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[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Write Your Congress Critter - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 2252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:33] <exec> 08└─Point out to them that the way one could have prevented the OPM breach was largely established by 1980. For example the IP packet header has fields for security classification and compartment. Routers drop packets if the destination network does not have the same classification and compartment as th...
[00:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank you, SoylentNews - 06Teledildonics Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:45] <exec> 08└─Now that's funny. But seriously, how many stories are going to be posted with overly general patents that are neither novel nor advance the progress of science or the arts. The classic example of putting an eraser on a pencil is not a patentable idea. But a remote control for an electrical device is...
[00:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank you, SoylentNews - 06Teledildonics Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:46] <exec> 08└─https://supporters.eff.org/donate/button [eff.org]
[00:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02How do they advertise? - 06Teledildonics Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe something like they did in Portland, Oregon... http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[00:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Title Case is Stupid - 06IBM Acquires Compose to Add Another Service Stack to Bluemix - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:09] <exec> 08└─An algorithm tells me how to implement title case.
[00:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:33] <exec> 08└─And we need to stop motherfuckers who lack the resources to take care of their kids, from having kids.
[00:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Birth Control From A Proprietary Software Magna - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:00] <exec> 08└─Good job spotting the... dupe? Modded you up.
[00:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:30] <exec> 08└─There in lies the problem. By cutting and pasting the head line, you abdicate your responsibility of providing a suitable headline that is informative and accurate. Of course, the entire Internet is now click-bait, so it is hard to criticize a headline on SN that much. In fact I come to SN because i...
[00:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:32] <exec> 08└─Media outlets all along the spectrum of respectability employ headlines designed to draw attention.
[00:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wim Hof, the Iceman - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:42] <exec> 08└─I reckon he is seen as the mortal enemy of big pharma.
[00:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:44] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is that humans don't have the proper perspective to get good at being gods. I agree that we need to get better. We can fuse atoms together and break them apart, but out track record of responsibly using nuclear energy isn't that great. Our pharmaceutical companies are more intere...
[00:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Calling out things by the wrong name - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:56] <exec> 08└─You have described something that is not Socialism. [wikipedia.org] ...not that I would expect an old cold warrior to know the difference. ...and not to have swallowed a bunch of Cold War bullshit. If it is actually Socialism, the workers make all the decisions via a very democratic process. In a So...
[00:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling out things by the wrong name - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:57] <exec> 08└─Whether it is by the order of one or the order of millions, forcing someone to work for the benefit of someone else is slavery.
[00:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''blamed on policies by socialist parties'' - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:16:03] <exec> 08└─"Socialist" should be in quotes there. It should be noted that State Capitalism (linked in my comment above) is generally accepted as a stepping stone to a true Socialist society. The thing is that not a single national gov't which has called itself "Socialist" or "Communist" has ever made it beyond...
[00:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What are my views? - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─That was a rhetorical question. Nobody cares what you think.
[00:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03similar_name [71] (Score:1) 02Re:Weak on his History - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:45] <exec> 08└─Developed doesn't mean invented.
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[01:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02JFK - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:26] <exec> 08└─Hack into the paper files about the JFK assassination and tell me what really happened. Oswald. Lone shooter, no one else involved: yes we'll stick with that til our shoes fall off. Then not alone, because we're forced to admit it, but the only hit was Oswalds, because, i guess, the other guys had w...
[01:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Title Case is Stupid - 06IBM Acquires Compose to Add Another Service Stack to Bluemix - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:04] <exec> 08└─That has no bearing on the fact that it's a pointless ambiguity-introducing tradition. Well, actually in a way it does have a bearing. I think it reinforces the fact. If you need an algorithm to tell you how to implement a particular* capitalisation style, I'd say that alone is more than enough reas...
[01:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:29] <exec> 08└─Altering adult DNA may well be currently impossible, but what these researchers are generally looking for is the metabolic pathway that those genes activate. If the genes express a higher rate of some hormone or enzyme that has the specific effect they are looking for, then they can just sell pills/...
[01:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what could possibly go wrong... - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:36] <exec> 08└─When you're old enough, you'll probably miss the grandchildren that you never had since you never had any children.
[01:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Getting her off - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:16] <exec> 08└─Why Penis Size Doesn't Matter One Bit in Getting Most Women Off [alternet.org] by Duana Welch, PhD (a female) Several studies have shown that only one in five women orgasm from thrusting by itself regardless, again, of penis size. Approximately eight out of 10 women require direct clitoral stimulati...
[01:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's of major importance is that I believe you. - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:30] <exec> 08└─If you know the 18 pantomimes, they beat lie detectors all to hell.
[01:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Or not... - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:18:59] <exec> 08└─Or...we could just eliminate these jobs, because they are so totally unnecessary. What is this, yet another job security program for the unemployable?
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[02:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Carrier Command - 06British Navy Warship Tests a 3D-Printed Drone at Sea - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:38] <exec> 08└─This story summary has reminded me of Carrier Command: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You make remote-controlled vehicles on your carrier, and control islands by sending the vehicles to islands to install automated production facilities.
[02:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Correction - 06Modder Gets Half-Life Running on an Android Smartwatch - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:46] <exec> 08└─Half-life on the Smartwatch, not Doom.
[02:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Hello modder - 06Modder Gets Half-Life Running on an Android Smartwatch - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:48] <exec> 08└─Modder gets Half-Life running on an Android smartwatch
[02:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Misread title as sandwich - 06Modder Gets Half-Life Running on an Android Smartwatch - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:49] <exec> 08└─A bit more impressive than a smartwatch I would say. I thought it was a joke in relation to the sandvich http://wiki.teamfortress.com [teamfortress.com] Perhaps a potato would be more applicable http://theportalwiki.com [theportalwiki.com]
[02:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:17] <exec> 08└─Learn to use the phrase "begs the question" properly! Thanks junior, but I used it properly. From your guide: When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is true in the first place. FTS: ...
[02:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:58] <exec> 08└─Frankly I once believed as you did, but now I am certain it is not really the case. His timelines about his own life are not internally consistent, what he has said about some people can be readily refuted with a google search, and he has a story or anecdote for every newspiece. Methinks it is not o...
[02:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:05] <exec> 08└─I directed my comment to you as the one who submitted the unaltered headline to SoylentNews, but was not under an obligation to do so.
[02:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:30 kbps bursting to 30 Mbps - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:44] <exec> 08└─There's a reason for that, you know. I mean besides provider greed. If everyone hit download at the same time and nobody let up, the whole grossly oversubscribed system would collapse in a heap instantly. Nondirectional radio is inherently broadcast, which is unscalable.
[02:20:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02Re:Apple jab? Really? - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:20:59] <exec> 08└─Likewise in relation to what they lobbied for. Google and other tech companies mostly lobbied for net neutrality. And their contributions where a pittance compared to the money poured in by the likes of AT&T, Verizon and Comcast against net neutrality.
[02:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Every nation has the right to territorial... - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:43] <exec> 08└─The US may have never threatened to invade North Korea; but it sure does invade countries on a regular basis; for that alone the double standard should apply negatively towards the US instead of North Korea. Wrong and irrelevant. There's no way the US would invade North Korea with China next door. E...
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[04:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:JFK - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:48] <exec> 08└─It was The Cigarette Smoking Man. He killed MLK, too. I have a [source]. [wikipedia.org]
[04:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:00] <exec> 08└─It's about giving air to batshit fucking insane lunatic conspiracy theorists.
[04:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:45] <exec> 08└─AC here. I'm not a sock puppet. Just found the Forrest Gump comment disrespectful.
[04:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:47] <exec> 08└─It seems like you're implying that the man is a pathological liar. That's a fairly serious allegation. Do you have a specific example you could point to of something he has publicly written that isn't internally consistent, contradicts some of his other writings, or doesn't jive with consensus reali...
[04:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:50] <exec> 08└─For cases like that we have life without possibility of parole and the possibility of committing somebody to a psychiatric hospital until they're no longer a risk to others. It's not perfect, but if there's been a mistake we can mitigate the results. Dead is dead and no matter how wrong the process...
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[05:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Well Done - but there could be problems ahead - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:31] <exec> 08└─I'm very pleased to hear of this move, but my concern would be if YouTube put access requirements on who can view the material. Will they insist on a log in for material that they deem to be violent or sexual in nature? Will this important repository be subjected to copyright or other protection mea...
[05:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Well Done - but there could be problems ahead - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:32] <exec> 08└─Will they insist on a log in for material that they deem to be violent or sexual in nature?
[05:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Old Radio? - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:33] <exec> 08└─I doubt they have film from 1895, so will this be just radio reports for the earlier years?
[05:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02This is a terrible mistake - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:35] <exec> 08└─Were AP to serve the vidoes from its own website it would get all the SEO from organic links.
[05:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a terrible mistake - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:37] <exec> 08└─AP isn't an advertising company, nor a hosting company, so why would it handle something that isn't its core business? YouTube has the capacity and the audience, and that will lead to licensing of AP's content - which is its core business. YouTube wins because it keeps the content away from other si...
[05:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't wait for the... - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:38] <exec> 08└─RIAA, MPAA, DMCA takedown notices.
[05:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fuck youtube - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:40] <exec> 08└─fuck google. why aren't these on archive.org? Don't tie me to a proprietory (yes, it's proprietory - ask anyone with a sony smart tv that's older than 2 years whether they can still access yt content) platform. Wasn't the biggest drop of archived content to google the cancerous and deceit-fuelled ap...
[05:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02HOWTO pickup chicks in the Navy - 06British Navy Warship Tests a 3D-Printed Drone at Sea - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:47] <exec> 08└─Point a radar dish at one, stand with your mouth at its focal point then say "Hey Baby". (You might want to power off the transmitter first.)
[05:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Obligatory - 06British Navy Warship Tests a 3D-Printed Drone at Sea - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:48] <exec> 08└─Carrier has arrived.
[05:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Speaking of 3D printed drones... - 06British Navy Warship Tests a 3D-Printed Drone at Sea - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:51] <exec> 08└─...is LOHAN [theregister.co.uk] ever going to fly?
[05:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I honestly belive JFK committed suicide - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:10] <exec> 08└─He only ran for president because his father wanted him to. His father wanted JFK to run because his older brother gave his life during World War II. A while back the secret service disclosed that he spent the night of his inauguration with someone other than Jackie or Marilyn. I expect that was the...
[05:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Old wisdom - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:11] <exec> 08└─Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
[05:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Thank you, SoylentNews - 06Teledildonics Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:25] <exec> 08└─Have you been living under a rock? Heck, Emacs has had teledildonics support since 2010! https://github.com [github.com]
[05:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:30] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I would bet good money that these could be "deactivated" by means of a simple, straight-forward surgical removal that could be performed by any competent crone with a sharp stick, and at considerably less risk than the same crone could perform an abortion with a coathanger. As for encryption...
[05:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:33] <exec> 08└─Humans should not play god. Not because there is anything inherently wrong with it, but because we have such a lousy record at it.
[05:17:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Editing - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 947 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:14] <exec> 08└─http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-crispr-craze-genome-editing-technologies-poised-to-revolutionize-medicine-and-industry [kurzweilai.net] http://online.liebertpub.com [liebertpub.com] The power and promise of this innovation are presented in the Review article “The Bacterial...
[05:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Philosophically flawed - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:28] <exec> 08└─The concept of a lie detector is philosophically flawed because truth isn't objective. What is truth depends on the person. To politicians, accepting money is called lobbying. That is one truth. To others, accepting money is called bribery. That is another truth. If we were to create a lie detector,...
[05:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Big deal? - 06NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth-Like Planet In Sun-Like Star's Habitable Zone - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:41] <exec> 08└─I'm torn between agreeing with you, and observing that, even if this is a thriving Earthlike world teeming with complex life, it's unlikely to be even remotely relevant to anyone currently alive. At 1,400 light-years distant entire civilizations would rise and fall in the almost three millenia requi...
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[06:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Well Done - but there could be problems ahead - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:28] <exec> 08└─Any of it post-1923 is already copyrighted
[06:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old Radio? - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:30] <exec> 08└─Still too early to be a radio broadcast. I am guessing still images.
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[07:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02From the fine article - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:24] <exec> 08└─"...chief executive Mike Zaneis declared the pilot would tackle fake advertising..." There's another kind of advertising?
[07:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Well Done - but there could be problems ahead - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:37] <exec> 08└─They have no history of doing that.
[07:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:fuck youtube - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:44] <exec> 08└─yes, it's proprietory
[07:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:37] <exec> 08└─You do not seems to understand the difference between "raises the question" (which seems to be what you meant) and "begs the question", which would not really raise any questions at all, but only re-assert the original proposition. Are you logically or grammatically impaired? There are on-line grou...
[07:16:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] 02Wim Hof, the Iceman - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:39] <exec> 08└─Wim Hof (born 20 April 1959) is a Dutch world record holder, adventurer and daredevil, commonly nicknamed the Iceman for his ability to withstand extreme cold. In 2007 he climbed to 6.7 km altitude at Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts, but failed to reach the summit due to a recurring foot in...
[07:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For What It Is Worth... - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:45] <exec> 08└─You don't "walk away from accidents". You shatter your joints instead. It is not a benefit but a curse.
[07:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03basecase [1952] (Score:1) 02mildew resistant marijuana - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:58] <exec> 08└─So when will these technics be used in the creation of mildew resistant marijauna strains? Would it be cost effective?
[07:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Oblig XKCD - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:18:39] <exec> 08└─Universal truth [xkcd.com]
[07:18:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02Big deal? - 06NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth-Like Planet In Sun-Like Star's Habitable Zone - 603 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:51] <exec> 08└─I'm somewhat shocked that this is halfway down the front page and there are only three pretty uninterested comments so far. Have we become so jaded to reality that we can't get excited that we have finally discovered a REAL Earth-like planet in the Habitable Zone? Even having spent my entire life re...
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[08:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why not contribute? - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:25] <exec> 08└─I gather from the article that there is already a similar blacklist, from the IAB, no less. So why are they not contributing to that list, rolling their own instead? How come they are "working with industry bodies" and are at the same time going out of their way to *not* work with the IAB? What is t...
[08:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We don't need that kind of speed - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:07] <exec> 08└─We need decent compression and websites that are not created by morons. I hate the internet these days, so much waste and crap. So very ugly and horribly hard to use. A fucking 9600 baud modem would be plenty. Just make it reliable and dirt cheap.
[08:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:I, for one - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:21] <exec> 08└─Only if it extends his girth rather than his length (assuming both are average), as an avalanche worth of studies have shown & most women will tell you. ;)
[08:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:09] <exec> 08└─The government could not write a cheque fast enough to have one of these devices stuffed into every single unconvicted criminal living in the community.
[08:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like a good ending... - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not cat-/dog-/whatever-hater (for large groups of "whatever"). Animals act on instinct and whenever they see a personal advantage. There is no real practical need for pet-cats to hone their hunting skills. For many dogs (as for a certain type of human), serving their master seems to be a persona...
[08:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Apple jab? Really? - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:31] <exec> 08└─You know what they are lobbying hard for...a "tax holiday"
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[09:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] (Score:2) 02I wouldn't mind testing it. - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:22] <exec> 08└─It took Tor a long time to get where it is today, both in terms of number of relays and the resistance to attack classes that it currently has. It should be interesting to see if HORNET becomes something greater than a research project, and what trials and tribulations it has as it grows. If it gets...
[09:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Where's the beef? - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:32] <exec> 08└─So, what are they doing on a technical level? Where are they blocking what, and what are the criteria? Their own counters for ad-hits? Traffic to the user ("bad" advertisements, which is identified by not originating from Google, Facebook or Yahoo perhaps)? On what level is it blocked? Provider, ad-...
[09:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02add me! - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:33] <exec> 08└─Is there any way I can add myself to the blocklist so I won't get served advertisements?
[09:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:1) 02Re:Old Radio? - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:47] <exec> 08└─What? The British Film Institute has HOME MOVIES from 1903. 1895 isn't a stretch at all. We had these things called moving pictures, you know. Yes, I doubt that they have any, but video from that period isn't impossible.
[09:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02I almost submitted this - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:53] <exec> 08└─But there is a watermark on every video, not every video is uploaded, and it looks like the AP wants you to license them. Nope.
[09:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:29] <exec> 08└─I've come to the conclusion that he's an extremely well made bot actually.
[09:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling out things by the wrong name - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:06] <exec> 08└─We aren't talking about getting the military to round up these people and forcing them to work under threat of being shot. It's "you get your benefit cheque in exchange for providing useful labor". No labor, no cheque. Most of us are slaves, if this is the definition of slavery.
[09:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing the point - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:19:57] <exec> 08└─The only solution is to intentionally make the chip horrible. Make the victims quivering piles of flesh, give them insane cravings and spasms. Then of course throw in the malfunction and software bugs and the crackers and script kiddies that make you do the moon walk when they press a button on thei...
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[10:15:56] <exec> 08└─Just kill them. Sometimes you have to touch the real world when they try to touch you
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[11:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Oh what we've become - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:12] <exec> 08└─The whole situation makes me puke. The "west" having been profiling itself as "fighters for freedom" are using the same methods as the ones they complained to about (human) rights. There need to be boundaries and when will you all realize that you will be next if nothing is done? For that matter, yo...
[11:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh what we've become - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:13] <exec> 08└─We are not at war with west- or east-eurasia.
[11:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:From the fine article - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:32] <exec> 08└─Of course. They may tell you lies, but those lies are real: You can see or hear them, you can be deceived by them, or you can see through them, Usually also the products you are lied about are real. And in almost all cases, the possibility to waste your money on whatever the ad is about is real. Tho...
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[12:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:1) 02AKA - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:26] <exec> 08└─AKA "How to get a discount on your licensing renewal from Microsoft" Why would you bother to ban Microsoft tools, so long as the end-result was saved in ODF? The fact that it's mentioned means it's either a) a direct threat to MS or b) a way to generate bad press for them because of an unexpectedly...
[12:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh what we've become - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:38] <exec> 08└─Indeed, all these stupid sickening legal tricks. War is peace; slavery is freedom; ignorance is strength. "It's not torture but enhanced interrogation" "the government can't spy so it buys the info from corporations that do the spying" "uk intelligence won't spy but it will get the info from the res...
[12:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh what we've become - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:39] <exec> 08└─> ... when will you all realize ... When it is thoroughly too late, and the revolution has, much to my sorrow, become unavoidable.
[12:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling out things by the wrong name - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:39] <exec> 08└─Yes. Yes we are. And we will continue to be until we refuse to be anymore. The only proper and free way for a man to live is via voluntary exchange of value for value. This can't be done with most every government as anything they have to exchange, they first took by force.
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[13:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AKA - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:22] <exec> 08└─It also could be to reduce compatibility issues with formatting differences between .odt and .doc.
[13:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AKA - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:23] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is a way to get more licenses or else it wouldn't have been pushed through so aggressively. This appears to be an agency with it's head very much together, microsoft is a creation of a (hostile?) foreign power, and it doesn't work for shit with ANYTHING else. The ms .doc format wa...
[13:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:25] <exec> 08└─I cannot explain the dominance of MS Office by anything other than herd mentality. You have a free product that does 98% of what 98% users need. It works on all major computers, not just Windows. Or you can pay. Sure if you have a hedge trading spreadsheet with extensive macros that entirely runs yo...
[13:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oligopoly play - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:52] <exec> 08└─Because a happy side effect of this benevolent enterprise is that it will block any web scraping activity from any non-member of this somewhat exclusive group of web behemoths. It is interesting, in this respect, that on this little initiative's board of directors nobody of Amazon is to be seen -- c...
[13:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02The Declining Half-Life - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:48] <exec> 08└─It's not that HalfLife is declining, but rather the devices getting better [soylentnews.org]
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[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AKA - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:29] <exec> 08└─Translation: Proprietary software to squeeze more money out of your pocket into M$ piggybank.
[14:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe because schools use MS Office. Whenever my kids have to create documents for school, I have to remind them to save them in .doc, .xls, .pps or whatever MS format, because their teachers can't be expected to be able to open ODF files. MS has been pushing Office in schools for years (all over th...
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:33] <exec> 08└─You've simply pushed the question back one layer. Why do schools buy MS Office when there is a free, compatible alternative? The joy of spending Other People's Money? And teachers whine that they're perpetually underpaid... > MS has been pushing Office in schools Well sure. Every money hungry compan...
[14:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:35] <exec> 08└─Schools aren't independent when it comes to software acquisitions relating to the curriculum. They buy (or get directly from the government) what they have to teach. And what they teach is determined by a select few who are ... um ... incentivized to include only MS / Adobe / Autodesk products.
[14:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:36] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, it should not be legal for a government to use a proprietary format where an open one exists. It forces people to buy from a specific supplier and ties them to that for future purposes as well.
[14:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:38] <exec> 08└─Our public school system now has students save their work in ODF on Google Docs. They used to use Doc but had too many problems with files not opening when created on home computers but opened on school computers. Openoffice/Libreoffice to the rescue!
[14:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:40] <exec> 08└─I pay for MS Office because it fucking works. I need an office suite that I can trust. I need an office suite that I know will work. MS Office is that office suite. I'm not going to waste my time fucking around with LibreOffice or AbiWord. Instead, I pay MS to provide me a great product, and that's...
[14:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─Why do you pay for MS Office?
[14:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Pronunciation please? - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:58] <exec> 08└─Is it pronounced "hornet"? Or "whore net"? I vote for the second.
[14:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Vapor - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:59] <exec> 08└─I'll believe it's effectiveness once the US/UK has banned it.
[14:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Must Also Thwart Traffic Analysis - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:01] <exec> 08└─Anything that replaces Tor must do more than just be efficient. It needs a way to make traffic analysis more difficult in order to prevent well-resourced groups from simply looking at dataflows among nodes. Off the top of my head that means a way to reorder traffic too, so that you can't assume FIF...
[14:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Not terribly impressed - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:12] <exec> 08└─I've never really given a damn about ad fraud. It costs me nothing at all. These corporations are protecting their money flow, which I expect them to do. Now - if they were to clean up the advertisers, and impose standards on them, I'd be impressed. I might actually see an advertisement now and then...
[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:fuck youtube - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:35] <exec> 08└─Wikimedia commons would have been my first suggestion, but it seems that they don't want to let go of the copyright fees. Bunch of crooks.
[14:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02British Pathe - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:36] <exec> 08└─British Pathe also has a youtube channel with a lot of historical news https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─Why? Because the government has no business using proprietary software or formats.
[15:13:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─I cannot explain the dominance of MS Office by anything other than herd mentality. You have a free product that does 98% of what 98% users need. It works on all major computers, not just Windows. Or you can pay. Sure if you have a hedge trading spreadsheet with extensive macros that entirely runs yo...
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[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe because schools use MS Office. Whenever my kids have to create documents for school, I have to remind them to save them in .doc, .xls, .pps or whatever MS format, because their teachers can't be expected to be able to open ODF files. MS has been pushing Office in schools for years (all over th...
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:44] <exec> 08└─I'd go one step further and say the taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize or prop up one corporation over another. There are laws that require tax funded entities to solicit bids and buy from the lowest priced supplier. But everybody knows the loophole around that one: simply write a "sole sour...
[15:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:46] <exec> 08└─Our public school system now has students save their work in ODF on Google Docs.
[15:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:48] <exec> 08└─That is simply unacceptable. The idea of schools (which are supposed to educate) using proprietary user-subjugating software (which is anti-education) is quite sickening and shouldn't even be allowed. The company holds all the cards, will likely violate people's privacy, and people will not have the...
[15:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:49] <exec> 08└─You modded AC a troll? Not everyone has to be an F/OSS zealot. There is nothing wrong with paying for software that meets your needs. You may not be a fan of <insert name of big software company you hate> but that doesn't make their customers trolls, or evil or stupid (as many F/OSS advocates like t...
[15:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:51] <exec> 08└─And this is the problem with the "open source" mentality; it focuses on convenience rather than freedom. The four freedoms are essential for any software to be called free, and proprietary software certainly does not qualify. Maybe you do not care about your freedoms being violated, but the governme...
[15:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:Oh what we've become - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:02] <exec> 08└─The "west" having been profiling itself as "fighters for freedom" are using the same methods as the ones they complained to about (human) rights.
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:From the fine article - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:21] <exec> 08└─There's another kind of advertising?
[15:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:45] <exec> 08└─When did you lose the ability to identify begging the question?
[15:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:31] <exec> 08└─Bot or not, he's still an interesting and insightful read.
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[16:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:19] <exec> 08└─But then again 'professional gaming' should also not be called a sport...
[16:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:21] <exec> 08└─I had the same reaction. TFS is really a Trojan horse for the real story, which is whether and when video gaming should be accepted as a sport. How about this hierarchy of sports, based on what I perceive to be current popular acceptance as such from most to least: - American football, soccer, baske...
[16:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AKA - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:37] <exec> 08└─It's not 2004 any more. Everything can open .doc and .docx files. They're a de facto standard for shoving documents around networks; even and iPhone can display them natively.
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─You could put that question another way: why are most word processors clones of (an old version of) the Word GUI? Simple: because everyone in the Real (aka business) World uses Word. Schools are a training ground for business. Therefore they too use Word. Why did business go with Word instead of Ami...
[16:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─Schools are a training ground for business. Therefore they too use Word.
[16:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─BWAHAHAHAHA... MS employee no doubt.
[16:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] (Score:2) 02Re:Vapor - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:18] <exec> 08└─What about when the US/UK intelligence agencies admit in leaked top secret slides that it's a major problem for them?
[16:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02capitalism is never simple - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─the NSA schould really buy stocks in network/carrier companies and keep drumming up the whole "oh-noes plain internet is the blackhole of privacy". with all the extras (sry) useless/redundant traffic that anonymizing overlay networks have to generate, i'm sure a TON of new network capacity has to be...
[16:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Well Done - but there could be problems ahead - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:48] <exec> 08└─Well, yes. Any of it post-1923 is already copyrighted Thank god that 1941 Pearl Harbor footage is copyrighted! Just think, without those royalties nobody would have the incentive to bomb HI and film it!
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Old Radio? - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─Film from 1888: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] (Who ever thought vines were a new idea.)
[16:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:JFK - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:32] <exec> 08└─JFK killed himself. With the help of a time machine. JFK ended up starting WWIII so when a secret skunkworks program developed a time machine he took personal responsibility, went back to 1963 and assassinated himself in order to prevent global thermonuclear war.
[16:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02The easiest way to keep a secret - 06The Declining Half-Life of Secrets - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:34] <exec> 08└─Don't have one
[16:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:1) 02Prior art - fme-fyou drives? - 06Teledildonics Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:52] <exec> 08└─Anyone else remember the (presumably joke) website for the FuckMe-FuckYou drives, one of each "gender" that fitted into 3.5 inch drive bays?
[16:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:32] <exec> 08└─Are you ever not a dick?
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:06] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that ebola and malaria are unimportant to the majority of people, while curing limp dicks or baldness would be a boon to a large portion of the population. You get more value by slightly improving everyone's life a little bit than the lives of a minority a lot.
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[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:24] <exec> 08└─Whether or not we call it a sport, I think we can all agree that it is a competition. The basis for doping being against the rules in sports comes from the pressure to use drugs and the desire to see what humans can accomplish. If we're going to let people dope in SC2 or whatever, then why not allow...
[17:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:25] <exec> 08└─and the desire to see what humans can accomplish.
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─The basis for doping being against the rules in sports comes from the pressure to use drugs
[17:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:28] <exec> 08└─Even if it's called a sport, it's incredibly boring like all other sports. Watching other people play something makes me fall asleep. But watching others play video games is still better than watching or even playing more 'normal' sports because at least games don't have all the boring limitations o...
[17:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:30] <exec> 08└─Why not two leagues -- one with testing; unmodified humans only; not even caffeine -- second league where anything goes; drugs, brain implants, artificial limbs? I've often thought this for the Olympics, Tour De France, etc. But, I've also thought that football, cricket, etc, would be more fun to wa...
[17:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:32] <exec> 08└─Because all the sponsors would want to be associated with the PED-free league, so the cat-and-mouse game between the athletes and the drug testers would continue.
[17:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─PED manufacturers would be happy to sponsor the PED league, methinks.
[17:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe not: what if, in lieu of a secular PED-free league, you had an explicitly Mormon league? Sponsors would be wary. The Mormons would probably welcome it. They've made huge forays into music via YouTube; many of the "viral" stars (Lindsey Stirling, The Piano Guys, etc) are well-funded Mormons. Th...
[17:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:37] <exec> 08└─Do you have any information about the LDS church bankrolling those acts?
[17:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:1) 02So long as it is legal... - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─I'm of the opinion that so long as whatever they are doing is legal, athletes (of legal age) should be allowed to pump whatever they want into their bodies.
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:3, Insightful) 02no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:40] <exec> 08└─all drug testing should be illegal as a violation of privacy and a violation of 5th amendment rights. this prohibition nonsense needs to end.
[17:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Professional sports should be banned - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:42] <exec> 08└─All high level competitive sports should be banned, because the nature of the competition encourages participants to follow extreme training regimens that are harmful to their health. Therefore, if you care for other people's health you should encourage banning such competition, or at least boycott...
[17:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Innuendo - 06Companion Star Gets Its Block Knocked Off by Pulsar - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:44] <exec> 08└─Gives new meaning to the phrase, "knocked the dust off it". Now, did it really punch a hole through the star like the summary suggests, or did it just hit it once and kick it out the door? And what did the penetrating, one of the polar jets?
[17:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AKA - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:55] <exec> 08└─Libre/Open Office do not handle them perfectly.
[17:14:12] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:12] <exec> 08└─> all the features I need (implemented correctly and reliably) If you're mentioning reliable software in the same breath as Microsoft, well, all I can say is you and I inhabit different universes. Who is President over there? Has Greece paid back their loans yet? MS intentionally makes it so MS Offi...
[17:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─I personally have never paid for a copy of Office. Yet I use it every day. Why? Because everyone around me does. File formats are like viri. Once a *key* person starts using it everyone else has to follow. If I gave up my files in odf format I would be 'the weird guy who doesnt like docx files'. Per...
[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Pronunciation please? - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:37] <exec> 08└─How is the above spam?
[17:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Must Also Thwart Traffic Analysis - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:42] <exec> 08└─Another possibility would be to simply have a constant stream of packets, so you cannot distinguish between packets that actually transport content, and packets that are just filler. The downside is, of course, that it produces lots of useless traffic when little data is transmitted (but then, some...
[17:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank you, SoylentNews - 06Teledildonics Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:12] <exec> 08└─Many years ago some friends of mine joked that they were going to buy Lego Technic and Mindstorms to build "wanking machines."
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[18:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Makes us less human - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:17] <exec> 08└─Driving every day gives us practice and there's a certain amount of pressure, if you fuck up or lose concentration it could have serious consequences. Your life can take a turn for the worse. Sitting in the back of a bus or a limo or subway train is passive, and so is being the passenger of a driver...
[18:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─It means people could go to the bar, drink and then go home without cops, DWI..etc..etc. It would change everything about nightlife and dating in America.. (and probably put lots of lawyers out of business). It would also put an end to things like DWB (driving while black...etc) and other shenanigan...
[18:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─I totally disagree that this will change police profiling in any way ... but it raises the question: How does a driverless car get pulled over? Will the police have the ability to remotely take over the car's controls ... or will the expectation be that the passenger will notice the police car with...
[18:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Han Held [216] (Score:1) 02It's awesome that we have a choice - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:22] <exec> 08└─But part of me wonders when that will change, and when manual driving will become obsolete if not illegal "for the children"/"because terrorists!" cue Red Barchetta...
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─The majority of drivers on the road shouldn't BE driving. Now, I just wonder whether those who actually SHOULDN'T be driving coincides with those who would prefer not to drive? This could be a win-win situation here.
[18:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─I not only dislike the idea, I'll go even further to say that I will never buy a car with ABS. I know how to quickly stop a car without going out of control because I have of a lot of off road racing experience. I've tested quite a few vehicles with ABS, and while the concept does work, I can do bet...
[18:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:37] <exec> 08└─For example, there's been relatively little doping in basketball (the genetic advantage of being tall seems to matter more than being strong or quick)
[18:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─Right - why submit to the boring limitations of real life, when we can be bound by arbitrary simulations of aspects of real life digitally, instead of in analog?
[18:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:44] <exec> 08└─Possibly, but if there were two leagues, it would be possible to be much harsher with doping. If you are competing in the naturalist league, and are caught doping, then you have doped, and can be immediately and permanently moved to the "modified" league. This would be much fairer than the current s...
[18:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So long as it is legal... - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:47] <exec> 08└─There's no law against injecting yourself with liquid oxygen... here try this, kid...
[18:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Professional sports should be banned - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:50] <exec> 08└─So coding should be banned because Adderall-Fueled is snorting his pills and a little cocaine?
[18:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jamestrexx [5363] (Score:1) 02Re:Professional sports should be banned - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:51] <exec> 08└─It's not the sports that should be banned, but the huge salaries and prizes being payed. It's not for fun anymore but to get as much money as possible. Without the financial incentive it goes back to being something about prestige and challenge again. Nowadays it's nothing more than human traffickin...
[18:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:AKA - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:10] <exec> 08└─Most plain documents work perfectly, but in my experience everything goes to hell once you start throwing tables around. The Libreoffice algorithm for handling tables is somehow different from Office's, so they all end up the wrong size and don't match; OpenOffice's is even worse.
[18:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:AKA - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─Oh hey, still no Edit function...It is worth mentioning that Libreoffice is better at opening old office documents; the trick that people mention of opening an old Word document in Libreoffice and then saving it so that it works in Office when it didn't before actually has worked for me.
[18:14:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:21] <exec> 08└─I'd go one step further and say the taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize or prop up one corporation over another. There are laws that require tax funded entities to solicit bids and buy from the lowest priced supplier. But everybody knows the loophole around that one: simply write a "sole sour...
[18:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─Of 3 computers running 2 different versions of windows that I have, I was having problems just moving the same .doc files between them, all on Different ages of MS Office. Once I'd loaded OO on all three I've never had any problem opening or working with any text document nor any spreadsheet documen...
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Where's the beef? - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:14] <exec> 08└─I don't know, the only thing I know is that I can't access my 2139145 gmail accounts, today.
[18:18:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:07] <exec> 08└─That's the idea. Pick from a cornucopia of genetic aberrations, mix and match to pack on muscle, increase pain tolerance, and boost thinking and reaction times. Target a handful of embryos with enhanced-accuracy CRISPR, then let them mature. For best results, raise your uberkinder in a controlled an...
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[19:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Host it yourself - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:17] <exec> 08└─This is the problem with relying on humorless, faceless fools for hosting, like the retarded GitHub admins who removed it. Host it yourself. That's a good idea even if it wasn't removed for the name.
[19:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:19] <exec> 08└─But retard is a legitimate medical term indicating someone that had their development limited against their original potential. See here [youtube.com] for details about its current derisive use.
[19:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes us less human - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─> But that doesn't make up for what you lose. And what exactly is that? Practice doing something obsolete? How are your abacus skills?
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes us less human - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:31] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what I was thinking: What necessary skill do you lose by having a car drive for you? I know I'm not an awesome driver -- I'm probably a menace. I like listening to books on tape or podcasts while driving because driving is so fucking boring. That also means my mind is a thousand miles...
[19:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes us less human - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─So back when people did not have cars at all, and only few could afford carriages, most people were not human?
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Makes us less human - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:34] <exec> 08└─Want that thrill? Try riding a bike. Even more dangerous. But seriously, you've got no proof that it makes you "less human". Roll out the scientific studies, there are already many non-drivers out there.
[19:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:36] <exec> 08└─but it raises the question: How does a driverless car get pulled over? Will the police have the ability to remotely take over the car's controls ... or will the expectation be that the passenger will notice the police car with the flashing lights, take manual control, and pull over?
[19:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Insightful) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:38] <exec> 08└─As opposed to now, where people drive drunk and probably will not get pulled over *unless* they drive into a ditch... Driverless cars cannot come soon enough.
[19:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:39] <exec> 08└─If the car's cameras cannot see bright flashing lights in a well known and pretty unique combination, it cannot be autonomous. I, personally, wouldn't object to a cryptographically secured laser light interface that, upon reception of a properly signed order, causes the automated car to safely pull...
[19:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:41] <exec> 08└─If there is some distinguishing feature that points out the car is autonomous, and the car is functioning as intended, why would police want to stop one? They would have to recognize its description or scan the plates to know that it was involved in a robbery, kidnapping, or some other rare crime (c...
[19:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:42] <exec> 08└─I, personally, wouldn't object to a cryptographically secured laser light interface that, upon reception of a properly signed order, causes the automated car to safely pull over. There is no point in doing anything else because the passenger is not responsible for how the car is driving, and the pol...
[19:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:44] <exec> 08└─I totally disagree that this will change police profiling in any way ... but it raises the question: How does a driverless car get pulled over? Will the police have the ability to remotely take over the car's controls
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─> other shenanigans and problems that have to do with driving. It would eliminate the need for a driver's license too. Watch the national-id proponents have a collective freakout when they realize that our pseudo national-ids are no longer a necessity for 90%+ of the adult population.
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─Simple, they write a law saying that one occupant of the vehicle needs to be licensed, or have a picture ID if they don't own the car. Parents will comply and get their kids into those databases so that they can send the car to fetch them from soccer practice.
[19:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:49] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for the corporations and the government to screw up an otherwise good idea. Do you want to use driverless cars when they're filled with proprietary user-subjugating software? When they're filled with digital restrictions management that requires that certain mechanics fix your car, or m...
[19:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:50] <exec> 08└─Law enforcement will help screw up the technology, one way or another. They will insist on random stops to look for drugs (because you can get from point A to point B, even using bath salts!), they will insist on remote control to make cars stop, and they will insist on proprietary software because...
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─I would hazard a guess that those who want to keep driving are more likely to be the ones that shouldn't be driving. Since they don't want to give control to the automated vehicle, they probably have an over-inflated opinion of their own abilities. I've been a coach in several sports and I find that...
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:54] <exec> 08└─You also use an abacus I take it?
[19:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:55] <exec> 08└─I'd rather learn how to do differential equations than let a computer do it for me, if that's what you're asking. What's the use of something if it takes learning away?
[19:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:57] <exec> 08└─What's the use of something if it takes learning away?
[19:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nit picking time. - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:58] <exec> 08└─This was a self-selected survey, note the word respondents. Should you have not slept through your stats class, that means the whole thing is scientifically bogus. Whomever responded or did not respond did so with whatever unknown biases they were holding. Secondly: UofM in Ann Arbor is one of the f...
[19:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Nit picking time. - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:00] <exec> 08└─None of these driverless surveys have any meaning before driverless cars are commercially available and maybe 1% of the population is using them on the road. 96% say they want a steering wheel... before they have ever been able to test "drive" this technology. If they have heard of it, they probably...
[19:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Can I have BOTH, please - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:02] <exec> 08└─A nice sportscar for nighttime or curvy areas with low traffic density, and a small (2.50m, to park sideways), smoothly electric self-driving car for all the menial travels around town? Being brought up in a car-centric country without speed limits, I certainly enjoy to thrash a good car up a hill o...
[19:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Can I have BOTH, please - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:03] <exec> 08└─Can I have BOTH, please
[19:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score:1) 02Head of Google's driverless car program - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:05] <exec> 08└─Chris Urmson's, head of Google's driverless car program, recently gave a TED talk where he talks about this specifically: How a driverless car sees the road. [ted.com] It's worth watching. That aside, the idea of warning modes to notify drivers when to take control of the vehicle (mentioned in TFA)...
[19:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:12] <exec> 08└─If it is genetics; is it really still a competition?
[19:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─Video Game Streaming as Big as Major Sporting Event Viewership [soylentnews.org]
[19:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─There are in-game limitations, but many games make things convincing enough that they can be ignored. Magic, superheroes, FTL travel (currently), etc. don't exist in real life. Yet they do in many stories and games. Furthermore, as technology advances, the arbitrary limitations will slowly vanish. R...
[19:14:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RobotMonster [130] 02Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:18] <exec> 08└─Why not two leagues -- one with testing; unmodified humans only; not even caffeine -- second league where anything goes; drugs, brain implants, artificial limbs? I've often thought this for the Olympics, Tour De France, etc. But, I've also thought that football, cricket, etc, would be more fun to wa...
[19:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:23] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile the body count continues to rise in the drug using camp, but hot damn they can play while so long as they still notice they are in a chair and that thing in front of them is a monitor. You can almost see it now, some CS match with half the team looking at the patterns in the walls while th...
[19:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─Replying to myself... I say all that as someone who knows that the Ballmer Peak [xkcd.com] also applies to things like gaming, and not just with the use of booze.
[19:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:27] <exec> 08└─Anything goes? In gaming all that means is "assisted gamers" i.e. bots competing against other bots.
[19:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So long as it is legal... - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:28] <exec> 08└─Inject yourself with whatever you want. If you inject yourself with something that will likely kill you, you're just an idiot. Good riddance.
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─"All requirements to wear a shirt in public in order to get service should should be illegal, this prohibition nonsense needs to end" Clearly you don't live in a place with many other people around you...
[19:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:32] <exec> 08└─nice strawman, but it has nothing to do with what i said.
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─Unless it was the government operating sports and eSports, why would it violate the 5th Amendment?
[19:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─because a failed drug test is evidence that a crime has been committed. honestly i'm surprised that police don't go out and arrest people for failing drug tests, given the ridiculousness of the drug war, but if you think it can't or won't ever happen, you're fooling yourself. evidence of a crime is...
[19:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:38] <exec> 08└─You want to participate in a sporting event, you agree to the terms. You aren't forced to compete. At least when employers do it, it is hurting the employees' rights to do what they want outside of work and make a living.
[19:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Professional sports should be banned - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─The word "brogrammers" comes to mind.
[19:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:42] <exec> 08└─No, they should not. But then my opinion is that nobody should be submitted to drug testing without probable cause.
[19:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02this humor is unacceptable - 06Companion Star Gets Its Block Knocked Off by Pulsar - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─Billions of alien people died on the planets orbiting that star.
[19:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh what we've become - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:35] <exec> 08└─Since it has come out that various police forces spent decades protecting prolific paedophile offenders and now it comes out that the establishment is spying on politicians. Is there really a democracy, or just the illusion of one?
[19:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frost [3313] (Score:1) 02Irreconcilable conflict - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:36] <exec> 08└─The nearly 50-year-old "Wilson Doctrine" that says that UK intelligence agencies will not snoop on the communications of members of Parliament and the House of Lords "cannot work sensibly" in an age of bulk collection, according to James Eadie QC.
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[20:13:23] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Naming … - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─They should consider banning git, [wikipedia.org] as well. :-)
[20:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naming … - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:25] <exec> 08└─I propose we rename it to FagHub.
[20:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naming … - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah but the irony is so great this way. Plus they teach git like a religion in college these days. Well, like most of what they teach.
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02not a big deal - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─seriously, if you are going to offensive then you should make sure you are in a place where that is ok. of course a simple google search [google.com] shows that it has a fork without the offensiveness [github.com] and a fork that is more advanced [github.com]. nothing of value was lost.
[20:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score:2) 02Not forks - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:29] <exec> 08└─I don't see any evidence that those particular projects are forks of "WebM for Retards". They seem to be independent projects. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
[20:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not a big deal - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:31] <exec> 08└─Only complete retards would find this offensive. Did anyone actually get offended, or is this another case where busybodies got offended for some group of people they thought would be offended and so they complained?
[20:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02desensitizing - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe the people at Git need some desensitizing training. Far to many people have submitted to politically correct "sensitivity" training. We need to start reversing that crap. I really don't give a damn that your big brother is a retard, and it offends you to hear the word. Get over yourself. I don...
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:desensitizing - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─"People at Git"? Please, git is software: there is no one at it. GitHub is a company that uses said software. GitHub did not create git, they are simply one rather popular web service that is compatible with it. Car analogy: if you said people at transmission, when you meant Ford employees, you woul...
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:3, Touché) 02Project should be renamed... - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:36] <exec> 08└─to "WebM for Gits [wiktionary.org]"
[20:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:54] <exec> 08└─It's a little late to be worried about that: EFF to Librarian of Congress: Let Car Owners Look Under the Hood [eff.org] Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car [eff.org] Jeep Hack Shows Why the DMCA Must Get Out of the Way of Vehicle Security Research [eff.org]
[20:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:55] <exec> 08└─That likely means the property owner doesn't control the car
[20:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:57] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=8597&cid=213594#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[20:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─> Simple, they write a law Just because you call it simple doesn't make it so. The point of having to get a law passed is that the public gets input. They would have to justify it and lots of people would see through the bullshit.
[20:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:It's awesome that we have a choice - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:05] <exec> 08└─The lowered insurance premiums could cause it to happen without any government restrictions on human driving. If autonomous cars have 1/5 of the accidents, expect a steep drop in premiums. You will still be required to get insurance, however.
[20:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:08] <exec> 08└─OTOH, those who are genuinely talented athletes usually have modest opinions of their own abilities and their self-assessments are usually accurate. They are also willing to take advice - those are the characteristics that made them talented in the first place.
[20:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─Listen kid... I hear ya! I too am a superb driver! I'm brilliant behind the wheel. Never gotten into an accident and when I drive, I can point out all the idiots on the road that should have their licenses revoked! I feel your pain, I really do. I mean, we're in the minority, us few actually good dr...
[20:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Can I have BOTH, please - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:18] <exec> 08└─since you want a hybrid driverless/manual car
[20:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Head of Google's driverless car program - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:21] <exec> 08└─The promise of autonomous is that the technology is just plain safer than human driving, even if a bug makes it through testing once and a while. Good drivers are killed on the roads all the time by bad drivers, other good drivers, and their own mistakes and human limitations. Any driver can just ra...
[20:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Does it work? - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:22] <exec> 08└─The main question I need to have answered in the positive before I'd use a driverless car is: Does it work reliably? There are variations on this, or course, such as, is it safer than my own driving? If so, I'd prefer it to drive me. If I'm planning to go where it can't handle things (such as unusua...
[20:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:36] <exec> 08└─So, pray tell, how are you going to tell those kids with prescriptions for Adderall that they're cheating dope-addicts? Not very politically correctly and the risky of lawsuity, that's for damn sure. And yes, I agree with the first poster than video gaming should not be considered a sport, unless yo...
[20:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─that takes the human element out of it though. i don't care for any sports, but the appeal in split leagues would be "to see just how far the human body can be pushed naturally" and "to see just how far the human body can be pushed, period". brain-computer implants would basically put it into a bot...
[20:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So long as it is legal... - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:55] <exec> 08└─- "Hey kid... if you want to live your dream, you should try some of this liquid oxygen... Just inject it directly into your vains" - "Who do you think brought you here to play ball? I did... And I'm telling you that you will inject this intravenously whether you do it yourself or I have Big Jones h...
[20:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:59] <exec> 08└─My point is this: you're confusing things that the government can't do to you (because you have no choice but to deal with the government) with things that private organizations can do to you. As a player, you can decide not to participate in leagues that do drug testing. My argument was a parallel,...
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:03] <exec> 08└─oh, and i should mention that "internal possession" (ie, a failed drug test) is prosecuted [howarddefense.com] as a crime [stopthedrugwar.org] in some places. the really ridiculous part is that literally everyone [naturalnews.com] is guilty of this crime (internal possession of dmt, a schedule 1 sub...
[20:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:this humor is unacceptable - 06Companion Star Gets Its Block Knocked Off by Pulsar - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:18] <exec> 08└─Those weren't people. Those were also people.
[20:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Why does anybody buy MS Office? - 06The French Want to Ban .doc and .xls Files From Le Gouvernement - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:45] <exec> 08└─Schools are a training ground for business.
[20:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's not Capitalism - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:24] <exec> 08└─Once again, someone has confused A MARKET with Capitalism. Capitalism refers to a method of production where there is an ownership class and a separate employee class. The opposite of that is an operation where the workers are the owners and all workers are equal and all decisions are made by a demo...
[20:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not Capitalism - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:26] <exec> 08└─Is that what you learn in communism school? Because capitalism simply means that the means of production are privately owned. If everyone owns the means of his own production, then it's still capitalism. It is true that capitalism typically leads to accumulation of capital, and thus to workers that...
[20:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:19:40] <exec> 08└─Not saying you're wrong, but as biotechnology gets cheaper and easier it is becoming more accessible to individuals, small companies, "hackerspaces", etc. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Real Vegan Cheese [soylentnews.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wik...
[20:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Calling out things by the wrong name - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:32] <exec> 08└─Well then, see you on the moon. And stay on your side.
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[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:20] <exec> 08└─I think sometimes these equation people get too clever for their own good. They say there can be multiple parallel universes created every trillionth of a second because that's what their formula produces, but until you have observational confirmation, what is it but a bunch of future chalk dust?
[21:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:31] <exec> 08└─> But retard is a legitimate medical term indicating someone that had their development limited against their original potential. And fag means cigarette. That words can have more than one meaning doesn't exonerate someone who is clearly using the derogatory meaning. That is developmentally limited...
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Berky [5657] (Score:1) 02Re:Naming … - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─I suppose I should reconsider my ".. for dumbasses" line of products.
[21:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not a big deal - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:39] <exec> 08└─They had a mom calling saying "three year old johnny here is not retarded. He's intellectually challenged. And while he is to retarded^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H challenged to actually understand this name, I think that I have the right to force you to take down this insulting project"
[21:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not a big deal - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:41] <exec> 08└─We had a black guy at a tech place, his name was mickey. When we hired him, it was improper to use the term "n***er rigged" anymore, so we used the term "mickey rigged" instead.
[21:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:desensitizing - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:44] <exec> 08└─> I really don't give a damn that your big brother is a retard, and it offends you to hear the word. Get over yourself. Such irony. You are obviously offended that someone does not want to offend people you have no connection with. Give over yourself indeed. As far as you are concerned It_just_does_...
[21:13:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Project should be renamed... - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:46] <exec> 08└─to "WebM for Gits [wiktionary.org]"
[21:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Project should be renamed... - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:47] <exec> 08└─They're just following (and updating) an established theme. Wiley has a range of booked entitled "... for Dummies" but, better yet, Dorling Kindersley has a range of books entitled "Idiots guide to ..." Historically, "idiot" was clinical terminology for the most extreme form of what is now referre...
[21:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:Project should be renamed... - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:49] <exec> 08└─I think "WebM for Github owners" would be a more telling level of stupidity.
[21:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Guests in some else's house - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:50] <exec> 08└─Adults who insist on acting like snotty 8 year olds and then justifying it by saying things like "dude, lighten up" shouldn't be surprised when they're not invited back. I realize that's a tough concept for the /. - SN crowd to master.
[21:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02This is why I avoid cloud services - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:53] <exec> 08└─While I still use gmail I will set up my own mailserver after I read the fine manual. How much is any one user worth to a cloud provider? If you have a free github account then your value is the money github might make by selling a paid account to one of your codebase's users. Also the organic links...
[21:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Outrage - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:55] <exec> 08└─This is the most outrageous act GitHub has committed since they banned Linux for Niggers http://vnnforum.com [vnnforum.com]
[21:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes us less human - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:03] <exec> 08└─Practice for interacting with the physical world around us for transportation/navigation, in a mode that requires more concentration and skill than walking. I agree that riding a bicycle (or horse) regularly would be a more than adequate substitute. But relatively few of us do, compared to driving.
[21:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─That's great... While you do all the calculations using pen and paper (no abacus for you), I'll be over there in my office, getting paid for my work because I'm actually efficient!
[21:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:31] <exec> 08└─And just as stupid as most college grads I've fired.
[21:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─I suppose you know how to handle a J-Hook maneuver then? How about drift cornering? If they taught this as a requirement before getting a drivers license there would be a lot less accidents.
[21:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Head of Google's driverless car program - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:42] <exec> 08└─Not to lose sight of the forest for the trees, but cases like that toyota example could be handled by a big red "stop" button. Make it work like a PC - if you press it for just a couple of seconds it initiates a controlled stop. If you hold it down it for a long enough period of time it just kills a...
[21:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:56] <exec> 08└─even if you're using drugs when doing something, that's still an example of something that humans can accomplish.
[21:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:no, because fuck prohibition - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:23] <exec> 08└─except drug possession/use is a crime and proof of it still constitutes a crime regardless of where the evidence comes from. as for the comment about not living in a population-dense area, prohibition is more harmful [aclu.org] to everyone, especially people that never had anything to do with drugs...
[21:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Irreconcilable conflict - 06UK MPs and Lords Can be Spied On, Investigation of Snowden Journalists Continues - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:34] <exec> 08└─We've heard your concerns and have decided to eliminate "democracy". Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
[21:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well Done - but there could be problems ahead - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:20] <exec> 08└─Example: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Content Warning This video may be inappropriate for some users. Sign in to confirm your age
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[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:21] <exec> 08└─Math and reality occasionally have nothing in common, and math must suffer an intrusion of reality once in a while just to balance its own equations. When a math musing suddenly suggests that water may suddenly in a chain reaction, when this has been observed exactly NEVER, you have your first clue...
[22:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02this is a test by the supervisor... - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:22] <exec> 08└─There is not a single line of sanity in that article. But, if you just shrug and walk on, you passed the test, and understood that you life is over and techsupport will start to wake you up from this incarnation. If you find it made any sense to you, and you find it interesting or inspirational in a...
[22:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02dafoqusay? - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:24] <exec> 08└─Did you say that only the good die young? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02So far - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─I guess we must have just been lucky so far. I mean, if any random vortice has nothing stopping it from generating a singularity, we have been really lucky so far. Or, my g-d! Perhaps not?
[22:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So far - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:27] <exec> 08└─The density of the energy may become infinite, but the total energy cannot increase - conservation of energy. So the spectacular explosion would contain all the energy of a tiny eddy. As the diameter of the gyre decreases, the velocity of the water must increase - conservation of angular momentum. H...
[22:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:So far - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:29] <exec> 08└─And all those screw propellers we've been putting on ships! We've been living on the edge. Just goes to show you that even things that have NEVER happened are the fault of mankind. This is why we keep the Mathematicians safely ensconced in universities where they can't do much damage.
[22:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:39] <exec> 08└─But what of those who self identify as fag or retard. In the former case in the form of reclaiming a word for a community whilst removing it from pejorative usage. In the latter those that merely doubt their skills in a significant way.
[22:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not a big deal - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:49] <exec> 08└─> Did anyone actually get offended, Does it really matter to you? If someone had been insulted would that change your opinion or would you just switch to a new tact like telling them toughen up?
[22:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:desensitizing - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─Retard used to be a specific term for the slow or Down Syndrome people, before that imbecile was the term used. So society went through this same linguistic struggle to replace imbecile with retard since imbecile meant what retard now does today; basically a general insult. So at some point the new...
[22:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:desensitizing - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:55] <exec> 08└─> Our society is on a permanent euphemism treadmill. That all presumes society won't just use a term that has no clinical meaning - like "stupid." There is nothing inherent in clinical terminology that requires society to adopt it for an insult. We have plenty of linguistic variety to choose from.
[22:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03_NSAKEY [16] (Score:2) 02Re:desensitizing - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:56] <exec> 08└─George Carlin covered this. [youtube.com]
[22:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Guests in some else's house - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:00] <exec> 08└─I call bullshit. If a queer walks into your restaurant, you have to serve him. If an asshole asks to use your online service, you don't have to serve him? It's not like the people who own the servers are actually required to sit down and read all the transactions. They don't have to interact with th...
[22:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes us less human - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:17] <exec> 08└─You're right. Until the car was invented, we were like, 90% human at most.
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─I suspect driverless cars will be able to detect a flat tire and pull over and stop, so police will use spike strips much like they do now.
[22:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Revenue Enforcement? - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:35] <exec> 08└─Once we have driverless cars, what will the traffic police do all day? Right now they effectively act as tax collectors for the state and the insurance companies. I'm sure the commies, Islamists, Mexicans, or whatever made-up-villain of the day will be used to justify maintaining the same department...
[22:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffft... - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─Also, all the kids learning this when they are 16 would make for great Friday evenings at the estate... I think I spotted the flaw in this particular (poor) argument: it's not because you know how to do a couple of maneuvers that you are a good driver. Your argument is "I do a great three-point-turn...
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Does it work? - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─What I don't want is a car that can handle 99.99 % of routine driving properly and asks me to take over within a few seconds when an unexpected situation arises that it can't handle.
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:18] <exec> 08└─First off, nobody should be taking adderall unless they've already gotten Parkinson's Disease, that shit is not safe for anybody else. Secondly, you tell them the same thing that we tell gymnasts that are caught with pseudoephedrine in their blood stream at the time of the testing, that's a banned s...
[22:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Two leagues? - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:33] <exec> 08└─The pay would probably always be better for the PED league. Just look at basketball, women's basketball versus men's basketball. The pay differential there is rather sizable and a large part of that comes from the thing the men are doing that the women can't do, or can't do as well. There've been a...
[22:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hemingway - 06Should Professional Gamers Submit to Drug Testing? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:52] <exec> 08└─Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. Ernest Hemingway
[22:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not Capitalism - 06Researchers Claim They’ve Developed a Better, Faster Tor - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:12] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention that all ice cream is vanilla. Your repeating Cold War bullshit doesn't make it true. ...but you were indoctrinated well. -- gewg_
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[22:17:40] <exec> 08└─They have no history of doing that.
[22:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:Well Done - but there could be problems ahead - 06AP to Put Nearly 17,000 Hours of Archival News Footage on YouTube - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:43] <exec> 08└─Pro Tip: You can work around this relatively simply with just minor editing of the URL. For instance, change: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] to: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Note that this only works if you have Flash installed. I don't know of a wor...
[22:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:54] <exec> 08└─This does raise the question of whether or not the whole grammatical intervention my be something of a damp squid for all intensive purposes. Or maybe you are lack toast and tolerant? (do a quick search for "eggcorns".)
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[23:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Finish it? - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe then it's time to consider it 'finished'? Stop adding features and fix all known bugs, consider it done. It's open source so if anyone wants to fork it, they can.
[23:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:22] <exec> 08└─Hipster coders == disaster. A common pattern, these days.
[23:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:24] <exec> 08└─Kids growing up and getting jobs :( Or getting partners. Or getting kids of their own. Like my friends, they're suddenly really busy with jobs, partners, kids. There's no going back to the good old times when we met up and had fun. Now we see each other twice a year at best.
[23:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"aging codebase" == hipster coders - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:26] <exec> 08└─That is because theyre cuckolds. Good Old Boys in the South meet up all the time. They don't let themselves be controlled or cucked.
[23:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02They can get the cunts to help them. - 06The Battle For Wesnoth is Looking For Help - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─Mysoginist males need not apply surely
[23:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:36] <exec> 08└─Actually, physicists already know what's going on: It's the second law of thermodynamics. Certain things can happen in principle, but have an astronomically low probability to happen, and therefore won't actually happen. There's also nothing in the equations of notion that forbids the scattered piec...
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusing the math with reality - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─RTFA! He obviously doesn't believe the boom can happen. He is quite clear that there is something missing in the math and wants to find out what.
[23:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Erm... - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:43] <exec> 08└─Hollywood beat him to it. [imdb.com] Not too bad a movie, actually. Saw it in the theater.
[23:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Vulnerability Disclosure = bad - 06The Singular Mind of Terry Tao - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:45] <exec> 08└─So this story breaks then explosions at a pool [go.com] in Las Vegas. Its in the wild I tell you!!!
[23:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Host it yourself - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:54] <exec> 08└─Those cocksucking kike nigger-faggots. They will censor a legitimate project with a quirky but non-obscene name, but they will illegally keep stolen proprietary source code up? [github.com] What's wrong with those fucking wop zipperhead knuckle-dragging ching-chongs?
[23:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relevant - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:58] <exec> 08└─> In the former case in the form of reclaiming a word for a community Since they are actually part of that community then it isn't a derogatory usage. > In the latter those that merely doubt their skills in a significant way. That's derogatory usage since they medical definition doesn't actually app...
[23:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Naming … - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:01] <exec> 08└─What? San Francisco?
[23:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:desensitizing - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─while george could make a good joke, he didn't explore why the name changed for that condition. the truth is that the name for PTSD changed because we didn't understand what caused it. it's likely the name will remain the same until we figure out how to reverse it.
[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Project should be renamed... - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:20] <exec> 08└─WebM for police [nytimes.com]?
[23:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Guests in some else's house - 06GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:23] <exec> 08└─> If a queer walks into your restaurant, you have to serve him. Yes, gay people are a group with a history of being discriminated against for doing nothing to hurt anyone. > If an asshole asks to use your online service, you don't have to serve him? Yes, asshole people are not a group with a history...
[23:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─Those who enjoy driving will continue to do so. But I suspect that even those will prefer driving on scenic routes, not in concrete jungles with average speed of 5 mph and traffic lights every 100 feet.
[23:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:52] <exec> 08└─On the other hand people's competitive nature would lead them to take over control in dense crowded urban areas just to prove their ability to beat the machines.
[23:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:54] <exec> 08└─Why do you say "owner?"
[23:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now I can go to the bar, drink and get home - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:00] <exec> 08└─Apparently enough people haven't seen through the bullshit of the TSA, mass surveillance, DUI checkpoints, License Plate Readers, or any number of other horrible things that are in use now. Even when some people complain, their reasoning is bad (e.g. "It inconveniences me.", "It doesn't truly keep u...
[23:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Been saying it for years - 06Majority Prefer Driverless Technology - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:09] <exec> 08└─The majority of drivers on the road shouldn't BE driving.
[23:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02hold on there... - 06 Google, Facebook, and Co Launch Web Blacklist to Nail Ad Scammers - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:55] <exec> 08└─Not all fake clicks were malicious; one legitimate unnamed organisation had generated a whopping 65 per cent as detected by DoubleClick of automated data centre clicks by merely probing ads and ad landing pages across the internet.
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