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[00:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:01] <exec> 08└─I saw a fenced highway in Banff National Park. It had underpasses here and there to enable animals to migrate.
[00:00:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 683 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:33] <exec> 08└─Humans know how to make concrete bridges that span over 300m long, supporting many highway lanes. This is/was a 53m pedestrian bridge, unloaded. It should have been a piece of cake from a technology standpoint. Let's not blame the materials for the incompetence of the design and execution. And yes,...
[00:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:40] <exec> 08└─While these videos provide some potential insight, and possibly a root cause, let us not make any assumptions as to the actual accuracy of the claims. It may be months before the NTSB report comes out.
[00:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:42] <exec> 08└─From what we know now, there were cracks that had been discovered previously and weren't considered to be important structurally. The big question though is why they were tightening cables while cars were running underneath. Especially in light of the cracks.
[00:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:45] <exec> 08└─At one time prestressed concrete was widely employed. It fell out of style when the roof of a high school gym collapsed.
[00:00:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 671 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:59] <exec> 08└─Education is about giving people the ability to understand the world around them generally, and more specific knowledge about one or a few aspects of the world. And to give them the opportunity (should they desire it) to broaden their horizons, helping them become better informed and better equipped...
[00:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:12] <exec> 08└─I don't believe in letting advertisers off with a defense of they should have known we were lying. If she had any mis-understandings, it was exactly what the school intended for her to mis-understand. She took them at their word and they didn't deliver. Why should they profit from that?
[00:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:13] <exec> 08└─Not if they didn't advertise as such. I see colleges advertisements all the time saying folks should sign up with them to get the degree that will give them employment opportunities. I say its fair play if they can't deliver on that.
[00:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:16] <exec> 08└─Horseshit. An old man like you has no place saying what should be. You ruined the world and now expect us youngsters to follow ideals suitable for the times you grew up in and wasted. It's a savage concrete jungle now old man you don't waste time fucking around lest you and all your descendents end...
[00:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:18] <exec> 08└─"The World owes me!" You clearly aren't a Socialist. You have absolutely no understanding of the term. You are a leech. You sound like the "welfare queen" that Reagan claimed existed in such abundance. A Socialist would say "You appear to also be quite skilled at what you do. Would you like to join...
[00:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah. We had a series of stories [soylentnews.org] about places that made bogus claims about job placement for their graduates. The Education Department (before DeVos) came down on them like a ton of bricks. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:22] <exec> 08└─No, its wong, not wrong. Wong thinking degree equals top job 5 seconds after graduation. Sorry dear millennial asian, several years of hard slog might bring you success, and success is never guaranteed in life.
[00:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:02] <exec> 08└─640kb should be enough for anyone.
[00:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:04] <exec> 08└─Too funny. Your brain is inspected and found to contain some pop song so you can't be resurected. I love it.
[00:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:26] <exec> 08└─How is it that you became aware of what was going on behind the scenes? The market research industry is pretty small and generally quite insular.
[00:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:28] <exec> 08└─No, we aren't exactly waging a World War, like the 1940's. But there is a war, and there are casualties. Again, I tell you, just because your little piece of the world seems peaceful, doesn't mean the world is peaceful.
[00:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:45] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been to the SF Bay Area and seen the ethnic diversity there?
[00:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:46] <exec> 08└─US has a long and sad history of non-working rifles. The M16 used in Vietnam got a reputation for being a piece of shit with all the jamming while the opponents used the ever reliable AK-47.
[00:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vanguard I Has Spent Six Decades in Orbit, More Than Any Other Craft - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:18] <exec> 08└─They already quoted way too much. And a summarized none of it.
[00:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:00] <exec> 08└─Except of course, the grid will still be "stressed" and the municipality will come up with a new way to screw things up.
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[00:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:41] <exec> 08└─>The computer includes several hundred thousand transistors, static RAM, an LED and a photodetector for communication, and an integrated solar cell. Hubba bubba, my eyes just popped out faster than Tom cat when he saw his Toodles Galore. The size of a grain of rice? You're telling me... hol up... yo...
[00:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:43] <exec> 08└─From a passage in Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" -- the Larson Localizer, a prototype of the Smart Dust concept, featuring cheap ultra-tiny processors, equipped with a few transducers and sensors of various types: "Among the unsuspecting, they are an espionage miracle. Abused, they lead to u...
[01:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Eristone [4775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:04] <exec> 08└─There is a preliminary report that the car was not at fault. https://www.sfgate.com [sfgate.com]
[01:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:06] <exec> 08└─The network needs more incidents like this as negative data points to train on. It literally becomes smarter after each additional accident, and the more deadly ones will be given ever larger weights as examples of what *not* to do under any circumstance. Then what happens if somehow all the weights...
[01:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:08] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. Right now it's a bit of a race on whether they improve things fast enough to get widespread adoption before major accidents happen. All it might take is a few serious accidents and politicians might be loathe to touch this issue.. and might even regulate the industry enough to set it back a...
[01:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:10] <exec> 08└─That's quite interesting. It's normally *really* hard to prove you aren't at fault when you hit a pedestrian. The claim that they came out of nowhere is usually not terribly convincing. Even in the event the pedestrian comes out from behind a parked truck or something, the police and insurance will...
[01:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:22] <exec> 08└─Read some of the comments people are leaving regarding how bad that company is with apparently fraudulent claims and a tendancy to screw over not only their customers but even their own employees. Seems pretty shady.
[01:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:23] <exec> 08└─*cough* OCZ *cough*
[01:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:27] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, you sound like English isn't your first language. (Eastern European? Russian?) "Had few years" would likely be interpreted as "had only a few years". ISTM you were going for "had a few years", where "few" could be interpreted as "several". The 2 constructions are polar opposites and your...
[01:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:28] <exec> 08└─Retro-active recension of degrees (flunking), without refund, is appropriate in a case like this.
[01:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:31] <exec> 08└─Agree 100%. Greedy academics are at it again. Academics say university is about learning, but if it's about learning then why can't we have our money back? It's all about learning for students and teaching for professors right? ;) Actually no, professors and academics are greedy pieces of shit most...
[01:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:36] <exec> 08└─The thugs in charge clearly don't want Wikipedia
[01:02:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:53] <exec> 08└─Also worth noting - in both the Brexit and US elections, this Cambrige Analytica service seems to have breached regulations regarding soliciting campaign contributions & assistance from foreign individuals.
[01:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:22] <exec> 08└─we should throw it at Mars, with a dedicated orbiter+lander mission a few hours behind it, to study the explosion & aftermath.
[01:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:57] <exec> 08└─Not much has changed in [the Democrat party] since it was founded You've manage to completely miss FDR getting elected in 1932 and reelected 3 times. The Repugs had to pass a constitutional amendment to assure that he wouldn't be reelected yet again. FDR's New Deal pulled this country back from the...
[01:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:59] <exec> 08└─Hillary is terrible... only the corporatist left Democrats (ie. Republican lite) think she's decent. Check out what a (depressed) real leftie thinks of Hillary Clinton ie. Jimmy Dore [youtube.com]. I suppose you think Assange and Wikileaks are Putin puppets along with Snowden, Bill Binney, Drake, Aa...
[01:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:33] <exec> 08└─Welcome welcome honored guest to our humble country. Be assured you are safe here. We will not steal from you, enslave your daughters, sell your sons, rape your women or murder you, so long as we are not at war. Of course, you must realise, offendi, that here it is brother against brother, brothers...
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[02:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:19] <exec> 08└─You're so right. People keep saying self-driving cars only need to be better than the average human.
[02:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:21] <exec> 08└─They could also allow worse and worse human drivers to get licenses in order to lower the standard.
[02:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 2922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:05] <exec> 08└─Death toll rises to six in Miami bridge collapse as new information emerges about contractors [wsws.org] the lead engineer on the bridge project had called and left a voice message with [Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)] on Tuesday reporting cracks in the north end of the span. W. Denney...
[02:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:06] <exec> 08└─I saw a thing -many- years ago on PBS about how the Greeks had used iron cleats(?)[1] inserted into matching chiseled-out voids in adjacent stones to keep the stones from pulling apart. [1] Like a double-ended T. Modern guys had come behind them and used bare iron to replace some of those and, as yo...
[02:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:48] <exec> 08└─Time for your military indoctrination of to wear off.
[02:05:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:18] <exec> 08└─Given that a solid majority of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Hillary Clinton
[02:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:11] <exec> 08└─As someone who lives in an actual democracy (and one that ranked a fair bit higher than the US) I would say that your real problem is that you only have the choice of our guys and their guys. Where I live, I can reasonably expect to have the choice of 5 political parties that will wind up gaining s...
[02:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:16] <exec> 08└─Too bad the use of the term rote memorization sans irony correlates highly with low intelligence and poor academic performance.
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[03:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:17] <exec> 08└─"too fast for the conditions" includes "too fast to avoid a pedestrian in full suicide mode" Driver has a one-to-two tonne vehicle; pedestrian has skin.
[03:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:18] <exec> 08└─The company basically ignores laws, pushes the costs of operation onto the drivers, unlike a decent cab company that buys cabs and hires drivers, and so on. I feel bad for just about everyone being abused by the gig economy, including Uber's drivers. Call me a social justice warrior, and all that sh...
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[03:00:21] <exec> 08└─... but won't stop it. I'm still concerned about the macro-economic impact of driverless cars. However, in terms of safety. This set back will only delay this research. Eventually, the driverless cars will be proven safer than their human counterparts. If human drivers want to delay this further, hu...
[03:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:23] <exec> 08└─Hard to lower the standards for getting a driving license much further than they are currently in much of the USA. Other parts of the world have much more stringent tests. Same for registering cars--some parts of the world (like Japan & Germany) have very rigorous inspections for used cars more than...
[03:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:25] <exec> 08└─"Traveling at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone on Sunday night, the Uber self-driving car made no attempt to brake
[03:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:27] <exec> 08└─Fine, then raise the standards to revoke them. Same thing, except that can get you more votes.
[03:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:30] <exec> 08└─At this price we'll throw in enough gear* for the 2nd amendment faithful too, satisfaction guarantee. Now you cam mow down up to ten schools before the police apprehends you. * ammunition not included
[03:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:32] <exec> 08└─Might also make pedestrians a bit more careful.
[03:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:35] <exec> 08└─Eventually, the driverless cars will be proven safer than their human counterparts.
[03:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:48] <exec> 08└─Unless you're procuring hardware for businesses, datacenters, etc. then you aren't in the market for it. This at least gives us a fresh data point. 100 TB of NAND can be stuffed in a 3.5" form factor in 2018. Maybe 5 years until they will put 1,000 TB in the same volume.
[03:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:22] <exec> 08└─The whole concept of frefabricating and prestressing concrete is about saving money. That's it in a nutshell. Concrete is expensive. Engineers and contractors want to save all the concrete possible, because an extra yard of concrete eats into their profit. Anyone who has worked in industrial constru...
[03:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:23] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, if nobody else is gonna say it after this many hours I have to. Diversity and affirmative action kills. It's very important for me as a woman and an engineer to be able to promote that to my daughter, because I think women have a different perspective. We're able to put in an artistic to...
[03:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:00] <exec> 08└─An old man like you has no place saying what should be. You ruined the world and now expect us youngsters to follow ideals suitable for the times you grew up in and wasted.
[03:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:01] <exec> 08└─Education is about giving people the ability to understand the world around them generally, and more specific knowledge about one or a few aspects of the world
[03:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds pretty unrelated to me. I'm assuming from context that "didn't get a first" is something akin to "didn't graduate with honors" or similar - which frankly is the *expected* outcome. If many/most people graduated with honors, they would have basically no value. Unless the university gave him go...
[03:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:10] <exec> 08└─On top of all that, what value the turks will get at such cost? All their troubles and all their actions are within Turkey. It might be pleasing that other people remember them, but there is no practical benefit. They know perfectly well that a general strike will get rid of any dictator. But as lon...
[03:03:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 1713 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:52] <exec> 08└─I'd like to rephrase the common quote: When did advertising cross the line into psychological warfare against your own population? There was a time when advertising was considered to be simply informing the population that your product exists and what it does. People found that certain things around...
[03:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:35] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that pollsters can ask all the wrong questions. Consider two questions: "Will Trump, or Clinton make a better president?" The question makes it's own basic presumptions. A better question would be, "Are either Trump or Clinton qualified to be president?" Many people would have struggled...
[03:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Outage At Samsung Fab Destroys 3.5% Of Global Nand Flash Output For March - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:11] <exec> 08└─They took ours offline for DR testing which caused it to fail. They had to order very heavy replacement parts from Germany. It can be hard to test and prove this type of system.
[03:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─So you propose that due to a subspace rupture, future and present are one there so that they are already doing something you predict they will do and you predict they will eventually do it because they are doing it right now in the future?
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[03:59:41] <exec> 08└─The domestication of humans to serve the State better continues.
[03:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:43] <exec> 08└─I think with all the things coming to light these days in the US that we could potentially face a similar future. The infrastructure is being laid. Has been for quite some time. I bet we see some really "creative" ideas on what to do with all the data being collected these days. "Hoover it up now, b...
[03:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:45] <exec> 08└─It's sad to see China becoming more and more like the US.
[03:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:53] <exec> 08└─If SpaceX hadn't upped the ante, this would not be happening. It would still be business as usual at ULA, since they would have no incentive to change, charging the US government $200 million per launch and letting the commercial market go to the Russians. SpaceX deserves all the credit for this, th...
[04:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:03] <exec> 08└─- can they run Linux? - Imagine a beowulf cluster of those
[04:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:05] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the bugs and animal kingdom... if we can mount these on em, not even the cave dwellers will be safe... and bonus to those folks that have fetishes on the bug & animal kingdom..
[04:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:07] <exec> 08└─Grain of salt. And it being optical, only works within line of sight. Although from a tracking perspective, the whereabouts of the hoodie and jeans you're wearing will probably be a good enough indicator of your movements once your cell phone or vehicle has been cross referenced.
[04:00:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 776 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:30] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. Right now it's a bit of a race on whether they improve things fast enough to get widespread adoption before major accidents happen. All it might take is a few serious accidents and politicians might be loathe to touch this issue.. and might even regulate the industry enough to set it back a...
[04:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:44] <exec> 08└─It begins..... https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[04:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:45] <exec> 08└─How does lidar see around corners? Bendy light?
[04:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:47] <exec> 08└─Might even make us build safer roads - pedestrian bridges in towns and etc.
[04:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:50] <exec> 08└─It needs to be much better since you are giving up control and your genes have a much reduced influence over what happens. Having a wide spread potential lethal danger where the DNA doesn't have much influence on survival is not so good for the species. Maybe in toughness and recovery but that's it....
[04:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:52] <exec> 08└─Stanford Researchers Develop Non-Line-of-Sight LIDAR Imaging Procedure [soylentnews.org] NLOS [(Non Line Of Sight)] imaging reconstructs the shape and albedo of hidden objects from multiply scattered light. Despite recent advances, NLOS imaging has remained impractical owing to the prohibitive memor...
[04:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:06] <exec> 08└─The comments section is full of commercial operators who are their target market and have had run ins with Nimbus. Check them out, they're not flattering.
[04:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:20] <exec> 08└─Your six figure job is where it always was, between SF and San Jose. If you don't want to come and take it... your choice.
[04:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:28] <exec> 08└─They voted for him, just like we voted for Trump.
[04:03:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:38] <exec> 08└─Also worth noting - in both the Brexit and US elections, this Cambrige Analytica service seems to have breached regulations regarding soliciting campaign contributions & assistance from foreign individuals.
[04:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:31] <exec> 08└─Why isn't Puerto Rico a State? Seems they've asked to be admitted to the union, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and due to not wanting to change the current status, as in they might vote the wrong way, they're being denied. Seems like a form of gerrymanderi...
[04:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:32] <exec> 08└─You are making an argument analogous to "murder doesn't matter because more people die from disease."
[04:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:35] <exec> 08└─CA is in the business of constructing cliffs, vortexes, and punji stake pits, and populating any leftover navigable parts with geneticly targeted poisons.
[04:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Power Companies Can Now Charge Bitcoin Miners More - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but this is large volume per second. For online data and electrical consumption, the rate should determine the price, not the volume itself.
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[04:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:55] <exec> 08└─China BIGLY demonstrates no respect for IP by obviously ripping off the "Nosedive" episode of Black Mirror.
[04:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:56] <exec> 08└─I won't and don't want to live under this kind of system, but having said that, a large number of people really want this system. In fact I will wager that most people actually want a strong state to dish out punishments to everyone except their family. I think the real news is how much the western...
[04:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:58] <exec> 08└─If you want people who are entrepreneurial, creative, and want to think outside the box, you don't go looking among your staid rule-followers. It might be interesting to identify the politically disadvantaged who display some aptitude, and offer them sweetheart deals for immigration. "Look, Chu, we...
[05:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:01] <exec> 08└─It hardly matters what people think. The only thing that matters is what rulers think. Lacking the old rigid class systems, they invent new ones, flexible but accurate. They need to know who is going to be taken to the bright new future (brightness may vary) and who will be left behind. They need to...
[05:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 2573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:11] <exec> 08└─I believe there have several cases of extreme hypothermia where the brain was basically electrically metabolically dead before revival - and they didn't come back a blank slate. I think it's quite widely assumed that somewhere between "much" and "all" of the "software" of the brain is encoded in the...
[05:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:38] <exec> 08└─They don't know what wikipedia is. They don't know what a computer is. This is a 3rd world country where people on the street burn random plastic garbage to cook the food they sell. They have dirt on their face, haven't showered in days, have rats and cockroaches running all over the place. There ar...
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[05:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:59] <exec> 08└─The left is absolutely salivating at being able to put together something like this.
[06:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:07] <exec> 08└─The congressional lackeys of the Military Industrial Complex would never free NASA of the politically imposed "investment" in future launch vehicles. If anything, they'll lock a whole bunch of unrelated budgetary items behind the precondition of investing in SLS so they can wash their hands of the b...
[06:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:00] <exec> 08└─With autonomous cars, they are liable, because there's really nobody else to blame (mandatory maintenance will be a problem). And the amounts could easily bankrupt them.
[06:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:31] <exec> 08└─I don't believe in letting advertisers off with a defense of they should have known we were lying. If she had any mis-understandings, it was exactly what the school intended for her to mis-understand. She took them at their word and they didn't deliver. Why should they profit from that?
[06:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:32] <exec> 08└─The 2 constructions are polar opposites and your syntax leaves it in some doubt.
[06:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:34] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the university should be fined for misleading advertising
[06:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:13] <exec> 08└─If you swallow the hype, that's Disneyland ($135 per day per person; if you take the day off from work, $97). [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[07:00:04] <exec> 08└─We may call Trump names but we may not protest him https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] US is sadly not so different from China.
[07:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:14] <exec> 08└─If BFR flies at $50-100 million a launch, it could be game over for SLS. SLS may not have its maiden flight (no earlier than December 15, 2019, but likely delayed again to 2020 [spaceflightnow.com]) before SpaceX begins initial testing of BFR. If they delay the SLS maiden flight some more, BFR could...
[07:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:16] <exec> 08└─"This is on the scale of inventing the airplane," Bruno told reporters during the media roundtable. "That's how revolutionary this upper stage is. It's 1900, and I'm inventing the airplane.
[07:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:09] <exec> 08└─Nice, put it on the pedestrians. Drivers are often inattentive, drive too fast*, and are aggressive-- all the while feeling invincible because they are surrounded by tons of steel. The pedestrian is a grease spot waiting to happen. If the pedestrian could kill *you* by their actions, then you would...
[07:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:10] <exec> 08└─"Traveling at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone on Sunday night, the Uber self-driving car made no attempt to brake
[07:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:13] <exec> 08└─People keep saying self-driving cars only need to be better than the average human.
[07:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:15] <exec> 08└─An AI could post what you posted. Cheaper, faster and more reliable.
[07:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:30] <exec> 08└─fdupes or a filesystem with dedup like zfs, btrfs, or hammer2 solves the redundant data issue.
[07:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:06] <exec> 08└─This is to be expected as more and more things are constructed the way software is written.
[07:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:08] <exec> 08└─While I think that the statement about women being better at art is a load of horseshit, a few quick searches didn't turn up anything indicating that affirmative action was involved in choosing the companies or who they hired. Unless you're leaping to the conclusion that any females in technical pos...
[07:04:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:23] <exec> 08└─...but when does advertising cross the line into psychological warfare against your own population?
[07:04:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:32] <exec> 08└─Elections are won and lost on the popular vote... the herd, the sheeple.
[07:04:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:39] <exec> 08└─Electoral college vs popular vote is splitting hairs
[07:04:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:43] <exec> 08└─In the US, the former carries considerably more weight than the latter. So it's a non-trivial distinction.
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[08:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:07] <exec> 08└─China was doing it more than a year before that episode aired: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] https://translate.google.com
[08:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:08] <exec> 08└─The city and civilization as its extension serves to isolate and provide comfort to its participants away from the dangers of nature starting from the stress of gathering food to avoiding malaria spreading mosquitoes. The rulers are just managers who want to run this system, and I will argue that th...
[08:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:10] <exec> 08└─Huh? The anti-individualists may love this, but the classic "left" *are* individualists, with the loony far end being collectivist-anarchists. Maybe it is the people who are centre-right, but who look left to the majority of USA hard right types who would like state-control, or maybe the left as in...
[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:13] <exec> 08└─That's not all! https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[08:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:37] <exec> 08└─Are those pictures and games unique to your computer or can they be found on other storage media in the world? If the latter then they are indeed redundant.
[08:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:39] <exec> 08└─Digital storage isn't exactly stone tablets or cave paintings. Without many redundant copies, the files could be lost forever in a few decades.
[08:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:16] <exec> 08└─I thought the distribution of workers for this company favored women.
[08:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:18] <exec> 08└─The old fashioned way is not actually that much different. It consists of bringing smaller parts and spending more time assembling them onsite. The safety gain of the new technology comes from doing more of the work in a controlled factory environment AND closing a busy road for less time. Closing...
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[08:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:48] <exec> 08└─In principle, it's really no different from what might happen in the physical world. Imagine: Someone found freshly murdered in a building. The police seal off all exits, and consider everyone in the building to be a potential suspect. They can and will search all those people. I'm not seeing this a...
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[09:01:26] <exec> 08└─According to the reports I've seen, it wasn't 'technically' speeding - it was actually speeding - that is, its speed was greater than the applicable speed limit. Many people take the view that the posted speed limit is advisory, and being a few miles per hour (or kilometres per hour) over the limit...
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[09:01:28] <exec> 08└─I'm untrusting of the reporting on the topic of autonomous vehicles because there is a really strong narrative being pushed that the robot cars are safer than human drivers. This narrative is being pushed very hard and with out justification because the technology is simply too new. Objective critic...
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[09:01:30] <exec> 08└─If that machine can't hold a constant velocity of 34.9 mph in a 35 zone it isn't fit for the purpose of being on the road. That control loop is one of the very first things they would be doing with the control system.
[09:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:32] <exec> 08└─it’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway,
[09:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:35] <exec> 08└─You know what would be progress for society? No, not self-driving cars, getting people out of cars on to bicycles, cycling on properly designed safe bike lanes. Improving people's fitness and health as well as the environment. Yeah, yeah, I know off-topic...
[09:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:15] <exec> 08└─The result of the tuition and specific outcome from it might be different, but the core basis of the complaint is not - that the university in question failed to deliver on its marketing through poor standards, insufficient materials, bad teaching, etc. The fatal flaw in the argument is basically ot...
[09:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:02] <exec> 08└─I guess you would also moderate as funny the definition "time is what is read off a clock"?
[09:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Tests Can Predict Intelligence, Scientists Show for First Time - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:03] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to hear that your ability to read and understand texts is that bad.
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[09:59:48] <exec> 08└─It's not exactly the same as you describe, but not far off either. I'd more readily compare it to questioning the local gossip who watches all the comings and goings of the people in the area, except the gossip doesn't just know the regulars, but every single individual who passes through, and has n...
[09:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:50] <exec> 08└─As long as the same thing can happen to the rich and powerful (including members of the CIA etc) then I'd be 100% fine with it. Their data gets searched too and if incriminating stuff is found, they don't get to escape. But if they have immunity to such stuff then no go.
[09:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:57] <exec> 08└─HTC's Vive Pro virtual reality headset is now open for preorders.
[09:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:00] <exec> 08└─I care to see how many people splash $800 down on another generation of tethered, low FOV, and dependent on external tracking headsets. That are still at 90 Hz and a relatively low resolution.
[10:02:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:58] <exec> 08└─I don't believe in letting advertisers off with a defense of they should have known we were lying. If she had any mis-understandings, it was exactly what the school intended for her to mis-understand. She took them at their word and they didn't deliver. Why should they profit from that?
[10:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:53] <exec> 08└─One of the biggest problems is caused by the recent trade agreement with the Chinese that allows the Chinese to buy land in Australia. There are many more cashed up Chinese buyers than local australians. The Chinese can easily afford 500k to 2.5 million for an apartment. Drives up the price of apart...
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[10:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:45] <exec> 08└─My bet is that it's some local who's lived there all his life, just long enough to see the Californians abandon their litterbox, to make another. Or maybe he's just another boring old racial bomber? House and Mason were black, and there's little info on the other four (besides Mason's mother and ano...
[10:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:47] <exec> 08└─Nah, the bomber is probably a gay cowboy LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ activist who went into a queer drama rage over insufficient fudge-packing content at SXSW this year.
[10:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:57] <exec> 08└─See, I have a different outlook: as long as the poor and powerless have the same immunity against police state stuff as the well-to-do and connected, then I'm fine with it. Otherwise no go.
[10:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:59] <exec> 08└─Government actions should be public, with very, very few exceptions.
[11:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:53] <exec> 08└─Hot grits.
[11:01:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Eristone [4775] 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:15] <exec> 08└─There is a preliminary report that the car was not at fault. https://www.sfgate.com [sfgate.com]
[11:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:26] <exec> 08└─I just had to look up where the lawyer he hired graduated from. (Newcastle upon Tyne, in case you're wondering). <kidding> Well, he should've hired a better lawyer - but I guess we can attribute that oversight to his tenuous grasp on the legal complexities of this, or, for that matter, any other sit...
[11:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:41] <exec> 08└─Proper government only. If you can't figure out the difference between a private citizen lying to you and your government lying to you, you've got some problems that need addressed.
[11:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:43] <exec> 08└─It makes a world of difference. People expect to be lied to by their politicians while they're running but if they do once they're elected we tend to get pretty pissed off.
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[11:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Directx 12 Raytracing API - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:43] <exec> 08└─That is just M$ spam, put out by an M$ booster/representative inside Ars Technica. M$ goes to any lengths to avoid using OpenGL or Vulkan since they are platform independent. They also put in a lot of effort to overshadow either in the media. So the press release is most likely a belated response to...
[11:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:52] <exec> 08└─Police are investigating all leads.
[12:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:49] <exec> 08└─> reasonable to require an autonomous vehicle to observe the limits Disagree -- it should be a judgement call and this could be quite difficult to turn into a useful algorithm-- + Sometimes (as mentioned elsewhere in this discussion), the speed limits are stupidly high. Not all roads near school...
[12:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:50] <exec> 08└─In Indiana, the highway has (or had, it's been some years since I drove it) infrared animal detection and warning systems set up that would signal drivers if animals were near the pavement. I saw it work a couple of times. It has always struck me that the calculus for road engineering vs. saving liv...
[12:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I just checked, and all the bytes on my hard disk are at some value between 0 and 255. That's very high redundancy; 256 bytes should be enough to store all those values! ;-)
[12:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:50] <exec> 08└─In the middle ages, generations of architect/builders/masons created many large structures like cathedrals and castles. My understanding (from architecture school) is that the designer(s) had to stand under the big arches and domes when the construction scaffolding/shoring was removed. If your grand...
[12:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:19] <exec> 08└─Roko's basilsk is from the Avici hell region, not an enlightened being at all.
[12:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:20] <exec> 08└─However how the neurons are connected to each other is not completely random; therefore one might hope that the data is highly compressible (or in other words, that there's much less than 1PB of information in the brain connections).
[12:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:49] <exec> 08└─Looking at the symptoms is an important tool for diagnosis and prognosis.
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[12:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:00] <exec> 08└─Or maybe it's the imported terrorists texas tried to keep out? They act like this in their own country, why wouldn't they in another country that let them in. The reason their country sucks is because their culture allowed it to develop, that isn't going to magically go away. https://www.texastribun...
[13:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:01] <exec> 08└─you mean coppers are investigating all leads Which is entirely racist, metallurgicaly speaking.
[13:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:03] <exec> 08└─You really do sound like you did too much coke.
[13:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:48] <exec> 08└─Sorry man, your brand is tainted beyond belief. Shit like "Get racist fired" blogs et al is so far beyond the pale that unless you actively disavow with your every breath you are culpable.
[13:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:49] <exec> 08└─I want to point out, this is not how it's being sold to the Chinese people by the government. The press may say otherwise but the government thus far as been avoiding saying "people with poor credit are banned/restricted" but has been trying to say things like "people with good credit are rewarded w...
[13:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:51] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it's so different from the US's No Fly List, except that it applies to trains as well as planes. So what I'm saying is, we're already there in the US.
[13:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:07] <exec> 08└─I drive a car with more than 100 HP. Which is nothing by American standards, btw... That enough that if I look away from the speedo for a couple of seconds, the speed will easily climb from just below the speed limit to high enough to get a ticket (2 km/h over the limit). Yet, for some strange reaso...
[13:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:08] <exec> 08└─based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway
[13:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:10] <exec> 08└─Self-driving bicycles - best of both worlds.
[13:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:54] <exec> 08└─[...] it was a lawyer suing Oxford University because he didn't get a first (he graduated with a 2.1) and claimed that this ruined his career potential.
[13:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:55] <exec> 08└─I'd keep anonymous about the IQ. Mine is 164, and the first thing that anyone expresses surprise about is that someone with an IQ that high can actually wipe their own arse or tie their own shoelaces.
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[13:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:44] <exec> 08└─Corruption is a very serious crime you understand, this might qualify them for capital punishment, soon.
[13:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:46] <exec> 08└─No one likes being in pain. Be it physical, emotional, or whatever. People are always going to use drugs, be it for curing the terrible pain of cancer or whatever emotional pain they may be enduring. This nonsense that opiates or whatever drugs are responsible for some doom and gloom is a fantasy: I...
[13:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:48] <exec> 08└─Corruption is a very serious crime you understand, this might qualify them for capital punishment, soon.
[13:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:50] <exec> 08└─Pain in is nature’s way of telling you to stop being stupid. I live with pain daily. Just got of surgery, morphine drips I do not use. Opioids I have a prescription that script goes directly into the shrewder. Do I like pain? No. Do I accept pain pain in my life? Yes
[13:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:53] <exec> 08└─You act like the U.S. is a society founded on the protection of individual rights. Next you'll be telling me that chief among these are the rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Crackpot.
[13:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:55] <exec> 08└─If you understand the source of your pain, then it's stupid to continue feeling it. What's the point of having a complex brain if you rely solely on base animal stimuli?
[13:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:57] <exec> 08└─That's a very weird and strange incentive, very much illegal here in my corner of Europe.
[13:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:00] <exec> 08└─Corruption is a very serious crime you understand...
[14:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:19] <exec> 08└─What they are not saying is that each package was wrapped up like a present and their number one suspect is Jokey Smurf. :P
[14:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:21] <exec> 08└─We need to raise Adam West from the dead. This sounds like a job for the Gray Ghost [wikia.com]!
[14:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:23] <exec> 08└─You couldn't recognize coke even if I handed you bag of flour and a bag of splenda, and asked "which?"
[14:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/03/20/explosion-fedex-facility-texas/440810002/ [usatoday.com] https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] http://abcnews.go.com [go.com] Take your pick, or fin...
[14:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:28] <exec> 08└─More likely a progressive who wants to prove how bad things are with Trump in charge.
[14:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:39] <exec> 08└─The government also has to hire from the labor market. As a former government employee I'll say that working there is already super annoying. There are websites where you can look up any gov. person's salary, and all the red tape rules make working there a pain if you care about getting things done....
[14:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:41] <exec> 08└─I can see why many of you aren't really troubled by this. given the information in TFS. What's more, even those of you who read TNSFA might not be bothered. Except both TFS and the crap linked article leave out important details. The FastCompany article is a short excerpt from an investigative piece...
[14:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:51] <exec> 08└─I'll be one of them! I love my Vive, and have been eagerly awaiting the release of the Vive Pro.
[14:01:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 1107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:25] <exec> 08└─If SpaceX hadn't upped the ante, this would not be happening. It would still be business as usual at ULA, since they would have no incentive to change, charging the US government $200 million per launch and letting the commercial market go to the Russians. SpaceX deserves all the credit for this, th...
[14:01:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:29] <exec> 08└─"This is on the scale of inventing the airplane," Bruno told reporters during the media roundtable. "That's how revolutionary this upper stage is. It's 1900, and I'm inventing the airplane.
[14:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:37] <exec> 08└─When a man builds a crap bridge, it is because he is an idiot. When a woman does it, it is because she is a woman. i.e. just because one woman is an idiot, doesn't mean all women are idiots.
[14:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:10] <exec> 08└─~2x10^38674 is more like 38,675 decimal digits long! In binary, that's 1.011001110011..._2×2^128473 or a number 128,473 bits long.
[14:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:46] <exec> 08└─Proper government hasn't done any marketing here. One big reason for that is that people have been making your distinction for so long that agents of the US government have essentially stopped marketing themselves. Instead, they rely on third party private organizations to advertise their politics,...
[14:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─All right, you win, I quit. There's no escape. If it is going to hit the Earth, we'll just sit tight and suck our tears up.
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[14:59:42] <exec> 08└─basically turning your vas deferens into a cheese grater that shreds the boys to death during exfiltration more importantly this is really bad news for the sextual power dynamic where men can control pregnancy it wont end well if you think about it
[14:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:43] <exec> 08└─great, now how about a male morning after pill?
[14:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:45] <exec> 08└─They've invented a male birth control pill. Take it the next day and it changes your blood type. / this was way before DNA testing
[14:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:48] <exec> 08└─Good old falcon punch.
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:50] <exec> 08└─It will be banned with various justifications ranging from "it cheats women" to "real man don't need something like that" and "man up". I ain't even mad.
[15:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:06] <exec> 08└─On the contrary, if you don't have to continue feeling it you have no motivation to change whatever is causing it. There's a reason religion is called the opiate of the masses and it is not because opiates are a good thing.
[15:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:07] <exec> 08└─There's quite a bit quoted material and references to several studies and interviews. However, there are zero links to the studies, the data associated with those studies or the interviews from which people are quoted. Sure the information in TFS seems legit, but I'd like to dig a little deeper. Exc...
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:10] <exec> 08└─Try anything else sometime. The corruption will be a thousand times worse, I promise you.
[15:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:12] <exec> 08└─If only we had an editor around to fix these things...
[15:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:14] <exec> 08└─What kills is authoritarianism. If you want your society to work (including a socialist society), then you must build that society atop capitalism; authoritarianism cannot create a free society, only harm it.
[15:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:17] <exec> 08└─It's right in the subject line, you illiterate fool.
[15:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:19] <exec> 08└─Corruption is a very serious crime you understand...
[15:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:21] <exec> 08└─One of the major reasons why I'm pushing on this is because AFAIK, there is no national controlled-substance prescription monitoring program [usdoj.gov]. And most, but not all states have such programs. One can certainly get data about payments to physicians from pharmaceutical companies [cms.gov]....
[15:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:24] <exec> 08└─Somehow it didn't end up anywhere: https://www.cnn.com
[15:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─If only we had an editor around to fix these things...
[15:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:28] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I look forward to reading the article. I appreciate you submitting this. This https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] was exactly what I was looking for. Please note that the above link has autoplay video (assholes!).
[15:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:31] <exec> 08└─Seriously though. Capitalism kills.
[15:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:33] <exec> 08└─Pharma companies put tons of resources into not only researching new medical innovations, but also spending exorbitant resources to get a stamp of approval from nosy governmental "regulators". It's not surprising that these companies would therefore try various means to push their products in order...
[15:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:35] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Entropy, but I don't think you *really* understand what has been happening. You're right, of course, pain sucks. But there are many levels of pain. In fact, there are many different kinds of pain. Some stuff - you maybe need an aspirin. Other things, maybe prescription strength Ibuprofen. Som...
[15:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:38] <exec> 08└─Firefox is better than Chrome at stopping autoplay, though the control is buried in about:config, instead of being easily accessible in the settings/options/preferences dialogs. Set media.autoplay.enabled to false. That takes care of HTML5 video. As for Flash, starting in Firefox 57, they stopped au...
[15:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:40] <exec> 08└─I have found myself in that position. Someone quotes something from out of the blue, and I wonder "Where the hell did that come from?" So, I just copy part of the relevant text, and stuff it into a search query. For, example, "Angela Cantone says she wishes she had known that opioid manufacturers we...
[15:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:42] <exec> 08└─I simply disagree. As long as someone is under a doctor's supervision they can use opiates for whatever medical reason it's deemed necessary. I don't think people should have to endure pain, and Tylenol is honestly kinda useless.
[15:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:44] <exec> 08└─Go back to Venezuela, you'll like it there, no capitalism at all.
[15:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Directx 12 Raytracing API - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:54] <exec> 08└─Man, I can't wait to have shiny glass buttons and chrome scrollbars with real-time raytraced reflections! I hope MS brings back Aero. When I'm not gaming or waiting for the Windows Fall Creator update to fail so it can start the download/install process over, Windows 10 is fugly and also mostly whit...
[15:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:12] <exec> 08└─Will at least increase the evidence. But the unibomber wasn’t easy to catch.
[15:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:14] <exec> 08└─This 4th bombing (the one with the tripwire) got two white guys (non-fatal, apparently). It was planted in a largely white neighborhood on the other side of town from the others. At this point it looks like he's drawing a circle around the city.
[15:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:28] <exec> 08└─This is equivalent to a general warrant, the reason the 4th Amendment was written. The problem is that the concept of generality is difficult to put into words, and thus law. The police think someone with a Google phone might have done this, so they want to search the data of everyone with a Google...
[15:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah basically. I'm surprised though that nobody has brought up the third party doctrine yet. Not that I believe it is anything more than a made-up excuse to expand the power of the government to search whatever they want...
[15:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:29] <exec> 08└─That's some impressive effort for the potential power being collected.
[15:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:30] <exec> 08└─If it's optical, not RFID, then they're powering it via the onboard solar cell - I'm guessing it takes some impressively bright light to get this thing to wake up.
[15:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:27] <exec> 08└─This event occurred on Thursday. Today is Monday and it's old news.
[15:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:29] <exec> 08└─Troll mod was a misclick for which I apologize. Was going for "Interesting".
[15:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:17] <exec> 08└─Truer words have not been spoken, at least to this precious snowflake brought up on participation trophies and in an era of no competition allowed. Welcome to the real world 'honey' You can do everything correctly and still lose. Now that isn't to say that for profit education isn't a scam and film...
[15:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:18] <exec> 08└─Unless you go to an NCAA heavily slanted school; in which case the time spent is about playing sports and the university is 'about' making a buck off the back of an academic athlete.
[15:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:21] <exec> 08└─I read where an entire law class at Harvard law declared bankruptcy and de-faulted on their enormous college loans, but I can't find the story to cite anymore. They probably litigated it of the interwebs...
[15:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:44] <exec> 08└─No would be the answer. If I'm Joe Moneyballs, I pay $100m to Kang for their campaign, $100m to Kodos, and whoever wins is expected to pay me back (after all that's just good business, I expect a return on investment) This means that Kang and Kodos both work for me, both of them will pass that $1b n...
[15:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06NASA Could Divert Killer Asteroids With Nudge-Or-Nuke 'Hammer' - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:32] <exec> 08└─I think now is a good time to sign up Bruce Willis for the Nectome program.
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[15:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:55] <exec> 08└─At the paternity trial: "Honey, I promise I took that pill before we had sex."
[15:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:56] <exec> 08└─Eight men in the treatment group did report lower libido...
[15:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:59] <exec> 08└─I think you're thinking of vasogel and similar mechanical/chemical male birth control options, which are injected into the vas deferens and remain active for years. This one clearly states, even in the summary, that it's a once-a-day hormonal birth control pill. The tragic part is that effective mal...
[16:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:01] <exec> 08└─Pretty common side effect in female birth control, so what's the problem? If you're one of the ones who suffers from a lowered libido, and you're not okay with that, then stop taking it. Problem solved. Sounds like there's no evidence of permanent effects, unlike with female birth control which can...
[16:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:03] <exec> 08└─I feel that I have to state that so far these effects are on a very short range. We are only starting to see some of the side effects of long-term use of the pill for some women on a timescale that is much longer than the one used to test this. Don't get me wrong, if it proves successful and safe, g...
[16:00:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:18] <exec> 08└─...capitalist societies incentivize professionals to behave unscrupulously???!?!? SAY IT AIN'T SO! Seriously though. Capitalism kills.
[16:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:38] <exec> 08└─Try transparent representative government, and similar transparency in regulated corporate activity. No secrets. That would be novel.
[16:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:39] <exec> 08└─Socialism got a bad rap in the Eastern Bloc. Goons, guns, and gulag garbage in, what did you expect to come out of any revolution driven by that? I kinda like how socialism is playing out in Scandinavia.
[16:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:42] <exec> 08└─So are you saying in Commie countries the incentive to behave unscrupulously is NOT financial? Than what is it... I mean I know in places like Romania people stole from work whatever they could, and it wasn't because they could profit from it (like imagine stealing 10 paperclips every day), so maybe...
[16:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:44] <exec> 08└─Some recent research shows that in many cases, Tylenol works as well as opioids.
[16:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:46] <exec> 08└─guns
[16:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:49] <exec> 08└─FYI: we weren't allowed to own guns. Just like in Jews in Germany, and people in most if not all similar dictatorships.
[16:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:51] <exec> 08└─...at least civilized countries have above token-level enforcement...
[16:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:53] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. It's not in the best interests of the ones in charge, so it's never going to exist.
[16:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Directx 12 Raytracing API - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:03] <exec> 08└─The only time I use Windows is when I'm gaming and I'm completely pissed off with the endless loop of fail that is the "Windows Fall Creator Update"! It's getting hard for me to game on the Windows platform because almost all resources are now devoted to Windows Update attempting to do its crap cont...
[16:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Directx 12 Raytracing API - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:05] <exec> 08└─Both DX12 and Vulkan were inspired by AMD's Mantle API. I much prefer Vulkan because it is cross-platform, but I don't think it's fair to say that DirectX is behind the times. As far as I know, there is no specific support for ray tracing in any of those APIs. People have done ray tracing with exist...
[16:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:25] <exec> 08└─Bring back ethanol fueled, this new troll account is even more lame somehow.
[16:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:26] <exec> 08└─That hurts, and I'm not going to ask you to apologize, but think of the children.
[16:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:43] <exec> 08└─Why not? You work for Joe Schmoe, and your boss traditionally has the right to dig through everything you do. You don't want him coming in and gumming up the works with his demands, but especially today when a large and growing percentage of everything is digitized anyway, there's a good argument to...
[16:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:21] <exec> 08└─People with respectable scores will be allowed the privilege of continued existence.
[16:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:22] <exec> 08└─Assuming that the social contract data is accurately maintained, then it's actually better than the No Fly list. The NFL is so absurdly arbitrary, that you can end up on the list for nothing more than having a name similar to a name "they" don't like. Course, the whole thing is completely ironic, co...
[16:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:48] <exec> 08└─And of course: In Soviet Russia, blockchain uses you.
[16:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:49] <exec> 08└─The computer includes several hundred thousand transistors, static RAM, an LED and a photodetector for communication, and an integrated solar cell.
[16:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:46] <exec> 08└─That's unrealistic given the way gasoline automobiles work. It doesn't take much external force to alter the car's velocity a small amount. The nature of the drive train means over & under corrections are inevitable. A slight rise or dip in the terrain or a gust of wind would be plenty to change the...
[16:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:48] <exec> 08└─Better isn't the same thing as perfect. If you're only willing to accept a completely perfect and 100% safe car, you should probably never leave your home.
[16:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:50] <exec> 08└─Self-driving cars don't have to be all that safe to be "safer" than human drivers. The accident stats for all self-driving cars to date back that up. Given the number of total miles driven by self-driving cars, human drivers would statistically have caused far more accidents and deaths.
[16:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:52] <exec> 08└─Eventually, the driverless cars will be proven safer than their human counterparts.
[16:06:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:23] <exec> 08└─There's a Certificate for that.
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─The second is liking Trump. Well, he at least said the right stuff. The only reluctance is that he might not follow through. Well, nobody else even bothered to make those campaign promises
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USA Drops to #18 on 2018 List of Happiest Nations; Progressive Nordic Countries Fared Best - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─The Repugs had to pass a constitutional amendment to assure that he wouldn't be reelected yet again.
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[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soil Fungi May Help Determine The Resilience Of Forests To Environmental Change - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:41] <exec> 08└─> Zhu's study, published in the Journal of Ecology, is one of the first to use the USDA's large-scale data set to see how climate change is impacting the ecosystem, an approach known as "top down" rather than "bottom up." I wonder why no one just downloads all their governments public data and sta...
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─>Or is it just okay to subject women to them, but not men? Female fails taking the pill => female gets pregnant. Male fails taking the pill => female gets pregnant. Now, who's gonna take the pill more willingly? There is no equality when the stakes are different. The same system that pushed for equa...
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:00] <exec> 08└─It's not really the side effects. We're just not willing to give up a perfectly good argument in favor of recreational sodomy.
[17:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:02] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "in the end"? Some of us have been working on SkyNet for quite a while now.
[17:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:04] <exec> 08└─The pill has many negative effects on women that are very rarely talked about, even avoided. I imagine the same thing will happen with this pill. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this somehow chemically castrates men by mistake one day.
[17:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:06] <exec> 08└─The moon matrix is already working on the subliminal programming. You'll noticed that next to this article appear sexually unappealing images like a man measuring his beer gut. What a beer gut has to do with a man's right to "my body, my choice" is beyond me. But that's where feminism wants to go wi...
[17:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:09] <exec> 08└─HURRY UP
[17:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:11] <exec> 08└─Damned double standards - what, they don't think men can handle them?
[17:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:13] <exec> 08└─Uh, you do realize how women have constructed the law to force me to financially compensate them for all expenses of childrearing while depriving the man of any contact with his child? Hell, half the time, the woman just identifies the wealthiest guy she was fucking around the time conception as the...
[17:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:16] <exec> 08└─"Female fails taking the pill => female gets pregnant. Male fails taking the pill => female gets pregnant. Now, who's gonna take the pill more willingly?" Female gets pregnant - female gets to choose. She can abort, or she can keep it - and force him to support them both. He gets no say in the matte...
[17:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:18] <exec> 08└─Another part of the subliminal programming that goes on in the moon matrix every time this comes up is the notion that men will not be able to take this pill on a daily basis. Men will forget. Men are not individuals who are capable of making their own decisions according to feminism.
[17:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:20] <exec> 08└─So, how is that pill better than getting too drunk to get it up, exactly?
[17:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:03] <exec> 08└─I would love to see decriminalization, but that isn't the issue here. These aren't illegal drugs, these people aren't taking these drugs because they want them per se. These people are taking these drugs because the person they made responsible for their well being suggested it, and here is the cruc...
[17:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:04] <exec> 08└─Quit messing up my perfectly good zingers with your damned Vulcan logic.
[17:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:07] <exec> 08└─Please?
[17:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:09] <exec> 08└─Sure it does! So does thinking happy thoughts.
[17:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:11] <exec> 08└─My bad, sorry Cocaine Overdose - didn't see you already posted it in comments. Apologies. Saw it as soon as I looked at comments but timeout stopped me.
[17:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:13] <exec> 08└─It's not in the best interests of the ones in charge, so it's never going to exist.
[17:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/06/590837914/opioids-dont-beat-other-medications-for-chronic-pain [npr.org] https://dx.doi.org [doi.org]
[17:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:18] <exec> 08└─Way too much text is quoted too. I blame bytram. Added link finally, and archive link (adblocker).
[17:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:20] <exec> 08└─The key words there are "in theory". In practice it's always a choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.
[17:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:23] <exec> 08└─"Conservative" is another word for "stagnant". Better stagnant than disappearing past the S-bend *flush* :-)
[17:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Directx 12 Raytracing API - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:33] <exec> 08└─DXR and Vulkan are very different. Vulkan is a low-level API that basically lets you manage data and run programs on the GPU. You use it to build very high-performance rendering pipelines tailored to a particular use. DXR is a high-level ray-tracing API. You can implement DXR on top of Vulkan, but y...
[17:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:56] <exec> 08└─I'd be surprised if the bomber(s) got away with as many bombing attempts [wikipedia.org] as Unabomber did, or if the bomber(s) were not located in or near Austin, TX.
[17:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:57] <exec> 08└─Do you have any actual evidence that the bomber is Syrian? (I mean, anything other than what passes for thought in your enfeebled imagination.) And who the hell upmodded this drivel as "Informative"? Somebody should step forward and justify that upmod.
[17:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:00] <exec> 08└─I'll point and laugh at you when you're wrong.
[17:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:02] <exec> 08└─Out of curiosity, which college did you go to? And is this post related to a comic there in the school paper?
[17:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─> More likely a progressive who wants to prove how bad things are with Trump in charge. So, an extremist anti-Trump progressive ... in Texas ? I know Austin ain't Dallas, but seriously...
[17:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:21] <exec> 08└─They did - the place to be searched is several city blocks, or Google's servers, depending on how you look at it. The things to be seized are all location data recorded for anyone who passed through that area. It does seem extremely over-broad, but also seems to fall within the letter of the law. At...
[17:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this makes me wonder about my political orientation. I normally consider myself fairly liberal, but I actually kinda like the idea of this thing: keeping trouble-makers and smokers off of planes and trains seems like a good idea to me! Honestly, I'm not sure I see the problem here, and I can i...
[17:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:02] <exec> 08└─Importing people too dishonest or stupid to not smoke on a non-smoking train is not going to help our economy. In fact, it's better to leave them overseas where they can cause problems over there, and we can continue to sell them tobacco which is good for our economy (it's one thing the US is really...
[17:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know about baseless promises - no reason to expect they won't deliver unless BFR drives launch prices so low so that the profit margins no longer justify finishing it. Baseless self-aggrandizement on the other hand...
[17:03:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 1210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:20] <exec> 08└─>The computer includes several hundred thousand transistors, static RAM, an LED and a photodetector for communication, and an integrated solar cell. Hubba bubba, my eyes just popped out faster than Tom cat when he saw his Toodles Galore. The size of a grain of rice? You're telling me... hol up... yo...
[17:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:30] <exec> 08└─And they're soooo mysterious: they're the size of a grain of salt, but SMALLER than a grain of salt. I bet they're BIGGER than a grain of salt on the inside! They're both alive AND dead, too!
[17:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:32] <exec> 08└─> to be lethally dangerous in a rare situation you happen to encounter in the sixth year Haven't you been paying attention to the companies designing those? They won't get safety updates after three years, five at most. "Your autonomous car is no longer supported, have you looked at our latest model...
[17:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:33] <exec> 08└─> If the problem turns out to be the fault of the vehicle manufacturer Hungry lawyers will sue manufacturers for every bump, scratch, and crash. While cameras will help dismiss most lawsuits, that's a whole lot of money spent right there. Then there will be the crashes actually caused by bugs or wei...
[17:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:35] <exec> 08└─I'm curious. If this were medicine or nursing you'd have Institutional Review Boards and required justifications before any drug or technique comes close to a human being. Even then there are errors. If this were aviation you'd have gobs of FAA requirements and licensing to complete before a plane i...
[17:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:38] <exec> 08└─..... In Arizona it may be true that the car can't be at fault. I might be wrong, but I think when I used to live in California the law was if you hit a pedestrian you are at fault, at all times and in all places. "The car is not at fault" would not be a legitimate statement there. Which may well me...
[17:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:40] <exec> 08└─"Heck, I still find the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse from 1940 to be interesting on many levels" Hell, yeah. The same as the Roman concrete that gets better with exposure to water: 'new' news about old shit. Still fascinating. Interesting is interesting. Just keep it coming.
[17:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:42] <exec> 08└─Come on, just say it: the elephant in the room is Microsoft. Amiright! ;)
[17:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:44] <exec> 08└─Lets let the NEA piss away money on art[1]
[17:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:57] <exec> 08└─Politicians are not government while running and I have no special problem with them marketing themselves in any manner they choose to. What I object to is using governmental power and funds to sway the electorate. That is the exact opposite of government's proper function. Politicians using campaig...
[17:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:58] <exec> 08└─So to be clear, are you saying that what Cambridge Analytica did was perfectly fine, because it is not a government entity?
[17:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:00] <exec> 08└─Yup.
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[17:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:40] <exec> 08└─This is common in the working-wealthy in the U.S.A. You get an "image specialist," who helps you curate how you come off and what people associate with, when they think of, you. Also, the title is misleading as hell. People are willing to pay to not have embarrassing shit about them leaked. Curate s...
[17:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soil Fungi May Help Determine The Resilience Of Forests To Environmental Change - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:48] <exec> 08└─?? What are you Trying to say? Last time I looked California was still in the US and University of California Santa Cruz was still in California.
[17:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soil Fungi May Help Determine The Resilience Of Forests To Environmental Change - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:50] <exec> 08└─Things haven't been the same since the L.A riots. Or should I say, Laos Alles?
[18:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:18] <exec> 08└─It's called paternity fraud, and women do it constantly
[18:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:20] <exec> 08└─Dumb much? You sound like a unhappy fat guy with homoerotic thoughts.
[18:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:22] <exec> 08└─Spotted the homo.
[18:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:15] <exec> 08└─Request denied. Appeal again in two months.
[18:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:16] <exec> 08└─Please take a look at the "political compass": https://www.politicalcompass.org [politicalcompass.org] A 2-D representation, with 2 axes "economic left to economic right" and "social libertarian to authoritarian", makes political descriptions a lot better understandable. I think that you meant: sta...
[18:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:18] <exec> 08└─There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder. May I kill it?
[18:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:21] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you gotta push the envelope to get a good scoop. Being a journalist ain't no kid's game. The people deserve to know the facts, all the facts, and nothing but the facts. So help me martyb. It also looks like only two well-intentioned and educated fellows tried to read the full article, so t...
[18:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks Takyon. It's much appreciated!
[18:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:25] <exec> 08└─I am aware of this. Thanks for posting the instructions anyway. Truth be told, I just wanted to vent about assholes who think autoplay video is a good idea.
[18:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:27] <exec> 08└─Socialism got a bad rap in the Eastern Bloc.
[18:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:30] <exec> 08└─Please take a look at the "political compass": https://www.politicalcompass.org [politicalcompass.org] [politicalcompass.org]
[18:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:32] <exec> 08└─They did rap music in the Eastern Bloc?
[18:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:10] <exec> 08└─Unabomer would have gotten away with more such attacks, if he hadn't published his manifesto.
[18:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:28] <exec> 08└─so you want to steal our money by threat of force, or by actually using force, then tell us not to question how you spend it? you're just a leech doing a job that is almost guaranteed to be outside the scope of the government's rightful authority. IOW, you are likely guilty of sedition and should ju...
[18:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not in the market for a Vive Pro, but this comic is relevant: http://www.dorkly.com [dorkly.com] We're still in the early days of affordable home VR, so VR will remain a niche for at least a few more years. But the future is promisi...
[18:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:40] <exec> 08└─That's so crazy and weird how my Adblocker interfered with the page loading! The Adblocker must be broken! http://archive.is [archive.is] Nah, fuck early adopters and umbilical cord headsets. If we can get to panel 3, we're good, since I could try to develop or film some content instead of pas...
[18:03:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:07] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it's so different from the US's No Fly List, except that it applies to trains as well as planes. So what I'm saying is, we're already there in the US.
[18:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:13] <exec> 08└─May not protest him by destroying random bits of property, that is. Pretty much a standard rule no matter where you go.
[18:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:15] <exec> 08└─> The infrastructure is being laid. Yep, that's the other thing that people with "Bad Social Credit" also get banned from.
[18:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:26] <exec> 08└─> if/when BFR starts to fly under the $5-6 million Falcon 1 cost, it's a revolution What's the profit margin and ROI at that price ? That will never happen. Get over it. You can't finance Mars (and beyond) by giving away your launches at cost. You're at least an order of magnitude off, and that woul...
[18:04:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 259 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:01] <exec> 08└─Outside of towns, sure. Inside cities, it might be wiser to remove the cars, or force them to really low and therefore safe speeds. There are way too many places in the US where a 4-lane road, where people go 50mph, is right against houses, shops and schools.
[18:04:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 748 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:09] <exec> 08└─That's quite interesting. It's normally *really* hard to prove you aren't at fault when you hit a pedestrian. The claim that they came out of nowhere is usually not terribly convincing. Even in the event the pedestrian comes out from behind a parked truck or something, the police and insurance will...
[18:04:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:14] <exec> 08└─The company basically ignores laws, pushes the costs of operation onto the drivers, unlike a decent cab company that buys cabs and hires drivers, and so on. I feel bad for just about everyone being abused by the gig economy, including Uber's drivers. Call me a social justice warrior, and all that sh...
[18:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:50] <exec> 08└─> human drivers would statistically have caused far more accidents and deaths. Sorry, I don't give a rat's ass about the stats for the total driving population. I want the self driving car to be better/less accidents than my demographic niche. I don't drink and drive, I'm not a teenager and I've bee...
[18:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:51] <exec> 08└─Coming soon to the Cornell U campus -- self driving bicycles: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] As I heard the story, they will just ride around the campus for fun...stopping back at base for battery charging when needed.
[18:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:53] <exec> 08└─Regulations, ethics review boards? Ha! The big tech companies lobby state gov't and get permission. There may be some additional hand waving, but I think it is another case where money talks.
[18:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:56] <exec> 08└─Replying to my own AC comment -- I almost forgot that Uber was caught testing self-driving cars without getting any permission -- was that in the SF area or somewhere else in California?
[18:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:58] <exec> 08└─The pedestrian was pushing a vehicle and apparently they weren't paying enough attention when they were crossing the road. Accidents happen, it sucks, but you can't stop a big heavy machine on a dime. My 2 year old knows they shouldn't cross the street without Mommy or Daddy and that you're supposed...
[18:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:00] <exec> 08└─With a fully autonomous car, that doesn't have a steering wheel, I can see your point. Assuming they market it more like Tesla's auto-pilot feature, they won't be held liable.
[18:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:03] <exec> 08└─Have you seen serious bicycle crashes? You should watch more bicycle racing, then. Admittedly, the average bicycle crash is probably less lethal than your average car crash. I have twisted the frame on a bicycle by going over the handlebars in the rain, though. Didn't do good things to my ribs, eith...
[18:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:05] <exec> 08└─That's just it though. Speedometers read a touch low. So if you are intentionally keeping your speed at 60km/h as shown by the speedo, and then climb to 62km/h by accident you are still ok. The manufacturers deliberately calibrate the speedos to overestimate your speed. The standard in the UK for ex...
[18:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think that "lidar seeing around corners" is realistic outside of a controlled environment. It's one thing for "over the horizon radar" to work, as the sky is a pretty uniform environment, it's another for lidar to see around corners. Yes, they've done it in a controlled environment, but that...
[18:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─In this case, the sales video shows suspension cables, but we don't even see attachment points for any such cables. We see no tower or platform from which to hang any suspension cables. Who authorized the changes, and when?
[18:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:04] <exec> 08└─Why do you wish to divvy the costs per student? It's not like it's composed of xeroxing pieces of paper or some other such antiquated activity that would justify doing so. Also strange evaluation: 60k is a lot but 1.76M is not...
[18:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:31] <exec> 08└─People kept praising Ben Carson for how brilliant a brain surgeon he was, but I do the same stuff and suddenly the police are trying to arrest me.
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[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:49] <exec> 08└─> What is new (...) the will to 'filter out' is so strong that one is prepared to pay for it https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(propaganda) [wikipedia.org] People with lots of m...
[19:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:30] <exec> 08└─If men could get away with having mood swings who will be held responsible for all the things that are wrong with this world?
[19:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:31] <exec> 08└─Tests reveal: The birth control is working perfectly. Not a single of the men who got the treatment became pregnant afterwards.
[19:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:33] <exec> 08└─Much like democracy it's the least worst option. Unless you think you have the right to force a woman to get a medical procedure...
[19:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:36] <exec> 08└─Hell, women's birth control pills come in nice little "bubble sheet" packs with those labels already on them - some even have seven different stickers to put on depending on which day you started taking them.
[19:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:38] <exec> 08└─You're free to put a condom on your body. That's your choice. And the day you manage to get yourself impregnated I'll be happy to help you pay for your abortion.
[19:01:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 959 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:07] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Entropy, but I don't think you *really* understand what has been happening. You're right, of course, pain sucks. But there are many levels of pain. In fact, there are many different kinds of pain. Some stuff - you maybe need an aspirin. Other things, maybe prescription strength Ibuprofen. Som...
[19:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:40] <exec> 08└─I can't stand pain... it hurts me!
[19:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:42] <exec> 08└─Pharma companies put tons of resources into not only researching new medical innovations, but also spending exorbitant resources to get a stamp of approval from nosy governmental "regulators". It's not surprising that these companies would therefore try various means to push their products in order...
[19:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:44] <exec> 08└─> I do things under doctors orders that I wouldn't do otherwise This! Modern medicine requires a huge amount of training and knowledge so I assume that if this person says I should take this, then that is what is best. Maybe people don't realize, but most doctors can do what would be rape, if commit...
[19:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:46] <exec> 08└─You're making a distinction where you can't make one, because everything is economics. What you call "rigid dogmatic authoritarianism" is only possible if one ignores the principles of capitalism; it requires the would-be authoritarian to deny the property rights of other people, and thus would requ...
[19:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:49] <exec> 08└─You have no idea what you are talking about. You haven't lived in any other society but the United States of North America. I'll bet that between maintaining this site and fishing you spend most of your time listening to Lush Rimjob and watching Faux News.
[19:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:51] <exec> 08└─Tylenol is honestly kinda useless.
[19:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:53] <exec> 08└─In practice it's always a choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.
[19:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:55] <exec> 08└─They did rap music in the Eastern Bloc?
[19:02:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:19] <exec> 08└─What they are not saying is that each package was wrapped up like a present and their number one suspect is Jokey Smurf. :P
[19:02:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 948 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:46] <exec> 08└─I can see why many of you aren't really troubled by this. given the information in TFS. What's more, even those of you who read TNSFA might not be bothered. Except both TFS and the crap linked article leave out important details. The FastCompany article is a short excerpt from an investigative piece...
[19:02:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 634 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:47] <exec> 08└─This is equivalent to a general warrant, the reason the 4th Amendment was written. The problem is that the concept of generality is difficult to put into words, and thus law. The police think someone with a Google phone might have done this, so they want to search the data of everyone with a Google...
[19:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:53] <exec> 08└─The "investigative" piece doesn't answer the important question: did they get the data? Because Google rejects 30-40% of requests, according to its transparency report [1]. (Of course, they probably can't find that answer due to non-disclosure clauses. So much for that.) But really, the party at fau...
[19:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:05] <exec> 08└─What would you suggest as an alternative that can be purchased, now? Is there anything that should be released within the next 2-3 months that would be better?
[19:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:06] <exec> 08└─We're more or less already at panel 3. "TPCAST Wireless Adapter for HTC Vive" https://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] There's also one for the Oculus Rift. The wireless adapter apparently has some problems,...
[19:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:09] <exec> 08└─Use Cardboard if you have a smartphone, $200 Oculus Go if you don't mind Facebook, or $400 Lenovo Mirage Solo. Both of those are expected to launch in May.
[19:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC's Vive Pro to Launch on April 5 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:11] <exec> 08└─HTC has its own adapter coming: https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com]
[19:03:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:26] <exec> 08└─China BIGLY demonstrates no respect for IP by obviously ripping off the "Nosedive" episode of Black Mirror.
[19:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:46] <exec> 08└─Please note China's poverty: https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org] This is a way for them to keep the dirty masses away from the well to do. Keeping "trouble-makers" off planes and trains sounds "good", but who defines "trou...
[19:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:47] <exec> 08└─So basically the argument the idiots are using to kill Net Neutrality. Uncomfortable number of correlations with authoritarian governments here in the U.S. these days...
[19:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 1718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:49] <exec> 08└─Keeping "trouble-makers" off planes and trains sounds "good", but who defines "trouble-maker"? Well, for airplanes, I'd say whenever there's incidents where people scream at flight attendants, get drunk and disorderly, kids kick peoples' seats, people get into fights, etc., that these constitute "tr...
[19:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:52] <exec> 08└─Keeping "trouble-makers" off planes and trains sounds "good", but who defines "trouble-maker"?
[19:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:04] <exec> 08└─The fuel cost could be less than $1 million [quora.com]. Cheaper liquid methane and liquid oxygen propellant is being used by the Raptor engines in BFR, compared to RP-1 kerosene and liquid oxygen used by the Merlin engines in Falcon 9/Heavy. The need for constant refurbishment can be eliminated by...
[19:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:06] <exec> 08└─> The fuel cost could be less than $1 million Right, and my car uses less than ten cents of gas per mile. For 5 times that, I could totally sustain a few thousand people lobbying for and taking delivery orders, specifying, receiving and checking payloads, mounting them, getting permissions for drive...
[19:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:08] <exec> 08└─In which universe would anyone just set their price an order of magnitude lower than what is an assured hit ?
[19:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:39] <exec> 08└─There's a fair chance that automated cars are already safer than the average driver. But they aren't safer than the average drivers believes themselves to be.
[19:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:40] <exec> 08└─Uber did. They didn't want to accept the California regulations. Somehow I don't think California lost that they decided to test elsewhere. (Several companies, however, have accepted the California regulations. I think Nevada also has provisions for self driving cars being tested or used.)
[19:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:42] <exec> 08└─You mean Uberpanzer? There's nothing like German superiority for crushing the inferior masses underneath.
[19:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:45] <exec> 08└─A Chinese autonomous car will also have it easier with the decision whether to prefer killing the passenger or the pedestrian. It will just access their social scores and decide to kill the one with the lower score.
[19:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:51] <exec> 08└─"There are no suspension cables in sight, at any stage during construction. Just how many field modifications were made? " This sounds like projects i've been on. Incompetent morons trying to get people killed.
[19:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:43] <exec> 08└─That would be the question though, wouldn't it? She's not accusing them of not giving her a good enough degree, she's accusing them of overselling the value of the degree in the first place. IF they are indeed overselling the financial value of a degree from their institution, or especially the valu...
[19:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:44] <exec> 08└─Why do you wish to divvy the costs per student?
[19:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:31] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And 128,473 bits /8 = 16,059 bytes, or 16 kB.
[19:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:14] <exec> 08└─The problem is your false equivalency and "both-siderism" isn't borne out in real life. For the most extreme example, look at something like NRA campaign contributions/endorsements. You can have 80-plus percent of the population supporting stricter gun laws, but because Republicans know which side o...
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─When did advertising cross the line into psychological warfare against your own population?
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─Given your family experience with parents in marketing, and your obvious insight into it, I'd like your opinion on something: It is my belief that ubiquitous marketing is impossible to resist. That people who say, "I just ignore advertising" and "marketing doesn't work on me" are simply in denial. T...
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[19:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, don't get me wrong. Big media does like money. But it's a means to an end. The end is power. "Ownership" of the culture itself, of people's thoughts and memories. Power and influence over masses of people. That's why when shown proof that sharing actually helps their sales and makes them more mo...
[19:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:55] <exec> 08└─I don't see how this is that much different than pay-to-play. If there are people willing to spend real money, more than what a game typically used to be, on a single item in that game, then they're willing to pay for just about anything. Not seeing much difference in buying that +100 sword, and som...
[20:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:41] <exec> 08└─I think it's not right to force an unborn baby to have a medical procedure on its body that involves blending him or her. When our technology advances a bit and we can keep the baby alive outside the female's body by taking her uterus with it, I would say losing your uterus would be a fitting punish...
[20:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:43] <exec> 08└─...against things like Alleged Statutory Rape Victim Ordered To Pay $15,000 In Child Support [huffingtonpost.com] And yes, statutory rapists should not be entitled to child support from their victims. Statutory rape is a crime, though, and you are innocent until proven guilty of said crime. Making a...
[20:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:45] <exec> 08└─That is most likely Kurenai, who is our resident woman-hating MtF (I don't know how that works either). Her style is pretty unmistakable...
[20:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:47] <exec> 08└─Of all the things I've seen Bot called, or thought of calling Bot, "woman" is not one of them. How could ANYONE mistake that jackass for a woman?
[20:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:50] <exec> 08└─Whelp, if my mechanoid friend above is the best they can come up with we've got a ways to go!
[20:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:52] <exec> 08└─"Statutory rape is a crime, though, and you are innocent until proven guilty of said crime." There's no question of guilt here, however. Given his age, and the age of his daughter, there can be no question the crime took place. Unless it's really not his daughter, in which case she's committing frau...
[20:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:55] <exec> 08└─This is, what, three comments by the same AC harping on this bizarre conspiracy theory that somehow it's *women* who control the world and are mind-controlling all Thuh Menz (TM) with, I don't know, vaginal EM waves or something? Buddy, something is wrong with you. If you can't get laid, it's not be...
[20:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:57] <exec> 08└─The reason this has failed in the past is that it's just more complicated than it is for women. Women have a cycle that repeats over of a period of roughly a month, interfering with that cycle in a way that prevents pregnancy was relatively straightforward compared to what's required for men. In men...
[20:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:07] <exec> 08└─Now perhaps there is some missing information, perhaps all these high paid pushers are all treating client bases which actually need more drugs. I would welcome data from both sides.
[20:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:09] <exec> 08└─But it certainly is not truly socialist.
[20:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:11] <exec> 08└─You can use hypnosis to disassociate from most levels of pain. Of course higher levels of pain require more practice with hypnosis, but it's doable with no negative side effects. If the pain is still too much, you can kill the nerve if it isn't part of your brain.
[20:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:13] <exec> 08└─Damn. *starts clock*
[20:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:03] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it's so different from the US's No Fly List, except that it applies to trains as well as planes.
[20:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX BFR vs. ULA Vulcan Showdown in the 2020s - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:20] <exec> 08└─> "That was about a 5 or 6 million dollar marginal cost per flight" I see. We're having a terminology confusion between SpaceX's "marginal cost" and the customer's price. Hence my list of extra expenses, which must be covered by charging somewhere between a hundred points and a 20x premium over cost...
[20:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:55] <exec> 08└─We might guess that some CA regulators are patting themselves on the back. Their rules drove Uber to test in AZ and saved the life of a Californian (assuming that the Uber car would have eventually had a similar pedestrian accident in CA...)
[20:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:57] <exec> 08└─That's unrealistic given the way gasoline automobiles work.
[20:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is “100 Percent Fatal” - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:45] <exec> 08└─Wrong religion, different demonologies! And, just because you carry light, that does not mean you are the light you carry.
[20:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─Given your family experience with parents in marketing, and your obvious insight into it, I'd like your opinion on something: It is my belief that ubiquitous marketing is impossible to resist. That people who say, "I just ignore advertising" and "marketing doesn't work on me" are simply in denial. T...
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Cambridge Analytica Files - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─Given your family experience with parents in marketing, and your obvious insight into it, I'd like your opinion on something: It is my belief that ubiquitous marketing is impossible to resist. That people who say, "I just ignore advertising" and "marketing doesn't work on me" are simply in denial. T...
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[20:59:47] <exec> 08└─To answer, we will need another billion dollars and a change of administrations. who will do nothing, regardless of who is installed.
[20:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:55] <exec> 08└─I think you're largely correct, it is about control. The big media companies have spent the last 30 years or so buying out their smaller rivals, until we are at the point where there is almost no competition really left (I am thinking mostly about music here). Now that they have total control over...
[21:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:06] <exec> 08└─There was a company downstairs from us that specializes in internet reputation management. For anyone who is worried about "what's out there on them" they will, for a price, give you summary reports and do damage control of things that you don't like. Personally, if I ever found evidence of someone...
[21:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:08] <exec> 08└─People are willing to pay to not have embarrassing shit about them leaked.
[21:00:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:25] <exec> 08└─great, now how about a male morning after pill?
[21:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:03] <exec> 08└─oops..Couldn't....
[21:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:05] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll admit it, it's all because of the Eval Bagyna Deth Lazarz of Mind-Controlly DOOOOOOM~! We're all taught to do this by a coven of lesbian bisexual feminist transgender agender bigender womyn-born-womyn Witches wielding battle axes at what's supposed to be yoga classes. They kind of are, si...
[21:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:19] <exec> 08└─The ability to pursue profits seems to be well enshrined here.
[21:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:21] <exec> 08└─well asymptotically above the token level
[21:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:19] <exec> 08└─I could be wrong and haven't read TFA. Did the article actually say the police think someone with a Google phone (or connection to Google's data) is the perpetrator? Or is this simply securing potential witnesses? Let's say there is a place that has security cameras running. Cops ask for the data to...
[21:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:06] <exec> 08└─"+ Sometimes (as mentioned elsewhere in this discussion), the speed limits are stupidly high." One isn't required to drive "stupidly fast" though; and in fact you are legally obligated to reduce your speed where safety requires it. The speed limit is the *maximum* it is legal to go; it's not a requi...
[21:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nimbus Data Announces 50 and 100 TB 3.5" SSDs - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:26] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to use a raid 10 of them for personal storage utilization if someone sent them to me. I'll write my review in 5 years..
[21:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pedestrian Bridge in Miami Collapses Days After its Construction Began - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:15] <exec> 08└─But that IS the point, isn't it? Isn't it right there in the definition of Affirmative Action? That we should hire people based on pretty much everything that isn't directly a factor in the only thing that should matter, qualification to do the actual job? By definition, when you aren't hiring based...
[21:07:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:44] <exec> 08└─Not if they didn't advertise as such. I see colleges advertisements all the time saying folks should sign up with them to get the degree that will give them employment opportunities. I say its fair play if they can't deliver on that.
[21:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ten Months Later: People of Turkey Still Denied Access to Wikipedia - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:26] <exec> 08└─A vote is not a blank check.
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[21:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:47] <exec> 08└─No. That's what hookers and blow are for.
[21:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:49] <exec> 08└─Everybody's driver's license photo is digitally available, plus many schools are now following federal standards for ID photos. I'm sure somebody is mining the shit out of them.
[21:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:51] <exec> 08└─The best hookers and blow are just a short plane ride away ... crap !
[21:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:53] <exec> 08└─Who's administrations have increased policing and surveillance?
[21:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:56] <exec> 08└─Its a IT boondoggle program. Look at how well the enormous IT tracking infrastructure is completely failing to catch the Texas mad bomber, and that's a much simpler task. news.google.com implies the mad bomber is up to five now, as of the time of this post. Maybe more by the time you read this. Even...
[21:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:58] <exec> 08└─...so we can fly anonymously again!
[22:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:08] <exec> 08└─http://www.radioparadise.com [radioparadise.com] Mostly rock but there is a much wider variety that gets played now and then. I use their iPhone App. If I hear a song I particularly like I look at the name on the album cover that's displayed while the song is playing. Then I write the artist and alb...
[22:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:10] <exec> 08└─http://www.cdbaby.com/ [cdbaby.com] I visited their warehouse once. It's huge. I mean like you could fit a 747 inside it. They had lots of employees.
[22:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:22] <exec> 08└─That some people have more money than sense. Advice I received 25 years ago: "Don't put anything in email/on the internet that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of your local newspaper*" I took that advice and have no need for a "curated" online social image. George Carlin definitely had it...
[22:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:23] <exec> 08└─I ask this as a concerned fellow netizen: what the flapping squeaking loop-de-looping batshit is *wrong* with you?
[22:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's really much cheaper and easier just to be the person you want projected. Plus you almost never have to apologize.
[22:00:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snospar [5366] 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:47] <exec> 08└─Eight men in the treatment group did report lower libido...
[22:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:23] <exec> 08└─DMAU is meant to act on the same receptors as testosterone and progestin
[22:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:24] <exec> 08└─So basically this pill just makes you not want to have sex in the first place? "I'm sorry darling, I have a headache."
[22:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:26] <exec> 08└─Pretty common side effect in female birth control, so what's the problem? If you're one of the ones who suffers from a lowered libido, and you're not okay with that, then
[22:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:29] <exec> 08└─There is no statute of limitations on statutory rape in Arizona. [rainn.org] If he feels he was the victim of a crime he needs to file charges. If he can't be bothered what exactly is the legal system supposed to do about it?
[22:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:31] <exec> 08└─I already know the answer to this, so I'm mostly being rhetorical by asking, *but*...you *do* know "alpha" and "beta" and suchlike aren't accurate terms for human relationships, don't you? They don't even apply to our closest primate cousins, the bonobo or pygmy chimpanzees. Besides which, what does...
[22:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:33] <exec> 08└─1. Men are mostly responsible for how the law looks right now. They are the majority of judges, the majority of legislators at all levels, and the majority of governors. 2. The default arrangement throughout most of the country these days is for shared custody of the kids, and child support for only...
[22:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:49] <exec> 08└─different pain call for different pain killers. some type of pain are better treated by THC+CBD some by a mix of paracetamol and ibuprofen some by opiates some by topical capsaicin ... the problem that opiates almost always works on the first try for almost any kind of pain , it is an easy solution...
[22:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:51] <exec> 08└─The problem is that capitalism can't exist in the absence of authoritarianism. Capitalism tends towards monopolies and rent seeking behaviour. Eventually, you end up having to enforce all that property you own (and want to control) so the renting class must pay you to use your otherwise unusable pro...
[22:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:53] <exec> 08└─"The more drugs dealers sell, the more money they make". In other news: Water is wet! Asphalt is black! The desert is dry! Read all about it!
[22:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:55] <exec> 08└─Politician who owns three fairly expensive houses telling the poor that he'll take all those evil rich people's money and give it to them? He's well within tolerance for giant douchehood.
[22:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:57] <exec> 08└─Do I like pain? No. Do I accept pain pain in my life? Yes
[22:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Directx 12 Raytracing API - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:10] <exec> 08└─You know if they bring back Aero, they'll have to do it with a Compositing Window Manager that uses just as much framebuffer memory as a fancy WM on Linux, right? Anyhow, just use twm if you want the maximum available VRAM available. I promise it doesn't do any fancy compositing on the GPU. You can...
[22:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is related to all those stories about Amazon's new headquarters. "Psst, Amazon... heard about your new location selection, Amazon... would be a pity if all shipping deliveries stopped in our town till we get moved up the list..." Or Brick -n- Mortar decide to fight back against Amazon. I'...
[22:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:40] <exec> 08└─I have taken note of the "Troll" mod. Look, just because I ask you to justify your bald assertion doesn't make me a "troll". Would you like to provide any evidence of your claim, or may I take my victory lap now?
[22:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:01] <exec> 08└─1: As long as the same thing can happen to the rich and powerful (including members of the CIA etc) then I'd be 100% fine with it. Their data gets searched too and if incriminating stuff is found, they don't get to escape. But if they have immunity to such stuff then no go.
[22:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM's Tiny Computer for Anti-Counterfeiting - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:31] <exec> 08└─Imagine a beowulf cluster of those
[22:08:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 685 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:30] <exec> 08└─Horseshit. An old man like you has no place saying what should be. You ruined the world and now expect us youngsters to follow ideals suitable for the times you grew up in and wasted. It's a savage concrete jungle now old man you don't waste time fucking around lest you and all your descendents end...
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[22:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Research Into Letter-Spacing Could Help Improve Children's Reading - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:45] <exec> 08└─No thank you, Science. I run a custom user sheet with * { letter-spacing: -0.1em; word-spacing: -0.01em; } On all sites so I don't have to be drowned in claustrophobic bloat.
[22:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Into Letter-Spacing Could Help Improve Children's Reading - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:46] <exec> 08└─I s t h e r e a l i m i t ?
[22:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Research Into Letter-Spacing Could Help Improve Children's Reading - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:49] <exec> 08└─I learned to touch-type in just three days as a result of a missile first strike which rained upon me not death but letters. Also triplets like jtj. My boss wrote so he could learn to type himself. When I told him how impressed I was with his product, he said "You used a 386. I wrote it for an 8086....
[22:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Into Letter-Spacing Could Help Improve Children's Reading - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:51] <exec> 08└─Today we had a primary election. They give you a paper form to declare your party. I've forgotten how to write because of keyboards. The volunteers who hand out ballots at the polling place are retired pensioners. They don't even remember how to type because of touch screens. Vote Green!
[22:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Into Letter-Spacing Could Help Improve Children's Reading - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:53] <exec> 08└─People afraid of "claustrophobic bloat" is why we have so much damn whitespace all over the web (ok, touch is also responsible, but I'll still primarily blame Apple). You almost need a 4K screen to get as much information as we used to on 800x600. I want a high-density button! Or more precisely, I w...
[22:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Into Letter-Spacing Could Help Improve Children's Reading - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:55] <exec> 08└─cool keming, bro!
[23:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:09] <exec> 08└─Look! At the comedian! HAHWHAHWHAHHWHAHHwhahahwhh 🎶 And I'm proud to be an American, Where at least I know I'm free 🎶
[23:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:10] <exec> 08└─Here in Arizona every time you go into the MVD/DMV regardless of what you are there for, you go through the camera station and get your digital image updated / refreshed. Access into the courthouses has you get a picture taken as well. I was recently on jury duty and everyone who reported had a pict...
[23:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:13] <exec> 08└─What good is a facial recognition system if the site where the bomb is placed isn't under camera coverage. Unlike NCIS/CSI implies it may be some time until cameras are ubiquitous outside of major cities where they are quickly becoming so. I've seen camera cars in Phoenix driving down neighborhood s...
[23:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:15] <exec> 08└─I'm OK, I use lemon juice on my face! [medium.com]
[23:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:17] <exec> 08└─All of them have. Obama's was probably the most disappointing while Bush's was the most egregious.
[23:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:20] <exec> 08└─I was recently on jury duty and everyone who reported had a picture taken.
[23:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:22] <exec> 08└─"In Moscow, authorities spent $870,000 on balloons and decorations at polling stations. [msn.com]" I'm going to bring a bunch of balloons [youtube.com] next time I go to an airport.
[23:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:24] <exec> 08└─As someone named Channing Pollack once wrote in Reader's Digest: Do you remember the sailor who, asked what he’d done with his wages, answered, 'Part went for liquor, part for women, and the rest I spent foolishly.'?
[23:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Recognition At US Airports Becomes A Routine - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:26] <exec> 08└─It's rumored that some people have put photos of themselves on Facebook for whatever reason. Is there no one in our government who can make a deal to get those at a very fair price?
[23:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:37] <exec> 08└─Anymore, I find audio CDs too bulky, and as for those jewel cases, those waste so much space that if limited to 1 CD per full sized case, they only barely beat the old vinyl LP. A 64G flash drive holds almost as much info as a stack of 100 CDs, and is way smaller. And if the audio is encoded in a de...
[23:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:39] <exec> 08└─Don't know about you or MDC but I buy CDs because they prove I own the right to play the music. Whenever possible I buy them "directly" from the band at live shows. Really have no idea how many there are in my stash but it is far more than I have time to listen to more than a fraction.
[23:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The Pirate Bay Helped Spotify Become a Success - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:41] <exec> 08└─-ists. Also to have a reliable backup. I've thought about it quite carefully, then firmly decided I will never purchase digital tracks. But I have a 256 GB iGadget 7. I do not actually play my CDs anymore, I rip them then load them on my iPhone. All 320 kbps so as to enable The Reanimated Undead Cor...
[23:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's really much cheaper and easier just to be the person you want projected. Plus you almost never have to apologize.
[23:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:57] <exec> 08└─To be so diligent about shouting my batshit insanity from the highest rooftops greatly increase the quantity of organic links to my essays.
[23:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:59] <exec> 08└─The jury decided that he was personally responsible for killing 29 coal miners in a fire. Upon his release he dropped $600,000 on TV ads that demonstrated what a swell guy he really is. Now he's running for Senate, and has so far spent $1,100,000 of his own money on campaign ads - during the primary...
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:02] <exec> 08└─... to those wingnuts who holed up in some manner of Federal bird sanctuary. I understand 55 gallons of that particular brand of lube goes for $4,000.
[23:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Are Willing To Pay To Curate Their Online Social Image - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:04] <exec> 08└─So they're pointing out a Yelp like opportunity to publish disparaging info via bots then offer to fix that reputation hit via an apparently disconnected reputation company? Maybe social media companies can offer bidding to determine the reach of posts to maximize the profit. This damaging info is h...
[23:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:07] <exec> 08└─And here I was thinking the conspiracy was being organized under the name "Oprah's Book Club". Or at least, as the communications system, by spreading messages in what appeared to be just a normal work of fiction, but if you put the secret decoder plate over the page it spells out NOBODY BANG FRED J...
[23:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:09] <exec> 08└─Men are carefully conditioned to not claim victimhood, and that's still a red herring. The issue is the responsibility. If (as the statutory rape law and many others presume) that he was not capable of giving consent to the initial sex act. When she found out she was pregnant, he was not even inform...
[23:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:11] <exec> 08└─They don't even apply to wolves, which is the species that originated the concept. It turns out that when you look at a wild canine pack, another name for the "alphas" is "parents". In other words, the basic canine pack is a family unit: Mom, dad, and a litter or two worth of pups. As the pups get t...
[23:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:13] <exec> 08└─Word to the wise, read BDSM for Beginners [badgirlsbible.com], including the comments section, before you get too involved with VLM.
[23:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:15] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll admit it, it's all because of the Eval Bagyna Deth Lazarz of Mind-Controlly DOOOOOOM~! We're all taught to do this by a coven of lesbian bisexual feminist transgender agender bigender womyn-born-womyn Witches wielding battle axes at what's supposed to be yoga classes. They kind of are, si...
[23:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:18] <exec> 08└─. We are only starting to see some of the side effects of long-term use of the pill for some women on a timescale that is much longer than the one used to test this.
[23:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Male Birth Control Pill Shows Promise in Trial - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:20] <exec> 08└─Word to the wise, read BDSM for Beginners [badgirlsbible.com], including the comments section, before you get too involved with VLM.
[23:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's utterly impossible to know what you're talking about without actually going to every country in the world. Dipshit. Oh, and you'd lose that bet. For starters, I'm not remotely what any sane person could consider right-wing; I'm a whole lot closer to an anarchist than I am to either wing. C...
[23:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:43] <exec> 08└─Pain in is nature’s way of telling you to stop being stupid. I live with pain daily. Just got of surgery, morphine drips I do not use. Opioids I have a prescription that script goes directly into the shrewder. Do I like pain? No. Do I accept pain pain in my life? Yes
[23:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:45] <exec> 08└─Your response reduces to this sentence: Voluntary interaction depends on involuntary interaction. Clearly, that is a contradiction.
[23:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:47] <exec> 08└─That's a good one Buzzard, although I'd think you'd be more partial to this one [youtube.com] or this one [youtube.com] Those are good too, although I've always been partial to this one [youtube.com] and this one [youtube.com]. All in all, they're much better than other types of talking heads. :)
[23:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The More Opioids Doctors Prescribe, the More Money They Make - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:50] <exec> 08└─As long as someone is under a doctor's supervision they can use opiates for whatever medical reason it's deemed necessary.
[23:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Directx 12 Raytracing API - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:02] <exec> 08└─"Windows 10 is fugly and also mostly white for some reason." Right click on the desktop, "Personalize", select "colors" on the left. Scroll down on the right; a few options up from the bottom it says "Choose your default app mode" (o) light ( ) dark. Switch it to 'dark'. Now you'll be able to say: "...
[23:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police Ask Google For Data Of All People Near Crime Scenes - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:54] <exec> 08└─Public companies also don't let their shareholders read every employee email. Why is that? Because it would cause trouble for the company. There are internal inspections and audits to make sure things are on the up-and-up. The government is not so different from a company where everyone is a shareho...
[23:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China will Ban People with Poor ‘Social Credit’ from Planes and Trains - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:49] <exec> 08└─In fact I will wager that most people actually want a strong state to dish out punishments to everyone except their family.
[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Student Sues University for Cost of Her Education - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:46] <exec> 08└─I'd keep anonymous about the IQ. Mine is 164
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[23:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:45] <exec> 08└─If you have "social psychological skill", that is, the keen ability to see people as they really are, together with "cognitive curiosity and cognitive ability", wouldn't that drive you to melancholy and make you obsessed to avoid others?
[23:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:47] <exec> 08└─Introverts! Is there nothing they can't do? Or, to put it another way: Would there really be any downside to euthanising all extroverts?
[23:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:49] <exec> 08└─This just in, life is just one big Dunning Kruger simulation. The dumbest are the loudest. The most unaware of a situation are the most likely to take control of it. Extroverts are big, loud-mouthed children and introverts are skinny, meek women! Moderation, fellows! Moderation! You can learn to not...
[23:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─Sales revenue would plummet.