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[00:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:00] <exec> 08└─The US has hit China where it hurts by going after its telecom champion Huawei...
[00:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:01] <exec> 08└─Rare earths trade dispute [wikipedia.org] China can’t control the market in rare earth elements because they aren’t all that rare [theverge.com] China's Rare Earth Elements Industry: What Can the West Learn? [researchgate.net] Surprise!
[00:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:14] <exec> 08└─They produce seeds before they die. This has in the past resulted in a rise in rodent populations. Beware!
[00:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/rat-attack.html [pbs.org] https://www.rentokil.co.za [rentokil.co.za]
[00:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:18] <exec> 08└─In China the giant pandas risk starvation [upi.com] when the bamboo flowers and dies off
[00:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:30] <exec> 08└─Well, considering a lot of medication is manufactured in India and China, probably not that much.
[00:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:31] <exec> 08└─Labor in India is a lot cheaper, so any processes that can use more people instead of expensive/more technology -- e.g., general cleaning, inventory, sterilization, operating theater reconfiguration/restocking, etc. -- produce a different landscape when it comes to cost considerations. So the optimi...
[00:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:50] <exec> 08└─If you are in AU it's Optus fucking things up. I think they are MITM'ing all overseas TLS traffic. Slow as frozen shit.
[00:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:52] <exec> 08└─If this comment was designed purely to draw out Aussies, then consider me drawn. For those wondering what the hell this refers to, Australia's current Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, allegedly shit his pants at the Engadine McDonald's in 1997 [pedestrian.tv]. Linked article is a detailed, and very f...
[00:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:21] <exec> 08└─I have spent my whole live imagining humanity's first contact.
[00:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:44] <exec> 08└─I can see it coming.. just like doctors, expect expensive insurance and government certifications and unions, and banning doing stuff on the side..( in effect )
[00:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:15] <exec> 08└─For many applications where timing is not critical, there are built in trimmed/trimmable RC clocks inside the chip package. The PIC10F2xx family, for instance, comes in a six pin package. You have to spend two pins for power and ground, but the other four pins are versatile I/O lines.
[00:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:17] <exec> 08└─The Raspberry Pi is a pedagogical project. It's intent is for there to be cheap single boards for school children to play around with and learn from. The malingering adult tech bros who hang around the community aren't the target audience at all.
[00:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:19] <exec> 08└─At the hardware level they are too closed. It's not the same experience as a Commodore 64 where they used common off-the-shelf 8 bit peripheral chips for most of the design. But the Pi is an introductory level system. Kids with the gumption to go further will get involved with low cost PICs and AVR...
[00:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, you're right I did misunderstand you. I re-read your comment and what you are suggesting is what we did. When there were too many drivers, the market took care of it by putting the worst of them out of business. (Not the cheapest which is interesting). There was a period where there was a ris...
[00:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I see "Don't text while crossing the street" as much of a harm. It's a sad thing that there are so many rules to try to prevent idiots from doing things that should be common sense, but without a law, in this individualistic paradise, would just tell you to fuck off and mind your own bu...
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[01:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:58] <exec> 08└─one cannot entirely rule out a spurious gamma ray that flipped a key bit in memory
[01:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:59] <exec> 08└─Have we ruled out fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic fields? Or a comet passing too close?
[01:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:01] <exec> 08└─Tried to make a journal entry a few hours ago, and tried again just now. The "save" button just comes back to the text edit box, and no journal entry is created.
[01:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:04] <exec> 08└─I was missing the stylesheets on some pages but not others. Also, I keep getting "Invalid form key" when trying to post.
[01:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:14] <exec> 08└─You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. Long live the era of fake news and click bait!
[01:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:16] <exec> 08└─There are multiple forms of weapons. China has been using their rare earths as an economic weapon for decades already. Using natural resources as an economic weapon is part of the Assassin's Mace. https://www.nytimes.com
[01:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:18] <exec> 08└─The term rare earth doesn't mean it's actually rare, just less common than dirt. China is the main exporter because they're selling the stuff at the lowest price, them "weaponizing" it will just lead to other places beginning to export it again because their prices aren't being undercut by the Chine...
[01:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:20] <exec> 08└─Until now it hasn't been a problem. One would hope we'd find that all the BS going on would be a huge kick in the ass to develop our own sources
[01:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:23] <exec> 08└─As the world, and especially China, drains the wealth out of the US, it will become an increasingly bigger problem. Your observation is valid, as is my observation about recycling.
[01:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:38] <exec> 08└─Yes. I was wondering why multiple articles refer to "bamboo trees". The grass can and does get as tall as some trees, but they aren't trees at all.
[01:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:40] <exec> 08└─Which also doesn't flower very often. The common relatives that DO flower often are sorghum and maize(corn) varieties which flower every year, but differently from bamboo or sugarcane varieties. Bamboo should interest anyone with the land to cultivate and contain it. There are varities that can with...
[01:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:15] <exec> 08└─Someone is angry and full of themselves!
[01:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:34] <exec> 08└─As such, Jim Orme should probably focus on something useful if he wants us to read his site (techerati.com), as I haven't seen anything from there yet that gives me a reason not to prefer other sites over it.
[01:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:35] <exec> 08└─From the center of the Christian Universe, it's hard to see the other Gods.
[01:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:36] <exec> 08└─>We should probably, initially at least, still require a passenger with a driver's license in order that, should some level of operational parameters for the AI be exceeded, they can be alerted to take over control of the vehicle. If they have to do that while the car is moving, I think the systems...
[01:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:46] <exec> 08└─Your so-called "muh community" is worth so much more than the difference in price between microcontroller A and microcontroller B.
[01:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:33] <exec> 08└─You don't see an AC moderated to +5 every day, do you? There's a good reason for above AC being modded up. He's right. I suggest that you try driving for Uber for a while. It seems pretty informal - you can probably do the paperwork in just an hour or two. You don't sign any long-term contracts it s...
[01:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I see "Don't text while crossing the street" as much of a harm.
[01:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Might Fine You for Texting While Crossing the Street - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:10] <exec> 08└─Until you're the victim of a chain reaction caused by one of these morons, who then successfully argues in court that he wasn't breaking any law, leaving you with all the liabilities and costs.
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[02:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Sues the U.S. Air Force, Again - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:51] <exec> 08└─IIRC, SpaceX had to sue to be allowed to bid on the ISS supply contract. This is just more of the same, the brass want their palms greased.
[02:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Sues the U.S. Air Force, Again - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:52] <exec> 08└─The previous lawsuit was related to the Air Force's EELV [wikipedia.org] program: SpaceX, US Air Force Settle Lawsuit [defensenews.com] (2015) SpaceX was actually given a contract to launch stuff to the ISS (CRS [wikipedia.org]) at a time when they hadn't flown a single Falcon 9 rocket. It allowed t...
[02:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:05] <exec> 08└─People fuck up. No need to ascribe to hardware what could easily be ascribed to human intervention.
[02:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:06] <exec> 08└─Easy for you to say, but what about the Giant Mutant Star Goat?
[02:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:08] <exec> 08└─For me it was the subs queue page that was empty (not just the list was empty but the entire page was just black) and then I got force logged out and had to log back in again.
[02:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:22] <exec> 08└─Fundamentally, that's what tariffs will do too. Artificially, yes... but it may now be cost effective for someone else to sell rare-earths into the US market. And so they will. The problem is that it takes a few years to get the mines and refineries built or online and whatnot. So for a few yea...
[02:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:24] <exec> 08└─Both are equally valid, but we need new sources of rare earth metals. How we do it is left to *better* minds than mine. *Better is merely a hope. It'll be left to the politicians and we'll be fucked as usual.
[02:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:42] <exec> 08└─Interesting. My first thought about your post was, "How durable would a bamboo home be?" Then, I remembered the geo-engineered pine plantations. The pine sold at lumber yards these days isn't especially durable, either.
[02:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:44] <exec> 08└─I planted some about 14 years ago, within 6 years it grew to a beautiful stand of 30' tall 2" diameter stems, I was starting to harvest the ones that were growing "out of bounds" for raw material - still have some curtain rods made from them. Then, 6 years ago we moved, and immediately planted a sel...
[02:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:46] <exec> 08└─I would be careful with that stuff. It is a rather invasive species and *VERY* though to get rid of. If you want bamboo make sure you WANT bamboo. Many of the people I work with spend many hours in their yards chopping and getting rid of it. The previous owners of their houses thought it was "oh so...
[02:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:48] <exec> 08└─grow as large as 6 inches around, up to 40-80 feet tall
[02:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 0619% of the Most Popular Docker Containers Have No Root Password - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:42] <exec> 08└─... and I haven't been pwned. Switching from user 'progo' to 'root' is allowed. Logging in as 'root' is not. This is how Ubuntu is supposed to work, and I hear Ubuntu is a rather popular server OS.
[02:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is well known that mentally ill people self medicate.
[02:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, in feudal Europe, the average peasant was required to give his lord military service NN-many days per year, and might also be required to provide his own arms (and armor, if any).
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[03:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:35] <exec> 08└─everyone not Chinese
[03:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:37] <exec> 08└─This. With this lack of definition doing the rounds, everything can be termed a tool of ‘war’ and therefore ‘weaponised’. Negating the useful meaning of the word. For example we could ‘weaponise’ efficient algorithms in the war to clean up a product codebase. Or we could ‘weaponise’...
[03:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:00] <exec> 08└─It is a rather invasive species and *VERY* though to get rid of.
[03:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:47] <exec> 08└─All of Sailor Mercury's attacks are water based, and her name is みずの.
[03:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:48] <exec> 08└─KJV blows monkey balls. How the fuck can you appreciate ancient mythology with piss-poor translations like that? The Message [biblegateway.com]: God spoke: “Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!” God made sky. He separated th...
[03:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Explains How Earth Got its Water - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:50] <exec> 08└─University of Münster in Germany vs. Sailor Moon manga?
[03:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:02] <exec> 08└─"Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't." - Marvin the depressed robot from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
[03:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Cannabidiol (CBD) Can be an Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:38] <exec> 08└─Thank you for such a reasonable and thoughtful comment. It gives me hope to see others resist the status quo; especially so in the case bad laws. Drug addition of any kind should not be a crime but rather an illness and society will be better served once we begin responding with proper treatment opt...
[03:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:41] <exec> 08└─Lessee... this "sitting around watching the crops grow" includes moving irrigation (may be daily, depending), spraying for various pests, fixing fence so your neighbor's cattle don't trample and eat the crop, repairing the myriad pieces of equipment that suffer wear and tear and are too expensive to...
[03:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:43] <exec> 08└─Was recently reading about the clam gardens on the west coast, tastier then chestnuts. https://clamgarden.com [clamgarden.com]
[03:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:45] <exec> 08└─Some company is nice as well, especially of the opposite sex. Hunter-Gatherers spent a lot of time sitting around the fire telling stories, and had no ads.
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[04:46:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface [wikipedia.org]
[04:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:58] <exec> 08└─Do they publish them online somewhere?
[04:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:38] <exec> 08└─Worse case, the US will just have to learn to recycle, and make products that last longer. There's no hardware reason a cell phone with a replaceable battery can't last 10 years if the software ecosystem had a better business model.
[04:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:40] <exec> 08└─As I noted above, there was a lot of talk about weaning off of China's rare earth production years ago. But talk is cheap.
[04:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:17] <exec> 08└─Doctor: Everything looks pretty successful from I can see. How are you feeling after the surgery? You: I feel shit. I mean it doesn't hurt anymore, and I can even jump and spin around no problems. Doctor: Excellent. If you take it easy, you probably won't need any more surgery. I'll call the nurse t...
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[04:48:19] <exec> 08└─The problem with standardised purchasing and technology solutions is they put the purchasing power into the hands of people that susceptible to kickbacks. And we know how that industry works. If I sell you a $10 item, I'll get 'outbid' by the guy that sells the same thing to you for $100, but gives...
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[04:49:00] <exec> 08└─He should also focus on important things, not pointless scares: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[04:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:14] <exec> 08└─fapfapfapfapfap
[04:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:49] <exec> 08└─Many Hunter-Gatherer societies were pretty communistic, no rulers. You had the elders whose advice was listened to closely and thought about before perhaps ignoring and people who were good at stuff and led in that stuff. The guy with the most experience hunting big game leading the hunters, the guy...
[04:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:51] <exec> 08└─Feeding a warrior cast doesn't seem that bad when your neighbours want to take your stuff. The need for scholars also became pretty apparent as the community grew.
[04:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:53] <exec> 08└─Primitive farmers had lots to do while the crops grew. Just making clothing, maintaining fences/hedgerows, preserving food, looking after the livestock though they also had a lot of holidays.
[04:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:55] <exec> 08└─In some places prison can provide all that without you having to work[1]. So just do some "hunting and gathering" at a local store and you get all that for "free". Somewhat lower[2] levels of freedom of course but... [1] In some less civilized places prison labor is common so YMMV. [2] Some people a...
[04:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farmers Have Less Leisure Time than Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:57] <exec> 08└─Actually I think a lot of that productivity increase went into merely making real estate prices higher (the financial industry calls it investment but it's kind of like a pass the parcel and increase the price till it blows up scheme). Lots of people want to invest their money for retirement where t...
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[05:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:57] <exec> 08└─This doesn't kill Netflix in 175 days or a year. I'm not sure it kills it at all. Even with Disney Hulu, Amazon, AT&T, Apple, and all the rest competing and pulling content away from Netflix, Netflix's zombie customers will keep it alive. In the best case, they will remain at the top. In the worst c...
[05:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:59] <exec> 08└─Nothing that hasn't already been happening. This industry move is just going to make piracy attractive again.
[05:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:01] <exec> 08└─Now they're free to develop their own original superhero, science fiction, and cartoon content. What, developing characters and shows costs money? Oh no, I feel so bad for them!
[05:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:03] <exec> 08└─Unless it is totally free, and free of advertising (other than trailers), I will not subscribe. I saw "Star Wars" opening week, and am a fan of the MCU, but will never pay Disney for fragmented content. "Star Trek" has been important to me (I have the animated ones on LaserDisc), but I haven't subsc...
[05:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:05] <exec> 08└─Unless it is totally free, and free of advertising (other than trailers), I will not subscribe.
[05:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:17] <exec> 08└─My first thought was how do you nail them together.
[05:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:35] <exec> 08└─One way or the other ...
[05:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:36] <exec> 08└─If the following numbers are really true who is cutting more corners? About 1.4 percent of Narayana patients die within 30 days following a heart bypass, according to the Commonwealth Fund, which studies public health, compared with 1.9 percent in the U.S.
[05:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:38] <exec> 08└─+1, Evil Villain Laugh
[05:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:40] <exec> 08└─Well whatever the US doing is worse: https://www.vox.com [vox.com] https://www.huffpost.com [huffpost.com] The US has a 900 bed hospital with 1300 billing clerks... https:/...
[05:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:02] <exec> 08└─Damn you, I went all week not knowing which set of arse clowns had won the federal election. Now remind me, is Scott Morrison labour or liberal?
[05:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:04] <exec> 08└─I pissed my pants laughing at that article!
[05:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:27] <exec> 08└─To me, that sounds like an argument for enforcing a minimum wage, and probably increasing it as well. You see, companies still want the job done even if they are required to pay more to have it done. The net effect is that minimum wage folks don't have to work ridiculous hours to survive. There is a...
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[05:54:31] <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!
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[06:46:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:57] <exec> 08└─Nothing that hasn't already been happening. This industry move is just going to make piracy attractive again.
[06:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:02] <exec> 08└─Don't be retarded. There's no way a new player can suddenly and magically materialise a huge back catalog of movies and shows like Disney has been milking for years. If Disney never made another movie, the way they milk their franchise will keep the cash rolling through the door.
[06:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:04] <exec> 08└─I'll never subscribe either. But, that just means I'll also never watch their shit.
[06:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:06] <exec> 08└─I don't have kids. I don't care for the Disney song and dance. What do they have that I might want?
[06:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:08] <exec> 08└─I think that the proliferation of these services will more likely change our viewing habits than kill off some of these services. Rather than maintaining subscriptions to each service all the time, people will turn the services on and off as desired. For example, you may wish to watch the final seas...
[06:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:10] <exec> 08└─I will subscribe to one paid service for streaming media. I have chosen Netflix, mostly by inertia. I'm not going to have 10 different subscriptions to all the studios' different catalogs and offerings. The industry can either consolidate in a reasonable, pro-consumer, way, or I will go to my 2nd ch...
[06:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:13] <exec> 08└─I do not know if a cheaper price and a good catalog will be enough. Netflix is a rock solid platform, it had small hiccups, but it has taken years to achieve this quality. So to the initial issues with Disney + will really annoy people. People have their habits, they are used to their proven service...
[06:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:15] <exec> 08└─Star Wars?
[06:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:17] <exec> 08└─He can watch it on VHS or DVD. The new ones aren't canon anyway.
[06:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:27] <exec> 08└─NASA plans to hold a student naming competition, as the agency has done with Red Planet rovers in the past.
[06:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 2625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:48] <exec> 08└─Have we ruled out the fact that the site is written in Perl? Yes, blah blah, good programmers can write good code in any language, but if you're honest with yourself, some languages simply facilitate more bugs that are eliminated completely in other languages (static type checking and garbage colle...
[06:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah this was my reaction. My understanding is that the US has sources for all of these, but basically the mines closed down because prices from abroad were too cheap to be competitive. Well guess what: China starts this sort of game, and there's a ceiling on how far the prices can go before we just...
[06:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:52] <exec> 08└─This is wierd. A thread about India that's gone to nearly a dozen messages and no-one's jumped in with the standard white supremacist/neo-Nazi obsession with Indians toiletting habits. Are they all asleep? Still recovering from celebrating Führergeburtstag?
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[07:47:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:09] <exec> 08└─I will subscribe to one paid service for streaming media. I have chosen Netflix, mostly by inertia. I'm not going to have 10 different subscriptions to all the studios' different catalogs and offerings. The industry can either consolidate in a reasonable, pro-consumer, way, or I will go to my 2nd ch...
[07:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:14] <exec> 08└─Just take a gander at: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and you will see that they own a ton of stuff. Basically, they now own half of the major broadcast networks, almost all sports broadcasting, two of the largest movie production compan...
[07:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:16] <exec> 08└─Something something artificial scarcity, something something TPB.
[07:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:52] <exec> 08└─Not a white supremacist, but hey, I'll jump in on rich poop [businessinsider.com], poor poop [bbc.com] concerns. The absolute numbers differ by multiple orders of magnitude, but hey, you gotta start the discussion somewhere.
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[07:49:36] <exec> 08└─We are investigating how best to report stories where the submitter has a professional link to the source material. It is possible that this could result in biased submissions. We can usually find additional stories to support claims made in the submission, but we feel that it is equally as importan...
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[08:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:59] <exec> 08└─Why on Earth, or indeed any other planet, would anyone give a phone number to a website?
[08:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:01] <exec> 08└─Two-factor authentication
[08:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:29] <exec> 08└─What do you mean,"again"?
[08:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:31] <exec> 08└─This. It's already a problem: there are too many different sources of content, each with its own subscription plan. We subscribe to basic cable, to get local news, weather, etc.. It also includes the basic BBC channels, which we occasionally watch. In addition, we watch some sports, so I subscribe t...
[08:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:33] <exec> 08└─Just what we need.
[08:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Only_Mortal [7122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:35] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that a version of iPlayer exists in the US now? Just found it: https://www.britbox.com [britbox.com]
[08:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:37] <exec> 08└─They don't get to survive. Content is being pulled by the networks, and Net Neutrality's death means that the giant ISPs will squeeze users' Netflix's bandwidth, offering instead "unlimited downloads" on that content they just happen to own. One-two punch. No way out in the US, unless the next presi...
[08:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:40] <exec> 08└─= even more
[08:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:42] <exec> 08└─Wise. Take one step more and stop commenting on S/N, double the profit.
[08:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:44] <exec> 08└─The problem with those sex laws was that if someone saw you doing a 69 with your wife they reported you to the clergy and the local lord meaning accusations of satanism and stint in jail. If you were lucky. Yes this is a bad law and a bad system. It just feeds itself. The companies make money from c...
[08:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:46] <exec> 08└─Netflix is a rock solid platform, it had small hiccups, but it has taken years to achieve this quality.
[08:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:57] <exec> 08└─I vote we name it after the Roman Goddess of love. Just to confuse and annoy everyone.
[08:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:59] <exec> 08└─1000 · ^
[08:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:23] <exec> 08└─as per subject
[08:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:25] <exec> 08└─Are you saying this was caused by the server wonking?
[08:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India Hospital World's Cheapest - Cancer Surgery for $700, Endoscopy for $14, and it Still Profits. - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:32] <exec> 08└─When I studied Business Administration, US health care costs were among the highest (if not the highest) in the world and it does not seem to have changed since then. This is through a number of inefficiencies like the cost of retaining droves of lawyers to negotiate with numerous insurance companie...
[08:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:56] <exec> 08└─Is that legal? Can it be proven?
[08:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:58] <exec> 08└─Both They may as well be one party
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[09:46:57] <exec> 08└─Doesn't instagram run on people's phones?
[09:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:59] <exec> 08└─You are thinking they would steal the phone data? I so would not be shocked.
[09:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:01] <exec> 08└─Oh yes 2 factor the great fraud of the inpornamation age in a desperate bid to stay relevant by padding databases full of extra user data few know they were giving up by downloading that cool fun awesome game everyone is playing. Screw em. There is absolutely no need to harvest the levels of data th...
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[09:47:38] <exec> 08└─Song and dance ... ok, that rules out a lot. How about dogs and ponies?
[09:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:39] <exec> 08└─They have pulled in a lot of content from countries without the gripes USA likes to indulge in for example the Korean shows can be quite good more than that some of their original shows are quite worth the watch. There's still lots of shows for me to get through before I cancel. Its cheap enough not...
[09:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:42] <exec> 08└─You read the article? Such wow, so unique! What's it like?
[09:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:44] <exec> 08└─Last few DVDs I bought would not play on the old computer DVD drive so that sucked kinda put me off buying DVDs.
[09:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:46] <exec> 08└─VLC, handbrake, other software. Suspect its the DVD drive itself. Discs from one series just work while another just spins round or gives weird data. Lots forums say things about DRM in the DVD drive itself and stuff but never got to the bottom of it.
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[09:49:06] <exec> 08└─I'd actually read something similar a few years ago, but not having the room to grow more than a few pots worth of grasses, it hasn't come up. Another benefit, along with mint, is that you can basically grow their roots into a mesh underwater so long as you keep the main part of the plant in soil a...
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[10:47:00] <exec> 08└─Who pays for this research and who benefits? Is this just another case of socializing the costs and privatizing the profits? This almost certainly has military applications. I refer you to this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Academics need to stop, sit back for a moment,...
[10:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:12] <exec> 08└─There is absolutely no need to harvest the levels of data they dive in to.
[10:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Third Time's the Charm? SpaceX to try Launching Starlink Again - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:20] <exec> 08└─This thread is just not taking off...
[10:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:57] <exec> 08└─Netflix now has the one key ingredient to do just that. Money.
[10:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:58] <exec> 08└─This will be their eventual death, not content. They have enough original content to keep enough subscribers to stay alive, perhaps at a reduced level. But when subscribers have to pay huge fines ( ya, fines ) to their ISP to use it, they will go down, in flames.
[10:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:00] <exec> 08└─You may not, but millions of parents with kids whining in their ears, will. Your ( or my ) few bucks they miss out on wont matter to them. Like pissing in the ocean.
[10:52:34] <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
[10:52:34] <exec> 08└─Well, unless the AI actually controls the nukes.
[10:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:36] <exec> 08└─We'll stock up on lies, then. (Or paradoxes, they can defeat some AIs.)
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[11:47:07] <exec> 08└─Bee+ flies tethered
[11:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create a Four-Winged Robot Insect That Flies With Grace - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:08] <exec> 08└─This almost certainly has military applications.
[11:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Third Time's the Charm? SpaceX to try Launching Starlink Again - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:28] <exec> 08└─Come back in... 15 hours.
[11:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:08] <exec> 08└─Not clickbait, market manipulation.
[11:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:06] <exec> 08└─Good and easy to win! Maybe China could put an export tax for Apple iPhones at 100% or 200% or do other arbitrary bullshit like Trump is doing. Two can play at that game. The bottom line is that Trump is a fucking idiot
[11:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:47] <exec> 08└─You see, companies still want the job done even if they are required to pay more to have it done.
[11:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:49] <exec> 08└─You don't see an AC moderated to +5 every day, do you?
[11:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber’s Founders Have Cashed In. How About the Drivers? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:51] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with people working hard to get ahead but to me; if regular people are being required to work eighty-hour weeks just to survive; it says that something is very wrong.
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[12:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Union Sues Fintech Giant Fiserv Over Security Claims - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:59] <exec> 08└─Security thru obscurity is the mirror image of privacy. Privacy to end users means my neighbor can't trivially read my facebook data although every government and corporation and criminal on the planet most certainly can. Unfortunately I really don't care if my neighbor reads my FB and the only peop...
[12:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Union Sues Fintech Giant Fiserv Over Security Claims - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:00] <exec> 08└─There have been so many big data breaches that nobody should be using commonly leaked bits of data for security information/password reset options. No social security number, no mother's maiden name, no birthdays, etc... Plus, how classy of Fiserv to do the usual thing when notified of a flaw in the...
[12:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Union Sues Fintech Giant Fiserv Over Security Claims - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:02] <exec> 08└─Not disagreeing, but embrace and extend with some info isn't leaked, its public as per social media, like birthdays and moms maiden name. The linked article mentions a band aid of requiring street address, as if thats secret, LOL.
[12:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Credit Union Sues Fintech Giant Fiserv Over Security Claims - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:05] <exec> 08└─Fair point. Lots of data that used to be considered "secret" was truly just "not widely known." Now it's outright public and publicized, which is exactly why it's a problem when companies still use it for security questions. Sarah Palin's Yahoo email [wikipedia.org] was a perfect example of it. As f...
[12:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Union Sues Fintech Giant Fiserv Over Security Claims - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:07] <exec> 08└─The problem is, if that is all you are changing, then the new data will soon become "commonly known" after the next data breach. The only thing that might make a difference, not counting some sort of huge change in secure systems, is to add strictly liability to all these warehouses of information....
[12:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:17] <exec> 08└─Last few DVDs I bought would not play on the old computer DVD drive
[12:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:18] <exec> 08└─Boxed set from a local store? I'm thinking DRM issues perhaps. Strange that some disks work okay and others just don't be recognized. But yes, a while back there was a DVD knockoff eh -RW of a certain series purchased online that played well for a year till the disks wore out. There be a subtle clue...
[12:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:21] <exec> 08└─Never owned or touched a blueray disk. Never had a blue ray player but have ps4/now, but still won't buy blue ray. DVD all the way till it dies baby!
[12:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:23] <exec> 08└─Or they could start playing hardball. According to Wikipedia, Netflix had $1.2 Billion net income on $15.8 billion in revenue in 2018, while Akamai Technology, for example, had total assets of $5.5 billion for the same year. If ISPs want to squeeze Netflix, they should look into squeezing back.
[12:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:35] <exec> 08└─Venus ab Veneris facie is OK with me.
[12:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:36] <exec> 08└─I can see it now in glistening polished titanium letters: RUPERT PUPNICK
[12:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:03] <exec> 08└─Had to go out of town for a few days and only took my phone, so you lot are on your own. martyb, slashd only runs on fluorine. If you managed to start it on hydrogen too, things will break.
[12:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:26] <exec> 08└─They are going to win, even if it takes 500 or 1,000 years.
[12:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:13] <exec> 08└─> Otherwise, humanity will be very lonely. Or you could just learn being satisfied with a hominoid woman.
[12:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Arduino's New Nano Board Family is More Powerful and Affordable - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, as the old saying goes, "it takes a village to blink an LED" ...
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[13:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:56] <exec> 08└─The same was said about Uber and Lyft, but the reality is that it ends up increasing the traffic as it makes cheap to go from one point to another in a car, individually, instead of using public transport or carpooling, and empty cars going about looking to get a new passanger. It is very likely tha...
[13:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Credit Union Sues Fintech Giant Fiserv Over Security Claims - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:08] <exec> 08└─Facebook would never share your data with those people. The CEO has said he holds his users privacy in a high regard.
[13:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create a Four-Winged Robot Insect That Flies With Grace - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:18] <exec> 08└─If you take Gracie's pipe away from her, she'll stay on the ground.
[13:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:31] <exec> 08└─I always wondered how to contact Months. So now his emails and phone numbers are leaked. Where can I find them? SCNR :-)
[13:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:32] <exec> 08└─So now his emails and phone numbers are leaked.
[13:48:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 1144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:03] <exec> 08└─This. It's already a problem: there are too many different sources of content, each with its own subscription plan. We subscribe to basic cable, to get local news, weather, etc.. It also includes the basic BBC channels, which we occasionally watch. In addition, we watch some sports, so I subscribe t...
[13:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Sues the U.S. Air Force, Again - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:47] <exec> 08└─If SpaceX gets Super Heavy flying, SLS is dead. Can't have that. Congress will repay the military with more pork for them.
[13:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:07] <exec> 08└─Bingo!!
[13:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:30] <exec> 08└─The trade war has hurt China's economy much more than ours. The reason for this is the trade imbalance where we buy so much from China but they buy little from us... even after decades of "free" trade. We can buy cheap stuff made in other poor countries. China is not special.
[13:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:32] <exec> 08└─You mean hardware will be less likely to be a disposable commodity, and as a result there will be less incentives for businesses to release software that obsoletes old hardware revisions? Horrors!
[13:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:34] <exec> 08└─Also, there's little reason to assume that the world in 1000 years will be any more similar to the world today than the world today is to the world 1000 years ago. Quite possibly in 1000 years, whatever happens on Earth will be considered local affairs, irrelevant to the big empires spanning the sol...
[13:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:59] <exec> 08└─agreed. good stuff but be SURE you really want it. a family member also thought it would be "nice" to plant bamboo along the property perimeter. every two months it now needs trimming 'cause if it gets too big a bigger, more dangerous ladder will be required. i said "no" 'cause i saw the mountain of...
[13:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:49] <exec> 08└─The only thing we can be sure of is that we don't have exactly the right amount of koalas.
[13:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:27] <exec> 08└─There are thousands of stars within 100ly of earth, including 500+ G type stars [solstation.com] and 900+ K type stars [solstation.com]. There have been over 2000 detected red dwarfs and smaller, but the vast majority are of those are too dim to be detected. A lot of these stars have habitable zones...
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[14:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─Uber and lyft were never going to decrease traffic. There was no theoretical mechanism to allow that to happen. Driverless cars, while causing a similar increase in demand and total driving, at least have the theory of reducing certain kinds of driver-caused congestion by having better response time...
[14:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:07] <exec> 08└─Circle the block looking for a parking spot while I step inside for a 90 minute meeting. Hey Siri, run downtown and pickup Steve. Hey Siri, go get the kids from school and take them to soccer. The prince of somewhere (Middle East) sent his private jet home from San Francisco to fetch a journal he fo...
[14:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:09] <exec> 08└─If we're essentially talking a giant autonomous taxi service anyway, what if we add a major additional change: almost all the cars are single-seaters that can lane-split to fit 2-4 of them in the same road-space as a normal car, depending on speed. If you need more space you can call a 2-seater, 4-s...
[14:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create a Four-Winged Robot Insect That Flies With Grace - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:31] <exec> 08└─0.003oz is about 0.08505 grams, which is very light. I was curious about photo's, but TFA tries to open like this: uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading: https://guce.advertising.com [advertising.com]
[14:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:46] <exec> 08└─I have a "smart phone"... oh, you assumed I use it as a phone? Not so! I don't trust it. I just use it as a tiny tablet, and even then no password-protected websites or any other important personal stuff in/on it. Once I put my SIM card in it and the texting app is much better than the phone I norma...
[14:48:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:16] <exec> 08└─What do you mean,"again"?
[14:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:40] <exec> 08└─Quit fucking around and buy a computer DVD drive that works. They can't be more than $50, free if you pull one from an old computer.
[14:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:42] <exec> 08└─quite wrong. its always been the R policy to short change the common person to to prop up the 'businessman'. the anti-NN is perfectly aligned with R policies. if an R gets in, he'll continue to fuck the regular person over. its what they do! zero chance an R will undo anything along these lines. the...
[14:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:44] <exec> 08└─Give it some time, and the companies will find a way to make switching things off as annoying and infuriating as possible. Meet the new cable companies.
[14:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:57] <exec> 08└─NASA plans to hold a student naming competition
[14:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:52] <exec> 08└─Why would I want them to weaponize rare earth elements? Firstly, we'll finally start having to pay the true cost of something, instead of letting the Chinese totally ruin their, and ultimately our, environment with their methods for extracting rare earth elements. Recycling of electronics will becom...
[14:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think they nail a lot of bamboo, especially in traditional style homes. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] There's a lot of splitting and weaving, and the living, growing plants are forced to grow in the shapes wanted. I think that if we Americans showed up on...
[14:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:09] <exec> 08└─Legal? I don't know. Sites hosted in AU loaded at normal speed. Anything from overseas, you could watch the various requests in the status bar. First few were normal speed until it got to the 'Negotiating TLS' then it would just sit there. Sometimes it would time out, other times it would eventually...
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[15:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:55] <exec> 08└─The measure was approved by a wide margin. Very unexpected. There were two aspects to the vote. One is gun control. The other is more general: adopting EU law, because otherwise they get mad at us.
[15:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:56] <exec> 08└─Switzerland hasn't had a mass shooting since 2001
[15:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:58] <exec> 08└─With the surrender of Switzerland to the IRS, the country isn't providing much competitive value anymore. They need the EU as a place they can send their surplus population to for work.
[15:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:00] <exec> 08└─They aren't much of a problem at all. But the EU Parliament doesn't respect Switzerland as an independent country, they're just a little scrap of land that thinks they're independent. Just more overbearing, arrogant creation of problems out of nothing, which is the only thing the EU Parliament ever...
[15:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:03] <exec> 08└─Well, yes and no. They don't have america's mass shootings. They do have exceedingly high suicide rates, the second highest in the world, which a lot of pretty solid research connects to firearms per capita(of which they're also second highest in the world). Obviously the research is epidemological,...
[15:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:05] <exec> 08└─Next up to harmonize with the EU: Switzerland to open the gates to immigration! Ha, never happen... or will it? ...
[15:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:07] <exec> 08└─It is like western civilization had one too many vaccines or something and forgot how to walk.
[15:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:17] <exec> 08└─Uber and lyft were never going to decrease traffic. There was no theoretical mechanism to allow that to happen.
[15:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:19] <exec> 08└─What if we got a whole bunch of cars and linked them together with some kind of mechanical mechanism. And... instead of a road we put them on some kind of metal rails that force them to all follow exactly the same path reducing drag. And we only put an engine in the front one. The gas savings would...
[15:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, with Android 7.0 you can deny specific permissions to some apps but not internet access. The UI hides the Internet permissions under a menu option on a screen which looks like it shows all permissions but doesn't. It's very sad that Google has gone downhill like this. A while back I read that t...
[15:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:59] <exec> 08└─I play games and do fun stuff on my cheap 10" tablet. With only WiFi what can they steals? Right. As of Android 7, Google Play Services can't be disabled or stopped. If it causes issues you are screwed unless the phone is rooted. As a bonus the battery on this phone can't be easily removed without d...
[15:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:01] <exec> 08└─It does say 'four months' so meybe a mix? April, May, June, August? 3 girls and a guy right there.
[15:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:03] <exec> 08└─What's your oven got to do with this?
[15:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:00] <exec> 08└─Disney is one of the corporate media behemoths. They bribe/lobby for draconian copyright laws. And wasn't there a story about them firing a whole swath of Americans to replace them with H1Bs? May not be a bad idea to avoid Disney, even if they do have something you want.
[15:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:02] <exec> 08└─I have no interest in any TV service with a monthly subscription fee frankly. We've actually never had cable TV in the decades we've lived where we are. I use an antenna and record OTA HD networks on our MythTV system ($20 a year for schedulesdirect listings). Other than that all we've been using is...
[15:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:04] <exec> 08└─Last few DVDs I bought would not play on the old computer DVD drive so that sucked kinda put me off buying DVDs.
[15:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:18] <exec> 08└─sixth-grader Clara Ma submitted the moniker "Curiosity" for Mars 2020's predecessor
[15:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:48] <exec> 08└─I just invoked your bounce script on those servers... my mistake thinking slashd was on both servers. Sorry for the confusion!
[15:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:16] <exec> 08└─> Maybe, one day, the US will actually learn recycling. A recent story (radio, NPR or BBC, I've forgotten) looked at electronics recycling outside the USA. Seems that organized crime is now involved and they start by burning/melting whole circuit boards down, damn any foul gasses or poisons that som...
[15:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:41] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest that security is something that is not an absolute. This is why security departments are often attached to Risk Management divisions in corporations. As one who's worked in the security field I'd note you can't "get security" either, you only may obtain some measure of it. How one obtain...
[15:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:43] <exec> 08└─Was going to comment last night. Figured you actually might have meant something like that, and well said.
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[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I could do the whole thing myself in far less time than this has taken. I'd probably do it for not more than $50 or $60 million!
[16:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:03] <exec> 08└─That's an insane amount of money. For that much money, the system should be curing the cancer as well as registering it. It almost as mindboggling as the potential $2.2 BILLION that Canadians are paying for a federal payroll program. [wikipedia.org] I just can't understand it... How is that even pos...
[16:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:05] <exec> 08└─Heh yah. Its impossible to quote a project based on a spec of "a bowel cancer registry for approximately 25 million people" Also 25 million is the population of Australia, not the number of people with bowel cancer, or even bowel cancer screening there. So its likely a much smaller registry. Still,...
[16:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:19] <exec> 08└─For Switzerland, no. The country has lost much prestige since the 80s, but it is still a government of and for the people. For the EU, yes. The union is run by unelected second-rate and retired politicians from the national governments, the Western members being under intense working by internationa...
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[16:47:21] <exec> 08└─Astronomy has no controlled experiments but doesn't have the same issues. I'd say its more that people studying public health "don't like math", so they are incapable of making any sort of quantitative predictions to test their theories.
[16:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:23] <exec> 08└─When you typed this up, did you ever ask yourself "Am I making a meaningful point?" Of course people studying public health like math. That's what public health is: applying rigorous mathematical analysis to health trends. And most of these papers fit a fairly clear hypothesis, observation, conclusi...
[16:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:25] <exec> 08└─"presence of guns correlates with gun suicide" presence of rope correlates with rope suicide. presence of drugs correlates with overdose suicide. presence of knives correlates with knife suicide. presence of bridges correlates with bridge suicide. etc. etc. You aren't talking epidemiology -- your ta...
[16:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:27] <exec> 08└─The other is more general: adopting EU law, because otherwise they get mad at us.
[16:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:29] <exec> 08└─Plugging stuff into SPSS/SAS isn't rigorous mathematical analysis. I mean real math where you start with assumptions and then derive a quantitative model that you believe may be more or less true (there will of course always be "perturbations"). Something like 99% of that field is just misinterpreti...
[16:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:32] <exec> 08└─Man, that sure is a purposeful and willful disregard of the second half of the analyses you've got there. You're one of those people who blockquote single sentences from posts to refute them aren't you?
[16:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:34] <exec> 08└─Imagine, the mass shooting in France wouldn't have happened if only law abiding people would have been prevented from owning fully automatic machine guns.
[16:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can totally see wanting a non-linear model on this dataset [aphapublications.org] Stop shitting out ad-hoc justifications for why the evidence and analysis is wrong, and if you're not completely and utterly full of shit posit a counter hypothesis and model that better explains the data. Or f...
[16:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─Same AC. Try this: set.seed(12345) treatment = c(rep(1, 4), rep(0, 4)) gender1 = rep(c(1, 0), 4) gender2 = rep(c(0, 1), 4) result = rnorm(8) summary(lm(result ~ treatment*gender1)) summary(lm(result ~ treatment*gender2))
[16:47:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 422 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:48] <exec> 08└─Circle the block looking for a parking spot while I step inside for a 90 minute meeting. Hey Siri, run downtown and pickup Steve. Hey Siri, go get the kids from school and take them to soccer. The prince of somewhere (Middle East) sent his private jet home from San Francisco to fetch a journal he fo...
[16:47:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:51] <exec> 08└─Uber and lyft were never going to decrease traffic. There was no theoretical mechanism to allow that to happen.
[16:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:54] <exec> 08└─The summary and the headline say very different things... The headline says "Driverless car[s] ... can reduce traffic by ... 35 percent" which literally means that there will be 35% fewer vehicles on the road. As far as I can see, there is no reason to believe that autonomous cars will cause any red...
[16:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:35] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info and excellent points. Quite similar to MS's philosophy- make it cool, advertise, run when the streams cross. I never quite felt good about google from the start. Can't put my finger on it- subtleties and intuition. For me, critical is a removable storage medium. My first action,...
[16:49:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 731 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:31] <exec> 08└─quite wrong. its always been the R policy to short change the common person to to prop up the 'businessman'. the anti-NN is perfectly aligned with R policies. if an R gets in, he'll continue to fuck the regular person over. its what they do! zero chance an R will undo anything along these lines. the...
[16:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:37] <exec> 08└─Dems implement NN Republicans repeal NN Yet, somehow, you don't think Dems will want to implement NN again? Such "both sides" bullshit.
[16:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:39] <exec> 08└─It's from Forbes this time, not Phys.org. Shit, man, you're never fucking happy.
[16:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:41] <exec> 08└─Torrents for sure, but I don't do that anymore either. Instead I know a guy, who knows a guy. We hang out every year or so and exchange external hard drives. I say 'thanks, see you next year!'
[16:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:43] <exec> 08└─Snow White Does The Seven Dwarfs?
[16:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 1898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:45] <exec> 08└─Disney has a large back catalog, and their acquisitions of Marvel and Star Wars augment that a lot. But, really, who hasn't already seen all of that dozens of times in their lives already? And small kids don't care about any of it. They think all that stuff is for old people, and they're right. And...
[16:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:48] <exec> 08└─Both Ds and Rs are owned by big business interests, just different ones. Neither has ever done shit for small business owners.
[16:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:50] <exec> 08└─That is what happens when people willingly hand their brains to someone who enjoys fava beans with a nice chianti.
[16:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:52] <exec> 08└─Its more of a minority party issue.
[16:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:54] <exec> 08└─I find it odd that you equate the desire for a streaming monopoly with "pro-consumer".
[16:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like someone hasn't been with any kids between 4 and 11 for quite a while. We don't have TV, we have adblockers on everything, and we limit non-homework screen time strictly. But they sing the Disney songs with their friends, know the plots, and want to see the movies (old and new) any chance...
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[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─Is this the main page or what?
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:59] <exec> 08└─You high, bro? Got bit by an Australian creature?
[17:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:01] <exec> 08└─wait how do you get bit by a platypus. if anything one might get pinched or stung, but bit? that's like being attacked by angry ducks and having bite wounds, it just doesn't happen that way. you instead get assualted by angry quacking and rapid flapping!
[17:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:03] <exec> 08└─Where there's gold, the miners will flock.
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─Switzerland isn't a member of the EU.
[17:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:28] <exec> 08└─I am sorry but if you are going to make a name for this it clearly needs to be Sexit.
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:31] <exec> 08└─They say, 63% ("almost two thirds") of people agree more gun control is needed. You could also say that 37% ("almost 4 out of 10") of people think the existing gun control is already good enough. An issue being 60-40 doesn't say to you that people are very divided on this? Well, I guess it's at leas...
[17:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:33] <exec> 08└─The issue is the Schengen area. Switzerland wants to remain part of it, and the the EU wants Schengen countries to adopt EU-style gun regulations.
[17:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:35] <exec> 08└─Switzerland has a choice: EU-style gun laws or leave the Schengen area. Follow the rules or erect barriers.
[17:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:37] <exec> 08└─There's a demographic problem with schengen, much like those living in cities telling those living in rural areas they can't own firearms. Good luck to the EU enforcing gun control in Eastern Europe.
[17:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:51] <exec> 08└─Car-sharing should reduce parking problems, because cars don't spend their whole day using a spot. Car-sharing could reduce congestion, with the right app scheduling people to actually optimize vehicle capacity, including changing cars along the way. (buses, but car-sized and with dynamic routes). H...
[17:49:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:14] <exec> 08└─Netflix is a rock solid platform, it had small hiccups, but it has taken years to achieve this quality.
[17:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:46] <exec> 08└─How ? If the guy at the toll booth on the only road is paid to not let you go through to your destination, the only way to change his mind is to give him more cash than he makes blocking you. Whether he lets you through or not, his competing product will not include the toll fee. Netflix can't affor...
[17:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:47] <exec> 08└─Okay, I've got the dogs: List of Disney Dog Movies [disneymovieslist.com] Here's a pony movie: Ride a Wild Pony [imdb.com] There's not as much to go on with pony movies, for several reasons. First, ponies don't often get the title role, with horses usually anchoring equestrian movies. Second, My Lit...
[17:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Many or Too Few Koalas? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:17] <exec> 08└─Why not, you know, *move* koalas from the zone where they're abundant into the zones where they're depleted? I know they can do that, because they have them in the San Diego Zoo. I'm surprised nobody has made this comment yet.
[17:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:55] <exec> 08└─The good news is that it looks like we could get the large version [teslarati.com] of LUVOIR [wikipedia.org] lifted with BFR. So some of us could live to see a 15-meter space telescope (fulfilling the design goals of ATLAST [wikipedia.org]). However, that isn't planned for launch until perhaps 2039,...
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[17:52:57] <exec> 08└─boobs
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[18:47:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry but you are not following at all. 1) The y-axis says "adjusted" suicide rate. These adjustments are probably including other variables in a linear model. 2) There could be some third variable that correlates with both suicide rate and gun ownership, if you further adjust for that this plot wou...
[18:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:36] <exec> 08└─Also, "linear" does not mean fitting a line. That may be another place you are confused. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[18:47:51] <exec> 08└─also it will cure cancer, provide security to our children from the devious and stop those pesky terrorist on their tracks
[18:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Credit Union Sues Fintech Giant Fiserv Over Security Claims - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:05] <exec> 08└─American banks successfully trained the public to wrongly believe that SSID is a financial password and to wrongly accept responsibility ("identity theft") when a criminal uses this "password" - SSID is an ID and it should be safe to publicly display and not used as a password to open accounts - the...
[18:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create a Four-Winged Robot Insect That Flies With Grace - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:17] <exec> 08└─You are very correct, they also do it to spy on stuff. At least, that where the money is easily found. "it would be cute" doesn't have the same pull.
[18:49:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:05] <exec> 08└─Something something artificial scarcity, something something TPB.
[18:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:49] <exec> 08└─This discussion is not about net neutrality. Stop trying to hijack every discussion to a Prog talking point, it is becoming as sad and predictable as when every story has to work in a climate change hook. Netflix is not worried about network neutrality, cable operators (i.e. ISPs) are building Netfl...
[18:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:50] <exec> 08└─When it comes to Netflix survival, NN is not a "Prog talking point". It's front and center. When NN got repealed, I stated multiple times that Netflix was done for. The NN repeal is why the ISP-owned content generators (Universal and friends) are pulling their stuff off Netflix. They have the conten...
[18:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:35] <exec> 08└─all comment sections are now flat
[18:50:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:44] <exec> 08└─Rare earths trade dispute [wikipedia.org] China can’t control the market in rare earth elements because they aren’t all that rare [theverge.com] China's Rare Earth Elements Industry: What Can the West Learn? [researchgate.net] Surprise!
[18:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:31] <exec> 08└─Bamboo can be utilized as a building material as for scaffolding, bridges and houses. Bamboo, like true wood, is a natural composite material with a high strength-to-weight ratio useful for structures.[1] Bamboo has a higher compressive strength than wood, brick or concrete and a tensile strength th...
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[19:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inevitable Disclosure Injunctions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─When getting ready to leave your current job, make sure you do everything you can to make that industry obsolete first.
[19:47:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can totally see wanting a non-linear model on this dataset [aphapublications.org] Stop shitting out ad-hoc justifications for why the evidence and analysis is wrong, and if you're not completely and utterly full of shit posit a counter hypothesis and model that better explains the data. Or f...
[19:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─What part of "Swiss voters" did you fail to grasp?
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:54] <exec> 08└─Effectiveness of suicide intent by guns is much higher than any of these other categories. Lot of people miss or chicken out, when it's not as easy as pulling a trigger. I'm all for letting people off themselves, if they want to and don't hurt anyone else in the process. That doesn't prevent me from...
[19:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:56] <exec> 08└─Can't. My wife already trademarked it.
[19:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:58] <exec> 08└─You might want to look at the high ownership of hunting rifles in the EU. It seems that it would surprise you. I think it's about 20% firearm ownership, with the overwhelming being hunting rifles (the real kind, not the AR-15 kind). A far cry from the US's 120% firearm ownership (not sure what the h...
[19:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:00] <exec> 08└─This guy has a really good analysis on all these graphs: http://freakoutery.com [freakoutery.com] and especially the tricks related to getting a line through the origin as in your pic: http://freakoutery.com
[19:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:02] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go with the "grasping" part which is intimately attached to the "critical thinking" parts. I think the AC hokey-pokeyd one too many times.
[19:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:18] <exec> 08└─suggests that autonomous cars can more efficiently share road space
[19:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create a Four-Winged Robot Insect That Flies With Grace - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:44] <exec> 08└─The PDF has some (rather bad) images https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] The land of the Oz is quite confusing.
[19:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Send Your Name to Mars on the Mars 2020 Rover - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:33] <exec> 08└─Yes. Go to that link given above, and observe what cookies (apart from NASA whom you expect) want to play.... oh, those entities generally don't make their lists "public".
[19:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:31] <exec> 08└─The only wealth being drained out of the US is that of the 99% by the 1% who will suck this shell dry before moving on to its next host, like any other parasite.
[19:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:33] <exec> 08└─More likely, in 1000 years, average global temperature will have long ago reached 9C over today's average. The oceans will have largely become anoxic. Methane from sea beds would be freed and surged upward, blasting water hundreds of feet into the air along with the released gas. Shockwaves propagat...
[19:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears Rise China Could Weaponise Rare Earths In US Tech War - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:35] <exec> 08└─No, we can still get our rare earths from the cheap child slave labor in the Congo and other countries.
[19:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:03] <exec> 08└─And the origin of "the year of the rat"
[19:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this all hinges on reducing the cost to space as far as possible. I'd like to see one using a "petal power" [nasa.gov] starshield as a separate spacecraft in front of a big space telescope, too.
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[20:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inevitable Disclosure Injunctions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:58] <exec> 08└─I guess all those years of learning how to fill out TPS reports mean I'm always going to fill out my old employer's information on them. Those TPS reports are going to haunt me the rest of my career, aren't they Bob?
[20:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:18] <exec> 08└─One of their colonies cannot stitch up a platform for colon registry? They should ask Facebook Jews to handle the task.
[20:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:58] <exec> 08└─The other is more general: adopting EU law, because otherwise they get mad at us.
[20:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:00] <exec> 08└─In the US we have decided that the 2nd amendment (right to possess of a gun by a mental patient) primes over the declaration of independence (right to life and happiness of bystanders ...is a truth that is self evident and all). I wonder when the judeo christians will decide that it is in the 10 com...
[20:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:17] <exec> 08└─My favourite use case for my next autonomous 2t SUV is: hey, go buy me cigarettes
[20:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:18] <exec> 08└─All it takes is one car to hold up a huge line of traffic. Unless all cars are mandated to be driverless, which I don't see happening for a goodly long time. It's all well and good to say driverless is the wave of the future! Yeah, how much does that future cost?
[20:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create a Four-Winged Robot Insect That Flies With Grace - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:46] <exec> 08└─You mean like with the Manhattan Project? I'm quite sure everyone was thinking about the betterment of mankind on that one. Naive expectations, meet reality, the Military funds lots of research, in hopes of making better weapons to kill people with. It just so happens that as a side effect the resea...
[20:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:07] <exec> 08└─You must have watched Tim the Toolman Taylor too!
[20:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Third Time's the Charm? SpaceX to try Launching Starlink Again - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:17] <exec> 08└─'bah, at first I thought it was 10:30AM - 12PM. Guess I'll read about it tomorrow. Hopefully a "Success!" kind of story and not a "Kaboom!" or "See You Next Week" kind of story.
[20:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:24] <exec> 08└─Nope. I know math isn't your strong suit or you wouldn't be a Prog, but if you are on a place like this you can probably follow along with really basic stuff if I spell it all out and talk really slowly. If Netflix has to survive on original content alone they are not the "future of TV", they are HB...
[20:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:26] <exec> 08└─Become their own ISP.
[20:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:28] <exec> 08└─That's correct, but Netflix has already been generating original content and has built up a "back catalog" of movies/shows/etc. Their catalog just isn't anywhere near the size of disney's portfolio, or others. I doubt everyone will pull all of their content. I'd still be tempted to stick with Netfli...
[20:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:30] <exec> 08└─That's actually a wise attitude, considering Blu-Ray discs have the data so close to the surface that the faintest, lightest barely-visible-at-any-angle scratch can make it unreadable. (Though if the scratch is at the right spot on a game instead, it can result in some really interesting effects. I...
[20:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:32] <exec> 08└─I switched to Netflix, because I was fed-up with video rental store fines. Just like a whole lot of people. Netflix was the nail in the coffin for most video rental stores and they were the first to get video streaming done correctly. People want a bunch of movies available to view when they want, w...
[20:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:34] <exec> 08└─And has had the legislative muscle to keep extending copyright on. (Yeah, others helped, but Disney was certainly at the forefront.) Come 2022 there will be another huge push to keep extending it another 20.
[20:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:37] <exec> 08└─May your LaserDisc player never break in a way that Scotty can't piece together again. (Unless you've managed to archive them).
[20:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:39] <exec> 08└─*facepalm* Wrong end of the problem. If they can't be MY ISP, then they won't reach me when the monopolistic guy serving me starts playing dirty.
[20:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:41] <exec> 08└─One-two punch. No way out in the US, unless the next president has a D attached, and pushes for restoring NN quickly.
[20:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:43] <exec> 08└─Blu-Ray discs have the data so close to the surface that the faintest, lightest barely-visible-at-any-angle scratch can make it unreadable
[20:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Site Was Wonky; Seems Okay Now - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:30] <exec> 08└─Eww. Fetch a cloth.
[20:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:29] <exec> 08└─The bamboos have it wrong. This one, 2019, is Ms Piggy. On another note, Japan just switched eras to a new Emperor, effective 1 May 2019. Bamboo blooms are considered an omen of bad luck as the plants seed and then die, affecting many people, animals and industries. Hmmm....
[20:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:31] <exec> 08└─The difficulty with bamboo is the lack of flat surfaces. It's a hollow cylinder. If you want a flat surface, e.g. for a shelf, cutting board, floor, etc, you have to mess with it. Specifically it is usually split into "strands", optionally cooked, steamed, mixed with an epoxy-like adhesive, and pres...
[20:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:33] <exec> 08└─Quite, but it grows like crazy, and the eco crowd love it.
[20:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Future Stellar Flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer Spacecraft - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:05] <exec> 08└─It seems like nobody wants to deal with the complexity of a starshade. It's not in the ATLAST/LUVOIR-A proposals (there is an option for LUVOIR-B), and there's been no momentum [wikipedia.org] to build one for JWST (understandable). It would have to be positioned thousands of km away from the space...
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[21:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:55] <exec> 08└─This is what seems to happen when libertarians or rogue corporations are involved. They end up re-inventing all the features of the old systems they sought to overthrow. In this case, the drivers are creating a kind of ad-hoc labor union. Give it a little more time, and ride-sharing companies will b...
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:57] <exec> 08└─The lowest unemployment rates in decades, and this is how things are.
[21:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:59] <exec> 08└─"unemployment rates" fake numbers
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[21:47:09] <exec> 08└─Read the tfa This means a court cannot say to a departing employee "you cannot ever work at Company X, under any circumstances." But a court can place restrictions on employment, like ordering the employee to wait a few months until a particular deal is over or prohibit the employee from working on...
[21:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geometry of an Electron Determined for the First Time - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:16] <exec> 08└─I wish I was knowledgeable enough to reply something meaningful but I am not. So I will just state that I enjoyed the article
[21:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geometry of an Electron Determined for the First Time - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:19] <exec> 08└─They said they had the Quantum Dots, but no, it's just marketing speak. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Otherwise knownw as Nano Crystal Displays: https://www.highdefdigest.com
[21:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─I got bit by an Australian creature once. Her name was Debbie, and I quite enjoyed it. In fact I bought her a couple of schooners and she did it again. Good times.
[21:47:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:46] <exec> 08└─Well, yes and no. They don't have america's mass shootings. They do have exceedingly high suicide rates, the second highest in the world, which a lot of pretty solid research connects to firearms per capita(of which they're also second highest in the world). Obviously the research is epidemological,...
[21:47:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:51] <exec> 08└─When you typed this up, did you ever ask yourself "Am I making a meaningful point?" Of course people studying public health like math. That's what public health is: applying rigorous mathematical analysis to health trends. And most of these papers fit a fairly clear hypothesis, observation, conclusi...
[21:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:15] <exec> 08└─The imperative to not kill is in the context of unlawful killing resulting in bloodguilt.[2]
[21:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:17] <exec> 08└─The Swiss will do whatever the Swiss want to do, just like they always have. Well, since 1805 anyway. Despite what the various A/C's post here, the EU don't want to force the Swiss to do anything particularly. If you filter everything through the American foreign policy view where you do what we wa...
[21:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:36] <exec> 08└─But then you'd have to have some kind of standard for time, like dividing the country into different zones of time so everyone would know exactly what time the train was arriving. I say we call them 'standard time' and 'time zones'. I'd implement them in Canada first, though. (Takes off stove-pipe h...
[21:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:38] <exec> 08└─You'd also need to discover some way of communicating with the trains so they don't crash into each other! I guess you could start building parallel rail lines, though.....hmmmm...I like your idea. Just need to work out the kinks.!
[21:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:40] <exec> 08└─Ever played Total Annihilation, the forefather of SupCom? Man, the units used to get in each others way ALL the fecking time. Good game, though. I still play it.
[21:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:42] <exec> 08└─Hey Siri: old ladies are 10 points each!
[21:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:45] <exec> 08└─Clippy: "I see you are trying to get your Windows car to stop aiming for that retaining wall. Do you need help with tha-"
[21:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Car Fleet Can Reduce Traffic by at Least 35 Percent, Research Suggests - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the problem with these old games is to find humans to play them with, because the AIs were pretty stupid at the time. Supcom FA + LUA mods started having decent AIs that didn't result in one side getting crushed easily. Put a good AI in TA, and you don't need any newer strategy game. Put a...
[21:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Third Time's the Charm? SpaceX to try Launching Starlink Again - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:45] <exec> 08└─Anyone giving odds on Tesla and SpaceX going bankrupt in the same year?
[21:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:02] <exec> 08└─1) Are you aware that you are allowed to make decent points without adding moronic trollish liminary comments ? 2) Are you aware that Netflix, by producing its own content, can actually distribute it to other places, bringing significant income from abroad to keep financing said content, and may the...
[21:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:04] <exec> 08└─But we can expect that the patriotic leader of the senate will apply to any lame-duck nominee the same logic that he applied to a last-year-of-term nominee, and refuse to consider a candidate from the outgoing loser president, reserving that nomination to the incoming legitimate president. It will t...
[21:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:06] <exec> 08└─Also we are gonna need leaders who aren't afraid to exercise power. Biden is going around talking like he didn't have a front row seat to 8 years of the GOP's massive opposition to governing, Schumer is an inept puppy and Pelosi has been insanely milquetoast. Even Bernie is too cowardly to endorse e...
[21:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:08] <exec> 08└─Are you aware that you are allowed to make decent points without adding moronic trollish liminary comments ?
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[22:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:02] <exec> 08└─All the research on surge pricing has found that it does not work the way the theory claims it would. Specifically that prices go up in order to attract new drives into service. It doesn't work that way because the friction of going into service is too high. If you are ready to drive, you won't just...
[22:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:04] <exec> 08└─Stupid Ayn Randian techbros don't know jackshit about the real world, but they still get billions in VC money to fuck it all up.
[22:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:06] <exec> 08└─If the rest of society wasn't collateral damage from their reindeer games, I would say great! A billionaire fool and his money should be parted as soon as possible. But so much of the gig economy is just about extracting resources from the public sphere and transferring them to the new oligarchs at...
[22:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:08] <exec> 08└─it does jive, Uber is scraping the bottom of the barrel for their drivers https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[22:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:11] <exec> 08└─Money is involved of course people are gaming it. I have seen people game systems for much much much much less. https://www.economicsonline.co.uk [economicsonline.co.uk] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Th...
[22:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Drivers Coordinate App Usage to Raise Fares - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:13] <exec> 08└─What you never played "king of the cow-shit-hill"? Bonus points if you're still on top when that jerk cousin with daddy AND mommy issues drops their ciggy and burns the whole pile down.
[22:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Inevitable Disclosure Injunctions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:23] <exec> 08└─The idea is that the employee just won't be able to help it, despite her best intentions, because she knows such specific and sensitive information
[22:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inevitable Disclosure Injunctions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:26] <exec> 08└─Whoosh Clearly you should spend more time watching the movie and less time reading TFA.
[22:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inevitable Disclosure Injunctions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe, just maybe, the court case in question involved a female employee? The only way to be sure would be to RTFA.
[22:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Inevitable Disclosure Injunctions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:30] <exec> 08└─Nope. All actual referenced examples in the article involve males (even one guy working at ‘Bimbo Bakeries’ - I’m not kidding, that’s an actual example given). One example was even gender neutral calling out the defendant as ‘the employee’.
[22:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:53] <exec> 08└─I know, eh? They SHOULD say "No more money until it's right, and you THEN owe us some back for incompetence."
[22:48:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:25] <exec> 08└─What part of "Swiss voters" did you fail to grasp?
[22:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:36] <exec> 08└─It is not part of they EU, but it is surrounded by the EU. It has adopted most of the EU regulations in order to trade more easily.. In general it could be considered mostly part of the EU.
[22:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:37] <exec> 08└─Rural EU people do have their guns. Like their non-SUV cars, they don't carry around twice as much gun as they really need.
[22:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:40] <exec> 08└─That's just dishonest framing. What we've prioritized is the right to protect oneself. Versus the preference of violent predators for having their prey disarmed and helpless.
[22:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:42] <exec> 08└─Flip the question : considering the proven risks of having such weapons indiscriminately disseminated, who actually needs one ? (Setting aside the sanity of the tiny minority who truly believes they will imminently take arms against the Evil People in D.C., rather then ask the Military to defend the...
[22:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:44] <exec> 08└─It is very possible leftists are getting "fed up with all the guns" because that is a core part of their beliefs which happens to exactly coincide with destroying your country over a few generations. Disempower your citizenry? Let unassimilating immigrants flow in unchecked? Paint power groups that...
[22:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:46] <exec> 08└─It is light, which matters if you have to carry it into the woods. It has little kick. It is easy to get spare parts and accessories for. It is cheap. The only failing is that some places consider it too weak for legal hunting. The deer might not die quickly. If that applies, you need the larger AR-...
[22:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:48] <exec> 08└─Violence was very common before people got guns. Guns are the great equalizer. We quickly forget why modern life is relatively peaceful, then we blame the guns for the rare remaining violence. Britain is now facing an uptick in violence, having decided that there is no right to defend yourself with...
[22:50:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 461 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:35] <exec> 08└─They don't get to survive. Content is being pulled by the networks, and Net Neutrality's death means that the giant ISPs will squeeze users' Netflix's bandwidth, offering instead "unlimited downloads" on that content they just happen to own. One-two punch. No way out in the US, unless the next presi...
[22:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:29] <exec> 08└─The Beebs plugin does a great job of delivering BBC access. https://chrome.google.com [google.com]
[22:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:31] <exec> 08└─Well to be fair that is their actual position. Their JOB is to work with those lizard people to achieve results for the country. After a time I imagine it is exactly like an abusive relationship.
[22:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:33] <exec> 08└─** Space Force chaaaaa** or ** Force Space aaaaahc**
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[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SandboxEscaper Drops Three More Windows Exploits, IE Zero-Day - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:58] <exec> 08└─As long as typing "download chrome" into the address bar doesn't compromise anything, who cares?
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[23:47:14] <exec> 08└─Gaming it? Like starting an illegal ridesharing/taxi service?
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[23:47:28] <exec> 08└─...The only way to be sure would be to RTFA.
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[23:47:30] <exec> 08└─that this only seems to affect the little people and not the C-suite goons?
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[23:47:56] <exec> 08└─The original system was built by Medicare for less than 1 million. The Health Department chooses who gets the contract for the work. It's supposed to be done by The Department of Human Services but at the time there was a surge of privatisation. This was one of several systems to be split away from...
[23:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 1) 02 - 0690% of Contract Payment Withheld from Telstra due to Nondelivery of Privatised Cancer Register - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:57] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because Telstra is a private business that expects to make a profit.
[23:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:48] <exec> 08└─You're quite right of course, no-one actually needs a firearm, vermin control can be done just as easily with traps and poison, but if people want to go duck shooting (very popular in my country) then I have no problem with it, and neither do most people. The average duck hunter is more likely to h...
[23:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:49] <exec> 08└─...the bible would be a whole pile of useless drivel.
[23:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:52] <exec> 08└─Violence is correlated with political oppression and general economical unrest. It has nothing to do with criminals being scared of return fire.
[23:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:54] <exec> 08└─In the US we have decided that the 2nd amendment (right to possess of a gun by a mental patient) primes over the declaration of independence
[23:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tighter Gun Laws Approved by Swiss Voters Despite Opposition - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:56] <exec> 08└─Political oppression and unrest have nothing to do with people attacking the criminals who are responsible and fester under such circumstances? I can't believe this was said non-AC.
[23:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03easyTree [6882] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Netflix has 175 Days Left to Pull Off a Miracle... Or It's All Over - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:43] <exec> 08└─Who wants five or ten streaming services? ProTip: Noone.
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