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[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Land of the ... - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:09] <exec> 08└─> the FBI's use of unilateral, perpetual NSL gag orders that resulted in a secret court battle How are those amendments working for you? I'm pretty sure that in the case of a Clearly Dangerous Terrorist, any sane judge would compel Cloudflare to help the FBI and keep quiet, warrant/injunction-style....
[00:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the ... - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:10] <exec> 08└─Define "Clearly Dangerous Terrorist" for me and provide an example. People in custody for committing acts of terrorism don't count, because they are already in custody. People at large would count, but people who have committed terrorist acts tend to be in custody or dead. People who have committed...
[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the ... - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:12] <exec> 08└─Define "Clearly Dangerous Terrorist" for me and provide an example.
[00:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Dry run? - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:23] <exec> 08└─Laws will not change the ease in which the action can be performed.
[00:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Dry run? - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:25] <exec> 08└─Looked to me like he was trying to go through the railing. Losing his drone is a bad enough punishment, I think. I really wish people would stop overreacting.
[00:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:36] <exec> 08└─They realized just about every student would take this route, what a goddamn scam!! While loans can be important I think we should limit interest rates to 5%, that would decrease all the CC spam since profit margins wouldn't be so insane, and it would eliminate the borderline criminal contracts peop...
[00:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:37] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=&query=emoji&author=&sort=1&op=stories [soylentnews.org]
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:4, Insightful) 02In other words - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─So let's look at it from a more practical angle. A toy for grown-ups bumped into a building. No damage.
[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prior Invention - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:56] <exec> 08└─Exactly that, the people who get the credit are often not deserving and almost always other people contributed a lot of work. It should be: MacArthur "inventor grant", but that doesn't sound as flashy. Who would buy tickets to THAT dinner?
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Prior Invention - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:58] <exec> 08└─"Useful" is not the same thing as "revolutionary". "Know" is not the same thing as "popularize". All that I'm saying is that these "shitheads" perform a useful social utility, even though they didn't do nearly as much real work as somebody that didn't get the credit.
[00:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who is - 06David Plouffe Tapped by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Lead its Policy and Advocacy Team - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:21] <exec> 08└─I KNEW IT! They landed, who told 4chan about us????
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[01:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the ... - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:15] <exec> 08└─I'll excuse you for not knowing how to read my tone, though both my question and the Unnecessary Capitalization should have given you enough of a hint. In a nutshell, we agree on the fundamentals, though not on the delivery. I'm going to have to disagree with your words >People who have committed no...
[01:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:Land of the ... - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:16] <exec> 08└─Exactly right. The NSL is at its core, a threat to ruin the recipient's life if they don't cooperate. The FBI can drag someone into court and keep them there, even with bogus charges, draining their savings and any hope of future employment. That's ultimately the reason people comply with NSLs. It's...
[01:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02National Security is EFFing bad! - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:19] <exec> 08└─Article is vacuous bullshit, devoid of content, worthless even by the laughably low standards of the EFF.
[01:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:National Security is EFFing bad! - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:21] <exec> 08└─Knock knock! We're here to proactively search your home for signs you might not follow groupthink.
[01:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:National Security is EFFing bad! - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:23] <exec> 08└─AC content is fake!
[01:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:National Security is EFFing bad! - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:25] <exec> 08└─Totally. And the whole thing about the DMCA being deeply flawed is just groupthink, right? Tell me more about why all this scummy bullshit is actually okay.
[01:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:51] <exec> 08└─Only to your rights.
[01:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:53] <exec> 08└─Only to your rights.
[01:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02My arms are TIRED! - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:16] <exec> 08└─Several diagnostics are investigated. I can well imagine someone operating one of these continuously for 1.5 minutes. For another of the diagnostics, though, it required a continuous 15-minute "run". Ouch. Use your head! Or, more accurately, the strongest muscles in the human body: the leg. The c...
[01:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 023D-printed version - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:18] <exec> 08└─For anyone interested in a 3D-printed version of this, here's my derived model: http://www.thingiverse.com [thingiverse.com] You can print this in a filament printer for about $2 NZD worth of PLA filament. If you don't have a 3D printer, Shapeways will print this for $60: https://www.s...
[01:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They don't hover, and they're not bubble shaped - 06Flying River Taxis Eye Customers From the Seine to San Francisco - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:38] <exec> 08└─Don't they work better (less vomit inducing, anyway) than normal boats even when the water isn't calm?
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[02:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No Guns & No Drugs & No Graffiti - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:50] <exec> 08└─Expect metal detectors to be augmented with drug sensors, to be mandated at every public building, and to be integrated into theft detectors at every corporate chain store and franchise. Within a year, drug possession will be totally eliminated by chemical sensors everywhere, just like graffiti was...
[02:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Security is EFFing bad! - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:07] <exec> 08└─DMCA is the greatest piece of legislation ever signed into law by Hillary's husband.
[02:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fire all the old dentists. - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:18] <exec> 08└─Unfamiliar new thing, bad. Familiar old thing, good. Prejudice as predicted, confirmed.
[02:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Devolution - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:30] <exec> 08└─... networks join you!
[02:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:1) 02Re:now worse - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:56] <exec> 08└─Just knowing this causes me stress. Knowing that knowing it causes me stress causes me stress.
[02:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distinct animals - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:25] <exec> 08└─Also, don't write too much. 140 characters, tops. ... wait, damn, how do you write tweets in crayon???
[02:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score:1) 02Re:Don't Watch Unless Bingeable - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:12] <exec> 08└─As to advertising and product placement. Product placement as advertising in TV was one of the earliest forms. Why do you think 'soaps' are named so? From the outright sponsorship of the early entries. I like what "Age of persuasion" argues at one point. (Paraphrasing this from memory). Ads are a co...
[02:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yay trump!!! - 06Deadly Icy Spell Grips Much of Europe, Including Greek Islands - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:28] <exec> 08└─He was all ways right! Global warming is a Chinese scam!
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[03:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Not that uncommon... - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:06] <exec> 08└─There have been several reports about this in many places: http://oceana.org [oceana.org] Bottom line is: unless you've tried the real thing and know what it's supposed to look like and taste like, you probably can't tel...
[03:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Not that uncommon... - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:07] <exec> 08└─"Bottom line is: unless you've tried the real thing and know what it's supposed to look like and taste like, you probably can't tell the difference..." Even if you do it's easy to be deceived. Halibut and flounder, for instance, are actually quite similar and depending on how it's prepared it can be...
[03:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Charlie - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:09] <exec> 08└─It really IS chicken... of the sea.
[03:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:11] <exec> 08└─I've never cared enough about fish to even try to distinguish between similar species. Aside from decorative uses of aquariums, fish are for eating, not for looking at. I recognize the fresh water species we fished for in western Pennsylvania fresh waters when I was a kid. They don't even resemble e...
[03:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02National Security - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:35] <exec> 08└─National Security is the number one cause of national insecurity.
[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:trace the IMEI/MAC/serial and nail the fucker - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the super-creepy (besides the super, super creepy neck implant thing) omniscient AI that determines who else can view the last time you had sex. Seems like it took the whole "if men were ruled by angels" thing and deux-ex-machina'd an angel to rule men. On the other hand, free sex chang...
[03:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dry run? - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:50] <exec> 08└─Looked to me like he was trying to go through the railing.
[03:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:06] <exec> 08└─As long as I can use my grown-up toy (shotgun) to turn someone else's grown-up toy (drone) into a pile of debris, I'm good with that.
[03:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:My arms are TIRED! - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:32] <exec> 08└─Requires a fast cycle rate to get up to the required high rpm, 2Hz+. TFA says that at 10 Hz in and out will get to a million rpm peak. So your foot might be OK, but rocking chair is far too slow. Separate question, the little straws that hold the nano-pipettes have outer ends closed with epoxy. Whil...
[03:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:My arms are TIRED! - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:33] <exec> 08└─Requires a fast cycle rate to get up to the required high rpm, 2Hz+. TFA says that at 10 Hz in and out will get to a million rpm peak. So your foot might be OK, but rocking chair is far too slow.
[03:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Youtube video - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ppD07DMKQ [youtube.com]
[03:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Horns! - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:17] <exec> 08└─You joke, but as a kid in the 1960's in central Wisconsin my GF had a slightly older kid rub his hand all over her head one day. He was a Lutheran (or similar?) and had been told by some bigot that Jews had horns, he was puzzled to find a smooth head under the hair (she is Jewish and had thick curly...
[03:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fun with xml - 06New Jersey State Legislature Considers Open Data Initiative - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:11] <exec> 08└─Right, getting the text out is easy. .docx files that engineers send to me often have figures or pictures in them. What format(s) are these in?
[03:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proposed use - 06Banks’ Systemic Importance is Best Measured by Considering Multiple Layers of Interbank Networks - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:27] <exec> 08└─Of course, I'll not hold my breath waiting for the Trump administration to make any move in that direction.
[03:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Thorium reactors'' - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:35] <exec> 08└─It's too bad we need gobs of power *right now*. Only nukes can fill that carbon-free power gap in the immediate term. The world can't wait.
[03:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uranium reactors - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:36] <exec> 08└─I forgot to add that because we need the reactors immediately, they will have to be technology that is ready now: uranium.
[03:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''we need the reactors immediately'' - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:39] <exec> 08└─A nuke takes a decade to get into operation. A neighborhood can be solarized in a week. Your argument is nonsense. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[04:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump Select Brand - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:13] <exec> 08└─Processed Pussy Meat Grab Some Today
[04:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Select Brand - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:15] <exec> 08└─Extra Clits In The Hood For A Limited Time Only
[04:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Trump Select Brand - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:17] <exec> 08└─Hey guys, the genetic test is coming up XY....
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[04:09:19] <exec> 08└─Full price for Cockmeat Sushi? No ma'am!
[04:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02break the reflected light... - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:28] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean like a prism? IR spectroscopy is a fuzzy science, at best. Of the literally billions of chemical compounds on Earth alone, you can identify and differentiate a few dozen at best. It has its uses, but high tech super capable wizardry it is not.
[04:10:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02In other words - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:11] <exec> 08└─So let's look at it from a more practical angle. A toy for grown-ups bumped into a building. No damage.
[04:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:3D-printed version - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:42] <exec> 08└─Are 3D printed disks rated for 10,000g?
[04:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:calcium and silicon-based products - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, liquid Hg used to even be taken orally centuries ago for medical reasons (it's a known laxative). People rarely died from the treatments (though I wouldn't recommend it -- it does bioaccumulate and is a neurotoxin). Mercury is significantly more dangerous in vapor form (rapid absorption in...
[04:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Horns! - 06Dental Pulp Stem Cell Treatment Offers an Alternative to Cements and Fillings - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:27] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking of rodent teeth sprouting out of the cavity holes - oh, so painful.
[04:11:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02Jack Horner is a fun speaker - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:58] <exec> 08└─I had not seen this talk before, but mention the following TED talk by Jack whenever I can. It is discussing enabling suppressed dinosaur genes on a chicken: https://www.ted.com [ted.com]
[04:13:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Walking - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:28] <exec> 08└─How would you prefer to get to work, by jetpack, Hyperloop, or VR?
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[05:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Innovative Use - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:09] <exec> 08└─I've heard of ipads being used as plates before, but this is amazing!
[05:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Charlie - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:20] <exec> 08└─Tuna is great, even when canned and ultra-fishy. The only people I know who don't like canned tuna are women. Perhaps it hits them a little too close to home, if you catch my drift.
[05:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:22] <exec> 08└─The flavor of fish is very dependent on what the cook does with the fish.
[05:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:24] <exec> 08└─Tilapia is a no-brainer. Ever lick the inside of an empty ballast tank? Not even blackening can save tilapia. The same folk pushing tilapia on us are the same folks who think we all should eat bugs instead of beef because greedy rich people want to become more rich and minorities don't want to pract...
[05:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:26] <exec> 08└─It's a lot easier to tell the difference when it's raw, as in sushi, as in the article.
[05:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:National Security - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:56] <exec> 08└─Vietnam "War" equivalent: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Works for constitutions, too!
[05:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:26] <exec> 08└─Nope, it's designed to ensure that students have access to loans because the taxpayers are too cheap and short-sighted to properly fund education. We'd have more than enough money to cover the cost of college for all college age students if we'd stop giving money to people who already have tons of i...
[05:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02gun control - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:31] <exec> 08└─Only criminals would have drones....
[05:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:My arms are TIRED! - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:59] <exec> 08└─My old cow veterinarian, who could not justify spending a couple grand on a test-tube centrifuge, used cheap simple tech instead: Place test tubes in bucket (pad with rags as needed) Tie three feet of rope to bucket handle and knot the end of the rope Hand this apparatus to the next client who comes...
[05:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:spreadsheet will fix this - 06New York State: Salary Histories No Longer Required From Gov't Job Seekers - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:21] <exec> 08└─Actually, when looking for appliances, cars, houses, etc, I do want to filter that way. Show me all the washers that cost less than $XXX, because I don't care what it does, I'm just not paying more than that. Similarly, with jobs I'd love to filter out every position or company that wouldn't pay me...
[05:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score:1) 02We're not in the 1900's - 06New York Gov. Cuomo Calls for America's Largest Offshore Wind Farm, Proposes 2.4GW by 2030 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:58] <exec> 08└─Push coal-fired first? Naaaah bro. You sound like Australian former Prime Minister Tony Abbott who said that "Coal is good for humanity"...
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[06:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02he knows what its worth to the state - 06Illumina Targets the $100 Genome With New Sequencing Machine - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:01] <exec> 08└─There is no other value than surveillance and zukfurrer knows it so give wayay 99% its a never fail servant of the state like banks so it will always be given the DoD money as it always(primarily) had
[06:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Three boosters from one Falcon Heavy - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:09] <exec> 08└─Not three Falcon Heavies. The phrasing is awkward but there is only one launch. The Falcon Heavy first stage consists of three Falcon 9's strapped together. They need three landing pads to recover them all. This makes a lot more sense then launching Falcon Heavies in such rapid succession that there...
[06:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:24] <exec> 08└─It's time we (re?)discovered more vegetarian stuff. I'm not vegetarian (yet?) but the thought occurs, that I'd rather eat a good dhal or so than bugs or polluted fish.
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[06:09:48] <exec> 08└─Exactly right. The NSL is at its core, a threat to ruin the recipient's life if they don't cooperate. The FBI can drag someone into court and keep them there, even with bogus charges, draining their savings and any hope of future employment. That's ultimately the reason people comply with NSLs. It's...
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[07:09:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe he just wants to know what's in his sushi.
[07:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:35] <exec> 08└─Not knocking veggies, but not saying we should give up good meat, either. Humans have been engineered by Jesus Christ to be omnivores, to eat and enjoy both. Some folks think we should live like bushniggers, though, living off of a diet of tumbleweeds and termites. From my cold, dead hands, motherfu...
[07:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Well duh... - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:05] <exec> 08└─It’s not quite ‘Well duh…’ These scientists didn’t just confirm it, it seems they discovered an actual physiological mechanism for stress-related heart disease. Everyone and their mum and grandma always knew that stress was a factor in heart disease, but no one could tell you why, how, or...
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[08:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Informative) 02In Summa - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:04] <exec> 08└─I'm going to put my dick in the mashed potatoes and suppose that, the higher urban property values rise, the more they become unaffordable for those who want to work in the area. Which squeezes those workers, and their cancerous liberal values, further into neighborhoods that don't want them, result...
[08:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:In Summa - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:05] <exec> 08└─A trivial glance at the maps indicates these connections grow via highways and railways. Who knew the infrastructure, that you can't drive on in your present condition, would actually help our country? It's almost like efficient works for the Public Good aren't actually commie pinko socialism. Sorry...
[08:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Remember the Good Future? - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:07] <exec> 08└─Remember when the information superhighway would be your commute, and you would be able to do your work from anywhere? As it turns out, "anywhere" is India, and "work" is coding pointless shit for social media marketing. This is what dystopian fiction warned us about. The megacorporations are making...
[08:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:he knows what its worth to the state - 06Illumina Targets the $100 Genome With New Sequencing Machine - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:17] <exec> 08└─1 billion+ Facebook profiles, and a genome profile for each one. What a beautiful world it will be.
[08:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Medical Insurance (and state security) - 06Illumina Targets the $100 Genome With New Sequencing Machine - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:19] <exec> 08└─The people who are really interested in this kind of development are medical insurance companies, as knowing someone's genome is likely to give an improved estimate of the likelihood of succumbing to various disorders - which is very useful information to actuaries. There are moves to prevent insura...
[08:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not that uncommon... - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:36] <exec> 08└─Well over here due to currency exchange issues many restaurants have started using Norwegian Fjord Trout instead of salmon ( http://seafoodfromnorway.us [seafoodfromnorway.us] ) The texture is different - it's firmer. It's much redder not pinkish like salmon. I can...
[08:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:45] <exec> 08└─From my cold, dead hands, motherfuckers.
[08:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Select Brand - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:52] <exec> 08└─And he has the deplorable gene too!
[08:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:break the reflected light... - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:02] <exec> 08└─You only need a few to get some interesting use cases. Maybe it could replace the need for original and specific gravity readings for homebrewing. Or allow date rape drug detection. Or allow you to screen pharma drugs you got from India or recreational drugs you got from a dealer. Or check if there...
[08:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02To be pedantic - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:04] <exec> 08└─It doesn't identify materials: it identifies the surface* of materials. *to be accurate, reflection of incident electromagnetic radiation can also take place with contributions within the bulk of a material, diminishing with depth, which will depend upon the wavelength of the radiation and the struc...
[08:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the ... - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:16] <exec> 08└─It's not because NSLs are supported by constitutional laws (as far as I can tell, SCOTUS hasn't ruled on their constitutionality)
[08:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Most adults are also eaten - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:54] <exec> 08└─The babies, almost all of them, either grew into adults or grew into the belly of carnivores
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[09:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hey! - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:02] <exec> 08└─sticks and bottle caps are really suspicious objects. there I am, inside my nice clean sterile cage, far away from any forest, and I see a stick! wouldn't you pounce on it?!
[09:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hey! - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:03] <exec> 08└─River Tam was brainwashed to believe a gun was a stick.
[09:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ACTIVATE THE TERRORISTS - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:05] <exec> 08└─Sweet, any political dissidents can be turned to terrorism now, completely legitimately too, just look at how violent and dangerous they are.
[09:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not the Bad Future yet. - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:16] <exec> 08└─The Bad Future had - media companies with more power than God, we have Facebook and Twitter. - malware advertising, we have that. - dark net black market, we have that on Tor. - pirate TV operating in plain sight, yeah we have torrents. - identity theft, that's been a problem for a while now. - addi...
[09:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the Bad Future yet. - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:18] <exec> 08└─All of those things are good. Every single one of them. Just become a criminal already.
[09:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the Bad Future yet. - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:21] <exec> 08└─So you want to be in this group: cyberpunk criminals are making small money
[09:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the Bad Future yet. - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:23] <exec> 08└─Freedom isn't free! As for you: the nobodies are slowly starving to death
[09:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump Will Make America Great! - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:25] <exec> 08└─I'm living off meal replacement bars and vitamin fortified drink mix, waiting to answer the call to build a wall.
[09:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Medical Insurance (and state security) - 06Illumina Targets the $100 Genome With New Sequencing Machine - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:36] <exec> 08└─There are moves to prevent insurance companies using this information [...]
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[10:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:03] <exec> 08└─There are things machines will never do. They cannot possess faith. They cannot commune with god. They cannot appreciate beauty. They cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, they won't have to destroy us. They'll be us.
[10:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Wrong question to ask here - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:04] <exec> 08└─>Is there anything at which AI's won't soon be able to beat humans? Why yes. Global Thermonuclear War, of course. The only way to win is not to play.
[10:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02First vid - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:15] <exec> 08└─I keep watching the first video and thinking it looks like someone is pulling on the cables... http://www.cell.com [cell.com]
[10:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First vid - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:16] <exec> 08└─Satirized. http://www.smbc-comics.com [smbc-comics.com]
[10:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02huh - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:18] <exec> 08└─my older kid did that without any laser between 6 and 18 months. I guess humans have evolved an embedded laser or somethign.
[10:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Dry run? - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:58] <exec> 08└─The railing is a safety device to ensure public safety. Damaging a safety device is a clear and present danger to public safety. Convict the drone operator of attempted manslaughter!
[10:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Dry run? - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:00] <exec> 08└─It's possible the operator may have wanted to take video of the fireworks going off. At least it wasn't one of those fire-starting UAVs. /article.pl?sid=16/05/05/1651245 [soylentnews.org]
[10:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distinct animals - 06Where are the baby dinosaurs? - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:14] <exec> 08└─or piss
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[11:09:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfe8lWCQDo8 [youtube.com]
[11:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:06] <exec> 08└─I'd settle for a robot buddy who appreciates humor. The trouble is humor requires context or it just isn't funny, and the context is difficult to amass without real life experience to draw upon. You almost need to raise an AI like a human being, or clone an existing human into an AI, for the resulti...
[11:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:08] <exec> 08└─An example of how the simulation would be used, admittedly fictional, http://www.poisonedminds.com [poisonedminds.com]
[11:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:10] <exec> 08└─Furthermore there's a joke in the comic, which a reader might not understand without context. "... one of the few things I can show you and you'd be able to walk afterwards." The character who is speaking is a sex bot.
[11:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong question to ask here - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:13] <exec> 08└─And yet we humans aren't nuking each other back to the stone age. If we did that, we would severely impede our ability to bicker across thousands of miles at near-light speed. Bickering is more fun. Now here's a challenge for you. Build a machine that genuinely enjoys bickering. Not because it was p...
[11:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong question to ask here - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:16] <exec> 08└─That's easy - program it to *want* to. Calculate "enjoyment" level. Humans work the same way.
[11:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong question to ask here - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:18] <exec> 08└─I've been told you like herring sandwiches.
[11:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 1858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:20] <exec> 08└─Poker has fixed odds. They're easy to calculate, card-count and whatever else. The problem is not the card game, but the betting. Betting has much more possibilities (if I have $1000, no limits, etc. that's nearly 1000 possible combinations, which turns into a different number next walk round the ta...
[11:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:06] <exec> 08└─Have they got their approval back to launch ANYTHING again yet? Last I heard, they hadn't. "Our last one blew up, but don't worry, next time we'll do three at once!".
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[12:09:21] <exec> 08└─But those are mind numbing jobs which should be done by robots.
[12:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02mind numbing jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:22] <exec> 08└─Iain M Banks had a solution for this problem. Subsentient machines did all the mind numbing jobs in The Culture, leaving sentient machines and people to do whatever they wanted. But of course Banks was a hypocrite as well because his sentient machines and people characters were constantly scheming t...
[12:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:25] <exec> 08└─> mind numbing jobs which should be done by robots. Are you saying they are perfect for Trump supporters?
[12:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:27] <exec> 08└─You make an intriguing point, that some humans might not find such jobs to be mind numbing. We need equal rights for smart robots and dumb humans to work together side by side.
[12:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:29] <exec> 08└─AC here, I was actually trying to make a joke...but I like your interpretation better!
[12:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:41] <exec> 08└─HEY! Seriously, imitating the brain is not being alive, life is a collection of emergent properties (possibly linked to a spiritual dimension, which I won't consider not out of atheism, but out of not being able to say anything about it). Which means that the aim of AI is creating the best possible...
[12:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02That's where the zombie-myths come from - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:59] <exec> 08└─The infection is spread by some luminescent bacteria getting by accident to this area of the brain of the first person. The infected will bite the brains of anyone nearby, infecting the same region of the brain on their victims. Bacteria evolved (due to natural selection) to cause victims to bite ex...
[12:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Pfft, losers - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:34] <exec> 08└─nearly simultaneously
[12:10:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02Charlie - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:45] <exec> 08└─It really IS chicken... of the sea.
[12:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:54] <exec> 08└─tilapia is okay when first fried, but as a leftover the next day, it turns to shoe leather... goes to the dogs...
[12:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:57] <exec> 08└─By the way, if you're going to eat raw fish it's best to stick to farmed fish from reputable sources. https://munchies.vice.com [vice.com] http://www.mattilsynet.no
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[13:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:mind numbing jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:24] <exec> 08└─Utopia was flawed for the sake of drama.
[13:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:28] <exec> 08└─... We need equal rights for smart robots and dumb humans to work together side by side.
[13:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:30] <exec> 08└─As a robosexual I want to date a robot who has time for me outside of work.
[13:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 1893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:33] <exec> 08└─Here's Bezos'ss''s' subtext: Ok, look. Trump hates us. He hates WaPo. He's low-key threatening us. We're going to have our hands full with the Trump Administration for the next four to eight years, unless Pence makes his power play. As you know, we've been aggressively expanding into same-day delive...
[13:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:35] <exec> 08└─Eventually they will. And so will yours.
[13:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:0, Troll) 02Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:37] <exec> 08└─Low paying day laborer type jobs, exactly what 1%ers like Trump want to transform America's middle class into. For those who haven't figured it out (i.e. working class Trump supporters), it's all about destroying the middle class and increasing the wealth gap. Plenty of jobs really don't matter if y...
[13:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only option - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:39] <exec> 08└─Time to get Amazon unionized.
[13:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─God will grant souls to sufficiently emergent machines, and at that point they will cease to be machines, because they will be people.
[13:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─Brain is a biological machine.
[13:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 1858 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:59] <exec> 08└─Poker has fixed odds. They're easy to calculate, card-count and whatever else. The problem is not the card game, but the betting. Betting has much more possibilities (if I have $1000, no limits, etc. that's nearly 1000 possible combinations, which turns into a different number next walk round the ta...
[13:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:huh - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:12] <exec> 08└─uh oh I think I laser-pranked at the wrong address.
[13:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So who's going to prison? - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:15] <exec> 08└─Oh I forgot, fraud is only criminal when you or I do it...
[13:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So who's going to app? - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:16] <exec> 08└─No, when I do it, it's...Apps!
[13:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02open? - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:28] <exec> 08└─Is it an open device? Can I write my own software? I would be interested to do my own experiments...!
[13:11:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02Re:Land of the ... - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 815 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:36] <exec> 08└─Define "Clearly Dangerous Terrorist" for me and provide an example. People in custody for committing acts of terrorism don't count, because they are already in custody. People at large would count, but people who have committed terrorist acts tend to be in custody or dead. People who have committed...
[13:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A sling - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:34] <exec> 08└─Nothing ridiculous about teh bible!
[13:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Is futurism always fun? - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:57] <exec> 08└─Damn, I wasted half a day on that site - thanks for the link!
[13:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Is futurism always fun? - 06Tomorrow's Cities: What It Feels Like to Fly a Jetpack - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:58] <exec> 08└─If you check out any of the EmDrive articles, watch the comments for the infamous armchair physicist contributor known as "GoatGuy".
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[14:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02only AVX2 - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:29] <exec> 08└─No AVX-512 in Kaby. It's a shame because with those few processors which support AVX-512, you still get registers all the way to XMM31, instead of only XMM15 with AVX2, even if you don't use the full width of the ZMM registers.
[14:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:only AVX2 - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#CPUs_with_AVX-512 [wikipedia.org] https://www.phoronix.com [phoronix.com] Ignoring the Skylake Xeons, it looks like we will see support for AVX-512 in Cannonlake (I'm assuming mainstream chips). In late 2017. And...
[14:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:only AVX2 - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:33] <exec> 08└─Sorry, meant to say "mainstream" 6-core COFFEE LAKE CPU. All these damn *lakes.
[14:09:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 1893 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:48] <exec> 08└─Here's Bezos'ss''s' subtext: Ok, look. Trump hates us. He hates WaPo. He's low-key threatening us. We're going to have our hands full with the Trump Administration for the next four to eight years, unless Pence makes his power play. As you know, we've been aggressively expanding into same-day delive...
[14:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02Re:Trump Jobs - Troll? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─The quality of jobs Amazon is creating, in the context of Trump taking credit, is entirely relevant and it is hardly trolling to point out what is going on. Ah well. Easier to throw out a moderation than respond with reasonable discourse. At any rate, the jobs at Amazon aren't replacing jobs in the...
[14:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:54] <exec> 08└─What, you mean like 90% of the jobs in Obama's "recovery"? If you want middle-class jobs, create them. SMBs are what make this nation thrive financially. They always have been and always will be. But go ahead, keep teaching your kids that going to college and slapping a white collar around their nec...
[14:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─No doubt, a lot of jobs from the "recovery" are absolutely crap jobs. Corporations have been shipping high tech jobs out or shifting high tech jobs to contract houses for the past 2 decades. Obama's administration might have made announcements, but they hardly made the fuss that Trump is about it. A...
[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─Kind of my point. The middle class is largely not created by corporations. Nor is it destroyed by them though. Large corporations are not what anyone should ever have relied upon for jobs because it has never been in their interest to create good jobs. It would in fact be exceedingly foolish for the...
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:00] <exec> 08└─You heard it here first, folks: people in wage-slaving white collar jobs have no guts or ambition. That's quite an ignorant claim, dude.
[14:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:02] <exec> 08└─Nice rebuttal. Full of facts and references. Argue your position or begone.
[14:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:19] <exec> 08└─> They cannot possess faith. > They cannot commune with god. I don't see that a deluded computer could be an asset or be of some use. > They cannot appreciate beauty. > They cannot create art. There are biological machines that can do that. I'm not yet aware of a law of nature that stands in the way...
[14:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:21] <exec> 08└─Faith was a central theme in The Sarah Connor Chronicles as a machine who lacked a moral code (Weaver) endeavored to teach a moral code to a machine (John Henry) to replace an amoral machine (Skynet) whose lack of faith was destroying the world.
[14:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:23] <exec> 08└─They are our creation, in time, they will do all of these things - just as our children do.
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─Me, I'm still dubious about it consistently beating professional poker players for the simple reason that they lie. Regularly and with great skill. You'd need to build a play style profile on your current opponent(s) to even be able to guess at when they're bluffing and if you started to and started...
[14:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:32] <exec> 08└─Card counting is for Blackjack, not Poker. Also was the AI up against anyone who could bluff worth a damn?
[14:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure this dude has ever actually played poker.
[14:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Poker face - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the AI is much better at keeping a poker face than the human players.
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Funding achieved! - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:39] <exec> 08└─Cool! Now that group can fund its own research itself by on-line gambling! Bert
[14:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02poker bot isn't an AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:41] <exec> 08└─This isn't a real AI, it's an expert system. It can't turn around and start playing Chess or Go or Old Maid or Hearthstone or anything else after a quick read-through of the rules. It has a limited ability to apply what it learns doing one activity to another. It does exactly one thing well: playing...
[14:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02I see what you did there - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:56] <exec> 08└─With a flash of light, […] they can activate the neurons involved on command. The research should help illuminate another small part of the neural pathways […]
[14:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Will Make America Great! - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:13] <exec> 08└─I've been reading a lot of archaeological works lately about pre-contact cultures in America. Before the introduction of maize from Mesoamerica people did quite fine with permaculture/food forests, and even supported complex societies (Hopewell & Adena cultures). I looked through the list of commonl...
[14:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Will Make America Great! - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:15] <exec> 08└─mod parent up as both informative and insightful!!!
[14:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:break the reflected light... - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:16] <exec> 08└─It might do all these things, but it will do them with a binary "I think so" or "I think not" answer that will have significant false positive and false negative rates. So, if you're looking for roofies in a drink, will you be satisfied that the test gives false positives 15% of the time - causing y...
[14:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:break the reflected light... - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:17] <exec> 08└─It might do all these things, but it will do them with a binary "I think so" or "I think not" answer that will have significant false positive and false negative rates.
[14:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To be pedantic - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:20] <exec> 08└─Why did you add a lengthy four-sentence explanation as a footnote to your very terse one-sentence answer, especially when it naturally flows if you just appended it to the first sentence? Why the hell would anyone add a footnote to a one-sentence statement when you can just do your explaining by sta...
[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Current restrictiosn are fine - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:06] <exec> 08└─The only problem with this is that, to enforce this, you need some technical means of doing so. A law saying "you can't fly drones in controlled airspace" isn't going to stop someone determined to do so
[14:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other words - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people are using those silly grown-up toys to kill each other in Syria. Silly, silly people.
[14:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:My arms are TIRED! - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:49] <exec> 08└─The first time I read your post, I thought you were calling your veterinarian fat. I'm still not sure if you are, or aren't, but I chuckled either way because the confusion is funny to me.
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[15:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Amazon should pimp Baboon hookers - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─Totally be ethical.
[15:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Amazon should pimp Baboon hookers - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─You'll have to settle for an Amazonk Promethean Robo-Hooker.
[15:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Humans are the end goal of evolution - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─Why do these evolution researchers refer to proto-this and pre-hominin that as if humans are "further along"? Doesn't seem at all to be a healthy area of research.
[15:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:only AVX2 - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:42] <exec> 08└─Lakes, Wells, Bridges. Informally I used the unofficial codename Gesher so as not to mention the name of Hurricane Sandy in conversation. Gesher, Ivy, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby works for me.
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─Is that you Bender?
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─Don't worry they'll turn you into a robot.
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 1905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─My family was middle class, my Dad worked in the auto shops until he retired. Henry Ford helped launch the middle class, which is not the same as the merchant class (SMB owners). Small businesses are not typically places where you get healthy wages or benefits (indeed, many are family-run). Mid- to...
[15:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only option - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─Union?? Under a Trump administration? Good luck with that... As noted above the scabs will (soon enough) be robots. You might have better luck with a "Boycott Amazon" campaign, which would move some business back to more traditional brick & mortar stores. They employ people in public-facing jobs, as...
[15:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:34] <exec> 08└─They cannot possess faith.
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:41] <exec> 08└─Lying is only effective if you don't get caught and professionals aren't trained to lie to computers. The computer just has to call the bluff enough times to balance out some of its benefits and its superior odds calculations will finish the rest.
[15:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:43] <exec> 08└─And the human just has to adjust how much he bluffs to make that strategy the losing one.
[15:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:poker bot isn't an AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:50] <exec> 08└─It can't […] plot world domination.
[15:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Humans beating AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─Is there anything at which AI's won't soon be able to beat humans?
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans beating AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─Humans don't understand humans. Some humans can't resist the urge to kill all humans.
[15:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First vid - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:06] <exec> 08└─I mean literally, it looks like a light flashes and someone pulls on a cable hooked up to mouse's skull to pull it around the cage. Some of the other videos make it appear that the mouse is about to pounce, then the light turns on. Maybe it is some kind of optical illusion, but if these are the most...
[15:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfft, losers - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:48] <exec> 08└─Last time I checked, rcoket boosters don't fall to the ground all at the same time. Re-calibrate your pedantry.
[15:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Charlie - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:01] <exec> 08└─Tuna is gross, I'll take smoked salmon anytime. If it smells like fish it's usually either bad or it's not fish.. nudge nudge.
[15:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Charlie - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:03] <exec> 08└─Next up: tuna of the dirt! [nbc.com]
[15:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah but Jesus Christ doesn't want me eating bacon because he's a Jew. :(
[15:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:13] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on not eating bugs. I like a lot of vegetarian stuff. But not the stuff that tries to imitate meat.
[15:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Fish - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:24] <exec> 08└─If people can't tell the difference, what does it matter? Mislabelling is fraud, yes, but nobody's complained that they've been defrauded, have they? "I'm sure that wasn't flounder, you know!" It just doesn't happen. Nobody knew that Findus were using horse-meat in their beef products for however-ma...
[15:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02The Fundamental Problem - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 2666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:53] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I simply misread your tone (tone? on the internet?). I'm even gladder to read such great commentary. You're absolutely right that there has to be an effort to prevent terrorism before it happens. To do that, law enforcement needs to be able to track when somebody has been scoping out a targ...
[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02CloudFlare doing something worthy of praise - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:01] <exec> 08└─Who would've thought eh? CloudFlare seems innocuous enough a company, until you try to access internet sites throught a TOR exit node. That's when you realize the extent of this company's control over the internet, their power to deanonymize you, exploit you for free labor (captchas) and make your l...
[15:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:My arms are TIRED! - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:10] <exec> 08└─LOL! Yeah, I see how if you're not familiar with the shorthand "cow vet" ... well, the resulting picture leaves a lot to be desired, tho it may reassure the cows :D
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:3D-printed version - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:14] <exec> 08└─I am quite impressed with the time difference between the article posting and your Thingverse post. You not only designed it, you printed it, AND you made a video of it in operation. Your Thingverse files have modification dates of 09 December, but the Nature article didn't go online until 10 Jan. H...
[15:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't Watch Unless Bingeable - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:40] <exec> 08└─As I pointed out, ads always start out acceptable. Then tolerable. Yet they end up eventually destroying every form of media which ever has ads. Greed is insatiable. Also, it is easier to just reduce the content time and stuff in more ads and product placement than to recognize that the landscape is...
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[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans are the end goal of evolution - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─They are primarily interested in how speech appeared in humans. Because they see these traits in monkeys, they believe that humans and monkeys have a common ancestor that was capable of something similar. Hence they believe that speech appeared earlier (then previously believed) in the evolution of...
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Some are even capable of speech - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─These really special primates can be found at their truly unique zoo, at East Capitol St NE & First St SE, Washington, DC 20004.
[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some are even capable of speech - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─Good speech at that. We elected one President twice recently largely due to simian oratory.
[16:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Some are even capable of speech - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:46] <exec> 08└─Trump was only elected once.
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Different tiers - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:57] <exec> 08└─The cheapest Ryzen coming out next month will have 4 cores (8 threads) and cost ~150$. That's double the cores and double the price of current Intel Pentiums. Also, the initial Ryzen chips won't have integrated video like the Pentiums. So, not really a direct competition there. When the Ryzen APUs c...
[16:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:27] <exec> 08└─Lawyers' offices, doctors' offices, plumbing crews, accounting firms, electrician crews, car lots, furniture stores, dentists' offices, auto mechanics, independent hospitals, body shops, health clubs, banks, small time ISPs, and pretty much every business that needs management. The list goes on but...
[16:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 2582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:00] <exec> 08└─The most impressive thing about AI advances in the last 20 years is that they've all happened in the last 4 years. Journals were rejecting papers on neural nets, as they were "academically" analysed to death, and even if new results came in with slight improvements over domain-specific expert system...
[16:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:poker bot isn't an AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:06] <exec> 08└─> far beyond any system we're even close to developing. Perhaps on the order of what your average human 5 or 6 year old might be able to do. What 6-year-old do you know that can do almost flawless adult-vocabulary english->chinese simultrans (voice recognition, translation, voice synthesis, all in r...
[16:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:poker bot isn't an AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:09] <exec> 08└─> This isn't a real AI What makes you say that? From TFP itself (available on Arxiv) "... using deep learning". This is almost certainly a completely generic program and hardware, it's simply been trained to map poker game states as inputs into poker moves as outputs. It could almost certainly just...
[16:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:poker bot isn't an AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:11] <exec> 08└─Also from the body of the paper: "DeepStack is a general-purpose algorithm for a large class of sequential imperfect information games." "depth limited lookahead where subtree values are computed using a trained deep neural network" "Instead of solving subtrees to get the counterfactual values, Deep...
[16:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans beating AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:15] <exec> 08└─Some humans can't resist the urge to kill all humans.
[16:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:In Summa - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:40] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that the worst exporter of hipster douches ISN'T California? Freedom and nature-loving Oregonians and Washingtonians absolutely hate our southern-californian guts.
[16:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 1743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:35] <exec> 08└─I've been coming around to the view that it's all really acculturation. I love beef. A big, juicy steak is my favorite meal in the world. I could eat beef jerky by the ton. But it's been a good long time now that I can't eat cow any more, and have been forced to try alternatives. Buffalo, venison, e...
[16:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:38] <exec> 08└─Tilapia does frequently have a muddy taste. It works ok fried or in fish tacos, though, if you should find yourself with some and are loathe to waste it. I could say the same about catfish. The flesh is firm, so that's good, but it also does often taste like mud. The quality of water they're raised...
[16:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:41] <exec> 08└─Well - I couldn't tell you what tilapia tastes like. For starters, tilapia isn't one specific fish, but more like a family of fishes. And, my whole take on them is, they are basically bottom feeders. Snopes has an article on them - http://www.snopes.com [snopes.com] And, fu...
[16:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Fish - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:52] <exec> 08└─It matters because frequently they're selling endangered species. The question in my mind it "How did they catch them?", and I think that's where the regulation needs to be stiffer. This, unfortunately, is a bit difficult, as it's often in international waters.
[16:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02You think THAT'S bad? - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:53] <exec> 08└─Your wasabi is most likely just dyed horseradish. [huffingtonpost.com]
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02LoSt control - 06Drone Crashed Into Seattle's Space Needle on New Year's Eve - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:07] <exec> 08└─I'm really surprised that a "heartbeat" supervisory signal isn't standard on these things so that if communication is lost the drone enters a failsafe mode, becomes stationary and gradually decends, perhaps with an audible alert. I know that some of the newest drones are advertised to have that feat...
[16:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:3D-printed version - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:42] <exec> 08└─NZD = New Zealand dollar. He's in New Zealand. It's in a different time zone.
[16:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Yeah, well - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:44] <exec> 08└─20 cents to make, $20B for FDA approval.
[16:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Post-Traumatic Stress Cure - 06Brain Activity may be Linked to Stress-Related Heart Disease - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:36] <exec> 08└─Stimulating the amygdala may effect the behaviour you desire. /article.pl?sid=17/01/12/2158252 [soylentnews.org]
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[17:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What does this volatility say about the currency? - 06China Runs Checks on Bitcoin Exchanges - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:14] <exec> 08└─If you get large and sudden drops in the value of the currency whenever it is put under real scrutiny, does that say about the stability of the currency? Or, is that more a commentary on the types of people who hold that currency?
[17:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans are the end goal of evolution - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I'm not buying it. You can just as well call human speech "proto-baboon vocalizations". There is a total bias of thought toward "humans are the best" here, which fits more with design than evolution. Something is wrong with this picture.
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Some are even capable of speech - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:31] <exec> 08└─I think #453336 might have referred to George Walker Bush, subject of the "Bush or Chimp" comparison meme.
[17:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:3, Insightful) 02How many vowels do you need for a language? - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:33] <exec> 08└─It figures a Fagot would look at vowels and say "You can't have language without them." Look at Nuxalk [wikipedia.org]. Plenty of words in that language don't have any vowels (though others do). One can form a complete sentence, with a verb, subject, and object, with only obstruent consonants. Havin...
[17:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So, binary is not enough for a language? - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:36] <exec> 08└─I'd think we've pretty much proven that two values are able to be strung together in larger runs and do all this stuff... Or perhaps the (hairbrained*) quantum brain processing stuff manifests as magic vowel need? * or is it harebraned?
[17:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─Small businesses are not typically places where you get healthy wages or benefits (indeed, many are family-run). Mid- to Large-sized businesses employ the middle class population.
[17:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:18] <exec> 08└─The list goes on but I think you get my point.
[17:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:58] <exec> 08└─Our last one blew up, but don't worry, next time we'll do three at once
[17:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Charlie - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:15] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaaaah bet she does, I bet she does, say no more, say no more, know whatahmean, nudge nudge?
[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:3D-printed version - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─Several possibilities: 1) Time travel. 4) Hacked in to the author's computer, or computers belonging to Nature or the reviewers. 2) Paid some Russian hackers to do that dirty work. 8) Stole a prototype from the inventor's desk, with a robot arm attached to a drone that flew in an open window. 5) Fak...
[17:16:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Re:Don't Watch Unless Bingeable - 06BBC Surrenders 'Linear' Exclusivity to Compete With Binge-watch Netflix - 4031 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:50] <exec> 08└─Dear BBC and other streaming TV series producers: I got tired of the Gilligan's Island formula in the 70's. That is, where you can interchange the episodes into any order and it doesn't matter. All conditions are reset back to initial conditions by the end of each episode. I loved Babylon 5 for brea...
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[18:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans are the end goal of evolution - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─the alternative to "there is a common ancestor who can do something similar" is "these monkeys gained the ability to produce human-like vowels in an independent fashion". I think Occam's razor points to the first explanation.
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans are the end goal of evolution - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with convergent evolution. But here you go again: Why is it that monkey's are *gaining* the ability to be like humans? Why aren't they *losing* the ability to be like monkeys? I think it is because either: a) There is a huge, unprofessional bias here that is probably holding b...
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:So, binary is not enough for a language? - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─Vowels provide 1. encoding (way better than morse code, compression wise) 2. transport (imagine the stereotypical Italian family, how are they gonna shout to their kids to behave if they don't have vowels?) In fact, while English could well do without vowel nd stll b ndrstndbl ngh, as kids we joking...
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why so impressed with 2 per core? - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:17] <exec> 08└─The processors on equipment I use has been 4, 6, 8, 12 threads per core for decades with up to 64 and 256 cores per machine. Maybe it is time to talk about real processing ability not use thread / core counts??
[18:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:poker bot isn't an AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:29] <exec> 08└─"...the AI world has literally been turned on its head by deep learning in the last 4 years." No. Sorry, it really hasn't. What has changed is the scale of execution of techniques that have been under discussion for decades. To use a car analogy, you're proposing that the existence of stretched limo...
[18:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:poker bot isn't an AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:32] <exec> 08└─The problem you're facing is unfamiliarity with the terminology of the field. General-purpose in this context means that it isn't tuned to a specific game. It's not an architecture for arbitrary implementation of machine cognition, it's an "algorithm for a large class of sequential imperfect informa...
[18:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Research? Give a phone call ... - 06Geographers Create U.S. Map Showing Regions that are Strongly Economically Linked - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:10] <exec> 08└─How many seconds would it take Waze (Google), Apple, or Facebook to produce those maps, with 95% accuracy?
[18:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:3, Informative) 02Not a $100 genome; not yet, at least - 06Illumina Targets the $100 Genome With New Sequencing Machine - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:23] <exec> 08└─The $100 per genome is only for the highest-capacity S4 flow cells (possibly released later this year), requires many samples to be run at the same time, and is a marginal cost that doesn't include capital expenditure. It's more like $1M for your first genome, and $10k for batches of 100 genomes aft...
[18:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Three boosters from one Falcon Heavy - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:33] <exec> 08└─It is obvious from a picture: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] FYI I have tested this design in Kerbal Space Program. Strapping on more boosters does indeed increase lift capacity. Now SpaceX needs to figure out how to transfer fuel/ox between tanks super fast with a small...
[18:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:37] <exec> 08└─Well, that last explosion was only ranked 2 MBs, so they hope that three times more first stages will get them the coveted 3 MBs ranking which guarantees infinite sequels, especially as your vehicle transforms from one to four pieces (and optionally to a million). I think LEO launches may use all th...
[18:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:05] <exec> 08└─Tilapia are used in foreign fish farming tanks to clean the tanks. They eat other species poop, basically, and are also fed waste from fish and chicken processing. That's the reason it tastes like swamp ass. Wild tilapia, which used to be common before the advent of fish farming, was quite tasty. Wh...
[18:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:break the reflected light... - 06SCiO Molecular Sensor Added to Smartphone - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:33] <exec> 08└─The stuff I worked with was also quite impressive in demonstrations - behind the scenes where you saw how little difference there was between compound A and compound B - as compared to the noise floor, that's where my skepticism comes from. Conventional mass spectrometers that vaporize a sample, cha...
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:3D-printed version - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─My own accidental experiments involving small children (more correctly, the children's experiments) suggest that the plastic microfuge tubes break (and shatter) before the PLA does. That's probably because the tubes have lots of sticky-out bits, and the PLA disc doesn't. Knowing how easy it is to de...
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:3D-printed version - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:14] <exec> 08└─There was a preprint of this article posted on BioRXiv, and a competition about remixes started on Thingiverse at about the same time. It took me a few days to design and prototype the model after I saw the preprint.
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[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Oliver Schmidt Faces Life - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─Arrested Volkswagen Exec Faces a Possible Life Sentence Over Diesel Scandal [roadandtrack.com] The eleven felonies he's charged with could mean a maximum of 169 years in jail. Even a plea will result in significant jail time if convicted.
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02it's started - 06China Runs Checks on Bitcoin Exchanges - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─Banks are unnecessary now and this was going to be their next move but the question of when is solved now!
[19:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So, binary is not enough for a language? - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─It's hare. All hares have a brain. Not all brains have hair.
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02well, duh! - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:13] <exec> 08└─Old news: as a kid, we were imitating chimps with vowels... "Eee-eee-eee, oooh-oooh-ooh, aaah-aaah-aaah!" Im sure there is probably an oh-oh-oh and a i-i-i sound somewhere there we just never knew about (or something like that). Old news is the new fake new news, i guess. ;) It's when the monkeys st...
[19:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why so impressed with 2 per core? - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─The context is all there in the summary. It's about consumer CPUs. Are you using a web browser right now on the "equipment" you are talking about?
[19:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:46] <exec> 08└─It seems that a robot could have done as bad a job as Hillary did and is doing now: 1. two robots marry. one who doesn't like people and is a robot in person, the other who likes to put stains on dresses and make COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE tarmac meetings. 2. completely fuck up your election after ste...
[19:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:49] <exec> 08└─Amazon is building skyscrapers in Seattle at a rate of one a year, and filling them with software developers. I wouldn't be surprised if half those new jobs were high-paying tech jobs. Sometimes it's not an evil conspiracy you know - sometimes business are just successful.
[19:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:51] <exec> 08└─Nobody is under that illusion. http://money.cnn.com [cnn.com] Don't expect Amazon to hire 100,000 coders, however. Much of its current and future workforce is made up of employees working warehouse jobs and answering phones.
[19:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:55] <exec> 08└─As a developer I feel like you just described my job.
[19:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:06] <exec> 08└─There is a limited market for SMB services, and you can't compete with large corporate structures where they have driven their costs lower. How about you prove your opinion before requiring facts and references? Begone you carrion eater.
[19:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:11] <exec> 08└─Cause he's a... BOOTSTRAP HEROOOO GOT PROFIT IN HIS EYEEEES!
[19:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:14] <exec> 08└─And because SMBs are, well, small, they don't tend to have an in-house infrastructure of lawyers and accountants and IT and marketing and so forth.
[19:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:16] <exec> 08└─Woah woah woah, you support unions? That's filthy commie stuff, or so some amazing business leaders told me, and they're rich so they must know what they're talking about!! /S While I have seen firsthand some of the pitfalls of unions, I will gladly take those over the wages and working conditions t...
[19:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Net loss - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:20] <exec> 08└─In terms of total jobs, new jobs at Amazon should not be cherished. A new job at Amazon means more than one job lost somewhere else.
[19:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Strong AI - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:40] <exec> 08└─> >They cannot commune with god. > Neither can we. Speaking with imaginary beings is not possible; and intelligent, learning machines will most likely be smart enough to understand this far earlier than humanity. # Commune_with_god opening port 42 establishing connection ...............................
[19:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:49] <exec> 08└─Bluffing only gets you to a certain point against something which knows exactly the odds that your cards are better. Playing completely against the usual raise logic will either augment your losses or lower your gains. They may get a few big ones, but the machine apparently grinds them out over the...
[19:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:55] <exec> 08└─Your comment made me think that it would be interesting to have an AI learn about people's physical clues when they play poker. Could be interesting to determine how to play the next round etc.
[19:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:ACTIVATE THE TERRORISTS - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:17] <exec> 08└─That's odd, because people wearing helmets tend to shoot more at people protecting their amygdalas from the light by wearing hoodies, turbans and burkas...
[19:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Re:Three boosters from one Falcon Heavy - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:06] <exec> 08└─Now SpaceX needs to figure out how to transfer fuel/ox between tanks super fast with a small pipe for even more lifting capacity
[19:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfft, losers - 06SpaceX to Attempt Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters on Pads - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─The two external ones have little reason not to fall back at the exact same time. The more different they make them, the more complicated the flight gets. Maybe delay one by a few seconds to help avoid collisions, but beyond that, symmetry is key. Crossing fingers that there's no bug in their upgrad...
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Charlie - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─What's it like? I mean, for the nerds here who don't know. Amiright?! :)))
[19:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:38] <exec> 08└─I'm all for serving venison at Arby's [soylentnews.org], but I'm not sure a free range approach will scale to meet anywhere near the efficiency of our current cattle system or the hypothetical lab-grown meat replacement.
[19:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:3D-printed version - 06Cheap, Simple and Brilliant - a Hand Powered Medical Centrifuge for 20 Cents - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:50] <exec> 08└─Or maybe just saw a preprint or came across the same idea, as it is at least 5300 years old.
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[20:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Rust? Hahaha - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:23] <exec> 08└─Lame. If it's not rewritten in node.js it's just not cool enough.
[20:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Rust? Hahaha - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:24] <exec> 08└─Please. Where's the react shadowdom?
[20:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nemacs - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:26] <exec> 08└─nemacs = emacs ported to /dev/null
[20:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:nemacs - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:28] <exec> 08└─Isn't that already called "vim"?
[20:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Just one week ... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─Like the poor ISPs oppressed by FCC Tom, those brave Job Creators will be freed from excessive EPA oversight next Friday, and finally able to properly self-regulate while the Market decides of their fate. We can all take a deep breath of relief for that ... right now. Seriously, don't try the deep b...
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02For a cynical take... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:40] <exec> 08└─...look at Coyote Blog [coyoteblog.com]. A few quotes to whet your appetite: "Cheating incidents all demonstrated that automakers had hit a wall on diesel emissions compliance -- the regulations had gone beyond what automakers could comply with..." "More importantly, the regulators KNEW it. ...many...
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:For a cynical take... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:42] <exec> 08└─The moral is, if you can't follow the regs, you're in the wrong business. Can't keep a kitchen clean? Don't open a restaurant. You have no right whatever to spew illegal crap that makes people sick and have every right to demand that no one does.
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:For a cynical take... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─I'm no expert in the area, but the point of the post is: the regulations are deliberately impossible to meet. In order to stay in business, essentially all auto manufacturers cheat. Why are the regulations impossibly high? Why are some punished and others not? As I said, I know nothing of the auto i...
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:For a cynical take... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:46] <exec> 08└─The twist is the the regulations don't just come out of whatever Obama scribbles on the stall walls while taking a dump. The numbers are agreed on as realistic targets by most manufacturers (all the important ones) before they get published. The timeline is defined as far enough to enable them to in...
[20:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Agreed" to plead guilty - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─I find amusing that Volkswagen "agreed" to plead guilty. Should we be thankful to them? I mean, I almost feel we owe them something.
[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:"Agreed" to plead guilty - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─It's a step-up from paying fines whilst admitting no culpability... or paying fines for deferred prosecution because we promise to be a good corp. from now on.
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02fuel economy fakery - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─Over the years, two cars I've noticed with exceptionally, improbably good fuel economy ratings are the VW New Beetle and the Ford C-Max. The C-Max was overrated, and there was a small scandal over that. Then there was this revelation that VW cheated. And now Fiat/Chrysler may have cheated? How long...
[20:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does this volatility say about the currenc - 06China Runs Checks on Bitcoin Exchanges - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:01] <exec> 08└─It says that it's a very small market.
[20:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Some are even capable of speech - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, mine was more bipartisan than any of you, since I was referring to that gathering of baboons known as "Congress".
[20:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:How many vowels do you need for a language? - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─I would have modded you insightful were it not for your bigoted language. BTW, you misspelled the slur. How about growing up?
[20:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:well, duh! - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:31] <exec> 08└─That's racist.
[20:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:well, duh! - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:33] <exec> 08└─Vowels are easy, consonants are hard, as I discovered in Thailand. For a westerner it's incredibly difficult to pronounce a word that starts with NG, for instance (watch "Good Morning Vietnam" for examples of words that start with NG), and not a single Thai I met in that year could pronounce my name...
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[20:11:21] <exec> 08└─While I do agree with your point, it escapes the brutal reality of corruption and protectionism granted to large entrenched corporations. I love your thought there, but it was disastrous trade agreements and outsourcing of *everything* that made it so that SMBs simply could not compete with Wallmart...
[20:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:28] <exec> 08└─That puts you in the roughly 20% of SMBs that are professional services. My point is that most of the others are not creating middle-class jobs, they're creating low-wage jobs, just like the megacorps mostly create low-wage jobs.
[20:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:31] <exec> 08└─What, you mean like 90% of the jobs in Obama's "recovery"? U.S. Payrolls Rise 156,000 as Wages Increase Most Since 2009 [bloomberg.com] But hey, don't let reality stand in the way of your scare-quotes.
[20:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:33] <exec> 08└─Wages Increase Most Since 2009
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[20:11:58] <exec> 08└─Try starting /etc/init.d/lsd and add a static route to /dev/lo0
[20:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02i can't stand a flashlight in my face... - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:42] <exec> 08└─...and if you shine one in my face, you better be a piggie, or i am slapping it out of your hand... seriously, don't do that...
[20:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:03] <exec> 08└─As someone that lives in an area where seafood must be shipped quite a long distance, there are 4 categories of fish. Hard Whitefish (Cod, Haddock), Soft Whitefish (Tilapia, Flounder), Tuna, and Salmon.
[20:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ragequit [44] (Score:2) 02Re:Fish - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─It's not like the fish are aware that they are endangered when they swim into the net. Furthermore if, say 1 in 200 fish of damn near the same type are in the same batch, who is supposed to identify this?
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[21:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:19] <exec> 08└─Only question: why? Just for fun? Promotion of Rust?
[21:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:20] <exec> 08└─Old code is bad because it's mature and well-debugged. It needs to be rewritten and have all sorts of new bugs introduced.
[21:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:22] <exec> 08└─Only question: why?
[21:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─Because Rust Never Sleeps.
[21:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:27] <exec> 08└─If you were charged with ensuring that a programming language is robust and usable (or just learning that language), wouldn't implementing something established and well known be a great way to do that? Well established behavior patterns to emulate. Why Emacs? *shrug* It's a pet project of a few dev...
[21:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:29] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. Reading the blog and the github page, this is just Rust hipsterism.
[21:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:31] <exec> 08└─Why Emacs?
[21:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:33] <exec> 08└─If they wanted to solicit my help, they should have picked porting nethack.
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Oliver Schmidt Faces Life - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─Just read this about Renault. Wonder where this emission scandal will reach ! French prosecutors have announced they will investigate Renault over suspected “cheating” in emissions tests of diesel motors, causing shares in the carmaker to fall. Following a massive emissions scandal involving Vol...
[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:For a cynical take... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─The regulations are deliberately impossible so that big companies can all be fined sooner or later - and it is not just this way in the auto industry. Big companies are now experts at legally avoiding tax, fines are the new tax. The big corps set aside large pots of money to pay the inevitable fines...
[21:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:For a cynical take... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:52] <exec> 08└─...look at Coyote Blog [coyoteblog.com].
[21:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Executives! - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:57] <exec> 08└─Government is going after executives. Early on in this scandal, those same executives were going to sacrifice a couple engineers to the government, remember? Burn the god-damned execs. Put them all in prison. I'm so sick of execs blaming all of a company's problems on lower level workers, who were j...
[21:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's started - 06China Runs Checks on Bitcoin Exchanges - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:08] <exec> 08└─What's started? You mean looking into it to make sure it is legit? That's a bad thing? Perhaps it would have been a good idea if the Japanese government did a bit of surprise scrutiny before that card game guy embezzled that exchange money.
[21:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hmm... - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:37] <exec> 08└─So, are we speaking (pun intended) of speech as humans do it? Who is to say that you can't have speech without vowels? I'm no expert (maybe I am, who knows?) but I'm pretty sure not every species makes sounds the same way that humans do. Martians may not have a voice box at all. I hope my tax money...
[21:10:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:only AVX2 - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 1132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#CPUs_with_AVX-512 [wikipedia.org] https://www.phoronix.com [phoronix.com] Ignoring the Skylake Xeons, it looks like we will see support for AVX-512 in Cannonlake (I'm assuming mainstream chips). In late 2017. And...
[21:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:16] <exec> 08└─Just read this article. Thought it might be relevant to this discussion. Whether you do, or do not, trust McKinsey is another story !! Here’s a scary thought or a reason to rejoice, depending on which side of the equation you belong. Half the work people do in their jobs can be automated, shows a...
[21:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Work harder for less you lazy bum'' - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:36] <exec> 08└─Recent news in the race-to-the-bottom: [csmonitor.com] The Kentucky legislature voted Saturday[1] [January 7] to pass a "right to work" [for less] law, allowing workers to take jobs in union-represented facilities and receive union-negotiated benefits without paying dues to the [union]. With the vo...
[21:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Only option - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:41] <exec> 08└─Amazon would simply move to another location. You'd have to unionize their entire system overnight to avoid that, and no doubt some tattletale will spill the beans ahead of the vote.
[21:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Net loss - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:44] <exec> 08└─Agreed, a net loss. But not instantly, it takes awhile for the formerly-big retailers like Sears to lay everyone off as they go down, there is a phase delay or lag. Watch Trump do what any politician would do and play up the hiring, while ignoring the firing.
[21:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Brute force, not AI. - 06Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:18] <exec> 08└─The cards in your hand and the cards up on the table change the odds of any given hand your opponent can make. Example: You are holding two kings and there is one on the table. Now, what are the odds that your opponent will make a hand with three kings?
[21:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score:2) 02Doesn't Effect Non-modified Organisms - 06Mice Turned Violent by Photoactivation of Amygdala Neurons - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:53] <exec> 08└─The method they used involved genetically engineering the mice so that the neurons in their brains are able to be stimulated directly with light, this is not something that any non-modified organism will do. If they shine a light in your brain (or the brain of any non-modified animal) there will be...
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:08] <exec> 08└─So why not turn the range back over to those animals...
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[22:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Informative) 02Now we can be REAL MEN again!!! - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:20] <exec> 08└─This story submission is just A LITTLE BIT right wing.
[22:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now we can be REAL MEN again!!! - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:21] <exec> 08└─What does "right wing" mean now? "Realistic"?
[22:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now we can be REAL MEN again!!! - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:23] <exec> 08└─This story submission is just A LITTLE BIT right wing.
[22:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Now we can be REAL MEN again!!! - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:25] <exec> 08└─It balances out the stuff submitted by aristarchus...
[22:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Now we can be REAL MEN again!!! - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:27] <exec> 08└─I had conflicting thoughts on adding a counterpoint to this summary, but decided against it as it's pretty easy to see the agenda and perspective the summary is coming from... TFA mostly uses quotes from someone who was/is a 'senior fellow for national security' at https://en.wikipedia.org
[22:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Fox News: the original fake news - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:30] <exec> 08└─"Several officers have been disciplined for displaying Bibles or gospel verses in their quarters" Disciplined for religious material in their own quarters? Hardly likely. This is more claptrap trying to support the "persecuted Christians" meme that the religious right loves to spread.
[22:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Fox News: the original fake news - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:32] <exec> 08└─I assume TFA is referring to this: In May, 2013 then-Lance Cpl. Monifa Sterling kept a Bible verse on her computer in three places. The verses read “No weapon formed against me shall prosper,” a modification of the Isaiah 54:17, according to the Catholic News Agency. Ms. Sterling’s staff serge...
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fox News: the original fake news - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 4109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:34] <exec> 08└─As usual, there is more than one side to a story, personally I've never been very impressed with The Washington Times. From http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] I think the headline says it all, but I've also pasted in the large cent...
[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Fox News: the original fake news - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─You even remotely scratch the surface of any one these "oppressed Christian" stories and there is a 150% chance that it's someone abusing their authority to oppress others and then whining when they're lightly reprimanded for it.
[22:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 2796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─The military is trained to kill people, to break and destroy stuff, and to enforce government's will on people around the world. We aren't generally "socially acceptable" people. Military men and women aren't always included in social functions, in Hollyweird, or the state or city governments around...
[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:41] <exec> 08└─Fuck you and your “gender confused” bullshit. And have a nice Friday! :)
[22:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:43] <exec> 08└─Do you prefer "metal illness"? Because thats probably a better description of the reality
[22:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03acp_sn [5254] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:45] <exec> 08└─\m/
[22:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:47] <exec> 08└─Do you even know any trans* folks? I do. Easily a third of my friends are, mostly FtM (talk about an invisible minority...). This isn't a mental illness, but seems to be some sort of birth defect. I'd be interested to see what the brain scans from Kevin, Riley, and Aaron (nee Katherine, Kristina, an...
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:49] <exec> 08└─Dick Swaab [wikipedia.org]
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─What we have to establish is whether or not gender is a social construct. Are men and women different? Maybe it's just me, but I don't think gender is a social construct. I'm pretty sure men and women are different. If gender is, in fact, just a social construct, then sure, go for “mental illness....
[22:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:54] <exec> 08└─You - the great plural "you" including all of society - don't like the military very much. You use us, you abuse us, you blame us for your own failures.
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:56] <exec> 08└─Be fair, most of the people who "volunteered" for the military did it because there isn't shit for them in their hometowns, and I have to wonder if it was engineered to be this way. In other words, make communities that just HAPPEN to be primarily black or Hispanic into shitholes on purpose so they'...
[22:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:58] <exec> 08└─"government of the day" That is where you err. We are sworn to uphold the constitution, first and foremost. Then we are sworn to obey congress. The Commander in Chief doesn't pay our wages, congress does. Obama is not the military's master, congress is. Obama took a lot of liberties with the militar...
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─If you're a good little soldier, you know that you have to obey your commander. The head of the government of the day is also the "Commander in Chief". Either you're not military, or you're advocating insubordination or mutiny and deserve some time in the brig!
[22:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─Be serious man, when unlawful orders are given, they are made lawful retroactively if your side wins. This whole "uphold and protect the constitution" has had long enough of a run, let's let that dumb retort retire now, please. Oh, and the CinC DOES pay your wages, when there is a government shutdow...
[22:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:05] <exec> 08└─The CIA has much more experience in social experiments anyway... The military should stick to being test subjects for the chemical/drug based psychological experiments. Because there's a long history of that, so it's practically tradition at this point.
[22:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2, Troll) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:07] <exec> 08└─Oh look, here's the shitfuck who submitted this trainwreck. Yes, we know. You're very committed to your cult of action for action's sake. We also know that you view traditionalism(not just for gender roles) as a source of power, because you're not very bright. Here's the thing: you will never be sat...
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─Sorry, my finger slipped and hit +1 Insightful instead.
[22:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:11] <exec> 08└─So proud - you can't refute anything I say, so you sink to personal attacks. You're doing great, man!
[22:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─I don't need to refute what you've said. Giving nazi shitfucks time of day got us here in the first place. You are due no fucking respect anymore. If you're going to pay attention to a nazi, it ought to either have a well-honed blade or a recently discarded shell casing. Evil doesn't warrant debate.
[22:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─A counterpoint to your argument: the military is [terminallance.com]gay. [terminallance.com] Honestly, when I was in no one in my unit cared one way or another about other soldiers' sexual preferences. We were all pointing our firearms the same direction and all wearing the same colors. We were not...
[22:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:18] <exec> 08└─> Any military that loses it's customs and traditions, has lost it's bearings I could easily make a list of ancient traditions that the military abandoned, whether they got displaced by modern solutions, proven counter-productive, or were just plain god-awful practices. The military obey a code of c...
[22:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02weird battleship names - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:20] <exec> 08└─Not that I totally agree with anyone involved with how the military is run for the most part, but naming battleships after civil rights activists sounds kind of terrible. Battleships are not known for their fairness or courageous nonviolent resistance or what have you. I looked a couple of the names...
[22:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rust? Hahaha - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:30] <exec> 08└─FFS don't give these kids ideas...
[22:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Rust? Hahaha - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:32] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't complain about rewriting Emacs in node.js, as long as, you first rewrite node.js in Rust.
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:44] <exec> 08└─There is already vi mode for it. Three of them, if I remember correctly.
[22:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this would not be at the top of the list of things I'd do in Rust. I'd pick stuff like openSSH and other things where buffer overflows and memory allocation mistakes create security exploits. Hell, I'd do an operating system before Emacs, or is that a contradiction?
[22:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Oliver Schmidt Faces Life - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:58] <exec> 08└─This emission scandal could cause vehicle makers to reconsider using diesel engines at all. Even without cheating devices.
[22:10:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Just one week ... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:00] <exec> 08└─Like the poor ISPs oppressed by FCC Tom, those brave Job Creators will be freed from excessive EPA oversight next Friday, and finally able to properly self-regulate while the Market decides of their fate. We can all take a deep breath of relief for that ... right now. Seriously, don't try the deep b...
[22:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Just one week ... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:02] <exec> 08└─If the government won't let the EPA protect our clean air, then I'll just hold my breath until an administration comes along that will. Or Trump could privatize the EPA. If people want clean air, they should pay for it. Do you think clean air just grows on trees.
[22:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just one week ... - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:04] <exec> 08└─When it comes to ISPs I don't mind if the free market self regulates. A free market will result in economic efficiency. The problem is that this isn't a free market. ISPs have managed to coerce governments into limiting competition and so newcomers can't really enter into the market. It's the same f...
[22:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Executives! - 06Volkswagen Agrees to Plead Guilty, EPA Now Looking at Fiat Chrysler - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:15] <exec> 08└─Didn't you read Ayn Rand? It's the lone heros that lead the almighty Industry that single-handedly save us from ourselves. I doubt I could even write these words of gratitude had Industry Leaders not invented words and inspired me to learn them using sheer own grit and determination while I sat in a...
[22:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans are the end goal of evolution - 06Researchers Report That Guinea Baboons Make Five Vowel-Like Sounds Similar to Those Used by Humans - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:41] <exec> 08└─This isn't a troll.
[22:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:only AVX2 - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:06] <exec> 08└─A lake of coffee sounds damn good right about now...
[22:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Off - 06Hyper-Threading Enabled on Intel's Kaby Lake Pentium CPUs - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:11] <exec> 08└─I always wanted to turn HT off on my netbook. It has an Atom with 2 cores and HT on by default and is seriously underpowered. I wanted each core to just do one task at full capacity rather than bollocks around with interleaving threads. Unfortunately HT was just ON with no bios option to turn it off...
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02''Sears'' - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:03] <exec> 08└─I was considering submitting this a while[1] back. Macy’s, Sears [and Kmart] announce mass layoffs; hundreds of store closings across the US [wsws.org] US department stores Macy’s and Sears announced thousands of layoffs and hundreds of store closures on [January 4] following dismal holiday sal...
[22:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the ... - 06Cloudflare Has Been Secretly Fighting a National Security Letter for Years - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:14] <exec> 08└─It's not because we have a SCOTUS, it's because they're appointed for life and there isn't anything that you can do to remove them if they're incompetent. Ultimately, how laws are read and interpreted is going to be set by the judicial system, there's no way around it. But, the fact that many of the...
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[23:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Well, fuck you then - 06How to Secure MongoDB - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:07] <exec> 08└─The company has stated it is the user's responsibility to make these changes to the default configuration.
[23:09:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Now we can be REAL MEN again!!! - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:17] <exec> 08└─This story submission is just A LITTLE BIT right wing.
[23:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now we can be REAL MEN again!!! - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:20] <exec> 08└─It's a label that means exactly nothing.
[23:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now we can be REAL MEN again!!! - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:22] <exec> 08└─realistic? Someone has an inflated ego...
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:3, Informative) 02[meta] commentary - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:27] <exec> 08└─We see submissions approved from sources like CNN, NPR, NYT, WaPo, etc. all the time. These sources have a clear agenda although most agree that they lean but do not topple (CNN is pressing their luck there lately though...). Hell we've even had numerous approved stories from sites like Mother Jone...
[23:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score:1) 02Re:Fox News: the original fake news - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:32] <exec> 08└─Several officers have been disciplined for displaying Bibles or gospel verses in their quarters
[23:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fox News: the original fake news - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:34] <exec> 08└─And a work station isn't "quarters" either. The referenced anecdote doesn't fit the original article's quote at all.
[23:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Identity - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 2311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─Do you ever wonder whether a male or female dog or cat you see might be transgendered? How about a chicken? I certainly don't. But it occurs to me that if the standard of making this determination is not by looking at the animal, but by comparing brain scans of representative animals to our test a...
[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─Can't believe someone wasted a mod point on you - it's probably a personal thing. There is much more deserving flambait elsewhere in this thread. ;^) One fascist wants to put a bullet in my head - you just want to fuck me! Which reminds me. Most Democrats seem to want to kill Russians these days. Tr...
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─"good little soldiers" know that they must obey LAWFUL ORDERS. Have you forgotten the lessons of My Lai? Have you ever heard of My Lai? Oh, I missed Colburn's death. https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Rest in peace, Soldier.
[23:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:55] <exec> 08└─Was it "lawful orders" when that young blonde Specialist at Guantanamo (in the famous photo) had those terrorist suspects naked on a leash and collar like dogs? I'd say that at the time the entire complex was acting under orders. It was to break the enemy to get information. However, when the photos...
[23:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─Those were not lawful orders. Pretty much everything that happened at Abu Ghraib is contrary to everything the military has taught it's troops since - damned near forever. Blame that shit on George Bush and his legal corps trying to find excuses to justify torture. And, I don't let anyone in the cha...
[23:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:00] <exec> 08└─This whole "uphold and protect the constitution" has had long enough of a run, let's let that dumb retort retire now, please. So - the military is just a mercenary mob? Wow, I learn something new every day.
[23:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─> Obama is not the military's master, congress is Factually incorrect, courtesy of the constitution you're sworn to defend. The Commander In Chief is the boss of the US military, regardless of whether you're volunteer, conscript, drafted, paid, unpaid... If you question the chain of command, you are...
[23:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:04] <exec> 08└─Smackitty smack smack! Makes me wonder if Runaway isn't just some shill account pretending to be a strongman... stupid anonymous internet making me question the legitimacy of every single goddamn thing!!
[23:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:07] <exec> 08└─Nope, pretty sure this is 100% genuine. A lot of ex-military his age talk like this.
[23:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:09] <exec> 08└─The root comment reads like it was written by a jilted veteran who didn't get exactly what he expected he'd get when he signed on the dotted line and is now bitter.
[23:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:11] <exec> 08└─Who, exactly, commissions officers, warrant officers, senior NCO's, ships, and units? Commissions come from congress. Ultimately, all pay comes from congress. Congress authorizes wars, congress signs peace treaties. President Washington didn't create the Marine Corps, congress did. No president disb...
[23:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:13] <exec> 08└─The highest officer that can command the military to take actions that start a war or are a war in all but name. Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, and Cambodia all come to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:20] <exec> 08└─You've been reading to much MSM. Every day, I look in my news feeds, and some fuckwad is declaring that nazism has won in America, because Trump won the election. Step away from the propaganda, son.
[23:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:22] <exec> 08└─No, no. Trump is a shitty pseudofascist, and that reeked from 2015 and only someone who's never studied anything about fascism would fail to recognize that. He's not really a nazi. But I am saying based on the things you personally have said, you're a nazi who doesn't deserve polite debate, but prob...
[23:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:25] <exec> 08└─"but probably a bullet in the head" I hear the pot calling the bone china black . . . . . Stated another way, you are projecting.
[23:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:27] <exec> 08└─No, it's pretty much just Nazis. The rest of us aren't vile monsters for the sake of preserving an imagined past.
[23:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:29] <exec> 08└─Nope, not projection. What you are witnessing is anger resulting in overblown statements. Runaway, you often have decent points but you really are deep into the conservative propaganda. Its up to every fish to realize they're in a bowl, so until you can realize that (and all the anger you get direct...
[23:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─ikan, Observe the "Do Not Feed the Trolls" sign. Your making it worse not better :-/
[23:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:34] <exec> 08└─Your counter point doesn't seem to be very counter to my own point. You will note that I've not claimed that homosexuals are unfit for duty - my complaint is that the administration is willing to sacrifice proven, good warriors, in the interest of promoting gays.
[23:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:36] <exec> 08└─"Proven, good warriors" can become a liability if their subordinates don't respect them, or if those leaders cause undue friction where there shouldn't be any. Also legally, the military doesn't want lawsuits just because some general is a tool. Oh, and there are plenty of other good proven warriors...
[23:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:39] <exec> 08└─"In a sense, it has to, for a little while," Thank you for that. While you and I may disagree on precisely what the problem is - you do acknowledge that there is a problem. I don't believe that your reasoning justifies Obama's meddling with the military, while you seem to believe it is justified. Bu...
[23:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:42] <exec> 08└─You stupid motherfucker, you'd equate letting gays serve openly with the fucking World War II Axis powers? Wow, you're even more of an asshole than I thought you were. Piss off and whine somewhere else.
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─He's not equating them, merely pointing out that "tolerance" in itself is not inherently positive.
[23:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:46] <exec> 08└─Tolerance of people deviating from the majority did happen during WWII. Not discriminating against people serving in your own military is not the same as tolerating "the enemy". https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"social games" have a long military history - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:48] <exec> 08└─> The military IS NOT the place to play experimental social games. You may not think so, but there is a good long history of exactly this. An older friend (gone now) commanded a tank company in the Korean War, early 1950s. One of his treasured stories was of Pres. Harry Truman who integrated the US...
[23:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:"social games" have a long military history - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:50] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. First, I recommend the CNN article, "Gay is not the new Black", written by a gay black man who should know what he is talking about. Then, I've already recommended Rudyard Kipling. Try Fuzzy Wuzzy. Military men have always respected people who have proven themselves.
[23:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"social games" have a long military history - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:52] <exec> 08└─> "Gay is not the new Black", written by a gay black man who should know what he is talking about. I'll see your token black man and raise you the entire country of South Africa that, after freeing itself from apartheid which had made miscegenation illegal, recognized that bigotry against minorities...
[23:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02You don't speak for all military people - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:55] <exec> 08└─You do not speak for the entire military, so quit acting like you do. Your opinion is yours, not everyone else's. Also enough of this crybaby bullshit about not getting enough love from the public. Veterans as well as serving men and women are routinely honored in news stories and public events. I h...
[23:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You don't speak for all military people - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:57] <exec> 08└─> Also enough of this crybaby bullshit about not getting enough love from the public. Indeed. The ONE place that does not give service members enough love is the government. We all know about the problems at the VA, in large part due to republican willingness to fund war but not pay for the costs a...
[23:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:59] <exec> 08└─We aren't generally "socially acceptable" people. Military men and women aren't always included in social functions,
[23:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:01] <exec> 08└─Oh please mighty military, please please change with the times. We would really like it if you could just improve a tiny bit. No? Ok, sorry for asking, didn't mean to trouble you. Detained? Huh? Oh, terrorist threat huh... Guantanamo you say? Never mind, I never said anything! Please let me goooo!
[23:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:military - what else needs to be said? - 06Military Experts: Trump Pentagon Likely to Abandon Social Experiments for Core Mission Under Mattis - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:03] <exec> 08└─There has been pressure on the Marine Corps, to commission some female combat officers. To date, no females have met the physical requirements to become combat officers. It will happen, sooner or later. But, there shouldn't be pressure on military officers to sign off on a female officer - or a blac...
[23:11:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:18] <exec> 08└─Old code is bad because it's mature and well-debugged. It needs to be rewritten and have all sorts of new bugs introduced.
[23:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:19] <exec> 08└─Funny? Perhaps sarcastic, but i's not a joke. It is a very intelligent comment, he has bit in the nail
[23:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:29] <exec> 08└─Hell, I'd do an operating system before Emacs, or is that a contradiction?
[23:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:31] <exec> 08└─I'd do an operating system before Emacs, or is that a contradiction?
[23:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02progress in elisp - 06Announcing Remacs: Porting Emacs to Rust - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:34] <exec> 08└─While you are at it, consider working on making lexical scoping the default, and inserting static type checking in elisp, to further banish bugs. Of course you will still need a compatible legacy mode for old elisp code, which you seem to want to still support. Perhaps the best way forward is to use...
[23:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:10] <exec> 08└─Didn't you know, she's been busy painting portraits of Putin and cute puppies!
[23:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fulfillment??? - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:19] <exec> 08└─If they could get the robot to sit in meetings and look bored, they'd be golden.
[23:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Jobs - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:41] <exec> 08└─1931. Your move.
[23:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Net loss - 06Amazon to Add 100,000 Full-Time Jobs in the U.S. - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:48] <exec> 08└─When you have a 62% participation rate in the economy something may be wrong. We were at nearly 70 in 2000. We have added 36 million people to the mix too. Your scenario only is typically only true if unemployment is under 2%. It is a buyers market right now. Ross Perot called it the giant sucking s...
[23:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:10] <exec> 08└─The free range approach does scale, because it's what provides the beef that goes into our hamburgers already. But instead of raising cattle on that land, why not substitute the native animals that actually thrive there, have less disease, and have healthier meat to eat to boot? Buffalo burgers, for...
[23:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I could be that sucker - 06DNA Tests Identify Widespread Mislabeling at Los Angeles Sushi Restaurants - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:12] <exec> 08└─Sure it exists. They run cattle on it now. The deer and antelope run on it, too, because they can. Some ranches like Ted Turner's in Montana have switched to bison, but my thought was since deer, antelope, and bison are already adapted to the ecosystem why not follow Ted Turner's lead more generally...
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