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[00:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:44] <exec> 08└─The BS level is *very* high here.
[00:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying it is 100%, but, it is 100%.
[00:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:48] <exec> 08└─Janirock, Takyon and the rest of the editors shield us from being subjected to overwhelming bullshit on this site. Isn't that right aristarchus?
[00:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:50] <exec> 08└─Fallacy of misleading precision. They should have said, "98.3%" Percentages with decimal points are always more convincing.
[00:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 2349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:52] <exec> 08└─From an otherwise boring blog, https://mysteriousflow.com [mysteriousflow.com] Chicken-Shit, Bull-Shit, & Elephant-Shit Fritz Perls (1893-1970) was a flamboyant psychologist who perfected a popular form of therapy called Gestalt Therapy. His honesty about the present moment a...
[00:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:54] <exec> 08└─And jmorris is the avatar of the god of Objective Truth.
[00:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:57] <exec> 08└─We believe bullshit because we do not question our ability to know things for sure in the absence of evidence. If it sounds right, we believe it to be true.
[00:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:00] <exec> 08└─I'd rather hear a 1 hour speech about politics by ethanol.
[00:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:02] <exec> 08└─Hear? That would take an hour (barring voice compression). If I can skim a transcript, that would be enough...
[00:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:04] <exec> 08└─At least we get a pass on hearing the pontifications of The Massive Bullshitter.
[00:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:06] <exec> 08└─Is there really any better reason to be a fan of a particular sportsball team? I mean if you're going to subscribe to gratuitous tribalism at its most petty and banal, it may as well be for sentimental reasons.
[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:09] <exec> 08└─The best bullshit "detector" is your memory and reading about events. Unfortunately I have a mostly bad memory and don't have time to read about several events, but the usual process is that when someone tells you something while you have read/heard something different, some flag should be raised an...
[00:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:11] <exec> 08└─What makes you so confident we'll be so lucky?
[00:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:13] <exec> 08└─(Different AC here, no BS). I agree, a well trained or perhaps a well fed bullshit detector is a shield against the malicious (and may yet protect the American democracy even, we'll see). In that sense a set of low quality (i.e. easily discernible) bullshit sources make for a great training ground....
[00:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:26] <exec> 08└─Nope spéculative execution flaw were theorized at a ieee conf in 1995 ... it was rediscovered 20y layers... https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[00:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:35] <exec> 08└─That's great - but how much lag does that compression and decompression introduce? After all, lag is far more important to an enjoyable VR experience than resolution, and VR has to be rendered in real time, which means it also has to be compressed in real time, and every millisecond of lag increases...
[00:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:47] <exec> 08└─So what's the big deal? Just rinse it off in nearby stream and put it back on. You moderns with your "sanitation", "antibiotics", and "sterile bandages". Just a bunch of nonsense that prevents the weak and unfortunate from being purged from the gene pool. In all seriousness though, if it can survive...
[00:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Goes to Prison for Attempting Web Domain Robbery at Gunpoint - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:17] <exec> 08└─Possibly you don't know what that is. Or possibly you don't read the articles. Or are just dumb.
[00:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 2259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:56] <exec> 08└─I think you're Catholic. And for a good Catholic, not so many options as the rest of us have. Catholic is great, I love Catholic, it's very special. But it's not me. And it's not a lot of us. The rest of us, we all want to screw. And so many like children. But, very expensive to raise a child right....
[00:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:57] <exec> 08└─I think the character was 19 that season. But I may be confused.
[00:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:59] <exec> 08└─No fooling - GRS ain't cheap. You can easily drop $40k on that, depending on where you go. Still beats suicide imho.
[00:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but at what age did you leave South America and came to the US?
[00:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:35] <exec> 08└─That sort of cap won't hold up in a court of law for serious term changes by reading this message you agree to give me your first born child to be sacrificed in the name of Sek and I can alter this agreement at any time
[00:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:36] <exec> 08└─No. Its not an investment idiot. An investment has a return proportional to the success of the project. It is an unsecured preorder of an unknown product, at best. Calling it an investment, unless they are offering an ownership share, is just pathetic rationalisation.
[00:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official: the Shape of the Smartphone Is Changing Forever - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:21] <exec> 08└─The problem right now, as I see it, is the way the touch input extends to the edges of many current phones. Specifically, unintended touch input at the edges of the smartphones is far too likely to cause interference with what you want to do.
[00:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: Remains of the Murdered Romanovs 'Authentic' - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:38] <exec> 08└─But, that is what Communism gave the world...
[00:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: Remains of the Murdered Romanovs 'Authentic' - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─The reason the Russian Orthodox Church keeps bringing up antisemitic conspiracies is over property disputes in Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.t...
[00:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. to Make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Docs Play - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:17] <exec> 08└─I mean, it's a very unpleasant read, but I'm alright with it I guess. I don't like permabans. Still wish he'd at least make them funny.
[00:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open MongoDB Database Exposes Mobile Games Money Laundering Operation - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:49] <exec> 08└─But does Blockchain web-scale? MongoDB web scales [youtube.com]. Aha the classics...
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[01:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:34] <exec> 08└─7x24 reliability, except when it can't be provisioned.
[01:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:36] <exec> 08└─If you are having trouble becoming a Microsoft customer, perhaps it's fate. You might have a look at lowendbox.com and see whether you can find a VM there. Though you will end up with a random provider that might or might suit you, three major benefits are that (1) you'll get a VM, (2) you won't be...
[01:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:38] <exec> 08└─I'd rant about a highly-sought-after tech product being under-supplied, but I'm not sure how to feel about parallels between Nintendo, Microsoft, and Tesla...
[01:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:40] <exec> 08└─When you're submitting your blog/resume to top tech companies, "Managed some Linux VMs on a bunch of cheap no-name VPS providers" doesn't look as good as "Rockstar DevOps Fucking The Azure Cloud Bro!"
[01:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:42] <exec> 08└─Product? You mean service. There's plenty of Comcast service for all, bro. I'm in the alley behind your house, using your internets.
[01:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:44] <exec> 08└─Good luck, Walmart...good job partnering with a loser operation. If I were a Walmart exec, I'd be worried.
[01:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:10] <exec> 08└─Santa never brought you presents ..?
[01:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:11] <exec> 08└─If it were 198 out of 202, you get 98.02% "More than 98%" stops them having to use more significant figures. Womder what the minimum number of participants is to get "98%" 59/60?
[01:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:14] <exec> 08└─The best bullshit "detector" is your memory and reading about events.
[01:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:16] <exec> 08└─Irony meter broke again! But the point of the Fine Article, at least in part, is that you cannot fight bullshit with more or different bullshit.
[01:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:18] <exec> 08└─Another stupid Aristarchus submiss...... ....no, I B.S! THIS is a good submission, or at least a better (much better) submission than the usual for you (although the far right is as full of b.s. as anything else). Good submission, front page posting...priceless! As per the story, I am usually very s...
[01:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:20] <exec> 08└─C'mon! It is a small department. Five participants, and one of those was a cat.
[01:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:24] <exec> 08└─He was a commie... commies don't get no presents.
[01:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:26] <exec> 08└─Santa never brought you presents ..?
[01:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:28] <exec> 08└─40 people is the minimum you need. 39/40 is 97.5%, rounded to 98%. If you want to get over 98%, you'd need at least 51 (50/51 = 98.039%)
[01:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:31] <exec> 08└─Irony meter broke again! But the point of the Fine Article, at least in part, is that you cannot fight bullshit with more or different bullshit.
[01:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:33] <exec> 08└─Or am I full of bs?
[01:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:35] <exec> 08└─73.6% Of All Statistics Are Made Up http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] It has to be true, it's on the internet. ;-)
[01:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:38] <exec> 08└─The 9% acceptance rate from starchy is a bit too high.
[01:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─It was an example. Other are: the invisible guy in the sky, the belief that one's particular sect holds Divine Truth, that guys with a darker skin are lazy or guys with hooked noses are cunning bastards. In some things we are indoctrinated (yep, that's the word), others we learn by listening/watchin...
[01:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:42] <exec> 08└─Or to piss off your parents. Don't want those progressives rebelling against all things American to feel left out. Change nation as applicable.
[01:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─Foolish optimism. It's a common trait among progtards. It has to be for them to keep wanting socialism/communism despite all evidence of how horrible it turns out.
[01:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:46] <exec> 08└─Recently, the fashion is to fight bullshit by drowning it in mountains of bullshit, then dig the mountain to fight the original bullshit, polish it, present it to the public in a way that seems to make it explode worse than the first time, rebury it in a mix of ancient and improved fresh bullshit, a...
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:00] <exec> 08└─Spectre, probably not. I don't think anyone really expected that kind of attack to work. (It had been theorized, but implementation is a separate matter.) Meltdown, however, was blatant disregard of safety for slightly faster execution.
[01:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:01] <exec> 08└─It's an answer anyway. It's not the only one though.
[01:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:12] <exec> 08└─If you're at 90-120 FPS, you have a few milliseconds to work with. The headset could have a dedicated component for decompression. However, if the endgame is around 240 FPS [soylentnews.org], things are going to get tricky. A tightly integrated standalone VR SoC may be much better equipped to deal w...
[01:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:14] <exec> 08└─Couple things I forgot. AMD, Nvidia, ARM, Qualcomm, and the rest of the gang ought to be heavily marketing, praying, sacrificing goats, etc. in order to ensure that VR takes off (such as at least 1 billion casual and many millions of heavy users). Because the desire for ultra-realistic VR can push g...
[01:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:17] <exec> 08└─push graphics hardware to its utmost limits
[01:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:30] <exec> 08└─If it can survive in an autoclave, it's not likely to be electronics. Also, autoclaves seem to have pretty much disappeared.
[01:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:31] <exec> 08└─Wrong! Say a millennial goes in for gender reassignment surgery and then in the recovery room sees a bunch of stains on their re-used bandage. No amount of "the stains don't really matter" talk from you is going to keep that millennial from running to the nearest safe space.
[01:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Goes to Prison for Attempting Web Domain Robbery at Gunpoint - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:03] <exec> 08└─Really, an "off topic" mod? Whoosh!
[01:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:23] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem with the race to the bottom so preferred by our local libertarians here is that it's self-defeating. If a big chunk of the population is not being paid a living wage, then they can't go out and spend money on small luxuries like fast food. By controlling their costs, these compan...
[01:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:25] <exec> 08└─It's not an either/or thing. There are more jobs teenagers used to take and less of them willing to work.
[01:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:27] <exec> 08└─Good job, very good.
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[02:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:51] <exec> 08└─Because UK South is the only Azure region.</s>
[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:34] <exec> 08└─They should have said, "98.3%" Percentages with decimal points are always more convincing. But 95.1% of all statistics are made up on the spot .....
[02:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:35] <exec> 08└─90% of statistics are crap.
[02:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─That's why I crap so much!
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:40] <exec> 08└─orig ac here... The point was BS is impossible to detect. Except when you decide it is. I was just being a goof....
[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─Well that should be everyone's goal, right? None can actually hit that goal, but the harder we strive for it the better. Figure out what the facts are and be unafraid to speak them. The rustled jimmies, outraged shrieks and "I just can't even" reactions are most useful; they are bright spotlights on...
[02:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:11] <exec> 08└─Analysts Concerned About Crypto Mining Impact on AMD Share Price [cointelegraph.com] Cryptocurrency Mining Affects AMD Stock while Nvidia Overestimates GPU Demand [ccn.com] Major AMD Radeon Add-in-Board Partner TUL Corporation Lost 60% of Revenue In Wake Of Crypto Slump [wccftech.com] Why GPU Pricin...
[02:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:12] <exec> 08└─So, do you think mining is sick for a near future? (no trolling, honest) I happen to think the same but all around me screaming rebound.
[02:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:15] <exec> 08└─Refresh rate and lag are completely independent properties - it's perfectly possible to run at 120FPS with several seconds of lag - lots of TVs offer 120Hz refresh rates with well over 100ms of lag, meaning that the image displayed is more than 10 frames behind the image received (ignoring the fact...
[02:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:29] <exec> 08└─What do you mean? Plenty of electronics can handle extreme temperature, pressure, and humidity - just not common consumer electronics, because why would they? Such capabilities usually comes at a price, and very few people run their electronics through an autoclave, undersea vent, etc.
[02:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:25] <exec> 08└─How long do you think you would own that e-bike in your homeless state?
[02:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Official: the Shape of the Smartphone Is Changing Forever - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:45] <exec> 08└─Pixels aren't zero-dimensional...
[02:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: Remains of the Murdered Romanovs 'Authentic' - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:04] <exec> 08└─Hmmm... I wonder why the US administration sanctions against Russia are targeting mostly Russian Jews. The biggest one being Deripaska https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] a Jew who owns Rusal as well as the biggest house in Washington. Perhaps because he stole Rusal from an...
[02:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. to Make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Docs Play - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's a pain in the ass. No, it doesn't make the place a totalitarian hellhole.
[02:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No More Zigzags: Scientists Uncover Mechanism That Stabilizes Fusion Plasmas - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder how you (or anybody here) would hold giving an unlimited money reward presentation. Besides, most upper managers can't do presentations without drugs; they usually got prescriptions though. And this is good, because the rest are psychos.
[02:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open MongoDB Database Exposes Mobile Games Money Laundering Operation - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:16] <exec> 08└─Even the crooks need to think cyber security first nowadays! Infosec professionals now have another avenue for employment of their skills! Think cyber-hardening-as-a-service paid via bitcoins or cold hard cash drops!
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[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─Epic fail. jmorris wants his own integers! What bullshit.
[03:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─I only fully trust numbers and am always at least doing back of the envelope calculations for everything I read (like solar powered cars or cows cause xyz to happen). Given that most people are innumerate combined with the war on critical thinking, many societal problems are only going to get worse....
[03:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:49] <exec> 08└─And the 98% acceptance rate for takyon submissions seems a bit too low. Not suggesting that there might be collusion, or a common funding source with the Brexit and Trump campaigns. I mean, why would there be?
[03:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:51] <exec> 08└─TMB, this is pretty poor quality bullshit, even from you! I know you are on vacation, but put a modicum of effort into, old man!
[03:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─From the Fine Article: It is now very common for proponents of alternative medicine to emphasise ‘open-mindedness’. Unfortunately, this can entail disregarding empirical evidence. For example, many anti-vaxxers do not appear to care that Andrew Wakefield’s infamous article in the Lancet in 199...
[03:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:55] <exec> 08└─Belief in free will is another
[03:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:58] <exec> 08└─Another dream shsttered, c'est la vie.
[03:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:00] <exec> 08└─Irony meter broke again! But the point of the Fine Article, at least in part, is that you cannot fight bullshit with more or different bullshit and win
[03:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.york.ac.uk//maths/histstat/lies.htm [york.ac.uk]
[03:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:04] <exec> 08└─While you actually can, there's that minor nagging detail about the reasons and result of such a fight.
[03:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:07] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, once the tech sector is sufficiently destroyed by off shoring and H1Bs you might finally lose your faith in the Big C. You libconartists are like the fundamentalists of political ideology, through the sheer power of belief will miracles save us!
[03:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:09] <exec> 08└─You calling for facts is making my brain kick my eyeballs from behind trying to get the eyelids to shut.
[03:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:25] <exec> 08└─Once again we see that security was not the top priority, or such a huge security hole as Spectre could never have slid by for _20_ years. They knew it could be possible but chose not to investigate. Didn't want to do anything that might reduce performance, even when they went all security Nazi and...
[03:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:42] <exec> 08└─If ordinary folks don't/can't use the blockchain funny money, and big investors are scared off by the regulators, then the bubble will burst. That's not to say it won't continue to exist, but it can continue to do so without having over $100 billion market cap (total of all cryptocurrencies). https:...
[03:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:54] <exec> 08└─When I was in college a bike with a Kryptonite lock would last an average of 1.5 nights outside before it vanished - and that was for crappy old pedal bikes. I imagine that e-bikes make even more tempting targets. If you take a German shepherd with you on your nomadic lifestyle in urban areas, I'd c...
[03:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:55] <exec> 08└─but what about the lack of poor teens? I think they don't have parents pushing them hard to take career steps. I think the poor teens devote time to TV, the internet, and game players. Perhaps they do something more harmful. In any case, the poor teens are not out there working. Teens like mine, who...
[03:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official: the Shape of the Smartphone Is Changing Forever - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that clears it up. I understood the sentence "The taller, narrower shape is no longer a flagship feature..." as something else is now the flagship feature, i.e. not taller and narrow shape. (English not the first language).
[03:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Russia: Remains of the Murdered Romanovs 'Authentic' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:38] <exec> 08└─Runaway don't know much about history, don't know much geology, can't remember the French he took, but he do know how to be an asshole, anti-commie asshole.
[03:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: Remains of the Murdered Romanovs 'Authentic' - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:40] <exec> 08└─*sigh* If I had lived under the rule of the Romanovs, I would have grown up speaking a different language, under an entirely different education system, with different parents, a different legal system. In short, I wouldn't be me. And, you'll also notice that I said nothing good about the tsar. All...
[03:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: Remains of the Murdered Romanovs 'Authentic' - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:42] <exec> 08└─If you had grown up under the Romanovs, you would probably defend them. FFS, the children could have been spared, and re-educated. They could have been USED to the benefit of the state.
[03:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. to Make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Docs Play - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:20] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's true. I checked in on the IRC channel a while back and they were in the middle of a conversation about how they keep banning him and he keeps coming back.
[03:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Hybrids Prove the Bloated Smartwatch Is One of Silly Valley's Biggest Mistakes - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:36] <exec> 08└─They are too big and bulky compared to most traditional watches. And displaying an analog display on a square screen will fool approximately no one.
[03:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Hybrids Prove the Bloated Smartwatch Is One of Silly Valley's Biggest Mistakes - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:38] <exec> 08└─IDK, I've seen big traditional watches. Some have multiple dials, constellations/moon phases. The marketing material [mobvoi.com] for the TicWatch Pro, mentioned in TFA, shows a circular watch with plenty of watch faces that could fool someone from across the room or at least not look like ass. The...
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[04:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:31] <exec> 08└─No $hit $herlock. It wa$ never about $afety.
[04:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah? What wa$ it about?
[04:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:35] <exec> 08└─Once drivers knew about the cameras, they appeared to accept a higher accident risk from slamming on their brakes at yellow lights...
[04:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, but you still need these studies and facts to use against the bullshitting, propagandizing, lying con artists who are trying to sell fear to the public.
[04:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:39] <exec> 08└─On the contrary. Red light cameras work so well that the municipalities have been able to reduce the duration of yellow lights, thus giving traffic more time to move. It's also been found to increase revenue for local auto body repair shops, so win-win.
[04:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:41] <exec> 08└─... there are known solutions. Increase the length of the yellow. Adopt a "permissive yellow" standard (not true in all states), but only if you increase the length of the yellow. And/or install flashing green to indicate when light is about to shift to yellow to give more warning. These would actua...
[04:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:44] <exec> 08└─Has anyone ever brought this up at a city council meeting, or are people content with posting on the internet and slacktivism?
[04:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electron Microscope Detector Achieves Record Resolution - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:52] <exec> 08└─TheMightyBuzzard's dick? Sorry dude, yours was the first name that came to mind.
[04:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:06] <exec> 08└─I currently can choose between: A) VM B) Encrypted partition C) OS D) SSD E) Benchmark Which is best? This story makes me think option A is a bad one.
[04:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:07] <exec> 08└─Global company Global assets Cloud, but with local restrictions. How many of these (prospective/potential/optimistic) Azure clients care where their cloud service is located?
[04:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:09] <exec> 08└─Eh, define "free will." I'm a compatibilist myself, but it's one of those questions you really can't answer from the inside, as it were.
[04:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:10] <exec> 08└─You and I must have two different definition for bullshit.
[04:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:12] <exec> 08└─Understand something about bullshitters: if a liar is Truth's rapist, a bullshitter is Truth's impotent, morbidly-obese, unwashed, bestial pimp. The liar at least cares for the Truth in a backwards sort of way; the bullshitter will say anything, whether it be true or false or some combination, so lo...
[04:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:14] <exec> 08└─My Node of Perversity pipes up with, "But can we trust the guy who took the measurements??"
[04:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Goes to Prison for Attempting Web Domain Robbery at Gunpoint - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:34] <exec> 08└─Penalties of$50,000 per year per domain squatted fixed
[04:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:00] <exec> 08└─You are not the only one that doesn't buy fast food--we buy organic when it looks good, cook nearly every meal, go out to dinner once or maybe twice a week at mid-priced restaurants (biased toward high quality food, not fantastic atmosphere).
[04:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:01] <exec> 08└─There is a supermarket called Publix which does that, more or less. The cart is ordinary. I get in the checkout line. I put my own groceries on a conveyor belt, though I'm sure I'd get help if I asked. An employee runs my groceries over a scanner/scale, passing them to a second employee who places t...
[04:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. to Make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Docs Play - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:24] <exec> 08└─We've already seen it's possible to lameness-filter posts. What they need to do is implement a multi-level Bayesian filter and train it on this guy's unique vocabulary and sentence structure. I'm sure that's difficult, but also sure it can be done.
[04:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. to Make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Docs Play - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:26] <exec> 08└─Our pollies are awesome they just want to protect us really
[04:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Netflix Effect' Poses Challenge to British TV - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:24] <exec> 08└─Add anti-Italian propaganda to the list, since the new Italian government has stopped accepting "refugees". I don't know what happened to German media. You used to be able to count on tough investigative reporting, and a critical attitude to incumbent politicians. Now in the 14th year of Mommy Merke...
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[05:08:39] <exec> 08└─No $hit $herlock. It wa$ never about $afety.
[05:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:47] <exec> 08└─Why?
[05:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:49] <exec> 08└─Has anyone ever brought this up at a city council meeting, or are people content with posting on the internet and slacktivism?
[05:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─Never. Wait, always double check your sources and a little critical thinking can go a long way. -------------------------------------------------------------------- There are more stars in the sky than atoms in the universe.
[05:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:17] <exec> 08└─Agency to choose. Standard definition. In the end it all comes down to magic.
[05:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:19] <exec> 08└─From psychologytoday, If we have free will, we can consciously make decisions that are not determined by the physics and biology of our brains. It's a philosophical and religious concept that has found no support in science
[05:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:21] <exec> 08└─Schrodinger's Cat??? You found it?
[05:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 2325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:23] <exec> 08└─No, TFA is not bullshit. It's just shit. As in -- an unnuanced naive attempt at discussing an important issue without the slightest attempt at real engagement or thoughtfulness. Aristarchus in his original submission recommended this treatment over Frankfurt's (also cursory) article. (And no, it's N...
[05:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:25] <exec> 08└─"You wanna quoote? Put me on teevee!" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:28] <exec> 08└─Trust....but verify.
[05:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:30] <exec> 08└─Gee? You have a PHD too?
[05:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:32] <exec> 08└─Well so far TRDT has not appeared.
[05:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:34] <exec> 08└─But they sound so confident! I wish I had such convictions. There must be something to what they say or their conscience would prevent them right?
[05:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:37] <exec> 08└─But I cannot for the life of me understand why our resident ancient Greek dude would think TFA is at all worthwhile.
[05:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:25] <exec> 08└─I lived at home until 22 and only left after a call was made from my house to my girlfriends about us having sex bye
[05:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:26] <exec> 08└─Leningrad? Nono, just another black kid growing up in Mississippi.
[05:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:28] <exec> 08└─Yet another awful uninformed opinion by our resident troll! Try RTFA for once in your uneducated life.
[05:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SIM Hijacking as a Second Factor - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:03] <exec> 08└─This. Find the weakest link
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[06:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:42] <exec> 08└─That amounts to what? 50 mil/year? What the hell are they spending on?
[06:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 1766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:59] <exec> 08└─Our local city council installed red light cameras as a pilot for a few months (and only in the poor areas, FWIW). Knowing the old trick of changing the yellow lights, I recorded times before on different days and times and similar days and times after they were installed. What do you know, they sho...
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[06:09:00] <exec> 08└─If you lived in CA, you would already live somewhere that has minimum times for the yellow lights. At least one city has had to refund lots of tickets because the yellow time was set too short. "Union City, California will refund over $1 million in red light camera tickets after engineer catches cit...
[06:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:37] <exec> 08└─The point was BS is impossible to detect.
[06:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:39] <exec> 08└─"Cognitive consonance" makes us accept it. Think of it like "cognitive dissonance", but in the opposite direction. And with such a same for it, the phrase "it rings true" suddenly makes sense. Incidentally, Sean Carroll, physics bod extrordinaire and skeptic, has just started an audio podcast where...
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[07:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:43] <exec> 08└─Please to explain to me how their gross revenues could significantly increase while at the same time losing a huge chunk o' change. Hookers And Blow, perhaps? That's the reason I myself am now busted flat despite having received a chunk o' change of my very own.
[07:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:45] <exec> 08└─Needle cleanup
[07:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:03] <exec> 08└─Pictures, of course. :-)
[07:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:05] <exec> 08└─All I fucking did was to perform a California Stop as I turned right on a red. That's legal right? In _California_, right? I thought I'd narrowly missed being struck dead by a bolt of lightning. There is no damn reason why that camera needed such a bright flash. Happily I moved from California to Wa...
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[07:09:07] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. All you needed was to look at what the politicians were saying as they were being installed. "This will bring in in a lot of new revenue for the city." was something I heard a LOT.
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[07:10:45] <exec> 08└─Lovely, one of those things that needs review (i.e. Descartes' doubt): The results show empirically that human agency is incompatible with causal determinism, a question formerly accessible only by metaphysics [...] The answer is this: if humans have free will, then some physical events have no caus...
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[08:08:44] <exec> 08└─Expansion in Indonesia afaik.
[08:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:45] <exec> 08└─pavement. https://www.dailywire.com https://thebolditalic.com
[08:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:33] <exec> 08└─> goes in for gender reassignment surgery and then in the recovery room [...] is going to keep that millennial from running to the nearest safe space. Pretty sure that being in the recovery room after gender reassignment surgery is going to be enough to keep you from running anywhere...
[08:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:35] <exec> 08└─Exactly how many dressings do you think are recycled currently ? Compression bandages maybe. Probably most of the bandages used for film/tv/cosplay but that's about it. Anything that's been next to an open wound is going in clinical waste for incineration.
[08:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Goes to Prison for Attempting Web Domain Robbery at Gunpoint - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:07] <exec> 08└─The EU theoretically did have anti-squatting rules, and when we noticed that asdf.eu was being squatted, we contacted the registrars, and they confirmed the breach, and nullified the registration. Unfortunately, we weren't given dibbs on the domain, and didn't get there in time when it became availa...
[08:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Goes to Prison for Attempting Web Domain Robbery at Gunpoint - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:09] <exec> 08└─I think it's more fun to gamify it - introduce huge fines, starting next year, such that the squatters get more and more desperate to get rid of their domains, and it will become a dutch auction. It doesn't get really fun until the price reaches zero or negative, as the domain is now an imminant lia...
[08:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:40] <exec> 08└─Suicide cones later, after you realize your gender wasn't the real problem.
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[09:08:54] <exec> 08└─Ebay is struggling not because of amazon, but because their website is a big pile of dung. Lots of technical and usability issues. So it is not a structural issue but poor execution. It seems to be worse now than it was 10 years ago, probably because they fiddled with it in order to target mobile/ta...
[09:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electron Microscope Detector Achieves Record Resolution - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:22] <exec> 08└─I think I'll get one of those, to find all those pesky electron microscopes hiding in my bedroom, which I have been unable to catch.
[09:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:38] <exec> 08└─All of the above: You should benchmark a VM running some OS on an encrypted partition of an SSD.
[09:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Goes to Prison for Attempting Web Domain Robbery at Gunpoint - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:20] <exec> 08└─registering domains that you have no intention of actually using
[09:12:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:57] <exec> 08└─The teen gets "free" transportation from a parent. The cost of that is an investment in the teen's future, much like college is. The goal here is to get references and something to solve the problem of an empty resume. It breaks even, in exactly the same way as college does. For the well to do paren...
[09:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:52] <exec> 08└─What would you posit the real problem to be?
[09:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:54] <exec> 08└─In the UK, the kid can choose to leave at 16 but only into the army. Your not allowed to kick them out until 18 as they have to stay in education until 18.
[09:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Netflix Effect' Poses Challenge to British TV - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:16] <exec> 08└─I don't know if you are being sarcastic or are not from UK. They have a big streaming thing, bbc.co.uk/iplayer. I use it every day. You can stream tv and radio.
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[10:08:36] <exec> 08└─This looks like nothing but a publicity text, with almost no actual information. I found the original, Spanish article at the University of Madrid [www.upm.es], but even it provides no link to any sort of useful information. Basically: instead of building a noise barrier out of concrete, or some oth...
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[10:08:37] <exec> 08└─Hard to see anything really "new" here; gabions [maccaferri.com] can be filled with locally-sourced rocks, and covered in plants. They don't sat what the shells are made from, so they could be plastic or cement - not particularly "green", even if the plastic is recycled. At least when plants grow on...
[10:09:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 387 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:08] <exec> 08└─... there are known solutions. Increase the length of the yellow. Adopt a "permissive yellow" standard (not true in all states), but only if you increase the length of the yellow. And/or install flashing green to indicate when light is about to shift to yellow to give more warning. These would actua...
[10:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:18] <exec> 08└─Adopt a "permissive yellow" standard
[10:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:02] <exec> 08└─What if you’re reading this on a Sunday?
[10:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:03] <exec> 08└─one whole metric tone
[10:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:05] <exec> 08└─And a major one, yes. :)
[10:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:07] <exec> 08└─Sounds like bullshit to me. > Talking about chicken-shit serves a rather important purpose for me since it keeps me safe. No, talking about the weather, football, etc lets me engage with someone, especially someone I don't know. Everyone experiences the weather, everyone can enter into a conversatio...
[10:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:07] <exec> 08└─I had a couple extra older trailers on my property and let a woman who was living out of her car move into one for free and despite a garden and all the free food she wanted, she drove out to mcdonalds, kfc and taco bell every day for a minimum 40 mile round trip. w.t.f.
[10:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:08] <exec> 08└─You are aware that a higher proportion of post-ops than no-ops top themselves?
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[10:14:45] <exec> 08└─If only the people at Mozilla had spent that money on hookers and blow, instead on spending it on destroying what once was a great browser …
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[11:08:30] <exec> 08└─At last! At last, he had found it! It was just as the legends stated: A fountain of eternal sustenance lies between The Two Great Hills of the Desert. This fountain was named 'The Fountain of Miracles', due to its alleged ability to quench one's thirst and satisfy one's hunger. The impoverished chil...
[11:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:39] <exec> 08└─True, the sources are a bit short on details, but using plants or plant remains is not entirely new. Locally, they use barriers that are a 3...5m high organic substrate (regular dirt and internal meshes) encapsulated in a permeable mesh with plants growing on them. Yes, it needs some work trimming t...
[11:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:20] <exec> 08└─All I fucking did was to perform a California Stop as I turned right on a red. That's legal right? In _California_, right?
[11:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electron Microscope Detector Achieves Record Resolution - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:29] <exec> 08└─or as the biologists say "cooking mark 1" ;-) You should see lipid layers cook....
[11:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:46] <exec> 08└─That's not his house. It's his parents' house.
[11:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:09] <exec> 08└─That's as much effort as you get while I'm having to type on a phone.
[11:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:11] <exec> 08└─Or a minor one. Or a diminished seventh. But up above somewhere, an AC seems to think this issue is olfactory. (Interesting factoid: Pure Bullshit is odorless; a distinctive smell is added to aid in detecting bullshit leaks, and possible bullshit explosions.)
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[11:13:10] <exec> 08└─A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone?
[11:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:12] <exec> 08└─You must be new here.
[11:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:14] <exec> 08└─I have heard this, yes. It seems consistent with the model that people seeking surgery would be the most extreme cases; just because you've gotten treatment, doesn't mean your suffering has stopped. I expect by the time a trans person has gotten so far as to get the surgery they've suffered a lot. I...
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[12:08:32] <exec> 08└─The flying car inhabited dystopias of Metropolis and Blade Runner can be fully realized.
[12:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Farewell to Printrbot - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:40] <exec> 08└─San Francisco is so beautiful this time of year.
[12:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:51] <exec> 08└─The details I'd be looking for would include: sound absorption vs the reflection that concrete walls give. Concrete sound barriers have textured surfaces to randomize the reflections, but they still reflect an awful lot of sound energy. If this "natural" absorption material is layered over a durable...
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[12:08:52] <exec> 08└─And if you source that 3-5m dirt wall very locally, you also get a moat which, in Florida at least, will naturally fill with alligators. Moats are quite effective at keeping livestock and small children from wandering onto the highway.
[12:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:54] <exec> 08└─The problem I see with the "natural" barrier is that it takes up quite a bit of width on the right of way. Whereas a 20' tall concrete wall can be erected in 3' or less of ROW width, these "natural" bumps with plants growing on them tend to be more like 10-20' wide. Put one on each side of a roadway...
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[12:09:02] <exec> 08└─Orion's success is America's failure.
[12:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 5671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, why do you think that enforcement of a traffic rule has anything to do with safety? That's a red-herring, and I'm not just jumping on your bandwagons here, I literally hate bad drivers, and by extension most of the comments on here about this really annoy me because you're more upset that...
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[12:15:54] <exec> 08└─I saw the title of the article and hoped feverishly for a icosahedron phone. Circles, squares, rectangles....fuck, those have already been done to death...nothing 'new' there.
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[13:08:45] <exec> 08└─Those alligators would be, like, road-decoration? Very flat road-decoration? One can only hope that they point in the right direction and have been eating reflectors ;-)
[13:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:47] <exec> 08└─On Alligator Alley they put up chain linked fences to keep the number of alligator speed bumps to a minimum on the highway.
[13:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they need to hide the cameras. No slamming on brakes if you don't see a camera.
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[13:09:31] <exec> 08└─It'd be great if the people installing these cameras had a similar attitude, but they don't. They regularly break the laws themselves (ie, by reducing the duration of a yellow light below the legal minimum when installing the cameras). Which proves that they also don't give a fuck about obeying the...
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[13:09:33] <exec> 08└─...and one additional point: LAWS MUST EXIST FOR A REASON! If the person proposing a law claims the reason for doing so is to improve public safety, and that law can be proven to NOT improve public safety, then that law should be repealed. Just saying "That's the law so we're stuck with it forever a...
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[13:11:24] <exec> 08└─*Golf clap*. I have little to say on the alleged classification, virulence, and contagiousness of bullshit except to say that it can be more humorous than the story claimed. You showed that. These are the self-styled "libertarians," the ones who think jettisoning their moral machinery turns them in...
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[13:11:25] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder how so much of a bull's shit got into you.
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[13:15:05] <exec> 08└─Star Citizen is a (be it somewhat arcadelike) space simulator , similar to Elite Dangerous. It has enough sim/game play to satisfy lower amount donors imo.
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[14:08:44] <exec> 08└─Michael David Crawford likes to hook up with poor women who are young enough to be his daughters.
[14:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:45] <exec> 08└─Michael David Crawford likes to hook up with poor women who are young enough to be his daughters.
[14:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:54] <exec> 08└─They're winged multi rotor aircraft.
[14:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:56] <exec> 08└─Larry and Sergey "somehow" convinced the US Navy to permit their own personal 747 to use Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. Or maybe it's Sunnyvale. That's Just Wrong. I think the base has been decommissioned but the Navy still maintains it.
[14:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Farewell to Printrbot - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:07] <exec> 08└─#3, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The sad thing was how low the bar was on being an "advanced technology"
[14:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Farewell to Printrbot - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:09] <exec> 08└─Today it's the blockchain. "The" blockchain, is if there is only one. Somehow, some way, the blockchain startup founders are able to raise VC even for blockchains that has a trusted party. That's being done by lots of financial companies who require their own approval for new transactions on their c...
[14:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:23] <exec> 08└─I liked the part about using local waste to form them. The Tri-State area has landfills that are full. Most of the garbage gets sent out to the Third World on barges. More recycling would help (NYC recycles, but Nassau County on Long Island barely does). Separating food waste and composting that wou...
[14:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:25] <exec> 08└─I don't know about elsewhere, but 10'-20' is feasible in the Tri-State area. Long Island, Jersey, Westchester, Connecticut, are all densely populated but there's typically that much set-back from the freeway anyway. Mostly it's flat, grassy- or concrete median now. The advantage of TFA's approach is...
[14:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:11] <exec> 08└─Permissive yellow means if you enter the intersection before the light turns read you are fine. Restrictive yellow means you must leave the intersection before the light turns red.
[14:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:13] <exec> 08└─Those cameras CANNOT FINE YOU if you don't break the law
[14:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:15] <exec> 08└─"Permissive yellow" means you are still allowed to enter the intersection if the light is yellow. And thus you are allowed to be in the intersection if the light is red; you are just required to exit as soon as possible. There are a minority of states with a "restrictive yellow" standard, which mean...
[14:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:17] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure every state/municipality has some sort of legal minimum. They vary. And there have been LOTS of cities nationwide that have been caught lowering the yellow duration to increase revenue (or at least below safe engineering standards).
[14:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:19] <exec> 08└─lcdmlas as;kdcm;asdkm asd;
[14:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:21] <exec> 08└─That is an excellent proposal. In 21st century democracy, in the Second American Republic (and next iteration of other democracies), laws must include sunset provisions, such that once their purpose has been fulfilled, or they have failed to meet their goals, then they automatically get archived and...
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─What I want, and expect, is that the law makers follow standards. Traffic engineers spend a lot of time in school, learning how to make highways safe. They ARE the experts. If the traffic engineers tell the city that the speed limit should be 60, then the speed limit should be 60 - not 50, to genera...
[14:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electron Microscope Detector Achieves Record Resolution - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─Stop using them.
[14:11:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:50] <exec> 08└─You calling for facts is making my brain kick my eyeballs from behind trying to get the eyelids to shut.
[14:11:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1799 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:54] <exec> 08└─Understand something about bullshitters: if a liar is Truth's rapist, a bullshitter is Truth's impotent, morbidly-obese, unwashed, bestial pimp. The liar at least cares for the Truth in a backwards sort of way; the bullshitter will say anything, whether it be true or false or some combination, so lo...
[14:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:18] <exec> 08└─Yes and no.
[14:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:19] <exec> 08└─There has always been bs everywhere there are people.
[14:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:21] <exec> 08└─The trouble is that suppressing or censoring their "perspectives" only makes them froth at the mouth harder. It turns them into martyrs, and martyr bullshit is more influential than normal bullshit. So we must not pursue outright censorship. Anti-vax, flat Earth (assuming flat Earth isn't just elabo...
[14:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:24] <exec> 08└─You're still talking about sports, right?
[14:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:26] <exec> 08└─Well, I believe I already offered some distinctions about BS myself that went beyond TFA's cursory treatment. Feel free to continue too, rather than just offering metacommentary. (Are you claiming your post was more helpful to the discussion than mine??) My comment about Aristarchus (whom I actually...
[14:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:28] <exec> 08└─The trouble with sports is that they're not gratuitously tribal enough. The Mayans had it right [wikipedia.org]; You lose, you're the human sacrifice. In modern terms, if your city loses, your citizens pay a surtax that goes to the citizens of the winning city. Then, and only then, would sports be w...
[14:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:30] <exec> 08└─Answer: They're Young Turks, and you're an old Greek. I mean, seriously, how do you not know this?
[14:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:47] <exec> 08└─I think you're only considering one aspect of being "open" though. It's not just about more people being able to inspect the code/schematics and ensure they're free from defects; it's also about having choice and diversity in the ecosystem in general. Viruses work the same on computers that they do...
[14:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:33] <exec> 08└─Bingo. People replying here are thinking like upperclass, not like working class. I see lots and lots of idle teens who are economically lower-class, and largely hanging around the very fast food joints that are begging for employees . Why are these teens not out there hustling for jobs that clearly...
[14:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:35] <exec> 08└─...and probably made a lot of money as a professional beggar at those very fast-food restaurants.
[14:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:37] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, people bitch that the price of a fast-food meal is now an hour's wages. See, raising business expenses has consequences on the other end, too. Also, in states with high mandatory costs (payroll taxes, workmans comp, etc.), wages are only a fraction of the per employee cost. In California,...
[14:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:39] <exec> 08└─Back up a step. If the teen already owns a car and can afford the movies and the cellphone (stuff no teen used to have, hmmm), what does he need with a fast-food job?
[14:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:41] <exec> 08└─It's not the wages that are the problem. I knew people in CA who paid their illegals more than the going rate, because that cash wage under the table was still cheaper than what they'd have been required to pay to the state for a fully-legal employee, and of course the illegals couldn't bitch about...
[14:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:44] <exec> 08└─Bingo. Something you and I are old enough to notice, but apparently most of our other respondents are not. Also, as the AC says, this is more about getting voters spun up for the midterms than it is about realworld economics.
[14:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official: the Shape of the Smartphone Is Changing Forever - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:09] <exec> 08└─Nevermind, I am judging you, you sicko.
[14:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: Remains of the Murdered Romanovs 'Authentic' - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:32] <exec> 08└─Obviously, you've not studied any history if you need a citation for the hell on earth bit. The two largest communist countries slaughtered about 20 million people - each. Wake up and smell the coffee.
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[15:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:46] <exec> 08└─MDC is the greatest!
[15:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:47] <exec> 08└─I just stroke it . . . .
[15:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:49] <exec> 08└─TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI the googles! they do nothing! how do I unsee this?
[15:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:52] <exec> 08└─Just don't visit his http://redtube.com [redtube.com] site cause there's all sorts of visuals there no one needs to see
[15:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:03] <exec> 08└─A) Google not Oracle B) NASA not the Navy (USN turned it over to the Ames research center years and years ago) C) NASA allows other companies to lease the field and hangers as well. D) Google is paying millions of dollars to NASA for the lease E) Google also carries scientific instruments for NASA o...
[15:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:05] <exec> 08└─OK ignore A. Getting my Larrys mixed up.
[15:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Farewell to Printrbot - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:16] <exec> 08└─3D-printing the perfect blockchain dildo.
[15:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Farewell to Printrbot - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:17] <exec> 08└─Too bad they couldn't have used them to print money.
[15:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Farewell to Printrbot - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:19] <exec> 08└─I'm unfortunately not surprised Printrbot is closing doors. I haven't used one, but when searching to buy a 3D printer they were one of the final choices in my selection researching. The metal construction was a large improvement over the mostly plastic construction they were competing against at th...
[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:36] <exec> 08└─you can look at it like a measure taken to save space in landfills.
[15:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Orion Parachutes Chalk up Another Test Success in Arizona - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:44] <exec> 08└─Orion, America's spacecraft that will carry humans to deep space
[15:09:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─Ebay is struggling not because of amazon, but because their website is a big pile of dung. Lots of technical and usability issues. So it is not a structural issue but poor execution. It seems to be worse now than it was 10 years ago, probably because they fiddled with it in order to target mobile/ta...
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─This is why [soggy.jobs] there are so very many homeless people in San Francisco. Also Los Angeles [soggy.jobs], Portland [soggy.jobs], Seattle [soggy.jobs] and New York City [soggy.jobs]. And yes, by building Soggy Jobs I am contributing to the problem. However my over-arching goal in building the...
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─They have made some horrendous changes to their web site the last few years, but between eBay fees, paypal fees, and crazy insane shipping prices, the entire idea of small blow joes selling a few random items has gone down the crapper. It is sometimes cheaper to throw that valuable antique in the ga...
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─As Mr. Spock said about memory alpha, the loss of eBay will represent an incalculable loss to scammers everywhere. Oh, the humanity!
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─Fixes to websites should work like fixes to government. When there is a problem, add more new code to fix it. Some people think that sometimes you should remove code. But that has yet to be proven.
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:06] <exec> 08└─It is a problem of confusion. They heard of British pounds. So they weigh the currency that they pay to employees. Would that qualify as a unit-conversion problem?
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:41] <exec> 08└─If shortening yellow lights is about safety, then get the ultimate safety by shortening yellow lights to zero.
[15:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:43] <exec> 08└─Idea for a patent! Shorten yellow lights to negative. Your light is green. Opposing light turns green. Four seconds later, your green light turns red so that opposing traffic is unhindered. That would be much safer.
[15:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:45] <exec> 08└─Increasing revenue to body shops is not a net increase in the economy. That money spent at body shops could have been spent on something else. It is merely a diversion of resources to something that does not improve humanity as a whole. Creating artificial destruction so that you can fix it. That is...
[15:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:47] <exec> 08└─Whether a local government raises taxes or comes up with other innovative ways to raise revenue, it ultimately comes out of your pocket but is just more obscured. The advantage of taxes is that you KNOW how much you are paying for what benefits you see (or don't see) from the local government. Other...
[15:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:50] <exec> 08└─before the light turns read
[15:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electron Microscope Detector Achieves Record Resolution - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:01] <exec> 08└─If we ever get sub-nanometer transistors, marketers can bring angstrom back.
[15:11:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:57] <exec> 08└─The 9% acceptance rate from starchy is a bit too high.
[15:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:52] <exec> 08└─Never fear, the Cliff Notes version is here: "Jews and Niggers are bad." There, saved you an hour.
[15:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, just use the filters I use. If you see a post written in a weird font, skip. If you see anything longer than a paragraph, and a child is mentioned in it, skip. Anything written in gibberish, skip. There are a handful of others I file under 'skim,' but I don't want them to feel bad because someti...
[15:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:56] <exec> 08└─I lean towards compatibilism myself. khallow doesn't though. [soylentnews.org] I think it's almost totally a matter of definition. It has to be really, because whatever side of the fence you are, your theory has to fit with the perceived sense of free will people have in everyday life.
[15:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:58] <exec> 08└─That was beautifully put. I remember back in the early days of the Internet I was contemplating what direction to take in my graduate studies, and the effect of the Internet on society was one I considered. I remember reading speculation from the handful of scholars who were thinking about the same...
[15:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:00] <exec> 08└─Richard Weaver's 1948 book https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] posits that Western media is "The Great Stereoptican" that separates the population from their humanity via "the commodification of truth". To avoid inevitable social decay we must avoid the distraction...
[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:02] <exec> 08└─What if you’re reading this on a Sunday?
[15:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:55] <exec> 08└─If you can immerse the bandage in a sterilizing solution, then you could re-use it. If you could refill its reservoirs of medication, you could re-use it many times. The trick is to stop calling it a bandage, and call it a "healing sleeve" or something. It would be like the Ace bandage you keep in t...
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:56] <exec> 08└─Use a pattern that hides stains. Furniture has had those for ages.
[15:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:16] <exec> 08└─It's something that mystifies me. I'm gen-x, we're supposed to be the apathetic slackers but a big damned chunk of us worked at least half of our teenage years. Kids today don't seem to want to get a job until after college for the most part.
[15:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 2754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:18] <exec> 08└─To be honest, the situation may be different in other countries, but fast food in my country is ludicrously cheap. I know a couple who are young and potless, and they frequent McDonald's and I could never fathom why until I went along with them. If you buy this burger, in this deal, with this happy...
[15:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Fast-Food Problem: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone? - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:20] <exec> 08└─I suppose people should starve because they cannot earn a living wage. No wonder we have a generation of people who still live at home with their parents. People disillusioned that there is no opportunity. The high cost of low prices. By not paying more for a Big Mac we are creating massive societal...
[15:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:57] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't. They promised to work on a project and do the best job they could. They promised that the product may not live up to all their other promises. They apparently have delivered a product that did not live up to those promises, and prima facie did not intentionally deceive. Not fraud. If...
[15:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:58] <exec> 08└─And I think one might be able to raise a point that Kickstarter itself is an investment platform, albeit one that has novel benefits for those that choose to invest on projects that list on it. It's not a "store" where one buys finished goods. Nobody reasonable expects all investments to be successf...
[15:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:00] <exec> 08└─You may side with him. I'm sympathetic, slightly, to him. But failure to deliver an advertised product only applies to an investor if the investor has promised certain specifications absolutely and has no out clause. "But depending on the funding levels reached, we may have to limit the experience f...
[15:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. to Make More Drugs Easily Available, Cutting Role Docs Play - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:54] <exec> 08└─Why? That sounds.. stupid..
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[16:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:40] <exec> 08└─The internet is more like Tatooine. Except, everyone wants to be there.
[16:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:41] <exec> 08└─Anybody remember Mr. Bungle and his voodoo doll? A Rape in Cyberspace [juliandibbell.com] by Julian Dibbell.
[16:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:44] <exec> 08└─There are some seriously messed-up people out there, you know? When did people stop knowing how to behave?
[16:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:46] <exec> 08└─When did people stop knowing how to behave?
[16:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:48] <exec> 08└─When people are allowed to be anonymous, the bad stuff comes out. Just think: if you could be invisible ANY TIME you want, wouldn't you at least THINK about watching someone you find attractive undress? Would you stop at thinking about it? No one would know, no one would be able to pin it on you unl...
[16:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:50] <exec> 08└─There have always been people on the fringe but as a society? Uh, when they removed prayer from schools?
[16:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:53] <exec> 08└─Bungle that pussy.
[16:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:55] <exec> 08└─Hot and mostly empty? I think you mean Mos Eisley Spaceport, the wretched hive of scum and villainy.
[16:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:19] <exec> 08└─Multi-billionaires need hobbies. So he gets his kicks out of flying car startups. Not my cup of tea, but good for him.
[16:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:20] <exec> 08└─The aircraft is named BlackFly, The group (company?) making it is Opener. Looks rather cool, and considerably simpler than most of the competitors. Other than the straight up wingless multi-copters at least - and is seems like the biplane aspect should improve it's speed and efficiency over those.
[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─All of the phys.org articles are short on details. That's why I hate that site.
[16:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:18] <exec> 08└─Small seller can "easily" sell something on eBAy. Unlike Amazon, which charges a monthly/yearly fee. I don't sell enough stuff to warrant a monthly/yearly fee. Ebay is also a lot nicer than holding a garage sale.
[16:10:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, but you still need these studies and facts to use against the bullshitting, propagandizing, lying con artists who are trying to sell fear to the public.
[16:10:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 1766 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─Our local city council installed red light cameras as a pilot for a few months (and only in the poor areas, FWIW). Knowing the old trick of changing the yellow lights, I recorded times before on different days and times and similar days and times after they were installed. What do you know, they sho...
[16:10:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 5671 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:43] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, why do you think that enforcement of a traffic rule has anything to do with safety? That's a red-herring, and I'm not just jumping on your bandwagons here, I literally hate bad drivers, and by extension most of the comments on here about this really annoy me because you're more upset that...
[16:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:59] <exec> 08└─cos, you know, PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! :)
[16:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:01] <exec> 08└─As a stable genius ...
[16:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:03] <exec> 08└─Kinda like when you see cops speeding: "hey, buddy, you're breaking the law", but he IS the law, so meh. I do love it when cops speed, though: i just follow right along behind them.
[16:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:32] <exec> 08└─If it's all virtual, how can there be a capacity problem? It's all just controls. Dial up more virtual machines, problem solved! It's just like printing money! Or laying off people to improve this quarter's profits. Or requiring move overtime. Or polluting the air and water because . . . executive b...
[16:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:13] <exec> 08└─if a liar is Truth's rapist, a bullshitter is Truth's impotent,
[16:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:15] <exec> 08└─How about a link to the original article so we can read the entire thing? Or was that summary the whole thing?
[16:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:17] <exec> 08└─Rolling dice I would not consider to be free will, but rather random will.
[16:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:19] <exec> 08└─By the way, where did I say it did "damage" to this site to publish this? No, I was just pointing out the substantial flaws of TFA (a bit tongue in cheek at the outset). A lot of stuff that gets published online has substantial flaws. That doesn't mean it can't be the opening for productive discussi...
[16:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:22] <exec> 08└─Quantum mechanics introduces random noise into the operation of the brain, but randomness isn't what most people would consider free will - the trajectory of a single molecule within a steaming cup of coffee is similarly randomized by quantum effects - but we generally don't consider the molecule to...
[16:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:24] <exec> 08└─Or a minor one.
[16:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:26] <exec> 08└─After hearing what Oprah / Oz / Phil spout, it's so much better to just chock them into the same camp as Jerry Springer and ignore everything they have to say, do, or show. Reality TV comes in many flavors, but generally they're drama for drama's sake. I have plenty of Drama in my own life, thanks....
[16:13:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─https://archive.fo/SkiH0 [archive.fo] Note that it's an archive of an Internet Archive capture, but if you follow the original link it has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine. ARM tried to cover their tracks. Keep an eye on RISC-V. It needs to succeed.
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Goes to Prison for Attempting Web Domain Robbery at Gunpoint - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:56] <exec> 08└─You sure you didn't step into the world of Austin Powers?
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[17:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Sets All-Time Record with July Critical Patch Update - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:27] <exec> 08└─what server / channel or is it all grognards swapping bbs numbers and my little pony porn
[17:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Sets All-Time Record with July Critical Patch Update - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:29] <exec> 08└─I distinctly remember Xilinx fixing over 8000 bugs in one tool release. That number didn't surprise me at the time, given the number of bugs I had been involved with. 334 ... "All-time record" ... Le LOL.
[17:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Sets All-Time Record with July Critical Patch Update - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:31] <exec> 08└─Left unstated is the ratio of bugs created to bugs fixed. If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming is the process of creating them.
[17:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:46] <exec> 08└─what do you mean "allowed"? who do you think has the authority to "allow" the people to have privacy? privacy is an right, not a goddamn privilege.
[17:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:47] <exec> 08└─Have you established your own territory? Have you killed, conquered, or repelled the nearby upright apes? No, you are subservient to a government of apes and judged by ape courts. You only have "rights" as long as they say you do. You only have "privacy" until they become interested in your activiti...
[17:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:49] <exec> 08└─Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory https://www.penny-arcade.com [penny-arcade.com]
[17:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:51] <exec> 08└─The internet is more like Tatooine. Except, everyone wants to be there.
[17:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─Uh, when they removed prayer from schools?
[17:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:56] <exec> 08└─Obviously you do - you're here. It's not like you have to save up enough money to be able to afford to leave - just close your web browser and you're free.
[17:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:58] <exec> 08└─Raping 7 year olds is the area the church has a lot of experience with
[17:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:00] <exec> 08└─Privacy is a very recent creation - not a lot of privacy to be had living in a one-room hut in a village of a few tens to a few hundred people. For most of human history, everybody knew everybody else's business. It was only with the rise of civilization a scant few thousand years ago that you could...
[17:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:02] <exec> 08└─Besides, they were talking about anonymity, not privacy. Very different things - anonymity is the ability to act publicly while keeping your identity secret - which has always before been a very difficult thing to do.
[17:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:15] <exec> 08└─FYI . . . so does the president. By his own words. He would be dating his daughter if she weren't his daughter.
[17:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:17] <exec> 08└─You may not care. The science of how it came to be DOES matter to some people. "I care" -- Luke Skywalker. George W Bush, Obama and Trump are discussing the shape of the male organ of copulation. Focusing on the underlying evolutionary reason for the shape. George W: the shape is to give pleasure to...
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─True enough, and it seems a relatively cheap and fun hobby. I mean I'm sure Musk gets a thrill watching one of his rockets fly, especially when it's a new design testing some major new component or capability - but I suspect having a stable full of creative personal aircraft makes the average weeken...
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─"creative personal aircraft" don't always transform all their potential and kinetic energy in a controlled manner.
[17:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:35] <exec> 08└─Heck, neither do well-established and tested designs - and that's pretty exciting too. Maybe it's the last excitement you ever have, maybe it leaves you with a good story to tell - either way, a lot more interesting than sitting around drinking beer and watching TV.
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Farewell to Printrbot - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─I can see how they would fail overall if the product couldn't handle such a simple task [pinshape.com].
[17:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:09] <exec> 08└─Over 90% of the Phys.org articles are reprints of university press releases. Direct your hate to the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
[17:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:37] <exec> 08└─why employ people in places that are hostile to your interests? these workers live in places that vote for more taxes, regulations, etc. as anthony hopkins said, screw 'em [youtube.com].
[17:10:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─On the contrary. Red light cameras work so well that the municipalities have been able to reduce the duration of yellow lights, thus giving traffic more time to move. It's also been found to increase revenue for local auto body repair shops, so win-win.
[17:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:22] <exec> 08└─As a stable genius ...
[17:12:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:10] <exec> 08└─And jmorris is the avatar of the god of Objective Truth.
[17:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except i like one thing about Dr Phil: he calls em as he sees em. Sometimes people don't need coddling by psychiatrists and doctors: sometimes they just need to be told to get the shit out and do something about their lives. Like the lady i know: decides she wants to sit at home and be on disa...
[17:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─https://aeon.co/ideas/why-bullshit-is-no-laughing-matter [aeon.co]
[17:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:00] <exec> 08└─no, only a handful of people were contributing while the vast majority of these dinosaur closed model companies just leeched. the openssl situation does not represent some fundamental flaw in FOSS but is just the typical behavior of these slavetrading companies that happen to use a little FOSS witho...
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:02] <exec> 08└─"Is Open Hardware the answer?" yes, buying chips from these slaveware peddlers will never be secure.
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Bandages Designed to Monitor and Tailor Treatment for Chronic Wounds - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:39] <exec> 08└─Which was the point. "Enhance" simple bandage materials which are not too terrible to dispose of (many have some plastic, and weird glue, but it's literally mostly fluff) by adding chips that hard to recycle, especially when soiled, takes eons to degrade, and are not recommended to burn.
[17:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Goes to Prison for Attempting Web Domain Robbery at Gunpoint - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─A guy just held up someone at gunpoint for a domain name. You tell me.
[17:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Star Citizen’ Court Documents Reveal the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200 Million Game - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:46] <exec> 08└─Which is why crowdfunding sites are freaking out about the new German law that makes preorders on products without firm delivery dates illegal. This would make almost all crowdfunding illegal, unless they are offering actual investments or have a firm delivery date under the law. And next time someo...
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[18:08:37] <exec> 08└─The link is in the left panel, and it's about two centimeters from the "submitted from IRC" line. Maybe you should cut down on that MLP porn you're talking about, you're going blind.
[18:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:02] <exec> 08└─But experts have cautioned parents not to let young children play online without supervision. Quite. It's not hard. The TV/Computer/Whatever is not a nanny. Do your fscking job and be a parent
[18:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:03] <exec> 08└─Having the power to become invisible and visible at will would definitely have it's own temptations. The fewer morals, the more likely someone would be to abuse said power. As happened in this instance. Since essentially, that's exactly what happened in a "with a computer" sort of way.
[18:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:05] <exec> 08└─That's why we should put them back in charge. Virtual gang rape? Hah, amateurs.
[18:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:08] <exec> 08└─just close your web browser and you're free
[18:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─The problem I have with it is that the image shown is thick. I was concerned about it's structural strength, but looking at the drawing a pile of dirt would work as well. (Well, possibly not dirt, as that might run off in rainfall or blow away in drought, but gravel or sand mixed with clay anyway.)
[18:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─The closest noise barrier to my office is a thin concrete wall, but the vine taking it over is probably the best soundproofing part. I have the same vine trying to invade me from the neighbor's side. The thing is relentless, unkillable (I cut all the roots I could see, bloody thing didn't even lose...
[18:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orion Parachutes Chalk up Another Test Success in Arizona - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:23] <exec> 08└─> Orion, America's spacecraft that will carry humans to deep space Even if it ended up carrying humans to Mars (not very likely), "deep space" requires a pretty restrictive description. Is Jupiter "super-deep space", and Pluto "hyper-deep space" ? Seems to me that anything inside the asteroid belt i...
[18:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:27] <exec> 08└─When I see 'em speeding, I note down the license plate number and contact their department's chief. Not that I expect they do much about it....
[18:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:29] <exec> 08└─Liability. No camera should be allowed to issue tickets, but if you're ever hit in an intersection, the camera will show who's at fault.
[18:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:31] <exec> 08└─If you rear-end someone, you're a shitty driver who follows WAY too close. Plus, you're wasting gasoline unless you have an electric car.
[18:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:33] <exec> 08└─The name for what you're describing is the broken window fallacy [wikipedia.org].
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[19:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:35] <exec> 08└─As we all know: Diversity is our strength.
[19:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 1783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:36] <exec> 08└─You imply bias in the the hiring process is what is causing the gender imbalance in tech. Indicators such university enrollment in CS programs show that this is unlikely to be the case. If you are wrong, that there definitely isn't some inherit genetic behavioral bias influencing job choice, than th...
[19:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:39] <exec> 08└─However, while these traditional, opportunistic brute-force DDoS attacks remain a menace has emerged.
[19:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:41] <exec> 08└─> bot herders are working on expanding their largely IoT-based botnet creations Maybe some white hackers have to use those same IoT holes to brick every fucking IoT device that hasn't received a patch in the last two months (aka all of them). Once enough end-customers start screaming at the manufact...
[19:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:43] <exec> 08└─From my understanding the yellow eyes only occur during times that the Sith are closest to the dark side. I believe this is mentioned in the commentary on either the DVD release or the blu rays. If you'll notice, when Anakin attacks the Jedi temple, his eyes were normal. Plapatine told him after the...
[19:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:45] <exec> 08└─A few years ago we would get hit with what I call a calibration surge. We would get packeted for 2 or three times our bandwidth. Enough our upstream carrier would blackhole the IP being hit. It was usually udp traffic on various ports. Now I barely notice them on the traffic graph. I do still see t...
[19:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:48] <exec> 08└─Humanity hasn't developed yet a 100% safe embedded OS that can be used in IoT. The existing devices are not designed for safety, update mechanisms are primitive (if available at all,) and the vendor has no interest in supporting last year's devices.
[19:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:50] <exec> 08└─That was all the GitHub project owners copying their stuff off of GitHub to other places.
[19:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Sets All-Time Record with July Critical Patch Update - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:00] <exec> 08└─3.4 MILLION JOBS created since our GREAT election victory -- far greater than ever anticipated!
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:35] <exec> 08└─I don't know what we had in Houston, but it was an equally tenacious wall climbing vine, and it didn't look like fig - small leaves. Wasps loved to nest in it, for added fun when standing on a ladder with pruning shears.
[19:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─I restrain mine using a machete. Took a while for the neighbor to get used to that.
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:39] <exec> 08└─I love machetes, but not for swinging while standing on a ladder with wasps buzzing around, especially near the wood/asphalt shingle interface where I "drew the line."
[19:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orion Parachutes Chalk up Another Test Success in Arizona - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:50] <exec> 08└─It's another common expression we each think has a definite meaning until we hear someone else's definition. I always thought of "deep space" as beyond the heliosphere https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], but I'm learning.
[19:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orion Parachutes Chalk up Another Test Success in Arizona - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─In my head: Over 100km is "space". Anything below GEO is Near-Earth Space (LEO to GEO) Go to the moon, still in Earth-Space, because gravity well. Rocky planets ... Near-Space or Near-Sun Space Beyond the Asteroid Belt: Outer planets means Outer-Space Go past the last planet, and you're in Deep Spac...
[19:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06eBay Conducting a 'Mass Layoff' in the San Francisco Bay Area - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:12] <exec> 08└─Yes. I sell a few items on eBay per year. eBay's changes have made using the site unpleasant. However, the users themselves are a large part of the problem. Most buyers don't want to go through an auction process anymore, they want the Buy Now price. So sellers have to guess at what price might move...
[19:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:01] <exec> 08└─Do you know what actually improves traffic flow, reducing pollution, while also improving car safety ? Roundabouts, also known as traffic circles. It turns out that there are a few of them here and there in the US, and they are not the giant car pileup that some people would have you believe. Even w...
[19:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:03] <exec> 08└─In the county where I live, they installed the red light cameras, but banned issuing tickets based on them a few years later. One of my friends was T-boned in an intersection directly in the view of the camera, and the other driver pulled a hit and run. The cops said they couldn't use the camera foo...
[19:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electron Microscope Detector Achieves Record Resolution - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:15] <exec> 08└─Dö ångströms måke yöu ångsty ör ångry ?
[19:13:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Why Bullshit is no Laughing Matter - 1052 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─Well that should be everyone's goal, right? None can actually hit that goal, but the harder we strive for it the better. Figure out what the facts are and be unafraid to speak them. The rustled jimmies, outraged shrieks and "I just can't even" reactions are most useful; they are bright spotlights on...
[19:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:58] <exec> 08└─At least 1 billion? Are there even that many people who own game consoles or PCs?
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[20:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:48] <exec> 08└─In the era where "online sales will rule everything!" seems omniscient, I'm very pleased to see SOME level of creative thinking. Rather than just roll over, they're trying something different enough to distinguish themselves. Good on them! I hope it works.
[20:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 2317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:50] <exec> 08└─I rarely go to Best Buy. Even when I do, it is usually tagging along with a friend, and I have no intention of buying anything. I simply got tired of the fact that once in the store you are constantly attacked by clueless sales droids. It's not just "let me know if you need any help". But they INSIS...
[20:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:06] <exec> 08└─I think I get it. These two posts are meta. You're DDoSing us with words.
[20:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:08] <exec> 08└─L4 kernel is quite safe
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:47] <exec> 08└─uhm... many people are scum, but most teenagers are worst. in today's world, teenage mentalities last well into early 30s. on the internet, you just need one in one thousand to be the psychopath, and still the impact is quite large.
[20:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─When did people stop knowing how to behave?
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─As a parent, stuff is hard, it'd be nice to get a break once in a while.
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─Quite. It's not hard. The TV/Computer/Whatever is not a nanny. Do your fscking job and be a parent
[20:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Greener and More Efficient Noise Barriers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:01] <exec> 08└─Possibly https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ?
[20:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:26] <exec> 08└─The safe (and correct) way to do it is to have all lights red for 2 seconds. This is known to reduce accidents substantially.
[20:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:27] <exec> 08└─LOL, you'd already won by the time they muzzled you on a technicality. Hopefully a few audience members were recording the whole thing. Are there any recordings of it online? When I was hit with a red light camera ticket from Plano, Texas, I recorded the timings of the traffic signals at the offendi...
[20:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:29] <exec> 08└─Restrictive yellow doesn't even make sense. What's the point of having a separate yellow and red if they mean the same thing? The entire point of yellow is to provide a warning to allow cars to slow down and stop (and cars which are unable to do so safely must logically continue through the intersec...
[20:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:32] <exec> 08└─Time is money!
[20:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Azure 'Running out of Internets' in UK South, Starts Rationing VMs - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:03] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, I no longer have time for lowendbox.com. The value of my time is such that I would rather pay an extra few dollars for something that is boring over something that becomes exciting once a month. Google's AppEngine cuts a mean deal. For low traffic web site or web service hosting, it e...
[20:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─How is open hardware the answer? Linux is open, therefore it does not have security issues? Open software works because issues can be quickly fixed and patched once found (even then, old systems cause problems). For hardware, even if security issues are found quickly, fabricating and installing new...
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[21:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:41] <exec> 08└─Went looking for the +1 Couldn't Agree More mod, but it's not there... Only difference in our stories is that I haven't given in (yet) to the high pressure sales pitch.
[21:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you're lacking in assertiveness. All that is required to rid yourself of a sales person who is pestering you is to tell them in no uncertain terms : "I am just browsing and I prefer to be left alone, but if I do need help I will come find you". This works whether it is Best Buy or th...
[21:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:44] <exec> 08└─I prefer " "I am just browsing and I prefer to be left alone, but if you continue to try to sell to me, i will leave and not come back." THAT makes them walk away.
[21:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:46] <exec> 08└─At a 20-30% mark up over list price, you can make a lot of money. Every time I've *ever* bought or looked at buying something from "Best" Buy, it's always at least 20% over the list price. I suppose that having a clueless customer base really helps too.
[21:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:49] <exec> 08└─"I prefer " "I am just browsing and I prefer to be left alone, but if you continue to try to sell to me, i will leave and not come back." - - In my experience, using thinly veiled threats ( as you suggest ) is rarely called for. It is best to save threatening statements for when every other option h...
[21:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:51] <exec> 08└─Go in surly and antisocial like you probably are. Ignore them or say "No thanks" when questioned. You will do just fine. It's a big store, not a RadioShack. You could also just order from Best Buy online. That's where you're going to learn about any real deals anyway, online.
[21:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:09] <exec> 08└─It needs another comma. However, while these traditional, opportunistic brute-force DDoS attacks remain, a menace has emerged.
[21:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:10] <exec> 08└─Probably you're quite correct, lol. The MS-buy purge to other gits. :)
[21:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:54] <exec> 08└─Says the person who is obviously not a parent. Supervision is not being a helicopter parent monitoring their every second of interaction. We teach our children to be sensible, respectful, and think. We give them examples of what is ok and what is not, and ask their thoughts on situations, to guide t...
[21:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:55] <exec> 08└─Sadly, you are correct. Is 'it REALLY happening' that far away from reality for the people who did the 'hack'. I've found that generally i am a pretty peaceful happy guy: people, i've noticed, are pretty much the only thing that can get me feeling depressed. My wife's cancer brought me down but didn...
[21:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─If you want to talk about the school system, it started there when parents were given more power than the school. Schools have no play equipment on the yard because of stupid parents. Disruptive kids who get expelled are reinstated because of stupid parents. Dang... to me, teachers should be strikin...
[21:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─The evidence (sorry, I have no references) seems to be that the penis evolved from sexual selection. That is, the penises women enjoyed the most were the ones most likely to reproduce. Women have the major influence here, because they are in short supply. It takes at least nine months of a woman's l...
[21:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Larry Page Is Quietly Amassing a ‘Flying Car’ Empire - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:31] <exec> 08└─What, no Moller Skycar in the collection? It's incomplete!
[21:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:38] <exec> 08└─Parent's rant is up to +5 so I'm going to be bucking the mods... When I'm awake and paying attention I'm smarter than that red light. Even modern adaptive controls don't have much of an IQ. You probably are smarter than traffic control devices too--if you are awake and paying attention (not impaired...
[21:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:21] <exec> 08└─Even trusted code can have security issues. My point is i'd rather trust open code and hardware then, say, MS code and Intel hardware. Open code usually gets fixed properly (the first time) and fast, unlike MS code, and just look at the Oracle article with, what, 300 security nightmares issues! Book...
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[22:08:38] <exec> 08└─The Australian people do not trust their government to implement any system with success and without corruption. Next.
[22:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Droves of Aussies Crash MyHealthRecord to Opt Out - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:40] <exec> 08└─Next.
[22:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Droves of Aussies Crash MyHealthRecord to Opt Out - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:42] <exec> 08└─[Dumb American voice]What, do Aussies have something to hiiiiiide? YOUCANTBETOOSAFETHINKOFTHECHILDRENDOWNLOADTHEFREEIPHONENEWSAPPPOLLYWANNACRACKER! Get Trump to build a wall between us and Austria, wherever that is!!!"[/Dumb American voice]
[22:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Droves of Aussies Crash MyHealthRecord to Opt Out - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:44] <exec> 08└─[Dumb AC voice]
[22:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Droves of Aussies Crash MyHealthRecord to Opt Out - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:46] <exec> 08└─It's 2018, and stupid people still haven't learn to invest in load testing of their website. It doesn't cost millions to get a test box from Ixia or Spirent, people.
[22:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Droves of Aussies Crash MyHealthRecord to Opt Out - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:48] <exec> 08└─when they first proposed this, it was a way to create a unique identifier across all hospitals and medical practices, which would verify identity, and send any "flags" relating to treatment (allergies, prescription drugs, etc) That was around 1997. No hosptial computer system at the time had anythin...
[22:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:03] <exec> 08└─Every time I've *ever* bought or looked at buying something from "Best" Buy, it's always at least 20% over the list price.
[22:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:04] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bezos is very happy with his job.
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:10] <exec> 08└─Not really. For the most part, complete anonymity was a a day's ride away by horse.
[22:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:12] <exec> 08└─But they've done more good than bad, so on balance the church is better than, say, an Islamic Jihadi mosque.
[22:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:14] <exec> 08└─I'm interested if you have view on this? Would you say 'no internet' without supervision? Would you like a filtered internet for children? I've got small children - right now I don't supervise everything they do - and frankly, I'm a bit worried... Eldest likes to do coding and stuff before bedtime -...
[22:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Roblox Blames Virtual "Gang Rape" on "Hacker" - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:16] <exec> 08└─Fake News! In 9 out of 10 cases, the children were found to have been acting provocatively.
[22:10:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 422 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:29] <exec> 08└─You may not care. The science of how it came to be DOES matter to some people. "I care" -- Luke Skywalker. George W Bush, Obama and Trump are discussing the shape of the male organ of copulation. Focusing on the underlying evolutionary reason for the shape. George W: the shape is to give pleasure to...
[22:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:32] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. You grab them by the pussy, their enjoyment has little to do with it speaking in evolutionary terms. Remember, the female orgasm wasnt even invented until 1956.
[22:11:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06A Farewell to Printrbot - 1227 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:02] <exec> 08└─I'm unfortunately not surprised Printrbot is closing doors. I haven't used one, but when searching to buy a 3D printer they were one of the final choices in my selection researching. The metal construction was a large improvement over the mostly plastic construction they were competing against at th...
[22:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VirtualLink Consortium Announces USB Type-C Specification for VR Headsets - 1966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:58] <exec> 08└─There are apparently at least 2 billion people using smartphones, and plans to reach more people. Smartphones can be turned into basic VR headsets with hardware as simple as cardboard and lenses. https://qz.com
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[23:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Droves of Aussies Crash MyHealthRecord to Opt Out - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:46] <exec> 08└─Only criminals care about their privacy!! •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
[23:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Droves of Aussies Crash MyHealthRecord to Opt Out - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:47] <exec> 08└─Lucky Australians. ObamaCare is a disaster. Website down on purpose!!!! forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2016/05/30/obamacare-is-failing-on-purpose [forbes.com]
[23:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:04] <exec> 08└─I haven't been in a Best Buy Store for many years but their online stuff is OK, sometimes the best option, sometimes not. It's a better, less script plagued site than NewEgg is these days. I never even consider them as an option for years until someone gave me a gift card. The reason I stopped going...
[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Sets All-Time Record with July Critical Patch Update - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:36] <exec> 08└─How many full time, more than poverty level pay?
[23:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:32] <exec> 08└─"Even though I have "claspers", I self-identify as a girlfish". - Millennial Fish, 1 million BC
[23:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:34] <exec> 08└─Foxsil News
[23:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Origins of Those Sexual Organs: a Fishy Tale Much More Primitive Than Previously Thought - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:36] <exec> 08└─We're Making America Great Again!
[23:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:58] <exec> 08└─Neigh.
[23:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 5201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:00] <exec> 08└─The key to this is selective enforcement [wikipedia.org]. Selective enforcement is, briefly, the policy that an individual or body charged with enforcing rules or laws may do so selectively and constructively as circumstances dictate, rather than ruthlessly and literally according to the letter of t...
[23:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:02] <exec> 08└─Around here, people have just adjusted to that and consider it okay to go through a red light if it has "just turned red". Of course, you risk a ticket doing so, but we don't have red light cameras and the chances of getting pulled over are pretty low so most people do it. Since people have a differ...
[23:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red-light Cameras Don't Reduce Traffic Accidents or Improve Public Safety: Analysis - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:04] <exec> 08└─I've not be able to find a recording of it. Despite all the meetings being recorded and transcribed for decades, that one is missing from their archive. So are a few others that were contentious for other reasons, like the one where they voted to remove a pedestrian bridge next to the school that we...
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