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[00:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dixons Carphone Receives Maximum Fine for Major Breach - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:49] <exec> 08└─I guess so, looks like they valued interoperability very high.
[00:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Stripped Helium Star Solves the Massive Black Hole Mystery - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:57] <exec> 08└─Isn't helium star pretty much almost spent star on its dying bed? So its companion in death died a little earlier?
[00:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stripped Helium Star Solves the Massive Black Hole Mystery - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:00] <exec> 08└─There is something to be said for the making public of reasearch papers before actual publication, so that responses and rebuttals can be made in a timely manner. Artificially slowing down exchanges of information does not intrinsically improve the quality of the contents of those communications. Kn...
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[00:52:11] <exec> 08└─Wanna see my newspeak translator? let's test it first. Google: don't be evil => Google: don't be evil (leave that to us). Works! Let's try with this newfangled name. Intel's Mobileye => Intel's Mobileye Works!
[00:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:22] <exec> 08└─"H has become a most ominous letter. It means something bigger, if not something better."
[00:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:41] <exec> 08└─I see bare armed women everywhere. Guys often wear sleeves. Oh, wait, did you mean "bear arms"? When was the last time you saw a bear standing upright, waving his arms?
[00:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:56] <exec> 08└─Too many people are jealous of Musk, or got mad because he said something they didn't like or because he's "unprofessional", so they hate everything he does.
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[01:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucy Mission Now Has a New Destination - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:44] <exec> 08└─These are flybys. They don't expect to hit the satellite so there may be no adjustment for it. 21900 Orus [wikipedia.org], one of the other flyby targets, also appears to have a satellite, but it isn't confirmed yet.
[01:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stripped Helium Star Solves the Massive Black Hole Mystery - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:04] <exec> 08└─Well....but if it was stripped of its surface layers, then it might not have been well aged. After all, hydrogen burning starts pretty young in a star's life cycle. Usually we can't see the interior, so maybe this is what's normally there. It's my guess that we'd need a bunch of similar stars to com...
[01:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:17] <exec> 08└─First, it uses a driver-facing camera to verify that the driver's eyes are on the road. If not, the system forces the driver to take over.
[01:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:30] <exec> 08└─Because it's impossible to "keep you in the forefront" if you're not currently in the forefront. You've been doing very little apart from slacking for a while, if you discern my point.
[01:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:31] <exec> 08└─What's the BOOM potential?
[01:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:34] <exec> 08└─That needs to be translated into units of Megatons per Megadollar: infrastructure buildup cost, per unit build cost, per year maintenance cost, per BOOM delivery cost, no BOOM disposal cost, etc.
[01:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of Cable Modems are Vulnerable to New Cable Haunt Vulnerability - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:44] <exec> 08└─When you spot the vulnerable code, figure out which bytes of code must be changed to fix it.
[01:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of Cable Modems are Vulnerable to New Cable Haunt Vulnerability - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:46] <exec> 08└─Boo. I was expecting a NO CARRIER joke.
[01:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:59] <exec> 08└─It can't have all gone to Raytheon and Lockheed, right? Right???
[01:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, maybe - but "welfare queen" isn't a race.
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[02:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Stripped Helium Star Solves the Massive Black Hole Mystery - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:11] <exec> 08└─I'd say the most important question is whether this invisible object is actually a black hole, or the coal-black world-ship wherein sleeps Gral'tek the All Devourer until It's appetite is awoken by the weight of mortal eyes. But yeah, I guess how the black hole (or other non-luminous object) formed...
[02:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:39] <exec> 08└─Credit for BOOM ending wars? maybe not [thenation.com]
[02:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:41] <exec> 08└─That needs to be translated into units of Megatons per Megadollar: infrastructure buildup cost, per unit build cost, per year maintenance cost, per BOOM delivery cost, no BOOM disposal cost, etc.
[02:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:43] <exec> 08└─It sounds like they are adding an electron accelerator to the same tunnel as the existing Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), so why so long long?
[02:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:45] <exec> 08└─Not ending a WAR, ending all WARS - better than the WAR to end all WARS did in 1918. Sure, we've still got wars, but nothing that even moves into double digit GDP shares anymore.
[02:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:17] <exec> 08└─RIF
[02:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:18] <exec> 08└─Probably so - a whole bunch of newly created atoms sitting around in a completely (chemically) unnatural deposit? That's probably about as chemically volatile a state as those atoms will ever be in.
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[03:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:49] <exec> 08└─Save a billion here, a billion there, soon you're talking real money. Considering that insurance company bureaucracy and profit adds a trillion dollars to the cost of health care every year, time to start the death of a thousand cuts. The savings would pay for midicare for all,
[03:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:50] <exec> 08└─A thousand cuts of a billion each, that's your trillion.
[03:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:52] <exec> 08└─Fucking math, how does it work?
[03:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:55] <exec> 08└─I remember when a million dollars was a lot of money. When there weren't very many millionaires and I had never even heard of a billionaire. When the richest quiz show offered 64,000 dollars to the very few that made it all the way up the ladder. Are we now on the verge of having trillionaires? We'r...
[03:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:57] <exec> 08└─I am one who bought a house long time ago. Sell it? Hah! Government considers all that increase in dollars as taxable gain. Is the house more valuable. Hell no. It's a 50 year old house. It's the dollar that's not worth much. But the tax law does not allow one to take depreciation on holding a dolla...
[03:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:57] <exec> 08└─I mean, if it could do something really cool like a beam weapon that can dissociate most or all nuclei within a large radius - turning whatever it hits into Hydrogen and free Neutrons, that would be worth a few Trillion for the Shock and Awe value, amirite?
[03:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:59] <exec> 08└─turning whatever it hits into Hydrogen and free Neutrons
[03:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:38] <exec> 08└─I found Mount Fugi kinda strange.
[03:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:24] <exec> 08└─4) Hold your pee/poo for hours.
[03:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack a Tesla, Get a Model 3 and Nearly $1 Million - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're running hackathons not to check for vulnerabilities, but to show off. And maybe they'll have egg on their face afterward. -- hendrik
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[04:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:00] <exec> 08└─I'm all about added players, as long as they are required by law to operate at a reasonable profit. If they're not it's no different than a big corporation selling at a loss until all their competition is starved out. Even less competitors than we have now is something we most certainly do not want....
[04:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:01] <exec> 08└─Drug costs are only 17 % [politifact.com] of total health care spending. I suspect attacking the other 83 % would be more effective. Besides, if you have an incurable illness, or know someone who does, better drugs are what's needed. But go ahead, pinch pennies on the most important category.
[04:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:04] <exec> 08└─Yea, its called the fed printing money and giving it to their buddies in the government and big banks. Whoever gets the money first gets the advantage, wherever the spend/loan it gets second advantage, etc. This is called the Cantillion effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wiki...
[04:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 2163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:06] <exec> 08└─I would rather end up with a broken government option than a broken private option that creates billionaires living off the real suffering and death of other citizens. Fuck those billionaires, and all the c-suite hell bound scum in Big Pharma. Fuck them, Fuck them, Fuck them with a million mile wide...
[04:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:08] <exec> 08└─At least I can still opt out of the insurance industry scam (and I do, laughing all the way to the bank). Once the government starts doing it there is no more opting out, and that bureaucracy will eventually grow to dwarf the current one.
[04:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 2953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:10] <exec> 08└─There's some interesting considerations here. Jeff Bezos was at over $150 billion but he took a hit from the divorce. Bill Gates is still above $100 billion. He hasn't tossed it all into B&MG, but the major reason is that Microsoft's stock price has tripled since 2016. If you adjust for inflation, y...
[04:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:12] <exec> 08└─You people are nuts. All you have to do is negotiate and offer to... wait for it... pay cash. The healthcare providers don't like dealing with insurance either, so add a 2x-1000x upcharge as a negotiation point. Oh wait, you already gave away your hundreds of thousands of dollars to the insurance co...
[04:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:14] <exec> 08└─I would rather end up with a broken government option than a broken private option that creates billionaires living off the real suffering and death of other citizens.
[04:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:17] <exec> 08└─Half a percent of a billion is still five million shmuckers. I think most would consider that a pretty reasonable net profit.
[04:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:19] <exec> 08└─Why are used cars taxed every time they change hands? The state already got their cut. Taxing again is pure greed.
[04:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lucy Mission Now Has a New Destination - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:28] <exec> 08└─It is amazing to me how NASA plans things to get so much utility from the one tank of gas they are allowed.
[04:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lucy Mission Now Has a New Destination - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:30] <exec> 08└─http://lucy.swri.edu/mission/Spacecraft.html [swri.edu] Lucy [wikipedia.org] is similar to New Horizons, except cut down to 3 main instruments and it uses solar panels. If we're lucky, it will be able to reach more targets after #6 in 2033.
[04:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:05] <exec> 08└─I flat do not trust the cruise control that came installed in my van. I took it out. Electrically and mechanically. That is MY van. I am responsible for what it does. I do not some autopilot, especially one having no knowledge of road conditions and environment, setting my speed. In my mind, those t...
[04:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:07] <exec> 08└─Is maintaining a safe road/lane condition database really a feasible strategy? With road construction, accidents, infrastructure decay, etc the derivative on that data has to be pretty high.
[04:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:09] <exec> 08└─MobilEye had functioning tech on the road and logging customer miles in the original Tesla autopilot system, and Tesla's autopilot performance took a huge step backward when they ended that relationship. Given that as evidence that their technology worked well three years ago, I assume it's only got...
[04:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of Cable Modems are Vulnerable to New Cable Haunt Vulnerability - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how this would work for somebody that has both a vulnerable cablemodem and a their own router. The DNS rebinding attack accesses the local network of the target machine, NOT the local network of the cablemodem. On my network, the cablemodem would need to be addressable all on its own. I...
[04:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:57] <exec> 08└─Also part of building public support for war. The USA is a planetary bully with a president that adequately represents what it stands for in 2020. Only the people can bring the economy to a halt and end this madness.
[04:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:40] <exec> 08└─Samsung installs unremovable Chinese spyware by default.
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[05:52:11] <exec> 08└─While high speed traders buy and sell all day, sometimes holding for seconds during a move. And avoid tax.
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[05:57:04] <exec> 08└─no safety issues other than what you may miss from the center screen.
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[06:51:58] <exec> 08└─I am one who bought a house long time ago. Sell it? Hah! Government considers all that increase in dollars as taxable gain. Is the house more valuable. Hell no. It's a 50 year old house. It's the dollar that's not worth much. But the tax law does not allow one to take depreciation on holding a dolla...
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[06:53:31] <exec> 08└─Isn't it revealing how the government raised holy hell over Volkswagen Diesel and emissions... But are so tolerant of sloppy business grade crap that embeds executables into arbitrary data files? Maybe Boeing building Business Grade aircraft will highlight the aftermath of building Business Grade st...
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[06:54:46] <exec> 08└─Choosing to reject a man, or woman, because of the color of their skin is racism. And I do not believe that you can solve racism with racism. In fact that has been tried before, but I'll get into that in a minute. First I want to hit on the #1 vs #100 thing. Here are the bios of two candidates from...
[06:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:33] <exec> 08└─Fossil fuels reduce air quality. UNICEF Says 17 Million Babies Worldwide Breathe Air Pollution Six Times Worse Than Recommended Limit [soylentnews.org] (includes related articles)
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[07:52:12] <exec> 08└─Cash don't work for pills. I've never been to a pharmacy where I could negotiate $2000 down to $400. Come back with an actual fucking point about pills please.
[07:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:14] <exec> 08└─I've never seen pills that were a good idea, but here you go: http://selfpaypatient.com [selfpaypatient.com]
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[07:54:49] <exec> 08└─Why do you think? I don't see where the huge cost or specialization is supposed to be. Primary things would seem to be gforce training, navigation sims, stress tests, underwater practice, and vacuum chamber practice. After that it's a matter of household things like what to do in a gas leak, etc. No...
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[07:54:51] <exec> 08└─The astronauts are all listed here [nasa.gov]. Click on any candidate's name to get to a further page that has a complete bio. Feel free to compare. It's night and day in numerous cases. This is not to say that the diversity hires are not well above average - they are. But they're far below the stan...
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[07:54:53] <exec> 08└─And beyond this, manual piloting is still very much a thing. For instance Boeing's argument for why their recent catastrophic launch failure wasn't a catastrophic launch failure is because if there were astronauts on board then they would have overriden everything and started driving it manually. An...
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[08:51:47] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer more hit-or-miss types of submissions? I probably submit fewer stories than I personally find interesting. This is mostly because I do try to think it will be a near guarantee to make the front page before I submit it. Of course I don't mean throw everything in and let the editors s...
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[08:51:48] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Aristo-whats-his-name
[08:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:51] <exec> 08└─[...] Checking linksChecking basic grammar and spellingCorrecting wording [...]
[08:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:53] <exec> 08└─Some are not able to distinguish "agenda" from "objectivity" and "experience". No doubt this Aristo guy would be willing to serve, but given the past history of this site, he would not be allowed to. Same thing happened to some other Soylentils, as I recall. All trained up, but then the alt-right c...
[08:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer: Giving Entire Course of Radiation Treatment in Less Than a Second is Feasible - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:05] <exec> 08└─The machine, or the beam that comes from it, seems like the ultimate Brønsted-Lowry acid.
[08:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:30] <exec> 08└─Yes! It's time for midicare for all. Nobody should get ripped off by overpriced adaptors and dongles. Everybody should be able to connect a Roland SC-55. The Microsoft synthesizer is an afront to human rights!
[08:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:08] <exec> 08└─The job of an astronaut is to run and maintain experiments that are pushing the scientific edge. Because of this high end 'hard' science education is pretty much the baseline for an astronaut. Some allowance can be made for piloting, medical, and other tertiary skills that can prove vital, but there...
[08:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 3473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:10] <exec> 08└─systems where there can be a single winner are bad systems. for astronaut candidates I assume there are a bunch of standardized tests that you can pass or fail. the important bit is to pass. obviously if you start allocating points to every little detail you'll be able to differentiate between the c...
[08:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:01] <exec> 08└─Don't you tend to die fast with those if "stuff happens"? I'd rather risk dying in seconds than suffer for weeks or months: https://www.chemistryworld.com [chemistryworld.com] Which would you prefer, a tiny drop of dimethylmercury on your hand...
[08:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unused Stockpiles of Nuclear Waste Could be More Useful Than We Might Think - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:02] <exec> 08└─This seems scary enough to me: https://www.chemistryworld.com [chemistryworld.com] Not as scary as stuff like weaponized diseases (natural or "modified/custom made") but still scary.
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[09:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks for your contribution - I assume it is you Ari... Submitting over 100 stories condemning the Alt-Right does not seem terribly impartial to me, particularly when the subject matter is not what this site is all about. There are plenty of places where politics is discussed but, unless there is a...
[09:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:52] <exec> 08└─All trained up, but then the alt-right cabal put the kibosh on that.
[09:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:54] <exec> 08└─Give it a try - you might surprise yourself!
[09:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:56] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) TMB - clearly too much time available for fishing in a winter season
[09:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:59] <exec> 08└─Surprises can be deadly after a certain age, don't say I didn't worn you. (grin)
[09:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:01] <exec> 08└─Submitting over 100 stories condemning the Alt-Right does not seem terribly impartial to me, particularly when the subject matter is not what this site is all about
[09:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:40] <exec> 08└─the major reason is that Microsoft's stock price has tripled since 2016.
[09:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:42] <exec> 08└─Something's wrong.
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[10:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speech-Disrupting Brain Disease Reflects Patients' Native Tongue - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:53] <exec> 08└─If you have a speech impairment, you retain 3/4th of your communicating abilities as long as you can wave your arms around.
[10:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:11] <exec> 08└─be balanced and impartial
[10:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:12] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of other sites that cover all the topics that we are not interested in. The site was created to cover STEM and related items, and politics was only introduced initially to cover the 2016 US elections. Those elections are over - although some like to continue to argue the rights and...
[10:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:15] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, I am of that age!
[10:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:17] <exec> 08└─We all have our own views - but we don't let that interfere with our role as editors.
[10:52:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:49] <exec> 08└─I would rather end up with a broken government option than a broken private option that creates billionaires living off the real suffering and death of other citizens.
[10:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:58] <exec> 08└─Two options are possible, both of which are in use by countries outside the US, the government declares certain critical drugs to be generic and buys them from the cheapest source, popular in places like Africa and Asia where the government can't afford to pay $1,000 per patient to deal with a TB ep...
[10:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:00] <exec> 08└─I'm all about added players, as long as they are required by law to operate at a reasonable profit.
[10:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:02] <exec> 08└─Some BOTECs. California has near enough to 40 million people. USA average yearly health cost near enough $9000. Total $360 billion. 17% of that = $60 billion for pills. If they can cut that in half, $30 billion is still a fair bit of money. But the real benefit is that this could be just the first s...
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[11:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Speech-Disrupting Brain Disease Reflects Patients' Native Tongue - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:45] <exec> 08└─Breathe. Rainbow. Flower. Four to the left, three to the right. --flower is wrong...can't remember...Hulk sad.
[11:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:06] <exec> 08└─The site was created to cover STEM and related items
[11:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:07] <exec> 08└─Incorrect correction. Feta was just the draw that stroke the caramel slacks. SN has always been about the STEM, if that has to come with a little (please keep it a little) politics, which can be popular, then so be it. Quality of the informative comments is all i come here and STEM are the most inte...
[11:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:15] <exec> 08└─Internet is done. Last person to sign off turn the lights off before leaving.
[11:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:18] <exec> 08└─> ....Esther Dyson and former CEO Mike Roberts – have said they are setting up a new non-profit organization that they propose take over the .org registry.... Here's hoping they win. A few more details here, https://medium.com
[11:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:20] <exec> 08└─Is the Internet done, or is the World Wide Web done?
[11:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer: Giving Entire Course of Radiation Treatment in Less Than a Second is Feasible - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:29] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia cancer treatment radiates you! Only takes 90 seconds, full body penetration guaranteed.
[11:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer: Giving Entire Course of Radiation Treatment in Less Than a Second is Feasible - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:31] <exec> 08└─Or, in USA, everyone expects instant gratification -- cancer treatment at a kiosk in the mall.
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[12:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:16] <exec> 08└─SN has always been about the STEM
[12:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not actually interested in politics specifically, I'm more interested in anything pertaining to social. This may include STEM (when the STEM story has chances to have social ramifications), may include politics (but I'm not interested in just bashing His Orangeness Clown). To put some perspectiv...
[12:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:19] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you might do well as an editor.
[12:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 1664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:30] <exec> 08└─Never give up! That's just what criminals want their victims to do. No resistance makes robbery so much easier. These idiot, wannabe private rent-seeking monopolists are stinking this deal up. There can only be one reason for the lack of transparency: to enable them to sow confusion and hide what a...
[12:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer: Giving Entire Course of Radiation Treatment in Less Than a Second is Feasible - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:41] <exec> 08└─> in USA, everyone expects instant gratification sniping aside:- Note that there is some evidence that under FLASH regime, patient outcomes are better; there is less damage to healthy tissue for the same amount of damage on cancerous tissues. I don't believe there is a proper understanding of the me...
[12:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:12] <exec> 08└─Drug costs are only 17 %
[12:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:14] <exec> 08└─What the hell are people getting for $10k per year? That's nuts.
[12:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:16] <exec> 08└─For once I'm in agreement with (3766). Every part of the health care system has players that are on the take. If this approach by CA works with generics, the next steps are to extend something similar to (in no particular order): hospitals, doctors, test labs, etc. The only way to take cost out of h...
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[12:53:18] <exec> 08└─> A poor American, while having more financial uncertainty and less raw resources, land, and manpower than an ancient king, can nevertheless live better than that king in various ways No matter how many slaves and horses/camels that king had, there was no way to travel faster than horseback, and no...
[12:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:20] <exec> 08└─Socialist (Not the oligarchical faux socialism/communism the world has seen so far) would ensure everybody got the same amount of money, but thanks to the inflation they would still only have the same amount of purchasing power that they had before printing more :) People really should think more ab...
[12:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:12] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Walt's vision included making lots and lots of money. He was pretty damn good at it, too.
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[13:51:56] <exec> 08└─So, Russians developed fission propulsion for/and hypersonic missiles, the Chinese are all over the science articles and let US and EU behind (since 3 years ago, no less) [enago.com], the Nethers now produces AI that can do science (even for newyorkers). Yet some speak about "overall U.S. leadership...
[13:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Learning to see in 3D and More - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:57] <exec> 08└─Russians developed fission propulsion for/and hypersonic missiles
[13:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:29] <exec> 08└─If that were possible, why haven't some enterprising pharma types already done it? They could be pocketing a few Billion per year.
[13:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:30] <exec> 08└─For once I'm in agreement with (3766).
[13:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:17] <exec> 08└─but the cruise control is awesome! keeping your foot locked in a fixed position for hours cannot be good unless you're a member of some fakir cult doing it to honour some god (god of asphalt?). my lame as foot starts to hurt after 4 hours or so and one condition (of two) when buying a new car was th...
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[13:54:39] <exec> 08└─eh? this pretty cool. the core and the cloud are opposites. so if u build a tunnel that accelerates cloud particles from the left to right u get automatic core particle acceleration from right to left. i guess the difficult part is where they will meet and thus having to place the detector? anyways,...
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[14:52:29] <exec> 08└─I nominate Ethanol Fueled.
[14:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, that's, like, your opinion, man.
[14:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:33] <exec> 08└─tbh i have surfed the web "in the zone" and stumbled on stuff that i thought might be worth mentioning on SN. however, being "in the zone" the thought of having to open a new tab, click "submit story" etc etc was quickly making me lose my interest. submitting storied works, no doubt but it still see...
[14:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:35] <exec> 08└─New articles appear quite fast compared to other sites. If I catch an article late in the feed, commenting is dead because everyone is already on to the new ones.
[14:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer: Giving Entire Course of Radiation Treatment in Less Than a Second is Feasible - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:56] <exec> 08└─i suppose the "beams" are like etch a sketch? probably it would be rather cool if one had a "mask" one could program like a pixel monitor that would either mask the beam to the picture obtained from the MRI -or- had a beam that is actually made from single beams in a say ... 64 x 64 matrix... okay 8...
[14:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:35] <exec> 08└─wow! see a body lying in middle of the road. no traffic yet ... how fast can u rush, grab and pull the body to the side of the road before posibly being run over ... again? how difficult can it be. it is absolutly strange how getting cheaper medication to population needs any deliberation.
[14:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:36] <exec> 08└─Give the guy a break. edIII is not personally responsible for the corruption of politicians. Chewing out the voting population one person at a time is not going to change anything. Though I imagine it makes you feel better about the lizard person you almost certainly voted for.
[14:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brookhaven National Laboratory to Host Major New Nuclear Physics Facility - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:47] <exec> 08└─Nah, space is mostly empty, even solid lead... fire away into the atmosphere, make a rippin' plasma torch - maybe a light saber - of course the Gen1 prototype will need a massive building behind it to supply the energy to fire a minimal beam, but even a minimal beam fired into the atmosphere should...
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[15:51:52] <exec> 08└─High school students are way worse at coming up with probe names than elementary school students. "Ambition Tardigrada" is some bullshit that no one would ever like. "Novus" sounds like a fucking economy hatchback. "Aorum" is from some latin obsessed dumbass. Whereas "Little tinker" sounds awesome,...
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[15:51:54] <exec> 08└─Conqueror Contaminator Contagion Panspermia One Error rover name cannot exceed 40 charac Sticky Wheels
[15:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:56] <exec> 08└─I never understand why people object to "Rover McRoverface". Such a cute name, I argue we don't have it enough. Look, really; there's no rover named so! (grin) Also and "groundbreaker" is great if it does literally break ground with a drill or something. FULLSTOP
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[15:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:50] <exec> 08└─The topics under which stories can be submitted are Answers, Business, Career and Education, Code, Digital Liberty, Hardware, Mobile, News, OS, Rehash, Science, Slash, Software and Techonomics. If you look at that list you will notice that there is a very definite bias towards STEM and technology. W...
[15:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, horsehockey. Beware the Golden Mean fallacy. This site has been shifting hard authoritarian for years now. Remember, the Overton Window moves; what you think is "centrist" is a) not what the civilized world thinks is centrist and b) may change without you noticing it.
[15:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:54] <exec> 08└─We all have our own views - but we don't let that interfere with our role as editors.
[15:53:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 2163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:30] <exec> 08└─I would rather end up with a broken government option than a broken private option that creates billionaires living off the real suffering and death of other citizens. Fuck those billionaires, and all the c-suite hell bound scum in Big Pharma. Fuck them, Fuck them, Fuck them with a million mile wide...
[15:53:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:37] <exec> 08└─While high speed traders buy and sell all day, sometimes holding for seconds during a move. And avoid tax.
[15:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:56] <exec> 08└─So companies can sell "expensive" drugs cheaply, but raise the rates exponentially when insurance is involved? I'm no fan of big government but now is the time to step in. You can't sell the same product to different people with wildly different prices. Having insurance companies pay ridiculous sums...
[15:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:57] <exec> 08└─Fascist = Socialist https://mises.org [mises.org]
[15:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:00] <exec> 08└─Oh bullshit with penny pinching. The price of insulin has doubled in *four* years. Do you honestly think the cost of production has doubled as well? Why the massive increase other than greed? How do other countries like Germany produce and sell it for fractions of the price here without going broke?
[15:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:02] <exec> 08└─The prices you see your insurance pay on your bill are not what they actually pay. And yes, you can sell the same thing to different people for different prices. If the government steps in (even more) you will see prices rise more and quality/usefulness drop. Look at college in the US. Only a genera...
[15:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:04] <exec> 08└─Because it is illegal.
[15:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:06] <exec> 08└─Because the government made it illegal to sell the cheaper insulin. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org [hopkinsmedicine.org] Jeez, people in this thread must live in a fog of confusion.
[15:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:01] <exec> 08└─True, but he had a vision for the use of that money as well. He couldn't exactly do what he wanted with a couple pennies that he could rub together. Musk kinda reminds me of Walt Disney, they both had a few crackpot ideas, but the major difference is that I'd probably have liked to spend an afternoo...
[15:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:54] <exec> 08└─So, what? We're supposed to think that wasn't a a racist joke because the punchline is that there's non-racial identifier in addition to the racist identifier you clearly intentionally implied?
[15:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ron [5774] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:42] <exec> 08└─The rise in micro-plastics in the environment over the past fifty years correlates to: Rise in obesity over the past fifty years Decline in male testosterone levels over the same period Decline in male sperm counts over the same period Decline in the quality of public discourse (intelligence, temper...
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[16:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:54] <exec> 08└─You know they don't land with terminal velocity, right? That's the whole reason for that whole parachute-skycrane-airbag setup they had on discovery. Breaking ground that way breaks probes.
[16:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:56] <exec> 08└─Rovery McRoverface.
[16:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:58] <exec> 08└─Heck, I don't understand why anyone objected to Boaty McBoatFace back when that happened: That name managed to give the project far more public attention and interest than any other name they could have come up with, which was the whole point of the exercise of inviting people to name the boat. Yes,...
[16:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:52] <exec> 08└─some editors are keeping the door shut for it.
[16:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:54] <exec> 08└─This site has been shifting hard authoritarian for years now
[16:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:56] <exec> 08└─Don't know if it is any good - but some people have IRC on their smart phone.
[16:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:07] <exec> 08└─That's the thing, now isn't it? The process of tracking and assigning domain names shouldn't be a huge business. It should be more like the post office assigning and tracking postal addresses. Yes, there is expense there, but it's not something that people should be making a lot of money off of. Pri...
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[16:53:09] <exec> 08└─If they want to kill the golden goose, there's nothing stopping people from creating an alternative method of finding sites by human memorable names. The biggest restriction currently is that many people don't have static IP addresses and with IPv6, that should no longer be the case for people that...
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[16:53:21] <exec> 08└─> probably it would be rather cool if one had a "mask" one could program like a pixel monitor For conventional (x-ray) radiotherapy they in fact have a motorised shield that does exactly what you propose. For proton therapy, indeed the beam scans across the tumour; and because hadrons have a relativ...
[16:53:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:29] <exec> 08└─Save a billion here, a billion there, soon you're talking real money. Considering that insurance company bureaucracy and profit adds a trillion dollars to the cost of health care every year, time to start the death of a thousand cuts. The savings would pay for midicare for all,
[16:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:08] <exec> 08└─Pull another one.
[16:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:10] <exec> 08└─The "enterprising types" got themselves a nice regulatory capture, raised prices through the roof, where do you think those extra dollars are going now?
[16:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:12] <exec> 08└─From your link: A generic version of insulin, the lifesaving diabetes drug used by 6 million people in the United States, has never been available in this country because drug companies have made incremental improvements that kept insulin under patent from 1923 to 2014 Unless the physiology of human...
[16:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargemaster [wikipedia.org]
[16:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Stripped Helium Star Solves the Massive Black Hole Mystery - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:43] <exec> 08└─It wasn't hideously wrong. It was pretty reasonable given that what they were actually looking at has only been seen a couple of times out of millions of observations in astronomy. And their initial paper wasn't "we totally just exploded science!!!!" like most of the media ran for headlines. Their a...
[16:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 3362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:59] <exec> 08└─This comes down to two different and mutually exclusive meanings for equality. There is equality of opportunity and there is equality of result. I am completely and absolutely in favor of the former, but equally strongly opposed to the latter. For affirmative action this was one of the key issues. Q...
[16:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 1787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:00] <exec> 08└─Why do we pretend that we don't know the answer to this question? - Go look inside in any upper division aerospace engineering classroom and report back the demographics. - Go look inside any upper division psychology classroom and report back on the demographics. - Go look at whose on a b...
[16:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:02] <exec> 08└─Heinlein old fashioned? Not where women were concerned. The man was an enthusiastic feminist long before the term was coined, and his novels are full of competent, confident, fiercely independent women outclassing the men around them.
[16:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:51] <exec> 08└─You could not ask a search engine of "plastic eating bacteria" and notice at the very least this? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Forgive my not buying your bullshit. The "needing proof" of sporopollenin presence in mead of all things, do you really pretend to not...
[16:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microplastics are Everywhere, but Their Health Effects on Humans are Still Unclear - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:52] <exec> 08└─The Romans used lead acetate as a sweetener, resulting in various degrees of lead poisoning. https://www.smithsonianmag.com [smithsonianmag.com]
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[17:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:53] <exec> 08└─Time to write letters to the Court. This is a potential nuke to open-source and IT compatibility.
[17:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:54] <exec> 08└─At least if Oracle gets its way. I can't believe that a "software" company like Oracle behaves in such a stupid way. Lets hope the Supreme Court is smarter...
[17:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:56] <exec> 08└─When was the last time, outside of school, when you yourself have written a program entirely from scratch and not used even a single set of application programming interfaces? Yeah. Thought so.
[17:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:59] <exec> 08└─Oracle's going to blow themselves up if they win. It's not like they invented SQL...
[17:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:01] <exec> 08└─Hopefully the court recognizes that if the practice is struck down inside the US, it will continue in the rest of the world, and what that would mean for the competitiveness and value of US based software development overall. Are we up to 5/9 industry pocket judges yet? If so, the court may still ru...
[17:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:03] <exec> 08└─So, it's looking pretty good to be Intel/AMD/ARM right about now.
[17:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:05] <exec> 08└─It's horse shit to use copyright on non-artistic works anyway. Functional things are why patents exist.
[17:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:07] <exec> 08└─Indeed, You owe me a royalty for using that DONTDO prefix instruction. Others may have called it NOP, but that does not so anything. I claim inventing wasting computer time while it is actually doing something and simply ignores the works. No, it is different from an electric heater because mine can...
[17:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:10] <exec> 08└─A bunch of rich people are spending billions of dollars on lawyers to decide who owns and who stole an idea? Google pirated Ocacle's limited edition copy of Moon River.mp3 and implemented it in a mobile spy operating system to trick and track everyone who doesn't like iphones? And if one of the set...
[17:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:23] <exec> 08└─Rover McRoveyface.
[17:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:24] <exec> 08└─The moon is part of mars after all.
[17:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:26] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, it was fun the first time and now it's run into the ground like a NASA probe that has to convert to metric units.
[17:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:28] <exec> 08└─I supported boaty back then. It makes me cringe now. Difference? Kind of a weird thing - I got to work a job where formality was optimal. I was working with people as a leader, but under no specific dress code myself. I thought this was awesome and everyday would be t-shirt and jeans or shorts day....
[17:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:31] <exec> 08└─by c0lo (156) Neutral on Tuesday January 14, @04:48PM (#943108) I never understand why people object to "Rover McRoverface".
[17:54:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 822 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:05] <exec> 08└─I remember when a million dollars was a lot of money. When there weren't very many millionaires and I had never even heard of a billionaire. When the richest quiz show offered 64,000 dollars to the very few that made it all the way up the ladder. Are we now on the verge of having trillionaires? We'r...
[17:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:46] <exec> 08└─as long as they are required by law to operate at a reasonable profit.
[17:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:47] <exec> 08└─TFA says nothing about changing laws or regulations. Whatever is illegal now will be illegal under the new plan.
[17:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:49] <exec> 08└─Lots of bureaucracy, highly solvent insurance companies, rich old dudes running pharmaceutical companies, and the plebs are turned into wage slaves because they can't afford to quit.
[17:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:42] <exec> 08└─Also as one tangent on the chess thing. You don't need to be just a little better to skew the statistics. The ELO is a probabilistic predictor based on relative performance. Here [fide.com] is a list of the top 100 chess players in the world. What you'll find is extremely peculiar, yet repeats const...
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[18:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:54] <exec> 08└─Except patents do not apply to software, mathematics, or business models. There is a lot of noise trying to fool people into paying up anyway, but at the end of the day they don't have to at least not for software.
[18:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sfm [675] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:55] <exec> 08└─Imagine how this could affect programs like "WINE" (Windows emulation under linux)
[18:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:57] <exec> 08└─You're not actually suggesting software patents as an alternative to copyright, are you? That would be just as bad as API copyrights, if not worse. As it stands, if you want to open your work up all you have to do is choose a license and go. If it were all patent based, you'd have to go through the...
[18:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:00] <exec> 08└─Illegal in the USA and perfectly fine everywhere else. Just like about any and all software ever written. All software stands on the shoulders of those before.
[18:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:02] <exec> 08└─That would be incorrect. Software patents have been severely limited, and rightly so, but they have not been thrown out entirely.
[18:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:04] <exec> 08└─You don't know much about copyright or patents then. Patents are a fuckload shorter and much, much harder to qualify for with the recent software patent case law. And you're not required to obtain a patent for your work even if it does qualify for one. By all means, invent something and let it be us...
[18:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:06] <exec> 08└─If this goes the wrong way then all AMD CPUs would be in violation of Intel's x86 rights and all Intel 64 bit except Itanic would be in violation of AMD's amd64 rights. And VIA would be dead in the water.
[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:08] <exec> 08└─Invalid form key: N4TyHua6SF Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button to accidentally reuse a form. Please try again. If the problem persists, and all other options have been tried, contact the site administrator. Objects are lost only because people look where they...
[18:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:10] <exec> 08└─Even so, you can't violate a copyright by accident or through independent invention, but you can violate a patent without even knowing that it exists. Oh, and developers should never ever look at any patents ever because that increases your liability.
[18:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:13] <exec> 08└─Ah. Yes. My confusion. The article is about the US and in that jurisdiction they have been weakened but not quite eliminated. In the EU, they have never been valid but small groups of businesses and much larger groups of lawyers are just taking upon themselves to ignore the law and pretend they are...
[18:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:15] <exec> 08└─IBM sponsored and was the primary contributor of resources to an independently developed Java work-alike called Apache Harmony. (about JDK 1.5 level, IIRC) Apache Harmony was, naturally, under the Apache license. Google wanted something like Java for Android, so Google used Apache Harmony. Sun was o...
[18:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:17] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention "submarine patents". And I do not mean patents on submarines.
[18:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:19] <exec> 08└─Hopefully the court recognizes that if the practice is struck down inside the US, it will continue in the rest of the world, and what that would mean for the competitiveness and value of US based software development overall.
[18:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:21] <exec> 08└─Prediction: Democratic appointments will rule that copyright does NOT apply to APIs Republican appointments will rule that it does
[18:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:23] <exec> 08└─Someone once told me that wine is not an emulator.
[18:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:26] <exec> 08└─But what about Windows Subsystem for Linux? It is just the reverse. I remember when WINE was able to run under Windows Subsystem for Linux for the first time. (And I got a front page article posted on SN about this important new way to run EXEs on Windows OS.) Oh, wait. But now . . . Windows Subsyst...
[18:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:28] <exec> 08└─It's not an instruction set emulator, as in a virtual machine.
[18:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:30] <exec> 08└─Even so, you can't violate a copyright by accident or through independent invention
[18:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:47] <exec> 08└─or in the same vein, Planet Motherfucker. While it's roving the martian landscape it can blast White Zombie.
[18:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:49] <exec> 08└─Leroy.
[18:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:51] <exec> 08└─"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." Dan Quayle, 8/11/...
[18:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Learning to see in 3D and More - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:06] <exec> 08└─This is a very interesting article but I do not really know why they describe it as seeing in 3D. I may have misunderstood, but it seems to me that it is mostly about improving how patterns are detected in 2D, whatever the way they may be deformed by the shape of the surface on which they are analyz...
[18:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:50] <exec> 08└─TMB works for free - just like the rest of us. How much time do we have to work to justify the amount we are paid?
[18:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:52] <exec> 08└─I second that! He's the Walter E. Kurtz of Soylent. He's perfect! He should be chief editor! A shotgun wedding made in heaven!
[18:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:54] <exec> 08└─Why would you think the GP AC was moi? Submission and editing are quite different tasks, and one's record at one should not be a grounds for being banned from the other. Unless, my dear former Senior Editor, there is a pre-existing bias on SN. Say, perhaps, against the SLS and interested in life-ext...
[18:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:56] <exec> 08└─Speaking of topics, I was touched that SN heeded a notion of mine and tried out a monthly SF book recommendation. But I just don't read SF like I once did, and that seems a bit sad. Or maybe not, if reading habits could be seen as a life progression. Maybe reading fiction is sort of like listening t...
[18:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:09] <exec> 08└─So we will have a bake sale to take on the 10 layers of obfuscating shell company hedge fund capital management firms between this and Thrive Capital, and Unit 8200. I still can't get over the fact that the thing that "Erik Brooks" Vampire esq. or whoever/whatever that face in a suit really is, did...
[18:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:10] <exec> 08└─fuck these stupid assholes. we need something like: https://handshake.org [handshake.org]
[18:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer: Giving Entire Course of Radiation Treatment in Less Than a Second is Feasible - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this could improve the number of patients that could benefit from proton-therapy. There are very few machines available in the world compared to radiotherapy probably because of the cost an complexity, but it seems to be more precise and with less side effects than standard photon-based...
[18:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer: Giving Entire Course of Radiation Treatment in Less Than a Second is Feasible - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:25] <exec> 08└─> ...lower the overall per-patient cost Dreamer spotted!!
[18:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:20] <exec> 08└─The price of insulin has doubled in *four* years.
[18:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:22] <exec> 08└─Because it is the seat of the world empire so the federal government attracts all the most corrupt people?
[18:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:24] <exec> 08└─Americans want the good stuff. Apparently the type of insulin [ucsf.edu] ("Activity Profile" graph) affects how often it needs to be injected. I'm no expert, but that seems like an important factor.
[18:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:26] <exec> 08└─pure theft. they are criminals. until people realize this and start resisting we will remain slaves.
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[19:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:50] <exec> 08└─Ribbet Robots or Ribbots?
[19:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:52] <exec> 08└─hybrids with meatbags, the horror...
[19:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:54] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrot [wikipedia.org]
[19:52:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:04] <exec> 08└─When was the last time, outside of school, when you yourself have written a program entirely from scratch and not used even a single set of application programming interfaces? Yeah. Thought so.
[19:52:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:15] <exec> 08└─Illegal in the USA and perfectly fine everywhere else. Just like about any and all software ever written. All software stands on the shoulders of those before.
[19:52:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 701 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:23] <exec> 08└─IBM sponsored and was the primary contributor of resources to an independently developed Java work-alike called Apache Harmony. (about JDK 1.5 level, IIRC) Apache Harmony was, naturally, under the Apache license. Google wanted something like Java for Android, so Google used Apache Harmony. Sun was o...
[19:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:32] <exec> 08└─I can't believe that a "software" company like Oracle behaves in such a stupid way.
[19:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:34] <exec> 08└─Stupidity and Greed are not the exclusive "intellectual" property of only the Republican (or Democratic) party. Greed "trumps" stupidity. You can bet that Democrats will support copyrightable APIs if the right left palms get greased. Corruption is a universal in politics.
[19:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:37] <exec> 08└─That was "Legal Suit Larry" and it was spelled "whine".
[19:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:39] <exec> 08└─Great News: Wine Runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux [soylentnews.org]
[19:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:41] <exec> 08└─The case doesn't mean there can't be public APIs, but rather that companies have the right to copyright their own APIs. So if Blahco says you can't create a mock API to emulate our features, then you can't. SQL was intended to be a public API, Java (under Oracle) was not.
[19:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:44] <exec> 08└─One of these days the Chinese are going to turn our own stupid IP laws against us in our own courts.
[19:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:46] <exec> 08└─I think you must have four bars that are "too similar". This is why we need computers to write songs with every possible chord progression so that every song ever written has four bars somewhere that match some four bars written by the computer.
[19:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:48] <exec> 08└─Everyone will just move their software holdings and development overseas like RISC-V already did... Copyright API waivers will be required by most cloud providers and such which will end up being reflected in the rest of the industry until you won't even be able to run a computer game on Windows wit...
[19:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not claiming otherwise. IP stupidity is depressingly bipartisan. However, being able to say the internet is not a telecommunications service with a straight face is a uniquely Republican trait, for example.
[19:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:52] <exec> 08└─You should consider things such as the TPP when making comments like this. It was little more than a giant multinational corporate handout with extensive strengthening of intellectual property laws and an undermining of domestic courts ability to side issues in lieu of corporate tribunals. And it wa...
[19:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:14] <exec> 08└─"Ambition Tardigrada" is some bullshit that no one would ever like.
[19:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:15] <exec> 08└─Jenkins? What're they looking for, Martian chickens?
[19:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:17] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna skip the easy owns like "citation needed" or whatever to say "How the fuck could you think that?" Tardigrades have many admirable qualities persistence, resilience, elegant simplicity, but ambition is not among them.
[19:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:21] <exec> 08└─That glib "Boaty McBoatface" line of thinking got us the current President of the United States and Brexit, to name just two of many examples.
[19:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:23] <exec> 08└─And you can power your equipment there using a potatoe. Because the future will be better tomorrow! (Sorry, I remember the days when Quayle was considered the biggest idiot in politics. How I wish it had stayed that way.)
[19:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:25] <exec> 08└─When you get old enough, it's not that you get wiser, it's just that everything dumb happens again but worse.
[19:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:28] <exec> 08└─The ambition is for the rover to be as good as a tardigrade.
[19:54:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks for your contribution - I assume it is you Ari... Submitting over 100 stories condemning the Alt-Right does not seem terribly impartial to me, particularly when the subject matter is not what this site is all about. There are plenty of places where politics is discussed but, unless there is a...
[19:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:32] <exec> 08└─When something like this makes it to the front page: House Deals Blow to Millions of Small Businesses by Passing Corporate Transparency Act [soylentnews.org] But the third President of the Unites States to ever be impeached, does not... Yeah, I think there's an argument for a rightward slant there.
[19:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:34] <exec> 08└─This site has been shifting hard authoritarian for years now.
[19:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:02] <exec> 08└─"Once the government starts doing it there is no more opting out" why not? only cowards, whores, and idiots pay the income tax. what's your excuse?
[19:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:03] <exec> 08└─"I am one who bought a house long time ago. Sell it? Hah! Government considers all that increase in dollars as taxable gain." In the U.S. you get a $500K exemption ($250K if you're single) every two years on the sale of a home, as long as you've lived in it two of the last five years. https://reales...
[19:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:05] <exec> 08└─What makes you (and Newsome) think inserting another entity between generic drug makers and the public will reduce costs? It might be possible push down costs if California was building their own government run production facilities, creating new competition with the established drug makers, but tha...
[19:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Mobileye Has a Plan to Dominate Self-Driving - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:54] <exec> 08└─Musk claimed (talk/seminar on autonomy, ~10 months ago?) that first mover advantage plays to Tesla for just this reason. All the Teslas phone home (or will soon) when the onboard video records something new that isn't on the map. Map gets tagged for updating as soon as one Tesla gets to the changed...
[19:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost Half of NASA's Latest Astronaut Graduates Are Women - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:01] <exec> 08└─ok. my comment on chess and "best" wasn't that good. let me try something else: please check record sprinters/swimmers etc and compare times. this is very different from comparing number of medals of elite athletes. check record height jumps (value of height). again very different from number of med...
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[20:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:47] <exec> 08└─Now that the robots can be created with an external layer of living cells they will be able to travel through a time portal and "terminate" the leaders of the future resistance.
[20:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:48] <exec> 08└─Time travel is an unrealistic trope used by films, books, etc. Even, if we could do travel backwards in time. Doing so would be the most dangerous thing we could ever do. You could literally destroy the future or you could end up caught in an alternate timeline or you could create a time paradox tha...
[20:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:50] <exec> 08└─Causing the hybrid pain is certainly one consideration, but what worries me is losing control of them. One of the possible uses in TFA is cleaning up microplastics, so releasing a swarm of these new things into an ocean to clean up is going to subject them (possibly) to the forces of evolution, whi...
[20:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:52] <exec> 08└─Army of frog robots exacts revenge on France?
[20:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:54] <exec> 08└─Reproduction isn't built into the design, I'm not exactly sure how you could evolve without that magic component.
[20:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:57] <exec> 08└─There are probably French people reading this, you insensitive clod!
[20:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:42] <exec> 08└─I can't argue. That is an astonishingly brazen example of corruption.
[20:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 2583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:43] <exec> 08└─So what? I am quite happy to limit myself to Sun Microsystems Java 1.5 API, which I still have kicking around, and which I was still using 6 years ago for both simplicity and backwards compatibility. Oracle can't retroactively take away my license, or my redistribution rights. There haven't been al...
[20:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:45] <exec> 08└─AMD and intel had cross licenses, and after the agreement terminated, intel got caught flat footed with amd64 being better than their own, so had to get a license from amd to use amd64 instruction set.
[20:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:47] <exec> 08└─Hopefully the US Government recognizes that if secure encryption is stuck down in the US, it will continue in the rest of the world, and what that wood mean for the competitiveness and value of US based cryptographic products overall.
[20:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:49] <exec> 08└─"WINE" (Windows emulation under linux)
[20:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:52] <exec> 08└─If stalman was so right how come he always had to go begging on his web site for a room for a few months at a time? The real winners of open source were google Facebook, amazon, etc. We can add IBM to that list, which explains systemd even though most non-big-Corp users don't want it. Moving from s...
[20:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:54] <exec> 08└─IIRC Hillary Clinton supported ACTA (I think it was) and then changed her mind while running for elections of course. Because every politician changes their views during elections (but changes them right back afterwards). and let's not forget Bill Clinton passed the DMCA. So don't tell me Republican...
[20:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:56] <exec> 08└─America's finest news source, as usual, saw what would happen when this nonsense was taken to its logical conclusion [theonion.com].
[20:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:58] <exec> 08└─Only US lawyers. China will love this, since it will hand them a huge chunk of the non-US market on a platter. The US courts don't have jurisdiction in the other 95.6 % of the world. And Trump keeps showing how trade sanctions backfire.
[20:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:00] <exec> 08└─You don't need intent, but you do need to have been exposed to the material you allegedly copied. For music, I guess judges just take that as a given. Clean room reimplementation works precisely because copyright doesn't apply to independent work. If you can prove that you've never been exposed to t...
[20:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:02] <exec> 08└─I can believe the stupid bit as well. The huge multinational I work for would have been one of Oracle's biggest customers, but due to the way they have treated us we are currently in the process of entirely moving to SAP, and by this time next year, we will not be a customer of theirs at all.
[20:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:31] <exec> 08└─Don't blame me, I didn't vote for Bojo McBrexitface.
[20:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:32] <exec> 08└─Everyone with a brain knows...
[20:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:34] <exec> 08└─Mod +1 Bittersweet.
[20:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03einar [494] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:40] <exec> 08└─The bone I have to pick with political discussions is that they are nearly always about some local rubbish. Your village might be the most beautiful one and its inhabitants nice and important people, but believe me, it is not the center of the world.
[20:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:56] <exec> 08└─Is that has-been clown Tim Berners-Lee in there?
[20:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:11] <exec> 08└─Every country that has done this. Same as congress found that an entirely single payer health care system would sale a trillion every year. Why do you think insulin costs 9x more in the USA than in Canada? Profits for the insurance companies and drug distribution companies. Same with a drug made i...
[20:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:13] <exec> 08└─5 penfills of insulin for "only" $100 USD. As opposed to $48 Canadian in Quebec. Your example linked to cost savings on insulin, but after taking into account the exchange rate between Canada and the USA, insulin is still only 1/3 the cost. Probably less than her copay with her insurer.
[20:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:15] <exec> 08└─Generics have nothing to do with the high cost of insulin in the USA. Canada sells the same brand names for 90% less. That's why you won't find generic insulin on the Canadian market - no rapacious prices allowed for the name brands means no real market for generic insulin. You're going to get funny...
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[21:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:47] <exec> 08└─Since the amount of heat being added to the oceans is equivalent to every person on the planet running 100 imaginary microwave ovens all day and all night, just get everyone to run 100 imaginary air conditioners all day and all night.
[21:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:48] <exec> 08└─How much of this heating is caused by robots?
[21:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:51] <exec> 08└─... and tell her to glare at the ocean until it cools down.
[21:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:53] <exec> 08└─The report shows that 27% of the warming is caused by power and HVAC used in data centers (Google, Facebook and the like)... do advertising robots count?
[21:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:55] <exec> 08└─Every place on the planet is warming at twice the rate of every other place. [wattsupwiththat.com]
[21:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:57] <exec> 08└─How much is caused by cryptocurrency farms?
[21:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:59] <exec> 08└─Not that much. About the same as the entire city of las vegas, which is a lot for a pointless idea with no real value, but less than all the millions of computers and tvs running netflix put together.
[21:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:01] <exec> 08└─There are only sixteen places on the planet then, according to your source.
[21:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:17] <exec> 08└─Good point. Assuming reproduction isn't something they could begin themselves. I have no idea how that would work though. I suppose a kill switch of some kind would be easy enough to add.
[21:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:18] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I'm sure one day a trillion of these guys, who were originally deployed to teraform a lifeless planet in one of Dr Markus' failed and abandoned early Genesis prototypes, will be threatening peace talks out of Piccard.
[21:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:20] <exec> 08└─Meh. Life is suffering. Welcome to the party.
[21:53:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 2583 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:06] <exec> 08└─So what? I am quite happy to limit myself to Sun Microsystems Java 1.5 API, which I still have kicking around, and which I was still using 6 years ago for both simplicity and backwards compatibility. Oracle can't retroactively take away my license, or my redistribution rights. There haven't been al...
[21:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:17] <exec> 08└─Neither is healthy for you, let alone both.
[21:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:18] <exec> 08└─The huge multinational I work for would have been one of Oracle's biggest customers, but due to the way they have treated us we are currently in the process of entirely moving to SAP, and by this time next year, we will not be a customer of theirs at all.
[21:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, one would hope that a case would be decided upon its legal standing and merits and not depend upon the number of amicus briefs filed.
[21:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:22] <exec> 08└─Though I have to say it's one hell of a sad state of affairs when we can predict and debate, probably quite accurately, the outcome of what should be a complex, esoteric, and deeply nuanced case intermixing between constitutional and copyright law - based on little more than the political affinities...
[21:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:25] <exec> 08└─Different dead presidents' faces on those Amicus Briefs apply differing weights towards swaying the outcome in a particular direction. But other Amicus Briefs have fields such as "Date", "Pay to the order of", "Amount", etc.
[21:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:27] <exec> 08└─Will I be able to see ideas accidentally without paying for them?
[21:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, people shilling for Stalman is a bad thing. The open source model has made it almost impossible for independent developers to make a living, except for some game devs. We need to realize that the damage has been done, how it happened, and how it inevitably led to "software as a service " and th...
[21:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:31] <exec> 08└─Trump keeps showing how trade sanctions backfire.
[21:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:33] <exec> 08└─So don't tell me Republicans are more in favor of IP than Democrats. If anything I'm more afraid of the Democrats favoring such silly IP rulings.
[21:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:35] <exec> 08└─I remember. The DMCA was a horrifying travesty of justice and due process. No statutory penalty for false DMCA claims, nor process to deal with it. Now DMCA is just accepted as normal. It doesn't even offend people.
[21:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:38] <exec> 08└─And in the Senate Every Republican AND every Democrat voted for it. [govtrack.us]
[21:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:40] <exec> 08└─If stalman was so right how come he always had to go begging on his web site for a room for a few months at a time?
[21:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:42] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, OpenJDK comes with a javac and development tools. OpenJDK was reorganized sometime after java 8. It now no longer includes a separate JRE subfolder. The JRE is "merged" into the JDK. So look in the top level /bin for things like javac, jar, etc. OpenJDK is GPL v2 + Classpath ex...
[21:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:44] <exec> 08└─You posted so you fixed it. Would be nice if you were to describe the problem and possible solutions in a journal. Sounds to me like it's poor handling of expired cookies.
[21:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:46] <exec> 08└─We need government mandated ROT17. "The government selected ROT17 because two applications of it will not revert the ciphertext back to plain text.", the senator explained. "...and furthermore", the senator added, "we chose ROT17 because 17 is a prime number unlike 13."
[21:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:48] <exec> 08└─There must have been some industry organization(s) bribing lobbying both sides.
[21:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:51] <exec> 08└─and J2EE is just another excuse to make things so bloated that it guarantees job security.
[21:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:23] <exec> 08└─It barely even registers as a "joke". "Joke" is just being used as a gloss for "not serious". But that's no reason why the names should be serious, non-seriousness of name does not harm operational capabilities or efficiencies. Britain got one, I think it's perfectly fair that the US has one too if...
[21:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:24] <exec> 08└─You know they don't land with terminal velocity, right?
[21:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 067-Billion-Year-Old Stardust is the Oldest Material Ever Found on Earth - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:33] <exec> 08└─Still not as old as The Mighty Buzzard.
[21:55:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:11] <exec> 08└─The site was created to cover STEM and related items
[21:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:34] <exec> 08└─It would have worked if you got me 5 years ago. I can submit and can singlehandedly mangle even the most boring others' submissions into entertaining reads in their own right. I have a feel for the pulse here, and now what balance of stories to bring to the front page to make the readership a happie...
[21:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:35] <exec> 08└─Universally, influxes of minorities ruin traditionally non-minority neighborhoods. When you too get the balls to start pointing these things out, you'll get an outpouring of support from all those who would be censured or even jailed for expressing the same notion. Unless you're a fucking Pajeet sti...
[21:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:38] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as a 'simple' poll - as we learned the hard way last time.
[21:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:40] <exec> 08└─No. But the candidate is posting in this thread.
[21:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:42] <exec> 08└─That told 'em.
[21:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:44] <exec> 08└─I can confirm that as a non-American what many of you guys think of as "left" would be considered extreme hard right wing in my country, as hemocyanin confirms below.
[21:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:17] <exec> 08└─Only idiots still use anything with a longer activity profile than NPH. But the marketing beast needs to be fed. Also the chart is grossly inaccurate. NPH stays active up to 24 hours - see the product insert. - not "more than 12 hours." Take it at bedtime, skip breakfast and lunch , and pass out in...
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[22:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:57] <exec> 08└─How many innocent reindeers got murdered? Eh? Queasling facsists.
[22:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:58] <exec> 08└─Eventually you will just not be allowed outside for your own safety!
[22:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:14] <exec> 08└─What happened to all the statistics about Bitcoin (alone) consuming more electricity than Switzerland? Then factor in all the alt-coins, etc.
[22:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 2616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:16] <exec> 08└─Dumbass shill who's paid hundreds of thousands a year to lie to you lies to you. In what fucking psychotic-ass world is spain's rate of change being "50 percent superior to the average of nations in the northern hemisphere" "Hotter than everywhere else". I'll tell you where, straight up Watt's ass....
[22:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:18] <exec> 08└─As is often the case with these AGW scare articles, which are mainly intended to bolster grant funding, there's a fundamental flaw. You don't even need to read the article: the author list is sufficient to see the problem is faulty equipment. While AliExpress thermometers are quite inexpensive and w...
[22:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:20] <exec> 08└─I dont get it.... his post I do get thou.
[22:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:22] <exec> 08└─Ok boomer.
[22:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:25] <exec> 08└─Watt of Watt's Up With That is a paid shill, and only stupid people believe a word out of his mouth.
[22:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:27] <exec> 08└─Thou is Yoda. Get you do not!
[22:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:29] <exec> 08└─I would put good money on the average bitcoin miner consuming lots more power than the average netflix device. Especially, considering the huge use of tablets / phones for watching Netflix. Even then, I would imagine the average user is more likely using a Roku type device as opposed to a full-fledg...
[22:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:31] <exec> 08└─Ok boomer.
[22:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:33] <exec> 08└─Every place on the planet is warming at twice the rate of every other place. [wattsupwiththat.com]
[22:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:35] <exec> 08└─My link to alaska weather data got eaten by the formatting gremlin [wunderground.com]
[22:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:37] <exec> 08└─But they're priests^Wscientists, don't you believe the religion^Wscience?
[22:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:40] <exec> 08└─They said it was irrefutable!
[22:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:42] <exec> 08└─Well I don't see you refuting it....
[22:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:00] <exec> 08└─To quote a famous movie. "Life finds a way" -- Rock Star Math guy
[22:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:02] <exec> 08└─ME AM PLAY GODS.
[22:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:04] <exec> 08└─The dangers inherent with introducing new species to new environments are definitely relevant to the discussion. Tangent: The Bible mentions two instances of what could possibly dinosaurs, as created by God. There's another explanation, that would definitely exclude dinosaurs form being in heaven. A...
[22:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:06] <exec> 08└─Army of frog robots deployed by France to crush their enemies! https://www.quora.com
[22:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:08] <exec> 08└─How far fetched would it be for the dinosaurs to have been genetically engineered / hybrid animals.
[22:53:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:48] <exec> 08└─One of these days the Chinese are going to turn our own stupid IP laws against us in our own courts.
[22:53:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not claiming otherwise. IP stupidity is depressingly bipartisan. However, being able to say the internet is not a telecommunications service with a straight face is a uniquely Republican trait, for example.
[22:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:22] <exec> 08└─In 2012 they mandated 56 bit max encryption, which is silly easy to break.... if you have the algorithm.
[22:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:24] <exec> 08└─While the encryption export law itself is idiotic, that doesn't mean that 99% of involved US officials don't recognize the reality of the situation.
[22:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:26] <exec> 08└─These trade deals are huge with very many parts. Unless a politician stakes out a position on one of them, it is not easy to disentangle if it passes with bipartisan support. A proper compromise bill will have positions that various people or groups dislike. People vote for it because it is deemed t...
[22:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:28] <exec> 08└─why? They can just buy the place [marketwatch.com]
[22:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:30] <exec> 08└─The friend of the court filings [scotusblog.com] have been absolutely lopsided. Does anybody support Oracle, besides Oracle?
[22:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:32] <exec> 08└─'..This is why we need computers to write songs with every possible chord progression ..'
[22:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:34] <exec> 08└─Doing what I suggest first might lower the purchase price.
[22:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:36] <exec> 08└─Democrats will say it's "Cultural Appropriation" to use an API.
[22:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI Learning to see in 3D and More - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:27] <exec> 08└─Hypersonic won't change anything about mutually assured destruction
[22:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:26] <exec> 08└─Azuma, you would make a great Soylent editor. You have all the chops. Even if you only do it for a season, I hope you take a turn at the wheel.
[22:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:27] <exec> 08└─Those elections are over
[22:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:29] <exec> 08└─I encourage you to join the team
[22:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, the costs of the drugs can be reduced via subsidy. I wasn't arguing that they couldn't. I was arguing that the total cost doesn't decrease if the government just pays the drug company the $1000 and then only charges the public $1 for it. So far there's no indication that the drug companies woul...
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[23:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:56] <exec> 08└─Oooohhh look, an evil hooman mod me down. Quisling norsky, not doubt. Hey, FBI, I know you are here, trace the mofo that downmodded me - s/he will bomb a synagogue soon enough. But then the Jews revealed themselves to be pretty nasty on their own ...
[23:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:58] <exec> 08└─Sadly in just the first 2 weeks of 2020, a 2-year old child was run over while crossing at a crosswalk. Because some junctions can have green lights for both traffic and pedestrians at the same time.
[23:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:00] <exec> 08└─Olso's road fatality rate for 2019 was 0.1 death per 100,000 people. American States vary between 12 and 26 per 100,000 people
[23:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:02] <exec> 08└─That's not why that happened. 2 year olds are short, lacking in judgment and shouldn't be crossing the street alone. So, there's more to the story than just being allowed to cross the cross street while drivers continue driving. I'm not familiar with this incident, it could have been a kid dashing i...
[23:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:04] <exec> 08└─I recall talking with a Norwegian couple years ago that got special permission to have two cars in a household. Married doctors and they both could get called. So apparently it isn't entirely optional. Be interesting to hear from someone with more direct/current knowledge of how things play th...
[23:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:06] <exec> 08└─Traveling alone in ones car less often isn't a problem in places where they have real mass transit. The extra time it takes to take a bus or subway is made up for by the reduced time it takes to find parking. It's mainly in America where we allowed the auto industry to destroy our mass transit that...
[23:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:08] <exec> 08└─It's also likely something that's not an issue for most people over there. It's only recently that families having more than one car was an expectation. And, if you live somewhere with functioning mass transit, you probably don't need more than one car anyways. The main thing that a typical family n...
[23:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:37] <exec> 08└─You can tell by the way they pretend climate scientists are somehow religious leaders, and somehow can't be criticized. I think it might be something they say on Fox News.
[23:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:39] <exec> 08└─An accurate title for that article: These sixteen places are warming up faster than average. Doesn't sound so shocking, does it?
[23:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:41] <exec> 08└─Mod parent up... he's a special little snowflake who deserves recognition.
[23:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:43] <exec> 08└─It's their superpower: Projection [wikipedia.org]
[23:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:46] <exec> 08└─It's not an insult. It's a dismissal. Your opinions have been heard. Your actions have been observed. You can go now. The rest of us have work to do.
[23:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:48] <exec> 08└─I'll contribute by dumping my 30 year old broken ass air conditioner into the nearest ocean.
[23:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:50] <exec> 08└─For every bitcoin miner you have thousands to tens of thousands of users with thin clients.
[23:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:52] <exec> 08└─So says the cancer research who can't understand the armitage doll model of carcinogenesis... I assure you 100% of your work has been worthless reading of tea leaves, or worse, i you have trouble with that one. I can just imagine you finding all thesignificant correlations between genes and then the...
[23:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:54] <exec> 08└─Not the same AC, but: Hateful emo self
[23:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:39] <exec> 08└─EVERYTHING is an API
[23:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:40] <exec> 08└─The open source model has made it almost impossible for independent developers to make a living
[23:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 2114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:42] <exec> 08└─I don't use google or Facebook, and yet both still track me via 3rd parties. I want my cut. In real $$$, not in services I don't use. As for stalman, more of us would have made more money working independently if free software hadn't given people that software should be free, forcing the monetizati...
[23:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:44] <exec> 08└─Sure. You used to be able to buy Netscape at the local office supply store. Same with compilers, databases, etc. There was real competition. Not any more. Same with all sorts of productivity apps, such as flow charters, word processors, note taking programs, calendar and appointments software, utili...
[23:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:18] <exec> 08└─"Bob"
[23:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 067-Billion-Year-Old Stardust is the Oldest Material Ever Found on Earth - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:27] <exec> 08└─5-7 billion is still pretty far away from 12 billion years which was the era of peak star formation (and peak supernova activity). Somewhere in between is probably the oldest dust that we can actually see.
[23:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:39] <exec> 08└─tbh i have surfed the web "in the zone" and stumbled on stuff that i thought might be worth mentioning on SN. however, being "in the zone" the thought of having to open a new tab, click "submit story" etc etc was quickly making me lose my interest.
[23:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:15] <exec> 08└─I've never seen pills that were a good idea
[23:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:16] <exec> 08└─Actually, I've got a PhD in pharmacology. These people have no idea wtf they are doing and standards are extremely low, I'd even say profoundly stupid.