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[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:36] <exec> 08└─English only ... because human knowledge does not include language diversity. Also, the micro-tech is cute, but when we find ancient writings, the fact that we can see the symbols tells us they're probably valuable. I won't presume of the eyesight of future space travelers from Stavromula Beta, but...
[00:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─If you don't send porn, you're not archiving humanity's greatest achievement.
[00:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:40] <exec> 08└─Like littering?
[00:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:42] <exec> 08└─English only ... because human knowledge does not include language diversity.
[00:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:44] <exec> 08└─A while back I emailed all my relatives to request that if I die or am incapacitated I want them to ensure that my writing stays online - forever. My brother-in-law is into computers; he said he'd take care of it. But Stan is several years older than me; if I die first it's unlikely that Stan will b...
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[00:17:47] <exec> 08└─These kinds of "projects" are stupid. A waste of resources for what? And anyway, one micro-meteorite would turn the Library into dust. Those do still hit the moon you know.
[00:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:49] <exec> 08└─A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face and arms began to swell. (and Whitey's on the moon) I can't pay no doctor bill. (but Whitey's on the moon) Ten years from now I'll be payin' still. (while Whitey's on the moon) The man jus' upped my rent las' night. ('cause Whitey's o...
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[00:18:00] <exec> 08└─Oblig: https://thehardtimes.net [thehardtimes.net]
[00:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:02] <exec> 08└─Honestly, when the NES and SNES classic came out, they were sold instantly and I was ok with that, nostalgy etc. Then NoA said they would have more shipments of the SNES classic because they had learned their mistake with the success of the NES. Nothing happened. Shortages remained. Now they are pro...
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[00:18:22] <exec> 08└─I'd have to disagree. For one thing, there is very, very little evidence to support the idea that we need more than micrograms of iodine and I've seen studies linking high levels of iodine such as in table salt to all manner of ill health effects including autism spectrum disorder and even autoimmun...
[00:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:23] <exec> 08└─What if there's no iodine in the soil where the banana trees grow?
[00:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:06] <exec> 08└─Fentanyl is very much a medicine. It is used routinely in a hospital setting. It is frequently abused as well, of course. Many things can be and are abused. People sniff glue, they take meth, and occasionally you see some idiot using a lawnmower to trim hedges. That doesn't mean that they should be...
[00:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:32] <exec> 08└─I set that up. Phone kept pocket-dialling the first entry. Now have a custom home page message with a friend's phone number and my name - which worked, the one time I left my phone in a park.
[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can't Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:16] <exec> 08└─Wanna stop this crap? Change the law...
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[01:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:33] <exec> 08└─Oooh, my phone can also be my crypto wallet? So if I lose my phone I'm doubly screwed? Where do I sign up?
[01:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:35] <exec> 08└─I bet you it's powered by battery just like all their other models.
[01:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:37] <exec> 08└─It will be powered by cold fusion in your pocket because all this crypto-blockchain mumbo jumbo do use a lot of power. Anyday now ...since cold fusion was discovered in 1989.
[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:39] <exec> 08└─powered by blockchain
[01:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:53] <exec> 08└─https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.warplife.com [archive.org] https://web.archive.org [archive.org] Internet Archive [wikipedia.org] For the long term, they could store data on something like this, which...
[01:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:54] <exec> 08└─And then an astronaut named John Smith came upon these writings and established the Church of Lunar Day Saints.
[01:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:56] <exec> 08└─These kinds of "projects" are stupid.
[01:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:58] <exec> 08└─lying signing mofo
[01:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:31] <exec> 08└─eat shrooms
[01:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:32] <exec> 08└─Then they were planted off world and should be looked at with suspicion. Seriously you only need 100 - 200 micrograms, there's 1000 micrograms in a milligram. You could probably get a weeks worth by eating, anything grown in any soil anywhere. https://ods.od.nih.gov
[01:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:16] <exec> 08└─He's clearly done plenty of sketchy and likely plenty of illegal things and faced effectively no consequences, so I wouldn't be too quick to badmouth his legal strategy, as unreasonable as it seems.
[01:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:42] <exec> 08└─It is called retrocomputing, ya know?
[01:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:46] <exec> 08└─Look at Einstein over here with his two minute learning curve. Seriously though, some people are too stupid for three of anything.
[01:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:47] <exec> 08└─Holy shit, you're exactly right! I feel a bit slow for not having thought of that myself, gods know I've worked with enough "managers" like that over the years. The general vibe is "Look at me managing. I'm so busy with all this managing I'm doing". Lucky for me my current manager lives in a diff...
[01:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Sports Gambling Law - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:04] <exec> 08└─the gambling will take just that much more money from the average Joe...
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[02:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:45] <exec> 08└─Obligatory dilbert http://dilbert.com [dilbert.com] I for one am excited to see yet another Scott Adams prediction come true. But to be honest the article reads more like this one... http://dilbert.com [dilbert.com]
[02:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:48] <exec> 08└─"It may not be spam but it's awfully pink and salty." -- Some guy at Kuro5hin, in response to my article link The Blockchain Explained In Plain English [soggywizards.com] It's not linked from my website yet because I'm not done writing it yet.
[02:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:50] <exec> 08└─Much as I agree with you, I don't think you are Powered By any authority to demand something on the internet "stop immediately"
[02:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─And your post is powered by Autism. Chill out, "Powered by" is another way of letting people know what background services are running. English is a living language, it involves in ways like this or new ways of using phrases to get a point accross. By your logic, we should all go back to Olde Englis...
[02:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:54] <exec> 08└─There is no doubt in my mind that FoxConn employs far more people in China than Apple does in California.
[02:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:56] <exec> 08└─I once lived in Newfoundland.
[02:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:59] <exec> 08└─So is this something they're doing in collaboration with the Exodus wallet [exodus.io] software, or are they blatantly ripping off their name & good will? The article made it sound like the latter.
[02:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:01] <exec> 08└─"Newfie!!" --Anthony Bourdain
[02:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:03] <exec> 08└─Certainly not the Exodus Foundation [exodusfoundation.org.au]
[02:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─However, that church was revisioned and now is a Burger King drive in.
[02:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm pretty sure all of the Three Letter Agencies have all of your stuff stored and well protected far better and for much longer than most other methods.
[02:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:24] <exec> 08└─Would you like God with that?
[02:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:36] <exec> 08└─Nah Ima play it on my Switch: http://www.gamerevolution.com [gamerevolution.com]
[02:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:46] <exec> 08└─I honestly believe that invention is worthy of a patent.
[02:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:46] <exec> 08└─That's incorrect. The Democratic Party platform now includes removing cannabis from Schedule 1, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is working on a bill [soylentnews.org] to do so. There has been no similar activity on the Republican side, so they aren't going to do anything like that for years...
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[03:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:53] <exec> 08└─Dammit. I was going to order one of these phones that didn't use electricity. It looked so sweet. Just mine bitcoins, and the phone never needs to be recharged, no need for batteries or cords or anything. Crap.
[03:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:55] <exec> 08└─Or Gab.ai's "Exodus Protocol" to somehow use the blockchain to make censorship impossible. Everybody is thinking the same "escape" thoughts and colliding in the fairly limited namespace that implies/
[03:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:57] <exec> 08└─If they will actually make a phone were the person who pays the money actually gets to own it, including getting the lowest level keys, I'm interested. Otherwise, pass. Offering to unlock the bootloader is a nice gesture from a few vendors to developers, but what if I WANT to lock the phone? Me, not...
[03:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:59] <exec> 08└─Don't fret, all your past transactions & data are available in everyone else's phone, just make sure to tattoo your wallet id on your forehead and you're all set.
[03:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:01] <exec> 08└─Just get one of the phones that's intended for Android Platform Development. You could load Slackware on it if you're cool to write the necessary drivers.
[03:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:33] <exec> 08└─I play more SNES on my Wii than Wii games. :)
[03:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:45] <exec> 08└─Since I haven't seen your idea, I can't comment on it, but I can comment on image compression in general. Given the way storage capacity and bandwidth has drastically expanded, a better lossless compression method is of limited utility. Not to say it's not useful, but nobody's going to pay a lot for...
[03:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:45] <exec> 08└─A good point about special interests, but without democracy ALL you get are special interests. Democracy at least provides some feedback from the populace.
[03:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:00] <exec> 08└─Much better to name them Silly Siri.
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[04:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:33] <exec> 08└─You'll never forget. We won't let you. So are these pages actually penned by her or by her father? If she survived the whole typhus thing she could have gotten a nice job writing smut for whatever country she infiltrated.
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[04:18:23] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that the AC has never encountered "The Star". https://en.wikipedia.org(Clarke_short_story)#firstHeading [wikipedia.org] The revised Twilight Zone did it in 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org(The_Twilight_Zone)#firstHeading [wikipedia.org] Video (The entire pa...
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[05:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:47] <exec> 08└─Is there a movie? Yes [imdb.com].
[05:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:49] <exec> 08└─Is there a movie?
[05:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:51] <exec> 08└─Fifty shades of Goy
[05:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:22] <exec> 08└─I knew it was a documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org(1997_film) [wikipedia.org]
[05:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:23] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand. This phone reverses the process of crypto currency mining, extracting energy in the process.
[05:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:45] <exec> 08└─I in fact recovered a mostly-lost website from The Wayback Machine. The problem is SEO: all the organic links to my writing point to warplife.com. While I could redirect those URLs to anywhere, if my domain expired then snapped up by a... uh... "Domain Speculator" those redirects would also break.
[05:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dear-god-3 [smbc-comics.com]
[05:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:12] <exec> 08└─and what's your take on it now being in the public domain? Rivest, Shamir and Adelson IIRC could have sold it to a company that would have kept it as a trade secret, perhaps implemented only in obfuscated hardware so as to make "discovering the source code" quite difficult.
[05:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:28] <exec> 08└─Keep your kids away from your One-A-Day Plus Iron! I flunked a Hematocrit test [warplife.com] so Bloodworks Northwest advised me to get more iron in my diet. I've found that difficult to accomplish with the one grocery store that's within walking distance. When I get my Real Soon Now paycheck I'll t...
[05:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:58] <exec> 08└─We still have a ton of lead pollution today, only it's quantized, some in 7.62mm packets, others in 5.56mm ones.
[05:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Freight Train Links China and Iran - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:58] <exec> 08└─Why sunflower seeds?
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[06:17:34] <exec> 08└─Now they both can blame their momentary downtime for the next couple months on growing pains due to integrating the acquisitions. I was recently working with a client who adopted oracle cloud for part of their business, just after golive had two weeks of downtime at their year end because of a certi...
[06:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:45] <exec> 08└─an aristarchus submission, instead of this Lolita bait that will only attract the murder-fetishist libertarian Red Pillar poster, again. It is killing SoylentNews. Time for the Eds to go beyond the "all speech is free speech, and put an end to the misogynist murderer. Just my opinion. But then, I al...
[06:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:47] <exec> 08└─I read somewhere that talking about this was useful in depecting Anne Frank as a real person with real world interests that anyone can relate to, this blunting the nazi types that claim she doesn't exist. To me it just seems kind of mean/weird to air her dirty laundry some eight decades since she wa...
[06:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:49] <exec> 08└─But you're dead, so why care?
[06:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:51] <exec> 08└─Fucking Nazis!
[06:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:24] <exec> 08└─It's powered by buzz words. I guess maybe the bullshit creates enough methane to power a cell phone.
[06:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:25] <exec> 08└─Ah, you have hippies in Oz too?
[06:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:28] <exec> 08└─I think this is the second time I totally agree with jm. I too want total control on my phone.
[06:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:51] <exec> 08└─I just wonder if this is kinda like etching the New Testament on the head of a pin. Only maybe less pointless.
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[07:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Buys Plexxi to Expand its Hybrid Cloud Solutions - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:39] <exec> 08└─Excited for these new developments and how they will make business harder in the name of progress profit.
[07:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:54] <exec> 08└─To me it just seems kind of mean/weird to air her dirty laundry some eight decades since she was murdered.
[07:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:54] <exec> 08└─a planetary insurance policy
[07:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:36] <exec> 08└─I cannot find the source but I remember watching a TED talk discussing a search for the most-effective charity. The charity they identified for the most benefit/dollar was providing mosquito nets to prevent malaria. Similar to the IGN you cite, this is providing a known low-cost solution to a proble...
[07:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 2218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:23] <exec> 08└─I support decriminalisation of drugs, so I'm not picking holes for the sake of it. Some drugs are (a) pretty nasty if taken by someone unprepared and unused to their effects (b) easy to administer without the victim's consent. Lacing thrown-away food with LSD for dumpster-divers to eat would be rega...
[07:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:24] <exec> 08└─fentanyl is not illegal. Legalizing === decriminalizing, not selling them recreationally.
[07:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:51] <exec> 08└─SPARC is not affected by Meltdown or Spectre. Turns out Oracle confirmed that SPARC 9 is indeed affected by Spectre. Security through obscurity?
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[08:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Possible Cause of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:38] <exec> 08└─-fruit Ovarian cysts are not commonly fatal but they can get pretty big - and there can be more than one of them. I know someone else who was at first diagnose with ovarian cysts but her insistence on proper medical attention yielded the insight that in reality it was uterine cancer, which is often...
[08:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:37] <exec> 08└─Mostly middle-aged cardigan-wearers, these days.
[08:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:16] <exec> 08└─Excuse me while I grab my pearls! What kind of "Ready Player One" retro crap is this, and why does it find it's way onto the front page of SoylentNews? Yes, some of us may be gamers, but not that kind of suck-up, totally dependent, gamers. What are you thinking, eds? Oh, really? That, huh? Nevermind...
[08:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:30] <exec> 08└─Software patents don't expire until they are irrelevant. The GIF patent expired recently, so now we can have 8-bit images... When we are arguing about The Gimp being inadequate, because it doesn't support higher than 24-bit. The MP3 patent has expired in some countries, but not everywhere yet. It's...
[08:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:31] <exec> 08└─In which case it wouldn't be reviewed and thus not considered secure. At least until someone else came up with the idea of multiplying large prime numbers.
[08:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:33] <exec> 08└─The NSA never discloses crypto secrets even to the diplomats and military personnel who use them in their work. The best anyone ever knows is that the "NSA approved it". From time to time the NSA withdraws its approval. This because there is a separate department in the NSA who cryptanalyzes every p...
[08:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:35] <exec> 08└─"National Reconnaissance Office". Spy sattelites require lossless image compression.
[08:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:38] <exec> 08└─A few years back Congress passed a law that holds that the winner is "First To File". Before that it was "First To Invent" which meant that one had to meticulously keep a lab notebook every page of which was notarized. Alexander Graham Bell was first to file. Close but no cigar - and almost forgotte...
[08:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:40] <exec> 08└─Because MP3 is "good enough". I have some in FLAC but I can't play them in iTunes so I use VLC. While I could in principle play them on my iPhone, the user reviews at the App Store clearly state that every last iOS FLAC player sucks rocks.
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[09:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:33] <exec> 08└─They're now on exam papers.
[09:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:03] <exec> 08└─1. It's a matter of historical interest about a world famous book that has been censored [wikipedia.org] for its sexual content. 2. Guess the over-60 crowd doesn't know their memes.
[09:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CubeSats -- En Route to Mars with InSight -- Snap Another "Pale Blue Dot" Image - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:10] <exec> 08└─pint-size craft
[09:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CubeSats -- En Route to Mars with InSight -- Snap Another "Pale Blue Dot" Image - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:12] <exec> 08└─Let's wait and see if it crashes into Mars first. Or maybe that Tesla Roadster out there.
[09:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:39] <exec> 08└─As an Apple user, you should be using Apple Lossless or AAC. MP3 is "good enough" if you're listening in a car or other noisy environment, and don't care about file size. AAC and Opus get the same crappy quality at about half the size. I still use CDs. I tried to encode one to MP3, and the very firs...
[09:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:40] <exec> 08└─To listen to 192 tracks for a few hours makes me feel very weary. That doesn't happen with 320. However I will say that I can tell the difference between 320 and FLAC when I use reasonably decent speakers and my crypto mining rig is powered off. When the rig is operating I can't hear the difference....
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[09:19:59] <exec> 08└─A sincere and scholarly religious seeker occasionally experimented with mescaline. While spending an evening in his study amid his books, music, and works of art, rapturously intoxicated, he suddenly figured out the secret of happiness. After recovering from his initial exhiliration, he realized he...
[09:20:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 480 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:09] <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...
[09:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:12] <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...
[09:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:48] <exec> 08└─There's one drug that probably wouldn't need a black market if it was available for sale: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] An active dose of LSD is very minute, allowing a large number of doses to be synthesized from a comparatively small amount of r...
[09:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:50] <exec> 08└─see subject
[09:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:18] <exec> 08└─Lighter skinned black people and mixed people of certain racial makeups definitely burn just as easy as white people. However I have heard from non-black, but swarthy complected people, that some of them darken in hue as sunlight increases and don't burn unless they are out all day. One black woman...
[09:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:09] <exec> 08└─Star Trek didn't have cameras in most areas of the ships (even in TNG->Voyager era!) and while sensors could pick up general lifesign readings, without a communicator badge on, they couldn't identify a specific individual among the people on the ship, allowing them to wander freely unobstructed unle...
[09:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:26] <exec> 08└─How about a battered man shelter? Oh, there probably isn't one. Don't support the sexism. Men get battered too. Truth is though, the shelters are actively harmful. They do not really try to resolve issues. They are staffed by some very bitter anti-male people who actively push families apart. Childr...
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[10:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2: One (50.5-Inch) Size Fits All - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:33] <exec> 08└─A giant conference-room display? Ordinary conference-room displays tend to be projectors. 50 inches is pretty tiny in comparison.
[10:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:42] <exec> 08└─"Fun" is a very subjective view on this test ;-) They look easy with "old" and experienced eyes. However, many students have lots of problems with visualizing the mathematical concepts and mapping them onto real-world problems. OTOH, it is good to see that the test takes applied math as a basis. It...
[10:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:44] <exec> 08└─A lot of people don't care about math, because nobody explained to them how math is relevant to real world problems. Teaching students how math maps onto real world problems is a good thing.
[10:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:15] <exec> 08└─So we could have had one of your patented alt-right subs rehashing the same thing for them umpteenth time or this somewhat unique piece of news? I do wonder why they picked this ... oh why could it be. That said I find it somewhat interesting that no piece of news I have seen on this today actually...
[10:20:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 1007 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:52] <exec> 08└─Fentanyl is very much a medicine. It is used routinely in a hospital setting. It is frequently abused as well, of course. Many things can be and are abused. People sniff glue, they take meth, and occasionally you see some idiot using a lawnmower to trim hedges. That doesn't mean that they should be...
[10:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:01] <exec> 08└─The men squeezing the sponge can.
[10:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason Android P Uses Gestures - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:38] <exec> 08└─Or battered fish? Wait, that's not what you meant.
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[11:17:48] <exec> 08└─However, many students have lots of problems with visualizing the mathematical concepts and mapping them onto real-world problems.
[11:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:20] <exec> 08└─1." Matter of historical interest because of sexual-content based censorship" my ass. Your opinion more likely and, yes, as an editor you have more power to make your opinions be consequential. However, your comment smells to me like a post hoc justification than the motive for picking the story in...
[11:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:21] <exec> 08└─what father talks to his 13 year old daughter about hookers?
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[11:20:06] <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.
[11:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:16] <exec> 08└─Then you need to extend your reading a little outside the 'everything you cannot prove doesn't cause austism causes austism' kook circles I am afraid. Your need for Iodine is highly variable, and depending on your diet it is possible to receive basically zero in many areas of the world. Your body is...
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[12:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:35] <exec> 08└─Disney may want to make yet another terrible video game movie. Now the movie might be good if Guybrush is portrayed as I play him: seek out every opportunity for my death and see how Lucas Arts weasels Guybrush out.
[12:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:37] <exec> 08└─Another sad anecdote about the insanity of copyright that authors can somehow lose the rights to their own works. It might be easier to stomach the mess if the possibility of growth was at least preserved in the various transfers, but apparently in this case, no. This state of frozen animation means...
[12:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:39] <exec> 08└─Another sad anecdote about the insanity of copyright that authors can somehow lose the rights to their own works.
[12:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:31] <exec> 08└─Troll? Flamebait? What, too soon?
[12:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:32] <exec> 08└─I am more concerned with the fact that the diary is not in the public domain because the father claims to have altered it, so he has been a coauthor. And now, more original content, or who knows. If it's studied in schools, they should get the original version, or at least know what they are studyin...
[12:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:34] <exec> 08└─I think GP meant that 13 is too late.
[12:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:37] <exec> 08└─Eh, other times, other country, other morals.
[12:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:39] <exec> 08└─I am more concerned with the fact that the diary is not in the public domain because the father claims to have altered it
[12:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:26] <exec> 08└─That's not what the words involved mean, but if it's drug-legal jargon, then okay.
[12:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:28] <exec> 08└─There is never going to be any good excuse for recreational fentanyl use, for example, and ditto meth
[12:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:30] <exec> 08└─No activity on the republican side. Huh? Rand Paul (R) has been pushing for Cannabis legalization for years, and submitted legislation for it as recently this year.
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[13:17:33] <exec> 08└─passwords can be changed. Biometrics are forever. Jumping with both feet into this boiling stew of dangerous ideas is foolhardy at best. We should approach using biometric data with caution. Pandora's box is being opened and we are pulling as hard at the lid as we can. Sadly Govt which has assumed t...
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[13:17:34] <exec> 08└─I have been predicting the use of facial recognition in conjunction with purchasing for some time. Imagine in 10 or 20 years, every Walgreens, CVS, Kroger or other store that normally require consumer tracking cards will use facial recognition instead. And consumers will love it because it lets them...
[13:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:45] <exec> 08└─Another sad anecdote about the insanity of copyright that authors can somehow lose the rights to their own works in some jurisdictions
[13:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:46] <exec> 08└─False dichotomy, the one in "my money, my way or the highway." Here's [wikipedia.org] how you can have a more balanced solution.
[13:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 1643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:48] <exec> 08└─Ron gets asked this a lot. He posts on his own blog https://grumpygamer.com [grumpygamer.com] as well as the Thimbleweed Park Forum https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com [thimbleweedpark.com] ( his last game and well worth playing ). I've just re-completed Curse of Monkey Island this time playing it...
[13:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:23] <exec> 08└─Autism, Chill out, "Powered by", bckground services
[13:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think you are Powered By any authority
[13:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:27] <exec> 08└─Sendmail? Jesus, you must be their last remaining user. I'll bet you have an uptime dating to the 90's.
[13:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:29] <exec> 08└─Ive noticed large portions of the locals here in the EU now have those flip phone covers that act as wallets, as when they open them, their bank cards are visible on the now outside part of the flap. This technological solution isn't necessarily any more stupid than the current physical one to the a...
[13:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:28] <exec> 08└─It it hadn't been patentable, it would have eventually made it into the public consciousness. At that point, some interested parties would have created something very similar. It always happens.
[13:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:49] <exec> 08└─The charity they identified for the most benefit/dollar was providing mosquito nets to prevent malaria.
[13:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 1) 02 - 065,104 BTC Later, The Bitcoin Pineapple Fund Announces It’s Time to Say Farewell - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:50] <exec> 08└─I cannot find the source but I remember watching a TED talk [...]
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[14:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:38] <exec> 08└─Right now they just scan the ticket barcode, and whoever arrives first with a particular ticket gets in, even though all online-bought tickets have your name on it. (probably because asking everyone for ID takes too long) Apart from the minor annoyance of a few clever entrepreneurs double-reselling...
[14:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:40] <exec> 08└─I had my face transplanted you insensitive clod.
[14:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:42] <exec> 08└─You cannot enter, asyou are already here. You can't enter twice. Please stop trying to use someone else's face.
[14:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:44] <exec> 08└─Wow, this is just starting. The pilot project, right? And here we have a guy, the scalpers already cut off his face. Very scary!
[14:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:46] <exec> 08└─You make a valid point. What happens to identical twins?
[14:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:49] <exec> 08└─So does an orange tint confuse facial recognition? :P
[14:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:19] <exec> 08└─Data, such as private keys, can be written in stone pebbles and handed around without any computing networks or even computers. Hell, transactions can be constructed offline (even by hand, frankly), and then handed about in the same way, and then published to the Bitcoin Network at some other time i...
[14:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:59] <exec> 08└─Some fathers are more Frank than others. Believe me, I talk to my daughters about everything. And Ivanka turned out beautifully.
[14:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:42] <exec> 08└─About time someone came up with an alternative. Battery technology has been unable to keep up with phone power requirements ever since the smartphone was invented.
[14:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:08] <exec> 08└─Why do you care? You'll be reincarnated as something or someone else so why bother?
[14:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:10] <exec> 08└─Or rather, "When you're dead, you won't know if anyone remembers you". She's a Shambhala Buddhist. To which I replied "When the end comes, to know that I will be remembered will give me a great deal of comfort". But that's my own purely selfish reason. Rather more charitably: Some of my essays have...
[14:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:25] <exec> 08└─Why pay $15 per games that are decades old when you can play them on your PC for free?
[14:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:26] <exec> 08└─What? Do you want more gay politics circlejerking stories instead?
[14:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:49] <exec> 08└─Extensive googling has yet to turn up any ideas similar to those of my lossless bitmap compressor, nor to its file format.
[14:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:24] <exec> 08└─Or Suri .... oh wait.
[14:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Alexa" Baby Name Falls in Popularity Since Release of Amazon's Smart Speakers - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:26] <exec> 08└─HALexa FTW.
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[15:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:31] <exec> 08└─There must be genes for ramping up the recoil response based on irritating stimuli. With enough irritation, those genes start getting expressed, meaning that RNA for those genes starts getting produced, which means certain proteins and other structures start getting produced from the RNA. So, if you...
[15:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:33] <exec> 08└─Both memory and reflex are a kind of memory I suppose, but with different implications. Assuming this sort of thing transfers to other species it could provide an avenue for operant conditioning to be transferred to children, especially from the mother, without necessarily transferring any of the sp...
[15:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:35] <exec> 08└─Did they transfer all their secrets?
[15:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:37] <exec> 08└─Do you mean to tell me that "slugs got shocked on the tail once every 20 minutes for a total of five shocks" really changes their RNA??
[15:17:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─Right now they just scan the ticket barcode, and whoever arrives first with a particular ticket gets in, even though all online-bought tickets have your name on it. (probably because asking everyone for ID takes too long) Apart from the minor annoyance of a few clever entrepreneurs double-reselling...
[15:17:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:51] <exec> 08└─You make a valid point. What happens to identical twins?
[15:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:55] <exec> 08└─What about Carlos the Jackal? There was an experiment run at a superbowl in the early 2000's where attendees had around 80% chance of being identified as Ilich Sanchez. Can't find a citation although I remember it from the green site and the technology doesn't appear to have improved. [arstechnica.c...
[15:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:57] <exec> 08└─They'll eventually patch the software for that. But if you're an identical triplet, you're fucked.
[15:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe the petition will encourage some lawyers to sue Disney over this. The fastest way to pry anything out of a large media and IP company's stranglehold is make them hurt, give them such pains in their deep pockets that they see cutting their losses as the most prudent move. Even better, could sue...
[15:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:07] <exec> 08└─This is the very sort of non-story story that wouldn't be a story if it wasn't for the extreme prudishness and squeamishness of society, which is the real story here. Matters have improved greatly over the decades, but there is room for more. Like, why is the R rating, for violence, still considered...
[15:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:09] <exec> 08└─She married a khazarian jewish rat.
[15:19:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:26] <exec> 08└─powered by blockchain
[15:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:36] <exec> 08└─Pretty much. I learned my lesson from the NES classic and didn't even bother to look for the SNES classic when it was released. I have better things to do with my time than run around looking for something that's that massively underproduced.
[15:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─This type of initiative will never be allowed on a global scale, because very lucrative business which by nature has to be secret and illicit is necessary for easy and fast funding of operations needing to be untraceable and deniable. Organized crime is more organized than most people can imagine. I...
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[16:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:41] <exec> 08└─Epigenetics FTW. And this is not the first such experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Memory RNA is a hypothetical form of RNA that was proposed by James V. McConnell and others in the 1960s as a means of explaining how long-term memories were stored in the brain . The...
[16:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 1643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─While I recommend the book version of Cosmos by Carl Sagan, the corresponding documentary series also works. Don't have my dead tree copy in front of me right now, but I think it's chapter 11 as well as episode 11: "The Persistence of Memory." Sagan uses the analogy (iirc) of a city like New York wi...
[16:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc
[16:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─we can't remember things that happened to our parents
[16:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:04] <exec> 08└─You don't have to worry about me going to any of your concerts, Ticketmaster. I'm not trusting some MIC dataminer with my beloved face. As if Ticketmaster wasn't already bad enough.
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─I gave a free Guy Fawkes mask to the guy who bought my ticket. He found it hilariously ironic.
[16:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:19] <exec> 08└─They won't know until they try. Realistically, they probably won't make mega-millions, but if these guys are bored, it could be fun for them and generate some respectable income. Also, one big difference these days is that the fans are mostly much older, and have plenty of disposable income to spend...
[16:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:21] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the 'moral rights' concept wouldn't have entitled the author to make a derivative work if they'd already sold the copyrights. (For what it's worth, I'm British.)
[16:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2: One (50.5-Inch) Size Fits All - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:29] <exec> 08└─You buy several of them, you see. Ignore the per-unit cost which is.... what, exactly? And compared to a smartboard display is what?
[16:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Possible Cause of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:48] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine had a wife and there were trying to get pregnant. They said they had to drain the cysts before going through an in vitro Fertilization cycle. They said that PCOS is why she had massive cramps during her period as a teenager and in her 20s. (at the time, she even went to the hospital...
[16:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:24] <exec> 08└─The anne frank khazar jewess was made up to help create the holocaust industry. It is just a pillar on which the entire holohoax industry exists. The books about holohoax quote each other as evidence. The whole diary thing was written by her pervert father (all khazars are perverts). As for the joke...
[16:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:25] <exec> 08└─what father talks to his 13 year old daughter about hookers?
[16:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:27] <exec> 08└─Now I'm curious about those dirty jokes as well. Here's a more detailed article on nos.nl (Dutch national TV) https://nos.nl [nos.nl] Volkskrant: https://www.volkskrant.nl
[16:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─yep. if the user has control, this sounds cool to me. even if it doesn't have the coins i'm interested in i'm glad it's in the market.
[16:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year Ago, the NES Classic Flew Off the Shelves—Now It's Coming Back - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:56] <exec> 08└─they have nitendoesque controllers on ebay for $20-30 that work out of the box with linox.
[16:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:19] <exec> 08└─makes me feel very weary
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─The nasty part of the drug war is imprisoning people over these drugs being used recreationally. Sure you might keep a few users out of jail but the main problem would still be there. Stop with the morality war already and focus on helping the addicts.
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─it's an agency that shouldn't even exist, along with countless others. they should all be fired, at the very least. what kind of mindless slaves pay pigs to tell them what medicines they can take? it's disgustingly pitiful.
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─free people don't need to make excuses for their personal decisions. it's none of your business what they do with their lives unless you birthed them. fucking authoritarian.
[16:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─it's mainly because the old people won't die and they vote more than the young people.
[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─yes, this is how black ops are funded. just ask noriega...oh yeah, nevermind.
[16:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tips on Shopping for Sunscreen - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─oh no you di-ent! evidently it's racist to make incorrect biological assumptions. cracker-ass crackers!
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[17:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Carbon Nanotubes as Usable as Common Plastics - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─LOL: Aphasia
[17:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Carbon Nanotubes as Usable as Common Plastics - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:52] <exec> 08└─He is not making carbon nanotubes, as the summary implies; he found out that they easily dissolve in cresol. This is not going to make them "as usable as common plastics". You can shape into forms, but the resulting products will not have any more strength than hardtack bread, since the nanotubes wi...
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Carbon Nanotubes as Usable as Common Plastics - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:55] <exec> 08└─"That's good news!" I'm waiting for the Triage Nurse. She'll set me right up as Aphasia is a symptom of Stroke. That was St. Vincent's working hypothesis a couple weeks ago. Aphasia is a very common symptom of many different neurological disorders. My first experience of it was in May 2010: I wrote...
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:27] <exec> 08└─Face can change- Aging, injury, disease, cosmetics, surgery, etc. Coworker at the data center couldn't get in the other day, because the facial recognition system they have apparently learned his glasses, and he replaced the old broken ones recently. They said that's practically a daily occurrence.
[17:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:29] <exec> 08└─Ticketmaster is effectively a monopoly for large-venue big-name rock concerts. Through contracts, it effectively prevents any competitors from forming. Those contracts should be illegal, but aren't. So, kids, whatcha gonna do? Skip out on seeing those shows, or continue to put up with that kind of t...
[17:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:31] <exec> 08└─Ticketmaster, Facial Recognition, What Could Go Wrong?
[17:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:33] <exec> 08└─Or go to small venue shows and enjoy yourself more.
[17:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─Suing on what grounds ? I don't think anyone denies the Disney owns the franchise.
[17:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2: One (50.5-Inch) Size Fits All - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:58] <exec> 08└─We use a 65" 4K screen. I've seen 80" 4K screens used a few times. Unless it's a big room, projectors are no longer worth the hassle.
[17:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─now on exam papers
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─I guess it all depends on how math was taught in the first place.
[17:19:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:39] <exec> 08└─Fifty shades of Goy
[17:19:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:45] <exec> 08└─1. It's a matter of historical interest about a world famous book that has been censored [wikipedia.org] for its sexual content. 2. Guess the over-60 crowd doesn't know their memes.
[17:19:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:54] <exec> 08└─I am more concerned with the fact that the diary is not in the public domain because the father claims to have altered it
[17:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:02] <exec> 08└─Courtesy of Google Translate: Man comes home at night and notices that another man has been in bed with his wife in the evening. He looks for the whole house and finally looks in the bedroom closet, there is a totally naked man, and when that one man asked what the other one was doing there, the man...
[17:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:55] <exec> 08└─You me was well as every last Soylentil is in the wrong line of work: Some right chaps sell Speaker Wire Suspenders that elevate said wires roughly five inches - 5.08 centimeters - off the floor that cost over a hundred bucks apiece For me to elevate my own particular wires would set me back 600 cla...
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─Let's see you say that after you've been violently robbed :)
[17:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:18] <exec> 08└─No, for something like that I support *decriminalization* at least for possession, followed by shutting down production where possible.
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[18:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:28] <exec> 08└─The body may need this "key" protein for something?
[18:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:29] <exec> 08└─Not to worry. If all the humans are dead, then viruses that target humans are going to be out of a job. Win-win, right?
[18:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:31] <exec> 08└─Leave it to a conservative to come up with extinction as a game plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /s yes I know, what you couldn't scroll down for the disclaimer??
[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:34] <exec> 08└─Create a lung cell culture line that contains enough of the viral genome to create the capsid, filling it with RNA to interfere with production of that protein. Trigger production based on an environmental cue so that the cell culture line doesn't immediately die. Mass produce the cells, trigger pro...
[18:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Carbon Nanotubes as Usable as Common Plastics - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:44] <exec> 08└─the resulting products will not have any more strength than hardtack bread, since the nanotubes will not bond with each other in any way.
[18:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Carbon Nanotubes as Usable as Common Plastics - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:47] <exec> 08└─Good thing you seem to live somewhere somewhat civilised. Around here, present with aphasia, and they'll lock you up on suspicion of devil worship drugs. They don't take kindly to dork who can't get laid who use fancy words like "aphasia" to talk about their consort with satan. Because their god is...
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:01] <exec> 08└─Well, this seems more like what you get with epigenetic modifications than what we usually call memory. Yes, it *is* memory, of a sort, and with a very low bandwidth and poor specificity. There are "memories" like this that can cause people to tend to gain weight more easily, to be more sensitive to...
[18:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─From TFA's Abstract, "Here, it is demonstrated that the memory for long-term sensitization in the marine mollusk Aplysia can be successfully transferred by injecting RNA from sensitized into naïve animals. Moreover, a specific cellular alteration that underlies sensitization in Aplysia, sensory neu...
[18:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:26] <exec> 08└─Time to Interdict before Deployment. Just get a court injunction against this stuff before it starts, and forbid any city to allow installation at any venues. Play the Muslim Woman card. Play the Witness Protection card. Play the Black card. Play the boycott venue and playbill card.
[18:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:27] <exec> 08└─Right now they just scan the ticket barcode, and whoever arrives first with a particular ticket gets in,
[18:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:29] <exec> 08└─Through contracts, it effectively prevents any competitors from forming. Those contracts should be illegal, but aren't.
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2: One (50.5-Inch) Size Fits All - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnet.com/news/affordable-4k-projectors-are-here-what-took-them-so-long/ [cnet.com] The 4K projectors seem to be expensive, over $1,000 still, but that's comparable to 4K TVs that aren't cheap and small. I know someone who uses a (much lower res) projector instead of a TV. They used to ha...
[18:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Possible Cause of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:17] <exec> 08└─The plastics the parents were forced to eat partially as part of their diet had something to do with it. It is no wonder that sperm-count is dropping in places the khazar jewish vermin want to reduce population. We are at war with the khazar jews and we are just beginning to find out the many ways t...
[18:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:57] <exec> 08└─Lolita bait? Anne Frank is almost 89 years old and still spilling secrets. Kind of like how you're a ~2,300-year-old dead man who just won't shut the fuck up.
[18:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:58] <exec> 08└─what father talks to his 13 year old daughter about hookers? Well their house was only a few blocks away from the red light district so it was bound to come up eventually.
[18:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:00] <exec> 08└─Some folks don't like what you write, Aristarchus. As you know. Some folks (losers & haters) don't like what I write. And you want to "put an end" to a guy -- or possibly it's a lady -- because he writes things you don't like. Are we living in Nazi Germany?
[18:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC Announces a "Blockchain-Powered" Smartphone - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─And your post is powered by Autism. Chill out, "Powered by" is another way of letting people know what background services are running. And if you follow those turtles all the way down you'll find they're all actually powered by caffeine. So, you're both wrong!
[18:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arch Foundation Plans "Lunar Library" on a Tiny Sheet of Metal - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:13] <exec> 08└─More would be achieved by educating today's living humans about their current reality. Inspire people about space... nice, but inspire who? The vast majority who pray to magic fairies? Who are easily deceived by liars and conmen. And think the deceiving khazar jews are the real children of israel an...
[18:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:57] <exec> 08└─Does it perform significantly better than 7zip? I could be mistaken, but my understanding was that lossless compression was a dead field as it has basically reached it's theoretical maximum. The emphasis now is on lossy compression as the art of learning where you can lose data and not have people n...
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─Truly weird Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky reminds me of a spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain. He was terrible at DEBATE! [twitter.com] While Rand looks supportive of cannabis, I don't see where he has supported or co-sponsored a bill as far-reaching as Schumer's, including deschedulin...
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[19:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Face The European Parliament Over Facebook's Sway - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:33] <exec> 08└─FUCK THE LIMEYS
[19:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:44] <exec> 08└─AC didn't mandate that blocking the protein would kill you. Look, if you block his protein, you'll never have a cold, but most likely a heart attack in the next 20 years. If you're young enough to care about a heart attack, use this new remedy which will prevent it, but guarantees a stroke within 30...
[19:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:46] <exec> 08└─That's why it says Further studies are needed to make sure it is not toxic in the body though.
[19:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─It's as easy as pulling in a few npm modules and running a script as root.
[19:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:50] <exec> 08└─My AI suggests you might be employing sarcasm in your post, but I fail to detect any.
[19:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 2117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:42] <exec> 08└─I think we can be a little more subtle that a jihad hijab niqab. Depends on how much Ticketmaster has donated to the DNC lately. If they haven't payed enough protection money, the race card will be played off the bat. It's easy. Did anyone ever corroborate and refute the charge that Apple failed to...
[19:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:43] <exec> 08└─You need to ask for a refund.
[19:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:45] <exec> 08└─Is that called a faceplant?
[19:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─And this often continues, with the high-school equivalent being solving a bunch of abstract algebra equations rather than doing application problems.
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:27] <exec> 08└─Who was "ruling out pure math"?? To DO an algebra problem at the high school level, you have to have some basic understanding of symbolic manipulation. You can't really do application problems without understanding the underlying "pure math" on some level. That said, I strongly (STRONGLY!) believe t...
[19:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:19] <exec> 08└─Kind of like how you're a ~2,300-year-old dead man who just won't shut the fuck up.
[19:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:20] <exec> 08└─Google indicates that over 1500 have included at least 2 of them. [google.com] (I originally found those at Yahoo News via a Google search.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:22] <exec> 08└─I think there is value in the research. It's been a very long time, we should be able to be mature about it, and the material itself is quite pertinent to understanding the world of that 15 year old girl. Anthropologically speaking, there is value in what was found. That being said, I read about thi...
[19:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:25] <exec> 08└─You're not the father.
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[20:17:33] <exec> 08└─All the links including and after "Cambrdige Analytica" all come back to soylent and return 404 errors for me. Editor? Help? ;)
[20:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Face The European Parliament Over Facebook's Sway - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:34] <exec> 08└─Arthur T Knackerbracket writes: COLLECTED BY Arthur Bot - NEEDS EDITING Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
[20:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Face The European Parliament Over Facebook's Sway - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─They appear to be cnet relative links; looks like you can substitute cnet.com til links are fixed. Cambridge Analytica link: https://cnet.com [cnet.com] Zuckerberg testified before Congress: https://cnet.com
[20:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Face The European Parliament Over Facebook's Sway - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:39] <exec> 08└─fixd
[20:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:53] <exec> 08└─The airborne particles tend to die when humidity is between 50% and 95%. Outside that range, they survive. Keep buildings in that range. Run a HEPA filter. Put UV in the air conditioning ducts. Wear a mask. If you are sick, stay home. Notify people you may have infected. They should stay home too. M...
[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─The body may need this "key" protein for something?
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─But God refuses to give us the root password, thus we need to resort to hacking.
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─All indications are that he lost it ages ago and never had much of a clue WTF he was doing either...
[20:18:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Making Carbon Nanotubes as Usable as Common Plastics - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:10] <exec> 08└─the resulting products will not have any more strength than hardtack bread, since the nanotubes will not bond with each other in any way.
[20:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:55] <exec> 08└─In some instances they're getting very strict. In the UK, a woman bought tickets for her daughter and son-in-law to watch a musical in London. (Hamilton, IIRC) Only after buying the tickets did it become apparent that she was required to turn up at the venue an hour before the performance to exchang...
[20:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:57] <exec> 08└─Actually point is off target. The purpose (dubious as it may be) here is to make sure that the ticket matches the buyer. (That the ticket is used only once is assumed.) It is not to assure that any given buyer enters only once. Joe Germophobe can buy three tickets (to assure no one sits beside hi...
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[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─"Wow..." the man muttered, as he gazed longingly at the violated child's corpse. He continued, "Children are just too good..." The man, still in a daze, looked around and spotted a cute child. The man moved. Yes, children are just too good...
[21:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Spent $5 Million Protecting and Spying on Julian Assange - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:32] <exec> 08└─No surprise here, other than the amount of money a poor country like Ecuador was willing to spend. That they watched him closely seems the only logical thing to do. They would have to make sure he did not do anything that might be twisted by the British into an act of war.
[21:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Spent $5 Million Protecting and Spying on Julian Assange - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:34] <exec> 08└─Rafael says he's a Crooked Hillary fan. But he did something very special for me, he kept Julian safe. While Julian did those amazing WikiLeaks for me. RIP Seth Rich (Guccifer 2.0)!! A true American patriot, beautiful guy, murdered by the Dems!!
[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─Or just get sick. Your body will make antibodies and you be stronger for it. There's a good reason dirty country kids tend to be healthier adults. They get childhood diseases* and then recover from them. . . * No, I am not advocating any sort of anti-vaccination nonsense. Some diseases should be...
[21:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─And thus far, I've never had the flu. I don't like the idea of injecting bad stuff into your body, which is basically what they do. But I've never had a flu shot and I've never had the flu. I just don't understand it myself, but I have friends that religiously get the flu shot and then they get the...
[21:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:07] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder why you use propecia [washingtonpost.com], seeing how it isn't working at all. Unless, of course, you are not taking it for hair loss.
[21:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Carbon Nanotubes as Usable as Common Plastics - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─When I was a boy, the nuclear was very big & heavy. You needed a HUGE bomber to send it. Enola Gay, right? Now we have the nuclear bullet, our military did incredible things with it in Iraq. Uranium. They're doing the nano armor, the nanotubes. Very strong. And perhaps nano nuclear bullets will beat...
[21:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:36] <exec> 08└─Precisely. In fact, I did the planaria experiment for a science fair back in '70 or '71 (I think it was '70, as that was the year I took biology. '71 was chemistry, and IIRC that year's project was electrolytic extraction of Mg from seawater).
[21:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:08] <exec> 08└─Twins will have free access to each other's financials.
[21:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ticketmaster Plans to Roll Out Facial Recognition. What Could Go Wrong? - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:09] <exec> 08└─The first sale doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109, [cornell.edu] provides that an individual who knowingly purchases a copy of a copyrighted work from the copyright holder receives the right to sell, display or otherwise dispose of that particular copy, notwithstanding the interests of the copyr...
[21:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:27] <exec> 08└─Suing on what grounds ? Sue them for being Disney - surely that is a crime in itself.
[21:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2: One (50.5-Inch) Size Fits All - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:38] <exec> 08└─>>> compared to a smartboard display is .... Do you see people actually using a smartboard? I work with a fair amount of customers consulting, and I've never seen one of these actually /used/. They end up sitting in a corner.
[21:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2: One (50.5-Inch) Size Fits All - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:39] <exec> 08└─It's nice to be able to see the screen without dimming the lights. (Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft as a PFE, therefore my opinion is invalid.)
[21:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:57] <exec> 08└─For that matter, teaching teachers how math maps onto real world problems would be a good thing.
[21:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch National Exam Quizzes High School Students on Bitcoin Math - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:58] <exec> 08└─They don't even teach abstract math, either. They just teach rote memorization. 'If you see a problem that looks like this, do this, this, and this to solve it.' No deep understanding of the material required. That's the extent of the 'education' in the vast majority of schools, and not just for mat...
[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:54] <exec> 08└─I'm going to go jack off to Anne Frank
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[22:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─100% of Democrats, 49 in total, voted in favor of Net Neutrality. 94% of Republicans, 47 in total, voted to eliminate Net Neutrality. Just a reminder that both parties are definitely not the same when it comes to this issue.
[22:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:32] <exec> 08└─There was a line in "The West Wing" an eternity ago, where the temporary R-like president says something along the lines of "We are not going to go crazy just because we're currently in complete control, because that would give you ammo to crush us at the next elections". Kind of a don't-spook-the-c...
[22:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─Kind of amazed that Murkowski would do that, when I emailed Congressman Don Young back in the day over this he informed me that GCI had financially assured him that I am wrong and should get a life. Sounds like someone was skimping on their bribes.
[22:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Will Face The European Parliament Over Facebook's Sway - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:55] <exec> 08└─Arthur T Knackerbracket writes: COLLECTED BY Arthur Bot - NEEDS EDITING
[22:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:17] <exec> 08└─I went with the Propecia. Still having INCREDIBLE sex! I’m so sexy you wouldn’t believe it.
[22:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:18] <exec> 08└─It's not a shot, it's a pill. Very easy to take -- no needle. And it's working very well. I have all my own hair, as everyone knows.
[22:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:37] <exec> 08└─It was a work for hire. The law is very clear who owns it.
[22:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─Tut-tutting over "stardom gossip" and "tabloid consumer targeted" is the very sort of thing I mean. If you truly find the story uninteresting...
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:05] <exec> 08└─It's been a very long time, we should be able to be mature about it, and the material itself is quite pertinent to understanding the world of that 15 year old girl. Anthropologically speaking, there is value in what was found.
[22:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:08] <exec> 08└─Takyon! Surely you are not suggesting that I go sexual, are you?
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[23:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:40] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that you have only two parties. I'm not sure what you could do about that, as the business interests who run the US like only having two, and shooting people to get change doesn't seem like a good plan.
[23:17:41] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 970 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:42] <exec> 08└─republican congressmen only care about 2 things: voting with the party and getting rewarded by their 'donors'. republican voters only care about 2 things: doing whatever their church leaders tell them; and whatever 'that black man did', they want it all undone no, the two sides are NOTHING like each...
[23:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what you are talking about. Care to explain further?
[23:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:46] <exec> 08└─of course, this is ruining our country. but the rich don't care; they don't need 'a country' - their sheer wealth gives them all the protection they need. and when the shit hits the fan, they fly off to their own island or fortress.
[23:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:48] <exec> 08└─"Murkowski" is clearly Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) mentioned in the article. Congressman Don Young [wikipedia.org] is a Republican from Alaska as well and I gather that Sulla, the GP poster, had at one point lived (might still live) in his congressional district, and that he had at one time writte...
[23:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:51] <exec> 08└─You switch republican to democrat and R to D you have the exact same thing. BOTH parties are full of shit. Do not think so? OK. Go pick a random D congress critter. You will find they all mostly vote party line. With a stray here and there. There are about 4-5 people deciding the votes in the senate...
[23:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, they are close enough to exactly the same when it comes to this issue. They are puppets of their party's leadership. If they were not the vote would not be so clearly split along party lines. I doubt that 49 Democratic Senators really care that much about freedom of the Internet and all 47 Repu...
[23:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:55] <exec> 08└─The Washington Post chose this headline: Senate approves bipartisan resolution to restore FCC net neutrality rules [washingtonpost.com]* *For some definitions of bipartisan
[23:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Passes Bill to Preserve Net Neutrality - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:57] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that you have only two parties. There's some pretty compelling evidence that two dominant parties are inevitable given our system of voting. [wikipedia.org] I support proposals change our voting system. But, until they happen you ignore math at your own peril.
[23:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Approach Could Stop the Common Cold - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:41] <exec> 08└─It works through deception. They tell you about the best invention ever and it turns out it was a hoax. It gave you diseases you can never get rid of. They won't stop doing this. Spending big money to create diseases that cannot be fought. Diseases that are invisible and you accept them yourself, li...
[23:19:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 1063 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:04] <exec> 08└─Epigenetics FTW. And this is not the first such experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Memory RNA is a hypothetical form of RNA that was proposed by James V. McConnell and others in the 1960s as a means of explaining how long-term memories were stored in the brain . The...
[23:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Memory" Transferred Between Sea Slugs Using RNA Extraction - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:11] <exec> 08└─Plus the fact that we can't remember things that happened to our parents, but there may be more subtle "lessons" passed on.
[23:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Island Fans Are Begging Disney to Sell the Rights Back to its Creator - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:02] <exec> 08└─Let's say you want to sell the game for about 40 € (or other currency). With 15k fans, the income for the game would be 600k. But let's double that - not everyone who'd buy the game would sign the petition. So, you're looking at 1.2 million. For that, you'd have to do *everything*. It's not just d...
[23:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2: One (50.5-Inch) Size Fits All - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:16] <exec> 08└─Good contrast, fast response time, perfect focus, ability to stand in front without blocking, no fan noise, no bulb life issues, chromecast, cheap, easy to install and emergency-patch into ... Unless you have a room over 24.753' deep, LED TV wins over projector. BUT ... We get the work done with a r...
[23:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anne Frank Gone Sexual - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:34] <exec> 08└─Here's [soylentnews.org] something that doesn't quite fall into the "prudishness and squeamishness of society" line, does it?
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Declines to Hear “Podcasting Patent” Case, Handing Win to EFF - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─Spy sattelites require lossless image compression.
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