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[10:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:25] <exec> 08└─But perhaps of most interest are the details of how the group pursues those who illegally "cam" and then distribute movies online.
[10:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CoolHand - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:34] <exec> 08└─(dolphin-emu.org ... grumble... what a name! Is it a dolphin or an emu?
[10:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:38] <exec> 08└─She sure was a beautiful person. I would have liked to have known her as a friend. There is more discussion of this on Reddit [reddit.com] I may be wrong in this, but It is my understanding from what I saw there that she was tormented by a lot of needless social issues. I wish I could have been the...
[10:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:40] <exec> 08└─Where did you get that information? From what I read, she was suffering from depressions, which does not necessarily mean anyone else was giving her a hard time. Depressions are just a hell of a disease, like dying from inside but not being allowed to actually go. And socially often not really accep...
[10:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:42] <exec> 08└─Where did you get that information? From what I read, she was suffering from depressions, which does not necessarily mean anyone else was giving her a hard time.
[10:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:43] <exec> 08└─This story contains three things guaranteed to generate flames in this day and age that really shouldn't: 1) A depression-related suicide 2) A transgender-related suicide 3) A female developer working on a gaming-related project I'm no SJW, far from it, but I'm buying up aspirin in anticipation of t...
[10:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:45] <exec> 08└─At the time I'm posting this, parent is modded "Flamebait". Why the fuck would that be?
[10:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:47] <exec> 08└─+1 wth!
[10:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:4, Informative) 02Editors: surname was spelled B-r-y-k - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:49] <exec> 08└─It took me a while to find information (only partly due to the spelling), but for others wondering what happened, evidently Rachel Bryk committed suicide, assumedly in connection to being trans [ign.com]. Oddly, that IGN link was the only place I could find that stated that outright — one subreddi...
[10:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ox0000 [5111] (Score:1) 02Re:Editors: surname was spelled B-r-y-k - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:50] <exec> 08└─OT seemingly everywhere else was using the polite phrasing "passed away."
[10:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Tip for anyone dangerously depressed - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:52] <exec> 08└─A tip for anyone that is at the edge, now or in the future: If you don't think you can sit on your hands long enough to get help, take oldschool Benadryl. It will knock you into a dreamless sleep at a dose far below toxic levels (try taking the recommended dose plus one, then a second if needed), an...
[10:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Illuminati - 06Rachel Byrk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:54] <exec> 08└─Its the Illuminati. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Maybe she found out something she was not supposed to know. Maybe she was going to find out something in the future, and would tell us all about it, so they decided to get rid of her.
[10:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazon - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:16:59] <exec> 08└─No other major tech company can make such a claim.
[10:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:If you're going to compare companies - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:03] <exec> 08└─Care to explain what you mean?
[10:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:If you're going to compare companies - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:05] <exec> 08└─So we can compare Apples with Oranges. Duh.
[10:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Blind Buyers - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:07] <exec> 08└─Many of which are actually worthy of being patents.
[10:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:And before IBM - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:10] <exec> 08└─It works better if you press the "I feel lucky" button
[10:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And before IBM - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:12] <exec> 08└─I meant before as in the context of the article, as in 'another company that suffered from disruptive change /before/ IBM did' - that should be clear from the context, but nevertheless hope this helps.
[10:17:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] 02Re:You either die a hero. - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:14] <exec> 08└─Steve managed to do both.
[10:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You either die a hero. - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:16] <exec> 08└─“Sex–induced heart attack would be the best way to die: first you come, then you go.” —Alice Cooper
[10:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02No economics needed - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:18] <exec> 08└─The New York Times published a story that states the obvious for anyone who has studied economics, that Apple's dominant position today is not permanent.
[10:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:56] <exec> 08└─this is not the original submitter, but as a fellow soylentil who has experienced similar, i think the main problem is attributing the submission to the original poster after it has been heavily edited. if you are going to edit a submission beyond mere spelling and grammar fixes, it might be worth e...
[10:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:57] <exec> 08└─OK, I can accept that points that you are making. worth either mentioning that the submission has been edited ...
[10:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02You call that a Knife? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:24] <exec> 08└─Excuse the cryptic title. It is a reference to the Crocodile Dundee movies, and is meant to convey the idea that Americans, especially Americans of very little brains, should not go up against Australians. And, they might Drop Bears on ya! This is the submitter, Aristarchus, recently back from the d...
[10:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clueless - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:20:37] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. Not buying something doesn't harm someone; it just means they don't gain. Therefore, you could also refrain from downloading any of it at all and it would be the same. And between giving them money and infringing upon copyrights, I'd rather people do the latter. Also, law != moralit...
[10:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why doesn't Linux have functionality like this? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:52] <exec> 08└─Linux has no monopoly to protect. Note that this was not "allowing only authorized software", but "allowing only software signed by Microsoft". LibreOffice is not allowed, MS Office with their famous macro viruses is, XMPP is not allowed, Skype with the centralized servers with a separate line strai...
[10:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Pile of shit security philosophy again - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 3991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─Problem is CDR is slow to access and you can't really "install" to CDR that easily, albeit I believe it could be done. Shadowing it to RAM would be tricky as a rogue program could alter the RAM copy on the fly. Like you say, the way Windows is written is not compatible with doing it this way. I ra...
[10:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:46] <exec> 08└─You (for some inexplicable reason), turn up 2 hours before a flight. This morning I'm flying easyjet manchester to Berlin. I arrived at the airport 0610, and at the gate at 0623. Boarding closes at 0630, and I expect to be in a taxi in Berlin at 0900UK. 660 miles.
[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─The difference is that the Japanese have working maglev technology now (which is projected to hit 900km/h within a couple of decades of starting - they always ramp up the speed slowly so they can concentrate on keeping it safe) and hyperloops are not even at the prototype proving stage yet. Building...
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[23:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Polarization Good - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─I knew those Republicans would be good for something one of these days! (relax, it's a joke)
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Circular Logic LASERs coming to politics... - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─OMG! We are doomed! Since Republican lawyers are plentiful, next step is Republican sharks with friggin lasers. You know it's the next step. ;-) Open(Campaign) season has just started on the citizens...the assault has begun. Pew! Pew! Pew! (relax, it's still a joke, although YMMV)
[23:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02PMD - 06Polarization Could Boost Optical Data Transmission - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:18] <exec> 08└─http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_mode_dispersion [wikipedia.org] For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction, sorta. Just like different wavelengths travel at different speeds in fiber spreading pulses, so do different polarizations. It will none the less add some capacity of co...
[23:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here's an opensource game for you. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:26] <exec> 08└─http://www.lgdb.org/game/chaosesque-anthology [lgdb.org] Go improve your cognitive abilities, libre
[23:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02IMPROVED COGNITIVE ABILITY - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:27] <exec> 08└─With flattened personality and "gamified" values. Winners of a million followers, fans, friends, lovers, dollars…after all, a billion people tweeting, updating, flicking, swiping, tapping into the void a thousand times a minute can’t be wrong. Can they? And therein is the paradox of the bullshi...
[23:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:29] <exec> 08└─I'm wary about reports of this sort, that make broad inferences about X or Y being good for your brain because it increases neural response to certain classes of stimuli. Cognition is nothing if not complicated, and training your brain to do one thing well isn't necessarily an "improvement" if it in...
[23:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:31] <exec> 08└─I tend to respond in single words when gaming, such as huh, what, no, yes, and dammitwomanyougotmekilled.
[23:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:33] <exec> 08└─I would mod you +1 Insightful, but I'm out of mod points. Games tend to take alot of my concentration. Though, those terms are usually left for the games I can't pause. Usually, because they are online games.
[23:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─check da privilege think of single men in nepal
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:36] <exec> 08└─I share your doubts. This looks like yet another 'one hammer for all nails' approach. That would work great if all nails were the same, but that is not the case. As for multitasking, well it does not work for everything, and it does have an inescapable downside: each task takes a little longer to co...
[23:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:38] <exec> 08└─I'm wary about reports of this sort, that make broad inferences about X or Y being good for your brain because it increases neural response to certain classes of stimuli. Cognition is nothing if not complicated, and training your brain to do one thing well isn't necessarily an "improvement" if it in...
[23:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:It changes them. - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:40] <exec> 08└─Could it just be a summarization issue? The SN story lists "attention, working memory and goal management" even if admittedly the second half is solely about measured gains in multitasking. Like the "going to the gym" analogy and then exclusively focusing on measured bench press gains as a specific...
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:42] <exec> 08└─attention, working memory and goal management. Gazzaley and his team measure these functions using fMRI and EEG.
[23:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02See, honey? - 06Gaming Can Improve our Cognitive Abilities - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:43] <exec> 08└─I'm leaving this story open on my wife's computer. She thinks I'm half a moron for playing so many games. Actually, it's not so much about the gaming as the grunting and noises I make when I play games. I have a headset on, so I don't really hear myself. Also, she had my daughter sneak a picture of...
[23:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:45] <exec> 08└─Really? Here?
[23:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:47] <exec> 08└─I was about to say the same. I also find I'm losing interest in this site. Lots of the stories are the same as /.'s, sometimes word for word, but they're usually here later than they are there. The moderation here isn't very good so I always browse at -1 so I don't miss good comments that were downv...
[23:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:49] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the culture of antagonism that has developed here. I'm considering switching back too.
[23:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the culture of antagonism that has developed here.
[23:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─This site was created by antagonism.
[23:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:55] <exec> 08└─> This site was created by antagonism. >> No it wasn't >>> Yes it was. >>>> This isn't an argument! >>>>> Yes, it is. >>>>>> No, it isn't. It's just contradiction. >>>>>>> No, it isn't.
[23:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:57] <exec> 08└─And if this were on Slashdot: > This site was created by antagonism. >> No it wasn't >>> Yes it was. >>>> This isn't an argument! >>>>> Yes, it is. >>>>>> No, it isn't. It's just contradiction. >>>>>>> No, it isn't. >>>>>>>> You misspelled something earlier, that means you're wrong! >>>>>>>>> Actua...
[23:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y [youtube.com]
[23:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:00] <exec> 08└─Surprisingly AC's YT link isn't a rickroll. I would have laughed. The proposed example is missing the comedy, occasionally the dark comedy. One of the funniest things on 4chan is watching the normals visit and get all confused and unable to understand the difference between comedy, dark comedy, and...
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─I will personally admit to being antagonistic on multiple occasions. I believed it was necessary as a response particularly facile comments, but I need to tone it back, and I'm going to try to do so.
[23:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:04] <exec> 08└─I'll admit to being a full-on asshole at times. (I've also made an ass of myself quite a few times in the process, I'm developing a taste for humble pie.) Some of that comes from years of Slashdot lurking. This site's much more calm, I'm slowly learning to be a nicer guy. I don't express my apprec...
[23:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:05] <exec> 08└─Very well stated good sir/madam. All I can say in reply is you must be a mind reader! :-) I decided when I came here and stopped going to /., that I was going to try and mature a little. But not too much... ;-)
[23:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:08] <exec> 08└─I too confess I have been caustic when people excuse the behavior of the NSA, CIA, Wall Street, and such criminals. Freedom and justice are bedrock values for me (as I would hope they would be for everyone). I have never had the opportunity to defend those values with strength of arms, but I can at...
[23:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:10] <exec> 08└─Oh but my anger triggers are conspiracy theories and genetic-determinism pseudoscience. Which means I'm likely to dump on you when your NSA concerns tread too far. Welp.
[23:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:12] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean "whelp". C'mon, let's see some more antagonizing!
[23:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:14] <exec> 08└─I for one didn't quit out of rage, but out of exasperation. Dice-owned Slashdot seemed determined to destroy that community. The slashvertisements, the "Slashdot for Business" hokum, chasing CmdrTaco out, etc. Beta was the last straw. It was clear that MBAs had taken over, and were utterless clueles...
[23:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:15] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the culture of antagonism that has developed here. I'm considering switching back too.
[23:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:17] <exec> 08└─It looks like SN has better trolls though.
[23:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:20] <exec> 08└─I like it here more. The readership is more technical in nature than at slashdot. There seems to be too many marketers, angry old guys, and people outside of the technology field bickering. As a result I get to have decent discussions here. ACs are more respected too. I looked at slashdot since abou...
[23:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know when or how that changed, but now it is a badge of dishonor over there.
[23:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:23] <exec> 08└─It's also ridiculous given that usernames are themselves anonymous unless you somehow provide identification. About the only thing that posting non-anonymously really does is provide a means for people to read your previous posts and gain an impression of your views on one or more subjects. That's n...
[23:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah... how about that!?! I mean... go figure.. we built a better place, with blackjack and hookers, and Dice is still haunting us?
[23:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Dice? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:28] <exec> 08└─I added that in there, so don't blame AnonTechie.. Brain-farts sometimes happen when I'm also concentrating on other things. It does seem pretty informative, though (and it's not like it's linking to their discussion site from which many of us migrated).
[23:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$20,000/year - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:29] <exec> 08└─VP of IT
[23:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Cost of living - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:31] <exec> 08└─These are probably weighted towards areas with high costs of living. If you go to the main survey and scroll down past the ads, they have the salaries broken down into six large regions.
[23:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost of living - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:33] <exec> 08└─I dunno. In SF/SV I am kicking ass on the exec salary, in Sr Technolgy role.
[23:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost of living - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:35] <exec> 08└─I am jealous : )
[23:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Funny) 02Zero - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:37] <exec> 08└─My pre-revenue startup [warplife.com] is funded by the Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and my mother's couch.
[23:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02You may well think this is funny, but... - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:40] <exec> 08└─... I am absolutely serious. It gets me down sometimes. I'm tinkering with a KickStarter campaign for it but I'm a long ways off from actually initiating it. Word on the street is that preparation is key to crowdfunding success. I don't regard my project as "prepared" yet.
[23:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Narrowed definition - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:42] <exec> 08└─Really getting annoyed with the "tech = IT" mentality. There are many, many "tech" careers which aren't IT or coding...
[23:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Narrowed definition - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, some of us CS graduates can fix printers as well as Windows!
[23:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02BONUS? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:45] <exec> 08└─For the Staff and Entry-level Positions, what is "BONUS". Could someone enlighten me; I never heard of it.
[23:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:BONUS? - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:47] <exec> 08└─All that burnt coffee you are drinking is being tallied by someone in an excel spreadsheet. Also, you use quite a lot of our high-end industrial quality toilet paper. We aren't counting that towards you bonus. But we want you to know that we know.
[23:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:2) 02Another wish list - 06IT Salary Survey 2015 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:49] <exec> 08└─Not sure how they gathered these or who is paying these salaries, but they all seem awfully high unless you wander into a globo-corp shoveling cash. As for the real world.. Im not seeing these type salaries.
[23:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:4, Funny) 02Plumbing - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:51] <exec> 08└─> Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed So now we know whether it's a boy super-volcano or a girl super-volcano.
[23:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Plumbing - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:53] <exec> 08└─Republican's are happy it just goes one way.
[23:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Square pegs in hexagon holes... - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:55] <exec> 08└─Binary chioce? What if it turns out to be both, neither, something else entirely? [end sarcasm/devil's advocate mode] I may have already modded your post 'funny' earlier. I do know that I giggled when I read it. :-)
[23:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fascinating! - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:57] <exec> 08└─Woody Harrelson?
[23:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fascinating! - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:58] <exec> 08└─I assume it's a reference to the 2012 comedy thing.
[23:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02When we all die - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:00] <exec> 08└─We're going to be damn sure of exactly why.
[23:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Funny) 02TFA and TFS are preposterous lies! - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:02] <exec> 08└─Consensus should have convinced everyone by now - it's all due to global warming! Park your SUV, or the damned earth is going to blow it's top again!
[23:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2, Offtopic) 02[OFFTOPIC] so long - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:04] <exec> 08└─I have recently removed /. from my RSS feed. I know nobody cares, but I just wanted to share it anyway.
[23:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Hello, - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:06] <exec> 08└─"Hello, my name is bart9h, and I'm a recovering slashdotter." So, how many days has it been, Bart?
[23:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02The question not answered... - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:07] <exec> 08└─Scientists have speculated that should the Yellowstone super volcano erupt, it would be an epic catastrophe for North America.
[23:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:The question not answered... - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:09] <exec> 08└─Often little eruptions decrease the chance of a big eruption, by revealing pressure.
[23:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Woody Harrelson? - 06Yellowstone Super-Volcano's Plumbing Revealed - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:11] <exec> 08└─White geologists can't jump?
[23:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Why the sarcasm? - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:13] <exec> 08└─Surprise, surprise, the biggest R&D spender in recent years is Volkswagen.
[23:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why the sarcasm? - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:15] <exec> 08└─Me neither. I thought I'd see IBM up there, but not these days I guess. It's surprising Apple isn't up there, them being so innovative and all :) . I am actually surprised to see Microsoft so high in the list.
[23:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Apples and Oranges - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:16] <exec> 08└─Not all the line items for R&D may actually be R&D. M$ probably just relabeled the line item from marketeering which was their largest expenditure a while back. IIRC their spending on everything else was much smaller and they were getting razzed for it. Now their line item for R&D may seem much larg...
[23:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Why the sarcasm? - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:18] <exec> 08└─It's a lot cheaper to prototype twenty iphone shapes and their ten PCBs, than fifty working hybrid cars... I don't know who does the coding for VW CPUs, but the comparison doesn't bother me.
[23:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:Why the sarcasm? - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:21] <exec> 08└─Apple? How innovative is it to round corners? I will say that Apple seems to refine things successfully, but I don't see them as innovative that much. Apple's forte is polishing the knobs. ;-)
[23:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Why the sarcasm? - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:22] <exec> 08└─If they sold some of their knob polishing devices, they would make a killing.
[23:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02R&D vs. advertising - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:26] <exec> 08└─Would be another comparison of interest as advertising often eclipses R&D costs. Turns out the spam these corps churn out is really expensive.
[23:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02...and patent trolling expenditures - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:28] <exec> 08└─With M$ on the list, I'd like to see the numbers these companies spend on lawyers compared to their other expenditures. ...and, as you hint at, getting shills in Lamestream Media to say positive things about them and to regurgitate their press releases surely costs M$ a huge amount in ad expenditure...
[23:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:...and patent trolling expenditures - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:30] <exec> 08└─I've heard about a few interesting projects out of Microsoft's R&D labs, I've just never heard of them being commercialized. The example I remember off the top of my head was a utility for stitching together a bunch of photos into a decent panorama. In the years since that's become commonplace, but...
[23:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Interesting) 02strong dollar in 2015 - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:32] <exec> 08└─I immediately wondered how the strong US dollar affects this list, since an EU company is on top. How does VW's R&D expense in euros stack up to, say, Google's expense in dollars? This list would be more interesting if the list was done as a percent of something (revenues, market cap, or something)...
[23:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:strong dollar in 2015 - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:34] <exec> 08└─normalized like ... comic book sales are percent-weighted with Batman as 1.000
[23:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Best misread headline today - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:36] <exec> 08└─I originally read "10 biggest D&D spenders". What a pity :)
[23:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Best misread headline today - 06The 10 Biggest R&D Spenders Worldwide - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:38] <exec> 08└─What is all this about R&B suspenders?
[23:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Touché) 02Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:41] <exec> 08└─Them damn foreigner robots stealing 'jahbs' from genuine, good-ol' heartland-born, hard-working Americans! I know what these guys are up to... They bring them 'immigants' here and pay them less so that they can pay me less too... It's all a big conspira... Oh... you what...? Oh, it's because I feel...
[23:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:42] <exec> 08└─Them damn foreigner robots stealing 'jahbs'
[23:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:44] <exec> 08└─Jorbs is the pronunciation in the Southern dialect. Jahbs is the pronunciation in the Boston dialect.
[23:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:46] <exec> 08└─"Jerbs" is the proper pronunciation for people hailing from the south Park region of Colorado.
[23:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:49] <exec> 08└─"Jorb" is how Coach Z would say it on Homestarrunner; I always thought he had an Illinois/Michigan accent (Chicago?).
[23:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:50] <exec> 08└─I think I'd be amused by the mod list of this comment... That's a hard one: Funny flamebait insightful touche...
[23:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:52] <exec> 08└─Your comment prompted an interesting thought(at least interesting to me): How much of these comments are a coping mechanism? It seems this comment pattern pops up in discussions of articles where the subject is very 'difficult', with seemingly unsolvable/unpleasant issues. At any rate, I had to gigg...
[23:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:54] <exec> 08└─I will oblidge: 1 each Funny, Interesting, Flamebait,... AND 2 Touchés
[23:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:56] <exec> 08└─They bring them 'immigants' here and pay ... market price for their labor
[23:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Them Damn Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:57] <exec> 08└─Why does no one grow their own strawberries? Or grapes? Or any kind of fruit and vegetable? I grew up in a place where you did that as a matter of course, and canned or pickled or somehow preserved everything you couldn't eat fresh to get you through the winter. It's astonishing that so few do that...
[23:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:59] <exec> 08└─> Americans themselves don't seem willing to take the harder farming jobs, How much are you offering to pay them? Chances are, people aren't willing to do the work not because it's hard, but because you're offering sub-living wage remuneration. Also, it's seasonal: People who are desperate enough fo...
[23:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:01] <exec> 08└─How much are you offering to pay them? Chances are, people aren't willing to do the work not because it's hard, but because you're offering sub-living wage remuneration.
[23:17:02] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:03] <exec> 08└─But hey, for all you other guys out there, the free market works... don't let me break that illusion for you!
[23:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:05] <exec> 08└─But hey, for all you other guys out there, the free market works... don't let me break that illusion for you!
[23:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:06] <exec> 08└─On a different tangent, do you find Pick Your Own businesses in the US?
[23:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah although obviously not many coasties will drive all the way to Michigan to pick blueberries.
[23:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:10] <exec> 08└─Those places exist, though it largely depends on what you want to pick. Here in New York, going up the Hudson in the autumn to pick apples and other produce is a "thing." I know they have places in Maine where you can pick your own blueberries. But those places still have to get people to pick the r...
[23:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:12] <exec> 08└─> not because it's hard, but because you're offering sub-living wage remuneration Having done farm work as a child, I'll comment that not only is it hard, it is incredibly hard. I would not go back to it for $100 an hour, and there's no way to grow crops with $100 an hour labor.
[23:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:13] <exec> 08└─Well there are strawberries on the supermarket shelves right now, so clearly some people (but not you) are willing to do that work if the price is right. I think there must be a fair wage somewhere between current rates and an unaffordable $100/hr.
[23:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:15] <exec> 08└─I urge you to go do it for a week and then come back and suggest a "fair" wage.
[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─So what do you suggest? That there is no fair price for manually-picked agricultural goods below $100 per hour? Should strawberries be a luxury reserved only for the 1% who can afford to pay four thousand dollars per kilo? Should we stop buying certain foods on ethical grounds?
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:19] <exec> 08└─I'm suggesting that it's such shit work, that no one in their right mind would want to do it at any reasonable wage.
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─I could say the same thing about software development in large corporations.
[23:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:23] <exec> 08└─That really discounts farm work nicely.
[23:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:25] <exec> 08└─I could say the same thing about every sort of work. Why would anyone want to work at all? Activities are called work when we have to do them, play when we don't, even if they look the same from the outside.
[23:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:26] <exec> 08└─You don't have a very interesting job, do you?
[23:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:28] <exec> 08└─You don't have anything to say worth listening to, do you?
[23:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:30] <exec> 08└─Some of us like to grow our own food. I might like to have a farm, but actually being able to turn a profit on a farm is the difficult part.
[23:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:31] <exec> 08└─Well, you were a child. I delivered drywall for some years. I had a friend that did it and did not believe his stories of carrying 240 pound, 14 foot long things up stairs all by himself. It was the sort of "get off my lawn" "uphill in the snow both ways" stories that everyone rolls their eyes at. U...
[23:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:33] <exec> 08└─I've also done manual labour requiring hauling heavy objects around and driving a truck. Best part was getting to a customer in Manhattan, no parking, no loading dock and having to haul 10 foot long 350 pound equipment up five flights of stairs. Then you come back down to a ticket on the truck. Back...
[23:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:35] <exec> 08└─Yep, fuck that. At least I had a crane that worked until I ran out of boom. It makes no wonderment over why blue collar guys are so prone to crime, violence, divorce, alcoholism, and all the rest. Truly treated as lowest of the low.
[23:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:37] <exec> 08└─It always pisses me off to no end that society is taught to look down on the blue collar workers. No college degree? Then you must be dumb and don't deserve a decent wage. Just recently I read this article by some elitist shit who thinks it's okay to tell those Mcdonalds workers fighting for $15 tha...
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:38] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, ALL monopolies are bad. And that all includes unions. The only justification for unions is that they are dealing with a centralized power that ignores the needs of those without power. That's enough, until the unions start getting corrupt. But then you've got two monopolies rather tha...
[23:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:40] <exec> 08└─Paraphrasing Heinlein, government is usually honest though never truthful.
[23:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:42] <exec> 08└─Well we had it tough...
[23:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─When I was a boy, strawberries and runner beans were seen as jobs for kids to earn some pocket money. But if you do it three days in a row, you'll really feel it in your back and legs (maybe I was just not very fit :-) ).
[23:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:45] <exec> 08└─If there are in fact fewer people desperate enough to do slave-like labor for a subsistence living then that's probably a good thing.
[23:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:47] <exec> 08└─If there are in fact fewer people desperate enough to do slave-like labor for a subsistence living then that's probably a good thing.
[23:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:49] <exec> 08└─There are some. The one nearby me didn't last a summer. Website on it of course: http://www.pickyourown.org [pickyourown.org]
[23:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Economics - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:51] <exec> 08└─I've spent enough time in Oxnard, CA (US strawberry capital) to know exactly what kind of people do the job. Most are here year-round because there are crops year-round, though they probably get a few hundred extra bussed in at prime picking season. It's extremely strenuous, and they wear full-cover...
[23:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:4, Informative) 02"Robots" on farms - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─Steam engines have been in use on farms for over 200 years. Before that, horses and oxen have been used with machines in agriculture for thousands of years. Back to the present, anyone who has seen a combine harvester can see how "robots" replace farm workers' "backbreaking" tasks. If you want to...
[23:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:"Robots" on farms - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:54] <exec> 08└─This RFID on cows is kinda neat for the consumer, I'm not certain it does much for the cow. Where I live they also track a bunch of other date like milking time and which farm the milk comes from and then they print that on the milk carton. It doesn't really change anything regarding the milk (still...
[23:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Robots" on farms - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:56] <exec> 08└─Well, sure. But I'm interested in the nature of individual advances. It colors the world around us, evolution is almost as interesting as (and far less terrifying than) revolution.
[23:17:57] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:"Robots" on farms - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:58] <exec> 08└─> Even the cleaning of stalls is automated in many barns. I don't know why but when I read this the image that popped into my head was one of those sweeper machines they have at the bowling alley: A big mechanical hand comes down from the ceiling and lifts the cow two feet in the air. A giant brush...
[23:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:"Robots" on farms - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:00] <exec> 08└─I have an image of a spherical cow looking very surprised.
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Massive Economic Upheaval to come - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:02] <exec> 08└─There are two jobs currently employing many thousands of unskilled laborers that may be going the way of the dinosaur: Picking fruits and vegetables and driving a car / bus / taxi / truck. I know the buggy whip manufacturers went on to make cars, but what jobs CAN truck drivers and fruit pickers do,...
[23:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Massive Economic Upheaval to come - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:03] <exec> 08└─And massive economic upheavals lead to political upheavals. But don't worry, the police state is ready to reap a terrible harvest. The drones are rearing to go.
[23:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Massive Economic Upheaval to come - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:05] <exec> 08└─As long as they're not raring to go, I think we're okay.
[23:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Massive Economic Upheaval to come - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:07] <exec> 08└─Your reference to Buggy Ship Manufacturers made me think perhaps you've read this book "After Thought" by James Bailey If not, give it a spin.. very much influenced my perspective. http://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] It's about Artificial In...
[23:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Hooray Robots - 06Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work that Immigrants Won't Do - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:09] <exec> 08└─I say hooray for robots to pick strawberries. I did that job as a teenager and it sucks balls. You get paid by the flat (that's a 2'x2' pallet that you fill with those little baskets of strawberries). You have to pick about two of those flats an hour to even clear minimum wage. If you're picking on...
[23:18:10] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 614 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:11] <exec> 08└─Apparently, they get video of the guy doing the camming, follow him home and/or get the police to run facial recognition to identify him. Once identified, I guess the use the equivalent of a SWAT team to bust into his home and find the "evidence". Peripherally, they go on Facebook to identify all hi...
[23:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:13] <exec> 08└─Actually reality is that there are not all that many "real terrorists" and they need to justify the billions being spent on them by showing SOMETHING...
[23:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:15] <exec> 08└─You're not far off. The reality is, organizations like ICE simply don't give a damn about terrorism. It's all theatrics for them. Their real mission in life is to serve those corporate masters. All the anti-terror in the world is only good for diverting attention from their real mission. The mission...
[23:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:17] <exec> 08└─Step away from the koolaid, and nobody gets hurt...
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─I hate to break it to you, but if you really believe that ICE's mission has anything to do with terrorism, or immigration enforcement, then you're the one drinking the Kool-Aid. Oh yeah, immigration. The first thing they did after more or less disbanding INS, was to decide that they wouldn't apprehe...
[23:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:21] <exec> 08└─Security theater is one thing we agree on. Corporate masters is just your loony coming to the surface.
[23:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:23] <exec> 08└─What do they do if you're wearing glasses with a camera built into them?
[23:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:25] <exec> 08└─Put a VEIL pattern on their uniform?
[23:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please summarize in the summary - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:27] <exec> 08└─Somebody told me once that one could "RTFA"; but I think that acronym is archaic knowledge. Nobody knows what it stands for any more. Also, that line is directly in said article. Do you want him to summarize an in-article summary too? This is getting a bit too meta.
[23:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yet another reason to not use Failbook - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:29] <exec> 08└─As if we needed more...
[23:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Analysts Notebook - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:31] <exec> 08└─"... connections to release groups mapped in intriguing diagrams." A couple of I^2 analyst notebook screen-grabs now apparently qualify as intriguing diagrams. It's basically a industry standard software package and considering how many people from law-enforcement they probably lure over with their...
[23:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Funny) 02Good - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:35] <exec> 08└─I hate downloading a movie to find out it is one of those lousy cammed captures with someone heavy-breathing in the microphone. I didn't like Blair Witch in the 90's, I certainly don't want to see it on a modern movie.
[23:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Good - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:39] <exec> 08└─I can't believe people are so desperate to watch a film that they willingly accept garbage quality video and audio.
[23:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:42] <exec> 08└─I suspect the whole story is something of a deception. I've seen a few pirated movies, some well before the DVD hit the stores, and they quality was usually top notch. The truth is that for at least a decade, movie leaks come out of the studios in digital form. Hackers or insiders or pre-release DVD...
[23:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Good - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:47] <exec> 08└─And here I was, thinking shaky-cam was all the rage these days in Hollywood...
[23:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Good - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:50] <exec> 08└─Seriously, who watches CAM's anymore? Just wait a couple weeks - chances are a telesync, screener, DVD/BD rip, or some other source with much better audio/video quality will be available. If it's a good enough film that you want to watch it right now, chances are it's good enough you want to watch i...
[23:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Good - 06Sony Leaks: Federation Against Copyright Theft Anti-Cammer Efforts - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:54] <exec> 08└─Telesync was needed when films were actually distributed in film form, because you could never get your hands on a physical copy of the film. Not so much any more. Since the late 90's, its all digital media distribution., often transferred over the net to the larger first run theaters. First they us...
[23:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CoolHand - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:59] <exec> 08└─Dolphin riding an emu or an emu riding a dolphin? Someone should draw that.
[23:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:CoolHand - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:02] <exec> 08└─For the overly-interested-in-meaningless-facts, why it's called that: the Gamecube, while it was in development at Nintendo, was called project Dolphin. The emulator is named after that.
[23:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:CoolHand - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:04] <exec> 08└─You may want to add a briefly note on what "Dolphin" or "Dolphin Emulator project" is.
[23:19:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:06] <exec> 08└─She sure was a beautiful person. I would have liked to have known her as a friend. There is more discussion of this on Reddit [reddit.com] I may be wrong in this, but It is my understanding from what I saw there that she was tormented by a lot of needless social issues. I wish I could have been the...
[23:19:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 1221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:08] <exec> 08└─Where did you get that information? From what I read, she was suffering from depressions, which does not necessarily mean anyone else was giving her a hard time. Depressions are just a hell of a disease, like dying from inside but not being allowed to actually go. And socially often not really accep...
[23:19:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 574 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:09] <exec> 08└─This story contains three things guaranteed to generate flames in this day and age that really shouldn't: 1) A depression-related suicide 2) A transgender-related suicide 3) A female developer working on a gaming-related project I'm no SJW, far from it, but I'm buying up aspirin in anticipation of t...
[23:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not strong enough to carry additional burden
[23:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:12] <exec> 08└─You ever tried counselling?
[23:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Six psychiatrists over the years. After a few weeks they all say the same thing. Paraphrased: The way you have responded and coped with your life experiences is perfectly rational. Well isn't that a punch in the face. It is rational to want to die having gone through what I have. Medication do...
[23:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:16] <exec> 08└─Afaik, a psychiatrist is a medical practitioner who can only help you, if something is wrong with you, not if something is/was wrong with your environment. Did you try a psychotherapist instead?
[23:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:18] <exec> 08└─The way you have responded and coped with your life experiences is perfectly rational That is when you get mad not more depressed. You are dealing with an industry that builds itself on psudo-intellectualism. You will deal with a *LOT* of people who dont really care and think they are good at it. It...
[23:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes one wonder the cause - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:19] <exec> 08└─I think, professionals can help. It's amazing, what a few micro-gram of [missing/surplus] [hormones/chemicals] can do to a brain, and this might be fixed, if your depressions are physiologically caused. Might be different if they are based on some trauma or other psychological precondition, in that...
[23:19:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02Editors: surname was spelled B-r-y-k - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 446 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:21] <exec> 08└─It took me a while to find information (only partly due to the spelling), but for others wondering what happened, evidently Rachel Bryk committed suicide, assumedly in connection to being trans [ign.com]. Oddly, that IGN link was the only place I could find that stated that outright — one subreddi...
[23:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Editors: surname was spelled B-r-y-k - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure it is a matter of being able to deal with suicide. I think it's the lacking ability to keep our nose out of other peoples business (I'm including myself in this kind of sensationalism, although I like to think of me being concerned about general shortcomings in our society). A suicide u...
[23:19:23] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:Tip for anyone dangerously depressed - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 771 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:24] <exec> 08└─Clearly you are trying to help, and I'm not a pharmacist so I'm in no position to comment on the safety or otherwise of your advice. Maybe your post will save lives. I'd like to think so. However I can't help but think that suggesting vulnerable people who are likely to be on all kinds of other meds...
[23:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Tip for anyone dangerously depressed - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:26] <exec> 08└─You just about described my entire College experience as I had to take allergy medicine most of the time. ;-)
[23:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03archshade [3664] (Score:1) 02Taking the opertunity - 06Rachel Bryk, Active Developer of the Dolphin Emulator Project, Dies at 23 - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:27] <exec> 08└─I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people involved with Dolphin for there time and effort. The NGC is one of my favourite platforms as a gamer and Dolphin alowed me to keep playing long after my cube died. Thank you to all for your hard work. I would like to add my condolences t...
[23:19:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Amazon - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 264 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, no tech company can be compared to IBM, simply due to longevity. All the big names today are upstarts in comparison to IBM. All of our grandparents - even mine - knew IBM long before any of us were born. No other major tech company can make such a claim.
[23:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazon - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:31] <exec> 08└─Conglomerate. Like GE.
[23:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Won't always rule, no . . . - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:32] <exec> 08└─I don't even LIKE Apple!
[23:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Won't always rule, no . . . - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:34] <exec> 08└─When they do begin slipping, any semi-intelligent manager will keep the company afloat and at least somewhat relevant for generations to come.
[23:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Won't always rule, no . . . - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:36] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has the problem that it's business model revolves around selling Windows and Office. Meanwhile its investors had huge expectations that just couldn't be met. That's a big long term weakness. I think Ballmer has been a terrible manager, but it'd take more than a manager to improve that comp...
[23:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Won't always rule, no . . . - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:37] <exec> 08└─Well ... Apple's earnings came out this afternoon. Net income rose 33% to $13.6 billion, or $2.33 per share, in the three months ending in March. Revenue rose 27%, to $58 billion.
[23:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:If you're going to compare companies - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─Eh? [wikipedia.org]
[23:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:If you're going to compare companies - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:41] <exec> 08└─I prefer bananas. The go down easy and come back up easy.
[23:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Not an apt comparison - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 2096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:42] <exec> 08└─Who was the most important phone company pre-iPhone? Nokia? Where are they now? Pimping MSphone? Oh thats a real winner. I bet the world's two MSphone users are really happy. Solve this equation (apple - iphone) = ? May as well shut down and give the cash back to the shareholders (there was a semi s...
[23:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Not an apt comparison - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:44] <exec> 08└─What can Apple possibly pivot into, as a computer designer/seller?
[23:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not an apt comparison - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:46] <exec> 08└─but suggesting it'll be within 10 years strikes me as ludicrously soon Your same timeline shows the decline of the previous behemoth, Microsoft. They went from everyone wants a copy of windows/office to meh. Pretty much all of those pivots they did was Steve Jobs. It has yet to be seen if the curren...
[23:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not an apt comparison - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:48] <exec> 08└─Apple? On top? In WHAT market? Their usage is under 20% in any arena they compete in. Profitability? Okay, sure, they're really good at getting their cultists to overpay for stuff... I'd love to see how anyone is justifying the idea that they're on top in the first place.
[23:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Not an apt comparison - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:49] <exec> 08└─Take what I said in context, please. I was responding to the summary, in which it was pointed out that they're currently at the top in terms of market capitalization. Apple’s market capitalization—the value of all of the shares of its stock—is more than $758 billion, greater than any other co...
[23:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Blind Buyers - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:51] <exec> 08└─When the IBM followers die off (most are older) they'll be in a lot of trouble.
[23:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Blind Buyers - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:52] <exec> 08└─(The only Americans still working for IBM, aside from a handful of remaining rounding errors, are local salespeople)
[23:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Blind Buyers - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:54] <exec> 08└─Yep, the IBM blind buyers are corporations. This allows their blind buy culture to outlive the employees pushing it. This is why the sold off most if not all of their consumer goods divisions. They realized their biggest business is to act as a consulting leech on other big companies. Hopefully thos...
[23:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:And before IBM - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:56] <exec> 08└─There were so many other examples such as: Data General, Control Data Corporation, Sperry Univac, Perkin Elmer, Amdahl Corporation, Apollo Computer, Burroughs, Digital Equipment Corporation, International Computers Limited (ICL), Tandon Corporation, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org
[23:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You either die a hero. - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:57] <exec> 08└─The grand parent is 1/3 right because Steve *Wozniak became a hero (but still lives) *Jobs become a heartless bureaucratic institution and died.
[23:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You either die a hero. - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:59] <exec> 08└─"Yup, I guess I took the right one." - Cancer
[23:20:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Balderdash [693] 02meh. - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:01] <exec> 08└─Apple sucks the big hairy meatball. Mod this to 0.
[23:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:No economics needed - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:02] <exec> 08└─Just apply common sense. Nothing lasts forever.
[23:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Product Lauch Format - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 2953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:04] <exec> 08└─Apple has mastered the Product Launch Format for new products. The main difference between them and Double Your Dating and other nonsense (stock market advice, etc) is Apple has a good product for the money. They deliver something with value. Other than my iPad Mini and my toilet, are there that man...
[23:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Product Lauch Format - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:05] <exec> 08└─Could you have the cart before the horse? If you have hundreds of billions because of temporarily leading a hyper-profitable emerging market (which is no longer hyper profitable or emerging) then you can afford some staggering payola and any main stream media manager who isn't an idiot is going to c...
[23:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Product Lauch Format - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:07] <exec> 08└─Gadget oriented techies have common cause with the media execs, so a natural blindness sets in where people think the general public gives a F about apples new products, when of course they don't, its right down their with baseball box scores and water cooler talk about last night's sitcom episode,...
[23:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02IBM = John Travolta - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:09] <exec> 08└─John Travolta was hot shit. Welcome Back Kotter, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Urban Cowboy. Then he got stuck in shitty movies for the next 10 years. But then he had a renaissance - Look Who's Talking (and more importantly) Pulp Fiction. And now he's stuck in shitty movies again. So why'd you both...
[23:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Apple is abandoning what saved them. - 06Apple Won’t Always Rule—Just Look at IBM - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:10] <exec> 08└─I've been bleeding in six colors since 1986, but I'm at the point of giving up on it. I'm not even certain I want to ship the iOS App I've been working on; I expect I'll Free the source, but if I release a binary it may be through Cydia. AppleTalk, Apple Desktop Bus, dual-forked files with the Resou...
[23:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:American Credibility - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rwc3VGvlRY [youtube.com]
[23:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:American Credibility - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:13] <exec> 08└─Are they not doing it? Or have they just not been caught?
[23:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:American Credibility - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:15] <exec> 08└─If he didn't run, he would be alive today. But no, he had to act like a thug and got what he deserved. I have a feeling this is going to happen more often, idiots thinking they can become famous by evading cops even if they didn't do anything wrong.
[23:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:American Credibility - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:17] <exec> 08└─Clearly the Russians have kidanpped Ethanol and replaced him with some sort of agent provocatuer. We're onto you though, post was way too coherent.
[23:20:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] 02This is actually very serious - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:18] <exec> 08└─This is actually a very serious threat to our security. If foreign agents read our presidential emails, then they might start to notice a major flaw in American security: we only elect idiots to be president. We have to keep this a secret.
[23:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is actually very serious - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:20] <exec> 08└─Now you posted that secret to a public forum! Better leave quickly, before the SWAT team arrives!
[23:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:22] <exec> 08└─I'm actually not so sure that the NSA (or anyone else for that matter) is capable of breaking GOST (with properly selected S-boxes) and/or more advanced ciphers... But certainly there's still enough embarrassing information available to both sides to retaliate.
[23:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Y U no encrypt? - 06Report: Unclassified Emails from Obama to Staff Read by Russian Hackers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:23] <exec> 08└─Why is this stuff not encrypted?
[23:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:well obviously - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:25] <exec> 08└─In fact, I would go as far to say HFT and poker are exactly the same thing.
[23:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well obviously - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:27] <exec> 08└─A perfect strategy, playing solely based on the 'facts', makes the machine too predictable. In poker that's not going to get you far.
[23:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well obviously - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:28] <exec> 08└─You could switch the AI each hand, randomly, and no one would know if they were playing against the 'pure logic' AI this hand, or one of the the 'read the players' AIs, I would think being able to switch without a tell would be pretty powerful.
[23:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well obviously - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 1903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:30] <exec> 08└─That's what makes poker much more interesting than chess when it comes to AI. A randomizer could easily cause the computer to lose just as well. How do you make a computer unpredictable enough to confuse opponents while still, on average, being able to make more money than it loses. and an AI that d...
[23:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well obviously - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:31] <exec> 08└─"I have no idea if the following is true, but it seems to me that there might be a perfect strategy where a non-loser would completely ignore other players' possible motivations, would not try to guess any hands, and just derive its moves from the amount in the pot, its own chip stack, and the odds...
[23:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well obviously - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:33] <exec> 08└─In poker you don't want your opponent to know your hand. That would defeat the whole purpose of the game. If everyone knew everyone's hand the game would be very boring and there would be no point. If a machine acts purely on some statistical algorithm that machine will be predictable, people will e...
[23:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Penny matching - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:35] <exec> 08└─There's a very simple game that shares some of the properties of poker, when it comes to machine playing. Two players, E and O. They each choose whether the turn a penny heads up or tails up. They reveal their pennies. If they are the same, E wins. If different, O wins. Optimal play against an optim...
[23:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Penny matching - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:36] <exec> 08└─Obvioulsy, knowing this, the human will just choose to flip the coin. Why shouldn't he?
[23:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Just gonna add this here. - 06Computer Takes on Four Top Professional Poker Players - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:38] <exec> 08└─I've seen this in a lot of places, so to not respond to any one particular poster, I'm just going to write this here. If you don't know what Nash Equilibrium is, then you shouldn't be commenting on the potential effectiveness of a computer in poker. If you don't know what probability distributions a...
[23:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:40] <exec> 08└─Citation is the debian-user and debian-dev mailing lists you SJW faggot shill. Go read them. I'm not going to dig through them to help you, because I hate you and am very happy when one of you is murdered. Like the woman in pakistan yesterday. Fuck You.
[23:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:41] <exec> 08└─Citation is the debian-user and debian-dev mailing lists you SJW faggot shill. Just in case anyone hasn't figured out that the term SJW is completely meaningless I point you to the above. Apparently being anything less than foaming-at-the-mouth anti-systemd puts you into the "Social Justice"...
[23:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:43] <exec> 08└─So they lost. Realizing this, the smart ones moved to FreeBSD.
[23:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Debian Systemd SJWs - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:50] <exec> 08└─(such as "men should be allowed to marry preteen girls" and similar crap). The Hebrew Bible agrees: Deuteronomy 22 28-29. Read in hebrew. It also agrees that people who oppose that should be killed. People such as yourself.
[23:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:59] <exec> 08└─I think it's pretty clear that the anon was sharing heavy sarcasm rather than a "slashvertisement". That may be enough reason not to run it or run it as is, but the anon's beef might be legitimate. With the changes to the sarcasm heavy summary, it looks like the anon could actually be supporting Deb...
[23:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:04] <exec> 08└─My editorial 2 cents: I saw the original submission in the queue, and noted in our editors notes that it was full of sarcasm, and would never have put it out as submitted (so it would have been really late. So, the only way it would have actually been published is if was rewritten. Most submitters d...
[23:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:06] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the good work editing, and thanks a hell of a lot more for bothering to come explain it in the comments. This stuff is what keeps me coming back! :)
[23:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not the summary I submitted. - 06Follow the Debian 8 "Jessie" Release Activity in Realtime - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:07] <exec> 08└─You're welcome - and thanks for the feedback.
[23:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Downer - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:18] <exec> 08└─Women gleefully kill their own babies, castrate men, have men imprisoned, divorce and steal men's life worth. They are scum often.
[23:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03btendrich [3700] (Score:1) 02Re:Chimera - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:27] <exec> 08└─My father had a stem cell (bone marrow) transplant as treatment for CLL. His blood is now genetically identical to the blood of his donor, while the rest of him maintains it's original DNA. It's kind of neat, except that his new immune system is constantly trying to kill him (graft vs. host disease,...
[23:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chimera - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:28] <exec> 08└─I don't recall if that was real-life or fiction.
[23:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I deserve hartred for this, but... - 06"Embryologic Twin" Removed from Woman's Brain - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:30] <exec> 08└─"Get out! Get out of my head!!!"
[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─Reading over the linked paper, it appears that the discussion was on a blog which was open to the outside world, not email.
[23:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:20] <exec> 08└─I don't buy will lower steak demand and thus price by a millionth of a percent thus some poor dude who couldn't afford my steak will now afford it and eat it for me, so why don't I just eat the damn steak myself
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─Nah, it just sounds like another application of the argument from authority fallacy.
[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Master Debaters... - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─It's more fraught with peril than that. For example, the authority (term used in the loose sense of the "argument from authority") may be heavily biased or even insincere (which I think is a serious problem in many places in the AGW debate). And the one making the rhetorical appeal often misrepresen...
[23:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:I thought America has freedom of speech? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:31] <exec> 08└─universities have mechanisms for protecting academic freedom.
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I thought America has freedom of speech? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─I checked the database you mentioned. The University of florida gets a "green" rating for freedom. https://www.thefire.org [thefire.org] I don't see a problem here except for paranoid overgeneralizations on your part, the same sort that led the OP to make unwarranted c...
[23:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I thought America has freedom of speech? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─* cough * 'green' rating kindly sponsored and supplied by people with the same idiotic agenda, thus rendered meaningless.
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You call that a Knife? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─all our climate change deniers
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You call that a Knife? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─No need for a certificate here - as we have no shortage of wallpaper or toilet paper. This course is another desperate attempt by those with a Lib agenda to push their anti-religion religion under the guise of 'education'. For those of you having something better to do with the next 10 minutes of yo...
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:You call that a Knife? - 06University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─So if I understand you, all certificates are the same? That doesn't seem quite right. Perhaps, however, it lets me understand the climate change denier mindset a bit better. Climate scientists have a degree, and now you have a certificate. Climate scientists have an "opinion", and you have one too...
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Clueless - 06Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─I'd say the most rational form is to simply walk away from their content. Illegally viewing the content shows them that you still NEED it. They see that demand and they know they can capitalize on it. Telling them to piss off and shove their DRM laden content up the wazoo is much more effective. I l...
[23:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Obsession - 06Giant Ball Will Help Explorer Survive a Year on an Iceberg - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:41] <exec> 08└─A bit off topic, but your comment made me think.... Is LSD in people like ESD in electronics?
[23:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:personal - 06Lego Flip Dot Display - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:05] <exec> 08└─Assuming you can't afford brand new legos, used legos are a great option. My wife got one of the large Harry Potter sets at a flea market for $5. It was missing a few parts, but it was a great deal. Can't get as good of deals from e-bay, but they aren't terribly expensive either.
[23:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Why doesn't Linux have functionality like this? - 06Windows 10 Device Guard: Microsoft's Effort to Keep Malware off PCs - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:17] <exec> 08└─I haven't read TFA, but I'm guessing programs can be added to a whitelist--maybe during installation--with the user's authorization. I don't think it would be in Microsoft's interests to destroy the "open-ness" (i.e. run what programs you want) of Windows.
[23:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Yay Trains. - 06Japanese Maglev Train Sets New Speed Records - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:14] <exec> 08└─Hyperloop is a security nightmare. If someone gets a destructive device onboard you can imagine the chaos. You're in a partial vacuum, so an explosion would be especially destabilizing for the entire infrastructure. So you'd have to get security right, which we can't even do for airplanes in the rea...
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