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[00:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:24] <exec> 08└─Glyphosate has been studied by just about everybody, and nobody has proven a cancer risk. Even if the initial Monsanto tests were rushed, everyone plus Dog has done all sorts of tests, including direct exposure to the spray. At this point even the EU thinks its safe. So he has a pretty steep scienti...
[00:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:25] <exec> 08└─Monsanto makes a ton of different products. The destruction of Monsanto would have a global effect for a period of time until the next company comes along to fill the void. The effects of it would not be too terrible for us here in the US, we could find other ways to get past crop failures and reduc...
[00:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:28] <exec> 08└─whose main ingredient is glyphosate, a substance which some say is dangerously carcinogenic.
[00:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:30] <exec> 08└─Analyzing 44 individual research projects published since 1980, the scientists, writing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, said that people exposed to the weed killer glyphosate, marked by Monsanto under the brand name Roundup, had double the risk of developing...
[00:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:32] <exec> 08└─Dateline May 15, 2016: The four Nebraskans who brought the lawsuit that was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lincoln have all been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
[00:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:34] <exec> 08└─I find it politically fascinating that the right is presented as the ultimate enemy of brown people. But the right doesn't actually do anything wrong, they just get bad PR for not saying nice things. Its mostly leftists who want brown people to starve, they're really devoted to increasing the number...
[00:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:36] <exec> 08└─It just goes to show that leftists have the best policies and are thinking ahead.
[00:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:38] <exec> 08└─had double the risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
[00:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:49] <exec> 08└─Bottles, soda, water, are almost always made of new plastic stock. If government mandated a certain percentage of plastic in new stock actually be from post consumer waste, the problem will solve itself in one of two ways. Reduced plastic use, or increased recycled materials use. Recycling is almost...
[00:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:51] <exec> 08└─Pick an empty 250 acres of desert somewhere and pile it up in a giant plastic pyramid. The top will be about 300 meters high. Then when recycling it gets economical, you will know where it all is. (And, because it is in a pyramid, it will stay fresh.)
[00:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:53] <exec> 08└─Ah, but there's easy money to be made in taking away people's jobs. Making money by performing new jobs requires first convincing someone that they can make money by paying for those new jobs to be performed. More seriously, I believe it's Germany that actually has developed some very impressive tra...
[00:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:55] <exec> 08└─Looking on the web finds quite a few sources for that type of equipment. Problem is, there is no market for perfectly sorted and perfectly clean plastic waste. Nobody wants to drink anything out of a bottle that had recycled plastic mixed into the melt. Re-refining the plastic is more expensive than...
[00:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:57] <exec> 08└─There are reasons they don't use recycled plastic in food production/wrapping. That stuff is often contaminated with everything from heavy metals to bio-waste and prions. Taking it apart and refining it sufficiently to equal sterile new plastic takes more energy and generates more industrial waste t...
[00:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:59] <exec> 08└─D'oh! I so want to argue but I can't. Well, you might have to keep it from blowing around. How about just dumping it in one of the many gargantuan open pit mines, once they're defunct of course.
[00:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:55] <exec> 08└─It's not just "several" states. It's basically every state that has a sales tax. If you aren't already paying use tax on goods you order from out-of-state (and live in a state with a sales tax), you likely are in violation of tax law in your state. I think I've paid use tax every year. I'll admit I'...
[00:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:56] <exec> 08└─What are you going on about? You aren't paying the tax; the buyer is. The buyer is paying for the privilege of getting goods from out-of-state and importing them. Before, the buyer likely had the same obligation to pay use tax, but the majority of people cheat and don't pay it on imported goods. So,...
[00:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:58] <exec> 08└─Generally no. Previously, most states with sales taxes already had use taxes that required their citizens to report goods they purchased out of state and pay taxes on them (generally equivalent to sales taxes). If you didn't, you've likely been evading taxes. Most states that do this already have in...
[00:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:01] <exec> 08└─To point #2: this is generally already the case, except the responsibility falls on the consumer in form of "use tax" that should be reported on your income tax each year. If you buy goods in anothet retailer in another state and then import them to your home state, you generally owe taxes unless yo...
[00:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:03] <exec> 08└─Before this, I could sell to someone out of state without a problem. Now... I know my state has literally thousands of sales tax districts. Thousands. The tax rate varies. You have to track and pay taxes to each entity. If you're a fixed business, then it's just your local tangle of 2-5. But if you...
[00:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sues Former Employee it Accuses of Sabotage - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:41] <exec> 08└─I've also read allegation that he planted malware in company computers. That sounds like sabotage to me. (Various other things also, but sabotage is the one I personally take seriously.)
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Macedonia Formally Changes Name to "Republic of North Macedonia" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─They keep .mk TLD and language codes mk, mkd etc. but should change the car plates to NMK.
[00:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Macedonia Formally Changes Name to "Republic of North Macedonia" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should name it Alexandria.
[00:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Demos an AI System Capable of Debating Humans - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:49] <exec> 08└─What you don't acknowledge is that ALL political arguments are based in emotion. Every single one of them. This doesn't make them either right or wrong. In this case the AI was instructed to argue in favor of space exploration. It didn't decide that this was a good cause and then argue in favor of i...
[00:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Demos an AI System Capable of Debating Humans - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:51] <exec> 08└─Also, it's worth noting that the Turing test was not his idea of what is required for a program to be intelligent, but rather an upper limit beyond which any denial would clearly be sheer prejudice. I.e., any computer program which could pass the test would only be considered unintelligent by bigots...
[00:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Demos an AI System Capable of Debating Humans - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:53] <exec> 08└─I think you've never attended a formal debate. OTOH, a statement and a rebuttal does not really suffice for a demonstration. There are generally several rounds of exchanges. So the summary isn't very convincing as to it being a good debater, unless the rebuttal was so overwhelming that the opponent...
[00:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Fuchsia OS Adds Emulator for Debian Linux Applications - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:18] <exec> 08└─I don't know about current versions of OSX, but back at OS10.4 pretty much all Linux applications could run as native-with-a-translation-library. They had a ports system that could be used. (And there were also other approaches that also worked.) Of course, that doesn't directly speak to current OSX...
[00:19:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06UK Government Rejects Calls to Legalize Recreational Use of Cannabis Following Medical Incident - 1243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:28] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I don't use the stuff, neither do I smoke. But I seriously question why tobacco is tolerated and weed not, even given statistics on the damage tobacco causes. The only time I feel someone should be denied their desire is if their fulfillment comes at someone else's expense. I don't want...
[00:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kardashev Type III Civilizations Could Resist the Expansion of the Universe by Moving Stars - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:08] <exec> 08└─That's possible - especially as the heat death of the universe looms. Of course lowering your needs means every erg of stockpiled energy will translate into that much greater of a span of continued existence. So it doesn't necessarily translate into a lowered incentive to stockpile stars, and may ev...
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[01:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Cross-Platform Flutter SDK Moves Out of Beta With Release Preview 1 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:20] <exec> 08└─Until they lose interest and cancel it.
[01:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:37] <exec> 08└─I was motivated to look up the MSDS, there are a lot of glyphosate products most running about 40% of one or another glyphosate salt and 60% god knows what. glyphosate looks pretty harmless compared to Isopropylamine. So the solution (ugh the pun) is the potassium salt instead of Isopropylamine, ass...
[01:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:39] <exec> 08└─> At this point even the EU thinks its safe. Which is why they are phasing it out by 2022 ? The delay is the subject of much arguing, as it is in France and in a few other countries, but I guess they're worried about substitutes being ineffective or more dangerous. Calling it "safe" is a complete mi...
[01:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:41] <exec> 08└─According to what the summary says, Johnson may have filed in 2016 too.
[01:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:43] <exec> 08└─'...according to Fake News CNN the yields from Organic are some 25% lower than "conventional" farming." Source?? Citation is needed. Do you have links? hopefully this not something you heard on Fox News or saw on Reddit or 4chan?
[01:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:45] <exec> 08└─https://www-m.cnn.com/2012/04/26/world/organic-food-yield/index.html [cnn.com]
[01:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:48] <exec> 08└─And there it is. To the GP: Would it have been any less true had it been from Fox News? Fox did cover it [foxnews.com], tangentially a couple years later.
[01:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:50] <exec> 08└─They just extended the license to 2022. There is no indication they are phasing it out. But hey, way to Fake News it once again.
[01:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─I heard of a guy who needs about 4m x 10m x 3000km of cheap hard long-lasting material for a project. Ship it all to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. COD.
[01:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:06] <exec> 08└─Abandoned mine pits tend to fill with water. Water tends to cycle into the water table. We might not want to add more shit in the water we drink. On the other hand, if that plastic pyramid is not far from the Burning Man site, it could get interesting.
[01:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:09] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it could be turned into fuel? https://www.usnews.com [usnews.com]
[01:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:09] <exec> 08└─The cost of compliance is NOT free...
[01:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:11] <exec> 08└─mismanaging and dumb
[01:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:13] <exec> 08└─Add two optional fields to your checkout screen.* - A numeric ($)** one with the legend "Amount of Sales Tax payable at your location" This instantly adds to the total at the bottom. - A free text field with the legend "Authority to pay this Sales Tax to." Make this mandatory if they fill in the num...
[01:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:15] <exec> 08└─Wow. I've been reading your posts in this thread, and I must say there is nothing super about you, Bob.
[01:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:18] <exec> 08└─What are you going on about? You aren't paying the tax; the buyer is.
[01:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:20] <exec> 08└─That's all a fair point and expressed more clearly than before, but you're still a bit odd for bringing up the "representation" thing when you're seeking as an outsider to export goods into another state. The paperwork is most certainly a valid issue, which is why the appropriate response now is for...
[01:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:22] <exec> 08└─Just another cost of doing business. Not a tax.
[01:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:24] <exec> 08└─Sourcing rules are very complicated inside states, every nuance of an activity is different. Sometimes the state appears to make stuff up WRT the 'location' of some obscure activities and situations, something just had to be chosen. This is in addition to the different rate of taxation based on loca...
[01:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Offers Up to $5,000 to Kill Lionfish - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:56] <exec> 08└─Hey this is right in The Mighty Buzzy's round house. Don't tell me he's out fishing for crappie or catfish. He's needed by his country.
[01:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Fuchsia OS Adds Emulator for Debian Linux Applications - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:39] <exec> 08└─"Eat shit and die"? If you think Linux is calcified, you are probably not even Two Score and ten, yet. And you do not work well with others. Blatant intentional violation of CoC! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Systemd!
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[02:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:51] <exec> 08└─The EU vote was pretty disputed, and in the end the Germans protected Bayer (now owner of Monsanto). The odds of a renewal in 2022, when everyone is talking about bans [baumhedlundlaw.com], are pretty slim. But you are correct that I shouldn't have said "phasing out". Not intentional fake news, misr...
[02:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:09] <exec> 08└─http://www.thebagshare.org/ [thebagshare.org]
[02:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:19] <exec> 08└─Which in turn is the reason there's pressure to normalize the sales tax, at least for interstate sales. If the states all agree to set an interstate sales tax of, say, 8.45%(the current average combined state and local rate) for transactions that don't otherwise require the seller to collect tax, th...
[02:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:21] <exec> 08└─I think you are confused. Super is his _last_ name, came from his family (at least conceptually). If he was pretending to be "super", he would pre-pend the word, ala, Super_Bob, like SuperMan.
[02:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 1712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:23] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. Taxation is absolutely necessary to fund government. What *is* a bad idea is having ridiculously complicated tax schemes that cause a huge amount of overhead in being compliant. Taxes should be simple. Just look at the IRS forms needed for various Americans, especially regular W-2 wage...
[02:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kardashev Type III Civilizations Could Resist the Expansion of the Universe by Moving Stars - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:30] <exec> 08└─All other conjectured energy sources combined don't even amount to a drop in the bucket in comparison.
[02:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kardashev Type III Civilizations Could Resist the Expansion of the Universe by Moving Stars - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:31] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all the solutions suggested within GR would require conscious intent (and incredible technology) to create
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[03:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Norway Fines its Main Telecoms Firm for Blocking Competition - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:16] <exec> 08└─Someone grabbed a brain!
[03:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Norway Fines its Main Telecoms Firm for Blocking Competition - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:17] <exec> 08└─If only American Republicans were as smart as former Quislings!! Don't Settle for Trump Change! I Really Care, Du U? George Will says vote DEMOCRAT!
[03:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Cross-Platform Flutter SDK Moves Out of Beta With Release Preview 1 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:26] <exec> 08└─I think that viewpoint might be a little hasty. It might be a terrible project!
[03:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Cross-Platform Flutter SDK Moves Out of Beta With Release Preview 1 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:28] <exec> 08└─And then, they won't cancel it? So much for "Don't be evil."
[03:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Cross-Platform Flutter SDK Moves Out of Beta With Release Preview 1 - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:31] <exec> 08└─I keep hoping that Google will somehow find some brass and bring out an OS to knock on MS. Android and Chromium where oh so close, but they never put out an global image that one could just download and kick out boring old MS. I've been watching Fuchsia, but so far it has not amounted to anything.
[03:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:55] <exec> 08└─There's no such animal as an unbiased scientist, believe me. When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do. And don't worry, we're keeping RoundUp. Because if we lose that one it'll be a DISASTER for our Country. And for our great great farmers. Because RoundUp stops the weeds. And wi...
[03:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 2816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:57] <exec> 08└─Thanks, "...researchers from Canada's McGill University and the U.S.'s University of Minnesota say that the differences are not uniform across every crop with some performing better than others." "Organic cereals and vegetables fared worst with yields 26% and 33% respectively lower than conventional...
[03:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:59] <exec> 08└─Sorry about the WOT. But I thought everyone should see what was said, instead of a headline.
[03:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:01] <exec> 08└─Wow you seem to have learned a few new words in the last couple of days, and have improved your vocabulary!! Way to go! Keep it up!
[03:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:03] <exec> 08└─There are more alternatives than just "glyphosate or organic". Agent Orange and glyphosate have been indicted many times. Monsanto spent zillions of dollars (like the tobacco industry) to "prove" that their product is "safe". What did we do before glyphosate and neonics? Yeah, there was DDT, but tha...
[03:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:05] <exec> 08└─Glyphosate isn't an insecticide - it's an herbicide. Everyone here knew that, lol, and so did I. I'm doing to many things at once, including getting ready for work. Sorry!
[03:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:08] <exec> 08└─1. Spray ALL Monsanto executives with heavy doses of roundup. 2. See what percentage of them get cancer. 3. Further research not needed. 4. Die Monsanto, die (but not the German die...)
[03:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:26] <exec> 08└─But there is no market for the material.
[03:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:28] <exec> 08└─Some 30 years ago I was prez of a condo complex. We dutifully had our recycling bins for newspaper, and other stuff. We had 2 problems. 1) Newspapers. Nobody wanted them. Cost us money to haul them away. Took away the bins and tossed the papers into the trash, no longer had to pay for them to be rec...
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[03:15:40] <exec> 08└─You were supposed to report online sales as well. Nobody did, which is why they got so hellbent on making out of state merchants collect and report. Expect the same thing to be pushed to physical retail as soon as the infrastructure is in place to permit it. Which means shopping destination cities /...
[03:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Entertainer "Akon" Plans to Build a Cryptocurrency-Based City in Senegal - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:55] <exec> 08└─Some actually interesting parts of TFA: This futuristic city[,] already in development, beginning with 2,000 acres of land gifted to Akon from the President of Senegal, is within 5 minutes of the new international airport, close to the coast and a short drive from Dakar, the capital city of Senegal...
[03:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Demos an AI System Capable of Debating Humans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:33] <exec> 08└─Even worse if the answer is perfectly logical. Relevant experience on S/N
[03:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kardashev Type III Civilizations Could Resist the Expansion of the Universe by Moving Stars - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:53] <exec> 08└─Actually even supernova is not powerful enough to produce the interesting species such as gold and uranium.
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[04:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Podcasts App Launches, Years After It Canceled a Similar App - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:19] <exec> 08└─Nobody at Google has ever heard of Google Listen. That's what happens when the tech industry purges all the over-30s every year.
[04:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Podcasts App Launches, Years After It Canceled a Similar App - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:21] <exec> 08└─It's got the A.I.! It's better! Word of mouth? No, word of GOD!
[04:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Cross-Platform Flutter SDK Moves Out of Beta With Release Preview 1 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:40] <exec> 08└─I should mention that I am not interested in producing apps. I just want a clean OS that works.
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[04:13:41] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=+market+share+chromeos [google.com] ChromeOS is doing alright, but it can't do what a Windows machine can and is usually found on low-end devices. ChromeOS can now run Android and possibly Linux applications, which could broaden what it can do. Nobody is going to game...
[04:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:14] <exec> 08└─My comment was not that organics are bad, more that they are currently not as efficient. I imagine if we went full organic we would find ways to make it work better and raise crop yeilds, but in the meantime we would be causing problems for a lot of third world nations. Western nations can eat the c...
[04:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:15] <exec> 08└─I was going with the assumption that getting rid of monsanto was same as getting rid of every product they make. We could survive without a few of their chems, but we would face hardship if all of them went away all at once.
[04:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:17] <exec> 08└─Why do you need to prove it? You just have to convince a jury that it does, award damages and then not get overturned on appeal. Voila, you have precedent and thus a whole new income stream. I'm sure that some seedier portions of the legal industry are salivating over this.
[04:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ecowatch.com/why-is-glyphosate-sprayed-on-crops-right-before-harvest-1882187755.amp.html [google.com] Roundup is used on grains to dry them out so there is a significantly shorter time from harvest to bale/dry to storage. Yeilds from organic would be significantly of...
[04:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:40] <exec> 08└─Paper/cardboard factories have learned how to use recycled feedstock in the last 30 years -- https://resource-recycling.com [resource-recycling.com] The current national average of old corrugated (PS 11) is down nearly 3 per...
[04:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:53] <exec> 08└─It could be simplified immensely if a definitive federal database was established, with each state responsible for keeping their section up to date. You put in an address, it gives you a tax breakdown for out-of-state sellers. Ideally something easily downloadable and open source, so that instead of...
[04:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:55] <exec> 08└─Of course the law remains to be settled, but it's a good bet that the geographical tax will be based on where it was bot (the shipping address), and not much else. I mean, when you're visiting Sonoma, California and buy a bottle of wine for your friend in Wisconsin, nobody cares where you're from, o...
[04:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:57] <exec> 08└─Of course, as a financial intermediary eBay is also well positioned to automatically collect and distribute the requisite taxes on behalf of sellers.
[04:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Fuchsia OS Adds Emulator for Debian Linux Applications - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:15] <exec> 08└─Let me rephrase. If the Windows kernel can be made to run Linux apps (aka Windows Subsystem for Linux from Microsoft), then how difficult would it be for a BSD kernel to be made able to run Linux apps?
[04:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03unitron [70] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kardashev Type III Civilizations Could Resist the Expansion of the Universe by Moving Stars - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:10] <exec> 08└─...as Kardashian Type Civilizations... Gave myself quite a scare.
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[05:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Podcasts App Launches, Years After It Canceled a Similar App - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:21] <exec> 08└─Is there such a thing as a good podcast worth listening to?
[05:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:39] <exec> 08└─I like your Burning Man idea. I've had some involvement with hydrogeology and generally groundwater around mines is very contaminated, mostly due to heavy-metals, pyrite, etc., so we don't try to pull groundwater near mines.
[05:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:40] <exec> 08└─Nah, the world already had the 111 million ton trash problem. China just decided to stop hiding it from them.
[05:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:42] <exec> 08└─At my condo, there's a scruffy looking person who pulls bottles and cans out of the recycle bins after they are put outside, but before the truck comes. Only problem is that a lot of broken glass ends up on the ground.
[05:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:44] <exec> 08└─But are the greenies happy that the carbon is locked into plastic rather than atmospheric CO2 ?
[05:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:00] <exec> 08└─I deal with sales tax at work. Trying to figure out what is and isn't taxable isn't the easiest thing and it is literally part of what I do. It will be even more complex for out of state businesses.
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[05:16:02] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'.
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[06:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Podcasts App Launches, Years After It Canceled a Similar App - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:26] <exec> 08└─I suggest any content by this guy [youtube.com].
[06:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Fines its Main Telecoms Firm for Blocking Competition - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:35] <exec> 08└─Here we have the NBN along with anti compete laws preventing ISPs from building their own Fibre networks Assholes that they are, they are planning on then selling the NBN when it is complete
[06:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:50] <exec> 08└─so put it in furniture and cars and stuff, wherever you're currently using wood chips.
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[06:14:51] <exec> 08└─Not a bad idea. How about compressing the plastic info cubes, and then flinging them into space. Preferably towards the sun. A better catapult system will be needed to get past escape velocity but that is just engineering. Meanwhile we have discovered that Peak Oil won't hurt as much as thought. Hem...
[06:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:53] <exec> 08└─Skip the expensive reprocessing. Build modern incinerators, and generate power directly. That said, recycling does work - Europe seems to have this somewhat more than the US, though it's far from perfect.
[06:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Macedonia Formally Changes Name to "Republic of North Macedonia" - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:20] <exec> 08└─How is this wrong? Their last census had the population at around 2 million people. More than one million people passed through Greece in 16 to 17. It is so bad that European countries have to shoot people at the border or face being overwhelmed. If Macedonia does not fix this problem they won't own...
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[07:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:16] <exec> 08└─Everybody needs to just chill the f out. The odds of any new tariffs going into effect and staying long enough to matter are nill. This is just Trump negotiating. Wall Street is even shrugging it off. Good to not just surrender before the real haggling begins, we aren't used to seeing this sort of t...
[07:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:29] <exec> 08└─I find it politically fascinating that the right is presented as the ultimate enemy of brown people. But the right doesn't actually do anything wrong, they just get bad PR for not saying nice things.
[07:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:30] <exec> 08└─Wrong again. On Monday, with the herbicide’s registration set to expire next month, 18 of the union’s member states voted in favor of extending its use for five years, nine voted against the proposal and one abstained. The vote was weighted by population size.
[07:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:01] <exec> 08└─Why would you spend a lot of money and energy to throw a potentially valuable resource into the Sun? You need 26 km/s of delta V to hit the Sun, so you might be able to get a tonne of plastic there by using the equivalent of a Saturn V. Maybe. Do you realise just how small 250 acres is? It's a squar...
[07:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:02] <exec> 08└─Many homeless people are surprisingly honorable. Get an old broom and dustpan you don't mind losing, and catch up with the scruffy dude. Point out somewhere you are going to stash the broom and pan, and say you don't care if they take the cans, so long as they clean up the mess.
[07:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:20] <exec> 08└─10% on all purchases anywhere in the country. Tax goes to the ATO. All posted prices must include GST Easy
[07:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:22] <exec> 08└─what is this BS of now I have to register and pay a fishing license for YOUR state
[07:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entertainer "Akon" Plans to Build a Cryptocurrency-Based City in Senegal - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:38] <exec> 08└─The Who? They were a great band.
[07:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sues Former Employee it Accuses of Sabotage - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:04] <exec> 08└─If a company A is planning to bid for something expensive, and a competing bidder B gets a copy of A's strategy due to internal spying, that spy did sabotage A's bid.
[07:18:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Offers Up to $5,000 to Kill Lionfish - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:53] <exec> 08└─January 20, 2025.
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[08:13:11] <exec> 08└─I disagree. That would only make sense if he knew what he is doing rather than just running his mouth with the brain disengaged. Those with actual diplomatic or business skills are running circles around him all the while playing him like a violin. Nipping his antics in the bud will save a lot of wo...
[08:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:13] <exec> 08└─Just pay the extra 3 cents for your fucking LEDs, you tightwads. Sheesh, I'm not well-off in any sense of the word but if I want or need to build something, I shell out the fucking pennies.
[08:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:57] <exec> 08└─It's true. Except for crackheads, most homeless people don't want to cause a problem for anybody.
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[08:14:59] <exec> 08└─plastic fucks with the environment too. I wouldn't mind if the plastic got melted into big solid blocks and then put somewhere. It would be a helluva lot better than having it just kinda... around, which is what happens to a lot of it.
[08:15:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 1690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:13] <exec> 08└─So much stupidity here. Having to agree with a minority opinion by Roberts and three of the morons on the court. ARGH! The big e-retailers all supported this. It is another example of big business happy to get in bed with big government to squash competition. Of course this is going to be a frickin'...
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[08:16:19] <exec> 08└─You mean sellers in the US would plummet. Buyers still have the option to buy from sellers outside the US and avoid the whole ordeal.
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[08:16:21] <exec> 08└─Mr. President, the activist judges are at it again, trying to raise our taxes and kill jobs. Can you please do something about this? kthxbye
[08:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:23] <exec> 08└─Since today you owe me 50% of your income. It's not a tax, just a cost of doing business.
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[08:18:01] <exec> 08└─... thinking they'd kicked it out because of Brexit.
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[08:19:11] <exec> 08└─> forces beyond our imagination! I see many forces from beyond your imaginations but no one here is able to help you with that. I recommend you to seek professional help.
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[09:13:24] <exec> 08└─This is not just an issue for a few 'makers' that are building up one-off or small run projects. What this does is make 'Made in USA' products using overseas sourced components (which is close to pretty much everything electronic) that much more expensive. With these taxes on the raw components, the...
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[09:13:25] <exec> 08└─A 25 % tariff is not going to move production back to the US. China wants to manufacture stuff with motivated and efficient workers, and few rules about safety, environment, overtime, etc. If I want to have some prototypes CNCed, US shops treat me like dirt because it's a small job, and they charge...
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[09:13:27] <exec> 08└─And deals with overseas problems like counterfeit ICs which repeatedly fail in your life-critical or mission-critical applications. There's a thing called cost-benefit analysis, you can even do it with 1998 Excel and linear regression. And yet, despite being to central to many American businesses, t...
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[09:13:30] <exec> 08└─...Until you find out at the last minute, if you even bothered to measure dimensions yourself when it got to you, that your mid-grade alloy is full of pits and voids and the runout spans 5 standard deviations from the tolerances outlined in the drawing. That's okay if you have a fetish for proto-fut...
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[09:14:44] <exec> 08└─Speaking of best policies and thinking ahead: " his lawyer Timothy Litzenburg "
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[10:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:19] <exec> 08└─About ten years ago, the whole world was on the hot seat over an "energy crisis" and "peak oil". And they sounded SO convincing! Even Warren Buffett and the President of the United States were issuing grave warnings over it. I fell for it. Even to the point of having financial advisors tell me outr...
[10:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:33] <exec> 08└─The quality of electronic components that are manufactured in China can be just as good as you are prepared to pay. Sure, you can select budget items that come at a few cents each or, in this case, circuit boards with pits, voids and measured in some obscure unit or other. Alternatively, you can pay...
[10:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skynet for The Win? AI Hunts Down Secret Testing of Nuclear Bombs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:40] <exec> 08└─this can be trendsetting, u don't have to manufacture expensive sensors, enough to write AI, it can detect things... cool... -zug
[10:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skynet for The Win? AI Hunts Down Secret Testing of Nuclear Bombs - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:42] <exec> 08└─btw, the quality of a comment should reflect the quality of article... a better question is, what have signal processing people done up to now? used wrong methods? for "these" type of physical processes, you should not need NN, other, more conventional, methods should be fine... whatever... -zug
[10:14:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:23] <exec> 08└─whose main ingredient is glyphosate, a substance which some say is dangerously carcinogenic.
[10:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:24] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd love to see them make building material out of it. For foundations, patios, whatever. Like dense plastic foam lumber. That I can buy at Home Depot. Stuff that can be worked with standard woodworking tools... saws, drills, etc. And it should have a "bring back" value by the pound, so...
[10:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:48] <exec> 08└─I deal with health care payers at work.
[10:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Macedonia Formally Changes Name to "Republic of North Macedonia" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:04] <exec> 08└─Well, shit, I guess Hunter S. Thompson gets a D- in English because he uses too many commas?
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[11:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:30] <exec> 08└─I know you're too young to remember this but we already covered this [youtube.com] back when I was a kid. Tariffs are not the way to go except using the threat of them as a deterrent against government subsidized industries in other nations. Not because they're "unfair" or anything but because they...
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[11:13:32] <exec> 08└─Levi jeans suck. I have bought a few, recently, when Boston Dynamics started requiring pants on the job and the same pair of shorts I was washing in the sink every night wasn't going to cut it. The stress on the belt loops in jeans sold in America causes holes in only a few months of use. Pretty bad...
[11:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:34] <exec> 08└─I remember ten years ago when all the online forums were screaming about how the US needed tariffs to combat pollution. What we need is for the democrats to implement them.
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[12:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 2605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:10] <exec> 08└─When I read this: "Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the 5 to 4 decision, in which he was joined by the court's liberal members. Each of the dissenting conservatives wrote separate opinions" I laughed. Then I took a moment to rtfa and found it actually did offer some sort of support for the st...
[12:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:18] <exec> 08└─Now, we seem to have energy to burn. Way too much of it. Even to the point of wasting it to generate "proof of waste".
[12:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:36] <exec> 08└─Cuz makers can't make shit without lego-ized subassemblies with step by step youtube instructions.
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[13:13:22] <exec> 08└─Could this be somehow related to the mysterious IMSI catchers located in DC and Herndon, VA; and all those other strategically-located places? This is why Trump wins. The crooks already had everything set up, but somebody with balls had to have something to say about it. You fifth-columnist bastards...
[13:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:31] <exec> 08└─What you do with it is none of their business. You use power, you pay. You use more, you pay more due to extra use. Use too much, you pay for infrastructure upgrades, like any other large power sucking business does. Next: 'well, you use it for something we dont like, we are cutting you off'. where...
[13:15:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:57] <exec> 08└─In the past there was no source of tax information that covered every tiny town with sales tax
[13:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:05] <exec> 08└─> It'll be a web app, ad supported. Yeah, but it'll only work with one particular version of Internet Explorer because that was what was written into the ten year govt. outsourcing contract.
[13:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:06] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, no matter how we organize ourselves... its gonna be a guv'mint.
[13:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:08] <exec> 08└─I would go the other way around: forbid the federal and state governments from taxing individuals. Make all of that done by the locality, and have federal funds collected from states which collect them from counties, which collect from cities/towns/individuals. Go a little bit further, and make near...
[13:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:11] <exec> 08└─Likely organized by zip code? Each zip code has a certain tax rate associated with it, along with payees? This is one of the problems we run into when our government has grown so large as to micromanage everything like this. From what I see, the cost of complying is greater than the tax itself. Th...
[13:17:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Tesla Sues Former Employee it Accuses of Sabotage - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:33] <exec> 08└─If the dude wants to be a whistleblower, he better come up with something worth blowing a whistle. Excessive waste? Whoop-ti-do. Companies produce waste. With time and experience, waste may be reduced, but there will always be waste. Faulty batteries in production cars? Needs proof. Dummy put himsel...
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[14:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, Alito makes sense, right up to the “If today’s decision encourages the public to think that this court can protect them from this looming threat to their privacy, the decision will mislead as well as disrupt.” Anyone paying attention already knows the problem goes far beyond government mon...
[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─Could this be somehow related to the mysterious IMSI catchers located in DC and Herndon, VA; and all those other strategically-located places?
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:30] <exec> 08└─What happens to all prior convictions based on improperly acquired evidence? ``the improperly convicted remain imprisoned and have to appeal individually'', or ``vacate all convictions involving such evidence, and make the LEOs retry each case individually''? What happens to those in the chain of co...
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:32] <exec> 08└─What's insane is that people just dumbly accepted the completely insecure infrastructure, from the devices to the protocols to the towers, that makes all this eavesdropping not only possible but inevitable, for the most part without a grumble or a twinge. And Alito is right. I still wouldn't have vo...
[14:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:43] <exec> 08└─So this is what happens when electricity doesn't have its own version of Net Neutrality? I guess the internet doesn't either anymore.
[14:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:02] <exec> 08└─Well that will be a great comfort to the workers from those companies if, and when, they are made redundant.
[14:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Fines its Main Telecoms Firm for Blocking Competition - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, Telenor execs approve! Only $98M split along 8 years to kill competition, $0.25/month/client. What a bargain!
[14:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:22] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the old refrain still holds true. "The king is dead: Long live the king!" Monsanto is gone, but there is an heir, or an air, or a hair. Maybe it's a hare? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:57] <exec> 08└─We're getting overqualified for that, son.
[14:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:26] <exec> 08└─And will run on Cold Fusion.
[14:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Releases National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Plan - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:33] <exec> 08└─1. want to come up with a joke 2. ??? 3. SYSTEMD!!!
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[15:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:14] <exec> 08└─Are we SoylentNews or InfoWars now? Not that im against us having our own series of pills to protect us against free radicals and breakdown of mitochondria - but it sounds like a lot of work.
[15:13:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:44] <exec> 08└─I disagree. That would only make sense if he knew what he is doing rather than just running his mouth with the brain disengaged. Those with actual diplomatic or business skills are running circles around him all the while playing him like a violin. Nipping his antics in the bud will save a lot of wo...
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:57] <exec> 08└─I think most of those tariffs you mention are retaliatory, for the latest round of silliness ... not sure about the jeans though. I know we do make Levis jeans in Canada.
[15:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:58] <exec> 08└─Right, because if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
[15:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 2107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, if there's reliably(enough) only one tax jurisdiction per zip code, that sounds like a wonderful idea. As for the cost of compliance - if you sell things you already have to collect and remit taxes, unless you refuse to do business with in-state customers? It costs you what, 2ms to have your on...
[15:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:23] <exec> 08└─I would think it would be easy enough to give the FOSS as a free gift - explicitly NOT bundled, because you are explicitly NOT selling it. Since it's FOSS you could even make it conveniently available even to non-customers, as further evidence that you are definitely not selling it.
[15:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:25] <exec> 08└─An alternate compromise if local taxes are desired - let states set a "mail order tax rate" that includes some compromised "local interstate" tax rate, and when you remit the taxes you've collected, you include a breakdown of tax amount collected by shipping area code, so that the state can distribu...
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[16:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:22] <exec> 08└─No, not just rhetoric. This driver was paid to be where he is. That makes Vasquez a "professional". It was her professional duty to ensure that the car operated in a safe manner. She had no less responsibility than a truck driver hauling 40,000 pounds of groceries, or hazardous material, or even exp...
[16:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:30] <exec> 08└─WTF does a story about caffeine have to do with InfoWars? You're going to have to explain this one by way of a gay frogs analogy.
[16:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─When i am waiting for Coast to Coast to come on i sometimes catch a couple minutes of InfoWars commercials. Caffeine consumption has been associated with lower risks for multiple diseases, including type II diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, but the mechanism underlying these protective effects ha...
[16:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:34] <exec> 08└─Given the amount of coffee I drink, I must have the heart of a 20 year old.
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[16:13:47] <exec> 08└─North Korea? If Trump woke up tomorrow, and told the world that he dreamed a cure for all cancers, and his dream proved to be accurate, you would still demonize him.
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─Once again, the libs got it right. Government has no right, or authority, to track it's citizens. And, giving them the authority to track non-citizens and/or convicts and/or suspects as they move about the general population is just an invitation to use a backdoor. Government should ALWAYS be requir...
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[16:14:00] <exec> 08└─That argument seems very much like the one that could be applied to Y2K. There were grave warnings so a lot of people did a LOT of work and, when the clock rolled around, nothing really serious broke. Yet there were breakages, and there were absolutely some very real problems that got fixed, and the...
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[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you missed the bit about the "power crunch"? Or are not aware that it's extremely common for power companies to have very flexible pricing schemes for large scale consumers depending on how much and when they consume the power, which are usually *considerably* cheaper than domestic rates? If...
[16:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:03] <exec> 08└─I got a 15-year mortgage in 1994. The end of the mortgage wasn't 85 years in the past. The Y2K wraparound problem was happening constantly from about 1970 onwards, if it existed at all. And because it didn't seem to be causing any real issues, it probably didn't exist all that time, including at the...
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[16:14:43] <exec> 08└─it's worse than that - we (humans) have been saturated for a good 100 years with more media than anyone could experience. Quality over quantity...
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[17:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:16] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, it was a self driving car. If self driving car companies are going to hand off control (and culpability) to humans when the car is already in an emergency, then they serve not value, and should be outlawed. There is already information that the car was programmed incorrectly by ub...
[17:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:18] <exec> 08└─There is already information that the car was programmed incorrectly by uber, then handed to an employee who was told
[17:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─He was a test driver. The whole reason he was employed was because the self-driving car is still in development and therefore not yet assumed to be safe for unsupervised operation. It was his job to prevent accidents like this.
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:22] <exec> 08└─The whole point is - there is no such thing as a "self driving car". Not yet. Every thing that I have read, to date, stipulates that the "autopilot" or whatever may fail at any time, and that the driver should be ready to take over. And, in this particular case, the driver was hired as a "safety" ba...
[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:24] <exec> 08└─I know its all the rage these days to be gender fluid, but the police said the safety driver was a she.
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─"programmed incorrectly"? I laugh at the idea that such a complex system could ever be programed absolutely "correctly". Most modern software is subject to weekly updates that fix a constant barrage of security issues, bugs, and may at any time introduce sloppy random buggy new mis-features at some...
[17:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:29] <exec> 08└─I laugh at the idea that such a complex system could ever be programed absolutely "correctly".
[17:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 2418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:31] <exec> 08└─Chill on the Personal Responsibility cult for a sec, bro. The self-driving software blew it. Had it detected the pedestrian, then it wouldn't have mattered what the human was doing. Further, is not the human present to take over if the software gets confused and sounds an alarm? Next, the pedestrian...
[17:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:33] <exec> 08└─Bear in mind that you are asking something VERY DIFFICULT, NIGH IMPOSSIBLE of the test driver: stay alert at all times, even to the point of instant reaction, while doing absolutely nothing 99% of the rest of the time. I agree she should not have streamed a movie, but the human mind must have someth...
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[17:13:44] <exec> 08└─Did they sell it to you so they could afford better smashed avo on toast?
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[17:13:45] <exec> 08└─The only way to extract energy for a Eukaryote is via the electron transport chain: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Here's a pop question for those doing homework. If humans could photosynthesize, how much energy would be produced?
[17:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:01] <exec> 08└─And this is why you want strict constitutionalists on the bench rather than someone who is going to rule your way on $issue while ignoring the constitution. Winning a decision that you should have lost is not a good thing. It means your government is bending the law to suit itself. You know, practic...
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:03] <exec> 08└─Damned skippy.
[17:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─What's insane is that bank records (clearly "papers") are not protected by the 4th.
[17:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:07] <exec> 08└─This is why Trump wins.
[17:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:09] <exec> 08└─Strict constitutionalists don't exist. Only idealogues who claim to be strict constitutionalists, typically when they are taking rights away from individuals. No strict constitutionalist would go along with the current definition of the Interstate Commerce clause, where the word "affects" has been a...
[17:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:11] <exec> 08└─And this is why you want strict constitutionalists on the bench
[17:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:14] <exec> 08└─Worse still, it allows rogue law enforcement to track politicians, with a view to blackmailing them. Note: why is there is a delay enforced between posts for logged-in posters? It's not like the site is flooded with posts.
[17:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─i think it's ridiculous anyone was even dissenting. their flimsy excuses are lame.
[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:30] <exec> 08└─If you could read and comprehend simple sentences, you could see that i understand this. My beef is them getting involved *what* you use the power for, not how much. Its none of their business.
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:52] <exec> 08└─I agree, the European tariffs are retaliatory. And I expect that the tariffs currently in place against China will also provoke an additional response, despite the reasons that the US Government claims they have been imposed.
[17:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:54] <exec> 08└─You know, these days "let there be light" is as easy as flipping a switch...
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skynet for The Win? AI Hunts Down Secret Testing of Nuclear Bombs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─first it came for the nuclear testing and i said nothing because i wasn't north korea...
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[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─No Bluescreen Left Behind!
[18:13:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 918 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:21] <exec> 08└─No, not just rhetoric. This driver was paid to be where he is. That makes Vasquez a "professional". It was her professional duty to ensure that the car operated in a safe manner. She had no less responsibility than a truck driver hauling 40,000 pounds of groceries, or hazardous material, or even exp...
[18:13:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─He was a test driver. The whole reason he was employed was because the self-driving car is still in development and therefore not yet assumed to be safe for unsupervised operation. It was his job to prevent accidents like this.
[18:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:33] <exec> 08└─According to the National Transportation Safety Board, Uber's self-driving car accurately identified pedestrian Elaine Herzberg, 49, as she walked a bicycle across a Tempe, Arizona, road. But Uber had turned off the vehicle's automatic emergency braking, so the SUV did not attempt to brake. The SUV...
[18:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:35] <exec> 08└─The self-driving software blew it. Had it detected the pedestrian, then it wouldn't have mattered what the human was doing. Further, is not the human present to take over if the software gets confused and sounds an alarm?
[18:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:37] <exec> 08└─Why would the person who is in effect a passenger, be liable for watching TV? The car was supposed to take care of itself.
[18:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, hacking is a thing so we really shouldn't be sending out millions of potential death machines.
[18:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:42] <exec> 08└─Of all the collisions you can have, the rear end collision is the only one that wouldn't be the fault of Uber. Drivers are required to maintain sufficient space ahead of them that they can stop in case the car ahead of them slams on their brakes or otherwise comes to a stop. Being rearended is also...
[18:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:44] <exec> 08└─That area isn't as dark as Uber's video made it out to be ( https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] ). The car had plenty of time to decide to stop or slow down to make the collision non-fatal. I've done far better a...
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:56] <exec> 08└─protected heart muscle cells from cell death, and triggered the conversion of fibroblasts into cells containing contractile fibers -- all crucial for repair of heart muscle after myocardial infarction/quote Seems like they came close to, but avoided, saying coffee was useful prophetically to prevent...
[18:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:58] <exec> 08└─You and me both. I had to cut my caffeine intake in half in the past few years to keep from my heart being so awesome that it broke all the stuff around it.
[18:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:00] <exec> 08└─By this community? Not much, though I'd break the curve with as much as I go fishing.
[18:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:02] <exec> 08└─No tests on humans yet, but now we know how to help prevent heart attacks in mice.
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:25] <exec> 08└─Why was Buzzy modded flamebait? "Damned skippy" is a term of approval. https://en.wiktionary.org [wiktionary.org]
[18:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─Not sure what North Korea has to do with my post (nothing has changed there except Trump gave Kim a handjob). But Trump, he lies so often that I would have to go outside and look for myself if he was soaking wet and said it was raining. He'd rather climb a tree to tell a lie than stay on the ground...
[18:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─Note: why is there is a delay enforced between posts for logged-in posters? It's not like the site is flooded with posts.
[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─I agree with the latter and say you're projecting on the former. I am absolutely a strict constitutionalist. I believe every single bit of it needs to be interpreted as it was originally written and meant, even the bits I disagree with. If it's going to be changed, it needs to be done via amendment...
[18:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─Sigh. They are not even constitutionalists, much less strict ones. They're just partisan shills same as the other five.
[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─No kidding. Even if you're going off the "reasonable expectation of privacy" test, I know I damned sure expect my business records to be confidential from the government short of a warrant.
[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─Some folks just downmod me on reflex. Don't let it bother you. I certainly don't.
[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:40] <exec> 08└─P.S. Here's a quick test to determine if someone is a partisan shill or a strict constitutionalist: if they ever remotely consider the effect a ruling would have, they're a shill. The constitution says what it says and consequences be damned. Even if it needs changing, the judiciary do not have lega...
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:42] <exec> 08└─> Worse still, it allows rogue law enforcement to track politicians, with a view to blackmailing them. Like the FBI monitoring collusion with foreign government? Yep that rogue enforcement must be stopped NOW. #collusion
[18:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:56] <exec> 08└─While I agree with you, I'm not blind to the fact that new companies are sprouting in that area whose energy demands (taken together) are so large that they put delivery at risk. The obvious question is how to address this. Should the burdens be shared by everyone? That doesn't seem quite fair to th...
[18:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:21] <exec> 08└─Stick it to China, Trump. Get concessions from the Chinese as they have been flagrantly violating agreements with us for decades, and the agreements were written to favor China at that because they were a developing nation back then starting from nothing. Time for a renegotiation and for China to se...
[18:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:23] <exec> 08└─There is case for tariffs to offset the lack of worker and environmental protections in other countries (esp. China). Particularly since mercury, CO2, SO2, etc. released anywhere in the world eventually fuck everywhere in the world, so it IS our problem encouraging the short-term externalization of...
[18:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:25] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. To your typical Trump voter, he's stickin' it to the man and givin' the other fella Hell! USA USA USA!
[18:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:27] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming you've paid the licensing fee for every piece of software and movie you've watched?
[18:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know what kind of faggot follows you around down-voting, but nothing you say is wrong. I too hate the holes that develop just above the back pockets, like they were designed from engineers to have all the stress of pants focus on that little area to get a hole within 12 months. Also the jean...
[18:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Podcasts App Launches, Years After It Canceled a Similar App - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:50] <exec> 08└─If I had mod points, I would give them to you. Your last line is so good I plan on stealing it.
[18:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Norway Fines its Main Telecoms Firm for Blocking Competition - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:01] <exec> 08└─They have worlds best customer service. I was once forwarded from their frontline support to a dude who admined local Telenor DSLAM and explained to him what he had to do, he did it and problem went away. Another time, i've asked them to make my xDSL line symmetrical, ten years ago, 10/10 or somethi...
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─your whole posts assumes roundup actually increases yields. are you wearing your Roundup Ready tshirt right now?
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:55] <exec> 08└─to no one in particular... many things get blamed on the immune system as autoimmune diseases just to cover for the fact that scientists can't see what the immune system sees and to sell druigs that make you worse so they can sell you more drugs and hack on you some more when you get sick from all t...
[18:17:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:06] <exec> 08└─Bottles, soda, water, are almost always made of new plastic stock. If government mandated a certain percentage of plastic in new stock actually be from post consumer waste, the problem will solve itself in one of two ways. Reduced plastic use, or increased recycled materials use. Recycling is almost...
[18:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:32] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, China is the source of most plastic crap around me. If Americans quit buying and giving away all those worthless plastic trinkets/awards/toys nobody keeps more than 2 minutes, that would put a dent in my local environment. Until you have kids, you cannot imagine the plastic waste that...
[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─Blue bin? That's food waste, because everyone knows food is blue, green bin is recycling because plastic is green, brown bin is for green stuff from the garden, obviously...
[18:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that would fly if the FOSS stuff was an integral or important part of the system he's building for them.
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:08] <exec> 08└─of course this dumb bitch was going to come shilling for government.
[18:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 4011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:10] <exec> 08└─IT IS VERY SIMPLE to do. I set up and maintained a system for home service company. SALES TAX is consumer CONSUMPTION Based. Where is it consumed for food, light bulbs, whatever. Consumption with low traffic volumes is ASSUMED to be at the point of change of ownership (the place you bought it). It i...
[18:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─this is why we need decentralized applications with private crypto as payment. the leeches only have power because these centralized companies are bootlicking whores who do what they are told.
[18:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Supreme Court Rules 5-4: States Can Force Internet Companies to Collect Sales Tax - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:15] <exec> 08└─They don't just need to negotiate with states, they also need to negotiate with cities, counties, utility districts, etc. The last time I checked the local sales rate is was the sum of about 5 different agencies, each with a quite small share, and, of course, the state with the largest share. But th...
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[19:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:19] <exec> 08└─Welp. That does it. I'm sticking with Windows 95. Try and update THAT, suckers! :P
[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:20] <exec> 08└─I've installed Microsoft OS's from DOS 2.11a onwards. I've been a lifetime Windows user since Windows 3.10. But in the last couple years, I feel like I'm battling Microsoft for control of my machine - it's like fighting persistent malware, every time you clean it off a machine, it pops back up. My w...
[19:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, yes... Using Linux, I can control all my updates and roll-back easily.
[19:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:25] <exec> 08└─The saddest thing about all this is that Windows users have been subject to a multi-decade scheme to train them away from the ability to choose, to even know that they can choose. Training them to captivity in their software, which is in everything now, trains them to every other kind of captivity....
[19:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, MS used to be the soulless agnostic corporation that let you do whatever you wanted with your machine. It was just a platform. Now its another walled garden with minicams in all the trees.
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─A good migration path would be to start using LibreOffice on your Windows machines. It's not my primary office software, but occasionally it helps, if for no other reason than to export to a different file format, .pdf, etc. But it is pretty useful.
[19:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 1410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─Need a +1 exactly mod for this! I used to do integration testing of a certain Marine drive-by-wire system with various aftermarket autopilots, and while it was really nice to sit in the breeze while being driven around the area on an endless scenic tour, there's countless things that constantly go w...
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yes and with 6 seconds, that should have been sufficient for the driver to get eyes on the road and slow. Possibly to a complete stop, but definitely down to the point where the likelihood of a fatality was significantly reduced.
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't actually say that the safety driver was watching Hulu. It says that someone was watching Hulu using the driver's Hulu account, and that they happened to stop watching shortly after the collision. It is entirely plausible that the person watching was not the driver, but perhaps wa...
[19:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:58] <exec> 08└─which is particularly annoying, because it would not be politically correct to emphasize that we're dealing with a woman driver here.
[19:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:00] <exec> 08└─The Tesla-semitrailer crash in NY had a similar element. Joshua Brown, driving in a rural setting where there was little traffic, set the system for 74 MPH [google.com] and settled in to watch Harry Potter, [google.com] ignoring repeated warnings [google.com] from the system to put his goddamned han...
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─Alright, well, that's an association most people are not going to have with news about caffeine. Me, I was encouraged by the headline because I drink about a pot of coffee a day. Always nice to find out your vices are actually virtues.
[19:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:18] <exec> 08└─I would like to photosynthesize. It would both free me forever from the hamster wheel of modern capitalism and enable my nudism.
[19:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─The mice have been running experiments on humans for ages. Such subtlety, one has to admire it.
[19:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:52] <exec> 08└─I don't get the logic here. The fact that your phone needs to connect to towers that are near your location is pretty much a given isn't it? How is that a "technological problem" that can be fixed? The fact that they track and keep that information in the first place...let alone what gets done with...
[19:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:54] <exec> 08└─Strict constitutionalists don't exist.
[19:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─There is no way to use a bank without the bank keeping records. So they were never "Your" bank records anyway. They were always the bank's records. You don't want bank records, then don't use banks for transfer of funds anywhere beyond Bank to own Pocket or vice versa. Go cash, or crypto. (But choos...
[19:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Faces First US Trial Over Roundup Cancer Link - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:05] <exec> 08└─Glyphosate has been studied by just about everybody, and nobody has proven a cancer risk.
[19:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:43] <exec> 08└─Shred it and mix it in with concrete. This is being implemented currently and seems kind of promising. Not sure I'd like to be inside a burning building made of this stuff but it might work for infrastructure.
[19:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:44] <exec> 08└─B..b..but JJJJinaa!!!
[19:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:46] <exec> 08└─Locked in plastic particles in your lungs. FTFY
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Just Handed the World a 111-Million-Ton Trash Problem - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─Burning the plastics can't be much worse for the environment than the dirty coal that China is burning... Especially if you do it with proper tech (Sweden burns lots of trash and they seem to be doing fine from an environmental perspective).
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Macedonia Formally Changes Name to "Republic of North Macedonia" - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah probably only need to push Macedonia up the need-a-fix queue if they start trying to call themselves the Democratic Republic of North Macedonia or even the Democratic People's Republic of North Macedonia... ;)
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[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:33] <exec> 08└─because I'm tired of using Unix applications ported to Windows that barely work
[20:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─SomeGuy is actually Ultron?
[20:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:37] <exec> 08└─Yours or Microsoft's? What are you going to do about it?
[20:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:39] <exec> 08└─That may be true, but I mostly eliminate the need to try to figure out how to reference network files (Backslash? Forward slash?) or whether an app will approve of the line endings in the file I'm trying to feed it...
[20:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:41] <exec> 08└─...occasionally it helps, if for no other reason than to export to a different file format, .pdf, etc.
[20:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:09] <exec> 08└─False positives really are not a problem with these systems. This is well proven technology, available for a decade on high end cars, and now filtering down to almost every brand. Subaru, Honda, Chevy, Ford, Standard equipment in most cases. On my 2012 vintage car, I've seen maybe 4 false positives,...
[20:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:10] <exec> 08└─Of all the collisions you can have, the rear end collision is the only one that wouldn't be the fault of Uber.
[20:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:12] <exec> 08└─But they're Agile! They just have to deliver a Minimum Viable Product, right? I'm sure safety is on the development roadmap in the near future. Maybe someone could write up a quick user story?
[20:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─I'd break the curve with as much as I go fishing.
[20:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─You're declaring victory a little soon there.
[20:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:09] <exec> 08└─I find it hilarious that conservatives continue to blame the actions of Republicans (the very people the conservatives voted for) on liberals. Get a clue and take responsibility for your own actions. Stop being a snowflake. Republicans stole a Supreme Court nomination from Obama and put in their own...
[20:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:25] <exec> 08└─Contrary to popular opinion, there are some instances where society allocates scarce resources via methods other than price, based on reasons other than simple level of consumption. Welcome to civilization. Upon demand beyond available supply, the provider usually has government mandated priorities...
[20:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:27] <exec> 08└─This is a solved problem with electric utilities all over the world. People aren't expected to sit in the dark eating cold cereal just so the smelter down the street can melt scrap steel. The smelter signed a contract that specifies this. They know a shutdown is possible, and they get rate adjustmen...
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[21:13:37] <exec> 08└─Its theirs. Get used to it, or look for alternatives.
[21:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:38] <exec> 08└─I've been a lifetime Windows user since Windows 3.10. But in the last couple years, I feel like I'm battling Microsoft for control of my machine
[21:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:41] <exec> 08└─...we have people who run Linux or *BSD, with a Windows VM if necessary kept locked the hell down tight. Microsoft can eat the proverbial bag of dicks.
[21:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:43] <exec> 08└─Ultron is actually Immortal Technique? Immortal Technique is actually Pinocchio? The conspiracy, it is deep.
[21:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:14] <exec> 08└─Damn, dog! I thought a SECOND uber car must have hit poor Elaine, because i would have testified the first driver was a man. D.A.M.N!
[21:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─Well don't tell them then, before those mice will raid our coffee beans.
[21:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:48] <exec> 08└─What's insane is that people just dumbly accepted the completely insecure infrastructure, from the devices to the protocols to the towers, that makes all this eavesdropping not only possible but inevitable, for the most part without a grumble or a twinge. And Alito is right. I still wouldn't have vo...
[21:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:14] <exec> 08└─Doctors also keep extensive records, but we have the concept of patient doctor confidentiality. Photographers require a model consent form even though the photographer holds the copyright on the photo. The problem is that the businesses are in bed with government so we end up with "We'll let you mon...
[21:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:33] <exec> 08└─That sounds reasonable. It even caused me to read the fine article to see why that wouldn't be the case here. What is rather absent from the summary is that... This action is in response to an Order-in-Council recently adopted by the government, which instructs the Régie de l’énergie to quickly...
[21:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:02] <exec> 08└─Dynamic tariffs, targeted at specific trading partners and industries, automatically applied and removed in response to 3rd party assessments of conditions, should be a part of U.S. trade policy. But Trump and company are too dense to understand how to implement them. The ham-handed approach the Tru...
[21:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Entertainer "Akon" Plans to Build a Cryptocurrency-Based City in Senegal - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:04] <exec> 08└─We built this city on bu-uull shit.
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[22:13:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 1122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─The saddest thing about all this is that Windows users have been subject to a multi-decade scheme to train them away from the ability to choose, to even know that they can choose. Training them to captivity in their software, which is in everything now, trains them to every other kind of captivity....
[22:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:38] <exec> 08└─I agree about MS Windows giving fewer and fewer options to many things. I've seen this trend for 20+ years. I've attributed it to MacOS envy, hoping to reduce support calls, and perceived customer demand. Every now and then I stumble onto a 3rd-party addon, like someone (Symantec maybe?) had a major...
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:39] <exec> 08└─Plus LO works the same on Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD. Learning curve is short, and google will find "How do you do XYZ on LibreOffice" faster than the help.
[22:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:42] <exec> 08└─hoping to reduce support calls,
[22:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Update Adds New Hammer to Bang Resisting Users Into Submission - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:44] <exec> 08└─> (Symantec maybe?) had a major UI mod package for probably Win98 or so. You mean Stardock? They had something called Windowblinds. You could skin Windows with themes that were out of this world. Back in the late 90s, it was the dogs bollocks for Windows users. I remember it being a hog. One really...
[22:13:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, it was a self driving car. If self driving car companies are going to hand off control (and culpability) to humans when the car is already in an emergency, then they serve not value, and should be outlawed. There is already information that the car was programmed incorrectly by ub...
[22:13:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:00] <exec> 08└─I laugh at the idea that such a complex system could ever be programed absolutely "correctly".
[22:14:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:05] <exec> 08└─The self-driving software blew it. Had it detected the pedestrian, then it wouldn't have mattered what the human was doing. Further, is not the human present to take over if the software gets confused and sounds an alarm?
[22:14:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EETech1 [957] 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 1410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:10] <exec> 08└─Need a +1 exactly mod for this! I used to do integration testing of a certain Marine drive-by-wire system with various aftermarket autopilots, and while it was really nice to sit in the breeze while being driven around the area on an endless scenic tour, there's countless things that constantly go w...
[22:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:21] <exec> 08└─False positives really are not a problem with these systems.
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:23] <exec> 08└─This was something the aircraft industry figured out long ago. You are correct, as other car companies have been, in pointing out that the human brain is not a machine and can't be expected to work like one. I don't remember what the numbers are, but it is on the order of seconds to come up to situa...
[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─Airline pilots are trained for hundreds of hours to be able to take over from the automatic systems and they typically have minutes to do so when they have to.
[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─AND, i don't want a car i have to watch over that i am not in constant control of: it IS too easy to get distracted. "Ooooh....gorgeous woman!"WHAM! If it CANNOT control itself in EVERY situation and i may be held responsible for any bad outcomes it may acquire because it suddenly relents control to...
[22:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:29] <exec> 08└─Fully and completely agree. Either let me drive or make me not criminally (or anywise) responsible. DO NOT make me a passive assist driver who has to take control when the car comes upon a situation it can't figure out. The LIDAR saw her six seconds out (LIDAR doesn't care how light or dark the road...
[22:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:52] <exec> 08└─I never understood this trend. When I get my grubby hands on fresh avocados, I peel and pit them and place them in their form directly on the place before seasoning them with salt and pepper or Tabasco sauce. Oh yeah and coffee rocks. During a typical workday I will bomb almost exactly 4 cups of cof...
[22:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:53] <exec> 08└─One late-night study session I was already beaned-up, but decided I needed more coffee so I ordered an iced Vietnamese because I wanted something sweet. What I didn't know was that the place in question made their iced Vietnameses with 4 shots of espresso. After drinking it I was convinced that the...
[22:15:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:14] <exec> 08└─And this is why you want strict constitutionalists on the bench
[22:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:32] <exec> 08└─Okay, what's the original meaning of "probable cause" and the qualifications for "unreasonable search and seizures"? Please site your references. Or should the judges rule nothing is probable cause and every search is unreasonable and delete those words from the amendment via fiat?
[22:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:34] <exec> 08└─So in your world, all a Republican had to do was nominate, and that assured presence on the bench? How do you find your own ass to wipe it when you are that dumb?
[22:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:36] <exec> 08└─"Kennedy pointed out it was a serious departure from the court’s previous holdings about records held by third parties. He pointed out the government may use a subpoena — rather than a harder-to-obtain warrant — to obtain bank records, telephone records and credit card statement as investigati...
[22:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:38] <exec> 08└─Republicans have a majority in the Senate and they changed the rules to allow a vote by simple majority for Supreme Court nominations, so, yes, it is that simple. https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] You really are in denial, aren't you?...
[22:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:40] <exec> 08└─Every search without a warrant is unreasonable.
[22:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:43] <exec> 08└─Then why isn't the wording, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against Warrantless searches and seizures..."? I see no way for a strict interpretation can lead to your conclusion.
[22:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules that Warrant is Needed to Access Cell Tower Records - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:45] <exec> 08└─"We'll let you monetize the money you collected on other people if you let us have it for free whenever the whim strikes us."
[22:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Podcasts App Launches, Years After It Canceled a Similar App - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:53] <exec> 08└─Until Google cancels it when they lose interest in 18-24 months
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[23:13:53] <exec> 08└─This. Last time I was forced to use Windows I installed it as a guest on a private virtual network with the host (Linux Mint), put a proxy on the host with a white list for www.google.com, configured the guest for the proxy and went to google. In a few hours Microsoft politely fills a proxy with the...
[23:14:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 1057 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:22] <exec> 08└─False positives really are not a problem with these systems. This is well proven technology, available for a decade on high end cars, and now filtering down to almost every brand. Subaru, Honda, Chevy, Ford, Standard equipment in most cases. On my 2012 vintage car, I've seen maybe 4 false positives,...
[23:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:31] <exec> 08└─There is already good equipment available for non-destructive testing off the highway, for example, here are some little electric robot "sleds" that are not damaged when driven over. They can roam all over a proving ground coordinated externally and can hold either a person manikin or even a "bicycl...
[23:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:33] <exec> 08└─Woooosh? I read g-parent as saying, "If Uber left their version of automatic-braking on, the Uber car might stop semi-randomly (false alarm) and GET rear ended by some other car following too closely". At least in most cases, that would be the fault of the following car (driven by some unsuspecting...
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Driver Streamed Hulu before Self-Driving Car Crash - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:36] <exec> 08└─And they were watching 'The Voice'. If it was her watching, I wonder who was singing at the time. From the shocked look on the Uber video when the car hit the pedestrian, imagine she'd just had the double shock of some stupid 'coach' comment or some utterly shite robotic try-hard style singing immed...
[23:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caffeine from Four Cups of Coffee Protects the Heart with the Help of Mitochondria - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:59] <exec> 08└─I had slugs all over my asparagus and spent a lot of time squeezing the shit out of hundreds of these fuckers. But it was cloudy and lightly spitting rain, so very little sunshine for me. :( Fucking slug/beetle things killing my next year's harvest.....mumble grumble get off my lawn and asparagus!
[23:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Utility Makes Blockchain Upstarts Bid for their Ravenous Rigs' Electricity Supply - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:04] <exec> 08└─Somewhat the warning actually was true regarding energy use. It has been pretty much constant in the rich world since then (economic crisis does wonders for this), and per capita it actually has decreased in rich world. (It ballparks roughly at that if it wasn't for the energy-increase per capita in...
[23:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Podcasts App Launches, Years After It Canceled a Similar App - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:57] <exec> 08└─If the products are so great, then they don't need to be updated. Just distributed.
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