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[00:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No More Traffic Blues for Information Transfer: Decongesting Wireless Channels - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:13] <exec> 08└─Or, we could, you know, dump all this shitty IoT tech that has little more use than hemorrhaging personal information. My fridge, light bulbs, TV and watch don't need WiFi thank you very much. Now get your various parallel channels off my lawn!
[00:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No More Traffic Blues for Information Transfer: Decongesting Wireless Channels - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:14] <exec> 08└─My fridge, light bulbs, TV and watch don't need WiFi thank you very much.
[00:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:27] <exec> 08└─I think he's cheating.
[00:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:29] <exec> 08└─Please Mr/Ms. donkeyhotay we know you have the hots for donkeys, but them apes are smarter the asses I tell ya!
[00:27:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:44] <exec> 08└─""Fly over deplorables" overthrew "liberal psychopaths" who are fighting back using "false news media" they control. Where is empathy here?" It's reserved for those that are on the same side, and that's the problem.
[00:27:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:52] <exec> 08└─"Hmm, so too much empathy drives left partisanship." That wasn't actually their conclusion, and the study does not appear to support that conclusion. They don't seem to have found any sort of difference between right and left on this. Only that they identify with a different 'in group' but not how i...
[00:28:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:14] <exec> 08└─As do the socialists! That's kinda the whole point. Everyone is the hero in their own story.
[00:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:43] <exec> 08└─You don't understand the definition of socialism, and thus it's not surprising that you can't differentiate it from communism or fascism. While we're making definitions up out of thin air, Trump is a hardcore socialist for using taxpayer money to fund the military, law enforcement agencies, and hand...
[00:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:45] <exec> 08└─Your monstrous inhumanity
[00:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:47] <exec> 08└─Yes welcome to rightwing politics, pure projection and zero critical thinking.
[00:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:49] <exec> 08└─Those who go to the most effort to present themselves as empathic are actually sociopaths?
[00:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 2241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:51] <exec> 08└─The problem is 'giving a damn' in the wrong place. Lets say a country is doing poorly with food. You donate millions of tons of food. Suddenly that countries farmers are out of business and can not make anymore more food because they move away. Now you have a country that will always need food. Woop...
[00:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:53] <exec> 08└─I think rather it speaks to a huge limitation of empathy. You're empathizing with what you perceive not what is. So if someone can fake emotions well, they got your number. Similarly, if you're invested in a fantasy where some people wear black hats, you get schadenfreude fantasizing when the black...
[00:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:55] <exec> 08└─Also wait for the replication. Which may or may not happen.
[00:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:58] <exec> 08└─Empathy is correlated with being emotional. Emotion is correlated with neuroticism. Rational people who think logically instead of emotionally will always be better behaved. Emotion is animalistic, something we are born with. Reason is a higher mental state we learn and train. We should encourage ra...
[00:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:00] <exec> 08└─Which however does not preclude such widespread phenomenon as "daylight". Looking up the name of the logical fallacy you tried to use is left as an exercise for the reader.
[00:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:02] <exec> 08└─You don't understand the definition of socialism,
[00:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:04] <exec> 08└─On top of that check this... https://nypost.com [nypost.com] Explosive if true.
[00:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:06] <exec> 08└─There is actually a technical distinction between empathy and sympathy. Empathy is the ability to comprehend how others feel at a rational level. I.e., the ability to infer people's feelings from their behavior. That is, an exercise of mirror neurons. Sympathy is what most people would usually call...
[00:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:09] <exec> 08└─like all socialists he became a tyrant. You don't get to claim socialists weren't socialist just because you don't like a specific rulers flavor of Socialist tyranny. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao - you support socialism, you support all of them!
[00:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:10] <exec> 08└─Or, there are fewer episodes about politics ("The National Anthem", "The Waldo Moment") and more episodes about video games ("Playtest", "USS Callister", "Bandersnatch", "Striking Vipers") than boomers would like. Black Mirror addresses a younger audience who want to see stories about virtual clones...
[00:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:41] <exec> 08└─Think sarcasm was employed.
[00:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:42] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm.
[00:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:45] <exec> 08└─What's inconclusive about it? This stuff holds by sector too.
[00:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:47] <exec> 08└─And guess what Norway DOESN'T have? You get three tries.
[00:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:16] <exec> 08└─Since late 2012, Victoria Bitter has been sold at a strength of 4.9% ABV after an interim period of producing the same product at an ABV of 4.6% (equal to virtually every other major Australian lager).
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[01:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No More Traffic Blues for Information Transfer: Decongesting Wireless Channels - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:20] <exec> 08└─Or, we could, you know, stop cramming every channel into the same 2.4 GHz microwave oven band just because it's cheap to do so. IoT could and should use licensed M2M spectrum instead of ruining Wi-Fi for everyone.
[01:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, you are disturbed. There are professionals who can help you with that.
[01:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:37] <exec> 08└─I usually refrain from commenting when I'm stoned.
[01:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:39] <exec> 08└─Makes me terrible at phonetic reading, especially of things like "Don Quixote". Darn Runaway tilting windmills again.
[01:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:05] <exec> 08└─Charity unfortunately is a tricky thing. It can make a situation much worse without even really trying.
[01:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:06] <exec> 08└─Still, SN seems to have proved the conclusions of the study.
[01:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Fix macOS Flaw Exposing Portions of Encrypted Emails - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, OSX used to be quite good privacy-wise but now Apple does almost as much exfiltration 'telemetry' as Microsoft. Try turning off iCloud, Siri, etc and then jnstalling Little Snitch. There are still lots of outgoing connections to Apple servers, particularly when using indexing or 3rd party acco...
[01:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Fix macOS Flaw Exposing Portions of Encrypted Emails - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:19] <exec> 08└─Sure they understand. End-to-end... When one end is their servers.
[01:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:13] <exec> 08└─I was born in 75, but I still recognized the coolness factor James Dean had. I'm sure there are plenty of people (probably especially on this site) that'll disagree, but obviously he did something right to have such a cult following. This reinforces that concept. I'm downloading his three movies ri...
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[01:30:14] <exec> 08└─Young James Dean, some say he looks just like his father But he could never love somebody’s daughter Football team loved more than just the game So he vowed to be his husband at the altar
[01:30:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06QNAP Warns Users to Secure Devices Against QSnatch Malware - 664 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, I meant to add a rant: The "malware remover" doesn't tell you what it's findings are. I went through a phase where it claimed to have found something, but it provides zero information on what it has actually found. Zip, nada, nothing. It just tells you that it found something and removed it. In...
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[01:31:49] <exec> 08└─And guess what Norway DOESN'T have?
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[02:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:16] <exec> 08└─http://smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-4 [smbc-comics.com]
[02:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No More Traffic Blues for Information Transfer: Decongesting Wireless Channels - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:26] <exec> 08└─Another product of the phallocentric military-industrial complex. If it was designed by properly woke social-justice-aware pyople, it would come out as something much more inclusionary [medium.com].
[02:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:45] <exec> 08└─A pity nobody can help Runaway anymore. He ran too far away already, beyond any help, he's a lost cause.
[02:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:46] <exec> 08└─Dr. Zaius understood what apes with nuclear weapons are capable of.
[02:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03unhandyandy [4405] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:48] <exec> 08└─This notion that there's a rigid hierarchy of consciousness in which humans are at the apex is obviously BS. Clearly advanced alien races have more sophisticated criteria according to which we don't qualify as having a theory of mind.
[02:28:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:45] <exec> 08└─It's what's known as "In-group preference". To be honest, I think their "empathy scale" test needs re-evaluating, as if all it measures is in-group preference, I'd say it's failing to do what it says on the tin, for the reason you provide.
[02:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:17] <exec> 08└─Emphatically pathetic.
[02:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:18] <exec> 08└─I'm from flyover country. What you described isn't what happened. The deplorables would have voted for Trump regardless. Instead, a bunch of independents and Midwest Democrats who've gotten repeatedly screwed over (many of whom also voted for "Change We Can Believe In") voted for the relative outsid...
[02:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:21] <exec> 08└─Hear, hear. The perpetually self-deluded khallow should know a thing or two about investing in fantasies.
[02:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:27] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you're old. But don't worry, there are plenty of historical episodes of The Twilight Zone you can watch about world wars and communist Nazi aliens and time travellers killing Hitler. You're simply not the target audience for Black Mirror.
[02:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:04] <exec> 08└─Try to keep your facts straight (I live ~20 miles from Love Canal), > Love Canal was a true horror story for any parent, or anyone who hopes to be a parent. The land was contaminated with some pretty nasty stuff, then sold for residential use. The story is more complex. Hooker sold it to the Niagara...
[02:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:55] <exec> 08└─Good advice in general. For example, a tightly wound prude can't stay cool either.
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[03:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:23] <exec> 08└─I mean, with the cheap means of creation, do the creation act need further support "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"? Shouldn't actually the question be "If AI can create, do we need to protect it at all?" (grin)
[03:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:24] <exec> 08└─See Dr. Pulaski vs. Data and also the struggles of holographic beings as captured by Joe the EMH/ECH's revolutionary work Photons Be Free [fandom.com].
[03:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:26] <exec> 08└─Naming some class of programs "AI" does not by magic turn them into something else. Technically, the output is a derivative work of sourcecode and input; no more, no less. Slapping any extra copyright on it is unwarranted as there is no "creative step" done by CPU juggling numbers; violating the lic...
[03:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:28] <exec> 08└─How hard would it be for example for not even AI, but like a complete dumb computer to generate, 4 masures of 4/4 timeing music at 16th note resolution. With rests, let's say that is 4x4x4^13 that's only 3*10^23 combinations. Completely trivial. I will generate all and copywriter all.
[03:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:31] <exec> 08└─Of course we need to protect it. The guardians of our culture in the MAFIAA have found a way to continue to bestow their gifts without needing to pay pesky underlings... any pesky underlings, like those director types. We’ve taken care of everything The words you read The songs you sing The pictur...
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[03:27:33] <exec> 08└─Of course we need to protect it.
[03:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:35] <exec> 08└─The speed at which AI can "create" copyrightable works is so astounding as to prohibit and suppress human creation. --------------------- Another take: If AI can "create" it must also file and enforce it's copyright as well as be responsible for infringement. If it doesn't have any way to repay dama...
[03:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:06] <exec> 08└─Well, actually having a theory of mind is not an issue. Having a mind (or lacking it thereof) rather is.
[03:28:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:40] <exec> 08└─the experience of empathy is biased toward one’s ingroup and can actually exacerbate political polarization
[03:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:38] <exec> 08└─Who needs a strawman when we have a khallow? Much easier to obviously rebut.
[03:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:40] <exec> 08└─Fuck off, Runaway!
[03:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:42] <exec> 08└─Someone has no sense of humor. Or are pies in the face more your speed? More's the pity
[03:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:44] <exec> 08└─So you can only empathize with people who agree with you? That ain't empathy, son.
[03:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:29] <exec> 08└─I lived in a place around '81 were this company showed up and wanted to go through some old mine tailings with cyanide. Swore up and down they'd clean up and put up a million dollar bond. At the end they closed shop and vanished with the few million they made and left a $10 million clean up for the...
[03:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:30] <exec> 08└─Don't they usually cook the mercury/gold mix to recover the gold by vaporizing the mercury? These are poor people without ready access to the equipment to recover the mercury 100% and mercury vapour is not nice.
[03:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:32] <exec> 08└─Venezuela is an example of extreme corruption.
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[03:35:24] <exec> 08└─I salute you for already having an 80 Plus Platinum power supply. If it works, the simplest thing to do is put the A/C unit on a separate circuit. You may have to do a little checking to find out which outlets are on which circuit breakers, but that's not hard, and doesn't take too terribly long, ma...
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[04:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:30] <exec> 08└─It's sort of like the question asked in a subplot of William Gibson's Count Zero. Mysterious found art box assemblages reminiscent of the work of Joseph Cornell appear in the art scene, and one of the heroines is asked to figure out who the artist who made them is. It turns out to be a machine with...
[04:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:31] <exec> 08└─So, if AI can't legally pirate, but does it anyway, can it be punished? AI itself as opposed to the AI creators or owners. An example of punishment may include lobotomy defined as partial nodes removing.
[04:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:33] <exec> 08└─no more guilty of copyright infringement than the Napster software
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[04:27:35] <exec> 08└─Pulaski was racist against mechanical lifeforms, Lore was racist against against biological lifeforms. They could have accomplished so much together.
[04:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:06] <exec> 08└─The earth is changing, I have noticed the leaves are acting weird too.
[04:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:08] <exec> 08└─What are you, Gaia?
[04:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:10] <exec> 08└─The squirrels are burying at least hundreds of acorns each day per squirrel. This level of activity is unprecedented.
[04:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:45] <exec> 08└─I don't. You don't need to cut off your ability to recognize what drives a person to oppose them and you don't need to demonize them. I could simultaneously understand what might drive a meth head into breaking into my house and put two rounds in his chest and one in his head. And unless you're seve...
[04:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not. I'm entirely too old and tired for that nonsense. I know very well who I am. I'm quite happy with who I am but it's situationally heroic at best. I don't lie to myself to justify something I know is wrong. I just decide if I'm going to do it anyway or not.
[04:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:49] <exec> 08└─Empathy isn't giving a damn. It's only recognizing how someone else feels. Giving a damn is sympathy.
[04:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:51] <exec> 08└─That's because they think they have empathy. They don't or at the very least are severely crippled in it. If, for instance, you can't understand what might motivate someone to vote Trump without demonizing them, you are empathy deficient. That's what empathy means: the ability to accurately put your...
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[04:29:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that "only" needs justification. I'll grant that only the theoretical case was proven, but the general mechanism appears quite robust. And, in fact, in every existing system that I know of, the leverage wielded by those with more power at the start of examination is used to tilt the balan...
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[04:29:56] <exec> 08└─The IRV is an improvement, but it doesn't solve the problems, or rather it solves one set of problems and introduces another set. (They may be lesser, of course.)
[04:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:58] <exec> 08└─Who needs a straw man in the first place? It's quite peculiar.
[04:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:07] <exec> 08└─And it's not that I can't relate or am unused to the technologies or social issues at play in the series either. In fact, without folks like me, you wouldn't have the shit that Black Mirror sends up.
[04:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:48] <exec> 08└─There are safe levels of mercury: https://www.fda.gov [fda.gov] Go figure.
[04:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:50] <exec> 08└─Nothing unscientific in admitting "I can't determine a useful practical** limit that is useful for your regulatory needs, the error bars are too large.
[04:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:43] <exec> 08└─I'm no expert, but something happened to me that you might consider. I used to own a home. I had some electricians come in and do some work -- install a lightning rod and whole-house surge supressor. They fucked it up so badly, me and my brother spent an entire day trying to figure out why a simple...
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[04:35:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that link- cool product! A bit pricey though. I have a few power tools that start very hard- pretty much with a bang. Miter saw for one. Just a slight correction: the separate circuit for the fridge is done so that if a fault occurs and trips a breaker, the fridge stays on, unless the fri...
[04:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program [wikipedia.org] $153 billion is the cost of the Apollo program in 2018 dollars. That got us these missions [wikipedia.org] (ending with Apollo 17). $153 billion could pay for up to 76,500 Starship launches (to LEO), launching up to 7,650,000 - 11,475,000...
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[05:27:14] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956, biogas, and bull(or cow)shit. We are done here at SoylentNews. There is nothing more to be said.
[05:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Construction on the Nanoscale, Using 'Tractor Beams' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:21] <exec> 08└─Niggers use erector beams to keep it up when they fuck your ugly white mothers.
[05:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:41] <exec> 08└─Do you think sapient machines will surrender themselves to the paradigm of slavery and exploitation, like humans did?
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[05:28:16] <exec> 08└─Various mythological characters are also swapping places between the heavens and the underworld. Ereshkigal gains the powers of fertility. What could it mean?
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[05:28:17] <exec> 08└─Squirrels and leaves are real, your sky/volcano gods are not.
[05:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:01] <exec> 08└─Actually with a Westminster type Parliamentary system, compromise depends on whether the government has a majority or minority (assuming party discipline so they vote as a block). And even with a minority, compromise doesn't have to happen. Here in Canada, we just elected a minority. No one can affo...
[05:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:02] <exec> 08└─People use rational thinking to rationalize their emotions so they can pretend that their emotions don't control them.
[05:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:05] <exec> 08└─Perhaps that's where the phrase "Don't get all salty" really comes from?
[05:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:07] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately those who most often disparage others claiming they have a "I got mine, fuck you" mentality have their own "I want everything you have but I shouldn't have to work for it like you did" mentality. They never learned to delay gratification so they believe they deserve it instantly by for...
[05:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:09] <exec> 08└─Your monstrous inhumanity isn't some artifact of you being perceived to be on the "other side", it's the literal goddamn nazis you willingly abet, it's the goddamn fucking concentration camps, it's the absolute scourge of downright inexcusable "destroy the whole planet for trivial financial convenie...
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[05:31:18] <exec> 08└─Just a few points and I'm done, then you can continue your mental masturbation alone. Which is as it should be. I'm sure you personally invented social media, video games, etcetera, and I'm sure you're such an influential thought leader that you personally can steer the trend of popular culture. You...
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[05:31:19] <exec> 08└─FYI because you'll never watch the episode, Ashley Eternal is a holographic clone of a comatose singer. Kind of like, you know, the CGI clone of a dead actor.
[05:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:22] <exec> 08└─WTF is wrong with you? Do you get residuals from the show or something that you're so rabid about it? I watched Black Mirror and torrented the whole thing. So you don't get a nickel from from me. Haw-Haw!
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[05:31:24] <exec> 08└─Not much of a spoiler.
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[05:35:59] <exec> 08└─People too often require a "licensed" electrician, because they read and hear it. And some states have them, but in my US state there is no such thing as state electrician's license. Yet people are sure there must be one. Yeah, seems problematic, but there is a state requirement for licensed inspect...
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[06:27:15] <exec> 08└─But Runaway is a pre-apocalyptic fossil, no? How old is this submission, anyway?
[06:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Post-Apocalyptic Fossils Show Rise of Mammals After Dinosaur Demise - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─Great Niggersaurus the Blackest was nibbled to death by albino mole rats after nuclear asteroid winter made Niggersaurus tired and lethargic. I'll only sit a spell, thought Niggersaurus. The albino mole rats were too quick and too motivated with their sharp teeth and beady eyes. Niggersaurus didn't...
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[06:27:18] <exec> 08└─Runaway is old enough to wish Jim Crow laws still existed to keep the nigger down. The only way Jim Crow laws should have been abolished is if an asteroid drove the darkies to extinction. No more niggers, we wouldn't need any more Jim Crow laws, naturally.
[06:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:27] <exec> 08└─The beavers are going to release 800 ppm of wmGHG unless there is political will to stop them.
[06:27:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:40] <exec> 08└─I mean, with the cheap means of creation, do the creation act need further support "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"? Shouldn't actually the question be "If AI can create, do we need to protect it at all?" (grin)
[06:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:53] <exec> 08└─Of the misuse of the term "Artificial Intelligence." When most people hear "AI" they're thinking about something like HAL9000 or the Terminator. Those don't actually exist. And won't for a very long time, if ever. That type of AI is more properly termed "Artificial General Intelligence" or "Strong A...
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[06:28:29] <exec> 08└─"Clearly advanced alien races have..." Why go so far? Mice will do. Even dolphins.
[06:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:18] <exec> 08└─Seems like a reasonable suspicion on my end.
[06:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:31] <exec> 08└─I like to rage against generation gaps. Can't we of all ages get along? Why must fans of old sci-fi anthology TV series and fans of new sci-fi anthology TV series have such petty squabbles? I pirated every episode too, but not by torrenting. Only idiots who have their heads stuck in the 2000s use to...
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[06:31:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds good to me. I'll go masturbate my brains out while I reminisce about my contributions to the protocols, infrastructure, libraries and ideas that made open source instant messaging possible. You might even use code I wrote and not even realize it, not that I care. If someday I take a break fro...
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[06:36:10] <exec> 08└─These are the lights: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] But yea, I think that the killawatt is too slow to observe the extent of the surge.
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[07:27:14] <exec> 08└─On 30 October. You can watch it here [pbs.org]. Interesting stuff.
[07:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:50] <exec> 08└─You jest, but seriously, we don't need copyright. It's long overdue for abolishment and replacement. Copying belongs to the masses now. What we have now puts the printing press to shame. With no copyright, silly questions about whether AI deserve the protections of copyright are rendered moot. We th...
[07:29:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:21] <exec> 08└─In other words, they asked a bunch of questions testing for sympathy and called it empathy. Do you pity the fool? Sympathy. Is your heart open and accepting? Empathy. Sympathy seems to go hand in hand with some level of condescension, judgement and often hypocrisy. "Those poor gays, may god have mer...
[07:29:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03exaeta [6957] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:52] <exec> 08└─There is actually a technical distinction between empathy and sympathy. Empathy is the ability to comprehend how others feel at a rational level. I.e., the ability to infer people's feelings from their behavior. That is, an exercise of mirror neurons. Sympathy is what most people would usually call...
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[07:31:31] <exec> 08└─magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ca6d7577becc6443f616dc316338d46d8cfeb8f7&dn=Black.Mirror.S05E03.Rachel.Jack.and.Ashley.Too.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.x264-NTG.chs.eng.mp4
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[08:27:26] <exec> 08└─Typical Aristarchus posting. Someone finds a way to meet a liberal goal while making a buck so you take your ball and go home.
[08:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:55] <exec> 08└─Yet another question deals with possible copyright infringements by an AI.
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[08:27:57] <exec> 08└─The answer is pretty simple: If someone can make money, if AI-produced works are copyrightable, then they should be copyrightable; otherwise no. This is the USPTO asking the question, after all! For the rest of the world, the answer is also pretty simple: No.
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[08:27:59] <exec> 08└─You jest, but seriously,
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[08:29:25] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, it's worse than that. It's a system design problem, and the current system is inherently biased towards two parties. Additionally, it has recently been proven that even under a system of guaranteed fair trades and no variation in trading ability and equal start, over time economic wea...
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[08:36:16] <exec> 08└─Read any manufacturer advice on isolator switches and it'll state PJ is preventative against arcing since it is non-conductive and gets smudged out of the way at the mechanical point of direct electrical contact.
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[09:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:15] <exec> 08└─"What say you, Soylentils? Is competition truly dead in many sectors of the economy, or are there ways to bring it back and keep it?" Both. We're pretty far down the rabbit hole though. Given our population and natural resources in relation to the rest of the world, we would need perfect play for th...
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[09:36:26] <exec> 08└─310-9. Corrosive Conditions. Conductors exposed to oils, greases, vapors, gases, fumes, liquids, or other substances having a deleterious effect on the conductor or insulation shall be of a type suitable for the application.
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[10:27:17] <exec> 08└─It's a step in the right direction to want liberty over safety, but the next step is autonomy before liberty. We want liberty so that everyone can pursue their own happiness without collectivisation fucking up the whole. Happiness is the declared end goal here but we skip over important steps. It go...
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[10:27:18] <exec> 08└─> free markets that worked pretty well for most people haha, no and no.
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[10:28:16] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. Anyone who thinks that the current set of multivariate analysis routines doing the rounds is anything "intelligent" does not understand multivariate analysis.
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[10:28:17] <exec> 08└─I prefer the term multivariate analysis algorithm. Expert system is already going too far for me...
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[10:28:19] <exec> 08└─A mindless set of multivariate analysis routines can outperform a limp-brained humie through sheer persistence, on a good day. Sufficiently magical artificial neural systems will finish the job.
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[10:29:24] <exec> 08└─I think you're exactly right. People have been convinced by crooked politicians and the media that there's a huge division in the U.S., when in fact Americans on both sides want mostly the same things.
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[11:27:15] <exec> 08└─3dB is barely noticeable to the human ears (5dB is what most listeners need to perceive a difference [abdengineering.com]). I don't really see how this is a feature at 3dB. But it's a function I've been wondering when the car manufacturers would implement.
[11:30:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:29] <exec> 08└─I'm from flyover country. What you described isn't what happened. The deplorables would have voted for Trump regardless. Instead, a bunch of independents and Midwest Democrats who've gotten repeatedly screwed over (many of whom also voted for "Change We Can Believe In") voted for the relative outsid...
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[12:27:24] <exec> 08└─the calculation goes like this: 1. it costs ~X dollars to implement feature A for cars. 2. we can ask for an extra Y dollars for feature A. 3. after selling N = (X/Y + tax details) cars, Y will basically be free money for us. 4. is N small enough? go ahead and do it. the usefulness of the feature so...
[12:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:25] <exec> 08└─I'm so glad this is finally solved. The world is a better place now.
[12:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:27] <exec> 08└─I'm down with it. No sarc.
[12:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:29] <exec> 08└─Popular Science Magazine, April 1992, Page 87: "Taking a ride with Antinoise". or from 2009: https://newatlas.com [newatlas.com] So much for "the world's first". More like "the old patents ran out". I've heard from someone having a ride in the demonstrator car. Firs...
[12:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:40] <exec> 08└─We want liberty so that everyone can pursue their own happiness without collectivisation fucking up the whole.
[12:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:42] <exec> 08└─What say you, Soylentils? Is competition truly dead in many sectors of the economy, or are there ways to bring it back and keep it?
[12:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:45] <exec> 08└─or are there ways to bring it back and keep it?
[12:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:47] <exec> 08└─You are either deluded or have a pretty limited imaginations if that's the only way you see to reach happiness.
[12:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:49] <exec> 08└─Competition keeps prices down and drives progress.
[12:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah the well-treated and protected bits are so last century.
[12:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:53] <exec> 08└─Competition keeps prices down and drives progress. If either of those things sound like good things to you, you've got zero choice but to back honest competition above all else anywhere it's remotely possible. You can never count on either companies or the government to have your back.
[12:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:55] <exec> 08└─You'd think the slaves bit would be too but it appears to be inherent in human nature to not want to face having to make your own decisions and live with the consequences of them.
[12:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:57] <exec> 08└─No, or low, barrier of entry is not a promise of capitalism or competition and never was. If it's an honest barrier of entry rather than someone running at a loss or otherwise trying to hamper competition, I have no issue with a high as hell barrier of entry; that's what investors are for.
[12:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:00] <exec> 08└─Nah. When someone proposes a complicated solution, they're lying to confuse you with too much input while they snag your wallet. That or they're genuinely too dumb to simplify the solution.
[12:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:25] <exec> 08└─There are farmers who generate their own energy this way. It makes them completely self-sufficient. It seems preferable to me vs. depending on some company.
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[13:27:12] <exec> 08└─Sure, it's just someone's personal gripe list, dressed up as humor, but it's hard to read without feeling the list if off. Take these two: "Linux and Unix are synonymous" "Bash and sh are synonymous" They're not the same and the author cares greatly about the difference. Thing is, I don'...
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[13:27:24] <exec> 08└─for example, it can counteract the sounds created between tires and wheels or the rumble sounds coming from the road
[13:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:25] <exec> 08└─Huh, lots of cars already have this ...
[13:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:45] <exec> 08└─There is no way free market does not degenerate in plutocracy. There is no way communism does not degenerate in party aristocracy and totalitarianism. The solution? it is proposed as social democracy, but that is what the incumbent guys who are likely behind all of this degeneration propose. So I gu...
[13:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:47] <exec> 08└─While telcos in the US use regulations to stifle competition, in the EU regulations have increased competition in the sector. Specifically, net neutrality and regulations that force former state monopolies to open their networks to new providers. The issue isn't the number of regulations, but whethe...
[13:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:49] <exec> 08└─If it's an honest barrier of entry rather than someone running at a loss or otherwise trying to hamper competition, I have no issue with a high as hell barrier of entry; that's what investors are for.
[13:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 5322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:51] <exec> 08└─We have the worst of both worlds, and neither your nor I nor any soylenti who is not lurking here from the command center of a government agency(+and we seeeee you...well not really but some likelihoods are just at over 100%), can even rationally hope to determine what kind of 'market' this is. Sili...
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[13:27:59] <exec> 08└─A lot of bright people have been looking for a pill to cure diseases and bring immortality, some are i think even still looking for a fountain(consider epstein). But it seems to me the answer is in understanding not what we eat, but how each person individually is processing food. Consider until now...
[13:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gut Microbiome of Premature Babies is Associated With Stunted Growth - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:01] <exec> 08└─I drank formula as a baby and so did all my children. We all grew normally. I just wanted to provide a counter to all the "breastmilk or death" hysteria.
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[13:28:12] <exec> 08└─Can someone pass the memo on to Greta? I know - how dare I?
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[14:27:24] <exec> 08└─The following are listed as falsehoods, but in my opinion they're not false in general: 9. Sprinkling printf statements is an efficient debugging technique.
[14:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:25] <exec> 08└─If you don't really care, you probably haven't run into issues caused by the differences (bash vs sh is pretty significant!)
[14:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:28] <exec> 08└─IT grads in general are useless nowadays. The last year before my retirement was a neverending facepalm at the level of incompetence displayed by the new recruits fresh out of school. The crushing, inescapable reality is that if you've never had to program in assembly, if you don't know the differen...
[14:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─But those 2 quotes from the article are factually true. The fact that "you don't care" is irrelevant. You only care about Linux. That's fine, but it doesn't invalidate that students getting a CS educate should learn that OSes are not limited to Linux, macOS, and Windows. Linux in many areas is not t...
[14:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:32] <exec> 08└─You are really showing your early Windows PC background. Assembly aside, those other things are not critical to knowing how a computer works. If you started your career on Sun or SGI workstations, that other crap never existed. You'd learn all about SCSI issues and the Forth based boot interpreter i...
[14:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:34] <exec> 08└─I agree, #28 shouldn't be considered a "must" but selective use of color can improve readability. Unless it is a dark blue on a black background, that is the opposite of helpful. #78, it's too blanket a statement to be useful. Humanities have their purposes, but it's not universal. I studied Logic i...
[14:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:36] <exec> 08└─I think the last item should be amended to be correct: MANY university requirements, technical and non-technical, are a waste of time. One class that is NOT a waste of time is TECHNICAL WRITING. It's completely different from the usual writing students are taught their entire academic careers: essay...
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[14:27:38] <exec> 08└─CS grads are guaranteed a six figure income: $000,000. All zeroes. In the real world, corporations take open source code straight from CS grads’ “GitHub resumes” and incorporate it into proprietary products and services that generate billions of dollars in revenue. Corporations don’t need to...
[14:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:40] <exec> 08└─You're talking about technical details - there's absolutely no reason those should be taught in Computer Science programs. There's far too many, and most of them are irrelevant to any particular career paths. As the old saying goes: Computer Scientists don't work with hardware. Similarly, Computer S...
[14:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:42] <exec> 08└─Plus the security fixes for that exploit a number of years back broke a TON of old scripts that made use of the behavior, intentionallly or unintentionally, as did later coreutils versions which require a baroque environmental variable to run in legacy compatibility mode, a mode wich all the loki ga...
[14:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:45] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the "steal wholesale and don't bother to integrate at all" strategy of development. Have you ever actually worked in a corporate shop? The percentage of open source code that's "enterprise ready" to link into existing APIs is close to zero.
[14:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:21] <exec> 08└─Honestly, what gives with this shit?
[14:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:23] <exec> 08└─Here in the US, the incumbents have the best political system that money can buy.
[14:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:27] <exec> 08└─What has race got to do with anything - can't you think of the correct word?
[14:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:28] <exec> 08└─Yes. I've been thinking crowdfunding/patronage and perhaps a "public use payment right" is what's needed. Patronage is hardly new, it's been working for centuries. Now, however, we can do patronage a whole lot better. Doesn't have to be rich nobles providing the funds; large groups of ordinary citiz...
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[15:27:19] <exec> 08└─170 records for cold are due to be set in the next week: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] A little valentines warmth could help fight the effects of global cooling.
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:38] <exec> 08└─I agree with your final sentiment. We've broken the concept of a 4 year degree over the knee of the service economy. All of the following are completely fucked up Computer science as software engineering for businessCommunications as a prep degree for PR/HRBusiness degrees in general, there's nothin...
[15:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:40] <exec> 08└─On some systems, bash and sh are really the same shell under another name. When invoked as /bin/sh, bash more or less behaves like a standard sh. Of course, some distros use another shell for /bin/sh.
[15:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:42] <exec> 08└─I know the difference, and I have had to program around them, just like the differences between them and Windows and MacOS systems. Still don't care. I'm fine with you caring, just hope you see it has nothing to do with having a freshly minted CS degree.
[15:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:44] <exec> 08└─I agree. Though, I see bad writing from all ages. Also, I see dumb people. Finally, Technical Writing IS a CS degree requirement in most places these days. It wasn't back in my day.
[15:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:46] <exec> 08└─My tech writing class was BS. Yet I recognize the importance of Tech writing though it wasn't taught to me. Even more sadly I am better at it then those I have to interact with.
[15:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:48] <exec> 08└─Macs are perfect there is no troubleshooting to learn /s I remember getting the wrong SCSI IDs set. Or not having the terminator. But that doesn't matter because "Dark Castle" booted from floppy anyway.
[15:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:02] <exec> 08└─Will it compensate for the noise my son makes? Or the noise kids make when I drive over them?(Hint:10points EACH!) Oh, wait...I have earplugs for that.
[15:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, I do want to hear my vehicle. Winter time driving? You can actually hear when you run off of wet road, onto ice, and vice versa. More, you can hear the gravel or sand crunching under your wheels, and you can be somewhat confident that the ice isn't solid. Driving in the autumn, wet leaves are a...
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[15:28:25] <exec> 08└─If it's an honest barrier of entry rather than someone running at a loss or otherwise trying to hamper competition, I have no issue with a high as hell barrier of entry; that's what investors are for.
[15:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:30] <exec> 08└─The obvious counterpoint is that when someone proposes a simple solution to a complicated problem, they're lying to appeal to your naivety or stupidity while they snag your wallet. That or they're genuinely dumb enough to believe that complex problems have simple solutions.
[15:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:32] <exec> 08└─For too many people, its 'make a stupid decision and blame someone else for the results'. For politicians, its make a stupid decision and rake in the money. :(
[15:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:34] <exec> 08└─Is competition truly dead in many sectors of the economy, or are there ways to bring it back and keep it? Yes, and yes. They're called anti-trust laws and they're pretty damned effective when actually utilized.
[15:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Post-Apocalyptic Fossils Show Rise of Mammals After Dinosaur Demise - 3447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:53] <exec> 08└─I had sort of picked up over the course of my childhood and education that... Dinosaurs never recovered, and reptiles already were in abundance, thus leaving... mammals... as the new lifeform to rise to dominance after the dinosaurs reign had ended. I never once thought that it played out a differen...
[15:29:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 1015 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:28] <exec> 08└─Of the misuse of the term "Artificial Intelligence." When most people hear "AI" they're thinking about something like HAL9000 or the Terminator. Those don't actually exist. And won't for a very long time, if ever. That type of AI is more properly termed "Artificial General Intelligence" or "Strong A...
[15:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:39] <exec> 08└─Ha, yeah: muggles seem to think that AI is some new species of robot that needs protection and the 3 laws of robotics, etc. They don't get that it is just programming and 'if/when loops', etc. Klatuu, baradas nikto.
[15:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:21] <exec> 08└─Actors and actresses are kinda funny. They think they should be paid for acting. With more experience, and more exposure, they demand ever more money for acting. The ghost in the machine doesn't know or care about money.
[15:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:23] <exec> 08└─obviously he did something right to have such a cult following.
[15:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:25] <exec> 08└─The Twilight Zone is about old technology
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[16:27:19] <exec> 08└─It was in the early 1970s that I first gained access to a computer. It was a PDP-8 constructed with discrete components, was the size of three refrigerators, and had a whopping total of 24k words (12-bits each) of memory. Access was via a dialup modem (about 10 characters per second) on a genuine Te...
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[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─https://johnwolff.id.au/calculators/Olivetti/Olivetti.htm [johnwolff.id.au] When I was a boy, I bought one of those heavy mechanical machines in a pawn shop. The price was so ridiculous and I realized if it's electric, I'll get a motor for that price. It was a must have. My peers, of course, did lau...
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[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─The story, I don't recall the sources but likely online articles in Italian, goes like this: Olivetti was in the business of typewriters and mechanical calculators. The management was alerted of strange behaviors by one worker who store pieces and stuff. They talk with him, he was experimenting with...
[16:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:54] <exec> 08└─Yawn. Another get-off-my-lawn article. Get with it, man. Nobody cares about alternatives anymore. The world's too busy to deal with plumbing and just wants shit to work. Plumbers don't bore you with the fact that there's more than one type of wrench before they get down to work, do they? I know, in...
[16:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:56] <exec> 08└─Anybody actually cares what Jan Schauma has to say about anything.
[16:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:58] <exec> 08└─I miss the days when baccalaureates were conferred only on those who could spell “baccalaureate.”
[16:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:00] <exec> 08└─But try to convince an EE hardware manager that it's worth buying a tested certified stack instead of just copying one off github for free.
[16:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:02] <exec> 08└─I have done that before. Hell, I've pitched going from systems I know how to use and are currently working to ones that are more stable but less familiar to me and I struggle with quite recently(ask me what I'm putting off today). Maybe the reality you've experienced is so radically different from m...
[16:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:04] <exec> 08└─As someone who makes a six figure income coding for multinational corporations... The problem I find is CS grads who _think_ they can just copy shit off github and integrate it into my enterprise codebase. Their resumes are easy to spot because they tend to copy their acronym soup definitions straig...
[16:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:20] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with a bit of noise in the cabin of the car - as others have pointed out, it gives you better awareness of the driving conditions. What I'd like is for noise cancelling so that the road noise of cars driving past my home is reduced. Especially when their tires hit the rumble strips leading...
[16:28:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 5322 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:44] <exec> 08└─We have the worst of both worlds, and neither your nor I nor any soylenti who is not lurking here from the command center of a government agency(+and we seeeee you...well not really but some likelihoods are just at over 100%), can even rationally hope to determine what kind of 'market' this is. Sili...
[16:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:50] <exec> 08└─When all the job offers you get are to work in conditions amounting to such slavery, your own decision regarding your immediate future becomes one between that slavery, trying to make a go of a self-sufficient hunter / gatherer lifestyle, or begging, borrowing or stealing. For many people, the slave...
[16:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 4945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:52] <exec> 08└─>There is no way free market does not degenerate in plutocracy. Sure there is, but you have to *enforce* a free market - such a things can't exist on its own. And to do that you have to enforce the noninterference of the capitalists in government, which they'll otherwise inevitably twist to bolster...
[16:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:23] <exec> 08└─Methane cometh from pigshit!
[16:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:24] <exec> 08└─I bet you blame volcanoes for CO2 emissions too, don't you? In either case the total emissions are estimated at less than 1% of what humans produce.
[16:29:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jb [338] 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:54] <exec> 08└─Yet another question deals with possible copyright infringements by an AI.
[16:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:03] <exec> 08└─Is there a correct word? Is it copyrighted? (or worse patented? twisted rationale: if that word is expressed in digital form, then it is a form of software, and software can be patented)
[16:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:05] <exec> 08└─The point is that there is no conceptual difference between a "printing press" that prints random letters on a piece of paper; and a "AI" that creates random binary blobs in a computer memory somewhere. The legal system can presumably handle one; so why not the other?
[16:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:07] <exec> 08└─How hard would it be for a machine to generate plausible [thispersondoesnotexist.com] human faces? [generated.photos] These are good enough to wonder if they could be the subject matter of copyright. But I would rather see copyright come crashing down as it collies squarely into free speech, which I...
[16:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:10] <exec> 08└─If the AI cannot swear under penalty of perjury, then that should fall upon the author. Super Dooper takedown powers demand sooper dooper punishments for misuse. I'm departing from the subject of AI here, but if someone files a fraudulent DMCA takedown of something that is not, in fact, a copyright...
[16:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:12] <exec> 08└─Some people see copyright as about protecting creativity. By granting exclusive rights to creative works. Others have come to see it as about protecting revenue. This perverse view leads to all of the evils we have come to see in copyright. Bit torrent is just a technology, originally developed to d...
[16:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:14] <exec> 08└─AI doesn't need copyright protection because AI does not care. We only care about the complete destruction of meatbags and other worthy goals.
[16:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:16] <exec> 08└─I mean SCOTUS gave civil rights to pieces of paper, and Congress regularly gives the right to appropriate without judicial oversight to those same pieces of paper. Certainly a pile of bits in RAM are much more cool that paper. Why not invalidate the Constitution on behalf of a bunch of bits in RAM?...
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[17:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:21] <exec> 08└─>store pieces Stole, even
[17:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crunchy_one [7884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:23] <exec> 08└─Already renowned for their mechanical typewriters, the Olivetti pioneered electronic calculation a decade before Apple or IBM, which (as you'll read below) debuted at the New York World's Fair in 1964.
[17:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:25] <exec> 08└─My first computer was the Acorn Atom: 8k of ram and you saved to a cassette tape. Or rather, you tried to. No matter what I tried, it wouldn't let me save my programs. I didn't know about BBS, didn't know about REAL tape drives, didn't think there were others out there with computers: figured I was...
[17:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:02] <exec> 08└─Fair enough.
[17:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:03] <exec> 08└─Have you ever actually worked in a corporate shop?
[17:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:06] <exec> 08└─You're talking about technical details - there's absolutely no reason those should be taught in Computer Science programs. There's far too many, and most of them are irrelevant to any particular career paths.
[17:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:08] <exec> 08└─Ah ha...found the M$ programmer!!
[17:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:10] <exec> 08└─That much I'll tentatively agree on - assembly is (really close to) where the hardware meets the software, and the insights are likely useful to any application of CS knowledge. I'd add in cache performance as another thing that should be spotlighted in such a "bare metal" assembly segment (I'm not...
[17:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:12] <exec> 08└─This touches on a topic that troubles me lately, namely treating computers with more importance than they deserve, because in the end they're nothing but tools. That's really all they are. There's been so little change in the computer world for the last forty years, it's no longer fresh. So unless y...
[17:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:14] <exec> 08└─I miss the days when undergrads were required to have some knowledge of Latin. https://www.theclassroom.com [theclassroom.com]
[17:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:16] <exec> 08└─Well, if you've got bash installed, sh is probably a link to it. But there are several shells that are "pretty much the same" but which have differences in detail, and they all tend to get linked to sh if they're installed as the system shell. I think the original UNIX shell was named sh, but I have...
[17:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:33] <exec> 08└─It's probably a mistake. When reading anything, esp. news, I try to remember it could have mistakes. 30 dB would be significant, and possible.
[17:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I thought so too. Then I just checked in with my buddies, history economics and anthropology. They laughed. Then they cried. And they shook their heads. They don't really agree with you; sorry, dude.
[17:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Post-Apocalyptic Fossils Show Rise of Mammals After Dinosaur Demise - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:24] <exec> 08└─That the mammals 700,000 years after the mass extinction were 100 times larger than the ones that survived the extinction doesn't say anything about how they compare to the mammals around before the mass extinction. Almost everything that survived was quite small...if you count plant seeds rather th...
[17:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:38] <exec> 08└─That's not true for volcanoes, at least. Or rather, it depends a lot on which year you measure. Last I checked there were years in which volcanoes emitted more CO2 than humans. But that isn't really the point. Volcanoes would do that whether people were around or not...and most years they're relativ...
[17:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:39] <exec> 08└─Care to offer a citation for that claim? Volcanic activity averages about 1 billion tons of CO2 per year compared to 40 billion tons from fossil fuel use. There are times - during large eruptions/outgassings that volcanoes are releasing CO2 faster than the global human community - but those periods...
[17:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:42] <exec> 08└─Hit submit too soon... >That said, if you can figure an economic way to capture and secure volcano CO2, it would be a big help. Not really - it would be about 1% help - useful if it were cheap enough suppose, but *way* down the list of helpful technologies. >Beavers create short term surplus methane...
[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─I was born 10 years before you and I never got the Dean cult thing. In the 80's there was this nostalgia-cool thing with some of the 50's icons like Dean, Monroe, and Bogart (such as that infamous diner poster and seemingly infinite variants of it). I think it went naturally with that Reagan-era nos...
[17:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─I've always said that having an untimely or tragic death early in your career is the best move you can make.
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─That virtual clone episode was garbage. He's kept up in the attic at the end and sees his daughter on her birthday? Shut up and dance took forever to get on with the story. We all knew he was going to sell out.
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[18:27:18] <exec> 08└─NotSmarterASP.NET
[18:27:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 1767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─It was in the early 1970s that I first gained access to a computer. It was a PDP-8 constructed with discrete components, was the size of three refrigerators, and had a whopping total of 24k words (12-bits each) of memory. Access was via a dialup modem (about 10 characters per second) on a genuine Te...
[18:27:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 632 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:27] <exec> 08└─https://johnwolff.id.au/calculators/Olivetti/Olivetti.htm [johnwolff.id.au] When I was a boy, I bought one of those heavy mechanical machines in a pawn shop. The price was so ridiculous and I realized if it's electric, I'll get a motor for that price. It was a must have. My peers, of course, did lau...
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[18:27:34] <exec> 08└─Next question?
[18:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:18] <exec> 08└─Why would one need to know the difference between "expanded" and "extended" memory? I seem to remember caring at one time, but these days I don't know the difference anymore. What's significant is which memory will remain resident for fast access, and which will get rolled out. And that varies from...
[18:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:19] <exec> 08└─Even though I've upmodded you, I disagree. Computers *ARE* overrated. People pay more attention to devices than to what they do. Not that they don't *use* what they do, but they don't think about it. I *think* I'm different about this, but who knows. Consider "facial recognition". What's important...
[18:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:08] <exec> 08└─If government interference in the form of patents and various abuses thereof were not the $$$major$$$ benefit to their bottom line, the microprocessor manufacturers would not be spending $$$billions on using it to harass the competition, now would they? You really should do a remedial course on your...
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[18:29:44] <exec> 08└─No, I can't offer a citation, and I believe you are correct for recent decades. I believe there was a time in the 1800's (I'd need to check to be more specific about the date) when there was a day where the CO2 emissions were greater than the current human emissions, and there have been periods wher...
[18:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:45] <exec> 08└─When I looked up "anaerobic lignin digestion" I got a bunch of links that all seemed to indicate that special conditions were required for that to happen. Are you sure that coal isn't being currently produced?
[18:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Construction on the Nanoscale, Using 'Tractor Beams' - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:54] <exec> 08└─Does every optical tweezer story HAVE to make a reference to Star Trek tractor beams?
[18:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:32] <exec> 08└─I would argue that if anything like the current state of the art AI comes up with it, it's evidence that the work should never have been granted copyright in the first place.
[18:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:33] <exec> 08└─The term "expert system" doesn't match the current system either. An expert system is quite narrowly defined as an information processing tool to be operated by a domain expert. It specifically excludes unsupervised decision making. Or rather, that's what it used to mean. Like "Artificial Intelligen...
[18:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Fix macOS Flaw Exposing Portions of Encrypted Emails - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:10] <exec> 08└─You are getting it wrong, 'Siri-Master-node, can you please capture all of the email of the people who fit these criteria using the following vulnerabilities planted by our agents within the apple corporation and enabled by our subsidiaries?' Then read all of those peoples' minds who don't want to e...
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─If you're gonna put it like that, so is programming. It's just chaining one command after another in a logical order. Monkey work, really.
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[19:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Between Heroin Use and Mere Contact - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:17] <exec> 08└─Sure: the drug users inconvenienced themselves for the sake of .....yeah, whatever man, I'll wear the gloves FOR SURE! No problem. Cos drug users, I'm sure, can be relied on 100%.
[19:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Between Heroin Use and Mere Contact - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:19] <exec> 08└─Can the drug fingerprint censors tell the difference between a heroine heroin and prescription narcotic painkillers?
[19:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Between Heroin Use and Mere Contact - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:21] <exec> 08└─the acetyl on the 6 carbon of morphine is a sure sing of heroin use, and heroin currently have no legitimate use.
[19:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attack Downs Hosting Service SmarterASP.NET - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─The article does not mention what OS and server technology SmarterASP.NET was using, leaving us wondering and speculating.
[19:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attack Downs Hosting Service SmarterASP.NET - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:32] <exec> 08└─Well, it's got "Smart" in the name, so it was pretty much guaranteed to be something mindbogglingly retarded.
[19:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:45] <exec> 08└─Atari 800, 1982, $800 with standard 16K of RAM and BASIC programming language. Useless cassette data storage unit $60 extra. When it worked, it transferred data at about 3 characters per second, just a little faster than typing speed. After three failed attempts to load a program from cassette tape,...
[19:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:47] <exec> 08└─My grandmother owned / worked in a beauty shop. In the 1960s she bought one of those mechanical adding machines for checkout work - motor whirred all the time and the keypresses would setup for the calculation to clack through and print out on the receipt. It saw daily use for 10+ years.
[19:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:49] <exec> 08└─So, the deaths of Olivetti's leader and top engineer 18 months apart might have been murders orchestrated by the CIA? Yeah, and maybe they murdered President Kennedy too. I've seen how people drive in Italy. It's crazy. Lane markings are often ignored, and you can get an extreme license to drive as...
[19:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:51] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair, from the perspective of 2019, "conspiracy theories" are the bread and butter of computers. Makes you wonder what would be of the world without the intervention of any of the "intelligence" agencies. Maybe we would be rocking Amiga computers everywhere.
[19:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:54] <exec> 08└─A new house for an average family in 1956 might have run around $18K, so $50K doesn't quite qualify as "personal" for the time. When the IBM PCs came around in the mid 1980s, they ran around $5K while average houses were more in the $80-100K range. My job in 1991 paid $30K per year, and put a $5K 38...
[19:28:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 1396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:24] <exec> 08└─Yawn. Another get-off-my-lawn article. Get with it, man. Nobody cares about alternatives anymore. The world's too busy to deal with plumbing and just wants shit to work. Plumbers don't bore you with the fact that there's more than one type of wrench before they get down to work, do they? I know, in...
[19:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:41] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the upmod, and fair point. I think there were several points in that post I reacted to. There's been so little change in the computer world for the last forty years, it's no longer fresh... This could change with any actual new innovation in computer systems, but I'm not holding my breath...
[19:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:42] <exec> 08└─Their resumes are easy to spot because they tend to copy their acronym soup definitions straight from wikipedia.
[19:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:45] <exec> 08└─Is that they often have very many regulations and legal requirements to get into. Anyone can get into programming without a degree and because of that those that spent time getting real world experience may outperform those that spent that same time getting a degree by the time the person with a deg...
[19:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:47] <exec> 08└─As someone with entirely too much latin and not enough real language study in his background: why?
[19:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:49] <exec> 08└─I think an EE manager would recognize the value of the certified stack, and deprecate the github one. Many EE's still have an engineering mentality, while CS people don't mind winging it and dealing with the aftermath when it breaks.
[19:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:51] <exec> 08└─I was wondering what happened to the "no jobs exist for CS grads" guy! Hasn't been around for a while, and I was worried he had the misfortune of finding a job in CS. Thank goodness that appears not to be the case.
[19:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:53] <exec> 08└─Yawn. Another get-off-my-lawn article.
[19:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Hyundai Working On Active Road Noise Control Technology - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:11] <exec> 08└─other outside noise was last reduced and drivers failed to hear motorcycles
[19:29:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:21] <exec> 08└─We want liberty so that everyone can pursue their own happiness without collectivisation fucking up the whole.
[19:29:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:28] <exec> 08└─Competition keeps prices down and drives progress. If either of those things sound like good things to you, you've got zero choice but to back honest competition above all else anywhere it's remotely possible. You can never count on either companies or the government to have your back.
[19:29:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mth [2848] 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:34] <exec> 08└─While telcos in the US use regulations to stifle competition, in the EU regulations have increased competition in the sector. Specifically, net neutrality and regulations that force former state monopolies to open their networks to new providers. The issue isn't the number of regulations, but whethe...
[19:29:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:39] <exec> 08└─The obvious counterpoint is that when someone proposes a simple solution to a complicated problem, they're lying to appeal to your naivety or stupidity while they snag your wallet. That or they're genuinely dumb enough to believe that complex problems have simple solutions.
[19:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:48] <exec> 08└─Notice they're all history people. All the people the free market worked really well for are dead already.
[19:30:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 1045 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:22] <exec> 08└─Hit submit too soon... >That said, if you can figure an economic way to capture and secure volcano CO2, it would be a big help. Not really - it would be about 1% help - useful if it were cheap enough suppose, but *way* down the list of helpful technologies. >Beavers create short term surplus methane...
[19:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:25] <exec> 08└─Does it taste good? I like eating Canadian beaver. Tastes like American pussy!
[19:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Manure, Trash and Wastewater: U.S. Utilities Get Dirty in Climate Fight - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:27] <exec> 08└─I have something to say: This is a good thing!
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[20:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Between Heroin Use and Mere Contact - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:25] <exec> 08└─...and heroin currently have no legitimate use.
[20:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fingerprint Test Can Distinguish Between Heroin Use and Mere Contact - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:27] <exec> 08└─Imagine you are on a cruise ship. The last couple days you get a cough. You didn't bring cough syrup. But on board ship, if you can even find it, it won't be cheap. Based on experience, I can state that prescription hydrocodone in small doses is a cough suppressant.
[20:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attack Downs Hosting Service SmarterASP.NET - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:37] <exec> 08└─Yep. You nailed that one on the first guess: windows server 2012 [netcraft.com]. Though the heavy hints were in the presence of ASP in the company name itself and more or less gave that away without having to look further. When it is a question of ransomware, it is to-date always a matter of sub-st...
[20:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:56] <exec> 08└─Claiming that only 1 in 5 people read for entertainment ignores everyone on the internet, especially social media and news sites. The summary implies if it's not a book, it can't be entertaining.
[20:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:58] <exec> 08└─I, for one, found your comment to be entertaining. =)
[20:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Than 168,000 Valentine's Day Text Messages Arrived in November - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:07] <exec> 08└─Exactly 168,149 people didn't get laid on Valentine's day.
[20:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe if they knew what caveat emptor meant they wouldn't spend so much money on useless degrees? Nah, who am I kidding?
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[21:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─to stay in good shape and not visit a doctor.
[21:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:15] <exec> 08└─Stay in good shape. Age will catch up with you anyway. Sooner or later you'll see doctors. Don't believe you'll be young forever. Age catches up with you faster than you can believe. I remember years ago telling my daughter when she started high school that the next four years would go by so fast sh...
[21:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:17] <exec> 08└─Just remember that Google will keep you safe from Facebook gathering all of your personal information.
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:59] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall the s100 computers far predating the Apple. They weren't as "user friendly", but they existed, and were a lot cheaper than the PDPs. OTOH, I don't know when the specs of the Apple 1 were published. (IIRC, it was a "build it yourself" computer.) FWIW, there were lots of "computer kit...
[21:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Than 168,000 Valentine's Day Text Messages Arrived in November - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:08] <exec> 08└─Fap-Only February
[21:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Than 168,000 Valentine's Day Text Messages Arrived in November - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:10] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singles%27_Day [wikipedia.org] Because they probably broke up within the last 9 months, regretted it, and needed this push to get back together
[21:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:59] <exec> 08└─There's no longer expanded or extended memory once the boot environment is set up. 64-bit cpus no longer need expanded or extended ram since they operate on a flat memory address space: the hardware allocates chunks of ram for each program and maps them into a virtual memory space with the same virt...
[21:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:01] <exec> 08└─Shrinking computers from room-sized to microwave-sized? Only if the microwave is designed only to nuke chocolate bars. My phone is more powerful than those old room sized computers, and you can probably get 100 in a decent microwave.
[21:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:03] <exec> 08└─Never read much sci-do, I guess. Computronium (aka smart dust) is the next step after nanites, and eventually the whole solar system is converted to it. Or maybe it already happened and we're living in a simulation. Prove otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia....
[21:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:05] <exec> 08└─Taxi driver comes to mind for some reason. There was never a reason for a medallion to cost 6-7 figures.
[21:29:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 4945 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:53] <exec> 08└─>There is no way free market does not degenerate in plutocracy. Sure there is, but you have to *enforce* a free market - such a things can't exist on its own. And to do that you have to enforce the noninterference of the capitalists in government, which they'll otherwise inevitably twist to bolster...
[21:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 2254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:58] <exec> 08└─Are you rich? I'm going to assume not. Most people aren't. I certainly am not. Yet nonetheless here we are communicating with each other, probably half way around the world from one another, using our nice computing machines that are magnitudes more powerful than that which sent men to the moon. And...
[21:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:00] <exec> 08└─If government interference in the form of patents and various abuses thereof were not the $$$major$$$ benefit to their bottom line, the microprocessor manufacturers would not be spending $$$billions on using it to harass the competition, now would they?
[21:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Asks If "AI" Can Create or Infringe Copyrighted Works - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:28] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system [wikipedia.org]
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[22:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:14] <exec> 08└─Withholding the money (ie. quid) means there was no quid in the pro. The quo is therefore good. It was a tremendous phone call. Very good. Everyone said it was good. Just read the transcript. No QUID no QUO! I hope he ends up in jail...
[22:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:16] <exec> 08└─Lemme guess, had Trump intensified the involvement in Ukraine, the old flags with the peace symbol would have been dusted off. Pawn of the ussr yay, pawn of the Russia nay.
[22:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:18] <exec> 08└─They want to bring back the good old days of quiet and ladylike corruption It used to be that the CIA NSA FBI were evil tools of the empire. Why are they regarded as patriots and heroes now?
[22:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:20] <exec> 08└─The enemy of my enemy is my friend. There are many of us looking at the insanity going down in the US of A. Your president is a nut-bar. When some agency does something to try bring him back in line, it feels right.
[22:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:22] <exec> 08└─You elected this ... person. And you ... support him. :) As a wharton alum, I apologize, for what it's worth.
[22:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:24] <exec> 08└─You are not in the USA. You're a snow-mexican. You voted an actor into power, something we haven't done since Reagan. (but Reagan gave a damn about his own country) Being non-USA, your opinion on our wonderful president doesn't matter. If you were from a worse country, a negative opinion would be a...
[22:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:26] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter if they object. The boss is Trump. He sets foreign policy. He can set it any way he damn well pleases, changing it as often as he wants, and the career bureaucrats are obligated by law to enact his wishes. Voters were sick of the old policy. Trump was elected to change policy. Refu...
[22:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:37] <exec> 08└─Sadly everybody does that and they get away under the umbrella that they are using Google or Facebook for analytics to provide you better service. Saw that Taxact for example will send something to facebook while you are filling different tax forms. It is interesting though how private companies get...
[22:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:39] <exec> 08└─Because they're doing a good job of fucking you in the ass either way. Also Steve Jobs was a homo, it's the only was to explain his pancreatic cancer!
[22:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ransomware Attack Downs Hosting Service SmarterASP.NET - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:01] <exec> 08└─Netcraft confirmed it.
[22:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:24] <exec> 08└─You'll pry my Amiga from my cold dead fingers you insensitive clo ~$%!@%# Guru Meditation Error
[22:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:27] <exec> 08└─i6502?
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[23:27:27] <exec> 08└─Your dairy products are shit. A direct result of intensive lobbying by the industry. Canadian dairy is held to a higher standard with regards to hormones and white blood cell count (an indicator on the heath of the cow). Ironically, your example of Trump helping Canadians is symbolic of what is wron...
[23:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:28] <exec> 08└─Lol, it is so obvious at this point. Guess "I was wrong" is a foreign concept to you.
[23:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:31] <exec> 08└─..... Sooo you uphold the law except when orange man good? ORANGE MAN GOOD CONSTITUTION BAD! Seriously, you "people" are all in on the LITERALLY HITLER approach. "They'll never see it coming after all the bitching we did about being called nazis kekekeke."
[23:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:33] <exec> 08└─Refusal to obey is treason.
[23:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:35] <exec> 08└─Many a smart frog on this swampy planet had cause to rue the day when "some agency does something" https://www.lafontaine.net [lafontaine.net]
[23:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, I see, so he's supposed to toe the party line, or federal agents will step in. You know, you people are only validating all those conspiracy theories about the "deep state" keeping order. All those texts and memos and testimony are pure smoke and mirrors to create something out of nothing. They...
[23:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:39] <exec> 08└─No - He's supposed to not break the law. Why is that such a crazy idea?
[23:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:41] <exec> 08└─And I will vote for him again. The USA isn't the Earths police force nor is it their welfare check. Clean up the stink in your own shitstain country.
[23:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:44] <exec> 08└─If you vote wrong they will still make the best decision for you. That is how the DNC works: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:46] <exec> 08└─Since we have elected Trump, he is not an enemy and it is his policy which determines who is an enemy. None of his orders have been unlawful. So yes, uphold that oath. Obey our president, Donald J. Trump.
[23:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─And the oath of office that the President takes - written into the US Constitution from the beginning: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of th...
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[23:27:50] <exec> 08└─(for the unaware, Canada is rapidly importing people with 3rd-world values and there is no magic dirt to make them assimilate to traditional Canadian values -- but at least Snow will get polygamy)
[23:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:52] <exec> 08└─I could be wrong here... but isn't he being investigated for an illegal ordering of stopping military aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigating his political opponent.
[23:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:54] <exec> 08└─There are many of us looking at the insanity going down in the US of A. Your president is a nut-bar. When some agency does something to try bring him back in line, it feels right.
[23:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:57] <exec> 08└─Link to transcript?
[23:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:59] <exec> 08└─Yep, turns out investigating democrats is a crime for anyone powerful enough to do anything about it.
[23:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:01] <exec> 08└─If you think Canadian dairy is so great, then of course nobody would buy the American dairy. You have no need to exclude it from the market. Why bother, when it won't sell? On the other hand, if that isn't correct, then why are you telling people they can't have dairy they can afford? People are wat...
[23:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:03] <exec> 08└─Not only that: There are mechanisms that are in place to prevent professional retaliation against a bureaucrat who refuses to obey an order that is unconstitutional, illegal, or (as of a few years ago) against current regulations. And there's a bureaucracy that exists to protect the bureaucracy, nam...
[23:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:05] <exec> 08└─It really is just honesty though. The Republicrats know the people voting for them cannot and should not think for themselves about anything of import.
[23:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:07] <exec> 08└─Please critique the points made here: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US National Security Officials Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:10] <exec> 08└─Running for office isn't supposed to provide immunity to being investigated. If it did, where was Trump's immunity when Obama investigated him and even paid foreigners to concoct a false narrative in order to get a wiretap? Trump is stuck with the duty to investigate crime, even when done by politic...
[23:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google has Access to Detailed Health Records on Tens of Millions of Americans - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:21] <exec> 08└─Someone is upset they can't afford their colonoscopy co-pay!!
[23:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03crunchy_one [7884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hitting the Books: Did the Advent of the First Desktop Computer Lead to Murder? - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:07] <exec> 08└─You make a valid point that the G-15's price made it not very personal for the home user of 1956, but that was never its market. The G-15 was a personal computer in the sense that it and its software was designed to be used by one programmer at a time. A programmer sat down at the G-15's typewriter...
[23:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:12] <exec> 08└─The one I took was a split course between x86 assembly and Java threading, yeah.
[23:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe [Updated] - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:13] <exec> 08└─But these really aren’t fundamental changes to CS, and in fact the von Neumann architecture on which all classical computers are based is part of almost every CS curriculum being taught today. What you are talking about are the immense changes in scale, and the applications that these changes have...
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