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[00:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:22] <exec> 08└─Well, in between Boeing and Tesla, might as well just drive the vehicle your own damn self, else you perish in a fiery inferno.
[00:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:24] <exec> 08└─A personal fondling session from a TSA agent named Brad, or 5 hours in your self-driving Mazda that your four-year old smeared peanut butter in?
[00:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:26] <exec> 08└─Well due to wonderful customer service, I can shed many crocodile tears over this for the major airline companies. Now if only I can find a way to get internet service without being forced to use a phone or cable company.
[00:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Got $50 Million for a Vacation? Stay at the International Space Station! - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:51] <exec> 08└─Less chance of getting measles.
[00:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:17] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I couldn't agree more. I was unaware of the program in the article you linked. It's a great idea. Thanks for posting it! You know, I think both the program that the HuffPost [huffpost.com] mentions, as well as the service that's the subject of TFA will be wonderful "For Folks Who Don't L...
[00:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:18] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm... meet the... ...custom slicing of neonatal intensive care. ...interior decorating of structural steel. ...one-hour dry cleaning of online trading.
[00:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:21] <exec> 08└─Another couple of points to consider when it comes to entertainment media -- US-ians (anime fans aside) don't tend to consume a lot of foreign media, but since English is a more global language, many/most other countries in the world can appreciate our live theater more than we may be able to apprec...
[00:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Site's Certs were Renewed Today - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:09] <exec> 08└─seasonal allergies are currently kicking my butt...
[00:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Site's Certs were Renewed Today - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:11] <exec> 08└─I believe they specifically don't automatically renew their certifications for security reasons.
[00:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mastercard is Using A.I. to Make Online Paying Easier - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:26] <exec> 08└─I'm quite sure they would lover to have an even bigger portion of the pie, but I'm not sure this is the route to that.
[00:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:45] <exec> 08└─I have a BSEE, and those courses were hard, but not as hard for me as differential equations or statistics. YMMV based on what gives your brain trouble. I absolutely crushed digital logic, and others struggled with that and not diff eq. Go figure. Pun intended.
[00:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InfoWars to Pay ‘Pepe the Frog’ Creator $15,000 to Settle Lawsuit - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:11] <exec> 08└─How about anti-wax messages?
[00:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InfoWars to Pay ‘Pepe the Frog’ Creator $15,000 to Settle Lawsuit - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:12] <exec> 08└─Sweet Fuck. ^^This^^ That one totally took me by surprise. Saw a couple of articles with the "OK" sign being flashed and associated with white supremacy gang signaling. I was gobsmacked by such an innocent action being misconstrued. It had to be, like you said, as anybody not actually mentally retar...
[00:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Voting Machine Maker Reverses Position on Election Security, Promises Paper Ballots - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:46] <exec> 08└─Voting Machines: https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com] Voting Software: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] Pencil and Paper is good. No teachers were hurt in the production of this comic: https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[00:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Details Three Navi GPUs and First Mainstream 16-Core CPU - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:46] <exec> 08└─Zap the spy engine by microwaving the CPU for 10 minutes at full power.
[00:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Details Three Navi GPUs and First Mainstream 16-Core CPU - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:47] <exec> 08└─I would say that's, because AMD is doing quite well. Which they really, need to be doing. Since they are definitely an Underdog. It'd be like Sprint suddenly becoming fashionable, because of good business practices / hard work.
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[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─The government will keep them afloat... *Your tax dollars at work*
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─It already does, by not helping finance the high-speed rail that other countries rely on to reduce connecting flights. It got to the point where a few French assembly members are considering making flights illegal between towns with a good alternative on high-speed train (they can't agree on "good"...
[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:23] <exec> 08└─If driverless cars could disrupt the airplane industry, then buses [drivered, or driverless] should disrupt it more.
[01:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Rocket Factory to be Built in Mississippi - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:31] <exec> 08└─The development to watch for will be the first fully autonomous robot factory.
[01:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Got $50 Million for a Vacation? Stay at the International Space Station! - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:50] <exec> 08└─Vape it then. Get a volcano.
[01:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs and Border Protection contractor hacked, traveller photos downloaded - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:43] <exec> 08└─Very funny Unfounded false accusations is the "science" of the democrat sect. Where's your proof?! Actually, I'm asking about your Russiagate also. Lots of opinion with nothing but hearsay to back it up. I notice your little democrat friends are moderating this thread also.
[01:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Voting Machine Maker Reverses Position on Election Security, Promises Paper Ballots - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:43] <exec> 08└─Number 2
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[02:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─With all due respect, all US airlines suck mud big time. Actually, they should be named air lies. Other parts of the world are blessed with outstanding airlines [forbes.com]. And while not in the previous list, South African Airlines (No. 45) and AeroMexico (No. 97) are two of my favourites on this...
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Driverless Greyhound? People would complain about being left behind at smoke break rest stops.
[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I already do this -- drive around the USA. Road trips are the best, why would I want to let some robot driver have all the fun?
[02:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─You could drive for 6-8 hours, then let the robot take over for the remaining 16-18 hours in the day. If you plan accordingly, you could see even more stuff, take various detours, and still get to your destination more quickly since you can travel hundreds of miles while sleeping.
[02:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─How far are we from a commercial flight at mach2 ? This article appears to assume that airlines aren't going to advance technology. What about a bullet train with self guiding cars that can detach/attach as the train continues on with out stopping. You would just board the appropriate car and it wou...
[02:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-elon-musk-wants-starship-spaceliners/ [teslarati.com]
[02:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Rocket Factory to be Built in Mississippi - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:46] <exec> 08└─Can't have it both ways, first they say "...it will bring high-paying, high-tech jobs to the region", then they say "autonomous rocket factory". Can't be both, someone's lying. In terms of speed, SpaceX was running their rocket engine production line at about one engine per day (250/year) when I was...
[02:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Rocket Factory to be Built in Mississippi - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:48] <exec> 08└─Can't have it both ways, first they say "...it will bring high-paying, high-tech jobs to the region", then they say "autonomous rocket factory". Can't be both, someone's lying.
[02:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Got $50 Million for a Vacation? Stay at the International Space Station! - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:09] <exec> 08└─LOL - if you get bored, you can hitchhike home!
[02:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Got $50 Million for a Vacation? Stay at the International Space Station! - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:11] <exec> 08└─Edibles.
[02:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs and Border Protection contractor hacked, traveller photos downloaded - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:05] <exec> 08└─> Why was a private company involved at all? Damn Republicans, fired all the analysts to "save taxpayer money", had to hire them back for more money as contractors.
[02:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Site's Certs were Renewed Today - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:33] <exec> 08└─"SoylentNews really *is* the product of the community!" You're making me hungry! ;)
[02:17:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face - 1293 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:01] <exec> 08└─> While I'm here, why is it lossy? The Fourier Transform Is not lossy. It wouldn't be a transform it if was. An example of a trivial transform is a simple change of units, like switching from inches to centimeters, or Fahrenheit to Celsius. A bit more involved is transforming from Cartesian coordina...
[02:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Details Three Navi GPUs and First Mainstream 16-Core CPU - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:06] <exec> 08└─It works every time™
[02:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Details Three Navi GPUs and First Mainstream 16-Core CPU - 2085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:07] <exec> 08└─AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome [anandtech.com] The Zen 2 design paradigm, compared to the first generation of Zen, has changed significantly. The new platform and core implementation is designed around small 8-core chiplets built on TSMC’s 7nm manufacturing process,...
[02:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Details Three Navi GPUs and First Mainstream 16-Core CPU - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:10] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more like the PCB footprint. Like a 9 x 9 1mm pitch BGA from what you excerpted above? I don’t know much about mobile form factors, and that kind of info doesn’t jump out at you on most of those sites. I used to work mostly on rack mounted stuff getting blown on by fan trays.
[02:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Details Three Navi GPUs and First Mainstream 16-Core CPU - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't upload them. I had a family member get traced and sued by the movie studios and it made me nervous.
[02:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Details Three Navi GPUs and First Mainstream 16-Core CPU - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM4 [wikipedia.org] https://wccftech.com [wccftech.com] https://en.wikichip.org [wikichip.org] All of the Ryzen chips are the same size.
[02:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yucatán Predicted to be Self-Sufficient in Renewable Energy in 3–4 Years - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:28] <exec> 08└─What are you smoking? China has already exceeded 1/3rd of their generation capacity, and the "storage problem" has just turned out to be an engineering problem that needs political will. Even without political will things would change eg. my country of Australia, where politics leaned towards preser...
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[03:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:25] <exec> 08└─Flights from hub to hub are only marginally cheaper than one and even two stop flights from smaller airports. You gain nothing, costwise, by driving a few extra miles to fly out of the hub airport as compared to paying a little higher fare at a smaller closer airport. Exceptions abound. Some small a...
[03:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:26] <exec> 08└─This article appears to assume that airlines aren't going to advance technology.
[03:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:28] <exec> 08└─French trains pretty much kick ass - though I was underwhelmed by the TGV... not as impressive as I expected, and even though it's fast, it's not astoundingly faster than the standard high speed intercity trains.
[03:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:31] <exec> 08└─If I'm going out in a fiery inferno, I want it to be one that I bear some responsibility for, not as a helpless passenger. Never tell me the odds.
[03:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:33] <exec> 08└─If we told you that you are 6 times more likely to die when driving long distances yourself than using the driverless option, I assume your reaction would be to attack the studies involved and continue engaging in the dangerous behavior.
[03:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:35] <exec> 08└─five hours to put some elbow grease into getting that peanut butter out
[03:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:37] <exec> 08└─your reaction would be to attack the studies involved and continue engaging in the dangerous behavior
[03:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:40] <exec> 08└─I travel for work a lot. I live almost an hour from the airport, the parking shuttle takes at least 20 minutes, and I have to be there an hour-and-a-half early to check my bag. From there I sit on the tarmac for 20 minutes, fly to $Hub, sit there for at least an hour, and finally fly to where I want...
[03:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:42] <exec> 08└─other parts of the world are blessed with outstanding airlines
[03:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:44] <exec> 08└─Abolish the TSA, and add a tough door to every flight cockpit. No more pedo strip searches of babies, and more people will fly.
[03:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:46] <exec> 08└─No thanks CIA. We'd rather not go out Michael Hastings-style.
[03:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:49] <exec> 08└─Driverless cars shouldn't need to connect to the Internet or other cars. But it will be that way because it's so convenient. Pity the Tesla owners with their OTA firmware updates and non-functional driverless mode. Worst of both worlds.
[03:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:51] <exec> 08└─You first, honey.
[03:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:53] <exec> 08└─From an evolutionary perspective it's better for the species in the long term if most of us die mostly/partly because of our own gene related issues (bad coordination, poor reflexes, falling asleep while driving, low toughness, poor clotting factor) than something mostly not controlled by our genes...
[03:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:55] <exec> 08└─Is that really what makes your airlines provide worse service, customer experience, etc? Not being able to be bought/owned by foreign companies? If a "better" foreign airline starts a US airline headquartered in the USA but provides the same training, policies, etc it will somehow still provide wors...
[03:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Voting Machine Maker Reverses Position on Election Security, Promises Paper Ballots - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:21] <exec> 08└─You can even go watch the votes being counted if you want to.
[03:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Details Three Navi GPUs and First Mainstream 16-Core CPU - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:28] <exec> 08└─When are we gonna get AV1 support, sheeeeeit
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[04:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:09] <exec> 08└─The cost savings is not always why people drive to hubs. They drive to hubs to save time, avoid the hassle of layovers, avoid losing luggage, etc. I might drive 30-45 minutes to a local airport, then wait there to board, then get to a hub and sit there for a few hours for a layover. Or, I might just...
[04:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:11] <exec> 08└─How far are we from a commercial flight at mach2 ? This article appears to assume that airlines aren't going to advance technology.
[04:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:13] <exec> 08└─If anything, this will disrupt the hotel/motel industry moreso than the Airline industry. Just have the car drive while you sleep, isntead of paying $100-150 for hotel. Sure you forgo a cold shower and a terrible breakfast, but you can significantly cut down on travel time.
[04:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but this assumes that we don't entirely veer away from natural reproduction. If we use gene editing, synthetic embyros, artificial wombs, etc. we will have unprecedented control over the evolutionary direction of the species. Even with what we have today, we are balancing our ability to keep...
[04:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:17] <exec> 08└─> Driverless cars shouldn't need to connect to the Internet or other cars. But it will be that way Um, assuming current "AI" technology, the only way to get enough training data for these things is from user data. It's not like a Torrent where you can choose to just leech, all these systems will nee...
[04:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:20] <exec> 08└─But they are no where near 6:1 vs average drivers, and don't believe anyone that tells you they are--look deeper for the people behind the "AI" who are still tweaking madly as edge cases surface. These are not the self-learning systems you have been led to believe. There has been a lot of hype out t...
[04:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:22] <exec> 08└─http://www.lifeasatrucker.com/how-much-is-a-shower-at-a-truck-stop-.html [lifeasatrucker.com] https://www.thetruckersreport.com [thetruckersreport.com] http://www.girlmeetsroad.com [girlmeets...
[04:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:24] <exec> 08└─If the algorithms have been refined by years of testing and millions or billions of miles driven, then your new self-driving car shouldn't need to send data back to anyone. Maybe don't be an early adopter if being a guinea pig is part of the deal.
[04:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Got $50 Million for a Vacation? Stay at the International Space Station! - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_adaptation_syndrome [wikipedia.org] As with sea sickness and car sickness, space motion sickness symptoms can vary from mild nausea and disorientation to vomiting and intense discomfort; headaches and nausea are often reported in varying degrees. The most extreme...
[04:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yucatán Predicted to be Self-Sufficient in Renewable Energy in 3–4 Years - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:17] <exec> 08└─Are you nuts? China produces half the worlds co2 from burning coal, far exceeding the US. Chinas renewable production is only targeted to reach 10% by 2020. I think you're confusing communist PR projections with reality. China currently geta 85% of its power from fossil fuels.
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[05:14:17] <exec> 08└─... discriminatory hiring practices.
[05:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:18] <exec> 08└─I'm only 34% disabled, just missed the cutoff. I'm 26.6% bisexual though, does that help?
[05:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:14] <exec> 08└─If you need a shower, looks like you can get one for ~$5-15 if you plan your route to hit a travel center
[05:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customs and Border Protection contractor hacked, traveller photos downloaded - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, infinite descending elephant chains have much more complex properties. For example, you're no longer guaranteed to have only a finite number of elephants on top.
[05:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yucatán Predicted to be Self-Sufficient in Renewable Energy in 3–4 Years - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:10] <exec> 08└─Yes... if you include transport... but we were talking specifically about power generation.
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[06:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:20] <exec> 08└─I pretty much stopped flying when the TSA started making taking a flight more painful than driving. Only time I fly now is for international travel to Asia, if I need to be anywhere in the USA I drive there, even if it takes a couple days to get there. what would make me consider flying domestically...
[06:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:21] <exec> 08└─Long distance busses are the worst of both worlds. Drive or get a ride to the station, buy a ticket, wait hours for a late bus, cram in with a bunch of strangers, then wait for countless hours as you travel at highway speeds. Then at the other end you still need to find a ride or rent a car.
[06:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:23] <exec> 08└─Tough door is already there.
[06:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:25] <exec> 08└─I want to die like my Uncle Jack, sleeping peacefully. Not like the passengers in his car, screaming and yelling as the car drifted into oncoming traffic.
[06:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:28] <exec> 08└─Flying on airlines is horrible and miserable and nobody should do it unless they absolutely have to. Anything that increases options is good. There's also a potential environmental benefit. Electric cars might be genuinely practical for long distance travel within ten years or so, probably around th...
[06:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:26] <exec> 08└─but but how will all of the people see the brand new version of Harry Potter that you absolutely must see because someone changed their skin color and that of their kids to black
[06:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customs and Border Protection contractor hacked, traveller photos downloaded - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:55] <exec> 08└─Why would images be stored in cleartext? Just encrypt the data before storing it. Are these people that stupid? I bet they store their passwords in a text file named "passwords.txt"
[06:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06InfoWars to Pay ‘Pepe the Frog’ Creator $15,000 to Settle Lawsuit - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:21] <exec> 08└─what you are saying is very true. OTOH the frog was made famous by the alt right. Infowars is a representative of it. The judge has taken it into account... hophopfully.
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[07:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Offers Legislation to Respond to Admissions Scandal - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's keep these fraud factories open and let's keep condemning future generations to debt-slavery in order to qualify to do anything more than flipping burgers.
[07:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Use Rowhammer Bit Flips to Steal 2048-bit Crypto Key - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should have ECC logic to detect *and* fix two bit flips!
[07:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravitational Data from Dawn Suggests Dome on Ceres is Made of Volcanic Mud - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:35] <exec> 08└─Salty brine with embedded particles. The magic sauce of life.
[07:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:25] <exec> 08└─Escorts technically aren't hookers, plus they add in transit cost to and from the hotel. Unless you're talking about the ones that hang around in the bar/lobby of high end hotels. They're expensive since the hotel staff gets a cut. Self driving cars would be a boon to the sex work industry. No need...
[07:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:27] <exec> 08└─Deepfakes. We use the raw power of deepfakes on the movies to turn Hermione black and Dumbledore more effeminate.
[07:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:58] <exec> 08└─All that, and it still sounds like a robot trying to fuck my ear.
[07:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition Law Amendments Protested in Hong Kong - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:36] <exec> 08└─"China is seeing how long prosperity can substitute for liberalization. Compare to the dissolution of the Soviet Union or other situations." Fair enough, but also contrast. There's no equivalent to Poo in Russia. At least no one even moderately successful. Which is actually a possibly important poin...
[07:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extradition Law Amendments Protested in Hong Kong - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:38] <exec> 08└─I'mmaleminate corruption. Right after I defeat compound interest and infidelity. Hold your breath now!
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[08:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:15] <exec> 08└─The moon got hit by a stream of liquid metal debris ejected from the sun. This is far more likely than an asteroid impact.
[08:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:31] <exec> 08└─I'm 26.6% bisexual though, does that help?
[08:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pD-brane [6728] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Use Rowhammer Bit Flips to Steal 2048-bit Crypto Key - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:40] <exec> 08└─the new technique exploits the hardware bug to extract sensitive data stored in memory regions that are off-limits to attackers.
[08:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:37] <exec> 08└─The thing is that "45 minute" flight balloons into 4.5 hours when you factor in the forced shopping period at the airport. Their business model is to keep you in their shopping center for as long as possible. The airplanes are basically a novelty attraction to get you in there in the first place.
[08:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:39] <exec> 08└─lol couple of days drive sure you do internet tough guy
[08:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:11] <exec> 08└─I excelled at puns - and that, Sir, was not a pun. Intended.
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[09:14:09] <exec> 08└─sad comment :(
[09:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:10] <exec> 08└─The moon has a tumor. No one has determined whether it is malignant yet.
[09:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:12] <exec> 08└─HAH! It's the space nazi base.
[09:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:14] <exec> 08└─I'm just a fanatic for the truth.
[09:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:31] <exec> 08└─I was really curious what the first mod would be for that comment. And to whoever modded Disagree, I don't begrudge you in the slightest. While I do think that this sounds like a fabulous project, it is still as far as I can see, explicitly discriminatory. Most employment regulation I've come across...
[09:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:33] <exec> 08└─It's outright communism, I tell ya. It's contrary to the Darwin's law, hinders competition which is the core tenant⁽ᵍʳᶦⁿ⁾ of a free market. It's even contrary to the Constitution⁽ᵍʳᶦⁿ⁾, once one attains happiness that's the end of the pursuit. Nuke it from orbit, is the only wa...
[09:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:35] <exec> 08└─I'm 26.6% bisexual though, does that help?
[09:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:37] <exec> 08└─I normally disagree with the positive discrimination based on race or gender and others, because i consider that those are not disabilities therefore no special favor should be done. I also agree that there should not be negative discrimination for non disable people. People with actual medically ve...
[09:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:39] <exec> 08└─Here all staf is deaf [gardencafetagbilaran.com]. You have to write down your order.
[09:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:46] <exec> 08└─Driverless cars shouldn't need to connect to ... other cars.
[09:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:47] <exec> 08└─If the algorithms have been refined by years of testing and millions or billions of miles driven, then your new self-driving car shouldn't need to send data back to anyone.
[09:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:49] <exec> 08└─but some would may make it and dominate the next phase.
[09:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:52] <exec> 08└─judging by how many deaths from ordinary vehicles people are willing to accept, I expect the number will be quite massively larger than 1.
[09:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:53] <exec> 08└─Given that we've had the National Theatre Live, and the Bolshoi Ballet, in our local cinema for years, I don't even see why this is a "new thing" at all. OK, it's a "broadway show" rather than "theatre" or "ballet", but if you can't see that deep down it's just "shit that goes on on stage", and the...
[09:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:55] <exec> 08└─Shows don't have to be crazily expensive. We're going to see an version of West Side Story live at our National Theatre in a couple of weeks, and tickets are between 25e and 45e. For a proper night out, that's not so bad, I'll spend that on stuff I piss out only hours later most weekends. I'll even,...
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[10:14:19] <exec> 08└─Which states that in the absence of any analysis or research, the answer is always "Star Jizz." Do you even read the stuff you post?
[10:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:20] <exec> 08└─According to occam's razor we would skip the asteroid part, it is unnecessary complexity that adds nothing. Metal created in star, then ejected and hits moon, and finally it cools down and solidifies.
[10:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:22] <exec> 08└─> Sudden particle emissions, in which our star repeatedly hurls large amounts of charged and uncharged particles into space, are still a mystery. Some of these particle flows are accompanied by violent solar flares, a sudden and local increase of the Sun’s brightness, and contain up to 10,000 time...
[10:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:25] <exec> 08└─Oh, I see you missed the actual point, which was that you're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too.
[10:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:27] <exec> 08└─I'm just a fanatic for the truth.
[10:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:29] <exec> 08└─I can tell from your posts that you spend most of your day spewing political drivel. Just the total lack of curiosity and latent negativity makes it obvious. No one wants to read that shit.
[10:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:31] <exec> 08└─Lol, the political drivel erupts forth! You couldn't hold it in any longer, like a nasty case of diarrhea of the mouth! Damn Im good.
[10:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:33] <exec> 08└─How does the Sun supply these particles with the necessary energy to catapult them into space?
[10:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:36] <exec> 08└─No. I just find your ridiculous (and scientifically unsupported) claims laughable. So I mock you. I suspect you get that a lot.
[10:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:38] <exec> 08└─That question was asked by solar physicists at the max planck institute, not me. Go back to Reddit.
[10:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:40] <exec> 08└─No one wants to read that shit.
[10:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:00] <exec> 08└─Hosted and run by visually impaired staff, The Black World (in Pune, India), is one-of-a-kind restaurant that let us encounter a world sans colour or light. The concept is much beyond a unique dining experience; rather an initiative that, in its own way, let’s you empathise with the visually-chall...
[10:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gravitational Data from Dawn Suggests Dome on Ceres is Made of Volcanic Mud - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:16] <exec> 08└─Obviously this should have been an aristarchus submission, so it could garner some insightful and witty conversation. Like it should. Mud volcanoes, on Ceres. Khallow at least should have some experience with these. And if he does not want to admit to the same, the obvious rebuttal is that he has a...
[10:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:12] <exec> 08└─V2V [wikipedia.org], bumper-to-bumper...
[10:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:14] <exec> 08└─It would be a mix. Methodical preparation, organization, resource management, etc. aren't "brutal" traits. But they can be applied in brutal ways. Also, I'm not tryna flex. I'd probably die during week 1.
[10:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:16] <exec> 08└─~6:1 is one claim, but you can also find claims of 90% or 93% accident reduction. An individual car doesn't need to learn anything. It just needs to apply algorithms that have been widely tested. These algorithms may have been created using a "machine learning" process. If you don't want to call it...
[10:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:18] <exec> 08└─I don't know about that "massively". It's one thing to accept "If you die in a car crash, it's mostly because of you, the driver" and just another to accept "get in the car and if you live or die is a matter of pure chance from your PoV, you or any other human have no control over it". Humans are so...
[10:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but it's hard to learn about new entrants in the tech market if no articles are published about new entrants in the tech market. My criticism of it is that it's not actually anything particularly new, it's just another niche of a family of concepts all very similar.
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[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─Total additional seismic energy from anything injection is strictly less than the energy spent doing the injection (as some of it is lost as heat). Calculate for yourself the energy cost of even a light (magnitude 5) earthquake, in nice practical units like gallons of gasoline: http://earthalabama.c...
[11:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:41] <exec> 08└─True stars are into jpop/kpop these days, heavy metal is obsolete.
[11:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:42] <exec> 08└─Lol, the political drivel erupts forth! You couldn't hold it in any longer, like a nasty case of diarrhea of the mouth!
[11:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:44] <exec> 08└─Given that what's being reported is a large excess of mass in the Moon's mantle under the South Pole‐Aitken basin. This anomaly has a minimum mass of 2.18 × 1018 kg and likely extends to depths of more than 300 km. Plausible sources for this anomaly include metal from the core of a differenti...
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[11:14:46] <exec> 08└─Finding an *accessible* (it's not clear if that's the case here, given the depth of the deposit) source of metals on the moon could be a huge boon to space travel and exploration. Having access to the materials to build spacecraft *and* the materials to make rocket fuel in situ has enormous potentia...
[11:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:48] <exec> 08└─Stop shitting all over this discussion. The ridiculous crap you're spewing detracts from worthwhile discussion. The adults want to have a conversation. Why don't you go to your room and play with yourself?
[11:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:51] <exec> 08└─If anyone cares, I already answered this with a quote/link interspersed with this ACs trolling elsewhere in this thread. CMEs as described in the parent's link seem to be an entirely different phenomena than the much rarer Fe and He3 rich ejections under discussion. And we've observed so few of thos...
[11:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:53] <exec> 08└─Anyway what could have been an interesting discussion was ruined by a political troll because I'm done.
[11:15:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:55] <exec> 08└─I travel for work a lot. I live almost an hour from the airport, the parking shuttle takes at least 20 minutes, and I have to be there an hour-and-a-half early to check my bag. From there I sit on the tarmac for 20 minutes, fly to $Hub, sit there for at least an hour, and finally fly to where I want...
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[12:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Faces Big Test as Nine States Sue to Block It - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─We let a bunch of companies merge, creating the giant AT&T. We let a bunch of companies merge, creating the giant Verizon. Now suddenly we care about a couple piddly little pipsqueak companies merging? I'm all about breaking up monopolies and preventing them from forming, but this is silly. It has t...
[12:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Faces Big Test as Nine States Sue to Block It - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─Keep zee Germans out, coz they're coming only after you get proper fucked [youtu.be].
[12:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:36] <exec> 08└─That's total crap. The energy released by these earthquakes does not come from the water, it comes from the gravitational and inertial pressure exerted by the Earth's crust, both from above and from below. The injection appears to act as a catalyst, triggering and guiding the buildup of energy along...
[12:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:06] <exec> 08└─Looking at you proudly ruling over the shithole you created.
[12:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:07] <exec> 08└─Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You've made the former, yet provided none (not even ordinary evidence) of the latter. Who's shitting all over this?
[12:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:31] <exec> 08└─Of course, one could argue that all hiring is by necessity based on "ableness" assessment.
[12:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:33] <exec> 08└─(Good God, I need to go to sleep). My first reading was "Here all the staff is dead". Over and out.
[12:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:50] <exec> 08└─To the offtopic mod: Driverless cars and commercial air travel are both very much about loss of personal control and risk reduction. Never tell me the odds.
[12:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:51] <exec> 08└─When we started providing significant species (and even tribe) specific advantages to our offspring after our age of fertility (thinking: Grandmothers...), that started skewing up the whole evolution by death of the stupid. Now, we can have stupid children, but as long as some of them grow up to be...
[12:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:53] <exec> 08└─Whatever the odds (and never tell me), self-driving cars represent predictability, mass production with uniform predictable flaws and failure rates: the actuarial table calculators are dreaming of retiring to Bora Bora on this one, and the deep futurists can't stop salivating over the day that we ge...
[12:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:56] <exec> 08└─If I lived just a little closer to Atlanta (presently 5 hours away as compared to 30 minutes for my local airport), I'd probably drive out to Atlanta to avoid the evening returning flight change of planes. Most flights leave the East coast in the morning and return to the East coast in the evening....
[12:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:58] <exec> 08└─That is a good example, MIA-DCA vs FLL-DCA. I95 is a really traffic magnet, seeing as it is North/South and so much of Florida is South ;-) And if you are flying into one NYC airport and out of another, the airlines pad the schedule by 5 hours (EWR->JFK , I had 4 hours and missed my flight...).
[12:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:00] <exec> 08└─The convenience of "on demand" departure times can't be overstated. That 5 hour threshold can easily jump to 6 or 7 if the selection of flight times is limited to undesirable hours. Of course, ground transport has its urban blackout periods as well: 8-9am and 4-6pm in most urban centers, you might a...
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[12:17:03] <exec> 08└─how-much-is-a-shower-at-a-truck-stop
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[13:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:34] <exec> 08└─Total additional seismic energy from anything injection is strictly less than the energy spent doing the injection (as some of it is lost as heat).
[13:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:36] <exec> 08└─Why do they use the term “wastewater injection” when the fact that wastewater is used has really nothing to do with the process? “Fracking” carries negative environmental connotations, so it doesn’t get used by researchers? Too bad, since the meaning seems clearer.
[13:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:32] <exec> 08└─I’m chronologically impaired, and it’s not helping.
[13:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:34] <exec> 08└─While I do think that this sounds like a fabulous project, it is still as far as I can see, explicitly discriminatory.
[13:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Use Rowhammer Bit Flips to Steal 2048-bit Crypto Key - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:44] <exec> 08└─Mainstream cyberpunk grows boring lately, can't we call those researchers a bitbandits or something...
[13:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Use Rowhammer Bit Flips to Steal 2048-bit Crypto Key - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:46] <exec> 08└─Yo Dawg.
[13:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:02] <exec> 08└─I would never try to drive MIA-FLL during rush hour, not unless they've "fixed" the Golden Glades interchange, which seems unlikely without a complete do-over. That being said, it's a nominal 45 minute drive in average heavy traffic. I used to live between the two airports, 20 minutes to MIA, 40 min...
[13:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:04] <exec> 08└─It's $CURRENT_YEAR. Are you sure you gonna get raped at the truck stop?
[13:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customs and Border Protection contractor hacked, traveller photos downloaded - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:39] <exec> 08└─I would venture a guess that passwords.txt has only five characters in it, which are all digits.
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[14:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A2nJd9Urk8 [youtube.com]
[14:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_hydraulic_fracturing#Seismicity [wikipedia.org] While analysis suggested that the increase is "almost certainly man-made", the USGS noted: "USGS's studies suggest that the actual hydraulic fracturing process is only very rarely the direct cause o...
[14:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:36] <exec> 08└─What is the impact? Do these low magnitude earthquakes have any negative impact? Increased subsidence in houses or anything like that?
[14:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─I kew it all along.
[14:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:10] <exec> 08└─I thought heavy metal was created in Norway [liveabout.com].
[14:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:38] <exec> 08└─I support this restaurant's effort. The bar to opening a restaurant is low, and there can exist many restaurants in an area, and a given restaurant is a business that people choose to patronize, there is no compulsion. I don't see their practice of only harming disabled people for this one restauran...
[14:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:39] <exec> 08└─I meant "only hiring".
[14:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:08] <exec> 08└─Because that was the easy part. Now to do the important part. I'm sure congress, who only looks out for their constituents, is already on it. /sarc
[14:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autonomous Rocket Factory to be Built in Mississippi - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:18] <exec> 08└─Why the upmod? TFA and parent noted, "...high-tech jobs..." That's not talking about managers, we get those no matter how much automation there is.
[14:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Rocket Factory to be Built in Mississippi - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:20] <exec> 08└─What’s autonomous, the rockets or the factory? This somehow doesn’t seem to the main focus of the article. Lots of talk about cost, location, and infrastructure, though. If the latter, wouldn’t the technology be better employed at a higher volume enterprise? Are the materials used in 3D printi...
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[15:14:19] <exec> 08└─Constant updates means everything gets worse, all the time.
[15:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─Hey Marty, oddly, afaik, "peak optimization" is usually handled by the emergence of entirely new technologies. but i think i see deeper question under the bait, one that's grappled with by CHS at his site, from which i keyword searched a few articles for you: https://www.oftwominds.com
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─How close are we to the point of "peak optimization" where any profits from additional refinements are countered by systems being more brittle and thus more expensive to operate in challenging conditions?
[15:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─Why not name the make and model?
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:33] <exec> 08└─Good footage and there's sure to be some great photos of the rocket exiting and entering the thick fog.
[15:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─As if everybody shouldn't know the cause [wikipedia.org].
[15:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:24] <exec> 08└─Yep. And military advisers aren't technically soldiers either. I'm aware of the economics (as is probably anyone else who gives it about 30 seconds of thought). I will take issue with your treatment of transit costs, especially as electric vehicles become more common, so will the practice of hotels...
[15:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Netflix for Broadway Shows - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:32] <exec> 08└─...custom slicing of neonatal intensive care.
[15:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InfoWars to Pay ‘Pepe the Frog’ Creator $15,000 to Settle Lawsuit - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:34] <exec> 08└─anti-PDP-11?
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[16:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants to address the real issue: population.
[16:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:12] <exec> 08└─Any kind of possible "addressing the real issue: population" is racist, by mode of operation. Which tribe of population do you mean to address?
[16:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:15] <exec> 08└─Homo sapien. It is not a racist topic by default, but racists sure will want to use the idea to promote their favored genocide.
[16:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─And the Catholic church has been willing to endorse "holy wars" in the past, but can't even stomach the idea of condoms let alone abortion.
[16:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:19] <exec> 08└─> Biodiversity should be at the top of the global agenda alongside climate Climate change has some pretty obvious downsides; a warming climate may be associated with increases in extreme weather events and human migration. This has a big societal impact which governments should seek to avert. I didn...
[16:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─I saw that movie [imdb.com]!
[16:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Faces Big Test as Nine States Sue to Block It - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:46] <exec> 08└─Be more cynical. Now AT&T and Verizon are big enough to prevent a #3 from arising. So they prevent the merger and the marginal and struggling #3 and #4 both go bankrupt instead of becoming big enough to compete. Then AT&T and Verizon buy the corpses and get even bigger.
[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─We also like scientific understanding on this world. You are referencing a system with a huge amount of potential energy. Destabilizing thst system can cause energy to be released, and the only relation to the energy you put in is how destabilized you made the system. Short answer, you're looking at...
[16:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:00] <exec> 08└─Considering the clay in Texas already cracks people's foundations, probably not a whole lot.
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─obviously without understanding any. Go and read Wikipedia or something, to get some sense behind your abused vocabulary. For a start, we do not have any "catalysts" in mechanics. We have stability, or a lack of it, like in snow (or whatever) on a sufficiently inclined slope. And if you apply the or...
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─is a sure sign of understanding neither. For one, rather unlike some sealed canister of fuel sitting in your garage, Earth crust is constantly subject to tectonic forces. Like this: https://cddis.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] Wake me when us puny humans start moving continents around. Ev...
[16:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:39] <exec> 08└─I'm just trying to read something about nvidia and your ilk is all over that thread too. Political morons are ruining the internet.
[16:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─Argh! That should have read: Accessibility is the key, however. Then again, if there is, in fact, a huge deposit of metals like that on the moon (most likely a result of impacts from the Late Heavy Bombardment), it's entirely possibly that there are other metals deposits at shallower depths that may...
[16:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Offers Legislation to Respond to Admissions Scandal - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:49] <exec> 08└─You could also, just push for more people to go into trade schools, nursing schools, or any field of study that needs people. As opposed to another English Lit or Business grad.
[16:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Offers Legislation to Respond to Admissions Scandal - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:51] <exec> 08└─Congress is going to solve the money=influence problem? Let's see what they came up with. Require colleges to establish formal policies to bar the consideration of family members' donations or ability to donate in evaluating an applicant. Require colleges to report "the number of applicants, admitte...
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[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─I was really curious what the first mod would be for that comment. And to whoever modded Disagree, I don't begrudge you in the slightest. While I do think that this sounds like a fabulous project, it is still as far as I can see, explicitly discriminatory. Most employment regulation I've come across...
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[16:17:44] <exec> 08└─It's $CURRENT_YEAR, people still get raped, mugged, beat up for little or no reason, shot, etc. and if that's going to happen, a truck stop is one of the higher odds places for it to happen. Worst I ever experienced was in $CURRENT_YEAR-30 when a bunch of loitering teens decided they didn't like the...
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:46] <exec> 08└─It's like riding Concorde and complaining it's not crushing you into the seat. You're still going twice as fast as the other guys. Engineers just did a good job.
[16:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Rocket Factory to be Built in Mississippi - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:58] <exec> 08└─the company aspires to use 3D printing, machine learning, and automated technologies to build rockets at a lower cost in days or weeks instead of years
[16:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Rocket Factory to be Built in Mississippi - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─Sure, yes, mentioned at the end of the third paragraph, almost in passing, when it seems like it should be the main focus of the article. Rather clickbaity, which maybe I should have said instead. The article also has a link to more detail on the 3D printing technology, which turns out to be metal b...
[16:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InfoWars to Pay ‘Pepe the Frog’ Creator $15,000 to Settle Lawsuit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:00] <exec> 08└─And I think you should keep that nasty stink hole that does double duty shut, but we can't all get what we want.
[16:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06InfoWars to Pay ‘Pepe the Frog’ Creator $15,000 to Settle Lawsuit - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─I've seen you be stupid before, but at this point there is a 99.9% chance you're memory has been permanently corrupted.
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[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:32] <exec> 08└─They're always racin' that goddamn Lincoln!
[17:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:33] <exec> 08└─So we Thanos the planet then?
[17:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─In the book “Sapeins”, Yuval Noah Harrari posits that this has been going on since the first Homo Sapiens migrated out of East Africa. He also cites evidence that Sapiens may have also driven other human species, such as Neanderthals, to extinction. Australian megafauna were wiped out around the...
[17:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:37] <exec> 08└─Seriously? "Population" encompasses all people. I'm intentionally child-free and white. I've applied this thinking to myself, not because I'm white, but because there is a certain mass of living tissue the world can support. We can divide that mass into almost totally humans and virtually nothing el...
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:40] <exec> 08└─A defensive war is sometimes needed
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:42] <exec> 08└─We seem to already be doing it voluntarily. Just look at the birthrate trends. We are well below replacement rate in the US and rapidly trending lower.
[17:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─Not to defend the Catholic Church (which I will not), but their logic is perfectly consistent within the framework of a tribalistic god. Kill the infidels, but force the faithful to make more babies so their tribe can take over the world.
[17:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:46] <exec> 08└─"In the book “Sapeins”, Yuval Noah Harrari posits that this has been going on since the first Homo Sapiens migrated out of East Africa." It was old even then. Every species alters its environment in some way. Humans were altering our environment long before we left Africa, long before Sapiens ev...
[17:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:58] <exec> 08└─Constant updates are meant to keep you sharp. Instead of the dangerous mind-numbing routine of the bugs you know, the system fixes those (temporarily) and throws you new ones. Praise the constant updates, for keeping your life entertaining (duration of said life might be affected, do not take update...
[17:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─Right, actually help out your fellow Soylentils. You are just teasing us.
[17:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:10] <exec> 08└─The best part was the pre-launch shot of the launchpad, completely greywashed in fog. The presenter resorted to a model of the rocket instead. :)
[17:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:12] <exec> 08└─"How was the day at the office, dear?" "Nominal, boring. Launched a rocket we couldn't see through thick fog, with a Billion dollars of uninsured sats on top. ten minutes later, the 20-story-tall first stage just came back and landed vertically dead center on a pad you couldn't see if you stood on i...
[17:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:14] <exec> 08└─Low Earth orbit where even jew satellites have been, spying on us all.
[17:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:39] <exec> 08└─I believe the issue isn't the energy they are adding to the system, but that there is already a system with significant potential energy constrained by friction. The injected water acts as a lubricant, allowing the system to release some of that energy. I'm of two minds on this. 1. Are small quakes...
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─keeps the south pole at the south, just like the weight in the bottom of a Weeble keeps it from falling down. ;)
[17:16:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:38] <exec> 08└─I normally disagree with the positive discrimination based on race or gender and others, because i consider that those are not disabilities therefore no special favor should be done. I also agree that there should not be negative discrimination for non disable people. People with actual medically ve...
[17:16:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:43] <exec> 08└─I’m chronologically impaired, and it’s not helping.
[17:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:48] <exec> 08└─> "Here all the staff is dead" The are lots of mirrors, showing you, and just you, the things you like, and none of that pesky reality of waiters and busboys. And you are the food. The vampires had trademark issues when they tried to call it the facebook restaurant.
[17:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:50] <exec> 08└─The future is now. [zombieburgershakelab.com]
[17:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Popeidol [35] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:53] <exec> 08└─I got half way through a reply and realized I was just repeating what you said, it's a good summary. Something like this is probably cost neutral before you even start figuring in societal benefits and the the improved life for the workers. It costs a lot to move somebody from government support to...
[17:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:24] <exec> 08└─Well, in between Boeing and Tesla, might as well just drive the vehicle your own damn self, else you so you also perish in a fiery inferno.
[17:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that deregulation thing sure did work out for us, didn't it?
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:28] <exec> 08└─He might. I do. By the time you deal with traffic, TSA, layovers, etc. any air trip from where I live is going to take a full day. If I can do it in two days as a car trip, even with a decent hotel it's cheaper, more relaxing, and I arrive happier. Add in a good book from Audible and it's even enter...
[17:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, not like the terrorists can't blow up the entire plane [wikipedia.org] or anything....
[17:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:32] <exec> 08└─I already have, sort-of. One of the side benefits of traveling is I get to drive a lot of rental cars. The last Toyota I drove had the best driver assist (LDA) system I've been able to test so far. Its "are your hands on the steering wheel" sensor isn't quite sensitive enough, but it does an excelle...
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Got $50 Million for a Vacation? Stay at the International Space Station! - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─Prospective guests should note that this facility has been continuously occupied for almost two decades and does not have a shower or laundry facilities. That should set some expectation for the experience. Despite that I'm ecstatic that they are open for business. They really do have Billion dollar...
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[18:14:20] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─money. Personal data makes money. Personal data loss doesn't lose money. Hence, no corrective legislation until we have politicians that are not bought and paid for.
[18:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:22] <exec> 08└─In America, Money == "free speech". One dollar, one vote.
[18:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:24] <exec> 08└─Right, the biggest data analytics companies are American. When in the US did we ever want to put a damper on profits?
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─i don't like surveillance capitalism nor companies that use it but the idea that an alternative master is going to somehow help the slaves' predicament is just propaganda for the enemy. you can shove your state socialist dystopia up your ass too.
[18:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─For example, some of the biggest invaders of privacy just happen to be in and around the district of the Speaker of the House right now, and contributed substantially to her campaign. She's remarkably cheap to buy too: $30K from Alphabet, something like $750K in Apple stock, and she's perfectly will...
[18:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:30] <exec> 08└─"requiring the largest tech companies to test their artificial intelligence systems for biases, such as racial discrimination, and to fix those biases that are found." Of course it will only apply if the AI makes any uncomfortable conclusions about protected races. It anything negative is concluded...
[18:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, money. To complete the circle, the American consumertard public is exposed to a constant barrage of advertising and propaganda that helpfully informs them that are expected to give up their privacy to get things they want. Want 5 bucks off your purchase? Sign up for our store credit card! Want...
[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─please clarify what socialism exactly you are referring to ? Is it the subsidies for corporations and 1% at the expense of the rest of the USA ?
[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─In the absence of market regulation, abuse always occurs. In this particular case, the market mechanism is distorted because of information asymmetry in that Americans do not know what PII is being gathered about them, and have no recourse to address that asymmetry. Ensuring that such information is...
[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft... And suckers all around the world happily spill their guts to them every single day.
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:42] <exec> 08└─That's strange. I never had to pay a dollar to vote. Now I wonder if it was counted.
[18:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─no corrective legislation until we have voters that give a damn enough to vote out the crooks.
[18:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:04] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, jews are driving humans to extinction by destroying natural diversity, encouraging others to mix until there is nothing pure left anymore except the jew rats. Humans are not responsible when species are being destroyed, as they are not the primary cause. Khazar rats are.
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:05] <exec> 08└─Reduced biodiversity in agriculture was a necessary condition for the Irish Potato Famine. Modern agricultural practices may already have ways of reducing the risk of these types of disasters, but I’m not aware of them.
[18:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:08] <exec> 08└─Poverty is the main cause of over-population. Hang the banker scum and outlaw usury. Anyone caught doing it, cut their balls off. Don't care if they are jew or not.
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─"It is not a racist topic by default, but racists sure will want to use the idea to promote their favored genocide." Yes, that's one of the things that makes this conversation such a landmine that people will try to avoid it. And on the other side, racists will *also* perceive any solution that appe...
[18:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─not the op but soylentnews.org: where the truth is flamebait!
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:15] <exec> 08└─there are not too many humans. just piss poor management.
[18:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:17] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants to address the real issue: population.
[18:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:19] <exec> 08└─They (and various Red states) actively fight to prevent even Non-Catholics from getting access to birth control: Nuns, HHS to Clash With States Over Obamacare Birth Control Rule [bloomberglaw.com]
[18:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:33] <exec> 08└─The level of charge affects the life of lithium batteries. Most of the damage from a charge cycle is from time spent at the nearly fully charged or nearly empty ends of the spectrum. For a cell phone, size and weight matter more than long life because you'll get a new one anyway. For a hard good lik...
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[18:15:34] <exec> 08└─Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the w...
[18:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Faces Big Test as Nine States Sue to Block It - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:56] <exec> 08└─We the people lease those guys some of our precious spectrum, and should reserve the right to pull out some/all spectrum leases from any provider(s), in order to allow equitable competition between 4 operators, as illustrated by prices similar to other advanced countries (South Korea, Japan, EU...)....
[18:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:15] <exec> 08└─What is the impact? Do these low magnitude earthquakes have any negative impact?
[18:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 3007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:53] <exec> 08└─I haven't responded to this trope before, but I will here. Let's suppose there's a rectangular box sitting in a field. Observer A sees it from a diagonal to the long axis. Observer B sees it end-on. Observer A reports seeing a rectangular solid. Observer B reports seeing a two-dimensional square. Ar...
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:55] <exec> 08└─Just mod them down, or browse at a higher level. The real strength of our Slashdot inheritance is that they solved that problem a long time ago.
[18:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:57] <exec> 08└─> it's entirely possibly I would correct that typo you missed in your correction, but that would guarantee a typo in my message, and this thread would extend into infinity.
[18:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:59] <exec> 08└─It's got a big metal slug right under a wound. The question is not what it is, but who shot it ? I suspect Uranus got pissed at all the redundant jokes. It's so easy to conceal-carry your asteroid launcher when you're a gas giant...
[18:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:01] <exec> 08└─Meh. It's just a vowel. It's not like it's a real letter or anything.
[18:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:04] <exec> 08└─Please don't get me started on Americans somehow not considering Y to be a vowel... It's almost as flabbergastingly dumb as the whole 11PM-12AM-1AM mess.
[18:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Offers Legislation to Respond to Admissions Scandal - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:14] <exec> 08└─Oh goody, more red tape.
[18:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It has Transformed my Life': the Restaurant where All Staff Have a Disability - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:39] <exec> 08└─Excellent post and if I had mod points and weren't at work I'd mod you up. I do want to say that "ableness" isn't the criterion mentioned in the summary, it was " To qualify, applicants had to be unemployed and have more than 35% disability." and while I too don't know Spain's laws nor have I active...
[18:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, it will be even better than that when they format it like a "choose your own adventure" like "You vs. Wild with Bear Grylls."
[18:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 3460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:19] <exec> 08└─Hey wait Why do you think they would just push out an update to *disable* telemetry? That's money lost. The GPS location, the speed and braking info, the routes taken and routes avoided, the calls received and calls placed, and the information accessed while in motion as compared to when at a comple...
[18:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:21] <exec> 08└─I would prefer to travel by zeppelin, but bullet trains are not bad. The TGV and Shinkansen are amazing pieces of engineering. As an experiment I set a glass of water on the table on the leg between Hiroshima and Tokyo and there wasn't even a ripple on the surface as we travelled at hundreds of kph.
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─You find that hard to believe? I don't, because I don't fly any more either. I can drive to most of the important cities in the Midwest in a day. If I need to speak to someone on the west coast I use video conferencing. Driving anywhere as far west as Pittsburgh or south as Richmond or north as Bost...
[18:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autonomous Rocket Factory to be Built in Mississippi - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:37] <exec> 08└─3D printing saves a ton of time and money if you're doing a one-off. If you're in the business of mass production, you're better off using it to create tools to use to mass-produce other objects; that can save you a ton of time and allow you to steal marches on your competition by getting to market...
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[19:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─We have ONE example of life on a planet. Who knows what other shapes life can take? We know nothing.
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:35] <exec> 08└─Heh, sent over the edge by "so far behind Europe." MURRICA NUMBAR UNO BITCHES!
[19:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:37] <exec> 08└─The founders thought they had it covered. They tried to restrict the government, by requiring warrants, etc.. In recent times, well, the EU is a younger government. Corruption is less entrenched in the EU parliament. In the US, essentially all Congress critters are on the take, because that's the on...
[19:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:39] <exec> 08└─For one thing, I'm glad that us backwards Americans are "so far behind" Europe on their stupid Right To Be Forgotten.
[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─This summary just flatly asserts that GPDR works. (I can't see TFA because I've reached my free limits of NYT coverage). What does GPDR do again? Ooh, I must be told that the company is collecting my personal information - companies ALREADY did this in their notice of privacy practices. Same fine pr...
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─Terror - the WAR on TERROR - which, of course, is all about directing the flow of money.
[19:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:46] <exec> 08└─I love the concept of the "right to be forgotten." Too bad that it's about as practical as legislating Pi to be 3.0.
[19:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─No it isn't. Not all companies will follow the law, but it drastically reduces your digital footprint since most will comply and delete your data. There are too many people, why risk punishment for a few that want their data scrubbed?
[19:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:50] <exec> 08└─n/t
[19:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:52] <exec> 08└─companies ALREADY did this in their notice of privacy practices.
[19:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jon3k [3718] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:55] <exec> 08└─Conversely: why is the US so far ahead of Europe in technology? Maybe there is a correlation between the two? Maybe a less regulated environment fosters more development? I don't know.
[19:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:23] <exec> 08└─Hence the big hoopla about affirmative action, something which barely impacts white people but has become a hot topic for the reasons you gave. To be fair it is preferential treatment so disliking AA doesn't mean you're racist, but it sure is blown out of proportion these days. I wonder if anyone ha...
[19:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:25] <exec> 08└─Every species alters its environment in some way. Yep, Here you see beavers clear-cutting a forest and causing widespread flooding. [telegraph.co.uk]
[19:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:27] <exec> 08└─"Hence the big hoopla about affirmative action, something which barely impacts white people but has become a hot topic for the reasons you gave." The ones most disadvantaged by AA are actually "Asians." And here's yet another case where you can see the cracks in the whole racist edifice, the bankrup...
[19:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:43] <exec> 08└─It has been known since at least the 1970's, that after version 5, creeping featurism means that more and more pointless functions are added without being debugged first, while the useful features are "deprecated". That is why, today, Google Search does not actually search for any of the search term...
[19:16:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 646 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_hydraulic_fracturing#Seismicity [wikipedia.org] While analysis suggested that the increase is "almost certainly man-made", the USGS noted: "USGS's studies suggest that the actual hydraulic fracturing process is only very rarely the direct cause o...
[19:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:24] <exec> 08└─Why do they use the term “wastewater injection” when the fact that wastewater is used has really nothing to do with the process?
[19:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:26] <exec> 08└─Well they do tend to occur in places that have had historically low incidence of seismic activity. And therefore, building standards don't make people take precautions for earthquakes. Whether that has translated into actual damages, I don't know.
[19:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:10] <exec> 08└─'y' is most certainly (in most cases, at least according to the Limeys [lexico.com]) a vowel, except when it's not. In the case at hand (the word 'possibly'), 'y' is absolutely a vowel. As for the clock bit, I don't worry about that much myself, as I pretty much always measure time via the 24 hour c...
[19:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─We just need for terrorists to have access to cheap and reliable surface to air weapons so they don't gain anything from getting a bomb aboard an aircraft. If we gave away stinger missiles, or rented out larger missile systems, we could remove airport security entirely; the terrorists would have equ...
[19:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:29] <exec> 08└─I think there's something wrong with y'all's html. Neither one of you was able to get your current year variable to parse. Try it like this: 2019
[19:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:31] <exec> 08└─Let's put it another way: the TGV schedules were less accommodating than the normal IC schedules, as such TGV lost most of its speed advantage by making me wait to get on in the first place. The TGV routes of course did not go directly where I wanted to go, so forced a transfer which again reduced t...
[19:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─You vs. Wild with Bear Grylls.
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[20:14:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─We have ONE example of life on a planet. Who knows what other shapes life can take? We know nothing.
[20:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:35] <exec> 08└─Exactly. complex life as we know it.
[20:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─Here's the real kicker: complex life may be observing us right now, and even plainly visible or otherwise detectable to us, we just don't recognize it because it hasn't tried to plant a flag and trade beads with us, yet.
[20:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:39] <exec> 08└─Who knows what other shapes life can take? We know nothing.
[20:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:41] <exec> 08└─If life is observing us locally, the implication is it got here from somewhere else, inasmuch as we haven't seen any elsewhere in our solar system. That being the case, considering the level of technology they'd have to have to pull that off, I'm not sure we'd have any beads they might want. Pomegra...
[20:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─"To sustain liquid water at the outer edge of the conventional habitable zone, a planet would need tens of thousands of times more carbon dioxide than Earth has today," Soon the Earth will be ready for its move to the outer edge of the habitable zone.
[20:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:46] <exec> 08└─We have ONE example of life on a planet. Who knows what other shapes life can take? We know nothing.
[20:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:48] <exec> 08└─Speaking of complexity - imagine if it took three or more genders to procreate? Getting some would be a real bitch!
[20:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:50] <exec> 08└─tens of thousands of times more carbon dioxide... far beyond the levels known to be toxic to human and animal life on Earth
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, and in that one example the atmosphere was not suitable of the existence of complex life before simple life evolved. We *live* in an atmosphere composed of microbial anti-bacterials. Oxygen, for one example.
[20:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:55] <exec> 08└─The problem is that CO2 is a strong greenhouse gas, so if there's too much the seas will boil. Being an Ent wouldn't help you survive that. But it's quite possible that microbes living in the upper atmosphere (high enough so water condenses) could over time metabolize that CO2. This has actually bee...
[20:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:57] <exec> 08└─I like the Niven theory of interstellar traveling hydrogen gas plasma beings - they've had billions of years more than us to evolve, they'd be big, diffuse, low energy phenomena, and they've likely long since learned how to deal with pond scum like us. If there are any tricks to FTL/interdimensional...
[20:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:59] <exec> 08└─Actually, we know more than nothing. There are many different types of life on this planet. In some places, it's not based on breathing oxygen at all, nor does it require sunlight. We have different classes of extremophiles on this planet. We continue to find life in our own backyard in places that...
[20:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:29] <exec> 08└─Well, you could rephrase the title as: The US Leads the World in Spying on Citizens. We're number 1. P.S.: That may not be true, but I have no real reason to doubt it. OTOH, China seems to be coming up fast on the inside track.
[20:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:01] <exec> 08└─And, this comment thread shows exactly why. Any discussion about this particular issue naturally derails itself almost immediately. I suspect it's because there isn't any real acceptable solution. We innately know there can't be one, and people want to avoid talking about it. There's plenty of horri...
[20:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:03] <exec> 08└─Pointing out that fewer babies can help reduce population: such trolling!
[20:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:21] <exec> 08└─https://fossbytes.com/google-alternative-best-search-engine/ [fossbytes.com] Not all as good, but some far better when it comes to selling you and your data.
[20:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:04] <exec> 08└─Great site, thanks.
[20:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Mystery Mass Beneath Moon's Biggest Crater - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─Nah - more likely this [imdb.com].
[20:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:12] <exec> 08└─High-speed rail normally doesn't have grade crossings, and the way the trains are built as one "snake" is a lot safer than the usual individual cars of low-speed trains, which tumble individually. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Took until 2015 to get a fatality (...
[20:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:14] <exec> 08└─Welp, TGV from Paris in the direction of Geneva certainly did have grade crossings in 1997... haven't tried it again since then, but we were definitely hauling ass past some of those... If one of those suicidal assholes put some planning into it, they could surely derail the train without too much i...
[20:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:16] <exec> 08└─Some airports are really blatant about this. Carrasco Airport (MVD) forces you to go through the Duty Free shop to get out of the airport after deplaning.
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[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not wrong. I'm just ~20 - 60 years ahead of my time.
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:10] <exec> 08└─"because he didn't know what Norman Borlaug had been doing." There were many other bad assumptions that went into Ehrlich's forecast as well. This hasn't stopped him from being trotted out regularly by his fans in the decades after his predictions failed so spectacularly.
[21:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:12] <exec> 08└─We are clever monkeys, and our predictions about the future always seem to grossly over or under estimate that cleverness. I'm old enough to remember the handwringing from overpopulation, acid rain, the ozone hole, and now climate change. We'll fix it.
[21:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:14] <exec> 08└─I discovered that most problems can be solved by licking my heatsink with my tongue. After that, everything else seems negligible.
[21:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:16] <exec> 08└─The link to the essay is not correct. Here is the correct link: An Essay on the Principle of Population [esp.org] by Thomas Malthus
[21:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:36] <exec> 08└─"You're not in Kansas anymore. You are on Pandora ladies and gentlemen." Odd. Those Navi and their critters seem to do pretty well with a high CO2 level. (Actually, this isn't a bug, it's a feature. Those high levels of toxic gases will help keep the earthlings from invading!)
[21:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:38] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that Earth had a primarily CO2 atmosphere very early in its development, until the evolution of cyanobacteria that reduced it to Oxygen. I don't believe they could have evolved if the seas were boiling.
[21:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:40] <exec> 08└─Ah the dangers of extrapolating from a single data point: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[21:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:10] <exec> 08└─Not all companies will follow the law, but it drastically reduces your digital footprint since most will comply and delete your data. There are too many people, why risk punishment for a few that want their data scrubbed?
[21:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:11] <exec> 08└─You are so right. Look at those horrible excuses for trains in Europe. We have them beat badly there. And look at all those Mac IIs and PC XTs over there. They don't even have iPhones. Barbarians! And they have no aircraft manufacturers, either. Or any space capabilities. Hell, they can't even launc...
[21:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:14] <exec> 08└─“While President Trump and his fellow oligarchs attack us for our support of democratic socialism, they don’t really oppose all forms of socialism,” he said. “They may hate democratic socialism because it benefits working people, but they absolutely love corporate socialism that enriches Tru...
[21:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:46] <exec> 08└─>Any kind of possible "addressing the real issue: population" is racist, by mode of operation. Which tribe of population do you mean to address? Not so. There is something called replacement rate fertility which means basically every couple should have no more than 2 children. You don’t need to fo...
[21:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:48] <exec> 08└─Being child-free in one of the countries with very minimal population growth, isn't necessarily helping anything. The reason why it's touted as a racist idea is, because essentially all of the fastest growing countries are in Africa. There's a very large correlation between wealth (the lack thereof)...
[21:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:50] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of horrific answers, but you won't get "most" to go along with those without some clever maneuvering like "such and such a group isn't human, so technically it's not murder"
[21:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:52] <exec> 08└─It would have been okay until you just had to include that blaming it on the Jews at the end. Try writing a long, in-depth, insightful analysis of anything, then in the last paragraph call all your readers niggers and see how well that works out for you either.
[21:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:54] <exec> 08└─Thanos went for more of a sudden drop, not a reduction in growth.
[21:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:56] <exec> 08└─maybe the bigger the animal the bigger the space it needs to survive? i blame it (loss of universally unique species) maybe on poor land managment or more specific: land zoning. there maybe should be more "non profit" zoning, like: this flood zone for that river. nevermind the coal or othe deposits....
[21:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:14] <exec> 08└─Ignoring the issue of privacy for the moment, my problem is getting results that are in some obvious way, connected to my search terms. Fossbytes' recommendations all failed my test queries for slightly off the beaten track foss issues. (Bing was quite close, but still useless). So, if anyone is ana...
[21:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPS and ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights in USA - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:15] <exec> 08└─Something IS up. This morning my in-car GPS disagreed about speed by 20%. Glad my car is not an Airbus or a Boeing 737max! Someone may be "testing" their capability to mess with GPS...
[21:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:27] <exec> 08└─I sure hope I wasn't the only one that read that as: Watch Live SeX and then had to do a double take to read the title correctly.
[21:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:00] <exec> 08└─Oy carumba! Go learn how tectonics work before you claim anyone is wrong (unless you're claiming that you are wrong). It's people like you that cause these kinds of earthquake problems in TX and OK.
[21:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:01] <exec> 08└─hmmm... who knows what kind of monster might be lurking down in those injection holes from the wet kleenex catalized by a topless picture of ms texas 2001 mixed with wasted monthly fertility blood, baby poo diapers and some asortment of excreated medicin? maybe the growing texzilla just needs more r...
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[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─... discriminatory hiring practices.
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[22:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─We'll fix it.
[22:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─Humans are driving one million species to extinction He was not entirely wrong after all
[22:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:29] <exec> 08└─ECT (electro convulsive therapy) is a great alleviator of depression: you forget why your life sucks and the depression goes away. Unfortunately, since your life doesn't change, you quickly become depressed again and need followup therapy.
[22:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:31] <exec> 08└─would you rather have imperfect ways to grow more food, or let people starve? It's a question we may have to keep asking in the decades to come." sounds like a equation. the humane result would be "MORE imperfection". which ofc leads to more required imperfection... as for "let people starve". if th...
[22:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, but as a side effect I can sensitively measure the TDP of my CPU by licking the IHS. What would I learn from having my brain electrocuted?
[22:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:35] <exec> 08└─You know what else is clever ? Cancer. Those pesky cells always seem to find a way to deal with whatever the body, or the medical profession, throws at them. They always seems to come out on top. They too always manage to "fix" it. Until their host dies. So far I've never heard of a cancer that mana...
[22:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:38] <exec> 08└─I am doing the best I can do (in my mind), by not bringing another life into this overpopulated world.
[22:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:40] <exec> 08└─Acid Rain - cap-and-trade approach, written into the 1990 Clean Air Act Ozone Hole - Montreal Protocol Overpopulation - Education and women's rights?? Climate Change - TBD Change can happen.
[22:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:42] <exec> 08└─Evaporative cooling. Very clever.
[22:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─The world needs smart, well adjusted people. If the smart people stop having babies, then who is going to fix all the problems?
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─Trump backs-out of the Paris Agreement.
[22:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─All the doomsday predictions are ahead of their time. That's why they traditionally use phrases like "the end is near" or "in as little as a decade." There's a sweet spot of urgency and believability that gets the most attention.
[22:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:12] <exec> 08└─For each and every "toxic gas", there is a lifeform or many, right here on planet Earth, that are fully immune to it. Shame to the "peer reviewers" that allowed this waste of bytes also become a waste of paper.
[22:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:14] <exec> 08└─But .. but ... It's MY data point ! Other data points don't matter. There are other data points, but this one is the most important, because it's mine !! You ... you can go extrapolate all you want with those other floozies. I'm staying here. I don't need you. We have each other, my data point and m...
[22:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should just use "human-habitable" so that this nitpick isn't trotted out every time.
[22:15:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 322 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:36] <exec> 08└─The founders thought they had it covered. They tried to restrict the government, by requiring warrants, etc.. In recent times, well, the EU is a younger government. Corruption is less entrenched in the EU parliament. In the US, essentially all Congress critters are on the take, because that's the on...
[22:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:49] <exec> 08└─Wow, way to be objective. Don't look know but your political biases are showing. The lack of privacy legislation and data protection didn't start when Potato Pelosi became the speaker. It's been ongoing for several administrations and speakers.
[22:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:51] <exec> 08└─Instead, how about you provide proof that the system before meant people couldn't find out how their data is being used and now they can? I've read dozens of privacy agreements. None of them were difficult to understand and all of them pretty much said: 1) You'll provide us with your data. 2) We wil...
[22:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:53] <exec> 08└─Why does your "right" to hide inconvenient facts about your history override my "right" to be able to read history?
[22:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:55] <exec> 08└─It was 'counted'. It just didn't count. https://www.upworthy.com [upworthy.com]
[22:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, while not really applicable I would say this concept falls somewhat under the 4th amendment. If your neighbor suspects you of doing something bad then police should be able to enter your home to search right? /s
[22:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:00] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of lip service paid to privacy, but how far does it really go to actually protect people? WRT Germany, I'm thinking of how the Einwohnermeldeamt (civil registration office) will sell data to marketers (the civil registration offices perform a function similar to US identification laws:...
[22:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:02] <exec> 08└─Of course not. You are supposed to staple a check with the ballot. Noob.
[22:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:43] <exec> 08└─We see it happening in every country that embraces things like education, especially sex-education, and access to birth control and family planning. Unfortunately, there are powerful forces in our country and abroad that are actively opposed to those things. Even though they reduce abortions, which...
[22:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:44] <exec> 08└─And the childfree (*not* childless, some can't tell the difference) ironically may have better genes to pass on for the potential benefit of many fields - academic ones for example - than those who propagate their genome aplenty. But my g/f and I can live with that, and die with that. Having said th...
[22:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:16] <exec> 08└─"How was the day at the office, dear?" "Nominal, boring"
[22:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalog of North Texas Earthquakes Confirms Continuing Effects of Wastewater Disposal - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:50] <exec> 08└─It did not make you any smarter. As for tectonics, I guess I learned how it works years before you learned how not to pee into your diapers. You could learn it too, if you leased a brain somewhere, or unexpectedly grown your own.
[22:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─Add onto that the cost in some places. For example if I wanted to fly to visit my parents. Take that ticket x4 as the wife and kids need to go too. The tickets to get there are anywhere from 300-800 depending on the time of year. I will be nice but 300x4 is 1200 bucks. The gas is MAYBE 200 total and...
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[23:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:11] <exec> 08└─Yet another Hit Piece from the Editors' Darling, Canopic Jug. While so many VERY POSITIVE stories get rejected. Sad!!!!
[23:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:12] <exec> 08└─(cont) If the Editors like you, no need to follow so called Submission Guidelines. "Be neutral and factual in both Subject and Summary. You can wait until the article is posted or, if you must, include your opinion clearly marked as opinion at the end of the Summary." Bullshit!!!!
[23:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─Skimmed through Chapter 7. No proof of anything, no citations of Microsoft's actual current behaviors, only innuendo and quoted references from the 21 year old Halloween Documents. So no, not established tactics currently attacking free software, only what was known two decades ago. Which doesn't me...
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:17] <exec> 08└─If you must look at the "story." Start with Introduction. "Introduction of a new satirical ‘handbook’ published exclusively here (by a pseudonymous reader)." In other words, FAKE NEWS!!!!
[23:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe so, but it gave me a good flashback back to the SCO days when Microsoft got BTFO and Linux was actually on the rise and becoming more usable as a desktop OS. Ubuntu from around 2007 to 2010 appeared to be unstoppable and every day it looked like it was going to crush Windows as a dominant desk...
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:21] <exec> 08└─embrace extend extinguish thus that it ever was. thus that it ever shall be. amen.
[23:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─Can't win by being the best? Win by destroying everything around you. Gob bless Microfuck cos everyone else hates them. What a bunch of dicks.
[23:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's Ongoing Tactics Against Competitors Explained, Based on its Own Documents - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:26] <exec> 08└─Flashbacks are nice, but it would be great to have their actions as a timeline. That way we can remember what they did to their competitors -> how they spun it -> why the current release sucks -> why the new release will be better -> lather, rinse, discharge microplastics into the environment -> rep...
[23:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:50] <exec> 08└─The man who really fed the world was Fritz Haber. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If you’re not familiar with his story, read the bio and ask yourself why someone hasn’t made a movie about this guy yet. What a story.
[23:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─All those people would have been better off having never been born, then? Sure, there are now more people living most available lifestyles then, but to explicitly opt out of normalizing your data makes your conclusions much less useful than otherwise.
[23:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─Go ahead, volunteer to fix the problems being paid only room&board You’ll be waiting a long time
[23:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:56] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you're about to predict cancer zombies. I mean, that's the next logical step for cancer to keep its host viable, right?
[23:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:58] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because the Haber process has been sucking N2 from the atmosphere for 100 years... which means CO2 goes up in ppm terms.
[23:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:00] <exec> 08└─Acid Rain - cap-and-trade approach, written into the 1990 Clean Air Act Ozone Hole - Montreal Protocol Overpopulation - Education and women's rights?? Climate Change - TBD Change can happen.
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─It's interesting to look at the things that are named after him. The Haber–Bosch process allowed production of nitrogen fertilizer from atmospheric nitrogen, resulting in increased agricultural yields and prevented starvation of billions (it's been over 100 years).Also, he became known as the fath...
[23:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:04] <exec> 08└─to explicitly opt out of normalizing your data makes your conclusions much less useful than otherwise
[23:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:07] <exec> 08└─The world needs smart, well adjusted people. If the smart people stop having babies, then who is going to fix all the problems?
[23:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Who Helped Feed the World - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:09] <exec> 08└─All those people would have been better off having never been born, then? Sure, there are now more people living most available lifestyles then, but to explicitly opt out of normalizing your data makes your conclusions much less useful than otherwise.
[23:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, but Earth is further from the sun, and whether they could have evolved on dust floating in the atmosphere is an unanswered question. OTOH, I'm dubious about that extreme scenario too. But high temperatures within limits aren't an obstacle for life. There are microbes that live down in rocks whe...
[23:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:36] <exec> 08└─The problem is that CO2 is a strong greenhouse gas, so if there's too much the seas will boil.
[23:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:39] <exec> 08└─The *SUN* is an advanced form of life, and solar flares, gravity, etc are its ways of interactive with the universe around it. How do we know that solar activity is not in fact the Sun trying to communicate with other suns, or even in some cases with life on Earth? There are many possible forms of e...
[23:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:41] <exec> 08└─Soon the Earth will be ready for its move to the outer edge of the habitable zone.
[23:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Dramatically Narrows the Search for Advanced Life in the Universe - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:43] <exec> 08└─I love how the space nutters accuse others of only one data point, then proceed to spew forth how life could be anywhere and everywhere... ...then offer only one data point ( extremeophiles), or even none at all: "could, maybe, possibly". Look no further than this discussion.
[23:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 1773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:23] <exec> 08└─People always say that some of the things in our constitution are antiquated and no longer apply, often citing the second amendment ("assault rifles didn't exist in the days of the revolutionary war"). Well, I disagree with that one, but in retrospect birthright citizenship was a pretty big mistake,...
[23:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:25] <exec> 08└─We're so far ahead of others in the technology space but it doesn't do 99% of us any damn good because that tech is classified and we won't be able to enjoy it for at least another 20 years. For example, my grandfather who was a military officer used his background in optics to develop photogrammetr...
[23:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you keep saying that, but the weight of propaganda, gerrymandering and outright bribery prevents the voters from having enough influence to matter. Look at what the Republicans did when they lost control of Wisconsin to the Democrats. [nytimes.com] Now imagine what they would do if they lost...
[23:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:29] <exec> 08└─In the eyes of Anti American Editors Bytram(Martyb)& Janrinok -- and the Fake (Corrupt) New York Times. God Bless America!!!!
[23:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Are Driving One Million Species to Extinction - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:11] <exec> 08└─What we are doing is rather sudden from the perspective of geological timescales.
[23:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Live as SpaceX Delivers Trio of Canadian Satellites to Space on Wednesday - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─Did you miss them blowing up a Dragon 2 just two months ago? They did it especially for you....
[23:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:25] <exec> 08└─I've seen it as cheap as $3 with a clean towel thrown in. People don't like sleeping in their cars. I do it on long trips, and take a hotel every other night (EG, driving a 7000km trip or what not). You just pull over in a rest stop, and go to sleep. I don't see how a self-driving car changes things...
[23:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driverless Cars Are Going to Disrupt the Airline Industry - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:27] <exec> 08└─I'm utterly confused as to why you think 2 days of driving is "tough guy" behaviour. There are lots of reasons to do it, and some people actually find driving extremely fun and enjoyable. I drive from the East coast of Canada to Southern California last winter, did so in 4 days, and enjoyed the enti...
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