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[00:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:32] <exec> 08└─Select all squares with radical Muslims. If there are none, click skip.
[00:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─Trick question, because all Muslims are radical.
[00:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:36] <exec> 08└─First, a huge amount of credit to these employees who are willing to take a moral stance. It's easy to posture, but it's very hard to choose "no paycheck" over something as abstract as "it's the right thing to do." Second... for a company of so many thousand, the resignation of a dozen employees is...
[00:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:47] <exec> 08└─Every time I try it looks lovely ien a redirect loop
[00:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:49] <exec> 08└─A lot of websites are using redirect loops until javascript is running to keep spiders/crawlers from getting onto their website unless javascript is enabled. Don't much appreciate it, but more and more sites seem to be using it.
[00:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Selects Three Candidates for Next Medium Class Mission: THESEUS, SPICA, and EnVision - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:56] <exec> 08└─I like these. Every time we've increased out ability to see the universe in better detail we've found out massive amounts. Now, if we can just get the US to put back the money for WFIRST.
[00:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Selects Three Candidates for Next Medium Class Mission: THESEUS, SPICA, and EnVision - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:59] <exec> 08└─It was given some money lately: NASA Gets Money it Didn't Ask for to Fund Second SLS Mobile Launcher; WFIRST Mission Receives Funds [soylentnews.org] It just continues to have an uncertain future: House Spending Bill Offers NASA More Money Than the Agency or Administration Wanted [soylentnews.org]
[00:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:28] <exec> 08└─11 years ago, I wrote a game for my kids that played a video in DVR style: question pops up on screen - upon getting a correct answer, a snippet of video plays as reward, then pauses and shows the next question: rinse-lather-repeat, for as long as you like. That was a simple thing to do, 11 years ag...
[00:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:30] <exec> 08└─Buy competition and tank their products so people are left with your products
[00:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:32] <exec> 08└─I wonder, by what mechanism can the people drive a hard, solid wedge between corporations and government?
[00:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Wants to "Virus-Proof" Cells - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:50] <exec> 08└─And even in the best case, Herr Gödel has something to say about it being foolproof. It can never be completely certain, but you can lower risk. Just like using antibiotics, they'll work until they don't work any more. Then you have to find a new solution to the Red Queen.
[00:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genome Project-write Wants to "Virus-Proof" Cells - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:52] <exec> 08└─If you can control matter on that level, you can use nanobots to cure diseases, destroy bacteria and viruses, and treat aging. No need to "encrypt the genome".
[00:19:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:11] <exec> 08└─At the very least I get some Schadenfreude type pleasure watching the US destroy itself.
[00:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:34] <exec> 08└─PEOPLE may be suspicious of the US gov, but businesses by and large are not. Besides, some scientists using data for research is hardly the big scary gov people worry about. With a US gov group the companies can feel pretty safe they won't get in trouble, but handing it over to another country is pr...
[00:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:28] <exec> 08└─You're welcom to present your case, however: Linux wasn't the only openly licensed OS out there, not even the only Unix like one. But it (the one under GPL) is the one that took over the server and a big chunk of the embedded space.
[00:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:29] <exec> 08└─Free association is alive and well with GPL. Nobody forces you to use it as part of your project.
[00:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ZTE Suspends Operations Due to U.S. Ban (UPDATED) - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:16] <exec> 08└─He is smart enough to decide who is effective either outright or through test.
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[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:38] <exec> 08└─This is probably good for Google long term. The article was careful to avoid any details about the disgruntled employees but it is a pretty safe bet they are a freak show. Encouraging these defective people to leave will make Google stronger and weaken the companies they end up at. I can guess they...
[01:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:39] <exec> 08└─Someone said that all twelve of them are the same people who continue to walk into the invisible glass walls. . . . . . . That's sarcasm. I don't know a thing about any of them. I can guess that they are all special snowflakes, but I know nothing more than is in the story.
[01:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure when surfing became so popular with Muslims, but yes they do indeed have some quite radical moves.
[01:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:44] <exec> 08└─And we all assume you're a redneck jackass :)
[01:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:46] <exec> 08└─Good slave.
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─Does your brain hurt when you wake up? I can only assume you're constantly smashed off yer ass and just have a really good spellchecker.
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:51] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to "Don't be evil"? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Seems that Google is moving ever so quietly from being a force for good in the world to something altogether different. Another company that is letting the almighty dollar corrupt it's values.
[01:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:53] <exec> 08└─If you do not want to work for a publicly traded corporation, don't. But if you work for one it is foolish to pretend it is something other than what it is, even more foolish to expect it to change its essential nature because of a few delicate snowflakes' feelz.
[01:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:55] <exec> 08└─I can guess they are the defectives because they totally misunderstand the reality of the workplace. Employees work for management, management works for the shareholders. Employees do not give orders to management unless they somehow represent a lot of voting shares.
[01:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:57] <exec> 08└─Why the right thing to do if computers can better identify targets than people. It could lead to fewer unintended deaths
[01:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:59] <exec> 08└─ASSuming shit just makes an ASS out of you - but not me.
[01:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:02] <exec> 08└─They have been openly Evil pretty much since before they made that their motto. It is a confirmation of Day's three Laws of SJWs. 1. SJWs Always Lie 2. SJWs Always Double Down 3. SJWs Always Project Announcing "Don't Be Evil" was what we call a "tell." A rapacious entity trying to suck in the world'...
[01:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:04] <exec> 08└─You don't have to assume. The facts speak loud and clear.
[01:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:06] <exec> 08└─Quite right. Those people should know their place and never question their betters.
[01:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:08] <exec> 08└─Why are you assuming that they are transsexual or vegan?
[01:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:11] <exec> 08└─There is a reason they are called "employees," and not "slaves."
[01:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:13] <exec> 08└─Are you dumb or what? The employees that quit aren't foolish. They aren't pretending. They aren't snowflakes. They didn't like what the company they worked for was turning into and they quit. What part of that are you ragging on? Awwww, do they have more guts than you? That's okay - we'll let you th...
[01:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:15] <exec> 08└─It's like a horse and a carriage. It's the world we live in. You may argue Google should spin out military tech outfits. That don't work. There is no clear line between civilian tech and military tech.
[01:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:17] <exec> 08└─'Don't be evil' was just 'dont be microsoft' They did that perfectly. However, money corrupts. Even people with 'morals' are always for sale. It is like the old joke. A man walks up to an absolutely stunning looking woman. "Madam would you sleep with me for 1 million dollars" She mulls it over and s...
[01:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:20] <exec> 08└─Apparently turning in Chinese political dissidents to be tortured and executed was perfectly okay for these employees. It was helping out their own country that's the problem.
[01:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:22] <exec> 08└─https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ [wikileaks.org] They are as likely to spin it out as I am to grow another ear on my forehead. The military is so far up them google can feel its hymen on the back of its teeth.
[01:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's Google One [techcrunch.com] deleting all of your files.
[01:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:35] <exec> 08└─Moore's law is driven by the expectation that wafer cost is more or less constant but newer processes allow more transistors to be packed on each wafer for "free". If, instead of waiting for the process to double in density, you stack two wafers, you have doubled your manufacturing costs and that is...
[01:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:37] <exec> 08└─one of the stacked wafers does not pass the QA, the entire stack is discarded,
[01:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:39] <exec> 08└─Sure you have extra heat, so you double the output and decrease the life (I can't say by how much) of the chip. That's worst case scenario. And, to some, it might be worth the trade-off. Find a way to deal with the heat and then you got something cooking! :)
[01:20:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 731 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:14] <exec> 08└─Yup...no "conspiracy" here. They're not even trying to hide their war on science. No reason to be surprised by any of this, from the same administration who's DOE decided that converting unnecessary weapons grade material to safe nuclear fuel creating jobs in the process...pretty much a win win win....
[01:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:23] <exec> 08└─is nonetheless also in the position of a CFO and is making a decision to save some money.
[01:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:25] <exec> 08└─A CFO that favours literally blowing that money... [Expensive rockets... Syria...]
[01:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:27] <exec> 08└─I suspect the science was uncomfortable for Trump's buddies as indicated by the massive campaign to defund and hide all climate science data.
[01:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, "srs", because Fox and CNN are where a lot of people get their news.
[01:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:31] <exec> 08└─You've got to admit, "sound" is a flexible and useful word, only one syllable, doesn't take up too much mental space, only five letters so very twittable.
[01:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:26] <exec> 08└─Yes welcome to why you're ideology is so fundamentally flawed. Amazing that you think it implicates me. If only we were all saints who would never violate the well being of one another! At least we can get some amusement tossing virtual vegetables at you!
[01:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:28] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the sensitive conservative who can't stand someone criticizing their ideas and must roll out the persecution card. #sad
[01:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Regulation Coming to Lab-Grown Meat - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:00] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to bet that this meat is very popular with millennial vegans.
[01:26:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Photos of Strange Winged Creature Prompt ‘Angel’ Sighting Debate Online - 824 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:58] <exec> 08└─From Solving the Software Problem's [warplife.com] intro: In the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, it says that the land of Israel will come under attack by the armies of the ungodly nations, and it says that Libya will be among them. Do you understand the significance of that? Libya has now gone Communist,...
[01:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos of Strange Winged Creature Prompt ‘Angel’ Sighting Debate Online - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:21] <exec> 08└─Well, OK then. There is this quote: According to historian Charles Freeman, early Christians expected Jesus to return within a generation of his death and the non-occurrence of the second coming surprised the early Christian communities.[5] Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that...
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[02:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:34] <exec> 08└─Its just the same old story over and over since humans wiped out all the vertebral mammals at the end of the last ice age...
[02:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:36] <exec> 08└─And that would almost certainly mean a soil pollution problem for the Reef.
[02:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:38] <exec> 08└─The question is 'How long this can continue until the env/Earth gets rid of those reckless monkey species?" Unless a nuke war happens, the life on Earth will continue to go on - with or without humans.
[02:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─So lets see, last time this was up there was as I recall it thousands of Googlers (or whatever we are supposed to call them) that was up in arms and demanded a stop to the military industrial complex (TM) killing babies with drones using Googles patented not evil tech. So a dozen, give or take a few...
[02:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─There are employers with better projects to work on. Raytheon is a great example: Want to work on robots? Raytheon makes a gun that aims and fires without human action. How about a death ray? If you cranked to power a bit, Raytheon's active denial system could probably do the job. More power! Do you...
[02:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:12] <exec> 08└─And you have done exactly *WHAT* to help Chinese rebels? Yup, didn't think so.
[02:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:14] <exec> 08└─TLDR; It had a difficult time getting to the point, but only because it really couldn't find any point to make.
[02:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:17] <exec> 08└─Apparently you don't have to be a SJW to double down on stupidity.
[02:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:19] <exec> 08└─It could lead to fewer unintended deaths
[02:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─Of course. Slaves are expensive. Employees, not so much.
[02:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:23] <exec> 08└─1. SJWs Always Lie 2. SJWs Always Double Down 3. SJWs Always Project
[02:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:26] <exec> 08└─When I was 19 I had great job working on tracking for ICBMs. Whomever is living in my parents old house better hope no one ever pushes that big, red, shiny button.
[02:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:28] <exec> 08└─Pot meet kettle. Amusing that luttle bit went over your ahead, or did you miss your own assumption that they must have been "snowflakes"?
[02:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:30] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/TlO2gcs1YvM [youtu.be]
[02:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpphKzmDiJM [youtube.com] That may be a possible solution if it works as well as they are claiming in that video. QCOM got away with what they did at the time because it was a SoC for a phone that ran for 10+ days on 1 charge. Not exactly high voltage and max heat dis...
[02:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:47] <exec> 08└─My immediate response as well, the title should be: Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Heat Output
[02:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Slartibartfast [5104] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:49] <exec> 08└─It sure is a good thing that *my* startup, producing flip-chipped vertically-stacked VCSEL arrays for a high-speed parallel fiber-optic transceiver didn't have ANY yield issues, because that might have left customers like Tyco and Cisco standing at the door, unable to buy transceivers in larger than...
[02:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:52] <exec> 08└─I doubt they are being deleted, the user is just losing access to them then they are being archived somehow. Do you have reason to think otherwise?
[02:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:54] <exec> 08└─You can't downgrade a chip to a class of chips with fewer pins, or entirely different voltages...
[02:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESA Selects Three Candidates for Next Medium Class Mission: THESEUS, SPICA, and EnVision - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:04] <exec> 08└─Well hopefully they know their meters from their foot-pounds this time.
[02:19:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 1125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:15] <exec> 08└─There was once a time I used Skype. It worked on Linux. I use Linux. My mother in law (at that time) used Ubuntu (now uses Chromebook). It worked on Mac and Windows. Two other people (at that time) used Mac and Windows. (Now one of them has become an adult and after a few more years, moved out.) It...
[02:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:37] <exec> 08└─Microsoft did away with [winaero.com] the peer-to-peer connectivity of Skype which was pretty telling. In other words, they have their little hands on all the traffic now. The the UI is shitty, always hiding things. Over-simplification, maybe, I don't know.
[02:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:38] <exec> 08└─They really actively made the UI worse at every turn
[02:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:48] <exec> 08└─I'll grant you that the current DoE head may be, at least publicly, anti-science. (could be pretending to get votes) His announcement of his presidential run made him sound like he was running for preacher. Still, at that level in our government, what we need most is management skill. He may have th...
[02:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Begins Sea Trials for its First Domestically Developed Aircraft Carrier - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:47] <exec> 08└─And how has that has been in any way different from the way things have always been since... the dawn of human history? Innovations tend to spread around the world no matter what kind of barriers are put in the way. If a nation really wants nuclear weapons, they will find a way: North Korea proved t...
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[03:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:35] <exec> 08└─Somewhat faster than Marco Polo, but (iirc) about the same route and maybe/eventually some of the same trade goods?
[03:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:45] <exec> 08└─Forestry has come a long way in recent years. Forest managers are loath to lose topsoil even more than farmers are. Rivers are not generally full of silt near timber operations as the article suggests. People get fined for that kind of stuff in some parts of the world. Since the land is intended to...
[03:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:47] <exec> 08└─Speaking of context, in this case the context is the Great Barrier Reef, where land run-off [aims.gov.au] and resulting declining water quality [gbrmpa.gov.au] is a well-documented problem [abc.net.au]. And those were only the first few links google spat back at me. Once again, as an Australian I'd...
[03:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:49] <exec> 08└─And that would almost certainly mean a soil pollution problem for the Reef.
[03:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:52] <exec> 08└─Very smart tweet! I never said Mexicans are dumb. I don't know if Mexico has a DEP, a Department of Environmental. But if they do, they should hire you.
[03:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:54] <exec> 08└─Earth is getting old and wrinkly from stuff like smoke. Time for humanity to move on to a new, young planet like Venus. The pre-younger dryas civilization (Atlantis or whatever) trusted earth to provide/protect and got screwed.
[03:18:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Captival [6866] 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:22] <exec> 08└─Apparently turning in Chinese political dissidents to be tortured and executed was perfectly okay for these employees. It was helping out their own country that's the problem.
[03:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:36] <exec> 08└─Do I sense some butthurt? You may want to fill out a form: https://thelibertarianrepublic.com [thelibertarianrepublic.com] Meanwhile, I'll just enjoy some great entertainment: https://thepoliticalinsider.com
[03:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, I was just lumping you in with the other mindless sheep who regurgitate what they are told by their masters.
[03:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:39] <exec> 08└─What is obvious here is, forcing the reader to scroll down just a little bit to see the "punchline" of a joke post is just too complicated for some readers. Over my head? FFS, you have to look up to see my knees! No wonder snowflakes have such a hard life. You're all looking up to see what the rest...
[03:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:42] <exec> 08└─The folks at Facebook are making money hand over fist. Amazing Q1 report, TREMENDOUS growth in revenue & earnings. They were a big help to my campaign. They helped me win big, now they're winning big. Think about it! foxbusiness.com/markets/3-new-must-see-quotes-from-facebook-inc-ceo-mark-zuckerberg...
[03:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nah, I'm going to have to call bull on this one too. Workers and employers have two-way relationships, not one-way. Very few, if any, workers are attracted to their job initially, or motivated to stay with it long-term, *solely* on the basis of pecuniary interests. Employers often understand t...
[03:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:46] <exec> 08└─Who am I kidding, of course you're listening. We (I) thank you for your service to our great Country and to my great military. You're doing a fantastic job! Bringing fire and fury -- and frankly, POWER. And to the Quitters I have this to say. Winners never quit and Quitters never win. (Vince Lombard...
[03:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:49] <exec> 08└─Speaking of the old, whatever happened to SIP phones, such as Linphone? Apparently, they're still around. See https://www.linphone.org [linphone.org]
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[04:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:37] <exec> 08└─There's no actual building here of new infrastructure, there's no tech angle, it's plain old trains. Sure, someone has decided to connect all the little tracks in different countries to make one big journey, but even the source article here has less info than a normal summary on SN. What am I missin...
[04:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:39] <exec> 08└─Here's some spin: Trump is anti-trade and the USA is pro-war and regularly works with other countries (e.g. UK, Saudi Arabia) to destroy countries (e.g. Libya, Syria, Yemen) while China is pro-trade and regularly works with other countries to increase trade and profit. :)
[04:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:41] <exec> 08└─Average speed of 23.2 mph. I imagine there are some new sections of track, otherwise there would be no story at all here. I also suspect nothing of the original train but the rail cars and seeds make the whole journey. Chinese crews wouldn't be familiar with the track and signals in Kazakhstan and T...
[04:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:43] <exec> 08└─It's just a small piece of a much grander tech story: China's Engineering Mega-Projects Dwarf the Great Wall [soylentnews.org] China's Xi Jinping Negotiates $46bn Superhighway to Pakistan [soylentnews.org] China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 [soylentnews.org] About 2 trill...
[04:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:45] <exec> 08└─Off the top of my head, this is part of china's belt and road initiative to link with markets via the Eurasian mainland, opposed to sending shipments by sea. They've sent a few trains to Europe already over plain old rail, but requiring container transfers due to break in track and loading gauge.
[04:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:47] <exec> 08└─The Chinese rail network is typically standard gauge, as is Iran's, while Russia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan use a wider gauge. So yes, if they didn't build some new track they'll have to be breaking gauges at least twice. I didn't notice any details in the (source) but they might be using ( https://e...
[04:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:49] <exec> 08└─What am I missing here?
[04:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:52] <exec> 08└─Do Eurasian countries envy North America's freight rail the way we envy their passenger rail? Probably not; because this actually sounds practical whereas our envious efforts to promote high-speed rail don't seem to be working out so well.
[04:18:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:02] <exec> 08└─Speaking of context, in this case the context is the Great Barrier Reef, where land run-off [aims.gov.au] and resulting declining water quality [gbrmpa.gov.au] is a well-documented problem [abc.net.au]. And those were only the first few links google spat back at me. Once again, as an Australian I'd...
[04:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:06] <exec> 08└─Reefs are the deserts of the oceans, with corals being the cactus. Just as too much water kills cactus sediment kills coral. The reason water clarity is so excellent on reefs is because the water is almost devoid of sediment and plankton... which is why corals, instead of relying solely on filter fe...
[04:18:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:30] <exec> 08└─Quite right. Those people should know their place and never question their betters.
[04:18:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 742 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nah, I'm going to have to call bull on this one too. Workers and employers have two-way relationships, not one-way. Very few, if any, workers are attracted to their job initially, or motivated to stay with it long-term, *solely* on the basis of pecuniary interests. Employers often understand t...
[04:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, all those people legitimately crying over Hillary losing really disturbs me. It's enough people for me to question how valid democracy really is. Hillary is a monster. I don't understand how anyone paying attention could help but notice that fact.
[04:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:57] <exec> 08└─Phew! Zuckerfuck got through hazing. I was a little worried, but he did fine. The CIA is very popular these days, especially with tech companies. Once we have a war going, we're guaranteed to have plenty of pussified little mama's boys looking to join the army (due to chocolate rations being raised...
[04:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:00] <exec> 08└─Right-wing extremist, meet left-wing extremist. You've got so much in common!
[04:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:02] <exec> 08└─That was at Apple, not GOOG: Apple Employees Reportedly Walking Into Glass Walls at New HQ [soylentnews.org]
[04:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:04] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it Apple that had all the employees hitting the glass doors?
[04:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:06] <exec> 08└─No, no, you need to say it with a German accent. "I vas shust followink orders, mein Herr! Befehl ist befehl!"
[04:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:09] <exec> 08└─I haven't directly harmed them, that's for sure.
[04:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:11] <exec> 08└─I can remember when I would have literally killed somebody to get a job that paid a livable wage. I'm not saying they're right or wrong because I don't know the details what they're protesting very well. But what a privilege it must be to leave a job to protest moral failings of one's employer. I'd...
[04:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:31] <exec> 08└─Not discussed is how to deal with the heat generated in such a stack.
[04:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:33] <exec> 08└─Find a way to deal with the heat and then you got something cooking! :)
[04:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:35] <exec> 08└─This is your brain on dual wafer chips...
[04:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:37] <exec> 08└─It's possible that two stacked wafers is somewhat cheaper than two wafers. Like how 64-layer NAND is not 64 times more expensive than 1/64 amount of planar NAND. In that case, there will be eager customers - probably not home users though.
[04:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:39] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the way they bond these together is sensitive to defects. Maybe the defects even need to be mirrored for it to work.
[04:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:42] <exec> 08└─I could swear I saw a picture of someone doing that once (on a Prescott P4, natch).
[04:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:26] <exec> 08└─Before Microsoft bought it Skype was P2P and kinda encrypted and inconvenient for the NSA et all to snoop on. Back then if you tried to send messages while your recipient was offline the message would actually be stuck on your client and only when both of you were next online at the same time would...
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[05:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:39] <exec> 08└─You either know what to do or you refuse to do it
[05:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:56] <exec> 08└─Geopolitics: Learn them, they explain a lot. (ninja'ed at least three times)
[05:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:57] <exec> 08└─The smart way is to use containerized loads, and just lift them from well car to well car at the borders. You need maybe half a mile of parallel track to minimize handling. China knows a thing or three about containers. Why sunflower seeds?
[05:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:09] <exec> 08└─Even the ones using boogie boards?!
[05:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:21] <exec> 08└─Normally yes, but what Microsoft really excels at is buying a competitor for shitloads of money and then tanking them without a working inhouse alternative. I don't really know what the strategy or aim behind this is apart from burning money and pissing off your userbase. Professor Christensen?
[05:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:28] <exec> 08└─Copying is socially shameful? That's the "funny" part of the DMCA. I can't think of any natural person who considers personal copying to be actually shameful.
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[06:17:46] <exec> 08└─It's supposed to be about trade-offs, not a one-sided the ad industry gets all the benefits.
[06:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:48] <exec> 08└─Please, some of you programmer types, a fork of Firefox that indicates who belongs to the evil tracking empire by default, by overlay of this info on ads. Thanks.
[06:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:50] <exec> 08└─Well if that is supposed to impress or frighten me it didnt work. The ads i see are so lame theyd do better with the shotgun approach and seeing what sticks.
[06:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:07] <exec> 08└─It's business news, even if not tech news. Trains to china were an internal headline in last week's company newsletter for one company I'm involved in - and this is very good news as the products are perishable. They may be Victorean tech, but they're still having a significant influence over modern...
[06:18:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:48] <exec> 08└─There is a reason they are called "employees," and not "slaves."
[06:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:20] <exec> 08└─Protests of the Privileged ... But what a privilege it must be to leave a job to protest moral failings of one's employer. I'd love to be in a position to do that.
[06:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, co2 concentrations constantly increasing. we had a story recently...
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[06:27:31] <exec> 08└─Nash proved that optimal game-theorectic strategies have to be probabilistic, and thus unpredictable. Trump's finally put this into practice.
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[07:17:42] <exec> 08└─Studies show that people enjoy jokes less if the punchline is explained to them. I wonder how engagement would change if instead of the big-data explanation they instead included to big data tedious analysis instead "this advert has been served X times, to Y uniquely identifiable users, and has a cl...
[07:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:43] <exec> 08└─With such a low click-through rate it would be prudent to engage a botnet of drones to get value for money. In that context, you might ask some facebook users (both botnet and drones conditions satisfied) to help out a poor advertiser.
[07:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:46] <exec> 08└─When ads appear (rarely), they are often in asian languages (sometimes for things I have looked at on ebay or book sellers' sites, sometimes for.. stuff... Yay for my VPN! My click-through is 0%. Oh, the poor advertisers.
[07:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:48] <exec> 08└─People also enjoy the jokes a lot more if they are not the punchline.
[07:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:50] <exec> 08└─"My click-through is 0%." Underachiever. Get yourself a bot to do the work and get your rate up, man.
[07:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's another possibility. "Why sunflower seeds?" Supply and demand I would expect. China is the worlds #2 exporter, Iran is #7 importer, so there are tons of seeds to be moved in that direction.
[07:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:10] <exec> 08└─why sunflower seeds?
[07:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:26] <exec> 08└─The once-abundant Grand Banks cod-fishing region had so many cod because the ice ages scraped all the topsoil off of Newfoundland. It is said that there were once so many cod that you could walk on top of them without sinking into the ocean. Overfishing led to a cod fishing moratorium in Canada - bu...
[07:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:25] <exec> 08└─And I wrote Every Engineer's Solemn Duty [warplife.com] in 2005.
[07:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:27] <exec> 08└─Somewhere around Caltech.edu I found the statistics. A particularly large portion worked for General Dynamics. That's traditional for Caltech: back in the sixties the students took no particular interest in the antiwar movement.
[07:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:29] <exec> 08└─I, too, look the other way.
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[08:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:34] <exec> 08└─I guess they are referring to the little square button on the lower right? After having an Android for a few days, I know good and well why its there. It is easy as all getout to start processes, however ending them is often not that easy. Its not long before you have run so low on resources the pho...
[08:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:36] <exec> 08└─No kidding. That button opens the context menu in Firefox Android for example. I can't wait to accidentally swipe another screen open instead. Apparently three buttons is too complicated. How dare the device have a 2 minute learning curve.
[08:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:38] <exec> 08└─I've heard the arguments ("can't read English") and I don't give a damn. Google is too lazy to translate and too politically correct to just use the World's most standard language. Those pictograms are a language that nobody is born into. They might as well be Esperanto or ancient Egyptian hieroglyp...
[08:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:46] <exec> 08└─The Supreme Court's new sports betting decision has terrible news for Trump's immigration crackdown [thinkprogress.org] The doctrine [espoused in a 1992 SCOTUS case, [google.com] and used again in Murphy v. NCAA (PDF),] [supremecourt.gov] moreover, has implications well beyond the realm of sports be...
[08:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:48] <exec> 08└─If there is one good thing about it... the gambling will take just that much more money from the average Joe and transfer it back to the super-wealthy. That will help keep prices down as the average Joe will have just that much less money to spend for things like house payments and rent.
[08:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:04] <exec> 08└─I have not seen an ad online in around 2 decades.
[08:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:03] <exec> 08└─I would want to survive it because there are still fun things to do that I haven't done yet. I want to live forever because there will always be fun things to do (there are issues with body decaying because of age, but I figured we could leave that out of this particular conversation).
[08:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:05] <exec> 08└─Internet ate your 1 brain cell?
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[09:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:43] <exec> 08└─a VP has a brainwave, wanting to assert themselves on the design, decides to remove a button. No one in the meeting has enough nous/pull/balls to say "no", or can't put into one slide /few ebough words reasons why the button shouldn't be removed... Button is removed.
[09:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:44] <exec> 08└─"Let's copy Apple's stupid ideas". It's really not hard. Back and Home. The third is entirely optional, really, if you don't tap it you can do everything you would do some other way. But it's really "right-click" / task manager. However, if you didn't just have a circle, square, triangle or other co...
[09:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:46] <exec> 08└─As it happens, this week I've retired my Nokia N9 (vintage 2011) and switched to an Android-based phone (Keyone). The N9's Meego OS was based around swiping gestures, and had no front-facing buttons at all (Three on the side: volume up/down and power). For those of you unfamiliar with it, there were...
[09:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:49] <exec> 08└─However, if you didn't just have a circle, square, triangle or other completely useless symbols on them, and actually REFERED TO THEM BY NAME occasionally, people might know what they do.
[09:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure moving containers is faster than using variable-gauge axles in the bogies. See this Talgo video: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I don't know if that is what is being used, but it certainly shows what could be done, and the video mentions the system being used...
[09:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:02] <exec> 08└─Then your sysadmins are shit. We have rolled it out. SSO works for skype, outlook, o365 etc and custom apps. It never asks for credentials, conversation history is logged and emailed to you. It's fast to respond. Your sysadmin has screwed up the federation service somehow, this is bad implementation...
[09:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:12] <exec> 08└─So in reality it's going to be bought and used as an HDCP-strip device, it just won't be marketed that way.
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[10:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:50] <exec> 08└─As it turns out, *I* have a gesture to share with Dave, but I don't think he'll like it. Much like dogs, managers like to mark their territory. They use a similar method.
[10:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:59] <exec> 08└─If there is one good thing about it... the gambling will take just that much more money from the average Joe and transfer it back to the super-wealthy.
[10:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 3948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:17] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure that kind of stuff is already out there, but most of us are unaware of it because the crap is just fetched, not displayed. To us, it just looks like a sluggish site. Its all I can figure out. Example: I just installed an "IP Tools" app in my Android phone.... Suddenly the FTP serve...
[10:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:18] <exec> 08└─In other words, they'd love to tell the truth but lying is SOOOOOOooo much more profitable.
[10:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:20] <exec> 08└─I don't really try to block the non-intrusive ads... nor will I try to deface ads on bus benches... but I guarantee you if some ad-men start thinking it is a good idea to mount loudspeakers at the bus stop to blare their ad at me, I *will* start carrying around a can of spray-foam sealant to mute th...
[10:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:11] <exec> 08└─"Skype for Business" isn't the same software as regular Skype. It's a reskinned version of Lync, which was a reskinned/rebuilt version of Office Communicator R2.
[10:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:12] <exec> 08└─Not just a tiny chance. Large enough to scare corporate America into making sure that nobody voted for Bernie Sanders, by pushing the only candidate who could lose to Donald Trump.
[10:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:14] <exec> 08└─Isn't this capitalism 101? Buy competition and tank their products so people are left with your products?
[10:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:17] <exec> 08└─Too bad nobody ever made a serious attempt at an XMPP server for Windows. Every single one is some crap that needs a weird runtime installed (e.g. Eiffel), needs to be started manually through a BAT file, and usually configured via some text file. Meanwhile, every third grader with Visual Studio com...
[10:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:19] <exec> 08└─Have they started supporting Linux audio drivers again, or is audio still only for people on Windows and Potterix?
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[11:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:56] <exec> 08└─Just in case anyone is reading this topic for feedback... here I am, old fart, had no idea how to use a smartphone. I found one behind DelTaco one day. A BLU android phone. Took me some time to figure out how to turn it on. I finally discovered if I held the big button on the right down long enough,...
[11:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:57] <exec> 08└─Well, Dave, when you walk into the room, and there's three doors, and one of them is labeled "bedroom", one of them is labeled "kitchen", and one of them is labeled "bathroom";
[11:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:59] <exec> 08└─Remember when the three symbols actually meant something? Once upon a time, for example, the home button looked like a little house. Then some overly clever designer changed it to a circle. Idiocy...
[11:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:02] <exec> 08└─They got the circle from Australian Aborigines.: "campsite" https://image.slidesharecdn.com [slidesharecdn.com] The others: possibly, from too much coke.
[11:18:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:24] <exec> 08└─People also enjoy the jokes a lot more if they are not the punchline.
[11:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:30] <exec> 08└─Change the law and make it well known its perfectly legal to reverse engineer anything
[11:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:53] <exec> 08└─The Washington Post blog [theiranproject.com] has an entry about it: ...travel times will apparently be shortened by at least 20 days in comparison to cargo ship...there seem to be no plans so far to give in to U.S. demands...Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that Iran and China wo...
[11:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03simonInOz [2173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:11] <exec> 08└─I think they have shortened the motto by one word.
[11:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bum Simulator Will Simulate Life as a Homeless Person - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:20] <exec> 08└─Yup, I remember that too. It was a serious statement about how difficult it is to pull yourself out of a rough patch that's not necessarily of your own making. At least there were the shelters where you could have a shower and wash your shirt, otherwise you had no chance at any job interviews.
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[12:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:57] <exec> 08└─So when I slide my phone into my pocket something that happens to have the right capacitance ends up controlling my phone and shutting down my apps? No thanks.
[12:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:59] <exec> 08└─If you walk into a room and see three doors, there intuitively would be four doors in that room. For this discussion it is actually quite relevant because one of the buttons is "Back".
[12:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:28] <exec> 08└─It's already legal to reverse engineer under the fair use exception for interoperability [eff.org]
[12:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:30] <exec> 08└─I probably hit the wrong "reply" button here... I meant to reply to C0lo above: [soylentnews.org]
[12:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:32] <exec> 08└─I wonder what happens if you just lie about the reason. "This ad was determined to be relevant to your interests because of your age group, geographic location, gender, relationship status, and above average intelligence" just stamped onto every ad with that sneaky compliment at the end to give it a...
[12:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:12] <exec> 08└─Google employee morality: Building massive surveillance system and psychological manipulation platform with no oversight? Fine. Building robots that might make the military slightly more efficient? EVIL!
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[12:20:39] <exec> 08└─In the SLI example given if one die dosen't work you just disable the non-working die. Simlar to how graphics cards currently are sold of lesser versions with less computing cores.
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[13:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:33] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants their children named after a dystopian device.
[13:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:34] <exec> 08└─"Alexa" is a stupid name for a person anyway. Seriously, I've never even heard of a real person with that name; it sounds like a really stupid corruption/truncation of Alexandra or a crappy attempt at feminizing "Alex" (Alexander). We're all much better off without kids named "Alexa". Now if we coul...
[13:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:36] <exec> 08└─You are the slave. Sounds like the name of a computer in a sci-fi movie.
[13:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:39] <exec> 08└─It could be that or they just want to avoid future misunderstandings -- are they calling for me (someone named Alexa) or are they just talking to their digital servant (or master depending on perspective).
[13:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:41] <exec> 08└─Are you saying people wouldn't want to name their baby "Cortana" ? Or "Hey Google" ?
[13:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:13] <exec> 08└─Even if true, that's irrelevant. What proportion of Android users are Aborigines? It just another example of designers uninterested in usability.
[13:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:15] <exec> 08└─They aren't going to stop removing features/control and generally dumbing things down until everyone stops using smartphones and the internet in general.
[13:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:17] <exec> 08└─And if you think I am kidding, look at broadcast TV.
[13:18:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 3948 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:43] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure that kind of stuff is already out there, but most of us are unaware of it because the crap is just fetched, not displayed. To us, it just looks like a sluggish site. Its all I can figure out. Example: I just installed an "IP Tools" app in my Android phone.... Suddenly the FTP serve...
[13:18:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:44] <exec> 08└─In other words, they'd love to tell the truth but lying is SOOOOOOooo much more profitable.
[13:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:12] <exec> 08└─Chinese crews wouldn't be familiar with the track and signals in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and those countries' engineers probably wouldn't be familiar with the Chinese engines.
[13:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:58] <exec> 08└─one of the stacked wafers does not pass the QA, the entire stack is discarded, I don't get it. Why wouldn't they do some preliminary testing on the wafers before stacking them? Then they can discard one if it doesn't pass, or isn't good enough to be rated lower. They'll need to do further testing af...
[13:21:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:22] <exec> 08└─Given that you have resigned yourself to being spied on with every call, the wise choice is to go with what works, be nimble and capable of moving. Sometimes old is new again. The XMPP world is slowly adopting the OMEMO standard of end-to-end encryption of text, voice, and video. (OTR works pretty w...
[13:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:52] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's best days are now clearly behind it.
[13:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:54] <exec> 08└─The first thing you do is what is most profitable. Then you work on things which are less profitable.
[13:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:07] <exec> 08└─That was about the CO2 measurements taken on top of the largest active volcano in the world (which somehow doesn't matter since they filter out any sudden CO2 spikes...). If that is being shut down, good because it only makes them look really, really bad. Seriously though, I don't think those measur...
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[14:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:41] <exec> 08└─Much better to name them Silly Siri.
[14:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[14:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, said a dude named Grishnakh (just having some fun)
[14:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:47] <exec> 08└─"Nobody wants to name their baby after their digital slave." Sad thing is there is going to be a portion of those 3,883 who were in fact named after the digital slave. Those parents are assholes, just like those who give other intentionally bad names like "North West"
[14:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:49] <exec> 08└─"Alexa, take out the trash!" "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." "The other Alexa..."
[14:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:24] <exec> 08└─The nice thing about android is it is how much you can customize it. I don't care too much what google does with vanilla android, because I'm still free to do my own thing. My phone doesn't have a navigation bar, so they can do whatever the hell they want to it. The navigation bar uses up over 1/4"...
[14:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:26] <exec> 08└─How exactly does changing your three doors out for two doors and a concealed moving wall panel help you decide which to use?
[14:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 3992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:36] <exec> 08└─Its interesting, but its in the genre of "here's how Sanders still could win" or "Hillary has a 99% chance to win today" big lie propaganda via simplification. The specific problem with Murphy and PASPA and all that, is that in every state except Nevada, the federal law permits, at the federal level...
[14:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:38] <exec> 08└─heralding a new era for the nation's sports leagues
[14:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─And people just hate being spied on but yet they passionately love Facebook.
[14:19:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 11 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:56] <exec> 08└─Good slave.
[14:20:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:00] <exec> 08└─I can guess they are the defectives because they totally misunderstand the reality of the workplace. Employees work for management, management works for the shareholders. Employees do not give orders to management unless they somehow represent a lot of voting shares.
[14:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:46] <exec> 08└─Actually, all those people legitimately crying over Hillary losing really disturbs me.
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[15:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:35] <exec> 08└─So a large deposit of pollution is followed by a war, shouldn't that be more or less the entirety of the Roman empire era then? There was always one more war or another to fight, some new land to conquer, some barbarians to kill or some uprising or revolt to put down. Was the some unknown dips and s...
[15:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:37] <exec> 08└─>Not all the lead came from pollution related to ore smelting; some came from naturally occurring dust and volcanic emissions, which researchers estimated and subtracted from the total lead count. The result: an incredibly detailed 1900-year timeline of Roman lead pollution, Right away this struck m...
[15:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:39] <exec> 08└─The stereotype is the romans were the only civilized people on the planet at the time and everyone else was a barbarian scarcely more civilized than a zombie, but reality is the locals had some significant civilization going on, and the Romans had a rough time in Europe in general while playing fact...
[15:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:41] <exec> 08└─Romans were a bunch of lying lib-tards trying to steal our freedoms via environmental fascism.
[15:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:43] <exec> 08└─Anyone got a PNAS subscription? I don't, so I only got to read the journalist clickbait and the actual paper abstract, and neither mention lead isotope ratios with would have been a pretty conclusive fingerprint. Lead is one of the few ores that varies semi-predictably by specific mine area such tha...
[15:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:00] <exec> 08└─Or stupid "Bixby".
[15:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:01] <exec> 08└─If anyone named their kid Grishnakh, I'd worry about their sanity too. Unless their kid is an actual Orc... However, looking at the way some people's little boys behave, maybe Orc names would make some sense... No, scratch that. Orcs have far, far better discipline.
[15:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:03] <exec> 08└─How quaint that you think "Alexa" is the slave.
[15:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Awards Launch Contracts to Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:11] <exec> 08└─... to create Rocket League IRL! Yay!
[15:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:43] <exec> 08└─but "insightful" is not appropriate.
[15:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:44] <exec> 08└─It's called Recents [android.com]. Internally it was called Activities during development but the calendar app people wanted that name. Then they switched to tasks but the business Notes devs fought and won that one. They couldn't use Apps since people thought that's the list of installed applicatio...
[15:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:46] <exec> 08└─You're lucky the phone was even unlocked. I have had any number of phones handed into my workplace where we have absolutely no idea whose phone it is, can't unlock it, can't even ANSWER it, let alone access the addressbooks etc. All because of things like fingerprint readers and passcodes. One phone...
[15:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate what you can get out of someone by applying a bit of flattery. You were selected to see this important message because Facehook has determined you are a trend setter of the highest caliber. You have tons of followers who love you and you are super smart. Oh and handsome. Please c...
[15:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:02] <exec> 08└─Steering tourists away from dead reefs seems a bad idea for raising environmental awareness. Anyone visiting the Great Barrier Reef has surely heard at least something about it dying back and shrinking. Yet, nothing to drive home the horrors of war like a fresh battlefield full of unburied bodies an...
[15:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 745 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:12] <exec> 08└─First, a huge amount of credit to these employees who are willing to take a moral stance. It's easy to posture, but it's very hard to choose "no paycheck" over something as abstract as "it's the right thing to do." Second... for a company of so many thousand, the resignation of a dozen employees is...
[15:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:07] <exec> 08└─Bluto: What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter: [to Boon] Germans? Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
[15:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:43] <exec> 08└─>Again, there's something to be said for faithfulness of the results as science and not as a political tool. We're talking about $10 million here which can easily be funded by interested private entities or universities. The allocation of taxpayer money for these sorts of things should be outside th...
[15:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:43] <exec> 08└─What about "straw man" don't you get?
[15:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bunnie Huang: Innovation Should Be Legal - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:45] <exec> 08└─Both the GPL and Apache operate under free association. It's just that the GPL's set of free associations is smaller than that of Apache's. Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: The Apache License is permissive in that it does not require a derivative work of the software, or modifications to the original, to...
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[16:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:32] <exec> 08└─Editor's Note: This article also appeared in the July 2018 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─The wind in Canada goes mainly from West to east, so I'm assuming the same for Roman times: would that not put Greenland very far away for lead to travel even as a gas? My 'assumption' is that much of it would have already been grounded by then. I've been wrong before, but it would put another blip...
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─"Alexa, what is cupcake in German?"
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:06] <exec> 08└─I get the fact that to be a cool non-conformist you need to piss on these devices, I really do get that, but I am curious what the bigger picture is supposed to be here. We are now at the point, which 20 years ago seemed immensely challenging, that we've achieved one of the "cool" Star Trek technolo...
[16:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:08] <exec> 08└─Mycroft.ai Help them...Make it better. Working.... affirmative!
[16:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:49] <exec> 08└─I doubt I am alone in finding that Google products in general, and Android in particular, become less user friendly and more irritating with every version. I am completely convinced that Android P will remove some things I need, hide settings that I want, and in general make my life less productive....
[16:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:50] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the only recourse is to remove the SIM and inform the carrier
[16:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:52] <exec> 08└─If you walk into a room and see 17 doors, you are at google's washrooms. One for each gender at google.
[16:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hereweareagain [6590] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:54] <exec> 08└─--How freaking hard is it to LABEL ICONS in apps? We've had this on PCs since time out of mind. Give me a 2-line text under your popup icons (I'M TALKING TO YOU, VLC) so I'm not blindly pressing stuff to FIND OUT what the hell it does!!
[16:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:06] <exec> 08└─Anything that takes money from idiot sports fanatics and gamblers is ok by me.
[16:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:07] <exec> 08└─Wow, you need to really get over those feelings of inadequacy from always getting picked last for kickball. It isn't healthy to carry that around with you all your life.
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:33] <exec> 08└─I wonder what happens if you just lie about the reason.
[16:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:35] <exec> 08└─dude those things exist but you aren't going to find it on an app store. you didnt find those things on an app store before. if you stop demanding convenience, you might get what you really wanted.
[16:20:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 367 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:41] <exec> 08└─Are you dumb or what? The employees that quit aren't foolish. They aren't pretending. They aren't snowflakes. They didn't like what the company they worked for was turning into and they quit. What part of that are you ragging on? Awwww, do they have more guts than you? That's okay - we'll let you th...
[16:21:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─Google employee morality: Building massive surveillance system and psychological manipulation platform with no oversight? Fine. Building robots that might make the military slightly more efficient? EVIL!
[16:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:21] <exec> 08└─The election was rigged. And Crooked Hillary still lost. She failed miserably. I said, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? And now the Fake News Media and the Dems -- Hillary most of all -- are wishing they'd just given it to me. Democracy is very overrated, folks. W...
[16:22:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03splenolymph [5495] 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:19] <exec> 08└─After about a decade of polishing their legacy interface (which worked and was understandable), they threw it all away with a new design team. And forced everyone to upgrade. This rendered the application impossible to use for seniors and just painful and awful to use for younger types. I've seen my...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─MSN Messenger had a brilliant image-sharing feature. You could send a set of images to a friend and you could browse them like an album. You could slave yourself to their view or vice versa, or browse by yourself. I expect someone else has something similar but why they didn't think to keep that fea...
[16:22:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Genome Project-write Wants to "Virus-Proof" Cells - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─Seems risky. There's a lot of beneficial viruses as well. Google them. Plus, encrypted DNA pretty much assures you no offspring. Sorry honey, I just couldn't break through your encryption. I'm leaving you. These guys seem to confuse computer drag-and-drop skills with actual living entities.
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─The allocation of taxpayer money...should be outside the purview of the government
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:01] <exec> 08└─grmbl... what happened to "speaking truth to power" in the "Land of the Free"? Seriously, this would be a major scandal in any European country. Your government tries to hoodwink [wiktionary.org] you so they can truthfully proclaim later: "there is no reliable data (since we quietly defunded that pr...
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:03] <exec> 08└─China could do this research. The EU could do this research. Russia could do this research. India could do this research. If nobody else wants to bother, it can't be all that important. We'll spend our money elsewhere.
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[17:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:44] <exec> 08└─I believe in a previous article here on SN the toxicity of sunscreen was discussed. I remember the major take away was baby sunscreen avoids the problematic chemicals. Additionally, it is easier to find in big box stores than other sunscreens marketed at avoiding chemicals. What a great comment! A v...
[17:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:57] <exec> 08└─Not the best view angle, but this gif: https://plus.google.com [google.com] Shows weather patterns scraped from current era reported winds. The animation suggests the only significant wind flow in Greenland are from the south east and originate...
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─Huh! I am mistaken. You've always had that Sig! ;)
[17:18:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:07] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants their children named after a dystopian device.
[17:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─The difference is that the machines in Star Trek weren't mining data in order to sell you something you don't need or trying to control your life in other ways. Of course that was science fiction, not real life, and the show was broken up in segments in order to run advertising. So maybe the whole o...
[17:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:24] <exec> 08└─"Alexa" is a stupid name for a person anyway. Seriously, I've never even heard of a real person with that name
[17:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water Plume on Europa - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:38] <exec> 08└─Although articles like this might not get much discussion I am happy to see them when they show up.
[17:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:12] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it's fake. Android doesn't actually give the user the ability to end processes here, it's more of a placebo to placate you, like the 'walk' buttons that don't do anything. So when you swipe stuff off the list what you're actually doing is - swiping stuff off the list. Not necessarily a...
[17:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know if he resents what they did. The way I read it, he is wondering what their situations are. Were they already on their way out the door? Were they affluent enough that they didn't need to be working? Did they already have jobs lined up to jump into, or knew that they could easily get ano...
[17:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 1852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:40] <exec> 08└─"Just in case I don't quite get it: do you resent what they did?" No. I don't know whether I support their cause. I don't know much about it. I actually have some respect for their actions because they are protesting what, at least they perceive, as a moral lapse on Google's part. The world needs mo...
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[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─I'll just be sitting here quietly while the Democratic party figures out they want to run with this as their new mid-term election platform item in three. . . two. . .
[18:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─You think the DNC supports something like this?
[18:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:37] <exec> 08└─The Democrats famously poo-pooed the idea of marijuana legalization when Obama was elected. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (former DNC head) is known to be in the pocket of the private prison industry. Honestly, at this point I think the Republicans are more likely to be drug-friendly: John Boehner has sw...
[18:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:39] <exec> 08└─This appears to be the current Dem thinking on drugs: https://www.democrats.org [democrats.org] See: Reforming our Criminal Justice System Enabling Cutting-Edge Medical Research Combating Drug and Alcohol Addiction Medical research is relevant because that's another reason to deschedu...
[18:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─"Hey, Donald, did you know that this NY builder you don't like because his pretty wife said you're a moron, just got a giant contract building and maintaining private prisons? He said he would use the massive profits to build a taller tower just to cast shade on the Trump one. There's good money in...
[18:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:44] <exec> 08└─> On marijuana and opioids — the DEA has no clue what it’s talking about On SLS, NASA has no clue what it's talking about. When you're taking direct orders from entities with obsessive and bipolar disorders, telling them that they're amazingly wrong is not the best way to keep feeding your kids.
[18:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:46] <exec> 08└─Look, some shit just shouldn't be legal. Maybe decriminalized, but not legalized outright like marijuana. There is never going to be any good excuse for recreational fentanyl use, for example, and ditto meth. Weed, definitely, that stuff is more medicine than drug if you prepare it right, but not th...
[18:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:48] <exec> 08└─I'll be damned if I start taking orders from the British medical journals My forebears fought and died to send the British medical journals packing Don't Tread On Me, British medical journals
[18:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─Honestly, at this point I think the Republicans are more likely to be drug-friendly
[18:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:56] <exec> 08└─You are asking the wrong question. Yes, there are drugs that are harmful. The question should be: "is the harm that is created because some drugs are illegal greater than the direct harm caused by the drugs?" Portugal's experience suggests that legalization reduces the overall harm to society from d...
[18:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:06] <exec> 08└─If you find this stuff so confusing that rather than make an inferior choice of sunscreen you simply throw up your hands and use no sunscreen at all, you might be a redneck.
[18:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:08] <exec> 08└─If you walk into a room, and there are three sunscreens ... you get confused. So you just wait, because Android P will take away two of the sunscreens you could have used, and replace them with gesturing at the sun to go away for a while (which works, with enough perseverance).
[18:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:46] <exec> 08└─Someone should put an Echo device near this woman's cubicle... How old is she anyway? Seriously, I've never heard of anyone with that name. Is it a regional thing? You probably won't meet any women from the west coast or northeast named "Dreama" or "Jo Lynne" (stupid Southern names).
[18:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:48] <exec> 08└─Another responder already said it, but I'll say it again: in Star Trek, this technology was genuinely useful to its human masters, and was under their control. It wasn't under the control of some giant for-profit corporation that was really using it for some nefarious purpose (namely, selling you sh...
[18:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─"Alexa" is a stupid name for a person anyway. Seriously, I've never even heard of a real person with that name
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─The difference is that the machines in Star Trek weren't mining data in order to sell you something you don't need or trying to control your life in other ways.
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:56] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself! Sincerely; Telescreen J DeathMonkey
[18:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:24] <exec> 08└─As it turns out, *I* have a gesture to share with Dave, but I don't think he'll like it. Much like dogs, managers like to mark their territory. They use a similar method.
[18:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:46] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why I despise friggin' iPhones -- can't figure out how to do anything because THERE'S NO DAMN BUTTONS! Best thing about Android is that it has the buttons and in most cases they actually work. The most frustrating thing is when you get some garbage app that doesn't behave properly --...
[18:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:00] <exec> 08└─There's a bunch of 30-yr-olds in my office who have pools running on whatever league or playoff is in session. In the previous job too. Anecdotes =/= data, of course. One of those guys said something last week about "some Iran deal" and Trump, seemingly having no clue what the hubbub was about, and...
[18:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:30] <exec> 08└─No, it's supposed to be about how much of the business models these companies use should be outright illegal because they violate people's privacy on a massive scale. That includes the privacy of people who don't even use their disservices (shadow profiles).
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:54] <exec> 08└─Is this something to do with the Trump/Iran/Treaty that I've missed with China supporting the Iranians? That's what I gathered. China eliminated their sanctions on Iran when they complied with the nuke treaty. This railroad is evidence that they're not going to re-implement sanctions on Iran just be...
[18:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:57] <exec> 08└─China plans to take over the world, starting by re-establishing the old trade routes with modern technology. And by Cthulhu, they are going to do it. The US is decadent, most of Europe is powerless, and no one else in the Far East can project this kind of power. I've said this several times before:...
[18:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:22] <exec> 08└─What's more "snowflake" than pitching a bitch fit because somebody did something that has absolutely no effect on your life or anything you care about. Conservatives are the biggest snowflakes of them all. It's only their projection that has them seeing it in everyone else.
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dual-Wafer Packaging (Wafer-on-Wafer) Could Double CPU/GPU Performance - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─It's possible that two stacked wafers is somewhat cheaper than two wafers. Like how 64-layer NAND is not 64 times more expensive than 1/64 amount of planar NAND. In that case, there will be eager customers - probably not home users though.
[18:23:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, you're looking to have Microsoft make Skype work only in Edge? I guess that would be the final nail...
[18:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:49] <exec> 08└─Normally I would agree with you, but... have you actually seen the backend required for SfB? Its infrastructure is so overly complex that Microsoft doesn't even bother documenting each component's installation. They had to write a fucking configuration management tool just to manage an instant messe...
[18:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:07] <exec> 08└─Er, you want to live a long time, not actually forever. The reasoning why is heavy going, but includes that eventually a finite mind will run out of things it is *possible* to experience, and I mean this in the broadest possible sense, i.e., 2 separate runs of a billion years being burned alive are...
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[19:17:34] <exec> 08└─Hamilson. That was the name of the obese man who always seemed to be sitting on the park bench in a certain neighborhood. Although people in the neighborhood regarded this man as a bit of an eccentric, he was nonetheless very respected and well-liked. As Hamilson was relaxing on the bench, he spotte...
[19:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing you have heard about supervised injection sites as a method of reducing the harm of heroin. Since heroin overdoses are typically easy to treat if a first responder is nearby. Meth is probably worse than heroin in some ways. But if you want to reduce harm, you have to take bold steps. Pe...
[19:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:53] <exec> 08└─Look, some shit just shouldn't be legal. Maybe decriminalized, but not legalized outright like marijuana
[19:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:55] <exec> 08└─The DEA is worse. They have a rotten culture within that agency, and they have obvious perverse incentives to keep the broken status quo going. If we get across-the-board legalization in this country, many DEA jobs will be lost. A few will probably remain, but the majority of them will become unnece...
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:57] <exec> 08└─In the context of this issue, "decriminalize" means to legalize possession and use of the drug, and maybe production at home. So the guy being stopped on the street doesn't get charged for carrying an ounce or two. The "weed smell" stops being probable cause under decriminalization. "Legalization" m...
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─Hamilson. That was the name of the obese man who always seemed to be sitting on the park bench in a certain neighborhood. Although people in the neighborhood regarded this man as a bit of an eccentric, he was nonetheless very respected and well-liked. As Hamilson was relaxing on the bench, he spotte...
[19:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 1759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:01] <exec> 08└─Because maintaining social controls and mass obedience is more important than health, in the estimation of the state. There is a critical problem that keeps democracy from working well among humans, and this is as good an example of it in action as any. I'll use made up, round numbers just to give y...
[19:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:04] <exec> 08└─Look, some shit just shouldn't be legal. Maybe decriminalized, but not legalized outright like marijuana. There is never going to be any good excuse for recreational fentanyl use, for example, and ditto meth. Weed, definitely, that stuff is more medicine than drug if you prepare it right, but not th...
[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:06] <exec> 08└─That's not what the words involved mean, but if it's drug-legal jargon, then okay. And no one should be in a jail cell nor prison anywhere for "simple possession" of anything that they were planning to ingest via any means. Even if you're an anti-drugger, that's bad utilization of resources. From a...
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:08] <exec> 08└─And no one should be in a jail cell nor prison anywhere for "simple possession" of anything that they were planning to ingest via any means. Even if you're an anti-drugger, that's bad utilization of resources.
[19:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─you get the wrong things coming out of Trump's mouth.
[19:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:13] <exec> 08└─Heh, how quickly we march back on to the slippery slope! Gotta watch where you step with the good intentions ;)
[19:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:15] <exec> 08└─What is true, which GP correctly pointed out, is that national-level Democrats are much more in favor of marijuana legalization at the federal when they don't have the power to actually make it happen. It's one of many issues wheres the majority would be on their side if they did X, and whenever the...
[19:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:25] <exec> 08└─Wait, people still use Suns for anything other than doorstops? I thought those went the way of the dodo a long time ago.
[19:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:27] <exec> 08└─You really think us nerds go outside during the day, let alone have wives and/or children?
[19:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:29] <exec> 08└─Or just slowly build up a tan. Whenever I successfully do that there is no sunburn for the year.
[19:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─I do like to turn the brightness on my monitor all the way up. Unfortunately, besides the visible light, my monitor mostly emits UVB light, so I get no tanning effects from the monitors--only vicious burns.
[19:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 5344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:46] <exec> 08└─Some excerpts: Materials and Methods Continuous Measurements of the NGRIP2 Ice Core. The bedrock NGRIP2 ice core (75.1°N, 42.32°W, 2,917 m) was collected beginning in 1998 adjacent to the intermediate NGRIP core (33). For this study, longitudinal samples (∼1.0 by 0.035 by 0.035 m) from 159.56 to...
[19:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:16] <exec> 08└─What is the acceptable alternative, one that doesn't send information back to a private cloud?
[19:19:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:50] <exec> 08└─If you walk into a room and see three doors, there intuitively would be four doors in that room. For this discussion it is actually quite relevant because one of the buttons is "Back".
[19:19:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:55] <exec> 08└─How exactly does changing your three doors out for two doors and a concealed moving wall panel help you decide which to use?
[19:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:06] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. Aside from the obvious you could have turned around in the room to see the door you just came from as your third door, you also could have backed into the room and stopped when you were against the far wall. That you may have tripped walking backwards blindly is not my problem.
[19:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:07] <exec> 08└─This wouldn't be a problem if the budding UI Einstein over there hadn't replaced the perfectly good icons with playstation controller wannabes. Seriously. Having a home and a back arrow is intuitive. A square and a triangle are not. The current fad of abstracting everything to incomprehensible symbo...
[19:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:09] <exec> 08└─This is why you should set up ICE (In Case of Emergency) contacts and make them accessible from the lock screen
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─if you're going to nitpik, he may have walked into a room with several mirrors on the walls and sees the same door three times
[19:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:14] <exec> 08└─Best bet is make sure the battery is charged and it is turned on. If it's an Android and the user hasn't done something too dumb, they can locate the phone through Google. Otherwise, they should surely notice eventually that their phone is missing and retrace their steps. If nobody shows up to claim...
[19:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:16] <exec> 08└─In particular I do not need or want "notifications" from every single app on the phone, and do not appreciate being harassed endlessly by Google Assistant nagware.
[19:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:18] <exec> 08└─Newer phones (last 3-5 years) support a Medical Info screen that can be pulled up from the lockscreen. Of course, it's up to the owner to actually enter their info and enable it, but if they did then it would definitely come in handy for locating the owner of a lost phone.
[19:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:21] <exec> 08└─The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures
[19:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:23] <exec> 08└─Nobody seems to give a wet slap about discoverability anymore. The Principle of Least Astonishment? Anybody? No, instead let's have shit like secret panels that you have to mouse to a specific corner--not that there's any hint this is a thing from looking at the UI, you just have to already know--an...
[19:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:25] <exec> 08└─"There... are... THREE... doors!" - Capt. Picard (sort of)
[19:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:27] <exec> 08└─That's why you have a nontrivial unlock pattern instead of slide-to-unlock--not for the security, but for the pocket-dialing.
[19:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:30] <exec> 08└─> Android have those three buttons at the bottom: Home, back and something else," Burke said. "And it's, it's a little too much, a little too complicated. This is your brain on mobile.
[19:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:32] <exec> 08└─I thought it was just a history list, with most of the processes in the literal 'background' having saved their state to 'disk' and stopped running.
[19:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:34] <exec> 08└─And a 12v DC for bots.
[19:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:36] <exec> 08└─I've never had a phone with this magical task manager button on it. I just hold down the home button. Instead, I have a menu button. I guess they decided that wasn't needed at some point...
[19:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:39] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, they'll eventually come around full circle [youtube.com].
[19:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:53] <exec> 08└─You're pretty close. I read the judgement, and the key point at issue is whether PASPA constitutes commandeering; i.e. the feds telling the states what and how to regulate, on a topic that properly resides with the states. The basic defence from the federal side was: "We didn't tell them what laws t...
[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─the media had been telling them, "We got this" for months and months. The media is hysterically bitter a year and a half later for being so wrong, "by a landslide."
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[20:17:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─Honestly, at this point I think the Republicans are more likely to be drug-friendly
[20:17:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:51] <exec> 08└─You are asking the wrong question. Yes, there are drugs that are harmful. The question should be: "is the harm that is created because some drugs are illegal greater than the direct harm caused by the drugs?" Portugal's experience suggests that legalization reduces the overall harm to society from d...
[20:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:04] <exec> 08└─It takes quite a bit of time for ideas to work their way through the general population, and it is a critical mass sort of thing that spreads exponentially. I think the current support for the war on drugs is more about ignorance, it isn't that most voters care. Most voters want drugs illegal becaus...
[20:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:06] <exec> 08└─The Schumer announcement is the most credible yet from the Democratic Party (from a Senate Minority Leader), although he has yet to publish the proposed bill. Schumer is also cosponsoring [merryjane.com] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's hemp legalization bill, even though McConnell won't rec...
[20:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─It's the most credible yet, but that's not saying much. The Dems still don't have that much power in Congress, and Trump is the President and can easily veto anything they pass that doesn't have a sizeable amount of Republican support (which is unlikely, given the Republicans' history of obstruction...
[20:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:23] <exec> 08└─That doesn't work for people that cannot tan. I'm apparently so white, that I'm practically fluorescent. The sun has *never* given me a tan. Only sunburns. I was literally designed for cave dwelling, and only emerging at night to feed :)
[20:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:24] <exec> 08└─Your tan may kill you, even if you don't burn. https://www.cancercouncil.com.au [cancercouncil.com.au] https://www.melanoma.org.au [melanoma.org.au]
[20:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:40] <exec> 08└─Boooring
[20:19:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:09] <exec> 08└─The difference is that the machines in Star Trek weren't mining data in order to sell you something you don't need or trying to control your life in other ways.
[20:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:12] <exec> 08└─Well I'll happily admit that "Alexa" isn't remotely as bad as many, many other horrible names these days, but there wasn't an SN article about any of them to go on an anti-stupid-baby-name rant. I still don't like it, but there's many that are far, far worse (without even getting to the level of tha...
[20:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:18] <exec> 08└─It's not an "end process" control though. It's a "please turn off" button. Behaved apps will behave. If you want superuser type controls then stock Android will be very disappointing.
[20:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:19] <exec> 08└─Simple as can be. Just press the button 13 times fast while hopping on your left foot and singing Yankee Doodle (be sure you sign the words too) for the volume control. Note that fast means an interval of 0.521 and 0.522 seconds between presses. Otherwise you get factory reset. If you want Mute, get...
[20:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 1985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:21] <exec> 08└─SN is supposed to be about the comments, yet the comments here are shit: 1. Android sucks! 2. Fuck icons! 3. Stop changing the UI! 4. Obligatory +5 Funny joke Even the article is kind of bullshit, and no one cares about what the VP says, except CNet apparently. So let's talk about the change itself,...
[20:22:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─1. SJWs Always Lie 2. SJWs Always Double Down 3. SJWs Always Project
[20:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:58] <exec> 08└─I think the point was that the media had been claiming it was going to be a landslide victory for HRC. By a landslide of losing the popular vote, sure
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm aware what the rules are. I think we should change them because most of the reasoning behind the Electoral College really doesn't apply anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The contest was played by the rules of the game.
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[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm aware what the rules are. I think we should change them because most of the reasoning behind the Electoral College really doesn't apply anymore.
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[21:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:36] <exec> 08└─I was having a bad day, but hearing that a patent troll is having a worse one makes it just a little bit better :) The patent office is like the death penalty. Good in theory, but corrupt as fuck in practice.
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:38] <exec> 08└─I have many good reasons. I suggested he and I engage in a public debate, but Richard said he was too busy with his existing work. In my understanding his work is the evangelism of Free Software, mostly through public speaking. I invented a lossless bitmap compression algorithm and file format in 19...
[21:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:40] <exec> 08└─Software patents are pointless since any truly useful optimization will be baked into the hardware where patents already exist as heavy silicon cartels patent pools to force their way. This, while less useful software innovations are / will be tweaked around to circumvent the patents at small perfor...
[21:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:49] <exec> 08└─With the conclusion that your money would to help the most people in the most-significant way if you donated to a nonprofit that provides iodine to regions of the world where there is no natural iodine source. You need iodine for other reason than your thyroid health: children need iodine to enable...
[21:18:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:12] <exec> 08└─Look, some shit just shouldn't be legal. Maybe decriminalized, but not legalized outright like marijuana. There is never going to be any good excuse for recreational fentanyl use, for example, and ditto meth. Weed, definitely, that stuff is more medicine than drug if you prepare it right, but not th...
[21:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:21] <exec> 08└─"I think the current support for the war on drugs is more about ignorance, it isn't that most voters care." Sure, to a degree, but that very ignorance is part of what I'm talking about. It can be analyzed as coming from two main sources. In part this is https://en.wikipedia.org
[21:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:24] <exec> 08└─aderral is a mix of plain old amphetamines salt and isomers... you meant Desoxyn
[21:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:26] <exec> 08└─You're mostly right, and there's a reason I said decriminalize for the harder ones rather than "keep exactly as illegal as they are now." What we really need to do is fix the underlying societal problems that cause people to turn to these substances, but Satan's gonna get his tongue stuck to a pole...
[21:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:28] <exec> 08└─NewNic, requerdanos, and RedBear were more eloquent than I could be or need to be. But I would add that legalizing all current controlled substances doesn't just solve more problems than it creates in the US. It's probably the single most powerful move we can make to reduce organized crime in Mexico...
[21:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:30] <exec> 08└─I don't want a world where heroin is legal, monitored, and not used any more than it is today in the US but five percent of the population in every age group in India, China, and sub-Saharan Africa are hooked.
[21:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:32] <exec> 08└─Hmm, good catch. Looking, instead of trusting my memory (which does not get better with time), tells me that Adderall is a mix of dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine aspartate, dextroamphetamine sulfate and amphetamine sulfate, while Desoxyn is methamphetamine hydrochloride; both are prescribe...
[21:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:35] <exec> 08└─Multiple factions surround President Trump and give him some competing viewpoints in many cases. He's also influenced by some people he talks to over the phone, or by news reports. What's the difference between Trump and a sponge? (I'll let someone else come up with the punchline.)
[21:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:52] <exec> 08└─Literally anything that increases the rate of cell division increases the rate of cancer. Melanoma rates doubled in the 20 years from 1986–2006 and are still on the rise.
[21:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:53] <exec> 08└─children and teens get exposed, then develop cancer years, or (more often) decades later, so any drop from campaigns in the last twenty years may not show for another twenty. As well, there may be diagnostic drift. https://articles.mercola.com
[21:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:55] <exec> 08└─So there is no evidence that sunscreen is preventing melanoma, only wild speculation. Further, melanoma rates keep increasing worldwide along with sunscreen use but no one has bothered to figure out whether it is due to sunscreen or not: For years, primary care providers have advised patients to use...
[21:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:57] <exec> 08└─I once spent an entire day sledding down a snow-covered slope wearing nothing but pairs of shorts and shoes. My friend said "This is the most fun anyone could ever have". We were backpacking in the High Sierras. By the time we hiked out to civilization, all three of us were sunburned on most of our...
[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:00] <exec> 08└─So an actual black person told me. Whenever a white person assumed she didn't need sunscreen she got really pissed.
[21:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─isn't capitalism supposed to sort out labelling. If you die, you won't buy the product again. Always amazes me that the US has such lousy consumer protection laws. Other countries manage without being upsetabout over regulation: https://www.tga.gov.au [tga.gov.au]
[21:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like black people who wear sunscreen get sunburned. My friend from zimbabwe said noone has it happen over there.
[21:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, they recommend staying out of the sun and covering up in high UV periods, AND wearing suncream. They realise most people just won't stay under cover, so hats, long sleeves and suncream are the 'next best' options. Besides, everyone knows someone who has tanned all their life and not died o...
[21:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─I only read "Silver Pigs" but it is very, very good. Caesar hires a private detective to figure out who is stealing their ingots of silver from the Roman silver and lead mine in Londinium, Britannia. Let me see... Books by Lindsay Davis [powells.com] at Powell's City Of Books.
[21:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:03] <exec> 08└─Now that's what I call a comment!
[21:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:04] <exec> 08└─#TryingTooHard
[21:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:06] <exec> 08└─That too was a comment. I have stated it therefore it is!
[21:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:45] <exec> 08└─Before you start changing the rules of the Electoral College which affect ALL of us, maybe you should start a little closer to home and get rid of all those DNC superdelegates that subvert the will of the Democratic voters in favor of party whims.
[21:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against Skype - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:12] <exec> 08└─And yet some sysadmins manage to do it properly. The initial assessment stands: your sysadmins are shite.
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[22:17:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─I was having a bad day, but hearing that a patent troll is having a worse one makes it just a little bit better :) The patent office is like the death penalty. Good in theory, but corrupt as fuck in practice.
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[22:17:50] <exec> 08└─It's also good generally to be reminded that there are people in the world who will share the majority of what they have. I'm sure Pine still has enough to never be a burden to society if it is still well managed. But still, generosity on that scale gives me hope for humanity.
[22:18:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:09] <exec> 08└─Look, some shit just shouldn't be legal. Maybe decriminalized, but not legalized outright like marijuana
[22:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:30] <exec> 08└─Trump more often than not acts regardless of advice.
[22:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:31] <exec> 08└─Most heroin customers want to avoid fentanyl
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:34] <exec> 08└─Multiple factions surround President Trump and give him some competing viewpoints in many cases. He's also influenced by some people he talks to over the phone, or by news reports.
[22:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:58] <exec> 08└─Whatever, its pretty obvious that trying to avoid all sun exposure leaves you vulnerable to tiny bursts of it and will increase any UV induced cancer. Also there is whatever vitamin D effect... These are the same organizations who triggered an obesity epidemic by recommending a high carb diet for de...
[22:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 550 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:11] <exec> 08└─"Let's copy Apple's stupid ideas". It's really not hard. Back and Home. The third is entirely optional, really, if you don't tap it you can do everything you would do some other way. But it's really "right-click" / task manager. However, if you didn't just have a circle, square, triangle or other co...
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[22:23:37] <exec> 08└─Someone said that all twelve of them are the same people who continue to walk into the invisible glass walls.
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[23:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:39] <exec> 08└─Snes9x or SNES are great SNES emulators. With a wired Xbox controller they are awesome. Plus, you can save state anytime, so you don't need to play until you reach a save spot. The cheat.DAT you can find is like game geenie on steroids. I guess most people don't know about Nintendo emulators. The Xb...
[23:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:41] <exec> 08└─These things ARE emulators. Just dedicated devices packed in a box with controllers. Last time people quickly figured out how to hack their way to the bog standard Linux/Arm machine within and add functionality. Will be interesting to see if Nintendo closes the door on that or decides they don't car...
[23:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:43] <exec> 08└─Sometimes a man's gotta download what a man's gotta download.
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─On this by friend I agree with you a lot. Iodine deficiency is a major people, especially with people avoiding iodised salt, which for a long time had filed the gap. 'healthy eating' can cause a lot of problems, especially for young children when it is fad based not science based... Iodised salt is...
[23:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:02] <exec> 08└─A certain vegan wrote of her decision to eat meat because a vitamin b2 deficiency gave her brain damage B12 is only found in meat and fungus, never in plants. All the cool vegans eat shrooms
[23:19:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 1424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:17] <exec> 08└─>Not all the lead came from pollution related to ore smelting; some came from naturally occurring dust and volcanic emissions, which researchers estimated and subtracted from the total lead count. The result: an incredibly detailed 1900-year timeline of Roman lead pollution, Right away this struck m...
[23:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water Plume on Europa - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:12] <exec> 08└─What makes Sulla happy makes me happy, except when it doesn't. I guess we both like erupting water plumes.
[23:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03xhedit [6669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─And here's the inevitable metacomment complaining about comments. Shocker, people are tired of google changing shit for no reason. I like the recents setup and Android has gotten more and more unusuable after peaking in usability sometime in the 4.x or 5.x days.
[23:22:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:07] <exec> 08└─What am I missing here?
[23:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─We're screwed.
[23:22:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Queensland Forest Clearings Spell Bad News For Great Barrier Reef - 1078 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─Reefs are the deserts of the oceans, with corals being the cactus. Just as too much water kills cactus sediment kills coral. The reason water clarity is so excellent on reefs is because the water is almost devoid of sediment and plankton... which is why corals, instead of relying solely on filter fe...
[23:23:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06About a Dozen Google Employees Have Resigned Over Project Maven - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:14] <exec> 08└─Of course. Slaves are expensive. Employees, not so much.
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