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[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:51] <exec> 08└─It's the principle of the thing, sir! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─I did a beautiful Sub about this one. Where I said, we're doing the Facial at my White House, it's working out so well there. But, they brought in one of their guys to re-do it. And gave me ZERO credit. Because they don't like my politics. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome, folks. And it's very...
[00:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─I think you may be right, and that we should push ubiquitous surveillance to be first implemented on politicians and corporate executives - the individuals whose bad behavior can do the most harm to the most people, with the surveillance footage all made public (perhaps with a delay to avoid comprom...
[00:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:57] <exec> 08└─America and the West will abuse it plenty.
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:59] <exec> 08└─Hopefully the real Trump builds a wall around you. It will be called "Hillary"
[00:34:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:12] <exec> 08└─It's unfortunate they choose to ignore the real problem, the broken three-strikes system. A tiny amount of users can submit enough "community" reports to demonetize any video. Appealing that takes days and you don't get the money back when the videos are re-listed. Further, if you lose 1 appeal, yo...
[00:34:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:29] <exec> 08└─Oh GODS they started showing women and MINORITIES in lead roles???? WTF THIS COUNTRY IS GOING STRAIGHT IN THE CRAPPER!!!
[00:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:37] <exec> 08└─Ghostbusters 2016, The Last Star Wars, Star Trek Diversity, SJW comic books, the NFL and any other manifestation of "Social Justice"
[00:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:39] <exec> 08└─Some people freely and cheerfully admit liking a video before watching it. And their comments saying so get hundreds of likes. Are these people doing a bad thing? I think giving more weight to likes/dislikes based on % of the video watched would be a fair change (and sure, ignore those detected as b...
[00:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:41] <exec> 08└─YouTube is like a war zone, or hell. But everyone is stuck there because it is the dominant platform.
[00:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:43] <exec> 08└─That whole massive downvote and negative comment storm ('mob') they were purging at top speed after the men-are-puds commercial. I took a look while it was hot to see what the fuss was. The commentary was pretty brutal but i haven't checked since to see how it has developed (or if it has.)
[00:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:45] <exec> 08└─TL:DR - racists are upset that western culture no longer caters to their shitty world view
[00:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:48] <exec> 08└─N.F.L., we're not boycotting N.F.L. anymore. Thanks to those who did -- because of you, we won. But that one wasn't about race. It had nothing to do with race. ZERO. It was about RESPECT. For Anthem, Flag and Country. God Bless the U.S.A.! 🇺🇸
[00:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:50] <exec> 08└─TMB posted a journal a while back where he calculated peoples ratios https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I decided that I wanted to be on that list so I made a spreadsheet and tracked daily to see how far I could get. I got to around 98% based on my calculation...
[00:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:52] <exec> 08└─> The latest Star Wars movies are pretty crap, but not for SJW reasons. The most "SJW" thing you can say there > is the fleet leader had dyed hair and boobs, with a bit of "rich people are assholes living off the poor" here and there. > Hardly "SJW" politics. They forgot that you are supposed to pac...
[00:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:34] <exec> 08└─Aren't there bank accounts too?
[00:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:36] <exec> 08└─I'm working on a project with other people right now where they can't lose what I have.
[00:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:54] <exec> 08└─You're feeding the Canadian Troll... Of course, if Canada wanted to make a statement as a nuclear capable world power - landing a full sized Ice Hockey Rink on the moon would be a good one.
[00:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:56] <exec> 08└─When did the "Hockey Rink" become a new unit of measure?
[00:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:58] <exec> 08└─Moonbase Alpha... The dumping ground for nuclear waste.
[00:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:00] <exec> 08└─It was really the whole thread: ------------------------------------------------- Ugh units conversion please? (Score: 5, Funny) by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Wednesday January 09, @11:23PM (#784468) Journal which is the size of six hockey rinks
[00:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Piracy 'Alternative' UltraViolet is Shutting Down - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:54] <exec> 08└─UltraViolet: humans can't see it.
[00:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collaborative Video Games Could Increase Office Productivity - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:05] <exec> 08└─you're the uneducated one when it comes to all matters piscine.
[00:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collaborative Video Games Could Increase Office Productivity - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:06] <exec> 08└─I don't only fish for catfish, just primarily. They're the second best tasting you're likely to find in this neck of the woods. First being crappie but the creel limit on those, their much smaller size, and the inability to nap while fishing for them makes them my second choice. My catfish of choice...
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[01:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─Do most people really trust the UN? They are a political orgsnization with an agenda to self-perpetuate, not sure why they should be worthy of trust.
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─If you are not adapted to your environment, you will not leave many descendants. Today's environment includes birth control, which is best overcome by mental traits. People of the future will have a burning desire to make children, not merely to go through the motions without producing anything. Exp...
[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─Also, it seems like all I ever hear from the UN is extrapolation of a trend continuing as is into the future. Do they do anything else data-wise?
[01:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:57] <exec> 08└─Same argument goes for you: AC is a political animal [wikipedia.org], with an agenda of self-perpetuation, why should I trust her/him? (grin)
[01:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:59] <exec> 08└─People of the future will have a burning desire to make children, not merely to go through the motions without producing anything.
[01:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:01] <exec> 08└─...as soon as I see "in their new book", I understand that for almost every case, at least part of the motivation of the provision of whatever information is in the offing is to make money. It's an excellent first-order assumption. When it comes specifically to predicting future population sizes, I'...
[01:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─If you dig in and see that there isn’t going to be a lot of growth of young people coming into the population, a lot of growth is actually going to come from older people hanging around longer because we’re getting better every day at keeping them alive.
[01:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't, trust is a heuristic that could be useful but is often very dangerous. Nullius in verba.
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─> "Once that decline begins, it will never end" Suuuure. A planet with 10 or 100 million humans will see them acting exactly as they do in a world with 7 or 10 billion. Morons. Don't they realize that after humanity drops below a million people, there just won't be enough to make the computers, netw...
[01:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:10] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you are in denial of human evolution, or at least that somehow the mind is magically excluded? Consider the complex behaviors that cause people to have sex. We wouldn't have those behaviors except for the fact that evolution burned them into our DNA. Those behaviors were, in times past, whol...
[01:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:13] <exec> 08└─Exactly, an anti-aging breakthrough that extends life five years may be enough to get people to the next breakthrough that extends lifespan by 5 years. Repeat.
[01:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:15] <exec> 08└─People of the future will have a burning desire to make children, not merely to go through the motions without producing anything.
[01:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you are in denial of human evolution,
[01:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─Evolution does not work with humans since we stopped throwing unfit children from high places.
[01:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:22] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight, so after the 3 decade peak of 11 billion, when global warming is even more dire and no animal exists outside of a game preserve..... I should worry about the gradual decline of human numbers. OMG we need to do do something!
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:24] <exec> 08└─Wealthy/powerful people are living just as long now as they always have for thousands of years, but cheap energy (oil, coal) is allowing more people to live like that. Even the bible says the max age is 120 years. So, I see no evidence for progress towards "anti-aging" at all.
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─That has never happened. Homo S. has evolved to have few young and care for them. You have confused humans with spiders or something.
[01:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─You'll know it when you see it.
[01:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:46] <exec> 08└─Laws of evolution: - if something is possible, it will exist/be used, even if idiotic - if something is impossible, it will be attempted many times, even if idiotic. Don't worry about China America and the West will abuse it plenty.
[01:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:47] <exec> 08└─If there are still orders of magnitude of computer performance improvements yet to be realized, things will get extra scary.
[01:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:50] <exec> 08└─Why? The Chinese government cares nothing for you.
[01:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:52] <exec> 08└─If the A/C is a former diplomat or high-ranking executive then my comment does not stand. I don't think A/C is either of those things, do you?
[01:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:54] <exec> 08└─A lot of people are currently assuming that Moore's law will completely run out of steam. We might see a doubling of CPU performance and a few hundred percent more GPU performance in this scenario, and then classical computing hits a brick wall. Optimizations will be made for at least a while, and p...
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:40] <exec> 08└─> Balanced moderation so to speak. Shouldn't it be "fair and balanced" ? Some people only contribute positively. Some people are always trolling (mildly or not). There's not reason to enforce fairness where it doesn't belong. Let me call Bill-the-Exxon-shill, I need to balance my latest Australia we...
[01:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:41] <exec> 08└─I've been so lucky in terms of that whole world. I don't need the money. And it's not a lot of money. Even though I'm one of the biggest Vloggers. Not only on YouTube. I'm very big on Insta and Twitter. Very "successful." And I cash every check. But I wouldn't count on it to pay the bills. It is a d...
[01:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:43] <exec> 08└─Attempts have been made, and there are YouTube alternatives that do just fine, except with a small fraction of the traffic. But the YouTube exodus hasn't happened yet despite years of complaints. There was a lot of hope for Vidme during the height of the adpocalypse but that fizzled. Maybe YouTube w...
[01:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:45] <exec> 08└─We have youtube premium for the family (don't judge me) I leave it autoplaying on demonetized creators when I sleep as Youtube is totally trustworthy and promises to pay them when premium watchers watch their content regardless of demonetization. Sadly the best ones to sleep to aren't demonetized (w...
[01:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:48] <exec> 08└─Meta - is attempting to build up Karma and a positive reputation so you can troll more effectively later a form of trolling in and of itself?
[01:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:50] <exec> 08└─what is it about Isaac Arthur?
[01:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:52] <exec> 08└─It's easier to grab the jewels if they don't expect a person like you to be a thief.
[01:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:36] <exec> 08└─It all depends on how smart 'our' side actually is. Classifying strong encryption as munitions implies they think it'll work and are concerned. It implies that if our opponents get strong encryption they'd be safe. That's exactly what you'd want them to think if you'd actually compromised their syst...
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:37] <exec> 08└─Or - I've emailed the encrypted version of one wallet. Learn the pass phrase and we'll split the money from the rest. (file contents filled with /dev/random)
[01:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super Bowl® LIII - Athletics, Advertisements, and... An Experiment! - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:45] <exec> 08└─Which makes diving a passtime, not a sport, just like gymnastics etc. They should have their own thing, and leave the Olympics alone.
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[02:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:47] <exec> 08└─I've never been to the USA, but Hawaii seems to be one of the most progressive states the country has. Just recently they were in the news for taking charge on getting loot boxes in video games labelled as gambling. Good on them!
[02:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─What can you expect? Trample on a minority so that their group can appear all virtuous about themselves.
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:51] <exec> 08└─So invest in fake ids of 100+ year olds?
[02:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 594 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:02] <exec> 08└─...as soon as I see "in their new book", I understand that for almost every case, at least part of the motivation of the provision of whatever information is in the offing is to make money. It's an excellent first-order assumption. When it comes specifically to predicting future population sizes, I'...
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:16] <exec> 08└─Both the UN and the journalists are not counting one influence: that of the khazar jews. The world population would explode or decline if it were left to its own devices and random events and not calculated, plotted-in-detail events like world wars and (most of today's wars) etc. And in that case we...
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─^ winner The trend of today does not necessarily make the trend of tomorrow. Many humans realize the world is too packed with humans, birthing more humans foremost becomes a cost decision, and sometimes it is an environmental decision if they are aware of over population. If population declines it i...
[02:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:19] <exec> 08└─A few years ago when the world hit 7 billion, National Geographic had a special on it. They had some interesting articles about the future, one of which predicted that it would flatten out and stabilise, even decline a bit. It was based on historical observations that as countries develop, the death...
[02:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─As people get more educated and are able to support themselves better, they have less kids. That's one reason the west's population is in decline and immigration is needed: to support the current population.
[02:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03beernutz [4365] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:24] <exec> 08└─This video has some excellent points on population. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─Shit: guess I should have refreshed my browser: I just posted pretty much what you did.
[02:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:28] <exec> 08└─Anyone can estimate these numbers. It's just that the estimates usually aren't of much value.
[02:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:31] <exec> 08└─Even the bible says the max age is 120 years.
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:33] <exec> 08└─If populations decline we will just ban birth control. And once we ban birth control only criminals will be childless.
[02:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 2788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:36] <exec> 08└─What actually happens in evolution like this is that an out of control organism replicates until it either kills the host or is killed itself. If the population goes ape shit then people that can't control themselves will end up in the resource barren areas (whether by force or because they over con...
[02:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:38] <exec> 08└─A planet with 10 or 100 million humans will see them acting exactly as they do in a world with 7 or 10 billion. Morons.
[02:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:40] <exec> 08└─1) Governments and their corporate cronies have a motivation to kill off all the people who they owe pensions and social security. - We can already see this in the US life expectancy dropping since the activation of Obamacare in ~2014 gave more people access to "healthcare" (ie, dangerous chemicals...
[02:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:43] <exec> 08└─I used to have a copy of every prediction for population that the UN had made since the 90s. Alas I seem to have lots those files on a random HD at some point. The funny thing about them was that the current median extrapolation was always, and I mean always, the same as 5-10 years ago's pessimistic...
[02:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:45] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure I know that one (on my phone right now, can't check the content), but I seem to remember it assumes all societies will naturally advance at the same rate, just with different starting points. That's clearly false, as there are about a billion people who clearly have no intention of advan...
[02:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:47] <exec> 08└─the guys whitewashing western invasions and wars ever since creating the fake country of israel to police the extraction of oil from the east down to overthrow maduro in venezuela right now and pretty much everything in between? no, not a drop of confidence
[02:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:49] <exec> 08└─It sounds worthwhile to find that and put it online.
[02:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:52] <exec> 08└─That's all you've got? Maybe some big governments will decide against funding anti-aging research (unlikely, since governments are comprised of individuals, many of whom will want to live indefinitely). But they can't stop all research and countries won't act in lockstep. Your link between Obamacare...
[02:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:54] <exec> 08└─That just takes a generation or two with access to better information. In the US there is a "problem" for Christian Churches, their congregations are shrinking and getting older because with access to information their children are able to see the bullshit.
[02:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:56] <exec> 08└─Then how do you explain that any region that has reasonable health care (key indicator low child mortality) and reasonable education level of women has experienced a sharp drop of fecundity? Ie look at G7 nations. Much more resources then many places, yet birthrate around 2.1 per couple in last few...
[02:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe some big governments will decide against funding anti-aging research (unlikely, since governments are comprised of individuals, many of whom will want to live indefinitely).
[02:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:21] <exec> 08└─HEY! I'm a unique crystal in human form. If the Chinese knew what I could show them you bet your ass (or brainz?) they'd be trying to woo me over there.
[02:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:14] <exec> 08└─I said the movies were crap, I just disagree that they were pushing some evillll "SJW" narrative. What exactly was the social commentary? Are we trying to shift the overton window so far right that decrying slavery becomes boorish?
[02:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:16] <exec> 08└─The thing is: something that is truly disliked by many WITHOUT an also large number of likes probably does deserve to be ranked lower. Things that are horrible but still grab attention likely still grab a significant number of likes. Eliminating "dislike" probably won't lose a lot of those, because...
[02:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:03] <exec> 08└─Remember, remember the 5th of November.
[02:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:25] <exec> 08└─The jews will be gathering spy data all the way from the pre-launch sequence to the actual touchdown on the moon (an artificial body), if it will ever get there. The spy device will be loaded on a rocket built by non-jews and the spy device will be gathering all data from the rocket (whatever it can...
[02:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Piracy 'Alternative' UltraViolet is Shutting Down - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:21] <exec> 08└─It's a trade off. I currently "own" about sixty films in 4K Ultra HD, 150 films in 1080p, and 100 television seasons in 1080p spread between Vudu and Amazon Prime Video. I realize that I don't actually own the movies and television shows, but heck, according to the MPAA I wouldn't actually own them...
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[03:33:52] <exec> 08└─End stage free market capitalism.
[03:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:53] <exec> 08└─Just like the way those Democrats have been suppressing minorities in the Deep South. Oh, wait. That's Republicans, isn't it? Yes, yes it is.
[03:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:55] <exec> 08└─Can't we instead simply restrict kids under 100 to designated smoking areas?
[03:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:58] <exec> 08└─You haven't kept up on your news lately. The only politician who's actually wearing KKK robes anymore is Virginia Governor Northrup (D), and his sex offender Vice Governor (D). Neither has resigned as of yet.
[03:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─I haven't figured this one out yet and why there is such an uproar (by all the snowflakes? butthurts?) The picture was taken around 1983, not that long ago. The 'Get the next click of outrage!' news media has portrayed it as the guy was at a real KKK rally or something. But actually, if you look at...
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─You're just going to create a new black market for cigarettes and make criminals out of trailer trash. Legalizing drugs is the solution, not making more of them illegal. I don't have an issue with making it illegal to smoke around non-smokers. Secondhand smoke kills a lot of people. Put those gorey...
[03:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:48] <exec> 08└─Those G7 nations will not retain low fecundity long-term. Reliable birth control is recent in human terms. It's only been 2 or 3 generations. That's not very much, although the selection pressure is high. It would take a few dozen generations to fully spread a strongly-selected trait throughout the...
[03:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:49] <exec> 08└─You need to work on that: FEWER kids (because kids are theoretically countable, unlike fluids and feelings) No, we don't need immigration. That is called extinction. Wiping out our culture like that actually meets the UN's definition of genocide. You might as well claim that we should reduce educati...
[03:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:51] <exec> 08└─I think the alternate reading is a stretch. I mean it says because man is "flesh" he will only live 120 years, and this does seem to actually be about the max lifespan.
[03:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:54] <exec> 08└─That's where the problem lies. If you look at the stats, most first-world nations have static or slightly shrinking populations. In the last few years, the population growth of the bogeymen countries (Muslim majority, which are heavily studied by people worried about bogeymen) have also started to d...
[03:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:56] <exec> 08└─Suuuure. A planet with 10 or 100 million humans will see them acting exactly as they do in a world with 7 or 10 billion. Morons.
[03:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:58] <exec> 08└─What makes you think it was a mistake? The same thing has happened with atmospheric CO2-level predictions. The UN is a political body, not a scientific one, and it shouldn't be at all surprising that their official predictions reflect politics more accurately than science.
[03:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:00] <exec> 08└─The biggest Christian fail is taking shit in the bible literally, like it's some kind of exact historical record. At least the New Testament synoptic Gospels preaches spiritual love, oneness of man, and contains a positive message. But, the old testament is the opposite, full of negative reinforceme...
[03:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:03] <exec> 08└─As people get more educated and are able to support themselves better, they have less kids. That's one reason the west's population is in decline and immigration is needed: to support the current population.
[03:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:27] <exec> 08└─Crystal != Snowflake
[03:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:28] <exec> 08└─The last Facial to happen in the Whitehouse was during Clinton's reign.
[03:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:30] <exec> 08└─Oh so you watched the movie “the circle”?
[03:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 4258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:25] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem with the Ghostbusters thing was that it was really a horrible script. It's what the film industry has taken to calling a 'reboot' meaning that they just threw the original in the trash can and started over with nothing but the name and some very basic level of the concept. I'm no...
[03:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:13] <exec> 08└─But you can't use it in heaven, because they still lack an internet connection.
[03:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─The lander for the mission, dubbed 'Beresheet'
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[04:33:49] <exec> 08└─I can't tell what they actually did to train this. Was it reinforcement learning from picking up the object randomly? Or did they have a "gold standard" trajectory it learned to mimic? I highly doubt this has anything to do with being "self-aware". The most likely explanation is that academia has be...
[04:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:06] <exec> 08└─I agree. Smokers never, ever smoke alone -- if anyone walks within 50 feet of them they may as well gag on the smoke. Do like Japan: no smoking on the PUBLIC way. Or rather, if you do, and someone else is forced to inhale your shit, you're guilty of battery. I also agree -- don't make these things i...
[04:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:07] <exec> 08└─I believe this toothpaste may be making my lips slough off. I cannot believe what I am reading! I was having the same issues after I could not find regular Aquafresh. Unknowingly I bought the 'new and improved' (foaming) formula which caused the lining of my mouth to begin to slough off after the fi...
[04:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:09] <exec> 08└─Smokers never, ever smoke alone -- if anyone walks within 50 feet of them they may as well gag on the smoke.
[04:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:12] <exec> 08└─Then why shouldn't anyone running an internal combustion engine also be guilty of battery?
[04:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:14] <exec> 08└─My toothpaste tube and my hemorrhoid cream tube both look the same without my glasses.
[04:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─That sounds like an accident waiting to happen. Have you contacted your local official or representative about this yet?
[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:18] <exec> 08└─Yes... Governor Brown said toothpaste works great for hemorrhoids, especially the minty foaming type.
[04:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 1491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:12] <exec> 08└─You're on the right track. These sorts of predictions are more fearmongering to generate book sales than useful warnings. Life has had the ability to overpopulate ever since there's been life. But, populating to the max is not a viable long term strategy. A bust is an inevitable consequence of a boo...
[04:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:14] <exec> 08└─for example by civilization collapsing due to an excess of relatively parasitic people.
[04:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:16] <exec> 08└─he current median extrapolation was always, and I mean always, the same as 5-10 years ago's pessimistic extrapolation. i.e. they kept making the same mistake year after year after year, and never adjusted their models to try and make the "pessimistic" one the expected one.
[04:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:18] <exec> 08└─10 to 100m people is probably too few. However you'd probably see the distribution change to maintain similar population densities.
[04:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:21] <exec> 08└─The IJC [rationalwiki.org] is watching you, friend. You will be liquidated. Not because you actually have a clue, but because we like to operate without commentary. First, we'll make you watch while we eat your babies. Then we'll poison the well in your town. Finally, we will kill you. MWAHHAHAHAHAH...
[04:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:24] <exec> 08└─Except that's not true. Those missing women are there, they just aren't registered. And you see similar issues in the U.S. where there are significant numbers of men in excess of women in most of the Western states and some shortfalls in parts of the East and South. This is largely an issue of inter...
[04:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:26] <exec> 08└─Of course not. Nobody ever agrees with the UN unless doing so advances their already fully formed agenda. It is a joke organization and has been since it was formed.
[04:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:59] <exec> 08└─This is entirely an artefact of the transliteration process from Hebrew to English. I had to double-take that ugly-sounding word until I got the emphasis correct. It's not "Beresheet", it is "b'RESH-it". (English and Hebrew apply emphasis to syllables differently.) Now for the trivia buffs: the "b'"...
[04:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bell Canada Tried to Outlaw VPNs in NAFTA - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:25] <exec> 08└─I might look into them again. I tried to have them, but there were issues between them and Bell to do the transfer of accounts/lines and I ended up without internet for about 3 weeks. I switched to cable after that with a Videotron reseller (ebox). I've been happy with them even though I recently no...
[04:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iRobot's Terra Cuts the Grass While You Relax - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:25] <exec> 08└─You now the grass for your neighbors. And at an inappropriate time as revenge for an Ill timed party.
[04:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iRobot's Terra Cuts the Grass While You Relax - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:26] <exec> 08└─Get a goat.
[04:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iRobot's Terra Cuts the Grass While You Relax - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:29] <exec> 08└─I do fine, thanks. I mean I own a boat and can afford to go fishing pretty much whenever I feel like it, so I have no complaints. I pity you your beard envy though. It's sad when a man can't do the things that are supposed to come free with every Y chromosome.
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[05:33:59] <exec> 08└─You have to be really ignorant to blame Trump for something that has been overdue for over 40 years. It is a nazi g this Ponzi scheme has lasted as long as it did.
[05:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:00] <exec> 08└─So, this site is better than Slashdot because we have articles like THIS submitted?
[05:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:02] <exec> 08└─Goldman Sachs predicted the historically high levels of personal studen corporate and government debt will trigger a ren year depression that will put the Great Depression completely to shame I started stockpiling food and water at first to prepare for power outages but when I read about our upcomin...
[05:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:04] <exec> 08└─"A nazi g" was autocorrect for some typoed version of "amazing"...
[05:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:07] <exec> 08└─Blaming Trump for stuff that happened in 2014: And, as ominously, foreign governments since 2014 are no longer storing their gold reserves in the United States or, as with Germany, removing them from the Federal Reserve.
[05:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:09] <exec> 08└─The comments are crazy over there. The sentences are as long as normal people's paragraphs and they have their own definitions of common terms, eg like what capitalism means (afaict to them it means anything bad the US government does). Where are people learning this?
[05:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:11] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. Perhaps. But this is quite predictable, and realistically he probably couldn't have done anything at all about that. At most, perhaps kick it down the line to his successor, as is traditional, but even that was becoming untenable. It's a shame it has to come to this, but it's a good thing....
[05:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:13] <exec> 08└─You obviously haven't paid any attention to the American education system since the '90s. English, history, math, and critical thinking? Pfft. They're all overrated and who has time for them anyway? It's all social justice, socialism, communism, LGBTWTFBBQ rights, bring a drag queen to kindergarten...
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─The only way to make this country great is to take us back to a time before empire. Kill the empire to save the republic. Fuck warmongers
[05:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─I started stockpiling food and water
[05:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:47] <exec> 08└─Because it is funny to point out the lefts own insanity. I like seeing them justify this guy when they say that braiding your hair is racist cultural apropriation.
[05:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning "Godfather" Worried About China's Use of AI - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:13] <exec> 08└─I have not. Is it any good? I think I was first introduced to the idea by a David Brin essay on radical transparency, or something to that effect.
[05:37:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:35] <exec> 08└─Dear Friend, My name is Aishwary Bhavsar. I am the widow of a very rich cryptocurrency manager. Regrettably all the money ($137 million) is stuck in a laptop with lost password. The money is now legally written off as dead loss. To get the money I need expert hacker to break in the laptop but I don'...
[05:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aetna Makes an Apple Watch App—Promises Not to Use Activity Data Against You - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:12] <exec> 08└─This because I only lift weights inside a Faraday Cage.
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[06:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Sharing 2.2 Billion Record Mega-Credential Dump - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:46] <exec> 08└─Yep, I'm in that new 2.2 billion dump. I'm not too worried though. I change my passwords every year or so, and use Bitwarden [bitwarden.com] as my password manager. It's open source, has nice browser extensions, and did well in a recent . I find Bitwarden to be a nice compromise between the security...
[06:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Sharing 2.2 Billion Record Mega-Credential Dump - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:48] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[06:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:05] <exec> 08└─If you want to say "you should have seen this coming", then yes. But blaming Trump isn't wrong, because his actions have been such that it was essentially forced to happen. OTOH, in the long term this may turn out to be for the best. I hope that long term isn't too long in getting here, though.
[06:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:07] <exec> 08└─Now my freezer is packed solid with meat; it will last for a while
[06:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:09] <exec> 08└─Blaming Trump for stuff that happened in 2014: And, as ominously, foreign governments since 2014 are no longer storing their gold reserves in the United States or, as with Germany, removing them from the Federal Reserve.
[06:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:11] <exec> 08└─Now my freezer is packed solid with meat;
[06:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:13] <exec> 08└─This because the freezer really is packed solid, so it would take quite a long time for the ColdOns to leak out if I don't open the door. But seriously: somehow, some way I'll come up with the cash to buy a large deep freeze - properly they're denoted as "Chest Freezers" - that I'll keep in my garag...
[06:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:15] <exec> 08└─The only way to make this country great is to take us back to a time before empire.
[06:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:18] <exec> 08└─Probably one and the same but fuck the debt mongers, too.
[06:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:20] <exec> 08└─Trump has zero to do with this. They laugh at his power at the fed (at ~15:25): https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Also, the death of the dollar has been in the works for a long time: https://bitcoin.com.au [bitcoin.com.au]
[06:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:22] <exec> 08└─We, which is to say the US as a nation rather than individual Americans, have had this coming for a long, long time. I journal'd about this a good while ago and mostly got blown off (https://soylentnews.org/~Azuma+Hazuki/journal/3350 if you want to see), but I've always known this was coming since e...
[06:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:24] <exec> 08└─"Goodbye to the Dollar"... What a boring title. I would have chosen "Orange Man Kills Greenback"
[06:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:27] <exec> 08└─I hope to rotate your stock of bullets.
[06:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:29] <exec> 08└─And while I"m at it, also probably one and the same, fuck the corporatists. I think it is true that the love of money is the root of all evil. And corporations are where vile, evil, greedy men hide to do their awful deeds.
[06:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:31] <exec> 08└─Individual Americans are mostly decent people
[06:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, really. Most of them aren't murderers, rapists, thieves, or even all that hateful, left to their own devices. But I also think most Americans are dumber than dogshit, and refuse to be otherwise. Unfortunately, we're past the point where the world can support that level of stupid, and I sadly fo...
[06:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:35] <exec> 08└─The love of money is one manifestation of an underlying tendency: the tendency to objectify people and personalize objects. That is the root of all evil right there, subjugating agents to objects. It's what I've been calling people out on this site for since the beginning, and they're not getting it...
[06:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:38] <exec> 08└─And I have my suspicions about the Wall Street Crash as well... You can blame that on Hoover
[06:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a doom porn addiction to me, don't confuse it with reality...
[06:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:42] <exec> 08└─They "print" anything anti-Trump. Even when it makes ZERO sense like this trash! While the very positive news about our Economy gets rejected. It's called Deluzional, folks. We have the strongest Economy in the World. And our Dollar is incredibly strong right now. reuters.com/article/global-precious...
[06:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:44] <exec> 08└─The Great Depression was far worse than it otherwise would have been due to the Federal Reserve's efforts to support the price of gold. That led it to _not_ stimulate the economy at a time when such a stimulus was desperately needed.
[06:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:14] <exec> 08└─What is it like to be this...nihilistic, this completely mechanistic, this utterly joylessly zero-sum? Do you truly think the human race is nothing more than the aggregate of its reproductive capacity? I will take quality of life over quantity any day. And, if this is just a dogwhistle about "OLAWD...
[06:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:16] <exec> 08└─The NT is literally infinitely worse than the OT, because it contains (at least to people who can't read Koine...) a God who says he'll drop the majority of all humans who have ever lived into eternal, inescapable, conscious, endless torment. Comparative religion is helpful in helping one notice tha...
[06:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:39] <exec> 08└─I'll admit it. I fell asleep during Space Prison Colonies.
[06:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:53] <exec> 08└─We live in the Age of Computer. The Age of Digital. Otherwise known as App. Doesn't everybody do the App nowadays? Make the App and pay our wonderful young people $20 a month to run it.
[06:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:54] <exec> 08└─Jews In Space [youtube.com]
[06:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:56] <exec> 08└─I need to issue a correction (crumbs, what I thinking!): The root, transliterated as "rosh", is ראש (resh [letter on the right], aleph, shin). The rest is correct.
[06:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06iRobot's Terra Cuts the Grass While You Relax - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:25] <exec> 08└─Oh, I can grow a real man's fucking beard fuckass. Just not a "40 year old-taking-propecia-because-I-started-getting-a-bald-spot" man's beard. It takes a nice full month, and it's a full fucking inch. Is that enough manhood for you? Cause I got another 6.5 for ya if it's not. Also it has spots where...
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[07:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Sharing 2.2 Billion Record Mega-Credential Dump - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:56] <exec> 08└─My username and password, that lead the nefarious dark-webber to my horde of aristarchus submissions on SoylentNews? Should be able to sell those for beau-coup bucks on the internets! I mean, according to some website I have visited, an aristarchus submission getting over a hundred comments, and ove...
[07:34:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:04] <exec> 08└─You have to be really ignorant to blame Trump for something that has been overdue for over 40 years. It is a nazi g this Ponzi scheme has lasted as long as it did.
[07:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:34] <exec> 08└─During economic downturns, there will be no way to infuse cash into the economy. During times of high interest rates, there will be no way to lower them, because there will be no central banks to sell off bonds at lower rates. Now, I _do_ strongly support crypto, and even own an ASIC rig, but mostly...
[07:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:35] <exec> 08└─The US may be irrational, but European nations aren't in any position to point fingers. China's probably the most rational of the large/powerful nations, not that I would want to live there, but I think it's the most likely to weather any global socioeconomic catastrophe, dragging its polluted and c...
[07:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:37] <exec> 08└─Doubtlessly he's well-aware of the dollar's decline. We won't actually occupy Venezuela, rather we'll force it to trade its oil with US Dollars. Consider that Khaddafi wanted to established an all-Africa monetary union.
[07:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:40] <exec> 08└─She can't hear you. But maybe you can hear me. 2018, tremendous year for our Manufacturing. 218,000 new jobs, the most in 21 years -- because of me. Rejected Sub!!! cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/2018-saw-largest-increase-manufacturing-jobs-21-years [cnsnews.com]
[07:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:42] <exec> 08└─"Latifundia". At first Roman plantations worked by slaves, then more recently in Spain and Latin America. Nowadays, they sell slaves in the France- and US-liberated Libya. Quite a lot of chocolate is grown by child slaves, with many US confectionary companies refusing to boycott such chocolate. Plea...
[07:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, really. Most of them aren't murderers, rapists, thieves, or even all that hateful, left to their own devices.
[07:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:46] <exec> 08└─They say I won't live to 35
[07:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:48] <exec> 08└─Texas GOP: No More Critical Thinking In The Schools [edweek.org] The usual reason given is that Critical Thinking Education leads children to disobey their parents, but you and I both know the Right's real reason is that Critical Thinking makes one resistant to propaganda. For example, many Right Wi...
[07:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:51] <exec> 08└─Consider that Khaddafi wanted to established an all-Africa monetary union.
[07:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:53] <exec> 08└─My body is 33. I've...seen things. And experienced things, though thankfully not as bad as the things I've seen.
[07:35:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03boltronics [580] 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:06] <exec> 08└─I've never been to the USA, but Hawaii seems to be one of the most progressive states the country has. Just recently they were in the news for taking charge on getting loot boxes in video games labelled as gambling. Good on them!
[07:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:26] <exec> 08└─The above is what a JIDF agent sounds like. Complete trolling, a waste of time ... just like democracy. Beware of the jew.
[07:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:38] <exec> 08└─Get cryptocurrency miners to brute-force the encryption key: the more keys you test, the greater share of the money you get when the encryption is broken. Simples!
[07:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Moon's Next Visitor - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:06] <exec> 08└─realDonaldTrump above is referring to the infamous (((facebook))) research app: (Not off-topic at all, considering the post being replied to.) https://www.dailydot.com [dailydot.com] Since 2016, Facebook has reportedly been paying people ages 13 to 35 a small fee of up t...
[07:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Collaborative Video Games Could Increase Office Productivity - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:23] <exec> 08└─Never tasted a Golden Trout, sauted in butter? Or a properly prepared Rainbow Trout? Even a Dolly Varden is vastly superior to any of the mud fish you fish for. But, then there are the stripers, the wahoo, the Mahimahi and the Tunnies. And the Sockeyes and the King salmon. Salmonidae > [google.com...
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[08:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:44] <exec> 08└─I kept reading and now they are piling onto a guy for buying silver in 2001 and tripling his value. They say he is stupid for not selling at the peak in 2012 when he could have 6x-ed the value, therefore silver is a scam (or something) I saw some other posts where they say only professional traders...
[08:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:46] <exec> 08└─You missed the world wars. I can't say much about the first one, but in the second one we can safely say the US saved the world from a pretty bad place. Technically it was long-term self-interest, but it doesn't change the fact that most of the world was better off as a consequence of the US's actio...
[08:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:48] <exec> 08└─You're still managing to be human, so that's gotta count for something. Don't be too eager to check out, I doubt there are do-overs.
[08:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:50] <exec> 08└─Either you: 1. are clueless about how this could be abused 2. actually want it to be abused It is obvious that "critical thinking" isn't going to be honestly about teaching more effective ways of thinking. It's a propaganda class taught by teachers, and teachers are typically in support of ctrl-left...
[08:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:52] <exec> 08└─You know, if you got a holster for your gun, you wouldn't need "proper lubrication" to store it. You'd be lots more comfortable too, especially if the gun is large or has sharp parts, and your gun wouldn't smell like poo.
[08:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:55] <exec> 08└─You missed the world wars. I can't say much about the first one, but in the second one we can safely say the US saved the world from a pretty bad place. The Soviet Russians under Stalin have a good basis for arguing they were the ones that saved the world in the Great Patriotic War. In fact, Hitler...
[08:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:27] <exec> 08└─Besides, people rarely have burning desire to have children.
[08:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:28] <exec> 08└─It may be a joyless picture, but nobody ever said nature was nice. The AC is right, evolution hasn't stopped, it's just that the current selection conditions have changed to include birth control, modern society, the health and welfare systems. The drop in fecundity is temporary and will be evolved...
[08:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:30] <exec> 08└─I certainly trust the UN. Who do you trust then?
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[09:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:49] <exec> 08└─For a self driving car it's a piece of cake. All the physics are programmed in.
[09:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roo_Boy [1762] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:50] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure this must have been lifted from a non-UK source and reposted by Daily Mail. Driving on the left means a left turn has no incoming traffic.
[09:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:52] <exec> 08└─A minor edit was made to this story after release to improve readability.
[09:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:55] <exec> 08└─If you read the article (yeah, I know....) it is discussing the development and testing of autonomous vehicles in the US. It is not reposted, but an original piece explaining some of the findings in the USA. Many of the things that it mentions do not exist outside the US.
[09:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:57] <exec> 08└─For many years, autonomous vehicles will have to deal with humans who don't always play by the rules.
[09:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:04] <exec> 08└─And, as ominously, foreign governments since 2014 are no longer storing their gold reserves in the United States or, as with Germany, removing them from the Federal Reserve.
[09:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:05] <exec> 08└─I think the tipping point for America that took it fervently in the direction of Empire was the refusal to listen to the warnings of Eisenhower. When WWII ended and we were handed a world in complete ruin, except for us, without any remaining superpowers able to project forces, except for us, we did...
[09:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:07] <exec> 08└─On this, perhaps rather grim topic, the best related fiction you'll ever read is Lionel Shriver's "The Mandibles". I read it last year and could not get it out of my head.
[09:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:09] <exec> 08└─2008-2016 were years of unprecedented devaluation of the dollar in order to pump the stock market. https://fred.stlouisfed.org [stlouisfed.org] https://fred.stlouisfed.org [stlouisfed.org]
[09:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:46] <exec> 08└─I can confirm that - the main reason I started collecting the data (in about 2000, but their website did have old docs available) was that I had detected a long-standing pattern of bullshit already, and was sick of it. I think I was hoping to collect many many decades of data about either deliberate...
[09:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:47] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that because I used the word "mistake", I think it was an actual mistake? To mispredict in one report may be regarded as a misfortune, Mr Immerman; to mispredict in two looks like carelessness.
[09:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:49] <exec> 08└─Their pulling in of new members is falling, but both the richer and the poorer members are quite good at breeding, so numbers aren't declining as quickly as they might do. However, it wasn't Christians in the US I was referring to - they do indeed have good access to information that adequately coun...
[09:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:13] <exec> 08└─Though the film was a box-office smash and received 10 Oscar nominations, even [in 1968] it was widely ridiculed as dated by liberal critics. The hero, played by the first black Hollywood superstar, Sidney Poitier, was seen as too perfect and too “white” — an impossibly handsome doctor with Jo...
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[10:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:50] <exec> 08└─Folks, we filed the charges against these people. 23 indictments. Very strong move. Bigger story, right? But Goofy Soylent News Editors rejected the Sub for that. With ZERO explanation. Sometimes they put the explanation (usually dumb). Nothing for this one! foxbusiness.com/technology/u-s-files-crim...
[10:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:51] <exec> 08└─Poor Huawei getting in trouble for installing the wrong country's backdoors.
[10:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─Why are there always members of the MSM around for these FBI activities recently? Something unwholesome is afoot.
[10:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:05] <exec> 08└─The mobile electronics sector kept doubling performance while decreasing price, while desktop PCs stalled. Why? because the PC can't be locked down without messing a lot with legacy stuff, while mobile is by design a surveillance device. Now, a huge amount of funds is dedicated to the development of...
[10:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roo_Boy [1762] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:06] <exec> 08└─I only skimmed :P Although they could have mentioned the right-turn that would have the same issue for right-hand drive nations (not that there are too many of us)
[10:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:08] <exec> 08└─Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All
[10:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK TSB Bank Business Customers Reportedly Unable to Access Accounts Online - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:16] <exec> 08└─No, not the clients' computers, nor the bank's servers. The bank itself. It seems unable to bank any more. If it was a horse, it would have been put down by now. I've never banked with TSB, so have no personal grudge, but if they're as incompetent as Barclays, then they probably don't even know what...
[10:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:20] <exec> 08└─Please don't take the following as condoning the actions of the US in general, or as a generic condemnation of the russian people. I lived for seven years in communist Romania, and twenty more years in post-communist Romania. I can tell you that the real meaning of "communist", as well as "post-comm...
[10:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:22] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there an issue with Germany actually getting their gold back? ISTR some fun story about them having even been denied access to check that the stuff was actually still in the Federal Reserve's vaults...
[10:35:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:40] <exec> 08└─Can't we instead simply restrict kids under 100 to designated smoking areas?
[10:35:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 775 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:44] <exec> 08└─I agree. Smokers never, ever smoke alone -- if anyone walks within 50 feet of them they may as well gag on the smoke. Do like Japan: no smoking on the PUBLIC way. Or rather, if you do, and someone else is forced to inhale your shit, you're guilty of battery. I also agree -- don't make these things i...
[10:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:53] <exec> 08└─Do what Australia does? Increase the tax a bit every year on a box of cigs. The die hard hold outs will eventually die.
[10:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes they do. The analysis is based on population growth projections as compared to economic status (including future economic status) and based on historic population trends in the now rich countries. They don't just pull numbers out of their asses. It's like layman trying to comment on softwar...
[10:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:04] <exec> 08└─That has never happened.
[10:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:06] <exec> 08└─The drop in fecundity is temporary and will be evolved around in a few generations.
[10:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:31] <exec> 08└─The new She-Ra (the one where the young girl trans-forms into a boy)
[10:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:33] <exec> 08└─Easily abused. Upvote some ac just to down vote. stack overflow is good. Up vote x times per day. Down vote burns your karma.
[10:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:35] <exec> 08└─Redtube respects me votes I is moving there's
[10:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:24] <exec> 08└─The access to the laptop is either (1) something he had, in which case the problem is finding the thing he had, not brute forcing, or (2) something he knew, in which case you're doing an entropy-directed dictionary attack using a dictionary based on what you think was in his consciousness, as he cer...
[10:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:26] <exec> 08└─> I think that's why the NSA compromised a well used CSPRNG, to make sure that most encryption is improperly implemented. If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, I'd not describe it that way. They compromised a *suite* by adding a CPRNG that was: utterly inefficient; chock full of t...
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[11:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:00] <exec> 08└─Of *hard* screen fronts? Hard ain't the problem. We have hard, more hard than we already need. Alas, we have hard but brittle. And the things keep shattering. Because they are brittle. What we need is *tough*, not hard. Difficult physical properties. So the iijits were stealing something worthless!
[11:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:01] <exec> 08└─Bloomberg is very crooked, I absolutely wouldn't put it past them to collude with the F.B.I. Bloomberg makes it sound like, oh, their Reporter was just there for the C.E.S. And having a Gelato or two. I don't know. I don't know. You smell a rat. And there's a lot of rats in this story. Actually they...
[11:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:03] <exec> 08└─By the way, how did Adam Khan think Huawei would test the brittleness of his Glass sample without destructive testing? If his product is that easy to copy, he should have applied for patents before handing it out. Odd.
[11:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:06] <exec> 08└─The guy that made it. He doesn't say hard. According to Fake News Bloomberg. He says "lighter, thinner, faster, stronger" (they say). It's glass, but with a VERY THIN layer of Diamonds -- vajazzled. Very special stuff. So when you put your phone and your keys in the same pocket, less scratches. Soun...
[11:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:08] <exec> 08└─(cont) By the way, SoylentNews. Their headline says During C.E.S. Same time, could be anywhere. Bloomberg, different headline. And if you get into the story, they don't just say during the C.E.S. They say at C.E.S. At. And who knows, it might even be true.
[11:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:23] <exec> 08└─For a while, I suppose a lot of people will die in crashes as people and AI's share the road. Then enough innocent people will die this way that some enterprising politician will use it as a platform to get into office and laws will start to go into effect "banning the manual steering of a motorized...
[11:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:24] <exec> 08└─Hopefully they'll have big problems with left turns. On our Southern Border you’ll see vast numbers of vehicles driving through the desert and entering where you don’t have a very powerful fence or a wall. They get off the road and they drive out into the desert, and they come on, they make a le...
[11:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:26] <exec> 08└─For a while, I suppose a lot of people will die in crashes as people and AI's share the road. Then enough innocent people will die this way that some enterprising politician will use it as a platform to get into office and laws will start to go into effect "banning the manual steering of a motorized...
[11:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:29] <exec> 08└─>> [...] DEALING WITH HUMAN DRIVERS ***AND**** [...] DEALING WITH HUMAN AUTHORITIES - Yielding to emergency vehicles. Including unmarked police cars. - Executing a police stop. - Taking verbal and signage direction from authorities and first responders (fire, blizzard, collapsed highway span, detour...
[11:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:42] <exec> 08└─wow, that's a nazi g.
[11:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:43] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants anything to do with China's currency. The only currency that has any hope of being comparable to USD is EUR. And the Iran fuckup by the Orange Moron has pushed EUR to start to distance itself from USD. https://fxssi.com [fxssi.com] 70%+ of volumes involves USD...
[11:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:45] <exec> 08└─If you had stopped after "...comfortable too." it would have been funny. But you had to push it too far.
[11:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:47] <exec> 08└─You're saying what you typed came out all goebelled?
[11:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:50] <exec> 08└─-1 Can't Fucking Read If you cannot distinguish between "Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow" and "Donald Trump is responsible for this and everything before this", then you are too ill-equipt to offer anything useful to the conversation.
[11:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:52] <exec> 08└─He hasn't triggered anything and has no responsibility for this scam at all. Also, if he did unwind it that would be a good thing in the end.
[11:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:54] <exec> 08└─Putting 1913 aside as the distal cause, and not Hoover, I think it's far more useful to find a proximal cause. And that's the QEs, and the artificially-low interest rate. The govt "experts", "economists" I think they call themselves, for some unknown reason, don't seem to realise that keeping lendin...
[11:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:36] <exec> 08└─You make stupid ass assumptions that people in the past wanted to have 12 kids. Most did not. But there was not much choice or understanding. This is not the case anymore.
[11:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:54] <exec> 08└─> They also held many millions in CAD and USD. (Or were supposed to...) Are they registered as a bank or equivalent? Because if they aren't, they aren't even a legitimately operating business entity. They'd be a criminal organisation, presumably by design guilty of wire fraud and money laundering. *...
[11:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:56] <exec> 08└─The weird thing is that such mails were precisely a thing only a while back - for all I know you could have copy-pasted it rather than spontaniously coming up with it.
[11:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:59] <exec> 08└─You already have my "touche" (which I consider a blend of "funny" and "insightful"), but honestly, that ain't enough. Award yourself Post Of The Story from me.
[11:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bell Canada Tried to Outlaw VPNs in NAFTA - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:53] <exec> 08└─Roy Moore had a very smart idea. He said, let's cancel all the Amendments. Except the first 10. Otherwise known as, Bill of Rights.
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[12:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poor Sleep at Night, More Pain the Next Day - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks scientists for confirming what I've known to be true for years. Well, I'd have worded it differently - if you can by some fluke get a good night's sleep, then the regular pain here, here, and here seems to disappear, and the pain just there seems quite bearable.
[12:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:05] <exec> 08└─This was mentioned around when the Chinese were accused of stealing F35 parts and designs a few years ago that the Chinese already reversed/stole/reinvented/bought from Israel or Russia jet canopy glass tech decades ago that is superior or at least similar enough and even placed it on the market so...
[12:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:25] <exec> 08└─I like the original better
[12:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:27] <exec> 08└─Very special road, it's called Expressway. Also known as Turnpike. We have some magnificent ones in New York. Bruckner Expressway, I-278, Cross Bronx Expressway, Trans-Manhattan Expressway, P.I.P., Lincoln Tunnel Expressway, B.Q.E. Actually, avoid the B.Q.E. at all costs. That one is a disaster. Tha...
[12:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:29] <exec> 08└─A lot of these issues go away when autonomous vehicles start to talk to eachother. Taking a left turn, will that car hit me in time? Nope, it knows I want to turn, I know what speed it's doing, it might even slow marginally to let me through. Are there other cars on the road with me in this blizzard...
[12:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:31] <exec> 08└─This also solves the "where's the road" problem. The road is whereever the autonomous vehicle driving in front of you thinks the road is. Think ants and their pheremone trails.
[12:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:33] <exec> 08└─It might mean something to you, but here in Europe it means little.
[12:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Hackers Sharing 2.2 Billion Record Mega-Credential Dump - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:50] <exec> 08└─So you run the fake donald trump account! BUSTED!!!!
[12:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:56] <exec> 08└─Anyone who uses the phrase "under threat of violence" should go back to school (without their guns, obviously) and not try to come back into the adult world until they've worked out what the social contract is. I mean, that's only a concept that's been written about since before their fricken' count...
[12:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:58] <exec> 08└─This. So much this. I'm trying to think of a president who can be held free of guilt for the onset and advance of this situation. Monetarily, I'd say Obama and Clinton have very dirty hands. But there's more to it than just monetary policy. If we look at foreign policy, say, ... Eisenhower was right...
[12:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:00] <exec> 08└─Only buy Fair Trade if you've convinced yourself their operations aren't actually harmful to the local economy. Many humanitarians have concluded that Fair Trade is little more than a protection racket nowadays in some parts of the world.
[12:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure when your early high school was, but I think I started putting 2 and 2 together (via the filter of the BBC et al.) just as I was ending high school - for me the "so you're saying whaaaaaat?!?!?" moment was old Ollie North and the Iran Contra Affair. So it's not just, or even majorly, yo...
[12:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:04] <exec> 08└─Remember, according to conservatives and libertarians "Do what I say or you will be shot" is evil but "Do what I say or you and your family will starve" is good.
[12:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Coolgopher is right, don't create a self-fulfilling prophecy. You're adding unnecessary stress and anxiety to your life by dwelling on this. Maybe (I don't know you so this is pure guesswork) you need to expand your horizons more, get out, fill your time better? When I have too much unstructur...
[12:38:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EEMac [6423] 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:27] <exec> 08└─Our SJW policies are pissing off users, and our "2018 Rewind video became the most disliked video on the platform last year". What should we do? Get rid of the dislike button? Brilliant!
[12:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:17] <exec> 08└─Gillette, the best an angry violent humanoid with destructive tenancies can get
[12:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─I judge you! What's wrong with Netflix?
[12:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:21] <exec> 08└─TL:DR - racists are upset that western culture no longer caters to their shitty world view
[12:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:23] <exec> 08└─so I made a spreadsheet and tracked daily to see how far I could get. why not just ask buzzy to post your stats?
[12:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:25] <exec> 08└─No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
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[13:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:05] <exec> 08└─+1 May be the TOS did read that Huawei only was allowed to look at them in awe and take pretty pictures. Who knows.
[13:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:07] <exec> 08└─Seems to me more like the kind of publicity stunt a start up would love.
[13:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 2514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:31] <exec> 08└─The analysis never considers other societal trends, like surveillance, cheap comms for crowdsourcing, and economic decline. We're not going to have an economy with enough work for everyone; there will be plenty of people no longer commuting because there's no jobs to commute to. The idea of having 1...
[13:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:33] <exec> 08└─Given what the majority of stoppages are about, I expect that the reality is that police stoppages will drop significantly.
[13:35:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 1066 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:16] <exec> 08└─We, which is to say the US as a nation rather than individual Americans, have had this coming for a long, long time. I journal'd about this a good while ago and mostly got blown off (https://soylentnews.org/~Azuma+Hazuki/journal/3350 if you want to see), but I've always known this was coming since e...
[13:35:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:52] <exec> 08└─You're saying what you typed came out all goebelled?
[13:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:02] <exec> 08└─So what is replacing it this time? The Euro, again? The Yuan, again? Bitcoin, again? Too many stacks of U.S. cash in safety deposit boxes and stuffed in mattresses, I suspect more than half of the minted U.S. cash is sequestered away outside of this country, much of it by people and groups too power...
[13:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:04] <exec> 08└─LOL the story doesn't sound like easily ignorable propaganda at all. (sarcasm)
[13:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:06] <exec> 08└─The real test will be how much of that is retained year over year. At least you used a right wing news site that shows their sources and is transparent in their bias. They do fail to account for the increase in population and I believe they were not using the seasonally adjusted numbers. (I only gla...
[13:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 1753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:08] <exec> 08└─Oh quite. I don't hold up the politics and ideology of the Soviet Union under Stalin as something to be admired or emulated. It was Hitler who tore up the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with Operation Barbarossa, although the Soviets had not fully respected it beforehand, so it was 'under strain'. Nonethel...
[13:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:10] <exec> 08└─I live in one one of the liberal utopias. Not a republican in sight. Taxes are collected under the threat of fines and jail time. What I get back for them is.... roads (and maybe some forest preserves). Social contract, I never signed it. Seems to read: Give us your money and we'll give others a bun...
[13:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:13] <exec> 08└─You're better off drying the meat as jerky. It will last forever if you protect it from moisture, and will take up less room and weigh less. You can dry fruits and veg too; if you've ever made ramen with those little packets of dried veg that's the idea. Additionally learn how to forage the flora an...
[13:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Arm Models its Motion, Adapts to Damage - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:22] <exec> 08└─methinks self awareness can be emergent, what is hard is for that awareness to get to the point of altruism, instead of producing a mechanical narcissist. That is, it seems hard to obtain a scope on the entire process of life instead of the single individual. The links to the hypothetical spiritual...
[13:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robot Arm Models its Motion, Adapts to Damage - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:24] <exec> 08└─Forgot to add, self awareness like ours comes out from a life process like ours, with selection and adaptation. If you do it in the lab, it's merely parroting.
[13:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:02] <exec> 08└─Its all about the distribution of the population. Most assuming 4.5 billion or more Africans. History shows Africans can only reliably feed about 0.5 to maybe 1 billion Africans, with occasional famines and genocides culling the herd. So ... looking at the famous UN 2012 graph, its clear that maybe...
[13:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:04] <exec> 08└─c) You have girls to sell for when you run out of cash
[13:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:38] <exec> 08└─Their system knows dislikes show "interest" - I followed a link someone sent me to a video which turned out to just be a stupid and rude joke. I clicked the dislike button. For a full year I had similar jokes appearing in my queue as "recommended" videos; for the first week or so they were 50% of my...
[13:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:32] <exec> 08└─...or they would have had $1337 million in assets.
[13:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood Studios Shut Down Maker of “Free TV” Box - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:38] <exec> 08└─some calculations the computer is not allowed to make, because the output stream of digital bits resembles a shinny disk. with heft, weight, a round shape and all. placing the calculation into the sunlight also reveals a rainbow pattern ...
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[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─There is a perception, outside of the US, that certain USians have a somewhat twisted moral code whereby USian or non-USian is more important than e.g. good or bad. TFA does a nice job of emphasising this, without pushing it too hard. Comments like > "I am working for a foreign intelligence agency w...
[14:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─> "I am working for a foreign intelligence agency who is targeting U.S. persons," she told Reuters. "I am officially the bad kind of spy." Anyone who thinks good and bad is defined by citizenship is bad person.
[14:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poor Sleep at Night, More Pain the Next Day - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─Not enough sleep, royal pain in the ass!
[14:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:17] <exec> 08└─This exactly. I claimed that my glass was "extra super hard", but made via proprietary manufacturing technology that can be copied just by looking at the final product carefully. I didn't patent the technology before sending samples to one of the largest consumers, who also has their own manufacturi...
[14:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:44] <exec> 08└─Deciding when to turn left in front of oncoming traffic without a green arrow is one of the more difficult tasks for human drivers and one that causes many crashes. Autonomous vehicles have the same trouble.
[14:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hedleyroos [4974] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:46] <exec> 08└─The article is by the UK Daily Mail. People drive on the left hand side of the road in the UK, so left turns are fairly easy. Or self driving cars are even worse than we thought. Or only America is getting autonomous vehicles.
[14:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Sharing 2.2 Billion Record Mega-Credential Dump - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:04] <exec> 08└─the bank manager got a fat book for christmas now if some suspect order arrives via email, she ask me for the word on page 414, 5th line from top and then the 5th word, or 414-5-5. which is "awesome" ^_^
[14:35:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 704 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. Perhaps. But this is quite predictable, and realistically he probably couldn't have done anything at all about that. At most, perhaps kick it down the line to his successor, as is traditional, but even that was becoming untenable. It's a shame it has to come to this, but it's a good thing....
[14:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:23] <exec> 08└─If hitler hadn't invaded russia then russia would have invaded him. Stalin was going to stab him in the back. Crazy dictators can't hold a peace. Rest is history.
[14:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:24] <exec> 08└─I have a re-branded (Black and Decker, no longer available) version of this. It added about five dollars a month to my electric bill so reasonable power consumption unlike the ones from the 70's and earlier that practically needed their own power plant (grin). https://www.amazon.com
[14:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:26] <exec> 08└─I did amazing that coming!
[14:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:00] <exec> 08└─He didn't even keep up on his history. Democrats were the party of the KKK.
[14:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:01] <exec> 08└─I thought Aussies go to their friendly local supplier with smuggling contacts.
[14:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:18] <exec> 08└─I propose, in order to encourage population growth, and tackle over education head-on, we change the 3 R's to Reading, Riding and 'Rithmatic.
[14:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:19] <exec> 08└─I fricken lost all those files a few years back
[14:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:21] <exec> 08└─2100 is going to be post-oil post-fertilizer, nobody is going to be exporting or global transporting anything.
[14:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe that is what the Journal feature is for?
[14:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:57] <exec> 08└─IDEA: YouTube, and other platforms: entice SJWs and Racists, Sexists, etc to mod! Yes, really. Create a shadow mod system where they can mod away to their hearts content! All they will see the virtual effect of this moderation as if it were real. It will keep them busy so that they are modding inste...
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[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:54] <exec> 08└─Fuck you.
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall the FCC asking for public comment on something Internet related recently. That didn’t turn out the way they wanted it.
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:05] <exec> 08└─certain USians have a somewhat twisted moral code whereby USian or non-USian is more important than e.g. good or bad.
[15:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:32] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have reporters *everywhere* the FBI and other government agencies are than not have them. If they're doing nothing wrong, they should have nothing to hide and all their activities should be transparent to the public. Unfortunately, most of the public is, well, you know, otherwise occupied...
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:00] <exec> 08└─> Or only America is getting autonomous vehicles. Yup, sux to live in USA...where "they" are taking the fun (and risk) out of life.
[15:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Sharing 2.2 Billion Record Mega-Credential Dump - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:18] <exec> 08└─zx2c4's pass is free open source and been good enough for me for years: CLI: https://www.passwordstore.org [passwordstore.org] GUI: https://qtpass.org [qtpass.org] Encryption: https://www.gnupg.org [gnupg.org] Firefox extension: https://github.com [github.com] Android: https://githu...
[15:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:40] <exec> 08└─You seem to be very confused. Conservatives: no problem inherent in a state monopoly on violence. Conservatives care about small, incremental changes to society. They don't want big, radical shifts. Libertarians also don't mind violence as a threat being handled by the state (look up what they refer...
[15:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:42] <exec> 08└─Now my freezer is packed solid with meat; it will last for a while
[15:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:44] <exec> 08└─Get a pressure canner, can your food. a) Done right, it lasts indefinitely b) The cans don't require electricity to stay good c) A suitably chosen pressure canner can also be used reliably on a wood stove d) You can preserve meat, staples and vegetables this way e) The cans are reusable, so cycling...
[15:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:46] <exec> 08└─Boo! Hess!
[15:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:48] <exec> 08└─Gold reserves have never been stored in the US.
[15:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:50] <exec> 08└─So, this site is better than Slashdot because we have articles like THIS submitted?
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─I live in one one of the liberal utopias. Not a republican in sight. Taxes are collected under the threat of fines and jail time. What I get back for them is.... roads (and maybe some forest preserves). Social contract, I never signed it. Seems to read: Give us your money and we'll give others a bun...
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion?
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─My experience of libertarians is that they are completely fine with state violence provided that they know for certain the state violence won't be directed at themselves or somebody they can identify with. For example, I've met more than a few libertarians who are not on board with or actively oppos...
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 1979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─We know what a social contract is, but do you? Just like a dwarf planet is not a planet, and a veggie burger is not a burger, a social contract is not a contract. Real contracts are voluntary. The "social contract" is imposed on you from birth. Real contracts have terms agreed on in a meeting of the...
[15:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:35] <exec> 08└─In fact, they should be -- especially if they're doing it 10 feet from an entry way and you can smell their crud 50 feet away. Some things it's acknowledged that a little bit of harm is acceptable in the case of a majority good. Everyone needs to drive (except, maybe, for the odd person who takes a...
[15:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:55] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure we won't have a decline without some major societal restructuring. The rich want indefinite economic growth, an indefinite increasing population supports that, a shrinking population does not hence this will not happen easily. When it starts to become a problem you can expect a lot o...
[15:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:27] <exec> 08└─I find it highly questionable that this is stored on a single prone to dropping, spilling stuff on, breakable, laptop; which requires the CEO to manually unlock something and then probably manually transfer something every time one of their 100000 customers wants to use their crypto-money. That's wh...
[15:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:28] <exec> 08└─Always backup your backup backup.
[15:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:31] <exec> 08└─Any flying spider aliens yet? Just want to know if it is worth the effort of having my 7-year old build a death robot.
[15:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:33] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure magnetic storage is still ones and zeros, SSDs I know sometimes use other states. Unless something has changed in the last two years since I was let go from that industry.
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[16:33:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Debvgger [545] 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 9 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:58] <exec> 08└─Fuck you.
[16:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 1456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─Yes it did. It went exactly the way they wanted it. They ignored the results, blamed hackers for problems, refused to provide evidence, and only now are having troubles in court providing actual explanations for their actions. That has nothing to do with public comments, since the comments didn't in...
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─It'll be flooded with fake comments from **AA bots, then the database of real comments will be hacked into by the **AA to extort them for money for pirating.
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─When they talk about "harmonizing" copyright rules, they invariably mean "expand the power of copyright holders to quash people who may or may not be violating copyright". Expect a big push by Disney, GE, Fox, and the other big media giants to basically eliminate all of their content from channels n...
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:07] <exec> 08└─We kept hearing about how totalitarian and unreasonable the "great firewall of china" was. Turns out draconian measures to block inconvenient sites from all users is totally in line with Real American Freedom.
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─Your description of the end state for ISPs sounds shockingly similar to what AOL provided in the 90's. It was crap then, it's crap now and will be crap in the future. An open and free internet is the solution; we need people to wake up (again) and demand it.
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─sed /American/Republican/ remember, it WAS the fucking R's that banded together to strip you of your net.neutrality rights. ajit is a fucking traitor and all of the R's should be hanged for treason, for their behavior in this admin. the D's are nothing great, but the R's truly show everyone the defi...
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─Anyone working for foreign governments is a traitor.
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─> that twisted moral code in which security officers trained to protect the interests of their people against foreigners I assert that "good or bad" trumps "foreign or not". Are you saying that one should support an (ethically) bad person in their own country over an (ethically) good person from ano...
[16:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─define: sarcasm
[16:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:54] <exec> 08└─So long as the reporters are independent of the FBI and not trading favors (to not cover any "bad deeds").
[16:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:24] <exec> 08└─There are many more... Degradation of the autonomous systems. Sensors stop working, or partially fail. Happens today with electronic parts in cars, it will continue in the future. The systems will need to degrade gracefully and they don't today. Bad actors interferring with traffic. Sure, the "hacke...
[16:36:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:10] <exec> 08└─"Goodbye to the Dollar"... What a boring title. I would have chosen "Orange Man Kills Greenback"
[16:36:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 931 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:18] <exec> 08└─They "print" anything anti-Trump. Even when it makes ZERO sense like this trash! While the very positive news about our Economy gets rejected. It's called Deluzional, folks. We have the strongest Economy in the World. And our Dollar is incredibly strong right now. reuters.com/article/global-precious...
[16:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:15] <exec> 08└─Sounds like your a pro at coming up with strawmen to me.
[16:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─Critical Thinking Education leads children to disobey their parents, but you and I both know the Right's real reason is that Critical Thinking makes one resistant to propaganda.
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:18] <exec> 08└─I blame Columbus. Had he never discovered America, Wall Street wouldn't even have existed!
[16:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:20] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, I bought a boat... I can catch more protein (fish) from a boat that costs less to purchase than a new econobox car than I can possibly grow on 5 acres of land. No solution is perfect, but while waiting for the collapse the boat is much more enjoyable than a well stocked bomb shelter full...
[16:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Which is why (((they))) had their lackeys execute him.
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─a few bright spots that get paraded around in history class as if they were the entire story.
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─The point is that the momentum is actively being pushed back against... of course this has been a long time coming, but Trump's presidency is increasing the rest of the world's resolve to push back harder and abandon straddling positions where they might re-embrace the US dollar at some point in the...
[16:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:29] <exec> 08└─Too many stacks of U.S. cash in safety deposit boxes and stuffed in mattresses
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─Be aware, canning meats is a slightly different ballgame than canning fruits, veggies, jams, jellies, etc. Animal fats prevent the lids from sealing. You have to be vigilant - check every single canned product with meat in it. If it doesn't seal, you can make an immediate second attempt, if that fai...
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─Do you really want to get into the Kennedy conspiracies? Depending on which theory you want to believe, Kennedy was intent on destroying the Federal Reserve. The Fed is the source of much of the evil in the US. Greenbacks were the last legitimate currency notes printed in the US. Federal Reserve not...
[16:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:36] <exec> 08└─NOTE: "since early high school" is virtually without meaning. Perhaps you meant to say something like "Since about 2001"?
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:38] <exec> 08└─There have been no greenbacks in circulation for several decades. http://www.vcalc.net [vcalc.net]
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robot Arm Models its Motion, Adapts to Damage - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:49] <exec> 08└─Well, for altruism (or, as a less ambitious goal, empathy) the robot needs not only to be able to model itself, but also to model other beings. In particular, to be emphatic for humans, it has to model humans, and it has to "robotomorphize" them (like we can empathize with animals by anthropomorphiz...
[16:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─That's because they were annexed by force. It's the willing state members that are all the crazy gun nuts.
[16:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:19] <exec> 08└─So, does this affect vaping as well? Or will that be allowed as a "safer" alternative?
[16:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:39] <exec> 08└─Because you said mistake, rather than "mistake" as is typically done to indicate that it was a "mistake" in name only. Nor does anything else in your post suggest you were using the term sarcastically. Words and language conventions have meaning, and I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt an...
[16:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:16] <exec> 08└─funny, i dont read reviews on steam nor care about the curators. I'd block all of that if I could. i didnt have any idea distributors are flocking to sites that let them sell shit games. uh what games are you playing that you found out were shitty after reading the reviews and had to go elsewhere to...
[16:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:18] <exec> 08└─What money is there to get back if no one watched to make an ad impression? is this entitlement money based on what one hoped would have been earned?
[16:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 3914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:20] <exec> 08└─The problem is that advertisements are not displaying as much as they *should*, based on their sales metrics, thus denying profit from the actual customers purchasing ad impression space. They threatened to take their business elsewhere, because the problem is so severe it even has affected Google t...
[16:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:22] <exec> 08└─See, the thing is that good has been very clear about both likes and dislikes counting as engagement for the algorithm (sorting, as you put it), so all we are really talking about here is people's feelings.
[16:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:21] <exec> 08└─Yes SSDs mostly use 2-3 bits (4 or 8 potential charge levels) per physical storage location, but I'm fairly certain so do many modern hard drives. Not the new vertical-magnet style ones of course, but if you're storing data as a traditional horizontal magnetic alignment you can use a somewhat more s...
[16:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:23] <exec> 08└─That would be questionable, but that's not how you'd use a cold wallet. Think of it like the vault at the bank. When you go in to make a withdrawal, they're not going to go get "your" money out of the vault - "your" money is just a tally on a ledger sheet. What they really do is give you some money...
[16:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bell Canada Tried to Outlaw VPNs in NAFTA - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:18] <exec> 08└─Oh the VPNS allow people to appear to originate outside of a geoblocked zone based on IP address registration, allowing them to bypass restrictions. Remember region locks on DVDs? They do the same thing for DRM stuff online for videos and music. Bell CA doesn't want that 5% that figured out a way ar...
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[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─I thought they were talking about us for a moment there . . . Soylentils are found to be warped and twisted. Geez, I don't want everyone to find out about it!
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─our galaxy would look like a thin disk of stars that orbit once every few hundred million years around its central region, where hundreds of billions of stars, together with a huge mass of dark matter, provide the gravitational 'glue' to hold it all together.
[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─the pull of gravity becomes weaker far away from the Milky Way's inner regions.
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:53] <exec> 08└─I'll get right on that. You don't mind waiting a billion years or so until the rocket with my camera gets far enough outside the galactic disc, do you?
[17:34:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─sed /American/Republican/ remember, it WAS the fucking R's that banded together to strip you of your net.neutrality rights. ajit is a fucking traitor and all of the R's should be hanged for treason, for their behavior in this admin. the D's are nothing great, but the R's truly show everyone the defi...
[17:34:08] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 1019 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─Dear government: You DON'T block sites that are ACCUSED of copyright infringement. The DMCA is a super power to take down sites based merely on accusation of infringement. That "under penalty of perjury" thing needs to have some REAL TEETH that BITE HARD. If a DMCA notice is proven to be false, ther...
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─Famous quotes: "It is now safe to switch off your computer." -- HAL 9000
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─Citizens of various EU countries have been dealing with this for years. Countermeasures include using an alternate DNS provider, VPN, or just playing domain whack-a-mole.
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─That "under penalty of perjury" thing needs to have some REAL TEETH that BITE HARD.
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─Learn from the NRA tactics and put politicians and bureaucrats on notice that they are in thrall of freedom-loving voters. Support the EFF, throw them a few bucks. They can pry the internet from my cold, dead hands.
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─You know how you're preaching to me? Well I'm this group that sings in church. Though hanging is a cruel and ineffective execution method, guillotines are much more humane.
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─If you think D is much different to R, then you are part of the problem.
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─There is a perception, outside of the US, that certain USians have a somewhat twisted moral code whereby USian or non-USian is more important than e.g. good or bad.
[17:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─No, lady, you were also the bad kind of spy when you were working for the US Government. You gotta love the "I'm a victim" and "I’m an intelligence officer, but I’m not a bad one.” bullshit she pulls at the end of the article. What she did was treason. Of course our government doesn't care unl...
[17:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─So did you try to be a walking, breathing example of exactly the type of evil on discussion here or did it just happen naturally?
[17:35:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 1731 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:00] <exec> 08└─This was mentioned around when the Chinese were accused of stealing F35 parts and designs a few years ago that the Chinese already reversed/stole/reinvented/bought from Israel or Russia jet canopy glass tech decades ago that is superior or at least similar enough and even placed it on the market so...
[17:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:06] <exec> 08└─If you think all of the recent FUD against China is not a result of the feds and MSM banging nasties, I have some WMDs in Iraq to sell you.
[17:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:08] <exec> 08└─Well, somebody had to.
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:38] <exec> 08└─"[...] LEFT TURNS Deciding when to turn left in front of oncoming traffic without a green arrow is one of the more difficult tasks for human drivers and one that causes many crashes. Autonomous vehicles have the same trouble." I hate when my GPS makes me turn left from a side street onto a main stre...
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─They are trialing switching to match the rest of the world. From 1 June all cars will drive on the right. If all goes well, trucks, buses and motorbikes will switch one week later.
[17:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─I've been saying it for years, send them rally racing! They can go all out on closed roads pushing the limits in varying road conditions. Ice, snow, gravel tarmac, rocks, rally has it all. If a robot can finish a rally race and beat human drivers, then just dial back the speed.
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─If you give police/fire/ambulance vehicles the ability to tell other cars what to do, it will be abused. It will start with emergency vehicles in an actual emergency ordering vehicles out of their way. Then it will trickle down to those vehicles having right of way all the time. Then important offic...
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─Those idiots who choose to drive themselves should consider: the autonomous car has tons of detailed frame by frame sensor data leading up to the crash.
[17:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK TSB Bank Business Customers Reportedly Unable to Access Accounts Online - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─They've been acquired and spun-off so many times over the years, their IT systems are suffering the same sort of degradation as this [xkcd.com], but with the added loss of institutional memory of how the whole mess works.
[17:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─could not get it out of my head.
[17:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─You're right, as far as you go. However - the US is obligated to pay the Federal Reserve interest on each and every one of those notes being hoarded in safety deposit boxes, or wherever. THAT is the source of our debt. The US may yet default on that debt. Then what? There is nothing backing any of t...
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is a fear mongering piece. :/
[17:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:56] <exec> 08└─The libertarians I've chatted with include neighbors, a Libertarian Party congressional candidate, and some friends of mine. Now, they may not be the best exemplars of libertarian thought, but they sure seem like a pretty reasonable cross-section of actual libertarians. As for the anarcho-capitalist...
[17:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:37] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, table an amendment so that "100" years is binary, then get all the kids hooked too.
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:38] <exec> 08└─They'd only be guilty of battery if the engine was a hybrid. Oh, wait: that kind of battery...
[17:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:40] <exec> 08└─n/t (except "sarcasm")
[17:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:43] <exec> 08└─If I had done that, my reaction to the media going apeshit would have been : "Yup, as a teenager I did a stupid insensitive thing 35 years ago. Sorry that it offended people, and I recommend that young people today learn and not do the same. Now, we understand that dumb teens grow into responsible a...
[17:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:45] <exec> 08└─I have always thought that slower acting legislation might be more effective: Every two years raise the legal age by one year. Nobody who was of legal age will suddenly be "too young". People below the cutoff age will eventually be legal, but the legal age will gradually be well above the age when p...
[17:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:47] <exec> 08└─FYI, in the US "progressive" isn't necessarily a compliment. It's a political perspective that promotes the supremacy of collective rights over those of the individual. That is antithetical to the premise of individual liberty that the US was founded on. Many in the US, including me, still firmly be...
[17:40:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:43] <exec> 08└─Some of those "creators" need to be abused.
[17:41:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 976 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:20] <exec> 08└─> The latest Star Wars movies are pretty crap, but not for SJW reasons. The most "SJW" thing you can say there > is the fleet leader had dyed hair and boobs, with a bit of "rich people are assholes living off the poor" here and there. > Hardly "SJW" politics. They forgot that you are supposed to pac...
[17:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─I begged on the IRC and someone calculated my score for me so I had a starting, but I didn't want to bug them a bunch over it, easy enough to just run a calculation in Excel. If you have 77 downmods and X upmods and you get 10 more upmods a day then its pretty straightforward.
[17:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:50] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but I watched the thing, Disliked it (fairly enough), then discovered that if you'd already Disliked it, you were blocked from commenting. That was a new one on me... Just leave the damn like/dislike thing alone. If you don't like getting mob-disliked, don't make content that shits on...
[17:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:52] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I was kind of expecting someone to go to great pains to point out why it could never work, but it seems they've not come by yet.
[17:44:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Movie Piracy 'Alternative' UltraViolet is Shutting Down - 1216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:14] <exec> 08└─Steam's DRM is non-intrusive. Steam's DRM can be removed or not applied to any titles (many games don't utilise it at all). Steam's DRM works offline for up to 30 days. Steam allows you to take backups of games (hence you would in theory only need to remove the DRM should Steam go bankrupt and you'd...
[17:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Piracy 'Alternative' UltraViolet is Shutting Down - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:22] <exec> 08└─Personally, I just gave the code to a friend, since I didn't have a decent internet connection at the time. I also, didn't want to sign-up for their service.
[17:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Piracy 'Alternative' UltraViolet is Shutting Down - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:24] <exec> 08└─I don't expect my entire Steam collection to go poof overnight. I would expect any bankruptcy proceedings or the like, would allow me perpetual access to the content. That being said, I usually buy a second copy on GOG, if/when it becomes available. At least for the stuff I actually care about. Then...
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[18:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:49] <exec> 08└─Could looking through an "electronic" viewfinder help? Just thinking out loud. Suppose each frame that the sniper sees on the screen is the result of processing together several adjacent frames of raw video? The dazzling effect has to do with changes in what the eye sees over time that makes one puk...
[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─>Such a limit would seem related to the process in which galaxies form. Unless two galactic cores merged during a galactic collision. Of course the odds of that happening are pretty low, you'd need an almost direct collision between two very small objects, and gravitational capture for a more prolon...
[18:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:01] <exec> 08└─At least the video segment of one twelveth of a galactic rotation will take significantly less than a billion years. I'll get right on it. Check back in one quarter of a galactic rotation for a progress update.
[18:34:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 645 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:12] <exec> 08└─When they talk about "harmonizing" copyright rules, they invariably mean "expand the power of copyright holders to quash people who may or may not be violating copyright". Expect a big push by Disney, GE, Fox, and the other big media giants to basically eliminate all of their content from channels n...
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:23] <exec> 08└─While there are more serious issues to solve where both parties are indeed the same it has become pretty obvious that unchained Republicans go full lizard and drop even the pretense of morality. Democrats ARE better, at least we get some small benefits for the average person. Until we get united for...
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─So far, it's unanimous. Every comment on this story is calling this "public comments" exercise for what it is, a load of bull. Fake democracy. This is like debating which way is the most humane way to do an execution, while knowing all along that the accused is actually innocent, That they feel a ne...
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─Okay, then let's declaw the $150,000 statutory penalty per instance of copyright infringement. (Remember when the RIAA said they were losing $75 TRILLION per year due to piracy? That's why. And BTW that probably exceeds the GDP of the planet.)
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:29] <exec> 08└─A de-centralized internet does not fix that we still have web sites that are major nexus' of power and control. eg, Google. YouTube. Facebook. Twitter. Etc.
[18:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:32] <exec> 08└─If you think D is much different to R, then you are part of the problem. If you are spreading false equivalencies to sound edgy, then you are part of the problem.
[18:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poor Sleep at Night, More Pain the Next Day - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─The worst though is when you get that feedback cycle where it's tough to get a good night sleep because of the pain and the pain doesn't go away because the repair work isn't going on at night when you're supposed to be sleeping.
[18:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─23 indictments. Very strong move. Bigger story, right? But Goofy Soylent News Editors rejected the Sub for that. They must've believed you when you said dozens of indictments don't mean anything.
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─Why are there always members of the MSM around for these FBI activities recently? Something unwholesome is afoot. Investigative journalism. You must be a Republican if you think that's unwholesome.
[18:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─I fully intend to spend my twilight years relaxing in relative safety while the car drives me around; I'm gonna be torqued if they take too long.
[18:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:58] <exec> 08└─A nice thing about autonomous cars for any type of racing is that the results could be predetermined by the government. Or advertisers. And speed limits would be obeyed. No excessive noise. No burnt rubber. Next up: bottled water taste tests. Which brand will be the winner?
[18:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:00] <exec> 08└─Autonomous vehicles aren't needed for that. BMW and Lexis drivers already seem to have the right of way at all times. Pedestrians, street signs, trees and even buildings must yield the right of way.
[18:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:03] <exec> 08└─A lot of these issues go away when autonomous vehicles start to talk to eachother.
[18:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:05] <exec> 08└─Autonomous cars may have a lot of sensor data and possibly even video of kids throwing rocks off bridges, and other bad actors.
[18:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:07] <exec> 08└─How about using all the money and construction materials for a wall on fixing our broken infrastructure instead?
[18:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:09] <exec> 08└─People who can read don't have so much difficulty with left turns. A concrete wall knocked over becomes a nice roadway.
[18:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─So, business as usual, then?
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK TSB Bank Business Customers Reportedly Unable to Access Accounts Online - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─Totally Shocked Businesses have faced a morning without access to their online accounts following yet another IT meltdown at embattled TSB.
[18:37:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 535 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:18] <exec> 08└─Texas GOP: No More Critical Thinking In The Schools [edweek.org] The usual reason given is that Critical Thinking Education leads children to disobey their parents, but you and I both know the Right's real reason is that Critical Thinking makes one resistant to propaganda. For example, many Right Wi...
[18:37:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:37] <exec> 08└─-1 Can't Fucking Read If you cannot distinguish between "Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow" and "Donald Trump is responsible for this and everything before this", then you are too ill-equipt to offer anything useful to the conversation.
[18:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:08] <exec> 08└─This happens to me but with that axe "body spray", why do people wear that stuff?
[18:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:09] <exec> 08└─At least in Hawaii, the assholes littering everywhere with their god-given entitlement to throw their cigarette butts (often with half the tobacco left) don't start major wildfires. Instead, those butts just end up in the ocean, where the filters take their 5-10 years to degrade (according to Philli...
[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:12] <exec> 08└─They really need to look at lowering it. Make the smoking age 12 or 13 or better yet just eliminate it entirely. Consider alcohol. Countries that have no legal drinking age (and alcohol is legal) also have greatly reduced binge drinking, alcoholism rates are lower and lower traffic accident rates as...
[18:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:14] <exec> 08└─What's your point? It is already illegal to litter and start wildfires. If you have a problem with the lack of enforcement of those laws, so do I.
[18:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:16] <exec> 08└─Texas oil refineries.
[18:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:18] <exec> 08└─Hawaii is enforcing the littering law by making the filters illegal. A bit like plastic bags, straws, and bottles, but with a lot of lost tax revenue. And you know that if politicians give up on established tax revenue, it must be that they have a significant problem they have to address.
[18:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─More like, they only want good press, since most of their income comes via tourism. Stop selling cigarettes, when the vast majority of the USA doesn't smoke anymore, sure thing! Label loot boxes as gambling? Yes, please! Doing that will only give them positive press, if you've been paying attention....
[18:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:23] <exec> 08└─Smoking in general, has become more and more socially unacceptable in the United States, even in Texas. Who would think, that a majority of people that don't smoke, also don't want second-hand smoke? I mean, that's just crazy talk. It's obvious, that most of the bad stuff stayed in the lungs of thos...
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─Except they aren't making filters illegal, they are making cigarettes illegal which may or may not include a filter. It's a ban on the most popular form of tobacco product because of the health concern to the user and it is stated that way in the text of the bill.
[18:41:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:29] <exec> 08└─Every bullshit, neo-prog video gets the ratio. Almost as if the public might be trying to tell "creators" something about their "woke" politics. Ditto Ghostbusters 2016, The Last Star Wars, Star Trek Diversity, SJW comic books, the NFL and any other manifestation of "Social Justice".
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─The whiny brat in Ep. VII was enough for me to swear off Disney's main star wars series. In contrast, Rogue One was really well done and Han Solo was just fun.
[18:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Exchange Loses $137M as Founder Takes Passwords to the Grave - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:30] <exec> 08└─Assuming, you're going with that, we've already had Satellite for a really, really long time. The cool new thing about Starlink is that it will actually be a lot closer to the Earth, so actually much farther from "the heavens".
[18:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood Studios Shut Down Maker of “Free TV” Box - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:39] <exec> 08└─Kodi is cool software and runs on really low end hardware. Netflix and services like it, are in my opinion, about as good as we're going to get. Sure, I would love Legal free streaming movies. There are some, but typically they're really, really old black and white movies. Most black and white movie...
[18:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood Studios Shut Down Maker of “Free TV” Box - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:40] <exec> 08└─I highly doubt anyone can stream Netflix for free. That would be some Humongous security hole in Netflix's service. What is quite likely is that someone recorded xyz movie and hosted at randomsketchysite.com and the service linked all those together. Thus, free TV on a stick or whatever.
[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Piracy 'Alternative' UltraViolet is Shutting Down - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:05] <exec> 08└─For most people this is "no big thing" - I may have purchased a disc or two with UltraViolet on it, but never did anything with it either. On the other hand, back in the 1980s I spent a couple month's pay (over the space of years) acquiring vinyl records, which were mine to have and to hold and to t...
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[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:51] <exec> 08└─my first thought too - One of the new VR headsets with cameras etc....
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─If you weld at all, or generally you might be aware of the electronic self-darkening welding glass for welding helmets that's been around for 25 or more years. It's very fast, and I imagine it could be used to adaptively filter this new weapon's light.
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─*gruff military voice* Bring out the bedazzler!
[19:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:57] <exec> 08└─Peril-sensitive sunglasses?
[19:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:59] <exec> 08└─U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract [soylentnews.org]
[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:02] <exec> 08└─Seams like the lights would make the target easy to see. Look at me! I'm a big christmas tree. If anything it just means you shoot out the lights first then the target.
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:40] <exec> 08└─You can't force people to do what is best for them so you'll keep having a large percentage flock to such providers. A decentralized internet at least gives people the freedom to choose alternatives.
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─They have absolutely no power, other than what is given to them by the users of their services. They cannot cut off your access to the internet ,except through ISP blocking. Our only issue with the internet is service provision. Content providers are putzes.
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─EU article 13's abrupt suspension has them scrambling to hoke up some cover?
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─Possibly we could get some other parties out there If you vote for them they will come. There is no excuse. We made the system what it is today. There is no one else to blame. You want reform? Then vote for it! You won't get it any other way.
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:48] <exec> 08└─Hmm, smells like tribalism... blinded by deceit. Or good old fashion religion. Keep the faith, baby!
[19:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with them. What the democratic party is is a decent, sane, if equally corrupt, version of a right wing party. If you strip away the pointless angry racism, the rabidly anti-science bullshit, and worshiping of the rich as having divine right of kings from the republican party, you'd be...
[19:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:53] <exec> 08└─You want these things as if they will just appear out of thin air. Let's hear the process of getting there, see if your dream is attainable.
[19:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:55] <exec> 08└─Hell, I'd probably be voting Republican by now if they hadn't gone batshit crazy. Here's the thing though, you can't just ignore the batshit crazy.
[19:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:58] <exec> 08└─Or, I evaluated the positions and actions of the two major parties and affiliated myself with the one I agree the most with.
[19:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, fucking Republicans! Scott Brown, Rick Scott, Scott Walker, G. Walker Bush, Walking Newt Grinch, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Fried Chicken; all of them are against the people! Give me net neutrality, or give them death! I regret that I only have one ISP to give for my country!...
[19:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:02] <exec> 08└─Chaaa... Exactly.. You follow the words and phony promises and the theatrics and the pundits' editorials being passed off as news now. Now try examining their records on things that matter, you know, like war and peace, crime and punishment... the economy. Your faith is strong, I never doubted that.
[19:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:04] <exec> 08└─Learn from the NRA tactics
[19:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:07] <exec> 08└─Trump and Sanders have shown that the best way to handle the two party system is to try to take over one of the parties. In the general election, you mobilize your core supporters while gathering your reluctant party members. That's not to say that a third party candidate can't win, but Trump's succ...
[19:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:22] <exec> 08└─This phenomenon has been coming to a head for a while now, people are paid well to do Very Bad Things and they have been trying hard to normalize it all.
[19:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:23] <exec> 08└─Wizzit hooza grabbleforp!
[19:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─funny the UK daily Mail aka Daily Fail mentions about left turns into oncoming traffic.... not in the UK , that would be a right turn into oncoming traffic... We drive on the left hand side so you would be joining the traffic flow in the direction it was flowing. So I reckon the Daily Fail... failed...
[19:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Goodbye to the Dollar - 539 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:07] <exec> 08└─Anyone who uses the phrase "under threat of violence" should go back to school (without their guns, obviously) and not try to come back into the adult world until they've worked out what the social contract is. I mean, that's only a concept that's been written about since before their fricken' count...
[19:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:43] <exec> 08└─Littering actually harms the public. Smoking on your own back porch, doesn't. I say we regulate the first, not the second.
[19:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:45] <exec> 08└─There's been talk of having a deposit on cigarette filters here. At least it would give the homeless a source of income. The worst litter I see walking around my neighbourhood is Tim Horton's cups and McDonald's crap, as well as beer cans. 6 miles to the closest Timmies and stupid jerks have to thro...
[19:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:47] <exec> 08└─Japan isn't a great example. I've never been to Japan either, but I know there are generally designated outside areas to smoke in restricted areas. Unfortunately those areas can be just 5m away from a non-smoking standing area, so their effectiveness is questionable. In any case, my understanding is...
[19:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:49] <exec> 08└─Any smoking harms my insurance rates. We should make Big Tobacco pay medical expenses for all the lung cancers that are not caused by coal, household products, Big Agriculture and its suppliers, ikea, container ships, asbestos, and smog... Easy solution, really !
[19:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:10] <exec> 08└─The Accuracy of Past Projections [nap.edu] In 1998 the U.N. estimated that world population size will reach 6.06 billion in the year 2000. This figure is 220 million lower than the 6.28 billion projected by the U.N. in 1958. The error in this projection made 40 years earlier—assuming that the curr...
[19:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:12] <exec> 08└─Did you lose them, or did the mind control ray make you destroy them ;-P When he realized they didn't support his hypothesis he shredded them. See my other post on how accurate they actually turned out. [soylentnews.org]
[19:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:55] <exec> 08└─"large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing" Only give people the option to dislike once they've seen a substantial portion of the video and perhaps even answered some questions about what it's about?
[19:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:57] <exec> 08└─Is it still racism if you just want to watch stuff from and about your own culture? Probably not. But, getting angry when minorities do the same probably is.
[19:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe make them also answer one of those I am not a robot questions.
[19:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:01] <exec> 08└─> is this entitlement money based on what one hoped would have been earned? Yes, it is. I get that puts YT on the hook for money they didn't earn from advertisers, but that's the fault of their broken system that I protested against, pointed out the glaringly obvious flaws in, and am powerless to ch...
[19:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Piracy 'Alternative' UltraViolet is Shutting Down - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:37] <exec> 08└─This is where the sucks to be them comment comes in and read the fine print next time. You want perpetual access, if X company goes belly up. It better be in the terms of use / contract.
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[20:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Developer Uses DMCA Notice to 'Free' Its Game from Steam Publisher - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─Expensive digital retailers who provide no support at all also suck. Game developers are mostly pretty cool people. Mostly.
[20:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:05] <exec> 08└─I thought they were just placing lifesized statues of Trump on deck.
[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─The weapon could guide itself to the lights when they are on. Unless more lights are then used as decoys or to blur the location of the real target.
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:09] <exec> 08└─*fairy voice* Bring out the glitter!
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─They are not orange enough. Their hands are not to correct scale.
[20:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─100 out of 100 epileptics agree, so it must be true.
[20:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions [wikipedia.org]
[20:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:17] <exec> 08└─Cool! Disco War! Invitation only.
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:20] <exec> 08└─U.S. Army Awards Microsoft a $480 Million HoloLens Contract That's not gonna fix the problem, it's just going to make it worse, before the Blue Screen of (Literal) death does the Russians' job for them. America the P0wned
[20:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─It's hard to imagine a "what if republicans hadn't gone crazy" world because the crazy started around the time I was born. And stole a lot of crazy from the dems.
[20:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:13] <exec> 08└─It seems as if some legislators have begun to understand just how out of balance things are. So education of legislators helps. If nothing else, then lobbying. It's about time for Big Tech to lobby as much or even more than the {MPAA | RIAA} holes of the world. Shift the cost of DMCA notices back to...
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:16] <exec> 08└─Democrats instituted net neutrality. Republicans repealed it. I'm with the people who demonstrated their support for net neutrality with their actions. And, I am opposed to those who demonstrated their opposition with their actions.
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:18] <exec> 08└─Democrats instituted net neutrality. Oh please! They did no such thing... Where's the legislation? Besides, the executive order was completely toothless compared to what is needed. Again, theatrics that accomplished nothing but create a distraction. Man, even looking behind the curtain won't make a...
[20:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:20] <exec> 08└─It's time for us to do the lobbying. It doesn't even have to cost anything. Just remind the politician that if he wants your vote he will comply with your demands. The businessman's money alone cannot put him into office. There's no law that says you have to vote for bling.
[20:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:22] <exec> 08└─All those things can be blocked by the ISP. Service provision is the biggest problem, in fact, it is really the only problem. We need a bulletproof ad hoc network. Then we won't have to waste time discussing censorship.
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:25] <exec> 08└─Desperate times, desperate measures Welcome to the IMF... Mr. Secretary...
[20:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:42] <exec> 08└─Plato, in his Republic, said that the Guardian class were like dogs, that their job is to identify friend or foe, and to react appropriately. One might think that modern "security forces" are a bit more human than that, but we are talking mercs here, the "dogs of War" of Henry the Eight's famous "Le...
[20:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:44] <exec> 08└─This has "Blackwater" all over it. Eric the Prince of Mercs? Betsy the Sister, Princess of mercenary charter schools? In Arabia?
[20:36:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bd [2773] 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:05] <exec> 08└─By the way, how did Adam Khan think Huawei would test the brittleness of his Glass sample without destructive testing? If his product is that easy to copy, he should have applied for patents before handing it out. Odd.
[20:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:19] <exec> 08└─Just make sure your you bite the click-bait to articles with FBI criticism. If they earn more writing shit about FBI, they'll write shit about FBI.
[20:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:20] <exec> 08└─I hope it is, rather than some quid pro quo thing.
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:05] <exec> 08└─Guess what? Humans don't do these things very well either. I'd be very surprised if self-driving cars performed worse than the average human on any of these tasks. Consumer acceptance is the only real hurdle, but given all the accidents we have with Tesla drivers sleeping on auto-pilot (not full sel...
[20:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 2353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:13] <exec> 08└─Bull-fucking-shit. You're talking about a behavior that spreads known carcinogens (CANCER). Fuck the smokers up the ass with a 100ft telephone pole, sideways. Last week I saw something I'd NEVER seen before, and that was some asshole that was smoking in public in his truck, take his cigg and throw i...
[20:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Considers Ban on Cigarette Sales - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:14] <exec> 08└─Progressive? This is just authoritarian. As an actual progressive, I have no interest in interfering with people's personal affairs to such an extent.
[20:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Population: Inevitable Growth or Slated to Decline? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:38] <exec> 08└─making evolutionary-psychology predictions is a lot like trying to predict earthquakes. Sure you might have the general idea down but there is seriously no way you can know with any degree of certainty.
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[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Game Developer Uses DMCA Notice to 'Free' Its Game from Steam Publisher - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:56] <exec> 08└─Would have been nice to put that in the TFS. The said publisher have also been blacklisted in Steam.
[21:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:19] <exec> 08└─Do they expect M$ to pull a magic bunny out of its hat? The dev version of the hololens is a piece of crap and would likely be more of a liability. I don't foresee that drastically changing.
[21:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─Well that is one way to make sure you Don't Panic.
[21:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:22] <exec> 08└─I just want a flashy thingy
[21:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─HoloLens 2 could be announced this month: https://www.windowscentral.com [windowscentral.com]
[21:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─People laughed about Trump's space force, but it seems Russia is also preparing for the Zentradi invasion.
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─your momma joke here somewhere...
[21:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:42] <exec> 08└─far enough outside the galactic disc And the GPS, it'll be so accurate up there.
[21:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:43] <exec> 08└─there may not be enough gravitational pull to keep gas and or stars / planets confined to the galaxy. Yeah, but where is there to go? There's nothing to pull them away, so they may as well stay where they are, meandering around like a river.
[21:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:45] <exec> 08└─I believe "Not on Globe" is an infinitely accurate location for a Global Positioning System, is it not?
[21:34:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:57] <exec> 08└─We kept hearing about how totalitarian and unreasonable the "great firewall of china" was. Turns out draconian measures to block inconvenient sites from all users is totally in line with Real American Freedom.
[21:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:52] <exec> 08└─They were coworkers at a government contractor here in the USA, doing that kind of stuff for America. Most of my coworkers would say "fuck no" to assisting any foreign government. In company meetings, we've openly threatened management with quitting if our company does non-US work. Evidently, that f...
[21:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:53] <exec> 08└─I think it helps that the US is huge and it's entirely possible to drive for 8 hours at 50 mph and never leave the US. It's easy to think badly of people you've never met, and never had a bad consequence of thinking badly of them. Every European I've met in the US has been blown away at the scale.
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[22:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─The difficulty is finding and making a case with appropriate evidence to effectively prosecute the offenders since these sort of crimes tend to be more easily anonymised. Looks like this guy was either dobbed in by someone, or talked to someone. But, it's interesting that he's pointed the finger at...
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:53] <exec> 08└─Liberia is one of the very poorest nations on Earth. It's flag will look strangely familiar to most. Look it up. Just One Hint: They have always spoken English there.
[22:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:56] <exec> 08└─Even though some small DDoS attacks are more like nuisances, they can wreck have and cause huge expense to the party on the receiving end. The real crime is in the intended and actual result of the attacks, not the method or type of attack itself. Whether this guy went into the server room with a sl...
[22:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Developer Uses DMCA Notice to 'Free' Its Game from Steam Publisher - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─Some joker claims some of my "content" is his own. It would mostly be cool for someone to totally jack most of my content provided they left my name on it, with a link to that content's original location. But in this case? No long, neither my name, and he claims _he_ created it! That Just Pissed Me...
[22:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:34] <exec> 08└─Now I've got that damned Zentradi music in my head. Thanks.
[22:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─(most) Guys at a gay bar want that same thing.
[22:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:37] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't a "in soviet russia" joke be easier?
[22:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:39] <exec> 08└─Disco warfare?
[22:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─But I regard that entire book as being a credible source. I think I bought the book in the mid-eighties but don't clearly recall. I do still have it but it's in storage. There was just one short paragraph that claimed the US Army had developed a weaponized hallucinogen that would make enemy troops s...
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:44] <exec> 08└─HAPPY PILLS TAKE YOU!!!!
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:46] <exec> 08└─We're not saying the Democrats are *good.* They're just less evil and crazy than the Republicans.
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[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─Before Trump the Tea Party demonstrated the same thing. Threaten anybody else in your party with you running somebody against them in the primary if they don't bow to your wishes.
[22:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:49] <exec> 08└─If you think D is much different to R, then you are part of the problem.
[22:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:52] <exec> 08└─Where's the legislation? It's called a declaratory ruling and it's located right here. [fcc.gov] This is how the Democrats instituted net neutrality. Here is the declaratory ruling [fcc.gov] that the Republicans then used to repeal net neutrality. If both parties are the exact same then why are they...
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[22:36:00] <exec> 08└─There is a perception, outside of the US, that certain USians have a somewhat twisted moral code whereby USian or non-USian is more important than e.g. good or bad. TFA does a nice job of emphasising this, without pushing it too hard. Comments like > "I am working for a foreign intelligence agency w...
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[22:42:24] <exec> 08└─If there are still orders of magnitude of computer performance improvements yet to be realized, things will get extra scary.
[22:42:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:41] <exec> 08└─Can't they just bring out the torches and pitchforks like the good ol' daze? Or is a public bunch of dislikes an even worse humiliation? One that a person can no longer bear to live with? Oh the world we live in today. Seriously? A bunch of dislikes is a source of anxiety? Like a Facebook user claim...
[22:42:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 702 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:44] <exec> 08└─It's "abuse" that the YouTube Rewind promo with Will Smith got millions of dislikes, and became the most disliked video int he history of online videos because people were fed up that YouTube is trying to turn mainstream media and shit on all the original content creators that made ti what it is tod...
[22:42:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:49] <exec> 08└─Its Double Plus Ungood Bad Think to not like blatant propaganda, according to our corporate masters. Next up, a TV set to CNN that can't be shut off by viewers; Oh shit that was me at the gym a couple hours ago not a theoretical product.
[22:43:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 1472 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:01] <exec> 08└─The system is far worse than you describe. For example, companies can auto-claim videos and if the claim is appealed, they get the power to review the claim, typically rejecting it (maybe this is automated as well). If this repeats a couple of times, you get a copyright strike unless you take the cl...
[22:43:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06YouTube Considering Removing the "Dislike" Button to Stop "Mobs" - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:03] <exec> 08└─How about if your downmods must not exceed a certain percent of all of your mods ever[?].
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[23:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─Every time I go there I futilely try to scroll through looking for those 3 pixels on the entire damned screen that don't kick off a blaring computer generated preview of a show until I finally break down and silence the tab. This will be very welcome and make Netflix much much less annoying.
[23:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:48] <exec> 08└─I wonder, is this "big" change just simply making the default setting false for media.autoplay.enabled? That's been almost the first thing I change when I install Firefox. Go into about:config, and change that one setting. That and uBlock Origin squashes most of the annoying autoplay crap. A few thi...
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox - Blocking Noisy Autoplaying Video - Next Release - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─That "feature" was the final spit-to-the-face that Netflix decided they wouldn't change. Like it would be that hard to add a "don't autoplay" option in the user preferences. Fuck them, no more money from me.
[23:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:02] <exec> 08└─IF you follow proper practices, a DDoS is a temporary, if costly at the time, inconvenience.
[23:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:04] <exec> 08└─Why would that be relevant to the discussion?
[23:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─True, but if I bump into something when improperly parking my car, triggering a chain of events where the improperly parked gas truck plows into a crowd, blows up, and kill hundreds... Oh wait, bad example, US prosecutors will also bypass the chain of actual responsibilities and load it all on the t...
[23:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:09] <exec> 08└─and use their computing skills in a
[23:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:52] <exec> 08└─Do they play Bee Gee's during the "treatment"?
[23:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Navy Gets New Weapon to Induce 'Hallucinations' and 'Blind' the Enemy - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:54] <exec> 08└─No. Abba.
[23:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Milky Way Galaxy's Edges Found to be Warped and Twisted - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:10] <exec> 08└─Toldja it was a beat-up neighborhood. I looked at the residents and knew it was dodgy, but my family ignored my warning.
[23:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:02] <exec> 08└─Considering that Facebook builds shadow profiles about people who don't even use their disservice, just boycotting them is not enough. I take all kinds of measuring to deter information collection about me, but even so, I know that these monstrous surveillance engines have some information about me....
[23:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:04] <exec> 08└─Because it is easier to make the world black and white then deal with the mess that is politics. That isn't the answer you were looking for but I presume that was rhetorical anyway!
[23:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─Now its started here too.. god help us.
[23:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:08] <exec> 08└─Ah yeah, conservatives, try to hide my regulatory references with a downmod. I'll take that as an acknowledgment that you have no rebuttal and that I just won the argument.
[23:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:11] <exec> 08└─and when all vpn endpoints in up in countries with active blocking.. what will you do then? "Then they came for me...and there was no one"
[23:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:13] <exec> 08└─That's what it said on the site linked. 0 comments.
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─Yes they are acting precisely the same way, they should have written proper legislation passed by congress, so screw their phony bullshit. Neither side really wants your net neutrality. Don't you recognize "good cop/bad cop" when you see it? Or are you that much of a fan?
[23:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:17] <exec> 08└─Sealand 2.0
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─As more people sign away their freedoms, the influence of the monsters grows and it becomes harder and harder for free people to remain free. None of that is Facebook's or Google's fault. If you want to take the profit out of data collection, you'll have to give it all up openly to the government, s...
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Govt Seeks Public Comments on Pirate Site Blocking and ISP Liability - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─So, distinguishable, not by character, but by degree? You need some mighty sensitive instruments to measure that. I guess it's just not worth the effort to seek out the actually "good" then. Stick with the devil you know, let the grandkids deal with the consequences...
[23:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Special Report: Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team of U.S. Mercenaries - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:44] <exec> 08└─Anyone working for the NSA is a traitor to the US citizenry.
[23:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Conducted a Sting Operation on Huawei During CES - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:21] <exec> 08└─If you think all of the recent FUD against China is not a result of the feds and MSM banging nasties, I have some WMDs in Iraq to sell you.
[23:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:07] <exec> 08└─ACH! Mein Zamboni reference is nicht dere fer ze lookinpeepers! Var ist mein vunderbar ZAMBONI REFERENCE!
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:08] <exec> 08└─There are some intersections for which I simply avoid left turns. Not worth the risk. I take an alternative route, or go right, then turn into a small street and loop back. Bots can "cheat" like this also.
[23:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Things Autonomous Vehicles Must Overcome to Rule Us All - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:10] <exec> 08└─Autonomous vehicles talking to each other is a security risk. Hacking aside, if the incoming data is malicious, you could take the wrong action. Humans don't communicate with other vehicles aside from turn signals, maybe blinking the headlights, and the occasional official or unofficial hand gesture...
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