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[00:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Woman Is First To Receive Cornea Made From ‘Reprogrammed’ Stem Cells - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:58] <exec> 08└─Former bukakke star gets a secons chance at normal life.
[00:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Is First To Receive Cornea Made From ‘Reprogrammed’ Stem Cells - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:59] <exec> 08└─*second chance at being in adult films.
[00:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03weilawei [109] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Is First To Receive Cornea Made From ‘Reprogrammed’ Stem Cells - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:01] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else think of Blind Mag from Repo?
[00:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:18] <exec> 08└─Except that every study that has been done about the topic has shown that a single payer system would save money. The current system has a massive amount of waste, and a single payer system would have a certain amount of waste too, but we'd still save money in the end. If you're going to make the to...
[00:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 2902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:20] <exec> 08└─Rand Paul has frequently been critical of NSF as wasteful spending. I agree that basic science research isn't wasteful at all. However, there is a lot of waste in NSF grants. NSF awards a lot of grants to universities to conduct research. There are direct costs like the salaries and fringe benefits...
[00:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well it helps to understand that any payment whatsoever that is questionable gets tagged as improper spending including quite a few items that are actually differences of opinion in coding or treatment and not 'improper'. Medical coding is not fully and completely deterministic, because what c...
[00:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:06] <exec> 08└─If you really toiled, you could come up with a list of good things Martin Shkreli has done, even if some of them are a stretch. Ajit Pai asked Apple to enable an FM radio chip in iPhones... that didn't exist. He is just a telecom stooge.
[00:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:07] <exec> 08└─Had 5G have you? Talked to everybody have you? Lots of people want more speed out of their mobile connection. That doesn't make what Pai's doing is correct. But you don't have a convincing argument showing it.
[00:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:09] <exec> 08└─In other words, he's too stupid to understand what he's been told, or more likely won't listen to what the experts are telling him about it because he doesn't have the capacity to understand it. Or he listened to an advisor (and almost certainly not a subject matter expert) who told him Alabama migh...
[00:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:32] <exec> 08└─Just about all the undefined behavior in C is avoided by not depending on behavior that is undefined. This is not as hard as it sounds, especially if you use the C99 standard. It does mean the language is unsuitable for script kiddies and must be written with care. I wouldn't write a desktop applica...
[00:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:33] <exec> 08└─"small" "embedded" systems today are bigger than mainframe cpus were in the early 1970's. The fact that you bring up x86/ARM/POWER CPUs in reference to **small embedded systems** just reinforces that you are totally ignorant about the field. You just don't know what it is.
[00:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:12] <exec> 08└─Vietnemese electrical engineers discussing Scottky diodes in English: sucky sucky
[00:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:58] <exec> 08└─Same exact problem? I don't think so. I can easily have entire data sets without any pipe chars in them by definition. Try that with the ubiquitous comma.
[00:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:59] <exec> 08└─CSV is really best when used as a bulk data import/export format, not as the final "resting place" for the data.
[00:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:02] <exec> 08└─Tab separated values is bug prone. You are relying on whitespace to separate fields whose data may contain whitespace. Makes it very hard to eyeball the separate fields. From a screenshot or printout this may be *impossible*. Plus the possibility of an editor or some point in the tool chain converti...
[00:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─Well, that problem won't get solved anytime soon. I guess buying good bicycles is a bad idea. Back to Wally Mart it is. [gearjunkie.com]
[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:20] <exec> 08└─Last year we averaged around one mass shooting per day. A mass shooting is defined as 4 or more victims. So, a floor on the folks harmed by gun violence is 4 times higher than your number. And, then add all the non-mass shooting violence, the number grows much higher. A cyclist flipping you off beca...
[00:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:22] <exec> 08└─A typical biking head is similar to a typical motorcycling had injury when folks are wreaking similar gear.
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─The right to self defense enables you to protect all your other rights.
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[01:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:52] <exec> 08└─Can non Facebook users opt out? (I don't really know FB has it set up -- can users name other people in photos? If so the major problem here is that non-users are not protected. That would not be the case if face recognition was opt IN).
[01:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:54] <exec> 08└─I have never signed up for Facebook and I don't let people take pictures of me unless they promise not to upload them to Facebook. Yeah, I can't stop them but the few that do take pics are people I trust. Still, I'm sure Facebook has my pic and some sort of name. You just can't get away from this sh...
[01:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:23] <exec> 08└─None of those wild-assed-guesses are based any more in reality than mine. And at least mine acknowledges the epic level of corruption in the government and medical/insurance corporations we have going on here.
[01:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:25] <exec> 08└─And you want the same folks who'd deny a procedure on purely bureaucratic grounds to be in charge of your healthcare? Interesting.
[01:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:12] <exec> 08└─However, there is a reasonable interpretation to some of Trump's comments.
[01:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:16] <exec> 08└─My point is twofold. Pi, as an irrational number, requires an infinite number of bits to express, and hence in one second it is possible to represent an infinite number of bits in words. But the word pi will transfer a hugely different amount of information depending on the audience and the context....
[01:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:46] <exec> 08└─LIES!
[01:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:26] <exec> 08└─Damn near done myself in using a ladder yesterday. Maybe we oughta have to get certifications to use those things!
[01:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:28] <exec> 08└─The cyclist probably did you a favor, bringing to your attention a situation that could have ended badly. I do not use bikes on the road anymore. I don't consider myself fit to use one. But I do consider the road is public, for his use as much as for mine.
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[02:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:56] <exec> 08└─Before they can remove all the facial recog, you have to positively identify the images as being your face. Isn't that what they were trying to do all along? And then, add your face to a list of deleted faces to guarantee they don't have it any longer.
[02:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:58] <exec> 08└─A post got retracted?
[02:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:29] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe if Trump wasn't ruining the American reputation across the world.... No, actually little things like these are the small costs America pays to maintain its worldwide empire. But do feel free to object, and you'll have a fun time bitching again when such places go up in revolt and want n...
[02:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:31] <exec> 08└─Yep. And who needs a centralized database of climate change data and summarizations of all the evidence that's been done over the years, as well.
[02:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:33] <exec> 08└─It only ranks as slightly better than choosing interventions based on the ongoing profitability of insurance companies, and treatments being rejected because they're not profitable enough even if they are better for an individual patient in a given situation.
[02:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:35] <exec> 08└─Like investing in walls. Investigating the "millions" of illegal voters. And how much does all that military hardware cost? For what gain?
[02:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:38] <exec> 08└─But he doesn't want to fund those either!? And who was the prick with the same idea that wanted to abolish the dept. of energy?
[02:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:40] <exec> 08└─As a scientist in this system, writing grants is a colossal waste of effort. Bullshitters reign supreme and some of them are good people too, I presume. If you don't get your funding then you are essentially ejected from a career in research. This is a tragic loss - those that excel at science often...
[02:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─And nowhere else. Just those places.
[02:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:44] <exec> 08└─frog mating calls? How is funding basic science wasteful again?
[02:34:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:11] <exec> 08└─Really, our hurricane modeling is crap
[02:34:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:31] <exec> 08└─However, there is a reasonable interpretation to some of Trump's comments.
[02:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:33] <exec> 08└─In the middle of the ocean?
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[02:37:50] <exec> 08└─I haven't neglected that at all. It's simply not relevant in most crashes. The bike tips over and the head snacks on the ground. The only difference is how far the helmet slides.
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[03:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:00] <exec> 08└─First the Israeli lander crashes, now India's? Sounds like someone is defending the moon.
[03:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:11] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you can trust Zuckerberg...he'd NEVER do anything bad, or illegal, or immoral, or wrong, or evil, or
[03:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:50] <exec> 08└─It may take the independent exercise of political power by the working class to prevent our so-called healthcare system from being controlled by D/R team, not libertarian, think tanks (Romney, Hillary, Obamacare oh my). If the Libertarian Party were capable of achieving any kind of mass support, tha...
[03:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:52] <exec> 08└─A tax cut should mean the government has less money to waste. There is no contradiction. No matter how much money you give the government it will never be enough. You can read the rest of this thread to find out why, anything that might be a good idea should get funded by the government without any...
[03:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:54] <exec> 08└─How is funding basic science wasteful again?
[03:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:43] <exec> 08└─Oh shut up with your complex theories. Weather has been changing for 100s of years, everybody knows that.
[03:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:44] <exec> 08└─Show me a grassroots campaign asking for 5g. Only corporations and governments want 5g.
[03:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:47] <exec> 08└─No problem, we can just nuke the hurricanes offshore of China, or Africa, or wherever...right in the eye. ;-)
[03:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:51] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see a human language designed for optimal information flow. I wonder how much junk we have in grammar could be eliminated.
[03:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:22] <exec> 08└─Yep, definitely suspect methodology. It's like putting a child molester in a room with surveillance cameras recording everything they do and then sending in a kid, and concluding afterwards that because they never touched the kid they're perfectly safe around children. Of course nothing's going to h...
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[04:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:54] <exec> 08└─Man, those nasa critics are going to gloat so hard. Somebody has to make it up there and prove/disprove the Apollo missions!
[04:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:56] <exec> 08└─"India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed" Of course, they tried rebooting it?
[04:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:58] <exec> 08└─How Soviets managed to do it in 1966 - almost exactly 53 years ago.
[04:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:10] <exec> 08└─The shadow profiles especially should be illegal, but they are rarely talked about. All this mass surveillance, whether done by corporations or governments, poses a serious threat to privacy and democracy.
[04:33:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03catholocism [8422] 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:28] <exec> 08└─How is funding basic science wasteful again?
[04:33:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:30] <exec> 08└─Easy points can be scored with "ordinary" people by mocking esoteric research topics. "Who cares about frog calls?" "What sort of weirdo studies frogs at all? Why aren't they researching something that matters?"
[04:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:54] <exec> 08└─Where does Rand Paul stand on the president enriching himself and his worthless heirs by directing government funds to his own business? He's been remarkably silent on that one.
[04:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:55] <exec> 08└─The lunatics are running the asylum.
[04:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:57] <exec> 08└─Try to stay on topic.
[04:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:25] <exec> 08└─So the fact that the military has documentation on what to do in the case of zombie attacks is proof that zombies exist right? Every possibility that is ever brought up in literature is clearly true and extant. Hint: Just because it was proposed does not mean it was done.
[04:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, as I said: you are racist against Indians. All the top youtube channels are Indian: https://www.socialbakers.com [socialbakers.com]
[04:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:28] <exec> 08└─One app I would sure like to have on my Android would intercept my internet connection and tell me what apps are connecting, who they are connecting to, and how much data is being sent or received...kinda like Wireshark.
[04:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:49] <exec> 08└─than COBOL, but nevertheless, my first commercial program was in COBOL and I was 15. It felt old and cranky, but I suspect it is still in use.
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[04:38:13] <exec> 08└─A guy armed with a truck killed 86 people in minutes.
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[05:32:55] <exec> 08└─The USSR had extensive experience building ICBMs. They were the first to launch a satellite, and to put a man in orbit. I'd say it was their experience, combined with parts that were using "old school" technology that might have been more robust. India hasn't even launched a crewed mission with thei...
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[05:32:57] <exec> 08└─With technology [mentallandscape.com] that is more rad hard than silicon: with vacuum tubes. Transistors in 70-s were only good enough for portable broadcast receivers. Professionals used tubes [antiqueradio.org].
[05:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:59] <exec> 08└─It's India. They probably did the partition wrong.
[05:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:11] <exec> 08└─Well for one, how about: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[05:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Woman Is First To Receive Cornea Made From ‘Reprogrammed’ Stem Cells - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:21] <exec> 08└─I love the idea they are making a try at this. If they succeed, all of us will benefit. One way or another. Go Japan, and Best Wishes for success!
[05:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:58] <exec> 08└─Well I don't know. Are these government or corporate bureaucrats?
[05:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:59] <exec> 08└─The US healthcare system is nearly a total waste of money, I don't see why anyone even wants to partake of it. Look at cuba where they have nearly none of the access to "modern healthcare" but nearly equal lifespans. All that "healthcare" is just a waste of money.
[05:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:51] <exec> 08└─*facepalm*
[05:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:53] <exec> 08└─One cannot design a format under the assumption that there is some magical character that is never used.
[05:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:13] <exec> 08└─Testing your hypothesis instead of a strawman hypothesis. Go ahead and do everything else the same, it doesn't really matter. Sorry that you think basic science is trolling.
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[06:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:52] <exec> 08└─Kuru might be a hip and cool trend among the elites but I'm not going to take it up. This is probably just a scare tactic to get people to eat bugs.
[06:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:53] <exec> 08└─What an absurd idea - humans are too far up the food chain [wikipedia.org] - not to mention incredibly resource-intensive. The environmental cost of nappies [diapers] alone is horrendous - and that only gets us to age two or three. Then there is a further twenty or so years before we have a nice mea...
[06:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:56] <exec> 08└─Longpork, it's What's for Dinner.
[06:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:58] <exec> 08└─that you might as well ignore it
[06:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 4327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:04] <exec> 08└─This is an example of why moderation of political discussions is awful. My post [soylentnews.org], which attempted to discuss the ensemble forecasts that were produced, is currently moderated -1 redundant. When it comes to discussing politics, moderation is essentially used as an agree/disagree vote...
[06:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:12] <exec> 08└─Not slang, just archaic. https://www.lexico.com [lexico.com]
[06:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:14] <exec> 08└─You're conflating message with protocol. See why you didn't get it? It's not about what symbols can be exchanged at what bit-length representations. A given language is kinda like a prefix code system, but what the code words stand in for doesn't matter - they're arbitrary codewords which could be a...
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[07:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:57] <exec> 08└─If you are what you eat, does that mean only cannibals are humans? :-) But then, if only cannibals are humans, then only cannibals who eat cannibals are humans.
[07:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:58] <exec> 08└─You all joke, but none of you have probably been in a situation where the only thing to eat was the flesh of your comrades. The Siege of Athens was not nice, and fortunately I was not there. The siege of Jerusalem was even less nice, and people would sell their children as food to others. Never eat...
[07:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:00] <exec> 08└─Too bad it doesn't work that way, but judging from diets, Mexicans probably taste the best. If you like French, you'll have to let the cadaver rot for a while.
[07:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:02] <exec> 08└─Well if we want to give the idea some consideration, that's not the way to look at it. Humans wouldn't be made into cattle, their corpses would be repurposed after the live their life meaningful or not. The real challenge is more that a lot of the meat will be unfit for consumption. Old people, peop...
[07:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:05] <exec> 08└─Bumpersticker in Fiji: "Tourists: The other White meat!" They sell wooden "cannibal forks" in the gift shops, you know.
[07:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:07] <exec> 08└─Dont have kids to save the environment Abort your kids to save the environment Eat bugs to save the environment Eat fake meat to save the environment Eat people to save the environment
[07:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:33] <exec> 08└─Think they're gonna do it? There is no "opt-out".
[07:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:21] <exec> 08└─Rent free indeed.
[07:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:15] <exec> 08└─None, not a single one of the models is what you stated. So a single example should be sufficient to disprove your entire premise, then? Let's see what CNN was showing: https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[07:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:17] <exec> 08└─To quote Einstein: Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.
[07:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:25] <exec> 08└─So what’s the bottleneck?
[07:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:26] <exec> 08└─Well, I DDG'd "Heinlein SpeedTalk" which lead to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] which lead to http://ithkuil.net [ithkuil.net] which I had never heard of before but which sounds interesting.
[07:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:48] <exec> 08└─The more secret the list is, the more nazi it is. There are also voting rolls. But thankyou for pointing this aspect out.
[07:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:48] <exec> 08└─Different AC here, but "p hacking" has a particular meaning where you put a bunch of variables into an analysis tool and try to find one that hits your significance level. The problem with that is that you don't need to do many tests before at least 1 comes up statistically significant by chance. Th...
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[08:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─"Did you do the needful?!!!" "I thought *you* were doing the needful!!" Ok, maybe too soon.
[08:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:27] <exec> 08└─It's where the secret Nazi moon base is that is shaped like a swastika. They don't know that war ended. Maybe if the Israelis painted Hitler's face on the lander, then they will stop shooting them down. Of course if they find any Jewish or Brown people stuff onboard, all bets are off.
[08:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:29] <exec> 08└─I expect they outsourced writing the software to India. You should never trust software written by those clowns..
[08:33:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:38] <exec> 08└─Before they can remove all the facial recog, you have to positively identify the images as being your face. Isn't that what they were trying to do all along? And then, add your face to a list of deleted faces to guarantee they don't have it any longer.
[08:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:45] <exec> 08└─Every police, military and spy agency in the world cares *primarily* about the people who are avoiding being tracked. The people who are not basically fail an IQ test that demonstrate they are in an evolutionary stage that only minimally alters its environment. Anyone who trusts fb at this point to...
[08:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:47] <exec> 08└─Your absolutely wrong, he'll do or if you let him.
[08:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:50] <exec> 08└─Hm, almost like they have the planet 'totally' covered. The other AC comment says this is a threat to democracy, a trope we have all heard. I believe we need at this point to change this phrase to the more accurate 'Threat of totalitarianism.' They get everyone in the nice fun candy crush chat with...
[08:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:52] <exec> 08└─I have a small proposal. Generally every time there's an e-mail address whose user doesn't agree for data processing, irl address, surname, or photo whose user gets opt-out (however sending photo or making account on FB only for such purpose looks like totally mortgaging oneself to guarantee that in...
[08:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:40] <exec> 08└─Look at cuba where they have nearly none of the access to "modern healthcare" but nearly equal lifespans.
[08:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:47] <exec> 08└─Something about gendered nouns I hadn't considered until it was brought up here a few weeks ago is that they can be used to disambiguate pronouns. I don't know if that increase in efficiency compensates for the extra overhead but it is something to take into account. Consider: "The rock fell on the...
[08:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:22] <exec> 08└─You notice when you use wireshark you have to authenticate as a root user, because you are digging down deeper into the internals of the system. This ability to escalate privileges is not given to you as the owner of the phone by these companies, this is why such a backwards, old fashioned test is b...
[08:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 2343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:23] <exec> 08└─Indeed, this seems designed with a very generalized, very sanitized study, to give the maximum impression that people can control their phones. Don't worry, this isn't the vulnerability you are looking for.... It's noteworthy how the phones in the lab are treated like alien artifacts, we can't actua...
[08:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, I reject giving every federal agent and soldier assigned to domestic operations the same powers of santa claus. But like I said to the other guy, santa claus lets us know he has a list and every year you find out where you stand. In my personal case, I have been, am being, permanently investiga...
[08:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:14] <exec> 08└─The list WAS a good tool when it was used properly. With caution, with all diplomatic routines, and with cooperation with many countries and their law enforcement. However, it was a few months after making the list operating when they just used it for cancelling out too annoying people. It's impossi...
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[09:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:51] <exec> 08└─FTFA : while Autopilot isn't a perfect system and while we've criticized its name as being somewhat misleading, the fault here doesn't seem to lie solely with Tesla.
[09:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:52] <exec> 08└─Don't call it "autopilot". Call it "virtual teenage chauffeur": that'll scare Tesla owners into paying attention.
[09:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:54] <exec> 08└─It is amazing that this many people this dumb can afford a car this expensive. Draws into question the story we are all told about smarts being the key to success these days. Of course I also saw someone "driving" a Harley on the interstate with their arms crossed recently, so it isn't all autopilot...
[09:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:57] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the Harley had an Autopilot.
[09:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:14] <exec> 08└─You all joke, but none of you have probably been in a situation where the only thing to eat was the flesh of your comrades.
[09:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:16] <exec> 08└─Problem now is the rich are all too skinny and stringy...
[09:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:18] <exec> 08└─I'm okay with it. But not the elderly. Anybody who's had venison knows what I'm talking about. Having said that, considering how many cigars and gallons of hooch my late grandfather consumed throughout his life, he might well have tasted good - pre-smoked and pre-pickled.
[09:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed, one of my last experiences before quitting full-time IT was debugging a bit of code outsourced to Indian developers, it was thrown in my direction as it looked as if it was mostly doing the job, but then unexpectedly crashed horribly...there was much evidence of Messrs Cuttie & Pastie in the...
[09:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:42] <exec> 08└─Can non Facebook users opt out? (I don't really know FB has it set up -- can users name other people in photos? If so the major problem here is that non-users are not protected. That would not be the case if face recognition was opt IN).
[09:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:55] <exec> 08└─add your face to a list of deleted faces to guarantee they don't have it any longer.
[09:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:56] <exec> 08└─Not that I am aware of - what makes you think that it has just happened?
[09:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:55] <exec> 08└─Pi, as an irrational number, requires an infinite number of bits to express, and hence in one second it is possible to represent an infinite number of bits in words.
[09:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:57] <exec> 08└─Actually in speaking, there are many places where unnecessary stuff is shortened out. Like "it's" for "it is" in English. Actually your example sentence reminded me about that: Joe ran in the forest.
[09:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:34] <exec> 08└─yes The several other informal studies that have propagated where people noticed their phones were working too hard, must have reached the level that a comforting counter message must be airdropped. This indicates perhaps actually a good trend, that people are distrusting their phones, which they sh...
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[10:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:54] <exec> 08└─Was his fly undone?
[10:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:56] <exec> 08└─Faulting the Tesla customers for not following the rules/documentation associated with the autopilot system should be called out and fault does belong with those people. However Elon tweets about how cool it is to tweet while his car drives him around. Elon doesn't even follow his own rules for supe...
[10:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:58] <exec> 08└─Los Angeles? An identical incident involving a Tesla on autopilot hitting a truck in full speed happened in Moscow a couple of months ago. Driver survived since he tweeted about it later.
[10:33:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 496 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:07] <exec> 08└─What an absurd idea - humans are too far up the food chain [wikipedia.org] - not to mention incredibly resource-intensive. The environmental cost of nappies [diapers] alone is horrendous - and that only gets us to age two or three. Then there is a further twenty or so years before we have a nice mea...
[10:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:20] <exec> 08└─Save the planet, eh? Okay, he's had his fun and fame suggesting we turn to cannibalism. Makes Dr. Strangelove's proposal that we abandon monogamy pretty tame in comparison. What other methods could we employ to Save the Planet? The B-Ark?
[10:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:21] <exec> 08└─I'm going to McDonald's for my McHannibal meal. I'm hoping the toy will be a set of clacking teeth!
[10:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:34] <exec> 08└─I can't find the interviews with the Google CEO at the time that said they fully intend on bringing mass-personalization to market as soon as they can. But here you can have a twitter post from 2018 explaining how important mass-personsalization is to Google: https://twitter.com
[10:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:58] <exec> 08└─You can actually do it with this virtual table implementation for SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org [sqlite.org] , https://www.sqlite.org [sqlite.org]
[10:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:41] <exec> 08└─Don't blame the administrator. It's a bit hard in this day and age when everything business-based is now in the cloud -- word processing, calendars, chat programs, schedules for nose-picking lessons, etc. And bosses and colleagues demand databases and servers should be in the cloud despite warnings...
[10:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:04] <exec> 08└─I haven't used a nosql database before, but I don't think so. There's no security built into the API at all. If you use this hard drive directly for a database, it would be just for one database. As soon as you want a second, you run the risk of one database seeing the other database's data. And don...
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[11:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Quicksilver [1821] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:06] <exec> 08└─So the basic idea is we will make a machine that takes care of everything but we will "require an operator to attentively monitor its operation". So the idea is that we are going to have people be completely unengaged from the process of driving but somehow have heightened awareness of what is going...
[11:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:07] <exec> 08└─Does he actually use it, or does he have his own driver?
[11:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:31] <exec> 08└─Let him volunteer to be eaten first. I'm sure he'll be tasty, but I'll pass.
[11:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 3361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:32] <exec> 08└─Just to fix a few errors in the article and which this segment is based on. (1) Magnus Söderlund is a professor in Economics, focusing on consumer behaviour. I guess he could technically then be a behavioral scientist but I think he see himself as an economist. (2) The segment was not on Swedish te...
[11:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:34] <exec> 08└─Now meatbags wanna turn into eatmeatbags, our robocalypse plans have to be downsized again. A question, though. The solution offered is incomplete. Who eats whom according to what criteria? I guess a study not addressing this is unworthy of attention. For the series history of the world, the modern...
[11:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:37] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile some people will insist he was wrong, while nibbling on juicy human steak
[11:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:39] <exec> 08└─About the factoid "commies eat kids", should I still classify it as enemy propaganda?
[11:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:41] <exec> 08└─Funny how these people who come up with "Save The Planet" ideas never know what actually is going on. For example, we are in no danger of being swarmed by billions of Swedes. The Swedish part of the overpopulation problem has been solved. We don't need to eat Swedes to Save The Planet. Who knew, rig...
[11:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:43] <exec> 08└─Ya, but you run out of them after a while. And they go bad quickly. Hence The Mighty Buzzard.
[11:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:02] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone is defending the moon.
[11:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:31] <exec> 08└─Arduino UNO is ATmega328 platform. So, It has 32k flash ROM, but writable memory is just 2k static RAM and 1k EEPROM (which can and will wear off, of course). You do not do any kind of dynamic allocations in that machine, not even in original C++, if you are not just plain stupid. Any high level lan...
[11:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:25] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> I thought it important here to use no-sarcasm tags. Why doesn't SN offer such useful tags? </no-sarcasm>
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[12:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Librem 5 Shipping Announcement - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:55] <exec> 08└─We're sorry, but your Fine Summary, " Librem 5 Shipping Announcement", does not meet the standards of Soylentils, and so will be refused comments. Please feel free to fix the problem, and resubmit. (OK, eds never tell my why my subs are rejected, but that is no reason for me to not tell them, in thi...
[12:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem 5 Shipping Announcement - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:57] <exec> 08└─F**** those scumbag capitalists trying to give us an option for a smartphone we can control! Our corpro-government overlords know best, and all who disagree are racist!
[12:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed. However, a few years back there was an article from Google about their own self-driving car research. They hired people to test their self-driving car prototypes and paid them to keep their hands on the wheel and their foot near the brake at all times. Their only job, again, was to keep thei...
[12:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:14] <exec> 08└─Credit?
[12:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:16] <exec> 08└─So the basic idea is we will make a machine that takes care of everything but we will "require an operator to attentively monitor its operation".
[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:46] <exec> 08└─You are already consuming human tissue in your bread from china: https://www.vice.com [vice.com] This is just pulling back the curtain.
[12:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─I'd rather eat humans than bugs, as long as they don't have bugs in them.
[12:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─I'm sure he is thinking of eating Indians, not Swedes. Pre-curry flavoured.
[12:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:52] <exec> 08└─It's meant to be a psych prank, generate discussion and drive a few people away from consumption of beef... Rather than eating people, sterilizing a few would have a much larger effect.
[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:54] <exec> 08└─One Neutron bomb, delivered to the point of highest population density on one randomly selected day per year. Too bad about the fringe effect survivors.
[12:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─Swedes have been obsessed with the "McDonalds effect" and cattle farms consuming the Amazon since at least the 1980s, probably long before that. A Swedish green sold me an Amazon styled postcard in 1989 at a nowhere train station, and couldn't stop ranting about how American culture was destroying t...
[12:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:17] <exec> 08└─For $141 million, they got themselves a working Moon orbiter. So not a total loss.
[12:35:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:20] <exec> 08└─Where does Rand Paul stand on the president enriching himself and his worthless heirs by directing government funds to his own business? He's been remarkably silent on that one.
[12:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, I’d love to see a real, quantitative, description of how much better the end user experience becomes when switching to 5G. All I’ve been able to find is hype.
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[13:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:50] <exec> 08└─~300 cases isnt a big deal
[13:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:52] <exec> 08└─No problem Just make mandatory a Fugu [wikipedia.org] No-Kuru license.
[13:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:53] <exec> 08└─We don't need to eat Swedes to Save The Planet. Who knew, right?
[13:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:56] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that, you parasite-ridden bugbag.
[13:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:58] <exec> 08└─I prefer the decadent taste of fresh select cuts of human brain, served with the finest wine, while I sit at my dining table with classical music playing in the background. I personally hand pick each human and that is my gift back to society, while I make both the world and the Earth a better place...
[13:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:29] <exec> 08└─Treat the government as if it has an addiction to money.
[13:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 4528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:27] <exec> 08└─I've pointed out in this thread that some ensemble forecasts from August 27 and 28 showed Alabama and Georgia at risk from Dorian. When Trump said that early on, some models showed Dorian hitting Alabama and Georgia, that's actually true. It's also true that very low probabilities for tropical storm...
[13:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:42] <exec> 08└─Calling it junk seems a little strong to me, but I think it is fair to ask how much value is there in all of the grammatical superstructure that permeates most languages. Again, I think of it as something like an error detection system, but how good is it really? The best you can hope for is that th...
[13:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:08] <exec> 08└─So, bicycles are already more dangerous than assault rifles.
[13:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:09] <exec> 08└─We pay a lot for roads, but you don't bitch about that.
[13:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:30] <exec> 08└─Got ya - I'm empathizing. But, my "administrator" is the school administrator, not the network administrator. Any sys-admin worth talking to knows better. Any sys-admin who doesn't know better isn't worth the pink slip used to fire his ass.
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[14:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:51] <exec> 08└─Why change the notation from the article? It makes it look like only 257 to 359 cases were confirmed instead of 257,359. According to statistics released recently, there have been 257,359 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza so far in 2019, beating the previous record of 251,163 set in 2017. "I...
[14:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:52] <exec> 08└─Fixed.
[14:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:54] <exec> 08└─It's about a thousand times more. Fixed.
[14:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:56] <exec> 08└─Population density distribution in USA is quite different to Australia, you shall expect much greater effect in Great America.
[14:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:23] <exec> 08└─That mental task is basically what back seat (or passenger seat) drivers like to do most of the time. You would hope also that a competent driving instructor would be even better at it. That still leaves the questions though of what percentage of drivers are good back seat drivers and, as you note,...
[14:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry - you're forgetting the law of conservation of responsibility. You gotta have a victim and a villain in every case. It has to be either 100% Tesla's fault (otherwise you're "victim-blaming") or 100% the driver's fault (or you're perpetrating the socialist "nanny state"). If every issue wasn't...
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─Have you forgotten the Swedish Bikini Team?
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─I always though Grampa to be a really good man.
[14:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─Eh, stay away from the central neurological tissues (brain, spinal column) and fluids and you should be fine. Just trust in our well trained, established corporate slaughter houses to do it right!
[14:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:12] <exec> 08└─No way, too tough at that age. We demand our human veal.
[14:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:14] <exec> 08└─no prion disease to be had. But importing bread from china is more wasteful than not recycling dead humans so if this hair stuff is a real thing I know where I'd start.
[14:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─I would add "The other, other white meat" but let's face it, we know white people aren't going to be the product here.
[14:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─So long as it's consensual.
[14:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:21] <exec> 08└─It was an American beer commercial gimmick, none of the women were even Swedish or about as Swedish as the Swedish Chef on the Muppet Show. Which I guess was perhaps more Swedish then them since he was at least based upon a real Swedish chef compared to some blond bimbo stereotype.
[14:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:42] <exec> 08└─I was wondering just how many have made it into the elite social club of landing someone/something on the moon. So far, it's just the USSR, China, and the US, right? And, similar to the US, the Russians haven't been back for a re-do in decades. That makes China the only recent success, I believe.
[14:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:43] <exec> 08└─How Soviets managed to do it in 1966 - almost exactly 53 years ago.
[14:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:45] <exec> 08└─They were in too much of a curry to land.
[14:34:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:54] <exec> 08└─I have never signed up for Facebook and I don't let people take pictures of me unless they promise not to upload them to Facebook. Yeah, I can't stop them but the few that do take pics are people I trust. Still, I'm sure Facebook has my pic and some sort of name. You just can't get away from this sh...
[14:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:57] <exec> 08└─Magical thinking at its finest.
[14:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:57] <exec> 08└─He probably mis-understood the XTRP model.
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[15:33:34] <exec> 08└─You would hope also that a competent driving instructor would be even better at it.
[15:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, I thought blonde, big boobed bimbos were THE Swedish stereotype.
[15:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:59] <exec> 08└─Where are all the libertarians come November every 2 years? The Libertarian Party has excellent ballot access, and they run candidates for the majority of seats up for election. For that matter, why is Rand Paul a Republican instead of a Libertarian? - No to the two party system - No to government r...
[15:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:01] <exec> 08└─Well, if we're talking about scare quoted "healthcare," then yes, there are perverse incentives at work to move away from proven treatments towards treatments that generate more profit for the hospital administrators and "insurance" companies (what they are selling is not insurance--it is a buyer's...
[15:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:03] <exec> 08└─Third party is dead for now. Donald Trump showed that you can muscle into a major party and win despite major resistance from the party insiders. There was even resistance after he won the nomination and calls for him to drop out following scandals that would have obliterated other candidates. Berni...
[15:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Specks In Space Could Be The Key To Finding Martian Life - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:13] <exec> 08└─If they ever actually find samples of microbial life on Mars or another planet, I'm sad to say that I think it's going to be something of an anticlimax because I think if it's DNA or RNA based we'll always fall back on the explanation that it just came from Earth. It could hitch a ride on the spacec...
[15:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Specks In Space Could Be The Key To Finding Martian Life - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─If you find evidence of a large microbial ecosystem in underground lakes/oceans on Mars, Europa, Enceladus, Titan, etc., that would indicate that it probably wasn't due to spacecraft contamination, and that life is even more resilient than previously known. Even if you can't conclusively prove that...
[15:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:05] <exec> 08└─Idjit Pai.
[15:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:21] <exec> 08└─My favorite is the XML escape sequence: <![CDATA[...]]> I don't know the exact origin of the syntax (something from SGML) but I just love the clunky way it seems to approach the problem by just throwing as many different characters at it as possible, reducing the likelihood the sequence will appear...
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[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─Most of the above comments are reasonable, considering this case as an individual case. Another question of interest is: "In the current state of development of automated driving, is the automation safer than the average driver?" I've seen various assertions in both directions, but haven't really se...
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─The segment was not on Swedish television (SVT) but on TV4 (channel 4).
[16:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:23] <exec> 08└─If history has taught us nothing else, it has taught us that a properly motivated government will never run out of enemies.
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─If vegans only eat plant matter and I only eat vegans then I'm even greener than they are since I'm getting rid of inefficient consumers of a major carbon sink!
[16:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─Have they run the numbers? The death rate is not that high, and (not to be too gross) older people don't have that much meat on their bones. Also, cut out the "what they claim is the warming of the earth", global warming is not some conspiracy theory, it's happening already. Farming does produce pl...
[16:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:51] <exec> 08└─Copied from earlier story... The descent parachute deployed as planned but failed to slow the lander.
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think the democrat party is in any way affected by Sanders' run in 2016. The party stands for retaining the status quo in the nation's ghettos and at the border to retain an uncritical voter pool. What's left about them? When have they last cared about US jobs and tried to get people out of...
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[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─Neat example -- I had never considered that.
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[17:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:49] <exec> 08└─They missed step 0 in avoiding ransomware: Don't run Windows! I'm serious, there's no good reason to run Windows on virtually any system. I'm running Ubuntu with "gnome flashback" desktop. Keep Windows the hell off there and you have control of your system rather than Microsoft; you won't get viruse...
[17:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:51] <exec> 08└─What they do will be way more expensive than simply paying and will not work. They may become a more difficult target for awhile, which simply means that others will be hit.
[17:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 3300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:53] <exec> 08└─Wonder what the Computer Security for Dummies book recommends? 1: Stop using MS Windows! Especially, stop using ancient, crappy versions such as Windows ME. 2: Make and keep regular backups. (They actually did that.) 3. Use passwords, and not stupidly weak passwords. 4. If it doesn't need to be conn...
[17:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:04] <exec> 08└─During the Spanish flu outbreak, Australia closed its borders to curb the influx of sick people from abroad. They just have to do exactly the same, only to keep their germs in this time.
[17:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:06] <exec> 08└─fatalities from influenza with a majority of elder people [...] estimated at ~330 Million people would mean that over 5.7 million people in the USA.' So, most of Florida and Palm Springs would be devastated.
[17:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:08] <exec> 08└─People are so fucking frail! Even the Aussies are falling down! *cough* *cough* Oh my! Joe Biden touched my hair! This shit spreads over the internet. Oh, And clean your fucking keyboards, you slobs!
[17:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem 5 Shipping Announcement - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:18] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately you need to be one of the 1% to afford one of these.
[17:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─Stay away from the Chinese Mcnuggets®, Italian Mcnuggets®, African Mcnuggets®, and Mexican Mcnuggets®. The Canadian and Muslim Mcnuggets® should be safe.
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:34] <exec> 08└─Sure, that just doesn't make them Swedish tho -- unless you want to count all blond females with larger the average breasts as being Swedish.
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:36] <exec> 08└─on sticks.
[17:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:39] <exec> 08└─This scientist is correct in assuming this will solve climate change. Rounding up everyone who thinks climate change is a negative thing and turning them into hamburger will definitely put an end to the issue.
[17:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:03] <exec> 08└─Russians wanted to do Fobos and failed. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (the last success of interplanetary mission was Vega 2 in 1985 The managers of the project blame it on the US sabotage though. Initially, the head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin, suggested that the Fobo...
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[17:35:05] <exec> 08└─Most Indians were taught using classic Russian books and methods. At least as far as math and physics are concerned. Why such a difference? My own little theory and observations are that it is not because Indians are less bright, but because they, as well as many other Asians, do not want to be "wor...
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─just like the deleting account scam they run.
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[18:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:51] <exec> 08└─Do they also scare of crypto? How about Eskimo LGBTQ chicken? Those are the brave ones, I am sure.
[18:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:52] <exec> 08└─In a Twitter discussion on Sept. 5, Rosa-Maria Ryyti (Miss Universe Finland 2015 winner), argued Bitcoin's risk factor made it more appealing to men. Miss Ryyti just confirmed that: 1/ Women are more sensible than men 2/ Finland can produce Miss Somethings that aren't dumb bimbos 3/ Albeit rare, it'...
[18:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:54] <exec> 08└─Well, that settles it. Bitcoin must be bad then, because anything that isn't exactly equal for every race, gender and age is by nature evil and must be condemned. Bitcoin must be made illegal or at least so highly regulated that nobody wants to use it. All males who own a bitcoin must give half of t...
[18:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:56] <exec> 08└─I just invested $20k in Bitcoin to impress the chicks. I knew I should have gone with the penis implant.
[18:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:59] <exec> 08└─0/ she says what she's paid to say
[18:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:01] <exec> 08└─So, risc conscious is a genderist newspeak for cowardly now?
[18:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with IT staff is they hire anyone just smart enough to find the Win key.
[18:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:14] <exec> 08└─The problem with IT staff is they hire anyone just smart enough to find the Win key.
[18:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:16] <exec> 08└─«We're the computer witches, and this is the age of computer witchery trials.» seems good enough for a Manifesto :D CYA
[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Librem 5 Shipping Announcement - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─Now let's wait for reviews.
[18:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem 5 Shipping Announcement - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─My only additional concern .. someone at a border will look at this phone, and think "radicalist!!!" and investigate more thoroughly. After all, if you DARE close the curtains on your windows, you MUST be up to no good!!
[18:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:01] <exec> 08└─If women can abort their fetuses - claiming that it is their body - why can't I eat a burger grown from my own cells? I envision a private device integrated in the bed of my diesel truck. Besides, women are already eating their children's flesh https://www.webmd.com [we...
[18:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:03] <exec> 08└─Dunno. The USSR continued their insane grain quotas in Ukraine even after discovering mothers were feeding weak children to stronger children to keep as many alive as possible.
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:05] <exec> 08└─Mexicans probably taste the best
[18:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:07] <exec> 08└─Baby back, baby back, baby back I want my baby back .... ribs.
[18:36:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─frog mating calls? How is funding basic science wasteful again?
[18:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:52] <exec> 08└─But... FROGS. Their MATING CALLS!. Duh!!!!
[18:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:54] <exec> 08└─That's the important difference. Are these bureaucrats deny you treatment innovative free market thinkers or appointed members on elite government death panels?
[18:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─"US tax dollars", motherfucker. not "world tax dollars".
[18:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:58] <exec> 08└─look, you dumb ass statist fuck, the Us government is not supposed to have 4 million depts involved in every facet of citizen life.
[18:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:00] <exec> 08└─When you say "would have obliterated" you basically mean that his enablers in the Republican party chose not to make a fuss and lower their standards instead. So this is what the Republican party stands for now - and Trump is bringing them even lower. Family members in key positions? Directing tax m...
[18:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:03] <exec> 08└─fuck you bitch. it's not the spending *cuts* that cause the debt , you dishonest piece of shit.
[18:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:05] <exec> 08└─Like I mentioned many times before, the probability does not mean anything. What matters is the probability multiplied by the damage. In this sense, a prediction that a hurricane hits Florida does not mean much. Florida folks supposedly know about the danger and are prepared for it. They will simply...
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:07] <exec> 08└─Therefore, they should be warned and if it does hit, helped.
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:24] <exec> 08└─At the risk of https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]... Seems like it should be amenable to hardware/software solution. Use a bunch of microphones in a phased array to identify the location of multiple sound sources, and compute separate audio streams from each source, feed each stream through its own in...
[18:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:14] <exec> 08└─Whether it's possible to get a Gnu/Linux system compromised is irrelevant and you know it. The stupid whores are running Windows. They should be brought up on charges for embezzlement of tax dollars. They take money that was allocated for education of innocent children, lease slaveware with it to te...
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[19:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:55] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the genderists can stop diluting computer science with extraneous junk fields and diversity admissions, and go forth and fight for sexual equality in crypto"currency".
[19:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:56] <exec> 08└─She did say average men weren't into cryptocoin either. In other words, it is something for Aspies to get wet over.
[19:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:09] <exec> 08└─Hum...and systemd makes ubuntu act a lot like windows....
[19:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:24] <exec> 08└─The only concern I have is which way is this strain of flu heading? Is it the one that hit the U.S. last year, or is it the strain that is coming this winter?
[19:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's obviously unconstitutional, but no Muslims should be allowed into the country, much less given citizenship. We probably need a new amendment to make the first amendment not apply to "religions" that contradict the BoR via forced conversion, forced adherence to religious law, etc.. Put the...
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[20:33:05] <exec> 08└─They should make this stuff an exclusive Apple iPhone app, and then they will all be drooling over it.
[20:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:07] <exec> 08└─Having someone implant their penis in your ass doesn't impress the chicks, either.
[20:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:09] <exec> 08└─That "sensible" is a bit dubious. Sometimes the risk is worth it to the one taking the risk, because the payoff can be large enough to counter the risk. So "sensible" is a statement about one's relative values. OTOH, I've never understood why ANY statistics major would buy a lottery ticket. It has t...
[20:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:11] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with your statement. But, in context, women have always been more risk averse than men. That's why we do crazy things like riding motorcycles like madmen, and trying to take corners on two wheels when driving the family car. The difference in male and female auto insurance rates reflec...
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[20:33:25] <exec> 08└─Whether it will be more expensive or not is questionable, but it's something they should have been doing anyway. It solves a lot more problems than just ransomware. OTOH, you're right. Unless they were specifically targeted this will have no effect on the perpetrators. They probably won't even be aw...
[20:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:41] <exec> 08└─From Australia? I'll give you 50 to 1 odds that it's headed north. 20 to one on northwest and northeast.
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem 5 Shipping Announcement - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─> ... need to be one of the 1% ... Did you even look at https://puri.sm [puri.sm] ? Pre-order from $699 doesn't seem all that expensive, given that you don't have to spend time removing all the crap that comes preloaded on cheaper phones.
[20:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:16] <exec> 08└─> "driving" a Harley on the interstate with their arms crossed It wasn't me...but if you were in western PA in the early 1980s it could have been me. I was a test rider for one of the tire companies, who were trying to get some tire business from Harley-Davidson. One problem was steering shake on lo...
[20:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:18] <exec> 08└─Not driver replacement. Yet.
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:20] <exec> 08└─> is the automation safer than the average driver?" I don't give a shit about that criteria. It's got to be *much* safer than the average driver, given that the average includes drunks and all kinds impaired/distracted drivers. Next time, perhaps you will write something like this: "is the aut...
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[21:32:51] <exec> 08└─I have noticed that most entry-level programmers focus their attention and criticisms on first-order issues such as code style, naming conventions, source code and repository layout, etc. They neglect or are unaware of higher-order concerns that can make a bigger impact on reducing the complexity of...
[21:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hierarchy Of Software Engineering Discourse - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:53] <exec> 08└─There is a big difference between architecture and craft. A true Master masters both to perfection. That's called Art. Discrimination is the key. In software, the Art is very rare to find. Any formalism is ephemeral and dependent on cultural context.
[21:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hierarchy Of Software Engineering Discourse - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:55] <exec> 08└─Kind of hard to be afraid of goto if you first learned assembler. All those different jmp mnemonics are just jumps (absolute or conditional). That's what your compiler ends up emitting, so it's much ado about nothing. As for lint, I only worry about bellybutton, pocket, and dryer lint. And with ad...
[21:33:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hwertz [8141] 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:19] <exec> 08└─They missed step 0 in avoiding ransomware: Don't run Windows! I'm serious, there's no good reason to run Windows on virtually any system. I'm running Ubuntu with "gnome flashback" desktop. Keep Windows the hell off there and you have control of your system rather than Microsoft; you won't get viruse...
[21:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─*foo! smells like an ad* Lack of attention and small user base are its saving grace. And Ubuntu would never be my first choice.
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─Awwwwwe yeaaaah Another perfect example of TMB being a colossal fucking idiot. Good time!
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─"would have obliterated" refers to the conventional wisdom (among the media and many others) that the various scandals/gaffes and resulting media firestorms would necessarily force the candidate to quit the primary or even give up being the nominee. Trump's "I like people who weren't captured" line...
[21:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:14] <exec> 08└─You're fallaciously equating mass personalization with passive eavesdropping.
[21:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:40] <exec> 08└─Back in 1990, I did part of my military service in a warehouse facility, which was just starting to use IT. They were using PCs running UNIX, and were developing their applications in, wait for it, COBOL! The two are not incompatible.
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[22:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hierarchy Of Software Engineering Discourse - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:53] <exec> 08└─Another wet-behind-the-ear douchebag spews rambling nonsense screaming "i'm so smart". Better to have posted another quality aristachu post instead.
[22:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hierarchy Of Software Engineering Discourse - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:54] <exec> 08└─Now I can see who is behind the scene, hope you don't get me twisted. 😂 that's how we at ppsspp games for Android [comfortskillz.com]
[22:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Hierarchy Of Software Engineering Discourse - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:56] <exec> 08└─All too many times, GOTO has left me with the weirdest bugs in the stack. If the language supports subroutines, a GOTO in the wrong place can net you a helluva lot of debuggin'.
[22:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hierarchy Of Software Engineering Discourse - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:59] <exec> 08└─You are as dumb/naive as the dumb piece's author. The GOTO was desecrated from the perspective of structured programming, where complex programs are built out of blocks and modules, where there is explicit entry/exit point so that we can better grasp how the whole thing flows. If anything, learning...
[22:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:17] <exec> 08└─What if it's the chick doing it? I hear there's no biological difference between men and women these days.
[22:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:19] <exec> 08└─They can't. This is a bourgeois power struggle. These arguments are useful for bourgeois women, in whose class interest it is to uphold the monetary status quo. They are also useful for bourgeois women who want to "lean in" to the corporate ladder. The actual work of Lovelace, Hawes, Liskov, Yuschen...
[22:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:21] <exec> 08└─Hm, I was under the impression that the point was to create well paying jobs for the daughters of bourgeois families, while not having to put in the hard work and study.
[22:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:29] <exec> 08└─Don't have kids, they'll suffer in tomorrow's environment. The environment's fucked either way. Just don't have kids and enjoy yourself by killing the planet.
[22:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah? And? Have never heard of buying goodwill abroad in order to have peace at home?
[22:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:22] <exec> 08└─Google is the one who equated mass personalization with passive eavesdropping by saying that they would use passive eavesdropping to implement it. Here I found the link to the interview with Peter Norvig, director of research at Google in 2006 talking about the technology I mentioned here [technolog...
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[23:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:50] <exec> 08└─Wa' they been smokin? And where's the doritos?
[23:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:51] <exec> 08└─UCSF should have pioneered this, but it's a sate instititiion, bureaucractic as fuck. Maybe Stanford, a private uni, will get on this.
[23:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:53] <exec> 08└─DEA raiding their offices in 3... 2... 1...
[23:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hierarchy Of Software Engineering Discourse - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:07] <exec> 08└─I have seen a mob programming group of 6 engineers spend 45 minutes fixing these exact problems to satisfy their linter.
[23:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hierarchy Of Software Engineering Discourse - 1630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:08] <exec> 08└─There is reason to focus on first order issues. Programming languages are still overly verbose and redundant, and that goes all the way down to the level of the notation, syntax, and even individual characters. For example, why are we constantly exhorted to use Proper indentation in languages that d...
[23:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─There's a comment on that page: Most women aren't even investors regardless the type of asset.
[23:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin’s Risk Keeps Most Women Away From Cryptocurrency - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:32] <exec> 08└─bitcoin is sexist now.
[23:33:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Massachusetts City Tells Ransomware Scumbags: Our IT Staff Will Handle This Easily - 3300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─Wonder what the Computer Security for Dummies book recommends? 1: Stop using MS Windows! Especially, stop using ancient, crappy versions such as Windows ME. 2: Make and keep regular backups. (They actually did that.) 3. Use passwords, and not stupidly weak passwords. 4. If it doesn't need to be conn...
[23:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worst flu Season on Record, Australia - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, 95% of all wildlife in Australia is designed to kill you, and now the germs have got into the act as well.
[23:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Autopilot Was Engaged In The Crash Of A Tesla Model S Into A Firetruck In LA, NTSB Says - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:44] <exec> 08└─If the artical intelligence of autopiloting a car is anything like the artificial intelligent of autocorrecting my typing, it not really yet.
[23:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:47] <exec> 08└─American meats have the best marbling, because we eat corn everything, even corn syrup.
[23:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans to ‘Save the Planet’ - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:49] <exec> 08└─As a Lecter expert, I'd like to add that Lecter prefers to eat the rude, and he calls them "free-range rude."
[23:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─It doesn't make it false either. Come now, janrinok. I think just about everyone is aware that what FB promises and what they do are frequently rather different things.
[23:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:38] <exec> 08└─"Rapozo" doesn't sound very Hawaiian to me - the ancestor was probably a rich immigrant who dispossessed the incumbent natives.
[23:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:46] <exec> 08└─I suggest you look up the definitions of the words "predict", "prototype", "early-stage", "research", "weren't", "concept", and generally actually read the words that you've quoted there.
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