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[00:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:no shit - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:33] <exec> 08└─"Can we fire the people that didn't do all this from the start??" No. In fact those are (mostly) the same people that are going to save us all by doing it right next time. http://www.counterpunch.org
[00:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:no shit - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, uh huh, right. I trust them totally to do it right this time. Total trust, 100%, full confidence.
[00:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hackers improve security?! - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:37] <exec> 08└─No way! I seen that Mr Robot show on the TV and that guy Elliot he done belong in prison where he belong. Only thing is them Chinese let him out and now he a threat to our National Security. That kinds shit never gun happen in our reals world where we don take any chances with them terrorist hackers...
[00:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Hackers improve security?! - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:39] <exec> 08└─Here's what's even better about this election. if Trump doesn't win, it's proof that there's rampant voter fraud caused by a lack of photo ID laws. If Clinton doesn't win, it's proof that Russian commies have hacked the polls using their hacker superpowers.
[00:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02One More For That List - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:41] <exec> 08└─One more item for that list - don't use voting machines that run on Windows. This is (what's left of) our democracy at stake. Daylight and transparency mean open source.
[00:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Old School - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:43] <exec> 08└─I fail to see any improvement over plain old paper ballots, counted by hand by poll captains, with scrutineers from each candidate overseeing the whole affair. Recounts? Easy. Data loss? As long as you have the paper ballots you can start over. Plus there are few practical ways for the Russians to h...
[00:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Printers and Touch Screens just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:46] <exec> 08└─Lets avoid paper by getting touch screens. But lets print out every ballot. What the hell is wrong with these people? There is nothing wrong with a hand marked ballot that can be read by machine. The voter can see it in her hand and check it. The machine can count it. The recount can count it, by ma...
[00:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Every material can bend and break - 06A Breakthrough in the Study of How Things Break, Bend and Deform - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:01:56] <exec> 08└─Once logged in you can change the color at https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The site is much friendlier in "Chillax" mode
[00:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naturally - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Insider Trading Case - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:03] <exec> 08└─So basically, WAH WAH!! I'm not one of the cool kids, its NOT FAIR!
[00:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Correlation not causation - 06Study Links Hormonal Birth Control to Depression - 4014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:04:39] <exec> 08└─"To actually show a link between hormonal contraceptives and depression it should be done a double blind and observe the ones on placebo having less depression or the one on contraceptives increasing the depression." YES! Thank you for a not-stupid post. I love not-stupid posts. To be fair it sta...
[00:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:How to recognize ineffective Secretary-Generals - 06UN Security Council Picks Next Secretary-General: Antonio Guterres - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:25] <exec> 08└─If you're really effective you might even be murdered. [wikipedia.org] Also, our own Helen Clarke put her name forward for this job, and her former enemies that now form our Government put their best foot forward on her behalf, as it "would be good for New Zealand" although no-one ever explained ho...
[00:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Foolish mortal - 06NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Arrested - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:05:53] <exec> 08└─> This isn't a court of law, the burden is on you to prove your bestie is not a criminal and that we should vote for her. You know, like you keep demanding of her opposition. This isn't about voting for her. This is about you slurping up the bullshit and then calling it the truth. > And you're going...
[00:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:I hit Little Caesar's once a month - 06Smoking Hot: Behold the Future of Pizza Delivery - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:06:37] <exec> 08└─i guess i stand corrected, heard of -and ate- plenty of 'chicago style' deep dish, but never heard of 'detroit style'... your description, though, sounds pretty much like the local (florida) 'chicago style' deep dish we get here... have i been eating detroit-style all these years and not known it ?...
[00:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:I hit Little Caesar's once a month - 06Smoking Hot: Behold the Future of Pizza Delivery - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:06:39] <exec> 08└─Now listen here snotnose. Make your mind up, either be Informative, Interesting or Funny, but not in the same post. It makes modding too hard.
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[01:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Does it come with espresso? - 06Robotic Surgery Tech Provides Users With a Sense of Touch - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:32] <exec> 08└─n/t
[01:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old School - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:47] <exec> 08└─Ya those Russians don't even have trees! How they gonna get the expensive paper stuff??
[01:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Printers and Touch Screens just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:01:49] <exec> 08└─A mandatory delay in reporting results could be interesting. It could also have some unintended effects.
[01:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02mod me redundant or insightful - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:53] <exec> 08└─Hey, how about a paper ballot?! And no e-voting. And nothing connected to the Internet.
[01:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Every material can bend and break - 06A Breakthrough in the Study of How Things Break, Bend and Deform - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:03] <exec> 08└─Big fan of green -- VT100 mode.
[01:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:We need a "Godwin's Law" sort of rule... - 06Syrian Seed Bank Gets New Home Away From War - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:02:52] <exec> 08└─Everything to you is a fucking affront! Because of you and your ilk, we're headed for NTE [wordpress.com]. You brutalize and torture us, and then expect to be able to rape us whenever you want [wordpress.com], Fuck you! In a way, I'll be glad when the end comes [wordpress.com]. It will be your fault...
[01:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Zika hype - 06Theranos Lays Off 340, Closes Labs and "Wellness Centers" - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:04] <exec> 08└─Let's disregard Puerto Rico, because it's merely a U.S. territory, not an actual state. Pregnant Women with Any Lab Evidence of Zika Virus Infection* US States and DC: 837 US Territories: 1,638 [...] Zika Virus Disease Cases Reported to ArboNET* US States and D...
[01:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:My own take on it - 06Israeli Spy Tech Company Allegedly Cracks WhatsApp Encryption - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:28] <exec> 08└─They are only under obligation to prove their claims to their customers, not to the world. Doing that would be like the Allies announcing to the Germans that they've cracked Enigma. They're not Whatsapp's competitors or white hat security researchers (they are obviously black hats: that they do this...
[01:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Black Hat - 06Israeli Spy Tech Company Allegedly Cracks WhatsApp Encryption - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:03:33] <exec> 08└─They're also not in the US ..."
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[02:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward 2000 (Score:0) 02Chaos - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:39] <exec> 08└─More likely the russians will hack the registration data so random people are turned away at the voting booth which will blow up and gets tons of news coverage. The russians' goal isn't to necessarily to make Trump win, but to sow chaos. Trump is definitely an agent of chaos, but he is not the only...
[02:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02Re:Old School - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:43] <exec> 08└─> I fail to see any improvement over plain old paper ballots (1) Vastly improved user interface - ability for the voter to correct errors before commit, multiple languages, very large print for the sight-impaired, ability to randomize candidate order to reduce psychological effect of being first on...
[02:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Printers and Touch Screens just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:47] <exec> 08└─You still have to contend with exit-polling.
[02:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Printers and Touch Screens just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:50] <exec> 08└─> What the hell is wrong with these people? As usual, forjack thinks himself superior than actual experts based on nothing more than his ignorance. Someone who was actually superior would have recognized this pattern in himself and done something to stop making the same mistake over and over. > The...
[02:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Printers - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:01:54] <exec> 08└─The idea is to print the ballot after the voter has confirmed their choices. That's why the first on the list is "printers."
[02:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Poor choice of words? - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:56] <exec> 08└─The fix is in all right!
[02:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black Hat - 06Israeli Spy Tech Company Allegedly Cracks WhatsApp Encryption - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:03:39] <exec> 08└─Snowden and Assange would be toast if they'd leaked music or movies.
[02:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score:1) 02Keep-warm ovens - 06Smoking Hot: Behold the Future of Pizza Delivery - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:10] <exec> 08└─why does the truck need 56 ovens? The little pizza stall at a festival was doing brisk trade recently with just one.
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[03:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Insightful) 02"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:30] <exec> 08└─that's the two words, and I have two for you in reply: "no way" all we have is their smiling faces and a bunch of 'do no evil' bullshit non-promises. why would anyone believe them? there is a concept of a gag order. that, alone, means you can't trust anyone to reveal the reality of what the gov is a...
[03:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:32] <exec> 08└─This. If Google were served with a gag order, they would not be able to answer this query in any other way. So dear Google, either implement end-to-end encryption on a 100% free+libre software stack, or shut the fuck up.
[03:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:34] <exec> 08└─It was a yahoo CEO that actually tried to fight them, remember. Alphabet, as best I know, has always given them what they want without a fight. Parse the words carefully.
[03:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:36] <exec> 08└─It was a yahoo CEO that actually tried to fight them, remember.
[03:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:38] <exec> 08└─Nah, the two words they would probably say if they were actually served with a gag order or NSL would be "no comment" instead.
[03:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yes, sir - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:40] <exec> 08└─-ϵ✪϶-
[03:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Two words that google understands - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:42] <exec> 08└─Pay us.
[03:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score:2) 02Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:45] <exec> 08└─I'm disappointed that out of all the two word combinations they selected no way. I'd like to see any of the following: Fuck youFuck noFuck yourselfFuck thatGet BentBlow me Anyone else think of a better two word response?
[03:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:47] <exec> 08└─Anyone else think of a better two word response?
[03:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how much? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:49] <exec> 08└─How much? :)
[03:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's a baby step in the right direction - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:10] <exec> 08└─Windoze machines are absolutely the wrong way to go. [xkcd.com] The better solution is, of course, to do what Canada does and don't use ANY machines. Give everyone a paper ballot and a marker. Count the votes by hand. Problem solved. What's the big goddamned hurry to get the results? (Fuck Lamestrea...
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[03:02:14] <exec> 08└─Yep scantron is pretty cool.
[03:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your game is extremely weak. - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:16] <exec> 08└─1) If you screw up your paper ballot, ask for a replacement. Additionally, if you meant to vote for NONE of the dirtbags listed, but you accidentally touched the screen, you can't undo that and do a no-vote for that category. With a paper ballot, you just fill in one box to many in that category. .....
[03:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score:2) 02Re:Old School - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:18] <exec> 08└─And if the paper ballots malfunction the Supreme Court can pick the president!
[03:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2) 02Internet Vote Verification - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:28] <exec> 08└─I think we should get an ID number for verification at the time we vote. Then we could go to a national website, punch in the number and it would say: The voter associated with this number voted as follows: President: Joe Schmoe Senator: Jane Doe State Representative: Chuck Murphy Ballot Question 1:...
[03:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Internet Vote Verification - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:02:31] <exec> 08└─Secret ballot was designed to stop vote buying. Basically the idea is I pay you 10 bucks to vote a particular way. All you have to do is prove it. So no cameras or other people in the booth with you. Your code idea would allow vote buying to actually work.
[03:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake Pharmaceuticals - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:08] <exec> 08└─You think you are triggered now? [inkbunny.net]
[03:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02No surprise to me - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:17] <exec> 08└─In a nation where it was a widespread practice to add adulterants to milk before going to market, absolutely nothing surprises me. Historically, China was held back and held down for a couple hundred years, and they were late getting into the industry world. The Japanese raped and destroyed much of...
[03:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02So They are Better at Medical Research? - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:19] <exec> 08└─OK, so then they have a better research establishment to the rest of the world? 90% - https://science.slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
[03:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We need a "Godwin's Law" sort of rule... - 06Syrian Seed Bank Gets New Home Away From War - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:03:35] <exec> 08└─The odds any science story will devolve to AGW pimping seems to be close to 1:1, some just take longer. There doesn't even seem to be much of a correlation between the relevance of the story either. This one manages it in the first sentence of the summary. It does seem driven by the same sort of for...
[03:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The joys of the pharma industry - 06Mylan Overcharged U.S. Government on EpiPens - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:04:43] <exec> 08└─Basically you're just making things up, as is typical of IP proponents which are mostly composed of big business. and trade secrets already exist anyways. There is zero evidence that patents encourage the revelation of trade secrets, patents are useless in this regard.
[03:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:One thing - 06Study Links Hormonal Birth Control to Depression - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:15] <exec> 08└─The pope or the talking mule?
[03:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Corelation only - 06Study Links Hormonal Birth Control to Depression - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:05:32] <exec> 08└─*facepalm again!* If my wife thought I was raping her in any way, she'd let me know ,Bobbit style. When we were younger, she'd often be the one on top and in control,: she could have climbed off and walked away. Instead, she got her pleasure as I got mine: again, she could have done it manually... i...
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[04:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Lysistrata - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:33] <exec> 08└─It is an ancient Greek play about women who put an end to a war by refusing to have sex with their men. It's worked for real, more than once.
[04:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Gray Lady - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:34] <exec> 08└─NY Times also reported on this -- first on Monday when the demonstrations occurred, http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] This also mentions solidarity demonstrations in other countries. And today after the government appears to be ba...
[04:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:46] <exec> 08└─Of course not, they have their corporate secrets and if the NSA can MITM them then so can others. Just because they protected themselves does NOT mean they are protecting you to any real degree.
[04:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:48] <exec> 08└─this ;) when someone says 'this is encrypted', I still have no trust in it. because - 'reasons'. you know. OT: we're seeing some of the worst in human behavior, on a massive scale, these days. I wonder how that will affect the generation growing up. they know not to trust cops, not to trust authori...
[04:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:50] <exec> 08└─> they're free to read all sides of the issues and make up their own minds. And they are also free to read the constant flows of bullshit that pass for truth in the minds of so many credulous fools. The problem isn't just the loss of trust in institutions, its the placing of trust in the bullshit ar...
[04:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How Much Stupidity Can Cynicism Excuse? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:52] <exec> 08└─> Just because they protected themselves does NOT mean they are protecting you to any real degree. Hhhm, arikl makes a completely undocumented claim and y'all take that as gospel. Martyb cites an actual example to the contrary [washingtonpost.com] and its dismissed as irrelevant. Well, how about thi...
[04:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:01:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUZgPfdkWis [youtube.com]
[04:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02... - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:02] <exec> 08└─Never received such a request? Perhaps they are being very very precise and trying to hide behind the fact that the gov didn't use a form letter for all tech companies... "Technically we aren't lying, trust us". Well technically they are all full of shit, but they're also liars. May history forgive...
[04:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too Much To Lose - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:04] <exec> 08└─> Perhaps they are being very very precise and trying to hide behind the fact that the gov didn't use a form letter for all tech companies.. That wouldn't fly. If google is lying through omission they will get caught because secrets like that don't last anymore - they leak out and the bigger the hyp...
[04:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Two words - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:06] <exec> 08└─“Yes, master.”
[04:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02P666 on the ball - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:09] <exec> 08└─I see you italicized !
[04:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a baby step in the right direction - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 2298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:31] <exec> 08└─Of course that doesn't fix the voter registration part, which is how the Conservative government manipulated the last federal election[s] here in Canada. Pass a law stopping Elections Canada (Independent) from trying to register people. Used to be people everywhere with voters lists making sure you...
[04:02:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02Old School - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:32] <exec> 08└─I fail to see any improvement over plain old paper ballots, counted by hand by poll captains, with scrutineers from each candidate overseeing the whole affair. Recounts? Easy. Data loss? As long as you have the paper ballots you can start over. Plus there are few practical ways for the Russians to h...
[04:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your ass is extremely weak. - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:38] <exec> 08└─> 1) If you screw up your paper ballot, ask for a replacement. Yeah? After you've filled out 50 different candidates, go back and do it all again? And make sure you don't fuck it up again. Never mind all the other points you ignored like multiple languages, seeing-impaired, etc. > Additionally, if y...
[04:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Printers and Touch Screens 2000 just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:46] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid this time it's you that's off kilter. Hanging chads are caused by voting machines. Frojack makes no mistakes here. Where I live we vote the way Frojack described. It just works. I head to the polls (which thanks to living in a small town almost never have a line). They give me a sheet. I...
[04:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Even Close - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:48] <exec> 08└─> I'm afraid this time it's you that's off kilter. Hanging chads are caused by voting machines. Frojack makes no mistakes here. They are caused by old, poorly designed machines. > (which thanks to living in a small town almost never have a line). And there is your problem. Do you even live in the US...
[04:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Defective by design - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:51] <exec> 08└─....................../´¯/) ....................,/¯../ .................../..../ ............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸ ........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\ ........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...') .........\.................'...../ ..........''...\.......... _.·´ ............\..............( ...........
[04:02:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02mod me redundant or insightful - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:53] <exec> 08└─Hey, how about a paper ballot?! And no e-voting. And nothing connected to the Internet.
[04:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''no cameras [...] in the booth with you'' - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:59] <exec> 08└─New Hampshire law barring ballot selfies is unconstitutional, court rules [arstechnica.com] 2016/09/28 -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''no cameras [...] in the booth with you'' - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:01] <exec> 08└─Only in UCC1 and specifically NH. The others district courts have not ruled on it as the supreme court has not. They may rule along similar lines. But that is not clear if they would (they probably would). However the reasoning in that verdict is interesting. Basically 'doesnt happen anymore so we d...
[04:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Internet Vote Verification - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:03] <exec> 08└─This does not in any way violate the right to a secret ballot because no one would know what your ID number was. It wouldn't even have to be printed out.
[04:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Internet Vote Verification - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:05] <exec> 08└─"Hey, 35 bucks to everyone who shows me that they voted for Schmoe!"
[04:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cockamamie - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:08] <exec> 08└─Whenever these electronic voting stories get posted people come out of the woodwork with cockamamie ideas for how to "fix" the problem. All they ever do is prove that they don't have any idea what they are talking about. The rule is very simple - paper ballots. You can (and should) put a well-design...
[04:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Pure insanity - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:10] <exec> 08└─Paper and pencil ballots with nice big circles beside the candidate names and party affiliation to place your mark in is the only sane way to do it. Spend the money that would be wasted on the machines hiring more actual people to run more polling places and count / oversee counting the ballots. You...
[04:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:No surprise to me - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:56] <exec> 08└─In a land which didn't used to have milk in the market, mothers are told that milk is healthy, they should give it to their kids. And, the producers were poisoning that milk?
[04:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02This Story Reminds Me... - 06Syrian Seed Bank Gets New Home Away From War - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:17] <exec> 08└─Of The Windup Girl [wikipedia.org] by Paolo Bacigalupi. If you like speculative fiction, especially dystopian stuff, it's definitely worth the read.
[04:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Theranos? - 06Theranos Lays Off 340, Closes Labs and "Wellness Centers" - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:37] <exec> 08└─The summary, I think should have explained a bit about what Theranos is. Looking about I found out that it's a health technology company that developed devices that were supposed to be able to conduct blood tests using far smaller quantities of blood than are typically required. Seems though that th...
[04:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The SEC wants to prosecute more than they do - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Insider Trading Case - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:43] <exec> 08└─I have read that Republicans in Congress refuse to fund the SEC's work to put down insider trading. I don't really know but that is what I read.
[04:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Who's got $100K to spend on this? - 06Three Great Places to Live On Mars - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:25] <exec> 08└─Thing is, "my stereotype" is about the social dynamics of the communities we have and know at least a little bit about. When you're talking about 1:1000 personality types, cherry picking the odd birds and throwing them all together in an isolated community would be... much more uncertain as to the o...
[04:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A bigger picture - 06Three Great Places to Live On Mars - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:34] <exec> 08└─I will get crucified for this by those who only think in terms of short term human economic benefit, but would it not be great if the human race matured enough before colonizing the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else in the solar system (universe?) to survey them and set aside the most beautiful and spect...
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[05:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02Re:How Much Stupidity Can Cynicism Excuse? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:02] <exec> 08└─Just depends where the data tap is placed in the software stack. Fuck the hardware or the network stack.
[05:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:02:09] <exec> 08└─I think "no way" is more appropriate, because it conveys the surprise and possible amusement of the irony that such a backdoor would be a tiny drop in the ocean of data they already let the government have and probably already exists anyway.
[05:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 022 words ?? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:16] <exec> 08└─Yes Sir would be what I'd most likely expect the response to be.
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[06:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:Lysistrata - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:38] <exec> 08└─And how many wars were started because wives wanted their men to go out and bring them the shiny baubles that the foreign people have? :-)
[06:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:41] <exec> 08└─(doctors) impose their own religious beliefs on patients by refusing (to give an abortion)
[06:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:43] <exec> 08└─In this Brave New World, people feel entitled to service, and heaven help you if you inform them you aren’t their slave. It’s a curious mix where people demand the license those refuses to dispense certain birth control meds out of moral conviction, yet demand medical staff be conscientious obje...
[06:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Lidl bastards - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:45] <exec> 08└─Lidl are starting to expand into Australia to rival Aldi, Coles and Woolworths 1337 supermarkets. After their threat to fire any women who has the audacity to demand rights over their own body and wellbeing, Lidl can fuck right off.
[06:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lidl bastards - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:47] <exec> 08└─Same thing feminist tell men who complain about paying child support: Don't like it? Don't have sex.
[06:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:02] <exec> 08└─This comment reminded me to start my own cult.
[06:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How Much Stupidity Can Cynicism Excuse? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:05] <exec> 08└─Well you see, after decades of constitutional violations and being lied to by government and corporations, yes, cynicism takes precedent. You reminded me of a link posted by butthurt: https://medium.com [medium.com] The surveillance machine h...
[06:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:08] <exec> 08└─I don't believe them. I assume the NSA has access to all my gmail, all my gmail chat, and no telling what else. I'm positive that if they've taken a look they know I am an anarchist and am raising my children to believe the same way. I guess the saving grace may be my belief in nonviolence keeps me...
[06:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:16] <exec> 08└─I think 2 words is far too restrictive for the correct and obvious response, "How about you eat an entire bag of dicks?"
[06:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Most likely responses - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:19] <exec> 08└─There are three far more likely responses from Google. "Already Done", "How Much" or "Yes Sir"
[06:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too Much To Lose - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:24] <exec> 08└─Har har, and how many corporations have escaped blame by throwing some peons and maybe a higher tier manager under the bus? Your argument is that Google is too smart?? NSL and gag orders cover a lot ground, they can just say that they were legally required to keep it secret. The Apple bit with the F...
[06:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's a baby step in the right direction - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:51] <exec> 08└─The better solution is, of course, to do what Canada does and don't use ANY machines. Paper ballots are super slow. After 149 years Canada has yet to elect its first president.
[06:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Even Close - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:05] <exec> 08└─Umm no. Where I live, in a suburb of Detroit, voting is handled just as he described. I've even worked at the polling place when I was younger, the process is very simple, orderly, and foolproof. Maybe everyone where you live has their head stuck up their ass but some areas know how to make shit wor...
[06:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Internet Vote Verification - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:16] <exec> 08└─You are proposing to disrupt the free market !!!1! What are you, a communist? If someone has something to sell and some other wants to buy it, they should be able to do so!!! </sarc> But seriously, this rule tries to solve the social problem - readiness to buy and sell votes - with a technical meas...
[06:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Every material can bend and break - 06A Breakthrough in the Study of How Things Break, Bend and Deform - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:31] <exec> 08└─I like it too. ;-)
[06:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:thoughts.. - 06Indonesian Arrested for Streaming Porn on Billboard - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:43] <exec> 08└─Bring a new meaning to the term "pull off the road". Wonder how many folks who had stopped and ended up late for work told the boss they had "crankshaft problems"
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[07:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In Soviet Russia... - 06New Optical Biosensor Can Diagnose Infections in a Few Seconds - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:33] <exec> 08└─Biosensor saves you! Wait, did I do it wrong??
[07:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02I'm in - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:41] <exec> 08└─Alright, I'm going to convert my botn^H^H^H^H legally authorized network of computers to run f@h instead of SETI@home. That should be the equivalent of ~12 Intel i3 CPUs running for at least 20 hours a day, 365. It'll take me a couple weeks to get around to all of them. Just me, alone, (I've never b...
[07:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm in - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:43] <exec> 08└─Insecure IoT 4 the cure!
[07:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Fold my Protein - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:45] <exec> 08└─SUck my cock rockect, soystains! My cum is full of proteens! FOr u to fold!!! niggers
[07:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lysistrata - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:55] <exec> 08└─Zero?
[07:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02not for real - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:58] <exec> 08└─It's worked for real, more than once.
[07:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:03] <exec> 08└─in the case of rape, a threat to the health or life of the woman, or deformation of the foetus
[07:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:05] <exec> 08└─Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
[07:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:07] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of abortions aren't from rape, deformity, or the woman’s life in danger. And regardless that doesn’t give you the right to force someone to do something against their conscience, you special little snowflake.
[07:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:09] <exec> 08└─Not making a decision because You are not aware of it is not an act. However, coming to a decision not to act is an act in itself. Say, I see a drunk guy choking on his own vomit, and truly believe that it is gods will. Or intervening on the sabbath would be blasphe 2ba2 mous, or something like that...
[07:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:11] <exec> 08└─Just so we can be clear on this: do you ever refuse panhandlers?
[07:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:14] <exec> 08└─First, do no harm. But the rub is, that some times doing nothing is doing harm. When a doctor refuses to do what is in the interest of the patient, because of his own, private, non-professional beliefs, he or she is no longer a doctor. They are a criminal, practicing medicine without competence or...
[07:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score:1) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed. And many expletives abounded from said Engineers as well.
[07:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:36] <exec> 08└─> It was a yahoo CEO that actually tried to fight them, remember. Who, when?
[07:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score:1) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:40] <exec> 08└─Or, Not to our knowledge. Or something equally vague. I thought I left the tin-foil hatters behind at Slashdot...
[07:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:43] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, you're right. Precisely the concepts of "gag orders" and "secret courts" - those are the most dangerous elements, because they allow the US government to act in secrecy, with no one checking or applying any sort of control. This is the short road to tyranny. I actually do believe Goog...
[07:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:50] <exec> 08└─This feels appropriate in more ways than one!
[07:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:55] <exec> 08└─I have always liked "Cowa Bunga!"
[07:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02order - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:04] <exec> 08└─NSA: "We hereby require You NOT to provide us with the information about these potential terrorists." google: "no way!"
[07:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:no shit - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:23] <exec> 08└─If we fire them (people who used to be the dumbest sacks of shit they could find, other than politicians, but now with just a smidgeon of experience into how elections work), then all that will happen is they will hire "people who are the dumbest sacks of shit they can, other than politicians"
[07:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Your ass is extremely weak. - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:38] <exec> 08└─> [...] the mighty butthurt. Heh. I wish I'd thought of that.
[07:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Printers and Touch Screens just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:43] <exec> 08└─In Germany it is illegal to publish the results of exit polls before the voting ends.
[07:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Printers and Touch Screens just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:45] <exec> 08└─It could also have some unintended effects.
[07:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Internet Vote Verification - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:03] <exec> 08└─At least the money would be going to the voters, not to CBS.
[07:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And yet... - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:05] <exec> 08└─verifying the voter is too much bother.
[07:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Hang on a second Hillary... - 06NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Arrested - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think there is any conspiracy. Its politics and there is word for having dealt the upper-hand: being in power. The problem is not that everyone is an idiot who wants to do politics, the problem is that biggest idiots and the actual privileged class who are not forced to do politics to remain...
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[08:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"we're doing a survey" - 06New Optical Biosensor Can Diagnose Infections in a Few Seconds - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:38] <exec> 08└─The method for collecting the sample material is also the same as a method for collecting DNA. "We're doing a survey on infectious diseases" is a pretty good cover story for mass DNA collection.
[08:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lysistrata - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:58] <exec> 08└─babies that the foreign people women have? :-)
[08:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lysistrata - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:59] <exec> 08└─Sorry, missed a close element: entire quote here: And how many wars were started because wives wanted their men to go out and bring them the shiny babies that the foreign people women have? :-)
[08:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lysistrata - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:02] <exec> 08└─Not to belabor the point.
[08:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''in cases of a threat to health of the woman'' - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:05] <exec> 08└─Abortion Safer for Women Than Childbirth, Study Claims [usnews.com] a woman carrying a baby to term is 14 times more likely to die than a woman who chooses to have a legal abortion
[08:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''The national socialist government'' - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:07] <exec> 08└─The national socialist government (sorry but both labels are true) Socialism is all about The Workers. A place that is anti-union is not anything like Socialist. You have allowed yourself to become a victim of propaganda and, as a result, have a very muddled understanding of the world. -- OriginalOw...
[08:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:15] <exec> 08└─Obviously, jmorris is posting as AC, but we can tell since he has snowflakes all up his hoo-haa again.
[08:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jesus_666 [3044] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:17] <exec> 08└─In Poland? Remember that we're talking about Polish law and Polish abortions here. Polish law allows abortions in case of rape, the mother's life being in danger or the foetus being malformed. Polish doctors have refused to perform some of those legal abortions because they objected to the practice....
[08:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the system must also be honest. "Yes, I would like to work here but remember I do not make abortions" "OK, we will have to hire a second guy for that" "I understand, we shall reach an agreement so that this does not cost you more". And not "OOPS it appears the doctor just discovered he does...
[08:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:25] <exec> 08└─Standard operating procedure to any medical facility I have worked at is a declaration of any procedures you refuse to take part in due to moral reasons. And for the most part, it works out okay. Only recently has it become an issue with people who have fuck-all experience in medicine declaring it a...
[08:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:27] <exec> 08└─Fricking God Damned Catholics! Are the Poles the only ones in Europe to be so stupid as to give the Nazis a pretext to invade, AND try to legislate the Catholic Church's pederast sexual politics? Don't bother asking, a rhetorical question. John Paul II. And Solidarity. But: Standard operating proc...
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[08:02:42] <exec> 08└─this ;) when someone says 'this is encrypted', I still have no trust in it. because - 'reasons'. you know. OT: we're seeing some of the worst in human behavior, on a massive scale, these days. I wonder how that will affect the generation growing up. they know not to trust cops, not to trust authori...
[08:03:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] 02Two words - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:08] <exec> 08└─“Yes, master.”
[08:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Printers and Touch Screens just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:55] <exec> 08└─There is nothing wrong with a hand marked ballot that can be read by machine. The voter can see it in her hand and check it. The machine can count it.
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[09:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Contribution leads to reward? - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:48] <exec> 08└─Just wondering, if the folding being done on my hardware helps get to a cure. Will that be a proprietary cure some big farma is then going to make lot's of money from, or some research institue that'll opensource it or ... While I would like to be benevolent and go all in, in reality, this probably...
[09:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lysistrata - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:59] <exec> 08└─WWII, at least. The amount of stolen gifts German soldiers offered their wives is massive.
[09:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:12] <exec> 08└─The equivalent in the Polish constitution: [wikisource.org] 1. Churches and other religious organizations shall have equal rights. 2. Public authorities in the Republic of Poland shall be impartial in matters of personal conviction, whether religious or philosophical, or in relation to outlooks on...
[09:02:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 896 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:18] <exec> 08└─First, do 2000 no harm. But the rub is, that some times doing nothing is doing harm. When a doctor refuses to do what is in the interest of the patient, because of his own, private, non-professional beliefs, he or she is no longer a doctor. They are a criminal, practicing medicine without competen...
[09:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score:1) 02Religion and politics - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:25] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why religion should not be allowed in political and moral decisions. BTW the abortion laws are widely supported by the Catholic church. The bastards have pushed for such laws in many countries ( e.g. Ireland, countries in Latin America) Check out this list and shudder https://en.wiki...
[09:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Religion and politics - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:27] <exec> 08└─The Roman Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world.
[09:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You're An Evil, Torturing Cesspool -- A Male - 06Study Links Hormonal Birth Control to Depression - 2540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:07:10] <exec> 08└─PIV (Penis In Vagina) intercourse is rape. Always. [wordpress.com] One of my fellow travelers explained this quite clearly. I link to it above, but I'll excerpt it here for you because you clearly don't get it. By engaging in PIV, you are traumatizing your abused slave ^W^W wife [wordpress.com] and...
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[10:01:26] <exec> 08└─I think I'd feel safer with the Yakuza than with US cops. They seem more reasonable and less prone to random violence on "normal folk" (especially to those who keep up with their "premiums"). Not saying the Yakuza aren't violent or bad people, they certainly are but the Yakuza don't kill "civilians"...
[10:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Organized crime - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:28] <exec> 08└─Yakuza: organized crime US cops: badly organized crime
[10:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:10] <exec> 08└─Poland is screwed if islam takes hold there
[10:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:54] <exec> 08└─As an email industry insider (I work for Dovecot, we power the vast majority of the world's email (IMAP/POP) servers[1], so I know what features are being demanded, by whom, and why), google already have a lawful interception facility. And the only difference between lawful interception and a backdo...
[10:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:00] <exec> 08└─I vote for "Uwot m8?" Why those guys whose mail system logo is basically a masonic apron share stuff with lowly feds? What is this world coming to, no respect for higher authorities?
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[11:01:39] <exec> 08└─I would go with the Yakuza hands down. They don't shoot people just for being non-white.
[11:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Organized crime - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:41] <exec> 08└─Heck, even the Mafia groups behave more reasonably than US cops these days.
[11:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fifth Amendment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:43] <exec> 08└─Not being a constitutional lawyer, or even being an American, I have to wonder why civil asset forfeiture the way it seems to be done in some places in the US can be legal, when the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution says in no uncertain terms (emphasis added): No person shall be held to answer...
[11:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Fifth Amendment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:45] <exec> 08└─It seems that "civil" and "criminal" forfeiture are two different things - in civil cases, the property, not the person, is considered the "offender", so the 5th amendment arguably doesn't apply. There's more here: https://en.wikipedia.org
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[11:01:47] <exec> 08└─I read that Wikipedia page shortly after writing my post and it still sounds absolutely insane. It's the sort of end-run around the letter and spirit of the Constitution that only the most diabolical of lawyers could invent. So they can stop me in the street and take the $500 in my pocket exactly th...
[11:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In Soviet Russia - 06New Optical Biosensor Can Diagnose Infections in a Few Seconds - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:57] <exec> 08└─Cue the "In Soviet Russia..." jokes.
[11:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm in - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:08] <exec> 08└─Given that it's quite a small team currently, anyone throwing a few machines at it can make a noticeable difference - good on you guys. I'm trying to downgrade all my IT at home to fanless boxes (cubieboards and raspis for servers, one "cubibox" as my "workstation"), so I'll not contribute, but I do...
[11:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Contribution leads to reward? - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:12] <exec> 08└─a conundrum indeed... exactly why i had compunctions about my organ donor indication on my driver's license: not like my organs go to the most needy and deserving who couldn't otherwise afford a new cornea/kidney/penis (like new condition!)/whatever... nope, organ harvesters get a big cut, and -more...
[11:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Contribution leads to reward? - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:14] <exec> 08└─Most (all?) of F@H's folding is done by academia and research. The about us has a list of who's involved and where they're getting research done by: http://folding.stanford.edu [stanford.edu]
[11:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:48] <exec> 08└─Refusing to abort a detected Downs fetus should result in a civil suit requiring the doctor to pay for the special care the child will need for its natural life
[11:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lidl bastards - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:52] <exec> 08└─Considering Aldi is now supporting terrorism by funding islam through halal certification rorting?
[11:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seed viability - 06Syrian Seed Bank Gets New Home Away From War - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:44] <exec> 08└─Plant biologist here. I've visited the Wageningen seed bank during my study and seed breeders also store seeds many years for quality control. In the seed bank they had different levels for storing various crop seeds. Seeds were harvested/dried at room temperature and depending on the species they w...
[11:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We need a "Godwin's Law" sort of rule... - 06Syrian Seed Bank Gets New Home Away From War - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:48] <exec> 08└─What I get from the news is that only parts of Aleppo are in war. The government controlled area's seem pretty safe (I've seen pictures of people having pool parties and such).
[11:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Foolish mortal - 06NSA Contractor Harold Martin III Arrested - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm sorry I've gone with a preponderance of evidence instead of beyond a shadow of doubt. Wait, no, I'm not. If you had proof you'd have posted it by now. At this point you're just trying to draw this out so people might not see you as the stooge you are.
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[12:01:40] <exec> 08└─new fact if used successfully, being funny brings you advantages. warning> if A, then X causes (synonym of A) tautology, X irrelevant.
[12:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Security theater, now in actual theaters - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:47] <exec> 08└─Presumably, not showing 45 minutes of TV commercials before the feature is not on the list of things that could bring some magic back to the movie industry...
[12:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Restoring the magic. - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:49] <exec> 08└─I used to love to go the movies, used to go weekly sometimes several times a week. Now it just doesn't seem worth it anymore. I think I went twice last year and so far this year I have only been once. 3D, 4k, IMAX or whatever other system comes next in the various audio-visual-department isn't going...
[12:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score:1) 02Re:Contribution leads to reward? - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:25] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that is why I throw my computing resources behind Folding@Home. Solving serious diseases that affect everyone would be a huge boon. Bacteria and viruses are troublesome, but stuff like Alzheimers can strike anywhere. Finding a way to stop that would be huge. Degradation of the body is one th...
[12:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:52] <exec> 08└─No, it's fine. When the constitution says "churches and other religious organizations" what it really means is "the Roman Catholic church in Poland". Anything else doesn't exist.
[12:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:59] <exec> 08└─Postnatal abortion is a bit harsh. Clearly he's a trainable not-descended-from-monkey, so maybe he could be useful in some semi-technical role, perhaps surrounded by machines that have no souls, rather than living beings (that have no souls). Surgical skills? Ability to use equipment which draws lin...
[12:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:06] <exec> 08└─The mother is the patient. The doctor has taken the Hypocratic oath. It's not hard to work out the conclusion from those two facts.
[12:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:How Much Stupidity Can Cynicism Excuse? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:03:30] <exec> 08└─So please, explain how you can justify defending the largest tech company that runs the most openly pervasive data mining surveillance business?
[12:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Your ass is extremely weak. - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:31] <exec> 08└─1. really, 50 candidates ? don't believe you... that is one out of a hundred ballots... 2. really, you make THAT many mistakes on a ballot it is THAT big a deal ? ? ? 3. really, SPEED of counting is your top priority ? tells me YOU have NO PLACE in deciding these issues... 4. really, HOW are comput...
[12:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old School - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:32] <exec> 08└─None of those supposed benefits outweigh the drawbacks of using inherently insecure electronic voting. I would rather us use slower paper ballots that have some issues than rely on electronic voting machines. Also, you seem to be comparing electronic voting done about as well it can be with paper ba...
[12:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defective by design - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:47] <exec> 08└─Fuck Photo ID. I don't have one and refuse to get one. Many states are now using photos on people's drivers licenses and such and putting them in facial recognition databases. I don't want the government to have a photo of me.
[12:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Self-regulation - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:36] <exec> 08└─Sigh. Always looking to government to solve every problem. Typical liberal/socialist. ;-)
[12:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake Pharmaceuticals - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:43] <exec> 08└─i feel your brain... they are ALL my words, i will use them as i see fit... and -to paraphrase- words are neither good nor bad, but thinking makes them so... of course, all the uber-PC word policing you are referring to is retarded and counterproductive, but -hey- someone gets to feel morally superi...
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[13:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:good to know - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:45] <exec> 08└─It'll also get you laid.
[13:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It figures... - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:46] <exec> 08└─Literally the least funny first post possible.
[13:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:48] <exec> 08└─This just in: People are morons. They also tend to see you as more competent if you possess any of a long list of other attributes: - Greater height (relative to any given local norm) - Lighter skin tone (relative to any given local norm) - Lower visible fatty tissue (within a certain range) - Speec...
[13:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score:1) 02Re:Restoring the magic. - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:58] <exec> 08└─Then there is that whole audience problem that there seem to be no technical solution for, people just suck.
[13:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Restoring the magic. - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:00] <exec> 08└─Then there is that whole audience problem tha 1ecb t there seem to be no technical solution for, people just suck.
[13:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Doing it right - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:03] <exec> 08└─There's a theater that opened near me earlier this year which I've been visiting a lot lately, and it's because they go the opposite direction of the multiplexes. Each screen has roughly 50 seats, and they're all leather recliners with built in trays and cup holders. They're available in advance by...
[13:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doing it right - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:05] <exec> 08└─They have great seats like this in Hoyts Belconnen. I have found the love I used to have for the cinema. I spent most of The Hobbit dealing with the asshole behind me kicking my seat. Then resting his foot on the back of my seat. Then.. no. It is just horrible in the old style cinemas. Never again.
[13:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Organized crime - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:15] <exec> 08└─US cops: unionized crime
[13:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Fifth Amendment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:22] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, without LE and similar enforcing the Constitution, its just a piece of paper. Civil cases essentially run around most of the protections in the constitution because its seen as person-to-person, and not the government vs. a person. Except the government can also be a person and you st...
[13:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Good Work, Guys! - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:46] <exec> 08└─Congrats, Soylentils.
[13:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02OT: So effin OT, I can hardly believe I'm posting - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:48] <exec> 08└─With the progress board, and cheering each time you pass someone ahead of you (no, no idea what you mean, I'm not refreshing http://www.ratebeer.com weekly at all! (mostly as I'm going backwards)), for unrelated reasons I clickie-clickied to this page just a few minutes ago: https...
[13:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Religion and politics - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:03:32] <exec> 08└─What the fuck are you talking about, and how does it relate to the post you replied to?
[13:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Religion and politics - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:03:34] <exec> 08└─Or is your post another idiotic example of 'Organization X does some indisputably evil things, but you need to forget all that because they donated to charity/run charities!'
[13:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:02] <exec> 08└─If Google is really serious, it needs to find a way to demonstrate this. Moving their corporate headquarters out of the US to someplace like Switzerland or Iceland would be a good first step.
[13:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:16] <exec> 08└─Zu Befehl!
[13:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's a baby step in the right direction - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:04:50] <exec> 08└─Use postal voting?
[13:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Old School - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:03] <exec> 08└─I've never understood why more places can't just do what MN does a 2000 nd have a scantron type ballot [state.mn.us] that you fill out and feed into the counting machine. You have the ability to quickly and accurately do a mechanical count and in case of a recount you have paper ballots. Add in that...
[13:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Printers and Touch Screens just slow it down - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:09] <exec> 08└─People having one day free of political reporting.
[13:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Not Even Close - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:05:15] <exec> 08└─Do you even live in the USA? Most american elections are complex, with tens to hundreds of races and when the turnout is the lines move very slowly and mistakes happen a lot more frequently.
[13:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:We need a "Godwin's Law" sort of rule... - 06Syrian Seed Bank Gets New Home Away From War - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:06:44] <exec> 08└─Oh that was coined a political generation ago as "Shrubspeak," as in something George W. Bush would say.
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[14:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Typical arrogance - 06Pulsation Delay Technique Used to Confirm Exoplanet Around an A-type Star - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised than an A-Type star like that would think that there were entire worlds revolving around them! I mean, outer space is worse than Hollywood in that regard.
[14:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:good to know - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:59] <exec> 08└─Lay lady lay, Lay me an egg for breakfast. Stay lady stay, Cook me the egg for breakfast.
[14:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:04] <exec> 08└─It's ape behaviour. Nothing we can escape from completely.
[14:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:06] <exec> 08└─Bah, you all sound like a bunch of short, fat people, with no sense of humour.
[14:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:08] <exec> 08└─You can tell all that just by reading this?
[14:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:10] <exec> 08└─Actually, one of the most important things on the list: facial and body symmetry. Those with symmetry are perceived as attractive leaders, those without are not. What's interesting about all this is that in those rare instances where a person seen as asymmetric and thus unattractive manages to get i...
[14:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Like this? - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:12] <exec> 08└─Boss: How was your weekend Ethanol? Ethanol: Two niggers, a wop, and a Jew walk into a bar... Boss: Shut up and go stock aisle 7 you jackass.
[14:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like this? - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:14] <exec> 08└─Wait, I need to know the punch line before I mod you up.
[14:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:3, Funny) 02You're telling me... - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:17] <exec> 08└─If all those "+1 Funny" mods affected my karma, I'd be a karmillionaire.
[14:02:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JeanCroix [573] 02Doing it right - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1005 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:28] <exec> 08└─There's a theater that opened near me earlier this year which I've been visiting a lot lately, and it's because they go the opposite direction of the multiplexes. Each screen has roughly 50 seats, and they're all leather recliners with built in trays and cup holders. They're available in advance by...
[14:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Buggy whip manufacturers want their business back - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:30] <exec> 08└─The thing about movie theaters is that they are no longer necessary for most films. I mean, which would you pick? A. Drive to some strip mall, choose one of the relatively small number of possible movies to see, shell out at least $10 to get in, spend at least $5-10 on food and drink that would have...
[14:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Helpful - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:47] <exec> 08└─While this is an important first step, ending prohibition entirely is necessary to truly eliminate this travesty of justice.
[14:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm in - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:08] <exec> 08└─raspis for servers
[14:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:OT: So effin OT, I can hardly believe I'm posti - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:16] <exec> 08└─I got immense enjoyment out of watching us pass Microsoft.
[14:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Kickin butt - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:18] <exec> 08└─and we ain't takin no names! Does anyone know who malloc_free is? I'd kinda like to know what he's running the software on. I suspect that he has one of those newfangled 1080 GPU's. The pattern of his submissions makes me believe he's running just one very fast machine. But, you can't say anything f...
[14:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:52] <exec> 08└─When a doctor refuses to do what is in the interest of the patient, because of his own, private, non-professional beliefs, he or she is no longer a doctor. They are a criminal, practicing medicine without competence or ethics.
[14:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:How Much Stupidity Can Cynicism Excuse? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:27] <exec> 08└─In the case of Google protecting their/my data, it's a matter of their interests aligning with mine. Same applies to their desire for an open internet, so they can serve ads on all platforms.
[14:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How Much Stupidity Can Cynicism Excuse? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:28] <exec> 08└─> So please, explain how you can justify defending the largest tech company that runs the most openly pervasive data mining surveillance business? I'm not "defending" them. I'm arguing that believing they (or anyone) are pure evil rather than a complicated mix of good and bad is not only stupid but...
[14:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:36] <exec> 08└─"non-violence"? That's anti-american. Let's 2000 put this guy under harder scrutiny...
[14:04:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02Re:Fuck off - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:43] <exec> 08└─Anyone else think of a better two word response?
[14:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Extremely Loud and Incredibly Off the Mark - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:38] <exec> 08└─> 1. really, 50 candidates ? don't believe you... that is one out of a hundred ballots... It is ALL ballots in which there are 50 races. > 2. really, you make THAT many mistakes on a ballot it is THAT big a deal ? ? ? It takes one mistake to ruin a ballot and have to start all over aga...
[14:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Paper Ballots, Duh! - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:41] <exec> 08└─Dude, this is about paper ballots. See that first line, printers this is about putting a GUI on a paper ballot. I swear, the number of dumbfucks that come out when you talk about voting is off the charts.
[14:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No surprise to me - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, please - you've got to be joking. Please, tell me that you are joking. You do realize that because mothers in China didn't have any cow's milk, formula, or other human milk substitute, all the babies were fed - wait for it - BREAST MILK!! All mammalian milk has lactose in it. I'm not sure about...
[14:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The joys of the pharma industry - 06Mylan Overcharged U.S. Government on EpiPens - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:36] <exec> 08└─For a real discussion on what patents do to innovation see https://www.techdirt.com [techdirt.com] Also see the book Against Intellectual monopoly by Boldrin and Levine. As far as England was concern...
[14:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can see why you might make that error - 06Indonesian Arrested for Streaming Porn on Billboard - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─Catholics don't beat, rape, force convert, murder and kill people who don't follow their religion on the grounds that those people are not catholic. See Iran, Iraq and several other countries for a guide on what happens in islam dominated countries.
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[15:02:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02Re:good to know - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:00] <exec> 08└─It'll also get you laid.
[15:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good to know - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:04] <exec> 08└─Apparently, you don't have to be funny. You just have to try. If you are brave enough to tell the joke that you want to tell, whether it succeeds or not, people ascribe confidence to you because they see you as efficacious
[15:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:10] <exec> 08└─Well, this is SN. Just sayin'.
[15:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:You're telling me... - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:16] <exec> 08└─If all those "+1 Funny" mods affected my karma, I'd be a karmillionaire.
[15:02:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02Restoring the magic. - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1374 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:25] <exec> 08└─I used to love to go the movies, used to go weekly sometimes several times a week. Now it just doesn't seem worth it anymore. I think I went twice last year and so far this year I have only been once. 3D, 4k, IMAX or whatever other system comes next in the various audio-visual-department isn't going...
[15:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Kick out people on their phones - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:32] <exec> 08└─That's the number one thing that ruins the experience for me. I don't care if you have 7-D movies in "40K" ultragigahigh resolution, the immersiveness of the experience is completely broken when some sphincter can't resist texting his or her buddies, checking facebook, etc. That plus babies and smal...
[15:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Fifth Amendment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 3271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:48] <exec> 08└─It is absolutely ridiculous and you are right, it's so contradictory to both the letter and the spirit of the constitution it's impossible to see how it could have ever been done 'in good faith.' And yet our courts have repeatedly upheld it. The thing you may be mi 30f0 ssing is context. Virtually e...
[15:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Civil cases - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:50] <exec> 08└─Civil cases have a different treatment for a very good reason, which you stated, they are person to person. And said persons might lack the resources necessary to obtain relief from the courts if the bar is set to high. Suppose, as an example, that I loan you a thousand bucks and try to recover the...
[15:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 2504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:01] <exec> 08└─Your point is interesting and it sounds clear-cut, but "save the mother's life over the child's when the pregnancy is life-threatening" is not the simple textbook answer it may seem to be. Consider what the doctor should do if the mother says, "Save my baby rather than me"? Let's say for sake of dis...
[15:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only one 2-word reply matters - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:02] <exec> 08└─Any answer other than "We can't" is meaningless.
[15:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still buying food from China? - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:00] <exec> 08└─are there any links for us plastic wielding cretins to follow, so we can choose our hydrocarbon products from a different manufacturing source? Also, where can I get something I need made in the same country I live in?
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[16:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03and 142c ersjm [3931] (Score:1) 02Why? - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:42] <exec> 08└─If he truly has a patented super-battery, then he should be in the battery business, not the car business. But I'm guessing that's not cool enough for him. He wants to be the guy making snazzy supercars. And so he'll fail again.
[16:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jummama [3969] (Score:3, Funny) 02Great idea - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:43] <exec> 08└─Fisker's effort aims to revive his rivalry with Tesla
[16:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02electbzzzzzt yeowch universe - 06Pulsation Delay Technique Used to Confirm Exoplanet Around an A-type Star - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:53] <exec> 08└─Electric universe guy, here's your big chance! Aren't these A-type stars acting like how you'd modeled pulsars?
[16:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like this? - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:13] <exec> 08└─... to go to work. Since they are bouncers at The Blue Oyster bar, they must remain serious and never cut up.
[16:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Buggy whip manufacturers want their business ba - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:29] <exec> 08└─Yo ff6 u don't get searched before watching the movie. Pizza is not the only option. In fact, you have more snack options available than the theater concession stand. If you go for popcorn, it's very cheap. Candy. Soda. Frozen treats of all kinds. Whatever you find at your local grocer. If you or an...
[16:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Buggy whip manufacturers want their business ba - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:31] <exec> 08└─I was trying to emphasize the "Never even have to leave the house" aspect of it when it came to food, but yes, that's all absolutely true.
[16:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02That's not a movie... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:34] <exec> 08└─But halfway through the song, the film shifts from Hadfield strumming his guitar in the International Space Station to 3-D shots of planets and stars so detailed that I feel as though I'm on the ISS itself, looking through its cupola windows. A huge image of Earth fills my field of view and begins r...
[16:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Organized crime - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:46] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that they are a fucking mess compared to the old school Cosa Nostra folk who kept a low profile.
[16:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm in - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:13] <exec> 08└─hmm im in the same situation as you, but I am exceeding 99.9% (with a few trailing decimals) of present users. I don't want to give up my score/ranking!
[16:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Tis' the season - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:24] <exec> 08└─In the Northern Hemisphere the temperature is dropping, so running your computer for a few extra cycles does cost money, but it also contributes to heating your home. Or, more importantly you do not need to cool your home actively - in the summer I don't want to pay for electrons entering my home th...
[16:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Figures... - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:12] <exec> 08└─Poland is very religious and has some really insane religious laws. Nergal, front man of the polish death metal band Behemoth, ripped up a bible on stage at a show in Poland and was charged with offending religious feeling or some such nonsense. That could have landed him in jail for upwards of two...
[16:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'dve through three words.... - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:07] <exec> 08└─"Not again! Honest!"
[16:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defective by design - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:04] <exec> 08└─Lol you said to draw our own conclusions, maybe you missed the "them" below the hand?
[16:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No surprise to me - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:10] <exec> 08└─Classical europeans can lose the ability to properly or easily digest lactose upon adulthood, if drinking milk (perhaps from a cow) beyond their infancy was not commonplace. Many asians lack the ability to do so via genetics tuned for a different diet, and rapidly lose the capability to do so after...
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[17:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Great idea - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:48] <exec> 08└─Great, so after Regular/Plus/Premium/Diesel, we'll get car chargers with AC vs DC options... I'm sure the price will be 10 cents off and people will stand there for 5 minutes mumbling about whether they should try the other, against the recommendation of the manufacturer.
[17:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:50] <exec> 08└─The relaunch comes after a high-profile bankruptcy by Fisker Automotive, which received $192 million in US government loans and left $139 million of that unpaid.
[17:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical arrogance - 06Pulsation Delay Technique Used to Confirm Exoplanet Around an A-type Star - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:58] <exec> 08└─> A-type stars are bigger and hotter than most stars (...) and tend to be noisy, changing brightness at regular intervals. Actually, it's mostly reality-stars which tend to fit the definition, while A-listers are more careful to avoid pissing off too many people.
[17:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:17] <exec> 08└─You just described the average USAian.
[17:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:19] <exec> 08└─"Symmetry" is also linked to perceptions of beauty, probably because it is also a visible signal of good health and good condition (both current and developmental).
[17:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like this? - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:25] <exec> 08└─Wait, I need to know the punch line before I mod you up.
[17:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Buggy whip manufacturers want their business ba - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:43] <exec> 08└─If you don't go to the theater, you are negatively affecting the reproductive opportunities for bed bugs.
[17:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Kick out people on their phones - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:45] <exec> 08└─Problem is that most people are not so considerate of others. I remember when we had to leave The Lion King. It is also a realistic possibility that during the age of small kids, you just might not get to the theater as often. I didn't. But they get old enough that they can go, and they can enjoy th...
[17:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not a movie... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:48] <exec> 08└─Yes it was a demo. To incite professionals to take those technologies and use them. The current problem with movies is that the "creditable version of, say, Lord of the Rings or Spiderman" runs straight into the 9-figures range. If you shell out that much cash, you want a return (John Carter, anyone...
[17:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not a movie... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:50] <exec> 08└─There are some engaging stories. But more and more I find movies to be predictable. Same formulas used for dozens, sometimes hundreds, of years. Sci Fi used to have novel ideas. Or novel retellings of old ideas. But even sci fi is getting boring -- mostly. There are still a few that are fresh, enter...
[17:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Organized crime - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:04] <exec> 08└─The cops don't need to keep a low profile, because you pay your protection tax over the table.
[17:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm in - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:33] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and switch. Unlike with SETI, you'll actually be doing something good which provides tangible and useful results.
[17:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Lidl bastards - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 1894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:27] <exec> 08└─Not the same thing, just similar. Here's a proposal, which should also be extensible into the brave new future of assigned females transitioning to live as men (this is already happening but MRAs are too dipshit dumbtarded ignument except when they find one having buyer's remorse about transition on...
[17:04:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:42] <exec> 08└─that's the two words, and I have two for you in reply: "no way" all we have is their smiling faces and a bunch of 'do no evil' bullshit non-promises. why would anyone believe them? there is a concept of a gag order. that, alone, means you can't trust anyone to reveal the reality of what the gov is a...
[17:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:51] <exec> 08└─its the placing of trust in the bullshit artists
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[18:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great idea - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:58] <exec> 08└─My car already plays AC/DC all the time so I welcome this rivalry.
[18:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:59] <exec> 08└─Fisker ain't done 'till that elephant can't run?
[18:02:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:01] <exec> 08└─The relaunch comes after a high-profile bankruptcy by Fisker Automotive, which received $192 million in US government loans and left $139 million of that unpaid.
[18:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:03] <exec> 08└─Not only that, we also don't hear about how: The government intended to lose money because if they only invested in "safe" tech startups, then they wouldn't be doing anything to advance the market, just replacing banks. The renewable energy fund that last money on Fisker and Solyndra is actually abo...
[18:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:06] <exec> 08└─Why is it that government money is always mentioned in these stories about alternative energy? Well, we all know why. But, it's especially ironic considering that loan guarantee program earned a $5 billion dollar profit. [bloomberg.com]
[18:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:08] <exec> 08└─> Well, we all know why. Because a shallow and cynical narrative is soothing like a warm blanket for the lazy-minded?
[18:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:good to know - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:29] <exec> 08└─Being funny the wrong way also gets you laid sometimes. Off, for example.
[18:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore (5416) 4990 (Score:2) 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:38] <exec> 08└─Now, there's no need to fling turds.
[18:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Like this? - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:46] <exec> 08└─Wait, I need to know the punch line before I mod you up. It wasn't a joke, he was actually describing his weekend.
[18:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like this? - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:48] <exec> 08└─Ethanol: Two niggers, a wop, and a jew die and go to hell... Boss: I don't wanna hear the punch line, get back to work. Ethanol: That was the punchline.
[18:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02jews an yakuza... dont get why? - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:27] <exec> 08└─a better question is why the civilian population is so hated by those who serve it. the thing with a true crime org is that you can not talk back to any degree at all. you need a higher power to set you free eventually. the thing with the jews is, that when the legitimate - so to speak - power is we...
[18:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03evil_aaronm [5747] (Score:1) 02Re:Fifth Amendment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:32] <exec> 08└─Which I've always thought ridiculous to the point of being retarded. Analogy: If I shoot someone, can I blame the bullet for their injuries? Of course not. So how can the property be the defendant?
[18:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Answer: critical mass of ppl affected - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:37] <exec> 08└─Of course it is comically, blatantly against the 5th Amendment. The reason it had persisted up until now is the same reason unjust laws always persist: they do until they have screwed over a critical mass of people. It has been so abused now that it is no longer some exceptional law that is being us...
[18:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Federal Government: The Tip of The Iceberg - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:40] <exec> 08└─While it's true that the Federal government has a poor track record WRT civil forfeiture, state and local governments are mostly just as bad, and some are worse. The Institute For Justice's Policing For Profit [ij.org] report details a range of factors for the Federal government and the several stat...
[18:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm in - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:02] <exec> 08└─New SETI code: with open("/dev/zero") as oracle: while not int(oracle): pass else: print("ALIENS FOUND!")
[18:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Contribution leads to reward? - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:07] <exec> 08└─Wow! That's the best apples and oranges argument I think I've ever seen. You get the inaugural Fruity - the highly respected and just created award for taking someone's legitimate question that others are curious about... and shitting all over it with a nonsense comparison! We'll even award the T.P....
[18:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:15] <exec> 08└─If the Hippocratic Oath conflicted with their religion they probably shouldn't have sworn to uphold it.
[18:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:17] <exec> 08└─> In this Brave New World, people feel entitled to service, and heaven help you if you inform them you aren’t their slave. You might have missed the point where European doctors tend to get their education for free, or very cheap, in exchange for a certain number of service obligations. "Sure I'll...
[18:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:29] <exec> 08└─They took an oath to always help their patients. The embryo isn't their patient.
[18:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:How Much Stupidity Can Cynicism Excuse? - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:03] <exec> 08└─In the case of Google protecting their/my data, it's a matter of their interests aligning with mine.
[18:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Even Close - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:28] <exec> 08└─I said I lived in a small town, but it's how they vote in the big city as well.
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[19:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Inspired by challenger disaster - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:46] <exec> 08└─The description of the test reminded me of this recreation of the challenger disaster [youtube.com] I saw recently.
[19:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:47] <exec> 08└─I really wonder if Jeff Bezos actually considers the whole Blue Origin program his ? The idea that a single individual could be responsible for a project that large and technical is ludicrous. I guess it would depend on just big of a megalomaniac he is. I've not read up much on him so I don't really...
[19:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:49] <exec> 08└─I'm always impressed at how polished the Blue Origin launches and landings are compared to SpaceX, where you just know your are likely to see wreckage and ruin at every turn. Sure its a different system with a more limited capability but it always seems to come off looking like they practiced it eve...
[19:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:12] <exec> 08└─Because government is bad bad bad bad and cannot do anything right. Only the markets can do the VC job, get a positive return on investment, and only the markets can spur research and innovation. Nothing good ever comes out of the government oppressively expanding beyond its 18th-century definition....
[19:02:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 893 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:36] <exec> 08└─This just in: People are morons. They also tend to see you as more competent if you possess any of a long list of other attributes: - Greater height (relative to any given local norm) - Lighter skin tone (relative to any given local norm) - Lower visible fatty tissue (within a certain range) - Speec...
[19:02:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:People are morons - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:38] <exec> 08└─Bah, you all sound like a bunch of short, fat people, with no sense of humour.
[19:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Has anyone really held this opinion? - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:54] <exec> 08└─Humor is often viewed as superfluous or ancillary behavior and hasn't been thought of as something that affects relationships
[19:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buggy whip manufacturers want their business ba - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:12] <exec> 08└─You don't get searched before watching the movie.
[19:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Kick out people on their phones - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:16] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, no doubt. There was a period of years when I didn't go to movies, restaurants, etc, because it just never turned out well. It's one of the prices of admission to parenthood, imo.
[19:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not a movie... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:21] <exec> 08└─Or somebody starts a show with a five-season plan then gets cancelled halfway through the first season :P (No, I'm not just referring to Firefly. Try searching up a list of all the shows Fox has cancelled in the last decade.)
[19:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"jews'' - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:36] <exec> 08└─Did you see "yakuza" and think "Jewish skullcap"?? Big hint: The Yakuza is Japan's version of the Mafia. Lately, you have gotten a whole bunch of Disagree, and Troll, and Flamebait mods. [soylentnews.org] I'm thinking that that is because you are a nitwit. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Moving about is hard on the PC lab - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:22] <exec> 08└─The recent moving I've been doing has been hard on my PC lab. I've been running on my laptop 24/7 but it lacks a GPU and that makes it really slow points wise, but I am glad to contribute in the long term and it is good to see more and more people join in. We were a fairly static bunch of folks for...
[19:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:"trust us" - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:05:27] <exec> 08└─So dear Google, either implement end-to-end encryption on a 100% free+libre software stack, or shut the fuck up.
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[20:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hmm - 06'World Robot Summit' Coming to Japan in 2020 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:56] <exec> 08└─Is it 200X yet?
[20:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hmm - 06'World Robot Summit' Coming to Japan in 2020 - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:57] <exec> 08└─20X6
[20:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:08] <exec> 08└─I have yet to hear Blue Origin spin a giant fireball as an "incident", a "RUD" or "If things are not failing, you're not innovating enough". BUT, they also need to get to LEO, GEO and beyond, before we can fairly compare their shiny toys' reliability.
[20:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, Blue Origin had fireball incidents? I went looking but couldn't find any.
[20:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:12] <exec> 08└─That would be why I have yet to hear it. And I don't expect that they will when it finally happens. They have a more subdued attitude. Less flashy, or more precisely less flash-bangy. Might also be because they're trailing.
[20:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Foobar Bazbot [37] (Score:3, Interesting) 02"to and from suborbital space" - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:14] <exec> 08└─New Shepard [space.com] consists of a rocket and a capsule, both of which are reusable. Blue Origin is developing the duo to fly people and scientific experiments to and from suborbital space.
[20:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02sample text - 06Molecular Machines Win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:22] <exec> 08└─DNA origami [wikipedia.org] is pretty interesting. Synthetic molecular motor [wikipedia.org] Single molecule electric motor [wikipedia.org] Biological computing [wikipedia.org] In other news, the Colombian President got a Nobel Peace Prize for a peace deal that was rejected by half his country.
[20:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:40] <exec> 08└─Because typically when the government handouts handfuls of cash to business, it's seen as corruption regardless as to whether it is the alternative or fossil fuel companies. But instead of wanting to end that type of crony capitalism, there is always some genius who figures their pet cause should de...
[20:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:41] <exec> 08└─Well if you default, that's sort of bad for the average tax payer, no? If Fisker is going after more federal funds, I'm writing my congressman. On the other hand if you payback those federal loans, even if slower than expected, I'm fine with that? There is also a big difference between a LOAN and a...
[20:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Journal Titles - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:23] <exec> 08└─My colleagues frequently reject my suggestions for humourous or punny research paper titles. Apparently research papers are meant to be purely academic devices with a minimal amount of simple words that could potentially catch the eye of a stray observer.
[20:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Restoring the magic. - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:36] <exec> 08└─The last movie I saw in a theater was The Martian. It was great, except for that silly scene at the beginning about a storm on Mars, since that's impossible. Anyway, what was great was the other theater-goers: there weren't any! I think there might have been two other people in the theater actually,...
[20:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not a movie... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:52] <exec> 08└─Fortunately Netflix is investing in more and more episodic productions, and sometimes not even requiring a pilot episode first. A very good novel could be told in a single season, or mini series. But not with the detailed richness that B5 had. Who knows we may yet see a great multi season novel that...
[20:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not a movie... - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:53] <exec> 08└─It cannot be done. Sometimes, you get lucky, like with Game of Thrones, where it's both really popular so it doesn't get cancelled early, and the people running it have enough integrity to end it when it needs to be ended instead of letting it jump the shark. But most of the time, this doesn't happe...
[20:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Even the subject line doesn't make sense - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:55] <exec> 08└─Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater? It's like saying Restoring the Allure of the Outhouse. Or the horse and buggy. Or surgery without anesthetics. Or toilet paper prior to Scott Tissue's 1935 introduction of the first splinter-free toilet paper. It's done. It's time has come and gone. Like dr...
[20:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02yazuka were the police - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:13] <exec> 08└─My understanding is: the Yakuza basically were the police before they had police. The individual groups kept a lot of their code from those days when they were told to disband, and switched to operating illegally. I guess the high value of loyalty and tradition in their culture was probably a factor...
[20:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''our courts have repeatedly upheld it'' - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:18] <exec> 08└─Until Reactionary judges start dying (by whatever mechanism, natural or otherwise), I don't see things changing for the better. ...and "better" presupposes that it will be non-Reactionary judges who will succeed them. Now, just imagine what kinds of judges a Trump administration would nominate. ...a...
[20:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comment is too generic - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:23] <exec> 08└─Can you point to a specific case that illustrates the deficiency you claim? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rosanne.Rosannadanna moment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:25] <exec> 08└─Nevermind. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Federal Government: The Tip of The Iceberg - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:31] <exec> 08└─They also use it to confiscate assets so that somebody can't hire a lawyer to defend himself against frivolous charges.
[20:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Seems a tad Late - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:33] <exec> 08└─Beginning Jan. 1, 2017, police departments in California will be largely prohibited from transferring seized property to federal agencies in order to sidestep state conviction requirements.
[20:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score:2) 02Did somebody hack the list? - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:09] <exec> 08└─What I see at the SoylentNews.org team page [stanford.edu] is different from what is quoted in TFA. Is there a different list I'm not aware of? Whichever is correct, my thanks to everyone who is contributing.
[20:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:''The national socialist government'' - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:05:30] <exec> 08└─NSDAP banned all unions despite having itself originated as one; PiS likewise dislikes all unions not affiliated with it. And this is not even endemic to national socialism: red socialists (ie, communists) did the same to unions they didn't control.
[20:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Figures... - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:05] <exec> 08└─Poland is very religious and has some really insane religious laws.
[20:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No surprise to me - 06Chinese Clinical Trial Data is 80% Fabricated - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─Hmmm - mebbe I have something to learn. Like, how common is it to lose tolerance for lactose after infancy? And, how soon after infancy? In my own (limited) experience, it's a small percentage of people who can't drink milk. My family and aquantances are mostly European, with Black and Native Americ...
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[21:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kunasou [4148] (Score:2) 02Will there be an adult section? - 06'World Robot Summit' Coming to Japan in 2020 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:38] <exec> 08└─I hope so, we already know the large expertise the Japanese have dealing with those things.
[21:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Will there be an adult section? - 06'World Robot Summit' Coming to Japan in 2020 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:40] <exec> 08└─The Tantalizing Twenty Twenty (Two Thousand Twenty) Tokyo Titillating Tactile Tentacle Technology ?
[21:01:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Foobar Bazbot [37] 02"to and from suborbital space" - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:53] <exec> 08└─New Shepard [space.com] consists of a rocket and a capsule, both of which are reusable. Blue Origin is developing the duo to fly people and scientific experiments to and from suborbital space.
[21:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Frojack logic! - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:19] <exec> 08└─> If Fisker is going after more federal funds, I'm writing my congressman. No you aren't. You are just another internet tough guy, all talk no action. > There is also a big difference between a LOAN and a Research GRANT. Grants aren't often expected to be repaid. If the government expects to get so...
[21:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:02:21] <exec> 08└─Further, government research tends to be available to everyone. To see people laud a government handout to a millionaire with the only return being playthings for the rich is the definition of limousine liberal. But hey, look at that branding.
[21:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Let's See... - 06 2000 Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 2553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:31] <exec> 08└─During Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, at the start of the huge battle between man, Aragorn's ghosts, and the trolls, some jerk's phone rang about three rows behind, and he answered. And yapped throughout the entire battle scene. And tried to talk over the movie. Before seeing Pacific Rim...
[21:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Fifth Amendment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:55] <exec> 08└─So they can stop me in the street and take the $500 in my pocket exactly the way a street mugger would...
[21:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Fifth Amendment - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:57] <exec> 08└─In other words, the cops want to be crooks so they employ sophistry and make sure the judicial branch gets a big enough cut to not rumble the game.
[21:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Federal Government: The Tip of The Iceberg - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:07] <exec> 08└─But, but, Gideon! [wikipedia.org] Oh, wait that's just for criminal cases. Are you trying to say that, as a defendant, you can have all the justice you can afford? You must hate America! It's your (and people like you) fault that the terrorists are flooding our shores. We need law and order! We need...
[21:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems a tad Late - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:10] <exec> 08└─Better late than never, IMHO. Just sayin'.
[21:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 1769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:29] <exec> 08└─Elective abortion is a healthcare right. Sorry if you don't agree, that doesn't change this fact. Roe vs. Wade is one of the best SCOTUS decisions ever made. Go read it, we'll wait. The crux is that until the fetus, with modern medical support, would be likely to survive out of the womb the owner of...
[21:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another example - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:40] <exec> 08└─Its another example of "doing evil is human, so is doing good." Any organization of sufficient size will eventually do something evil because its made up of people. If you are so absolutist that you demand perfection, all you'll get is failure.
[21:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Figures... - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:43] <exec> 08└─Also, good read, http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] A comprehensive global study of abortion has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not, suggesting that outlawing the procedure does little to deter women...
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02DaVinci is far from a great example - DMCA abuse - 06Robotic Surgery Tech Provides Users With a Sense of Touch - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:48] <exec> 08└─For those unaware, DaVinci makes surgical robots. Most operations use a camera and 3-4 surgical instruments on articulating arms. The camera is binocular, so the surgeon actually gets 3D vision. The operations are minimally invasive; even less so than laparoscopy. The instruments have "wrists" so th...
[21:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''no cameras [...] in the booth with you'' - 065 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:47] <exec> 08└─1. Take selfie of ballot marked as interested party would like. 2. Spoil ballot. 3. Vote as one would like. 4. Profit!
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[22:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:32] <exec> 08└─The lights are on all the time, so judge their claims of how visible they are in daylight based on what you see, or don't. Plus look at the picture with the kids taken on a professional camera with a professional photographer for the best case claim of what they look like. 18 of the panels don't wor...
[22:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 2221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:55] <exec> 08└─Blue Origin was founded almost two years before SpaceX was. In that time, SpaceX has: Developed a two-stage light lift orbital rocket and a two-stage medium-lift rocket Developed four engine families, one having four main iterations in both atmospheric and vacuum versions Developed an orbital spacec...
[22:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:sample text - 06Molecular Machines Win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:04] <exec> 08└─The topic reminds me of this interesting paper about bacterial "lobster traps": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[22:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Electric Drop In - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:26] <exec> 08└─He should focus on drop in electric replacement for light trucks. Be easy to install a toolbox like battery on a truck bed. Get electric motors with different bolt patterns to attach to the tranny. Hardest part would be ecu replacement/compatibility.
[22:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:"jews'' - 06Conviction Required: California's Asset Forfeiture Reform Law Closes Federal Loophole - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:54] <exec> 08└─wtf, can't u read? the op said he would trust the yakuza more, tha measn he wants other owners. the people say the kings and and presidents are shit, they want other owners, and guess who these other owners are... so wtf would happen if you would answer my question instead of deliberately not unders...
[22:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score:1) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:24] <exec> 08└─I have observed that most anti-abortionists fight tooth and nail for the unborn fetus, but once it is out of the womb, fuck it. I only respect anti-abortionists that actually walk-the-walk and adopt all those unwanted children and work hard to find homes for every unwanted child born. The funny thin...
[22:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Roe vs. Wade as a decision - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:35] <exec> 08└─Even if you happen to agree with the emotion behind that decision, and think that the mother should have all control (not the living child or his father), you ought to admit that the decision is more tortured than the one that expanded the commerce clause. Few decisions can compete with Roe vs. Wade...
[22:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impose their own religious beliefs - 06Polish Gov't Reverses Course on Abortion Ban After 140,000 Women Go on Strike - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:05:37] <exec> 08└─However unfettered access to an abortion from any healthcare provider of your choice is not a right. It seems there is a fair amount of bait and switch between US law and Polish law, when the the only commonality between them is people refusing to perform procedures they find objectionable. Way to d...
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[23:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02I'm OK with that - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:37] <exec> 08└─If those guys want to play a game of 200-ft penis extension comparisons, I'm fine with it. Just remember kids: I you don't prepare everything properly in your haste to launch, it's gonna burn, someone will get hurt, and the healing process will be very public and humiliating. Or so I've been told.
[23:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Talk is cheap - 06Getting People to Mars: Boeing vs. SpaceX - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:38] <exec> 08└─Easy not to have rockets explode when you haven't even launched any.
[23:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two notes about how much these suck - 06Sandpoint Town Square Home to First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:47] <exec> 08└─And these are supposed to go into the actual roads??
[23:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you can see ten year olds successfully launch rockets that don't even raise an eyebrow with the FAA. The engineering requirements increase dramatically the larger you build. Now, it is still possible they have a better review and testing process, in case it hasn't become painfully clear Mr. Mu...
[23:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I wonder - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:12] <exec> 08└─It's not insider info if it's your own plot. Muahahahahahahahahahahah!
[23:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Awesome video and landing - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:16] <exec> 08└─Wow. That YouTube video is cooler than the first SpaceX dragon landing test video. But Blue Origin don't get the nerd fanfare and media coverage quite like their competitors do. Go Blue Origin!
[23:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02max-Q is nowhere near the max forces - 06Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:19] <exec> 08└─Max-Q is nowhere near the max forces. It's the maximum "dynamic pressure" acting on the rocket. i.e. the maximum air pressure. Not to minimize the difficulty in flying thru max-q since it often occurs near the jetstream and your Center-of-Gravity and Center-of-Pressure tend to be at their worst in t...
[23:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:44] <exec> 08└─Because typically when the government handouts handfuls of cash to business, it's seen as corruption regardless as to whether it is the alternative or fossil fuel companies.
[23:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Government Accountability - 06Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:48] <exec> 08└─> Further, government research tends to be available to everyone. That's absolutely not true. Nearly every invention developed under government contract ends up with the ip rights assigned to the contractor, not the public.
[23:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:good to know - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 0 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[23:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Journal Titles - 06People View Funny Co-Workers as Competent and Self-Assured, Study Says - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:34] <exec> 08└─As I explained in my essay "Negative feedback patterns in post-Brzezikian models of frontal cortex activity", the title must be as incomprehensible as possible, so less eyes will give attention to the study, so the author is less likely to be bugged about it by one of his peers and can go on crunchi...
[23:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Sure there is [theoatmeal.com]'' - 06Restoring the Allure of the Movie Theater - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:03:46] <exec> 08└─That's a page with a lot of chintz. ...with the payload split into 2 pieces. http://s3.amazonaws.com [amazonaws.com] http://s3.amazonaws.com [amazonaws.com] ...and to those who create graphics: Tip 1: I...
[23:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:OT: So effin OT, I can hardly believe I'm posti - 06SoylentNews Folders Rocket Past 400 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:15] <exec> 08└─Microsoft aren't 114 years old are they?
[23:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Most likely responses - 06Google Says it Would Have a Two-Word Answer for Feds Seeking Yahoo!-Style Email Backdoor - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:04] <exec> 08└─"How high"
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