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[00:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:42] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be easier to just do an MRI, then give the current set of markers and re-MRI, and compare the two recordings? Seems like that would have the same effect. Unless this erasable stuff is intended to be a realtime change, being turned off while in the MRI machine.
[00:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:43] <exec> 08└─I agree and was just going to write the same thing. The problem is cost- they'll want to bill for running the machine twice. You do understand that money is more important than health? The same goes for CT scans- with and without contrast. Sometimes they give oral contrast stuff which makes the enti...
[00:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:46] <exec> 08└─Human lives cost money, and that would double (or even triple) the cost of just one MRI. Plus people freak the fuck out in MRIs because of the extreme scary noises they make.
[00:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:48] <exec> 08└─Just a half assed guess, but I am betting getting them into a position that exactly overlaps after contrast is likely impossible. Taking the exact same picture twice is difficult, I can't imagine it is any easier in 3 dimensions.
[00:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FARC Peace Treaty Allows Scientists to Study Pristine Ecosystems - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:58] <exec> 08└─Well, here's some inspiration [google.com]. Most of them are jokes about Fark.com == FARC.
[00:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:58] <exec> 08└─The pistol (🔫 U+1F52B) and rifle (🥆 U+1F946) glyphs also provide a nice way to tell operating systems meant for children vs those for grown-ups. I just searched fonts shipped in Debian, and didn't find one that displays a toy for either of these codepoints.
[00:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:00] <exec> 08└─The GP may want to take a glance over this page [www.gov.uk] before trying to back up their claims.
[00:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:02] <exec> 08└─How would they know that the liquid in your water gun is water, and not acid or poison or flammable? An adult does not carry a water gun without a reason. The police will shout at you to drop the gun, and even give you generous 500 ms before they take matter in their own hands.
[00:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:04] <exec> 08└─We are in the process of evolving our emojis to reflect our values and the feedback we've received.
[00:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:06] <exec> 08└─Emojis are stupid, a waste and a regression toward the hieroglyphics that failed;
[00:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:08] <exec> 08└─This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for fighting, this one's for fun.
[00:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:11] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1990's I used to carry a ridiculously large super soaker (this one [isoaker.com]) in a specially crafted gun rack in the back window of my pickup as humorous visual commentary on the gun-toting culture where I live (Montana.) I got stopped by a state trooper (not a Montana state trooper,...
[00:05:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:47] <exec> 08└─Immortality, real immortality, *is* a horror, and this is something no Christian or Muslim ever seems to understand. They think "eternity" is just "a really, really long time." They don't understand the difference between infinity and a really fucking big number.
[00:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, remember my teachings [soylentnews.org] well ;-)
[00:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 1873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:56] <exec> 08└─Azuma is peddling a deathist cliché that will be smashed apart by life extension once the technology arrives. Ask some supercentenarians if they feel like offing themselves just because they have "seen it all". Some of them may be depressed, but others are clearly happy, even at that advanced age w...
[00:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Returns to the Datacenter, Set to Launch "7nm" Radeon Instinct GPUs for Machine Learning in 2018 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:08] <exec> 08└─You mean like this: 𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔 𝖂𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 ? Or more like: 🐣😲 н乇𝕝𝓛𝓞 Ŵᵒ𝐑Ļ∂ 👍🐟 ? Or ΉΣᄂᄂӨ ЩӨЯᄂD ? I'm struggling, help me out here.
[00:06:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Possible End in Sight Seen for Cryptocurrency-Driven GPU Demand - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are a number of high tech industries that are developing further because of this activity.
[00:08:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06AT&T’s Least Favorite Net Neutrality Bill Takes Another Step Forward - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:09] <exec> 08└─There's an anti-net-neutrality bill working its way through the US Congress that would not only end any kind of net neutrality rules at the federal level, but would also prevent states from making any net neutrality laws of their own. And given that AT&T and Comcast are 2 of the most "generous" orga...
[00:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T’s Least Favorite Net Neutrality Bill Takes Another Step Forward - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:14] <exec> 08└─The federal government doesn't have the constitutional authority to stop states from implementing net neutrality rules. Unless, of course, you use an insane interpretation of the commerce clause, which our courts do.
[00:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pennsylvania State University Disbands "Outing Club" Due to Safety Concerns - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:19] <exec> 08└─It's ridiculous that you have to go through all that paperwork. We are creating a bureaucrat's paradise. Funny how personal the reasons are for doing this, but the old lady won't give it up until you give her brother a cushy tenured position.
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[01:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:41] <exec> 08└─MUH GOYIM.
[01:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:43] <exec> 08└─This story is also discussed over at PornHub under cumonmyglasses, featuring suspiciously jewish-looking porn stars.
[01:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:45] <exec> 08└─Kidding aside, the first person who looks at me while wearing these glasses is going to get one chance to remove them and put them in a place where they cannot be seen. That chance will expire quickly and be followed by the glasses being removed and stomped into bits on the floor. An optional stompi...
[01:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:55] <exec> 08└─Exact position is not necessary. Image analysis software can correlate and differentiate the images, but mostly just extremely intelligent doctors can see everything, compare scans and things, etc. A few months ago a Dr. was reviewing CTs of a relative (of mine) with me and he just whisked through e...
[01:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:18] <exec> 08└─Nah, safe to say that ET is innocent (for once) - this software was named after your dad!
[01:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:20] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they have discovered an even more annoying way to handle files than their previous 'You MUST save in our own format, because we, not the user base, know best, but we will let you export in any format, however we wont let you have a hotkey for that, and we will complain about changes not...
[01:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:22] <exec> 08└─This LAME complaint belongs in the previous century.
[01:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they have discovered an even more annoying way to handle files than their previous 'You MUST save in our own format, because we, not the user base, know best, but we will let you export in any format, however we wont let you have a hotkey for that, and we will complain about changes not...
[01:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:26] <exec> 08└─Still not arrived in arch. The previous UI updates where they tried to make GIMP function within the Windows MDI paradigm just made things confusing if not retarded. Sane window managers already let you manage windows, the only one that didn't is the explorer shell native to an OS called "Windows"....
[01:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:28] <exec> 08└─Also to consider is what will happen to G'MIC
[01:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:31] <exec> 08└─No OS X version yet. Hopefully one will come along. Always fun to noodle through yet another image manipulation system, see what they're up to. My company used to sell WinImages [ourtimelines.com] for Windows which I now make freely available, and I'm also working on this [ourtimelines.com] for OS X...
[01:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:26] <exec> 08└─Why the hate on locking blades? They're safer to use than non-locking and no more dangerous as a weapon than any other knife.
[01:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:28] <exec> 08└─'kusari (or ‘manrikigusari’) - a weight attached to a rope, cord, wire' Which I can only assume could be read as including fishing lines with a sinker on the end attached to a trace wire.. that sucks. Then again, you are ok if you are carrying 'if it’ll be used in a demonstration or to teach s...
[01:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible End in Sight Seen for Cryptocurrency-Driven GPU Demand - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:56] <exec> 08└─Broken Window Fallacy: If you're putting all this R&D into a fundamentally useless activity, that's not helping anyone else.
[01:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible End in Sight Seen for Cryptocurrency-Driven GPU Demand - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:58] <exec> 08└─Is it be a mine, or a farm?
[01:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA From Genealogy Site Led to Capture of Golden State Killer Suspect - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:44] <exec> 08└─snowball. Think about how long it took Germany to round up the Jews, the Romas, the Gays, the Socialists, and any other group that they considered societal undesireables. Now thing how long it would have taken them if they had a nice convenient database of social media posts, combined with DNA, so y...
[01:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pennsylvania State University Disbands "Outing Club" Due to Safety Concerns - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:37] <exec> 08└─We even made one president! So, who's the moron?
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[02:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:43] <exec> 08└─I am not privy to the working lives of people here or elsewhere (with rare exceptions), but at least one on Slashdot and probably many silent others "do adult." They tend to have libertarian principles. You can see common themes and threads from the minorities working at Google, down into the depths...
[02:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:20] <exec> 08└─for fear of offending somebody
[02:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:22] <exec> 08└─I were sleeping, but I are here now! http://dongerlist.com [dongerlist.com] There are several more politically incorrect "guns" on that page!
[02:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:24] <exec> 08└─You, Sir, have an attitude problem*. Join the millions of the rest of us who have attitude problems. *As measured by our new, state of the art Attitude Measuring Meter, regularly recalibrated, reliable, sophisticated, and full of pseudo-scientific hype.
[02:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA From Genealogy Site Led to Capture of Golden State Killer Suspect - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:41] <exec> 08└─My mom did a dissertation on him for a Master's, along with a rape victim, who knew all his rape victims through support groups. Given that DNA evidence didn't become a major forensics factor until later, I am not surprised his DNA was not on file, since they didn't really know what to do with it ye...
[02:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA From Genealogy Site Led to Capture of Golden State Killer Suspect - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:42] <exec> 08└─Allegedly.
[02:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA From Genealogy Site Led to Capture of Golden State Killer Suspect - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:45] <exec> 08└─Adolf Hitler may have had Jewish and African roots, DNA tests have shown Saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the Nazi leader show he may have had biological links to the “subhuman” races that he tried to exterminate during the Holocaust.
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[03:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:40] <exec> 08└─Do you know...what stimulates the primitive brain of ...people? Smoking cigarettes. Listening to Megadeth. It excites the cerebellum, and by extension the Medulla Oblongata. By harnessing the power you have over the Medulla Oblangata you can CONTROL a person. CONTROL them to give the middle-finger...
[03:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:41] <exec> 08└─Why did the man grin at the little boy? To know the answer to that question, you must first know the answer to the following question: Why was the little boy's naked, brutalized corpse found in a dumpster?
[03:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:44] <exec> 08└─Niven covered this in one of the ringworld books. Junkies plugging themselves onto A/C current and stimulating the pleasure center of their brains until they either became vegetables, or simply could no longer feel pleasure anymore, as in Louie's case.
[03:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:46] <exec> 08└─https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Wireheading [lesswrong.com] Wireheads
[03:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:48] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't the question be, if you can control it, who would want to be sad? Is there some benefit to being sad? That said it might be really creepy if everyone walked around with some Joker-type face expression all the time cause they are just so (chemically) happy. But then you would probably be ha...
[03:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:37] <exec> 08└─FFS, yes, adjustment layers and nondestructive editing! I switched to Linux on my home desktop over a decade ago and swear adjustment layers were "just around the corner" even then. From the snail's pace development and from commentary I've read, including qzm's comment below, there must be somethin...
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[03:04:39] <exec> 08└─Before, the system had "save a copy" and you could save XCF and save copies in WUTEVR. Or save WUTEVR and not care about XCFs for that file. But they had to force everyone with their "We Know Better" SuperPower... and including conditions (was it exported already?), so we got Overwrite (yay, yet ano...
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[03:04:41] <exec> 08└─Adjustment layers was doable in old code bases: as special blend modes that ignore layer pixels, and process the stack below with Levels, Curves, etc code. That is probably what PS did (and maybe does), or it looked a lot like how it worked. https://bugzilla.gnome.org [gnome.or...
[03:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:43] <exec> 08└─Are they talking about Single Window? The monochrome themes? Probably you can still use the multi window mode as PS did in Mac, or GIMP did for ages. It's a crutch for people with window managers that suck, or those that don't care about multiple app workflows, just one app & full screen. Themes sho...
[03:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:43] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, there wasn't much reason to add emojis to Unicode other than "Why not?! We've got the space!" All standards go from identifying subsets of existing systems (e.g., What symbols are in actual widespread use by humans?) to becoming the stupidly committee-piloted driving force behi...
[03:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:45] <exec> 08└─That's your real problem.
[03:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:47] <exec> 08└─Right here [christianpodcastcentral.com]
[03:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:32] <exec> 08└─Disembodied heads kept alive ... I guess we know where this is going. All hail Tricky Dick! http://futurama.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[03:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible End in Sight Seen for Cryptocurrency-Driven GPU Demand - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:19] <exec> 08└─They're doing it by choice. So I'm willing to take their opinion on the value of mining at face value.
[03:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible End in Sight Seen for Cryptocurrency-Driven GPU Demand - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:21] <exec> 08└─"Doing it by choice" doesn't automatically mean is good for society as a whole.
[03:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible End in Sight Seen for Cryptocurrency-Driven GPU Demand - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:23] <exec> 08└─Methinks the burden of proof for your position of "doing by choice is always good" is on you. Without that proof, your choice to take it "at the face value" is just your personal choice and I can't deny you that. Don't expect me to accept it, though.
[03:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA From Genealogy Site Led to Capture of Golden State Killer Suspect - 3025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:13] <exec> 08└─Supporting your point on contamination from DNA "transfer": https://www.wired.com [wired.com] "... In a sense, this isn't surprising: We leave a trail of ourselves everywhere we go. An average person may shed upward of 50 million skin cells a day. Attorney Erin Murp...
[03:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Horses Remember Human Facial Expressions - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:14] <exec> 08└─That is what a waterbed is for :)
[03:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Horses Remember Human Facial Expressions - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:15] <exec> 08└─Define what is pornographic or obscene, and what is just in bad taste ? What to some is a racist term is just common language to others, it is all in the intent and the interpretation. https://www.merriam-webster.com [merriam-webster.com] or https://www.colorpsychology.org
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[04:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:44] <exec> 08└─Would "hookers and coke" make you happy if you had them all the time?
[04:03:45] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure, but I am willing to make the sacrifice to science in order to find out.
[04:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:48] <exec> 08└─In fact, forget the science! Aaahh, screw the whole thing.
[04:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:50] <exec> 08└─Unhappiness can be motivational.
[04:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:00] <exec> 08└─How are you defining "public place"? A public street or something? If you do that and run into the police, or get recorded destroying a livestreaming device, and maybe you'll end up in prison for assault. You'll come out unemployable, and probably get divorced if applicable. If you live in some fave...
[04:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:02] <exec> 08└─Not if he's a cop.
[04:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:49] <exec> 08└─中国人很难读写，他们可能会同意
[04:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:51] <exec> 08└─You fucking rock my anonymous friend:) ☮️✌️❤️❤️ Next up... 🗡️
[04:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:38] <exec> 08└─In a brain bag, no one can hear you oink.
[04:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possible End in Sight Seen for Cryptocurrency-Driven GPU Demand - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:28] <exec> 08└─Methinks the burden of proof for your position of "doing by choice is always good" is on you.
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[05:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:56] <exec> 08└─People can be in this happy state only when safely restrained.
[05:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:58] <exec> 08└─Niggers, Jews, Bad News.
[05:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FARC Peace Treaty Allows Scientists to Study Pristine Ecosystems - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:30] <exec> 08└─I copy-pasted the best ones: Do all Colombian rebels look this good? I would DEFINITELY FARC it! [fark.com]
[05:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:00] <exec> 08└─It gives the Unicode Consortium something to do that more people care about than adding something like the Tangut script [wikipedia.org]. It standardized a set of symbols that were being used by competing mobile providers. 📱📞 It gives you a set of useful symbols that you can add in web applica...
[05:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:01] <exec> 08└─中国人很难读写，他们可能会同意
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[06:03:40] <exec> 08└─Come and Get it, Bastards.
[06:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06After A Volcano Erupts, Bird Colonies Recover - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:41] <exec> 08└─Hillary Told me to do it. She's going full scrorched-Earth on all of us who covered up the DNC nastiness. it was Her Turn! Oh no, stop, Hillary! No! *Blam* Oh, shit, I just died accidentally from two 12-gauge shogun blasts to the head. Hillary's Hit Squad is do adept at killing that they know Shogun...
[06:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06After A Volcano Erupts, Bird Colonies Recover - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:43] <exec> 08└─I just died, permanently, from being executed by Hillary. Ouch!
[06:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06After A Volcano Erupts, Bird Colonies Recover - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:45] <exec> 08└─When you're messing with Hillary and the DNC at large, it's doesn't matter that they know who the old-skool Shoguns are, because to them Shoguns are the same thing as Shotguns. They just blew my brains out! Vince Foster's ghost lives on! Avenge my death, Vince! We're counting on you!
[06:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:03] <exec> 08└─You lost, Obama, We won. Deal with it. You may assassinate me, but my compatriots won. Come and get it, Hillary.
[06:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:05] <exec> 08└─if you can control it, who would want to be sad?
[06:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:07] <exec> 08└─No, but apparently if you have an unlimited supply of Heroin you can be happy for the rest of your life.
[06:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:09] <exec> 08└─This. I'm sure heroin is lovely, but I've never let my brain experience it. Life is full of tradeoffs between ephemeral experiences and longterm goals. I sometimes choose ephemeral experiences, but there is a limit as to what I'm comfortable comforting myself with. I don't want to foist my personal...
[06:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:11] <exec> 08└─I just finished watching Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (it's on Netflix streaming), epic stuff - better than O.J. Simpson.
[06:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:13] <exec> 08└─Just make sure the hookers let someone know where to find your body (*you* won't care, but your family might)
[06:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:10] <exec> 08└─I just checked 2.10 out and there's still no way to hide the tabs bar when working with a single image. Good job guys.
[06:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes indeed, it's shocking how many people have either given up control or don't even know they have the control. If thy font offend thee, rm -Rf the sucker!
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[07:05:09] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they have discovered an even more annoying way to handle files than their previous 'You MUST save in our own format, because we, not the user base, know best...
[07:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:10] <exec> 08└─Excellent, so your position is also that it was correct for them to turn their back on a strong majority of their users, and force a 'solution' on people who also used the software in other workflows where such a way of operating was a bit pain in the arse, for reasons that can only be seen as polit...
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[07:05:13] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the 'proper' way. Just install a plugin, which also needs another plugin, which works on some version/OS combinations of gimp and tends to be somewhat touchy (the python stuff.) Then use the rather 'interesting' hotkey remap to get it hooked, along with hacking some xml files to hide the old...
[07:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:08] <exec> 08└─May I recommend the short novel The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect [duckduckgo.com] which deals with these very topics.
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[08:05:12] <exec> 08└─It might work for some people, but for me it's undesirable and unhelpful. My editing needs are usually as simple as: open a PNG/JPEG/TIFF, make some edits, save back in the same format as a new file or the same file. XCF is never, ever, used by me. This might not fit the intended idealised workflow...
[08:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:21] <exec> 08└─At a guess, they're as concealable as other folding blades, but (because they lock) can cause more stabbing damage, because they're rigid.
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[09:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:41] <exec> 08└─If not, no biggie... If so, oh well...
[09:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:48] <exec> 08└─Fingers. Snapped. Toes. Fractured. Arms. Broken. Legs. Destroyed. Face. Brutalized. Woman. Broken. Man. Satisfied.
[09:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:50] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see that you too are privy to what Hillary's Hit Squad did to Vince Foster. You must tell them!
[09:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:24] <exec> 08└─Jews are in charge of everything.
[09:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 1687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:37] <exec> 08└─Well, the way those glasses even look, they kinda make it obvious you are being filmed. Would I be at ease around anyone wearing them? Uhh.. no. I may well commit a social faux-pas in its view. I commit social faux-pas all the time, but most of the time, its a red face and a laugh, not something to...
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[09:05:27] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the 'proper' way. Just install a plugin, which also needs another plugin...
[09:07:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:00] <exec> 08└─Several sci-fi stories have explored virtual immortality. Most seem to view the possibility as a horror. It's something we might want to see, but not experience. If you're very lucky, you just go bat-shit insane, and live in your own imaginary world. Of course, that depends on what kind of crazy you...
[09:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:25] <exec> 08└─I was thinking down the line of very frenzied painful oinking that is fully cognized by an operable brain... but absolutely no way to express that to the outside world.
[09:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:26] <exec> 08└─I think I forgot them. But that gave me the opportunity to enjoy the topic in a fresh way and without the mind-wrenching torment of an immortal who's seen it all countless times. ;-) Hey did you ever watch a movie you'd seen before about ten years later and not remember what's going to happen? Same...
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[10:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah...why is everyone not on heroin? The answer is that human culture is self-regulating to this kind of threat. People are able to see the long-term effect it has on others and make a rational choice not to use it. The same would apply to some kind of "happy button", assuming everyone didn't try i...
[10:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA From Genealogy Site Led to Capture of Golden State Killer Suspect - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:05] <exec> 08└─DNA search for California serial killer led to wrong man [sacbee.com] In March 2017, an Oregon City police officer, working at the request of investigators in California, convinced a judge to order a 73-year-old man in a nursing home to provide a DNA sample.
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[11:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:41] <exec> 08└─Before the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Arizona was required to pre-clear any changes to its voting law with the DOJ.
[11:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 1702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:43] <exec> 08└─Well, there certainly was a large swing towards the Dems (NYT source): """ Debbie Lesko Republican 91,390 52.6% Hiral Tipirneni Democrat 82,318 47.4 173,708 votes, 100% reporting (143 of 143 precincts) The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an energetic Democratic challenge...
[11:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After A Volcano Erupts, Bird Colonies Recover - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:01] <exec> 08└─You are a goofy bastard.
[11:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:28] <exec> 08└─I think the two of you have a drunk some War on (Some) Drugs Kool Aid at some point. I'm assume at some point in your life you have had opioid pain killers? Heroin is like that, just a little more so. Oh, and with a lot more barf.
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[11:06:41] <exec> 08└─> Which I can only assume could be read as including fishing lines with a sinker on the end attached to a trace wire.. that sucks. So what you're saying is, that law has been narrowly crafted to target Buzzard the Mighty.
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[12:03:39] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of hoops to jump through just to pander to less than one percent of the population. And it is pandering. The limitations weren't made to separate people by what they wanted to think of themselves as. They were made to give actual women a chance in hell at winning anything because they w...
[12:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:41] <exec> 08└─Someone said [soylentnews.org] "A person with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome could have XY testicles, [tons] of testosterone and yet be weaker than any woman competing in the Olympics."
[12:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:51] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that the one party affected more than any other is the voters. The votees probably don't care too much.
[12:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:01] <exec> 08└─Distract her attention. Clone her key. Bish-bosh, in-out, all normal-looking logs. Anyone who thinks there's security behind a door that you don't own is living in cloud cuckoo land.
[12:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:39] <exec> 08└─known dose of pure medical grade heroin are , addiction aside , is relatively harmless. what kills most opiate users is dose of variying substances, if your dose is heroin 30mg IV, and you get a dosre fentanyl équivalent to 100mg you will have a visit to the hospital or the morgue. but with an unli...
[12:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:40] <exec> 08└─I dunno about that. I mean, yeah, Gene Simmons is Jewish but he's only really in charge of KISS. The rest of the hard rock/metal scene is mostly generic, mutt white boys.
[12:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:42] <exec> 08└─I think the two of you have a drunk some War on (Some) Drugs Kool Aid
[12:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:44] <exec> 08└─Is there some benefit to being sad?
[12:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:47] <exec> 08└─There's an easy way to find out. Just ask any chronic masturbator how happiness on demand is working out for them.
[12:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:49] <exec> 08└─I am not so sure because Hooker and blows release catecholamine transmitters that eventually gets depleted, that why it get less fun with time. By using electroshock you get to replace chemical conduction (the flow of neurotransmitters between synapse and axons) by a direct current and the metal ion...
[12:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:52] <exec> 08└─The boys in charge of GTK love tinkering with software, but not shipping real software. They suffer of a severe case of CADT [jwz.org]. In a astonishing article, Gtk 4.0 is not Gtk 4. [gnome.org] (the title alone is a good clue of level of their mind confusion) they say: We are going to increase the...
[12:07:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 1873 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:47] <exec> 08└─Azuma is peddling a deathist cliché that will be smashed apart by life extension once the technology arrives. Ask some supercentenarians if they feel like offing themselves just because they have "seen it all". Some of them may be depressed, but others are clearly happy, even at that advanced age w...
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA From Genealogy Site Led to Capture of Golden State Killer Suspect - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─Do you really think hypocrisy matters to people who think like that? Black and white thinking is a sign of delusion unless you're talking about math. Pointing out the logical errors only makes them double down on dumbass.
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[13:03:43] <exec> 08└─You're against having "a lot of hoops to jump through," so it sounds like you don't want blood tests. However, you're also against "letting anyone compete as whatever they like." You didn't propose a solution. How would you feel if they were to stop the testing and just check the birth certificates?...
[13:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:45] <exec> 08└─It's time to end sexism in sports. Don't have separate events for men and women, just have events.
[13:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:47] <exec> 08└─Then you can forget about women participating in the vast majority of disciplines, and about men participating in gymnastics.
[13:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:49] <exec> 08└─I can already see the next issue arising. Some athlete is going to claim to be transgender (male to female), take drugs to (temporarily) suppress their testosterone, and compete in women's competitions. Because of the male bodily development, which includes greater lung capacity, they will have an u...
[13:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:51] <exec> 08└─You didn't propose a solution.
[13:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:53] <exec> 08└─Yup. Be careful of what you ask for when using the words "fair" or "equal".
[13:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:55] <exec> 08└─... and yet be weaker than any woman competing in the Olympics.
[13:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:58] <exec> 08└─take drugs to (temporarily) suppress their testosterone
[13:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:08] <exec> 08└─The 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed to stop Jim Crow, as well as many other ways of rigging elections, and it helped immensely for decades. Recently, there was this argument that the nation wasn't racist any more and so the Voting Rights Act was no longer needed. So the act was gutted. Since then...
[13:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:10] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. The prior restraint by the DOJ was not the appropriate solution.
[13:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:12] <exec> 08└─Do you really think states should be allowed to get away with rigging elections?
[13:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:23] <exec> 08└─The purpose of a lock is security. Twenty years passed, during which the manufacturer didn't identify this vulnerability. I assume that the source code for the software wasn't available to F-Secure. It was available to the manufacturer, who would therefore be able to audit it more easily. If, as sta...
[13:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:07] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I don't think masturbation is a source of the happiness we're discussing, but I have to admit that even when done wrong, it is not so bad. As for me, I prefer for others to properly stimulate my pleasure centers, which would seem to affect the same sensory zones, yet somehow feels more satisfyi...
[13:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:08] <exec> 08└─As for me, I prefer for others to properly stimulate my pleasure centers, which would seem to affect the same sensory zones, yet somehow feels more satisfying. Wouldn't you agree that is better, yet the result is the same?
[13:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:10] <exec> 08└─But without heroin, how can you /have a good time, all of the time/? Obligatory: https://youtube.com
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[14:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:41] <exec> 08└─The profession now requires less mathematics and algorithms and instead emphasizes more skills under the umbrella term "sociotech."
[14:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:42] <exec> 08└─Yup..
[14:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:44] <exec> 08└─I read this as a kind of "get off the grass" thing. To paraphrase TFS, "Us old hackers are special, you young hackers don't know shit, and you won't know shit because you're not smart enough to learn programming." The term "hacker" has been so badly abused, it isn't funny. Fekkin' Hollyweird was res...
[14:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:01] <exec> 08└─https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/273153-overview [medscape.com]
[14:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:02] <exec> 08└─Drug testing doesn't help. Consider: a male grows up, his body develops as a male, he trains to be (say) a runner. Then, at the age of 18 or 20, he claims to be transgender, starts taking drugs to suppress his testosterone, and for the next 3, 4, 5 years competes in women's events. How does drug tes...
[14:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:04] <exec> 08└─Allow me to propose a possible solution. Let's look at boxing. There are all kinds of weight classes. My stepdad was welter weight champion of the Pacific fleet when he was in the Navy. I couldn't imagine him as a welterweight, but he had the certificate to show for it. Weight separates the classes...
[14:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:06] <exec> 08└─That might work. Alternatively, we could have gladiatorial blood sports where skilled women could possibly use speed and weapons to their advantage, and overcome bulkier opponents. And if they don't measure up, that will be reflected in the betting odds (usually bigger payout when a woman wins). Add...
[14:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:09] <exec> 08└─I can already see the next issue arising. Some athlete is going to claim to be transgender (male to female), take drugs to (temporarily) suppress their testosterone, and compete in women's competitions. Because of the male bodily development, which includes greater lung capacity, they will have an u...
[14:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:32] <exec> 08└─Most doors and locks are there to keep honest people honest. Very few locks and doors will keep a determined intruder out. What is at issue here is that it appears access could be gained without leaving any evidence of access. A broken window or a forced door give you a reason to involve the police...
[14:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:33] <exec> 08└─F-Secure says they started looking into this after someone got their stuff stolen without it being reflected in the system's logs... a decade ago: The researchers’ interest in hacking hotel locks was sparked a decade ago when a colleague’s laptop was stolen from a hotel room during a security co...
[14:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:33] <exec> 08└─Facial recognition is already here in a major way. Better believe every major department store is connected to a nationwide database with customer facial imagery, and automatic alerts for serial shoplifters. If my cellmates from the last stint in the county were telling the truth, it's quite accurat...
[14:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:34] <exec> 08└─So, if I read this right 1. These glasses stream whatever they see to the Snapchat account of the idiot wearing them. 2. Snapchat makes money out of adslinging to the people who subsequently view this footage (genuinely don't know what their business model is, have never seen/used Snapchat). If poin...
[14:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:47] <exec> 08└─This is my wife. She drives me nuts. "Can't you see it?" No, I see a low resolution of the lunar surface in this one and a xenomorph in this one. These organs and tissues you're talking about, you're just making them up.
[14:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:48] <exec> 08└─Sou ded like bs to me too: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com]
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[15:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:41] <exec> 08└─it would appear that the skills required of professional and successful programmers are drastically different from the ones needed back in the 1990s.
[15:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:43] <exec> 08└─You're missing the hack. From "War Propaganda Bureau" to "Tavistock Clinic" to "Tavistock Institute of Human Relations" - blatant social engineering. [goodreads.com]
[15:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:05] <exec> 08└─There wouldn't be much of a competition then. Most of "the best" women would be put down by more or less random teenage males, I don't have any links to provide in English but the female national soccer team has been beaten by fairly mediocre teenage male teams on so many occasions that they stopped...
[15:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:06] <exec> 08└─Low T test was positive. Am I at risk of being female? Which bathroom do I use?
[15:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:08] <exec> 08└─Which bathroom do I use?
[15:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:22] <exec> 08└─Imagine this scenario, if you will: 1. State government passes a law that's blatantly illegal under the Voting Rights Act and/or US Constitution (e.g. 15th Amendment) in both its intent and application. 2. Various civil rights and voting rights organizations sue to challenge the law on that basis. 3...
[15:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:24] <exec> 08└─Those states were already found guilty in court of infringing constitutional rights and as part of the punishment for those lost court cases, they were required to pre-screen with the branch of government tasked with enforcing laws and court decisions any future changes.
[15:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:26] <exec> 08└─WOW. It's like the whole "this won't work" narrative that sane people have been screaming for years WAS ACTUALLY TRUE. Ugh. This makes me sick.
[15:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:39] <exec> 08└─So the barber with hair “samples” has his hacker friend show him how to unlock doors. Next up: Barber calls anonymous tip line.
[15:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:26] <exec> 08└─Greg Egan also covered a similar issue in one of his short stories (unfortunately I cannot remember the title): A man gets a severe brain injury, the doctors repair most of it and install electronics for the rest. The plan is that after a while the electronics can be adjusted so the properly mimic t...
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[16:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:40] <exec> 08└─So we sailed on to the Sun Till we found the Sea of Green And we lived beneath the waves In our Nazi submarine
[16:03:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:47] <exec> 08└─The profession now requires less mathematics and algorithms and instead emphasizes more skills under the umbrella term "sociotech."
[16:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:54] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely right - but you also miss part of what being a 'hacker' means, at least to me. The MIT hackers were also the people who computerised a model train track, making (or 'acquiring') all the necessary mechanical parts as well as writing the programs that controlled them. They would fin...
[16:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:56] <exec> 08└─IIRC it was in the late 90s that I noticed that the word 'programming' had taken on an entirely different meaning, it seems to be commonly used these days in the sense of simply 'using a PC.'
[16:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:58] <exec> 08└─John McAffee is still hacking the media to this day. Watched this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] last night, 'twas entertaining.
[16:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:00] <exec> 08└─No. The field of "programming" has greatly expanded since the 90s such that people who have both good critical reasoning and system integration skills are also now in demand. Using a much more abstracted programming language or set of languages and writing software for integrated systems with a vari...
[16:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:25] <exec> 08└─We would also need sub categories for length of legs, since it would be unfair for a short person to compete against a tall one in a sprint... etc. Agree with the intent (esp. using hormone levels instead of genitalia to classify competitors), but, if the goal is to level the playing field between g...
[16:04:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 1512 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:36] <exec> 08└─The 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed to stop Jim Crow, as well as many other ways of rigging elections, and it helped immensely for decades. Recently, there was this argument that the nation wasn't racist any more and so the Voting Rights Act was no longer needed. So the act was gutted. Since then...
[16:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:42] <exec> 08└─What do you suggest for an appropriate solution?
[16:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:44] <exec> 08└─Apparently, even people who can afford to pay medical professionals to look out for them (Michael Jackson, Prince, many others I'm sure), still manage to get their dosages of their drugs of choice screwed up.
[16:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:45] <exec> 08└─Reasons to be cheerful.
[16:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:15] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting, but somewhat flawed study IMHO. The human brain, at its most fundamental, is a pattern-matching machine. The radiologists are looking for the shapes and densities of cancer, cysts, nodules, etc. They're not looking for gorilla outlines. A proper test would be CTs of known canc...
[16:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:16] <exec> 08└─Is she a radiologist? If not, maybe should be? The various radiology (X-ray, MRI, CT, PET, ultrasound, etc.) techs do a detailed initial analysis, mark and annotate images, etc., then the radiologist (MD / DO) gets it. I think ultrasound would be a great field for anyone wanting to get into medicine...
[16:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:08] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, I can be quite assertive if needed. Aggressive if warranted but that is rare. Most people stay the hell out of my way. I attribute that to the feeling of confidence I developed in the dojo. It's more that I don't understand people's reactions to certain things these days. The wo...
[16:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:09] <exec> 08└─a weight attached to a rope, cord, wire
[16:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:12] <exec> 08└─If you can't get nekkid with your weapons, you probably can't get nekkid with anyone.
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[17:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:42] <exec> 08└─So you took cock up your ass and you died of AIDS. Sounds good to me.
[17:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:44] <exec> 08└─Which of the Beatles died of AIDS?
[17:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:46] <exec> 08└─So any sign of the body of Hitler? Massive amounts of gold and Art? The Amber Room?
[17:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 1726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:48] <exec> 08└─Skagerrak is the watery region where it was found, between Norway, Sweden, and Denmark [wikipedia.org]. From another source, Skagen is the correct reference [cphpost.dk]. Also it's a little loose to say northernmost town, for those who are aware of the Faroe Island's relationship to Denmark (and e...
[17:04:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 891 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:03] <exec> 08└─No. The field of "programming" has greatly expanded since the 90s such that people who have both good critical reasoning and system integration skills are also now in demand. Using a much more abstracted programming language or set of languages and writing software for integrated systems with a vari...
[17:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:05] <exec> 08└─You can take the computers out of the gate, but you can't take the gates out of the computer.
[17:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:07] <exec> 08└─rainbow-haired freaks who moo in unison In the 60's. all programmers were rainbow-haired freaks, generally wearing sandals, and we often mooed in unison - synchronised by an old bearded guy with a Captain Crunch whistle. We also wrote code for 4-bit micros in assembler in the middle of the night, wh...
[17:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:09] <exec> 08└─The freaky hairs, "female game programmers" and social justice warriors are setting themselves up to be the managers of the highly skilled, but socially awkward men, that make up most of the programming profession. And if they can't get to be managers, a slice of the sweet salaries programmers make...
[17:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:35] <exec> 08└─Tennis will never be the same.
[17:04:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 864 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:49] <exec> 08└─Imagine this scenario, if you will: 1. State government passes a law that's blatantly illegal under the Voting Rights Act and/or US Constitution (e.g. 15th Amendment) in both its intent and application. 2. Various civil rights and voting rights organizations sue to challenge the law on that basis. 3...
[17:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:54] <exec> 08└─Signs point to "passing snark." [soylentnews.org]
[17:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:56] <exec> 08└─In many states, with photo ID laws, all you need to bring is a government issued photo ID with signature, usually your drivers license will suffice, or a photographic ID card issued by the DMV. No one has ever asked me for a voter ID card. They have sent me voter ID cards but you don't even need to...
[17:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:58] <exec> 08└─The dmv photo ID cards are free for homeless people and people below the poverty line, $25 otherwise. There is no excuse not to have one.
[17:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:01] <exec> 08└─The reports I've heard sort of disagree. "It's like being dead." This sort of tells you what his life was like the rest of the time. It's an interesting question of why didn't he just kill himself, but perhaps that's a separate instinct. So what it sounds like is that it's really like Novocaine for...
[17:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapchat Takes a Second Shot at Wearable Camera "Spectacles" - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:17] <exec> 08└─It's reasonable for companies to keep working on this line, as at some point someone's going to have a huge success. But I don't like it and I don't want it. It's going to need to be *really* unobtrusive. And at that point it will do interesting things to social rules. (Cell phones already have...bu...
[17:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:33] <exec> 08└─She's a Veterinarian, which is "All of the above" in the medical world. Her sister is a Nurse Practitioner and brother is an MD, Radiation Oncologist. I get it from all sides.
[17:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Need Erasable MRI Scans: New Technology Could Help Doctors Diagnose Disease - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:34] <exec> 08└─I get it from all sides.
[17:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:18] <exec> 08└─Personally I thought a comatose pig brain sounded more like EF, my bet is some mad Frankenstein already perfected this and added a neural keyboard interface.
[17:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:20] <exec> 08└─This is what we call "reincarnation." And yes, even if it's in the same "body," the near-complete wiping of a crucial part of one's personality, I would argue, removes the ability to call it "eternal life." Funny how when you actually follow these religious claims to their logical conclusions, the *...
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[18:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:51] <exec> 08└─All of them. Their music is AIDS too. Let's hope Yoko dies of cancer of the vagina.
[18:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:52] <exec> 08└─> all the more surprising as the wreck was found around nine nautical miles west of the position given by the British bomber. Not at all surprising given WWII navigational methods. Sure, they _could_ get better accuracy when it mattered, but it's not like there's going to be another Allied force in...
[18:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:55] <exec> 08└─This would explain why it did a nosedive into the ocean floor, perhaps. Perhaps the cargo shifted forward. (Those who don't get the reference, ObURL: https://en.wikipedia.org) [wikipedia.org]
[18:04:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 1439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:06] <exec> 08└─I read this as a kind of "get off the grass" thing. To paraphrase TFS, "Us old hackers are special, you young hackers don't know shit, and you won't know shit because you're not smart enough to learn programming." The term "hacker" has been so badly abused, it isn't funny. Fekkin' Hollyweird was res...
[18:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:17] <exec> 08└─There's no real relation to age, I'd say. Back in the days, non-hackers wore business clothing while coding in Cobol. Today, they sip frappucinos while copy-pasting Javascript from StackOverflow. But someone still needs to code an OS to so they can run that node.js monstrosity in, and a container to...
[18:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:19] <exec> 08└─I'd really like those kind of RIDICULOUS stereotypes to disappear. Especially in the mouth of people in the profession! I can count on the fingers of ONE hand the number of programmers I've met (out of hundreds) that fit the stereotypes (4 men, one woman), and these people had some SERIOUS mental is...
[18:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 1579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:21] <exec> 08└─You are wrong on so many levels... Ok, let's summarize the fundamental issue: computers projects -in the broadest sense- have become a LOT more complex than "back in the day". The number of tools, languages, has grown by several orders of magnitude (compare an Atari 2600 to the latest PS4 or Xbox)....
[18:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:23] <exec> 08└─"and even goes so far as to say their skills are not required." It's not that they aren't required, but their skills are in limited demand. The folks who figure out cpu microcode and firmware are outnumbered 1000 to 1 by the folks who create wordpress web sites with online ordering tied into to sale...
[18:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:26] <exec> 08└─In the 60's. all programmers were rainbow-haired freaks, generally wearing sandals
[18:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:28] <exec> 08└─it's a HUGE fight because they change their minds every 5 minutes, I have plenty of horror stories because of that.
[18:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:30] <exec> 08└─And the latter really is a substantially different skill set.
[18:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:17] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Most DMV places near where I live are inaccessible unless you drive in. They're also only by appointment. And it can take months to get an appointment. Also, taxis aren't reliably on time. I don't know what happens if you show up late for the appointment. So you're drastically underratin...
[18:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:18] <exec> 08└─In my state, you can get a free photo ID from the DMV if you are below federal poverty line or you are in a homeless shelter. Otherwise, its $25 for a DMV photo ID, good for 8 years. You also can use a student ID card to vote, as well. If you do not bring an photo ID, you would fill out a provisiona...
[18:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:20] <exec> 08└─But it wasn't prior restraint, it was more like parole or probation since it was in response to previous violations.
[18:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:22] <exec> 08└─Recently, there was this argument that the nation wasn't racist any more and so the Voting Rights Act was no longer needed. So the act was gutted.
[18:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:27] <exec> 08└─I talked about the lethality of medical grade heroin, I said nothing about fentanyl nor the general anastasic that Michael Jackson loved to death.
[18:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─Again...infinite. Not "a long time." Infinite. Besides which, the explicitly Christian idea of eternal life is either you spend it kissing Yahweh's ass, or you spend it on fire (with variations on what "on fire" means for the more squeamish, squishy believers...).
[18:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─"I have no snout, and I must squeal" sort of thing? *shudder*
[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Keep Disembodied Pig Brains Alive for Up to 36 Hours - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:51] <exec> 08└─I'm actually tempted to side with the Buddhist view that eternal reincarnation is undesirable. Actually, very, very scary. If you're reincarnated an infinite number of times, depending on the ground rules, that could certainly leave enough room for you to live out the life of every organism that has...
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[19:04:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:01] <exec> 08└─[...] it would appear that the skills required of professional and successful programmers are drastically different from the ones needed back in the 1990s. The profession now requires less mathematics and algorithms and instead emphasizes more skills under the umbrella term "sociotech."
[19:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:47] <exec> 08└─...to ban anybody with a genetic predisposition for better lung capacity, muscle density, metabolic rate, hand-eye coordination, pain endurance etc. that might give them an unfair advantage in sports? Only people who test as authentically mediocre should be allowed to compete. Then, as for all those...
[19:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:48] <exec> 08└─I don't know about boxing, but you have to consider that the best soccer player in the world, Lionel Messi [wikipedia.org] is slender and not too tall (5'7") and you can watch [youtube.com] him drive a formidable Jerome Boateng into the ground.
[19:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:14] <exec> 08└─> The laws are designed to ensure that people do not vote who are foreign aliens or vote twice You really believe that? That's just a pretext. It's major overkill for an insignificant to nonexistent problem that was deliberately manufactured and blown way out of proportion to provide the excuse. The...
[19:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 1615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:15] <exec> 08└─You have only identified a fundamental flaw with our current "Justice" system. The fact nothing can ever be done through a court in less than a year (other than stopping Trump unmaking DACA or making any other change to immigration law.... those take hours) is the problem you are concerned with. Adm...
[19:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:17] <exec> 08└─And how does one prove one's identity to the DMV? Are birth certificates also free?
[19:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:20] <exec> 08└─Shut. the. fuck. up. with that noise. Requiring a photo ID to vote is not a poll tax. You can't do much of anything without a driver's license (or the ID they issue instead if you can't drive) so asking to see it to vote is not any sort of real burden on a citizen above and beyond the other BS. With...
[19:07:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06GIMP Version 2.10.0 Released With High Bit Depth Processing - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:21] <exec> 08└─This LAME complaint belongs in the previous century.
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[20:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:42] <exec> 08└─Wealthy people buy political influence. This was the Clintons business model and it's wonderful to see that CNN's senior political analyst is no longer involved with Soros funded ProPublica. Things like that are especially important for an organisation where the parent company is still listed on the...
[20:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:28] <exec> 08└─Verilog & VHDL, motor controllers, display controllers, DSP applications, the uncountable microcontrollers in vehicles including aircraft, drones, every appliance and consumer product. All low-level, hardware programming. A significant amount is still assembly language. Quite a lot of it is in C wit...
[20:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, we have to stop calling average programmers "highly skilled". /trollface
[20:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:32] <exec> 08└─If the customer can't provide a final spec then you should refuse to start work. You wouldn't start constructing a house without a final, approved set of plans.
[20:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:01] <exec> 08└─You say "genetic predisposition". Just wait until athletes begin using gene therapy. They might be doing so already since they tend to be bleeding-edge early adopters of new "doping" techniques. Gene therapy might be able to influence things like muscle growth but probably won't result in adult athl...
[20:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 2002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:03] <exec> 08└─There are probably a lot of sports where being big, tall and strong might not matter as much. It might even be hindrance (compare say Soccer players to American Football players, the defensive line would never player pro-Soccer). Soccer might be an example, there are benefits to being tall but they...
[20:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:05] <exec> 08└─It might be a separate event, a competition where such things would be allowed. The Roid-Lympics. Where the one that dares to juice the most wins? Could be interesting in a freakshow kind of way.
[20:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:07] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=20891&page=1&cid=548996#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] It might go that way. Anti-aging could eventually allow people to compete with today's young athletes even at 100+ years old. The problem is that the Roid-Lympics will have to become the ONLY Oly...
[20:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:09] <exec> 08└─Should end the God gave me a gift speeches so many athletes use. Sure will make balancing the special Olympics much harder.
[20:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:38] <exec> 08└─No, it more like a local Democratic Party official deliberately screwed up an unimportant special election so a Democrat Federal Judge could strike a law Democrats didn't like in time for the mid term elections in the fall. This will allow Democrats to commit the usual wide scale election fraud they...
[20:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:10] <exec> 08└─We are in the process of evolving our emojis to reflect our values
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[21:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:40] <exec> 08└─Hmm, suppose there's an orphanage standing on land I want to put my new golf field on. So I ask a friend who happens to be related to something that's currently unpopular to donate to said orphanage. Sounds like a plan!
[21:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if I'm fully understanding your statement. So Torshin is really a deep-state DNC operative trying to destroy the NRA so the government can finally take away everyone's guns? I'm adding some subtext, but I feel like I must be misreading your statement.
[21:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:44] <exec> 08└─it used to be "power corrupts" Now, though, it seems to be "other people's money corrupts"
[21:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:46] <exec> 08└─He's just standing up for the Second Amendment rights of Russian citizens to arm and ride bears, and overthrow the government on any given October. That's all.
[21:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:49] <exec> 08└─I don't need to point out that the NRA can now be considered a terrorist organization, but it's becoming more and more clear that Russia just wants to undermine the US in full. They hate democracy, they hate diversity, and since they're funding the terrorist-enabler org known as the NRA, how can we...
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[21:03:51] <exec> 08└─Russia a hostile state? Ok, I'll buy that. NRA a terrorist organization? Nah, I don't think so. You've had the kool-aid that has completely changed the meaning of "terrorist organization". Hell, I bet some people consider the PTA to be so... But you don't see the NRA promoting violence. Just because...
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[21:04:11] <exec> 08└─I take it you're having a wet dream fantasy mix of Nemo and Nazis? TMI you big freak.
[21:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:13] <exec> 08└─Well, supposedly Hitler killed himself at the end of the war and his body was buried in a prison graveyard with other dead nazis. And filling up a quickly fleeing submarine with gold and crap seems a little nuts. But there very likely could have been some nazi artifacts on board that might today be...
[21:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:15] <exec> 08└─And filling up a quickly fleeing submarine with gold and crap seems a little nuts.
[21:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:45] <exec> 08└─It had to be updated in sync with the electron beam scan. Real work was done during the vertical blanking interval Bob Polaroid is a friend of mine who was one of Atari's first coders http://polaro.com [polaro.com] Look under Articles & Interviews on the left
[21:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:47] <exec> 08└─I think you've been popping a few too many reds bud, best dial it back before you slip over the edge.
[21:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:55] <exec> 08└─So, TMB, How is happiness on demand is working out for you? :D
[21:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─Yea, now look at a Chinese datasheet and realize why it is a failure. They can't add easily new symbols and thus can't add new words, Chinese is therefore as dead as Latin, just for a different reason. Using a sequence of existing glyphs is merely taking the worst of their current system and merging...
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[21:10:21] <exec> 08└─BINGO. It occurred to me a long time ago that annihilation, far from being frightening or scary or bad or evil, is the ONLY true form of mercy, in the final analysis. The Buddhists have a tremendous amount right, and their insight into endless reincarnation being a horror is the same point, really,...
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[22:03:40] <exec> 08└─Popcorn time! [youtube.com]
[22:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:41] <exec> 08└─Complicated mathematics proves grainy film proves man was shot. Exact location of shooter, caliber of weapon, possibility of second shot from front seat body guard, together with issues relating to the autopsy, not proved or disproved by these calculations. Conspiracy theorists happy, nothing has ch...
[22:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:56] <exec> 08└─The media who coincidentally is run by a bunch of people who just happen to be Jewish are angry that Russia is interfering with their Greater Israel plans by supporting the legitimate government of Syria. Seriously I don't care if Israel wants to take over the area, I just wish they'd use their own...
[22:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:57] <exec> 08└─I think Kilobyte means the "Magnitsky act": When the Kremlin Says ‘Adoptions,’ It Means ‘Sanctions’ [nytimes.com]
[22:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:59] <exec> 08└─Seems in keeping with the values of today, terrorist is now the catch all for any undesirable activity that isn't directly supported by a nation state.
[22:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe they want to pretend they are 'smart' and hate on the 'alt-right' organizations. I realized around the year 2000 all of the 'news' is manufactured. All of it. The current 'narrative' is to get rid of guns. A manufactured thing to basically erode public trust in their enemy's. Basically one of...
[22:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:04] <exec> 08└─If that does not work. Imply that they are corrupt by tying them to a 'boogie man'. Then invent terms to label them with to make sure it comes off slick and meme like.
[22:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 1550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:06] <exec> 08└─While the story is credible (holding adoptions hostage to lift economic sanctions is not beneath the current Russian leadership), it's strange how the writer just says shit. For example: Revoking the law became an important foreign policy priority for Mr. Putin’s government. And he identified adop...
[22:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:08] <exec> 08└─trust in their enemy's.
[22:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria Boost Anti-Fungal Drug Resistance in Childhood Tooth Decay - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:16] <exec> 08└─Is with biology [youtube.com], I'd say.
[22:04:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:27] <exec> 08└─So any sign of the body of Hitler? Massive amounts of gold and Art? The Amber Room?
[22:04:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 1726 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:28] <exec> 08└─Skagerrak is the watery region where it was found, between Norway, Sweden, and Denmark [wikipedia.org]. From another source, Skagen is the correct reference [cphpost.dk]. Also it's a little loose to say northernmost town, for those who are aware of the Faroe Island's relationship to Denmark (and e...
[22:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:06] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself. The stereotype is kind of real. Computer people I've worked with are at best somewhat "off", have "interesting" (not so) novel ideas about engineering a new society and marry rather late (if at all). That applied both to males, and the few females in the field. Those blessed with...
[22:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:07] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, but I work in the REAL world,
[22:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:42] <exec> 08└─I don't have any links to provide in English but the female national soccer team has been beaten by fairly mediocre teenage male teams on so many occasions that they stopped playing vs them.
[22:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:13] <exec> 08└─Those countries are way less wealthy. India has was more people, and Mexico isn't small. They require a voter ID. Seriously, we're letting the 3rd world beat us. This is fucked up. It is happening because one political party knows they benefit from fraud. In other news, illegally crossing from the U...
[22:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 1653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:14] <exec> 08└─In my state If your state doesn't require a -specific- type of ID to vote, then they've only gone halfway with the election rigging. a student ID Many (Red) states don't accept those--even if they are issued by state-run schools. Oddly enough (or maybe not), those states accept a gun permit as ID. a...
[22:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:17] <exec> 08└─Clearly, you haven't been to an American university in the last 50 years. We now have international students, both legitimate ones and illegal aliens.
[22:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:30] <exec> 08└─The real answer is that someone paid off the maid or came back to grab the "forgotten" laptop while she was cleaning the room.
[22:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─I must have been stricken with ______ not to think of that.
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[23:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:39] <exec> 08└─Fodder for a new round of JFK assassination conspiracy books.
[23:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:40] <exec> 08└─Being old enough to remember the assassination it's a shame I'll never know the complete truth. Perhaps my son will.
[23:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:42] <exec> 08└─Hasn't "shot from behind" been the official story for decades? Didn't Mythbusters and about a thousand other experimenters replicate the same thing? If computer tech has advanced so much, why is this a one dimensional analysis? Can't we do four (including time) pretty well now? So, what exactly is t...
[23:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt#"Deathbed_confession"_of_involvement_in_Kennedy_assassination [wikipedia.org]
[23:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:47] <exec> 08└─LBJ did it.
[23:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:49] <exec> 08└─There should be some kind of moderation on the submissions after they're posted, just to give easy to read feedback on what kind of stories are interesting.
[23:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:51] <exec> 08└─Everyone has done the "proofs" The news here is that, this time, *mathematicians* got in on it. Or maybe the news is that mathematicians did something with a title that anyone (who isn't a mathematician) can understand.. (Say, as opposed to things like this: https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de
[23:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:54] <exec> 08└─Unlike the green site where stories are voted on in the firehose, this site ignores users.
[23:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John F. Kennedy May Have Been Shot from Behind - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:56] <exec> 08└─Exact location of shooter, caliber of weapon, possibility of second shot from front seat body guard, together with issues relating to the autopsy, not proved or disproved by these calculations.
[23:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:17] <exec> 08└─What a complete dipshit. You have a President who literally and seriously loophole'd his way through strict sanctions in order to be able to send an unmarked plane filled with untraceable foreign cash, payed by taxpayers, to give to Iran, even though his own State Department says they're the #1 worl...
[23:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NRA Gathers Documents Amid Scrutiny Over Ties to Kremlin-Linked Banker - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:19] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. It is worse than even you are assuming. I champion civil liberty as the best of the non-violent means of building the power on which workers’ rule must be based. If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go outside the class struggle to fight against censorship,...
[23:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:44] <exec> 08└─I went looking for an image and wound up at this guy's page. [nationalinterest.org] He mentions how Allied convoy tactics, long-range patrol bombers, and such had made submarines largely ineffective by the time this (only 2 copies, as you note) saw service. The not-all-that-long article is spread ov...
[23:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nazi Submarine U-3523 Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:45] <exec> 08└─forward The example I'm thinking of was terrestrial and the cargo shifted rearward. To all: If you haven't seen "The Italian Job", [google.com] do yourself a big favor and seek it out. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) It has an actual "cliffhanger" ending. There have been many hou...
[23:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:20] <exec> 08└─Communication skills always were always important and their importance didn't change. In my experience people who complain about poor communication skills among hackers are drama queens and concern trolls. This article basically merely implies that those non-contributors should be treated equally to...
[23:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Era of Hackers is Over - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:21] <exec> 08└─And the same code base will be unmaintainable because NOBODY ELSE will know what the "genius" has done.
[23:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IAAF Sets New Limits on Testosterone Levels in Women Athletes - 2970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:57] <exec> 08└─It might have been a bit of an overstatement or hyperbole on my part, I don't really know if they have stopped playing vs them. But there have been no news articles about the attempts that are newer then three years old. Also they are not complete random male muppets but they are boys teams vs the f...
[23:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Screwed-Up Election in Arizona; 140,000 Residents Weren't Sent Voter ID Cards - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:31] <exec> 08└─which they would need for a thousand other things as well anyway
[23:06:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06F-Secure Finds Vulnerabilities in Electronic Door Locks - 945 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:43] <exec> 08└─F-Secure says they started looking into this after someone got their stuff stolen without it being reflected in the system's logs... a decade ago: The researchers’ interest in hacking hotel locks was sparked a decade ago when a colleague’s laptop was stolen from a hotel room during a security co...
[23:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah...why is everyone not on heroin? The answer is that human culture is self-regulating to this kind of threat.
[23:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Electrically Stimulating Your Brain Make You Too Happy? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:41] <exec> 08└─how much sex is too much sex
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