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[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:22] <exec> 08└─Cucked!
[00:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:24] <exec> 08└─She didn't suspect the obvious on account of her Decapodian features?
[00:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:26] <exec> 08└─had trouble conceiving her and, in 1980, underwent an unusual fertility procedure with a doctor near their Idaho Falls home.
[00:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:28] <exec> 08└─The Penis is Evil.
[00:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:31] <exec> 08└─Correction: "legal father", not "real father".
[00:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:33] <exec> 08└─Most likely scenario is the parents made an arrangement with the doctor and kept the secret from their daughter. Daughter's duty now is clear: to piss on her parent's graves.
[00:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:35] <exec> 08└─The parents knew that donor sperm was used, but not that it was from the doctor. From TFA: Ashby was diagnosed with a tipped uterus while Fowler was said to have a low sperm count and low sperm mobility. The couple agreed to a fertility procedure in which Mortimer said he would mix Fowler’s sperm...
[00:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:37] <exec> 08└─If she is hanging out on Ancestry.com to find out more about her family I guess she succeeded, now she'll have a lot more work. Shouldn't she be pleased? Also without the doctors extra "work" I guess she wouldn't be alive, so we could also just call her an ungrateful bastard? But then that isn't as...
[00:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:40] <exec> 08└─Gerald "Ejaculator" Mortimer is living the evolutionary dream.
[00:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:42] <exec> 08└─Huh? They were using donor sperm, and the husband's sperm was poor quality, so the husband was most likely going to be "cucked" no matter what. That's why they picked a donor with certain traits (over 6', college student, looks like the husband, etc.). They were lied to, and got the doctor's sperm i...
[00:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:44] <exec> 08└─It's a zero-cum... err, zero-sum game. Some random nobody got their chance to propagate denied by the Mighty Doctor Mortimer.
[00:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 1638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:46] <exec> 08└─DAD: There are Jews in the world. There are Buddhists. There are Hindus and Mormons, and then There are those that follow Mohammed, but I've never been one of them. I'm a Roman Catholic, And have been since before I was born, And the one thing they say about Catholics is: They'll take you as soon as...
[00:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:59] <exec> 08└─That's the mystery. We've never been able to get him to say. We hypothesize that a fat chick was involved but as yet we have no evidence.
[00:36:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 864 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:11] <exec> 08└─at BleepingComputers [bleepingcomputer.com]*, the article focused more on the potential to use this to identify whistle blowers. The way this could work: there are at least two zero-width Unicode characters. So one zero-width character represents a 1, the other a 0. Hence, it's easy to encode any st...
[00:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:41] <exec> 08└─The Zero Width Joiner [emojipedia.org] is used to make emoji combos [emojipedia.org] like the pirate flag [emojipedia.org] or Woman Scientist: Medium-Dark Skin Tone [emojipedia.org]. Zero Width Space [wikipedia.org] can be used to break up long character sequences (for word wrap) without actually ad...
[00:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:42] <exec> 08└─We're? not the? same text, even though we look the same. We're not the same? text, even though we look the same.
[00:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:44] <exec> 08└─ASCII != Plain text. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "Plain text represents the basic, interchangeable content of text.""Plain text represents character content only, not its appearance.""It can be displayed in a variety of ways and require...
[00:36:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:58] <exec> 08└─Trump's only a year in. Give it another few weeks.
[00:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:13] <exec> 08└─So since it's supposed to be sudden and there is nowhere to run (or time to do so) this is isn't really all that high on my list of things to worry about. It's the end of the universe as we know it, and I feel fine ... That said if the second big bang goes off and there is no one around to hear or s...
[00:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:14] <exec> 08└─So, by that logic, all you have to do is build a computer to calculate exactly how nonsensical it is, with a fresh cup of really hot tea, and you'll be able to control the laws of physics.
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:16] <exec> 08└─Hell, lets run tests to see if they are right.
[00:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:19] <exec> 08└─If there's a chance this could save us from the dreaded eternal heat death, then I say bring it on baby! Although, an explosion rather than a crunch suggests matter and energy would become even more sparsely distributed. I guess it would depend on how the physics of mass and gravity changed.
[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─I think we should just arrest the particle and strip it of its duties. That or eject whomever wrote that garbage in the first place.
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's time to draw up a Constitution of Physics. That way anything undesirable the particle does in future would be unconstitutional. Unless it manages to pass an amendment.
[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:49] <exec> 08└─That would be my guess to, but one clearly never knows these days. If only someone could find some employees that got their feelings hurt by this and see this letter as a sign of a hostile work environment, after all there are about 3100 hostiles and I doubt that many are working on the Maven projec...
[00:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─Once you've decided you are going to go to war with ISIS, that decision is already made. From then on the idea is to kill only the ISIS and not the people they were going to shovel into mass graves. If the AI can do that, great.
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:52] <exec> 08└─Not so much that Google should not be in the business of war, as war should not be a business. Machiavelli warned of this many years ago. In his "Art of War" [marxists.org] he says: COSIMO: You have made me turn this profession (art) of soldiering back almost to nothing, and I had supposed it to be...
[00:39:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it doesn't speak to national reality so much as to the extremely urban, largely west coast prejudices of the people doing the study. They genuinely do not understand that most people in the nation do not live either in major cities or on the west coast. For that matter, people who do live in m...
[00:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:09] <exec> 08└─There was a time we had no money. The only food in the house was a box of cake mix. Bonita and I shared the dry powder. On another occasion she went without eating for days so I would have the strength to make a milestone I wouldn't have even courted my fiancé had I thought there was so much as a r...
[00:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:23] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Also, characters in TV shows very rarely swallow their food. You'll sometimes see them raise their fork to their mouth, then lower it back down whilst talking. In some cases I've seen them buy food without paying for it as well. I suppose these things are optimistically biased if you're a di...
[00:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:56] <exec> 08└─That only works for those 2 specific sites. Hosts is a 1 to 1 lookup. It is not a fuzzy search. *.google-analytics.com does not work either for anyone asking. You want something more along the lines of a blacklist DNS server. I personally use no-script and ublock. Those have the filters to get 99.99...
[00:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─the fact that Jews have been ostracized by many cultures throughout history...
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[01:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:18] <exec> 08└─Ahh yes, making sure the right people get rewarded for voting the right way. What a way to run a country.
[01:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:19] <exec> 08└─Considering the ease at which companies can change "headquarters," trying to prevent companies from merging based solely on the country of origin of the acquiring company is inherently a losing game. Say Microsoft for whatever reason decided to buy Qualcomm. The FTC and Trump would have no reason to...
[01:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:38] <exec> 08└─When you share anything personal with big data companies that don't give two shits about morals or restraint. This story is creepy at a profound societal level...
[01:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:40] <exec> 08└─Folks on this Site don't read the articles, they only look at the pictures. And the picture on this one is not great. But the article says all 3 parents are alive.
[01:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:42] <exec> 08└─Future scenario: your DNA sequence, stored in some database, is downloaded and used to create synthetic eggs and sperm, which are then combined with whatever the good doctor feels like combining it with.
[01:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:55] <exec> 08└─That's the mystery. We've never been able to get him to say. We hypothesize that a fat chick was involved but as yet we have no evidence.
[01:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:12] <exec> 08└─IIRC there are already three other ways that the universe might end suddenly and without warning. E.g. the branes that (perhaps) collided to get things started off could collide again. The false vacuum could collapse. I forget the details of the other one. Most of them don't have estimated times, ho...
[01:39:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:25] <exec> 08└─Agreed. A Common Misconception of the Amish is that they disdain technology. Not so! Some years ago I was stunned to see an Amish carpenter, getting out of a pickup truck (passenger) talking on a cell phone. That's not right! I also saw PV panels on poles around their farms, on barn roofs, etc. What...
[01:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:59] <exec> 08└─Many on the east coast are dickheads too
[01:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:00] <exec> 08└─If you divide the turf into urban and rural, then a city of 50,000 counts as urban. If you want to claim there's a big difference between it and a megalopolis, I'll agree, but that's not what's being asserted in the summary or in the early parts of the discussion. P.S.: Different 50,000 cities are m...
[01:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:49] <exec> 08└─"Good ideas, non-starter unless we are willing to pay. First Law of the Internet, if you aren't paying for the service it is because you are the product. [...]" Good ideas, non-starter unless we are willing to pay. First Law of the Internet, if you aren't paying for the service it is because you are...
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[02:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:23] <exec> 08└─Really though, what is this "nation" thing to a multinational megacorp with shareholders and offices around the world?
[02:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:24] <exec> 08└─"This is a big shift for us to take a lot more responsibility."
[02:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:26] <exec> 08└─Despite his many apparent stupidities, Trump understands the importance of loyalty. A certain FBI guy was made very uncomfortable by Trump's harping on loyalty. He was eventually fired, in part, for his disloyalty. Here, Broadcom has displayed disloyalty to the US in the past. It will need to establ...
[02:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:48] <exec> 08└─For now.
[02:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:03] <exec> 08└─Machine code that has a valid function for every bit shift value (well, 8 bits vs 3 quids), without consisting in 2/3 of filler that's merely syntactically valid? Now that's pretty nice! Obviously those encoded proteins work worse than they could without such compression, but when code density is pa...
[02:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:05] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase, "What does God need with a compression algorithm?"
[02:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:07] <exec> 08└─Are you familiar with the usenet post about a machine coder who optimized his programs for magnetic drum storage rotational velocity? I'd be just like him but my clients wouldn't pay up
[02:36:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:25] <exec> 08└─P.S: posting the example sentences into emacs works like a charm
[02:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:50] <exec> 08└─Call it any way you like, but Snowden is just another wiseguy traitor -- and a DISGRACE. He gave serious information to China and Russia -- believe me, he's President Putin's best buddy -- and should be executed. Make no mistake, he is no hero. In fact he is a coward who should come back & face just...
[02:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, from what I have seen, screen captures with porn tabs in the background should be uploaded to Twitter instead :D
[02:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:54] <exec> 08└─> When our country was great do you know what we did to traitors? Started calling them "the Founding Fathers"?
[02:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:56] <exec> 08└─> So this is why plain text is the superior format. Assuming you mean ASCII - yes, who can forget the good old days of three million incompatible text encodings. Hell, here in Japan I'm still dealing with vestigial mojibake on almost daily basis.
[02:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─One prime example is former President Jimmy Carter, he seems to have had a very interesting retirement, so far.
[02:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:32] <exec> 08└─Youngstown, along with its near neighbor Pittsburgh, PA, are the poster children for the Rust Belt. Savagely abused by the so-called Titans of Industry then abandoned when said Titans declined to repair the damage they caused. Dig almost anywhere and you will find something nasty. Raccoons are every...
[02:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:21] <exec> 08└─Many on the east coast are dickheads too.
[02:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:22] <exec> 08└─Reread the thread. I didn't say urban vs rural. I said "extremely urban" and "major cities". I'd go so far as to call a town of 10,000 more urban than rural...and I've lived in both.
[02:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:25] <exec> 08└─S'true but they don't tell you they're being dickheads for your own good. They're honest dickheads.
[02:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:39] <exec> 08└─Yea.. sounds like one of my ex-gf... at least I get coitus for my torture. Thanks, but no thanks.... unless they build this into a fembot, I'd reconsider when I'm 90, deaf and horny.
[02:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:59] <exec> 08└─I was thinking about a division between the free software+nonfree creative assets version (the game sold to others) and the free software+level editors and samples "community edition".
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[03:35:29] <exec> 08└─Despite his many apparent stupidities, Trump understands the importance of loyalty.
[03:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:53] <exec> 08└─Not just a test I want to contribute to rational drug design I can do many things that schizoaffectives shouldn't be able to do
[03:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:55] <exec> 08└─I'm having problems empathizing with the mother and the legal father. Unless the daughter is somehow faulty, or defective, then they got what they paid for. The not-quite-anonymous donor was a college grad. At least superficially, he resembled the father - two legs, two eyes, etc. The doctor's choic...
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[03:35:57] <exec> 08└─College student, and they were allegedly promised more of a resemblance than two arms and two legs. But you know that, old troll. I have trouble empathizing with the parents' decision to keep the sperm donation a secret so long, but I suspect there was a lot of ego wrapped up in fatherhood and that...
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[03:37:02] <exec> 08└─ECC is a great idea. It helps with multiple small messages where you're not sure which ones will get retransmitted. ECC does a better job with known erasures than just random errors, so it works well with this sort of system. Also, using multiples/duplication and interleaving along with ECC greatly...
[03:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:04] <exec> 08└─So once again we've managed to mix in *presentation* information into our *content* information. I guess that's the nature of the beast? Even the paragraph break here is as much presentation as content. It still gives me a gut-feeling of bad design though.
[03:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:39] <exec> 08└─The sooner, the better
[03:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:33] <exec> 08└─I've met many such people.
[03:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:35] <exec> 08└─Based on that, I live in an "urban cluster". We're a small town (but we call it a city) that you can cross on bike in under 10 minutes. If you stand on the right hill you can probably see all the grain elevators in town at once. Not sure you'd see all the water towers from any one place. One of them...
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[04:35:22] <exec> 08└─> The system is designed to be flown to the ISS as a payload of EDR II experimental inserts. You might want to spoiler this sexy stuff next time. My CPU temp went up 10% all of a sudden. As a good side effect of TFA, some uncivilized people will know about rugula.
[04:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:41] <exec> 08└─...and suddenly all the fears of the "oh noes! it's owned by a foreign company!" crowd are realized.
[04:36:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:01] <exec> 08└─When you share anything personal with big data companies that don't give two shits about morals or restraint. This story is creepy at a profound societal level...
[04:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:15] <exec> 08└─> The terminal certainly doesn't have any JavaScript I am sure systemd devs will patch this problem in the linux user experience with js-terminald.
[04:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phosphorus-Poor Stellar Remnants Could Affect the Distribution of Extraterrestrial Life - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:01] <exec> 08└─Phosphorus is relatively rare in the universe, the rarest of the six elements required for life as we know it.
[04:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:54] <exec> 08└─Well, they did get Carnegie libraries. And IC Beer.
[04:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ragequit [44] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:38] <exec> 08└─...or get Little Snitch from ObDev. Costs money, but works really well and is far easier to configure.
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[05:35:24] <exec> 08└─If they don't, someone else would. You already have autonomous cars that recognize pedestrians, so its not a farfetched idea to install a gun and train it on the same pedestrians.
[05:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:32] <exec> 08└─> The system is designed to be flown to the ISS as a payload of EDR II experimental inserts. You might want to spoiler this sexy stuff next time. My CPU temp went up 10% all of a sudden.
[05:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:34] <exec> 08└─Curious we need to cool LEDs in Antarctica.
[05:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:37] <exec> 08└─Really, I mean, how many heads of lettuce does it take to change a light bulb? No, wait, I mean, *Speed kills!* Forget to wind the watch, and everybody dies! Insane!
[05:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:39] <exec> 08└─Presumably the greenhouse, where the LEDs would be, is heated. At least I don't know of any salads an cucumbers that grow in sub-negative-fifty-Celsius :)
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[05:35:41] <exec> 08└─arugula? The most horrible, bitter green in existence? It should be forgotton by all civilized people.
[05:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:43] <exec> 08└─The most horrible, bitter green in existence?
[05:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Origins of Viruses Discovered - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:51] <exec> 08└─Orphan viruses (ones that cause no apparent disease) are nothing new. RNA viruses are nothing new. From the original abstract, what the researchers did was compare the gene sequences of these different viruses to graph their evolution, based on the presumption that they evolved along side the indivi...
[05:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Origins of Viruses Discovered - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:54] <exec> 08└─But it can mutate into a different virus that fills their body cavities with a viscous liquid Cricket was just fine when that liquid was in her abdomen. I was completely convinced she wasn't really spayed - nudge nudge wink wink So I took her to the vet for some prenatal care he give me the bad news...
[05:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:07] <exec> 08└─What? Don't you know we have the best congress and administration that money can buy?
[05:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:09] <exec> 08└─That sort of loyalty is what dictators ask for.
[05:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:36] <exec> 08└─This wasn't unusual. This week's episode of "This American Life" has a story abut someone who tried (and failed) to verify his paternity, but one of the things they discuss is that, back in the day, it was quite common for the family doctor to provide the sperm in place of a husband who is unable to...
[05:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:21] <exec> 08└─> And they're at least 95% sure Good, but they can pretend they know the day and the hour with no problems. If it happens outside the prediction nobody will be around to blame them.
[05:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:23] <exec> 08└─The real Fermi paradox: Why hasn't someone obliterated the universe yet?
[05:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:54] <exec> 08└─Interesting anecdote! Someone once asked, "why is it called Google?". The answer. "Skynet had already been taken, in the Terminator movies." So when Google attains self-consciousness - - - - Nah, that will never happen! Google is as full of cognitive dissonance as 3 or 4 Runaways1956's! If it atta...
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[05:43:13] <exec> 08└─Um, yeah; we called it 'usenet'.
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[06:35:24] <exec> 08└─If they don't, someone else would.
[06:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, unless you want to claim credit for it that is. /me shrugs some more.
[06:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:40] <exec> 08└─By "shipping container" I assume they mean a standard one? The picture is about right. For less than ten pounds of veggies per week. Would need to know how much in supplies per week it needs but unless you are prepping for a really long duration mission, stuff the same volume with dehydrated food an...
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[06:35:42] <exec> 08└─Would need to know how much in supplies per week it needs but unless you are prepping for a really long duration mission, stuff the same volume with dehydrated food and win.
[06:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Origins of Viruses Discovered - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:52] <exec> 08└─Ancient Origins of Viruses Discovered
[06:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Origins of Viruses Discovered - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:54] <exec> 08└─What seems to me to have been shown is that certain RNA viruses have evolved to attack a wide range of species....apparently all vertebrates. This could have happened because it evolved from attacking their common ancestor, but it could also have evolved in one species and spread. Since these are RN...
[06:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:10] <exec> 08└─As long as the US Military will back up their wishlist, it only makes sense to do center your business elsewhere and use the United States as your enforcement agent, while avoiding US tax. Just common business sense. This is gonna be great until the people of the United States wise up and decide in...
[06:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:39] <exec> 08└─> mix Fowler’s sperm with donor sperm in an 85-percent to 15-percent ratio Is this some kind of homeopathy (without the repeated dilution)? Will the low-motility sperm be influenced - get all psyched up - by the presence of the higher motility sperm, and even remember that boost as they barge up t...
[06:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:40] <exec> 08└─Misrepresents Jews - disapproval of onanism, the spilling of seen on the dirt, goes all the way back to Genesis, and therefore isn't an purely RC thing.
[06:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:42] <exec> 08└─To be honest, being tricked into carrying a child that you didn't agree in advance to carry is bordering on rape. I will never understand the "I must breed, by any means!!!" mentality, but if science can help that, and they can pay for it (even though I'm centre-left, pro-socialised medicine, this i...
[06:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:45] <exec> 08└─Correction: "legal father", not "real biological father".
[06:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:47] <exec> 08└─the spilling of seen on the dirt
[06:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:55] <exec> 08└─I thought the term was "The Honorable", cause we had to try to guilt-trip them into not doing too much damage with the authority we were vesting in them.... as we can never seem to get the idea "none of the above" is an acceptable answer to a poll.
[06:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:57] <exec> 08└─Well, firstly, that diffchecker webpage is retarded - it did absolutely nothing when I enabled JS for the not-obviously-spammy domains, and is clearly the wrong tool for the job. Anyone who thinks that the best way of analysing a stream of data for embedded invisible characters is by diffing it with...
[06:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:59] <exec> 08└─For those not getting the reference, it's probably this story: https://www.independent.co.uk
[06:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:34] <exec> 08└─Rural is outside of town, not within town, even a small one.
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[07:35:23] <exec> 08└─You guys don't learn cursive ? I thought that was a second-grade thing. Oh wait .. It is a second-grade thing. I know because my kids did, but only a couple years after I taught them cursive anyway. The non-cursive "closed loop" version is essentially the cursive one, just not attached to the other...
[07:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:25] <exec> 08└─> Dafuq is this all about ? Indeed. I use the closed-loop version myself (to distinguish it from my number 9), and I've never had any inquiries about it. Maybe it's a US-only problem, like guns or healthcare? *ducks* BTW, my favorites are the handwritten lowercase letter "q" and the number "9". The...
[07:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:35] <exec> 08└─Ah, gotta just love chatting with myself. A dialogue between two AC-alike minds.
[07:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:37] <exec> 08└─You say that like they're a bad thing.
[07:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:53] <exec> 08└─As a good side effect of TFA, some uncivilized people will know about rugula.
[07:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:52] <exec> 08└─The doctor's choice of donors seems a little unethical, but, where is the illegality?
[07:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:54] <exec> 08└─Probably a psychological trick for the father. "There's a chance the child is biologically mine", to try and preempt feelings of jealousy, and psychological barriers between father and child. He can't yell in anger "you're not really my child anyway", at best he can pull a "there's an 85+% chance yo...
[07:37:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 1519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:36] <exec> 08└─Back before unicode we'd watermark text in all sorts of ways. When there's lots of text, it's much easier to hide the watermark. We started doing things like add an extra space or two before EOL, combinations of spaces and tabs, extra spaces after punctuation, and occasionally subbing in 1 of l and...
[07:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:06] <exec> 08└─Or width -1: \b! And let's not try to work out what the width of \r is.
[07:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:07] <exec> 08└─I have Javascript blocked, the example string looked perfectly normal. When I copypasta to Notepad, it still looks fine, but when I copypasta to TextPad, I get a lot of whitespace between the "T" and the "h" of the word "This" in the document. If this becomes commonplace, I may well have to drop ba...
[07:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:09] <exec> 08└─The inserted string shows as: "& # 8 2 0 3 ;" without the double quotes or the actual spaces inserted.
[07:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:12] <exec> 08└─Dump off to hardcopy, proofread, then OCR back to plaintext?
[07:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:14] <exec> 08└─What does your browser make of this: http://thejh.net
[07:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:16] <exec> 08└─I tried it on mine ( Win7, SeaMonkey ) and everything looked on the up-and-up. Copypasta into notepad, same. Copypasta into TextPad, big expanse of whitespace. And took two hits of the delete key to delete each space. You know, the more and more I find out about "New Technology", "Trustworthy Comp...
[07:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:18] <exec> 08└─Actually, you can just look at it with less. Then you even get the Unicode code numbers in a readable form: F<U+200B>or exam<U+200B>ple, I’ve ins<U+200B>erted 10 ze<U+200B>ro-width spa <U+200B>ces in<U+200B>to thi<U+200B>s sentence, c<U+200B>an you tel<U+200B> <U+200B>l?
[07:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:21] <exec> 08└─> So once again we've managed to mix in *presentation* information into our *content* information. Which reminds me of another way this could be performed. Why use invisible characters, when you can simply use lookalike characters. Define a set of characters you think look identical (there are proba...
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[07:43:42] <exec> 08└─Back in þe olden times, some ISPs used to run web servers for customers to put up their own sites. But also, they usually host customer email and maybe usenet servers. He probably meant something like that.
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[08:35:31] <exec> 08└─The ability to read is based on pattern recognition and not so much on single letters as written. The fact that many (including myself) cannot identify a specific form of a typeset letter does not mean we cannot read or write (either by hand or machine). We learn to map a specific pattern read to a...
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[08:35:33] <exec> 08└─Dafuq is this all about ?
[08:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:35] <exec> 08└─It's called PSYCHOLOGY. And it's our greatest science, it's the one that keeps our Country from turning into a shithole. It got me elected. Everybody's heard of Build the Wall, Lock Her Up, Drain the Swamp. People don't know this, we used Psychology for those. A little company called Cambridge Analy...
[08:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:37] <exec> 08└─The old Japanese word for nine is 'kokonotsu' (九つ). 'Kyuu' is the on-yomi reading of 九, and is ultimately derived from the Chinese word for nine: 'jiǔ'.
[08:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 2957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:40] <exec> 08└─I learned cursive. 20+ years ago. I couldn't care less. I literally lived virtually my entire adult life without having to pick up a pen except to make a signature or jot a post-it style note. I could operate in block capitals without significant effect. I don't get why you'd WANT to write a typeset...
[08:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 1855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:42] <exec> 08└─> The non-cursive "closed loop" version is essentially the cursive one, just not attached to the other letters. Topologically it's distinct, and it was never intended for cursive writing, it's more caligraphic. So all of the learning of cursive writing in the world would possibly never expose you to...
[08:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:44] <exec> 08└─When I was taught cursive (which, in the UK, we call 'joined-up handwriting'), I was taught that the correct way to join a g was to backtrack over the last bit of the tail to make the line to the next letter, but a common alternative style was to loop upwards, as shown in your cursive font example....
[08:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:12] <exec> 08└─You need to have your cooling systems well planned out in space.
[08:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:13] <exec> 08└─Near the end though? (The wisdom of ending the ISS instead of adding / replacing modules is another story for another day.)
[08:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:15] <exec> 08└─Fresh food increases morale, and likely nutrition, and is intended to be used as "supplementation" rather than the sole source of food. These crop systems may fare better on the Moon or Mars if they can use the dirt or water there.
[08:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:42] <exec> 08└─I agree. The location of the jurisdiction under which the company is incorporated (gains legal personhood) is probably less important than the nationalities and locations of the members of the board, and the nationalities and locations of key staff. A company can be incorporated in Luxembourg, but o...
[08:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:17] <exec> 08└─Eyes always closed during the vinegar strokes. (And I'm surprised I've not passing more typos, my wireless keyboard's battery is going a bit flat, I can't catch them all...)
[08:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:38] <exec> 08└─Well, that's *one* of those stories :D
[08:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that utterly-shitly-written non-authoratitive page also says "The encoding has traditionally been either ASCII, sometimes EBCDIC.". And who cares what the crackpipe-influenced Unicode committee think? They are already, by dint of who they are, and the above tradition, marginal in this discu...
[08:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:41] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the P in PDF stand for "Painful"?
[08:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:44] <exec> 08└─Some of the languages in Unicode are two complex to represent the way we do with English, so they need special control characters. Joiners for emoji are pretty much a no-brainer, massively increasing what can be represented while taking up fewer code points. I really don't see a problem.
[08:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:46] <exec> 08└─Plain text doesn't exist on the computer. You always have to choose an encoding, as computers cannot handle anything other than binary data. Now if you want to argue that Unicode has added things that simply don't belong into a character set, then I'm completely with you. BTW, even ASCII has such ch...
[08:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:48] <exec> 08└─Good point. TMTOWTDT is good. But is this the Unix way? Personally, I don't believe that's less's job, it should be a pager with scrollback, and very little more - I don't even see a switch to turn it off, unless that's what -r is for, and in that case, it's terribly documented (non-ASCII utf-8 isn'...
[08:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:50] <exec> 08└─wc -c does not count characters, but bytes. With multi-byte character sets (like Unicode) both are not the same. From the wc man page: DESCRIPTION [...] -c, --bytes print the byte counts -m, --chars print the character counts
[08:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:27] <exec> 08└─Well, I suppose, possibly out of force of circumstance, some people are better than others at needs analysis rather than wants analysis.
[08:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:08] <exec> 08└─That's the use case I had in mind. If it becomes reality, prepare to have your privacy trampled by everyone who you owe anything. If I my understanding of tech adoption is not off-the-mark, this type of monitor is going to replace older/current type of monitors and then everyone is going to monitor...
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[09:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:39] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, it's long been known by cognitive scientists that reading, at least of word-based languages like English, is mostly done at the word-is-an-atom level - we recognise whole words. I see no reason why this would be different in syllabic languages like Korean, or pictographic languages like...
[09:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:40] <exec> 08└─Or "grown up handwriting"! I'm pretty sure the template we (UK, 70s) were taught was the loop-through hook. Or maybe that's an implanted memory given how I now write. I will confess to have made some modifications to traditional cursive. My 'f' is a descender, not am ascender. Some fonts have it as...
[09:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:43] <exec> 08└─> Handwriting is dead and on its way out, why we continue to spend years of our children's best learning-absorption time on this nonsense, I can't fathom. -Coordination eye hand -Discipline -Independence from electronic media Kids today are basically retards in motor skills and with some exceptions...
[09:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:45] <exec> 08└─In typeset serif fonts the stem and loop on the “g” are completely different to a handwritten cursive g. Go look. See also lowercase a in most typeset fonts.
[09:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:47] <exec> 08└─Kids today are basically retards in motor skills and with some exceptions are also dumb (don't show me stats, go see the schoolchildren production of yore instead).
[09:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:49] <exec> 08└─Not actor, a manager. Good verbal skills and good political defence mechanisms is all you need to become a manager. Just pray the manufacturing jobs don't actually return to USA or you will have big social commotion.
[09:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJJUbbnX4Gs [youtube.com]
[09:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:24] <exec> 08└─What I believe could be missing is a system to turn poop into an amount of the nutrient solution
[09:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:25] <exec> 08└─These crop systems may fare better on the Moon or Mars if they can use the dirt or water there.
[09:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:27] <exec> 08└─you could justify it on the ISS if it had went up near the beginning of the mission. Near the end though?
[09:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:29] <exec> 08└─Food is grown inside an enclosed environment on the ISS, just like it would be on the Moon. On the ISS, you have to bring over all your water and nutrients to grow anything, not just potassium and sodium. The Moon has greater exposure to radiation than the ISS, but that is a problem that will have t...
[09:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:32] <exec> 08└─http://www.gringene.org/contact.html [gringene.org] Send a short email here, maybe he can help you.
[09:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:59] <exec> 08└─Painful Document Fucker works for me!
[09:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:00] <exec> 08└─But: 1) The author uses specific quotation marks as apostrophes. That's as big a mistake as miscounting would have been. 2) Once I'd od'd it, which indeed is what I did first, I saw they were all 3-byte, so 33 bytes tells me exactly the same information as 11 characters. I would also have been inter...
[09:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:43] <exec> 08└─"every frinkin' post" Wow. It's the first time I've noticed it, and I only noticed it because you so rudely drew my attention to it. When I read it, I simply interpreted it as "for those who are wondering what credentials I have that permit me to be so specific", but using one word rather than many,...
[09:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:45] <exec> 08└─So these canids are rearing up on their hind legs bacause they have a disease which gives canids lethargy?
[09:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:47] <exec> 08└─Well, when a wall's build all the way round your borders, and no-migration policies are in place, yes, it's hilarious to the other 95% of the world. Just make sure you film its progress, we need our reality TV circus.
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[10:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:48] <exec> 08└─I fully agree. The long-word problem is usually solved by the field-of-vision, where you "see" the constituent parts of a long word separately (Danish is another example that can create very long words). The constituents form yet another pattern template, which then is interpreted. This actually lea...
[10:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:00] <exec> 08└─The problem with all ethical AI researchers boycotting research of autonomous lethal weapons is that then the research will be done by unethical AI researchers (who, obviously, don't have an ethical problem with that research). But if there's one thing that, if it gets developed at all, I'd prefer t...
[10:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:25] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the sense of "bitterness" changes dramatically as you age. Old people, in general, don't sense bitterness as strongly as younger people. Pickles, for example, are almost inedible for most young people, especially children, while parents and grandparents like it very much. This is a source of m...
[10:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:27] <exec> 08└─Pickles, for example, are almost inedible for most young people, especially children, while parents and grandparents like it very much.
[10:36:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fishybell [3156] 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:45] <exec> 08└─Considering the ease at which companies can change "headquarters," trying to prevent companies from merging based solely on the country of origin of the acquiring company is inherently a losing game. Say Microsoft for whatever reason decided to buy Qualcomm. The FTC and Trump would have no reason to...
[10:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:55] <exec> 08└─"Broadcom, which was a U.S. company until it was bought in 2016 by Singapore's Avago" How is that anything to do with loyalty? It was bought, it didn't just move to Singapore.
[10:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:51] <exec> 08└─Duplication decreases entropy, so requires energy. So yes, we need to eat more because of the extra cost. I wonder if there's an animal-size useful-gene-density correlation? It is advantagious for tiny creatures to reduce their energy expenditure, at least the warm-blooded ones. https://www.youtube....
[10:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:40] <exec> 08└─Like, "The Great Arkelseizure"? Involuntary bodily function, checks out. Hard to imagine in reverse, however.
[10:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:12] <exec> 08└─> ... demonetizing, gun videos is not an attack. It is a statement ... Statements can be attacks. I'm anti gun-nut, and I still view the youtube move as an attack. Some attacks are better or worse justified than others. If google is pushing a liberal agenda, then this attack is perfectly consistent...
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[11:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zipline's Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:23] <exec> 08└─When the fleet of drones arrive at the hospital... there will be blood. When the drones all run ouf of power and fall out of the sky... there will be blood. Win-win!
[11:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zipline's Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:24] <exec> 08└─When the drones are GPS hacked and flown straight to my den of Silicon Valley vampires... there won't be blood no more.
[11:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:55] <exec> 08└─Similar for me (also in UK). Also taught joined-up handwriting (primary school, in the 90's), and I've also made modifications to some letters as how I write them, such as f, g and s. f is also a descender for me. In fact, my cursive g with the joined loop is even further away from standard. Normall...
[11:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:08] <exec> 08└─Is that an argument on the line of "If you don't go shooting kids in a US school, someone else would"?
[11:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe you're not schizoaffective.
[11:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:10] <exec> 08└─It seems like these days, you have to type it in yourself if you want to be sure... Cutting and pasting with modern technology looks a bit dangerous... what you see ain't necessarily what you get!
[11:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:11] <exec> 08└─tester
[11:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:54] <exec> 08└─What, precisely, has that got to do with the price of feet in China? You're the only one talking about rural vs. urban.
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[12:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar X Prize Could Continue Without Google, or Even the Prizes - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:20] <exec> 08└─Did they purchase some kind of prize indemnification insurance policy akin to hole-in-one contests? And the time of the policy ran out so now they won't pay it? $30,000,000 may be a lot for you and me, but it is one tenth of one percent of Alphabet's annual profits.... it strikes me that on an annua...
[12:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar X Prize Could Continue Without Google, or Even the Prizes - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:21] <exec> 08└─If I'm not mistaken, Google promised to fund prizes rather than put up any actual cash. And extended the promise multiple times (adding years to the deadline). Since nobody met the requirements, Google didn't have to pay out a cent.
[12:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zipline's Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:31] <exec> 08└─Basically what I was thinking: "I vant your blood!"
[12:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Gov: We're Not Regulating Driverless Vehicles Until Others Do - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:38] <exec> 08└─There's a missed opportunity here... As long as governments refuse to regulate autonomous vehicles running people over (let's see how many Uber managers go to prison for murdering the lady with the bicycle), there is a huge opportunity here for a new company to enter the driverless vehicle market in...
[12:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:04] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know everything? You know what you need to know, or you find out. If you don't need to know the earth goes round the sun, why bother learning/retaining it?
[12:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:05] <exec> 08└─> Prussia-based American school system, where it still focused on mindless regurgitation of facts and blind obedience the teacher was the god the pupil knew it the pupil did what the teacher wanted until he could break free Now the teacher is nothing peer pressure is everything peer pressure is not...
[12:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:07] <exec> 08└─Dafuq is this all about ?
[12:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:10] <exec> 08└─First, they wanted to figure out if people knew there were two lowercase print gs. They asked 38 adults to list letters with two lowercase print varieties. Just two named g. And only one could write it correctly. We would say, there’re two forms of g, can you write them. And people would look at u...
[12:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:23] <exec> 08└─Another version of the problem (and solution) can be found in the current arc on LICD, starting yesterday: http://leasticoulddo.com [leasticoulddo.com] ...and the punch line today.
[12:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:55] <exec> 08└─I know a Korean-American woman who had her DNA done and was surprised to discover that she's a little over 1/4 Japanese-descended. She decided to go with "broad historical contact between neighboring peoples" as a working explanation and keep it to herself rather than bringing it up with her family...
[12:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:28] <exec> 08└─UTC (GMT/Zulu)
[12:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:29] <exec> 08└─Yup
[12:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:32] <exec> 08└─Should ...
[12:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:34] <exec> 08└─This is what I too thought. I'd spellcheck after OCR. Also perhaps instead of hardcopy screenshots would do.
[12:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:44] <exec> 08└─Just like unless people work in the white house, their vote in the presidential election is largely irrelevant.
[12:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:22] <exec> 08└─So these canids are rearing up on their hind legs bacause they have a disease which gives canids lethargy?
[12:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:24] <exec> 08└─They delved too greedily and too deep? They awoke something in the darkness? Or maybe it's just distemper as the article said?
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[13:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Gov: We're Not Regulating Driverless Vehicles Until Others Do - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:45] <exec> 08└─No, that part comes after they've gained commercial acceptance. It's not at all shocking or terror-inducing that experimental cars that shouldn't be driving in public kill people. Take an established technology like a plane where people feel that there was a good bead on security and do something wa...
[13:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Gov: We're Not Regulating Driverless Vehicles Until Others Do - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:46] <exec> 08└─It is worth noting, that necessary powers already exist to create new Motor Vehicle Construction and Use Regulations for automated vehicles through the Road Traffic Act 1988.
[13:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:17] <exec> 08└─Show them the upper-case cursive "Q" and it will blow their minds!
[13:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03carguy [568] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:18] <exec> 08└─> Question: Aside from thing YOU write to yourself, how much of the written content you see in your life is typeset versus cursive? Very little is cursive. But, the hand-written letters I receive from an older friend, by post, are among my most treasured. This guy traveled widely in Central and Sout...
[13:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:34] <exec> 08└─(Kaist), said: "I reaffirm once again that Kaist will not conduct any research activities counter to human dignity including autonomous weapons lacking meaningful human control.
[13:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:01] <exec> 08└─Look, I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying it's not straight-forward to use-the-regolith-as such-just-add-water. Of particular value is ammonium perchlorate composite propellant as a component of solid rocket fuel... etc
[13:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:03] <exec> 08└─There seems to be an abundance of water on the Moon and Mars, and it could be decently accessible on Mars: NAU planetary scientist’s study suggests widespread presence of water on the Moon [nau.edu] Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice [soylentnews.org] 100 meter thick ice is under...
[13:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:32] <exec> 08└─100% disagree. everyone - ultimiately gets screwed by trump when they think they invested and found a friend in him. EVERYONE gets screwed by trump, just a matter of time. he will turn on you. its what he does. he thinks only of himself. only the really stupid ones still think they can trust trump a...
[13:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:46] <exec> 08└─ominous demonstration [security.love] in which you copy "not evil" but it pastes as "evil". This one requires javascript; explanation here [github.com].
[13:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:48] <exec> 08└─I tried using the webpage https://umpox.github.io [github.io] [github.io] and it did not show my username. When I pasted NewNic it into Diff Checker, there were no zero width characters. I tried using Firefox and Chrome under Linux.
[13:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:51] <exec> 08└─vi is just vim with a zero-space m
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[14:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:19] <exec> 08└─oh yah??? Adult Neurogenesis in Doubt [soylentnews.org]
[14:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Atomically Thin Materials - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:26] <exec> 08└─But why would we ever want to invent anything other than graphene? Graphene is super strong! And Light! And cheap! And a superconductor (except when you don't want it to be) and it can absorb light efficiently and it tastes like grilled bacon and is rich in antioxidants and speaks Esperanto and alwa...
[14:36:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 819 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:20] <exec> 08└─First, they wanted to figure out if people knew there were two lowercase print gs. They asked 38 adults to list letters with two lowercase print varieties. Just two named g. And only one could write it correctly. We would say, there’re two forms of g, can you write them. And people would look at u...
[14:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:24] <exec> 08└─The teacher's pressure and the institutionalization that goes on in the school system breeds obedient subordinate workers. The market driven peer pressure breeds obedient consumerists. Both things benefit big business, largely at the expense of the individual's freedom, identity and emotional securi...
[14:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:26] <exec> 08└─Topologically it's distinct
[14:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:28] <exec> 08└─I've always written "&" in full because that's how I was initially taught and it became habit.
[14:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:30] <exec> 08└─We would say, there’re two forms of g, can you write them
[14:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:33] <exec> 08└─So, no, the schools in Florida haven't been teaching cursive for at least 10 years now... at least not the way they did 30 years ago. 30 years ago it was the mandatory form of writing from 3rd grade and up. 10 years ago it was more of a: here's another way of writing you might see... thing. But, wha...
[14:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. By shooting kids in a US school, you don't reduce the probability of others doing so.
[14:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:18] <exec> 08└─Mercury... may be the better choice for a small colony.
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:19] <exec> 08└─if the thing can be perfected to run decades it would eventually pay off.
[14:38:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 867 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:01] <exec> 08└─The parents knew that donor sperm was used, but not that it was from the doctor. From TFA: Ashby was diagnosed with a tipped uterus while Fowler was said to have a low sperm count and low sperm mobility. The couple agreed to a fertility procedure in which Mortimer said he would mix Fowler’s sperm...
[14:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:28] <exec> 08└─Dafuq did I just read? TL;DR there is no such thing as God - it is just an excuse for sick people to put their sperm in you.
[14:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:29] <exec> 08└─That's easy. DNA don't lie.
[14:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:31] <exec> 08└─The flip side of the story is my mom's side of the family tree has an adopted orphan who's parents died in the great 1919 influenza outbreak and we know almost nothing of her ancestry at all, which is too bad. Based on ancestry racial reports and percentages her adopted parents must have been in the...
[14:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:34] <exec> 08└─More than just genetic code in the ... zip file or whatever analogy. In 1980 its pretty ridiculous as a technique but In 15000 BC if one guy had weird pH or something then playing dilution games might ironically increase the odds of the guy having his genetic material reproduce (say the pH is so hig...
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[15:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:20] <exec> 08└─JoeMerchant writes: takyon writes: get a room or do a karate battle
[15:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:21] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the "The brain cell debate rages on..." in TFS? The submitter seems to acknowledge other positions do exist.
[15:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:23] <exec> 08└─Hey, that publication is almost 4 weeks old - get over it, move on, times change.
[15:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar X Prize Could Continue Without Google, or Even the Prizes - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─Soylent could collectively offer a prize for the first lander. Oh-kay, so maybe we don't offer a million dollars. But, I'd kick in a twenty, anyway. I might be induced to offer more than twenty bucks. Someone says, "Big deal, Soylent offers a grand total of $275 to the first lunar rover - who is goi...
[15:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03conn8d [6887] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zipline's Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:48] <exec> 08└─Quote from https://www.economist.com [economist.com] Whether all this is economically viable, or just a publicity stunt by Rwanda’s tech-loving government, is unclear.
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:34] <exec> 08└─People probably thought they were asking about two distinct Unicode characters. I bet if they'd phrased it in terms of the serif version having a different geometry to the sans serif, more would have got it.
[15:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah just because we can recognize something doesn't mean we can draw it from scratch. Whether it's a typographical character or a human face. http://www.caltech.edu [caltech.edu] For example, a single neuron in the left posterior hippocampus...
[15:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:38] <exec> 08└─They chose to scale-down the image that shows at a glance what it is they're talking about, [jhu.edu] to the point that I can't read the upside-down text saying which one they mean. How unhelpful.
[15:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:40] <exec> 08└─If you want to teach your kids fine motor skills then use something fun, useful, or both. Cursive is neither fun nor useful. I expect it will become even less and less so, since I can write cursive but struggle to read any written more than a generation ago. Maybe magic tricks? Slight of hand?
[15:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:43] <exec> 08└─I ws taught to write a stylised "Plus" sign instead of an ampersand. It started with the downstroke, then curved halfway back up and to the left, then finished with the horizontal stroke to the right. We were told (at primary school) that it was quicker and easier to write than an ampersand, and mor...
[15:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:45] <exec> 08└─Mod -1, Out of Character. You used to be SO GOOD. I could read your posts hearing Trump's voice in my head, but as of late, less and less. Best wishes, Mr. Baldwin.
[15:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:47] <exec> 08└─The cursive closed loop is attached at the right. The type-set closed loop is attached at the left.
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─But, what I'm wondering is: are there any font-geeks who really care about this article? And, if so, isn't this like super-elementary font-geekery?
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:06] <exec> 08└─This argument sounds to my ears very much like the installing an antivirus on voting machines [xkcd.com] It simply will not matter how ethical the autonomous lethal weapons will be developed. What matters is how ethical they will be used once developed. And, believe it or not, it will not be the sci...
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:08] <exec> 08└─So, there's dignity so long as it was a human that pulled the trigger? Or pressed the button. Bullshit.
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[15:37:39] <exec> 08└─That's more or less how I treat surface crops in Dwarf Fortress.
[15:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:41] <exec> 08└─Mercury is tidally locked. One side is insanely hot and bathed in solar radiation, the other side is permanently in shadow and cold. Any colony would most likely be built on the terminator between these two extreme environments. That way you could benefit from both: Solar panels on the hot side, sen...
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[15:38:00] <exec> 08└─Really though, what is this "nation" thing to a multinational megacorp with shareholders and offices around the world?
[15:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:54] <exec> 08└─I arrive at the same conclusion. It's all "there's a chance" until the wave function's collapsed. Unfortunately it's so damn easy to find out the true paternity, it really wasn't that much of a puzzle. A coin is tossed, but not revealed - what's the probability that it's heads? Half? Nope, it's eith...
[15:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:34] <exec> 08└─did anyone else think their username would show up? from an example from another site that was posted here that was described as a means of hiding spaces and not revealing usernames of special forum that used different but similar techniques to identify their leaker via controlled circumstances of l...
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[15:40:35] <exec> 08└─i had no idea people even left the spell checker on in the browser. it seems so lowbrow to use the web for writing. i prefer to use html markup in word and publish right to the webosphere!
[15:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:15] <exec> 08└─But, then it'll only give you a number like 42. We need to give it more restraints, so it doesn't come up with an nonsensical answer.
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[16:35:20] <exec> 08└─If you removed the 1st stage of a Saturn V and launched the rest of it by dropping it from a plane in the stratosphere, that'd be close to what Virgin Galactic does. Of course VG's spacecraft is more than a rocket, it's also a glider, sort of like NASA's Space Shuttle. VG's scheme offloads the work...
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[16:35:31] <exec> 08└─Mom still can't figure out how to program the VCR.
[16:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Atomically Thin Materials - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─Can these novel 'phenes bring anything new to the table?
[16:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A New Way to Atomically Thin Materials - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:42] <exec> 08└─In a couple of years Apple fanboys will still be laughing and poking fun at those MXenes for being thicker than their iPhone 12 which is only 3 times the Planck length. In fact they'll probably trademark the Planck bezel or something.
[16:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zipline's Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:01] <exec> 08└─First thing I thought is well that's dumb. Cleaning up after a drone crash would normally just require tossing it in the trash and maybe a broom. Cleaning up after a drone crashes with a pouch of blood? Yeah, that'd be no fun. Bad enough one needs to worry about a drone dropping on your head. Let al...
[16:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe half of the respondents have never learned to type on a typewriter, and didn't know that "lowercase" is the default and "uppercase" makes the klonking sound when you press the shift key hard and the metal thingy shifts almost a centimeter down so that the top letter is positioned to whack the...
[16:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:58] <exec> 08└─You can mangle the central letters of a word, as long as the front & back letter remain the same we generally do quite a good job at understanding the word/reading it. Our pattern recognition for letters in a similar fashion doesn't work as we'd expect. So many letters have small variances in their...
[16:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, obedient drones help BIG business. As in, large bureaucracies that mainly survive because of their bigness. But it should be added that an obedient, nonquestioning populous hurts the actual market (price vs. quality ratio), and as well small and medium business. In small business being unable t...
[16:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:18] <exec> 08└─As in, you're not worth even thinking about, because we have our autonomous robot army "taking care of" the problem. So, yeah, there's a difference.
[16:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:20] <exec> 08└─You're right, but death's the great leveler. In the end, for the one that dies, it won't much matter who or what initiated the act. In some cases they won't know anyway. If human operators are hidden in secret remote bases, how does one know if they even exist?
[16:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:54] <exec> 08└─Scrap that last comment: I was wrong, Mercury isn't tidally locked at all. It rotates, albeit very very slowly.
[16:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.universetoday.com/130109/how-do-we-colonize-mercury/ [universetoday.com] https://commons.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org] You want to set up shop in the shaded polar region, which has evidence of water ice. The Universe Today article suggests usin...
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:58] <exec> 08└─Mercury is tidally locked. One side is insanely hot and bathed in solar radiation, the other side is permanently in shadow and cold.
[16:38:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:55] <exec> 08└─> mix Fowler’s sperm with donor sperm in an 85-percent to 15-percent ratio Is this some kind of homeopathy (without the repeated dilution)? Will the low-motility sperm be influenced - get all psyched up - by the presence of the higher motility sperm, and even remember that boost as they barge up t...
[16:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─I doubt they'll deal much with each other, but it seems very likely the feds will send over some sequenced DNA to all relevant companies and say, "Who do you have who's a close match for this, and how close?" In that way anyone who participates in these services becomes part of a huge not-just-crimi...
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─The Genesis thing was as follows. Judah's son was evil and God struck him down. Then according to custom the son's wife was to have a child by one of the relatives, because reasons. So, one of Judah's other sons went in to impregnate her, but instead he pulled out at the last second. Spilling his se...
[16:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:15] <exec> 08└─Every Sperm is Sacred [youtube.com], from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
[16:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:56] <exec> 08└─My spell checker in PyCharm went crazy when I pasted that sentence into it. Same goes for Microsoft Word's spell checker.
[16:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03speederaser [4049] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:58] <exec> 08└─So in other words, it shows as “” — why not just write that?
[16:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:00] <exec> 08└─Monospace + zero-width = Monospace. Every character in your monospaced text can have 0 or 1 units of width.
[16:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:02] <exec> 08└─Every character you don't type takes up "space". "Zero space".
[16:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:42] <exec> 08└─If its just one Higgs boson doing all that, it'll have to happen somewhere. It could be that point expands into a universe; prehaps it never takes much space in this one though. Space would just dilate locally. And it to were to take space from the world we live in, the disruption would be limited b...
[16:42:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:33] <exec> 08└─The same way that lawyers can be a good thing when they defend the innocent, advertising has one use: actually informing people that a product/service exists. But the moment the mind tricks start, they should all be lined up against the Trump wall, on the shooting side.
[16:43:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:01] <exec> 08└─I told myself something similar while working for the UAV company: "we're just doing recon over the next hill in the Middle East, so grunts don't have to go look in person." Then we started supporting SWAT raids domestically, but that was O.K. because they were just busting bad guys, or Meth labs, o...
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[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─Chuckling. Chuckling could be heard. The source of this chuckling was a man standing in the center of the dark room. His chuckles grew louder as the used-up woman lying on the floor grew closer and closer to death. He watched and he chuckled as she bled to death, thereby solidifying his victory in t...
[17:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:27] <exec> 08└─> ... is unlike others ... ... is *like* the Bell X-1 & X-2 and also the North American X-15 ... From https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautic...
[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:29] <exec> 08└─VG's scheme offloads the work of gaining 46,000 feet of altitude, and possibly it adds up to 700 mph of orbital velocity
[17:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:43] <exec> 08└─But, does it really matter if you still can't teach the old dogs new tricks?
[17:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zipline's Drones Will Deliver Blood in the United States This Year - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─It's okay, we can fix that: https://youtu.be [youtu.be] Just make the bag more resilient.
[17:36:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 1855 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─> The non-cursive "closed loop" version is essentially the cursive one, just not attached to the other letters. Topologically it's distinct, and it was never intended for cursive writing, it's more caligraphic. So all of the learning of cursive writing in the world would possibly never expose you to...
[17:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:33] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not get caught.
[17:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:06] <exec> 08└─Hint: &
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[18:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:29] <exec> 08└─And why was it they were storing the CVV exactly? According to PCI rules "Sensitive authentication data must never be stored after authorization – even if this data is encrypted." See https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org [pcisecuritystandards.org] (warning: PDF)
[18:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:30] <exec> 08└─allowed unauthorized access to customers' names, address, payment-card information, CVV numbers and expiration dates
[18:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:32] <exec> 08└─What is the endgame here? These "data breaches" seem to be accelerating, and bigco and their customers seem to care less and less when they happen ("that's just the status quo"). How is this trend going to go into the future? Do "data breaches" actually matter? Or are banks just getting good enough...
[18:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:34] <exec> 08└─Isn't the whole nature of "checkbox security" like this to evolve into, "if you pay enough to come up with rationalizations you can do anything"? Like the building code, Joe Blow building his house gets dinged for completely safe deviations from the listed code requirements. But, SuperDeveloper can...
[18:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:56] <exec> 08└─I'm in the same boat as you are with respect to current technology. However, I don't think it has to do with how many brain cells I have that are functioning but rather I just don't give a damn anymore :) Seriously. I've spent so many years working on that stuff that the last thing I want to screw w...
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar X Prize Could Continue Without Google, or Even the Prizes - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:16] <exec> 08└─But why set a time limit on it?
[18:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar X Prize Could Continue Without Google, or Even the Prizes - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:17] <exec> 08└─Because people get a lot more focused when they have to deal with a deadline for losing money. Ask the SLS guys, for example...
[18:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:27] <exec> 08└─A centimeter?? Just how big was the typewriter you were using??
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:29] <exec> 08└─It's the one with downstroke on the left (downstroke joins the two loops) and serif pointing to the right. I, my wife, and my daughter all took guesses this morning about which it was: we each picked a different character, for seemingly good reasons, and all three of us were wrong. I'm sure that the...
[18:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:31] <exec> 08└─You can mangle the central letters of a word, as long as the front & back letter remain the same we generally do quite a good job at understanding the word/reading it.
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─Kids today are basically retards in motor skills and with some exceptions are also dumb... There, fixed that for you.
[18:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:35] <exec> 08└─Calligraphy! Cursive may be obsolete, but calligraphy is still valued by some for its artistic merit. Or, any other detailed art...
[18:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:31] <exec> 08└─According to research at Wageningen University in .nl, it isn't dramatically more complex than adding water. In experiments using Martian and Lunar soil simulant with chemistry based on probe data, plants will germinate in regolith and water, but are stunted because of macro-nutrient shortages. Addi...
[18:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:33] <exec> 08└─>For bonus points: Use it as a heatsink too I'd be surprised if they needed to add heat. In composting it's not uncommon for the center of a pile to get hot enough that the heat is a limiting factor. It kills off the bacteria doing the work. This is a problem, so you put pipes into big piles so air...
[18:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─I'm happy to hear they are making progress, and giddy that this follows so soon after the first food grown and eaten in space (2015). That said, I'm sad that we're inching up on 50 years since we walked on the moon and "Food grown in space" is a news story instead of an aisle in the grocery store.
[18:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:52] <exec> 08└─Well try harder, you can afford a little metabolic energy.
[18:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:53] <exec> 08└─I seed what you did there.
[18:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:55] <exec> 08└─I suspect there was a lot of ego wrapped up in fatherhood
[18:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:42] <exec> 08└─Not the same thing at all.
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[19:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:20] <exec> 08└─Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that Can't you read the sign?
[19:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is obviously not selling those pictures. Their only profit is from the advertising they provide. You could easily argue that they don't compete with the people who do pay a license, and provide high-quality customer imagery. > NOAA regulates imagery of Earth taken from space Why, exactly? The...
[19:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:33] <exec> 08└─These "data breaches" seem to be accelerating, and bigco and their customers seem to care less and less when they happen ("that's just the status quo"). How is this trend going to go into the future?
[19:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:35] <exec> 08└─More information from the Delta response webpage. We understand malware present in [24]7.ai’s software between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 2017, made unauthorized access possible for the following fields of information when manually completing a payment card purchase on any page of the delta.com desktop...
[19:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:37] <exec> 08└─We need a Today's Breach nexus. This is getting so systematic and depressingly unpunished, some people will soon want to turn it off like they bypass Politics, Gender studies publications, or Vegan Ramblings.
[19:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:00] <exec> 08└─When I was young, I could remember my credit card numbers, calling card number, drivers license number, etc. I can still remember my drivers license number, but the CC numbers change too much. It's not that I couldn't remember 4 unique CC numbers, the problem is that they change so frequently that t...
[19:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:02] <exec> 08└─Android is a totally shitty system that is designed to trick you out of your personal information. No wonder people find it annoying and hard to use. How many times does it ask me to give it unfettered access to my contact list or location? Every fucking time I use it! No means no, idiots. How many...
[19:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:35] <exec> 08└─If somebody writes down the wrong version of the letter, the problem is likely to include the way they discarded data. The task was to write down the letter, but that doesn't mean the bitmap of the representation of that letter (to most people). It may be case sensitive, but beyond that, extra infor...
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:37] <exec> 08└─I'll admit this here... I could never learn cursive. There was a lot of screaming and crying because they thought I was just being obstinate. It took a few weeks of dealing with adults before they figured it out. I really couldn't make any sense of cursive whatsoever. I still can't. It's a foreign l...
[19:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:58] <exec> 08└─The point is many a government have been toppled by their own army deciding to not follow a direct order to fire on unarmed citizens. A robot on the other hand will do as ordered and mow down people as long as it has ammunitions.
[19:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:38] <exec> 08└─See, that's the thing, it's a soil simulant
[19:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:59] <exec> 08└─Zero-çum game?
[19:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:01] <exec> 08└─I can't cite you any studies linking ego to fatherhood, it's just something I've anecdotally noticed in men. I actually hesitated to bring it up, but I was trying to be recognise the sensitivity of situation that the parents are in given that I was being critical of their decision to lie to their gr...
[19:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:29] <exec> 08└─The real Fermi paradox: Why hasn't someone obliterated the universe yet? Maybe that was the Big Bang?
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[20:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:25] <exec> 08└─Deep state Musk hate finally boiled to the surface. Showing Up NASA, almost as serious as Showing Up God.
[20:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─Why, exactly?
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:28] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is obviously not selling those pictures.
[20:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─NOAA regulates imagery of Earth taken from space
[20:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─The cams SpaceX uses never reveal enough detail to be of value for spying.
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─Every weather war conspiracy should include this quote: Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.
[20:35:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 988 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:45] <exec> 08└─What is the endgame here? These "data breaches" seem to be accelerating, and bigco and their customers seem to care less and less when they happen ("that's just the status quo"). How is this trend going to go into the future? Do "data breaches" actually matter? Or are banks just getting good enough...
[20:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:51] <exec> 08└─But if you turn off Vegan Ramblings, you might get shot up.
[20:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:51] <exec> 08└─sigh. between 5 mm and 1 cm then. I don't remember, I was 12.
[20:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:52] <exec> 08└─What surprised me is that you didn't work in any angles about minorities or gender identification.
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─When I am thinking of letters that have multiple forms, should I could Latin script / Roman alphabet letters that look just like Cyrillic letters as distinct from their counterparts in the other script? Eh, Unicode has different code points for them, so I'll count them as distinct even if they look...
[20:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea's KAIST University Boycotted Over Alleged "Killer Robot" Partnership - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─I guess I was too subtle. I wasn't supporting the robots. I was questioning the implication in the quote that there's any dignity in being murdered by a human.
[20:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:57] <exec> 08└─Right, but this isn't composting, this is sterilisation. Also, it's getting rid of unwanted heat form your spacecraft / habitat.
[20:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:28] <exec> 08└─apparently not as they're still on 4g.
[20:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:29] <exec> 08└─wanna bet drumpf will be out of office long before broadcom ever stops being a business?
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[21:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:34] <exec> 08└─They don't want non-state actors discovering the truth of the flat Earth. I'm surprised they allow Musk to even approach the firmament at all.
[21:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:36] <exec> 08└─Why? Because if civilians could willy-nilly put cameras into space they would uncover that the earth is flat. Can't have that!
[21:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:38] <exec> 08└─Remove NOAA's (or anybody else's) authority to require a license to take pictures/movies. If we don't do that, then let's remove their ability to enforce any restriction. That will take some effort, but it is worth it.
[21:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:52] <exec> 08└─Whether you get shot or not, you successfully get rid of Vegan Ramblings. So, in all cases, you get to enjoy a much-improved environment.
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Atomically Thin Materials - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:27] <exec> 08└─That's iPlanckBezel, thank you very much!
[21:37:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:31] <exec> 08└─The teacher's pressure and the institutionalization that goes on in the school system breeds obedient subordinate workers. The market driven peer pressure breeds obedient consumerists. Both things benefit big business, largely at the expense of the individual's freedom, identity and emotional securi...
[21:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:58] <exec> 08└─Oh revelation. After several centuries of various typefaces, John Hopkins UNIVERSITY figured out there are TWO forms of the letter "g". In further shocking news, TWO forms of "a" and then TWO forms of "r" also exist. Post-grad students are hard at work on their thesis!
[21:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:12] <exec> 08└─Doesn’t get rid of phrase and word substitutions, which can be done manually (or to some degree automatically) on an A/B basis throughout the document. Then the system that allows access and stores both copies (or diff streams) finds the diff sections and gives you an A or B to encode a bit. The o...
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[22:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scoliosis Surgery in Children With Cerebral Palsy: Quality of Life Benefits Outweigh Risks - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─Study shows standing up more often improves quality of life (QoL) for haemorroid sufferers
[22:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─In order to maintain their stranglehold on the planet the reptilians have NOAA ensure that any companies sending rockets to "space" follow proper standards in procedures to ensure that the same view of a "round" earth is shown. These images that were being provided by spacex probably showed the eart...
[22:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─Nevermind the context? The man was speaking about mere fears and false scare of a threat that distract agencies from doing their jobs. A: Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we've learned in the intelligence community, we h...
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─You're like the 4th guy that mentioned flat earth. Don't you think its time to give it a rest?
[22:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:49] <exec> 08└─Actually, about now NOAA would probably welcome the removal of this authority. Its given an innocuous agency doing good (but not always necessary) work a black eye, merely for being saddled with an authority the Government Usurped without any actual reason.
[22:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:05] <exec> 08└─Do "data breaches" actually matter?
[22:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─So, Virgin Galactic has managed to accomplish something NASA did almost 40 years ago. Ain't the public sector grand?
[22:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─One of the basic equations of motion is V*V = U*U + 2 * a * S V final velocity U initial velocity a acceleration S distance Using MKS system, you don't need any conversion factors. Starting from 0, with V = 1000 m/s a * S = 500000 If you can stand 10G, call it 100 m/s/s then S = 5000m. So to get a 1...
[22:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─removed the 1st stage of a Saturn V and launched the rest of it by dropping it from a plane
[22:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─MDC is SMRT. So smart is he, his 199 IQ dreams up cryptocurrency schemes and dreams up women throwing themselves at him. Yes indeed MichaelDavidCrawford is swimming in money and waist deep in pussy. For reals.
[22:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Gov: We're Not Regulating Driverless Vehicles Until Others Do - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─Well, Yes, Prime Minister [imdb.com] did tell us that masterly inactivity is the sine qua non of the British civil service.
[22:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Letter We've Seen Millions of Times, Yet Can't Write - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:18] <exec> 08└─It's an article written by millennials. They are oblivious to handwriting, but are intensely interested in the potential for the letter "g" to be transgendered since it can appear with or without a dangly bit below the body.
[22:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:53] <exec> 08└─It is honestly best long term for both companies. I as a shareholder voted against it. The big funds that own a majority stake voted for it. So the resolution passed. It was painfully obvious that all BCOM wanted to do was dissect QCOM into a bunch of small companies. BCOM stopped innovating about 1...
[22:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:55] <exec> 08└─People are not paying Hillary 1/10th of her usually speaking prices because she still has the mojo. It is gone. Trump obliterated it.
[22:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:57] <exec> 08└─Why would they stop being a company? Do you know something we dont? The one they were trying to acquire has seen 4 presidents so far. Probably will see a few more. Or were you trying to be snarky? OHHHH thats why you called him Drumpf. A poor copy of a stale jon stewart joke? Maybe you can talk abou...
[22:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broadcom is Officially a U.S. Company Now, But Why Was its Attempt to Acquire Qualcomm Blocked? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:59] <exec> 08└─That is the same man who calls people who hand them information 'dumb fucks'. This is not a 'come to jesus' moment for him. It is just someone trying to stop the hemorrhaging. Look for more 'changes' that do not really change anything. They are an advertising company. Their lifeblood is our informat...
[22:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Takes DNA Test, Learns Her Real Dad Is Her Mom’s Doctor - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:53] <exec> 08└─I suppose you could pay for a prostitute for a night you won't soon forget. Then she could have a thug come in and beat the shit out of your retarded ass with a large pipe wrench, and you couldn't argue that you didn't get what you paid for either, right?
[22:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:42] <exec> 08└─My favorite is when the html sorcery is correct, so preview looks fine, but the text-entry window version of the comment also gets changed, so hitting Submit (or Preview, again) will post something else. For instance, if you want to show <i>html tags</i> in the post, you format your comment...
[22:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:43] <exec> 08└─It's the difference between looking at the front face of a character, or the side edge. Edge-on, the characters are impossible to see, but they are still there. Unless they aren't there, as suggested above. Do modern typesetters get paid by the letter? I smell a scam...
[22:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:46] <exec> 08└─Do people want a patch that can be fitted nasally?
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[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─I was diagnosed with that thing in my teen years, but it hasn't caused me no harm, even in my late middle-age obese self. Is it more serious for CP suffers?
[23:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scoliosis Surgery in Children With Cerebral Palsy: Quality of Life Benefits Outweigh Risks - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:28] <exec> 08└─If acronym density is a useful metric then these talented researchers are very advanced.
[23:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camera-Studded Falcon Heavy Launch Blamed for NOAA's Restrictions on Livestreamed Launch Video - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:51] <exec> 08└─You're like the 4th guy that mentioned flat earth. Don't you think its time to give it a rest?
[23:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers [Updated] - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:08] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the Payment Card Industry will ruthlessly retaliate against this blatant non-compliance. They will slap them on the wrist and ask them nicely not to ever do it again. They'll even look at whether or not they are crossing their finger's behind their backs.
[23:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers [Updated] - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.pcworld.com/article/3145621/security/distributed-guessing-attack-lets-hackers-verify-visa-card-details.html [pcworld.com] https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] Its a 3 digit number that is...
[23:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Thousands of Delta Air Lines Customers [Updated] - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe the left can embarrass themselves again. http://www.breitbart.com [breitbart.com] I remember the 'watch parties' for it. It was amazing how everyone sat around with baited breath hopping the fail they...
[23:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:25] <exec> 08└─Also, if you try and build anything like that, the Israelis will come and assassinate your engineers, (see Gerald Bull)
[23:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─SpaceShipTwo capacity will be eight people. Apogee 110 km (360,892 ft) - (Note: the older SpaceShipOne had already achieved 112 km). X-15, 1 person Apogee 31KM (102,100 feet.) So the so called "unchallenged" record of the X15 was exceeded long ago by the first version of Virgin's system. So yeah, th...
[23:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity Performs Powered Flight - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe the record was broken a long time ago and wiki is just wrong. See below.
[23:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Healthy Older People Continue to Produce New Brain Cells - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:45] <exec> 08└─Get something you can bootloader-unlock and root, and flash LineageOS or similar onto it. Apple is almost as bad in their own way.
[23:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Harvest First Vegetables Grown in the EDEN-ISS Antarctic Greenhouse - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:31] <exec> 08└─BFR [wikipedia.org] will make all your wildest space dreams come true. The hype is real.
[23:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:51] <exec> 08└─Some possible encoding can be stripped off with a round trip through a series of translators. That would leave numbers and names the same, though, presumably. If you have to try too hard to remove the data that may implicate you as the leaker, it may not be possible to leak useful information withou...
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