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[00:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:17] <exec> 08└─The value of art is how well it conforms to the artist's vision.
[00:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:18] <exec> 08└─WHOA! You just went to a whole knew dimension, BRO! My mind is like... BLOW AWAY!
[00:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:41] <exec> 08└─In my defense, that core group is pretty big.
[00:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 2303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:08] <exec> 08└─In the late-70s I worked briefly on the Terrapin Turtle, a "robot" peripheral that connected to Apple II by a cable and could draw with a pen (like a plotter -- pen_down and pen_up commands) on any surface that would accept the ink. Along the way I got to know many people in the Logo community, whic...
[00:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:10] <exec> 08└─Apple II Logo may have been one of the first microcomputer ports, but there have been many. Here's one attempt at a list: https://web.archive.org [archive.org] with 196(!!) entries.
[00:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:33] <exec> 08└─It is the jewish-infiltrated and controlled U.S of A. Also known as United States of Sanctions. Sanctions are a type of war... which is why citizens of certain countries/prisons face tens of years of lockup and multi million dollar fines for promoting BDS (Ban, Divestment, Sanctions) against the apa...
[00:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:34] <exec> 08└─If you are such a rich guy--don't you claim to be a billionaire?--why don't you loan Rocketman a billion and save his computer crackers all the trouble. I'm sure you can make a good deal on the interest, which after all has all the slaves citizens in N. Korea for collateral.
[00:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:11] <exec> 08└─Why? Anonymous source from intelligence agency means, with 99.9999999999999999999999999% certainty, that it's a lie.
[00:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:12] <exec> 08└─The difference between the AC comment above and the AC comment filtered through a reporter, is that the one above is properly modded while the one made to the reporter draws a collective gasp and potential military response.
[00:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:14] <exec> 08└─We can find plenty of articles that were written based on anonymous sources and proven with follow-up reporting or official disclosures down the line. You are full of it.
[00:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:17] <exec> 08└─Sure, they are as rouge as the rest of us,
[00:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:19] <exec> 08└─Amazon wrote on Thursday. "We never found modified hardware or malicious chips in servers in any of our data centers. Nor have we engaged in an investigation with the government."
[00:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:18] <exec> 08└─Please tell me that they died before they had a chance to have kids and pass on their stupid genes.
[00:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:55] <exec> 08└─He needs some new clothes.
[00:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:11] <exec> 08└─You think that's funny? Get a Mormon to tell you about their magic under garments.
[00:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:13] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, where I live people are still arguing that pot should stay illegal, because people who smoke it associate with criminals. I know...
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[01:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Artificial Life Algorithm Run on a Quantum Computer - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:01] <exec> 08└─Nope, they've totally implemented Conway's Game of Life! Though perhaps we can call this one "MSM Game of Quantum Hype?" How long until we can identify the shooters, movers, ships, and all those other strange, new life forms?
[01:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chernobyl Solar Farm Opens Adjacent to Site of Infamous Nuclear Disaster - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:08] <exec> 08└─The core story is interesting enough. Whining about 'Da Eeebil RUSKIES' spoils the story. If the Brothers Cockup hadn't sponsored fascist SOB's overthrowing the government, Ukraine would still enjoy ownership of Crimea, and the energy it was generating.
[01:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight (Oct 7, 10:22PM EDT; Oct 8, 02:21AM UTC) - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:20] <exec> 08└─Why is the first west coast landing so historic? Is gravity different over there on the west coast? The atmospheric density drastically different? Maybe time flows differently? In a hundred years, this "historic moment" will be forgotten, proving that it isn't really historic.
[01:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:01] <exec> 08└─They may not care about art, but they definitely care about money laundering and tax dodges!
[01:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 3123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:57] <exec> 08└─Heh, I knew about the phases for the stepper motor, but didn't know they could all be left on and fry a chip. I knew the Commodore 64's disk drive could be instructed to damage itself-- think it could be made to bump the read head against the side of the case or some internal component, thus knockin...
[01:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:22] <exec> 08└─I will let the fortune cookie reply to your troll, People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.
[01:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:02] <exec> 08└─Why are so many users bothering to parse and creatively interpret every word of these statements? Is there going to be an SEC punishment if they were caught lying in these statements? I doubt it.
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[02:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Artificial Life Algorithm Run on a Quantum Computer - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:10] <exec> 08└─These units were then programmed to reproduce, mutate, evolve and die, in part using entanglement – just as any real living being would.
[02:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight (Oct 7, 10:22PM EDT; Oct 8, 02:21AM UTC) - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:31] <exec> 08└─West coast landings are known by the State of California to cause cancer, but there are regulatory exceptions for historic events.
[02:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight (Oct 7, 10:22PM EDT; Oct 8, 02:21AM UTC) - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:32] <exec> 08└─This is the first land landing of a Block 5. If they want to achieve their goal of refurbishing and reflying a booster within 24 hours, this is a necessary step.
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:15] <exec> 08└─That one is more complicated. It' a case of the artist waffling on his vision. Banksy clearly had this in mind from the beginning and went through with it as planned.
[02:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:10] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the original Apple II didn't automatically boot, not even sure if it came up in basic or in the monitor and the usual was typing in 6p or something similar to boot. Adding the language card (original with Applesoft in ROM) may have updated it to boot on power up.
[02:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:35] <exec> 08└─Good sir! How much. Do youhave?
[02:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:36] <exec> 08└─Obligatory fortune cookie ending: ...in bed.
[02:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:18] <exec> 08└─That's like saying if the NSA got caught doing this, it would collapse the entire US economy. It wouldn't crash either one. It's an interesting time we live in, where today's storm-in-a-teacup is tomorrow's ancient history. It seems that whatever happens is only critically vital right up until the m...
[02:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:38] <exec> 08└─Isn't the Twitter stream mostly Alex Jones and Fox and Friends regurgitated though?
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[03:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Artificial Life Algorithm Run on a Quantum Computer - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:13] <exec> 08└─Would you call a virus a living being? I do believe they reproduce, mutate, evolve and die as well. Yet they are nothing like "real living beings." Just saying that because their "quantum life" does not use the same mechanisms as living things the behavior is still worth studying.
[03:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight -- Successful! [Updated] - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:37] <exec> 08└─I'm a frequent traveller but the nearest I have been to a launch is West Palm Beach. I'm hoping when a Prof. Friend of mine gets another few months in a Cali lab, I'll go "work" from there, and this would be a dream roadtrip!!! We live in an age of wonders, but nothing is more wonderful than the ama...
[03:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight -- Successful! [Updated] - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:39] <exec> 08└─I was on the North end of town and had a great view! The sonic booms were much louder than I expected, very cool to see in person.
[03:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight -- Successful! [Updated] - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:41] <exec> 08└─They were also worried about startling the seals. I can almost guarantee that they'll find much more seal crap on the rocks than normal.
[03:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:23] <exec> 08└─I'm neither a lawyer nor an auctioneer, but at least under US law [uslegal.com], it seems like it transfers possession when the bidding for the item closes.
[03:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:50] <exec> 08└─seems like you don't realize that wiping of the "middle class" [sic] and the fascism of the surveillance state are two of the faces of the same social phenomenon, look into history to clear this confusion
[03:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:32] <exec> 08└─I'm more interested in knowing why news sites like Ars are writing about these weak sauce obfuscation as if they were strong denials.
[03:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:23] <exec> 08└─Churches aren't supposed to say who to vote for either, but they do have a First Amendment right to advocate on moral issues.
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[04:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:38] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to work out whether : 1) Folks have always been vanishing in the night in these "corruption" instances and I've never heard/cared. 2) Whether things are starting to actually be reported about this (and the people are potentially more visible like this chap or the movie star the other day...
[04:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight -- Successful! [Updated] - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:11] <exec> 08└─These launches look a lot better at night, especially the attitude correction thrusters on the booster.
[04:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight -- Successful! [Updated] - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:12] <exec> 08└─The sound is definitely something you have to be there for to appreciate. I've been to a lot of rocket launches, including some SLS launches in Florida, but this was the first time part of the rocket came back. That was the coolest part for me. The double boom when it was landing was great. And the...
[04:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:56] <exec> 08└─They may not care about art, but they definitely care about money laundering and tax dodges!
[04:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:58] <exec> 08└─In pictures that I've seen of the partially shredded image, the shredded part outside the frame looks noticably darker than that still inside. A backlight would be a plausibe reason for the owner and auctioneer to leave it plugged in, and a charged laptop battery would be ample to run a radio transc...
[04:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:59] <exec> 08└─You are doing it wrong. Obviously we need to make a law to force all phones with camera capabilities must have GPS enabled, the phone must check its location at all times against a database, the camera must be disabled if a person is in a known dangerous selfie location and if a person does try to t...
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[05:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:27] <exec> 08└─ChineseChina Disappears Head of Interpol Disappears There, FTFY.
[05:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:28] <exec> 08└─5 days ago: China's "Missing" Actress Fan Bingbing Back in Beijing After Secret Detention [hollywoodreporter.com] The practice of "residential surveillance at a designated location” was introduced into Chinese criminal law in 2012. The system allows the Chinese police to detain anyone suspected of...
[05:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:30] <exec> 08└─Answer for your first question is these occurrences are increasing and the net is getting wider - at least compare to the last 10 years. The most recent "high profile" person was one of the top Chinese actress, Fan Bing Bing [bbc.com]. She had the same fate, where she disappeared for months only to...
[05:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's been happening for a long time, what's new is that there are some sort of rules around it and it's more often reported/disclosed. So in a way, it's actually improving. But this guy was very high profile, and they clearly knew he couldn't disappear without it being noticed. I have no idea...
[05:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Artificial Life Algorithm Run on a Quantum Computer - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:44] <exec> 08└─Would you call a virus a living being? I do believe they reproduce, mutate, evolve and die as well.
[05:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Artificial Life Algorithm Run on a Quantum Computer - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:46] <exec> 08└─The smallest virus known according to a cursory search has about 1700 pairs (that's not a bit, those have 4 configurations). So it's far off from 1 bit (quantic or not) to represent the genotype. So yeah it's barely enough info to make an interesting screensaver. The interesting part is what working...
[05:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chernobyl Solar Farm Opens Adjacent to Site of Infamous Nuclear Disaster - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:55] <exec> 08└─You have a region that isn't exactly human friendly, and solar is mostly hands off after installation. And as the summary states, the electrical infrastructure is large enough to handle the 4000MW nuclear plant which is not operational anymore (fun fact: while reactor 4 was destroyed, reactors 1, 2,...
[05:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chernobyl Solar Farm Opens Adjacent to Site of Infamous Nuclear Disaster - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:57] <exec> 08└─Seems to me it's better suited to a new nuclear reactor. There wouldn't be anyone around to be effected by a second meltdown, and I doubt it would come to that, considering the post soviet nuclear designs.
[05:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight -- Successful! [Updated] - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:15] <exec> 08└─I haven't checked the details, but Vandenberg usually means Polar orbit launch. So it's the first Polar Launch RTLS. While Gravity is only marginally different than Florida (because tectonic plates), doing RTLS straight North instead of straight West does result in not insignificant ballistic differ...
[05:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:01] <exec> 08└─IANAL. It depends on which country you are in and whether the bidders signed any binding documentation as a condition prior to participating in the auction. This may result in ownership transferring with the hammer. In other scenarios, this is not the case. For example, if one were to roll up to a r...
[05:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:59] <exec> 08└─Summer of '83, we had black and white cameras and a darkroom for half the day, and PCs with Logo for the other half. And even with two halves spoken for, there were somehow breaks and lunch left over. Those were mostly spent listening to music by the fence. I had "Wierd Al Yankovic" and "Speaking in...
[05:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:00] <exec> 08└─Hey!! Leave Hunter Thompson out of this. He's innocent I swear.
[05:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not. But market perception & sentiment does affect their stock value. If they do get expose later, say via some whistle blowing, then they can technically say they didn't lie. I suppose it does soften or at least alter the impact somewhat vs being caught red-handed in an outright lie. T...
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[06:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:17] <exec> 08└─She may not understand the conversation, but she's been trained to detect key words and respond to them.
[06:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:19] <exec> 08└─Seems like it's just a fancy skin on top of Dr Sbaitso [wikipedia.org]. Get off me lawn! ;)
[06:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:34] <exec> 08└─See also: https://foreignpolicy.com [foreignpolicy.com] https://www.washingtonpost.com [washi...
[06:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:03] <exec> 08└─Bollocks. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[06:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:02] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "cord cutters"? You can get the news off the air. Don't need cable, coax or copper to get TV. Do you get your news off the interwebby and only look at 4chan?
[06:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:03] <exec> 08└─"...funded via American Express cash advances. Early Apple funding was dicey like that." Actually early Apple funding was mainly a guy with wild red hair and a fu-manchu from Chemeketa Park (supposedly named Jim) who would show up at the Good Earth Cafe and Organic Food Store in Los Gatos whenever t...
[06:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:17] <exec> 08└─Well, then they need to present some actual evidence. And if they don't, then we have no reason to believe them.
[06:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:19] <exec> 08└─How so? China already makes/supplies/assembles many of the chips used in a computer. e.g. the south bridge stuff, even some Intel NICs are made in China. Why add chips when they can just replace existing chips with modified versions? Especially when the existing chips would already be connected to a...
[06:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Geyser Spews Trash - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:38] <exec> 08└─Don't worry too much about DT. When Yellowstone really blows, it will wipe out most of the Red States. https://www.vox.com [vox.com]
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[07:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:37] <exec> 08└─So, Michael, Phillip, James, or Byron aren't "trendy". The bots prefer Bob.
[07:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:38] <exec> 08└─Where do we go from here?
[07:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:41] <exec> 08└─Could we be starting to climb up the other side of the valley, so that robots will start becoming more and more, uh, canny? On the other hand, if Japan is making most of these robots, couldn't they just stick with popular anime characters? I bet that would improve adoption while the rest of the AI,...
[07:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:56] <exec> 08└─They're claiming corruption [bbc.co.uk] - although precise details are unclear and the circumstances seem similar to Fan Bing Bing's - so we can probably expect a contrite and very public confession, a pledge of allegience to the Party, and some major fines/jail time eventually. The Chinese are curr...
[07:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Artificial Life Algorithm Run on a Quantum Computer - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:08] <exec> 08└─How long until we can identify the shooters, movers, ships, and all those other strange, new life forms?
[07:46:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 606 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:12] <exec> 08└─[...] Perhaps the shredded "Girl With Balloon" might eventually also prove a lucrative investment. Banksy pronounced the painting "going, going, gone" on his Instagram account, quoting Picasso: "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." (The quote is often attributed to Picasso, but also to Mikh...
[07:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:29] <exec> 08└─Clever. Moving a "turtle" around on the screen was all I ever saw it do, though I only took a quick look at it and had no one to show it to me. So I dismissed Logo as irrelevant because you could do way more with 6502 assembly if you had lots and lots of time and the skill. If you had less time and...
[07:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:42] <exec> 08└─Unless it's a false flag gone wrong e.g. Apple, etc inconveniently figured out those extra chips were installed by the CIA/NSA and not China, and so they got NSLs forcing them to say nothing happened. Apple has quite strict and tight control over their supply chains (to prevent leaks and "maintain"...
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[08:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:32] <exec> 08└─I just saw this robotic finger [theverge.com] the other day. The Rubik's Cube hand is much less creepy.
[08:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:33] <exec> 08└─Can they make it vibrate?
[08:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a modified Eliza program in a fancy case.
[08:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:48] <exec> 08└─Laudable attempt at imitation, I feel there is still work to do to make it seem a proper bot, though.
[08:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:50] <exec> 08└─ROBOT BROTHEL Sounds very offensive, you know. You could give it a more exotic sounding yet descriptive name. For example, I'd call the place "Instructions unclear".
[08:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:52] <exec> 08└─"Turn on, get off"?
[08:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Artificial Life Algorithm Run on a Quantum Computer - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:18] <exec> 08└─Would you call a virus a living being?
[08:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chernobyl Solar Farm Opens Adjacent to Site of Infamous Nuclear Disaster - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:28] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, the panels will generate energy at night too, from increased background.radiation.
[08:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chernobyl Solar Farm Opens Adjacent to Site of Infamous Nuclear Disaster - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:30] <exec> 08└─and solar is mostly hands off after installation.
[08:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:02] <exec> 08└─It's imaginary property ツ
[08:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:42] <exec> 08└─legitimate, non-mercenary role for private enterprise
[08:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:45] <exec> 08└─/tmp is often cleared at reboot. Best to mount your drive somewhere on /var, perhaps /var/tmp or /var/backup.
[08:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:47] <exec> 08└─Amazing... :-(
[08:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:49] <exec> 08└─>as you *know*, one day, it won't be there. Well, one day I won't be here, you won't be here, and this planet won't be here. If your approach to risk management is, "it won't last forever with 100% certainty, so it's unacceptable", then you should re-evaluate your life, the house you live in, and th...
[08:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft is Embracing Android as the Mobile Version of Windows - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:06] <exec> 08└─Android is open source though. The fact that most people don't use a version of Android that is fully open source, or the fact that they may soon be using a version of Android that has Microsoft non-open source code rather than Google non-open source code doesn't seem particularly relevant to the mo...
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[09:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:10] <exec> 08└─I think we're getting close to a turning point. Any media or stories about humanoid robots or AI from now on will be perceived differently than the past. Ten, twenty years ago such a thing would have fallen squarely on the fiction side of science fiction (for reference, the iPhone was released just...
[09:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:11] <exec> 08└─Some people seem to have the superficial view that uncanny valley only referes to how accurate it looks, statically. But it's not, it's about teh entire behaviour. With modern latex prosthetics, the physical appearance is indeed so close to human that it's past the looking-odd stage. However, the mo...
[09:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:13] <exec> 08└─I'll have to agree that they're getting closer and closer. Some of the robots the TSA employs, for example, have brief moments where they almost seem human. The DMV robots are also sometimes almost human, even more so than the TSA ones.
[09:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:27] <exec> 08└─At least we know where Fan Bingbing is. $99 million in taxes and penalties. $180 million in total. That is how you slap down a rich celebrity. How much do you have in your bank account? Give it to me. Considering that her net worth is $100million they are bleeding her dry then demanding more. To mee...
[09:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:29] <exec> 08└─All of her fortune
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[10:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:19] <exec> 08└─But that doesn't work with a tomato.
[10:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:21] <exec> 08└─I'm listening. Folks love the vibrate. The women -- and a lot of the men. So I said, do my Presidential Alerts on MAXIMUM VIBRATE. We did that one last week, as everybody knows. And we'll be doing some more. Enjoy! And by the way, don't listen to @OfficialMcAfee [twitter.com]. That guy is a SORE LOS...
[10:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:23] <exec> 08└─Rubik's cube are too stiff to operate like that, even oiled. This is standard Chinese speed cube. Once you have tried one you will never be able to use a TM Rubik's cube again.
[10:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marvin [3019] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:46] <exec> 08└─I don't know why the japanese robotics effort stalled at apeing movesets instead of going deeper and let the "natural look" emerge from understanding what makes it natural. For Reference just compare Erica with SEER (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQPXPvfMRS4) or virtually any bi or quadruped robot...
[10:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marvin [3019] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:47] <exec> 08└─Uncanny Valley almost defeated: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[10:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:51] <exec> 08└─Especially as NSA has "intercepted" Cisco equipment to install additional "features" for ages...
[10:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:52] <exec> 08└─How quickly we forget: https://www.infoworld.com [infoworld.com]
[10:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:53] <exec> 08└─I never actually thought I would see this happen. Got arrested a few times at NORML rallies in the '70's. The stores are clean, well lit, with professional budtenders and ID is required up front of everyone before your allowed into the store proper. Then it weed fucking heaven. Saturday, Cinders sal...
[10:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mormon Church, Politicians, and Advocates Back Medical Cannabis Compromise in Utah - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:55] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, you haven't lived until a cop checks out your stash, compliments you on your choice, and tells you that you have a tail light out, wishes you a good day, and leaves without issuing any citation. 10 years ago I would of had a heart attack in the same situation....
[10:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 - October 2018 Update After Reports of Documents Being Deleted - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:50] <exec> 08└─yes.. the heat death of the universe does provide a finite end to the need for data storage. Arbitrary changes to TOS or someone in a data centre pulling the pin on the rack with your data is far more likely to be a problem. By all means, use a cloud service; also have an off-line back up that you c...
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[11:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:54] <exec> 08└─The world must invest $2.4 trillion in clean energy every year
[11:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, shoot the messenger. God willing, sacrifice made, that will avert the bad news.
[11:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:58] <exec> 08└─We are boned. Smoke em' if go got em'
[11:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 2241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:00] <exec> 08└─This is typical of propaganda. The report sells a particular story, namely, that it is really important to freeze temperature increase at 1.5 C. For example, I scanned the executive summary for the word "adapt". They never speak of adapting to any other temperature than 1.5 C or 2 C (mostly to say w...
[11:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:02] <exec> 08└─Defund communists, now! avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has "no documented historic precedent."
[11:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Species-rich Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Monocultures - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:12] <exec> 08└─by posting a mono-culture of articles on the climate you will increase CO2-emissions, you fools!
[11:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:26] <exec> 08└─Given that the "hand", cameras and system are designed and trained to specifically deal with a Rubik's Cube, I imagine that replacing the cube with a Deck of Cards would be very disappointing. Who knows though, perhaps it would automatically start playing patience without any further programming......
[11:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:07] <exec> 08└─It has never been different.
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[12:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:48] <exec> 08└─Colour me unsurprised. A panel whose continued funding and influence on policy is dependent on doom mongering hysteria about the climate changing, issues report predicting horrible doom real soon now (tm) due to the climate changing. 2040 is near enough to influence policy, seek continued funding an...
[12:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:49] <exec> 08└─We know who will benefit from huge investment in renewables: it will be jewish bankers swindling yet more money from their victims in the name of renewables, holocaust etc and middle-men who want a piece of the windfall. Look at how most of the money is stolen in natural disasters. Money is donated...
[12:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03agr [7134] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:51] <exec> 08└─There is no longer any excuse for countries like Japan and Germany shutting down their nuclear power plants while still burning fossil fuel for power or transportation. Keeping nukes running or restarting them is a far more achievable way to cut CO2 in the next decade than deploying new carbon captu...
[12:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03G-forze [1276] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:53] <exec> 08└─This. The only thing that could make even a dent in fossile fuel usage is a huge expansion of nuclear power. Money spent on development of small modular reactors in general and thorium reactors in particular, as well as continued research into fusion is the only way that money is not completely wast...
[12:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:55] <exec> 08└─The criminal jews cause disasters using advanced weather-modifying weapons
[12:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:58] <exec> 08└─There is no longer any excuse for countries like Japan and Germany shutting down their nuclear power plants while still burning fossil fuel for power or transportation.
[12:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:21] <exec> 08└─Unless someone programs it to do otherwise.
[12:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:22] <exec> 08└─Imagine that finger powering the phone down at startup like any useless machine.
[12:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:04] <exec> 08└─She had plenty of money for not having to work too hard, but it still wasn't enough that she had to not pay her taxes. Hard to feel much sympathy for her and people like her.
[12:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chernobyl Solar Farm Opens Adjacent to Site of Infamous Nuclear Disaster - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:34] <exec> 08└─Except for the guy scrubbing off the pigeon shit off the panels every morning.
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[12:46:22] <exec> 08└─a piece of art destroying itself
[12:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:39] <exec> 08└─Well, an important prerequisite for a lawsuit is that you know the identity of the culprit. Which is famously not the case with Banksy.
[12:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:41] <exec> 08└─I'm neither a lawyer nor an auctioneer, but at least under US law [uslegal.com], it seems like it transfers possession when the bidding for the item closes.
[12:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:43] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I'm astounded that the previous owner was oblivious to the presence of the shredder.
[12:46:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:56] <exec> 08└─the repeated conflation of copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets under a single, misleading moniker
[12:49:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 13 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:33] <exec> 08└─What problem?
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[13:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You Need to Know About the First-ever DNSSEC Root Key Rollover on October 11, 2018 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:53] <exec> 08└─How do DNS software and DNS services pick up the new key? It already has!
[13:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:13] <exec> 08└─"go" should be "ya" Is it quitting time yet? All of these numbers/characters are looking the same again.
[13:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:14] <exec> 08└─"If it weren't for all the fear mongering from the likes of Greenpeace," I see it as "If it weren't for all the fear mongering from the likes of organized religion": what could the likes of Galileo have done if there was no religious persecution back in the day? How much more advanced would we be to...
[13:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:16] <exec> 08└─Has there ever been a UN report on anything that didnt end up conclusing the UN needs more money? Meanwhile real solutions (in the sense that people would adopt them regardless of anthropogenic climate change) to the supposed problem like using geopolymer instead of portland cement remain largely ig...
[13:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:18] <exec> 08└─Bucky Fuller famously coined the term Spaceship Earth. And noted that it didn't come with an operating manual. He wrote this which is a good introduction to big system thinking, https://www.organism.earth [www.organism.earth] Looks to me like this latest IPCC report would make a...
[13:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:20] <exec> 08└─Pilot programs for Gen IV reactors like the pebble bed and LFTR have been running for years. If the IPCC wants to spend trillions then a massive push towards these inherently safe nuclear reactors is absolutely the way to go. Safe, inexhaustible, reliable, and CO2 free power is just sitting there w...
[13:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:23] <exec> 08└─Because it is mainly pushed to back a scam to sell people "carbon credits" and buy their coastal property for cheaper? But looks like its dying out to me... I mean at this point everyone sane has at least started to question by default anything the MSM repeats over and over, regardless of what it is...
[13:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Species-rich Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Monocultures - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:34] <exec> 08└─No prob. Just rollover the DNSSEC Root Key.
[13:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:51] <exec> 08└─http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/salisbury-robot-hand [si.edu] Saw some of Ken Salisbury's work at MIT in the early 1980s. Pretty slow and imprecise (due to high friction in joints and tendons) back then, but clearly the control has improved over the years.
[13:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:10] <exec> 08└─Let me buy more of his shredded paintings!
[13:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sidewalk Toronto Has Only One Beneficiary, and It Is not Toronto - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:37] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it. The rolling out of these mass surveillance solutions is a long-term strategy on the part of the capitalist elites. They know that the proles will get restless when they're starving, and they think that maybe they'll be able to keep the masses under control and enslaved with the magic...
[13:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:13] <exec> 08└─What was Logo intended for […]?
[13:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:15] <exec> 08└─And how do you get the news from the air into your TV? Right, through an antenna. And how do you connect that antenna to your TV?
[13:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:43] <exec> 08└─They are communist, but there's more than one flavor of communism, which exists along a spectrum. Nobody's really doing a "pure" economy without influence from other paradigms anymore. It's an approach that is trying to curtain the downsides of the primary system using the tools made available by ot...
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[14:43:21] <exec> 08└─Can we trust this centralized authority? Also: How does this affect Tor, I2P, OpenNIC, and other services whose domain names are not and will not be dnssec secured? Furthermore, why aren't we using a blockchain system to provide provable encryption trails for each domain? It seems like that would be...
[14:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 3199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:47] <exec> 08└─Though the lamestream media makes its living whipping up fear and hysteria about anything and everything, you're a fool to disparage and dismiss the warnings about climate change. Climate change is happening right now, right in front of our noses, and it's easy to see if only we would look. Decades...
[14:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:48] <exec> 08└─Yep, not going to happen. Governments either move too slow, are are in the pocket of industry, or just doesn't care. Non-green industry won't do anything that severely impacts their bottom line unless it's mandated by government or seen as necessary to keep their customers. And far too many individu...
[14:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:50] <exec> 08└─Or, alternatively, if science and industry hadn't been held in check by religion until the Renaissance we might have gotten to the industrial revolution a few hundred years earlier, the wars of the 17th-18th century would have been fought with nukes, and any survivors would now be living in the rema...
[14:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:16] <exec> 08└─Someone Is Going To By Me A Wall Wart!
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:30] <exec> 08└─I suspect that it is just that you have a problem with art that is strongly vaginal. [youtube.com]
[14:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:32] <exec> 08└─So, where are the "when I buy product X it shouldn't update on its own or do anything to remove any existing features" people? Certainly a piece of art destroying itself is almost as bad a a tech device losing a feature without your consent, right?
[14:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:34] <exec> 08└─In effect at auction you have a contract for a purchase for an item. A contract requires a meeting of the minds, that the object being bid on would meet specifications to a reasonable and ordinary person. If it was marketed in the auction catalog as something like a "work of art" and knowing the rep...
[14:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:42] <exec> 08└─There was a 16k expansion card, called a "language card"...
[14:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:59] <exec> 08└─Do you realize how astronomically unlikely it is that we plebs get to hear this kind of highest level stuff between the 2 most powerful governments of the world?! People have been murdered for far less.
[14:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Stands by Chinese Chip Story as Apple, Amazon Ratchet up Denials - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:01] <exec> 08└─You ask why would they deny it, but the answer is obvious: they do not want to admit their operations are not at all secure. Some people have been wisely avoiding US based services for awhile. This kind of revelation does not exactly improve their reputation. When billions of dollars are on the line...
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[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Fatal Biofilms Form - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:49] <exec> 08└─In other words the biofilms grow protective calluses.
[15:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Fatal Biofilms Form - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:51] <exec> 08└─The "biofilms" are nothing more than the drool falling from Chthulhu's lip. His lip, and the Angel of Death, and the Grim Reaper. They stand by your bedside, betting on when you'll draw your last breath, drooling all the while.
[15:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Fatal Biofilms Form - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:53] <exec> 08└─Where's the mod for +1 humorously delusional?
[15:44:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:12] <exec> 08└─We are boned. Smoke em' if go got em'
[15:44:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 3199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:27] <exec> 08└─Though the lamestream media makes its living whipping up fear and hysteria about anything and everything, you're a fool to disparage and dismiss the warnings about climate change. Climate change is happening right now, right in front of our noses, and it's easy to see if only we would look. Decades...
[15:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:30] <exec> 08└─Therr is plenty of reason to adopt better, more efficient, technologies that have nothing to do with climate change. Or even less efficient tech that reduces dependance on specific problematic energy sources like middle east oil... Or to adopt more robust and safe construction and supply pipelines s...
[15:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Species-rich Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Monocultures - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:41] <exec> 08└─You get different tree-heights, different leaves, probably different types of secondary vegetation custom to the different tree types. Together, a wider range of light energy gets absorbed, over a wider growth window. So more growth and CO2 storage. I didn't read the article, but is the surprise tha...
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:20] <exec> 08└─The Japs are in a mad rush, their population pyramid is just about inverted and it's going to get even worse. They need solutions today. Robots appear to be one answer.
[15:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:40] <exec> 08└─Public opinion (in West) Arrested in China. Innocent. Arrested in Russia. Innocent. Arrested in West. Guilty. I'm only speculating the public opinion is reversed in the East.
[15:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:41] <exec> 08└─Russian, Chinese, and Western governments have varying degrees of legitimacy. Russia's is probably the most laughable because the economy is bad, corruption is unchecked, and the nation's posturing comes from a position of relative weakness. China on the other hand can credibly compete with the U.S....
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:22] <exec> 08└─I've never been a particular fan of Banksy, but this one was particularly inspired. Good performance art is so hard to pull off. Or maybe it's just an act of sabotage for not wanting his pieces going to auction.
[15:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:23] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily, it would still be a private sale if done through an intermediary.
[15:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FEMA Sued Over "Presidential Alert" Text Warning - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:29] <exec> 08└─Strangers in vans snatching children is practically an urban legend,
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[16:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:26] <exec> 08└─AI systems have helped astronomers to identify 56 new possible gravitational lenses that play a crucial role in connection with research into dark matter.
[16:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:27] <exec> 08└─Gravitational lensing is a prediction rather than a deviation of general relativity. >:(
[16:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:29] <exec> 08└─So now the new angle is that dark matter was predicted by general relativity? P.S. The lensing is predicted to exist by newtonian mechanics too, think 1919 eclipse where the predicted deflection was 1\2 that of GR. This isnt psychology or medical research where no one puts numbers on the predictions...
[16:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:32] <exec> 08└─> The Earth Observer 1 (EO-1) satellite is a good example Scientists have been using multivariate analysis to automate tasks for many years. I am running a code right now from the 1970s that uses "artificial intelligence" to "design" RF cavities. i.e. run some parametric optimisation on the cavity d...
[16:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:34] <exec> 08└─Shhh ! Be quiet ! The AI bubble is the best placement for your cash, don't deflate it too fast! It was hard enough to know when to jump off the crypto bubble, this one could last us a while if we nurse it correctly.
[16:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Fatal Biofilms Form - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:45] <exec> 08└─It's called Funny.
[16:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:24] <exec> 08└─Strange, my local news agency was able to get a bunch of numbers from the report (which I didn't read). With a table 1.5°C vs 2°C. They are indeed not talking about adapting to a 0°C change, which shouldn't surprise you. That they leave out 2°C is because they are already saying that 2°C is ver...
[16:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:26] <exec> 08└─It's not that governments inherently move slowly. Governments can move very very quickly when they think there's something to be gained by doing so. The problem is that 1. There's not much money to be made in the short-term in addressing the problem. 2. There's a large short-term cost in addressing...
[16:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:28] <exec> 08└─In particular, what's their power output?
[16:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:30] <exec> 08└─We've seen a 0.6°C increase from 1988 - 2017, not quite what we were warned about is it? [apnews.com] Good thing the science was settled back then. And we know the current warnings are legitimate because the UN is busy transporting half of Africa to Europe where energy consumption (and CO2 emission...
[16:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:32] <exec> 08└─Oh man, 'Canticle' is my favourite book! :) But how many of those wars were fought for religious reasons? All? Just saying. Mrs. Grales says "Hi." :)
[16:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:34] <exec> 08└─What is going to happen if another 50 year maunder minimum hits like it looks like may have just begun? Are there any predictions by the IPCC regarding this scenario?
[16:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:37] <exec> 08└─Think for yourself bub, khallow has no real argument here, just a bunch of typical whinging.
[16:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:39] <exec> 08└─However even after conceding that nuclear is a lesser evil than climate change you still hit a brick wall. The same brick wall that held back wind and solar until very very recently: it costs too much.
[16:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Species-rich Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Monocultures - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:50] <exec> 08└─a rain forest sinks more carbon than a palm plantation. I'm sure the palm plantation owners will act on this news right away. /s
[16:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:10] <exec> 08└─I haven't used a TM Rubik's cube since 1980-something. Other than my 4x4x4 Revenge my grandmother got me in the late 1980s that I keep as a memento.
[16:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:11] <exec> 08└─AI != Magic, it also isn't true AI, and it won't automatically start playing patience. You'd be doing good, if it could even handle the cards.
[16:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:57] <exec> 08└─'My estate has informed against me' - since the Roman empire In the US, it'll be planting drugs if they want to take your assets or planting kiddie porn if they want to take your freedom. (thus the law is like it is - possession is the crime so any 3rd party can place items into a space you're deeme...
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chernobyl Solar Farm Opens Adjacent to Site of Infamous Nuclear Disaster - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─We keep inventing better coatings, but we can never catch up with pigeon R&D.
[16:47:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:29] <exec> 08└─In pictures that I've seen of the partially shredded image, the shredded part outside the frame looks noticably darker than that still inside. A backlight would be a plausibe reason for the owner and auctioneer to leave it plugged in, and a charged laptop battery would be ample to run a radio transc...
[16:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's what I thought: if it had burned, Sotheby's would have sued the bejeezus out of Banksy for spreading specks of soot over their immensely valuable auction place, and endangering other valuable works of art to burn up. It was a good show, though? Even more impressive than Marcel Duchamp's...
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[16:48:49] <exec> 08└─Parent was not spam, you ignorant fucks. Go read a book.
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[17:43:28] <exec> 08└─No, the angle is that the nature and magnitude of the deviations between the predictions of GR based on visible matter mass estimates, and the actual observations, will give insight into the quantity and distribution of the Dark Matter in the lensing galaxies involved, and hopefully further clues as...
[17:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:28] <exec> 08└─2.7 trillion/7billion=$385/person Welp, I've already done my part (and more) averaged out over the last 15 years or so
[17:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:00] <exec> 08└─Whoosh That was the joke! The only thing missing was "U".
[17:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:23] <exec> 08└─A source of controversy due in part to fears for human employment, the presence of robots in our daily lives is nevertheless inevitable, engineers at the conference said. The trick to making them more palatable, they added, is to make them look and act more human so that we accept them into our live...
[17:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:46] <exec> 08└─Considering the reports of impunity we had heard for years, I have zero doubt that the Chinese government could easily find 120 high-ranking corrupt officials, and 100k people with significant skeletons in their closet. Actually innocent people getting framed ? It's hard to get that far up a dirty f...
[17:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 320 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─They realize that utilitarian values don't apply to something that isn't utilitarian in nature. The value of a tool is in how well it conforms to the owner's needs. The value of art is how well it conforms to the artist's vision. So no, the art self shredding increased it's value. A tool dropping a...
[17:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Officials Reject Idea of Blackwater Founder Privatizing the War in Afghanistan - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:40] <exec> 08└─Did no one play Army of Two? 'cause, this seems like something straight out of their story line.
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[18:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:29] <exec> 08└─We could save a lot of money by just finishing off most people with major injuries. That's both the most humane and most cost-effective thing to do.
[18:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:31] <exec> 08└─Define humane, because I'm not sure your version syncs with mine.
[18:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:33] <exec> 08└─They ain't suffering no more.
[18:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:46] <exec> 08└─You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick,...
[18:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, AI has been around for a few decades now, what's your point? So have internal combustion engines, and frankly AI is improving considerably faster. The AI isn't about parametric optimization - it's about the *techniques used* to perform that optimization. Whether it's a genetic algorithm or a ne...
[18:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:49] <exec> 08└─No, the angle is that the nature and magnitude of the deviations between the predictions of GR based on visible matter mass estimates, and the actual observations, will give insight into the quantity and distribution of the Dark Matter in the lensing galaxies involved
[18:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Fatal Biofilms Form - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:00] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't this be the specialty of dental profession? Guess dental research just doesn't go that deep (i.e., basic, fundamental research)?
[18:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What You Need to Know About the First-ever DNSSEC Root Key Rollover on October 11, 2018 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─Can we trust this centralized authority?
[18:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:51] <exec> 08└─What is going to happen if another 50 year maunder minimum hits like it looks like may have just begun? Are there any predictions by the IPCC regarding this scenario? The same thing that happened last time: the globe will continue to warm unabated.
[18:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:52] <exec> 08└─After me, the deluge. https://imgur.com [imgur.com] http://farm5.static.flickr.com [flickr.com]
[18:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not convinced that tweaking the clock and getting to tech earlier would result in a different outcome. The XXVII-century man is quite capable of understanding the concept of leveling entire cities.
[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Species-rich Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Monocultures - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:05] <exec> 08└─My wild guess would be no, to the best of my knowledge there is only a few versions of Chlorophyll, of which only 2 appear in plants.
[18:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Species-rich Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Monocultures - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:06] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they've long noticed how one seems to burn more intensely than the other. That's why they have to abandon their current plot for a new one every few years, because burning the monoculture clearly isn't working as well as burning pristine forest.
[18:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:50] <exec> 08└─Robots...or animatronics? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:51] <exec> 08└─There's really no trick to the device shown in that video. Gyro stabilization platforms were doing this 30+ years ago. Add eyes instead of a camera and put the whole thing in a head shaped box. I guess the real trick is how to get a gyro package in something that small (micromachining). See also the...
[18:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:53] <exec> 08└─Except when DMV robots get stuck in an endless loop.
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:16] <exec> 08└─What happens if it actually works, will other governments follow? I read a paper the last century or so that explained China had too much corruption to ascend to a world power. Maybe they found a way to address this...
[18:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:18] <exec> 08└─The purge has been a very harmonious move. Weakening political enemies and rooting out corruption both help Xi Jinping maintain power, since the public doesn't like corruption. I'm not sure that it is sustainable in a system where one (Xi Jinping) or a few people (before Xi Jinping consolidated powe...
[18:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chernobyl Solar Farm Opens Adjacent to Site of Infamous Nuclear Disaster - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─There are transparent superhydrophobic surface coatings available now, but they are prohibitively expensive ($10 per panel or more) or have bad abrasion and weathering properties (recoating every few months). But it is also worth noting that there are also opaque or semi-translucent superhydrophobic...
[18:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:14] <exec> 08└─Cool. I didn't have that hardware mod, but I did have a toggle switch to set the floppy disk write protection any way I wanted (on, off, or detect the notch), and a rotary pot from an old radio to control the volume. Saved a lot of bother punching notches for the reverse sides of floppies. I also us...
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[19:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:23] <exec> 08└─Is this guy a Netflix producer?
[19:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:36] <exec> 08└─So why are you still alive?
[19:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but only if /you/ go first... (of course the usual legalese applies: we reserve the right to re-evaluate after our pilot program, you have no right to sue, you basically will do as you're told)
[19:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:40] <exec> 08└─Injury prevention depends on engineering, education, economics and enforcement
[19:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:42] <exec> 08└─To put it one way, if you like Monty Python: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the socialism! Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the socialism! Help, help, I'm being repressed! If you prefer William Shakespeare: What's in a name? That which we call a death panel By any other word would...
[19:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:44] <exec> 08└─So you prefer privatized death panels where accountants with no medical training make those decisions behind a wall of corporate bureaucracy that makes sure the people who die and their loved ones never get to see the death panelists face to face?
[19:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe there should be smart phone zombie surcharge. On the other hand, perhaps there should be a natural selection discount.
[19:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:48] <exec> 08└─masochists, the lot of ye
[19:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:51] <exec> 08└─The paper has a lot of facts and figures in it. What I didn't find, is the cost of a profit motivated insurance industry. The concept of a single payer system really isn't all that bad. The concept of a government agency running the health "industry" doesn't sound all that bad, either. The implement...
[19:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:54] <exec> 08└─We can pass a bazillion poorly considered laws to chip away at that price tag percent by percent, or we can implement a single payer healthcare system and slash the bill by 75%.
[19:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:56] <exec> 08└─At my old job, they made us wear goggles while programming because (the very old director) had been around since any room with a computer was called a computer lab and you had to wear goggles whenever you were in a lab. This was a typical PC office environment and the only chemicals were in the lunc...
[19:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:58] <exec> 08└─My dog got three stitches (staples) in her leg and it cost me $700.
[19:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 4128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:14] <exec> 08└─Dark Matter was originally a "here there be dragons" fudge factor to make GR consistent with large-scale observations. As time went on, and evidence mounted that there actually *was* something there, rather than just systematic inaccuracies in the predictions of GR, opinion has moved towards it bein...
[19:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:15] <exec> 08└─Dark Matter was originally a "here there be dragons" fudge factor to make GR consistent with large-scale observations.
[19:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:17] <exec> 08└─THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOR DARK MATTER BESIDES THAT GR PREDICTS THE WRONG THING.
[19:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:20] <exec> 08└─I looked at the second one. The problem is that their idea isnt to create a better world (if it was they would be looking at nuclear power, concrete replacements, adaptability/robustness in construction etc). Their only idea is to give more money and power to people who like to tell everyone what to...
[19:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:21] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by "last time"? And warming vs not warming is a coin flip to someone who doesn't know much at all, they may as well be doing psychology research if that's all they can predict. So does unabated mean at the same rate you get if you fit a line to the last x = ? years?
[19:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Species-rich Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Monocultures - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:37] <exec> 08└─So, they are saying old growth forests store less carbon than new? Reason, old growth tends to reach a low species diversity as the competition battles are fought out. example: Redwood forests. Nearly everything is a redwood tree. They shade everything else out. That's why spotted owls in them need...
[19:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:50] <exec> 08└─I suppose having a former multimillionaire kicked to the street homeless unable to pay rent will send a message5 to everyone else.
[19:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:52] <exec> 08└─China on the other hand can credibly compete with the U.S. on the world stage, and has a bright future no matter what.
[19:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:47] <exec> 08└─I also have a few gray hairs in my beard :p.
[19:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:49] <exec> 08└─Beard was, seemingly, mandatory if you worked at computer shops that sold Apple computers (although they typically also sold kaypro and other garbage game machines). The new-fangled hipsters has not a clue.
[19:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:07] <exec> 08└─Typucal internet tough guy response. Derision to make yourself feel superior. Try not to trip on any stairs or get hit by a bad driver, cause we will totally blame you for being stupud :D
[19:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:09] <exec> 08└─Thank god no accident can ever take out your apex predator alpha genes amirite? What would the world do with one less cynical douche bag?
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[20:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:31] <exec> 08└─Plenty of people will scoff at the idea of bringing a Facebook-made smart display into their homes,
[20:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:32] <exec> 08└─Facebook announces way they're not yet spying on you. A point that is (amazingly) not that uncommon. Maybe we're making some progress here. Facebook unveils the Portal, a video chat camera for the people who still trust Facebook [washingtonpost.com] Facebook Portal Is The Last Device You'd Want Look...
[20:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:34] <exec> 08└─The correct term for these is Telescreen.
[20:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:37] <exec> 08└─Between the people on the right hating FB for being a California lefty thing, and the people on the left hating FB for being a privacy nightmare of a giant company, we might one day achieve some consensus on reining in the siphoning and exploitation of personal data.
[20:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:47] <exec> 08└─What exactly is the valuable material in used diaper? Why bother with summary if it ain't saying shit?
[20:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:49] <exec> 08└─Those scientists don't to use dirty diapers. They want other people to do it.
[20:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:51] <exec> 08└─Fater, which has been trying to recycle disposable nappies for a decade, has found the trickiest stage is at the start: opening it.
[20:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:54] <exec> 08└─When I was there several years ago, the kids did not use diapers. They went on the street ( I know, disgusting but hey if dog owners can pick it up ...)
[20:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:56] <exec> 08└─100% soft cotton diapers. Shake or scrape the payload out into the toilet, and flush. Rinse the cotton clean, then throw it into a bucket of water with bleach in it. Let the bucket fill for a day or two, then put the diapers into the clothes washer. You buy these diapers by the dozen, and the new mo...
[20:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:58] <exec> 08└─So, the valuable parts seem to be: High quality plastics for use in other plastic products Waste matter for fertilizer Cellulose for things like ethanol, polymers and fertilizers
[20:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:00] <exec> 08└─I sure hope they're not planning to extract lead, mercury, and other such metals from those diapers. Then again, if your kid likes to eat paint chips and you can't stop him, you might as well get paid for it.
[20:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:24] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about the Affordable Care Act, that wasn't single payer. Its basic design was proposed by the Heritage Foundation in the early 1990's as a capitalist alternative to Hillary Clinton's attempt at creating single payer health care in the US. Really what's needed (assuming the goal is...
[20:44:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:38] <exec> 08└─Shhh ! Be quiet ! The AI bubble is the best placement for your cash, don't deflate it too fast! It was hard enough to know when to jump off the crypto bubble, this one could last us a while if we nurse it correctly.
[20:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:46] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with that statement? All I get in response is long rambling posts that pretend to address it or trolling. Its a simple fact that some people seem incapable of grasping/believing for some reason.
[20:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:49] <exec> 08└─Bollocks. GR predicts that there's mass where the rotation curves show a lack of drop-off that wouldn't be seen in the absense of that mass. We have no evidence that that's wrong., and gravitational lensing can, and does, provide evidence that it's right.
[20:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:51] <exec> 08└─Bollocks. GR predicts that there's mass where the rotation curves show a lack of drop-off that wouldn't be seen in the absense of that mass.
[20:45:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 1365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:46] <exec> 08└─It's not that governments inherently move slowly. Governments can move very very quickly when they think there's something to be gained by doing so. The problem is that 1. There's not much money to be made in the short-term in addressing the problem. 2. There's a large short-term cost in addressing...
[20:46:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snospar [5366] 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 311 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:25] <exec> 08└─Given that the "hand", cameras and system are designed and trained to specifically deal with a Rubik's Cube, I imagine that replacing the cube with a Deck of Cards would be very disappointing. Who knows though, perhaps it would automatically start playing patience without any further programming......
[20:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:14] <exec> 08└─Who knows how much the painting is worth now. We can say the look on the buyer's face was priceless.
[20:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:27] <exec> 08└─I recall programming Apple IIe computers in LOGO in early high school. It was such a powerful experience because the language was high level and new commands you defined stayed resident in memory to build upon using newer commands. Very interactive. The one drawback was knowing when to quote a varia...
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[21:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:02] <exec> 08└─Are there still people out there who think politicians will fix this? The entire health care and insurance industries are some of the most regulated in the world. This will only add more crap that makes it more opaque and more expensive. It is at the point where if you have a $1k deductible and the...
[21:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:03] <exec> 08└─This seems like a stupid plan. So someone is going to pay either: The median in-network rate negotiated by health plans 125 percent of the average amount paid to similar providers in the same geographic area Am I the only one who can see several ways unscrupulous people are going to profit even mo...
[21:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:18] <exec> 08└─You do not exist!
[21:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:19] <exec> 08└─Not quite: Technically, those are designed to spy on you for profit. The part where they constantly make sure that you are a good citizen, and will unquestionably rat on you to the authorities, is just a side-effect. For now.
[21:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:21] <exec> 08└─Facebook unveils smart displays, promises not to snoop on your video calls
[21:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:24] <exec> 08└─There's always the aggressive approach: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[21:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:39] <exec> 08└─Cellulose for things like ethanol,
[21:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:40] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately bleach is a truly horrifying pollutant - worse even than the mountains of plastic-wrapping around the countless "bombs" produced by disposable diapers. It takes less than one drop of bleach to kill everything in a gallon of water, and most people will use a LOT more than a few drops in...
[21:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:42] <exec> 08└─I started with cotton nappies - ‘terry nappies’ we call them in the UK for some reason. Our eldest was tiny at birth, so it was too difficult, and I bought disposable nappies for him. Next one was large and healthy – but she hated the terry nappies and it was too much bloody effort in the end...
[21:45:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:02] <exec> 08└─We can pass a bazillion poorly considered laws to chip away at that price tag percent by percent, or we can implement a single payer healthcare system and slash the bill by 75%.
[21:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:06] <exec> 08└─Tulloch [wikipedia.org] spikes [gizmodo.com]
[21:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 1789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─Or... (shudders)... you could save a lot of money by reducing the price of heath care. [cnbc.com] in line with the rest of the world The real difference between the American health care system and systems abroad is pricing. Specialists, nurses and primary care doctors all earn significantly more in...
[21:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:10] <exec> 08└─With private death panels, I can shop around for one that meets my personal choice to trade cost against chance of death. Even when they say "no", I might still find some way to raise the funds. With government death panels, there is no escape unless you leave the country. The UK is notorious for bl...
[21:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:13] <exec> 08└─Did you think of teh impact on the w health of the donors ? I, for one, am glad that Congress always thinks of the donors.
[21:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:15] <exec> 08└─My cat died and it cost me $900.
[21:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:17] <exec> 08└─You need to find a new vet.
[21:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:42] <exec> 08└─Nothing's wrong with the statement itself - the entire concept of Dark Matter is that it only (obviously) interacts via gravity, so the only possible evidence for it is that GR's predictions are innaccurate without it. The problem is that GR makes several *different*, unrelated, predictions that fai...
[21:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:43] <exec> 08└─Lensing is predicted by Newtonian gravity, but it predicts less than is seen even around our tiny sun, and MOND doesn't fix that. In fact, at galactic scales it gets even worse, since the amount of lensing seen is far in excess of even what's predicted by GR with just visible matter. Lensing is impo...
[21:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:45] <exec> 08└─Electric Universe? It's real alright. I have observed it directly that time I grabbed a live wire. The Electric Universe hurts.
[21:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Fatal Biofilms Form - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:59] <exec> 08└─Dental research is focused on how to maximally extract money from patient's wallets, not how to reduce dental disease. If you could take a piil to do away with plaque, dentists would become about as useful to society as Gender Study PhDs.
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What You Need to Know About the First-ever DNSSEC Root Key Rollover on October 11, 2018 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:12] <exec> 08└─...why aren't we using a blockchain system to provide provable encryption trails for each domain?
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:57] <exec> 08└─I don't think it would significantly change the outcome either. The timeline would almost certainly be very different, but the basic progression to some kind of industrial revolution and nuclear age seems quite likely. Nor do you need nukes to raze a city, as history can attest many times over proba...
[21:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─That's the only way you're going to stop global warming.
[21:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─The best part for the IPCC is that we won't be able to prove them wrong afterwards, if we follow their advice.
[21:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagine What This One-Handed, Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot Could Do With a Deck of Cards - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:38] <exec> 08└─"I'm listening. Folks love the vibrate. The women -- and a lot of the men. So I said, do my Presidential Alerts on MAXIMUM VIBRATE. We did that one last week, as everybody knows. And we'll be doing some more. Enjoy!" They sure did! Here are some people enjoying presidential alerts [youtube.com]. Enj...
[21:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increasingly Human-Like Robots Spark Fascination and Fear - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:08] <exec> 08└─How about Lubing station?
[21:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Attempts Historic West Coast Landing Tonight -- Successful! [Updated] - 2084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:31] <exec> 08└─There actually are some very big differences. Like you probably know the way you get things into orbit is not by going vertically high, but by going horizontally fast. So fast you keep falling, but miss the surface. The ISS for instance is constantly falling to Earth but as it's moving 27,600 km/hou...
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[22:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:05] <exec> 08└─You like socialism. There are many countries where you can enjoy this. You are not prohibited from leaving the USA to seek the worker's paradise of your dreams. I don't like socialism, anarchy, Islamic theocracy, or communism. There is only one country for me. I'm stuck here fighting to preserve wha...
[22:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:06] <exec> 08└─Why do you claim they have less right to to choose the direction of their supposedly democratic homeland than you do?
[22:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:09] <exec> 08└─You have drunk the kool-aid. Keep pretending the awful health system you're stuck with is the "best", or that you have a "choice" nobody is buying it though. [internationalinsurance.com] FYI, I don't live in the US, and never have. I have visited however. Can I extend an invitation for you to visi...
[22:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 1840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:11] <exec> 08└─Posted rate is posted rate like anything else you buy. If the can on the self is marked $.50 but the computer says a dollar then the rate is $.50 period. Save here. Single payer gets rid of all the crap of which insurance is has wahat special rate. Ins company become price brokers, insuring coast a...
[22:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:13] <exec> 08└─Bipartisan plan for health care? I can't help but think that this was at least partially negotiated as part of the Kavanaugh confirmation.
[22:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:15] <exec> 08└─More than heavily-regulated, these industries are poorly-regulated. I think it's fine to heavily regulate an industry as long as it is warranted and the regulations are in the best interest of the population. Instead, I think these two industries regulations are riddled with weird loop-holes, money-...
[22:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:17] <exec> 08└─You never know, it might open your eyes.
[22:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 2287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:19] <exec> 08└─So now the insurance companies' conspiracy will dictate the maximum amount a hospital can receive for ER care. That'll work. Yep. It won't give "the ER physician" jack shit in terms of negotiating anything. But since the tail was already wagging the dog so hard it can't walk might as well allow it t...
[22:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:22] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it would be any worse. Currently you get billed one of: The in-network rate, to be paid by your insurer, if your insurer's network includes the provider A completely outrageous rate, quite likely many times that amount, to be paid by you, if you don't have insurance, or a...
[22:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:24] <exec> 08└─we have socialized medicament TODAY. You nit. VA is socialized medicine Military is socialized medicine. Medicare us socialized medicine ... There quacks in there just is in real life. So do not bang your frying pans to make noise. With single payer for example means "single" rate everywhere. There...
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:58] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrycloth [wikipedia.org] "Items that may be made from terrycloth include babies' reusable nappies (UK English) or diapers (US English) ..."
[22:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─"If you work at the university, for the first six months of their lives, we'll provide your infants free child care, including free diapers and changing." "Free? What's the catch?" "We both know you're too sleep-deprived to care or argue about the reasons why we're doing this. It's a government gran...
[22:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:01] <exec> 08└─Because the most rampant breeders among us are driven to spend the extra effort involved in cotton nappies, right?
[22:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:04] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine got a picture of a Chinese kid in Tiananmen Square taking a dump with Mao's giant portrait in the background. Sadly, he tried to get the roll developed in Beijing and the shop scratched out the negative.
[22:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─Must be in charge of all of Hollywood too.
[22:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough to remember when seat belts were made compulsory in the UK. Most people did not wear seatbelts at the time, even when they had them in their cars. When the new law was being discussed, there was a lot of opposition to it - lots of people objected to it on principle, a few claimed that...
[22:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:37] <exec> 08└─I was on vacation and it was the only emergency room vet in town.
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:39] <exec> 08└─My father-in-law took his cat to an "emergency room" vet on the weekend. They asked obscene amounts of money to help him. He said no thanks. They called animal control on him. He did go to a different vet, but definitely never going to that one again.
[22:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:41] <exec> 08└─The insurance industry's net margin in 2017 ranged between 3 and 10.5%. health insurance had the narrowest range of 4% to 5.25%. 1.853-1.853/1.0525=$93billion https://www.investopedia.com [investopedia.com]
[22:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:10] <exec> 08└─the entire concept of Dark Matter is that it only (obviously) interacts via gravity, so the only possible evidence for it is that GR's predictions are innaccurate without it.
[22:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─This post picks up where the other left off, and trys to somehow take problems with MOND as successes for GR. Nobody who studies MOND thinks they have the correct answer. It is only "dark matter proponents" who make claims like that. This entire line of argument (MOND vs GR) is a non-sequitur strawm...
[22:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:29] <exec> 08└─I'm curious: why wouldn't "sterilize all humans" stop global warming?
[22:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Fukishima was terrible. Forget the 12,143 people that died in the tsunami, and another 5000+ that died in the earthquake, and the thousands that died in makeshift shelters post the earthquake. 1 person (one) died in the 50 year old nuclear plant which failed, lets concentrate on that.
[22:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:33] <exec> 08└─Wow, quite a rant, none of which seems to be relevant to my post to which you replied, but ok. I'll try to respond. Though the lamestream media makes its living whipping up fear and hysteria about anything and everything, you're a fool to disparage and dismiss the warnings about climate change. Clim...
[22:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:35] <exec> 08└─Because the climate is constantly changing, humans may influence the speed at which it happens, or the direction it temporarily tends towards, but the earth is a dynamic and chaotic system, and it never stays fixed in place. Humans have an obsession with "fixing" things so they don't change. Hence s...
[22:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:37] <exec> 08└─You raise a good point. OP forgot Mexicans.
[22:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Head of Interpol Disappears, Resigns While Under Investigation by China - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:11] <exec> 08└─Their first act, which was noticed and reported on was to issue an order preventing her from leaving the country. The second, which was also noticed, was to place her "under control". It's amazing what a person will do after a visit to room 101. Give up their fortune without a fight or lawyers for e...
[22:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Banksy Painting Sold for $1.4 Million, Gets Shredded Within Frame - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:02] <exec> 08└─And the first sale doctrine? Or comparison to deeds of sale that stipulate if the house if ever sold to a negro ownership reverts to the original owner?
[22:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06'Desperate' North Korea Turns to Bank Hacking Sprees to Rake in Much-Needed Dosh - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:45] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking this currently 3-post thread is the same guy from the top down. There's certain type of personality that gets stuck on a joke, and can repeat it for extremely extended periods of time. Ever watch some niggers arguing and they repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and ove...
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[23:44:36] <exec> 08└─Based on observation of confused bees that have been attracted to my flashlight at night, it leads me to wonder how many bees waste their resources in pursuit of artificial light.
[23:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mycelia (Fungi) Extracts Can Reduce Viruses in Honey Bees - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:37] <exec> 08└─The same amount in people that pursue dark matter?
[23:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mycelia (Fungi) Extracts Can Reduce Viruses in Honey Bees - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:40] <exec> 08└─My 2nd favorite Trek engineer...! Just bought his guide to psilocybin mushrooms. (Hasn't arrived yet tho) Of course, I would never break the law and actually consume any I find, especially since several very poisonous species are only distinguishable from similar psilocybe species by the color of th...
[23:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mycelia (Fungi) Extracts Can Reduce Viruses in Honey Bees - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:42] <exec> 08└─It's legal to order psilocybin spores in the US. Safer too.
[23:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:02] <exec> 08└─If there is even a hint of #CrookedHillary in this ObamaCare II proposal, the President will veto it. Just wait a while and he will come up with a better plan, greatest plan ever to solve ER billing. And you can bet that it will piss off the dems when he fixes yet another problem.
[23:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:04] <exec> 08└─Where does this idea that the US is supposed to be a democracy come from? Just because people vote doesnt make it a democracy. In the US the constitution is supposed to trump the will of the people (but there are mechanisms to amend the constitution if enough people want it to happen): Government: F...
[23:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:06] <exec> 08└─A completely outrageous rate, quite likely many times that amount, to be paid by you, if you don't have insurance
[23:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:08] <exec> 08└─What is an example of something that is heavily, but not poorly regulated, in the US?
[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:10] <exec> 08└─That has never been my experience. And shopping around isn't an option if they won't tell you the price beforehand.
[23:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:12] <exec> 08└─Well it has been mine. I actually discovered it on accident then found out people already knew about this "trick". If you have a choice, always say you don't have health insurance first.
[23:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:31] <exec> 08└─we might one day achieve some consensus on reining in the siphoning and exploitation of personal data.
[23:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces a Smart Voice-Controlled Display - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:32] <exec> 08└─Don't forget those of us on the left who hate Facebook for its role in suppressing independent, left-wing, anti-war news sources! Actually... is there anybody Failbook hasn't pissed off yet?
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:58] <exec> 08└─There's gold in them there nappies.
[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─And the best way to neutralize bleach? Throw in some organic matter in and let that oxidant potential do the job. I don't know, like... use some reusable freshly soiled cotton diapers? After 1 day, assuming sodium hypochlorite at start, you'll end in having a weak solution of table salt with water s...
[23:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:01] <exec> 08└─Those chores will be left to grad students to perform. Like taking the rectal temperature of hibernating bears was left to grad students.
[23:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Want to Use Dirty Nappies as a Source of Raw Materials - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:04] <exec> 08└─The disposable ones just need to have the true cost of disposing of them assessed up front. The 'welfare mom' you were just sneering at won't be able to afford them, and their babies will be happier in soft natural cloth. Why could be better? Unless you're in the business of producing or disposing o...
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Annual Price Tag for Non-Fatal Injuries in the US Tops $1.8 Trillion - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:39] <exec> 08└─I did consider the health and wealth of the taxpayers. All of whom will no doubt enjoy the benefits of a 75% reduction in healthcare costs at some point in their lives. That includes employers that offer health insurance as a benefit. Are you suggesting that they wouldn't enjoy a 75% reduction in th...
[23:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive—Here's How - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:09] <exec> 08└─The point is, GR has an apparent answer, even if it's an unsatisfying "fudge factor" without non-gravitational confirmation. (though it's perfectly possible that even if Dark Matter really exists, that it will truly be so non-interactive with normal matter as to be undetectable by any means except g...
[23:47:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06What You Need to Know About the First-ever DNSSEC Root Key Rollover on October 11, 2018 - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:37] <exec> 08└─...why aren't we using a blockchain system to provide provable encryption trails for each domain?
[23:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What You Need to Know About the First-ever DNSSEC Root Key Rollover on October 11, 2018 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:38] <exec> 08└─DNS has worked just fine for decades... so why on earth do they think it needs to be rewritten in Ruby on Rails?
[23:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPCC Warns of Climate Change Consequences, Calls for $2.4 Trillion Annual Investment in Renewables - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:35] <exec> 08└─"Old houses, in addition to their simpler (and cheaper) construction and low maintenance costs, give you the freedom to modify it to your hearts content. You can paint the walls, punch holes in them, install air-con, and open the damn windows. [...] Round my area, 200-300 year old Victorian houses a...
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