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[00:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:51] <exec> 08└─and let's give him more by writing about him by name.
[00:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:52] <exec> 08└─How far is "fame" going to get him in prison?
[00:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:24] <exec> 08└─I have faith that even conservatives will eventually be domesticated and, finally, civilized. The "conservatism" that is found among the youth, people 18-25 or thereabouts, is scarcely even recognizable as conservatism when compared to the Boomer and Gen-X paroxysm of impotent nativist rage we've se...
[00:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:25] <exec> 08└─Found the trumptard.
[00:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, we export oil? Umm... we invaded for.. um.. the PATRIARCHY! Anyway, as much as I like the idea of nuclear powered cars, forcing their development without a demand for them, is a setup for failure. The market will naturally push development of alternatives when oil scarcity begins. It's not like...
[00:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:30] <exec> 08└─If we ever get socialized medicine, perhaps you will get the meds you need free of charge; I know that Milennials are The Brokest Generation.
[00:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:32] <exec> 08└─Western civilization existed for hundreds of years with the death penalty, with psychopathic leaders, with kids dying by the thousands through parental choices and long before Darwin existed.
[00:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:34] <exec> 08└─Rank and file Saudis are pretty rank and revolting, even with basic income.
[00:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:36] <exec> 08└─America has been subsidizing oil production forever - how about we take some of that back now and reduce the general fund taxes?
[00:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:47] <exec> 08└─The gouging won't stop until you vote for politicians that will make it illegal, with real prison sentences for the bosses instead of these 'slap on the wrist' fines that are written off as business expenses.
[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─Why the hell are we letting them do that?? Common carrier, dumb pipe, that should be the rule. Anything else is bullshit. We can make our own firewalls.
[00:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:12] <exec> 08└─I'm going repurpose the word use.
[00:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:14] <exec> 08└─When all websites aren't written to spec, just trial and errored to work with the most popular browser, this is bound to happen. This might solve browser sniffing issue, but I have a feeling this will continue down that road anyway. Don't have chromium version .11 just .10? Oh you're just gonna get...
[00:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:16] <exec> 08└─I once spent well over an hour trying to figure out what had become of my Status Bar as well as how to re-enable it. Eventually I somehow managed to clue in to that FF had auto-updated itself despite that every single time I install it, I specifically disable auto-updates. I always update manually b...
[00:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:18] <exec> 08└─Because there are far too many Open Source projects, and far too _few_ eyeballs. For every browser to have the very same rendering engine will ultimately result in the Sicilian Mafia, the Russian Mob, the Chinese Tong, the Japanese Yakuza or the Occasional Nigerian Sole Proprietor 0wnz0r1ng every la...
[00:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:23] <exec> 08└─You can put the crypto-genie back in the bottle: by taking computers away from the masses. Kinda like putting the music piracy genie back in the bottle: by taking tape recorders away from the masses. I do like the fact that Mickey Mouse will FINALLY be going off copyright, because the political clim...
[00:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:44] <exec> 08└─There isn't a lot of research on stevia, but there's no clear evidence that it doesn't do stuff like this. In fact, here's a study [nih.gov] that suggests stevia acts like other artificial sweeteners, in that people who consumed it made up the calories they "saved" by eating more later. It's a preli...
[00:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:46] <exec> 08└─I don't care for the metallic aftertaste. This is what you taste if you eat the leaf. The processed powders (one brand, anyway) gets around this by adding a lot of ANOTHER fake sweetener to the mix!
[00:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:48] <exec> 08└─Here is that brand of processed Stevia augmented with another fake sweetener: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I donated the jar to the office kitchenette because it was making me feel queasy. Maybe somebody else would be unaffected. Or maybe they will just throw...
[00:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:06] <exec> 08└─So.... what? You're saying they're Republicans Americans?
[00:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:05] <exec> 08└─The old adage was like: use French for lovers, German for soldiers, Italian for friends, English for ducks.
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[01:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:47] <exec> 08└─And while we're at it, let's mandate nationwide homeschooling to prevent school shootings.
[01:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:48] <exec> 08└─Guys like this don't want the notoriety. In fact, their freedom and prosperity depend on going unidentified. I don't think it hurts to show that clowns like him get jail time, and that he is facing extradition to the US.
[01:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe he'll get to share a cell with Elizabeth Holmes!
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─https://a2zhomeschooling.com/teens/act_test_results_homeschoolers/ [a2zhomeschooling.com]
[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─Were they actually, or is this just the slander typically applied to such scum? I didn't read the article, but entertaining themselves/impressing their friends/boosting their egos seem like far more likely motivations given just this summary.
[01:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:57] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that this is from Brian Krebs. His own attention-seeking attitude generally projects onto the subjects of his ire.
[01:34:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:22] <exec> 08└─Civilized people are not social darwinists. Civilized people don't let kids die of some disease because their parents made poor choices in life. Civilized people don't support the death penalty. Civilized people don't freely, willingly and knowingly choose mentally unstable, narcissitic, child-moles...
[01:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energy-choices/renewable-energy/solar-power-technologies-and-policies.html [ucsusa.org] http://energy.mit.edu [mit.edu]
[01:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:38] <exec> 08└─The problem with your argument is technology. 10 years ago we couldn't frack our way out of a paper bag. Now fracking has turned us into the #1 exporter. What your talking about is basically market timing. You have a huge infusion of stuff. Stuff may or may not be worthless in x years. Closer you ge...
[01:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:40] <exec> 08└─How much is that subsidy?
[01:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:43] <exec> 08└─Ideally, the people of 100-1,000+ years from now will not be using much oil (outside of small, niche uses not comparable to today's consumption numbers). If they are using oil, it better be because of a post-apocalypse scenario. Perhaps it would be better for humanity if it was sent back to the Dark...
[01:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:45] <exec> 08└─16 degrees? I assume you mean Fahrenheit not Celcius. Even at the worst extrapolated climate sensitivity of CO2 (4.5 C per doubling), that's four times present CO2 levels. If instead, we use the more likely 2 C per doubling, it turns out to be 4.5 doublings (crudely extrapolates to about 45 times th...
[01:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:47] <exec> 08└─Oil reserves are not wasted. Saving them for 1000 years or more is not wasting them, it's not even noticeable in the larger geological timeframe they have been accumulating.
[01:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:00] <exec> 08└─Face it, their position is whomever paid them the most. They don't get tech. They often don't use tech. They are typically immune to the shocks their decisions engender. When not immune it's because it works in their favor, which they knew ahead of time.
[01:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:25] <exec> 08└─It's the honey they eat, not the bee poison. If they weren't being stung by bees all the damn time they'd be Nazi supermen.
[01:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:26] <exec> 08└─Take your meds, MDC.
[01:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:29] <exec> 08└─Didn't you mistype eat with drink?
[01:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:31] <exec> 08└─Salty Spice! How are you? We've missed you and your predictably ineffective exclamations. Try to dig up some new material, will you mate? It's getting a bit mundane.
[01:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:08] <exec> 08└─Warka tower (makes me think of the Wonkatania [youtu.be], is very cool for making potable water in a place where bamboo is readily available... Unfortunately, there's not much bamboo in the desert, and the polyester thread method probably doesn't work in lower relative humidity conditions.
[01:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:29] <exec> 08└─Put in an arrest warrant so that the Canucks will be forced to arrest the execs.
[01:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:29] <exec> 08└─I really doubt that, because that is something that cuts both ways. If China started locking up Americans in China just because, then the US could do that, too. The children of most of China's elites are going to college and grad school in America (elsewhere in the world, too, but america is the mos...
[01:43:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe keep the speculation in the workshop.
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[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:56] <exec> 08└─Of course. Let's just go from one extreme to the other extreme.
[02:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─What's the matter, can't stand the heat in the kitchen?
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─I've heard Petersonites (friends included) state that "girls are interested in people, and boys are interested in objects" which is supposed to explain the gender gap in STEM and so on. I'm glad that real science is debunking this trash over and over. It's beyond ridiculous that we can't debunk more...
[02:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:01] <exec> 08└─Petersonites
[02:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:04] <exec> 08└─Let's just go from one extreme to the other extreme.
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:06] <exec> 08└─It's not just them, but in my experience they're the ones most explicit about it. Regular ol' classic sexism is implicit about it. "Oh you're a woman? Let me take care of that." With that being some task which said woman is completely qualified for. I'm starting to call these Petersonites, Dawkinite...
[02:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:49] <exec> 08└─You troll, then get modded "Troll", and then troll for being modded "Troll"? That's just like posting something insightful, getting modded insightful, and then posting an insightful follow-up. Well, there's one tiny difference, but I'm sure the subtlety isn't lost on you.
[02:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Repurpose Wasp Venom as an Antibiotic Drug - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:50] <exec> 08└─We'd be satisfied if someday you used the word repurpose.
[02:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:36] <exec> 08└─My family has been on a strict ketogenic diet for 2.5 years now. When we started it I bought a blood glucose monitor that could also handle strips for testing ketosis, so that my wife and I could closely track how our bodies were handling it. Initially stevia was a big part of the transition, so I h...
[02:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:38] <exec> 08└─After a week you don't notice the aftertaste anymore. Sugar becomes the substance that weirds you out.
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[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─You just need a few small tweaks [smbc-comics.com] to target your audience properly.
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:03] <exec> 08└─For any that want to question the data or analysis, the researchers have made it available: All data, code, and models that were used to generate results text, figures, and tables in the main text and supplementary information are available to download from dedicated repositories on the Open Science
[03:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:05] <exec> 08└─It's probably a good thing the people doing this study don't work for Google. They might be out of a job.
[03:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:07] <exec> 08└─Actually there is quite a bit of well done research that supports this conclusion as being true. At the least, for very young children. Whether or not this applies to adults is quite a different question. However, a study of academic grades fails to control for gender based grading bias, so this stu...
[03:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:10] <exec> 08└─This study says that women choose to go into fields where they don't have to compete with high competing boys. That does not preclude the possibility that "girls are interested in people and boys are interested in objects".
[03:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:12] <exec> 08└─Let people choose what they want to study. You are going to have sex differences in what they prefer. Adjust your theory if theory repeatedly fails to match reality...
[03:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03xvan [2416] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:14] <exec> 08└─How does this debunk anything? It was worsens it. That stem requires higher IQ than most other careers (except philosophy, if I remember right) , and that there are more high IQ males than females is an elephant in the room that nobody wants to address. This is just a paper confirming the obvious. T...
[03:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:16] <exec> 08└─A good engineer will get hired because of their qualifications not what's between their legs.
[03:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─They're not going from one extreme to the other. They're attempting the old bait and switch with your attention. That girls have higher scores in STEM "on average" and with less variability says nothing to disprove that men still largely hold the extremes of the curve. It in fact reinforces it if yo...
[03:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:21] <exec> 08└─It's not being debunked. Their study reinforced it as I noted above [soylentnews.org].
[03:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:37] <exec> 08└─You'd think he was advertising fictitious job openings.
[03:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:38] <exec> 08└─Wait for the book rights, documentary rights, maybe even a movie in 2035. He should have gotten 3 years PER count. His choice to call 1700+ schools and airlines... _his_ choice.
[03:34:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:52] <exec> 08└─isn't the US just racing to deplete its resources
[03:35:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 1096 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:10] <exec> 08└─I have faith that even conservatives will eventually be domesticated and, finally, civilized. The "conservatism" that is found among the youth, people 18-25 or thereabouts, is scarcely even recognizable as conservatism when compared to the Boomer and Gen-X paroxysm of impotent nativist rage we've se...
[03:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:25] <exec> 08└─Good argument. People also lived for without a Constitution just fine for thousands of years. Time to scrap that garbage.
[03:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:27] <exec> 08└─I agree that the future of oil is niche, extremely small as compared to the last 50-100 years. I disagree about batteries - almost as bad IMO, I do hope they (in their current form, at least) are even shorter lived than the internal combustion engine.
[03:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:29] <exec> 08└─Someone with a high time preference is focused substantially on their well-being in the present and the immediate future relative to the average person, while someone with low time preference places more emphasis than average on their well-being in the further future.
[03:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:31] <exec> 08└─I disagree about batteries - almost as bad IMO, I do hope they (in their current form, at least) are even shorter lived than the internal combustion engine.
[03:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:33] <exec> 08└─waging even more wars to get the last of the oil elsewhere cheaply.
[03:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:44] <exec> 08└─I vote for politicians who are for cleaning up Wall Street corruption. Trouble is, there are very few who pledge to do that. The Democratic candidate is often just a Republican-lite, business friendly and pro-abortion, while the Republican is a complete whackjob who wants to roll back the clock to t...
[03:38:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:42] <exec> 08└─Prohibition was a failure, just like the "War on Drugs". Prohibition of cannabis was always driven by racism. The drug of choice for whites was traditionally alcohol, which is probably more dangerous than cannabis. Finally, the ridiculous laws against marijuana are going away. Those tax revenues are...
[03:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:08] <exec> 08└─Prohibition in the USA did not create laws in the... entire rest of the world about alcohol. Kids used to drink beer because it was safer than drinking the water. Regardless, saving "the kids" is about 23rd on the list of relevant arguments for/against prohibition. Top 2 are: No. 1 reason: it takes...
[03:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:09] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Here in LA, I can go to the store from 8am to 10pm any day of the week and buy a known quantity of CBD and THC. If I want to see how they affect me, I can find out myself using known doses at a time I choose and in a manner I feel comfortable with. Sure beats doing "buckets" as a kid and God...
[03:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:11] <exec> 08└─Cannabis prohibition did start out as racial, those Mexicans used it, just like cocaine was black people and opium was oriental. When it really took off was when it threatened Hearst s new pulp paper industry as a machine had been invented to separate the fiber cheaply and hemp made better cheap pap...
[03:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:14] <exec> 08└─The ones that actually drop with pot use like the tobacco caused ones. One thing about legalization is perhaps we'll get some honest studies done.
[03:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:16] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the Canadian banks are involved with the Canadian producers that everyone is investing in.
[03:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:23] <exec> 08└─Now Canada one of the deep-state agencies is urinating in the punch bowl?
[03:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:25] <exec> 08└─You do realise that while Canada isn't a nuclear power, it's the only country in the world that *was* and *gave up* nuclear weapons? You also realise that we literally keep all components on hand, and can build working nuclear weapons in 24 hours, yes?
[03:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:28] <exec> 08└─Yet, we don't arrest important Americans who have violated human rights, helped take part in genocide and are guilty of war crimes, especially the ones who are still called Mr President. The opposite happens as well, like illegally extraditing Marc Emery to the States. In his case, his crime was wor...
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[04:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 0622 Apps With 2 Million+ Google Play Downloads Had a Malicious Backdoor - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:04] <exec> 08└─Any time you get a phone that's part of the Android ecosystem, you're always getting " apps that start and run even after users force-close them, " except that you can't even mess with them, because they are part of the Jewgle ecosystem.
[04:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:31] <exec> 08└─It's based on grades? I don't know. I can't be bothered to read it, but that seems just absolutely filled with pitfalls and unidentified biases. Less variability in grades outside STEM ... yeah, I mean I think that's obvious. Language study, classics, and maybe things like archeology might have some...
[04:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:40] <exec> 08└─Nah, there are plenty of oils produced as byproducts of agriculture that could serve a new purpose. It's not like we're going to cut back on raising food any time soon. If all else fails, there's always mandatory liposuction for the obese. Better health and raw materials with one stone!
[04:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:41] <exec> 08└─voter-fraud; a statistically insignificant crime which has never changed the outcome of an election the USA.
[04:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 2119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:44] <exec> 08└─"At present production levels, it'll be over a thousand years before we get to the point where outdoors CO2 poisoning" A thousand years in relation to the evolution of our species, is not a long time. But it doesn't really matter. You don't have to suffocate mankind, just the fish. Which is what hap...
[04:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:53] <exec> 08└─"Death Valley has way more (because it is hotter)." Show me the numbers. Your "it's hotter" claim ignores hundreds of other factors which affects water density of the air.
[04:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:06] <exec> 08└─Besides fluorinated drinking water and toothpaste, the only experience of industrial use of fluorine I have is in semiconductor manufacturing. In the poly furnaces (doped and undoped), ClF3 was used to etch the quartz and remove the byproducts. We could tell which zone in the furnace was being etche...
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[05:37:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 5346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:00] <exec> 08└─Bis(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)ether looks like this: CF3-CH2-O-CH2-CF3 There are so many possible battery chemistries, with so many subtle variations, that it seems almost certain we'll eventually discover something good enough to make the electric car really viable. I've been learning what it's like to...
[05:37:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 1986 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:02] <exec> 08└─The difference between a car company making a "compliance car" that meets their obligations under governmental regulation ("1% of your vehicle sales must be zero emission cars"), and a car company who believes that EVs are the future and are a critical item for reducing our impact on the environment...
[05:37:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:47] <exec> 08└─You don't need the _support_ of a large portion of the population, only enough _fear_ to keep them in line.
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[06:34:59] <exec> 08└─The US already did. It's just a piece of paper. Western civilization has been around hundreds of years before the US existed.
[06:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:00] <exec> 08└─Civilized people don't eat on the street. Civilized people don't talk on the phone while eating.
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[07:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Privacy Risks of Compiling Mobility Data - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:46] <exec> 08└─Merging different types of location-stamped data can make it easier to discern users’ identities, even when the data is anonymized.
[07:34:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:17] <exec> 08└─They're not going from one extreme to the other. They're attempting the old bait and switch with your attention. That girls have higher scores in STEM "on average" and with less variability says nothing to disprove that men still largely hold the extremes of the curve. It in fact reinforces it if yo...
[07:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:21] <exec> 08└─Even if you can stand the heat in the kitchen, it's not a guarantee that kitchen is your place [youtu.be].
[07:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:42] <exec> 08└─Yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre is a great way to get attention. It also has consequences if it isn't true, especially if done repeatedly. There seem to be many people these days, all across the world, that have severe difficulty with things like facts and truth.
[07:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:41] <exec> 08└─"Trumptard" Wow, the stupid is strong with this one.
[07:37:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 794 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:11] <exec> 08└─Even if users or developers wanted to use them. Standardizing on WebExtensions gave Google more control of the web too. So did taking Google's Money, then squandering it on Pocket, and social justice issues, instead of on a serious push to regression test and bugfix Gecko and later Quantum in an eff...
[07:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:30] <exec> 08└─I still haven't managed to get chrome to show http in the urlbar. Is it REALLY that hard or bad to include an option to show the protocol? A few times now I've been staring at a blank page in Chrome wondering wtf is wrong only to realize that it is a http page
[07:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:19] <exec> 08└─1. If you burn fewer calories than you digest, you'll gain weight. It's the law. 2. If you have a calorie deficit of 500 calories per day, you'll lose around a pound per week. 3. In other words, to lose weight, eat less and move more. 4. It takes about a mile of running (or walking) to burn 100 extr...
[07:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:41] <exec> 08└─You assume ignorance, merely because Canada doesn't act the way you wish. Yet it is not ignorance, but purposeful intent. You do not keep your democracy, by allowing it to be undermined when you feel stress. In fact, it is *easy* to do the right, the correct, the proper thing when you are not pressu...
[07:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:43] <exec> 08└─The true mark of a democratic and non-elitist society is that you aren't above the law.
[07:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:45] <exec> 08└─Well, the breakup of the Soviet Union did change things a bit, true. My statement was true at one time, and might be considered true with alterations. But the point is -- we didn't truly give them up. We have the parts in storage, they are maintained, we have all of the resources to reassemble them,...
[07:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:47] <exec> 08└─While I won't argue that we have the knowledge and skill to build them, I've never heard that we actually built any or have the parts in storage. After WWII, the Americans screwed all their partners, including Canada and it probably took a while before we had the materials and as I said, about 10 ye...
[07:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:49] <exec> 08└─You're not discussing the same thing. We're talking extradition via treaty. We're talking about arrest. This happens both ways, all the time. Yet you're discussing whether or not there is sufficient evidence that a Canadian court might lay charges, and further -- if anyone has compiled, vetted, and...
[07:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:51] <exec> 08└─Great! You've identified an area where (primarily Americans) should do better. After all, Canadian banks weren't directly involved. You're also confusing "compiling evidence and creating an arrest warrant" with "following through with that arrest once evidence is presented" and "extraditing". These...
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[08:34:16] <exec> 08└─The whole surveillance capitalism business model that today is the model of corporations on the internet needs to die. Say NO! to Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon for starters. Do not blindly run JavaScript or accept web bugs on your browser. (uMatrix extension)
[08:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:44] <exec> 08└─He is not a strong nord woman, dammit!
[08:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:46] <exec> 08└─There was a study that showed that women are 200% preferred over men during resume shortlisting, on same credentials, in STEM. Of course, that doesn't help a lot of men get laid by claiming alpha status of being a feminist, nor it helps bring moolah to gender bigotsstudies. Also, let us nor forget,...
[08:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:48] <exec> 08└─You name it, then you wonder if it has reached the status of naming, then you shame it. Then you call yourself liberal.
[08:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:50] <exec> 08└─Women and men self-segregate in the lunch room. Well, the same fucking thing is going to happen in the... uh... STEM room. Given that most of the best STEM leaders will be male (according to this and other data), you're going to end up with STEM fields dominated by men and most women avoiding them.
[08:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:52] <exec> 08└─Goddamnit. You can't just silence people who are expressing a perfectly rational, discussion-worthy point. FIX THE MODERATION SYSTEM.
[08:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:54] <exec> 08└─While you're right about the bait and switch in the other comment, this study actually isn't even addressing the OP's point about what draws students to a given field. It's purely concerned with the distribution of grades within various fields, one of which happens to be STEM [1] and doesn't even to...
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[08:34:56] <exec> 08└─This shift in practice is why the debates on this topic are so heated.
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[08:36:18] <exec> 08└─Well sure, it's a tautology...
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[08:40:52] <exec> 08└─Of course fake sweeteners lower your cavity risk!
[08:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chronic Low-Calorie Sweetener Use and Risk of Abdominal Obesity among Older Adults: A Cohort Study - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:54] <exec> 08└─Energy drinks probably can. It's carbonation that's part of the problem. Carbonation makes things taste like crap. The only way to really combat it is to sweeten the drink to cancel it out. This is why Coke/Pepsi are famous, they were one of the first to make a carbonated drink that actually doesn't...
[08:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:23] <exec> 08└─What the banksters did was illegal in US (misrepresentation of the risk for those derivatives) Nothing happened to them in their own country, you want me to accept as realistic the probability they would be extradited? And no, Americans don't have monopoly in preferential dealings with 'elite corrup...
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[08:42:25] <exec> 08└─You're not even paying attention to what I'm saying. Your contention is that there was evidence, and that state prosecutors / federal prosecutors / various others *ignored* that evidence... and said "Our buddies will go free!". Mine is that there was not sufficient evidence, because those involved w...
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[09:33:30] <exec> 08└─This, as so many other AI-based technologies, can cut two ways. The examples given seem quite benign, but what is hidden below? Tracing gunshots in a city where there ideally should be none: Great! Improving X-ray scanning for medical purposes: Yay! Warning about pollution: Absolutely! They all look...
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[09:33:40] <exec> 08└─The ugly truth is that most people do not care, not even if the possible implications are pointed out to them or spelled out in 10-foot-high letters. This gives the Have-Big-Data-s even more leverage over the Have-No-Big-Data-s, leading to an increase in the economic disparity of our society. The re...
[09:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 0622 Apps With 2 Million+ Google Play Downloads Had a Malicious Backdoor - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:53] <exec> 08└─Or are people really that stupid?
[09:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:31] <exec> 08└─but but we MUST have gender equality! How else can we get at least 50% of positions occupied by females?
[09:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:52] <exec> 08└─What's the controversy? No one is claiming that we're pumping oil out of dinosaur-shaped holes in the ground. The best theory about the fuel's origin is that it was produced by the microorganisms that are invariably found in source rock. Yes, microbes left behind fossils, and they can be easily iden...
[09:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:54] <exec> 08└─But that is years away. The only thing that matters is next quarter's results. With an oil well in Texas the size of mine, In 3 years time, I'll be richer than Croesus. -- Scrooge McDuck
[09:37:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:05] <exec> 08└─Dear web developer, please choke to death on your own golden brown dick. - signed every user that hates pointless animations.
[09:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:46] <exec> 08└─Just because chinese is the most spoken language by population today does not mean we will all be speaking it in two generations time. Unless china wins the next world war which frankly is looking likely.
[09:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:48] <exec> 08└─Brave?
[09:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:35] <exec> 08└─they may last longer be slimmer -- up to eight times longer slimmer -- than batteries in use today
[09:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:04] <exec> 08└─Losing that master key is only one way in which this weakens encryption. The fact that a second key exists to decrypt the message into the same original content creates a huge attack surface to find that second key. I don't know enough cryptography to tell how easy it is. But you have one or even mu...
[09:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:52] <exec> 08└─Scented holiday candles: cancer Burning your toast: cancer Campfire: cancer Grilling some burgers: cancer Tobacco: cancer Pot: somehow not cancer??? Really?????
[09:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:19] <exec> 08└─Modded troll for blaming Canada? How'd they get mod points?
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[10:33:52] <exec> 08└─Why should they? After all, its not like they live in a state like Russia, or Saudi. They live in a democracy.
[10:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:37] <exec> 08└─> So much of the rest is pure indoctrination into woo bullshit I think calling STEM "indoctrination and woo bullshit" won't get you very far. Mod -1 flamebait.
[10:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:39] <exec> 08└─-1 Troll mod! FTFY! I just love the smell of social engineering in the morning! It smells like, semen.
[10:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:41] <exec> 08└─I think our unpleasant craflo was referring to the non-rigorous extra-STEM stuff, like grammar and spelling, which seem to be sadly lacking here at SN. Oh, and History, and English. You know, the "woo-woo" stuff, outside of model trains.
[10:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:43] <exec> 08└─Actually what happens in the STEM room is that the girls take a step back, lower themselves and generally do worse. In grade 10, at a public school mind, two classes of the several in grade 10 were split into boys and girls. For science. No really. Literally for science based classes. That first day...
[10:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:46] <exec> 08└─"Landmark study", really? It's not exactly news that girls do better then boys in school if one looks at grades -- across more or less every single subject. That is quite literally old news. That is even acknowledged in the study. “We already knew that girls routinely outperform boys at school, an...
[10:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:48] <exec> 08└─They didn't. They excepted STEM, then excepted a few other fields, then referred to the rest (you even quoted the word) as the "indoctrination and woo bullshit". The rest, in this context, would be subjects where the students output is pretty much entirely subjective and non-testable, e.g. the arts,...
[10:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:50] <exec> 08└─The GGP is ambiguous. That's not how I read it, although it is probably what was intended.
[10:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:52] <exec> 08└─Women actively avoid any interest or occupation that draws large numbers of unattractive, immature, socially awkward, powerless men into their orbit. They prefer their predators to be competent, ambitious, exciting and worth being afraid of (as opposed to just being a shoe-scraper nuisance) so they...
[10:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:11] <exec> 08└─Plugins can block canvas. And browser audio recording. And browser fingerprinting. And seriously wtf how did we get here :(
[10:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns That Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:13] <exec> 08└─What is the Brave web browser? It’s a web browser in the traditional sense of the term. It allows you to surf the web, explore sites, and do all the general internet stuff you can do in other browsers. It’s open source and built on top of the Chromium web browser that Google’s own Chrome is ba...
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[11:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:44] <exec> 08└─TI's rep to the Smart Cities Initiative Standards Committee ask me to offer coding for their Smart Cities IoT hardware As much as I hate on IoT, I have a lot of respect for this fine fellow, especially his commitment to security. He made plain that he wants to put a stop to the historically unpreced...
[11:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:46] <exec> 08└─Didn't AI used to be a narrower term? Now every automated statistical or image processing system is called AI.
[11:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Privacy Risks of Compiling Mobility Data - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:58] <exec> 08└─Of course. I should realise that people do not mind being taken advantage of as long they are free to choose their own vices leaders. My bad!
[11:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Privacy Risks of Compiling Mobility Data - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:59] <exec> 08└─Before WWII, it was usual to have ethnicity and religion marked on one's papers and registered in the public registry. The information was not seen as "bad" or "dangerous" at the time. What do you think the "bad guys" did with that information? The fact that something is not a problem now, does not...
[11:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Privacy Risks of Compiling Mobility Data - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:02] <exec> 08└─Privacy is overrated. Rather than trying to keep our movements a big secret, so that others can't take advantage, would be better to outlaw the nefarious uses of conclusions others might try to make. For instance, visits to doctors and drugstores shouldn't lead to a person being faced with higher he...
[11:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 0622 Apps With 2 Million+ Google Play Downloads Had a Malicious Backdoor - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:15] <exec> 08└─My first thought exactly. If some vanity app asks me to read/write my contacts, read/write pictures, connect to Internet etc. then it is not vanity app.
[11:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:00] <exec> 08└─A good engineer will get hired because of their qualifications not what's between their legs.
[11:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:01] <exec> 08└─Women avoid STEM because of guys like the one who wrote the above.
[11:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:03] <exec> 08└─It's probably a good thing the people doing this study don't work for Google. They might be out of a job.
[11:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:05] <exec> 08└─Let people choose what they want to study. You are going to have sex
[11:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs boys in STEM and non-STEM - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:07] <exec> 08└─No, women avoid STEM way before they ever have any idea by whom its workforce is populated. Most of them just don't like it and you're going to run up against that fact no matter how badly you want equal gender representation. There's not a damned thing you can do about it except make the men as unh...
[11:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:33] <exec> 08└─> Now fracking has turned us into the #1 exporter. No. Now US is almost export/import neutral.
[11:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:16] <exec> 08└─Imagine not having to charge your phone or laptop for weeks.
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[12:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:11] <exec> 08└─This is just the popping of the soying bubble, wouldnt be surprised if this negative press was somehow funded by shorters.
[12:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:12] <exec> 08└─That a woman who got in simply by her pussy card, wouldn't know how to run a company and causes said company to implode.
[12:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:15] <exec> 08└─This is hilarious. So they created a massive spying apparatus and now they are afraid of it or to use it, clearly they know something they don't want their users to know. Gotta love the paranoia.
[12:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:25] <exec> 08└─A new concept in panopticon. What could go wrong.
[12:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:28] <exec> 08└─The examples given seem quite benign, but what is hidden below?
[12:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you vote for the current wall street and hollywood status quo then. If you want to "clean up Wall Street" you need to support Ron Paul and projects like IEX, not keep trying to find a DNC member to vote for.
[12:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:00] <exec> 08└─> Having multiple Web browsers that ALL RENDER IDENTICALLY is exactly what we need. Let's say that amazon, netflix and google collude to require *in the browser* in order to watch their streams. If you want to support users who want to watch netflix or amazon, your browser must support . If there ar...
[12:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:15] <exec> 08└─pencil and paper is all that's needed for crypto. With what we know now, many pre-industrial age mathematicians would be able to make workable systems. Remember, our ancestors were every bit as inventive as we are. They just didn't have TV....;-)
[12:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:23] <exec> 08└─Mine is that there was not sufficient evidence, because those involved were good at covering their tracks.
[12:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Warns that 'Extremely Tiny' Visitors Could Have Been Too Small for Us to Spot - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:03] <exec> 08└─Tiny aliens visited us in 1966. Here [inducks.org] is the full account.
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[13:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:06] <exec> 08└─librarians and funders in China have said that they intend to make the results of publicly funded research free to read immediately on publication
[13:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:08] <exec> 08└─librarians and funders in China have said that they intend to make the results of publicly funded research free to read immediately on publication
[13:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:10] <exec> 08└─It doesn't do anything to diminish the evil's of their abominable government, but nor do their atrocities diminish this good.
[13:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:21] <exec> 08└─Gotta love it when someone uses a quote or a meme without any understanding of the context and actually ends up sending the opposite message to those that do. One does not simply walk into Mordor either, yet a couple of Hobbits did just that and it all seemed to work out pretty well by the end of th...
[13:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:33] <exec> 08└─the linky text should have spelled "hidden layers of neurons" - I managed to screw it up.
[13:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, pretty bad with that term now. It's almost meaningless. I use it for anything that makes decisions and takes action regarding it's own input data. Most of these things called AI are not AI.
[13:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:37] <exec> 08└─Is that Mr Tuttle or Mr Buttle. What could possibly go wrong? (In case you dont get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org(1985_film)#Plot [wikipedia.org] )
[13:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Privacy Risks of Compiling Mobility Data - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:51] <exec> 08└─You're right, privacy is overrated. There are no privacy problems if you do not abuse the data you have, which means there must be rules for what you can do with it. But, and this is really the crux of the matter, if data is collected the information can (and very probably will) be abused (rules or...
[13:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 1717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:52] <exec> 08└─OK, so what the study confirms is that: (i) Girls on average get better grades than boys. (ii) Boys grades exhibit greater variability from the boys average than girls variability from the girls average. (iii) The difference between the average grade results is smaller in STEM subjects than non-STEM...
[13:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:53] <exec> 08└─there are female incels - they are called feminist.
[13:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, all those females who'll be achieving gender parity with males as sewage workers, garbage collectors and street sweepers.
[13:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:58] <exec> 08└─Women and men self-segregate in the lunch room.
[13:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:00] <exec> 08└─#metoo (large grin. A sorta nostalgic one)
[13:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:02] <exec> 08└─Did I say anything about hiring because of what's between their legs? Why no, I didn't. Nor did I imply it. Rather the reverse. I will now leave you to continue to play with your straw (wo)man. -- Knock softly, but firmly. I like soft, firm knockers.
[13:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:23] <exec> 08└─Just because it is a consequence of their actions doesn't mean it was the goal. Indeed if they attempted to remain anonymous it would seem they were trying to avoid attention. Careful of the horns effect.
[13:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SixGunMojo [509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:41] <exec> 08└─TBH I woundn't blame Ting for that one. When I was on Sprint, text messages would frequently be delayed often to the point where it was just easier to call esp. if it was work related. It once caused a serious dust-up with a girl I was seeing. Every once in a while I'd start a game of phone tag in t...
[13:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:42] <exec> 08└─The gouging won't stop until you vote for politicians that will make it illegal
[13:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:08] <exec> 08└─They built cars with big enough batteries that almost everyone could wake up every morning with a full "tank", do all their commuting and errands for the day and pull into the garage at night with a comfortable reserve left.
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[14:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─Distrust Facebook; assume they can track you unless you go significantly out of your way to prevent it; assume they will abuse that power for political reasons; be afraid of Facebook.
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─The smug from Facebook has grown to critical levels. If the smug emanating from Oscar acceptance speeches combines with it [wikipedia.org], people could die.
[14:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:58] <exec> 08└─It's Facebook itself that is Sauron, not Zuckerberg. It is the all seeing eye and the source of all evil.
[14:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0622 Apps With 2 Million+ Google Play Downloads Had a Malicious Backdoor - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:40] <exec> 08└─I'm happy to have websites paid for with ads, provided they're unobtrusive. It's obtrusive ads and nonconsenual tracking which is the real problem. I second uMatrix though, it's fucking brilliant. It's substantially better than just noscript.
[14:35:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03exaeta [6957] 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 461 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:03] <exec> 08└─Actually there is quite a bit of well done research that supports this conclusion as being true. At the least, for very young children. Whether or not this applies to adults is quite a different question. However, a study of academic grades fails to control for gender based grading bias, so this stu...
[14:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:39] <exec> 08└─It cannot be that non STEM subjects have totally Subjective grading.... Please GTFO with your feminist nonsense.
[14:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:08] <exec> 08└─Why is this hyperbole nonsense deemed Insightful? Is this the Green Site? Also look into Alfie Evans to see how your "Civilized" idea of a country treats sick children.
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[14:37:09] <exec> 08└─Plenty of poor people will remain poor no matter how much money you give them. I'm on my way to have someone evicted who bounced a check after signing a judgement of posession that hinged on her paying rent on time to avoid eviction. At the same time she had a diamond ring and Iphone 10 in the court...
[14:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:38] <exec> 08└─Since they were probably the ones who planted them.
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[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─Hint: scientific papers usually report new findings, using NEW terminology. Now please try to repeat what you said...
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:32] <exec> 08└─Personally, I believe all scientific results should be made freely available to the public. I am doing my best to do this with my own work. However. In this particular case, please recognize that China has nothing to lose and everything to gain if big publishers go out of business. They are currentl...
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:05] <exec> 08└─the linky text should have spelled "hidden layers of neurons" - I managed to screw it up.
[15:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand: Today the "intelligence" in "artificial intelligence" has the same meaning as the "intelligence" in "Central Intelligence Agency".
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─Just put the AI on the no-fly list, then you should be safe.
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah and the boys that do well in STEM in high school go to STEM fields for university and work. Whereas the boys that don't, don't. Similarly it doesn't matter whether or not there's a big difference between the average white/black/man/woman in how fast they run 100 meters. The 100 meter race and r...
[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:35] <exec> 08└─Way to reinforce negative nerd stereotypes! You can only be sexually attractive if you're a brain-dead sales guy, MBA or a violent thug, amirite? Naturally disciplines that require a lot of time doing mental and written work may have a greater number of individuals that became physically unfit or so...
[15:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:37] <exec> 08└─I could use some heat in the kitchen. It's been really cold recently!
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:06] <exec> 08└─where's my Basic Income like the OPEC countries pay
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─Politicians don't need to worry about Climate Change, or the National Debt, or the Environment, or Biological Diversity or other such problems. They will have raked in lobbyist money, and will be out of office raking in even more money for having ever been in office.
[15:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─A thousand years in relation to the evolution of our species, is not a long time.
[15:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134073/chromium-microsoft-browser-chrome-extensions-xbox-one [theverge.com] Microsoft's browser will support Google Chrome extensions.
[15:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:07] <exec> 08└─While monoculture *is* bad, MS was never capable of actually writing the damn browser well. Things took forever to land and always had weird issues and limitations. They had their moments, but overall IE and its rebranded “fork”'s death is welcomed. Not that it makes Chrome-likes any better, but...
[15:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─It also probably does not average it over the year. Sure, its fucking cold in New York City in December, but it is also 100 degrees in July.
[15:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:58] <exec> 08└─There are so many possible battery chemistries, with so many subtle variations, that it seems almost certain we'll eventually discover something good enough to make the electric car really viable.
[15:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:28] <exec> 08└─Not secure enough? Really? It was done with Lotus Notes: https://www.cryptologie.net [cryptologie.net] You can do the similar thing - encrypt X bits (not all) of the session/message key using the Gov's public key. Or a variat...
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[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─Ghosn saved Nissan from bankruptcy, but he also replaced the culture with modern European business theory. Among other things, the official language at Nissan was changed to a language foreign to Japan and France, English. I would not be surprised if the powerful and connected took great offense at...
[16:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:19] <exec> 08└─how much money someone makes is none of the governments fucking business. if i had $88 million the tax agency wouldn't even exist.
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─librarians and funders in China have said that they intend to make the results of publicly funded research free to read immediately on publication
[16:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:47] <exec> 08└─Karma's a beeeeeeeeeeeeeeyitch...
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score: 1) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0 [youtube.com] Requires: Self-Aware Machines Cost: 500 Effects: Halves maintenance costs for facilities. If your Police rating allows use of police, counts as an extra police unit in every base.
[16:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─And, you will see the same effect in non-STEM subjects, but the crossover point to where the sex-ratio skews male is the top 2% of grades.
[16:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 6479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─Historically women were dominant in STEM. I'm not joking. Going back to the late 19th and early 20th century, you have women like Emmy Noether and Marie Curie, who made incredible contributions but they were the exception not the rule. In fact most women in STEM during those days were in large pools...
[16:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:43] <exec> 08└─I'm looking at graph (c) on Figure 3 [nature.com], which is clearly labelled.
[16:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:13] <exec> 08└─Nowhere in this thesis is there value assigned to persons not yet born, nor the value of ecosystems which are fundamental to the survival of all people. If that is not viewed as fundamentally flawed, then the future is doomed.
[16:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─You gotta make the effort before you start the bitching. Almost 95% still vote for things just the way they are. Continued denial of the obvious will get you nowhere.
[16:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:21] <exec> 08└─There was a study (Australian?) that showed tobacco smokers who also smoked pot had less cancers then tobacco smokers who didn't smoke pot. I can't find it right now. As I said, we need more honest studies, not studies that are financed by the American government on the condition they find something...
[16:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arrest of Huawei Executive Causing Discontent Among Chinese Elites - 1451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:43] <exec> 08└─You're really good at taking words, and twisting them -- but a logical argument that does not make. Simply because I defined what I believe, does not mean there are not inadequacies to be addressed. Yes, I defined a true mark of a democratic and non-elitist society. However, you're claiming a failur...
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[17:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:05] <exec> 08└─Dat or Inrupt? Are they compatible?
[17:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:07] <exec> 08└─A decentralized network will never work, people tend to centralize. All new decentralized projects have failed (diaspora, Jabber...) to replace centralized ones. But more important, decentralized ones have joint into giant centralized monsters. email, a decentralized born protocol, has become gmail...
[17:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:18] <exec> 08└─Famous last words
[17:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─we can all figure that out. i don't care what their motivations are. all tax payer funded study results should be public, by law.
[17:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:36] <exec> 08└─I didn't say it was altruistic, I said it was good.
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─If they stick to the plan, China will definitely become the most scientifically powerful country. And they were already headed in that direction. But there will be lots of temptations to curtail it. Also, as pointed out above, it will give a strong boost to those who can read Mandarin. Even if there...
[17:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but Sauron wasn't the "all seeing eye". He just controlled it. It was the palantir that originally came from Minas Ithel. Sauruman was doing the same thing, but hadn't gotten as far, and was suffering mind control from Sauron. Everybody else who had access was either afraid to use it or was d...
[17:34:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] 02 - 06The Privacy Risks of Compiling Mobility Data - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─The ugly truth is that most people do not care, not even if the possible implications are pointed out to them or spelled out in 10-foot-high letters. This gives the Have-Big-Data-s even more leverage over the Have-No-Big-Data-s, leading to an increase in the economic disparity of our society. The re...
[17:34:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06The Privacy Risks of Compiling Mobility Data - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─Before WWII, it was usual to have ethnicity and religion marked on one's papers and registered in the public registry. The information was not seen as "bad" or "dangerous" at the time. What do you think the "bad guys" did with that information? The fact that something is not a problem now, does not...
[17:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0622 Apps With 2 Million+ Google Play Downloads Had a Malicious Backdoor - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:41] <exec> 08└─they use the default OS image from their scumbag carrier, (with google play) and install closed source apps...
[17:35:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:22] <exec> 08└─"Landmark study", really? It's not exactly news that girls do better then boys in school if one looks at grades -- across more or less every single subject. That is quite literally old news. That is even acknowledged in the study. “We already knew that girls routinely outperform boys at school, an...
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[17:35:45] <exec> 08└─As someone who speaks Spanish, I will say that your statement: """ Originally a computer wasn't a device. It was a job and it was a job filled primarily by women. Go back to WW2, the vast majority of code breakers were women as was the job of calculating ballistics and trajectories. It was so common...
[17:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 2461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not understanding the articles logic. Some of these statements don't match the data from the study but seem to me to be logically flawed on top of that. Pulling contextual differences out. However, what was most surprising was that both of these group differences were far larger in A subjects. I...
[17:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─What is the Spanish word for computer? Are you saying the suffix "dora" does not imply female? Or are you saying there was a typo somewhere that you were unable to parse?
[17:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:51] <exec> 08└─yes, it's complete nonsense. girls are doing better in school than boys, period. at least in the US. everyone in this country even half way paying attention knows that. boys are training for prison. girls are being groomed to be used by the slave/nanny state as Overseers. to use grades as the $whate...
[17:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:53] <exec> 08└─That is right and It is because girls mature faster than boys, and that has long been known as a factor in education circles. As an aside it is evident that many "boys" never grow up mentally at all (present company excepted LoL!) : obvious examples being Elon Musk and Fred Dibner (the UK guys will...
[17:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:22] <exec> 08└─Then why is my gas price going up and still tied to opec?
[17:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─hi please provide a link to an SMS text based firewall for my feature phone that isn't smart; I can't install software on it. but i use the sms texts for alerting and such for family, friends, and work, since its simple, easy to use, and nearly instant in most cases. sms works so well that it was ve...
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─ting is wonderful (if you don't use the slave networks enough to justify an unlimited plan with the normal carriers) and if the op has problems with the sprint service, ting now has at&t too. i use my own voip and xmpp servers most of the time so my bill is ~$14 a month.
[17:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─If you don't have it already, you can demand the ability to block unwanted/unknown calls/messages from your carrier. Unfortunately a lot of you have to demand that, enough to make it a business issue. If you get a really big crowd to do it, you can vote it into law. Happy hunting...
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─"The Telecom Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) already requires senders to get permission from a receiver before sending an automated text. " that's funny. all i get is text spam...that i'm probably being charged for which makes it theft. i guess the pigs are too busy stealing from working people to do...
[17:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:34] <exec> 08└─I demand granularly detailed configuration options that also remember my preferences! all this stuff about personalized advertising and yet whatever I care about gets spat right back at me as if the service provider doesn't really care what I think.
[17:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─...therefore preventing the horrors that were thrust upon us...
[17:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:55] <exec> 08└─...and no government database has ever been leaked either, right? https://digitalguardian.com [digitalguardian.com] Let's see...in the past five years, just based on a a top-ten list, that's around 215 million keys leaked from government datab...
[17:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Key Cryptography is Back… Again – Why Government Back Doors Don’t Work - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:56] <exec> 08└─It's not exactly the same, precisely because you don't ever need to reassemble the keys. The first party can decrypt using the first key, then pass the partially decrypted data to the second party who completes decryption using the second key. Nobody ever needs both keys together. Not even in RAM so...
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[18:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:59] <exec> 08└─If your game is based on the number of hours somebody plays, then it sucks. If it's based on the skill of the player improving as he plays, then boosting isn't a problem.
[18:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:01] <exec> 08└─The great wealth generated by Western models of civilization has funded the rise of old-world Authoritarians. We are slowly but surely returning to a very dark time in societal organization.
[18:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:03] <exec> 08└─Next is your wifi. They're trying (and succeeding?) to prohibit sharing of anything. Don't let 'em do it!
[18:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:05] <exec> 08└─Boy, am I glad I don't live in South Korea. Sometimes my little nephew plays Candy Crush on my phone and he is a monster on that game. I guess I'd have to turn him in if the Game Police ever came knocking on my door asking why I play so much better on Saturday mornings.
[18:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:07] <exec> 08└─Human society evolves in cycles and we just keep praying that we make it through enough iterations that we reach a more stable point. The problem is that every new human starts with zero knowledge, and everything they learn and experience is a part of whatever society they are born into. The tyranny...
[18:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:09] <exec> 08└─It's not just for level grinding. You can also grind someone's rank by playing and winning matches for them. I recall that some popular YouTubers have been accused of having someone else play for them.
[18:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:20] <exec> 08└─people tend to centralize. They need something to blame, outside themselves, when things go wrong.
[18:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:22] <exec> 08└─The reason such surveillance is so lucrative is that it's being sold to government agencies; it's being done at the behest of government agencies; it's being paid for with other peoples resources, resources which have been stolen from folks at the point of a gun. Nobody else really cares about such...
[18:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:24] <exec> 08└─In contrast, bad centralization is imposition. They key is to ensure that the underlying, decentralized system or protocol remains viable as a refuge for when the centralization goes bad. Alas, email has not remained viable, because nobody has ever updated it to handle spam—nobody ever implemented...
[18:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─We, people, tend to copy one each other, particularly about thing we are not experts.
[18:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is not that decentralization has failed, but rather the problem is that the email protocols have been abandoned and essentially do not exist anymore. Like Soylent Green and everything else, the problem is people! People! Some things do need to be "centralized" (standardized), like weight...
[18:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:31] <exec> 08└─it's being paid for with other peoples resources, resources which have been stolen from folks at the point of a gun.
[18:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:33] <exec> 08└─Basically people need to become and stay more self motivated, and not wait for everything to be spoon fed. Abundance is spoiling us, making us bored, lazy and complacent, quick to believe anything flashed on the screen.
[18:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:36] <exec> 08└─damn liberals and their elitist surveillance profiteering! "people tend to centralize." They need something to blame, outside themselves, when things go wrong.
[18:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:38] <exec> 08└─The reason such surveillance is so lucrative is that it's being sold to government agencies... Capitalism...
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:49] <exec> 08└─Ghosn pushed the Nissan Leaf very hard, which its buyers have been quite happy with. Tesla has gotten most of the limelight in pushing the conversion to electric cars, but Nissan's Leaf has been an important component of the argument that EVs can work for the everyman since long before Tesla brought...
[18:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─No, but if your execs are at risk of arbitrary detention, you may want to get rid of your Japanese subsidiary quickly.
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:52] <exec> 08└─"Oh no, we might get caught if we keep doing something illegal! Let's commit suicide!"
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─> assume they will abuse that power for political reasons No. I just assume that they will abuse that power to make as much money as possible, with little regards for ethics. Nobody has ever successfully challenged that assumption. At this point, the spam mail I get from FB indicates they think I'm...
[18:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:29] <exec> 08└─Spanish grammar lesson time... According to the DRAE, the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy which is the authoritative dictionary in Spain and highly influential elsewhere, the Spanish word for computer is "ordenador". This translates to: something that orders (organizes or sorts) things. Note...
[18:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:30] <exec> 08└─I think I may be misinterpreting what the graphs I was looking at are supposed to indicate. Although, reading the text more thoroughly isn't helping me a whole lot either. I must be one of those below average boys. The one you're looking at are more detailed at least and match what you were saying....
[18:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:32] <exec> 08└─"while the number of girls who never grow up mentally ... well I cannot think of any examples off hand" You don't date, do you?
[18:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:34] <exec> 08└─Some more examples... Three different Spanish words for breast, as in boob: seno (MASCULINE) mama (FEMININE) teta (FEMININE, vulgar "tit") Different words for penis: pene (MASCULINE) verga (FEMININE, very vulgar) pinga (FEMININE...
[18:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:37] <exec> 08└─Women cluster around average intelligence, as proved again by this study and others before it. Well, no wonder they excel at boring, school, busy work. That's the domain of average folk. The boys, on the other hand, while largely average, have 2 other not-insignificant groups: The dumbells and the g...
[18:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 3019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:39] <exec> 08└─Apologies, I don't know about received pronunciation from Spain. I do know that Latin America speaks a completely different version of Spanish. I assume though it's like RP English, only people over there speak it and it's a minimal spoken dialect just as RP is minimally spoken dialect of English be...
[18:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Bomb Threat Hoaxer, DDoS Boss Gets 3 Years in Prison - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:02] <exec> 08└─He should have gotten 3 years PER count. His choice to call 1700+ schools and airlines... _his_ choice. I don't get this idea of adding sentences serially - certainly once you get beyond 50 years or so, it is meaningless. The point of restricting someone's freedom is not only punishment: it should a...
[18:37:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, America "forgot" to nationalize its oil.
[18:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:15] <exec> 08└─The problem with your argument is technology. 10 years ago we couldn't frack our way out of a paper bag. Now fracking has turned us into the #1 exporter.
[18:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:17] <exec> 08└─Worth noting that pretty much any hydrocarbon chain you care to name can be created starting with syngas as the base building block (ie, methane). The cost gets pretty obscene the longer and more exotic the chain you're trying to make, but it can be done. When the oil is gone, we'll pay that cost or...
[18:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:19] <exec> 08└─If it's a one-time thing, carving is more efficient than liposuction. If you want to make it a permanent resource, we need to invent an implantable faucet system to simplify logistics.
[18:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:21] <exec> 08└─there's no point to making things worse now so that we can have a worse future as well
[18:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:23] <exec> 08└─Moving from Lithium to Fluorine doesn't seem like a great step on the "nasty to handle" scale, and if I infer correctly, a Lithium-Fluorine battery would be even better - energy density wise.
[18:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:25] <exec> 08└─Because the people controlling oil flows like money. Because oil is a highly fungible commodity with a world-wide market. Because your asshole neighbor drives a V8 60 miles a day just because they are cool.
[18:40:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:14] <exec> 08└─...so let me throw out a few reminders from the time IE was king.
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[19:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:56] <exec> 08└─You're saying exactly the same thing as your parent, only with a lot more verbiage.
[19:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:58] <exec> 08└─You seem to be using several words whose meanings you don't understand. For starters, "civilization" doesn't care one whit about "tyranny". You apparently confuse civilization with culture, then confuse both with government.
[19:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:00] <exec> 08└─If you buy anything from me, then sharing that thing is stealing. I have the right to say who can use and how any product I produce is used. At least that's what the new corporate overlords want.
[19:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:02] <exec> 08└─While it may sound crazy, it's not terribly surprising, if you know that South Korea is really big into "E-Sports." "In 2015 it was estimated by SuperData Research that the global esports industry generated revenue of around US$748.8 million that year. Asia is the leading esports market with over $3...
[19:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:04] <exec> 08└─Never has something so inconsequential generated so much Sturm and Drang to the bedazzlement of so many for so long.
[19:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:07] <exec> 08└─No I am not, the OP is trying to say Western nations are great and it is their greatness that has allowed 3rd world countries to become tyrannical. It is closer to the reverse, the Western nations worked very hard to prevent freedom from developing in many nations in order to get governments that we...
[19:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:09] <exec> 08└─You are merely expanding on what he said, there was no disagreement until you pointed at him and said he had a small penis*. *paraphrasing
[19:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:11] <exec> 08└─I can think of two: religion and sports (you know the physical ones)
[19:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:13] <exec> 08└─> If you pay me in Bitcoin, I will post comments for you using your SN login. Funny, most of those e-mails I get promise to post stuff if I *don't* give them Bitcoin.
[19:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:16] <exec> 08└─Civilization contains culture and government. I never said civilization cares about anything, I said it was the only safeguard we have against tyranny but that doesn't mean a civilization can't become tyrannical. I am not confusing anything, you just seem to be grasping at straws to discredit my sta...
[19:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:18] <exec> 08└─No I am not. I am entirely disagreeing with the viewpoint that Western wealth has created old-world tyrannies. I find that statement to be quite ignorant and contains a bias of superiority. "The West" should be looking to solve its own problems with tyranny before creating scapegoats that let us pre...
[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:36] <exec> 08└─The answer is convenience... And dat too! The convenience of passing blame... It's all part of the same show. You don't have to get all stressed out over it. "Liberals" and "conservatives" have nothing to do with the prices of rice here.
[19:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:38] <exec> 08└─Consider that we're now trying to get rid of that lump of metal in Paris that is used to define the Kilogram. If you can define weights and measures in terms of fundamental aspects of the Universe, then you free humanity from relying on a central authority; anyone, anywhere, can create and calibrate...
[19:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:40] <exec> 08└─And he's now building a second/third HQ near the Pentagon. Google recently had a huge public kerfuffle with its employees because it came to light that they were working for the military on a project. This stuff has nothing to do with advertising or capitalism.
[19:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:42] <exec> 08└─Capitalism permits only voluntary trade; therefore, capitalism precludes governmental allocations of resources (i.e., paying for things with money stolen from people against their will via "taxation"). You cannot just include government as part of a capitalistic organization of society; it breaks th...
[19:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:45] <exec> 08└─We voluntarily voted for the government we have. The market has spoken.
[19:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─The government fabricates votes out of thin air and then hands them out equally both to the fool and to the scholar. And, politicians buy votes with other people's money, against other people's will. It has nothing to do with capitalism.
[19:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─I prefer the traditional definition of AI: Anything a computer can't do right now. 'Cause as soon as a computer is able to solve a problem it magically becomes NOT AI!
[19:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:54] <exec> 08└─BEEP BOOP. ERROR: Pollution approaching dangerous levels. Considering possibilities... current trend suggests pollution thresholds will be exceeded in foreseeable future. CAUSES: Most likely causes can be reduced to overuse of automobiles, poor environmental controls on housing, and general resource...
[19:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─No problem. I spend a reasonable amount of time reading this sort of stuff, and I don't always get it right. If you want to get better at extracting the information from a scientific paper (and sometimes the papers are so bad there isn't any, it is all just smoke-and-mirrors misuse of statistics), t...
[19:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:38] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, The Mighty Buzztard resonating with the incels. Down with women! Equality for anyone else is a persecution of white males everywhere!!! If you dislike that characterization maybe don't be such a reeeeeeetard and say shit like "There's not a damned thing you can do about it except make the me...
[19:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:40] <exec> 08└─> Adjust your theory if theory repeatedly fails to match reality... As demonstrated by the support the Sokal 2.0 papers received, now it's about attempting to adjust reality if it fails to match your theory.
[19:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─You completely dismiss my post because the facts therein destroy your pet linguistic theory? Um, OK. Continue being proudly ignorant.
[19:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:20] <exec> 08└─*Fluoride [soylentnews.org] It's just one of many contenders. If it's not safe to crash an electric car filled with fluoride-ion batteries, or carry around a phone or laptop with it, then it probably won't be used, or will be restricted to certain applications. Although it would be fun if we realize...
[19:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:22] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't see my argument in that list. But maybe it's right next to the fallacy of argument from dead people, "But, what do you care? You'll be dead."
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[20:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:50] <exec> 08└─I have found God. He sends his love. Yours Truly, V'ger
[20:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:17] <exec> 08└─Ah. Your point is a straw man. The OP never said the West is the best; the OP merely said that the Western models for civilization generate a lot of wealth, and this wealth is now funding the rise of ancient authoritarianism. So, the West figured out how to generate wealth (namely, capitalism), but...
[20:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:19] <exec> 08└─Western nations are great and it is their greatness that has allowed 3rd world countries to become tyrannical.
[20:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:21] <exec> 08└─Indeed, anarchists (i.e., capitalists) are of the mind that Civilization requires the removal of government (where "government" is the name of any organization that allocates resources by coercion rather than agreement in advance). In short, they say "You can have rulers or rules, but not both." Thi...
[20:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:23] <exec> 08└─I feel like I should mention gaming is a bit different in South Korea. Registering an account with a persistent game like an MMO usually involves registering their equivalent of a Social Security Number. It's partly because of laws they have that require underage players take breaks. Part of the rea...
[20:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:25] <exec> 08└─If you pay me in beer, I'll post comments for you under takyon's user name.
[20:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:28] <exec> 08└─Unless you can win money in a competition by paying someone to do it for you, what exactly is the point of 1) having someone play for you and 2) for that person to play for you instead of for themselves ? Yes, it's a rhetorical question. People are pretty dumb. > If you pay me in Bitcoin, I will pos...
[20:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:30] <exec> 08└─You tricked him into saying "no I am not" repeatedly. He's GONE!! Wonder where he went, though. To hell? To Mexico? Back to his daddy's skid-marked shorts?
[20:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, he paid someone to make about 12,200 of those comments. He's just trying to get the contracts, himself, so that he can sub them out to his contractor.
[20:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:34] <exec> 08└─Hyuck! Vienna sausage fest!
[20:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:36] <exec> 08└─Agreed. by takyon (881)
[20:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:39] <exec> 08└─Well, he should sub it to you. Runaway1956 : 12588 comments You should both move to Korea and get rich. Are you guys the all-time SN highest comment generators, after Anonymous Coward ?
[20:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:41] <exec> 08└─Then maybe we should start divesting ourselves of things and activities controlled by corporate overlords, and do for ourselves.
[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─Wrong again, the government has the full consent of the governed. Nobody can claim ignorance any more. Those innocent days are gone. Resistance is too feeble to notice.
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:08] <exec> 08└─No one uses facebook because it is convenient to pass blame. That is not a part of the decision making process when anyone signs up. Are you confusing people blaming FB for privacy violations with motivation to use their service??
[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─You cannot just include government as part of a capitalistic organization of society; it breaks the conditions.
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:12] <exec> 08└─You people are such jerks!
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─Let's get that dictionary: LOLROFLLMOAWTFBBQ ! (did I do it right?) The US government has just allowed surveillance to move all the way to the edge. Your giant ISP can now spy on you at will, block you from using VPNs, MITM your encryption, and ISP alternates are being roadblocked. That's not all in...
[20:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─Stability in society is definitely related to consent among individuals. You would be wise to look for ways of organizing society around measurable consent rather decreed "consent".
[20:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:19] <exec> 08└─The election results are as measurable as it gets. And that would include the people who choose not to vote. What are you looking for exactly?
[20:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:21] <exec> 08└─If by full consent you mean a 20% approval rating.
[20:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:23] <exec> 08└─Your axiom is that there are certain services which require one, violently imposed monopoly; well, I dispute that claim as being magical. Indeed, at the level of the nation state, it is competition among the various "service providers" which has so far kept our planet free of global tyranny. a gove...
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are some people that choose a closed source program over open source precisely to have somebody to blame when support is insufficient. Can't say if it's true for Facebook, but it does help Microsoft's sales figures. Submissive people look for (central) leaders for many reasons. Passing bl...
[20:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:28] <exec> 08└─That's why corporations love working as government contractors; it gives them access to that gun-backed cash grab. Otherwise, they have to convince people to trade.
[20:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:18] <exec> 08└─They weren't restricted from meeting force with force. They were restricted from using force to compel the Men and Elves to take actions. Essentially they couldn't turn themselves into warlords. They were sent to be advisors for the Men and Elves to counter the more warlike influences from Mordor. (...
[20:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:20] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is in this camp too don't forget. They'll both sell your soul (and theirs) to line their pockets.
[20:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:22] <exec> 08└─Alphabet, Academi, Ze, Altria, DOD, Coke. Worked for these fine organizations, should work for Facebook? May I humbly suggest: "Masktome" or "GuyFawkesIndex" ? Perhaps "PersonaLibris" or "AliasBiblio"? "AngstAnon"? "The Resistance" seems popular these days. How about "CalicoPalantir"? Might require...
[20:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Privacy Risks of Compiling Mobility Data - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:58] <exec> 08└─The never-ending saga of a difference of degree leading to a difference of kind. Walking on a public street, anybody can notice you; nobody cared if a policeman directing traffic at each intersection noticed you, because all of those different policemen could never identify all people and then cross...
[20:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:30] <exec> 08└─Fucking Nazis!
[20:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─Infems? Makes sense. Wasn't the name of John Hammond's corporation in "Jurassic Park" InGen? And they were all female dinosaurs, because everyone knows that female (infems?) dinos are better at STEM, because females (Mother Nature) will find a way.
[20:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:13] <exec> 08└─There's the old Soviet theory that some oil comes from non-biological sources. Alternately, it might come from microbes that are still kicking today. Is it a fossil, if the microbes that were emitting it as a waste product were still kicking around last year?
[20:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:14] <exec> 08└─It's one of the most tragic things in life to see a child suffer and die; the grief and desperation must, I'm sure, be unbearable for the parents. In the Alfie Evans case, the doctors were correct and placed the well-being of the patient ahead of the will of his distraught mother and father. Parents...
[20:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:16] <exec> 08└─And since they lack shame as well as honor, they turn around and accuse the Democrats of voter-fraud; a statistically insignificant crime which has never changed the outcome of an election the USA.
[20:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─it would be fun if we realized a 10x improvement in battery energy density and all consumer electronics became like bombs
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[21:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:49] <exec> 08└─18 billion kilometers is about 120.3AU.
[21:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:50] <exec> 08└─Hey V'ger Can you ask God to pick up some milk on his way home? Ta.
[21:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:53] <exec> 08└─16.5 lumino-gravitio hours.
[21:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:55] <exec> 08└─It is also about 89,460,669,138 furlongs.
[21:33:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:26] <exec> 08└─If you pay me in beer, I'll post comments for you under takyon's user name.
[21:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:36] <exec> 08└─First off, South Korea is fucking ridiculous about policing games like this. I see it as a violation of civil rights. Why can't I let anyone that I want use a product or service I ostensibly own? Can you get arrested for sharing a rice cooker FFS? Games, and their licensing are no different, unless...
[21:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:38] <exec> 08└─technically playing a game where a public record of player activity is kept, using someone else's account is similar to school cheating, where you write someone else's essay or similar. I.e. in the neighbourhood of identity fraud. I honestly don't think it should be a criminal offence unless the nam...
[21:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:40] <exec> 08└─"technically playing a game where a public record of player activity is kept, " So letting someone else play asteroids on my quarter is equivalent to school cheeting because the high scores are displayed publically.
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─Unless you can win money in a competition by paying someone to do it for you, what exactly is the point of 1) having someone play for you and 2) for that person to play for you instead of for themselves ?
[21:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:23] <exec> 08└─Might as well beware of both, because government and corporations are joined at the hip. We just had the story about "Amazon" Cuomo handing out a billion $ tax credit to Bezos. And Trump's first argument in favor of the Sauds is that they buy weapons from Lockheed/Northrop/etc. Let's also not forget...
[21:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:24] <exec> 08└─[Value not in citation given]
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:26] <exec> 08└─LOL. So what's your angle here? Are you an establishment shill saying "nothing to see here, move along" or are you a misanthrope saying "people are garbage and they have the garbage system that they deserve" ?
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─Oh? Then tell me, what is 46.1 and 48.2 in your world?
[21:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:31] <exec> 08└─Quite some imagination you got there. The people have what they asked for. They can change it anytime. My opinion of them is totally irrelevant. Everybody's simply looking for the most advantage. And yes, outside what's in the mirror, there is nothing meaningful to see. Believe it, or not... it's al...
[21:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:33] <exec> 08└─companies that install red-light cameras and take a cut of the fines And here's a perfect example on how to fight back [thenewspaper.com]. Power to the People!
[21:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:35] <exec> 08└─The North Koreans have what they've asked for; they can change their choice at any time. So, unless you want to claim that the North Koreans are living under the consent of the governed, you have not made a convincing argument. And, if you did make that claim for NK (in order to remain consistent),...
[21:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:37] <exec> 08└─I find it rather curious. You choose to believe one number over the other. There must be a reason. It's true that the people could change things. But they don't realize this, because the corporate media keep telling them the opposite.
[21:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:52] <exec> 08└─>how much money someone makes is none of the governments fucking business. Actually it does matter. 'Winner takes all' (and CEO's like this playing this game) causes a lot of social disorder, unrest and poverty that the government ends up having to pay for. Japan (and some other socialist countries)...
[21:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:53] <exec> 08└─While your comment is +1 Insightful, you really shouldn't feed the trolls. how much money someone makes is none of the governments fucking business.
[21:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:55] <exec> 08└─The Nissan Leaf is very popular around my way also. Surely they've invested huge amount of money tooling up to produce them, so wouldn't want to back out of that? Assuming Nissan makes money selling them of course.
[21:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:13] <exec> 08└─Competition is good. Perhaps this competition will push the West towards greater academic freedom. It's a gruesome, disgusting hypocrisy that the Land of the Free keeps the bulk of its scientific findings locked, barred, and paywalled, and not even with the justification of collecting a fair price,...
[21:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:40] <exec> 08└─Prescient, are we? we can have a worse future as well
[21:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marlboro Owner Invests $1.8 Billion in Cannabis Company - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:59] <exec> 08└─That hasn't been a problem, since they made advertising cigarettes on television illegal.
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[22:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Will Adopt Western Digital's Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording Approach for Hard Drives - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:10] <exec> 08└─MAMR, Mammary based electronics. Seems like a win/win situation. :)
[22:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:24] <exec> 08└─What really impresses me, aside from the longevity of these probes and the solid engineering that must've gone into them, is that it's still managing to transmit data back to us across these distances. With that directional dish I imagine it wouldn't take more than a sliver of a degree of error to c...
[22:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:26] <exec> 08└─Didn't he already send his love?
[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─How do you know that gamers have made it big? "Doping" scandals have come to the world of eSports: https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] https://www.ibtimes.com
[22:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:14] <exec> 08└─Wow. Just Wow. That's really funny. My first thought was all the energy drinks. That stuff happened decades ago in the video arcades. Except it was called Jolt Cola. Nobody considered weed a competitive advantage, at least not when you had to stand at an arcade machine and be fairly physical. Weed w...
[22:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:04] <exec> 08└─If men are not angels
[22:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:05] <exec> 08└─>Under Capitalism, not only is every decision you make a "vote" for how society should be shaped, but the weight of your "vote" is dependent on well your previous "votes" served society. do they don't, most "decisions" are inertia driven, pushed by market experts and with big pockets to follow. grow...
[22:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:07] <exec> 08└─That may be so, but that's argument applies 10x to Democracy; the question was "What is a better way to measure consent?" The point stands: Capitalism.
[22:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:10] <exec> 08└─kekekekekek your view of reality is warped
[22:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:12] <exec> 08└─But they don't realize this, because the corporate media keep telling them the opposite. Yeah, and?
[22:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:14] <exec> 08└─Sorry for the 2nd reply: You choose to believe one number over the other. There must be a reason. Yeah. I believe the one that counts. What are you getting at?
[22:35:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─librarians and funders in China have said that they intend to make the results of publicly funded research free to read immediately on publication
[22:36:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 691 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:05] <exec> 08└─Gotta love it when someone uses a quote or a meme without any understanding of the context and actually ends up sending the opposite message to those that do. One does not simply walk into Mordor either, yet a couple of Hobbits did just that and it all seemed to work out pretty well by the end of th...
[22:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:16] <exec> 08└─Holy moly HiThere you might just be a nerd! Not criticizing, just an observation. :-) Now, excuse me while I figure out why Apache won't see my SSL cert.
[22:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─They've already got it on their computers.
[22:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:21] <exec> 08└─Are we sure that was dependence or maybe it was cherry picking on 'cheapest' easiest to get foreign oil. When it becomes truly critical there will be domestic oil in the US for use.
[22:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:45] <exec> 08└─I hereby inform you that, in Australia, voting is compulsory
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─You can't get enough water from the air in a DRY DUSTY DESERT to be meaningful. That's why it's "dry." This has been tried countless times already, with glorified dehumidifiers to condense and collect water being the most popular design.
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[23:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:05] <exec> 08└─It actually gets easier to aim at earth the farther away you are since the beam is wider: https://physics.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com]
[23:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:07] <exec> 08└─That's about 5.5548 x 1011 atto parsecs.
[23:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:09] <exec> 08└─The source code is, at least partially, lost https://money.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[23:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:11] <exec> 08└─5 minutes at warp 6
[23:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:14] <exec> 08└─*Citation needed* (not from fairy tales books)
[23:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:16] <exec> 08└─What's that in linguine?
[23:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:18] <exec> 08└─And 6 of one, half dozen of the other.
[23:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah... I think of it like loaning some of my tools to my neighbor. Big F...... Deal. In my book, I am only doing those things I learned as a child... Life is much better if we share the toys and look out for each other. The fastest way to pull problems onto yourself is by making problems for someo...
[23:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:06] <exec> 08└─You down own a service. You own a right to use for the contracted time period subject to the TOS you agreed to. Now, should it be a *crime* no, of course not and this is stupid. Should it get your service terminated for violation of said rules, sure.
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:08] <exec> 08└─They pretty much threw weed onto the banned list because muh Prohibition 2.0. Not sure cannabis is giving anyone a gaming performance advantage. It's the Adderall, friend of many college students taking exams, that seems at least plausible, if unproven. Apparently, Modafinil [wikipedia.org] has seen...
[23:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:40] <exec> 08└─How are the publishers theives? The academics choose where they publish, no one is forcing them to do it this way. The truth is all most care about is whether you are likely to cite their paper. If you arent someone likely to cite it they could care less if you can read it or not. So the problem is...
[23:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:08] <exec> 08└─It can't see your SSL cert because your web-cam is covered...and you're not wearing the ring. Slip the ring on your finger and it'll see it, oh Yes my precious... :)
[23:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah but EVERYBODY uses MS products so so do I...I am sheeple that loves being in 1984! ........ Oh....what a nightmare I just had.
[23:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:12] <exec> 08└─The thieves. The thieves. The filthy little thieves. Where is it? Where is it? They stole it from us. My precious. Curse them, we hates them! It's ours, it is, and we wants it!"
[23:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:35] <exec> 08└─Everything involving a computer or software is AI.
[23:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:18] <exec> 08└─I see you didn't mention Brenda Snipes. Manipulation of absentee and provisional ballots are her specialty. Destruction of ballots, missing deadlines, refusal to report numbers, refusal to admit observers, hiding/misplacing ballots. I'm pretty sure she's no GOP operative.
[23:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:20] <exec> 08└─This just came out today https://phys.org [phys.org] 15 to 23 billion tons of living carbon in deep earth. The bugs have life span in millions of years, very diverse, but persist everywhere.
[23:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:31] <exec> 08└─It seems that EVERYONE who responded to me is missing the forest for the trees, and missing the trees for the forest. You're all missing the big picture. This has nothing to do with Linus's Law. This has nothing to do with creating a better product through many eyes (although, humorously enough, Bli...
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