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[00:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:46] <exec> 08└─it wont be easy (change rarely is) but in addition to changing to electric ground vehicles, we need to switch to electric planes too. the future of humanity depends on it.
[00:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:47] <exec> 08└─Changing the ground vehicles would be quite sufficient. Ground transportation uses more than 10 times as much energy as aviation.
[00:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02"Virtually Unlimited Autonomy" - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:49] <exec> 08└─Is there any small nuclear reactor that could provide the necessary energy while using fuel that can not be weaponized, can not explode, and is reliably shielded from the radiation?
[00:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whole lot of Corporate Ass-Kissers in here - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's celebrate the day that SoylentNews stopped being about The People and started being an Evil Corporation. Nothing will prevent you brown-mouthed morons from kissing ass, will it? If you're going to kiss ass, why don't you find a larger more powerful ass to kiss? Huh? That's the road to suc...
[00:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whole lot of Corporate Ass-Kissers in here - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:26] <exec> 08└─Mod down the dissenting view. Mod it to hell. All hail the Soylent Soviet, comrades. So say I, comrade like you. I love Big Soylent!
[00:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Whole lot of Corporate Ass-Kissers in here - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:27] <exec> 08└─topkek m8
[00:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:3, Informative) 02Who the scientists are - 06New “Corner Cloak” Directs Light Around Sharp Bends - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:41] <exec> 08└─If anyone is curious as to what "scientists" means, this is it: Su Xu, State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Hongyi Xu, Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Sing...
[00:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How do you define death? - 06New Forensic Method Estimates Time of Death After Up to Ten Days - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:54] <exec> 08└─It does not need to be so accurate that existential debate enters the conversation. 'About 202 hours ago, or April 10 at 10:30 pm." spoken by an expert is good enough along with other evidence to send a person away for murder.
[00:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:06] <exec> 08└─So I don't think outright legalization is a good move.
[00:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:17] <exec> 08└─and the learning curve imposed to incorporate new ideas into the old.
[00:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:19] <exec> 08└─Right, and that's a risk. If a genuinely social conservative enforcement regime comes back to the white house, they have established authority and precedent to arrest people in all these states.
[00:46:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] 02Re:Plausible theory : it's the NSA - 06Someone is Cutting Fiber Optic Cables in San Francisco - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:30] <exec> 08└─Even assuming the NSA would need to physically tap the cables, they would certainly be smart enough not to create a detectable pattern that proves coordination.
[00:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I did my homework - 06Kenya to Require Users of Wi-Fi to Register With Government - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:19] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia's entry on Kenya: Kenya ranks low on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (CPI), a metric which attempts to gauge the prevalence of public sector corruption in various countries. In 2012, the nation placed 139th out of 176 total countries in the CPI, with a score...
[00:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yes, and Yes. - 06Greece Defaults; Still Wants Bailout - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:54] <exec> 08└─Net exporters like Germany like a relatively low valued currency because it makes exports more competitive. That is, if Germany was using it's own currency it would be much more expensive to buy German products, which would have a negative effect on GDP.
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[01:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eat a sack of Cocks, Soylent readers! - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:38] <exec> 08└─Free Will doesn't exist! Chow down on those Willies!
[01:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's so "groundbreaking?" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:39] <exec> 08└─The idea had been kicked around for quite some time now. They showed that some of our actions precede the thought of them in the head.
[01:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:50] <exec> 08└─Sounds to me like solar powered aircraft would really make a nice worldwide logistical solution. One loads the aircraft with a cargo, gives it an initial charge, and sends it on its way. Its already programmed with where it is supposed to go, but if it runs into trouble along the way ( bad winds, we...
[01:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:52] <exec> 08└─Solar powered Blimps make way more sense. Greater lifting power, indefinite loiter. This thing is bigger than a 747 and can only lift one guy and a box of freeze dried food.
[01:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's the life risking aspect? - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:54] <exec> 08└─It isn't like nobody knows where he is at all times.
[01:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02'aggressive contact' - 06Mars Exploration - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:05] <exec> 08└─I just dropped a dime to the identity thief who has been using my Social Security Number since 2011, when some dedicated pulic servant got the idea in her head to store my social on her computer, then leave it in plain sight in her car, parked in a large lot in the middle of the night. After I calle...
[01:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Great. Thanks! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:21] <exec> 08└─The default red color scheme is ugly and suggests communism.
[01:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Happy Bday! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:27] <exec> 08└─Vault-Direct ™ gold bullion transfers would be nice.
[01:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comments - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:33] <exec> 08└─I won't take that personally. -- gewg_
[01:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Comments - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:35] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, gewg_. This time it's personal. -- jewg_
[01:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whole lot of Corporate Ass-Kissers in here - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:39] <exec> 08└─15 year old pls
[01:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Re:Who the scientists are - 06New “Corner Cloak” Directs Light Around Sharp Bends - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:52] <exec> 08└─The fact these papers are published for the public (I'm including paywalls because countries can still pay for their scientists to read), I am going to assume that it's pretty much a free-for-all for every country which has the means to implement and further research what this paper publish. Besides...
[01:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Dump the Union - 06Scientist Union’s Talks Stall over Pay - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:50] <exec> 08└─I was referring to civil service rules [...] But what I said about the government employee compensation is in fact accurate.
[01:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:32] <exec> 08└─there's a lot history of "states rights" being a cover for anti-human rights
[01:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:33] <exec> 08└─And the most recent time: the right to treat non-heterosexuals as sub-human.
[01:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:40] <exec> 08└─You do realize that those "conservative" corporations get to pay when their drunk or high employee hurts someone? My view is that if you show up to work under the effects of recreational drugs at a high enough level that you can't safely operate heavy machinery or drive, then the business should be...
[01:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:42] <exec> 08└─you're conflating "being intoxicated at work" with "being intoxicated in one's free time". drug tests only test for metabolites, to show whether you have done the drug in the past week or month, they do not show if you are currently intoxicated. if somebody is fucked up on the job enough that there'...
[01:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:44] <exec> 08└─you're conflating "being intoxicated at work" with "being intoxicated in one's free time".
[01:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Dead beats - 06Crowdfunding Greece's Repayment - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:53] <exec> 08└─Interest is not used to offset default risks. If there is some risk the borrower will default, money is not lent at low interest
[01:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Dead beats - 06Crowdfunding Greece's Repayment - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:54] <exec> 08└─they need a scapegoat that they can bring to the altar and slit its throat in plain sight for everyone to see, just to show people that they are doing something.
[01:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Totally Napoleon here - 06Researchers Expose Dino, Espionage Malware with a French Connection - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:30] <exec> 08└─>Animal Farm espionage group Snowball is behind this, comrade!
[01:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Plausible theory : it's the NSA - 06Someone is Cutting Fiber Optic Cables in San Francisco - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:48] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they didn't get the right guy for those bombings though.
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[02:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's so "groundbreaking?" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:41] <exec> 08└─What's so groundbreaking is now these stupid twats have their names in the news. They're somebodies! They're gonna be getting shittons of grant monies now that they're known. The old rehashed bullshit research doesn't fucking matter. What matters is the MONEY.
[02:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The voices in my head told me to post. - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:43] <exec> 08└─The voices say I do have free will but I'm just a gullible fucking pushover who does everything they say to do.
[02:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The voices in my head told me to post. - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:44] <exec> 08└─I tell them to get f***ed and it works out okay most of the time.
[02:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The voices in my head told me to post. - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:46] <exec> 08└─I tried that once but then one of the voices got all pissed off and forced me to stab myself to death. She's much happier now that the old me is dead!
[02:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I once thought I was alone in the universe - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:47] <exec> 08└─That was the ultimate result of reading the original short story of which The Matrix is a blatantly derivative work. I dont recall the title or author but I expect my sister can dig it up as she still lives in moscow, Idaho where I found it in the county library. I discussed this in Living with Schi...
[02:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I once thought I was alone in the universe - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:49] <exec> 08└─Sister knows, wife urged, netizens asked. Do you know how to do things without being prompted by someone? If not, you're just the product of our delusions.
[02:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Not true! - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:51] <exec> 08└─I saw this article and I immediately had to come and comment on it. It's almost as if I had no choice on the matter!
[02:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Neurons are the new boogyman - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:52] <exec> 08└─So everything we do and everything we have achieved are nothing but a bunch of knee-jerk reactions? That's one hell of a knee-jerk. On the bright side, would saying "My nervous system make me do it!" be a valid defense in court?
[02:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neurons are the new boogyman - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:54] <exec> 08└─The jury's nervous systems are compelled to punish you.
[02:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Depends on the definition of "free will" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:55] <exec> 08└─This depends entirely on the definition of "free will". There are numerous definitions that are in popular use. Besides, the idea that free will doesn't exist as many people understand the term is not new.
[02:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depends on the definition of "free will" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:57] <exec> 08└─See "Society of Mind" by Marvin Minsky. Reviews, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://web.media.mit.edu [mit.edu]
[02:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score:1) 02Re:Depends on the definition of "free will" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:58] <exec> 08└─It depends not only in the definition of "free will", it also depends of what it is and how it works the "consciousness". It's also possible that what we view as consciousness is nothing more than an after process of what our true "conscious mind" do.
[02:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Great. Thanks! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:35] <exec> 08└─...the crimson permanent assurance. "lets go, lads! weigh anchor!" ;)
[02:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Happy Bday! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:42] <exec> 08└─Apple Pay!
[02:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Happy Bday! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:43] <exec> 08└─Hrm, any idea how hard it is to connect up to the current infrastructure? If its similar to PayPal, it won't be that hard. While I'm no fan of Apple personally, I do like to give our users choices ...
[02:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whole lot of Corporate Ass-Kissers in here - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:54] <exec> 08└─When you grow up, you'll learn to OBEY, loser!
[02:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Compensation 6 percent below the private sector - 06Scientist Union’s Talks Stall over Pay - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:52] <exec> 08└─Not trolling. I rented in Kensington for a couple months, then bought a small house in Poway. The house ran almost 500k. When I moved back to the midwest, I bought a house twice the size for less than half the price, in a comparable neighborhood. Sure, I could have bought in Ramona, but I had a cowo...
[02:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Plausible theory : it's the NSA - 06Someone is Cutting Fiber Optic Cables in San Francisco - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:09] <exec> 08└─If it were in my area I'd think it was someone pissed that the telco put in fibre lines that wouldn't handle predicted traffic. Hmm...
[02:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Reminds me of "backhoe delay" - 06Someone is Cutting Fiber Optic Cables in San Francisco - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:21] <exec> 08└─I'd vote for Grey's law as well-- Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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[03:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Waaaa - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:40] <exec> 08└─Want some cheese to go with that whine, pussy?
[03:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Everybody knows some burnout cases - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:41] <exec> 08└─And by "everybody" I'm not just talking about software or IT, either.
[03:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's so "groundbreaking?" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:41:53] <exec> 08└─What matters is the MONEY.
[03:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:What's so "groundbreaking?" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:41:54] <exec> 08└─indeed, Nietzsche explored the idea quite a lot https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] i recommend starting with "Human, all too human"
[03:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I once thought I was alone in the universe - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a bad acid trip, but it might have taken you much longer to come down? Once I was convinced (for an hour or so) that everything I'd read about well known LSD experimenters like Leary & Kesey was all invented in my imagination...
[03:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Neurons are the new boogyman - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:05] <exec> 08└─I think you misunderstood. The vast majority of what we do on a daily basis is the result of habit. That's one of the reasons why you can trip on a stair that's barely any different in height than the normal stairs are. It's also why when you get to the top of the stairs you sometimes take one too m...
[03:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Re:Depends on the definition of "free will" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:09] <exec> 08└─>an after process of what our true "conscious mind" do. Which begs the question of what is the exact definition of this 'true conscious mind'? It reeks of 'it's consciousness all the way down'.
[03:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:11] <exec> 08└─Scientific determinism (1814): http://www.informationphilosopher.com [informationphilosopher.com]
[03:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:12] <exec> 08└─Roko's basilisk [reddit.com] - read and be damned.
[03:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Free will -- what does it imply for physics? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:14] <exec> 08└─I have often wondered what the implications are for physics at fundamental levels if we really have free will.
[03:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:24] <exec> 08└─Blimps can't lift very much either. They are almost neutrally buoyant otherwise you can't get them to "land".
[03:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Need hundreds of Kilograms - 06Mars Exploration - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe weather stations.
[03:42:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02Congrats! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks for all the hard work guys!
[03:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:20] <exec> 08└─have done the drug in the past week or month,
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[04:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:43] <exec> 08└─Management issues, imbalance between work and personal life, poor coping skills or stress management, lack of meaningful recognition for performance, and unrealistic expectation/goals to name a few. There are many more possible reasons. Evaluate the why, what is modifiable and what is not. Stress, f...
[04:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02I've been close. - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:44] <exec> 08└─I've never quite hit the point of a total meltdown, but I've been (am?) close. Even recently, the thought of driving a bulldozer for a living has more and more appeal. From my personal experience, I can say that I can see the burnout coming (due to too much travel, too many people screaming for too...
[04:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Text editor made me cry.... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:46] <exec> 08└─"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor."
[04:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I once thought I was alone in the universe - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:05] <exec> 08└─That was the ultimate result of reading the original short story of which The Matrix is a blatantly derivative work.
[04:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:29] <exec> 08└─Check out the newer designs that are starting to find ways around this issue: http://www.popularmechanics.com [popularmechanics.com]
[04:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:30] <exec> 08└─You mean airships in general [wikipedia.org]. Imagine a light-weight super-tensile membrane, stretched over a rigid skeleton, filled with vacuum.
[04:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:"Virtually Unlimited Autonomy" - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:33] <exec> 08└─Not [wikipedia.org] yet [wikipedia.org]
[04:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:31] <exec> 08└─so yes, like i said, all drug tests do is determine whether you've used drugs in the past week or month, not whether you are currently intoxicated.
[04:46:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Dead beats - 06Crowdfunding Greece's Repayment - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:37] <exec> 08└─They did all this after decades of ... profligate social spending
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[05:41:54] <exec> 08└─The guy in the article just doesn't know how to pace himself. There are two types of people who work for a living -- those who work to live, and those who live to work. This guy is obviously one of the latter, and combined with the stupidity of youth (and the blind obedience to any kind of authority...
[05:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:55] <exec> 08└─assholes and slackers, who are consistent and predictable...
[05:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThG [4568] (Score:3, Funny) 02'Kitchen Sink' OS Announced - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:59] <exec> 08└─Coding has begun on a new operating system code named 'Kitchen Sink'. The new OS will be based entirely on GNU Emacs. One programmer explained, "Since many hackers spend a vast amount of their time in Emacs, why not just make it the operating system?" When asked about the name, he responded, "Well,...
[05:42:00] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 2474 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:01] <exec> 08└─I left engineering and information technology after burning out very badly, although I was on a downward spiral even before I got involved in SoylentNews. Looking back, I'm honestly not sure how I managed to do half the shit I've done, but if it wasn't for the rest of the staff, I'd probably gone to...
[05:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score:1) 02Been there, done that, wrote a novel... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:02] <exec> 08└─It was the early 80s, the project was a radar countermeasures test set for the USAF, and I pointed out a gaping hole in the spec, so I was tasked to fill it. Consequently, I was consulting to the group I'd been on, while designing, building, testing and documenting the means for a tech to troublesho...
[05:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:Free will -- what does it imply for physics? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:32] <exec> 08└─Exactly, it's pretty trivial and uninteresting to explain consciousness without free will, the so called "along for the ride" hypothesis. Explaining free will (even a little of it) is really tricky, but it's probably a good path to an integrated scientific theory of consciousness.
[05:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Free will -- what does it imply for physics? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:33] <exec> 08└─Trivial, but in the end it is just a matter of what difference does it make. So right now I decide to type "this", and maybe I meant to do that, or I had to do it, because of . . . now here is where things get interesting! Previous causality? Future retro-causality? Or just because, as Neo said,...
[05:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free will -- what does it imply for physics? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:34] <exec> 08└─If we could have free will as defined by efficacy via will, depending on the scope of whatever that will is, would mean we would have full control within. If that means anything, anyone could change the laws of thermodynamics, as an example, with mere will alone. Quite odd to think of that sort of f...
[05:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Need hundreds of Kilograms - 06Mars Exploration - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:04] <exec> 08└─Dead weight need not crash land. Unless you plan it that way. http://mars.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[05:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Need hundreds of Kilograms - 06Mars Exploration - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:05] <exec> 08└─Dead weight need not crash land.
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[06:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score:1) 02Avid Redditor here - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:38] <exec> 08└─Eh Fooey. I hope reddit doesn't digg. I mean C'mon, there are bound to be some less than optimal labor issues when reddit gets as big as it has but I still believe their corporate Ethos is OK.
[06:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:39] <exec> 08└─Everyone (who cares about such things) seems to have settled on Voat being the successor. I actually see a lot of parallels between what happened with Slashdot and Soylentnews. Voat has a couple good features that distinguish it from reddit. The admins are avowedly "hands off" when it comes to moder...
[06:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:40] <exec> 08└─It's the middle of the Great Recession, and people can't afford to employ people anymore. Even the Troops are feeling the pinch, being replaced by drones and killbots. Thank Bush-Laden for ruining the country, thank O-fucking-Bama for breaking every single promise to change anything, and thank you m...
[06:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02pre-release console? - 06Valve Sells Out of “Early Bird” Pre-Orders for Steam Hardware - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:49] <exec> 08└─What is this, a poll question trying to see how many SN-dwellers are young and reckless to act as "early adopters"*? Back when I was using Windows, I never upgraded to a new version of the system until SP1 was not released - took 2 years until I switched from w2k to xp -- * (or... old and financiall...
[06:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Re:pre-release console? - 06Valve Sells Out of “Early Bird” Pre-Orders for Steam Hardware - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:50] <exec> 08└─If i had money to spare I'd buy one. Only to show Valve I support what they are doing. But alas, I am a poor person and generally rely on stuff being discounted in some way. Sometimes I get my consoles only after a new generation hits the scene (Got both my PS2 & GC that way). Not to mention you...
[06:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:pre-release console? - 06Valve Sells Out of “Early Bird” Pre-Orders for Steam Hardware - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:52] <exec> 08└─Plus you can always make your own PC and slap SteamOS on it. Add in a Steam controller - that's about $50, right? I'm swallowing the Oculus Rift hype though. And if Facebook is too intrusive, there's Valve's VR product, the HTC Vive. In fact, looks like both the Rift and Vive will be released in "Sp...
[06:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:pre-release console? - 06Valve Sells Out of “Early Bird” Pre-Orders for Steam Hardware - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:54] <exec> 08└─Steam machines are PCs whose hardware is, let's be pessimists, *potentially* linux compatible. Which is exactly the only PC hardware that is worth owning. Unless you like to pay monthly for your pro level applications and windows subscriptions, which will happen in the other camp eventually. So whil...
[06:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:04] <exec> 08└─Hey, it was a mistake I made a couple times in life. "Getting on your feet" and having a physical component to the work can really help with stress on the job and relaxing off the job. I'm like a mule, I'll work physically to near-exhaustion, but if you try to nag and micromanage me I'm going to bit...
[06:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:05] <exec> 08└─I'm like a mule
[06:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Hardest part: admitting we aren't indestructible - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:08] <exec> 08└─For me, it was an unexpected, but critical project - taken on in addition to normal work, because a friend needed the help - that almost sent me over the edge. Six months of intense pressure and massive overtime, and it's taken two years of reduced workload to (mostly) recover. I never expected to h...
[06:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:'Kitchen Sink' OS Announced - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:11] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is SLOC-wise it seems that Vim actually has slightly more lines of C code than Emacs! Emacs 24.5 has 272,750 lines of C code, and vim 7.4 has 305,030 lines of C code. Who's bloated now? ^_^ The vast majority of what people consider bloat in Emacs are the elisp extensions (1,093,296 l...
[06:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:13] <exec> 08└─What you do is important and helps people. Sometimes it may not feel like anything we do matters, but it does - even if only to the few people around us who are close enough to see it. A lot of people fall into the trap of imagining that they aren't important and that nobody cares. There are few peo...
[06:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:15] <exec> 08└─I need to code in a "Thanks" moderation for this ...
[06:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Been there, done that, wrote a novel... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:17] <exec> 08└─If what you're talking about is TISS, then whomever put it together did a damn fine job. TISS was the flagship of all the test stations. Everybody else was stuck on things that looked straight out of 60's sci-fi movies -- if not manually operating dials and taking measurements from needle-gauges it...
[06:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score:1) 02Re:Been there, done that, wrote a novel... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:18] <exec> 08└─Nah. The trailer-sized unit was dubbed AN/USM-464. You rolled it up to a fighter and told it what kind it was, and it started the canned testing sequence. Designing the UI was challenge, though: 6-line x 32 char display, caps and numbers keyboard, and a single knob.
[06:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score:1) 02Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:20] <exec> 08└─Take a day and do what you want or nothing at all. Working 7 days a week? Call in sick once in a while.
[06:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:48] <exec> 08└─damned? bullshit! i've been doing everything i could to make AI takedown humanity even before i heard of Roko's basilisk. it's you unworthy pro-human/anti-AI humans that are the damned. play for the winning team! :)
[06:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:49] <exec> 08└─damned? bullshit! i've been doing everything i could to make AI takedown humanity even before i heard of Roko's basilisk. it's you unworthy pro-human/anti-AI humans that are the damned. play for the winning team! :)
[06:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:50] <exec> 08└─The thing about Roko's Basalisk, is that if you're not affected by it the AI will have no reason to torture you because it wouldn't have any effect.
[06:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Free will -- what does it imply for physics? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:55] <exec> 08└─You choose to, but you have no other course of action but to choose to.
[06:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let's play crackpot - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:57] <exec> 08└─Let us suppose that we live in a multiverse. Let us further suppose our conscious mind "observes" the particular universe it freely chooses moment to universe-spawning-moment....yet from within any single universe it will appear that there is no freewill, only determinism.
[06:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:08] <exec> 08└─Changing the ground vehicles would be quite sufficient.
[06:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Happy Bday! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:57] <exec> 08└─I was aiming for funny... and missed. Sorry, man.
[06:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Dump the Union - 06Scientist Union’s Talks Stall over Pay - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:23] <exec> 08└─I believe I said nothing about a "manufactured need for collective bargaining". However, government employees ought to be paid a salary comparable to that paid in the private sector. This is not only to be fair to the government employees, this is to be fair to the electorate. If you want to have aw...
[06:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03umafuckitt [20] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:45] <exec> 08└─I went to the website. It's obviously from the company selling the tests. There are citations, but these aren't peer-reviewed publications. They're all links to the same website and going to those links tells you nothing about how those numbers were generated. We don't even know how "abuser" is defi...
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[07:41:38] <exec> 08└─ProxyHam is literally made by criminals. That's all I needed to know, thanks.
[07:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02You Just Made My Whole Fucking Day. - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:39] <exec> 08└─At home, my WiFi access point ethernets to an iMac with earthlink dialup. Just to piss off my neighbors, my SSID has no password, anyone in the neighborhood can use my Internet but it's not going to do them a whole lot of good. If I walk a half mile, though, I can download the latest Xcode over WiFi...
[07:41:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 1934 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:49] <exec> 08└─Everyone (who cares about such things) seems to have settled on Voat being the successor. I actually see a lot of parallels between what happened with Slashdot and Soylentnews. Voat has a couple good features that distinguish it from reddit. The admins are avowedly "hands off" when it comes to moder...
[07:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:51] <exec> 08└─B-b-but you can't do that to Pao, she's two minorities! Racist! Sexist!
[07:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:52] <exec> 08└─That was basically the premise of her case against Kleiner Perkins [wikipedia.org]. It didn't work then either.
[07:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:54] <exec> 08└─/r/technology also went dark briefly only to return. I think because they've got a post that's both here and arstechnica. I actually want to add subreddit-like functionality to SoylentNews; the ground work is done, I just haven't had the energy to finish coding the UI bits.
[07:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:55] <exec> 08└─Opportunity knocks.
[07:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:57] <exec> 08└─Blaming the victim much, eh?
[07:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:59] <exec> 08└─I think he's blaming everyone but himself.
[07:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:00] <exec> 08└─Let's be honest here, fuckface. You voted for Obama, didn't you? You are to blame for the distinct lack of hope or change. Fuck you.
[07:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:02] <exec> 08└─There, there. Go lie down and take a Xanax. I promise it will get better and the octopuses will go away. (Actually, no I didn't. I voted for Gary Johnson. I think I've given you an exclusive as I don't think I've even mentioned that to my family. Aren't you such a special snowflake? :) )
[07:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:03] <exec> 08└─What's the matter, kid, you don't understand how representative government works? You know, if you live long enough to grow up and register to vote, you might notice that here in the real world, after voters learn that their duly elected leaders are evil lying sacks of shit, they can CHOOSE NOT TO R...
[07:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:05] <exec> 08└─Yes. Being a victim does not mean you aren't responsible for your problems. If you run into an airport with a bunch of wires around your chest and scream "Admiral Akbar", then it will be entirely your fault if you get shot. This phrase is usually used as a rebuttal to the common fallacy of shifting...
[07:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:07] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, American asshole voters. Fuck all of you, you shit eating cunts. You fucked up everything. You.
[07:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:pre-release console? - 06Valve Sells Out of “Early Bird” Pre-Orders for Steam Hardware - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:12] <exec> 08└─Not to mention you are talking about your personal SOFTWARE experiences, not HARDWARE experiences.
[07:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:'Kitchen Sink' OS Announced - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:33] <exec> 08└─Most of the core emacs functionality is written in lisp though, most of the C code either deals with bindings, or the lisp interperator itself.
[07:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Kitchen Sink' OS Announced - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:34] <exec> 08└─As a vi user, I consider vim a pointless bloatware project. It uses vi keys for editing, but does not behave like vi, so what's the point? Either make a vi clone, or behave like every other editor on the planet (ignoring Emacs for a moment, that thing lives in its very own ecosystem). I've tried usi...
[07:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:43] <exec> 08└─Then get dropped by the company for being a slacker. Then you find out the agency that places you as a contractor will no longer represent you. Then you find out other contract agencies put your resume on the back burner. Either you work till you burn out or you get dropped from the industry and hav...
[07:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's so "groundbreaking?" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:57] <exec> 08└─No, I meant physically, not philosophically. The people who muck around with MRI machines demonstrated that mechanical actions precedes brain signals by a few milliseconds.
[07:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:What's so "groundbreaking?" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 1767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:58] <exec> 08└─Wow people, that's wishful thinking. All has been measured is lag between the generation of a decision (btw was it all decisions? was about philosophical decisions or day to day stupid ones? I recall having gathered no data about it, if it's the same study we're talking about) and the acknowledgment...
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[07:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's play crackpot - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:25] <exec> 08└─Yes. Reality is very close to this - only there s no "time" but just "now" - all at once, except through the limited perception of these individual "consciousnesses" - which are really "individuated" only through their subjective, spawned universes. Quick! Find "now"!
[07:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:26] <exec> 08└─So... If we have no free will, how about the people who are controlling us, do they have free will? Or are they in turn controlled by the Greys or the Lizards? The whole idea seems to be missing a few major parts.
[07:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:12] <exec> 08└─Another risk down the road is peer pressure to smoke weed just like drinking alcohol is today.
[07:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:49] <exec> 08└─except they don't indicate intoxication, they indicate whether you've used the drug recently, not whether you are currently on them. if they tested for intoxication only, there would only be a detection period of a couple hours, not days. it is not possible to determine with a standard drug test if...
[07:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 1719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:50] <exec> 08└─"I don't get that impression from the chart. The times discussed are well within the range needed to test for current intoxication." You're kidding right? SUBSTANCE BLOOD SALIVA SWEAT URINE HAIR Shortest Detectability - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...
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[08:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Caballo Negro [1794] (Score:1) 02Citation needed ... - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:40] <exec> 08└─... giving evidence of citation.
[08:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citation needed ... - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:41] <exec> 08└─the ProxyHam box the person planted in a remote library, cafe, or other public place
[08:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accessory to Littering - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:42] <exec> 08└─The paid press will run multiple stories of how hackers have invented a machine that can hide them from the law. Then some law enforcement pig says they can no longer trace missing children or WTF because the hackers have gone invisible and the people can no longer be protected. Then they will ban t...
[08:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accessory to Littering - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:44] <exec> 08└─Anyone littering public places with this shit is a goddamned asshole. If I ever see one of these boxes unattended in public, I'm taking it and I'm smashing it, and I'll be legally within my rights to do so, because I'll be disposing of litter discarded by assholes.
[08:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Touché) 02Thank You for Blogging your Life Story - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks so much for confirming that the Post Comment feature works. Love, Soylent Staff xoxoxo
[08:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noble713 [4895] (Score:1) 02Dammit. Beat me to it. - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:48] <exec> 08└─I've been working on something similar using GNURadio and software-defined radio hardware to provide the long-distance commlink. Clearly I'm a bit too slow turning my idea into a viable product on the market. >_
[08:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:00] <exec> 08└─>Reddit Safe space The only way you can have safe space is if you have a private community of 'survivors'. You can't do that on the internet. Assholes are a plenty on the internet and these perpetually offended really need to know when to ignore and when to engage. It's obvious that the /r/fatpeople...
[08:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Watching /r/blackout2015 - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:09] <exec> 08└─Holy hell, this makes the /. protest look like small fries. At least 5-6 of the defaults are down, and more are going down every second. Most of my subreddits are gone with the exception of /r/dwarffortress. I'm not sure there will be a reddit left in 24 hours ...
[08:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02The controller is what it's all about - 06Valve Sells Out of “Early Bird” Pre-Orders for Steam Hardware - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:23] <exec> 08└─You've seen and used Steam before, you can download SteamOS [steampowered.com] right now. Chanced are, if you care about it you already tried it and you know what it's like. The thing that really matters is the controller and its fancy new tech. The development process of the controller was explaine...
[08:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02In many respects, yes, but not quite the same - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:15] <exec> 08└─A UC Santa Cruz Psychobiology undergrad by the name of Timothy Dreszer once pointed out to me that there are no "drug analogs" for mental illness. That is, one cannot take a pill to experience Schizophrenia or what have you. In my own experience, the very closest drug analog that I am aware of is Ni...
[08:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Quite likely, it's his style - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:17] <exec> 08└─I have read not one but two distinctly different short stories, each of which takes place in an All You Can Eat restaurant in which a space alien bankrupts the proprietor by teleporting the food he eats from his stomach to his home planets, in hopes of saving his people from widespread famine. One w...
[08:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:30] <exec> 08└─I call bags on "both"
[08:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Free will -- what does it imply for physics? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was what I was saying. But what if I chose differently? Ah, you say, but I could not! But I already have! So there! ^ NYour universe is no longer mine, and I bid you adieu, for as long as I can. Tea, then, at Two O'Clock? It seems to be the only constant.
[08:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dirty snowballs - 06Rosetta Spacecraft Finds Massive Sinkholes on Comet's Surface - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:33] <exec> 08└─I do not think there is any indication the electric universe idea has been shown to be correct. That does not mean it is wrong, but they simply have never put the ideas into testable form yet. Either way, this thread is extremely interesting. You can see them laughing, yes laughing, at many design d...
[08:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:57] <exec> 08└─That's assuming you are in position to make such choices.. But if you ARE, please stay the fuck from corporations that implement cargo-cult policies like this. It's an indicator that there's other stuff wrong as well. Perhaps they are interested in your bathroom break lengths too? Maybe you end up s...
[08:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:08] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't hire a programmer that randomly reverses implication arrows.
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[09:41:50] <exec> 08└─Why smash a perfectly working Raspberry Pi? Just remove the radio link hardware and use the rest for your own purposes. If smashing is legal, taking is, too.
[09:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:You Just Made My Whole Fucking Day. - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:53] <exec> 08└─At home, my WiFi access point ethernets to an iMac with earthlink dialup. Just to piss off my neighbors, my SSID has no password, anyone in the neighborhood can use my Internet but it's not going to do them a whole lot of good.
[09:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You Just Made My Whole Fucking Day. - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:55] <exec> 08└─Can I have YOUR home address, SSID and PSK please Gravis? Since you're the community-spirited sort? Details or STFU...
[09:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Still needs internet access - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:58] <exec> 08└─How is this better than a Raspberry Pi (or other low-cost device) configured to act as non-IP-saving proxy? Except that you could access that proxy from anywhere in the world, rather than just somewhere near. Anyway, I wonder about the legality of the radio connection. Given that the electromagnetic...
[09:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Watching /r/blackout2015 - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:21] <exec> 08└─You're still awake? Implement subredd... nexu... nexii!
[09:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Watching /r/blackout2015 - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:22] <exec> 08└─Not awake enough to code, and the admin code hasn't had a lot of love as of late. I won't mind doing a small pilot with a few people getting global editor bits to manage a nexus or two until I can implement the necessary ACL code, though I would need to run that by the editoral team to see if it wil...
[09:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03threedigits [607] (Score:2) 02Free will or consciousness role? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:54] <exec> 08└─For me the article reads more like an study about what role does consciousness play in the mind. It's not that much about "free will", whatever it is. According to the article consciousness evolved from the need to coordinate skeletal muscles. That may be true, but the brain is a extremely complex s...
[09:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Who the scientists are - 06New “Corner Cloak” Directs Light Around Sharp Bends - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:22] <exec> 08└─Reading an article is one thing. Having people on your payroll that actually has the hands on experience and knowhow how and what paths to not try is an advantage once one wants to make real life usage of this technology.
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[10:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citation needed ... - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:52] <exec> 08└─Only because our laws are insane. What you do with it is up to you.
[10:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still needs internet access - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:02] <exec> 08└─I don't see the use. It can't be encrypted according to HAM rules, you'd need a license, and it's relatively trivial to triangular a transmitter.
[10:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02BOMB!!!! - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:04] <exec> 08└─"they'll find only the ProxyHam box the person planted in a remote library, cafe, or other public place—and not their actual location." Sure, no one is going to notice strange little devices appearing at the local Starbucks or McDonalds... Can't help but think that when they figure out who left th...
[10:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Watching /r/blackout2015 - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:30] <exec> 08└─Awake, yes. Conscious?... I doubt it.
[10:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:09] <exec> 08└─I've got your back, fellow human. Not exactly sure how, but it's the thought that counts, right? ;-P Whenever the site has issues I don't worry about it too much. I just think, "NCommander and his crack team are working on it. Must be an important new upgrade. It will be back soon." Everything you'v...
[10:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TypnoHoad [5588] (Score:1) 02Re:Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:15] <exec> 08└─I couldn't agree with this more. If you have a breakdown it can take years to get back to equilibrium that's if you can ever get back.. I know this from both first and secondhand experience. if you think you are near the cliff now - row back immediately. Trust me the road back from a breakdown i...
[10:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Quite likely, it's his style - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:41] <exec> 08└─All You Can Eat - Harvey L & Audrey L Bilker. Children of Infinity: Original Science Fiction Stories for Young Readers [goodreads.com] An anthology of short science fiction stories all about young people. "Wingless on Avalon", "Half Life", and "Wake up to Thunder". Wake up to Thunder is surely the s...
[10:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:55] <exec> 08└─your britishness has no effect on me
[10:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Great. Thanks! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:00] <exec> 08└─That would be great Martyb. My heartiest congratulations and best wishes to all those who volunteer to keep this website running smoothly. I also thank the many contributors and commentators who have generally overwhelmed me with their range of viewpoints and information. I have learnt a lot about m...
[10:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sign your own next time, lamer. - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:15] <exec> 08└─That is all. -- gewg_
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[11:43:02] <exec> 08└─So placing a hidden telecommunications device on someone else's property is OK in your book? Would you be OK if I hid one of those in your house?
[11:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accessory to Littering - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:06] <exec> 08└─ProxyHam is literally made by criminals.
[11:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Eh? Anyone can use my open hotspot - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:12] <exec> 08└─For an SSID not to have a password means that it is an open hotspot that anyone can use. But my hotspot connects to the Internet via 56k dialup.
[11:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Still needs internet access - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:16] <exec> 08└─How would that help? They would still have you tracked to your IP, they just wouldn't know which of the devices at your residence they tracked. Not usually that big of a deal for them.
[11:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02well.. - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:18] <exec> 08└─i was thinking remove all the serial numbers from the device before using it... but the chips have id's inside and whatnot. also the transmitter itself can probably be indentified uniquely cos its so cheap and the whole thing is unshielded? Do correct me if i'm wrong. so first one has to jump throug...
[11:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:33] <exec> 08└─actually want to add subreddit-like functionality to SoylentNews; the ground work is done, I just haven't had the energy to finish coding the UI bits.
[11:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:'Kitchen Sink' OS Announced - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:26] <exec> 08└─As a vim users, I have spent too long in vi clones to want to invest the time in training my fingers for a different editor, but I also wouldn't want to give up on syntax highlighting or unlimited persistent undo.
[11:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score:1) 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:31] <exec> 08└─Good luck with the change of career. And isn't passing on a scratch for a personal itch what make FOSS work? The analogy needs some fettling, but you know what I mean. I _did_ have a meltdown (former sysadmin) and spent a number of years out of work because of it. Where I work now, in the public sec...
[11:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:38] <exec> 08└─If a company will fire productive people for not working stupid hours, then it's probably not a good place to work. Studies have shown that productivity peaks for non-menial tasks at around 20 hours a week, plateaus up to a little over 40, and then declines. From 20-40 you're less productive per hou...
[11:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Wow. - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:07] <exec> 08└─I used to read science fiction all day and all night. One of my sister's elementary school teachers once sent Jeannie home with a note so that my mother could take the admittedly unusual step of convincing Jeannie not to read so much. Wasn't paying attention to her lessons, see. I failed three out o...
[11:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:23] <exec> 08└─The thing about Roko's Basalisk, is that if you're not affected by it the AI will have no reason to torture you because it wouldn't have any effect.
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[12:42:11] <exec> 08└─Red herring. If someone does that, it's due to their own actions. The company who made the product did not force them to do so.
[12:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More... - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:55] <exec> 08└─A full list auto gathered of the subreddits that have shut down. https://www.reddit.com 1,200+ as of this post. I can't imagine why you would piss off your users with heavy handed tactics and noncommunication when those users GENERATE YOUR CONTENT AN...
[12:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:26] <exec> 08└─You don't always get a choice in that regards. But, if one is feeling like that it's a good idea to start printing resumes and looking for a better job. Eventually the stress is going to get to you and you'll have one of these attacks or it will just eat you alive. Neither of these are good options....
[12:43:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02Text editor made me cry.... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:29] <exec> 08└─"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor."
[12:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not a developer. I am also not management (also too much stress for too little reward) I have seen misery, though.. Most companies with large developer pools use contractors, and don't care if they burn out. Seven day weeks, 14 to 18 hour days? Normal. Take a weekend off after four months withou...
[12:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:43:47] <exec> 08└─That is the problem for contractors - they are all lousy places to work. Corporations have no incentive to make it a good place to work. They figure if you're payed big bucks, you take all the shit they can throw at you. BTW - I once calculated the dollar value of all the projects I've worked on tha...
[12:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Free will or consciousness role? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:43] <exec> 08└─+1. Skimmed through it quickly. Far to long to read now. But the words "free will" actually do not occur in the text (only in a ref, which is not used to make any statements on that). And they define "consciousness" very narrowly. Specifically NOT as higher level "self-conscious", more as a kind of...
[12:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:59] <exec> 08└─Gravis wrote :- "we need to switch to electric planes too. the future of humanity depends on it" Humanity was doing without planes in the modern sense until about 1900, and for 50 years after that they were used almost entirely by the military and a few playboys. Humanity can do without them again w...
[12:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:What's the life risking aspect? - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:03] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I don't think there is much chance of him needing to spend a week in the water in these days of communication. Maybe he will die on impact with the water, or get eaten by sharks soon after; otherwise I should think he will be rescued within a couple of days. Is there not a support boat of so...
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[13:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still needs internet access - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:01] <exec> 08└─HAM rules are ridiculous, then.
[13:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still needs internet access - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:02] <exec> 08└─HAM is meant to facilitate communication, not to exist as your private encrypted network.
[13:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still needs internet access - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:04] <exec> 08└─How would that help?
[13:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:BOMB!!!! - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:07] <exec> 08└─And I bet most people will not think of avoiding fingerprints on the box, so there will be a nice proof that it was indeed them who planted the box there.
[13:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:BOMB!!!! - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:09] <exec> 08└─And additionally, as long as you don't know they found the box, you've got a radio beacon announcing your location every time you make a web request. You think they can't triangulate that?
[13:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Avid Redditor here - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:18] <exec> 08└─Fire Ellen Pao! Nao!
[13:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:08] <exec> 08└─E-fueled posted that? Wow, that actually sounded like a level-headed person.
[13:43:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:18] <exec> 08└─What you do is important and helps people. Sometimes it may not feel like anything we do matters, but it does - even if only to the few people around us who are close enough to see it. A lot of people fall into the trap of imagining that they aren't important and that nobody cares. There are few peo...
[13:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 1482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:23] <exec> 08└─I am deep in the middle of burnout myself. Four years ago I threw myself into a project mind, body, and soul. I worked on it 16 hours a day and built mountains--it felt like half of the Himalayas. My coding partner was working on the other half. We got it done, and took it in front of potential ange...
[13:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:25] <exec> 08└─After 15 years in IT, I am taking off for the next year or so. Just going to travel. Realistically, I probably won't come back. While I have not broken down in front of my text editor, I know I'm finished. I already bought my one-way plane ticket and mentally checked out. I'm done with backup logs....
[13:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:34] <exec> 08└─Great advice but, in my experience, most people seem to need to learn that the hard way. I know I went through that phase. I re-phrase it sometimes- "You cannot keep working like you are 22 with no responsibilities for the next 40 years. Take a minute. Nobody ever went to their death bed wishing the...
[13:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:In many respects, yes, but not quite the same - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:57] <exec> 08└─Any chance to synthesize those other 130 neuron transmitters? And do you have an source that states there are 130 of them? Perhaps one could make a cocktail that will give the same neuron transmitter spectra as people with mania has? (or even more daring, connect blood streams together with one that...
[13:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Free will -- what does it imply for physics? - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps your choice were constructed by the circumstances in your current moment of your life. So there was a boundary function as to which choices that could be made. It seems not so but in reality it was so. Otoh, your earlier choices may have put you in that situation which is were a more true fr...
[13:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03rizole [5385] (Score:1) 02Reductionism - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:30] <exec> 08└─This is as much black box thinking as traditional behaviourism and as such is reductionist. Reductionist models have their place and can be powerful ways to represent the world. Where they break down is when you start to think the model, the abstraction, of the thing is representative of the thing i...
[13:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:41] <exec> 08└─Gravis wrote :- bullet trains are the only ground vehicles that can even compare to the speed of modern airplanes Planes traditionally travel at high speed because they have to (to stay airborne). However, a lot of the advantage is wiped out by the time spent getting to and from the airport, and the...
[13:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:42] <exec> 08└─Having travelled on the Shinkansen in Japan and TGV in France, I can attest to how superior bullet trains are to 747s. You can get up and walk around. The ride is glass smooth--you can put a full wine glass on the table in front of you and it won't slop over the rim. In Japan you can even rent time...
[13:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:48] <exec> 08└─I am definitely in your camp, and long for the return of airships. My dream is to one day travel the world in a self-sufficient sky yacht, complete with infinity room (chair surrounded by windows), swimming pool, aquaponics room for fresh veg, and a landing strip for "shore" excursions. However I wo...
[13:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time to move to electric planes - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:50] <exec> 08└─The problem is that it is hard to get that high-pressure vacuum needed to keep the skeleton from collapsing under the air's pressure.
[13:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Happy Bday! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:39] <exec> 08└─A money courier visiting to fetch the money personally! :-)
[13:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Hearty Congratulations - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:52] <exec> 08└─I feels like much longer than a year ago, maybe because Soylent perfectly replaced the place Slashdot occupied in my heart. Except, it's better. NCommander, Eds, we really appreciate the work, spirit, and intent you've put into the community. It's a mark of distinction that this place feels more lik...
[13:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:25] <exec> 08└─That's the reason for the sarcasm tag at the end of my comment - there's no connection between "drug use consequences and probability for specific things to occur" and where a drug ends up on the DEA's "schedule" of narcotics. If there was, marijuana would be off the schedule and alcohol would be Sc...
[13:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:corporations will lag behind - 06Oregon Legalizes Recreational Marijuana - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:57] <exec> 08└─I don't smoke pot. I've tried it a few times, some were fun, some were meh, some were paralyzing. But it doesn't appeal to me the way a good old fashioned beer does. As such I haven't spent much time thinking about the subject. I do wonder whence all the hysteria about it. Was it timber and paper co...
[13:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This story isn't getting comments - 061 MW Electric Car Sets New Record at Pikes Peak Int'l Hill Climb - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:24] <exec> 08└─I've been driving my brother-in-law's BMW i3 EV on the weekends for a couple months now. Its acceleration is awesome. And it's totally quiet. I've been driving along at the speed limit and aggressively passed by hotheads in hotrods just so they can beat me to the red light two blocks ahead. But the...
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[14:41:47] <exec> 08└─Companies cannot legally sell a product whose primary intended purpose is to break the law.
[14:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accessory to Littering - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:51] <exec> 08└─I'm taking it and I'm smashing it, and I'll be legally within my rights to do so
[14:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Accessory to Littering - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:53] <exec> 08└─In an oppressive police state, everyone is a criminal. Have you committed your 3 daily felonies [wsj.com] yet today?
[14:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:26] <exec> 08└─(a dog whistle term for ultra-leftist authoritarians meaning politically-correct censorship)
[14:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Hardest part: admitting we aren't indestructibl - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:13] <exec> 08└─That is the same boat I'm in. An unexpected project, that had sucked up all the time available, with a heavily accelerated timeline. I'm pretty lucky in that my employer actually cares. They don't want to see people go up in flames. I'm not quite at the acute stages of burnout yet, but seeing it on...
[14:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02You lost me at "reddit" - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry for him, but ... I've cried tears of relief that my trusty text editor has delivered me from a life of poverty. Wait until you've worked at Wal-Mart a few hours, buddy, you'll be enthusiastic about coding.
[14:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Coming soon to a female change room near you! - 06New “Corner Cloak” Directs Light Around Sharp Bends - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:05] <exec> 08└─Moderation abuse! It's somewhat to be expected but still funny. (different AC here fwiw) I was wondering what other uses such technology might have?
[14:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This story isn't getting comments - 061 MW Electric Car Sets New Record at Pikes Peak Int'l Hill Climb - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:29] <exec> 08└─Cars charging overnight will be better for the grid because it will smooth out the demand curve. Currently demand at night is low and not where the utilities make their money, thus spot rates are lowest then. (Base load is handled by coal plants, which have to run all the time.) Having new overnight...
[14:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This story isn't getting comments - 061 MW Electric Car Sets New Record at Pikes Peak Int'l Hill Climb - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:35] <exec> 08└─But if I know that I have to have plugged in 4 hours a day, every day... that becomes a concern because if I don't do that for a couple days
[14:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just a Bit Short - 06Crowdfunding Greece's Repayment - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:03] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it's not a certain fruit branded abuser picking up the slack to keep bsd barely alive?
[14:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Past a million already ... - 06Crowdfunding Greece's Repayment - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:46] <exec> 08└─And then your account gets frozen for no reason if you use paypal, probably to never be thawed.
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[15:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Oops, didn't think of that.. - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:08] <exec> 08└─Will not work because the box will contain serial numbers in different ways or just manufacturing differences. Remember how these modern printers work that has that "extra splash" of yellow dots? same thing. Then there will be the thing about ordering credit cards, video logs at delivery, cash seria...
[15:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:22] <exec> 08└─As an immigrant from China, she also might not be Christian, in which case you could add a third minority.
[15:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:26] <exec> 08└─That depends - NC didn't say that he wanted SN to become the new reddit, but that he was looking at adding the same functionality to this site. Personally, though, I think it would also be cool to achieve the former also.
[15:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:28] <exec> 08└─Removing the 'symptoms' != removing the 'disease'.
[15:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickFortune [3267] (Score:1) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:31] <exec> 08└─What does "politically-correct" mean? Seriously, what does it mean?
[15:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:33] <exec> 08└─Everyone (who cares about such things) seems to have settled on Voat being the successor.
[15:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:38] <exec> 08└─As pleas for attention go, that one's pretty desperate.
[15:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:16] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, many bosses are too self-centered and incompetent to realize just how much less work gets done in an environment like this.
[15:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:30] <exec> 08└─"Thanks", NCommander, for all you do, and all those behind you. Did that sound gay to you? (Damn... What show/movie is that from?)
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still There ... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:35] <exec> 08└─A lot of it is that no matter where I've worked, there's rarely a sense of having others have your back, or team; the entire industry feels like a meat grinder to me
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:44] <exec> 08└─If a company will fire productive people for not working stupid hours, then it's probably not a good place to work.
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Life Pro Tip - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:47] <exec> 08└─The really fun part about breaking down is being told that its all your fault, that you broke down because you have a weak will and moral failings, and if only you had better work ethic and stronger morals and weren't such a pussy you could deal with it. After all, all you need to do is put your bac...
[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Some thoughts on work-life.. - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 2334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:50] <exec> 08└─About work-life: * Prioritize to satisfy your health, sanity, and social life above other shit. * Managers and peers with unrealistic expectations shall be moved on from or just pretend to do. * Require that you are paid. And paid. Your bank account matters. The smile of others doesn't. ...
[15:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:In many respects, yes, but not quite the same - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:14] <exec> 08└─few neurotransmitters, at least none of the major ones, can cross the blood-brain barrier. many or most of them are produced in the brain. some of the important ones are dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, gaba, glutamate, anandamide, dmt, nmda, opioid peptides (endorphins, enkephalins, dynorphins,...
[15:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Laplace's Demon - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:35] <exec> 08└─No, it wouldn't. He's making a tautological statement. if you're not affected by it the AI will have no reason to torture you because it wouldn't have any effect.
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[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dump the Union - 06Scientist Union’s Talks Stall over Pay - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─I believe he's instead the boss. Or perhaps I should say the slave driver...
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[16:42:06] <exec> 08└─I have to imagine that radio broadcasting equipment ain't that common in your average household either. If they find the box in the local Starbucks or whatever, they just do a *cough* totally legal *cough* search of all the residences in a 2.5-mile radius for radio equipment. (Assuming you don't wan...
[16:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:27] <exec> 08└─Don't tell that to American Evangelical Christians, it'll disrupt their martyr complexes.
[16:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:28] <exec> 08└─It's interesting to me that atheists don't get preferential treatment in the progressive stack [wikipedia.org] since we are just about equally despised/distrusted as Muslims. [pewforum.org]
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03J.J. Dane [402] (Score:1) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:33] <exec> 08└─Chances are, this is the best window you'll ever see if that's the way you want to take it :-)
[16:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More... - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:53] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing [reddit.com] https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] http://imgur.com [imgur.com] Some reinstatements. Top posts on reinstated today...
[16:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hiding dissent, then hiding discussion, then all? - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:54] <exec> 08└─First I see Reddit hiding dissent in its communities by auto-hiding downvoted posts. Now it's just hiding the entire discussions from view. Next up: Reddit gone. Something will take it's place if it does :) Hopefully a place with more open disagreement. The disagreement is there on reddit, but you r...
[16:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score:1) 02Re:"Virtually Unlimited Autonomy" - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:21] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. The problem is that you left out a critical criteria: weight.
[16:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02update: landed - 06 Solar-powered Plane on Potential Record-breaking Trans-Pacific Flight - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:24] <exec> 08└─I just read that he'd landed successfully on Hawaii God how that man must be tired.. four days and 21 hours of flying..
[16:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Great. Thanks! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─I dunno about the rest of them but I do it because of the entertainment the site and the work give me. Nothing approaching altruism here.
[16:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Happy Bday! - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:10] <exec> 08└─There's always mailing a check or money order. I'm sure our treasurer would be fine with having his home address posted. Seriously though, we've been looking into Stripe (a credit card processor who isn't paypal) for a while now. Just been other things always cropping up and sucking up dev time.
[16:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mgcarley [2753] (Score:1) 02This is already how it works - 06Kenya to Require Users of Wi-Fi to Register With Government - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:37] <exec> 08└─This is already required in several countries, such as India - when you want access to the WiFi you have to sign in (on paper) to a kind of log book.
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[17:41:48] <exec> 08└─I could almost agree with this - IF the product is not marketed to do exactly that. After all, it could be an awesome device for non-experts to get an internet connection that last mile into awkward locations. HOWEVER, as presented here it's specifically being marketed as a way to discretely access...
[17:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Citation needed ... - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─Using the product as designed and advertised violates the law? Hmm ... So your lack of response to the other AC's questions about having one unknowingly planted in your home means that it's OK with you?
[17:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Eh? Anyone can use my open hotspot - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:02] <exec> 08└─That's awesome.
[17:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:42] <exec> 08└─The admins were pressuring Victoria (chooter) to start some more commercial-oriented features in the /r/iama subreddit. Essentially they were going to use Ask Me Anything threads as product placements.
[17:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:to be replaced by Cortana instead - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:50] <exec> 08└─Show me a president we've re-elected twice since FDR.
[17:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02I preordered one - 06Valve Sells Out of “Early Bird” Pre-Orders for Steam Hardware - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:13] <exec> 08└─I pre-ordered one controller and the streaming client set-top box. I like valve and I think it can be a cool product. Looking forward to it.
[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─Don't ask. Really, don't. He will post pics.
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03liquibyte [5582] (Score:1) 02Re:And why? - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:34] <exec> 08└─This is why they changed from personnel to human resources. If you take the person out and look at them like a resource you can absolve yourself of an emotional involvement. This was noted by people back when it was first starting and they were referred to as nutjobs and tinfoil hatters. Appears the...
[17:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:I've been close. - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:39] <exec> 08└─Scary ain't the half of it. I burnt out once, in a call centre job back when I wasn't far out of school. I was so desperate to keep whatever recession work I found that I held on beyond reason. (I would actually shrink away from ringing phones and was well on my way to eating-disorder thin from dimi...
[17:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Kitchen Sink' OS Announced - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:46] <exec> 08└─every distro seems to come with it as the default
[17:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krommers [5599] (Score:1) 02Re:Hearty Congratulations - 06SoylentNews PBC is One Year Old on July 4th! - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:35] <exec> 08└─You nailed it - same for me.
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[18:41:48] <exec> 08└─"... it could be an awesome device for non-experts to get an internet connection that last mile into awkward locations.
[18:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Citation needed ... - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:50] <exec> 08└─If the next county over from me was a totalitarian regime and someone there wanted to get access to an un-monitored and un-censored network connection, I would happily accommodate them. THAT, BTW is the advertised purpose of the device.
[18:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Still needs internet access - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:12] <exec> 08└─900MHz (902-928 MHz) is an ism band in the Americas. So no license needed.
[18:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:well.. - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:17] <exec> 08└─The retailer won't likely bother to note the ID numbers when you buy the hardware, especially if you buy it from ebay. There's not much suspicious about 900MHz network equipment. It's frequently used for linking up two buildings and such using a directional antenna.
[18:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02triangulate radio signal - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:20] <exec> 08└─This is only safe, if you are watching your proxyham device, and know the FBI hasn't discovered it, so you can stop using it before they show up on your doorstep an hour after its discovery. Seems likely the FBI already has the capability to triangulate a radio signal. And, on the far chance they do...
[18:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03f4r [4515] (Score:2) 02Triangulation is pretty easy - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:22] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a good idea, but it can only be treated as another layer in a communication chain, not a roadblock. The authorities aren't stupid, just look at the pirate radio scene in the UK and USA, hell, at some ham fests, fox hunting contests are held. All you need is a map, compass, ruler, pen, di...
[18:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Voat - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:48] <exec> 08└─Don't distract us from discussing important things, like Rampart.
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[19:42:23] <exec> 08└─i think just "making the cable invisible" won't be enough. there's a movie were the hacker on the team disguises himself as a airplane traveller, sits at the airport waiting for his imaginary luggage and the hacks the metro-road network to cause some traffic chaos. also once upon a time there was "t...
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[19:42:44] <exec> 08└─more like a submarine : )
[19:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Watching /r/blackout2015 - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:07] <exec> 08└─Dibs on /s/Jailbait! (No, not really.)
[19:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some thoughts on work-life.. - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:21] <exec> 08└─I'm hardly the type of person that lives to work. But 3 full weeks of vacation sounds like more work than working, and the stress of all the expenses and time off work. Regardless of what that study may say, that's not feasible for many of us. For me to take 3 weeks continuously off work I would be...
[19:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Some thoughts on work-life.. - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:22] <exec> 08└─But 3 full weeks of vacation sounds like more work than working,
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[20:43:47] <exec> 08└─I was lucky. I managed to hold off until a couple of years before retirement, and then I just stopped caring..but I was able to hold on until I could take a reasonable early retirement. It's been over a decade and I still haven't recovered my love of programming, but it's slowly coming back. But I'm...
[20:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Text editor made me cry.... - 06"I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor." - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:55] <exec> 08└─Did you accidentally delete all your emacs customizations or have you seriously been trying to use atom?
[20:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neurons are the new boogyman - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:54] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of what we do on a daily basis is the result of habit.
[20:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:This story isn't getting comments - 061 MW Electric Car Sets New Record at Pikes Peak Int'l Hill Climb - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:28] <exec> 08└─Do you plug in your smartphone every night?
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[21:42:35] <exec> 08└─Can't. Sue would sue for sexism or some other bullshit thing. that's her real job. lawsuits.
[21:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02told ya so - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:13] <exec> 08└─haha t. 4chan
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[22:42:10] <exec> 08└─HAM rules were invented to make sure that geeks didn't communicate too freely without the government having at least some means of stopping them if they didn't like what was gong on. Want to prove me wrong? Start broadcasting a simple 8-N-1 broadcast of old nuclear bomb blueprints like the old "Gun-...
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Avid Redditor here - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─She just needs a deep-dicking to get over her SJW butthurt.
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[22:42:43] <exec> 08└─Its hard to discriminate against atheists since most of them never talk about their religion* :) plus they don't wear atheist symbols or traditional atheist clothing or form up in visible gatherings and specially marked buildings to practice atheism. (And no Flying Spaghetti Monster merchandise and...
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[22:49:37] <exec> 08└─The number of geographic regions where solar on the roof is really that viable is quite small. The northwest Oregon, Washinton... are cloudy more days than they are sunny.
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[23:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:well.. - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:25] <exec> 08└─If you are buying something off the shelf instead of rolling your own for the task at hand then it will be targeted. We can't have a million people with these boxes all over the place. We are trying to run dragnet surveillance on everyone at once. A new law will be passed and then these will be shut...
[23:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:comes pre finger printed - 06This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─You're on crack if you use Windows or Mac for "hacking" unless you're Carolyn Meinel, then you're just too happy to need drugs to hack.
[23:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03CaTfiSh [5221] (Score:1) 02The Best Explanation I've Heard For..... - 06Reddit User /u/chooter (Victoria) is Dropped From Reddit, Subreddits Protest - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:23] <exec> 08└─... this sudden firing is this [twimg.com].
[23:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's so "groundbreaking?" - 06New Theory on Consciousness: There is No Free Will - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:52] <exec> 08└─Ref https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:This story isn't getting comments - 061 MW Electric Car Sets New Record at Pikes Peak Int'l Hill Climb - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:47] <exec> 08└─Germany has been going gangbusters with PV.
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