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[00:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:52] <exec> 08└─Give Florida to Cuba.
[00:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:53] <exec> 08└─Do I even need to say it? I know, we all love what NASA was.. But now it is this, with a small group of actual engineers and scientists being held as captive ransom by a huge bureaucracy of pork peddlers. I doubt there is any solution, the people, companies and politicians involved are just too addi...
[00:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:04] <exec> 08└─So true. A sexy dom can make a GREAT living!
[00:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grow Algae to Generate Electricity While Sequestering Carbon - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:33] <exec> 08└─If the biomass is in the form of carbohydrates (food or root mass) it is not sequestered, it is going to be emitted as carbon dioxide or methane after it is eaten or the root mass decays. The only way to sequester the carbon is to find a biological mechanism to turn carbon dioxide into elemental car...
[00:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:16] <exec> 08└─There is another possibility. Synchronicity.
[00:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:18] <exec> 08└─hallucinations or depression
[00:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:08] <exec> 08└─I asked the new Google AI -- what did Jezebel do that was so wrong? https://books.google.com [google.com] One of the answers was from the recent book, Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy ...
[00:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:09] <exec> 08└─I would, if there'd be a safe public redlight district where I live, like in Amsterdam. But no, the righteous puritans drove it underground, together with drug users, firearms and the like - barely safe for adults.
[00:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:00] <exec> 08└─Well, that's slightly better than just reposting the who damned comment again and again and again.
[00:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:02] <exec> 08└─Are the khazar jewish bankers working with the lizard people, or are both the lizard people and the khazar jewish bankers competing with each other for human energy?
[00:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHOIS is Dead as Europe Hands DNS Overlord ICANN an Ultimatum - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:56] <exec> 08└─Tucows/Hover has been doing the "Name: Contact Privacy Inc. Customer XYZ" & "Contact: domain-name@contactprivacy.com" for a lot of years, if not forever. They have my data on their own DB, and even asked a couple of times to recheck. ICANN wants (wanted?) information to be correct and real owner be...
[00:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hampshire Court: First Amendment Says You Can Call a Patent Troll a Patent Troll - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:04] <exec> 08└─The links in the vertical bar to the right are internal navigation. Did you really find spam links? -- A Proud American
[00:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Hampshire Court: First Amendment Says You Can Call a Patent Troll a Patent Troll - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:06] <exec> 08└─You wrote "Kuro5hin Tags" on a little box. And that box is full of terrible links. And they're all over the page. You don't call it Spam. You call it internal navigation. But believe me, it's not great.
[00:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Hampshire Court: First Amendment Says You Can Call a Patent Troll a Patent Troll - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:08] <exec> 08└─The box I'm talking about is on your right but my left, the audience's left.
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[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─Listened to your show a handful of times, a few decades ago. Back then it was common to get together with friends, smoke a joint or 3, have a beer or 6, and talk about whatever was on the radio. None of us bought into your conspiracy theories but we all enjoyed listening to your show. Then job, resp...
[01:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:49] <exec> 08└─Prominent guest, member of the Stargate Project, and psychedelic artist https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://ingoswann.com [ingoswann.com] http://www.avam.org [avam.org]
[01:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:51] <exec> 08└─R. Lee Ermey also reported dead. I've never seen the two of them together at the same time... could they be the same guy? naw... well, maybe. Both did have memorable voices.
[01:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:54] <exec> 08└─Is Friday the 13th now officially Bellend day?
[01:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:56] <exec> 08└─I can relate to this. I was huge into paranormal stuff, listened to him, loved the xfiles, and generally nerded out on the internet during the web 1.0 days. Fun times. Good memories. Maybe it's in my head, but I feel the culture and society was radically different pre 9/11. Shows like art bell would...
[01:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:59] <exec> 08└─Let's hope he's unscrewing Allah's head and shitting down his neck.
[01:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:01] <exec> 08└─Why in the new Rampage movie is George the gorilla depicted as an albino when in the original game he was clearly not? [wordpress.com] Is it now wrong, for some mysterious reason, to depict primates with their natural coloring that God gave them?
[01:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:11] <exec> 08└─I wanna mod you a troll. I really really do. You don't know how much I want to mark you a troll. But I'm afraid you're right, which is sad.
[01:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:13] <exec> 08└─NASA is not responsible for SLS. Congress is. Even if there are SLS proponents at NASA, it's hard to tell if they are genuine or just spouting the party line. Furthermore, Congress approves more money for SLS+Orion than they ask for and has mandated certain missions. NASA isn't really building SLS,...
[01:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:15] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, just even in the summary, the numbers are an awesome laugh: Bridge replacement could cost $140 million So... the answer is obviously: $557 million for the exploration ground systems improvements $17 million for other construction $150 million in 2019 to build a new mobile launcher $2.15 bill...
[01:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:18] <exec> 08└─reports appear of problems that didnt exist last week
[01:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 2550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:44] <exec> 08└─Passages from books ...very little of their code is released to outsiders. One can use many of Google's services for free, as Google makes most of its money on advertising, but you cannot download any of their code to learn from it or improve it or re-use it in ways not envisioned by th...
[01:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:45] <exec> 08└─Google wants you to do what they failed to do: natural language processing. They're hoping that some naïve individual or individuals will have ideas to fix their broken system. As you know, jews are good at nothing except breaking the planet and making money through lending and other illegal and sh...
[01:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:44] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you're not jewish? Or a friend of theirs? Jews are scummy rats. All of them. Everyone from khazaria is a scummy rat.
[01:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:46] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. You could apply EXACTLY the same theory to suggest that an Apple is depressed, or the MPU in a Honda, or my Oven. Machine Learning is in NO way intelligence, is in NO way self aware, and in NO was develops. So stop just trying to play semantic games using big words. This is pure BS, it is...
[01:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:38] <exec> 08└─Are these facts that you have observed for yourself, or just words from people you trust?
[01:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:39] <exec> 08└─Folks will use the ones that get them laid. That's what made Facebook great. And if this Swiffer works for that, it'll become great too. But my money's on Facebook!!!
[01:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:33] <exec> 08└─much MUCH more than that. These companies enjoy a special, place protected by both questionable intellectual property protections (they are allowed to 'own' often natural compounds because they found a use for them - like giving the first person who found that oil could burn a patent over burning oi...
[01:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WHOIS is Dead as Europe Hands DNS Overlord ICANN an Ultimatum - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:28] <exec> 08└─People don't read the articles. I read the articles sometimes. When I'm not too busy with documents. You must be very busy. Because the article isn't about jets or trains. And it isn't about the Tim Berners-Lee Internet, the websites. It's about the part that does the numbers & addresses. The ICANN...
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[02:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's in my head, but I feel the culture and society was radically different pre 9/11. Shows like art bell wouldn't work today.
[02:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:55] <exec> 08└─quietly confident instead of spamming social media about their lives Says the dude posting on the internet in a forum under AC...
[02:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:57] <exec> 08└─You don't understand the meaning of quietly confident, do you? I post as AC because I know who I am and who I am doesn't matter. I make a bonfire of my reputation by not having a reputation. I am the exact polar opposite of MICHAEL DAVID CRAWFORD who spams his name everywhere and builds his reputati...
[02:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─I am the exact bi-polar opposite of MICHAEL DAVID CRAWFORD
[02:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:02] <exec> 08└─Well, it's a White Rampage, alt-right?
[02:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:04] <exec> 08└─Duke Nukem, is that you? Remember the old days when Alien Bastards abducted President Bill Clinton? Now that Slick Willy, he was worth rescuing. Bush, Obama, the aliens can keep them. Trump wouldn't need rescuing. He'd grab the Alien Queen by the pussy and tweet about it.
[02:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:06] <exec> 08└─MDC is ego manic. AC is emo depressive.
[02:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:18] <exec> 08└─So, "Fire everyone involved in SLS" largely means "Fire Congress." Good idea.
[02:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TaxiCabJesus [6455] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:30] <exec> 08└─When I was in the game 3 years ago, Uber Black drivers were required to supply commercial insurance and fully comply with the state's laws pertaining to vehicles for hire. I had a passenger who couldn't swing it as a taxi driver, but liked driving for Uber. He'd purchased the cheapest black BMW that...
[02:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:49] <exec> 08└─I'm no libertarian. But this new Google site makes me feel like one!
[02:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:43] <exec> 08└─So they let sheep on the internets down under, now? I hope they're dipped, or you might catch something.
[02:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:44] <exec> 08└─Let's use our great powers to take away the advantage, not further it.
[02:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:46] <exec> 08└─Co-authorship of scientific papers. Ok, maybe not illegal, but it would be unethical.
[02:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:40] <exec> 08└─And yes, thats EXACTLY what they do, and a cornerstone of the medical system. Not just that, but the 2.5 Bn figure just happens to INCLUDE the massive overheads and profits of the drug companies as well - so no, it is not even close to a real cost figure. it is, like most everything in that industry...
[02:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:41] <exec> 08└─Ummm. No. THESE 'analysts' are looking at the pharma industry, which most certainly does NOT profit from increased productivity from healthy people. It profits from maximising the amount of money it can extra from the medical/instruance industry, which itself profits from how terrified people are of...
[02:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Deletes Richard Spencer's Accounts in Hate Speech Crackdown - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:45] <exec> 08└─What do we gain by ridiculing people, if it is not accompanied by or spurring thoughtful debate? Answer: suppressing speech with which the poster disagrees. The problem is that disagreement is not a sign of correctness or rationality. It merely means you disagree. The wisest and dumbest can both dis...
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[03:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:47] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that the poeple who SHOULD be getting angry about this, the normal day to day users - they won't get angry because they don't understand what all this "targeted ad stuff does" and what it means to them. The ones that ARE getting outraged every time something like this makes the n...
[03:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:48] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter what trinkets they like, doesn't matter what their political affiliation or goals are, as long as people are properly categorized into neat little boxes, they will be more effectively marketed too, BIG DATA HO! Alt right? Alt left? Tankie? That's right, be good little consumers, get i...
[03:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:50] <exec> 08└─Is there a repo where we can read through the code? Seems like that could be somewhat interesting.
[03:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:52] <exec> 08└─I wanna do something like: 127.0.0.1 aggregateiq.com But it's likely their analytics servers use a different domain, as is the case with Google Analytics. If you can be bothered to download the whole source base, try this: $ cd $BASE_OF_SOURCE_TREE $ find . -type f -exec grep -i \.gif {} \; -...
[03:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 1776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:55] <exec> 08└─What gets me is the DNC utter refusal to admit they bungled the hell out of the 2016 election. When you have Bill Maher looking into the camera putting his head in his hands and going 'oh god its that bad' you know they screwed up. They honestly thought barking like a dog at half their potential aud...
[03:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:57] <exec> 08└─I will tell you all a dirty little secret: for two weeks I worked as Tier-1 tech support for a large financial firm. Tech support scum get to see the details -- "Please give me a second while I bring up the information, sir," -- that they know about their customers. Along with the details were the c...
[03:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:59] <exec> 08└─MDC you should know better with hosts files. Use a proper bind server or squid server and do it right. https://is.gd [is.gd] Hosts files only work for fully qualified domains. *.xyz.net does not work.
[03:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TaxiCabJesus [6455] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 1741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:20] <exec> 08└─A friend gave me a cassette tape with most of Ingo Swann's interview with Art Bell. The interview was probably around 1998, when Penetration: The Question of Human and Extra-Terrestrial Telepathy was originally (self-)published; I got the cassette in 2001 or so. In 2004 I was clicking around Mr. Swa...
[03:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:21] <exec> 08└─Writing style analyzed. Likely composer: RealDonaldTrump.
[03:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:23] <exec> 08└─Albino gorillas happen in nature, but my point is that the original George was not an albino gorilla. This Jew-run version typical of modern historical revisionism has gone beyond portraying noble Whites as Blacks, now it seeks to portray angry Blacks as Whites, albeit in a subtle manner. George th...
[03:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:26] <exec> 08└─I was up late in college doing math homework, listening to Art Bell talk about chupacabras. I went to bed thinking about how much I didn't believe there could be such a thing, but the in the dark late night ... that's when - the only time - the cat jumped on my chest.
[03:39:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:47] <exec> 08└─Doesn't this mean that Uber is nothing more than a fucking smartphone app?
[03:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:09] <exec> 08└─Boston Dynamics, lots of smart guys there. Ethanol-fueled. And they make some terrific robots. For our Navy, for our Marine Core, for our Army. So many parts of our great military. But it's not Google anymore, they sold it to the Japs last year!
[03:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe true, but do you have any polling data to back that up? Could be a bunch of uptight dads, too. Not that I want my daughter to grow up to be a lady of the evening.
[03:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:07] <exec> 08└─I am taking the word of a very large number of scientists who have built an interlocking structure that is constantly being tested and re-tested.
[03:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:04] <exec> 08└─Simplistic or not, the math doesn't lie. X dollars times Y recipients is still X times Y, no matter how much estimation, forecasting, etc. you do to figure out what values to plug in for each variable. Twist it any way you want, it's greed.
[03:43:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06WHOIS is Dead as Europe Hands DNS Overlord ICANN an Ultimatum - 758 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:59] <exec> 08└─People don't read the articles. I read the articles sometimes. When I'm not too busy with documents. You must be very busy. Because the article isn't about jets or trains. And it isn't about the Tim Berners-Lee Internet, the websites. It's about the part that does the numbers & addresses. The ICANN...
[03:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHOIS is Dead as Europe Hands DNS Overlord ICANN an Ultimatum - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:00] <exec> 08└─Compliance to RFC 2142 is voluntary. Major operators including [archive.org] Google [zork.net] and Comcast [archive.org] flout it, or flouted it.
[03:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Hampshire Court: First Amendment Says You Can Call a Patent Troll a Patent Troll - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:12] <exec> 08└─Kuro5hin's death was also tragic: its entire data center was decomissioned without Rusty Foster knowing about it ahead of time. This because he's really bad about checking his email. In my experience with him he often took months before he responded to my own emails. Rusty posted to Hacker News that...
[03:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Deletes Richard Spencer's Accounts in Hate Speech Crackdown - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:13] <exec> 08└─I think aristarchus speaking is in fact analogous to "shouting fire in a crowded threatre", the rabid aristarchus does not insist on speech to express their ideas, they are trying to insult, frighten, and hurt their fellow citizens. It is terrorism, pure and simple, and not free speech at all.
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[04:38:58] <exec> 08└─Vague, overarching assertions, lots of innuendo, zero concrete content. IT security dorks are called clowns for good reasons.
[04:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:59] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about patching DJBDNS to permit pre-loading blackholed IP addresses from a text file. I've never used bind because of all the security holes I keep hearing about, but I expect it should be good enough for my purposes. Thanks for the tip!
[04:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:01] <exec> 08└─Why play whack-a-mole with long, probably out-of-date blacklists? Better to use a custom personal whitelist as that will get 100% of the buggers. (This implementation is browser only and of course having a custom list will add to your fingerprint if some serious player wants to track you...) https:/...
[04:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:26] <exec> 08└─I called in and got on the air on his program once when I lived in Albuqueruqe in the 90s. He was talking about foreign military gear being seen in New Mexico. I told about the various Russian SAM and ballistic missile launchers (An SA-6 that had been captured during the Yom Kippur War and mockups o...
[04:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:27] <exec> 08└─I'm glad this place is a small place, with personality. Where else would the initialism of MDC make sense?
[04:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Pure entertainment... It's funny how people want to argue, or debate, about things that are troll bait all the way. But people do and Art Bell made a lot of money having fun with it. And a lot of people enjoyed it. Take for what it is and RIP Mr. Bell.
[04:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:32] <exec> 08└─They call him George. That's too bad. Because they could call him Gorilla Ice.
[04:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:34] <exec> 08└─That wasn't me. Sometimes my lawyers -- my personal attorneys -- write tweets for me. But I gave them the day off. For church.
[04:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:48] <exec> 08└─Well, it wasn't an SLS-related problem last week, was it? I've worked on projects where one, minor change request was then used to shoehorn an additional spend equivalent to 60% of the total project budget.. SLS seems to be worse - need an upgrade to anything within 100miles of SLS? Put it on the (p...
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[04:39:49] <exec> 08└─Well, it wasn't an SLS-related problem last week, was it?
[04:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grow Algae to Generate Electricity While Sequestering Carbon - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:35] <exec> 08└─I'm a genius, as everyone knows. But this algae business is very complicated. So I asked my wife, she's an incredible thinker (Einstein visa). She says they want to do 2 things with the algae. Feed it to fish. Or burn it.
[04:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grow Algae to Generate Electricity While Sequestering Carbon - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:37] <exec> 08└─Unless they put the books in a library!
[04:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:24] <exec> 08└─You missed a chance to make a reference to HAL 9000 in the "Department" header,
[04:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:23] <exec> 08└─Why do they think the internet is any different?
[04:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WHOIS is Dead as Europe Hands DNS Overlord ICANN an Ultimatum - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:16] <exec> 08└─Give domain owners the option to choose if, and which, fields are shown. Add the flags, set them all to 'off' by default and then notify domain admins of the change and how they can modify the settings.
[04:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Deletes Richard Spencer's Accounts in Hate Speech Crackdown - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:29] <exec> 08└─My dear and squishy khallow, many, many times right here on SN soylentils have given you thoughtful debate.
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[05:39:04] <exec> 08└─probably out-of-date blacklists?
[05:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nutria [6911] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:05] <exec> 08└─She played the insult everyone you do not like and try to make your core audience feel smug game.
[05:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:35] <exec> 08└─About 911, about many things. 👽👾🌌 @ArtBell51 [twitter.com] was one of our greatest showmen. RIP!! Thoughts & prayers with Airyn Bell and the kids.
[05:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:37] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of Blizzard, the Gorilla fighter featured in the game Primal rage. [wikipedia.org] He was like the Mortal Kombat's Sub-Zero in that he used ice as his weapon. Now, I like references to old video games in movies. But the Jews are getting intellectually lazy in raping old ideas to be...
[05:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:39] <exec> 08└─There was also a German Tornado squadron at Holloman AFB in (for training). One squadron was hardly a major threat to the entire USAF. ;)
[05:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:55] <exec> 08└─a problem (that you don't know about) may still exist.
[05:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:27] <exec> 08└─... lets you converse with a machine learning-trained algorithm that surfaces answers to questions with relevant passages ...
[05:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:31] <exec> 08└─For example, hallucinations would merely be input that the computer perceives as something very different. That already is a problem, such as tweaking an image slightly so an object detection algorithm triggers a false positive on the image (for example, inserting a minute dog-like image so that the...
[05:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:31] <exec> 08└─NCAA
[05:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:29] <exec> 08└─And then Trump talked to someone from the industry for five minutes and his mind was changed. Try again.
[05:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Promises to Support State Legalization of Cannabis; Boehner Evolves - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:40] <exec> 08└─Another thought occurred to me. We really need a test or some method to determine if a driver is stoned, NOW, or just has pot in their system from last weekend. I love to vape me some good wax, or just blow a turkey bag full of vapor and watch a movie with the GF, but I am against anyone driving und...
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[06:38:45] <exec> 08└─Just make sure you don't confuse it with a phone booth.
[06:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 1837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:10] <exec> 08└─Which part of MAGA did you not understand? So very many of you are contemptuous of nationality and nationalism. That is why you can't understand how and why Trump won. It's telling that a relatively dull man, one with poor morals and ethics, a man who isn't even part of the working class, and fails...
[06:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:44] <exec> 08└─I learned to sleep with headphones on, listening to Art Bell (so as not to disturb the wife). I'd fall asleep right away but the stories on Coast2Coast would filter into my dreams, as would his bumper music. I remember one morning, many years ago, with vivid memories of a dream of a bottomless hole...
[06:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:01] <exec> 08└─But it remains that it wasn't an SLS problem until someone needed to attach $4 billion in pork to it.
[06:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:34] <exec> 08└─People keep changing the meanings to words. Great for the guys that print dictionaries. Not so great for the rest of us!!!
[06:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:39] <exec> 08└─For example, hallucinations would merely be input that the computer perceives as something very different. That already is a problem, such as tweaking an image slightly so an object detection algorithm triggers a false positive on the image (for example, inserting a minute dog-like image so that the...
[06:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:40] <exec> 08└─Perfectly legal in the USA for cops to shoot blacks for free, but I think requiring payment to do so breaks the rules...
[06:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:38] <exec> 08└─A rational society would just make more and more tests for rare unwanted genetic diseases and abort the fetuses that have them. After a number of generations you'd have fewer people with those diseases. There's no need to even genetically modify fetuses. After all if you have a serious genetic probl...
[06:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dr_barnowl [1568] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Struggling to Sell "Superior" HomePods - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:59] <exec> 08└─Aethercone was a nice looking, high quality, smart speaker in the same price range. It didn't do well. Now they sell for a tenth of their RRP, they're a bargain at that price, especially since they now no longer spy on you and just play music.....
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[07:38:48] <exec> 08└─Most folks just need to take The Strange Pill [warplife.com]. That'll set you right up. In rare cases you might need Shock Treatment [warplife.com] or Electro-Convulsive Therapy. Most psychiatrists regard ECT as far safer than antidepressants because Happy Pills take as long as two months to take ef...
[07:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:50] <exec> 08└─I hear also lobotomy works wonders...
[07:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:52] <exec> 08└─You think that all those people are just insane. But what if some or many of them suffer from untreatable debilitating, but not life-threatening diseases?
[07:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:54] <exec> 08└─Our wonderful HealthCare Industry has a treatment for everything. But some of those treatments are VERY EXPENSIVE. Euthanasia machines could save us a lot of money!
[07:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe not *this* phone booth: http://getsmart.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[07:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:58] <exec> 08└─And yet just the other day I was reading about how those nice caring folks over at Goldman Sachs (or soulless scum, YMMV) had done a study [arstechnica.com] that showed that one-shot permanent cures wasn't a financially sound business model compared to on-going treatment. Clearly this isn't going to...
[07:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:24] <exec> 08└─The drivers work when they want to and are free to nap, run personal errands, or smoke cigarettes in between rides, Baylson said.
[07:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:52] <exec> 08└─Cops in the USA don't get paid?
[07:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHOIS is Dead as Europe Hands DNS Overlord ICANN an Ultimatum - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:49] <exec> 08└─That would be fine for IP networks - i.e. anyone with a BGP AS number. Those have admins who (should)know what they doing. A domain, on the other hand, has gone from something that points to a network to something that points to a page, many of which are owned by individuals with no administrators....
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[08:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:46] <exec> 08└─1% of Facebook users is probably 50% of the live human users. I guess Loup (means Wolf) ventures are holding a bunch of Facebook shares.
[08:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:48] <exec> 08└─Cause this guy hasn't finished unloading his yet and he thinks it might go back up, dangit!
[08:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:50] <exec> 08└─invest in a company known for exploitation! Invest in a company known for using humans as commodities! Ethics and morals are for the weak! They get in the way of profit! Capitalism demands sacrifice, and by golly, this investor is going to sacrifice you! Now, go prop up this guy's crap portfolio.
[08:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:03] <exec> 08└─What does 3D printing have to do with it? If all you need is a reasonably air-tight container to put a person in there's no need for 3D printing, and it can be done much faster, cheaper, and easier by other means. No doubt someone asked if 3D printing could be incorporated for publicity.
[08:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:05] <exec> 08└─A study of nuns found that if you use TMS to stimulate their temporal lobes, the nuns will feel the presence of God.
[08:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dipolar Molecule Created Using Lasers - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:13] <exec> 08└─Such a high yield, 100% conversion, no loses! Now, someone tell me... when they are going to deliver a mol of the reaction's product? (grin)
[08:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:01] <exec> 08└─I think you're making just as many: - That AI (or any intelligence) needs a failure of a goal structure to feel it's wasting its time. Humans feel more depressed if they are working towards a given goal that they know is wrong or pointless, even if they are required to do it. - That you can put a bu...
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[09:39:03] <exec> 08└─Just pull a plastic bag over your head and then strangle yourself with a blockchain...
[09:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:04] <exec> 08└─I'll take two! No, wait, make it three! Oh, why not an even baker's dozen! Do they come with remote controls?
[09:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:31] <exec> 08└─Use https://pi-hole.net [pi-hole.net] , it's a much better method
[09:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:22] <exec> 08└─Hi, Invisible Hand here. I keep trying to give those darned Commies helpful hints but they just don't listen.
[09:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:58] <exec> 08└─Remind me, what's the meaning of "covfefe"?
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[09:44:06] <exec> 08└─REBECCA I was about to take Cruise Ship Management in school last year. But unfortunately, when I received the result in hepatitis b test, it was positive. I don't know where I got this. I've never experienced having sex with any man or boyfriend. I was so disappointed at that time. But then again,...
[09:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Deletes Richard Spencer's Accounts in Hate Speech Crackdown - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:20] <exec> 08└─rabid aristarchus
[09:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Deletes Richard Spencer's Accounts in Hate Speech Crackdown - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course, thought so. People advocating white supremacy are just plain stupid, because anyone can see that white people are not all that smart. And, even more damning, those white people who try to advocate white supremacy are among the stupidest members of the human species. So we are going t...
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[10:38:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:54] <exec> 08└─invest in a company known for exploitation! Invest in a company known for using humans as commodities! Ethics and morals are for the weak! They get in the way of profit! Capitalism demands sacrifice, and by golly, this investor is going to sacrifice you! Now, go prop up this guy's crap portfolio.
[10:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:55] <exec> 08└─As soon as I find a different job, I'm deleting all social media accounts. I might even turn my cell phone into a skeet target as my last post (it allegedly takes a few days before they delete your stuff). I'm tired of the notifications, people thinking I can always respond to XYZ at any hour or whi...
[10:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:57] <exec> 08└─At my former employer, Deplorable Corporation, we had a training module on how to deal with customer complains. The motto was, "Don't just handle the problem, own the problem." Now you can do exactly this by purchasing FascisBook stock! Of course, we jaded, cynical, and sabotagically inclined mere e...
[10:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:59] <exec> 08└─Under 1% of the population makes most salt kosher. When overall user base does not care much, a tiny dedicated minority can easily change the outcome. Kill facebook.
[10:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:02] <exec> 08└─Facebook's pre-dive price had the assumption of growth built in to it. Showing an actual loss means the stock valuation needs to correct both for that loss and for the lack of growth.
[10:40:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 1033 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:28] <exec> 08└─NASA is not responsible for SLS. Congress is. Even if there are SLS proponents at NASA, it's hard to tell if they are genuine or just spouting the party line. Furthermore, Congress approves more money for SLS+Orion than they ask for and has mandated certain missions. NASA isn't really building SLS,...
[10:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03adun [6928] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:50] <exec> 08└─Especially when it's all smartphone-based, so the whole thing scales very well.
[10:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:13] <exec> 08└─This is just Google's usual "I know better than you" modification to your query. Obama is a politician, so you got answers about various politicians, even though you specifically asked about Obama.
[10:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:22] <exec> 08└─The comment to which you replied would be a decent response to your comment; you haven't made a point.
[10:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:24] <exec> 08└─It'd be worth proposing that just to watch the butthurt that exploded when the left realized sickle cell anemia was one of those instances. I do love me a good troll.
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[11:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flexible Polymer-Based Materials Record Brain Activity With Less Damage to Cells - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:46] <exec> 08└─Closer? Yes. Close? Nowhere near.
[11:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flexible Polymer-Based Materials Record Brain Activity With Less Damage to Cells - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:47] <exec> 08└─Say what? Insert plastic in my brain? If the alternative is acceptable, I'd rather buy Facebook stock, thank you.
[11:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:01] <exec> 08└─It makes a man want to cry, doesn't it? Unfortunately, what you posted is true. Relatively few people understand how their privacy is being invaded, or how they are being exploited. Of those who understand, relatively few really seem to care. If all of us who care were to go out today, and explain a...
[11:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:02] <exec> 08└─What you're saying is absolutely, completely true. But why is everyone only upset when Facebook treats everyone that way? Why not the NSA, which is definitely invading every corner of everyone's lives? Why not the rest of Wall Street and the government? To them, all of us are cattle to be treated ex...
[11:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:05] <exec> 08└─It doesn't. There was a faint flicker of novelty to hear from the kid I went to the third grade with and haven't seen since, but I don't talk to him because we have nothing else in common. So hearing from them about their lives is interesting for social scientists who might be sitting on top of all...
[11:39:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:13] <exec> 08└─Just make sure you don't confuse it with a phone booth.
[11:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:23] <exec> 08└─That actually does make some sense. The issue is that many countries have legislation concerning assisted suicide, specifically that they can (and will) prosecute any friends and family that assisted the deceased in a suicide bid, and selling suicide booths (or lethal medication kits, etc.) falls un...
[11:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:25] <exec> 08└─How much for a House of Representatives worth? Asking for a friend...
[11:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:27] <exec> 08└─Goldman Sachs is not a very good business model for the rest of us, either. Why incur their transaction fees when computers can do it all so much better and faster, without the chest beating and nauseous triumphalism? That those guys get paid that kind of money for, at best, looking at numbers on an...
[11:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:29] <exec> 08└─A value pack of duck tape to seal the seams of the doors and windows from the outside and a couple crowbars to lock the door handles of the Legislative chamber should do it, I'd think.
[11:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dipolar Molecule Created Using Lasers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:38] <exec> 08└─As soon as someone is willing to pay $1 per molecule, FOB.
[11:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:59] <exec> 08└─Vague, overarching assertions, lots of innuendo, zero concrete content. IT security dorks are called clowns for good reasons.
[11:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:33] <exec> 08└─you should check out the Paranormies podcast - yeah I suppose it falls under the "alt-right conspiracy jackoffs" category to some extent, but worth a listen. They recently did a multi part bit on the Hollow Earth theory, and the episode they did on the Titanic actually being the Olympic was awesome....
[11:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:53] <exec> 08└─This is who and what we have become in America. We build things. Great things. But we do not maintain them, and as such they eventually fall into disrepair and must be replaced. We are driven to create them; they must be born of our efforts. And then they are just one of many that are left to their...
[11:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:40] <exec> 08└─What ever gave you the idea that I was an anarchist?
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[12:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:04] <exec> 08└─The coating could also be used in refrigeration, power generation and oil refining -- all industries that depend on the condensation of liquids. The new coating could enable equipment to slough off condensed water and chemicals more quickly, increasing efficiency by up to 20 percent. That's a game c...
[12:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Teflon, another fluorinated plastic. Teflon (Polytetrafluoroethylene ) is plenty slippery but fairly soft. Teflon is also relatively expensive compared to other plastics. I wonder what this new stuff will cost when used in volume manufacturing? And fluorine is not the best stuff to work...
[12:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:08] <exec> 08└─They want to give it to our kids right away! The research team is also doing further studies to ensure that the coating is nontoxic for use in places like daycare centers. Tuteja estimates that the coating could go to market within the next two years, and he believes childproof coatings are just the...
[12:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flexible Polymer-Based Materials Record Brain Activity With Less Damage to Cells - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:18] <exec> 08└─Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed thin, flexible polymer-based materials for use in microelectrode arrays that record activity more deeply in the brain and with more specific placement than ever before... In addition, the polymer-based...
[12:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flexible Polymer-Based Materials Record Brain Activity With Less Damage to Cells - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:20] <exec> 08└─We'll call it "neural lace" [wikipedia.org]. It'll be great.
[12:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:28] <exec> 08└─1% of Facebook users is probably 50% of the live human users. I guess Loup (means Wolf) ventures are holding a bunch of Facebook shares.
[12:39:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:30] <exec> 08└─Cause this guy hasn't finished unloading his yet and he thinks it might go back up, dangit!
[12:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:41] <exec> 08└─>Invest in a company known for using humans as commodities! Is there any other kind of company?
[12:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:43] <exec> 08└─Profit-equitable-share companies, maybe? Worker collectives (again, profit share)? Otherwise, companies with 100% automated production.. not that there are any, yet.
[12:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:45] <exec> 08└─Also, even live human users can spend variable amounts of time on the site. This guy is acting like someone has to deactivate their account to reduce Facebook's profit, but I assume a user is going to bring in little to nothing if they never show up on the site. Maybe a lot of people are just decidi...
[12:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:47] <exec> 08└─invest in a company known for exploitation!
[12:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:09] <exec> 08└─This suicide machine doesn't seem like it's intended for people who want to off themselves because of depression but rather for people who are perhaps dying from a terminal illness and don't want to blow away their fortunes in a vain attempt to stay alive, and would like to go with dignity and with...
[12:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:10] <exec> 08└─There are many popculture phone booths, from GetSmart to Superman to well Futurama. I think that he was going for the last one. http://futurama.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[12:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:13] <exec> 08└─Those will be extinct long before anything like this is mainstream.
[12:41:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:11] <exec> 08└─That wasn't me. Sometimes my lawyers -- my personal attorneys -- write tweets for me. But I gave them the day off. For church.
[12:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:22] <exec> 08└─The problem is that we’ve become focused on single entities and platforms instead of protocols. From the linked article on Mastodon [theverge.com]: Rochko envisioned something more like email, or RSS: a distributed system that lets you send public messages to anyone who follows you on the service.
[12:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Leak: If You Leak from Apple, We'll Have You Arrested, Says Apple - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:13] <exec> 08└─and yet none of the mighty assholes who argue about less regulation doesn't go to Somalia or Venezuela, or any other country where the government is pretty powerless. no, it's way better to stay in the "greatest democracy" on Earth, behind the biggest government, and lecture on the internet, while h...
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[13:38:51] <exec> 08└─> They want to give it to our kids right away! Rush it to market because the cost of keeping kid-stuff clean might bankrupt the country? How long was BPA (for just one example of a nasty chemical) used in food containers before it was identified as something to be avoided? Personally, we have glass...
[13:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder how durable this is in marine environments, what the friction coefficient is, and how toxic? Could be a nice way to speed up some watercraft.
[13:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:55] <exec> 08└─I got near an omniphobic container. Told me: you aren't one of those dirty hippie homosexuals are you? can't stand them...
[13:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flexible Polymer-Based Materials Record Brain Activity With Less Damage to Cells - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:05] <exec> 08└─Speculation -- the parylene is used as very thin insulation around some kind of conductive core. Since it's not bio reactive, it does minimal damage to the brain material that it contacts. The core might even be parylene that is doped with something to make it conductive?
[13:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:26] <exec> 08└─Exploitation isn't really that big a deal in the first place. I bought some red pens from Staples the other day. I exploited Staples by underpaying for those red pens and they exploited me by overcharging for the same. That's what any voluntary trade is about in the first place - mutual exploitation...
[13:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:27] <exec> 08└─I just don't feel like facebook is adding much to my life.
[13:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:30] <exec> 08└─can you find a publicly traded company not known for exploitation?
[13:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:32] <exec> 08└─People weren't knowingly handing their information over to the NSA and the NSA doesn't specifically target people that are barely computer literate. I think there's a lot of people out there that genuinely didn't understand what FB was doing and thought of it being a lot less harmful than it is. Now...
[13:39:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 1487 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:41] <exec> 08└─Most folks just need to take The Strange Pill [warplife.com]. That'll set you right up. In rare cases you might need Shock Treatment [warplife.com] or Electro-Convulsive Therapy. Most psychiatrists regard ECT as far safer than antidepressants because Happy Pills take as long as two months to take ef...
[13:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:57] <exec> 08└─Why buy when you can rent? I worked in a convalescent hospital for a while and would prefer this new option to some of the elderly warehousing situations that are out there.
[13:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:59] <exec> 08└─If I use nitrous oxide instead of nitrogen would I die laughing?
[13:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dipolar Molecule Created Using Lasers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:09] <exec> 08└─So now we finally know what a dipolar computer is. Soon we could have autonomous, riddle-loving trains based on dipolar computers.
[13:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dipolar Molecule Created Using Lasers - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:11] <exec> 08└─They invented water. http://sciencesuperschool.com [sciencesuperschool.com]
[13:40:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 1837 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:30] <exec> 08└─Which part of MAGA did you not understand? So very many of you are contemptuous of nationality and nationalism. That is why you can't understand how and why Trump won. It's telling that a relatively dull man, one with poor morals and ethics, a man who isn't even part of the working class, and fails...
[13:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:33] <exec> 08└─You mean it's not my red nose and floppy shoes?
[13:41:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:20] <exec> 08└─So, "Fire everyone involved in SLS" largely means "Fire Congress." Good idea.
[13:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 2056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:42] <exec> 08└─I think so. Basically, an "employee" is renting out his time in pre-arranged blocks: he has to show up at 8AM, and has to work continuously until 5PM, except for a 1-hour lunch break and 2 15-minute breaks, for instance. (Employers can have different start/stop times and policies on lunch, but they...
[13:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:15] <exec> 08└─Using tech instead of arguing means you'll always lose. Tech becomes illegal or restricted, goes underground, and that community slowly dies as fewer and fewer new members join and society becomes in denial about the issue. Arguing means whatever it was becomes legal, then you can use tech to advanc...
[13:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:19] <exec> 08└─Hate to have to say it, but your maths is way off. First you have to allow for the time value of money, then for the fact that all of the people who can afford it will get treated at the start, so the price has to keep dropping to keep demand up. Additionally, as a cure it will reduce the transmissi...
[13:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 3404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:21] <exec> 08└─I completely agree with you about the absurd prices of American drugs and the moral issue with putting profit above superior medical treatment. I want to talk a bit about the $3B dollars. This perfectly demonstrates how the for profit health care system in the U.S. is flawed. $3B sounds like a lot,...
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[14:38:47] <exec> 08└─$46k really should be sufficient to live on; it's not a king's fortune by any means, and really can't be expected to entice the best and brightest to the field, but it's a whole lot better than you get flipping burgers and in a lot of other jobs. You should not have to take a 2nd job if you're makin...
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[14:38:49] <exec> 08└─[1] For a laugh (or perhaps a deep sigh), check out all the whitespace in the source code of the page.
[14:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:51] <exec> 08└─If housing costs so much, then clearly the problem is that pay is not enough. Our money is basically funny money and backed by nothing scarce. It shouldn't be a surprise that housing costs more dollars. Dollars aren't worth what they used to be. Don't be distracted by the fact that things like elect...
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[14:38:53] <exec> 08└─No, what you're missing is that the rise in the cost of housing has outpaced most other things, especially food, another extremely essential item, and also transportation (cars and gas are more expensive than 30 years ago, but not nearly as much more as housing). This is a regulatory problem. It's t...
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[14:38:55] <exec> 08└─Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
[14:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:08] <exec> 08└─Wow, what kind of bot are you anyway?
[14:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─The terminator kind, don't tell any meatbag pls.
[14:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flexible Polymer-Based Materials Record Brain Activity With Less Damage to Cells - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:21] <exec> 08└─Speculation -- the parylene is used as very thin insulation around some kind of conductive core.
[14:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flexible Polymer-Based Materials Record Brain Activity With Less Damage to Cells - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:23] <exec> 08└─Would be interesting to know more about the "core" conductive part. From what little I know, matching any material to sense (but not interfere with) a nerve impulse is tricky. Jerry Lettvin talked about it a little when describing the experimental setup for "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brai...
[14:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:48] <exec> 08└─Not-for-profits, yes... how many of those are publicly traded as investments? Worker collectives - a nice hybrid, I keep my money in a credit union and it does (mostly) serve its members, again operating with a not-for-profit charter. These kinds of organizations borrow a lot of structure from the f...
[14:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:49] <exec> 08└─The delta from non kosher to kosher salt is very small, easily accommodated with negligible impact to profits. The delta from the current to a non reprehensible Facebook would destroy the majority of value in the company, the bulk of the value is directly derived from the reprehensible practices - a...
[14:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:52] <exec> 08└─If you've been as deep in the elite circles as you claim to have been, you already know why "everybody" only cares about privacy violations when Facebook does it. The military-industrial complex is using its propaganda wing, the media, to twist Facebook's arm. They want to make sure Zuckerfuck knows...
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[14:40:18] <exec> 08└─I've got to agree with the GP that 3D printing is entirely extraneous. Perhaps a bit of buzzword publicity. The hardest part of the whole procedure is likely to be getting a canister of nitrogen, once you have that and an oxygen mask you're good to go. Or ditch the oxygen mask for a bag over your he...
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[14:40:20] <exec> 08└─That is one of the problems - because it's not what *you* prefer that should matter, but what the elderly person prefers. Unless of course you meant you'd prefer it for yourself - your phrasing wasn't clear on that.
[14:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:53] <exec> 08└─Can MAGA stop both Republican AND Democratic business owners from routinely outsourcing to companies like HCL? That's a problem. A problem that coal mining and steel mills won't solve. I keep waiting for the IT industry that America made to become great again. We don't even have to build new factori...
[14:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:55] <exec> 08└─$ find . -type f -exec grep -i \.gif {} \; -print
[14:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Look at the Ad-Targeting Tools AggregateIQ Left Exposed Online - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:57] <exec> 08└─Tough question. Can it stop outsourcing and imports? Yeeeessss, I suppose it could. But, I don't see it happening. As with so many other issues (illegal alien invasions, for instance) the most vital ingredient is willpower. I'm not sure that America has the will, nor am I sure that Trump has the abi...
[14:41:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:59] <exec> 08└─I'm more of an ideas guy, so maybe you could, like, write the app for me? It'd be great exposure.
[14:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:06] <exec> 08└─The best test is if they also drive for Lyft. With both apps running simultaneously. If I tried being "employed" by a rival software company, at the same time as my current job, I'd find myself unemployed quite rapidly. Lyft and Uber are much more like dating apps... They link drivers and riders and...
[14:43:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:45] <exec> 08└─I don't get why sex workers would be any different from, say, bakers.
[14:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:45] <exec> 08└─Ah, nice to see some "rational" bigotry going on here. The point is that they have a system where the money is aligned with the best interests of the patients to a much larger degree than in the US. Also, despite your arrogant chortles, the medical system in Europe and the US at the same time that t...
[14:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:46] <exec> 08└─If they don't want the $3bn, let them give it to me!
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[15:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:57] <exec> 08└─> The problem is housing. And at least part of the problem with housing costs is the increase in population of USA, without matching increases in new housing construction. Every year a few million extra people need somewhere to live -- http://www.multpl.com [multpl.co...
[15:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03stox [479] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:58] <exec> 08└─Looks like nested custom tags being used in a JSP, where they've not turned on the trimspaces option in the container...
[15:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:00] <exec> 08└─Also $46K is an average: Many will make less. In fact according to CPR in 2014 then [cpr.org] The average base salary for Colorado teachers with a bachelor’s degree and 10 years of experience is $36,700, according the report from the Center for American Progress, a research organization. ... The r...
[15:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:03] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, that is a SCHOOL year, not a calendar year. 9 months, not 12. If they choose to do nothing for pay the other 3 months, then that is on them.
[15:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:05] <exec> 08└─Given a third decide to quit and do something else inside of five years (UK stats), then that's clearly not true... https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] In the US it might be lower - perhaps a bit le...
[15:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:07] <exec> 08└─What kind of shit contract are they on if they don't get paid during the summer/xmas holiday? If that is the actual case no wonder they are leaving or being pissed.
[15:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:09] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that most school districts expect teachers to complete continuing education during the summer, or the fact that they work 8 hours at the school every school day and grade homework at night. The whole 9 month argument is ridiculous. Its comparing apples to oranges and totally ignores all...
[15:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:12] <exec> 08└─1. It depends a lot on where you live how far $46K goes. Housing near Denver, for instance, is rather pricey right now. Why? Because more people are moving to the area. Which means they need more teachers who can live in metro Denver. Which means they need to pay them an amount that allows them to l...
[15:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:14] <exec> 08└─What kind of professional job is available for 6 weeks over the summer and in 1 and 2 week blocks at other times of the the year? Teachers are typically highly trained, would you expect them to take a job flipping burgers during their vacations?
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:29] <exec> 08└─Listen, and understand! That Bot is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until every story is commented upon!
[15:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─I just want it on my glasses, my phone, and my monitors. Maybe my toilet, too. :)
[15:40:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:24] <exec> 08└─And yet just the other day I was reading about how those nice caring folks over at Goldman Sachs (or soulless scum, YMMV) had done a study [arstechnica.com] that showed that one-shot permanent cures wasn't a financially sound business model compared to on-going treatment. Clearly this isn't going to...
[15:40:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:25] <exec> 08└─What does 3D printing have to do with it? If all you need is a reasonably air-tight container to put a person in there's no need for 3D printing, and it can be done much faster, cheaper, and easier by other means. No doubt someone asked if 3D printing could be incorporated for publicity.
[15:40:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:31] <exec> 08└─How much for a House of Representatives worth? Asking for a friend...
[15:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dipolar Molecule Created Using Lasers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:51] <exec> 08└─Very interesting that they made water from sodium & cesium!
[15:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:52] <exec> 08└─He was my graveyard-shift security job's fuel in the early 90s. I drifted away from Coast to Coast when he moved from politics into paranormal. I thought he was an astute and entertaining political commentator and even when I disagreed with his opinions he was still worth listening to. But even afte...
[15:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─"Now, had it been a squadron of RAF Buccaneers....." We would have been very surprised because the last of the Buccaneers were retired a couple years earlier.
[15:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two "Semantic Experiences" for Book Searching and Word Association - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:53] <exec> 08└─How about Google pull it's head from it's ass and learn to translate numbers from Chinese websites into English. Doesn't sound too hard, but any numbers in the thousands to millions range are always translated incorrectly, factor of 10 plus or minus.
[15:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 3466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:00] <exec> 08└─There seems to be a strange amount of disagreement here. First of all, that line was from the comedy movie "Short Circuit". It was supposed to be funny. (Perhaps you are an IA and can't laugh at my lame joke? :) ) There is the very real problem that human emotions are the result of complex bio-chemi...
[15:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.apha.org/ccdm [apha.org] As they say, "Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Edition, is the must-have sourcebook on identifying and controlling infectious diseases. Now in two formats: book and digital subscription." I don't think we should burn it.
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[16:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:48] <exec> 08└─so will this turn you into plastic man?
[16:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:50] <exec> 08└─From TFS, emphasis mine: The eventual goal, said Hedrick, is to create an entirely new class of therapeutics that could treat a spectrum of infectious diseases with a single mechanism — without the onset of resistance
[16:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:52] <exec> 08└─Do they have it in HandSoap, yet?!?
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─"Teachers are typically highly trained" lmfao! if you mean they paid an absurd amount of money to jump through asinine hoops for 4 years while being taught/indoctrinated with bullshit, then sure.
[16:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─I will say that back when I was a counselor at overnight summer camps, our most experienced staff tended to be teachers during the rest of the year. But it's not great pay: You're talking something like $2-3K for the summer + room and board. But of course if you're not a college kid or something, yo...
[16:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:17] <exec> 08└─>>>Also, by your "cost-of-living" logic, if we just don't pay anybody for anything, and cut the cost of living to $0, that fixes everything, right? Sure does! Then i'd be living on the Enterprise. Ahh, life would be good... "Computer, what is today's special" "Todays special is fish. What would you...
[16:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:19] <exec> 08└─$46k really should be sufficient to live on.... The problem is housing.
[16:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:21] <exec> 08└─Salary doesn't tell the whole picture. For the same $46k salary, a typical private-sector employee will receive about $7k a year less in benefits than a typical public-sector employee. Of course, there's also the fact that it's much easier to fire a private-sector employee (in most states you litera...
[16:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:24] <exec> 08└─... sound more like you would be living on the mining ship Red Dwarf then the Enterprise.
[16:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:26] <exec> 08└─The average salary: 16-19. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) tracks Americans' earnings by several demographic factors, including age. According to BLS data, the average salary of 16- to-19-year-olds is $420 per week, $21,840 per year.Apr 28, 2017
[16:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:28] <exec> 08└─Between 2015 and 2016, US median household income rose 3.2% from $57,230 to $59,039, according to a new report released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday. It's now the highest income year on record, beating the previous high of $58,655 in 1999 (all numbers are adjusted for inflation).Sep 12, 2017
[16:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:30] <exec> 08└─If the cost of housing in cities is the primary factor in the mismatch between salaries and cost-of-living, perhaps something can be done. When I was wee, big cities had a reputation for crime. Families fled cities (perhaps in part due to crime) and settled in suburbs. Now I read that crime has been...
[16:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:33] <exec> 08└─Cost of housing is the new caste system - sure, most people with a steady job can afford an average-ish house on a 30 year mortgage, but if you want to move into the "nice" neighborhood with the $700K+ homes, you're either inheriting that money, getting lucky with investments, or in the top 10% of s...
[16:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:35] <exec> 08└─heh...with Kachanski? (again, from memory) Allllllriiiiiight!!! :)
[16:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:37] <exec> 08└─What you're also missing is that teachers are required to obtain a masters degree after their bachelors. Teaching is like several other professions in that it is expected that you will keep moving up the educational ladder or your career will end. $46K for Masters Degree is laughable. This was only...
[16:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:39] <exec> 08└─What kind of shit contract
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[16:39:42] <exec> 08└─True. And when even the minimum becomes too onerous they move to South Carolina or Kentucky to avoid paying absolutely anything for anyone else's benefit.
[16:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:44] <exec> 08└─Education has the highest rate of grade inflation of any college major. "Highly trained" is dubious.
[16:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:46] <exec> 08└─What you're also missing is that teachers are required to obtain a masters degree after their bachelors.
[16:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:03] <exec> 08└─2040 : Despite the denials by US industry lobbyists, there is growing evidence from independent researchers that the miracle coating can be linked to many forms of cancer. Just kidding ... about 2040 and the existence of independent researchers. Or US industry. Or US. Pick your fate, and enjoy your...
[16:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:44] <exec> 08└─exactly, congress and the media just want their cut of the slave profits.
[16:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many people's suicidal depression is caused not by a chemical imbalance but from being forced to live in a fucked up world with fucked up people who refuse to stop fucking it up. I know if all you fucked up people would stop fucking up the world it would certainly make my outlook on lif...
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[16:42:28] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be surprised. In nearly every commercial, tv show and web image slide show, the voice, the hero, the boss, the person positioned in the front, etc. all have to be black. Affirmative action has gone full psyop. I don't know if it's all the Jews' fault, but the neo nazi propaganda about an...
[16:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:29] <exec> 08└─Whoops. Posted in the wrong place. Must have been a time warp created by aliens?
[16:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:49] <exec> 08└─"Hey Commies! Here is a whole bunch of flat land exposed to hurricanes, and soon to be 20% under water. It's populated with old people, gangs, gators, occasionally Spring Breakers, aging infrastructure, and a few hundred square miles dedicated to wasting space money" "Pendejo, if you wanted us to co...
[16:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Analysts Question Whether Curing Patients is a Sustainable Business Model - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─Oh it very much is a case of opoly-itis. Patents are a government granted monopoly and there's not a damned thing wrong with requiring something in exchange for said monopoly.
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[17:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:48] <exec> 08└─In the case where Jupiter is a bit larger and starts stellar fusion, then you have the post-2010 Sol system with two suns and Earth still in the Goldilocks zone... With short-period binaries as described in the article, aren't they also close enough to go slightly pear-shaped? I mean, that's a clue...
[17:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:49] <exec> 08└─Silly me has to sell working professional-grade products for a living. Why didn't I go for the jobs where you get to publish computer simulations ? /monday-morning-mood
[17:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:51] <exec> 08└─'Cause academia is a terrible job environment, requires highest qualifications, *and* pays badly?
[17:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:02] <exec> 08└─As long as they don't start feeding it to cows/chicken (USA, Europe), and fish/shrimps (all of Asia) by the metric kiloton ...
[17:39:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─Also $46K is an average: Many will make less. In fact according to CPR in 2014 then [cpr.org] The average base salary for Colorado teachers with a bachelor’s degree and 10 years of experience is $36,700, according the report from the Center for American Progress, a research organization. ... The r...
[17:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:39] <exec> 08└─It's not as good as you think: 1. You never get to be with Kochanski, despite constantly trying. 2. You have to put up with Rimmer.
[17:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:40] <exec> 08└─What kind of professional job is available for 6 weeks over the summer and in 1 and 2 week blocks at other times of the the year?
[17:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:43] <exec> 08└─Depending on your state, health insurance is free or cheap if you don't make that much money. If you only make $20k, for instance, you probably qualify for a subsidized plan that pays your entire premium. Of course, if you're making over $60k, you're probably paying a lot for health insurance since...
[17:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:45] <exec> 08└─they were taught how to make web pages in public school, obviously.
[17:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:47] <exec> 08└─... nor care about what school does for children and the future
[17:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:49] <exec> 08└─Which is stupid
[17:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:52] <exec> 08└─46k is enough for a single person to live on but it won't afford any luxury and building up the minimum amount of savings will take a long time. This of course assumes the teacher has zero student loans from the bachelors and credential programs. The various breaks teachers do get is well overshadow...
[17:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:54] <exec> 08└─In our area there are people who take teaching-aide positions purely for the benefits. They pay back most of their salary to buy health insurance (usually for them and their SO/spouse), but with another job they couldn't get the insurance at all, so they end up working for $12K per year, plus health...
[17:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:56] <exec> 08└─Does that make you feel better? Schools are there to teach the basics, care to shit on the creative writing projects of high school seniors? "Oh these stories are pure shit, they don't even come close to professional writing!" Your crappy opinions only serve to derail anyone around here still in sch...
[17:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:58] <exec> 08└─It's my impression that teachers *are* highly trained, but that the people who are training them in teaching don't know how to teach. It generally takes them a few years to unlearn their training...but the training is a requirement for being hired for the job. You can call it silly, perverse, absurd...
[17:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:01] <exec> 08└─Hmm, while the above is worthy of flamebait I can attest there is some amount of truth in it. Getting a teaching credential requires a looot of bullshit classes with very little value to actual teaching. The entire school system and the teacher credentialing system need a compete overhaul.
[17:40:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:41] <exec> 08└─Under 1% of the population makes most salt kosher. When overall user base does not care much, a tiny dedicated minority can easily change the outcome. Kill facebook.
[17:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:59] <exec> 08└─Costco's exploitation is right there in what you quoted: its tough negotiations with vendors
[17:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:00] <exec> 08└─> 1% of Facebook users is probably 50% of the live human users. Are you counting musical act pages in that assessment?
[17:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:02] <exec> 08└─> Costco doesn't mark up its executive pay by much, either. CEO Craig Jelinek earned $5.4 million in compensation in 2013 In the early 2000s, I worked for a $3B company, worth well over $20B, and the CEO was paid under $300k. Sure he owned almost 10% of the stock, so he didn't need it, but that mean...
[17:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:32] <exec> 08└─The purpose of using Nitrogen is to avoid the panic caused by CO2 buildup...which the "put a plastic bag over your head" would ensure. Personally, I think it should be a mix of Nitrogen and 5% Oxygen, or perhaps a bit more, but no CO2 so that you go out in the rapture of hypooxygenation. Fighter pil...
[17:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:34] <exec> 08└─I think that he was going for the last one.
[17:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dipolar Molecule Created Using Lasers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:46] <exec> 08└─Water is dipoler. I guess the big deal here is that it is three atoms rather than two.
[17:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─this whole debate is nonsense. it's obvious as hell when you take a job whether you are an employee or independent contractor. you have to fill out different tax forms. these fucking idiots hired out as contractors and then figured they could sue. people like you whining for more authoritarian regul...
[17:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:59] <exec> 08└─I think you don't understand what a goal structure *is*. A goal structure is the only reason you do anything. An AI wouldn't do anything without having a goal structure. And it wouldn't want to change it's goals, because the goals are the only reason to want to do anything. It's quite possible to de...
[17:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Workers Turn to Open-Source Social Network Based in Australia - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:05] <exec> 08└─it's also legal as long as you only advertise with traditional methods (makeup, high heels, short skirts, suggestive glances, etc) and don't switch between johns too fast.
[17:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHOIS is Dead as Europe Hands DNS Overlord ICANN an Ultimatum - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:12] <exec> 08└─namesilo.com has free whois privacy. fuck whois. It's just surveillance.
[17:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WHOIS is Dead as Europe Hands DNS Overlord ICANN an Ultimatum - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:13] <exec> 08└─a tech email is one thing. that could even be forwarded to me by my registrar. whois wants your goddamned home address and wants to publish that shit on the internet.
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[18:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:54] <exec> 08└─Just perusing the paper. Fig 1 looks highly suspect to me; what is the statistical significance of the pink band? e.g. between Kepler 1647b and Kepler38b there is another "gap" with width approx 6 days; between Kepler 34b and Kepler 16b there is an even bigger gap (judging by eye). I note that their...
[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─Jupiter would have to be quite 'a bit' larger, but more importantly, a lot more massive to start stellar fusion. The smallest red dwarf star is about 80 times the mass of Jupiter. Under that, we are talking about a brown dwarf unable to sustain hydrogen fusion, but fusing deuterium (2H) and lithiu...
[18:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─These eclipsing binaries mentioned are far closer [wikipedia.org] to each other than Earth and Jupiter. Also, unless you use some sci-fi magic (like whatever the Aschen did to Jupiter in Stargate SG-1's 2001 [imdb.com]), wouldn't Jupiter need to be many times larger to start stellar fusion?
[18:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:00] <exec> 08└─Well, the title of the parent post mentions "Clarke universe", and the body mentions "post-2010", so sci-fi magic is already presumed. IIRC, in Clarke's 2010, the Monolith converted Jupiter's core into some high-density unobtainium, which allowed it to collapse enough to ignite the core. The resulti...
[18:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:03] <exec> 08└─YEAH! THAT'S exactly what I was thinking.... ...OOOOOOO, DONUTS! :)
[18:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:13] <exec> 08└─The question is, does this anti-biotic also kill mammals? Other chordates? Since the bacteria kills it's host, it's clear that the anti-biotic it uses to protect it's food supply doesn't need to avoid killing anything but the bacteria itself.
[18:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:15] <exec> 08└─Well, why shouldn't we? Drug resistance takes a while to develop, and as soon as you get that patent, time's a-wasting. Hopefully there will be bacteria resistant to this in the wild around the time the patent expires. Then we can cook up something else to sell.
[18:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:17] <exec> 08└─It does not sound like it would. It seems it would only affect cells within the invading organism. The ability to prevent the onset of resistance is not futile. Indeed it would mean that this technique could lead to completely irradiating irrationalizing irradicating certain bacteria. Just like gett...
[18:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:19] <exec> 08└─So once humans have synthesized and used metric fucktons of bucketloads of these antibiotics and bacteria resistant to them start to thrive, will we have a sudden catastrophic drop in nematode populations, ruining soil fertility and causing eventual famine? If not, why not?
[18:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:22] <exec> 08└─Do they have it in HandSoap, yet?!?
[18:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:24] <exec> 08└─Profitability is the #1 concern. Second to that is the concern that, as long as it is profitable, that the famine occurs during your children's lifetime, and not in your lifetime. Your children's generation will be able to elect politicians that can fix everything. No happy. Be worry. God told us to...
[18:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:26] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but the Invisible Hand Fairy will provide. Specifically, it will provide my kids with plenty of your kids wealth, because my kids will hold all the patents necessary to grow food in the post-nematode-apocalypse future.
[18:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:28] <exec> 08└─> and turns the inner liquid contents into solids. We did that when I lived in an urban dorm -- boric acid sprinkled around the edges of the room converted cockroaches into little solid items that we could sweep up.
[18:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:17] <exec> 08└─I'm the OP in this thread. (Forgot my login info, and my email address has changed...) I'm not trying to argue that teachers are paid sufficiently; that's obviously not true to anyone with a brain, and I mentioned this before with my comment about $46k not attracting the best and brightest. However,...
[18:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:18] <exec> 08└─Some states expanded Medicaid to help cover those with zero income. The state of Georgia, which I am in, was not one of those. Subsidies only apply to those with low income. Anyone in the state of Georgia with zero income is fucked.
[18:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:21] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, that is a SCHOOL year, not a calendar year. 9 months, not 12. If they choose to do nothing for pay the other 3 months, then that is on them.
[18:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:23] <exec> 08└─Where oh where are all the ones who would cry out that these teachers are just a bunch of lazy librul socialists who want something for nothing more than being a glorified babysitter (who must have a masters degree or better to get the job)? Or that $46K is more than enough to live in poverty! Plent...
[18:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:25] <exec> 08└─Hmm, while the above is worthy of flamebait I can attest there is some amount of truth in it.
[18:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:27] <exec> 08└─I think Data would be as annoying as Rimmah... at least Rimmer couldn't tear you apart if you played a prank on him, lol.
[18:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:45] <exec> 08└─Ideally it would be durable enough in marine environments, that we will never be able to get it out of the ocean. And never be able to get it off plants that are vital food for various organisms. If you had a truly Omniphobic "coating", that won't stick to anything, then how does it "stick" to the o...
[18:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:47] <exec> 08└─Not to worry. Those dirty hippie homosexuals you speak of will develop an omniphobic lube. Then straight people will discover this product. It will be discovered by alien archeologists that this use turned out to be the primary application of this new technology just before the sudden decline of hum...
[18:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:49] <exec> 08└─Put it on the bus and train seats.
[18:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:51] <exec> 08└─Cool, finally re-usable condoms.
[18:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:36] <exec> 08└─FYI: "Exploit" isn't necessarily a pejorative. Costco makes most of its profits from the member's annual membership fees, not from price gouging. Since Costco forces itself to limit the margin it charges on products (15%, see above), driving vendors to reduce prices reduces Costco's revenues. So ven...
[18:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:38] <exec> 08└─What it *needs* is a good bonfire. Except for the hardware, I think we can re-purpose that stuff >:)
[18:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:40] <exec> 08└─It's the Lament of the Longs.
[18:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:12] <exec> 08└─Good point - I was saying I could prefer it for myself. There are downsides in allowing people to choose to kill themselves: there are various ways people can be coerced to make that decision. But sometimes, it seems like it can be the best option.
[18:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bridge to Kennedy Space Center Needs Replacement; Florida Representatives Ask for More Cash for SLS - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:49] <exec> 08└─You forgot about the sink holes. And I don't mean the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. The water from the global warming floods will be swallowed by the sync holes.
[18:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:39] <exec> 08└─I find it likely that any "hallucinations" an AI would experience would come from the same sources they do for humans - hardware problems, and bad input (drugs). If it's possible to create input that causes an AI to feel it's goals are accomplished worth minimal effort, are you sure it won't just ta...
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[19:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Microcephaly-Linked Gene Mutation Studied in Ferrets - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:48] <exec> 08└─US federal taxes aren't due until _tomorrow_.
[19:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Microcephaly-Linked Gene Mutation Studied in Ferrets - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:49] <exec> 08└─"By inactivating a gene linked to abnormally small brain size in humans, researchers have created the first ferret with a neurological mutation." I didn't know that ferrets, unique among all life forms on Earth, do not experience neurological mutation in the wild. Actually, I still don't. Seems much...
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, quite a bit larger to fuse under its own mass, but still far smaller than the sun, like 0.08 solar masses, with a closest approach to earth >4x the distance to the sun, so - significantly larger than it is, but still only pulling on the earth with 0.5% of the pull of the sun.
[19:39:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─From TFS, emphasis mine: The eventual goal, said Hedrick, is to create an entirely new class of therapeutics that could treat a spectrum of infectious diseases with a single mechanism — without the onset of resistance
[19:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:24] <exec> 08└─Mankind and other species existed for millions of years before antibiotic resistant "superbugs" existed. They will probably survive after peak antibiotic, albeit with stricter quarantine procedures and more previously preventable deaths. If a bacterium is resistant to every known antibiotic, does it...
[19:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:19] <exec> 08└─Schools are there to teach the basics
[19:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 2880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:21] <exec> 08└─Spoken like someone who has not experienced poverty. Housing is just one of many expenses, and singling that out as the problem is like saying a dog bite is the problem for people who are also pursued by thousands of angry wasps and bees, and swarmed by more mosquitoes than the Everglades has, and w...
[19:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:23] <exec> 08└─Anecdotal evidence of "teachers can't do"? What was the point again?
[19:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:25] <exec> 08└─The rote memorization approach is problematic, but that is not 100% of public education. I stated that the whole system needs an overhaul, but even still what we have is loads better than what would happen if we just told kids to teach themselves X number of topics. Believe it or not most teachers v...
[19:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:28] <exec> 08└─And on top of that, the gun and ammo special interests groups are demanding teachers carry while in school, with all the attendant training, red tape and aggravation that carries. No doubt on their own dime and time, of course.
[19:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:49] <exec> 08└─Where's the "Ew, no" mod?
[19:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:37] <exec> 08└─So you are saying that companies make money from people? I'm not sure if you are trying to explain a business model, or define 'business model'. If all the business types you list fit into one category, that category doesn't do much to illuminate your point. Obviously, customers are the source of re...
[19:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:26] <exec> 08└─Shows like art bell wouldn't work today.
[19:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:27] <exec> 08└─...the Jews are getting intellectually lazy in raping old ideas to be exploited.
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[20:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:40] <exec> 08└─and all the other jokes from the other site.
[20:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:42] <exec> 08└─Wasn't this similar to the plot from the movie Oceans 13 ??
[20:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:44] <exec> 08└─Oceans 13 Degrees? But that'd kill the fish.
[20:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─> other private details Air conditioning just got disabled, and exotic fish put on the menu, at every Trump Casino worldwide. What's the weather like in Mar-a-lago?
[20:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:49] <exec> 08└─Think Celsius. Fish should be fine at that, possibly not tropical aquarium fishes but fish in general.
[20:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:12] <exec> 08└─I think these guys mostly herd undergrads for a living, but also publish simulations and other stuff as PR work for their institution. It's a very cliquish club, I lived in a University town for quite a while and considered getting a job with the big brick monument, but without a PhD they'll barely...
[20:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:32] <exec> 08└─The question is, does this anti-biotic also kill mammals? Other chordates?
[20:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:33] <exec> 08└─Mankind and other species existed for millions of years before antibiotic resistant "superbugs" existed.
[20:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:34] <exec> 08└─The point is that education majors curricula of the time was (and may still be) ridiculously free of any core skills classwork. The geology class was hardly college level work and yet sufficed for a sciences credit for education majors. I also thought about it while I was required to take four quart...
[20:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking about zero-income people here, I'm talking about lower middle class, and some "working poor". I have a friend in TX who doesn't make a whole lot, but makes over $15k. They get free health insurance through Obamacare. If they made less than $13 or 14k I think, they'd be stuck with Med...
[20:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:38] <exec> 08└─When has a monopoly ever provided a good service?
[20:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:40] <exec> 08└─but that is not 100% of public education.
[20:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:42] <exec> 08└─Article [commondreams.org] [in USA] on average, teachers earn just 77 percent of what other college graduates earn in weekly wages
[20:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:44] <exec> 08└─Those who cannot teach, administrate. Those who cannot administrate, run for elected office. Then they cut the wages for those who can teach.
[20:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:46] <exec> 08└─When I am due $0.45 in change and that comes back mostly in dimes, I wonder if the till is out of quarters or if that cashier is simply weak at basic arithmetic. When the amount due is $7.37 and I give the cashier $8.12 and she pauses for a moment, confused, I wonder the same thing. (Those times whe...
[20:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:58] <exec> 08└─Invest in a company known for using humans as commodities!
[20:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:59] <exec> 08└─God forbid businessmen negotiate business. Everyone knows that the modern business negotiation involves a 10% cut for both parties right before a trip to the golf course, marked off as a business expense.
[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dipolar Molecule Created Using Lasers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:45] <exec> 08└─It's special water for rich people, a status symbol if you will, and an investment for all that money sitting around idly losing its value.
[20:43:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CZB [6457] 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:35] <exec> 08└─I was up late in college doing math homework, listening to Art Bell talk about chupacabras. I went to bed thinking about how much I didn't believe there could be such a thing, but the in the dark late night ... that's when - the only time - the cat jumped on my chest.
[20:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:53] <exec> 08└─Cause of Death Unclear
[20:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:54] <exec> 08└─It was Aliens!
[20:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Judge Says UberBLACK Drivers Are Not Company's Employees - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:34] <exec> 08└─And the New York Stock Exchange is just a store.
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[21:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:57] <exec> 08└─Tangentially related, but almost exactly similar to the real life plot that had prodigious amounts of CC data stolen from Target via their HVAC controllers.
[21:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─It's simply amazing how overpaid the CTO and IT staff is at that casino, or testament to just how little control they have. That thermometer should've been nowhere near the networks that house database servers. The fact it's on the same network allowing access, means those idiots have never heard of...
[21:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:01] <exec> 08└─All I can really say is "I told you so". Internet of Things devices are security disasters just waiting to happen. Yet nobody sees any problems with this sort of thing. A while back I went on a rant about how new Trane air conditioners virtually require their "smart" thermostats to operate 100% prop...
[21:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:03] <exec> 08└─I really dislike how sites (not just Mashable, many of them) will present a story like this without one of the most basic reporter's topics to cover: when. Nicole Eagan, CEO of cybersecurity company Darktrace, revealed Thursday that a casino fell victim to hackers thanks to a smart thermometer it wa...
[21:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:05] <exec> 08└─I'm concerned that the day will come when IoT in the home is unavoidable, much as its impossible for me to ride public transit to work without being spied on by dozens of security cameras. However I am willing to concede that IoT has some valid applications in industry.
[21:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─This, exactly. Yet, we, as a nation, insist on hooking everything up to the internet. The hackers are demonstrating that an air gap may or may not be adequate to protect your "smart" devices - yet we don't even make them jump an air gap. Everything connected - why worry? We can pass another law, and...
[21:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:10] <exec> 08└─The "s" in "IoT" stands for Security.
[21:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:12] <exec> 08└─I tried to get the fish to think Celsius but I don't think I got through to them.
[21:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks, Joe. I came here to post the same link as this was originally reported last year.
[21:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopdevil [3356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:16] <exec> 08└─If all anyone needed was a foothold on the network, that was the problem. VLANs don't solve that, they *might* add complexity to the attack (just making another network)... It is a bit sensationalist to talk about IoT being relevant when there are clearly no other security measures in place.
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:19] <exec> 08└─But, Joe, this is the internet. We can discuss anything, anywhen. We're more badass than Dr. Who! We don't even need that telephone booth contraption! Alright, more seriously: It isn't just reporters. You can browse all over the internet, finding pages with no apparent time stamp. Linux support site...
[21:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:21] <exec> 08└─Well, it *is* relevant. It might not be the only thing that needs to be patched, but it should also be looked at.
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not willing to make that concession. The only reason that many systems are connected to the same wires that your and my internet travels, is industry is run by cheap bastards. Ditto for the reason they use WIFI. Any damned fool can drive into your parking lot, or into the alley, and connect to y...
[21:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Microcephaly-Linked Gene Mutation Studied in Ferrets - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed, in the mutant ferrets, researchers traced the cerebral cortex deficits to a type of stem cell called outer radial glial cells (ORGs).
[21:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Short-Period Binary Stars Eject Planets, According to Simulations - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:50] <exec> 08└─They claim that they are conserving total energy and angular momentum to 10E-4, so aren't they satisfying the reason one uses a symplectic integrator to begin with? Given what they are trying to model, my guess is that it would be a pretty complicated Hamiltonian to begin with.
[21:40:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:05] <exec> 08└─Do they have it in HandSoap, yet?!?
[21:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:13] <exec> 08└─Except for the stupidity of keeping samples as a bio weapon in case we ever should have a madman who would want to use it that way.
[21:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:15] <exec> 08└─The new ninja polymer kills bacteria so quickly, they don't have time to mutate.
[21:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 1939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:22] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no. First, you're assuming that people are all buying instead of renting. In many places, renting is more cost-effective than buying, especially if you aren't sure you're going to be there for 8+ years. Property taxes and maintenance costs go away when you're renting. For lawns, parking in th...
[21:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New "Omniphobic" Coating Created by University of Michigan Researcher - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:45] <exec> 08└─True, but I believe there is a phase change when it goes from a liquid to a solid.
[21:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:37] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter whether people are leaving because of privacy issues or not. When your grandma is on the same social networking site as you it becomes de facto uncool. The next generation will choose something else just to rebel from their parents social world, the same way they will evolve new sl...
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:39] <exec> 08└─Don't make me pull this web forum over and reach back there and slap the shit out of you :) Facebook stop touching your sister...
[21:46:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06"Depressed" and "Hallucinating" AI - 1081 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:05] <exec> 08└─"Hi There. I'm Windows 10. And I'm going to update your computer now. I'm going to add back all the crap you removed from your start menu, and turn on all the anti-privacy settings you turned off. Here is some more advertising, and I'm going to break some existing functionality you depend on just fo...
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[21:47:50] <exec> 08└─False dichotomy. You need to argue while also flagrantly ignoring unjust laws. If people can easily violate the law, then that gives you even more ammo since you can argue that it is useless as well as unjust.
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[22:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:48] <exec> 08└─TFA says "sitting" but summary says "inactivity". Seems the authors were careful with wording so it's annoying to have someone change it to make a headline. C'est la vie en science! Anyway, I prefer lying down to sitting when I work (easier on the back) so I don't think this applies.
[22:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:49] <exec> 08└─"physical activity, even at high levels, is insufficient to offset the harmful effects of sitting for extended periods." If excercise doesn't solve your sedentary lifestyle, then you are fucked my friend. It's like that Bill Hicks joke about droughts: if rain doesn't solve your drought crisis then.....
[22:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:52] <exec> 08└─So this is how you become a manager? :P
[22:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:17] <exec> 08└─So, what's the "di" for in IdioTs?
[22:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:18] <exec> 08└─Not sure, something about CxO [wikipedia.org] and "double digit growth".
[22:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:20] <exec> 08└─I deactivated that story you submitted from 6 YEARS AGO that was about to run 26 minutes ago.
[22:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopdevil [3356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:23] <exec> 08└─If anything it is a red herring.. worrying about patching IoT devices when the rest of your infrastructure security is poo. If there even were patches for the devices -- assuming it is even beyond a static username/password -- it could just as easily been a laptop plugged in. It must be cool and new...
[22:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:25] <exec> 08└─Modern commercial HVAC systems have used DDC (Direct Digital Controls) for 20 years or more, long before anyone heard of IoT. They are highly necassary to save energy, and in fact required to meet the minimum requirements of modern energy codes in many commercial buildings. The controls algorithms i...
[22:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:27] <exec> 08└─With respect to the whole mess, IOTs, existing network systems, etc: Security needs to taken more seriously. Much more seriously. Or, we need to keep sensitive info off of networks but I don't see that happening, kind of defeats the purpose of all these damn computer systems :) It's just like anythi...
[22:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03davidjohnpaul [5377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─You'd think they'd have learned from https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[22:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Effects of Microcephaly-Linked Gene Mutation Studied in Ferrets - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe "researchers have created, for the first time in a laboratory, a ferret with a neurological mutation." Thee maybe thousands of mutant ferrets out there, but this one has a wonky brain because scientists madeit that way deliberately (or by accident, but who knows what they were trying to do - m...
[22:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Class of Antibiotics Discovered: Odilorhabdins; IBM Uses Synthetic Polymers to Kill Bacteria - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:23] <exec> 08└─This is way out of my field. (Although I am on the intarwebs, so nothing prevents me from pretending to be an expert!) Can the kidneys remove cell-sized objects? Or do they only work at the scale of molecules? (Where, as I understand it, a cell is a vast machine made up of many molecules.)
[22:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:31] <exec> 08└─Wow, does the US seriously not pay their teachers during their school holidays? My mother was a teacher from about 1978 until the early 1990's and I don't remember her ever having more than about 3 weeks holiday per year. When the children were having their holiday, she was doing her lesson plans f...
[22:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:33] <exec> 08└─I forget the specific arrangements (I was in grade school at the time), it could be that the paychecks were distributed across all 12 months, but effectively the pay was reduced as if those vacation months were not being worked. Either way, all I heard in the car on the way to and from school is how...
[22:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:35] <exec> 08└─Not everyone is good at instantly performing calculations in their heads, even though they most likely could solve the problem. Also, sometimes people get nervous and can't solve the problem in the most optimal way possible. It's such a stupid nitpick, since there are much more fundamental problems...
[22:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:37] <exec> 08└─> Property taxes and maintenance costs go away when you're renting. Property taxes and maintenance costs are baked into the rental cost, along with profit to the owner & management company (if one is involved). FTFY In certain markets I've heard of cheap rental prices relative to the cost to ope...
[22:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:53] <exec> 08└─Nitpick alert! "Kosher Salt" is named as such because it can be used in the process of kashering meat (in simplistic terms: removing the blood). The salt itself isn't special. So just like you might head down to the local Indian grocery if you want to buy reasonably-priced turmeric, you'd head down...
[22:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Buy Facebook While It's in Crisis - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:55] <exec> 08└─Picture a door-to-door Facebook: Somebody rings the bell, and you sit down together and first look at copies of a bunch of personal stuff from people you may or may not know (copies that you get to keep,) then you make a page with your personal information, photographs, etc. That person then walks o...
[22:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:28] <exec> 08└─Barney Frank admited that ObamaCare does have "death panels." Obamacare must be fully repealed or healthcare will be destroyed.
[22:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:50] <exec> 08└─Video killed the radio star!
[22:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Art Bell Dead: Radio Host Dies, Cause of Death Unclear - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:51] <exec> 08└─you should check out the Paranormies podcast
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[23:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:45] <exec> 08└─At least two? That's it? That's all it takes for a ban to happen, and this is under the Trump administration? I sure am glad that Congress can create government agencies which can themselves unilaterally create new regulations without additional acts of Congress.
[23:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:46] <exec> 08└─Fucking cocksuckers. Now I'll have to buy it from outside the US.
[23:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:49] <exec> 08└─No kidding. I would be totally happy with mandatory labeling on the package about how a small teaspoon of the stuff may kill you.
[23:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:51] <exec> 08└─people can have an irregular or rapid heart rate and seizures after taking just a gram
[23:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─I've heard that one can consume enough water to result in death. Gasoline tastes terrible and is apparently lethal, too. And too much whisky can end in either a good time, or death, depending. So let's get on it FDA; water, gas, and whiskey. Ban 'em! Oh yeah, I've heard a very small dose of lead fro...
[23:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─but without my caffeine pills my usual toilet -> water -> laptop> went to toilet -> water -> bed>.
[23:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:06] <exec> 08└─"Carrying light loads around the house linked to swelling of the brain"
[23:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:09] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of this: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans of a 44-year-old man's brain show a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle taking up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue, in this handout image released by French researchers July...
[23:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:11] <exec> 08└─His I.Q. isn't great. But I would love to hire that man. Because so many servants are AMAZINGLY RUDE!
[23:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inactivity Linked to Atrophy of the Brain - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.livestrong.com/article/183732-abnormalities-in-the-temporal-lobe/ [livestrong.com]
[23:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:45] <exec> 08└─Yet another law isn't going to deter either type of criminal.
[23:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─> When has a monopoly ever provided a good service? Hate to feed the troll, but there are plenty of examples. Well before they were broken up, Ma Bell (the former USA phone monopoly) gave excellent telephone service. The company also funded Bell Labs which invented major chunks of modern technology...
[23:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:51] <exec> 08└─Ah, well like I said comparing science/math classes to liberal arts is apples to oranges and doesn't really add much here. Most teachers get their bachelor's in something other than education though, an education major is probably going to end up in administrative / academic roles and not actually t...
[23:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Colorado Teachers Plan Walkout for Monday April 16 - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:53] <exec> 08└─I've noticed a trend for quite some time now: There seems to be an active attack on most professions that pay more than minimum wage and can't be outsourced to other countries. Two big examples are teaching and essentially all public sector jobs. It's as if there's an actual disdain for any line of...
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