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[00:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:40] <exec> 08└─The fun bit is pondering who has to make up the profit loss they're taking by selling to Canada and such at a discount. It's a hell of a racket, really. Canada says "drop your prices or we won't enforce your patents" and the drug companies have pretty much no choice but to comply. Now, the drug comp...
[00:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:42] <exec> 08└─No, Canada says "you're abusing your monopoly" - think antitrust (or in Canada the Combines Act). Patents are legal protections which come with legal rules. Canada extended drug patent terms in return for the drug companies agreeing to more investment in research and manufacturing, then pulled a Fox...
[00:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:44] <exec> 08└─Then maybe the US should stop treating people's health and lives as profit-driven business. That's what civilized societies do. But who am I kidding. That will never happen. The entire US founding principles are based on darwinism and absolutism of individial rights above anything, including the com...
[00:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Navi 20 Series is Known Internally as ‘The Nvidia Killer’ - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:54] <exec> 08└─we dont need a nvidia killer. what is missing is a m$ killer. everbody knows windows is a OS with the sole purpose of growing MOLD on hardware. as impressive as this "gets slower over time" feat might be, the extreme engineering done by both nvidia and ati ... errr ... amd is surely not to producie...
[00:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Announces HarmonyOS, a Smartphone OS and Android Alternative - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:29] <exec> 08└─oh please please dear god make all hongmeng speed tests beat google miserably! the sole purpose for android would be revealed and it's not about making a good OS (lol java chip).
[00:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Announces HarmonyOS, a Smartphone OS and Android Alternative - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:31] <exec> 08└─android already lost if harmony OS comes with a ethernet driver/interface... a network access port NOT treated like a 2nd class citizen.
[00:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oyster System Pulled Offline After Miscreants Enter Customers' Accounts - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:32] <exec> 08└─Nah, they're not expensive. Not here at least. May run you five bucks on top of whatever you're filling them up with. If that's going to break you, you're overspending already anyway.
[00:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Shuts Down Military Lab Studying Ebola, Plague, etc. Amid Fears Of Release Into Wastewater - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:08] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think anthrax is forever. Yeah, that is "particularly hardy". It's in the soil all around me, and herds of cattle in the area have had to be destroyed in the past. Corpses burnt, and the residue bulldozed under the topsoil, I think it was six feet. Which, of course, puts it all into the...
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[01:50:43] <exec> 08└─It may be time to get a Huawei phone and avoid the USA's TLA-invaded Android "system". Oh wait... :( can someone OTHER than China make an alternative phone OS? Please?!
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[02:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:34] <exec> 08└─What a great idea! No way for this to backfire, no indeed. Calculate that biatches.
[02:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:35] <exec> 08└─MVP is just another example of the SJW nonsense that explains why China is eating our lunch economically. In China, children are told that 2+2=4 and then go on to study calculus. In MVP America, children spend the session discussing what wonderful things 2 and 2 might create if they join together an...
[02:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's Forgotten Ideas About Symmetry Help Explain Spiral Galaxies Without a Need for Dark Matter - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:44] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go wiht bullshit.
[02:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler's Forgotten Ideas About Symmetry Help Explain Spiral Galaxies Without a Need for Dark Matter - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:46] <exec> 08└─or: m = E/c^2 Is there enough E to take away the need for "dark m"?
[02:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's Forgotten Ideas About Symmetry Help Explain Spiral Galaxies Without a Need for Dark Matter - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:48] <exec> 08└─Dr Beavis and Professor Butthead have outdone themselves with this study.
[02:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you keep thinking that. And then you watch what happens when we put domestic price controls in. The money has to come from somewhere or the drugs don't get created; even altruistic scientists want to eat. Right now it's coming mostly from us. What's going to happen when that well dries up?
[02:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:07] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree on there being monopoly issues or that they need addressed. I'm just saying you don't pay for the work, you don't get new drugs. Right now you're making us pay for the drugs you take advantage of and acting baffled at why we don't do the same.
[02:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:09] <exec> 08└─save Canadians billions over the next 10 years.
[02:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:11] <exec> 08└─you don't pay for the work, you don't get new drugs
[02:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It's Crazy': Chase Bank Forgiving All Debt Owed by its Canadian Credit Card Customers - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:45] <exec> 08└─Those of us who insist on keeping their credit card in the black don't generate any money for the banks. With that move, Chase essentially rewards people who keep theirs in the red, and encourages others to do the same. IMHO, that's why they're doing it: it's a subliminal message to credit card owne...
[02:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Some Fruit Flies Learn Better Than Others - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:33] <exec> 08└─We have always known that fruit flies were a great analogue for humans. This is great. Now we have one more study coming to that conclusion.
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[03:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Brain Inspires a New Type of Artificial Intelligence - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:30] <exec> 08└─"the brain's learning rules are very complicated and remote from the principles of learning steps in current artificial intelligence algorithms" yup, brainz is hard
[03:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:40] <exec> 08└─Aww, you skeered of the Chinese? And you fabricated a connection between MVP and SJWs, too. What are those mean SJWs stopping you from doing? Bringing back segregated schools? And you threw in a bash against LBGTQ, because, you know, that is so intimately not connected to math. You angling for an ap...
[03:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:42] <exec> 08└─It's just a Russian trying to stir up a pissing contest between the SJW and the normal people.
[03:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:44] <exec> 08└─"... and the normal people"". Thanks for that, comrade.
[03:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Navi 20 Series is Known Internally as ‘The Nvidia Killer’ - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:25] <exec> 08└─That's task for Huawei, not for AMD. Just wait patiently. Chinese will win both battles.
[03:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It's Crazy': Chase Bank Forgiving All Debt Owed by its Canadian Credit Card Customers - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:49] <exec> 08└─makes me wish i'd racked up thousands in debt on a credit card. Maybe i'll go do that now and then open up some fortune cookies to see how my future is.
[03:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It's Crazy': Chase Bank Forgiving All Debt Owed by its Canadian Credit Card Customers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:50] <exec> 08└─wouldn't say how many Canadians had signed up for the cards or how much debt was outstanding.
[03:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:59] <exec> 08└─I wasn't really saying that I needed more speed, but that paying more for (snort) 24Mbps fibre was a joke because I can get cheaper A/VDSL that offers the same or better service. In my case I'm getting > 60Mbps on VDSL compared to the throttled/crippled 30Mbps cheapest-price fibre, and because it's...
[03:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, GPON. It's great when you're the first customer on the OLT because you've got a dedicated optical link to the core network. Then a few more people join up and things are at about 50% capacity and you start to get performance about what's advertised. Then more people join up and things are at 1...
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[03:56:20] <exec> 08└─Copper top?
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[04:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:46] <exec> 08└─In China, reliance on rote memorization is even worse than it is here, and it's already bad in the US. Seriously, our 'education' system is a disaster, and you want to make it even worse? MVP isn't a solution, but neither is raising another generation of Jeopardy! geniuses who can only memorize fact...
[04:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:47] <exec> 08└─Rote memorization is not a bad thing. It trains you to remember things so that you can go on to do logic and produce informed opinions on the subject. Also, it gives you a base of knowledge on which to build and grow.
[04:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:49] <exec> 08└─Tom Lehrer "New Math" Well, anyway, wish there were some way to keep "educational supplies" companies from ripping off students with way over priced math textbooks, scantrons, and testing "services". As well as holding all companies issuing "reports" on anyone fully culpable for defamation of charac...
[04:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:51] <exec> 08└─Clearly I'm outraged. It's now clear in this moment that all people are terrible.
[04:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:53] <exec> 08└─"Rote memorization is not a bad thing." Not in and of itself, no. But over-reliance on memorization is a bad thing. One student can tell you the year, month, day, even hour a given event occurred. What were the main reasons this event occurred? What were the main consequences? You get a blank look,...
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[04:49:56] <exec> 08└─1 + 1 = 10
[04:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:27] <exec> 08└─"The money has to come from somewhere or the drugs don't get created" The money will come from where it always has. Either a tax deduction for the research pr using the government funded research that ends up used for the private profit. Usually given to the companies who are so hard done by, the po...
[04:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe they will have to stop spending twice as much on advertising as they do on research.
[04:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It's Crazy': Chase Bank Forgiving All Debt Owed by its Canadian Credit Card Customers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:07] <exec> 08└─Those of us who insist on keeping their credit card in the black don't generate any money for the banks.
[04:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Court Rules Facebook Users Can Sue Company Over Face Recognition Technology - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:11] <exec> 08└─Facebook has shadow profiles of people who never allowed themselves to be used by this disservice, so no, not everyone "consented" to this abuse. I also don't think it's real consent anyway, because the average person has no idea how dangerous [gnu.org] mass surveillance - whether done by corporatio...
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[04:54:03] <exec> 08└─> military Well, arguably, we (USA) could cut back a whole hell of a lot on our military spending, and even with extreme cuts, the only noticeable effect would be a bunch of unemployable folks currently on military welfare going on (the much less expensive to the taxpayer) regular sort of public ass...
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[05:49:27] <exec> 08└─Oh brilliant. Doubt my phone will ever see an update again...
[05:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:29] <exec> 08└─That's the thing with cellphones, you don't worry about the application processor (AP), you go for the bug-ridden, totally insecure baseband (BB) instead, and legions of previous attackers have done just that. Since that can completely control the AP, it doesn't matter what fancy security is in that...
[05:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03xenu [8375] (Score: 1) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:31] <exec> 08└─Also, not all makers are ready to push the Android update when Google releases it. It is common to see security updates for phones still supported by their maker reach devices with weeks of delay.
[05:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:33] <exec> 08└─The chip maker advises "end users to update their devices as patches become available from OEMs."
[05:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:58] <exec> 08└─"The *other* sort of Marxist." Nazi, socialist, fascist or communist? Perhaps you can enlighten us on the history of all four and how they have failed over and over? I can.
[05:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:00] <exec> 08└─Looks like they thought someone deserved a good SLAPP.
[05:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:02] <exec> 08└─Thank you for not using gendered language, comrade. [youtube.com]
[05:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:04] <exec> 08└─8÷2(2+2) = whatever you want it to be, as long as you feel good about it afterwards (MVP).
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[05:50:15] <exec> 08└─You have to account for all your reference frames.
[05:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:39] <exec> 08└─The fun bit is pondering who has to make up the profit loss they're taking by selling to Canada and such at a discount. It's a hell of a racket, really. Canada says "drop your prices or we won't enforce your patents" and the drug companies have pretty much no choice but to comply.
[05:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03xenu [8375] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD's Navi 20 Series is Known Internally as ‘The Nvidia Killer’ - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:52] <exec> 08└─That used to be true, but I don't think it's still the case. AMD has really upped their driver game, especially on Linux.
[05:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'It's Crazy': Chase Bank Forgiving All Debt Owed by its Canadian Credit Card Customers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe the database pertaining to these cards got hit with ransomware and they no longer know who owes what.
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[05:51:37] <exec> 08└─tbh I'm not a big fan of it, but Sailfish OS is a thing.
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[06:49:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Gwe5gKgjo
[06:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:59] <exec> 08└─They tried this doing math problems in groups off and on when I was in grade school about 30 years ago. It's crap. We were supposed to like "collectively" come up with an answer to problems. I was quite good at math, so I would blow through the problems, try to show others in my group how I got to t...
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[06:50:10] <exec> 08└─Good idea, but no. This has been accounted for and there's still a major discrepancy.
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[06:50:12] <exec> 08└─if you ignore the idiotic press release and go directly to the paper (open access), it actually sounds plausible. I'd need a couple of hours to do a thorough wishful-thinking check, but for now it still seems reasonable. Luckily, with my background I should be able to go through some of the details....
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[06:53:41] <exec> 08└─The most surprising thing to me in the article was a bit over half way down. Apparently in the USA you sell bottles of hydrofluoric acid as household rust remover. That is insane.
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[07:49:34] <exec> 08└─Or, they could open source it, and offer a bug bounty. And then with a million eyes, all their bugs would become shallow. And much wetting of pants in haliarious laughter would ensue, for a while, but it would be for their own good in the long run. And their customers. Not that they deserve any. Tak...
[07:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly. You won't get revolutionary breakthroughs or even just creative solutions to more ordinary problems through rote memorization alone; you need to hone your critical thinking abilities for that. No one is opposed to memorizing information, because if you never memorized anything for even a sh...
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[07:50:07] <exec> 08└─There will BE no SNOW math on this site! NEVER! And not at all. Fucking does not amount to a proof of a theorem.
[07:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:09] <exec> 08└─He did say "SJW", which suggests a certain deficiency in logical thinking and scientific rigour. I say we schedule the pleb for recycling in the bio-pits. Best use, and all.
[07:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:11] <exec> 08└─So in best case, the teachers outsource the teaching to the pupi, and in the worst case the pupils don't learn anything? Progress!!
[07:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It's Crazy': Chase Bank Forgiving All Debt Owed by its Canadian Credit Card Customers - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:27] <exec> 08└─For whom? The people using them will do it for the perks, or to better track spending by origin, or set them to restricted use, or use them for children. The stores will do them for increased loyalty, a cut of the transaction fee, and because studies show that people who have them tend to spend sign...
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[08:49:52] <exec> 08└─Aww, you skeered of the Chinese? And you fabricated a connection between MVP and SJWs, too. What are those mean SJWs stopping you from doing? Bringing back segregated schools? And you threw in a bash against LBGTQ, because, you know, that is so intimately not connected to math. You angling for an ap...
[08:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:12] <exec> 08└─You realise that's a screed absolutely peppered with logical fallacies? I can't say I know anything about the details of MVP but I do know about mathematics, and I do know about teaching, and I have seen teaching methods that abstract away from the core mathematics so much that no mathematics is tau...
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[08:50:13] <exec> 08└─"has been sued" - that would have been a good opportunity to link to the court dockets, or to their press release about it if they have one "criticizing the math curriculum" - that would have been a good opportunity to link to his criticisms "filed a lawsuit" - ditto up 2 "has been vocal" - ditto up...
[08:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's Forgotten Ideas About Symmetry Help Explain Spiral Galaxies Without a Need for Dark Matter - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:27] <exec> 08└─Step 1: We have shown that information and "entropy" – a measure of the disorder of a system – are linked together ("info-entropy") in a way exactly analogous to electric and magnetic fields ("electromagnetism"). Electric currents produce magnetic fields, while changing magnetic fields produce e...
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[08:50:28] <exec> 08└─Water vapor density is not constant nor uniform in the real world of snow formation. It is also affected by many things more than just the vapor pressure or fusion energy of the snowflake and the conditions are also very chaotic. In addition, in artificial experiments with drastic differences across...
[08:50:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedGreen [888] 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 496 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:51] <exec> 08└─"The money has to come from somewhere or the drugs don't get created" The money will come from where it always has. Either a tax deduction for the research pr using the government funded research that ends up used for the private profit. Usually given to the companies who are so hard done by, the po...
[08:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying it doesn't happen - but which OS is sending out patches of that size?
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[09:50:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hwertz [8141] 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 862 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:07] <exec> 08└─They tried this doing math problems in groups off and on when I was in grade school about 30 years ago. It's crap. We were supposed to like "collectively" come up with an answer to problems. I was quite good at math, so I would blow through the problems, try to show others in my group how I got to t...
[09:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:15] <exec> 08└─There have been some pretty fun examples of parents taking pictures of their kids homework. Couple example scenarios, close but not the exact same thing as it's late and I'm drunk. Jack ate more pizza than Jill. Jack ate 1/3 of his pizza and Jill ate 3/4 of hers. How is this possible? The kid answer...
[09:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:17] <exec> 08└─I know! Should should invent something that does just that. Quick! To the PATENT OFFICE to see if anyone has this locked out yet!
[09:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:19] <exec> 08└─Can't say whether the curriculum at MVP [mathematicsvisionproject.org] is good or bad, but at least the materials are open-access. Too bad this has devolved into a lawsuit The parent seems to be unhappy because his son's grades went from A/B to D/F [gofundme.com], and there is also mention of learni...
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[10:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:30] <exec> 08└─They took the money to make an exclusivity deal on a platform that generally doesn't do that and people were unhappy. How could they be so surprised after all the other shit-storms that have come down the pipe at others that did the same thing?
[10:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:31] <exec> 08└─And here I thought it was only STEM crap we allowed on the front page, and JR has the temerity to suggest that there is no editorial bias on this site! Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how damaged and incorrect, or Runawayish, so OK, janrinonk, you win, you are the ed, you can...
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[10:49:33] <exec> 08└─Who are you again? ;)
[10:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maximising Alertness and Productivity on the Night Shift - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:41] <exec> 08└─The best thing for keeping alert and productive is a mid-shift nap.
[10:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Brain Inspires a New Type of Artificial Intelligence - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:58] <exec> 08└─Odd that it inspires artificial intelligence when it so rarely inspires genuine intelligence.
[10:50:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:28] <exec> 08└─"has been sued" - that would have been a good opportunity to link to the court dockets, or to their press release about it if they have one "criticizing the math curriculum" - that would have been a good opportunity to link to his criticisms "filed a lawsuit" - ditto up 2 "has been vocal" - ditto up...
[10:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:33] <exec> 08└─I'd really want to see the originals. I strongly suspect that your examples are not really close to the real ones (or rather, about as close as "8+4=10" is to "8+4=12" — close if you only look at the expression, far away if you look at the meaning).
[10:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:35] <exec> 08└─Certain things are best learned by rote, like times tables. If I am in a shop and offered a crate of beer for $9, or six crates for $50, I instantly know what I would be saving by buying the six. If I had not leaned my times tables by rote I would have had to add up six nines or get a calculator out...
[10:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:37] <exec> 08└─Indeed, at best in groups the brighter kids are just acting as the teacher and gain nothing themsleves, while the teacher surfs porn or something, or the group degenerates to the level of the lowest member. Group teaching comes from the socialist idea that all people have exactly the same natural in...
[10:51:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:06] <exec> 08└─Then maybe the US should stop treating people's health and lives as profit-driven business. That's what civilized societies do. But who am I kidding. That will never happen. The entire US founding principles are based on darwinism and absolutism of individial rights above anything, including the com...
[10:51:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe they will have to stop spending twice as much on advertising as they do on research.
[10:51:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:14] <exec> 08└─The fun bit is pondering who has to make up the profit loss they're taking by selling to Canada and such at a discount. It's a hell of a racket, really. Canada says "drop your prices or we won't enforce your patents" and the drug companies have pretty much no choice but to comply.
[10:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Announces HarmonyOS, a Smartphone OS and Android Alternative - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:13] <exec> 08└─It makes sense, doesn't it? Harmony is having your phone run you over if you don't step aside, citizen. Harmony as having your phone reporting you to the authorities for being near a protest.
[10:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Court Rules Facebook Users Can Sue Company Over Face Recognition Technology - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:03] <exec> 08└─using FRT with a click-wrap license that we explicitly acknowledged consent with Tell me, as a non-Facebook user, how did I explicitly acknowledge my consent?
[10:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Court Rules Facebook Users Can Sue Company Over Face Recognition Technology - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:04] <exec> 08└─1. Find out how many of my friends uploaded pictures containing my face without my knowledge 2. Sue Facebook for processing my face even though I never created a FB profile 3. Profit?
[10:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oyster System Pulled Offline After Miscreants Enter Customers' Accounts - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:22] <exec> 08└─Many places won't accept pre-paid card. Some demand home address and date of birth. For a credit card transaction.
[10:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oyster System Pulled Offline After Miscreants Enter Customers' Accounts - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:23] <exec> 08└─Most prepaid cards I've used will return anything the processors query as address/dob/etc as valid.
[10:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:17] <exec> 08└─Before you can login to the router, you have to sign the contract - and by then you are stuffed. You can also use an app on your mobile - I used the same one, on the same phone, here in the UK and in Nigeria. Sure "3" in the UK is fastest, but Airtel in Nigeria is faster OTA that hard wired, landlin...
[10:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:19] <exec> 08└─Have British homes now become so small that they're referred to as "cabinets"?
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[11:49:28] <exec> 08└─OMG! Video games! We need to ban them before more shooters are created!
[11:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Brain Inspires a New Type of Artificial Intelligence - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:55] <exec> 08└─Neuro-what-ic?
[11:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:11] <exec> 08└─You have a better one that works with long odds and extreme expense?
[11:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:13] <exec> 08└─That would be nice, yes. I certainly don't want anyone telling my customers "ask your coder about our TLS library". It'd be right fucking annoying and I'd refuse to use it out of spite.
[11:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. The rate of new drug creation (even excluding patent evergreening attempts) has massively outpaced everywhere else in the world here in the US because of private money paying so many people to work on them. The state can not match that. Its pockets are not deep enough.
[11:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:17] <exec> 08└─Sure they have a choice. They could choose not to sell to Canada. If they weren't still making a profit on the sales, that's what they'd do.
[11:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Texas Amateur Detects Possible Impact on Jupiter - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:29] <exec> 08└─First, is there any possibility it was something between the earth and Jupiter instead of on Jupiter? Maybe a sat reflection in earth orbit) Second, isn't that the second object in the solar system in the last few weeks? There was a tween Earth and moor event recently. Wonder if th...
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[12:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:25] <exec> 08└─Imagine working at an asteroid mining company [cnbc.com] in Luxembourg, then relaxing at your villa with legal cannabis.
[12:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting, in many African countries police do this as well. In fact it's par for the course, particularly for traffic police. That's why you always drive with a certain amount of cash hidden in your car, to cover any "on-the-spot fines" that may arise.
[12:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:38] <exec> 08└─They posted a disingenuous and condescending blog post, got criticized for it, and then the game dev continued to have a hissy fit on Discord: https://imgur.com [imgur.com] Now they are crying about harassment or whatever after having thoroughly kicked the hornet's nest. on a platform that...
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[12:49:39] <exec> 08└─Any changes in the 'regulars' here fade in light of the fact that Anonymous Coward appears to have been banned from that other site. Very off-topic, but shocking nonetheless.
[12:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:41] <exec> 08└─Most of my games are on Steam, and I already hate the fact that I already have a couple on Uplay and Origin; the last thing I need is yet another platform. If you don't publish your game on a platform that suits me, I'll either not play it, or grab a Torrent somewhere. It's not like there is a short...
[12:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:43] <exec> 08└─So do you vow fealty to Steam, or are you just a nameless peasant? I'm asking seriously, as somebody who when I shop for physical games in stores, always looks to make sure it doesn't say 'Requires Steam.' My choices are often highly limited, which is a problem. I would similarly be pretty hostile i...
[12:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maximising Alertness and Productivity on the Night Shift - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:52] <exec> 08└─One of my coworkers at my first job did this. We worked midnights stocking shelves at the local grocery store and every time after lunch he would go to the bathroom for an hour. We weren't sure if he was constipated, napping, jacking off, or all three.
[12:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:04] <exec> 08└─The flaws were found in Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 and 845 WLAN component...Despite patches being available, a high number of phones is likely to remain vulnerable for a long time as the devices may no longer be eligible for updates from the vendor.
[12:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:05] <exec> 08└─Or, they could open source it, and offer a bug bounty. And then with a million eyes, all their bugs would become shallow.
[12:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe not so open. The first thing in their downloads is a student homework assignment. It seems pretty random/useless without the teacher's material to prepare the student for the homework. Didn't find that, but did find an offer to sell it. Without that, and also an idea of the expected state of t...
[12:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:53] <exec> 08└─You don't already have your phone in your hand before you were told the prices? There should be a calculator 'app' on that phone you can quickly use.
[12:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:55] <exec> 08└─All learning is memorization. Whether you're learning methods, theory, or simply to regurgitate data, it's all just memorization. Focusing on the methods and theories, while giving useful data /and/ teaching how to properly create, find, and validate data is obviously ideal though.
[12:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:57] <exec> 08└─I never learned times tables, and I can do the same thing. All that time you spent memorizing could have been spent doing math (and in the process you would have encountered variations on 50/9 often enough to memorize it anyway).
[12:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Announces HarmonyOS, a Smartphone OS and Android Alternative - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:38] <exec> 08└─Hey! Hong Kong hasn't felt the full harmony yet!
[12:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Court Rules Facebook Users Can Sue Company Over Face Recognition Technology - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:31] <exec> 08└─5. Facebook will vigorously change their policies about creation of new features needing to be checked for privacy implications. The privacy department at Facebook will receive one .25 FTE and the department will have to review changes for privacy implications.
[12:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:45] <exec> 08└─http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/10/physical_copies_of_black_ops_4_require_50gb_day_one_update_on_ps4 [pushsquare.com] https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com [elderscrollsonline.com] https://www.dualshockers.com [dualshockers.com] https:/...
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[13:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mars90 [8379] (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:31] <exec> 08└─I'm living my best life, my business partner who we worked together few months referred me to Financewebservice AT GMAIL dot com when I was very broke because of some bad business decisions and i got a transfers of over $15,000 with their help. I was about going homeless but now i can pay my bills c...
[13:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:47] <exec> 08└─Wow. That's probably worth a sub in and of itself. We all knew the green site was shit, but...
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[13:49:48] <exec> 08└─Steam means far LESS exposure for a small game than Epic does. Epic will put a featured game on the front page and leave it there. Steam's front page is, for me, currently four games on sale and a whole load of things it thinks I might be interested in, and is wrong about. I'm not a fan of store exc...
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[13:49:50] <exec> 08└─Discussion here [soylentnews.org] until we decide whether grave dancing is worth it.
[13:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:52] <exec> 08└─Steam has quite a few advantages if you want to play using a controller connected to a raspberry pi hooked up to the TV in the living room while your big tower is in the office. Or your kid wants to use a tablet/phone to play resource-intensive games.
[13:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:54] <exec> 08└─Epic will put a featured game on the front page and leave it there.
[13:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:16] <exec> 08└─BBs are possibly some of the most inscrutable hardware ever produced.
[13:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:18] <exec> 08└─Yup, that's exactly it. And the icing on the cake was that not only were the docs unclear and obtuse, it wasn't uncommon to find parts where they were flat out wrong, e.g. describing something from three revisions ago, or something that was planned but never actually implemented that way. And there...
[13:50:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 887 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:56] <exec> 08└─You realise that's a screed absolutely peppered with logical fallacies? I can't say I know anything about the details of MVP but I do know about mathematics, and I do know about teaching, and I have seen teaching methods that abstract away from the core mathematics so much that no mathematics is tau...
[13:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:08] <exec> 08└─Apparently some of you have been learning this math for millennials. Most definitions for millennials put their birth year in the early 80s to around 2000. The most accepted dates defined by the pew research center are 1981-1996. Some quick math with that definition tells me even the youngest of the...
[13:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:10] <exec> 08└─*50/6
[13:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:12] <exec> 08└─Teaching others can be very rewarding for the comprehension of even gifted students. Not everyone is cut out for it though, and forming groups to force smarter kids into doing the work for others is pretty stupid.
[13:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:14] <exec> 08└─I tried a weak ass search for that, didn't find it, but found this which is similar: http://www.tnparents.com [tnparents.com] Weird.
[13:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:16] <exec> 08└─This article has an ebedded PDF viewer with the complaint: http://www.tnparents.com [tnparents.com] It lists a facebook page, which I can't view because I have FB in /etc/hosts. - There's a blog: https://wakemvp.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] - wa...
[13:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's Forgotten Ideas About Symmetry Help Explain Spiral Galaxies Without a Need for Dark Matter - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:31] <exec> 08└─Could it be due to gravity and rotational spin?
[13:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 1758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:00] <exec> 08└─Well, let's see. Insulin was invented in Canada and the original inventors sold the patent for $1 because they felt it was wrong to profit from an invention that was essential to saving lives. Think open source medication. The patent has long expired, as has the patent for GMO human insulin. That's...
[13:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:02] <exec> 08└─Most of that new drug creation is bullshit - creating a slight variation to get a new patent, or finding and patenting a new use for an old drug. Many of these new patented uses are already being done off-label. One example is Lucentis, an anti-VEGF drug that the manufacturer wants $2k a pop per inj...
[13:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:04] <exec> 08└─Twice as much??? It was 4x as much in the 80s, and it's gotten a lot worse since. TV ads, lobbyists, payments to doctors for meeting goals for number of prescriptions written, rebates (really kickbacks) to pharmacies, companies like Walmart (who got nailed for asking for illegal rebates here), paid...
[13:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Navi 20 Series is Known Internally as ‘The Nvidia Killer’ - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:17] <exec> 08└─Regarding software talent. AMD isn't killing shit until they come up with a suitable replacement for, or otherwise support for CUDA. A lot of the future in GPU is in AI, not in graphics. It doesn't matter how good your hardware is, if there isn't a solid API and good developer support.
[13:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Texas Amateur Detects Possible Impact on Jupiter - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:20] <exec> 08└─So the astronomer is zoomed onto Jupiter with their telescope, and the impact is not moving too much over multiple frames. If it was much closer or a sat, it would move away.
[13:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oyster System Pulled Offline After Miscreants Enter Customers' Accounts - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:17] <exec> 08└─Yep. Fundamentally these cards are all the same as debit cards issued by a bank. The bank that issues them is just some subsidiary in the middle of nowhere charging $5 for the card (and $3-5 every time you refill) and scraping up the leftover few cents when you stop using it.
[13:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info. I would have thought that torrenting would have been a better way to do this but that doesn't mean that some idiot doesn't do it the old fashioned way though!
[13:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:16] <exec> 08└─If your home connection is capped at 25 Mbps, torrenting (which could be done behind the scenes in some updaters, although I don't know which ones) won't allow it to go above that. You're still spending at least ~4.5 hours to grab 50 GB.
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[14:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:40] <exec> 08└─I'm unwilling to research laws about cannabis around the world in the very early 1900, or even before then. But we seem to have forgotten that the entire world was coerced into the US' "war on drugs" and all that crazy shit. Foreign aid, military aid, trade relations, and more were tied to those nat...
[14:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:42] <exec> 08└─In Asia and the Middle-East charity is an indistinguishable euphemism to bribing city inspectors and police officers: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Back in Lyndon Johnson's days the practice of meeting senators and congressmen with cash-stuffed enveloped was noted by multip...
[14:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:02] <exec> 08└─Epic will put a featured game on the front page and leave it there
[14:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:03] <exec> 08└─Oh, you have got to be kidding me. The developer used his platform, his status, to attack a bunch of nobodies, thinking they do not matter and have no way of even responding. Learns that even nobodies with no voice and platform in their thousands can make their message heard. Doubles down with a res...
[14:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maximising Alertness and Productivity on the Night Shift - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:13] <exec> 08└─You don't think this would work for 'Muricans, do you?
[14:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Maximising Alertness and Productivity on the Night Shift - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:15] <exec> 08└─I usually try to find something of use in the findings even from a poor study, but the exclusion criteria in this study means that it is probably useless for the vast majority of "shift workers" as commonly understood. Here's an excerpt from the full research article: Exclusion criteria were the pre...
[14:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maximising Alertness and Productivity on the Night Shift - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:17] <exec> 08└─In Vegas, hotel-casinos have three shifts, Days, Swing and Graveyard. I was working my way through college part time, so I usually worked a swing or graveyard shift. Swing typically 3PM to 11PM is the best. Eat dinner at 7 PM, perfectly awake and alert through the entire shift. Graveyard 11PM to 7AM...
[14:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maximising Alertness and Productivity on the Night Shift - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:19] <exec> 08└─Great post. Far more serious than my post above. I gotta agree, pretty much all of us graveyard workers are different somehow. Each seems to have his reasons for being there, each likes and dislikes it to some degree. But, many of us keep on doing it forever, or until the heat death of the universe,...
[14:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 2563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:28] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, one of the papers inspiring MVP is entitled: "Mathematics Education Through the Lens of Social Justice: Acknowledgment, Actions, and Accountability" https://www.google.com
[14:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:29] <exec> 08└─I know phones have calculator apps. I was refering to the need to pull out a device to do the calculation without listing every possible device that could do it; my point stands. And no, I don't hold a phone continuously in my clammy hand.
[14:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:31] <exec> 08└─It's somewhat discouraging to me how many people don't know the order of operations. The answer to that is definitely going to be 16. As the parentheses come first, then multiplication and division are left to right. The notation on it is really weird though because if it was intended to be (8/(2(s+...
[14:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:34] <exec> 08└─Can we get a "scary" mod?
[14:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:36] <exec> 08└─" The absolute worst was having the right answer, knowing you've got the right answer, but you're wrong anyway because the others in the group inexplicably agreed on some wrong answer, so that's your groups answer." That's like being the only sober person in the car and no one will let you drive. Ye...
[14:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:38] <exec> 08└─Those aren't the result of common core curriculum standards, they're the result of incompetent people being allowed to produce materials. The answer would be 10+4=14, but this is a really bad example to use and the article is right in indicating that developmentally the kids aren't ready for that. T...
[14:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:40] <exec> 08└─I got a pretty good education in a public school. I don't think you understand socialism at all.
[14:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:42] <exec> 08└─So how would you do it other than doing 9+9+9+9+9+9 in your head or on fingers which would be much slower than my 6x9 ? I'm interested. Even doing 9+9 = 18 is something I know by rote rater than incrementing from 9 by 9 units, one at a time.
[14:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:44] <exec> 08└─You'd be surprised how many educators are opposed to memorization strategies. I regularly get people arguing when I point out how much of math is memorization and pattern matching. Yes, there's other pieces there, but unless you're doing something truly novel or that has excessively weird terms in i...
[14:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:46] <exec> 08└─The time it takes to memorize that 10x10 times tables is not that much. There are a total of 100 squares in that and if you take advantage of the commutative property of multiplication, you wind up with something like 45 of them to actually memorize. And that includes the 1s and 10s which are more o...
[14:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:49] <exec> 08└─Group work isn't the problem, the way in which the group work is being assigned is the issue. I remember when I was a kid, the group work was more or less like that, you'd have a group doing the same problem and then comparing answers later on. It's deeply problematic and really just served to get t...
[14:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:51] <exec> 08└─Their web page reads like something from Dilbert.
[14:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:38] <exec> 08└─Canada does not sell drugs in violation of ANY valid patent. The patent on Lucentis can be ignored even in the US because they only patented prior art - off-label use of a drug to treat another condition. Some US providers know this and tell the manufacturer to get stuffed.
[14:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'It's Crazy': Chase Bank Forgiving All Debt Owed by its Canadian Credit Card Customers - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, remember that time that BofA bought billions in mortgages for pennies on the dollar with a zero-interest loan from the government for TARP? Those people got fuck all.
[14:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:50] <exec> 08└─Ah, here we have the usual moron with a "low bandwidth is fine for me, so it's fine for everyone else!!!!!!" rant. High bandwidth such as gigabit or more allows for faster backups of our home machines, it allows for faster transfer of photos or videos to relatives, multiple 4k streams, software upda...
[14:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:52] <exec> 08└─I know. But if you only need such a large bandwidth for rare occasions, it would make sense to torrent and thereby allow others to make better use of the available bandwidth at the same time. As others have pointed out, very few people actually need 100MB to meet a family's needs. What is a 4 hour w...
[14:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre? - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:54] <exec> 08└─The company I work at is moving offices. The new location only had ADSL2+ and no pre-existing fibre option in the area, so we're putting in a Mid-Band Ethernet / Ethernet over copper connection that will give us up to 24Mbps. This is for an office of ~30 people, with another 5 or so people remotely...
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[15:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Break iPhone's FaceID by Putting Glasses on Unconscious People - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:27] <exec> 08└─So covering the eyes bypasses the security? *Facepalm* "Access granted!" :P
[15:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Break iPhone's FaceID by Putting Glasses on Unconscious People - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:28] <exec> 08└─You can also drive over the lens, with the vehicle of your choice. Car, motorcycle, forklift, train . . .
[15:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Break iPhone's FaceID by Putting Glasses on Unconscious People - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:30] <exec> 08└─At least nobody needs to have their thumb cut off.
[15:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Can Break iPhone's FaceID by Putting Glasses on Unconscious People - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:32] <exec> 08└─Does it still work if you draw a penis on their forehead first? Just asking for a friend. (Actually, if it doesn't, it's broken. Anyone want to test it, just remember - pics or it didn't happen.)
[15:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:44] <exec> 08└─No bet, because aristarchus has no balls.
[15:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:46] <exec> 08└─Well, that's just the way empires operate. Great Britain did exactly the opposite to China way back in the day. Prohibition is just another form of market manipulation. The law is designed to maximize profit. Standard operating procedure.
[15:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:08] <exec> 08└─Before the barrel of cash from Epic came, plebs funded developer through Patreon.
[15:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:10] <exec> 08└─Really, we need to ban video games before more gamers are created.
[15:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:12] <exec> 08└─Epic Game Store doesn't run on Linux, so I guess this means they won't have a Linux release. So I won't buy the game. If I really need to play it, I'll pirate it and run it on pirated Windows, but I never pay for Windows-only games. Does anyone know if EGS exclusivity rules permit a developer to rel...
[15:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:14] <exec> 08└─It's not. Let them die quietly.
[15:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:47] <exec> 08└─√-1=?
[15:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:49] <exec> 08└─All learning is memorization.
[15:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:51] <exec> 08└─Now I'll get off your lawn.
[15:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:53] <exec> 08└─6 shl 1 = 60 sub 6 = 54. Two basic operations, one very fast, one possibly slower.
[15:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:55] <exec> 08└─You can get analogue watches with slide rule bezels for exactly this scenario - ten times faster than an app. But, in the dark, and faced with making the decision in front of a queue, I would go with tables every time. If you can't multiply without a phone, you WILL be ripped off. (But are probably...
[15:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:57] <exec> 08└─Your age would be an important bit of information, regarding that statement. In the 60's & 70's there were a lot of bad schools, but there were still a lot of good schools in the public education system. Only part of that equation involved cash availability. Times since have seen a lot of changes.
[15:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:59] <exec> 08└─I would like to get a common core textbook so I can see for myself what all the hullabaloo is about, but from prior history with New Math I would be very reserved in accommodating parents' positions. They are not teachers, their training may have been suboptimal and they are driven by religious zeal...
[15:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:01] <exec> 08└─Well, seems that MVP is conscious of Social Justice. Is it that they're paying lip service? The impression I have is that this big company is part of the for-profit education industry, and they are most unjustly trying one of that industry's usual tactics to silence criticism. Charter schools and th...
[15:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:49] <exec> 08└─I used to do preclinical research. I assure you that if someone like me was in charge it would become at least 4x more efficient. Standards are extremely low among medical researchers. Even the most basic results can only be repeated like 25% of the time... when someone even tries. They come up with...
[15:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Some Fruit Flies Learn Better Than Others - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:24] <exec> 08└─The female ones.
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[16:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Break iPhone's FaceID by Putting Glasses on Unconscious People - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:30] <exec> 08└─Only if you also put their hand in a bowl of warm water.
[16:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Break iPhone's FaceID by Putting Glasses on Unconscious People - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:32] <exec> 08└─nobody cares about your slave trackers (iphones/androids).
[16:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:11] <exec> 08└─All three people who play Fortnite?
[16:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maximising Alertness and Productivity on the Night Shift - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:24] <exec> 08└─Just to note one thing in my comment that got messed up by the parsing system here (because of greater then/less than signs) -- the study excluded those who slept less than 7 hours or greater than 9 hours per night.
[16:51:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 497 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:05] <exec> 08└─"Rote memorization is not a bad thing." Not in and of itself, no. But over-reliance on memorization is a bad thing. One student can tell you the year, month, day, even hour a given event occurred. What were the main reasons this event occurred? What were the main consequences? You get a blank look,...
[16:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 1971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:55] <exec> 08└─I'm not an expert in primary education, but I disagree that this is necessarily developmentally inappropriate. I agree it's a poorly written question, though context could matter. Grouping into 10s, to my knowledge, is commonly taught around 1st grade age as a prelude to concepts that will be necess...
[16:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 2432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:56] <exec> 08└─I explained the context a bit more in another posted reply, but you have to think about the reasoning of basic elementary arithmetic algorithms to understand why this problem is structured the way it is. (Again, as I said in my other post, I'm NOT defending a teacher who would mark this "wrong" for...
[16:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:58] <exec> 08└─The man isn't being sued for criticizing, the man is being sued for libel and slander - alleged falsehoods told about the company and its products which have caused them financial harm. Company lawyers would never sue for criticism. The defense is characterizing the defendants actions as protected s...
[16:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:00] <exec> 08└─any parent who send their kids to public "schools", and can afford not to, is a fucking idiot.
[16:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:02] <exec> 08└─Real wtf shit
[16:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:04] <exec> 08└─Certain things are best learned by rote, like times tables.
[16:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:54] <exec> 08└─When it comes to "gun to your head" medical conditions: price caps. You're researching a lifesaving cure for X (diabetes is a good example, but there are almost unlimited possibilities).... don't expect to be able to charge $10,000 per month per person on treatment for $0.01 per dose manufacturing c...
[16:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:55] <exec> 08└─Yet more wasted breath arguing with the status quo. Things are peachy keen OK?? It is every American's GOD GIVEN RIGHT to rip eachnother off! /s
[16:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Promises to Save Billions with Tweaks to Patent Drug System - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:57] <exec> 08└─So you think the person best placed to choose which medicine to take is the customer i.e. the end user / the patient? What exactly are they basing that decision on? Probably advertising feel good force fed to them and some partial at best medical advice websites they found online. Websites funded by...
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[17:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:29] <exec> 08└─If you're logged-in, you can still tick "post anonymously" when making a post. However, you can't actually submit it ("You can't post to this page") if you do.
[17:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:30] <exec> 08└─This is the path of least resistance.
[17:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:32] <exec> 08└─The ability to post comments is controlled by a tick box for each story or it can be enabled and disabled globally. It is still possible that a change to software has caused this box to default to No Postings or that the global option has been switched off. If it is the latter, then it might only be...
[17:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:34] <exec> 08└─I tried posting anonymously, and also got the same error: "You can't post to this page." I tried creating an account, but it requires a recaptcha. There are a hundred reasons I can't do recaptcha.
[17:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:36] <exec> 08└─That's why I took my talent to SN. Be grateful now.
[17:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:38] <exec> 08└─And nothing of value was lost. It used to be a great site years ago, but between the bullying, long ass posts that don't get collapsed and abusive moderation by militant libertarians, the site is barely worth noting. Interesting discussion is few and far between.
[17:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:11] <exec> 08└─Hmm, actually I'm imagining the space smoking rooms from Planetes [wikipedia.org]. Even if cannabis vape, second hand exposure must be controlled on board the asteroid mining ship. Hmm.... or... there is Fee Carmichael's method. We must build an EVA suit with a 4:20 setting.
[17:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:12] <exec> 08└─Yet are fuzzy dice necessary to be a man?
[17:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:40] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, Steam has a better track record than EGS at serving these four sectors of the market: 1. GNU/Linux users 2. Users with disabilities 3. Users in countries with less common currencies or forms of payment 4. Backers who pledged at a level that includes a game license
[17:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:09] <exec> 08└─stop buying closed phones with the carrier bastardized android. buy the most open phone you can afford (or used more open phones) and if enough people would do that things would get better. instead the sheople bleat their little hearts out for every new version of slave tracker that comes out.
[17:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:31] <exec> 08└─Like all things, "group work" exercises succeed or fail based on how well they are guided and implemented. I would suspect that the curriculum was more interested in teaching interpersonal communication, mentoring, peer learning, personality conflict resolution/suppression, resource referencing, div...
[17:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:32] <exec> 08└─This article isn't meant to inform, it's meant to inflame. Judging by the number of discussion comments, it seems to be working. Fed the trolls again, we have. Flames they thrive upon. (In the intonation of Frank Oz's Yoda, of course.)
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[18:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:40] <exec> 08└─Slashdot still exists?
[18:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:42] <exec> 08└─And yet the Unicode support and long posts taking up all the space haven't been fixed.
[18:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:44] <exec> 08└─When I do check Slashdot after getting annoyed by the level of conservative/libertarian circle-jerk on Soylentnews I am always shocked to find the same shit but amped up to 13. I'm not exactly sure how they break past the highest level of 10, but they dooooo!
[18:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:46] <exec> 08└─'Militant' Libertarians? They're about the least aggressive group out there. Just in the last week, there's one political group that's A) had a leading politician publicly dox his opponent's donors, B) held 24 hour protests outside their opponents' houses, and C) silenced and banned their enemies fo...
[18:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:48] <exec> 08└─Just what we needed, another megalomaniac!
[18:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:50] <exec> 08└─n. A form of insane delusion the subjects of which imagine themselves to be very great, exalted, or powerful personages; the delusion of grandeur.
[18:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:52] <exec> 08└─annoyed by the level of conservative/libertarian circle-jerk on Soylentnews
[18:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:54] <exec> 08└─You aren't anonymous to yourself and what anyone else thinks is unimportant.
[18:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:57] <exec> 08└─I still go there and post. But AC only. I picked up a stalker a few years ago. The AC comments usually create the best stuff there. But if they want to jump up and down on their own dicks more power to them. The determined 'trolls' will just create an account and post from there. Not like it is terr...
[18:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:59] <exec> 08└─Even here, the logged-in "post anonymously" check isn't really anonymous under the hood. The post get associated with your account so you can't mod the post. If you are logged out then it only gets associated with your current IP address.
[18:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:01] <exec> 08└─But what if AC signs up with his or her real name?
[18:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:03] <exec> 08└─Not true - your IP is protected and discarded at the earliest opportunity. We cannot give anyone your IP address - we haven't got it. We use a hash, or in fact a couple of hashes - which cannot be 'unhashed' to give your IP again.
[18:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:10] <exec> 08└─cap[italization] table that’s 30% women and 30% people of color
[18:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:13] <exec> 08└─Another venture capital startup infused with millions of dollars to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
[18:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:06] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com#GOG_Galaxy [wikipedia.org] If you aren't going to use Steam (as a user or publisher), you should probably use GOG.
[18:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:36] <exec> 08└─Oh sure I would just *love* to spend another 500 or so bucks on a yet another phone!
[18:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:37] <exec> 08└─What exactly do you mean by "open phone"? An iPhone running iOS? If not that, then what? I don't know of any smartphone that doesn't run either Android or iOS. Please educate us on the third option. Thank you!
[18:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QualPwn Bugs In Snapdragon SoC Can Attack Android Over the Air - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:39] <exec> 08└─I remember when they first put GPS in their basebands. Turned out GPS and the radio interfered with each other, so that if one was on the other didn't work. The design pipeline was so full 4-5 different chips went out to fab before we got the first one back and discovered the problem. Fun times! Qua...
[18:51:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:57] <exec> 08└─MVP is just another example of the SJW nonsense that explains why China is eating our lunch economically. In China, children are told that 2+2=4 and then go on to study calculus. In MVP America, children spend the session discussing what wonderful things 2 and 2 might create if they join together an...
[18:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:02] <exec> 08└─My problem is not with grouping, as I use that method to teach my four year olds multiples and to break down numbers easier. My primary problem is the teacher marking it wrong for not writing It correctly.
[18:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:03] <exec> 08└─If the math is being used by a public school, as I assume, then they have a really, really, really high bar to clear in showing that he was malicious. Hopefully this shitty company is driven bankrupt.
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[19:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:28] <exec> 08└─Mar-a-lago sinks.
[19:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:29] <exec> 08└─These people just want to say climate change bad reeee! Why don't they advise people on what to do about this supposed imminent problem? How about give your money away to the government because of your climate sins? Like some atheist version of paying indulgences: https://www.amazon.com
[19:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:54] <exec> 08└─I assume you are referring to /.'s Unicode support or lack of it etc? I am not aware of any problems with our Unicode support - in fact the team put a lot of effort into making sure we could work with it.
[19:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:56] <exec> 08└─AC is my real name, fool.
[19:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:58] <exec> 08└─I wrote to /. a couple of days ago to complain. They said they were going to ban anonymous posts "this week". Good for them.
[19:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:00] <exec> 08└─Submitted a funny (true) news story about cops at a donut shop and they banned all my comments logged in or as AC (IP block). Fuckem. They let the nazis post shit but censor other crap. Again with the Invalid form key: cCZDjlUeRf Now what?
[19:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:10] <exec> 08└─70% male and 70% white? It's just more patriarchy.
[19:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:12] <exec> 08└─It is merely the next cultural step. People are tired of the old white males that have, as a group, not changed a whole lot while increasing corruption to the stupid levels we see today. Due to politics being a big pony show you are seeing women and minorities get massive support. Maybe we should re...
[19:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:14] <exec> 08└─this identity stuff is a step backwards and I honestly feel it is going to cause more problems than it solves
[19:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:16] <exec> 08└─lolololol soooo you're saying TwitFaceInYouSnap don't have problems? More like whiny dude annoyed at not being in the special gender club. You know they have doctors that can help you with that nowadays?
[19:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:18] <exec> 08└─If it takes off then wait a year and they'll be admitting Premium Level users that are middle-aged white men seeking Sugar Pals or whatever the Epstein code word is.
[19:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:20] <exec> 08└─They said it themselves: they did it accidentally None of the popular chatting apps have outstanding features on the others. The userbase just polarizes by dumb luck. This stance taking is just good for business somehow. “We are trying to learn from the best in what they did but get rid of the shi...
[19:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:15] <exec> 08└─Seems to have triggered aristarchus!
[19:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:13] <exec> 08└─Why would I pull out my phone? I was taught to do mental arithmetic. I didn't forget it just because someone invented a mobile phone. That is one of the problems today - if you can't go shopping without a phone to use as your calculator, then someone should have taught maths to you more effectively...
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[20:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:37] <exec> 08└─Slowing down of the Gulf Stream means the rest of the Ocean Circulation System is also slowing down. Changing ocean circulation means changing atmospheric circulation. The rest I leave to your imagination.
[20:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:38] <exec> 08└─But... The Earth is flat.
[20:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, the climate is always changing... The repeated mention of that fact we are inundated with daily is meaningless babble of no use to anyone. Here is someone with something useful to say: http://www.iceagefarmer.com [iceagefarmer.com]
[20:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:43] <exec> 08└─No. It just means that the Gulf Stream is slowing down, probably due to melt water from Greenland making the ocean near there less salty. It could even turn off entirely, which would be quite unfortunate for the eastern US and for Europe. But there are lots of other currents in the ocean, and it doe...
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[20:49:45] <exec> 08└─At taxpayer expense of course...
[20:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:47] <exec> 08└─Please, stop posting and just go fuck yourself.
[20:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:49] <exec> 08└─If sea level rises more on the US East Coast, it will rise less somewhere else. Where is that? Why do climate stories never ever mention positives?
[20:50:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:13] <exec> 08└─Not true - your IP is protected and discarded at the earliest opportunity. We cannot give anyone your IP address - we haven't got it. We use a hash, or in fact a couple of hashes - which cannot be 'unhashed' to give your IP again.
[20:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:18] <exec> 08└─I haven't looked at it in years... but I think it's still there, kind of like broadcast TV.
[20:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:20] <exec> 08└─conservative/libertarian circle-jerk
[20:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, as far as I know there have never been any problems with unicode here.
[20:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:25] <exec> 08└─Banning anonymous posts is a terrible "solution". And solution was in quotes, because it isn't one. A much better answer would be to allow a regex filter to downmod your view of posts even below -1, so you could read ordinary trolls if you wanted to while avoiding spam that you had identified as ann...
[20:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:27] <exec> 08└─While that *might* be true, Anonymous Coward doesn't have a great record for being factual. Sorry about that, but how can I trust your assertion without evidence that I can check?
[20:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:29] <exec> 08└─that includes shadow banning, that' s why I stopped visiting the site (barely this one also, too much stupidity in neoliberal, proto-fascist form)
[20:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:31] <exec> 08└─It's your fault then. You had to write to them and throw a wrench in the works for everyone who enjoys reading about APKs hosts file. Go stand in the corner.
[20:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:33] <exec> 08└─In general, I wish that would be an option that more fora would make available. Some people are just super annoying to one or two people even though what they're posting doesn't violate any rules. Being able to just have them hidden or collapsed by default would make a huge difference. It would also...
[20:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:35] <exec> 08└─"Sorry about that, but how can I trust your assertion without evidence that I can check?" Well, see, we got these thingies on the interwebz called search engines. Check out Google or Duckduckgo, for example. Or you could go to Bing if you are a dyed in the wool M$ fanboy (aka fool). BTW, knowing som...
[20:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:37] <exec> 08└─Russian Troll farms out there: no matter how many times you repeat it, you're not changing anyone's mind about it. Only intensive indoctrination from early childhood keeps Fox news fed with viewer/believers, the rest of us quietly throw up in our mouths and shake our heads in shame that that crap is...
[20:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:39] <exec> 08└─Rather than militant libertarians, the site seems to have been flooded by militant authoritarians. The sheer number of people defending practices like mass surveillance, the TSA, the drug war, etc. was staggering.
[20:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 2220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:42] <exec> 08└─Slashdot has always had a lot of trolls, even 20 years ago. A variety of approaches were used to limit anonymous posting and restrict troll accounts. The trolls were sometimes funny, though there were a few highly offensive trolls. They weren't consistently spamming every article with the same nonse...
[20:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:44] <exec> 08└─Weirdly, I've seen an anonymous comment after the ban went into effect: https://entertainment.slashdot.org [slashdot.org]. If it's not possible even for logged-in users to post anonymously, it's odd that someone still seems capable of anonymous posting. It's alm...
[20:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:46] <exec> 08└─The comment system over there became unusable with d2 so I'm not surprised the moderation system failed.
[20:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:00] <exec> 08└─Where young girls can have their own safe place... But without money or true privacy... Separate from the men... But equal... The 2019 Virginia Woolf award for female empowerment winners right there.
[20:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:01] <exec> 08└─In the office we - white males - are pushed to join "alternative" communities.
[20:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Break iPhone's FaceID by Putting Glasses on Unconscious People - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:14] <exec> 08└─is LineageOS Android? Won't Harmony also track and spy?
[20:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Vows to Support 'Ooblets' Studio Following Exclusivity Harassment - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:59] <exec> 08└─GOG Galaxy is currently available for Microsoft Windows and macOS, with a Linux version still marked as planned but not a priority.
[20:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:58] <exec> 08└─You'd be surprised how many educators are opposed to memorization strategies.
[20:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:00] <exec> 08└─In the US, just about everything is learned by rote, which is way too extreme. We should be encouraging critical thinking skills, but the assignments and standardized tests largely do not value that.
[20:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:02] <exec> 08└─It's becoming increasingly unnecessary, anyway, because many stores write the price-per-ounce right on the price tags.
[20:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:04] <exec> 08└─It's worse than you think, they're teaching the children Arabic Numerals.
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[21:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:26] <exec> 08└─It is the problem of our modern times. Airplanes crashing, bombs blowing up... oh, wait, they're supposed to do that, but further downrange, right? Tolerances on the machine are getting too loose. I mean, the strongest part of the paper towels is at the perforations. What's up with that? Good to see...
[21:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:28] <exec> 08└─North Korea is probably the only country with working nuclear bombs. When is the last time the US, Russia, China, etc even tested one of theirs?
[21:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:30] <exec> 08└─Well, the Russians obviously have (or had) at least one ... for some definition of "working ". Simulations have gotten good enough that if they says bomb will work, odds are that it will. I would not bet the future of humanity on them not working ...
[21:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:45] <exec> 08└─You're wrong. My degree in Physical Oceanography and over 30 years experience say you're wrong. The Gulf Stream is just one part of the global ocean circulation. If the Gulf Stream is slowing they all are slowing.
[21:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:46] <exec> 08└─Trump's company has acknowledged climate change and is building a seawall to protect Mar-a-lago. [politico.com]
[21:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:48] <exec> 08└─There is no yin running and yang is more about automation than climate https://www.yang2020.com [yang2020.com]
[21:50:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:00] <exec> 08└─And nothing of value was lost. It used to be a great site years ago, but between the bullying, long ass posts that don't get collapsed and abusive moderation by militant libertarians, the site is barely worth noting. Interesting discussion is few and far between.
[21:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:31] <exec> 08└─"A couple of hashes" so more than 1 algorithm and / or starting values, each feed the same IP address? Then "reversing" is quite possible, but space intensive, Example feed all IP addresses through the different versions save the results. Now you have the keys to reserve it. Look up each hash in th...
[21:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:33] <exec> 08└─A good example of knowing who posting guarantees lying. See @realDonaldTrump. :)
[21:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:35] <exec> 08└─I noticed that one too [soylentnews.org]. It's the only one I found from "Researchers Show How Europe's Data Protection Laws Can Dox People" onwards. Whatever it means for SD, it's not good.
[21:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:37] <exec> 08└─The grandparent AC is a modal realist who believes that story actually happened in some possible world.
[21:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:39] <exec> 08└─But what if AC signs up with his or her real name?
[21:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:41] <exec> 08└─We've thought about it.
[21:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:57] <exec> 08└─Methinks you don't required much "pushing".
[21:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:26] <exec> 08└─And now doing the same thing with abortion. Idiots.
[21:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:00] <exec> 08└─It is even more powerful than being able to instantly parrot up to 12x12, but have no f-ing clue how to handle 13x7 without a calculator
[21:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler's Forgotten Ideas About Symmetry Help Explain Spiral Galaxies Without a Need for Dark Matter - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:16] <exec> 08└─What I find suspicious is the appeal to antiquated authority, in this case, Kepler. Sure, Kepler was a great scientist. But scientists from 4 centuries ago got an awful lot wrong. And they just plain did not have the knowledge and discoveries we do today. No periodic table of the elements, no notion...
[21:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler's Forgotten Ideas About Symmetry Help Explain Spiral Galaxies Without a Need for Dark Matter - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:17] <exec> 08└─You're all writing paragraphs calling bullshit without reading the material. https://www.nature.com [nature.com] I can grok some but not all of this. It's not bullshit. They could be wrong; someone deeper in the field than I could suss out potential problems. But look at...
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[22:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:33] <exec> 08└─I'd rather have a Geiger counter than iodine but maybe that's just me.
[22:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:34] <exec> 08└─Only 7 dead .... Nothing to worry about, Comrade. We haven't had a bad accident since Chernobyl ... Well maybe that's not a good example ... Anyway, if we find it's worse than they say we can get Putin's bitch to send Moscow Mitch over to help out ...
[22:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:36] <exec> 08└─7 that they admit to.
[22:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:39] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, we'll have a working engine to explore the solar system? The one Mask would be able to copy, eventually?
[22:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:41] <exec> 08└─7 Russians. The rest were Ukrainians, Jews and other nonentities.
[22:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:00] <exec> 08└─Truth hurts?
[22:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:01] <exec> 08└─How is that a positive. If I'm going to punch you and your friend twice each and I decide to punch you three times and him once, is that really an upside? The distribution of the water is somewhat important, but being flooded by less than some other place is hardly an upside.
[22:50:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:42] <exec> 08└─Rather than militant libertarians, the site seems to have been flooded by militant authoritarians. The sheer number of people defending practices like mass surveillance, the TSA, the drug war, etc. was staggering.
[22:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:52] <exec> 08└─TMB claimed he can use a rainbow table to unhash, and your system at least allows admins to track which AC is which. I see why the TOR users get so frustrated with "bad form key" errors which don't like TOR users.
[22:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:53] <exec> 08└─I thought that was only for cold air...
[22:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:56] <exec> 08└─The problem with hashing a limited range of inputs is that given the full set of known variables (ie. algorithm, constants, salts, etc). A brute force matching attack is fairly trivial. With a possible search space of a maximum of 2^32 possibilities, a brute force attack won’t take very long at al...
[22:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:58] <exec> 08└─Slashdot has been extremely low S/N ratio because of AC postings for many years. BUT! I've always regarded the very ability to post Nazi, trolls and hate posts anonymously there as the last vestige of the old, truly free internet. I went and read at -1 just to remind me that this old holdout of true...
[22:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:00] <exec> 08└─They require users to solve reCAPTCHAs during account creation.
[22:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it was the first non-trivial thing I did after coming on staff, so somewhere between six months and a year in. We're still not entirely 100% (a few very minor bugs left) but we're close enough to mock the hell out of slashdot.
[22:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:04] <exec> 08└─Technically possible, practically impossible.
[22:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:06] <exec> 08└─I said it's technically possible with modern hardware not that either SN or I personally have the free drive space to do so (we don't). I'm not dumping my porn stash just to find out what ISP you use.
[22:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:08] <exec> 08└─That's a damned fine and well adjusted point.
[22:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:11] <exec> 08└─I skim the headlines on the crapper. Seems fitting.
[22:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:13] <exec> 08└─Most people sold out. It's hard to get a job in tech without forfeiting a lot of those early values that were shared online. They've been replaced with the new sjw values that businesses seem to embrace.
[22:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:15] <exec> 08└─We could throw one of those in but someone besides me is going to have to write the javascript. I'm allergic.
[22:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:17] <exec> 08└─MD5 hashes can be calculated in a single FPGA at a rate of 4Gbps+, so around 125 million hashes/second. There are around 3.5 billion IP addresses to use (or a bit over 4 if you want to search all, including reserved ones) So, it wouldnt take many FPGAs to be able to search the ENTIRE space in a seco...
[22:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:19] <exec> 08└─Are they actually AC though rather than somebody that's registered and posted anonymously? Most likely those are throwaway accounts.
[22:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:21] <exec> 08└─Where will he post his insanity?
[22:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:23] <exec> 08└─Thats now quite how I remember it, and I have been here a bit longer than that. The big difference these days are the obviously political attempts to derail discussions by high posting obviously pure inflammatory and straw man BS. Now, the question of 'should those topics have ever been on /.' is di...
[22:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:41] <exec> 08└─It's largely a reaction to what they perceived things were like for the majority group. It was never actually true, apart from a subset that were well off, but people just keep telling themselves that the reason their community has issues is because of the evil white men. I was just reading a story...
[22:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:42] <exec> 08└─The irony is that women used to have safe spaces where the patriarchy was responsible for ensuring their safety, but previous generations of women were like screw this, we just want to have fun. Despite what these women claim, men are actually significantly more likely to be assaulted by random stra...
[22:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:44] <exec> 08└─What is going on with all of you? Is no-AC on /. today doing something to your BRAINS? Did ANY of you read this article? I come to SN hoping to find geeks and FOSS nerds and privacy advocates and hardcore-smart scientists in all domains. This startup is trying to provide a privacy-respecting service...
[22:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:46] <exec> 08└─Your understanding is flawed. You somehow think that black police are less racist than white police, or at least would pull over with less discrimination. In fact, black police are known to be roughly as bad, in the USA. This is for a few reasons, including predictive policing that is based on ethni...
[22:52:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Maximising Alertness and Productivity on the Night Shift - 950 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:54] <exec> 08└─I usually try to find something of use in the findings even from a poor study, but the exclusion criteria in this study means that it is probably useless for the vast majority of "shift workers" as commonly understood. Here's an excerpt from the full research article: Exclusion criteria were the pre...
[22:53:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:57] <exec> 08└─There have been some pretty fun examples of parents taking pictures of their kids homework. Couple example scenarios, close but not the exact same thing as it's late and I'm drunk. Jack ate more pizza than Jill. Jack ate 1/3 of his pizza and Jill ate 3/4 of hers. How is this possible? The kid answer...
[22:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:48] <exec> 08└─Yep. And as I said, I agree with that criticism. But that isn't a problem with the Common Core curriculum necessarily -- it's a problem with bad teachers who don't understand math and don't understand the reasons why we do certain things the way we do them. My experience in reviewing Common Core mat...
[22:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:49] <exec> 08└─It's becoming increasingly unnecessary, anyway, because many stores write the price-per-ounce right on the price tags.
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[23:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Uber Freezes Engineering Hires Amid Mounting Losses - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:31] <exec> 08└─When you're fucking Uber and your only competition* is Lyft, why the fuck would you need 400 marketing staff? Everybody knows who you are, and most normies prefer Uber out of it being the most well-known of the two. Hell, getting a rideshare is called "getting an Uber" like all copying machines are...
[23:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Freezes Engineering Hires Amid Mounting Losses - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:32] <exec> 08└─They need self driving cars to cut their biggest expense - drivers. But without engineers to create those self driving cars, they can't cut the drivers, so they can't cut their biggest expense. Maybe Boeing can tell them where to get some at $2 - $9 an hour. (The !9 an hour group started out at $2)....
[23:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:47] <exec> 08└─This was a nuclear propulsion system, it wasn't meant to explode.
[23:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:49] <exec> 08└─More about it over here https://www.thedrive.com [thedrive.com]; basically a cruise missile with a rocket powered ram-jet that once up to speed uses air over an exposed nuclear reactor to power...
[23:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:51] <exec> 08└─So you can gormlessly stare at it while getting irradiated?
[23:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:53] <exec> 08└─The locals know they've been exposed. Doesn't matter how much exposure, they just know they need to do something. If they could afford to move away from nulear testing, they would have done so by now.
[23:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:55] <exec> 08└─Damn, how much does shoe leather cost over there nowadays?
[23:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:57] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more so you could check the water to see if it's irradiated and not drink it if it is.
[23:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:00] <exec> 08└─Project Pluto [jalopnik.com] (another commentator mentioned it just last week) Should have know some "fearless leader" would have been insane enough to actually build one. Well, on the bright side as least we have solved the question of where the Great Filter [youtube.com] is. Right in front of us
[23:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russian Missile Accident Kills Seven: Radiation Spike Leads to Locals Rushing to Buy Iodine - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:02] <exec> 08└─" we know that the Russians are working on some kind of nuclear propulsion for a cruise missile "
[23:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah we got it wrong, bit beleave us, something big is coming! The heating will mean colder winters! The sea rising will mean more snow in the arctic! The melting means less melting, the droughts mean more rain!
[23:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gulf Stream is Slowing Down. That Could Mean Rising Seas and a Hotter Florida - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:24] <exec> 08└─Don't worry there will be plenty of sea for everyone. [quote]Danish officials say 10 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours.[/quote] https://www.reuters.com [reuters.com]
[23:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:31] <exec> 08└─It was on the Internut, so it must be true.
[23:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:32] <exec> 08└─https://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14544734&cid=59074380 [slashdot.org] very high ID (so "neu AC", it even uses the word Anonymous as part of the nick) wondering about it, and others confirm. I doubt it will matter much, spammers and other crap will just register new accounts every time one...
[23:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:34] <exec> 08└─I’ve found me a new haven!! APK
[23:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:36] <exec> 08└─Oops forgot to log out!! That’s better. APK
[23:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:38] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you would like to say why you think doind a recapcha once is such a bad thing? I know its suddenly become part of the 'OMG this is so evil' worldview for a few right now, but really? try and come up with a valid reason why.
[23:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:41] <exec> 08└─4G of addresses x 1024 bit hashes plus 15 bytes for readable ip. Makes a single table only 80 byte rows so 320GB per table, so 3 tables is a 1TB. Just saw some of 1TB SSD for $90. No need to dump the pictures. Cost here is time creating the tables to reverse the hashes. Tech has changed over years s...
[23:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:43] <exec> 08└─Also, to the Russian Troll farms out there: no matter how many times you repeat it, you're not changing anyone's mind about it.
[23:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:45] <exec> 08└─A few weeks ago I posted a comment as an AC there that I spent a fair amount of time on in an attempt to contribute meaningfully to the discussion, and it was filtered out immediately. There wasn't a single word in it remotely close to something worth blocking, but somehow it was caught while APK, n...
[23:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:47] <exec> 08└─You are assuming you know everything they are doing. They may include salt or some other extra text that adds to the complexity. You'd have to look at the public code repository.
[23:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:49] <exec> 08└─If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, don't fuck with the Girl Scouts. They mean business.
[23:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slashdot (Might Have) Just Banned Anonymous Posts - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:51] <exec> 08└─The grandparent AC is a modal realist who believes that story actually happened in some possible world.
[23:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:13] <exec> 08└─No, only people with mental condition are tired, and thet are just so goshdarn loud you continue to inflate their numbers by refering to them collectively as "people".
[23:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:14] <exec> 08└─Oh, God, how I would love a female who is just as curious about things as I am. A madame Curie. Seems all I run across is beautiful bodies under the complete control of marketeers. Seemingly having only one purpose...exploitation of both her along with whoever else she influences.
[23:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:16] <exec> 08└─If there's anything that destroys it, it will be the same thing that destroyed girls and womens' sports -- letting trannies in, and then all those trannies outperform the girls and women and beat them at their own game. The real girls and women will become disillusioned and resentful because their s...
[23:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:18] <exec> 08└─Seems all I run across is beautiful bodies under the complete control of marketeers.
[23:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Squad, the ‘Anti-Bro Startup,’ is Creating a Safe Space for Teenage Girls Online - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:20] <exec> 08└─Another venture capital startup infused with millions of dollars to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
[23:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Luxembourg To Be First European Country To Legalise Cannabis - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:49] <exec> 08└─In certain places one is supposed to stop at a police checkout point voluntarily and pay fines he believes reasonable for the speed limit and other violations he committed earlier in the day. Police check randomly and might be unhappy if the fine is not within acceptable limits for the violations.
[23:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:24] <exec> 08└─Oh god, this. My college CS program (run by Chinese) was huge on groupwork. So you had your leech foreign students that get good grades for doing no work whatsoever, and many situations where a single person was literally doing all the fucking work. I can also say with certainty that younger Chinese...
[23:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:25] <exec> 08└─For some reason I don't understand, the 7, 8, or 9 being multiplied by one of the other (but not by itself) has always been difficult for me to feel confident I've memorized. I mean, I know we're talking about 56, 63, and 72, but invariably, I question if it is correct, and then visualize a number l...
[23:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:28] <exec> 08└─Geometry is a fucking awesome and intuitive branch of math, at least at the undergrad levels, but goddamn did those proofs piss me the fuck off and set the stage for me really beginning to hate math. And just when I thought I was never going to have to put up with that shit again, along came discret...
[23:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Father Sued by Math Company for Criticizing Their Curriculum - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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