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[00:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:06] <exec> 08└─Say, downtown NY or Washington...
[00:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:07] <exec> 08└─management (and programmers) screw up, testers get fired.
[00:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:09] <exec> 08└─From the original article Uber had previously been testing its cars in San Francisco, but the company was forced to remove the vehicles by the California Department of Motor Vehicles over Uber’s refusal to obtain the required permits.
[00:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:12] <exec> 08└─All the professional software dev projects I ever worked on had a test environment and you don't go live until the serious bugs are discovered and worked out. And that's just a crummy web site that doesn't kill people. Anyone know why they don't take an ordinary human driven car with the sensors in...
[00:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:14] <exec> 08└─So some States value rules, some value human life, and some value neither?
[00:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:16] <exec> 08└─Arizona, with its miles of straight level nonpacked streets and 356 dry cloudless days out of the year is a horrible place to test.
[00:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:18] <exec> 08└─Rightly so. Their fault they didn't catch the screwup in time. (grin)
[00:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:21] <exec> 08└─All the professional software dev projects I ever worked on had a test environment and you don't go live until the serious bugs are discovered and worked out. And that's just a crummy web site that doesn't kill people.
[00:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:36] <exec> 08└─The outsourced comment writers didn't get an updated list of Congresscritters, so these two names weren't on the list of those to avoid.
[00:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:37] <exec> 08└─Where are the pitchforks?
[00:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:40] <exec> 08└─The fraudsters that perpetrated this made the crucial mistake of violating the rights of one of the Elites. That. Does. Not. Happen. In this case we can expect something to actually get done, because it happened directly to a Senator. It's expected to happen to a member of the unwashed masses, but t...
[00:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Become a Part-Time Programmer - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:25] <exec> 08└─It happened again right there. And I didn't do the preview. I put the initials of Counter Narcotics & Global Threats. I didn't do the preview. Someone said the preview changes things, so I didn't do it. But still the initials got changed to something else. It's bad cyber. And once again a hater or l...
[00:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:25] <exec> 08└─Tut-tut, FatPhil! Incite to violence against unchecked capitalism while enjoying free public transport safe from BMW pricks? That's what a commie will do. (large grin)
[00:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:26] <exec> 08└─Regulated markets create monopolies. Not only do they pick winners and losers, but they set the bar such that only incumbents can play by law. That's the issue with the ISPs for sure.
[00:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:28] <exec> 08└─A contract is an agreement between 2 parties, and such an agreement must be made in advance of interaction.
[00:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:31] <exec> 08└─Fake News. We asked the Guggenheim to loan us a Van Gogh for the @WhiteHouse [twitter.com]. The bimbo curator told us "no." She didn't tell us "no," she said we could borrow a gold toilet instead. One that THOUSANDS of people had done their business in. NO DEAL!!!!
[00:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:33] <exec> 08└─Zero evidence discredited Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!
[00:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:35] <exec> 08└─And a contract between a weak and a powerful will always be equatable, no guarantees are necessary.
[00:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Version of Photoshop Was Written in Pascal; Source Released - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:23] <exec> 08└─I became a Photoshop user in about 1992 on (I think) an Apple IIc. It was bloody awful. I was a Photolithographer, and the idea was that we could retouch pics and do colour correction quicker and easier than using film separations, but we couldn't and it wasn't. Frankly, if I wasn't restarting the...
[00:30:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 16 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:08] <exec> 08└─free-ride scheme
[00:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Aliens Finds Rare and Mysterious Radio Signal - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:46] <exec> 08└─*Why* does everyone always assume that? What am I doing? Am I harvesting farts? How much can I learn from an ass? - Paul (circa 2011)
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[01:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:18] <exec> 08└─I've spent my career developing safety critical systems (the kind where lots of people die if you screw up) and cannot fathom how this was allowed to occur. Other industries with century plus experience are highly regulated. These things are like engineering research projects (which I spent a couple...
[01:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:19] <exec> 08└─It is as if the cool kids have forgotten everything learned over the past decades. And at the same time, they unleashed their alpha code on test subjects that did not consent to put their lives at risk.
[01:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:21] <exec> 08└─Where's the reliability safety analysis? For a passenger aircraft, the number is something like 1e-13 fatalities/hour.
[01:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:24] <exec> 08└─cannot fathom how this was allowed to occur.
[01:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:26] <exec> 08└─The FAA is there to protect the people on the ground as much as in the plane if not more so. The passengers knew what they were getting into and willingly took a risk. The family at home under the flight path eating dinner had no say in the matter.
[01:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:28] <exec> 08└─I'll let aside the ignored "(large grin)" (which would allow a 'whoosh')... The family at home under the flight path eating dinner had no say in the matter.
[01:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:38] <exec> 08└─Up to this point, the FCC has done less than nothing to investigate the fraud or prevent it from happening again, largely because it aided the FCC's agenda. In fact, the FCC went so far as to block a law enforcement investigation into who was behind the fraud.
[01:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:49] <exec> 08└─Seriously, go post on the FCC web site instead. Then they will HAVE to find a way to block spammers.
[01:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:08] <exec> 08└─Stroke. His father also had one but older, in his 60's. So I have to watch my health.
[01:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:10] <exec> 08└─This is just a sad news. Whatever tiny interaction I had with him was over the internet and still this makes me sad. What he created was part of what I am today.
[01:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:12] <exec> 08└─Well, here's [linux.com] the link to the week of windows article you mentioned.
[01:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:14] <exec> 08└─Yup. From 2003. An apt subheading there: Four awful hours with Microsoft Internet Explorer [...]doesn't have the tabbed browser feature [...]"popup ads" [...]"popunders"
[01:27:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:20] <exec> 08└─> These quasi-monopolies that you hate were born of governmental policy. Hey, did you know Marx just turned 200 ? Just pointing out that it's not exactly news that unregulated capitalistic markets generate monopolies.
[01:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:46] <exec> 08└─Its tools of another era v/s a government armed with tools of mass destruction The amendment you are talking about is out of date and useful only to keep gun manufacturers in business. Sure guns are useful for hunting or range target practice and for nuts to kill kids...not useful to overturn a bad...
[01:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:47] <exec> 08└─... especially when you're tugging at the robes and begging for help from some hideous creature like Uncle Sam. You want guarantees? Associate with enforcers and collective bargainers for whom you have respect, and include them in your contracts.
[01:28:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:07] <exec> 08└─they are now worth only about half what they were just a few years ago.
[01:28:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06A Critique of sha256crypt / sha512crypt on GNU/Linux - 1100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:42] <exec> 08└─The long password DOS attack on an authentication server seems like a case of crying wolf while on the 32nd floor of a Manhattan office building... unlikely, and there are plenty of layers of protection to deal with such things. First: how long does a password really need to be? I mean, we encourage...
[01:28:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06A Critique of sha256crypt / sha512crypt on GNU/Linux - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:54] <exec> 08└─- A long password hogs CPU - too many and you have denial of service.
[01:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:41] <exec> 08└─Did you even look in Wikipedia? I don't think so. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Here's what it says: "Today, Estonia is an ethnically fairly diverse country, ranking 97th out of 239 countries and territories in 2001 study by Kok Kheng Yeoh....According to the...
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[02:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technique Doubles Conversion of CO2 to Plastic Component - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:00] <exec> 08└─Carbon dioxide concentrations measured on Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, are 3.6 ppm higher than at the South Pole, for mysterious "reasons." What's more, the difference is getting bigger and bigger. http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu [ucsd.edu]
[02:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technique Doubles Conversion of CO2 to Plastic Component - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe the feedstock for future 3D printers will come from CO2 removed from the air. Not now, the lab experiments probably work with pure CO2 from a bottle, but maybe someday we will make plastic stuff "from air".
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─Arizona, you suspend us from testing our code just because of one fatality? Fine, we'll take our toys to Pittsburgh, where the mayor has a hardon for us. Enjoy your 300 new jobless!
[02:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─Two current systems (from completely unrelated companies) I am working with are "cloud solutions". There is a "pilot" environment for each system, which is the dev and test box (yes, *and* stage/UAT) The other environment for each system is "prod". So: build and test in pilot, then build it again in...
[02:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:27] <exec> 08└─Test pre-conditions didn't specifically say testers had to know what a brake pedal was for.
[02:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:29] <exec> 08└─Now, now... stop with those lame excuses, as they are completely irrelevant. You don't expect management to support the consequences of the screwup, do you? This would go against the natural order, mate.
[02:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:31] <exec> 08└─Of course not! The testing team signed off on the test scripts. Management can't be expected to know anything about testing. That is why you hire testers. If there was anything wrong with the tests, of course it was the test team's fault. That is why they were all sacked.
[02:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:51] <exec> 08└─It's clear that it doesn't serve Labor (or consumers). When Neil Gorsuch wrote his dissenting opinion (in a 6 - 1 decision) in the Frozen Trucker case (where he thought that the worker should have stayed with his trailer with the brakes that had been frozen in a blizzard and should have allowed hims...
[02:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:52] <exec> 08└─I hope they package that stuff in flat-sided bundles. The cylindrical things are deadly. Mike Edwards, cellist for the Electric Light Orchestra was driving down the road when a half-ton bale rolled down a hill, [google.com] jumped a fence, and landed on his vehicle just as he was passing by. ...exac...
[02:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Become a Part-Time Programmer - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:44] <exec> 08└─Nah, man - I can take this monster idea of yours from rough description through test driven development fully documented to agile deployment with 100% customer satisfaction within a week, by myself. That's a four day week - no sweat.
[02:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Become a Part-Time Programmer - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:45] <exec> 08└─the odd negotiating tactics above would be indicated if you didn't have the competent variety of boss to start with, such that you have to trick them into negotiations instead of just talk to them. PHB From Dilbert comes to mind as an example of this variety.
[02:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:53] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as a "guarantee" especially when you're tugging at the robes and begging for help from some hideous creature like Uncle Sam ${multinational_corporation}.
[02:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:33] <exec> 08└─Serious question: have you even cashed out the $4K this thing has cost you yet, or will you HODL to the Mun?
[02:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:35] <exec> 08└─All this proved is that, as usual, nobody in a position of power actually knows what he's doing.
[02:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:37] <exec> 08└─Or they're using that muscle to push the market towards a fixed ratio with BTC. They may be raking it in, or they might be leaking money. Can't tell from what you wrote.
[02:29:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Original Version of Photoshop Was Written in Pascal; Source Released - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:17] <exec> 08└─What do you mean Pascal? Not Rust? Not even Go-lang? Must be ported to node.js at once! (grin)
[02:30:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:12] <exec> 08└─But if they didn't charge foreigners they'd open themselves up to "travel tourism". People would fly in to Estonia just to use the free public transport rather than paying for local travel in their own country.
[02:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Search for Aliens Finds Rare and Mysterious Radio Signal - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal [wikipedia.org]
[02:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two EmDrive Papers -- Mach Effect Thruster, Too - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:32] <exec> 08└─Dammit!!!
[02:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Overwhelming Mass of Humanity - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:58] <exec> 08└─This person [beshine.com] accounts for at least 10% of that mass.
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[03:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Technique Doubles Conversion of CO2 to Plastic Component - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:11] <exec> 08└─That ban is mostly low-grade waste. Not all plastic waste is considered to be low grade, and those are still importable. The real problem is that most things that people think of off-hand that are made of plastic (bottles and other food containers) are made from the low-grade material. And the reaso...
[03:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:37] <exec> 08└─But you have to understand, if they'd left the emergency brake system online, the ride might not have been smooth enough for the passengers! Seriously, that's gotta incur some serious liability. One does not simply switch off the emergency brake system.
[03:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:38] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. They won't count against the unemployment rate after 6 months, or has it been increased to 3 months yet?
[03:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:01] <exec> 08└─Admittedly, we are way past due for someone's noon-time beverage of choice to be floating in the harbor. Problem is the population's got itself in a state where the active people have been aimed at each other and the principled people are too disgusted by the antics of the active people to want to a...
[03:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:02] <exec> 08└─big religion (there's really only one in the US, fwiw) brainwashes people to vote against their own self interests. look no further than that. you want to have control over your country again? stop forcing kids (who can't say no to their parents for obvious reasons) to adopt YOUR religion. let thei...
[03:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:17] <exec> 08└─It was called Dice.
[03:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:27] <exec> 08└─What can you do to prevent a stroke at 46? You said the guy was in pretty good shape after all. Do you think it was just way too much stress? This makes me worry a lot about myself...
[03:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:06] <exec> 08└─Our Founding Fathers hated their King. Because he kept his army around even when there was no war (they called it peace). And for many reasons. So they said, let's have a part time army, let's only have an army when we have a war. Not a "standing army." We'll have guys that know how to shoot, they w...
[03:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazonian 'Lookout' Birds Help Other Species Live in Dangerous Neighborhoods - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:07] <exec> 08└─The alarm birds would cry "TRIGGERED!" so often that it would become meaningless, and the whole flock would perish.
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[04:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria-Causing Parasite Manipulates Liver Cells to Survive - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:06] <exec> 08└─It would also assure long lasting fame of the sort that Fleming, Salk, and Pasteur achieved. I wish those involved in the research all the success possible. Malaria has been a scourge for far too long.
[04:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria-Causing Parasite Manipulates Liver Cells to Survive - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:08] <exec> 08└─That's why the Russkies fortify their livers with vodka. You never hear of central asian turco-mongols dying of malaria, do you? Do you? That's because, that's right, vodka. All hail Rakya. All hail.
[04:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technique Doubles Conversion of CO2 to Plastic Component - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:25] <exec> 08└─True, but this brings in the amazing specific difference between plastic in general and CO2 when it comes to recycling, which specific difference invalidates the "recycling CO2 just as plastic is now"): *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) The Difference: while low grade plastic exist...
[04:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:54] <exec> 08└─All the professional software dev projects I ever worked on had a test environment and you don't go live until the serious bugs are discovered and worked out.
[04:26:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─Where are the pitchforks?
[04:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Original Version of Photoshop Was Written in Pascal; Source Released - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe this code could be used to help the GIMP devs get their act together. Even today, GIMP still doesn't have CMYK :(
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[05:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:04] <exec> 08└─Seriously, the UK is off the scale with respect to being a nanny state / police state. It's beyond sad that people in the UK are ( apparently ) swallowing down all the police state measures without even trying to prevent such things. I guess that's why they call themselves SUBJECTS instead of CITIZE...
[05:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:06] <exec> 08└─Would you please think of the children!
[05:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria-Causing Parasite Manipulates Liver Cells to Survive - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:16] <exec> 08└─When I think of mosquitoes, I automatically associate them with the cold wasteland called Russia. 🇷🇺 🦟🦟🦟
[05:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:26] <exec> 08└─Even if a CAPTCHA system worked, there is no way to tell if the humans are US citizens or residents. Better: require comments to be notarized, then sent by registered mail Much better: require comments to be hand-delivered by the commenter, with a US passport presented as identification, making use...
[05:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:29] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the whole idea of a "representative" form of government to decide on such things? How hard will it be to convince a million people to agree to something that benefits someone else at the people's expense? How hard is it to convince a dozen "representatives" to agree to something that bene...
[05:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:30] <exec> 08└─A dispute is the lack of a well-defined contract
[05:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:32] <exec> 08└─I find nothing wrong with "natural" monopolies. If one guy built a light bulb manufacturing plant, and through economies of scale, no-one can compete. He can make light bulbs far cheaper than you can. Any problem with that? Buy your light bulbs from him. Now, what I hate are legally enforced monopo...
[05:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Original Version of Photoshop Was Written in Pascal; Source Released - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:25] <exec> 08└─Better to refer to Free Pascal, which seems to be compatible with various historic pascals including Object Pascal. Turbo Pascal and Delphi. It also seems to target lots of OSes and architectures. Free Pascal is a 32, 64 and 16 bit professional Pascal compiler. It can target many processor architect...
[05:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:32] <exec> 08└─College GF picked my wallet out of my back pocket one day while we were walking down a hall. Ever since then I've kept my wallet in a front pocket. Side advantage, I'm not sitting on that fat lump.
[05:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:34] <exec> 08└─Side advantage, I'm not sitting on that fat lump.
[05:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:36] <exec> 08└─Well think about it for longer than 2 seconds. Fewer cars on the road means first off less money spent on road maintenance. Then there is less traffic, fewer traffic collisions...less health care costs (from fewer traumatic injuries, and pollution caused illnesses, and less stress from driving). See...
[05:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:38] <exec> 08└─Gas, parking and oversize vehicles need to become much more expensive. There was a time when vehicles were getting smaller but now the trend is to make them heavy and wide as an F150 truck and rumble out low frequencies. Totally destroys the ambiance of the neighborhood and damages roads to the 4th...
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[06:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:11] <exec> 08└─Tackle the Wild West? So what are they going to do? * Stop the Nigerian Scammers? * Stop the Penis Enlargement Spammers? * Put an end to IoT botnets? * Patch millions of Windows XP machines connected directly to the net? * Prevent Facebook and its ilk from being the biggest snitch the world has ever...
[06:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:13] <exec> 08└─That's just about the biggest point you must NOT do, according to them. Except TV personalities in their offices.
[06:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:15] <exec> 08└─plans to license and tax foreign Internet companies (yes, Including the US ones). Whoever refuses will be blocked (by a future great Swiss firewall, I guess). So far it is only about gambling, but just wait... https://calvinayre.com [ca...
[06:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:17] <exec> 08└─New laws will be introduced to tackle the internet's "wild west" that will make Britain the "safest place in the world" to be online, the culture secretary has said.
[06:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:19] <exec> 08└─impose an industry-wide levy
[06:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria-Causing Parasite Manipulates Liver Cells to Survive - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:30] <exec> 08└─It's insane.
[06:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:15] <exec> 08└─a buggy web site will kill profit
[06:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:17] <exec> 08└─FYI [reuters.com] Uber reached the settlement with the daughter and husband of Elaine Herzberg, who died at age 49 after being hit by the Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona. The settlement presumably includes a cash payment, but no details were provided by either Uber or the family's attorney.
[06:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:06] <exec> 08└─Stress has already been mentioned. Minimize that. (These days, there's all kinds of biofeedback machines.) Take good care of your circulatory system. Do the same kinds of stuff you'd do if you had a history of cardiac disease in your family (proper diet; no salt; regular exercise; medication, if rec...
[06:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:07] <exec> 08└─I mainly saw what he wrote and agree he wrote a lot of good stuff, but I had wondered why he seemed to be so quiet of late. I had just assumed that he was busy in other areas. I'm hard pressed to recall anything specifc he wrote, just that he wrote well and often about good topics. Now that I look a...
[06:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:50] <exec> 08└─Dear President Trump: My fear is our "enemy" will not nuke us. They will buy us! Now, why would any modern enemy want to sully our farmland with nuclear fallout? Just get us into debt, then foreclose!
[06:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Original Version of Photoshop Was Written in Pascal; Source Released - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:46] <exec> 08└─It is mentioned in the object pascal article, but you're right, it deserved more prominent mention.
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[07:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:03] <exec> 08└─From the looks of it, it uses Qt 3.x internally, so it's likely portable to other operating systems as well. I was scared it'd be using WinAPI for the GUI. Qt 5.x also has a port for Android, so you could even get Eudora on your phone. There's some non-FOSS stuff that'll need to be gutted, but it al...
[07:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:04] <exec> 08└─I would like to thank the people who had the authority to release this. Because of you, innumerable students of the art will look at the source to gain insight on how to build things. While the rest of us have some nostalgia to fall back on. I could only wish other people who no longer saw fit to m...
[07:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:18] <exec> 08└─Meantime Switzerland plans to license and tax foreign Internet companies (yes, Including the US ones). Whoever refuses will be blocked (by a future great Swiss firewall, I guess).
[07:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:20] <exec> 08└─impose an industry-wide levy
[07:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:18] <exec> 08└─I've spent my career developing safety critical systems...
[07:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:09] <exec> 08└─Of course, now he has [soylentnews.org] (grin)
[07:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:58] <exec> 08└─Interesting... I have great respect for Morgan Freeman. Thought he was not only a great actor, but a visionary as well.
[07:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:59] <exec> 08└─I have this nagging suspicion that over 90% of my healthcare dollar goes to billing related services and investment returns, while the caregivers get the remaining tidbit.
[07:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:01] <exec> 08└─What miffs me is the way companies play off other countries against us when locating headquarters based on tax minimization schemes. Then, if someone moves in on them, they come a running... America! Send your Military! Enforce my Property Rights!
[07:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:03] <exec> 08└─The explanation of that was in the bit you snipped.
[07:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:06] <exec> 08└─Hang on, my argument was "It is not free. You are paying for it from you tax" Why is it relevant your tax didn't increase? - a reallocation of taxes doesn't mean you are not paying it from your taxes Why is it relevant it wasn't primarily motivated to give you the enjoyment of free public transport,...
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[08:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:03] <exec> 08└─Who payed for if all those years?
[08:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:27] <exec> 08└─So, they want to make it a prison, eh?
[08:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:28] <exec> 08└─As such, if the majority of voters agree with "you pay us, otherwise we don't want to hear from you online", what grounds you have to object their decision?
[08:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:30] <exec> 08└─Mandatory walled gardens for everyone. Didn't you know that only terrorists like Julian Assange use Linux? There is no need to fear the government if you have nothing to hide, Winston!
[08:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technique Doubles Conversion of CO2 to Plastic Component - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:58] <exec> 08└─How many boring, old-fashioned trees you can plant, grow and harvest for the cost of "converting" one kg of CO2 with this new-and-exciting tech?
[08:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:44] <exec> 08└─Where are the pitchforks?
[08:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazonian 'Lookout' Birds Help Other Species Live in Dangerous Neighborhoods - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:09] <exec> 08└─I hope you can find your "scared" place. Yes, I know it is usually called a "safe" place, but let us be honest, Soyletil to Soylentil.
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[09:25:11] <exec> 08└─The university. The Computing and Maths School has a facility for creating "microsites", which they apparently didn't bother monitor or clean up.
[09:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 1761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:12] <exec> 08└─The coverage of this story is really starting to annoy me. What gets reported: University fined £120,000 after student 'microsite' is hacked The important story (if you follow a couple of links): University negligently stores 20,000 highly sensitive staff/student records on a server that is also ru...
[09:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:14] <exec> 08└─http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/ [internetlivestats.com] Many websites are small, especially some of the old ones http://mentalfloss.com [mentalfloss.com] http://www.404pagefound.com [404pagefound.com] With minimal vis...
[09:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:24] <exec> 08└─I tried using it after reading accolades from multiple people on ye olde website. I suppose it must be almost 10 years since then... it was crashing all the time for me, so I ultimately went to Claws Mail. Can someone tell me what was special about Eudora? What did I miss?
[09:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:43] <exec> 08└─As such, if the majority of voters agree with "you pay us, otherwise we don't want to hear from you online", what grounds you have to object their decision?
[09:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:45] <exec> 08└─Direct democracies are a terrible idea when they allow the majority to violate fundamental rights such as freedom of speech.
[09:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:47] <exec> 08└─So, if the majority agree you should be executed with an oversized spiked dildo, what grounds you have to object their decision?
[09:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:49] <exec> 08└─Notice: in accordance with British law, your posting has been flagged as too sarcastic. You are hereby allotted 3 WiWe points, when you reach 10 points your connections will be shut down for 6 months.
[09:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:51] <exec> 08└─A walled garden. With barbed wire and lima beans.
[09:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:06] <exec> 08└─Serious answer - I have not. I have used it though, when it was between 10-20k - I only use it when it jumps high. I have about total of about $120k in bitcoin at the current price. In addition, here is some interesting stuff: I've been to about 50-60 countries and lived for extended periods in seve...
[09:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:36] <exec> 08└─I was paying for it already out of my taxes, public transport has always been highly subsidised. Now more of my taxes are being directed towards the town I live in, in particular the facilities I most appreciate (I have little direct use for most of the facilities that I pay for, to be honest, but I...
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[10:25:03] <exec> 08└─I read Hansen's post when this was submitted. One of EFF's lamer moments due to the incredibly ambiguous statements they made in their alarmist blog post. I don't see any follow-up as Hansen seemed to believe was on the way. If you aren't going to donate to EFF because of it, pitch some money to the...
[10:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:22] <exec> 08└─I used it originally on Windows 3.11 using the Win16 API. QT3 puts it early '00s, which makes this a very late version of the client. Would love to know if earlier releases source code has survived and if it will be released in due time.
[10:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:46] <exec> 08└─Heh, so we have come to this: online gambling run as a business is free speech.
[10:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/487664/MPs-paedophiles-Theresa-May-David-Cameron-British-Parliament-lost-dossierhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_paedophile_dossier [express.co.uk] https://timetostartcaring.com [timetostartca...
[10:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure, whatevs mate. I got it, money is speech and should flow unimpeded. Tell you what, though. I'll make sure to send you some dimethyl mercury as a free speech sample - it does cost some money but for you it will be free as in both speech and beer. Just drop your mailing address here. I hope...
[10:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:52] <exec> 08└─Here's a clue: by my swimming pool there is neither lever nor roll of paper.
[10:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:43] <exec> 08└─As someone who had a stroke at 45 (minor, survived) my one piece of advice (if you haven't already) is to get a blood pressure machine and use it every week or so. I was lucky in that I got a minor warning stroke first and it was properly diagnosed and assessed by the medics, so I may now get away w...
[10:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:44] <exec> 08└─would have existed if not for his early support, and I imagine his, CmdrTaco, and a few other early guys Linux usage was responsible for a fair share of early linux conversion during that period. I know that I learned all sorts of unexpected tricks thanks to either their comments, or articles that w...
[10:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:28] <exec> 08└─Are you saying they wipe their arses?
[10:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 2148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:42] <exec> 08└─I spent a year taking the bus. It was faster for me to BICYCLE 30 miles *EACH WAY* than to take the bus to get anywhere. And for any sort of short bus trip the bike won hands down. However the number of places with bicycle stands was exceedingly small, and new buildings/shopping centers almost never...
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[11:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:01] <exec> 08└─Sharing pics of your breakfast ain't worth $1 billion? You mean, narcissists aren't the center of the universe? How could this be?
[11:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:18] <exec> 08└─It took them, the crooks, 12 years to find it? Really? As I recall from working in university IT we where constantly be scanned and probed. As an experiment we put up some unsecure servers and workstations just to see how long it would be before someone compromised them -- it was an hour or two befo...
[11:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:56] <exec> 08└─If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! HOW can you have any pudding if you DON'T eat your meat!
[11:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:57] <exec> 08└─Good thing I still live in the US then. Lima beans are cruel and unusual punishment.
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technique Doubles Conversion of CO2 to Plastic Component - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:26] <exec> 08└─These 3D printers are called "plants", and the plastics they build are called "cellulose".
[11:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technique Doubles Conversion of CO2 to Plastic Component - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:28] <exec> 08└─Easy to mine the carbon from the air, if you have a renewable energy source to do it. Wouldn't that be a fun thought experiment, to imagine a world where everyone can 3D print objects they need out of thin air?
[11:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:00] <exec> 08└─Well, the EULA had a clause down the line of "hold harmless"...
[11:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:01] <exec> 08└─For a good test environment, let the website programmers know the CEO is going to be given a random system and plain old consumer grade ISP line and he's going to evaluate the site. It may or may not have ad blockers, or any combination of same a consumer is apt to have on his system. If it does no...
[11:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HyperQuantum [2673] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:21] <exec> 08└─Make it an 80% decision, hoping that the same people who can summon 51% somehow can't get to 80%?
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[12:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:04] <exec> 08└─So they want their selfdriving car to cut other people off, honk their horn for no reason and generally behave like an ass in traffic? OK ....
[12:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:06] <exec> 08└─So they want their selfdriving car to cut other people off, honk their horn for no reason and generally behave like an ass in traffic?
[12:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:08] <exec> 08└─Weave Not use indicators Maybe wave a robot arm, when someone lets it in..
[12:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:16] <exec> 08└─No, Pictures of your breakfast before it enters your body is only worth $500 million. Fortunately, you can get the other half of the money from the people posting pictures of it after it leaves the body.
[12:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:19] <exec> 08└─*unchecks Post Anonymously*
[12:25:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 1761 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:33] <exec> 08└─The coverage of this story is really starting to annoy me. What gets reported: University fined £120,000 after student 'microsite' is hacked The important story (if you follow a couple of links): University negligently stores 20,000 highly sensitive staff/student records on a server that is also ru...
[12:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─Qt 3.x to 4.x was not exactly seamless for porters, 4.x to 5.x was better. Still doable, everything is doable. Has anybody here "done" Qt 5 on Android yet? I tried it about 4 years back, Lighthouse and various other things, it wasn't easy enough to inspire a proof of concept project then.
[12:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:48] <exec> 08└─what was special about Eudora?
[12:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:50] <exec> 08└─I miss Eudora. It was almost infinitely configurable with the X-Eudora extensions so it did exactly what you wanted it to.
[12:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:20] <exec> 08└─As such, if the majority of voters agree with "you pay us, otherwise we don't want to hear from you online", what grounds you have to object their decision?
[12:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:21] <exec> 08└─Edit to post (#683964): this was supposed to reply to (#683926).
[12:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technique Doubles Conversion of CO2 to Plastic Component - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:53] <exec> 08└─Hint: Most gas production companies use cryonic setups to extract specific gasses from the atmosphere for sale. Same may also/exclusively be extracted as byproducts of natural gas/oil efforts but the majority are in fact compressed out of the atmosphere.
[12:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:27] <exec> 08└─This brings up an important point. You appear to be saying that testing environments will evolve to favor the convenience of the executives. So even if it were possible today to quickly develop a sufficient testing environment for self-driving cars, this dynamic would be a force that could cripple t...
[12:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:53] <exec> 08└─I mean if you're going to make an accusation like that, at least include this: https://www.denverpost.com [denverpost.com] https://www.nbcnews.com
[12:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:23] <exec> 08└─I never met Roblimo. Exchanged messages with him a couple of times over the many years I was on Slashdot. This news made me sad, though. I wouldn't have expected, had you asked me at the beginning, to form an emotional bond at all with folks I talk to over the Internet, but I have. I have here, also...
[12:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Become a Part-Time Programmer - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:54] <exec> 08└─There's been a masterful marketing job that SS and medicare are "savings programs" but they aren't, each dollar in is a dollar minus admin costs out with the occasional weird buffer funds that don't really matter much. Its simple wealth transfer from kids to parents. Everyone paying in is paying som...
[12:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Become a Part-Time Programmer - 2242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:55] <exec> 08└─Two things I've done over the decades: 1) If you want hobby time and family time on average, take shorter term contracts during the school year. My kids know if I'm home during the summer, they don't know or care if I'm working while they're in school. Remote work also helps. 2) The article went int...
[12:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:54] <exec> 08└─they're using that muscle to push the market towards a fixed ratio with BTC.
[12:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:56] <exec> 08└─What makes that illegal? That they're using a cryptocurrency? That they're breathing? Crime requires criminal acts first.
[12:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Public Transport is Launched Across Estonia - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:29] <exec> 08└─Read deeper, their idea of diversity is quaintly euro where the lines being redrawn repeatedly over the last centuries mean there's "true Estonians" vs "Russians" vs various others. Its like saying Poland was very diverse because they redrew the lines so many times that there's Germans and Poles and...
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[13:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:04] <exec> 08└─Let me know when someone finds an algorithm that can deal with unknown situations as intuitively as human beings can. Until then...
[13:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:05] <exec> 08└─If these cars are driverless then how will they blow the horn and give other cars the finger when these driverless cars change lanes?
[13:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:08] <exec> 08└─Even with the bar that low, we'll be looking for a long time they'll be able to pass over it.
[13:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:10] <exec> 08└─Let me know when someone finds an algorithm that can deal with unknown situations as intuitively as human beings can. Until then...
[13:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:12] <exec> 08└─I googled up "National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey Report to Congress" or similar (I've read it before, its a NHTSA pub) and found the 2008 PDF pretty easily and about 145 deaths per year are from lane changes. We've been averaging fifty lightning strike deaths per year for a long time, so...
[13:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:14] <exec> 08└─If these cars are driverless then how will they blow the horn and give other cars the finger when these driverless cars change lanes?
[13:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:25] <exec> 08└─The old paradigm was highly capital intensive, raise money to buy your locomotive that lasts 50 years and slowly generates like a hundred times its purchase cost in revenue, minus expense, yields a hefty profit. The dotcom era when I was a younger man was raise tons of money because you need two phy...
[13:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:27] <exec> 08└─If these "unicorns" are privately held, and are thriving/surviving on VC money, then how is this an issue? The tech bubble of 2000 caused a lot of trouble because public companies went "poof" (along with stockholders' & investment funds' money). I'm not sure we're facing the same concerns if private...
[13:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Efail: A Postmortem - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:36] <exec> 08└─Problem with post-mortems is that they necessarily involve hindsight, problem with planning to handle future events better is that you have to do it without hindsight. They say that when there's a fire in a nightclub you're at more risk of dying from the stampede than the blaze.
[13:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─because it had been linked to a database containing
[13:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 1853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:01] <exec> 08└─I remember using Eudora back around the time of the first major worms propagated by Outlook. These were relatively large attachments at a time when dial up access was still the norm and my ISPs mail server would drop connections after (IIRC) an hour. Eudora had rather suboptimal behavior in this sit...
[13:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:33] <exec> 08└─The home secretary, Sajid Javid, said: “Criminals [...] abuse of children [...] terrorists [...]
[13:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:34] <exec> 08└─In the US we use oatmeal for our gruel and unusual punishment.
[13:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:06] <exec> 08└─Where are the pitchforks?
[13:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:38] <exec> 08└─Thank you for sharing that bit of advice, I've never thought of purchasing a BP monitor.
[13:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:10] <exec> 08└─From the linked article: spoofing and wash trading are illegal. If individuals or groups are trading XRP with themselves in order to manipulate the market price up or down, that's wash trading, and illegal. Like most bad laws it's difficult to prove: intent or collusion or manipulation of market pri...
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[14:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:03] <exec> 08└─Are they really looking inside Pluto, or just at the surface evidence? It would seem rather inevitable that the surface of Pluto is covered with comet impacts which don't boil off... For that matter it seems like the Earth may be 2/3 covered with comet impact residue, too.
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─A dwarf athlete is an athlete. A dwarf actor is an actor. A dwarf prostitute is a prostitute. As everybody knows. But this article says a dwarf planet isn't "categorised as" a planet. Folks, that's "categorised as" DUMB!!
[14:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:20] <exec> 08└─blowing the horn or _giving_ the finger is trivial to automate (e.g. https://cdn.thisiswhyimbroke.com [thisiswhyimbroke.com] ) Real question is if the cars are driverless who is going to be watching or listening to react to it? What we actually need before we ge...
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─Random algorithm to maybe use indicators, usually after beginning the lane change.
[14:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:24] <exec> 08└─This is interesting. They've calculated safe buffer zones around each vehicle based on their immediate velocity and position. And then they found that a typical human driver ignores these safe buffer zones. Did they just quantify exactly how bad most drivers are? I think most good drivers are aware...
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─If they get an robot arm to wave I'm sure they'll also program it to give you the finger just as often, or more.
[14:25:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:35] <exec> 08└─No, Pictures of your breakfast before it enters your body is only worth $500 million. Fortunately, you can get the other half of the money from the people posting pictures of it after it leaves the body.
[14:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:40] <exec> 08└─Who cares what their so-called valuations are? If they make the 2000-era mistake of going public, they'll get a real valuation. NASDAQ price-to-earnings ratios are not much higher than their historical average - and half what they were in 2000 (and a sixth of 2008 levels). Companies have to make mon...
[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─When rich people's money goes poof, you can bet your asshole that they will find a way to make the general population pay them back.
[14:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─Investors new to the VC game, including hedge funds and mutual funds, came in when the Jobs Act started to get rid of investor protections in 2012, because there were fewer IPOs occurring. Oh how very interesting. I wasn't aware of many of these details. Time to do a bit of reading. New regulatory c...
[14:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:47] <exec> 08└─We're running out of time to register our domains and get some of that sweet VC cash. I'm starting a social network specifically for animals. I'll call it Pets.com...
[14:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Efail: A Postmortem - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:57] <exec> 08└─I wish some people wouldn't use overly unusual words when a simple one will do.
[14:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:09] <exec> 08└─Taxpayers of course. They never run out of money.
[14:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 374 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:18] <exec> 08└─I would like to thank the people who had the authority to release this. Because of you, innumerable students of the art will look at the source to gain insight on how to build things. While the rest of us have some nostalgia to fall back on. I could only wish other people who no longer saw fit to m...
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:26] <exec> 08└─Awaiting the lawsuit from Shiva Ayyadurai for the museum giving away his invention for free.
[14:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:00] <exec> 08└─will make Britain the "safest place in the world" to be online
[14:27:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 922 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:42] <exec> 08└─All the professional software dev projects I ever worked on had a test environment and you don't go live until the serious bugs are discovered and worked out. And that's just a crummy web site that doesn't kill people. Anyone know why they don't take an ordinary human driven car with the sensors in...
[14:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:07] <exec> 08└─If something simply cannot be done, then you can't do it. So stop already. Don't release code you can't test. Just don't do it. But I doubt that's the case. If the guys with hardons for SDCs realized the only way we're going to be allowed to proceed is by setting up a thoroughly realistic test envir...
[14:28:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 353 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:25] <exec> 08└─The fraudsters that perpetrated this made the crucial mistake of violating the rights of one of the Elites. That. Does. Not. Happen. In this case we can expect something to actually get done, because it happened directly to a Senator. It's expected to happen to a member of the unwashed masses, but t...
[14:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:35] <exec> 08└─Where are the pitchforks?
[14:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:37] <exec> 08└─Thank you for using effect properly as a verb!
[14:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Become a Part-Time Programmer - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:40] <exec> 08└─We're talking computer programming, not factory work, so why dick around negotiating the conditions of your wage-slavery? Not my industry (I like programming too much to make a job of it), but everything I've heard says contracting is the way to go.
[14:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:56] <exec> 08└─A contract backed up by the use of force.
[14:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:57] <exec> 08└─A collection of people cannot do anything. Only the individual people do things.
[14:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:00] <exec> 08└─Too often there is a power in-balance where one party feels forced and/or one party feels like they're free to break or change the terms.
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[15:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:06] <exec> 08└─A trans man is a ... yeah got ya there. Its just height-ism. When astronomers talk about the criteria of "clearing the neighborhood" thats really a codeword for banging THOTs, ya know, planetary style, and if Pluto is too dwarf-ish-ly short per red pill theory to bang THOTs well ship some vidya game...
[15:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:07] <exec> 08└─Enough with the DUMB comets already!
[15:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:10] <exec> 08└─Absolutely! It's as dumb as an orange president not categorized as orange, right? (I have a strange feeling I' misplaced a comma in the above)
[15:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:12] <exec> 08└─The problem with dwarf planets is that there are just too many of them. If you call them planets, that's like calling all female mammals women. When Pluto was discovered, we had no idea how many Kuiper objects there were. Now that we are starting to know, we can either "draw an arbitrary line in the...
[15:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:14] <exec> 08└─Pluto is made of comets, that much I got it already. Now, question is... what made up the comets?
[15:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─If you call them planets, that's like calling all female mammals women.
[15:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:19] <exec> 08└─People get worked up when stuff they were taught in elementary school changes. If they would pay attention, lots more than "what is a planet" has changed.
[15:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:38] <exec> 08└─Blowing the horn isn't that hard to automated.
[15:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what immediately sprang to mind in response was that old chestnut: "When in trouble or in doubt run in circles scream and shout" Pretty sure it won't take much AI to outperform that...
[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:42] <exec> 08└─And then they found that a typical human driver ignores these safe buffer zones. Did they just quantify exactly how bad most drivers are?
[15:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:44] <exec> 08└─I think another component is likely that humans are really bad at solving nonlinear physics equations in their head while driving, and intuition is generally a poor estimate, so that "safe buffer zone" they think they're leaving actually isn't. Intuitively, how much do you think your braking distanc...
[15:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:46] <exec> 08└─What we actually need before we get driverless cars is a proper standardised driving insult (giving and receiving) protocol.
[15:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─You are not entirely wrong. When people want to change lanes, they kinda weave around a bit. They drift toward one side of the lane. Other people can notice this (subconsciously or otherwise) and can create a gap. Sometime the gap creation is to let them over. Other times it's because they seem erra...
[15:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:51] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the corresponding rate of accidents that *would have happened* if one of the drivers hadn't rapidly changed lanes is. Just this morning I had a guy pull out right in front of me from a cross-street that I had to dodge. In the far lane. Nice
[15:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─When people want to change lanes, they kinda weave around a bit. They drift toward one side of the lane. Other people can notice this (subconsciously or otherwise) and can create a gap.
[15:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:09] <exec> 08└─The problem is that if you've invested your retirement in mutual funds, and one of those funds has sunk a few $B into some companies at a significantly overvalued position. That's your money on the line, public or private.
[15:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:10] <exec> 08└─I've you're part of any private companies where shares are being awarded, and you're paying any attention, you'll know this. If you don't, shame on you. There have been different classes of shares since forever, but lately the problem is just getting worse as the big investors in your company are mo...
[15:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:12] <exec> 08└─My Little Pony: Capitalism is Magic!
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Efail: A Postmortem - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:23] <exec> 08└─Afraid you might learn something?
[15:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:36] <exec> 08└─Europe can try to microregulate its way to happiness, but academics there may have to start setting up conference servers in the land of the free to avoid the expense of this compliance regimen. Or go back to mailed letters among the program committee. As with most things coming out of the EU, GPDR...
[15:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:52] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Mid to late 90s it was a good application that was easily configurable and worked well. I can't remember specific features it excelled at, but the user experience back then was better than a lot of other options around at the time. I didn't have much experience with it much past 2000 as more...
[15:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:53] <exec> 08└─My wife hung on using Eudora until at least 2006, but it was getting too out of date to be useful for me by then. I remember automatic mail sorting into folders that worked better than anything even today, pretty good attachment handling on par with today's clients, and excellent search - as good as...
[15:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:35] <exec> 08└─Most people don't until they have a problem. What staggers me is that the medical professionals don't appear to think of it or recommend it even to patients who are there for high BP, stroke etc. In hospital they take your BP several times a day at least, as standard, it's considered "vital signs",...
[15:30:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 808 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:43] <exec> 08└─There should be a law. People should obey the law. The laws should be justly enacted and enforced. Corruption should be illegal. Bzzzzzzt! I think I just found the failure mode! No society will ever be perfect. Ours has its deep flaws. But mostly it had been better than most other forms of governmen...
[15:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:25] <exec> 08└─I agree that power imbalance is a problem that needs to be solved, but I see it as a separate question from whether human interactions should be governed by violence or consent. BTW, just curious, what is your native language?
[15:32:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:13] <exec> 08└─as a soft fork could allow people to begin transacting with a different PoW algorithm, essentially transitioning to a side chain where the bad actor must once again foot the bill of building up a majority hashing rate.
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[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:02] <exec> 08└─Premise When asked at a press briefing whether Trump's tweets qualify as official statements on behalf of the White House, Spicer said that he "is the President of the United States, so they're considered official statements by the President of the United States."
[16:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:03] <exec> 08└─This oughta be fun. I'm gonna enjoy this. A lot. I'm no "libtard", but Trump is a disgusting president, and I'm gonna love seeing people tell him so without him able to do jack shit about it.
[16:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:05] <exec> 08└─President Trump's practice of blocking Twitter users who are critical of him from seeing his posts on the social media platform
[16:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:08] <exec> 08└─That is the funny part. The court literally suggested that he could mute people instead of blocking them and everyones rights would be respected, he hasn't done so that I have heard. He doesn't have to look at the criticism, he just can't block his critics from seeing his public posts.
[16:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:10] <exec> 08└─Both are options, you can mute them in which case you can't see their posts. Or you can block them where they also can't see yours. Muting was found to be acceptable, blocking not, guess which one Trump uses.
[16:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─Damn. There goes my throbbing erection.
[16:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:14] <exec> 08└─Ah, okay. I've never really looked at Twitter for any length of time. Muting was found to be acceptable, blocking not, guess which one Trump uses.
[16:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:17] <exec> 08└─Covfefe! That is all.
[16:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:19] <exec> 08└─So apparently if you're president now you legally have no private life
[16:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 5564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:22] <exec> 08└─I Hate You All, an Essay This is an essay on why I despise you all. It's an effort to explain to you that you are wrong, how you are wrong, what you can start doing about it, and also I will generally insult and belittle you along the way. Idiots. Capitalism Is Not As Horrible As You Are A lot of th...
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 5899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:24] <exec> 08└─Your Tribal "Us Versus Them" Mentality Makes You At Least Half Wrong Republicans are typically rural dumbfuck hillbillies that vote for people who talk about the things that scare them. I base this on any political map compared with any state GDP map. Well, guess what, it's not the "brown people", t...
[16:25:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─A dwarf athlete is an athlete. A dwarf actor is an actor. A dwarf prostitute is a prostitute. As everybody knows. But this article says a dwarf planet isn't "categorised as" a planet. Folks, that's "categorised as" DUMB!!
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─Comet molecules?
[16:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─Then could we add a hands-free car-to-car calling system? To call up and tell all those people, "hey idiot, your turn signal has been on for the last 6 miles."
[16:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:11] <exec> 08└─Wait till the algos are discovered to be "racist" because certain skin color ...
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:30] <exec> 08└─The problem is that if you've invested your retirement in mutual funds, and one of those funds has sunk a few $B into some companies at a significantly overvalued position. That's your money on the line, public or private.
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:32] <exec> 08└─That is how Trump's Tax plan was passed.
[16:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:34] <exec> 08└─There's a lot I don't know about stocks and investing. I had read a bit about a stock's Price/Earnings ratio, the ratio of market cap to annual revenue. It's a very rough gauge of long term investment return, if the company revenue stays constant you would make back the money you spent buying the st...
[16:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:36] <exec> 08└─What a shit idea
[16:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:38] <exec> 08└─Compared to the dot-com bust of ~2000, this is mild. Only 50% overvalued? Number of unicorns decreasing by some gradual curve per year? This is a steel belted radial with a slow leak compared to 2000. 2000 was a thin latex water balloon that snapped.
[16:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:41] <exec> 08└─And I forgot one more point - the last big stock bust ran concurrent with a spike in oil prices. Oil isn't spiking as badly as it was then, but oil prices are up.
[16:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:43] <exec> 08└─you can get the other half of the money from the people posting pictures of it after it leaves the body.
[16:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:07] <exec> 08└─But then it would probably have been part of the documentation, or at least have a big post-it note on it saying DON'T TURN OFF or something. You must be new here: that is not how we do things on planet Earth.
[16:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/ [theregister.co.uk]
[16:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:11] <exec> 08└─Europe can try to microregulate its way to happiness, but academics there may have to start setting up conference servers in the land of the free to avoid the expense of this compliance regimen.
[16:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:13] <exec> 08└─What costs? Electricity is not expensive.
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[17:25:03] <exec> 08└─Is the bp high in these people becsuse the renal nerve is malfunctioning? Or are they just destroying parts of the body to improve a metric?
[17:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:22] <exec> 08└─Twitter, twitter, twitter. Twitter. Twitter twitter twitter, twitter. Twatter Tweeter twitter. It seems like everyone these days expects all official communications to go through, and only through, Twitter(TM). Not a day goes by that the TV news does not proudly proclaim "Today, such and such announ...
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─This is saying that the President does not have the right to discriminate against individuals from the larger population.
[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:25] <exec> 08└─And the insanity continues. Never before Trump would people consider such things. If he mentions anything about US business it becomes official. This deranged schizophrenic idea that the President can say things but we have to guess if they are valid or not, well it is too much. We have a child pres...
[17:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:27] <exec> 08└─Thing is, there was a press release where his representative (Spicer at the time) stated that the feed was official.
[17:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:30] <exec> 08└─Heh, then we get some genius pointing out what everybody already knows without a single shred of helpful advice. Yup, you're the worst one here with the judgmental know-it-all syndrome. It is easy to point out problems, fixing them is something else. Do you feel better at least?
[17:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:32] <exec> 08└─Trump isn't just Trump. He's the president. That means any channel he uses for communicating with the public in the capacity of president, becomes an "official" channel, whether he likes it or not.
[17:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:34] <exec> 08└─So apparently if you're president now you legally have no private life.
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:37] <exec> 08└─You may not be a liberal, but that statement certainly qualifies you for libtard.
[17:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:53] <exec> 08└─There will soon be 4 billion women. Do you propose we rename all but 8 of them to not-Joes-females, to make your inventory easier ?
[17:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:54] <exec> 08└─It's comets all the way down, man! Just find some manga about snowball fights, there's bound to be one, and the hero will definitely power-up to throwing snowballs with perfect double-comet tails, while his opponent rages up and counters with millions of micro-comets, and the best friend clumsily at...
[17:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:25] <exec> 08└─More importantly, how do you correctly program it to force its way into the next lane, inches before the fourth cone that closes its own lane, after passing a couple hundred yards of crawling properly-merging traffic ?
[17:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:27] <exec> 08└─Hey, since we have computers controlling cars, Why hasn't anybody added a big screen between the back window and bumper, where the car could print in plain english "going to the right lane, exiting in 1 mile, thank you". Humans can't communicate that well from inside their cage, so we got turn signa...
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[18:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:04] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness the President has an user ID, right here on soylentnews.org. Can't wait to read his response. :-) How will you punish this judge for this egregious unjust ruling Mr. President?
[18:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:06] <exec> 08└─I never understand how posting to the wrong thread can happen. What method are you using to view and post on this site?
[18:25:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:17] <exec> 08└─Both are options, you can mute them in which case you can't see their posts. Or you can block them where they also can't see yours. Muting was found to be acceptable, blocking not, guess which one Trump uses.
[18:25:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─So apparently if you're president now you legally have no private life.
[18:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:32] <exec> 08└─So apparently if you're president now you legally have no private life. If it was actually private the decision may have gone the other way. It's not, though, he's got Whitehouse staffers operating the Twitter account. Those are public employees. So he's using taxpayer money to run the account and t...
[18:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─I assume anything he says on Twitter are more Tourette's outbursts that may or may not be even marginally connected to reality.
[18:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:37] <exec> 08└─ESPECIALLY when it is being used by Trump in his capacity as president? And, also, ESPECIALLY when government funds are being used to operate the account. FTA: In her ruling, Judge Buchwald said Mr. Trump and Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, “exert governmental control over cert...
[18:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─And then he's too much of a special little snowflake to handle any criticism on top of it all. I thought conservatives were supposed to be against that kind of stuff...
[18:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:41] <exec> 08└─It's not, though, he's got Whitehouse staffers operating the Twitter account. Those are public employees.
[18:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:44] <exec> 08└─So apparently if you're president now you legally have no private life.
[18:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:46] <exec> 08└─The only thing the president should be using Twitter for is to send nuclear launch codes. With a side of fries.
[18:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:48] <exec> 08└─He does? If so they're doing a pretty shoddy job of keeping him from making a fool of himself. They can't fix Trump so they actually purposely make themselves sound dumber: Trump's staff ghostwrites some of his tweets and inserts grammatical errors to make them seem authentic [businessinsider.com]
[18:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─I assume anything he says on Twitter are more Tourette's outbursts that may or may not be even marginally connected to reality.
[18:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:09] <exec> 08└─They say comets come from the Oort cloud, but the Oort cloud has never been verified as actually existing. They say sometimes comets must have "slow" impacts that allow them to form peanut shapes with an extended next between the 2 bodies, yet they also say the Oort cloud is so vast (being at such a...
[18:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with dwarf planets is that there are just too many of them.
[18:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─But there are trillions of female mammals, if we let them all be called women it might lead to some inappropriate behavior. It was a riff on the "dwarf prostitutes are still prostitutes", why yes, yes they are, but there aren't more dwarf prostitutes than regular prostitutes, certainly not more by o...
[18:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─The "demotion" was a political disaster, but I think it's appropriate to call them dwarf planets and keep the distinction as it currently is, if school kids still want to call the dwarf planet Pluto a planet, that's not so far off the mark. Now, if Nine, Ten and even Eleven and Twelve only pass into...
[18:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:17] <exec> 08└─1) Hydrostatic equilibrium (mostly round) 2) Orbits star Yup, maybe thousand of them. Why do we care? 8 are special because of where they are, but calling every single other one "dwarf" is totally arbitrary. Pluto and Eris are half the diameter of Mercury, which is tiny compared to Jupiter.
[18:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:20] <exec> 08└─Just because the whole comet theory is flimsy doesn't mean the electric universe ideas are correct. Personally I do like that group because they actually critique the mainstream stuff rather than the usual credulous parroting we see. The eu theories are interesting but that isn't so important to me.
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:22] <exec> 08└─This model of pluto's formation is also consistent with the data.
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:24] <exec> 08└─I've seen worse plot lines.
[18:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─Weave Not use indicators Maybe wave a robot arm, when someone lets it in..
[18:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:57] <exec> 08└─Given the numbers for actual miles driven by self-driving cars, the number of collisions per miles driven (even including Uber's questionable engineering), the number of successful human interventions per miles driven (compared to actual humans who are on autopilot most of the time), and the fact th...
[18:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:59] <exec> 08└─This will be solved first by an Italian car company.
[18:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─Well I'm just glad that our well thought our administration is using this period of strong economic activity to save up for a rainy day. Boy, if they had decided to just explode the deficit by giving a tax cut to the rich we'd be really unprepared for an eventual downturn!
[18:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:27] <exec> 08└─Oil is up. Commodities are up. War with Iran is on the calendar. And since the Obama presidency, we've been in one of the longest growth cycles, to which we just added pro-cyclical tax reform raising the deficit and, with inflation back in town, causing interest rates to go up. Unemployment is at re...
[18:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Efail: A Postmortem - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:38] <exec> 08└─Indubitably
[18:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:57] <exec> 08└─> Site forgotten for 12 years... What's the uptime of your latest-fancy-framework-with-blank-space atrocity, bitches ?
[18:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:59] <exec> 08└─So in your world, $Small_Number == zero? Remind me not to let you write code for anything beyond your basement.
[18:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:17] <exec> 08└─In the case of games, they could at least hop on the GoG bandwagon.
[18:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:53] <exec> 08└─"Drug dealers" are merging with "Criminals", in order to leave a horse to "Unsolicited Sexual Actions".
[18:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:54] <exec> 08└─impose an industry-wide levy
[18:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:56] <exec> 08└─They'll do it wrong, and it will be useless and easily circumvented. Yet, the posters here seem to think that there isn't a problem with having a major part of society be an open cesspool where the worst activities, behaviors, and most toxic opinions thrive. As if we didn't witness the negative side...
[18:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:59] <exec> 08└─oh boy, here we go…
[18:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:01] <exec> 08└─Is there an actual policy proposal you're opposed to or are they supposed to just ignore security on the internet?
[18:30:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:47] <exec> 08└─Yea, that is young for a man but depends on the lifestyle and genetics, not that bad. My father who didn't smoke, drink and was in pretty good shape didn't make it past 46. His younger smoker alcoholic brother who also did a shit load of drugs is still going strong at 67. Then again my father was a...
[18:30:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:58] <exec> 08└─Well, here's [linux.com] the link to the week of windows article you mentioned.
[18:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:10] <exec> 08└─At least one of those things takes you back. The other two never left. :-(
[18:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:11] <exec> 08└─Low salt. Not No Salt. Your body needs salt to function properly. It's just that the average first world diet doesn't tend to be lacking in salt. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com [medicalnewstoday.com]
[18:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─The word "he" Is masculine only in the sense that it is not necessarily feminine. Sometimes, it's necessary to distinguish special, exotic, or cherished objects, such as boats or women. In that case, the word "she" is used. It's redundant to say "he/she". Just say "he".
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:52] <exec> 08└─People can still use the old rules.
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[19:25:03] <exec> 08└─n/t
[19:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America, Your Offshore Wind is Coming: 1.2GW in Contracts Awarded - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:05] <exec> 08└─http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/27/kennedy_faces_fight_on_cape_wind/ [boston.com] Well at least Kennedy is finally gone so we can do projects like this.
[19:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:15] <exec> 08└─From personal experience: You open two tabs with two different stories, write you comment in a text editor / google some facts before making even more a fool out of yourself / google what's the difference between then/than for the millions time (and still get it wrong until you stop trying), switch...
[19:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:17] <exec> 08└─btw, this was an example of me not doing it: write you comment -> write your comment millions -> millionth Average wise I think I get two to four errors per paragraph that need primary proofing that a spell checker can't catch and I just can't stomach. For heavy weight writing I'll modify my style t...
[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─I was wondering the same thing. A 8.5 mm Hg is a very small reduction to achieve for destruction of a nerve. Especially when a sham causes 2.2 mm hg drop. Many people can achieve a drop of 10 mmhg with simple relaxation techniques, and two readings by the same technician within a 5 minute period are...
[19:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─I think it's so interesting. I'm blessed with amazing genes, as everyone knows. And Dr. Bornstein says my blood pressure is PERFECTO. 116/70. But so many of my friends are taking the pill for blood pressure. The side effects aren't great. And it's easy to forget to take the pill. The surgery, not so...
[19:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:57] <exec> 08└─Being fair, seeing how Trump donated his own salary (some $400k) to the treasury, I think we can look the other way when Dan Scavino ($180k) goes through his tweets a couple of times a day. Money aside, a workable technical solution could be for Twitter to implement subscribe-able blacklists. So, wh...
[19:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─If a controversial public figure has enough time to read mean tweets and block haters, they probably have too much free time.
[19:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah right. Last I checked, Twitter was specifically a public forum, not some private E2E encrypted direct messaging system.
[19:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─I think we can look the other way when Dan Scavino ($180k) goes through his tweets a couple of times a day. No, I don't think we can look the other way when government employees violate people's constitutional rights. That's kind of a big deal, actually.
[19:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:05] <exec> 08└─Republicans don't concern themselves with silly things like governance. So, they have more free time than most.
[19:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:07] <exec> 08└─You knobs are all interpreting "public vs. private" as "can people see when I do this vs. is it secret" instead of "is this a part of my job vs. is this something I am doing personally." Maybe my terminology was suboptimal, but come on. Use a brain cell or two.
[19:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:10] <exec> 08└─Twitter, twitter, twitter. Twitter. Twitter twitter badger badger, twitter, twitter.
[19:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:12] <exec> 08└─The cons have shown their true colors, they're cons! they stand for nothing but gains
[19:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:14] <exec> 08└─this is how they handle blocks on Twitter?
[19:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:16] <exec> 08└─*slow clap* Bra-vo, sir. That was a Carlinesque rant for the ages, and more correct than most people want to admit. It's just a shame all the local pearl-clutching RWNJ snowflakes are going to ignore it because, horror of horrors, you said a swear or ninety.
[19:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:43] <exec> 08└─Sympathetic to contrarian bullshit, what a surprise.
[19:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:44] <exec> 08└─btw #MercuryIsNotAPlanet
[19:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:47] <exec> 08└─I'd even go for: Orbits star mostly in-plane, and mostly circularly, and on a mostly cleared orbit, at least mostly cleared of "things of significant size" - intentionally dinging Ceres with that one. Is there a dwarf distinction? Yes, because some people who work in the field of celestial body nami...
[19:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:49] <exec> 08└─Well, I came across the comet issues during the Rosetta mission. They constructed the Philae lander with "ice screws" based on the assumption the surface would have the consistency of ice, it didn't: There were three methods to secure it after landing: ice screws, harpoons and a small thruster. The...
[19:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:51] <exec> 08└─I'm more pissed about what they are making a T-rex look like these days: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:53] <exec> 08└─A "contrarian" is someone who takes the opposing side in a debate because he thinks it's fun. However, fringe theorists are not necessarily contrarians; they are pursuing objective reality by not only theorizing, but also by experimenting—if their ideas are wrong, they abandon those ideas, rather...
[19:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:56] <exec> 08└─From the "Thunderbolts Project" [youtube.com]. On that channel, there are numerous other such videos about comets, which I highly recommend, if only for entertainment. Come on! Don't be afraid to try on new ideas.
[19:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:29] <exec> 08└─or they're so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decisions, such as never changing lanes at all.
[19:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:31] <exec> 08└─Another tactic is to just change lanes very slowly. No gap? No problem. Just kinda slowly drift over to where you want to be and most of the time it works out.
[19:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that it's best to merge early, leaving a perfectly good lane unused? You should read up on the zipper merge [arstechnica.com].
[19:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:02] <exec> 08└─Taking less from someone is not the same as giving them something. It's the same as marketing's logic of save money by buying something vs save money by not buying anything.
[19:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:04] <exec> 08└─I'll call it Pets.com...
[19:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Efail: A Postmortem - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:16] <exec> 08└─Well, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, if you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious.
[19:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:37] <exec> 08└─For your consideration [theregister.co.uk].
[19:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:56] <exec> 08└─I just installed roundcube webmail on my private server, coupled with K9 mail for Android. A mail client doesn't matter that much to me, since none of them implement the filtering features I want. I managed to do it myself server-side though, with incrond to monitor inbox directories and scan messa...
[19:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria-Causing Parasite Manipulates Liver Cells to Survive - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:47] <exec> 08└─Despite your apparent sarcasm, there is such an association. Here's a massive Russian mosquito swarm [upi.com] from 2017, a couple hundred miles north of Sochi. Here's a 2015 story about the Russian mosquito festival [bbc.com]. Here's an excerpt from a 2009 New Yorker story [newyorker.com], Travels...
[19:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria-Causing Parasite Manipulates Liver Cells to Survive - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:48] <exec> 08└─Russia: "We're even worse than you thought".
[19:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:40] <exec> 08└─That's a pointless literalist pseudo-semantic argument. I'm using a trope that goes back longer than any form of the english language, and at no point fell out of disuse.
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[20:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:07] <exec> 08└─The drugs, seized last month, could kill over 26 million people
[20:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Can somebody convert to libraries of congress?
[20:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:11] <exec> 08└─Haven't you heard? They are actually confiscating dihydrous oxide worldwide at travel-boarding-points. They really want to make sure that drowning cannot take place for your own and your neighbor's safety!
[20:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America, Your Offshore Wind is Coming: 1.2GW in Contracts Awarded - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:21] <exec> 08└─I'd love to research why modern windmills are bad but old-fashioned windmills are good. Humans have been using wind power for centuries. It's only now that it's "green" that nobody wants any part of it.
[20:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America, Your Offshore Wind is Coming: 1.2GW in Contracts Awarded - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:23] <exec> 08└─Trump Turnberry was in a MAGNIFICENT location. The most beautiful country ever. It's the most famous golf resort in Scotland, the home of golf. And I was going to put in a very very luxurious 140-room hotel, a 5-star hotel. Beyond 5 stars because it's a TRUMP hotel. I changed my mind about that one....
[20:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─I like to keep it simple. I write words that are VERY EASY to spell. Like "tweet" instead of "comfefe
[20:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:57] <exec> 08└─And the insanity continues. Never before Trump would people consider such things. If he mentions anything about US business it becomes official. This deranged schizophrenic idea that the President can say things but we have to guess if they are valid or not, well it is too much. We have a child pres...
[20:26:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:05] <exec> 08└─I assume anything he says on Twitter are more Tourette's outbursts that may or may not be even marginally connected to reality.
[20:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:25] <exec> 08└─government funds are being used to operate the account.
[20:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:26] <exec> 08└─No, he doesn't have whitehouse staffers operating the account. They might look at it once in a while, but they specifically do not operate it.
[20:26:28] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 1721 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:29] <exec> 08└─I didn't expect a different ruling, because this is not a partisan act. This is BIPARTISAN. Orange Anus does not get to decide who can, and who cannot, listen to OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS. The platform of Twitter and the developer's intentions are wholly irrelevant to the main points being discussed:...
[20:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:31] <exec> 08└─president to make an official proclamation, and Twitter isn't one of them
[20:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:33] <exec> 08└─No, he doesn't have whitehouse staffers operating the account. This is the stipulation of facts [knightcolumbia.org] from the case. (wherein both parties agree to a mutual set of facts upon which to base the case) 12. Defendant Daniel Scavino is the White House Social Media Director and Assistant to...
[20:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not really interested in trying to learn from youtube videos. More like: At the site of the last touchdown of Philae on the nucleus, there was an attempt to intrude the MUPUS probe into the surface material. No noticeable intrusion was achieved, leading to an estimate for the minimum compressive...
[20:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:10] <exec> 08└─I think of T. rex, I think of big, beautiful teeth. Incredible teeth. That's a T. rex that got its teeth pulled. A batshit crazy dentist pulled all its teeth. Or they fell out. Meth? Not a pretty picture!
[20:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:12] <exec> 08└─Whatevs, bro. I guess you never visit Wikipedia, either.
[20:27:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:20] <exec> 08└─So they want their selfdriving car to cut other people off, honk their horn for no reason and generally behave like an ass in traffic? OK ....
[20:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:50] <exec> 08└─That lane change accidents don't cause that many deaths (simply because they happen at low relative speeds relative to each participant) , hardly justifies hand waiving them away as insignificant. They often tie up multiple lanes of traffic, cause injuries, and a lot of damage. Further more they hav...
[20:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:21] <exec> 08└─How about foodchain.com or apexpredator.org?
[20:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:22] <exec> 08└─If we're lucky, Fake President Pull-My-Finger of the People's Democratic Republic of America, that nice Mr Putin, various Middle Eastern types, North Korea and maybe even China will start flinging nukes and we'll have nothing more to worry about ever again.
[20:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:54] <exec> 08└─They'll do it wrong, and it will be useless and easily circumvented.
[20:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure, whatevs mate. I got it, money is speech and should flow unimpeded.
[20:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:58] <exec> 08└─Are you Swiss?
[20:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dopefish [12] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:07] <exec> 08└─Our mayor, Bill Peduto, is definitely off the Uber hype train. Given Uber's cavalier attitude, I'm kind of glad they are no longer getting a free pass.
[20:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:37] <exec> 08└─That was probably an act of God. Edwards probably pissed God off, so he had to die. Just remember - a rolling bale gathers no moss!
[20:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:38] <exec> 08└─Alphonse is not very credible. Gorsuch's decision isn't very smart, but Alphonse's story just doesn't hang together.
[20:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators: FCC, Why Didn't You Stop My Name from Being Fraudulently Used for Net Neutrality Repeal? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:41] <exec> 08└─I was going to skip reading that comment, until I saw yours. Thanks for nothing.
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[21:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:09] <exec> 08└─The amount of fentanyl is equivalent to the Library of Congress's hentai manga collection (located in a secret compartment in the Serial and Government Publications Division).
[21:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:10] <exec> 08└─The lethal dose of dihydrous oxide for an average human is about 7e-19 % of the world's supply (that is a decimal point followed by 20 zeroes before you get a seven). So, you only need very little amount of this excessively dangerous substance to kill us all!
[21:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:12] <exec> 08└─It's cute when people think they know chemical nomenclature...
[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─Cargo cults are not relegated to tropical islands.
[21:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─News this morning said some guy's office was closed because he got an envelope in the mail filled with white powder. Could be Anthrax, chirped the blond newsreader. Now, I'm no mad genius or anything so making Anthrax or Ricin or whatever is doable (yay college chem!), but difficult (no lab equipme...
[21:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:19] <exec> 08└─The average book page from a standard size hardback book with 60# paper (it is the Library of congress, so they get the good printings) weighs in at around 5.08g, so this bust is the equivalent of 10,630 book pages. Give or take, and not including covers. Figure the average book is around 250 pages,...
[21:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─75 micrograms per hour is a standard patch dose, and they cost about $20 each in USA.
[21:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:23] <exec> 08└─Wow, LOC has a measly hentai manga collection. I guess that's all that could fit under the floorboards.
[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:26] <exec> 08└─What, exactly, do you think "hydrous" means? I'm curious.
[21:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:28] <exec> 08└─Just 2mg of fentanyl - or a few grains of table salt - is a lethal dosage for most people
[21:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:30] <exec> 08└─located in a secret compartment in the Serial and Government Publications Division
[21:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:32] <exec> 08└─It's rare to see such innovative methods being used. You just don't get many Ted Kaczynskis or anthrax/ricin letter senders (one suspect, never charged in the anthrax case, and James Everett Dutschke was convicted for sending ricin letters in 2013, but incidents a decade earlier remain unsolved [wik...
[21:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:35] <exec> 08└─And if I put a tiny tiny fraction of the worlds supply of rock on your chest you'll die too. But I'm not carting around the worlds supply of rock in the trunk of my car am I? Nor are you going to just lie around while i stack it on your chest. 54kg of fentanyl is pretty portable, and the lethal dose...
[21:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─Hahaha, good one. But it's the BBC's fault, not the DEA's. From the DEA's more carefully-worded FAQ: two milligrams of fentanyl (equivalent to a few grains of table salt) is considered to be a deadly dose for more than 95 percent of the American public
[21:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America, Your Offshore Wind is Coming: 1.2GW in Contracts Awarded - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:47] <exec> 08└─Modern windmills spin significantly faster than the old ones did. They're also not being built to service local needs like the old ones were.
[21:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─I want to laugh but I can't help sympathize imagining what he went through: 1. Despite the negative press covfe... 2. Two thoughts surface at once: I was writing "cover" but it turned out "covfe"; I should have written "press coverage". 3. fe. 4. Agha for fuck sake! Wait what was I writing about? 5....
[21:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surgery Involving Ultrasound Energy Found to Treat High Blood Pressure - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:04] <exec> 08└─I’ve never taken drugs of any kind, never had a glass of alcohol. Never had a cigarette, never had a cup of coffee. Although I sold a line of coffee pods, the most delicious and luxurious coffees in the world. I called them Trump Select. But unfortunately they were ahead of their time -- folks jus...
[21:26:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:38] <exec> 08└─He does? If so they're doing a pretty shoddy job of keeping him from making a fool of himself. They can't fix Trump so they actually purposely make themselves sound dumber: Trump's staff ghostwrites some of his tweets and inserts grammatical errors to make them seem authentic [businessinsider.com]
[21:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:57] <exec> 08└─conservatives were supposed to be against that kind of stuff...
[21:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:59] <exec> 08└─Being fair, seeing how Trump donated his own salary (some $400k) to the treasury
[21:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:01] <exec> 08└─I want to do something in private, so I'll put it on Twitter, Facebook, etc in order to keep it really sooper seekrit private!
[21:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:03] <exec> 08└─Oh no. We want him having lots of free time, could you imagine if he actually engaged in affairs of State, domestic or foreign?
[21:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:40] <exec> 08└─I visit wikipedia all the time. I also watch "educational" stuff on youtube all the time, usually to go to sleep (yes I have watched electric universe stuff for that purpose). The bandwidth of video and lectures is just too slow for me, I need to be able to skip around and get the details I care abo...
[21:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:41] <exec> 08└─Next time, just say "Also, here is some textual information with citations."
[21:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:44] <exec> 08└─Nope. I really did want you to know that some people do not like learning from youtube videos. So if you can put the information in a more suitable format it would be much more likely to spread.
[21:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Efail: A Postmortem - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:04] <exec> 08└─"... I forget how to drive." -- Homer Simpson
[21:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Server? What Server? Site Forgotten for 12 Years Attracts Hacks, Fines - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:26] <exec> 08└─http://qdb.us/5273 [qdb.us] <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
[21:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, I was using an early version of Mozilla in late 2002. So, for me, all 3 were already done by the time the article was published. (That browser had the built-in ability to block popups and popunders, as he attempted to indicate to you. You may have still been downloading the code, but it di...
[21:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 RIP Robin "Roblimo" Miller [Updated] - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:45] <exec> 08└─True. the average first world diet doesn't tend to be lacking in salt Right. Unless you -only- shop for raw food and prepare it yourself, you'll get more than enough sodium chloride. (I do the vast majority of my shopping in the produce aisle.) Pretty much any processed food will have salt added. Wh...
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[22:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:07] <exec> 08└─We don't need navigation satellites in the UK. True patriots know the ley lines of the old oak trees and that all village cricket greens are on a secret hexagonal grid designed to confuse foreigners, especially Frogs and Krauts. And anyway, everything is second left past the post office and two hund...
[22:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:09] <exec> 08└─The frogs just want to know where the cricket fields are so they have a nice open area in which to wave the white flag :) Here in Canada, everything is just past the beer store.
[22:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:11] <exec> 08└─Britain that is. You walk away from something you committed to, you lose out.
[22:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:13] <exec> 08└─Britain may win the money. And Britain may lose the money. But either way, the great British people are WINNERS. They exercised the sacred right of all free peoples. And voted to reassert control over their own politics, borders and economy. So they'll have a Country again. They're making Britain Br...
[22:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:38] <exec> 08└─There is also mention of purity in the article. More than likely it was already cut to heroin potency.
[22:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:39] <exec> 08└─What's more that dihydrous oxide is addictive stuff. I can't live without it!
[22:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:41] <exec> 08└─I like vaping dihydrous oxide.
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:44] <exec> 08└─7e-19 % of the world's supply of dihydrous oxide has a mass less than one fifth of that fentanyl stash confiscated. So, talking about ability to carry around a lethal dose of dihydrous oxide should be taken very seriously! I've seen criminals carrying that amount out of grocery stores! Go get 'm, th...
[22:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:46] <exec> 08└─Warning: You are exhaling it constantly! Take care not to drown the people around you.
[22:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America, Your Offshore Wind is Coming: 1.2GW in Contracts Awarded - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:57] <exec> 08└─!.2 GigaWatts! That's almost enough for a single trip in a delorean!
[22:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America, Your Offshore Wind is Coming: 1.2GW in Contracts Awarded - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:59] <exec> 08└─Factorials are quite useful, but in this case I'm not seeing what the factorial of a gigawatt even means!?
[22:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America, Your Offshore Wind is Coming: 1.2GW in Contracts Awarded - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:01] <exec> 08└─Modern windmills spin significantly faster than the old ones did.
[22:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America, Your Offshore Wind is Coming: 1.2GW in Contracts Awarded - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:03] <exec> 08└─I've never seen power generating windmills spin fast. 5 RPM was maybe the fastest. I would think they are kept massive to avoid pureeing birds.
[22:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:15] <exec> 08└─It is staggering how far you conservatives bend over for Trump. I really don't get it, one "strongman" puffs up his chest and suddenly all your personal integrity and morals go out the window. Trump's scandals should have put him at 0.2% polling with Republicans, but for some reason he could do no w...
[22:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:17] <exec> 08└─He donated his salary as a PR move, he's making WAY more money by simply being the president. However it is a really good sound bite for morons who can't see beyond the surface details. "He's so rich he's donating 400k to help fix the government!!!" laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawl Trump pegged you tards from t...
[22:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:19] <exec> 08└─I'm glad that what i say here isn't 'official policy' for Gaaark's World: i try to stay consistent, but sometimes the. neeeeed...to! troll is. tooooo;: strong.... ....must. say something!tobringout-the-weirdosON*SoylentNewssssssssss Or try to just say something humorous.
[22:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─An aircraft flown by the marines is Marine One. (that fat green helicopter) An aircraft flown by the navy is Navy One. (for example, Bush going to the aircraft carrier) An aircraft flown by the army is Army One. Everything else is Executive One. Nixon did it, flying on United as some sort of endorse...
[22:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:01] <exec> 08└─Interesting tweet.......... twitter.com/IdentityHabits/status/848295754225635328 [twitter.com]
[22:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:03] <exec> 08└─It's shockingly terrible.
[22:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Tech Bubble is Larger Than It Was in 2000, and the End is Coming - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:13] <exec> 08└─Not only that but they're all privately held so who cares? it's not like the stock market's going to be affected by this, and that was the problem back in the 2000s.
[22:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Government Plans New Legislation to Tame Internet's 'Wild West' - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:51] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'll bite. > Chinese and North Korea have it right particularly the way they deal with dissenters. You could save us a lot of money by replacing all those people devoting their life to that truly unnecessary gap which exists between "not a problem" and "use them as military targets". > sky high...
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[23:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Fail to Understand Our Smartphone Use - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:01] <exec> 08└─I don't FB, snapchat, twitter, or whatever. I don't check my phone unless I either hear it chirp (new msg or calendar event) or see the light blinking (missed the chirp). It's a tool. When I'm carrying a hammer I don't smash every thumb in the area. Same with my phone.
[23:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Fail to Understand Our Smartphone Use - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:02] <exec> 08└─Your hammer doesn't have a web browser, GPS, camera, music, etc. Soon to feature a digital assistant, other AI features, augmented reality using the camera, and more. The web browser alone is enough to replicate any compulsive behavior that specific social media sites could cause. I reload SoylentNe...
[23:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why We Fail to Understand Our Smartphone Use - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:04] <exec> 08└─"If people communicate with you, you're important"
[23:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─Russia first, America first, Britain first, Italy first, Turkey first! Patriotism first! Who will win? Do we have to have some sort of contest to find out?
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:16] <exec> 08└─The Mayor of London said some things about me. I think they’re very rude statements and frankly, tell him, I will remember those statements. They’re very nasty statements. He doesn’t know what I’m all about. He said I'm "ignorant" about Islam. Believe me, I know more about Islam than anybody...
[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:18] <exec> 08└─Talking of mayors of London... Q: Where does Ken Livingstone buy his Y-fronts? A: Marxist Spencer's. See what I did there?
[23:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:20] <exec> 08└─"hey pay for my stuff" "sure I will help if I can use it too" "oh you are leaving? Well fuck you you can not have any of this stuff" "Well I want my share" "well fuck you!" "Yeah see you in court for breach of contract"
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK to Demand EU Repayment in Brexit Satellite Row - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─We're actively setting up the next contest, but Iran violates the rule that the US bombs countries with less than 35M people, so I'm not sure how that one will turn out. With some luck, it will spread a bit, and we can finally get another global contest. The computer said something about the best mo...
[23:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:53] <exec> 08└─54kg of Fentanyl was seized. To put it to some sort of scale, a fentanyl patch releases 25-100 mcg per hour. Typically the patch will contain 72 hours of fentanyl. The amount seized was 5.4x10^10 mcg. That's a LOT of hours of fentanyl.
[23:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06120 Pounds (54 kg) of Fentanyl Seized in Nebraska - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:54] <exec> 08└─http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-book [guinnessworldrecords.com] 3.6% of the world's largest book. Or, approximately the same weight as the last print version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.networkworld.com
[23:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:26] <exec> 08└─Does it hurt your ego to be constantly wrong? Have you thought about maybe branching out in your belief system?
[23:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:27] <exec> 08└─By simply being the president, he has lost about a billion dollars. Sure, I'd have voted for him if he stood in the middle of 5th avenue and shot someone. He couldn't have shot Vince Foster and Seth Rich.
[23:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:29] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you think the president doesn't have a right to deny somebody the right to attend a press conference in person. No, that is absurd. People can hear about it from other people.
[23:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Violates First Amendment by Blocking Twitter Users From Feed, Judge Says - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:32] <exec> 08└─If the president is speaking at the press room in the whitehouse, that is official speech. You get to attend. Listening to it from somebody else is clearly not a substitute. You have the right to see it yourself.
[23:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto May be Made of a Billion Comets - 1830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:13] <exec> 08└─Seriously, it seems a major reason for this discrimination against Pluto is fear of having to count higher than 10. Might confuse the public, oh noes! A simple, easy definition is that if the body orbits a star, and it has sufficient mass to form into a spherical shape under its own gravity, and has...
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[23:28:15] <exec> 08└─I took this advice last year and it fucked me up. Ill never do that again.
[23:28:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Making Driverless Cars Change Lanes More Like Human Drivers Do - 378 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:46] <exec> 08└─Hey, since we have computers controlling cars, Why hasn't anybody added a big screen between the back window and bumper, where the car could print in plain english "going to the right lane, exiting in 1 mile, thank you". Humans can't communicate that well from inside their cage, so we got turn signa...
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[23:30:00] <exec> 08└─This story reminded me of a story from last century. A Novell server at the University of North Carolina was in a closet and some drywall guys sealed off the opening to the closet. [google.com] 4 years later, the IT staff figured out what had happened. In the meantime, there had been no ill effects...
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