse than being convicted of murder for a lot of jobs.
[20:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:54] <exec> 08└─The first problem (there are many others) when trying to implement Asimov's three laws is trying to define "human" so that a robot will understand it in a way acceptable to you.
[20:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astro Spiral: Revisiting the Greatest Car Stunt of All Time - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:35] <exec> 08└─Sure, the spiral dropped my jaw to the ground. But the Bond stunt that really broke my brain starts at 3:50: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:44] <exec> 08└─Like us Americans did. Once it gets too full it will breach a levee and empty itself back out :) How did YOU think he planned to drain the swamp?
[20:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:46] <exec> 08└─Possibly I will find out this weekend
[20:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Union of Concerned Scientists Email Survey Flagged as Spam Within EPA - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:57] <exec> 08└─I modded you funny because of this: Boomers getting replaced by somewhat more reality based younger people.
[20:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Open Sources Azure Service Fabric - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:53] <exec> 08└─With the courts slapping these things down time and again, they will only issue new software patents if they are in the mood to look foolish. Patent trolls especially are affected. They now know that pressing a software patent case will not only have them losing the case, the court will, in no uncer...
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[20:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LiDAR Scans Are Finding Hidden Roman Roads And Cutting Crime - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:47] <exec> 08└─Isn't it great when you can get professors, history buffs and "Concerned Citizens" arguing for your technology budget! "Roman Roads" "Archaeology" "History" "Policing" "Spying"
[20:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LiDAR Scans Are Finding Hidden Roman Roads And Cutting Crime - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:48] <exec> 08└─Archaeology is not a new application for LIDAR: LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures [soylentnews.org]
[21:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:14] <exec> 08└─. . . . . [click]
[21:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:24] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine is in this position right now. He was charged with shoplifting and is not guilty. (I won't go into details but there is evidence of his innocence.) He can fight it, and face stiff penalties, or take a plea deal with known, and less expensive, penalties. As it's not a class A misdeme...
[21:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:26] <exec> 08└─Cool, thanks. My only concern is that you're on their turf, and they're very aggressive, gotta win at all costs. They'll lie and cheat because they're pretty sure they'll get away with it. They love intimidating. You can't hide that you're willing to fight, but don't inspire them, it won't help your...
[21:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:58] <exec> 08└─I never had an amiga, but I remember hearing about a few of these as examples of why they were so much better than PCs (along with Video Toaster and some of the other well known software.) Cool to know we have such interesting characters amongst our membership, even if we don't always get along.
[21:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims Google Has Paid Tens of Millions of Euros to Academic Institutions for Influence - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:58] <exec> 08└─With the tech company he worked for 20 years ago. He's also got hostilities against 'the other team's company as well. It's disappointing, but not unexpected. I on the other hand learned early and continue to learn not to trust anyone, corporate or person, because in the end, whether they are your b...
[21:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:26] <exec> 08└─He was pulling this shit as soon as he was 'out on parole.' At 2600 meetings and the like, trying to dig up dirt on people he could use as an informant. The Bradley Manning limeline just proved that all the hackers who'd nudged and sshhed and said not to talk around him were right. This is also why...
[21:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should contribute something to the Community Reviews nexus.
[21:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Startup Can 3D Print Small Homes in 12-24 Hours, for Up to $10,000 Each - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:40] <exec> 08└─You and AC are both arguing against strawmen while missing the point. I didn't see anyone in the thread suggest that regulations relating to basic safety should be removed altogether. The question here is how overly extravagent building codes can help poor people who are living in cardboard boxes be...
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[21:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LiDAR Scans Are Finding Hidden Roman Roads And Cutting Crime - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:48] <exec> 08└─"32 million football pitches" I think that should be (for the benefit of American readers): 32 million soccer pitches.
[21:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LiDAR Scans Are Finding Hidden Roman Roads And Cutting Crime - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:50] <exec> 08└─Or for the benefit of anyone on this site..not a sports analogy.
[21:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LiDAR Scans Are Finding Hidden Roman Roads And Cutting Crime - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:52] <exec> 08└─Let us contemplate exactly what is the "velocity of time". One might be tempted to say "about one second per second".
[22:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:05] <exec> 08└─Eh, I only ever use the VM a couple hours a month to run my MIDI sequencer, so no big deal if it gets pwn3d, really. Still, less for security purposes than for purposes of "shit, dad downloaded something bad off that porn site again" I think we should have snapshots integrated right into the OS and...
[22:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:18] <exec> 08└─So political and religious propaganda is ok?
[22:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:20] <exec> 08└─Yup.
[22:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:36] <exec> 08└─behavior that can be criminalized is already criminalized. Accidentally shooting people because you waved a gun around in your bedroom? Criminal negligence.
[22:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:34] <exec> 08└─Say what? You _do_ hold the position that corporal punishment is morally worse than imprisonment, so - yes you do need to defend this. BTW, you definition of torture agrees with mine, and does not apply to judicially administered punishment.
[22:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:06] <exec> 08└─> The first problem (there are many others) when trying to implement Asimov's three laws is trying to define "human" so that a robot will understand it in a way acceptable to you. Come on people it's easy, just use some suitably tuned IR sensor to target the meatbags, they are resilient but easy to...
[22:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:08] <exec> 08└─This is the real path for artificial life. Or better, artificially facilitated life, not those androids, not those simulation of organic beings or processes. Life's goal is persistence, because all other goals tend to destroy the creature. The characteristics of life make a better persistence. Even...
[22:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:36] <exec> 08└─I'd take their word over yours any day. And twice on Sundays.
[22:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:38] <exec> 08└─The FBI's press release makes it seem like they are able to arrest people for operating darknets. They aren't. You can view the indictment which I've uploaded a copy of here: https://rpnx.net [rpnx.net] Two things are notable: 1) They (the executives) were basicall...
[22:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CEO Charged With Providing Security to Criminals - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe HSBC will file an amicus brief for them. In other news, the War on Drugs is still dumb.
[22:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:41] <exec> 08└─And often to those who don't. How does that bit go? "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality." --Emily Dickinson
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[22:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:46] <exec> 08└─np
[22:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:48] <exec> 08└─which would have strong appeal to non-adult players
[22:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:50] <exec> 08└─But we aren't allowed to virtually get ours? (Go read up on Parliament sex crimes sometime.)
[22:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:52] <exec> 08└─Import hundreds of thousands of people that enjoy sometimes forced child rape... Yep, good plan for Sadiq's London.
[22:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:56] <exec> 08└─kids watching road runner might think they can run off a cliff as long as they don't look down
[22:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:58] <exec> 08└─Charles Darwin. Great Brit.
[23:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LiDAR Scans Are Finding Hidden Roman Roads And Cutting Crime - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I had to look that one up (before coming to the comments page). The thing is, unlike USAian hand-egg playing fields, which are always 100 yards from goal line to goal line and 60 yards from sideline to sideline, a soccer playing field can range from 100 yards to 130 yards long and 50 yards to...
[23:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LiDAR Scans Are Finding Hidden Roman Roads And Cutting Crime - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:13] <exec> 08└─Neither Wired[1] nor the gov.uk page defines what makes something a Roman road. I picture a thing paved with closely-spaced uniform flat stones. That must have taken a huge amount of effort. ...and why are they unknown; why weren't they used from that point onward? ...or were these "roads" simply di...
[23:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LiDAR Scans Are Finding Hidden Roman Roads And Cutting Crime - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:15] <exec> 08└─a [football pitch] can range from 100 yards to 130 yards long and 50 yards to 100 yards wide. So, not an especially useful metric.
[23:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:29] <exec> 08└─i expected someone else to make your original comment. you are better than that sort of arrogance through ignorance! but i guess if you didnt know... well ignorance is better than arrogance, because ignorance can be cured.
[23:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's March 2018 and Your Windows PC Can Be Pwned By a Web Article - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:31] <exec> 08└─Developers would have us believe that the web browser is the OS now. The concept of a personal computer with one user in control is gone. Instead it's a "device" controlled by remote entities: MS, Apple, Google, data miners, ad networks, whoever.
[23:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:46] <exec> 08└─too bad i can't block all that shit on my home phone. there is no app for that. and like hell I will pass it through google or something because of someone elses idea of how to get privacy installed. i bought a phone that i can add numbers to a block list, but there is no actual white list for it......
[23:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:48] <exec> 08└─T-Mobile labels some calls as likely scams, I'm curious how they go about that, I assume it's either by the volume of calls from a number or because they know it's a spoofed number. I remember one time getting a phone call from the same phone that it was calling. At some point, the telephone compani...
[23:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:50] <exec> 08└─All they need to do is to hold telecoms accountable for what spoofed numbers do if they can't identify the caller. And if phone users were offered the option to only have the phone ring for calls in their phone book. Those two measures alone would more or less kill the industry that makes money thro...
[23:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Appeals Court Nixes Some FCC Rules on Robocalls - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:52] <exec> 08└─We here at the Direct Marketing Association understand your concerns. Which is why we give you the opportunity to opt out of calls from us. Please post your name, address (no PO boxes please) and telephone number here and on any other sites that you frequent. We will be sure to remove you from all m...
[23:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:09] <exec> 08└─an alcohol free beer?
[23:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth Behind St. Patrick's Day: Celebrations Did Not Originate in Boston - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:10] <exec> 08└─yes, it seems to be a holiday used for non-Irish people in the US to act more... well the people I am referring to are all already pretty stupid, boorish, and hung over at work. To them, it should be a day off--and the day after, too, because work gets in the way of a holiday that regular people don...
[23:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:10] <exec> 08└─No, I hold the position that both are immoral unless we have to to isolate a person from society either for their protection or for the protection of those around them. I would rather society acts to minimize harm and only imprison people if it's necessary to prevent further harm. Furthermore I hold...
[23:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 2913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. "Spare the rod, spoil the child" is yet another example of Iron Age thinking that would be best retired. Spanking is the wrong way to condition kids. It rarely works as supposedly intended, more often pushing the child into defiance and rebelliousness. Worse, it can break the spirit. And it can...
[23:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenagers More Likely to Plead Guilty to Crimes They Didn't Commit - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:13] <exec> 08└─Thank you. As stated earlier there is no threat of jail time or probation.
[23:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Code.mil Serves as Guidepost for Releasing Custom US Government Software as FOSS - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:32] <exec> 08└─I was inflammatory in my original response, I must apologize before we continue. I don't believe any large groups do anything for anyone unless they receive some benefit from it. In my case, I was not believing that the US government was going to publish their software not under GPL because it benef...
[23:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adrian Lamo Dies at Age 37 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:20] <exec> 08└─I knew the brits called Germans Jerries, but I forgot what they called themselves in the same tense. So I used Blighties, knowing most would understand the point I was getting across -- or hoped at least.
[23:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Count Craters on the Moon - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:42] <exec> 08└─Whoosh!
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[23:59:50] <exec> 08└─The misdeeds of others do not mean you should be permitted to commit similarly reprehensible behavior.
[23:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─*virtually/imaginarily reprehensible behavior
[23:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:54] <exec> 08└─Import hundreds of thousands of people that enjoy sometimes forced child rape...
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[23:59:56] <exec> 08└─In looking through Omega Labyrinth Z pictures and videos, I was expecting this game to be a PS4-sponsored hentai JRPG. What I got was the equivalent of Honey Pop without any sex scenes. The game can't even be called sexual, unless you have a fetish for low-polygon chibis (though, I know the FBI crac...
[23:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Bans a Video Game for the First Time in 10 Years - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:58] <exec> 08└─It's fine. People can still easily download the game online. Apparently, these retards have never heard of the Streisand effect. The US seems overall okay when it comes to freedom of speech when compared to countries like the UK, or perhaps even all other countries. It's sad that the bar is so low.