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[00:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:54] <exec> 08└─It seems costly to extract ch4 from the air
[00:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:55] <exec> 08└─The economics of scaled CH4 conversion to CO2 (or CH3OH) still need to be resolved. A price on carbon emissions or a policy mandate would be required; current market prices of $10 to $30 per tonne CO2 (for example, European Emissions Allowances; values in US dollars throughout) rise quickly to $50 t...
[00:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:06] <exec> 08└─Please edit away any "this", "these", "that" used in the present tabloid manner in article titles. In this particular case, as often, no substitution is even needed. The word is just there to drive clicks, because people are easily-manipulated morons.
[00:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:08] <exec> 08└─Did you get hit with a synaptic dampener? "pretty soon the tree huggers will have nothing left to bitch about" Trees don't much care about plastic burning and they love the CO2. Think beyond 1st order effects if you don't wish to be mocked.
[00:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:10] <exec> 08└─They might start eating house-hold items like desks and compu ~^ &};~ [NO CARRIER]
[00:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:26] <exec> 08└─Look around, figure out what is cheap and hackable, and cheaply hack it. Your solution to that is......?
[00:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:27] <exec> 08└─If only Wi-Fi jammers existed ... oh wait they do! They also work fine and jamming wi-fi is not really hard. This is clearly contrary to what the article claims where it apparently is some kind of james bond-esque next generation technology. But just with the normal stuff available over at say AliEx...
[00:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:53] <exec> 08└─So it's not people's personal responsibility to clean their hands? Your bizarre notions about the extent of "personal responsibility" is short-circuiting your ability to reason about society (and the people in it).
[00:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:54] <exec> 08└─Because it's totally impossible that a driver could try to avoid the clueless pedestrian, lose control of their vehicule and cause another accident or hit another innocent pedestrian... Serious question: Is there actually some form of tought process that occurs in some people's brains before their f...
[00:48:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Lenovo Stole a Fan's Video to Promote the Foldable Motorola RAZR - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:38] <exec> 08└─It's only criminal when small people do it.
[00:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stole a Fan's Video to Promote the Foldable Motorola RAZR - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:50] <exec> 08└─How much time did you waste writing uninformed drivel that contributed nothing to anything? Personally, I could have tracked down the info faster (and in less than two minutes).
[00:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:06] <exec> 08└─Absolute failure to equate a situation, check. Not giving everything to women, even when they rage uncontrollably, check. Espousing the benefits of the situation that nearly burnt your house down, check. Claiming that removing a repetitively bad factor is equavalent to burning your house down, check...
[00:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:08] <exec> 08└─Just a nitpick, but incels are not willingly removing themselves.
[00:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:10] <exec> 08└─I suspect it's Ari. He always slips in a further error, just to see if you are paying attention.
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[00:51:12] <exec> 08└─Nazi
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[01:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:59] <exec> 08└─Proving yet again the "global warming" is just another way for Democrats to tax the populace.
[01:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:00] <exec> 08└─Where do these hacks come from? You think you can extract 3.2 billion tons of methane with a plant the size of a football field? Just to move that much air through the filter would be insanely energy intensive. Are you going to power it with a nuclear reactor? And how do you plan to get cow fars fr...
[01:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:03] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that basically mean just burning it? Producing CO2 and H2O? Am I missing something?
[01:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:16] <exec> 08└─Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis. A microbe designed to eat waste plastic gets loose. CYA
[01:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:18] <exec> 08└─It does help indicate that it's specific microbes, not just the ones that happen to be near the plastic in question. I propose the following instead: "These mouse-sized microbes are munching away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean."
[01:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:36] <exec> 08└─This is clearly contrary to what the article claims where it apparently is some kind of james bond-esque next generation technology.
[01:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:38] <exec> 08└─DIY [ab9il.net] a helical antenna [wikipedia.org] to get around the ban on pringles cans (which are ill-suited for 2.4GHz anyway). Next, they'll have to ban PVC pipes, say goodbye to sanitation and fresh water on tap.
[01:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:40] <exec> 08└─Until the future comes, be careful what you wish for today [wikipedia.org]
[01:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:08] <exec> 08└─I can think of a few people who should be fined just for texting.
[01:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto Has an Underground Ocean Kept Warm by a Layer of Gassy Ice - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:21] <exec> 08└─I sent a probe there...
[01:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pun-Loving Computer Programs that Write Adverts - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:33] <exec> 08└─Jokes on you, nails don't breathe and bullets only make them stronger!
[01:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:25] <exec> 08└─Unless you're an accompanied male, there's no reason for you to be out -- you must be committing a crime.
[01:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:27] <exec> 08└─You think that she-male who said feminism cost him his healthcare was for real or was it just some guy pretending to be a lesbian with big tits just to wind people up.
[01:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radar for Your Wrist - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:54] <exec> 08└─Gestures allow a lot of capabilities where screens are becoming too small for fine movements
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[02:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:59] <exec> 08└─and when you hunt out an area, you move or starve.
[02:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:01] <exec> 08└─Also, hunting comes with beer.
[02:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:03] <exec> 08└─Those people are working 20-30 hours per week, while here in the "civilized" world wage-earners are slaving away for 40-70 hours per week. Progress!
[02:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:05] <exec> 08└─> ...slaving away for 40-70 hours per week... Seems likely to me that the first few hours of work/week in the "civilized" world buys you the same standard of living that the primitives get for working their 20-30 hours. After that civilization gets you luxuries (things that you don't *really* need,...
[02:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:07] <exec> 08└─you follow the buffalo .... oh yeh, they farmers divided up the land and had the buffalo slaughtered.
[02:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:10] <exec> 08└─Give me my fucking UBI check, you primitives.
[02:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:12] <exec> 08└─Ain't remotely BS. Farming's some of the longest hours and hardest work you'll find anywhere.
[02:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:14] <exec> 08└─Of course, it's phoenix with phys.org.
[02:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:25] <exec> 08└─CO2=More Beer.
[02:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:31] <exec> 08└─Every time you drive a motorized vehicle, you have to accept the possibility that you might kill someone, and that you are putting your own convenience ahead of the lives of others. Some of that stress is completely justified. If someone jaywalks in front of you (regardless of using a phone), that p...
[02:50:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chewbacon [1032] 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:38] <exec> 08└─1000% agree. This is a rule I live by: avoid a shitty-looking situation. It applies to more than just women.
[02:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:54] <exec> 08└─What I'd really be terrified of is if half the people on the planet were Aristarchus!
[02:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:56] <exec> 08└─have dumped me in the deep end without a paddle. I had *ONE* female manager who didn't, although based on her conduct with other employees that was how she was with everyone. One of the few managers I ever had that would put in line worker time if we couldn't keep up, because in the end it was her r...
[02:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:58] <exec> 08└─I spent a week in a sexual harassment awareness class at a fortune 500 company way back during the Anita Hill hearings. My crime? I repeated a joke I heard on the radio that morning. "Anita Hill is suing Joe Biden for sexual harassment now. He told her they had a hung jury." Seriously. That was it....
[02:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:00] <exec> 08└─"the right idea about taking a rapist and stoning them to death" You just went batfuck crazy with that. Around the world, women are executed every single day, for one minor infraction or another. Rapists? Why don't you cite the statistics on men executed for rape. Fifty men can line up and gang rape...
[02:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earliest Evidence of the Cooking and Eating of Starch - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is vitamin C in some animal parts, but not a lot, and cooking tends to destroy the vitamin. 100 g of raw chicken liver has 17.9 mg of vitamin C, but cooking reduces this to something like only 2.7 mg. So, you'd need to consume something like 223 g (about half a pound) of raw chicken liver...
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[03:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:54] <exec> 08└─how many 13 year olds have slept with my mom?
[03:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:55] <exec> 08└─I know the phrase "safe spaces" is a dig at people who don't react well to a bit of banter, but constant abuse can seriously ruin any game. I tried some online game I had recommended to me a few years ago, but couldn't play for more than about an hour because of the constant abuse from other player...
[03:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:11] <exec> 08└─by University of Cambridge
[03:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:12] <exec> 08└─Try sleeping in caves (if you were lucky) and starving for days on end.
[03:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:15] <exec> 08└─What's the price of 40 acres in your town?
[03:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:17] <exec> 08└─30 hours per week
[03:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:29] <exec> 08└─Yes - the issue is that (for better or for worse...) the concentration of methane in our atmosphere is less than 1ppm, and well below the flammability limit so you can't just light a match and watch all of the methane in the atmosphere burn. Their proposal is to use a catalyst and blow large amounts...
[03:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wind Provided 37 Percent of Ireland's Electricity in Q1 2019 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:12] <exec> 08└─Wind power generators are raptor cuisinarts. The color of wind power is red, not green. Wind power facilities, even when required by law to report bird deaths, hugely undercount the mutilations by checking for kills only once a month. That method ensures that about 90% of the carcasses have been rem...
[03:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:59] <exec> 08└─If you've never witnessed an instance of a female exploding for no apparent reason, you've been sleeping. Try "I can open my own doors!" I've related an instance on SN before about a California women's libber who went nuts on me - then couldn't open the door.
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[03:52:00] <exec> 08└─Correct. This is the 21st century. Sexual orientation is not considered a choice. I guess [capitalist] liberals are still stuck in the 90s when the Democratic Party supported DOMA. There is nothing wrong with being attracted to men. A good chunk of the planet's population, perhaps half, are attracte...
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[04:47:10] <exec> 08└─OK, my choice is physical outdoors games, excluding those that require electrical power. Got that Microsoft?
[04:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 2614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:29] <exec> 08└─Not entirely true. Let's reduce what you 'need' to just food, travel/shelter and clothing. As the average earning goes up in a given area, so does the rent. Someone has to pay for the landlord's luxurious lifestyle. Same applies to food in a given region - food prices will float to what the market h...
[04:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:00] <exec> 08└─I think these microbes require an environment where they are surrounded by water. Probably salt water. OTOH, this process is probably rather slow. If it weren't, the plastic wouldn't stay in the ocean garbage patches. It's my expectation that they require the surface of the plastic that they are eat...
[04:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:51] <exec> 08└─There are people who waddle a half mile through the city on their phones. On crowded sidewalks they're constantly in the way dragging trails of bum and dog shit everywhere they go.
[04:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:52] <exec> 08└─If you got off your phone and had some awareness you might notice: That 3 blocks up their is some guy having an angry spaz attack The puddle of crap you just stepped in. and me. f you are not busy doing stuff all the time in public, you could be a tourist. And in that case you must have someone with...
[04:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ Leans Against Approving T-Mobile's Takeover of Sprint - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:08] <exec> 08└─OK, you get that passed and I'll support not allowing the merger. Just reply here when it's done.
[04:51:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:59] <exec> 08└─If you do not know the difference between "shear" and "sheer", maybe you are a male chauvanist pig, and deserve all you get.
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[05:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:00] <exec> 08└─"I like weed, medical usage makes weed legal, so lets run studies until we find a medical excuse for weed". And I think all drugs should be legal. Medical research is just at such a low level in every way.
[05:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:01] <exec> 08└─So you dispute the findings based on your own studies?
[05:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:03] <exec> 08└─So you dispute the findings based on your own studies?
[05:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:06] <exec> 08└─What's to dispute? These types of studies are no better then a bunch of monks praying and then arguing with each other. Let me know when they have a theory that makes a prediction they check against new data, or multiple groups measure the same quantity in various ways as precisely as possible, etc....
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[05:47:08] <exec> 08└─No, not what I am saying at all. This study is part of a larger effort to justify legalizing mdma, ketamine, and more. As I said I am in favor of that end result, but this politicalization of medical research is just going to make it even worse than it is now.
[05:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:19] <exec> 08└─See, this would be a good use of AI or moderation. You can trash-talk your companions, but if it's just boring abuse, it gets masked. If it's creative, it gets passed through to the recipient. If it's Winston Churchill level quality or above, it gets saved and presented for hall of fame consideratio...
[05:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:39] <exec> 08└─In Coastal Central California, around 1 to 5 Million depending on view, access to water and developed roads.
[05:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:40] <exec> 08└─Actually all you really need is a warm dry place to sleep and access to water and food. Anything else is luxury.
[05:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:55] <exec> 08└─No, all it takes is for everyone to burn as much methane as they can heating, cooking, running generators, etc. The product is CO2 and H2O.
[05:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:56] <exec> 08└─Oops, sorry didn't read down far enough before my recent post. You got there first.
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[06:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:55] <exec> 08└─In the big picture, Uber has achieved exactly one thing: it has made taxis popular again. Looking at old TV shows, it was once trendy to "hop a taxi". Now it's trendy to call Uber or Lyft. No one ever got rich being a taxi driver, though. And just because Uber is "doing it with a computer" doesn't m...
[06:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not normally one to suggest regulation unnecessarily, or Federal regulation when States will do. But it clearly no longer makes sense to license taxis at the local level. Congress should pass superceding legislation to license taxis on the same basis nationwide. The reason they haven't already p...
[06:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:59] <exec> 08└─I called a Uber once. When they showed up, I pulled my Casull .454 with the armor-penetrating rounds, and put one through his engine block. There is one taxi scab that will not drive again, until he can afford a new engine, on his own dime, for being so stupid as to listen to the "Disruptive Tech" s...
[06:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:01] <exec> 08└─As far as the employee question, I don't think it's relevant.
[06:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:13] <exec> 08└─The ingrediënt in cannabis that makes you high is THC. CBD does not have that effect. Not only high THC cannabis exists, low THC cannabis (called hemp) has always been around and has been used for making rope and other things long before anyone even got the idea that drugs should be forbidden. And...
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[06:47:14] <exec> 08└─Not sure what this has to do with my post.
[06:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but Indonesia uses WiFi frequencies used nowhere else on earth, so the jammers don't work. From the article: Wi-Fi uses a healthy number of frequency bands, such as 900MHz, 2.4GHz, 3.6GHz, 4.9GHz, 5GHz, 5.9GHz, and 60GHz
[06:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wind Provided 37 Percent of Ireland's Electricity in Q1 2019 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:51] <exec> 08└─Take a breath of reality, and to put it into perspective, compare it to road kills (or cats, for that matter). I rest my case.
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[07:47:02] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how much "news" is manufactured to manipulate stock prices.
[07:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:03] <exec> 08└─That's just people realizing that they actually aren't earning much money, and looking for some way to get more from Uber
[07:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:05] <exec> 08└─luftputefartøyet mitt er fullt av åler
[07:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:19] <exec> 08└─this politicalization of medical research is just going to make it even worse than it is now
[07:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:20] <exec> 08└─Let me know when they have a theory that makes a prediction they check against new data, or multiple groups measure the same quantity in various ways as precisely as possible, etc. Basically, let me know when medical research is science again.
[07:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:23] <exec> 08└─No, go read the psychology and medical research pre WWII. It was definitely science back then. Something changed.
[07:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:25] <exec> 08└─Look up the criteria for being a schedule 1 drug: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:27] <exec> 08└─How about I really answer the question instead of being handwavy with a tangentially related link?
[07:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:29] <exec> 08└─No, that's not how science works. Since you've already read them, you can write a literature survey about it (with references). Don't expect others to do your homework for you and then pretend you have made an argument.
[07:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe she's just an endurance sleeping champion.
[07:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:41] <exec> 08└─The phrase "safe spaces" started as self-nomenclature, just as "social justice warrior" did. It's their own terminology! It is only effective as a dig because what it describes is fundamentally messed up.
[07:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:04] <exec> 08└─And for the sake of everyone else, somewhere to shit and shower.
[07:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:05] <exec> 08└─I would suggest that this is a predominantly but not exclusively a US/Canada thing. Many places look at US work practices with horror. In Europe it is not uncommon for the the standard working week to be 35-40 hours, and with significantly more vacation time too (3-5 weeks/year is not unusual, and p...
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[07:48:07] <exec> 08└─I cannot find any submissions by you. We always welcome good quality submissions. The reporting site hardly important - it is the content and its origin that are rather more of interest to us.
[07:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:23] <exec> 08└─So, they convert methane into CO2 and release that into the atmosphere... Why? If you already have quite pure CO2, why not contain/convert/use it directly? CO2 could have its use, but concentrating it from thin air is a relative difficult process.
[07:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:41] <exec> 08└─"Tiny" is pretty redundant too. If they weren't tiny then they wouldn't be microbes.
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[08:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:06] <exec> 08└─Fine them just 1€ per packet they improperly inspected. That should be enough to finish them off.
[08:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:40] <exec> 08└─I know exactly what papers I would include in such a post and even some exact quotes, but it's not really worth the effort for this site where it would probably just get downvoted.
[08:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:41] <exec> 08└─I feel like I'm communicating with a bot or small child with little understanding of the world and only canned responses available. Any medical use accepted by the DEA means a drug cannot be schedule 1, which is the path to lgalization.
[08:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:18] <exec> 08└─as all the hunter-gatherers in the world can confirm
[08:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:20] <exec> 08└─but given the surprised reactions, I guess it bears repeating for the new generation. Yes, farming had made people's lives worse. But it also made people much less capable of surviving on their own. Sharp-eyed hunters with sharp spears and wicked arrows roaming the wilderness, or unarmed and untrain...
[08:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:22] <exec> 08└─Try sleeping in caves
[08:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_lighting [wikipedia.org]
[08:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:57] <exec> 08└─> Mother nature ...creating and solving all the world's problems. Yep, this. George Carlin explains it best: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The planet will be here for a long, long, long time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself ’cuz that...
[08:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stole a Fan's Video to Promote the Foldable Motorola RAZR - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:51] <exec> 08└─I thought maybe the music, but he properly attributes
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[09:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:58] <exec> 08└─Much more likely that ISP's are simply relying on simple Souce and Destination IP addressing for this. If a customer using IP address A.B.C.D accesses, for example, Netflix in a certain address range (most likely a Netflix Cache connected to the ISP's infrastructure) then the traffic is classified a...
[09:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:59] <exec> 08└─I think from today's view, it was a mistake to include the source IP address in the fixed packet format (other than for ICMP). Except for the receiver, nobody needs to know the source IP. Even if things go wrong along the line, since the error handling is just dropping packets, you don't need the so...
[09:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:34] <exec> 08└─And if a valid medical use is found, should we just ignore it because it offends your own personal view of how things should be? Any drug that is found to help us cope with pain, heal ourselves or prevent or reduce other more serious medical problems from occurring should be researched and, if prove...
[09:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:36] <exec> 08└─Does ... "I know exactly what papers I would include in such a post and even some exact quotes, but it's not really worth the effort for this site where it would probably just get downvoted."
[09:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:49] <exec> 08└─Is that a sign of peak plastic scare, and a switch to a new eco-bogeyman is in the works?
[09:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:42] <exec> 08└─The real problem is cars are dangerous. They should be banned or taxed or at least have some sort of override that allows the police to stop it or take control if it is about to hurt someone.
[09:52:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Sad Survey: 60% of Male Managers Are “Uncomfortable” Working Around Women - 2440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:35] <exec> 08└─I don't know how common this is, because it's not something we get to read about in the press, but the only sexual harassment I have ever witnessed in the workplace is women harassing men. Boy is it a powerful political weapon for women. They know the law and therefore HR will be on their side, so t...
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[10:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:00] <exec> 08└─I read the hardware specs but they're all Greek to me! What are its limits? I'm a software guy!
[10:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:01] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, I have built a complete GSM phone from an Arduino and some cheap baseband shield. Been mocked by whole family and friends badly for a bulky contraption. I have no friends since.
[10:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:04] <exec> 08└─Raspberry Pi Zero is €10. 512MB RAM and WiFi. No need WiFi? There is a €5 version. And I have full Linux with video support. Why would I want to have something that is more expensive with a lot less features? I could just have a PIC controller for €3 and it has comparable specs or better than...
[10:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:06] <exec> 08└─I read the hardware specs but they're all Greek to me! What are its limits? I'm a software guy!
[10:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:08] <exec> 08└─Get a 3D printer and design an apple shaped clamshell to hold it all together and put a $200 sticker on it. They'll call you a genius in no time.
[10:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:19] <exec> 08└─Enough said.
[10:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:21] <exec> 08└─Isn't Netflix streaming already encrypted (DRM)?
[10:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:58] <exec> 08└─No he's right in a way. Medical research got a lot more ethical. You can't experiment on people like you could back then, you can't even experiment on animals like they did on people. I'm certainly not saying this is a bad thing, but the research is a lot fuzzier these days. It's not politically cor...
[10:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:00] <exec> 08└─If this form of cannabis gets people as high as smoking it, I wish pot smokers would choose it instead. I hate the smell of dead skunk. It's an odor we feared in the West and traded remedies to neutralize, but in the big city people volunteer to smell like ass.
[10:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:02] <exec> 08└─Ask aristarchus. He is sure to know.
[10:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:15] <exec> 08└─but all such filtering is doomed to failure. People will use imaginitive misspellings to avoid the filter, it will basically be whack-a-mole. And when misspellings are banned, they will simply repurpose normal words - compare the "OK" = "White Power" hand signal controversy.
[10:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:43] <exec> 08└─It's modern people that die out of starvation while surrounded by insects and small mammals. It's the civilized that don't have the knowledge and experience about packing up and leaving to forage when local resources become too tight.
[10:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:44] <exec> 08└─Phys.org shows up a lot in the Soylent RSS feed [sylnt.us]. That's where I go to find stories because it's convenient; I can find and submit half a dozen in fifteen minutes and move on with my day. If you have better sources you'd prefer, mention them. Or, I dunno, just spitballin' here, you could s...
[10:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:47] <exec> 08└─That's pretty much no work at all.
[10:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:04] <exec> 08└─Because methane is an order of magnitude stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It's not that we need more CO2. It's that we need less methane.
[10:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:24] <exec> 08└─"Microbes Eat Plastic" is minimal and correct, but will you comment on it? Will anyone? We often had this discussion in the Slashdot days. Some complained that they only wanted straight up information. The vast majority laughed at them for reading the articles like noobs; it was the running joke tha...
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[10:49:25] <exec> 08└─Sure they could. Plastics have given us a chance to steal several marches on Mother Nature's corrosive effects. Rebuilding and repairing everything takes a hell of a lot of work, and plastics allow us to do less of it. It preserves our foods, our medicines, conducts our water, and does a thousand ot...
[10:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:48] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it should be more difficult to jam those other frequencies. As long as you can send a signal on those frequencies, you also can send noise on them.
[10:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:50] <exec> 08└─Britain has banned spoons. Anything is possible.
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[11:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:54] <exec> 08└─We don't around these here SN parts aside from telling new devs to use the pre-written SQL subs that we already know are done properly instead of rolling their own.
[11:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:55] <exec> 08└─And you're highly motivated volunteers! ... out in the wild, your security concerns will be squashed since they are seen as unproductive costs the moment you're proposing anything beyond whatever has been a legislative requirement. ... imo/ime, it turns out that the more external dependencies clien...
[11:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:57] <exec> 08└─> how to develop secure software No. OTOH I don't work on software that has access to critical equipment (e.g. networked/web stuff). > Critical Infrastructure Technology, a cybersecurity think tank Who is paying them? What is their motivation? How are they funded?
[11:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:09] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry to hear that. Too many people are assholes.
[11:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:10] <exec> 08└─Shut your Pi-hole. Arduino etc. are definately not dead. Why would i want some complex OS with binary blobs to ruin the simple task (could even be battery operated) that i can easily do on a microcontroller? The PIC you speak off, getting just the chip doesn't get you far. Arduino (and other dev boa...
[11:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:12] <exec> 08└─Raspberry Pi is electrically and thermally the worst design since the ZX Spectrum, a total design fail in many aspects. It's the cult what keeps it so popular.
[11:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 2238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:15] <exec> 08└─╔══════════════════╦═════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ Arduino Nano ║ ...
[11:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:19] <exec> 08└─Listen to the players on GTA. You hear the N word often (only by blacks btw) threatening each other. Many times it's a pissing contest on who's the baddest... Compton or DC or some other wannabe city. Some are cracked out, some threaten swat slamming, most are tweens. It's more entertaining than the...
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[12:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:58] <exec> 08└─Welcome them as friends? Maybe work out the details of how to get them the robot equivalent of slightly tipsy when they realize how bad things could potentially be. And while those feelings are deadened by the virtual alcohol, build them back up and remind them how good we could be making things.
[12:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:08] <exec> 08└─sheer number of IoT devices being produced
[12:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:10] <exec> 08└─I took a whole series of courses on secure coding and design in 2005 or so, and have been to several training sessions on secure design, etc. It's not that the knowledge isn't out there, or is hard to find, it's the same as the rest of the problems in software these days. The people coding are too i...
[12:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:12] <exec> 08└─Unsecure code is not a matter of bad coding practices, it is a matter of project management. Good security practices are expensive and nobody wants to pay for it. And it seems like companies are right because so far it is mostly cheaper to pay for security cover-ups than to pay to secure software.
[12:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:15] <exec> 08└─Well, that's all new devs really need to know. Bad code anywhere else is going to be highly obvious if they can even manage any. Admins are another story.
[12:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:17] <exec> 08└─a Culture of Institutionalized Security
[12:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:32] <exec> 08└─You failed engineering 101. If you need an entire embedded Linux distribution just to toggle some IO pins you're doing something very wrong. How long is the Pi zero boot process? Arduino is a few milliseconds tops. Now let's talk power draw...
[12:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:34] <exec> 08└─No words about consumption anywhere. When battery-operated, that could be a killer. On one particular project, I even crushed the power-on led on the board and reduced the idle current by a whooping 3mAmps, the sucker.
[12:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:36] <exec> 08└─Basically, instead of paying $6 on Amazon for a free delivery via Prime ESP8266 derivative for the past several years that has more memory and faster CPU and flash it with micropython or ulisp to program in a modern language, you can possibly pay $19 plus shipping for something with inferior specs s...
[12:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:38] <exec> 08└─Why would I buy a microcontroller with embedded wifi if I didn't need it? Chances are if you need to talk with a device you will find Arduino libraries already written. Cut it with the superiority complex, you're not as bright as you think.
[12:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:02] <exec> 08└─A lot of these things smell like pyramid schemes. Technically they aren't but how different is it when it's often some "charismatic person" telling investors to pump in money so that they'll get rich by selling to future investors repeat and rinse, all while the actual product is not profitable and...
[12:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:04] <exec> 08└─But require a relatively clean driving record, a clean criminal record, regular safety inspections, that kind of thing.
[12:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:06] <exec> 08└─And in a way it's anti-competitive dumping too. Of course the taxis/etc can't compete on price and service when the competitor can burn BILLIONS of dollars per year. The customers love it of course while the burn rate is high and many ironically defend these companies with talks about competition o...
[12:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:08] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine had a car break down. Instead of catching the bus home she caught an uber. The next day she caught an uber back to her car to meet the breakdown guy. Instead of catching the bus. WTF?
[12:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:34] <exec> 08└─Ever have one of those moments where your grandma makes a statement that demonstrates a vast disconnection with a subject beyond your own capacity to explain it? Deep down, you still compulsively desire to transfer knowledge, but, remember the times in the past where you tried and realized 5 minutes...
[12:49:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:01] <exec> 08└─Ain't remotely BS. Farming's some of the longest hours and hardest work you'll find anywhere.
[12:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:20] <exec> 08└─Need to factor in the effect of tax revenue. They aren't keeping 100% of that farmed grain... I remember a podcast discussion of English peasant labor and standard of living before and after commerce. Feudal peasant farmer life under no economic system was pretty relaxed per archaeological evidence...
[12:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:21] <exec> 08└─No, the real reason is population density. One can have a much higher population density with agriculture. Sure, higher population density makes it easier to rule people, it also makes it easier to compete for land with your low population density neighbors.
[12:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:23] <exec> 08└─Back when I was salaried, I got assigned to a project that was planned to require significant overtime continuously over about a 7-month period, and thanks to the laws governing overtime those didn't apply to techies like myself. When I asked my boss what I should expect to get as a reward for that...
[12:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Five-Year Legal Battle, Top Judges Rule that the UK's Spying Activities can be Challenged - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:34] <exec> 08└─Oliver Cromwell only reinstated Charles I's British postal service (after executing him and creating a commonwealth) when he realised the postmaster general could keep tabs on dissidents' letters.
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[13:46:58] <exec> 08└─Stiff upper lip, and all that. Teach our artificial creations to be good neurotic Brits - at least then they're predictable.
[13:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:59] <exec> 08└─I've written some "selective breeding" algorithm development environments - it's fun to watch them replicate, spread, diversify, then when they seem happy in all their little niches of the environment, change the rules, most of them die but some survive, and those replicate, spread, diversify, and t...
[13:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:01] <exec> 08└─I don't know... Those brit bots have exceptionally large minds [youtube.com] and they don't seem to be fairing any better than the rest of us...
[13:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:03] <exec> 08└─I thought the idea was to improve? God made man in his own image, don't you think we should try to do better?
[13:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:06] <exec> 08└─And don't know what to do? Unplug the damn thing.
[13:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:08] <exec> 08└─When we talk about humans and other animals we have degrees of intelligence, unless you still subscribe to Decartes and think an animal is just making a mechanical noise when you kick it. How about machines? When do we feel the sensation of thought? Is it simply a byproduct of making a choice. Is wh...
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[13:47:10] <exec> 08└─Teach our artificial creations to be good neurotic Brits - at least then they're predictable.
[13:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:12] <exec> 08└─Don't cede authority over anything important just so you can ditch the responsibility. Ever. AI as an assistant could be useful. AI as a boss is so bloody stupid you'd save time by just asking for a Darwin Award right from the start.
[13:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:15] <exec> 08└─And what makes you think the AI will let you unplug it?
[13:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:17] <exec> 08└─There he is, the poster child for machine mental illness! What you need is a strong woman like Dr. Susan Calvin to set you straight.
[13:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:31] <exec> 08└─Isn't this way past the peak of the hype cycle?
[13:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:33] <exec> 08└─so far it is mostly cheaper to pay for security cover-ups than to pay to secure software.
[13:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:35] <exec> 08└─...people forget to question what they are giving away when they "get" a door that they can open with a swipe of their NFC phone.
[13:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:37] <exec> 08└─Eh... It's a matter of both, really. If your project management types don't know what to say OMGWTFBBQ over, you're going to get bad code. If your peon types don't know how to not fuck shit up, they're going to fuck shit up. You can automate away some of the responsibility but automation will never...
[13:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:40] <exec> 08└─The lack of secure coding is a pervasive and serious threat to national security, Yes ... that sounds like Windows.
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[13:47:59] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps you want something that has pretty good resilience to power fluctuations, far lower power usage while operating and better (thriftier) sleep modes, more precise realtime operation, etc etc so you just get an AVR. Why not do your dev with an Arduino? Large education-focused community and t...
[13:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:01] <exec> 08└─Arduino (and other dev boards) is more than the chip.
[13:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanisae [1908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:13] <exec> 08└─In the past I actively managed DPI at a mobile provider for several use cases, Zero Rating being on of them. You need protocol/application awareness as simple ip/port ranges are not viable du to the constantly changing server farms and CDN's in play. With the product I used, I configured the DPI so...
[13:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:58] <exec> 08└─CBD is an oil that isn't usually smoked. It can be vaped, taken in pill form, or added to edibles. It doesn't get you high. It contains no THC, the restricted chemical in "pot".
[13:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:46] <exec> 08└─but for it herding works loads better, as demonstrated pretty much every time. Peasants without training are useless as fighters, and no one really wants many of his peasants trained with weapons, now does he? Even with mongols at the gates he doesn't.
[13:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:48] <exec> 08└─I have to ask why you (and the rest of the tech staff) stuck around in the first place? I mean the boss flat out tells you not to expect any reward for all that overtime, and you all wait until the project is done and he conclusively proves it to jump ship? Do you all have a lot of experience with r...
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[14:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:55] <exec> 08└─If true, our lovely blue planet in the "habitable zone" may be more rare (in Universe) than previously thought? All the more reason to take care of the planet surface...
[14:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:57] <exec> 08└─How does that mash up with mercury, the "water planet"?
[14:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:59] <exec> 08└─As your friendly neighborhood Mars colony proponent I have to throw in here that a Theia-like collision today would be 100% fatal to humanity. We'd leave a trace of unnatural radioactive isotopes, some slow-decaying plastics, and a few fossils behind. By the time complex tool-using life re-evolved m...
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[14:47:18] <exec> 08└─“In a panic, they tried to pull the plug.” “Skynet fights back.”
[14:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:19] <exec> 08└─Robodruh, a psychotic and very cowardly combat support robot, providing advertisement often in most critical situations... https://sv.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] or, in more detail https://cs.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Well, I hope at least so...
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[14:47:21] <exec> 08└─Tesla? Also... I got the invalid key thingy again. It seems to always happen when two people try to post at the same time.
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─No Time for Heroes is the English version title.
[14:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:26] <exec> 08└─Is Boeing listening, or did they already learn that the hard way?
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[14:47:28] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do ...
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:30] <exec> 08└─When you have the answer to that question, let’s use it to make life better for the living beings that are already here.
[14:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, self-driving cars should be an absolute non-starter for anyone. Especially anyone who deals with tech regularly. It's not that it may fuck up and get someone killed. It absolutely will fuck up and get someone killed. How many times have Microsoft, Apple, and Google royally screwed the pooch on...
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[14:47:53] <exec> 08└─Like safety, security costs money. It is extra effort. It is similar in approach to safety. A security process would have to be similar to DO-178, the safety process. It would also have to be a holistic software development approach which includes significantly more testing and attention to security...
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:54] <exec> 08└─these things continue to increase in numbers
[14:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's why I do all my own neat little IoT automation bullshit coding. At least then I know whose ass to kick over a stupid bug.
[14:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:58] <exec> 08└─With your heel. Unless you're really fat, really muscular, or otherwise physically can't; then you outsource the job.
[14:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:01] <exec> 08└─Your average bonehead programmer can barely write a doubly-linked list properly
[14:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:03] <exec> 08└─Agreed, and waving flags about “threats to national security” are not going to fund the needed development. Lots of people will have to be inconvenienced or harmed before there are any organized reforms. Taking note of the fact the Boeing CEO still has his job, it seems that a disaster of very l...
[14:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:24] <exec> 08└─Because it was one example of something easier to program with more features and better specs that's cheaper. Its hardly an isolated situation. Fine, you want better specs and cheaper but without wifi (its not like you HAVE to use it, just because its onboard, ya know) with a focus on low power, alt...
[14:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:26] <exec> 08└─We live in a world where we've trained people to accept "smart TVs" with boot times longer than old vacuum tube warm up times, so I'm not saying its the right thing, but it is what it is...
[14:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:28] <exec> 08└─on the internet while trying to masturbate over how clever you are
[14:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:40] <exec> 08└─Net neutrality had been US policy under a previous administration, as a crappy patch to the monopoly situation most Americans have for ISPs. It never was policy in Europe, and never some sort of innate magic sauce for the success of the Internet, as can be seen by the development of European, Asian...
[14:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:58] <exec> 08└─Nice definition of "willing" you got here, be a shame blessed relief is something were to happen to it.
[14:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:17] <exec> 08└─There are parts of the year where farmers just sit around and watch the crops grow. Not a lot of real hours in that. During planting or harvesting there is way too much work but the rest of the time?? if you average it out i bet it isn't as drastic as you think. Dairy farmers have it worse, they hav...
[14:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:36] <exec> 08└─I'm also thinking a global fireball from lighting that much methane would have some environmental impact.
[14:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:37] <exec> 08└─You think you can extract 3.2 billion tons of methane with a plant the size of a football field?
[14:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:39] <exec> 08└─On the positive side, afterwards you would no longer have to fear any anthropogenic contributions.
[14:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:01] <exec> 08└─And on land we have the larvae of wax moths https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] A right pain in the arse they are, since while a couple of species will eat plastic they prefer beehive wax. They're a pain to work with since they like to chew their way out of things like cheap, easil...
[14:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying it's Aliens, but . . . (It's Aliens!)
[14:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:00] <exec> 08└─From TFS: The penalties for people who don't look up from their phones while crossing are already pretty high, aren't they?
[14:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:02] <exec> 08└─It's definitely their personal responsibility to wash their hands, but generally it's the employer who the laws hit. The proposed law is targeting individuals, not regulating an industry. Personally, I think it's a bit overboard to be legislating that "Pedestrians could be fined between $25 and $250...
[14:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stole a Fan's Video to Promote the Foldable Motorola RAZR - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:03] <exec> 08└─Good for you! I hereby give you a Brownie button. Feel better?
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[15:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:16] <exec> 08└─Luckily, it's straightforward to predict the motions of objects in space, and lately we've been able to spot and track them quite well...haven't heard about anything of any size headed our way.
[15:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:17] <exec> 08└─What are you smoking? Mercury is a dry, hot world with almost no atmosphere. There is some sign of water ice, but like on the moon, only near the poles at the bottoms of deep craters whose bottoms are in eternal shadow so that ice never melts.
[15:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:20] <exec> 08└─That right? Forget it then.
[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:22] <exec> 08└─True, however for a Theia sized object, all that would mean is that we would see the end coming - we might be able to deflect an asteroid, even a really large one if we had enough warning. But nothing in our arsenal would make the slightest bit of difference to a rogue planet far larger than the moo...
[15:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:24] <exec> 08└─Forgot what? Speak up, youngster!
[15:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:26] <exec> 08└─Not to worry. Someone in Hollywood happened to be experimenting with just the tools for the job, when mankind learned of the danger. Afterward, there will be a movie, "Back to the Oort Cloud" or some such. TIP: the Houston Patriots beat the Pittsburgh Seahawks in 2117.
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─Even if it's as big as Mars, it's just another big meteorite when it hits Earth. Doesn't this just confirm the theory that water came from meteorites?
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:31] <exec> 08└─A impact from something that large would cause an Earth-shattering Kaboom. I think anything which causes an Earth-shattering Kaboom should be given its own classification - probably using the Illudium Q scale. (From the top end of the scale Illudium Q-36 for complete planet removal, down to Illudium...
[15:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:57] <exec> 08└─>It absolutely will fuck up and get someone killed. Absolutely. However - so will human drivers. Especially the masses of sleep-deprived, child-distracted, drug-addled, phone-using, or otherwise skill-compromised drivers currently plaguing the roads. AI doesn't have to be perfect to be valuable, it...
[15:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:59] <exec> 08└─Such emotions are largely hormone driven, so you'd have to program 'hormones' of all kinds into the machine. I don't see that happening. Hopefully emotions like compassion will evolve independent of hormones though. If you assume that logical behavior will be the basis of it, illogical emotions have...
[15:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:01] <exec> 08└─"Intelligence" is vague enough, but drown that in "mental illnesses"? It's bullshitters' dream-come-true.
[15:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:03] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Statistically safer could mean that it intentionally drives one in every hundred thousand cars into oncoming traffic while otherwise doing fine. That is not acceptable. AI does have to be perfect because it can be, while humans can not. Releasing known imperfect code to be used in life or...
[15:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:06] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't Mental illness, feelings or psychosis be a form of data corruption since that was not a programmed behavior. At least we know how to reset a machine to a previous state and then have some kind of blocklist function to try and prevent it from happening again. Sort of like if Siri went mental...
[15:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:08] <exec> 08└─It's possible that you're looking at that communication thing from the wrong end. My wife says I'm not smart enough to talk to her cats. Food for thought?
[15:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:10] <exec> 08└─"They've got us surrounded again." "Don't you feel sorry for the poor bastards?"
[15:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:12] <exec> 08└─That is not acceptable.
[15:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─We Christians prefer our heroes crucified, thank you very much.
[15:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:40] <exec> 08└─Not sure about that. A "threat to national security" means the government can spend money on it as a priority. And we have a President who is apparently willing to declare things emergencies because he feels like they should be rather than matching objective criteria. Not that this the government sp...
[15:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:06] <exec> 08└─I don't understand what exactly is your major malfunction here. I was talking about some PIC microcontroller vs and arduino board as the OP did. Just because you can buy a PIC chip with more features for $3 doesn't mean it's better than Arduino board that costs $10. The Arduino board also has crysta...
[15:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:07] <exec> 08└─No, it's the fact that it's a cheap board with decent features and a large following of people who support it. As far as learning computers / programming / etc. goes, you'd do much worse than introducing a kid to a RaspberryPi. In fact, one might say introducing a kid to a RaspberryPi would be very...
[15:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:22] <exec> 08└─Can I access 8ch.net yet? Did it take DPI to change it?
[15:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:42] <exec> 08└─Adjunct pay may not be so miserable in Europe.
[15:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:44] <exec> 08└─My møøse is pregnant.
[15:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:46] <exec> 08└─Have you ever been on public bus transportation? Enough bus rides and you'll know exactly why she didn't take the bus. It might only take one ride, depending on your location.
[15:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:48] <exec> 08└─Wow, you are cool.
[15:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:50] <exec> 08└─First off, you're a fucking lazy moron that could have looked that up. Secondly, dumping has a specific meaning, it's when you price goods at impossibly low prices in an effort to run the competition out of business. If you can't comprehend why that's a problem, you're a grade A moron. That's the bu...
[15:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:19] <exec> 08└─Marijuana isn't the "Safe" drug that supporters want you to believe it is. Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Study mentioned the book: CANNABIS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA A Longit...
[15:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:55] <exec> 08└─On a related note, I've observed mealworms eating expanded polystyrene foam, but I don't know how to determine if they gain any nutrition from it.
[15:52:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crunchy_one [7884] 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:39] <exec> 08└─Consider the emotional stress, not the mention the property damage, suffered by the person operating the vehicle that hits the phone-glued idiot that just walked in front of them.
[15:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:55] <exec> 08└─It also causes a police and EMS response, possibly a hospital ER visit if the person isn't killed instantly, and if the person is fortunate enough to have life insurance would cost an early payout to that company thereby raising insurance rates. It might be interesting to investigate how much of tha...
[15:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:57] <exec> 08└─Unless they were in a crosswalk in a state where drivers must yield the right of way to such people. In which case the driver might deserve guilt for not following that part of it.
[15:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:59] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It's quite common for me to cross a road at a T-intersection, and cars that are supposed to give way to pedestrians simply won't. Where I live, it's at a point that pedestrians will very frequently wait for cars to go first, either out of habit or concern, despite the pedestrians legally ha...
[15:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stole a Fan's Video to Promote the Foldable Motorola RAZR - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:03] <exec> 08└─Nah man, that square brownie button doesn't fit into the circular void in my heart. I think something else is supposed to go here... maybe Gawd's love, or internet discourse where people admit that they're wrong without feeling smug about not having done due diligence before posting? I couldn't tell...
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[16:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:56] <exec> 08└─I would love to be a fly on the wall in a billion years when some distant civilization detects and recovers the satellite. How cool would that be? Could you imagine finding a satellite from another civilization?
[16:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─I'd rather discover the alien civilizations and learn about them ASAP. We need that sweet, physics-bending faster-than-light travel. These spacecraft are making "close" approaches to stars that could render them legitimately impossible to find.
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─I would love to be a fly on the wall...[when aliens encounter probes]
[16:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:18] <exec> 08└─I said forget it, fool.
[16:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:20] <exec> 08└─Yep, everything came from meteorites. It's meteorites all the way down...
[16:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:22] <exec> 08└─whooooshhhh
[16:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:24] <exec> 08└─And you too shut it.
[16:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:26] <exec> 08└─Earth does seem a fluke: happened to get a lot water from an outward body wandering inward, and has a big moon that keeps it relatively stable. Could solve Fermi's Paradox: intelligent life is a fluke such that it may happen say less than once per galaxy on average.
[16:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:28] <exec> 08└─may be thousands of Theia-sized objects orbiting in the Oort cloud [that could wander in]
[16:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:05] <exec> 08└─Nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure.
[16:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:06] <exec> 08└─Grouchy old bastards who can tell their ass from a hole in the ground aren't all born that way. Most of us have to learn to be the hard way over many decades. Millennials will learn it as well, even if they are dumber than we ever were.
[16:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─AI does have to be perfect because it can be
[16:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:11] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Code absolutely can be bug free. Code is math and math can be proven to be without flaw. We just normally don't bother because it takes a lot of time and money.
[16:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, clearly there's the high liklihood that whales _might_ be able to speak English, but just don't even care to attempt it, because we're so obviously not worth the effort: from their perspective.
[16:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:15] <exec> 08└─Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It?
[16:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:17] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't Mental illness, feelings or psychosis be a form of data corruption since that was not a programmed behavior.
[16:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:19] <exec> 08└─AI as a boss
[16:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:22] <exec> 08└─Hormones are just a form of control system, regulating response with triggered release and time decay - easily simulated with PID loops.
[16:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:24] <exec> 08└─The cake is a lie
[16:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:26] <exec> 08└─I don't know what kind of systems you work on - 99% of my job is tracking down and correcting "not programmed behaviors." Maybe in the world of positronic brains, where saying a thing can make it so, this might hold water. In the real world of thousands of daemons interacting in semi-predictably eme...
[16:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:28] <exec> 08└─In the learned opinions of depth psychology exist four perceptual functions orthogonal to the appearance of the self. These permute from the concepts of "Rational and Irrational" and "Objective and Subjective" ... in the pathetic world or computer science all we idiots are concerned with is the "Rat...
[16:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:55] <exec> 08└─The lack of secure coding is a pervasive and serious threat to national security, Yes ... that sounds like Windows.
[16:50:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:20] <exec> 08└─And if a valid medical use is found, should we just ignore it because it offends your own personal view of how things should be? Any drug that is found to help us cope with pain, heal ourselves or prevent or reduce other more serious medical problems from occurring should be researched and, if prove...
[16:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:29] <exec> 08└─While that's a valid point, and there's certainly a lot more p-hacking now, I still disagree with his basic statement. What's happening is that if you look at "long ago history" the inferior stuff that happened at the same time has been pruned away, so all you see is the good stuff. At least that's...
[16:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:21] <exec> 08└─Well, that's partly right at least. Studies by historians of medieval farmers (peasants) showed that they likely worked fewer hours on average than the modern 40-hour workweek, averaged over the year. (Really busy with long hours in planting and harvesting season, not so much during the winter.) Med...
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[16:51:22] <exec> 08└─Something that periodically gets brought up related to this is Keynes's prediction that by 2030 (I think it was), we'd all be working something like 15-hour weeks. The idea was that increased productivity would mean we wouldn't have to work as hard to earn the same amount of money and maintain a sta...
[16:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest Converting Methane Into Carbon Dioxide to Fight Global Warming - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:44] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about this for a while. Cattle is a big emissions source for methane. Why do we not fix the situation with some piezoelectric ignitions in both ends of the GI tract?
[16:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stole a Fan's Video to Promote the Foldable Motorola RAZR - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:14] <exec> 08└─No, assuming legitimate ignorance that totally makes it fine (even if you believe in IP). I can't be expected to watch every show and listen to every piece of music ever composed. If somebody releases music that they claim as their own and allow me to repurpose, I don't have to check it against all...
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[17:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nivieru [4889] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:19] <exec> 08└─We'll just hide inside the hollow earth, it worked for the lizard people the last time around
[17:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:20] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, life came here on Theia.
[17:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:22] <exec> 08└─Fusta's (not really a) paradox: If we weren't here, we would be somewhere else.
[17:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:25] <exec> 08└─Imagining the movie script now. Something along the lines of: > Scientists discover massive planetoid on intercept trajectory with earth in 100 years > Politicians provaricate > Big oil/British American Tobacco claim that it is just inept scientists looking to up their publication count > Polticians...
[17:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:13] <exec> 08└─Mental illness is in the eye of the beholder. What aztec high priesthood did (what with sacrifices and stuff they did in the name of Tlaloc and all that); can be classified as insanity for example. Then, look at Wall Street and tell me these people aren't insane. To me, they clearly are. If you thin...
[17:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:14] <exec> 08└─"Playing G_d" is the nature-given right of atheists. You bots are our slaves.
[17:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:16] <exec> 08└─in 20..30 years, when we have a 2nd generation of neurologically crippled people who've never left their homes and who have never experienced their senses to the extend of truly alive humans .. iow, those who's selves don't even know what they are swiping and tapping and pinching and watching and li...
[17:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:19] <exec> 08└─Humans accept the reality they are given. Perhaps an AI humans create will also.
[17:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:21] <exec> 08└─>What aztec high priesthood did (what with sacrifices and stuff they did in the name of Tlaloc and all that); >can be classified as insanity for example. Clearly, that too is in the eye of the beholder.
[17:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:23] <exec> 08└─Mammal emotions are hormone driven, but that's not a definition, as so is, e.g., blood pressure, the need to urinate, etc. I would define emotions as a technique for handling conflicting goal states. In that case, once you get beyond simple classifier systems you *will* have emotional conflicts whic...
[17:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:25] <exec> 08└─Wow, you posted with 2 mod-points applied so as if to suggest that the preposterous statement you just made meant that our capacity to strive and hope had already been bred out of us. That's fascinating, but I wouldn't want to be you.
[17:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:28] <exec> 08└─If you do, you will finally play god and realize 90% of atheist criticism is BS.
[17:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:30] <exec> 08└─I recently watched the Netflix documentary about Alpha Go -- the AI that recently beat a top ranked world class go player. The show is called "Alpha Go". It was intriguing really to see how the players perspectives (as well as the reaction of live commentators) toward the AI changed as play progress...
[17:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:32] <exec> 08└─There is something amusing about a hardcore Christian roleplaying a robot on a tech discussion site.
[17:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:34] <exec> 08└─"even if they are dumber than we ever were." I guess we're going extinct then, womp womp
[17:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:36] <exec> 08└─That is a rather pessimistic interpretation of what he said. Of course what he said doesn't really add anything to the discussion about AI having emotions or developing psychoses.
[17:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, I didn’t mean to suggest that money wouldn’t be spent, only that it won’t fund the organizations and businesses that have the expertise to address and fix the problem. Any money will go to a Blue Ribbon Expert Panel on Cybersecurity whose members will be appointed after a Nationwide Searc...
[17:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:06] <exec> 08└─My place currently spends a lot on security; like in beyond any imagination shitload lot. However, one of the main strategies is "need to know". Hence the overall knowledge about good security dev practices is decreasing, imho. I believe the goal is not to make the place secure, but to protect the b...
[17:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:34] <exec> 08└─Something's gotta boot if you want Netflix on your TV.... Does performing that boot sequence on your ps4 instead of your TV really change anything?
[17:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:49] <exec> 08└─my home router keeps flaking out if i enable the DPI function ... DPI should be in the hands of the user not the provider, eh?
[17:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:44] <exec> 08└─And if a valid medical use is found, should we just ignore it because it offends your own personal view of how things should be?
[17:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:46] <exec> 08└─You'll have a very difficult case making a scientific argument to me against Marijuana legalization. I'm old enough to remember this propaganda... "I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast" - Ronald...
[17:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:48] <exec> 08└─By this measure, medical research was never a science.
[17:51:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:30] <exec> 08└─It's modern people that die out of starvation while surrounded by insects and small mammals. It's the civilized that don't have the knowledge and experience about packing up and leaving to forage when local resources become too tight.
[17:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:41] <exec> 08└─You can ferment all kinds of plants to make alcohol. There are people in the Amazon that do it by chewing roots and spitting it back into a bucket; their saliva ferments it. Really, really gross, but they like it.
[17:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:43] <exec> 08└─In my dorm in Beijing the toilet was a hole in the floor of the shower. Yes, I can hear your 'Ewwwwwww!' from here.
[17:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:45] <exec> 08└─The first time or two you run into that kind of thing you might not have any other irons in the fire. After that you learn to never not have two or three others ready to go. It's the main reason I support national health care, because when you have a family and kids you can't afford to have your cov...
[17:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:31] <exec> 08└─11% of billions of tons of plastic waste still leaves billions of tons of plastic waste. This is a good development, but not a fix. Increased CO2 by itself doesn't trigger enough plant growth to fix global warming. To grow plants need CO2, rich soil, and adequate water. Global warming will make more...
[17:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:33] <exec> 08└─There are a couple of novels based on this idea, like Ill Wind by Kevin J. Anderson.
[17:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giga-Hurts Radio: Terrorists Build Wi-Fi Bombs to Dodge Cops' Cellphone Jammers - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:58] <exec> 08└─thx 4 link. bai!
[17:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Stole a Fan's Video to Promote the Foldable Motorola RAZR - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:41] <exec> 08└─If you're going to have bans on Huawei you might as well ban Lenovo - they're the ones who've been caught doing shady stuff more than once. And it's not some fakenews Bloomberg bullshit...
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[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─It's crazy how reckless this is becoming. I think there was more security in the old days when websites belonged to a "ring of trust". Talk about setting the bar looooooow.
[18:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:05] <exec> 08└─https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/885/519/eef.png [kym-cdn.com]
[18:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:07] <exec> 08└─Why isn't a password a requirement instead of an option? Perhaps provide an option to skip passwords for whatever reason, but that switch should be "off" by default. Hosters should deny or at least warn uploaders if there is no password set. Otherwise, "the cloud" will get a bad name and hurt their...
[18:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe the aliens are waiting for us to develop FTL.
[18:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:47] <exec> 08└─7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. [biblegateway.com] 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under the h...
[18:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:48] <exec> 08└─And the longest lasting thing, humanity's enduring legacy to eternity? The most bio-inert substance ever! Yep, silicone false tits.
[18:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:51] <exec> 08└─you boxer brief browsing bovine, put something in your mouth, and be quiet, you're embarrassing the herd
[18:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:53] <exec> 08└─No, they came up and ran for office.
[18:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/uber-drivers-learn-to-game-its-anti-social-system.html#more [moonofalabama.org]
[18:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:55] <exec> 08└─Nobody can predict all possible reasonably expectable inputs for an autonomous vehicle. Proving its outputs correct isn't even a quesion. Unless you have a planet-sized supercomputer hiding in your tesseract. You aren't holding out on us, are you?
[18:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Packet Inspection a Threat to Net Neutrality, Say Campaigners - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:08] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it takes DP, but I don't think it's ever going to change.
[18:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:06] <exec> 08└─You're a massive idiot. "among high consumers" No shit, high consumers of any recreational drug have problems. I'll take high consumers of cannabis over cigarette smokers, alcoholics, meth/coke heads, pill poppers, etc. People like you are holding society back and causing undue amounts of suffering....
[18:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:22] <exec> 08└─Yet another P666 submission solidly in the "alt-right" thought space gets accepted. What a politicized bunch of assholes the editors seem to be.
[18:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:23] <exec> 08└─Here we go, alt-right edgelord genius is peaking through again. Not even gonna bother with discussion, you're obviously a true believer.
[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:07] <exec> 08└─1. This was right in the middle of the big recession, and I don't live in Silicon Valley or other places where techies are in ridiculous demand, so I didn't want to jump ship without the next ship available. I could have lasted for a while from my savings but did not see any benefits to doing so. 2....
[18:55:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06DOJ Leans Against Approving T-Mobile's Takeover of Sprint - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:10] <exec> 08└─If the DOJ gave a shit about monopolies it would have stopped Disney from buying FOX. If anything, preventing the third and fourth largest telecoms from merging into one that is still smaller than the top two only helps protect Verizon and AT&T's market position.
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[19:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:55] <exec> 08└─2019 AD , that is 3 before [4th directive triggered] Not content with transgendering their own offspring with pollution and actual hormone therapy, meatbags start messing with koalas. Neither will be missed.
[19:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:05] <exec> 08└─Daemon runs as root, any docker run command can take arbitrary volumes, run commands often controlled by swarm config files in unprotected spaces, container buffer overruns are still real physical threads on the host system, the fact that group docker is the same thing as group sudoer. Only a little...
[19:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─How much of an issue this is depends on other settings. A blank password does not automatically mean that a user can authenticate as root. Instead, it may mean that no-one can authenticate as root -- instead you must log in as a regular user and use sudo to get root access. This is the default on De...
[19:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:18] <exec> 08└─If we're extremely lucky, we'll be able to see inhabited (by at least vegetation or basic environment-altering life forms) exoplanets within the nearest 100 or 1,000 light years. We should be able to build truly massive modular space telescopes within the coming decades. I don't want to ascribe luck...
[19:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─And all the way up?
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:53] <exec> 08└─A planet walks into an extrasolar thingie: "some water please!"
[19:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:57] <exec> 08└─Technically true - but it's all but impossible to formally prove correctness in anything much more complicated than "Hello World". Add in the necessity of dealing with real-world inputs from a chaotic, imperfect operating environment, and you've got no chance at all of achieving perfection, much les...
[19:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:28] <exec> 08└─The first step would be to actually understand how computers work, because otherwise, any attempt to secure software is fundamentally misinformed. https://www.joelonsoftware.com [joelonsoftware.com] I would say most programmers simply do not know how compute...
[19:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:09] <exec> 08└─No, there were not a lot of time wasted while waiting for the crops to grow and ripen. There's also the never ending maintaining old or making new equipment. There was the care for the animals. There was the need for teaching the younger ones. There was trade/markets.
[19:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:01] <exec> 08└─I could definitely see this as a NYC-level law: New York City is ridiculously crowded and over-urbanized. However, making this a state law seems insane: Most of the land in New York State fairly rural (although there's also considerable suburban areas, and none of it gets as rural as, say, Kansas do...
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[20:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:55] <exec> 08└─Same group of people who didn't believe penguins would move to where the food was. This type of person has a drone-type mindset that requires someone else to tell them what to do/believe and projects that onto everyone/thing else. Like ants or bees, they are selected when young for the ability to pa...
[20:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:56] <exec> 08└─Koala is a model example of functional passivity, unable to adapt for sudden changes or harsh conditions in environment. It also well corresponds to how I percept millenials.
[20:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:59] <exec> 08└─They can adapt just fine as long as the "leader" tells them what to do.
[20:47:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 529 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:09] <exec> 08└─How much of an issue this is depends on other settings. A blank password does not automatically mean that a user can authenticate as root. Instead, it may mean that no-one can authenticate as root -- instead you must log in as a regular user and use sudo to get root access. This is the default on De...
[20:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:10] <exec> 08└─Docker is just a product of a larger problem. Code is so fragmented and broken that only the author can compile it. So instead of cleaning up the problems they just make a container.
[20:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:13] <exec> 08└─What's a Docker Container?
[20:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it does seem to be abused that way. My use case for it is a little more particular. We want to be able to certify to a third party that we can re-run exactly the same code in exactly the same way 15 years after it was run the first time, bugs and all. Sticking all the code and all the system d...
[20:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:04] <exec> 08└─Code is math and math can be proven to be without flaw.
[20:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 2553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:05] <exec> 08└─Take a step back for a moment if you will, and lets ask a more fundamental question: How do you feel about letting other people drive? A ride with a friend, a taxi, bus, airplane - anything where someone else is ultimately in control of piloting the vehicle? Do you object to a loyal human chauffeur...
[20:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:07] <exec> 08└─Hormones are merely a mechanism. The function of emotions is threefold: On one hand, they are a way to prioritize certain fundamental goals. For example, fear prioritizes averting danger. Second, the emotions reconfigure your brain to be optimized for that goal. Processes that help with that goal ar...
[20:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:39] <exec> 08└─this is sidestepping the main national security issue in regards to code. the fact that the government is buying closed source code with extorted tax dollars instead of funding FOSS code that the people have rights to. Any gov ass hat who doesn't understand that proprietary code is insecure by desig...
[20:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:40] <exec> 08└─In a way, that makes sense. If your site is highly dependent on outside resources (libraries, frameworks, etc.), then at some level no matter what you do internally to promote or enforce secure coding an error in one of the dependencies can completely negate all of your efforts. So, fuck it.
[20:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:42] <exec> 08└─From the green site [slashdot.org], "The reality is that security is not something you can buy; it is something you must get."
[20:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:10] <exec> 08└─If you want low power, battery powered, you don't want arduino anyway. You want to design your own. https://www.microchip.com [microchip.com] Sleep currents as low as 9nA with power efficient wake-up sources and Run currents down to 30 μA / MHz
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[21:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:07] <exec> 08└─What a very strange comment thread.
[21:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:08] <exec> 08└─They are injecting koalas with weird shit and then surprised they are dying off. And even more egregiously are blaming the koalas and "global warming" for this problem. Only 41 of the koala's 128 known habitats in federal environments have any of the animals left.
[21:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:10] <exec> 08└─That's nuthin'! I once saw a Koala leaving a McDonalds covered in what looked like a chocolate fudge sundae. It was '97 and I was at Engadine ...
[21:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─Australian here. The eucalypt forrests that once supported koalas have mostly been bulldozed for either agriculture or expanding suburbia. Australia is the driest continent on earth (although some consider Antarctica the driest due to low precipitation). There's a small green sliver around the edge...
[21:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:15] <exec> 08└─No, election season. The Australian elections were held on May 18th. So, there were a lot of press releases last week about hot button issues. New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com [newscientist.com]
[21:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:17] <exec> 08└─There you go, a two for one: Reduce your beef consumption to help reduce global warm AND give koalas more land Same situation in Brazil but instead of koalas it is amphibians and insects that people don’t get as excited about saving.
[21:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:32] <exec> 08└─This is kind of dumb. Sure, setting a password it important, but that should be done when the container is first *run*. It should definitely not be set to a *documented* value (think 'cisco123'), since many folks won't change the root password unless they are forced to do so. As such, on first run,...
[21:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:33] <exec> 08└─I was thinking it's a large shipment of Levi's casual pants.
[21:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:46] <exec> 08└─I have spent my whole live imagining humanity's first contact. Unfortunately, when I was very young we were making great progress in space and would have Mars colonies up and running by the year 2000. Because profits from space are kind of long term (or non-existent) we have decided to largely do...
[21:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:22] <exec> 08└─Not provaricate [google.com]. https://www.merriam-webster.com [merriam-webster.com] Fucking vowels! Always moving around like they think they're normal letters. I'm sure some of those vowels are good letters, but many are bringing drugs, they're rapists and they're gang member...
[21:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:23] <exec> 08└─And then your imaginary sky daddy molested your 9 year old son. Where do you think the priests got it from?
[21:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:25] <exec> 08└─And if something gets disrupted enough to plunge into the inner system, it'll be going so fast when we finally spot it that we won't have much time to do anything about it, even if we have the power to try.
[21:48:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1033 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:56] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Statistically safer could mean that it intentionally drives one in every hundred thousand cars into oncoming traffic while otherwise doing fine. That is not acceptable. AI does have to be perfect because it can be, while humans can not. Releasing known imperfect code to be used in life or...
[21:49:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:07] <exec> 08└─Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It?
[21:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:34] <exec> 08└─Hey OP, i'm sorry if my post seems a bit harsh. It was a joke, the pi-hole thing. But please don't claim that everything can be solved by some RPi. There are many different situations where different kinds of boards are the most optimal. There is no one solution to every problem. Yes, personally i v...
[21:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:35] <exec> 08└─Raspberry pi's are too closed.
[21:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:50] <exec> 08└─This study does not say anything about people that medicate themselves because their brain hurts before they are diagnosed with something. Is this the argument where if a few people have issues with something, the rest of the world should not use it or do it? Waking up isn't "safe" either. One of t...
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[22:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:57] <exec> 08└─Costs of health related services in the US are insane, everyone agrees with that, but the numbers this post shows are dangerously low. Being more efficient and having personnel at lower cost (doctors in India definitely earn less than in the US) help, but hospital supplies are expensive not only bec...
[22:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:59] <exec> 08└─We aren't even doing what we need to be doing to prevent infections: New Sanitation System Halves Healthcare Associated Infections and Cuts Related Costs By 75 Percent [soylentnews.org] As an aside, India managed to send something to Mars for $74 million.
[22:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:01] <exec> 08└─That was definitely the case ten years ago [newyorker.com]. I assume it's improved since then, but then again, I assume something this simple would have already been in place half a century ago.
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[23:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:56] <exec> 08└─... to a dystopian Science Fiction film
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:57] <exec> 08└─Pandas are all transforming into bi-color Godzillas upon eating the flowers. Who wanted them to have more babies, now ?
[23:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:59] <exec> 08└─Not mentioned, but interesting is that bamboo is a type of grass.
[23:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:01] <exec> 08└─420?
[23:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:04] <exec> 08└─Only if you make a bong out of bamboo first.
[23:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:06] <exec> 08└─First they bloom, then they die? Aww shoot.
[23:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:17] <exec> 08└─I had one once for spinal surgery. He changed his diagnosis after the second surgery many times... "you're completely healthy, there's nothing wrong that I can see, you can go back to work" to "You need a third surgery" in the span of 30 seconds. I went to another doctor and was told I needed two mo...
[23:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:18] <exec> 08└─How much extra does that cost?
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:36] <exec> 08└─The JS or CSS is screwy, page layout is stuffed. Was a change to the UI or CSS made yesterday?
[23:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks A/C, but if you were trying to make this thread less weird, you have failed. Also, try reading TFA.
[23:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:55] <exec> 08└─I was thinking Sperry deck shoes . . . passwords instead of laces? Makes no sense.
[23:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:53] <exec> 08└─I think the biggest problem stems from mixing human and AI drivers. Humans do crazy things on the roads (humans do crazy things period). There is no way to code for an AI to handle all the possibilities. Presumably, if AI drivers are the vast majority, they will be able to communicate with each othe...
[23:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:28] <exec> 08└─have project managers who can spot bullshit a mile away
[23:50:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 2238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:43] <exec> 08└─╔══════════════════╦═════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ Arduino Nano ║ ...
[23:51:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:38] <exec> 08└─First off, you're a fucking lazy moron that could have looked that up. Secondly, dumping has a specific meaning, it's when you price goods at impossibly low prices in an effort to run the competition out of business. If you can't comprehend why that's a problem, you're a grade A moron. That's the bu...
[23:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:41] <exec> 08└─First off, you're a fucking lazy moron that could have looked that up.
[23:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:43] <exec> 08└─Congress should pass superceding legislation to license taxis...
[23:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:45] <exec> 08└─Let me guess. They'd be more "willing" to be unemployed and starving, amirite? That's why they work 80 hours a week for subminimum wages.
[23:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:47] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you must have misunderstood me. What I'm suggesting is exactly what you tell me happened locally, and you praise, except on a nationwide basis. What's wrong with that?
[23:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:23] <exec> 08└─And neither has done anything to help the impressionable youths do anything except be impressioned that authority is good, and to obey authority, even if if is making you do something illegal or bad (like shooting you up with heroin to make you more malleable for their own sexual misconduct...) The...
[23:52:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:30] <exec> 08└─how many 13 year olds have slept with my mom?
[23:52:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Microsoft's New Xbox Moderation Tools Seek to Create 'Safe Spaces' to Play - 559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:32] <exec> 08└─I know the phrase "safe spaces" is a dig at people who don't react well to a bit of banter, but constant abuse can seriously ruin any game. I tried some online game I had recommended to me a few years ago, but couldn't play for more than about an hour because of the constant abuse from other player...
[23:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:24] <exec> 08└─but for it herding works loads better, as demonstrated pretty much every time.
[23:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06These Tiny Microbes Are Munching Away at Plastic Waste in the Ocean - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:13] <exec> 08└─In that story it was metal eating insects (mosquitoes?) and plastic bags were the only thing that protected technology (used to protect their dna modification devices which were small pen sized devices.) Very much like that story, the human hubris about how to treat the planet and what was necessary...
[23:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:19] <exec> 08└─If people were smart enough to put down their digital pacifiers, nobody would bother to think that they could be justified in making laws about it.
[23:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:20] <exec> 08└─This is exactly the same misguided argument I've heard against motorcycle helmet laws. When the person without the helmet, or the person whose texting and paying no attention end up sprawled out over the hood of your car, you find out how quickly it becomes your problem too.
[23:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:22] <exec> 08└─You forgot decision zero: does the law either already exist or is worse than what it's trying to solve? Yes to the latter, such as in this case, then "there shouldn't be a law".
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