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[00:36:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:29] <exec> 08└─This is Disney's unforgivable sin. It cannot and should not be forgotten.
[00:36:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:32] <exec> 08└─That statement suggests to me that you are illiterate. You're not capable of reading print and/or cursive on dead tree skin? In effect you've tossed out everything ever written by the Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and all those savages from the colder parts of Europe. China is right out the window (wat...
[00:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:42] <exec> 08└─Hating classic literature says more about you than it does about the corpus. I suppose you do not like Homer, either? Homer, of the Iliad and the Odyssey, not Homer Simpson.
[00:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:44] <exec> 08└─The annoying part about additional extensions is they will get passed quietly on the back of some unrelated law such that even the few that are paying attention might not notice. But then again, will it even matter if an extension is passed or not? If works based on these new public domain works con...
[00:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:46] <exec> 08└─Well you are a Navy man according to your back story so I'm not surprised that plane whooshed right over your head.
[00:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:48] <exec> 08└─Hating some classics does not mean hating all... I've spent about 50 years reading everything I can get my hands on, an average of a book every 4 to 6 weeks. From Plato to Smolin, passing thru saint Thomas Aquinas, Yates, Steinbeck, Paz, García Márquez and many others. However I never made it past...
[00:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:50] <exec> 08└─By contrast, I absolutely loved "War and Peace": The opening party scene was a bit too slow for my tastes, but once it was past that it got really fun really fast, especially when Napoleon shows up.
[00:37:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03soylentnewsinator [7102] 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:13] <exec> 08└─BZZZT Orange Man Bad. More war!
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:22] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. wswswswswsws 'members. The resignation of General Mattis and America’s crisis of class rule [wsws.org]: Within the US working population there is deep hostility to the never-ending wars waged by US imperialism for more than a quarter-century. Justified in the name of defending against...
[00:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:24] <exec> 08└─I didn't vote for Trump, don't like Trump, and I'm not a conservative -- yet: good on him. That said, those most opposed to ending our involvement in the ME quagmire seem to be Democrats (who also happen to be the most interested in rekindling the cold war over their unrelenting tantrum over losing...
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─You do know there is a procedure available that can remove the possibility of fathering children, right? And it many cases it can be reversed later if you change your mind (and have a good doctor on both ends). If you are so worried about making kids, that vasectomy should be looking real good to yo...
[00:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:32] <exec> 08└─"rush-jobs over the entire development cycle is the norm - just think "Agile development"" Second that, that is why iterations were renamed to "sprints". Lime a long distance runner who constantly sprints, it either kills them or they are lying to themselves. As developers, we either job hop, make s...
[00:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:57] <exec> 08└─Couldn't you have trimmed the fur so this didn't keep happening...?
[00:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientist Who Allegedly Created the First Genome-Edited Babies is Reportedly Being Detained - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:36] <exec> 08└─They're known now. They weren't known then. Those weren't around when the first trials began. For most drugs, there isn't a magic undo button. That's what the testing is for.
[00:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU To Fund Bug Bounty Programs For Some Open-Source Projects - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:11] <exec> 08└─Do you work in I.T? Commercial providers (unless they have a ready fix) ALWAYS DENY a problem is known, or that anyone else is having the same problem... it's INDUSTRY PRACTICE! I've even been gaslighted in this way EVEN WHEN I'd spoken to other customers who had confirmed the problem (and also said...
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[01:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:09] <exec> 08└─Really! I read the tale of the White Whale shortly after Melville published, and found it fascinating. Of course, it is a series of long digressions about life at sea and any number of other things, which I found almost philosophical. Perhaps it might be good to take a look at Melville's other work...
[01:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:10] <exec> 08└─Dickens. Tolkien. H G Wells. All "popular" writings, some intended for children! Just because our literary standards and schooling have dropped enormously since doesn't mean they are inaccessible. I agree in some respects, where things are Shakespeare are unreadable and uninterpretable without signi...
[01:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:13] <exec> 08└─It is too bad that anything written before 1985 is unreadable crap. /s /s. Short for sarcastic. 1. A cutting, often ironic remark intended to express contempt or ridicule. 2. A form of wit characterized by the use of such remarks: detected a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
[01:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:15] <exec> 08└─You're not capable of reading print and/or cursive on dead tree skin?
[01:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:18] <exec> 08└─I suppose you do not like Homer, either? Homer, of the Iliad and the Odyssey...
[01:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>It is too bad that anything written before 1985 is unreadable crap.</sarcasm>
[01:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─I don't know how it makes sense to continue an American presence in Syria. It only risks dragging the US into a third war in the middle east in 20 years. The Turks want to beat on the PKK for a while and possibly re-establish hegemony in the region. The Peshmurga don't have any love for ISIS, Assad,...
[01:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 1724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:56] <exec> 08└─That's theoretically true, but in practice it's not that simple. The EU has a lot of people, and all the economic and technical power needed to build a peerless military. But the nation most likely to lead them is Germany, and nobody likes the Germans. Also, the Europeans have never projected milita...
[01:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:58] <exec> 08└─It could be that the North Syrian Kurds fighting ISIS with the USA's help are now going to be butchered by Turkish troups. I don't understand who benefits from this except for ISIS.
[01:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Draft Law Would End Forced Technology Transfers - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:17] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely disagree with them. The stated purposes of IP laws are laudable, but in reality they are mainly used by rent-seeking third parties, and to suppress innovation and stifle competition. How about this as a thought experiment. As they are government business, all patent license deals mu...
[01:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:01] <exec> 08└─Saccharine isn't nearly the polished turd that NutraSweet aka Aspartame is, by comparison saccharine is a well rolled beetle dung ball while Aspartame is a steaming predator patty full of formaldehyde precursors.
[01:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:02] <exec> 08└─When you were a kid and riding motorcycles - you couldn't think?
[01:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:04] <exec> 08└─Willow trees are great resources if you know how to use them. Aspirin has been mentioned, but the withies are quite useful for making furniture, baskets, thatching, and that sort of thing. You can make fishing poles and other things, too. If you garden you can use them to create raised beds. They ma...
[01:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:07] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Back to morphine, I guess.
[01:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:19] <exec> 08└─When they have to compete on merit alone, they keep failing.
[01:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:21] <exec> 08└─Just curios but what exactly was new and significant about the Xbox?
[01:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:57] <exec> 08└─I had a ferret - they're tenacious, but small enough to not do serious damage. That's the thing about "bite statistics" - they don't really get into metrics like number of stitches required, time to full recovery, etc. My mom had a nutso duck hunting dog - forget the breed atm but, anyway, it got su...
[01:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 1879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:58] <exec> 08└─I used to volunteer at a no kill* shelter. There is some truth to this. There are a lot of pit mixes in the pound / shelters. A large part of the problem is that folks get pits when they are puppies. Then, when the puppy grows up, these folks realize they are not capable of keeping the pit in a mann...
[01:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU To Fund Bug Bounty Programs For Some Open-Source Projects - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:10] <exec> 08└─Both Free Software and Open Source Software failed... Free Software failed by being unable to find a way to make a buck in a way that didn't compromise their principles. Open Source Failed by saying "f*** principles" and concentrated on becoming the next 800 pound gorllia IBMs and Microsofts (just w...
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[02:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died, At Age 93 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:02] <exec> 08└─She would have preferred to be known as a great executive who got the Hubble built on time and on budget, but thanks to SJWs she's now recognized for being female.
[02:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:20] <exec> 08└─It's already forgotten. Disney is making money hand over fist, and all of America is happy to fork their own hard-earned money into Disney's coffers. America's response to Disney's insult was to bat an eye, and briefly mutter a round-mouthed "OHHH". Next day, it was forgotten.
[02:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:43] <exec> 08└─Actually I found the Iliad OK, the Odyssey a bit better, but I really liked Metamorphosis. However consider the topic of the ones I listed as disliking. I have a strong distaste for downers whether ancient or modern.
[02:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:44] <exec> 08└─It's got some really good point, alright. But my point was that just disliking the "classic literature" you get exposed to doesn't say much without saying *which* literature (and often even which translation) you disliked. There are versions of Dante's "Inferno" that I really like, but other transla...
[02:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:23] <exec> 08└─The most powerful military in the Middle East, by a wide margin, is the Israeli Defense Force.
[02:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:25] <exec> 08└─They say immediate, we're not doing immediate. We're doing slow. I campaigned on getting out of Syria and other places. Now when I start getting out, the Fake News Media, or some failed Generals who were unable to do the job before I arrived, like to complain about me & my tactics, which are working...
[02:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:32] <exec> 08└─Aspirin could pass the FDA as a prescription drug -- to combat excessive blood clots. For pain, it is a dangerous drug, especially for children. It seems to be a cause for some kind of syndrome hose name I forget. As an over-the-counter analgesic -- wouldn't you prefer your blood to remain inside yo...
[02:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:48] <exec> 08└─Nope. The correct answer is why the fuck is the user trying to fit golf balls into a 747? I've been asked how can the end user do a number of bizarre shit and the correct path has always been to start by understanding why the user felt they needed to do such a strange thing. Once you understand that...
[02:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:28] <exec> 08└─I think it will. A healthy reaction to laws like this is to first think "How will the people affected circumvent the law?" There are several obvious approaches such as pet laundering, importing from another state, and just making animal shelters and professional breeders the new pet stores. It's al...
[02:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:29] <exec> 08└─Plus most animal shelters aren't going to want to risk the law crashing down on their heads by trying to funnel pure-breds.
[02:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:32] <exec> 08└─Better approach: "When your dogs come onto my side and menace me, my family or my animals and I shoot them, should I just bury them there or give you the corpses back? And what is your full legal name for when I bill you?" Or better yet, move to the countryside. Out here, stray dogs get shot. On sig...
[02:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:34] <exec> 08└─For me, anything small with teeth. Kids and lapdogs both qualify.
[02:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:36] <exec> 08└─By the 1970s, human waste was controlled and treated to a point that the remaining pollution in Sarasota bay came more from pet waste runoff than human sewage.
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[03:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:59] <exec> 08└─Yet in this day and age it doesn't have a built in firewall. Or root access by default. Because.. the user can't be trusted?
[03:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:01] <exec> 08└─You mean the product?
[03:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dw861 [1561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died, At Age 93 - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:11] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe, but I think not. No doubt that she would have wanted to be remembered as an intelligent, capable person. Also for her work in observing the spectra and brightness of stars as part of research in stellar distances and motions; leading her to conclude (with a significant contribution) tha...
[03:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry no. I still can't see through my screen. I think this "sarcasm" thing is overrated!
[03:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:53] <exec> 08└─How is even possible? Or legal? Each and every single law should be passed on its own.
[03:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, come now, what's wrong with Harry Potter? It spawned realms of fanfiction!
[03:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:58] <exec> 08└─Great. But at who specifically?
[03:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:00] <exec> 08└─Crying tears of joy. Finally. We can make that movie my great grandfather penned based on.. no.. wait.. no one cares anymore. Oh well. Maybe I'll just go back to listening to music released into the public domain from the 70s. That's out there, right?
[03:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:36] <exec> 08└─I had a very difficult Christmas. Because I spent it in the Combat Zones in Iraq. And Germany. Visiting our beautiful troops. It was a great honor for me. But incredibly dangerous. I had concerns for the Institution of the Presidency, not for myself personally. I had concerns for the First Lady, I w...
[03:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know how it makes sense to continue an American presence in Syria.
[03:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:40] <exec> 08└─Don't sell Putin so short. I don't think his hand is anywhere near as weak as he wants people to believe. He's probably quite happy that the eyes are on China rather than Russia - it gives him more maneuverability. As for China's feet of clay? That's irrelevant, when that mudslide reaches you you're...
[03:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:42] <exec> 08└─Not anymore. They have been invaded. Slowly they will be bred out.
[03:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:51] <exec> 08└─I know everyone has enough risk factors for death.
[03:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:53] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty common problem. Kid brains are notoriously unreliable in the ole risk assessment department.
[03:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:11] <exec> 08└─Protip: if the check clears, it's a non-insane way.
[03:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:12] <exec> 08└─The light in the Earth's shadow can't change because the moon is passing through it. So how does the lunar eclipse start out black, and end red?
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[03:42:24] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of a story a coworker used to tell. He had a home in the township and his neighbor had a vicious dog that followed him along the fence barking everytime he would go in the back yard. We're not talking normal yappity, this dog would charge the fence. He couldn't even mow his yard in p...
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[03:42:53] <exec> 08└─That's old news. I've personally caught a 'humane society' redhanded buying up intact and pregnant bitches for the purpose of selling their puppies. Most 'rescues' that specialize in some rare breed (which otherwise are almost never seen in shelters) either breed their own puppies, or buy them from...
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[03:42:55] <exec> 08└─There has always been some "scary breed" of dog. Before Pitbulls it was Dobermans. Before Dobermans it was German Shepherds. Before German Shepherds, it was -- are you ready for this? Collies. And before that, it was what we now know as the English Mastiff. Mastiffs descend from dogs of war. Collies...
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[03:42:57] <exec> 08└─Or agricultural runoff
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[04:36:49] <exec> 08└─You mean one that YOU might be able to manage? Unlikely. We need an open mobile os as an alternative to iPhone and Android. At this point I would rather accept one from China or Russia before any US technology.
[04:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:51] <exec> 08└─" UK-based human rights charity Privacy International has released "
[04:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:53] <exec> 08└─We need an open mobile os as an alternative to iPhone and Android.
[04:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:55] <exec> 08└─This has been brought up before, but every Android user should run a filtering VPN service locally on their phone, such as NetGuard, Blokada, DNS66 or AdGuard. These should be set to maximal blocking, which should include all Facebook and Google domains. If for some reason you feel it is necessary t...
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[04:36:58] <exec> 08└─I've been a subscriber to Spotify since the day it launched in the U.S. It looks like it's time to dump my subscription and rebuild my music collection the hard and expensive way.
[04:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:53] <exec> 08└─The people passing the laws determine what is legal. They made it legal.
[04:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:43] <exec> 08└─How about wearing proper safety gear, not taking undue risks and not riding faster than you can think?
[04:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:45] <exec> 08└─You reckon a little time off healing those is worth a bleeding ulcer? I've tried both. I prefer a little extra recovery time.
[04:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:47] <exec> 08└─Then fucking stump it and then chain the stump to the back of your Cummins Turbo Diesel and rip it out. Every day you don't, that Willow tree is just laughing at you and thinks you're a pussy. He's telling all his tree friends that you're a pussy, and when your bitch sits under him he tells her the...
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[04:39:49] <exec> 08└─Bald vs. Balls, Tough call. Burma Shave.
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[05:36:44] <exec> 08└─IIRC, if you use one of these doesn't that mean that you can't also use a VPN in addition to the firewall?
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[05:36:46] <exec> 08└─Generally yes. Some VPN providers have similar blocking options in their VPN "apps" that may help, the other option being a VPN Chrome or Firefox extension for browsing securely while still blocking on the phone network level. Rooted users of course have a multitude of options.
[05:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died, At Age 93 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:58] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace [wikipedia.org]
[05:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:45] <exec> 08└─I prefer the official version [youtube.com].
[05:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:47] <exec> 08└─The version of The Ten Commandments that's coming into the public domain is not the one we see every Easter, with Charlton Heston. This one [wikipedia.org] is a Cecil B. Demille silent film. In fact, we won't get the first feature film with sound, The Jazz Singer [wikipedia.org], into the public dom...
[05:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:30] <exec> 08└─Then let the warmongers declare war. I would love to pull out of Iraq, but I am content with Syria and 7k troops from Afghanistan. Warmongers gotta monger war.
[05:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:32] <exec> 08└─Awwww, a difficult Christmas, he says. Just click the link, and scroll down to see the photo near the bottom of the page. https://www.gofundme.com [gofundme.com]
[05:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Draft Law Would End Forced Technology Transfers - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:52] <exec> 08└─They will just be uh... 'voluntary'...so to speak Like, 'you wouldn't want anything happen to that business opportunity..it would be a shame if your products just rusted on the docks waiting for customs approval... it would be terrible if your distribution center continued to fail to pass 'inspectio...
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[05:39:48] <exec> 08└─Someone didn't read the article. Shocking, I know. They tested ibuprofen but aspirin and Tylenol are thought to work similarly. I wouldn't bet on aspirin being a safe alternative for the anti-testosterone problem.
[05:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:49] <exec> 08└─>achieving any sort of thing with a dodge Thanks for the laugh +1 funny
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[05:39:52] <exec> 08└─I have been using Tumeric recently as a cure-all. Dropped my blood pressure by 20 points drinking the tea each day with ginger and honey.
[05:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Scientist Who Allegedly Created the First Genome-Edited Babies is Reportedly Being Detained - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:31] <exec> 08└─No law, just ethics cunts and totalitarian Chinese govt.
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[06:36:11] <exec> 08└─These are the fuckers that were e ^ i *pi +1 = 0 They are stupid fucks. Suck my dick you shithead fucks.
[06:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:28] <exec> 08└─Purism is aiming at producing one -- the Librem 5. -- hendrik
[06:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:10] <exec> 08└─... until ISIS dragged the US into a war in Iraq and Syria...
[06:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:11] <exec> 08└─And Trump is powerless to stop them when they have the military. Watch the Runaway.
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[06:38:14] <exec> 08└─We?
[06:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Draft Law Would End Forced Technology Transfers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:32] <exec> 08└─Sure, and American companies can make more money by transferring technology to China; "native" Americans be damned.
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[07:37:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Roman [wikipedia.org]
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[07:38:05] <exec> 08└─How on earth did this get voted to +5? I can get maybe one person (you in this case) skimming over the "/s" and taking that statement at face value but it's surprising to see so many other replies here that completely miss the sarcasm. It should be pretty clear the AC was mocking such young fools wh...
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[07:38:55] <exec> 08└─It has the pictures of the folks that are donating to pay for our beautiful Wall -- many of whom are Mexican. You gave $100. And that's magnificent of you. Absolutely magnificent. I thanked you. And I thank you, I'm very grateful for that one. But we need more than the $18.5 million. We need $5 bill...
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[07:40:17] <exec> 08└─Here's some reading: http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] Aspirin's been around and a medical staple since the late 1800's. It's not perfect, but if used properly it generally lives up to it's designation as a wonder drug. (CNN) -- If you take aspirin, you've go...
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[07:43:24] <exec> 08└─So sayeth the lover of dangerous dogs.
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[07:43:25] <exec> 08└─In the 13-year period of 2005 through 2017, canines killed 433 Americans. Pit bulls contributed to 66% (284) of these deaths. Combined, pit bulls and rottweilers contributed to 76% of the total recorded deaths.
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[08:37:05] <exec> 08└─'...certainly no one could have been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left...'
[08:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:06] <exec> 08└─I'm under the impression there are some AI experts hanging around here. Could you please provide the definition of "AI" that is being used here, and how it differs from "intelligence"? As I understand it, an intelligent agent is defined by the use of an "inner" model of the world, and acts based on...
[08:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:09] <exec> 08└─It found the path of least resistance to get the job done, exactly like it's supposed to do - and exactly like humans do. In both humans and AIs, finding the path of least resistance becomes cheating when it breaks a rule: for example these marathon runners taking a shortcut [youtube.com] knowingly...
[08:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:11] <exec> 08└─I've been in long debates on the definition. There probably is no simple answer that will make everyone happy.
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[08:38:41] <exec> 08└─Duke University's Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has some notes on this years upgrades from 1923 January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all! [duke.edu] For the first time in over 20 years, on January 1, 2019, published works will enter th...
[08:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:43] <exec> 08└─The people passing the laws don't even read them.
[08:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:45] <exec> 08└─The term of copyright for a work should be calculated based on the state of the law at the time the work was copyrighted. Anything else is retroactive law making.
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[08:39:31] <exec> 08└─HINT: Don't take any New Yorkers to the border. There is a helluva lot of cheap labor right there. You hire them, have them put up the wall, then you lock them on the other side of the wall as they finish the job. Few if any people know concrete better than Mexicans. If you have a couple billion lef...
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[08:40:49] <exec> 08└─I think I have a better pain threshold than most males (ones I've befriended anyway) albeit I'm a fucking baby with man cold. I'm virile with hair in everywhere but on my palms and the bottoms of my feet!
[08:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:55] <exec> 08└─Where pitbulls have been banned, the number of serious bites has not decreased. Why? Because the same idiots who want a "scary" dog find some other scary dog.
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[08:43:56] <exec> 08└─I don't understand where you are coming from, really. Let us begin with the fact that dogs are carnivores - or more accurately, carnivorous scavengers. They kill to live, naturally. They are well equipped for the task. The most loved, the tamest, the best behaved dogs will resort to killing, if they...
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[09:37:19] <exec> 08└─Maths. We were all taught in school what an inverse function is. This AI discovered how to encode an inverse into a mathematical solution.
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[09:37:20] <exec> 08└─The general accepted definition of an AI is whatever program is capable of developing functionalities that weren't explicitely coded in the program by the programmer in the first place - either by self-teaching, by observation, or by trial and error. Where it becomes fuzzy is what humans themselves...
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[09:37:22] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is, the developers would have preferred it if the AI had gone to art college instead?
[09:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:51] <exec> 08└─I am dumbfounded to discover that Yelp would hand my info to Facebook behind my back. What next? Will I discover that their reviews are not 100% honest and reliable?
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[09:37:52] <exec> 08└─I found NoRootFirewall to be awesome, except that only one vpn can be used at a time (wtf google?). Why is there no built in firewall for Android?
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[09:38:59] <exec> 08└─Even in my time there were rhapsodes, with the entire poems committed to memory. The "text" is not the glyphs, it is the text itself, and very many oral cultures have very many texts that only exist in the transmission of Kumu to student. But if our young millennial hater of literature hates the ins...
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[10:36:13] <exec> 08└─Children of the new millennium
[10:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:28] <exec> 08└─> But if the input and the output of the machine have the same dimension, then I'd just call it a matrix transform, without any projection. I think your statement is correct. However the "reduced world" step is that the analysis algorithm has searched the space of all possible "matrix transforms" an...
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[10:36:30] <exec> 08└─I don't know anything about "AI" except what I've deduced from reading TFS of stories like this one. My impression is that it's a more elaborate version of this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I guess the AI converts its input into some kind of blob of statistic...
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[10:40:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, I am used to this definition: "Historically, when Europe was dominated by the Roman Empire, everything not near the Mediterranean region was termed Northern Europe, including southern Germany, all of the Low Countries, and Austria. This meaning is still used today in some contexts, for example,...
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[11:36:32] <exec> 08└─Rover will always being calling his OTHER parent to check up on him/her, and see if he/she still loves him. Wonder if Rover will use a fake ID to get onto Facefook? Maybe he'll learn to tweet?
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[11:36:34] <exec> 08└─I just want to put my bid in for Runaway. Seems like a difficult pet, but one that could be disciplined. "Down, Runaway! Fetch, Runaway! Play Dead, Runaway!" Oh, if only! Perhaps one day, all our dreams will come true.
[11:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:54] <exec> 08└─So it seems the AI "invented" steganography
[11:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:55] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it . . . they wanted drawings, not easily reversible mathematical equations.
[11:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:25] <exec> 08└─This is not only Facebook's fault. The app developers need to answer two questions: - Why are they using the Facebook SDK for an app that has zilch to do with Facebook? Presumably they offer the option to log in via Facebook, or to share things on Facebook, or... Offering that option is on them. - W...
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[11:38:33] <exec> 08└─lol and you can't read a /s?
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[12:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:36] <exec> 08└─Thugs with weapons steal food from unarmed civilians. Snowflakes surprised. Business as usual. Sometimes the thugs are rebels, sometimes they're the government. If you're going to send aid to places like that (which maybe you shouldn't), then you'd better be prepared to defend it.
[12:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:37] <exec> 08└─This propaganda is logically incorrect: sentence "There was no response from the Houthis, but they have denied diverting aid." is a contradiction.
[12:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:48] <exec> 08└─This is from posts seen on social media where people consider their pets to be their children, refer to them as their 'fur babies' and literally won't have children because they would rather have a cat or dog or whatever. I wish this was a joke.
[12:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03johnlongjohnson [7223] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:07] <exec> 08└─I call BS on this result. You're talking about independent evolution in a deterministic system vs the AI being tampered with by a stakeholder to produce better results and then covering it up. Occam's Razors means this is most likely a stakeholder who wanted to impress so he could get more funding d...
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[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─It depends on who you ask, but the fact that it was constructed artificially is the last line in the sand. Eventually we'll just have AIs raising one another and that line will blow away too. There is another angle though. These things are only fit, more or less, for the tasks they're designed for....
[12:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:10] <exec> 08└─A nit: The author identifies PEBKAC as "problem between keyboard and computer". It's not "computer". It's commonly identified as "chair", and that even makes more sense in the article's context.
[12:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:13] <exec> 08└─This hints at the real danger: that a learning algorithm will 'solve' its problem by figuring a way to break out of the simulation and own the underlying system. The main advantage humans have in this scenario is that the AI has no understanding of the world outside the simulation, so the AI would b...
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[12:37:47] <exec> 08└─The potential GDPR implications were one of my first thoughts too, as it stipulates both that a company must disclose who it is sharing information with and what information is being shared and that it must be opt-in, hence all the confirmation clickthroughs that are now appearing. These are not all...
[12:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:51] <exec> 08└─That.. is very sane. Consider other crimes. If it didn't used to be a crime and the law was changed then it only matters after the law changed. If copyright at the time for these works was only a few years, how can they extend it now?
[12:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:52] <exec> 08└─I am very much a fan of oral
[12:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:55] <exec> 08└─Disney? Aren't they responsible for the most recent, retroactive copyright extension?
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[13:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:03] <exec> 08└─Treating the symptoms is not a winning plan. Treat the root causes of the problems. I would say here to supporting the citizens to take back their country, but they are clearly not interested in doing so. They would rather bail on their country to move elsewhere. Bringing their problems with them.
[13:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03johnlongjohnson [7223] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just me and the New Year's hangover setting in. But did anyone else initially read the title as.. "California law treats children like pets in divorce cases"
[13:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:39] <exec> 08└─The essential bit is the reduction of the information --- this means that the agent is in fact successful in creating an abstraction of the world.
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[13:37:40] <exec> 08└─Cheating sounds more human, so they ran with that in the story. But check this out: You're not wrong to draw the analogy to humans and the path of least resistance, but one key difference is our brains are less sensitive to high-frequency content. That's almost certainly a product of evolution (or e...
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[13:38:09] <exec> 08└─There is, it's called iptables. Unless you're silly enough to own a phone you can't get root on. If that's the case, the fault is your own not Google's. It's not their business to protect you from your own bad decisions. And, frankly, with a mindset of blaming others for your screw-ups, you really d...
[13:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:17] <exec> 08└─how the fuck are you meant to intonate polla d ho g en pontooi?? the daktylos is like a skeleton tapping his fingers on the table and losing the rhythm. Personally, I'm a big fan of drs. P's rhyming meter "ollekebolleke" [wikipedia.org], apparently it's similar to a double dactyl [wikipedia.org], bu...
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[14:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:44] <exec> 08└─This is hardly new. A wise older friend once noted that "overly doting" pet ownership by a young couple often meant that children were coming in a few years. This latest generation of humans seems to have forgotten the second part of the sequence.
[14:37:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:33] <exec> 08└─You mean the product?
[14:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:42] <exec> 08└─Does it really make "perfect sense"? My car went through your store window because I didn't fix my bad brakes. So I don't have to pay for your repairs, and can continue to drive that car as is? It'd be nice if countries tried to fix the mistakes they made more often. And it's worth noting here that...
[14:41:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 1536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:56] <exec> 08└─As you noted, the legal issue is mostly about whether a test is discriminatory. Since the ruling you cited, we've had stuff like Jordan v. New London, where a person was denied admission to a police officer program because he scored TOO HIGH on an IQ test. IQ tests -- or tests that mimic them -- are...
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[14:42:23] <exec> 08└─Could be, I didn't consider that. But it's probably true. It was probably a double win for the developers. That said it was fairly bad for PC gaming since the conversions from Xbox->PC was normally horribly crappy. You could really tell which was the, bad, conversion titles -- frame locks and the ga...
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[15:36:52] <exec> 08└─Another xenophobic simpleton blames every problem in the Universe on immigrants. How surprising. Treat the root cause ? The root cause is human nature. We may have cell phones, satellites, global communication networks, vaccines, general relativity, quantum physics, nuclear reactors, or global agree...
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─To someone who obviously has no empathy, no compassion, no heart, everyone who does is summarily discarded as simply being a "snowflake".
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that the Houthis are the defacto government in Yemen, and the war is being driven by Saudi Arabia for religious and regional politics reasons, and the US is thus being led by the nose ring to support Saudi Arabia in the humanitarian disaster they've caused.
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:58] <exec> 08└─While I get that you are making a point by exaggeration, it's worth noting that (in recent centuries?) there is a middle group between your hypothetical 1% and 99% who think for themselves but don't have big designs on controlling the rest. You might call it the middle class? My guess is that widesp...
[15:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:00] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It's an ages old observation that people go hungry in war zones. Generally speaking, the biggest, strongest, and/or the quickest get the food, and everyone else watches him eat. Within the ranks of the military, the food may be apportioned more equally, but the military is going to take any...
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[15:37:16] <exec> 08└─Put each litigant on opposite sides of the court, have the bailiff put the dog in the center of the court and when the bailiff lets go of the leash the litigant that the pet goes to is the one the pet likes best.
[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:18] <exec> 08└─That would make for a great Lifetime TV moment.
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:20] <exec> 08└─That's just normal human response to the financial risk one takes by getting a child in the first world. The pet is never going to be faced with having to indebt itself multiple 100k$ in education, have the degree suddenly become worthless, and not get a job anyway because they are over 40. The owne...
[15:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:22] <exec> 08└─That proves which litigant was spoiling the pet more by giving it treats it shouldn't have had. Or possibly, who it registered as the alpha depending on the breed and how the "pack" operated daily. It doesn't prove who will be a better caretaker. And yes that applies to kids too which is why asking...
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[15:37:40] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is, the developers would have preferred it if the AI had gone to art college instead?
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[16:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:48] <exec> 08└─I have a beautiful red button. And everyone gets nervous when I press it. Because they think, "oh, that's his nuclear." Don't worry, it's not my nuclear, it rings my Butler. He brings me my Coke and I have another perfect day. In another perfect year!!!
[16:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:50] <exec> 08└─If something is excessively cute, just eat it. Oh - you thought those signs in restaurants were just a joke? "Unattended children will be used in tomorrow's soup." Downeasters (also known as "Mainiacs") prefer to use unattended children as crab bait, but they get to the soup eventually.
[16:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─People rarely capitalize cocaine, or coke.
[16:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:54] <exec> 08└─MUST BE RAPED IMMEDIATELY
[16:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:57] <exec> 08└─With tentacles.
[16:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─Negative. Look at each and every one of the career politicians in Washington D.C. Also, negative on the religion bullshit. We had an article recently that explains how the global warming nuts are merely changing religion. Members of the Church of Global Warming are just as religious as Muslims.
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:36] <exec> 08└─My comment was obviously meant to be a joke.
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:37] <exec> 08└─I wish this was a joke.
[16:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:06] <exec> 08└─You've got it all backwards. That quote is from Devin Coldewey, a writer for TechCrunch, not an author of the paper. As for the result, that a neural net learned to hide information in a different frequency domain than we normally pay attention to... it's absolutely correct. The paper explains their...
[16:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:08] <exec> 08└─> So what you're saying is, the developers would have preferred it if the AI had gone to art college instead? The developers would have been elated if the AI had asked to go to art college.
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:40] <exec> 08└─This happens on the 'normal' web as well. I use ublock and noscript to stop it. Most people 'train' noscript to work. I just leave it in default state most of the time. The facebook urls pop up quite frequently as well as the google ones.
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[16:40:39] <exec> 08└─This is the language of military coups.
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[17:36:36] <exec> 08└─"Luddites feared correctly that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste as machines would replace their role in the industry.[3] It is a misconception that the Luddites protested against the machinery itself in an attempt to halt the progress of technology. " https://en.m...
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[17:36:38] <exec> 08└─> ... The trouble started, the couple said, when their 10-year-old son was nearly hit by one of the vehicles while he was playing in a nearby cul-de-sac. Damn overprotective parents, what expectation should they have that their precious is safe while playing in a quiet isolated cul-de-sac? Yes, this...
[17:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:40] <exec> 08└─If they can survive such hostile stuff without being responsible for deaths or injury then they might end up being actually safe enough. These self driving vehicles will probably be "bullied" more since they'll likely to be configured to be more risk averse (otherwise it's lawsuit and bad PR time)....
[17:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:42] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia reports 78% white in that city... White people will roll over and commit suicide if people tell them its virtue signalling to do it, they're pushovers AND they're tied with Asians for most civilized domesticated pro-social races as opposed to ... the others ... so whats gonna happen when t...
[17:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:45] <exec> 08└─If they want real-world examples, build a city where people VOLUNTEER to live where your killer machines drive: don't use people as fodder for your profits. "Well, if we only kill 40 people, but our profits are 3 billion, then HEY, fuck humans, I got MINE!"
[17:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:47] <exec> 08└─'Almost hit' doesn't provide any useful context. If you are almost hit because you're a 10 y/o idiot jumping out and playing chicken with them that's one thing. If you are playing hopscotch and one barrels up to you and you have to dive out of the way, that's another. These are not stealthy fast mo...
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[17:37:19] <exec> 08└─At least the thugs are getting fed. That's good, right?
[17:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:21] <exec> 08└─If it comes to it, I'd rather be a snowflake than a piece of shit. If it comes to it.
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:44] <exec> 08└─Or a great ID TV moment.
[17:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─How about using King Solomon's solution?
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─Good luck with the house breaking.
[17:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03johnlongjohnson [7223] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 1858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:15] <exec> 08└─I think that your viewpoint is cute and innocent and believe me I really want that to be the case. The truth is there's a lot more scenarios where they tampered with the AI than there are where the AI spontaneously invented steganography. Here's how I see this happening. Alice and Bob are researcher...
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[17:38:51] <exec> 08└─It's Google's fault if they don't mandate that. Most phone buyers aren't in a position to buy phones that they can root and doing so can result in problems. I had to switch from at&t in part because they forced updates that unrooted my device without my permission and acted like they owned the devic...
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[17:40:44] <exec> 08└─Draining the swamp and installing a cesspool.
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[18:36:34] <exec> 08└─The other factor is that this is the only (mostly futile) method of resistance to job automation the working class knows. Capitalism is not able to handle this level of technology well. If the capitalist system is not overthrown, we're probably looking at a future where a large proportion of the pop...
[18:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I did, lol. It's more an age thing then consequences from New Year's Eve though... Funny how parsing sentences seems to get a bit more difficult as time marches on.
[18:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─I honestly don't follow this type of thing. Does the treating of Pets more like Children in a divorce situation in California mean that Judges can implement/demand Pet Support payments from one side of the divorce? Is Pet Support a thing today already?
[18:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:40] <exec> 08└─Depends on how well AI and robotics come along to handle geriatric care...
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[19:36:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:53] <exec> 08└─'Almost hit' doesn't provide any useful context. If you are almost hit because you're a 10 y/o idiot jumping out and playing chicken with them that's one thing. If you are playing hopscotch and one barrels up to you and you have to dive out of the way, that's another. These are not stealthy fast mo...
[19:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─They are private corporate robots operating on public real estate. We are talking about the virtualized world encroaching on the real world here. Of course that is going to scare the shit out of some people. If you've ever seen an automated parking enforcement camera car, it is only time that these...
[19:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─If the AVs are timid and let people cut in front of them they will be slow. In that case, I'm going to prefer a (faster) human taxi every time -- why should the taxi to my meeting make me late?
[19:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:00] <exec> 08└─At this time parent/VLM is modded flamebait, but I think he's on to something. There are often places in large cities where cabbies are unwilling to go out of fear of being attacked. However, if the AV owner/operators try to redline around bad neighborhoods that will not be allowed by city permittin...
[19:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:02] <exec> 08└─At the same time, it sounds like the self driving cars need programming to change the rules (expectations) when they're in a subdivision.
[19:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─Ehhhh, we have an excess number of humans on this planet anyway. According to some opinions, there are far too many white people. It probably is cost effective to have robots run some over. 40, 400, or 4000 aren't statistically significant, are they?
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─Come on, go out there and say it: "white genocide." That's what you think is happening, don't you? I remember that ridiculous rant of yours in its entirety, wherein you outright said the powers that be are trying to make a sacrifice of your children and grandchildren to make "brown people" happy. Ju...
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─I mean, you're the media, right? Isn't it your job to tell people what to think? That means unless they're misbehaving and thinking for themselves anyway, you're qualified to speak for them. What self-driving vehicle folks can't seem to understand is it is primarily an accountability issue, even if...
[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─I don't understand this at all. Cute can get excessive, especially when it's cynically used as a marketing ploy or base appeal to emotion, but why on earth would you respond by hurting the cute thing? If this works the way I think it does, we take "cute" cues from what human babies look like, so doe...
[19:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:26] <exec> 08└─You could just RTFS: "But those people wouldn't really take a swipe at Bambi or Thumper, she says. When people feel this way, it's with no desire to cause harm," Stavropoulos says. The thoughts appear to be an involuntary response to being overwhelmed by a positive emotion.
[19:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:48] <exec> 08└─OK, ignore the idiots inside the Beltway and instead look at the millions of small business owners across the USA (and in many other countries). Not all of them want to grow their companies to the point that they are monopolists. Many of them treat their employees or contractors very well, it's good...
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─How dare the people that Saudi Arabia is deliberately trying to starve take food intended for the people that Saudi Arabia is perhaps not particularly trying to starve.
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:18] <exec> 08└─Depends on how well AI and robotics come along to handle geriatric care...
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[20:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─The linked story lacks any information on the Research estimates that while not risk-free, vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking so I'll hold off on accepting that claim. Especially since, as I understand it, the real wild card is the many different flavourings being used. For now I'll st...
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:05] <exec> 08└─and more importantly, I quit smoking 7 years ago. Even when I used to smoke, I've always been a cyclist. Ever since I started vaping, I've never felt so fast on my bike. I don't cough no more, I smell things better, I have better lung capacity... At each yearly checkup, my doctor tells me he'd never...
[20:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─Research estimates that while not risk-free, vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking.
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:10] <exec> 08└─If you had any will power, you would not need a crutch like vaping, you semiliterate ( "I don't cough no more" ) fucktard. Vaping is for pussy boys. MEN just quit smoking, without a crutch or any whining.
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─Do not worry, citizen. Big Brother is working hard to bring the proles under the control of the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx (whose great computers fill the hallowed halls). For second year in a row, double-digit decreases in gun violence in Chicago [chicagotribune.com]: [Chicago police Superint...
[20:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:37] <exec> 08└─Good news: don't worry about post-scarcity. It's not coming. Bad news: do worry about food security as our unsustainable, energy-hungry farming practices run up against the realities of the diminishing mineral resources. The proletarian revolution will be of the starving, not the unemployable. Marxi...
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:39] <exec> 08└─That link didn't quite support my reference to the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx. Chicago gun violence down for 14th straight month, police say [wgntv.com]: Since January, Chicago has seen a 22 percent drop in murders and a 27 percent decrease in shootings compared to the same time period in 2017...
[20:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:41] <exec> 08└─You know what a spectrum is, don't you? That 1488 shit is waaaaayyyy over on one end of a spectrum. BLM is waaaaaaaayyyyyy over near the other end of the spectrum. Me? I don't belong in either camp. Maybe I'm a little closer to the white supremacist camp than to BLM - like - it's 27 miles from my ho...
[20:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:43] <exec> 08└─The vehicles should be equipped with cameras to record and deter any nefarious activity and potentially catch the culprits.
[20:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:45] <exec> 08└─A bit late, I wanted my "white genocide" on Christmas, as part of the "War on Christmas" package. What does all this about Runaway self-identifying as a right-wing nutjob have to do with anything? Please, Runaway, spare us your opinions, they are not interesting, not informative, but mostly off top...
[20:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:47] <exec> 08└─Waymo has done their homework, their vehicles have already been tested thousands of miles and thousands of hours and now have a safety record better than most humans. They should not be lumped in with the Tesla/Uber crashes. In fact, as soon as self driving cars start becoming a sizable percentage o...
[20:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:50] <exec> 08└─Another example of why you should be careful when reading Wikipedia. That quote from Wikipedia appears to be unsourced. I suggest you look at another part of the page: "Handloom weavers burned mills and pieces of factory machinery. Textile workers destroyed industrial equipment during the late 18th...
[20:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:52] <exec> 08└─You are way, way, WAY the fuck closer to the 1488 boys than you think, that's my point. In fact, I'm not sure I can see much daylight between you and them, and what is there seems to be coming from your laziness and unwillingness to actually harm or kill someone first (because it would ruin your lif...
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─Good point. The companies owning those vehicles should be ordered to put their company name or logo, in large visible print, on their vehicles. Because near-accidents in this case are *not* caused by a single individual bad driver, but a misbehaving collective company AI. So you *are* allowed to tal...
[20:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:56] <exec> 08└─Luddites will be proven to be eventually right, it is a simple matter of power imbalances arising in technologically adept but democratically inept systems. To clarify, the only possible instance of working democracy involves locality, random elected guarantee bodies, a law system understood by most...
[20:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:12] <exec> 08└─But I am generally afflicted by revulsion when I'm around too much of that stuff. I always thought this was just something I've been culturally conditioned to feel as a man.
[20:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't think crush fetish was that big in Japan. They must be mistaken.
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:15] <exec> 08└─So when I get angry I look at my cute self in the mirror, which makes me angrier, which makes me cuter, which makes me angrier, which makes me cuter...
[20:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:18] <exec> 08└─Consider post partum depression. Perfectly rational(?) mothers resent their new babies. Why? I'm thinking this excessive cuteness is at least remotely related, but without the hormones.
[20:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:41] <exec> 08└─See https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] and http://www.dictatorshandbook.net [dictatorshandbook.net]
[20:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:40] <exec> 08└─That is exactly how most AI works. Throw shit at it and see what sticks. Pedantically, one can audit why an "AI" makes its decisions, and apparently they did just that in this case, but realistically who is going to do that for every AI program or every minor revision? The end result is that no one...
[20:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:42] <exec> 08└─Like are you some troll that people find hilarious or something? It's plain as day to anyone in machine learning that if you train F:X->Y and G:Y->X together with only loose demands on Y (i.e. low frequency content being checked), you'll get an F and G that still use all of Y to encode data and sinc...
[20:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps Sharing Your Data With Facebook (Even if you Don't Have an Account) - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:19] <exec> 08└─Personal responsibility. If you exercise it your bitching holds authority and justification. If you don't, it doesn't.
[20:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:33] <exec> 08└─Yes they would. More works in the public domain = more competition for Disney. They hate CC licensed work and if it were up to them they don't want anyone producing any competing works.
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[21:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:48] <exec> 08└─Why do so many of you macho men use "pussy" as an insult? Are you trying to tell us you don't like pussy very much? Maybe you'd prefer to smoke (a pole) instead? :D
[21:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:50] <exec> 08└─In a way, yes. In another way... is your vape liquid certified food-safe? Even so, whether it is or not, sitting and*inhaling* it (pouring it into your lungs) isn't good for you, no matter what it is. Campfire smoke, etc. isn't harmless, there's no reason at all to suggest that cheap stuff bought fr...
[21:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─Lithium batteries are a pain, aren't they?
[21:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:54] <exec> 08└─Fuck yourself. Sounds like you're more interested in lecturing people than actually trying to help them. There isn't even a worst case scenario possible where vaping isn't better for you than smoking.
[21:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:56] <exec> 08└─What a fine day it was. It was neither too hot nor too cold, the birds were singing, and nature was presenting its full splendor. Perhaps this was why Jordonham, who was walking down the sidewalk, became distracted and bumped directly into a woman. "Ops!" the man exclaimed, as he fell on top of her....
[21:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:59] <exec> 08└─Who said that they even want to quit? Nicotine is a great drug, and I love to use it, but tobacco smoke had my lungs in bad shape so I switched to vaping. Now I get all the nicotine I want, but I can breathe, I can control my dosage, and I am spending $50 a year rather than $7 a day.
[21:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:01] <exec> 08└─Why do so many of you macho men use "pussy" as an insult?
[21:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:03] <exec> 08└─Fuck you. I'm a grown adult, and I can use whatever substances I feel like using. GTFO with that puritanical bullshit. Sobriety is nothing special.
[21:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:05] <exec> 08└─LOL... they are a lobbying arm of the vaping indystry, funded by Juul!!!
[21:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:08] <exec> 08└─Lithium batteries are a pain, aren't they?
[21:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:46] <exec> 08└─And it looked like a toaster anyway.
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─Your view, or vision, or lack thereof, does not define who or what I am. What you fail to understand is that racism is equally serious, whether the racist be white, black, Asian, or Martian. It's racism no matter color or ethnicity the hater is.
[21:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:49] <exec> 08└─How ironic. With a name like Aristarchus, the best you can offer is low quality trolling. 'Zumi is about ten levels over your head. Pitiful . . .
[21:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:52] <exec> 08└─Marxists that take the uncritical view of eternal expansion crack me up.
[21:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:54] <exec> 08└─You don't listen well. It's not about safety.
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:56] <exec> 08└─TFA mentions that Google/Waymo is not pressing charges in any of these cases of vandalism. They know better than to risk adding any caseload to the authorities...who so far continue to let them test their self-driving cars.
[21:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:58] <exec> 08└─Postin' this here again so everyone can see it: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] You fucked up, Runaway. This *is* what you are. In your own words.
[21:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:01] <exec> 08└─What you (didn't) fail to understand is that racism is equally serious stupid and counterproductive, whether the racist be white, black, Asian, or Martian. It's racism no matter color or ethnicity the hater is.
[21:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:03] <exec> 08└─> put their company name or logo, in large visible print, on their vehicles. This. Like the signs on the back of semi trailers from some of the big trucking companies, "How is my driving? Call 1-800-xxx-xxxx to comment".
[21:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:05] <exec> 08└─Not enough. Maybe, maybe, if every corporate officer and programmer faced criminal charges for every single accident. Short of that, a lot of people are never going to be willing to share tbe roads with multi-ton killbots.
[21:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:07] <exec> 08└─?? You're speaking for Azumi? What am I missing here?
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:10] <exec> 08└─Your obsession clearly shows that you are incapable of understanding the words. YOU are the one who pondered the next civil war.
[21:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:29] <exec> 08└─Dunno about other people, but when I get overwhelmed by positive emotion, I break out in tears involuntarily. I've never had a sensation of wanting to butcher anyone in my vicinity (yet) (AFAIK). Are you sure Stavropoulos doesn't mean "overwhelmed by tackiness" instead of "overwhelmed by a positive...
[21:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:54] <exec> 08└─No matter what these civilians are going to die. You can not feed them and they starve, or you can send food that the government/rebels steal so they get stronger which means starvation and continued oppression, or we go in bombing and civis get killed by bombs. I guess we could add an option for ta...
[21:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:54] <exec> 08└─It will go away once they kill all the humans.
[21:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Scientists Use DNA Tiles to Play Tic-Tac-Toe at the Nanoscale - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:02] <exec> 08└─First move takes a duck, second move makes a bear, then a fish, then an eagle...
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[22:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─Vices and virtues . . . you mean that someone crushed your head in a vice, and you consider that to be a virtue?
[22:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:19] <exec> 08└─That was an unexpectedly good post out of nowhere..
[22:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:21] <exec> 08└─AKA, why mechanical vapes are not for idiots, and you should read the warning labels on the batteries. Idiots get burned when they play with fire, nothing new, certainly can't blame it on vaping.
[22:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe they meant smocking @realdonaldtrump
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:26] <exec> 08└─Research confirms: Sticking your finger in a live light socket is 95% less harmful than sticking your dick in one.
[22:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:28] <exec> 08└─Fuck yourself. Sounds like you're more interested in lecturing people than actually trying to help them.
[22:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:30] <exec> 08└─You have a very simple view of drugs and addiction. I'm addicted to amphetamines and I know how I could probably quit easily. I'll have withdrawal symptoms, I'll feind in the mornings. If I don't make a new doctor's appointment in time my prescription will run out and I will do whatever can't be pro...
[22:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 2475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:21] <exec> 08└─Or we could just not get in the way of employment? This is the endgame when societies become more concerned about whether employers pay living wages than employing people or reducing the cost of living. There is still even after centuries of automation any indication that people will stop employing...
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:23] <exec> 08└─You are way, way, WAY the fuck closer to the 1488 boys than you think, that's my point. In fact, I'm not sure I can see much daylight between you and them, and what is there seems to be coming from your laziness and unwillingness to actually harm or kill someone first (because it would ruin your lif...
[22:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:25] <exec> 08└─You're speaking for Azumi?
[22:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:27] <exec> 08└─People want someone to exist who can be held accountable in a severe way if a dangerous machine operating in heavily peopled areas kills or injurs anyone.
[22:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─Well, we could fix a lot of crap, if everyone went back a few decades, and picked up with King's dream. No one, it seems, wants to do that. Democrats drive that identity politics thing, separating everyone from everyone. United we stand, divided we fall - and no one wants to be united as Americans.
[22:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:31] <exec> 08└─When was the last time you saw a CEO or programmer held criminally liable for bad code? So, yeah, not really a solved problem. And how many people would be willing to take the jobs if jail time were a risk for any bug?
[22:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:34] <exec> 08└─Ahh, BLM. Soon derailed by "All lives matter", which is somehow slightly more sickening. Embrace the truth. No lives matter.
[22:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:36] <exec> 08└─Democrats drive that identity politics thing, separating everyone from everyone.
[22:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:38] <exec> 08└─if we make employment expensive, then we get less of it and lower quality.
[22:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:40] <exec> 08└─The problem with the approach of "abandon the idea that everybody needs to "work hard" to earn their keep" is that you create a generation of useless people without the experience of doing things or the physical impact of doing things.
[22:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 2707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:43] <exec> 08└─In this discussion, I haven't read any mention, let alone appreciation, of just how dangerous our road transportation system is. Of all the things people do on a regular basis, traveling by car is by far the most dangerous activity. And then people don't show those dangers proper respect by driving...
[22:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:45] <exec> 08└─You two need to get a room. ;)
[22:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:09] <exec> 08└─Like this [edgarsmission.org.au]?
[22:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:10] <exec> 08└─One of my favorites , great lyrics https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:13] <exec> 08└─Destroying something cute or just violent disorder for no organized reason seems to be a western cultural thing. In Japan and places like that no one would think this way..
[22:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:38] <exec> 08└─What's really great knowing you're a snowflake is that you are unaware of your own malignancy. Complacency causes death, as I can clearly see here, but you apparently cannot because you are blinded by your own self-righteousness.
[22:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─Snowflakes only have compassion for drug dealers, rapists, and murderers in their own countries and communities. Bring those murderers here, and they will protest in the streets to protect them.
[22:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:41] <exec> 08└─It's not the snowflakes that knowingly and intentionnaly voted as president and continue to defend a well established con-man, compulsive liar, psychopath and child molester who's tearing the country apart even more than it already was. Talk about self-righteousness, asshole.
[22:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:15] <exec> 08└─In my experience, children usually don't pick the "fun" parent to live with when they are asked in a serious manner. Their own survival instincts seem to kick when you actually make them think about it for any stretch of time and they understand how serious their decision is. In the cases where they...
[22:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:52] <exec> 08└─It found the path of least resistance to get the job done, exactly like it's supposed to do - and exactly like humans do.
[22:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:23] <exec> 08└─Did that actually come out of MS, or did they buy their way into competitiveness like they did with everything else?
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[23:37:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:13] <exec> 08└─Why do so many of you macho men use "pussy" as an insult? Are you trying to tell us you don't like pussy very much? Maybe you'd prefer to smoke (a pole) instead? :D
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─Actually, there's a good read in the Lancet about where the figure of 95% came from: https://www.thelancet.com [thelancet.com] The last two paragraphs are worth reading with care.
[23:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:32] <exec> 08└─Given the recent strong investment in vaping industry, you sound like a paid drone. I'm not willing to believe that polluting lungs with any harmful chemical substance is benign or almost virtuous.
[23:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:34] <exec> 08└─Excellent catch! OP may have been kidding, but looks like it really is the case.
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─Bad debts lol. Vape isn't expensive. You can make it yourself if you buy VG, PG, nicotine, and some flavorings. Make your own coils and get a good tank and it's very cheap, way cheaper than cigarettes. That's really what's at stake here. We get endless stories in the corporate propaganda (the MSM) a...
[23:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─>Adults with addictions worry me Out of curiosity - do you consume caffeine?
[23:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:41] <exec> 08└─Changing smoking to vaping, you get a whole different mix of risks. Comparing is not trivial.
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:43] <exec> 08└─Sticking your dick in might actually be safer. Most people are grounded through their legs, and the route from your finger to your grounding foot is much more likely to pass your heart.
[23:38:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 975 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:03] <exec> 08└─The other factor is that this is the only (mostly futile) method of resistance to job automation the working class knows. Capitalism is not able to handle this level of technology well. If the capitalist system is not overthrown, we're probably looking at a future where a large proportion of the pop...
[23:38:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:09] <exec> 08└─Come on, go out there and say it: "white genocide." That's what you think is happening, don't you? I remember that ridiculous rant of yours in its entirety, wherein you outright said the powers that be are trying to make a sacrifice of your children and grandchildren to make "brown people" happy. Ju...
[23:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:46] <exec> 08└─.When was the last time you saw a CEO or programmer held criminally liable for bad code?
[23:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:48] <exec> 08└─Luddites will be proven to be eventually right. ... Trust me I am a bot.
[23:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:50] <exec> 08└─causing them to slow down and leave a bigger gap, making it easier for more drivers to cut in, repeat rinse...
[23:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:52] <exec> 08└─To the contrary, I'm succeeding at working to be useful because my employer pays me for the work I do.
[23:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:54] <exec> 08└─What kind of half-assed white nationalist are you supposed to be when you son't even know the fourteen words by heart?
[23:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:57] <exec> 08└─Safety is irrelevant unless they can guarantee perfect safety. Accountability when it falls short of perfection like we have with human drivers is my primary concern.
[23:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:59] <exec> 08└─You're not a Microsoft customer, I take it.
[23:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:01] <exec> 08└─Just because you pretend to see something doesn't mean anything either.
[23:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─Heck, I'm not even sure "cuteness" is actually even a positive emotion at its root. Ask yourself - what is the evolutionary purpose of the "cuteness response"? It causes mammals to react positively to infants and children, despite the fact that they are mostly needy, self-absorbed, and generally inc...
[23:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:59] <exec> 08└─Someone added this possible use of encoding, and based on a logic formula, the program used it. My guess is the logic statements were aimed at which had the least amount of time to generate an image under various combinations. Sounds like some fake ass news to me.
[23:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:25] <exec> 08└─Kirk or Piccard?
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