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[00:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:40] <exec> 08└─4 years ago, anybody who said that the NSA was spying on everybody was a conspiracy theorist.
[00:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:44] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that there's many problems.
[00:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:46] <exec> 08└─impartially researching her claims
[00:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:48] <exec> 08└─Is "conspiracy theorist" the new "terrorist," "pedophile," or "racist?" Some people would like to think so. Conspiracy Theory [imdb.com] is a good movie, by the way. And features Captain Jean-Luc Piccard [wordpress.com] as a sadistic corporate closet-torturer.
[00:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Not a conspiracy theory - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:49] <exec> 08└─A conspiracy faith.
[00:47:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:57] <exec> 08└─But authoritarian structures are easier to implement and psychopaths are great at getting into positions of power, and they don't mind knocking down the company to get ahead within it.
[00:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:19] <exec> 08└─The field progresses and make books obsolete. And American authors in too many cases gets paid by the line and cater to less engaged students and it shows.
[00:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02What about participation rates? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:35] <exec> 08└─How many more people are taking classes online that were left out of traditional classes? If you have an 11% higher dropout rate but can serve a bunch of people, that's still more people overall graduating. Lies, damn lies, statistics, and silly pointless statistics.
[00:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 2096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:58] <exec> 08└─Couple of problems tho.... No air for all those Internal Combustion Engines. No long term zero maintenance engine technology. Nuclear? Have you seen the amount of maintenance they require. No maintenance for all those machines, even the simple ones. No GPS system to guide all those automated trains...
[00:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just avoiding disaster, potential resource - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:59] <exec> 08└─> willing to play cosmic billiards with the entire population of earth quivering in a corner pocket "wait, did you use metric or US units?"
[00:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:$500 phones - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:12] <exec> 08└─Sheeple can't wakeup. There's no higher state to wake up to ;)
[00:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Independence needed - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:13] <exec> 08└─There needs to be a way for computerphones ie "smart" phone users to change operating system to whatever they want. Current scheme tells users it voids warranty. It's all bullshit. Signed code execution where you don't get to set your own signing key is hostile. And firmware that does the same is al...
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[01:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Profit, not revenue. - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:31] <exec> 08└─> Comcast continues to generate significantly more revenue from its video business than from broadband. Profit, not revenue, is what matters. For video they have to pay a bunch of money to the channel owners. With broadband they get to keep it all for themselves.
[01:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Profit, not revenue. - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:32] <exec> 08└─Mod parent up. (See, I do read AC's once in a while.) With broadband, they my have some upstream costs for their backbone connections, but when you are the size of Comcast you usually own much of those as well. But studios and the TV networks demand payments (even while feeding you advertising) from...
[01:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Profit, not revenue. - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:34] <exec> 08└─Oh, and kudos to Takyon for bundling these two stories into one. I worried when I saw two in the queue, as I realize not everybody gives a rip about Comcast. Specially our Euro Soylentils.
[01:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Old news - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:36] <exec> 08└─As far as I can remember, the last time that I had cable TV was about ten years ago. Somehow it always wound up costing at least $75 a month, and delivering very little that was actually worth paying for. (If you're a sports geek your mileage may vary.) For us it boils down to: - DVDs from the libra...
[01:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02So comcast is still around? - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:37] <exec> 08└─It's bug! Comcast needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Let's read all about good plots to devour that corporation.. (oh and 2 Gbit/s fiber.. it's not at the edge since years)
[01:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:48] <exec> 08└─Unless the study tells them exactly what they want to hear.
[01:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:53] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that she's the load her mother should have swallowed.
[01:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Not a conspiracy theory - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:57] <exec> 08└─I like this. A theory is something that is testable. Conspiracy "theories" are not theories. They are a "con", however.
[01:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) is an anti-vaxxer - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:58] <exec> 08└─I guess that settles it [politico.com].
[01:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03middlemen [504] (Score:2) 02Re:Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) is an anti-vaxxer - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:00] <exec> 08└─Michelle Bachmann has autism ? That explains her !!!
[01:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:managers are for removing obstacles - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 1765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:12] <exec> 08└─When I was at Chevron, my boss' had a MBWA [allacronyms.com] style. He did not want to disrupt us from doing what we had to do. So he would drop by occasionally, several times a day, with a "how's it going?" - and that's about it. If we had anything that was hindering us, we would speak up, and he w...
[01:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:managers are for removing obstacles - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:13] <exec> 08└─So he would drop by occasionally, several times a day, with a "how's it going?"
[01:48:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] 02As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 889 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:15] <exec> 08└─I was a successful manager in an IT job for the last few years before I retired - peak employee count was about 150. My statement, in an all-hands meeting when I assumed leadership, went like this: I'm your new manager. My job is to help you do your jobs as well as you can. If you need resources, in...
[01:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:19] <exec> 08└─Find another source of income?
[01:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score:1) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:20] <exec> 08└─Living high off the hog on retirement savings fed in part by performance bonuses. And the last few jobs were in Northern VA as a contractor to the gummint, not the mid-west.
[01:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:22] <exec> 08└─Me too. I was thoroughly spoiled. I was never able to revert back to a "subordinate" relationship of doing things I felt was the wrong way just because someone said so. I felt I was an engineer and as such totally responsible for what I was doing. It's like working on my car. I know I easily cross-...
[01:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:35] <exec> 08└─No, you're retarded. That kind of thing doesn't happen in Newton-tier maths. Chances are that it's the socially retarded academics proofing those ineffective books. The Folks who proof texts do so because they can't get jobs in the real world working with common sense.
[01:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:36] <exec> 08└─And a surprising number of those text books were written by the guy teaching the class, (or the guy to whom the teaching assistant reports). Even in smaller universities, every professor seemed to have a book they wrote and which they coerce you into buying. But at least you had SOMETHING in hand. I...
[01:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Invasion of Immigrants - 06Lawmakers in France Move to Vastly Expand Surveillance - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:53] <exec> 08└─When someone with controversial messages suddenly becomes a soft little lamb, look for a coercive, threatening influence. Her new message sounds like that of a prisoner of war, desperately trying to lick the hand holding her chains for a few extra grains of rice.
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[02:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:58] <exec> 08└─Mel Gibson's face looks a little like a young Bruce Campbell on the imdb poster/box art.
[02:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02I find your shortage of sceptisism disturbing. - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 1804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:03] <exec> 08└─It's common knowledge that the CDC is corrupt, and so too is the American Medical Association and World Health Organization also compromised by big pharma. I could go into it, but if you don't know this, then you haven't done any research. Protip: You can't count on the corporate sponsored news to d...
[02:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:26] <exec> 08└─I presently work for a manager who sees his employees as either a threat, or a waste of money. I work in a regional television station in Oceania. If we don't know how to perform a task and go to this guy, it's "not my problem". He does genius things like assign IT staff to engineering tasks and the...
[02:48:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tramii [920] 02Re:Cos you know, paying just isn't enough nowadays - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:48:29] <exec> 08└─Business owners have every right to run their companies into the ground. And this is often what they do. Even many of the "successful" companies you see today only keep afloat because their competition is even more idiotic than they are. When you treat your employees like fools, they tend to act lik...
[02:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:What about participation rates? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:00] <exec> 08└─that's still more people overall graduating.
[02:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't want to upgrade - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:50:29] <exec> 08└─Exactly. One more thing to worry about, right? You use it casually for a couple of things and you run through the cost/benefit in your mind of figuring out how to un-fubar the thing, and you're loathe to. Putting CyanogenMod on it wasn't as painful as I had imagined, and after much searching I got a...
[02:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:17] <exec> 08└─Obama could push to dissolve the Department of Homeland Security or dramatically re-organize it, same as Bush and Cheney pushed to create it. He has not. He could come out strong and say that the reaction to 9/11 has become a greater threat to American freedom than Al Qaeda ever was or ISIS ever wil...
[02:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:51:18] <exec> 08└─A much better complaint.
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[03:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02i hope they get the K12 right - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:38] <exec> 08└─i'm not sure if this is the right move but what they are saying is that they are making improvements on Zen and then taking what they got right and putting it into the K12 as well. if this means overall power consumption for the K12 decreases and/or it's speed increases, i'm all for waiting for it t...
[03:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:i hope they get the K12 right - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:39] <exec> 08└─If they don't they'll have to go to community college.
[03:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02"Ambidextrous" CPUs - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:41] <exec> 08└─First I've heard of that, it sounds like a strategy right out of business school. Too bad they haven't found any compelling applications (yet).
[03:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Nail hit squarely on the head. - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:53] <exec> 08└─Personally I suspect it signals that people are unwilling to sit through an ever increasing number of commercials.
[03:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:06] <exec> 08└─Especially not when the "peers" have shares or sponsorships from .. tada! the drug manufacturers. So for 100,000 cases immunization works, as designed and intended. But for whatever DNA quirk which we do not understand yet with all our science, in case 100,001 something goes wrong. We have a close f...
[03:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Thimerosal - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:20] <exec> 08└─If you have done so much "research" that you "know" that there is a "dangerous" substance in vaccines, then clearly you have discovered along the way that there are brands that don't contain that. Insist on one of those brands. Specifically, demand they use a single-dose vial. Bring along a strong m...
[03:49:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:31] <exec> 08└─My second motto, almost as important as the first: You can't properly evaluate an employee if you don't understand what they do.
[03:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:32] <exec> 08└─:) I had a new boss whose first move was to blockade himself in his office for 3 months and never communicate with the team. Turned out he was a corporate climber, an incompetent with ambitions. He spent his time on the phone 'networking' and wheedled his way up and out asap, leaving the team in dis...
[03:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:34] <exec> 08└─"Boss" is much too authoritarian.
[03:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:36] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I really wanna slap the living daylights out of my boss when I voice a concern and he cuts his eyes to the side with a half smirk like I must be joking. Passive aggressive fuck.
[03:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:48] <exec> 08└─Oceania? Would you be working at Media Works in New Zealand? That story sounds like them, but could quite easily be Television New Zealand I suppose. I'm told most of their management have no clue what business they're in.
[03:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score:1) 02commas, Re: - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:37] <exec> 08└─To see first the asteroid, step zero, it is, so on this front some recent progress to see, thrilled I was. Hmmm?
[03:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Difficulties with averages - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:56] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with averages over long time periods. If a large asteroid hits Earth every 100 million years on average, and the last one was 65 million years ago, we have another 35 million years to wait for the next one. Or we might get two next Tuesday.
[03:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:52:46] <exec> 08└─He's not disagreeing with you. He's pointing out the fact that you have no clue how the government works, and that you are calling someone a traitor for following the long established rule of law.
[03:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:52:49] <exec> 08└─All of which makes me wonder who Obama, (and every other elected official in America) is really ruling for? You? Did you fund his re-election campaign with tens of millions of dollars? No? Then you're not the constituency he's listening to.
[03:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Voice Recognition - 06NSA's "Google for Voice," And More - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:57:09] <exec> 08└─This is nice, thanks. Somehow I missed this place. Actual recommendations from experience still very welcome though ;)
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[04:47:38] <exec> 08└─Compelling application: running a pure Android app within Windows 11.
[04:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Unified memory .... - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:39] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for the unified memory for the CPU and the GPU. I should not have to copy to and from GPU part of the APU just to run OpenCL code on the GPU bits. All I want is to do an aligned malloc, normal malloc not special OpenCL malloc, then tell OpenCL to just use that and the APU does its...
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[04:47:41] <exec> 08└─Uh, they already have zero-copy, coherent, unified memory. That came out with Kaveri, IIRC.
[04:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AMD - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:43] <exec> 08└─AMD hasn't made anything significant since x64 (perhaps the only significant thing they created). AMD fails in comparison to Intel in every way except the price point. For $75 more, why not buy Intel instead of piece of shit AMD. Fuck you AMD and all you swindlers that bought that junk, built "compu...
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[05:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02You'd have falsity in there too - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:32] <exec> 08└─By the same token, the library would also contain, say, documents purporting to be from Edward Snowden that say something other than what he said. You'd also have infinitely many corrupt copies of the Bible that say everything and anything. And every scientific paper, including every possible falsif...
[05:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fail? - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:33] <exec> 08└─I don't see any page in a script other than latin. So much for "any known page of text".
[05:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02so much pr0n - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:35] <exec> 08└─Why, the infinite library is positively filthy. The smut is overpowering. Finding any useful information would be like finding a specific drop of cum in a pile of faggots. Ban it. All of it.
[05:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know why this is modded flamebait. The anecdote shared is perfectly relevant and worth noting.
[05:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:I find your shortage of sceptisism disturbing. - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:28] <exec> 08└─Assuming this is not a troll post, let me say this. Being skeptical is a different thing than alleging a vast global conspiracy. You say that CDC, AMA, and WHO are corrupted by big pharma. How would that be relevant to this issue? Where's the conflict of interest? What are the "hundreds of shots" yo...
[05:48:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02managers are for removing obstacles - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:44] <exec> 08└─they're not for scheduling meetings for the workers.
[05:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Mozilla: HTTPS is Coming. Get Out of the Way! - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:47] <exec> 08└─Really it depends on who is running the servers and how easy it is to get the browser to check the ones you trust most.
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[06:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Lexx. - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:41] <exec> 08└─Even the library containing all of the Brunnen G history was eventually destroyed. There's even an episode where the last of some earth like civilization is saying what he has to say to the universe, before the Lexx plows him to smithereens in the middle of space. That simple two seconds of video ma...
[06:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Lexx. - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:42] <exec> 08└─Brunnen G? I always thought it was the Bruenen Gee. But point is well taken. And if I may add another equally or even more irrelevant Sci-Fi Show: one episode the Andromeda featured the "collectors", who seemed to be archiving everything that had happened in the past. The problem with veridical copi...
[06:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Think of all the illegal things therein - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:43] <exec> 08└─Slander, libel, hate speech, kiddy porn, state secrets... This guys must be locked up and the key thrown away!
[06:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sigma [1225] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Think of all the illegal things therein - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:47:45] <exec> 08└─The location of the key is in there too.
[06:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thimerosal - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:38] <exec> 08└─Didn't it ever cross your mind that grandparent might be interested in somebody else's health besides him/herself? And lose the attitude navel gazer.
[06:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:07] <exec> 08└─One of the better managers I worked for was very good at keeping upper management out of his small development group. This was back after the first big video game bubble. Arcade game development was typically on a 6 month cycle, but his group of four engineers worked on a different concept for three...
[06:49:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:commas - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:49:50] <exec> 08└─Dear asteroid, Welcome, we need a priority reset. Most of earth.
[06:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Apt-get - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:51:00] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't want any of the new features, the much faster Java VM is worth the upgrade. Improved memory and power management too.
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[07:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:31] <exec> 08└─Add an array of integers to count the rollovers and embed this functionality in the type itself so it's transparent to the coder. 65536^array.length "should be enough for everyone" (tm) ;)
[07:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Arianne - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:32] <exec> 08└─As far as I know, Ariane was not a bug. When coding for rockets, everything is checked and double checked. That includes inputs. For example, if the rockets can accelerate the rockets by N m/s^2, the inputs from the speed measuring equipment is checked against this value, and if a speed measuring de...
[07:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Linux kernel - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:34] <exec> 08└─The Linux kernel has such a counter, and at some point somebody realized that drivers often used that counter in an incorrect way - when the counter reaches the highest possible number, it starts over, and if the driver only checks for higher values, it will not work after the rollover, when the new...
[07:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fail? - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:47:44] <exec> 08└─Doesn't even include capital letters, digits or special characters. So my passwords aren't even there :p. What next to do is to search for: "aaaaaaaaaaaaa.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaba" "aaaaaaaaaaaaa.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaabb" ... "aaaaaaaaaaaaa.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaabz" "aaaaaaaaaaaaa.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaab," "aaa...
[07:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Restrictions - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:50] <exec> 08└─If this restriction were lifted
[07:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unified memory .... - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:02] <exec> 08└─Unified memory (specifically Huma, heterogeneous uniform memory access) shipped first on the PS4, and is now out on consumer APUs (As parent mentioned with Kaveri). Its all part of HSA which is well underway. Its not even new anymore really.
[07:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:27] <exec> 08└─There is of course a small difference. For one thing, we could not experiment on the NSA, or get all data we wanted.
[07:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:31] <exec> 08└─So, when I had my son vaccinated when he was an infant there was a 1 in 100,000 chance that the same thing would have happened to him. Without getting vaccinated, his chances of getting sick with the diseases that the vaccines are supposed to prevent are a lot higher, judging from the outbreaks of t...
[07:48:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02Not a conspiracy theory - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:40] <exec> 08└─A conspiracy faith.
[07:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:I find your shortage of sceptisism disturbing. - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:49] <exec> 08└─"Some Vaccines contain mercury. Not all do, but the Flu vaccine is notorious for having mercury, hence the claims of neurological disorders such as autism, in the extreme." You might want to watch the Penn & Teller Bullshit episode on the anti-vax movement. You get more mercury in a single tuna sand...
[07:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I find your shortage of sceptisism disturbing. - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:51] <exec> 08└─Please vote parent Insightformative!
[07:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:managers are for removing obstacles - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:49:09] <exec> 08└─As long as that doesn't turn into a pattern of speech that starts off "Hey Peter, what's happening?"
[07:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Graduation rates - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:53] <exec> 08└─I would like to pick a bone with this statement and give the Community College system some fodder to fight back with... [...]Community colleges [educate 45 percent of the nation's undergraduates] and [that sector] is under fire for low graduation rates.
[07:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Progress of a kind - 06F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:06] <exec> 08└─Blacks have been outvoting whites since 2012 [cnn.com], and 96% of black voters voted Obama [politico.com], and again I get to actually talk to these people working retail....have YOU done any kind of "man on the street" style polling? I did with black folks in 08 and 12, and I've been doing the sam...
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[08:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:33] <exec> 08└─It's called GMP [gmplib.org]. The only trouble is there are a lot of applications, such as in embedded systems like those described in the article, where arbitrary precision arithmetic is unrealistic to add in. Not everything can run on the powerful processors with vast quantities of RAM that we tak...
[08:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:34] <exec> 08└─It's called LISP. Which was first implemented on an IBM 704. Which used vacuum tubes, and could execute up to 12,000 floating-point additions per second, and had a Magnetic Core Storage Unit of 4096 36-bit words (so 18432 bytes) as RAM. So the 6510 wins that contest. Of course, the other alternative...
[08:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Arianne - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:36] <exec> 08└─Design bugs are bugs, too. And the design bug here was to reuse the Ariane 4 module unchanged.
[08:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02if only... - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:39] <exec> 08└─...they had used systemd
[08:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Fail? - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:50] <exec> 08└─I can do better than him: I can write you a software that gives you any possible text of the world by just entering its index. To save space, I decided to encode the index not as digit string, but as a sequence of Unicode UTF-8 characters. And for simplicity I decided to use the Unicode UTF-8 encodi...
[08:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So they reinvented brute-force - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:57] <exec> 08└─Nice
[08:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03greenfruitsalad [342] (Score:1) 02linux - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:58] <exec> 08└─this is similar to the infinite storage device in gnu/linux. There's a device called /dev/random and it contains everything ever created if you have the patience to read from it for long enough.
[08:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:AMD - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 1920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:12] <exec> 08└─Troll, but with some valid points. From their 8086 clones right up until the Core 2, AMD was highly competitive. Their designs were even more impressive considering that Intel was an entire process generation ahead of them for most of this time. The K6 series was slightly slower clock-for-clock than...
[08:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:AMD - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:13] <exec> 08└─Great minds think alike ;) I'm building a cheap G3258 rig to tide me over until Zen comes out and give me an LGA1150 upgrade path if it's a performance flop, but I'll give AMD the benefit of the doubt. I'm no fanboi, but over the years I've built systems around the K6-233, Celeron 400, Duron 750, Du...
[08:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:AMD - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:48:15] <exec> 08└─Haters gotta hate. But there is something to take away from this - AMD's market share is the lowest it's been since the GHz Wars, primarily because the hobbyist/enthusiast system builder market likes to get "The Best, as seen in Benchmarks", and AMD have only had price/performance value products on...
[08:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cos you know, paying just isn't enough nowadays - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:33] <exec> 08└─Business owners call the shots because they take the risk
[08:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:commas - 06Near-Earth Asteroid Telescope Being Constructed - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:18] <exec> 08└─Oi dumbass mods - give the +1's to the guy who cracked the joke, not to my silly me-too.
[08:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:As an Android developer... - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:51:47] <exec> 08└─Android is good job security, too, because few people want to learn to develop for it, and those who do go completely crazy in a few months.
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[09:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Should sexist opensource developers be banned? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 2585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:33] <exec> 08└─Should sexist opensource developers have their projects censored or removed? Recently an opensource game release story was removed due to the game developer's open sexism(0) and harrasment(1) of women in tech. A story posted by the editor of the popular Phoronix linux news site about a release of an...
[09:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:47:43] <exec> 08└─Except that the Ariane did test for overflow. However the correct flight path of Ariane 5 simply was guaranteed to overflow the modules designed for Ariane 4. The modules then gave error messages instead of flight data values. Since that was true for all the modules (which of course all used the sam...
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[09:47:46] <exec> 08└─There is only a dual modular redundancy for the Inertial Reference System (SRI) in Ariane 5. See: http://esamultimedia.esa.int [esa.int] section 2.1 page 3 for the report. As far as I know, dual modular redundancy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_modular_redundant [wikipedi...
[09:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Everybody can learn programming right? - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:50] <exec> 08└─This should not be problem if the programmers on the project has talent [soylentnews.org] and did their homework [soylentnews.org]. :P We can't ever admit people has different gifts.
[09:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:linux - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:09] <exec> 08└─if you have the patience to read from it for long enough.
[09:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:linux - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:10] <exec> 08└─That device is provided by the Linux kernel and therefore is independent of any GNU stuff. Therefore it is a device in Linux, not just in GNU/Linux.
[09:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02This article - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 1718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:12] <exec> 08└─I was going to mention that the library even contains a page with this article, but then I noticed that the books do not contain numbers, of which there are three in the article. Punctuation marks and formatting are, of course, out of the question, and the article has those as well. Thus, the librar...
[09:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Copyright - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:13] <exec> 08└─Just wait until the MPAA hear of this, he'll be sued into oblivion for having copies of movie scripts.
[09:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Medicine isn't perfect, but it beats the alternat - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 2316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:59] <exec> 08└─> Especially not when the "peers" have shares or sponsorships from .. tada! the drug manufacturers. That's the funny thing about anti-vaxxers: They are so sure that Not-A-Doctor Andrew Babykiller Wakefield was a big hero saving them from the evils of big pharma when he published the supposed link be...
[09:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:08] <exec> 08└─> a sadistic corporate closet-torturer. Sounds to me like those closets deserve it.
[09:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a conspiracy theory - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:12] <exec> 08└─A theory is something that is testable.
[09:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I find your shortage of sceptisism disturbing. - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:49:21] <exec> 08└─You get more mercury in a single tuna sandwich, than you do in the entire course of vaccinations you get in your life.
[09:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wrong tactics - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:23] <exec> 08└─You can't fight conspiracy theories with facts. You need a counter conspiracy theory that is just as silly as the original one, but causes the people to show the intended behaviour. Anyway, did you know that the Illuminati did create the anti-vaccination myths because they use illnesses as weapons,...
[09:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proving a negative - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:25] <exec> 08└─Yet again, the news is that someone has proven a negative. And we are supposed to take those news seriously? In regular science, there is a rule "you cannot prove a negative". News that someone has proven a negative is always about proving that no harm comes from a product that big companies make fo...
[09:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solution? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:52:07] <exec> 08└─A big part of it is due to the hardware drivers. They need to be modified/written, debugged, tested and the whole thing recertified. Many Linux fanboys think this lack of interface stability/backward compatibility is a feature, binary blobs are bad and prefer encouraging the recompile/rewrite of dri...
[09:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bitcoin isn't a game currency? - 06Bitcoin's Predecessors, Online Game Currencies, and What We Can Learn From Them - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:52:28] <exec> 08└─A game currency is associated to a specific game. What game is Bitcoin associated with?
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[10:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Should sexist opensource developers be banned? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:41] <exec> 08└─It will be the same way as software done by corporate cubicles vs FOSS software. But with a new twist. Software done by approved people vs people that are just good at what they are doing. And who gets to decide who will be "ok" ..? It smells gatekeeping, privileges, irrelevant agenda etc. All feel...
[10:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Should sexist opensource developers be banned? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:43] <exec> 08└─They've already gotten free software deleted from it's host because the author was a sexist: http://esr.ibiblio.org [ibiblio.org] http://whatwillweuse.com [whatwillweuse.com] They passed that milestone years ago even.
[10:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Please resubmit as a submission - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:44] <exec> 08└─Your comment has been moderated "off-topic", which is fair enough. But you raise valid questions, and I think your comment could be turned into an interesting submission.
[10:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02FOSS and Sexism - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 1530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:46] <exec> 08└─>this is FOSS, not fucking tumblr. When the fuck did this happen Lol, if you're a mysoginist your code is shit, your projects are shit, your media is shit, your contributions are shit, everything you do is shit and it will be deleted from its host: http://esr.ibiblio.org [ibiblio.org] http:/...
[10:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:FOSS and Sexism - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:47] <exec> 08└─[quote]No different than the "real" world in America, UK, Europe, Australia, etc. You are a male and are on the bottom, everything and anything you might want is banned. You don't even get to do things for free / opensource, freely.[/quote] While I agree that "political correctness" is largely bulls...
[10:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Re:FOSS and Sexism - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:49] <exec> 08└─Damn, used [] instead of and now I look a fool. It's not the first time, and it won't be the last.
[10:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FOSS and Sexism - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:51] <exec> 08└─No because they got it done: http://esr.ibiblio.org [ibiblio.org] http://whatwillweuse.com [whatwillweuse.com] If you're a sexist, your free software projects are deleted. You're kicked out of distributions (see Ted Walther and Debian) And cencored (see other links)
[10:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Marry pretty young girl children. - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:54] <exec> 08└─Allowed in the Bible: Deuteronomy 22 28-29, hebrew. (If you wish to argue about taphas, here's a refutation of your arguments: http://pastebin.com) [pastebin.com]
[10:48:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02You'd have falsity in there too - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:13] <exec> 08└─By the same token, the library would also contain, say, documents purporting to be from Edward Snowden that say something other than what he said. You'd also have infinitely many corrupt copies of the Bible that say everything and anything. And every scientific paper, including every possible falsif...
[10:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:14] <exec> 08└─It sounds completely made up, like the person is talking out of their ass and bold face lying to prove their point. If this was the case, their would be studies that highlighted this as an actual cause and affect. However, we only get these little "bimbo truthiness stories", my friend's cousin's for...
[10:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:17] <exec> 08└─Stop using terms like DNA, it sounds like you're trying to sound smart. The reality is you're just another retard who gets their medical advice from a washed up playboy bunny. Her biggest contribution to the human race was showing her tits 20 years ago. I hope your infant son dies from Measles, I al...
[10:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thimerosal - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:35] <exec> 08└─Your grandpa's information is outdated or he's lost it, maybe it's time to move him into a home. Most Vaccines don't contain Thimerosa anymore, that's the Mercury ever idiot was screaming about. I doubt you even know what that is, go and google it first smart guy. Your child gets more mercury from o...
[10:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Did anyone else read that as: - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:42] <exec> 08└─This still doesn't solve the Jenny McCarthy (bimbo) problem: A lie can go around the world while the truth is lacing up its boobs
[10:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02It is like a conspiracy theory - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:44] <exec> 08└─Facts, in the form of new authoritative studies conducted by people with real live credentials, won't sway the true believers. Their response will be a predictable, "They must be in on it too."
[10:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:As an Android developer... - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:52:33] <exec> 08└─Why does Android drive you nuts? Android seems to have just happened with no planning or anything. The APIs for developers are a chaotic mess. The documentation often says one thing and the implementation does something else. Things like Chromecast are poorly designed. Time after time, you hit bizar...
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[11:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's nice and all - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:36] <exec> 08└─But have a buddy with you if you decide to film a cop(s).
[11:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy answer - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:37] <exec> 08└─[/quote]What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them[/quote] "Look! A Black guy without bulletholes!" When the cop turns round to shoot him, make a run for it.
[11:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:39] <exec> 08└─This is good education for everyone - make sure that you understand the laws that apply in your country as well, and make sure you don't give in to demanding police officers when they don't have a right to question/search you. Stand up for your rights, or you WILL lose them. However, one of the issu...
[11:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please resubmit as a submission - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:51] <exec> 08└─Submitted: http://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=Should+sexist+opensource+developers+be+banned%3F [soylentnews.org]
[11:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Please resubmit as a submission - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:52] <exec> 08└─eh...you are not seriously proposing giving our biggest troll more air time?
[11:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:FOSS and Sexism - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:56] <exec> 08└─The markup you are looking for is ``"'' (as per text), or "``" and "''" (as per TeX).
[11:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fail? - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:26] <exec> 08└─I think the real supposed trick is his library is searchable. It can supposedly give you the book and page that contains the string you search for.
[11:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02nothing to see here - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:48:39] <exec> 08└─he has copy of nothing, just generate random stuff on the fly.
[11:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 026 months!?! - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:40] <exec> 08└─Why the hell did he spend 6 months how to do something that I could do in 6 minutes. It's trivial! Even more trivial is to just use a transcendent number like Pi or SQR(2) and pick a random index from there. It contains everything (with arbitrary (but finite?) length).
[11:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MMR vs HPV - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:57] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the same politicians, doctors and medical companies are using the exact same arguments for not providing any help (medical or otherwise) for the young women (12-20) who after receiving the HPV vaccine went from athletic to unable to do even everyday basic tasks. The vaccine is completely...
[11:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Graduation rates - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:51:03] <exec> 08└─"Community Colleges ... [are] under fire for low graduation rates" Great, so we want them to drop their standards and pass people who don't learn the material? Because that's what you'll get, if you pressure them to raise their graduation rates. Scratch the surface here, and you find that the commun...
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[12:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:34] <exec> 08└─If you ask "am I free to go" and the police officer doesn't answer but just keeps asking his own questions, what are you supposed to do? Assume you are free to go?
[12:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:35] <exec> 08└─This is where having your video streamed to remote storage would be really handy. Your rights don't mean a thing if you can't prove the cop misbehaved, and you can't prove the cop misbehaved if he confiscates your camera / phone and destroys the storage after beating the snot out of you.
[12:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:37] <exec> 08└─Provided you control the storage and not some subpoena authority. "The cloud" is someone else's domain.
[12:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:38] <exec> 08└─Your typical street cop can confiscate your camera, delete or smash it, and get away with no trace other than your word vs theres. However they can't get periscope to delete stuff, and even if they had the backing of their entire force and justice department, they certainly can't without a paper tra...
[12:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:40] <exec> 08└─Sure they can delete on the cloud. The paper trail is just a bureaucratic construction. Have your own online storage, it's simple as that.
[12:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:42] <exec> 08└─Not really. If you client allows a delete that applies regardless of who owns the server. I'd love to see some examples of street cops managing to get google to delete things. Of course they could simply torture you until you delete it yourself, the Jack Bauer mentality is fairly common I believe</s...
[12:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Weclome to the hugh pickens digest - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:43] <exec> 08└─Hi this is soylent news where you can find a readers digest of latest hugh pickens stories!
[12:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:11] <exec> 08└─The mantra my colleague in nuclear industry has is "diversity and redundancy". So the coolant water has to have a backup pump and you need a backup air coolant system as well. Multiple failures then require some common failure mode like a Tsunami to break the system...
[12:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:12] <exec> 08└─because microcontrollers like that can be had for almost literally a dime a dozen in this day and age.
[12:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score:2) 02Re:Arianne - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:16] <exec> 08└─I had always been told this was due to the Ada language the software was written in throwing an exception and this exception overwriting an area of memory that held the rocket direction variables. Since the whole thing was embedded there was only a small working area of memory. If you've ever progra...
[12:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Can't see this changing... - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:21] <exec> 08└─The workings of integers in CPUs is unchanged since earliest days; except for very specialized cases, it is not going to change. The main factor at work here is programmer competence (remember our discussion of a few days ago? [soylentnews.org]). I teach students about the behavior of integers no la...
[12:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nothing to see here - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:48:46] <exec> 08└─whoooooooooooooooooosh.
[12:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Generating on demand != storage - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:48] <exec> 08└─The Freefall webcomic looked at this in a strip --- described it as a ``collection of tweets'' each containing 6 unique words, and the total storage space needed for it was projected to be the size of a small moon. Can't find the specific strip, but it's somewhere on: http://freefall.purrsia.com [p...
[12:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:"Ambidextrous" CPUs - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:00] <exec> 08└─Is that really an issue? I have yet to come across a situation where I said: Damn, I wish this android app ran on my desktop." Besides, most apps are crappier versions of a website. Why would I want that kind of unnecessary redundancy? All that engineering effort spent mashing two incompatible CPU a...
[12:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nail hit squarely on the head. - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:20] <exec> 08└─> By far, the most effective advertising would be product placement - and give the show away! You say that out of ignorance. Even with commercials and subscription fees product placement regularly goes over the top. The smart ones just put the product discretely on the edge of the frame (like pop ch...
[12:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rcamera [2360] (Score:1) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 1992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:50:36] <exec> 08└─as an apparently successful manager, how did you handle the guy in your group who was unreliable, irresponsible, and dishonest? that was more interested in volunteering for new projects than finishing his existing projects, and never actually gets anything completed? the one who volunteers OTHER peo...
[12:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:What's in it for Google? - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:52:18] <exec> 08└─You have to do some research into non-intuitive things like whether or not the particular version of the phone you are ordering will work on your carrier's network
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[13:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02We'll pay them back - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:31] <exec> 08└─When they get home and have to wait until they die to get treatment at the VA.
[13:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:1) 02How the hell? - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:32] <exec> 08└─I understand the military is a gigantic organization with many levels of abstraction. But how the hell can you be waging war for decades upon decades and STILL be caught with your pants down on something as simple as organizational management? This is not their first war. This is not the first time...
[13:47:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Easy answer - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:42] <exec> 08└─[/quote]What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them[/quote] "Look! A Black guy without bulletholes!" When the cop turns round to shoot him, make a run for it.
[13:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK-421 [3235] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy answer - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:43] <exec> 08└─This really should go without saying, but then again it is the internet, the BEST comedy has an element of truth and damn it this is pretty true in the last 12 months.
[13:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:46] <exec> 08└─Sure. If they didn't specifically tell you that you are being detained, you are always free to go. Of course, you shouldn't turn and run, you should inform them that you are going to be leaving the area, and then turn and slowly and calmly walk away. If they take issue with that they can request tha...
[13:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:48] <exec> 08└─Keep recording the whole thing too, because as long as you are calm and polite, and do not directly disobey a "lawful" order than there's not much they can do, and if they do actually do anything illegal, your recording will guarantee a nice payout for your trouble.
[13:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK-421 [3235] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:49] <exec> 08└─...or unless you are a white guy living in a predominately white county (95%) and getting pulled over by an all white police department in a hard core "red" state. The tactics you describe are not reserved for minorities. My job takes me to the data center at all hours of the night. When I come home...
[13:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:51] <exec> 08└─Yes everyone should know this stuff. Anyone will become a amateur photographer when they see something go down since almost everyone has a camera phone. You won't have time to look it up as it is happening. I am also curious about a non-response to "am I free to go?"
[13:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:55] <exec> 08└─Own cloud vs some else's doesn't really matter - If I was paranoid enough to set up my phone to stream video to a remote server in case the cops ever try to steal my stuff, I'd also be paranoid enough to have it immediately backed up from wherever it lands to various other servers in different juris...
[13:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, once you have a legitimate reason to be paranoid, then a 'threshold' is crossed where you cannot be paranoid enough, when dealing with those in power. The problem is that by the time you are aware that you have a legitimate reason to be paranoid, it is already too late in most cases unless you...
[13:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:59] <exec> 08└─This is why the ACLU provides an app that immediately streams your recording of the police to servers they control. If the cops try to destroy that recording, they'll have a legal fight on their hands with an organization whose raison d'etre is legal fights like that. That's already made a differenc...
[13:47:59] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03rts008 [3001] 02Re:Weclome to the hugh pickens digest - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 549 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:00] <exec> 08└─STFU, and submit some of your own then. If 'Hugh Pickens' submissions(or one of the other frequent submitters) suddenly stopped appearing here, then you would be at the head of the pack demanding more articles. Self-entitled whiners like you disgust me. You sit around expecting everything be handed...
[13:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:3, Touché) 02Well... - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:02] <exec> 08└─and police may not delete your photographs or video under any circumstances.
[13:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Should sexist opensource developers be banned? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:11] <exec> 08└─dont feed the fucking troll......
[13:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Should sexist opensource developers be banned? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:15] <exec> 08└─Go the fuck away, MikeeUSA.
[13:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FOSS and Sexism - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:21] <exec> 08└─If you're a sexist and male, your free software projects are deleted.
[13:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't see this changing... - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:43] <exec> 08└─If the integer value is something that counts upwards forever, then the obvious question is "when is forever finished?"
[13:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't see this changing... - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:44] <exec> 08└─> (a bug that eat my soul for 2 days in my early years in software). if (condition); do_something();
[13:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't see this changing... - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:45] <exec> 08└─retry
[13:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Makes sense - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:14] <exec> 08└─The answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything was easy to find. It must be on one of the pages in the library. The tough part is knowing what the correct page is, and more importantly, given how "42" will be on billions of pages, and for it to be the answer, it would be the...
[13:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:AMD - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:33] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, AMD was first with 64bit x86. I've been rooting for AMD for years. Kept getting pushed back into the Intel fold. First attempt was a K6 on a motherboard that could go either way. But, the K6 would hang, and the Pentium would not, so back to Intel. Tried again when Intel released the Pe...
[13:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:07] <exec> 08└─Tell /that/ parent about your "foolproof evidence" of "no harm"....
[13:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) is an anti-vaxxer - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:22] <exec> 08└─I don't think autism by itself can account for that much stupidity and batshit-insanity in one person. Whew! But you may be headed down the right trail... (you may have meant that as a joke, but I'm serious) [sarcasm warning] I've got my own nutty conspiracy theory: Something happened at a Republica...
[13:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Did anyone else read that as: - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:50:34] <exec> 08└─...lacing up its boobs
[13:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Squishier robot? - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:52:32] <exec> 08└─What is the feminine version of "squishy?" No preconceived ideas, just asking, for a friend.
[13:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:As an Android developer... - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:31] <exec> 08└─Go and visit Apple and see how many layers of review are required before a new API is made public. Then go and visit Google and see how many layers of review are required before an API is made public. There's a reason that one of these results in a far more consistent set of developer interfaces.
[13:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 2342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:17] <exec> 08└─Of course he isn't. Who is? The usual platitudes people have liked to roll out over the years, eg. "If you don't vote, you can't complain," or "You have to work within the system for change," no longer hold any water when a system becomes so rotten and compromised as this one. How can we know that?...
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[14:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:How the hell? - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:37] <exec> 08└─> But how the hell can you be waging war for decades upon decades and STILL be caught with your pants down on something as simple as organizational management? Easy. Going to war is sexy, management is not. So all the money gets spent on cool toys and training soldiers to be gung-ho. But the boring...
[14:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Not limited to overseas - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:38] <exec> 08└─stealing from the military is not strictly limited to overseas
[14:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Hardly surprising - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:40] <exec> 08└─Remember Milo Minderbinder from Catch-22? Same idea, different war. That sort of corruption is completely normal, at all levels of the hierarchy, because in times of war proper accounting goes out the window quite quickly, and lack of proper accounting means opportunity for graft. They don't even re...
[14:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Only 50 million - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, this is just the actual soliders and people on the ground. The real theft is from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ATK, and other contractors. The solider's crime is not having a contract and some type of bribe and you are good to go.
[14:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Only 50 million - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:43] <exec> 08└─Very true. Those who misappropriate small amounts are thieves. To steal large amounts, you have to be a corporation !!
[14:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only 50 million - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the thing is $50 million over 10 years can pretty much disappear when you've got a war that costs 100s of trillions each year.
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy answer - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:55] <exec> 08└─Its been true for as long as there have been police in america. What's new are video phones becoming affordable by the poorest people.
[14:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:08] <exec> 08└─And, just for fun, acting like a paranoid nutcase gives the police reason to harass you.
[14:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:09] <exec> 08└─And anyhow, by the time their bureaucracy gets warrants to delete my cloud storage, I will make sure the video is going to be on every news site possible. Failing that, LiveLeak. That, combined with a copy of an illegal order to delete the video, should make for an interesting news story for someone...
[14:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:10] <exec> 08└─They hack the server by using specialized departments. Presto, no official warrant needed nor any official paper trail.
[14:48:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snick [1408] 02Well... - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:15] <exec> 08└─and police may not delete your photographs or video under any circumstances.
[14:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why are people being ask to stop filming!? - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:16] <exec> 08└─surely the very existence of "advice when asked to stop filming" is an indicator of an issue? If you are ALLOWED to film, why are innocent bystanders being asked to stop filming when usually they are clearly not getting in anybodies way (and being asked by those THAT SHOULD KNOW THE LAW!), "film if...
[14:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Why are people being ask to stop filming!? - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:18] <exec> 08└─Standing by and/or filming is not always the entirely passive activity it may at first appear to be. It's not unknown for arrestees to be driven to greater aggrevation by the presence of a camera/onlooker. Likewise, victims could be upset by the presence of cameras/onlookers, in which case a cop mig...
[14:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02What about looking at him like he's retarded? - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 1888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:20] <exec> 08└─I did that to a cop a couple weeks ago. Now, understand, I do drive pretty fast most of the time. I am generally 10 mile over the limit, and sometimes more. Cops have plenty of opportunity to ticket me, if they catch me. But, this one night, I drove into the town where I work. I found myself behind...
[14:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Please remember - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:21] <exec> 08└─Please remember that this article is US-centric. Nothing wrong with that, but it would be great if it was mentioned somewhere in the summary. IANAL, but not stopping filming when asked in the UK is likely to get you arrested.
[14:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Should sexist opensource developers be banned? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─What about ReiserFS?
[14:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Should sexist opensource developers be banned? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:33] <exec> 08└─Not being polite is one thing. Murder is another..
[14:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:FOSS and Sexism - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:42] <exec> 08└─Pfft, this ain't yo mamma's stale ass bbcode son. This is slashcode, bro.
[14:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FOSS and Sexism - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:48:45] <exec> 08└─I thought that sexist was just a synonym for male.
[14:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:0, Troll) 02who's the worse troll? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:47] <exec> 08└─Mod my other comment offtopic. This one may deserve a troll mod. This raises the question in my mind about why there is so much gender trolling. When I came over to the US to go to university, I was gobsmacked. Apparently, there is a rape culture. I was required to attend a presentation and sign a f...
[14:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02what now? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:48] <exec> 08└─Who is weev? Obviously I did a search and found out he is basically an asshole. But why would everyone be immediatly familiar with him enough to warrant not slipping a quick explanation as to who he is? The ARS article didn't really explain who he is either. And secondly, why is the obvious being de...
[14:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:00] <exec> 08└─Redundancy does not help, when the data really IS outside the allowed range, because someone reused the code from an older generation rocket with less power.
[14:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Think of all the illegal things therein - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:30] <exec> 08└─Along with infinite false locations....
[14:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restrictions - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:32] <exec> 08└─So I guess now everything is copyright infringement since everything anyone can type or think of is already in there and we're just infringing on it. Even this post is infringement too. I hope I don't get sued. The good news is that everything Hollywood puts out is infringement and now they can be s...
[14:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Re:linux - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 1573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:38] <exec> 08└─Similar to /dev/random, but with some important properties: You can seek to wherever you like. (/dev/random doesn't support seeking at all)The pages are indexed to allow for fast searching. (Try searching /dev/random for a long string. You'll be waiting for a while.)The number of pages is finite. (N...
[14:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Ambidextrous" CPUs - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:57] <exec> 08└─> Compelling application: running a pure Android app within Windows 11. x86 is now a standard target for android, there are tons of x86 android tablets out there using intel atom processors. I'm sure there are still apps that are only compiled for arm, but at this rate by the time Win11 is out, ther...
[14:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:AMD - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:05] <exec> 08└─You know, I always thought the Athlon had better floating point performance than the Pentium 4 - I guess not. [tomshardware.com]
[14:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Old news - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:18] <exec> 08└─I cut the cord in 1992 but I have a much different reaction to commercials. When I'm at a place where I can see and hear broadcast TV and a commercial comes on, I get mesmerized -- it's like some force compels me to watch it. Hmmmm .... I guess that isn't different from annoying ... actually you ar...
[14:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Nail hit squarely on the head. - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:50:22] <exec> 08└─I feel like the commercials just got turned into sales calls. I have my cable internet company (Charter) calling me once every couple months begging me to sign up for other services I won't use. I don't mind much though. Kind of miss talking to people sometimes. Call yesterday went something like th...
[14:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let's do the math.... - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:24] <exec> 08└─2 billion profit on 8.3 billion revenue. Comes out to 24.1 percent. So my cable/broadband bill could be cut by twenty percent and Comcast would still be making a profit on me. Or we could reasonably ask just why Comcast feels it must [be a little more greedy and] have fast lanes instead of improving...
[14:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Did anyone else read that as: - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:12] <exec> 08└─If that idea intrigues you, Google "lacing body modification". Have a nice afternoon.
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[15:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:We'll pay them back - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:42] <exec> 08└─Hm. People are taking this post seriously. Wasn't my intention. They're almost certainly going to get dishonorably discharged and probably sent to jail. Dishonorable discharges deny VA benefits.
[15:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Whose job is it to care? - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:45] <exec> 08└─The problem with military spending is that it's almost never a "problem" - military spending bills are political anathema to oppose. Arguing for tighter regulation and oversight is arguing for adding "red tape that gets in the way of our troops and puts them in harms way!", so why fight that losing...
[15:47:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02Only 50 million - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, this is just the actual soliders and people on the ground. The real theft is from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ATK, and other contractors. The solider's crime is not having a contract and some type of bribe and you are good to go.
[15:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Petty theft will get you convicted - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:52] <exec> 08└─Go straight for genocide and war crimes.
[15:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Low hanging fruit harvested again... - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:53] <exec> 08└─Move along...nothing to see here. 50 million? Hah, mere pocket change...meh. Two days worth of 'beans, bullets, and gas' for all the US troops spread across the world, like butter on toast. Meanwhile, the truly heinous crimes go unchallenged. The politicians don't want to slap the wrists of those sh...
[15:48:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:05] <exec> 08└─If you ask "am I free to go" and the police officer doesn't answer but just keeps asking his own questions, what are you supposed to do? Assume you are free to go?
[15:48:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TK-421 [3235] 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 808 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:08] <exec> 08└─...or unless you are a white guy living in a predominately white county (95%) and getting pulled over by an all white police department in a hard core "red" state. The tactics you describe are not reserved for minorities. My job takes me to the data center at all hours of the night. When I come home...
[15:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:09] <exec> 08└─I think people driving between 3:00 and 5:00 at night also are a minority.
[15:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:11] <exec> 08└─You're out after curfew, citizen. All law-abiding people are asleep right now.
[15:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:13] <exec> 08└─In that case, call 911 and confirm with the dispatcher that the call is being recorded. Ask to remain on the line until you have arrived in a "safe" place, which in this case is probably an area that has enough people to provide witness to any further events. Do everything in your power to ensure th...
[15:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 1693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, not a good 'loop' to be caught up in. I see this as the expected outcome of the mindset of 'declaring war on drugs, terror, etc'.... That sets up an adversarial system that can't help but devolve to 'us vs. them' mentality, and the inevitable 'enemy' emerges. And one of the factors of an enemy...
[15:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why are people being ask to stop filming!? - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:31] <exec> 08└─thanks for the response. none of what you say is codified in law as a time one's "not allowed to film" i'd wager, but you do make a good point, if i've spilled my guts all over the road, someone filming would not be helpful. My opinion about body cams... well yeah no need to film on the loo or somet...
[15:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what now? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:01] <exec> 08└─> But why would everyone be immediatly familiar with him enough to warrant not slipping a quick explanation as to who he is? Mainly for this incident [wired.com] which has been widely reported on in these circles. He's like the opposite of the geek rosa parks - instead of being a model example of so...
[15:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:what now? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:02] <exec> 08└─Um, you don't get out much. If he did as you recommend it wouldn't be trolling; it would be MSNBC's prime time programming. If you want to troll, be really transgressive, stir the poop, etc. you pretty much can't top the professional racists like Sharpton, Nation of Islam, etc. They are professsiona...
[15:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what now? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:04] <exec> 08└─> Um, you don't get out much. I think the problem here is that you don't get out much. > Truly I live in Bizarro World. FTFY
[15:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:18] <exec> 08└─Handling integer overflow properly SHOULD BE par for the course for embedded systems design. Too often code I review has potential overflow bugs in it. It's one of the first things I look for, and find it just about everywhere. Even the Arduino libraries have them. From Stepper.cpp while(steps_left...
[15:49:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Linux kernel - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 615 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:23] <exec> 08└─The Linux kernel has such a counter, and at some point somebody realized that drivers often used that counter in an incorrect way - when the counter reaches the highest possible number, it starts over, and if the driver only checks for higher values, it will not work after the rollover, when the new...
[15:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:You'd have falsity in there too - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:39] <exec> 08└─I suggest reading the Borges [wikipedia.org]. His work seems to be the only sub-topic of the story that has gone without comment in our Soylent thread. He's amazing and odd. To the unfamiliar I would describe him as being a bit like Lovecraft without monsters, or Philip K Dick without technologies....
[15:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:nothing to see here - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:01] <exec> 08└─You think that will stop the MPAA?
[15:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:6 months!?! - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:03] <exec> 08└─Transcendental numbers are not necessarily normal. Pi and the square root of two are not proven to be normal. 9.1101001000100001000001000000... is transcendental but not normal for instance
[15:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:6 months!?! - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:04] <exec> 08└─Of course generating random text is simple. The interesting accomplishment is that he made it searchable by using a reversible PRNG (effectively a form of (bad) encryption). (Also, because I like deflating ego: sqrt(2) is not a transcendental number, transcendental numbers are not necessarily random...
[15:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02I went in looking for Hamlet... - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:08] <exec> 08└─... and I found the Denny's Kids Menu: http://brunching.com [brunching.com]
[15:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:final "nail in the coffin" - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:58] <exec> 08└─Of course you could, just not easily. Snowden performed that experiment, successfully.
[15:51:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Medicine isn't perfect, but it beats the alternat - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 2316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:04] <exec> 08└─> Especially not when the "peers" have shares or sponsorships from .. tada! the drug manufacturers. That's the funny thing about anti-vaxxers: They are so sure that Not-A-Doctor Andrew Babykiller Wakefield was a big hero saving them from the evils of big pharma when he published the supposed link be...
[15:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:16] <exec> 08└─There will never be a final "nail in the coffin" that will destroy the conspiracy theory.
[15:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a conspiracy theory - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 1742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:20] <exec> 08└─> A conspiracy faith. The thing is, your belief that vaccines don't cause autism is faith too. For all practical purposes, we live the majority of our lives on faith because none of us have time to fully investigate more than a handful of topics. Everything else we trust the explanations given to us...
[15:51:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Thimerosal - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 550 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:26] <exec> 08└─If you have done so much "research" that you "know" that there is a "dangerous" substance in vaccines, then clearly you have discovered along the way that there are brands that don't contain that. Insist on one of those brands. Specifically, demand they use a single-dose vial. Bring along a strong m...
[15:51:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02Re:I find your shortage of sceptisism disturbing. - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 751 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:30] <exec> 08└─Assuming this is not a troll post, let me say this. Being skeptical is a different thing than alleging a vast global conspiracy. You say that CDC, AMA, and WHO are corrupted by big pharma. How would that be relevant to this issue? Where's the conflict of interest? What are the "hundreds of shots" yo...
[15:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Proving a negative - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, we cannot even disprove that in five minutes earth's gravitation will fail. But from all the evidence we have we can still say that it would be completely insane to act as if the earth's gravitation would fail in five minutes. Sure, in the extremely unlikely case that earth's gravitation indeed...
[15:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MMR vs HPV - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:41] <exec> 08└─References?
[15:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Scott Adams - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:16] <exec> 08└─Adams made himself a career illustrating all the different ways managers abuse their positions and their employees. OK, he has to make people chuckle while reading it. I think one of the problems is lack of turnover. When managers are in the same company for about eight years or more, and are manage...
[15:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:32] <exec> 08└─And a surprising number of those text books were written by the guy teaching the class, (or the guy to whom the teaching assistant reports). Even in smaller universities, every professor seemed to have a book they wrote and which they coerce you into buying.
[15:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:cause/effect? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:52:42] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, and I expect that's a lot of it. Re: CC's low graduation rates, I went to two and didn't graduate from either. I never intended to graduate from either, I intended to transfer to a 4 year university, and I did graduate from one. I couldn't care less that I don't have an A.A. degree to ha...
[15:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Soon your robots can have breast implants - 06Synthetic Gel With Self Powered Movement May Lead to Squishier Robot - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:44] <exec> 08└─Already been happening (fappening?) for years. Real Dolls: http://www.vanityfair.com [vanityfair.com]
[15:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:27] <exec> 08└─Perhaps Obama can't disband the department entirely, but as chief executive he could order them all to stop working. "New objectives for the Department of Homeland Security: Determine exactly how long each employee can sit on their hands before those hands go numb. To ensure maximum accuracy, we req...
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[16:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─I like spin... Previous Launch Abort tech got jettisoned once it was useless because the flight phase didn't require it anymore. Now these guys want to carry significant extra explosive payload all the way to orbit, and everyone should cheer that they are the smartest. Please disregard how the posit...
[16:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:40] <exec> 08└─"By using the Dragon's own internal engines, SpaceX hopes to save weight on a system that everyone hopes is never used."
[16:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:We'll pay them back - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:51] <exec> 08└─Conveniently ignored: U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan. These black market rackets are an outrage? All of the Afghan war is illegal - thus all activity by US forces there is categorically criminal, and a violation of both Nuremberg Laws and Constitutional oaths of duty. Additionally, the US is respons...
[16:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:How the hell? - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:55] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Basic Training includes lots of stuff that blows up and how to make sure it blows up your intended target. Policing an occupied area and dealing ethically with daily population needs (esp. in the midst of an insurgency) wasn't in the curriculum until they realized they were stuck for...
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only 50 million - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:02] <exec> 08└─Don't forget Haliburton.
[16:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:24] <exec> 08└─I say you don't move from that spot and continue filming if you can. Eventually they will arrest you, detain you for real, or let you go.
[16:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about looking at him like he's retarded? - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:44] <exec> 08└─and climbed in the car
[16:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please remember - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:47] <exec> 08└─(1)A person commits an offence who— (a)elicits or attempts to elicit information about an individual who is or has been— (i)a member of Her Majesty's forces, (ii)a member of any of the intelligence services, or (iii)a constable, which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or pr...
[16:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please resubmit as a submission - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:04] <exec> 08└─Oh please, this guy is just a lame broken record. The only big thing here is his head.
[16:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:what now? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:20] <exec> 08└─However, that's just cover for him to indulge in picking on the disempowered. If he weren't a shitstain he would have demonstrated the problem by picking on the empowered - instead of sending white-power advertisements to non-whites, he would have sent black-power advertisements to rich white racist...
[16:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what now? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:21] <exec> 08└─> Or, he could have done both so that no one could accuse him of being personally in favor of either viewpoint, and only being an equal-opportunity troll The whole "I hate all people equally" thing is bogus misdirection. It's like saying - I don't discriminate by age, I punch babies but I also punch...
[16:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This article - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:15] <exec> 08└─Click the "and so on" link in the summary.
[16:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Argh! - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:48] <exec> 08└─> HBM is competing against the similar Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) standard Well... no. No, and no, and actually no. And in case you were wondering, NO! HMC is a discrete chip with lots of transceivers which provides memory at Meh! latency. If you wanted 16GB of RAM, you'd still need quite a few of the...
[16:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Nail hit squarely on the head. - 06Comcast Servicing Emerging Legion of Broadband Customers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:05] <exec> 08└─I assume you use a cell phone? Do you have a backup plan for if it gets lost or broken?
[16:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I find your shortage of sceptisism disturbing. - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:49] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that there is big money in vaccines? Compared to other drugs a vaccine doesn't cost that much and you receive at most a few doses during your entire life.
[16:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MMR vs HPV - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:05] <exec> 08└─http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/16/michele-bachmann/bachmann-hpv-vaccine-cause-mental-retardation/ [politifact.com]
[16:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:34] <exec> 08└─as an apparently successful manager, how did you handle the guy in your group who was unreliable, irresponsible, and dishonest?
[16:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cause/effect? - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:04] <exec> 08└─Amusingly I have nothing significant to add to your or Ethanol's discussion points. After about 90 credits of online classes the only thing that continues to be a pain in the ass is mandatory discussions.
[16:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Graduation rates - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:16] <exec> 08└─Relax. The point is that many students of community colleges don't want nor need to get a degree from them. Most go for transfer credits. Some simply to learn. Others for enrichment. None of those groups, even with 4.0 in every class will be considered 'graduated' if they never bother to get a degre...
[16:55:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02As an Android developer... - 06Google's Android Update Problem - 2042 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:00] <exec> 08└─Android is a dumpster fire. Google is too busy messing up the Android user interface for them to care about anything practical. Google has always left Android in a permanent beta state, sloppy and buggy, as they've rushed on to new features without making the current stuff all that stable. Google do...
[16:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:And Rand Paul jumps off the deep end again... - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:18] <exec> 08└─Reduce the fraction 16 / 64. There's a 6 in the numerator and the denominator. Cancel them, and the answer is 1 / 4 . People can be right for the wrong reasons. If multiple people arrive at the same results through contradictory ways, check everyone's work and determine whose reasoning is the most s...
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[17:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:43] <exec> 08└─Not sure whether you're trolling, but I'll bite. One of the main design objectives for the crew dragon (indeed, also for cargo-only dragon vehicles) is a powered landing. Powered landing obviously *requires* taking some rockets and their propellant along during the spacebound leg of the trip. So why...
[17:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:44] <exec> 08└─I'm merely pointing out that the future powered landing feature isn't covered in the "it's better to use the onboard engines" explanations. Every article on the topic says that SpaceX is cool because they invented the idea of not having to discard the Launch-Abort Ugly Overhead Tower. It's kind of t...
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:How the hell? - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─Apparently the $12 Billion Cash was Iraq's cash to begin with. It's not like we sent $12 Billion of American Tax Payer's Money that way. The money was sent to help boost their Economy. Please read the entire article that you posted. You might not agree with the way it went down, but War is a messy b...
[17:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How the hell? - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:59] <exec> 08└─> Apparently the $12 Billion Cash was Iraq's cash to begin with. Which is utterly irrelevant to the question of mismanagement and inadequate controls. The money was in our care -- we had a duty to manage it responsibly.
[17:48:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Whose job is it to care? - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 1556 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:00] <exec> 08└─The problem with military spending is that it's almost never a "problem" - military spending bills are political anathema to oppose. Arguing for tighter regulation and oversight is arguing for adding "red tape that gets in the way of our troops and puts them in harms way!", so why fight that losing...
[17:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:How the hell? - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:02] <exec> 08└─They, we, everyone, has yet to set up a police force that is not rife with bribery, corruption, and worse. If a country cannot set up a managing police force on friendly domestic soil, how do you expect them to do it on unstable, enemy, foreign soil?
[17:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only 50 million - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:07] <exec> 08└─Around here we have a saying: Little thieves wear iron chains; big thieves wear gold chains.
[17:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:29] <exec> 08└─I live in the rust belt with plenty of shift workers. Cops only pull people over between 2:00am and 2:30am, just after the bars close.
[17:48:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 412 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:44] <exec> 08└─This is why the ACLU provides an app that immediately streams your recording of the police to servers they control. If the cops try to destroy that recording, they'll have a legal fight on their hands with an organization whose raison d'etre is legal fights like that. That's already made a differenc...
[17:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:What about looking at him like he's retarded? - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:53] <exec> 08└─Who else thinks this is a completely fabricated story?
[17:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:who's the worse troll? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:25] <exec> 08└─I was required to attend a presentation and sign a form to the effect that I was a rapist that merely hadn't been caught in the act yet before I would be allowed to attend classes. Their proof? I was assigned the male gender at birth. University harassment policies are publicly published. If thi...
[17:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Fail? - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:11] <exec> 08└─How many pages are the rough equivalent of: alas, poor yorick. i knew him, horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa So I have to search for the entire 3200 character string I'm looking for in order to find the one page that contains that exact...
[17:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:so much pr0n - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:14] <exec> 08└─There are definitely some pages that are exact matches of existing ASCII porn. Probably not any of the good stuff, since special characters aren't included, but enough to get you through your rough spot.
[17:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:1) 02"almost infinite" - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:39] <exec> 08└─There exists a number N where "almost infinite" > infinite - N
[17:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02No monkeys no typewriters, I am disappoint. - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:40] <exec> 08└─In related news, let me present you the π-compression algorithm: it compresses data by indexing it in π, which can be recomputed at arbitrary precision to retrieve the data. Only minor problem, the index is orders of magnitude bigger than the data. Anyway it makes as much sense as the topic.
[17:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Library - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:41] <exec> 08└─A Library at it's core is a repository for Information that can be used, but is not sold. What good is a book of actual gibberish? While this is an interesting exercise, it's a fairly useless resource.
[17:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Argh! - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, yes, and yes. They could actually be complementary.
[17:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Argh! - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:06] <exec> 08└─Designers envision taking off from my driveway and commuting to Mars too. As of today, HMC is a discrete chip, and not a small one at that. The chaining feature only works of you have physical space for multiple ones, and would be counter-productive on a on-substrate implementation.
[17:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Argh! - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:07] <exec> 08└─If HBM can do it, I'm sure HMC can do it. The specification is already on version 2 and no products are out yet. I stand by my use of "competing" and "similar" to describe the relationship between HBM and HMC.
[17:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:52:36] <exec> 08└─Almost no manager has "boss" as part of their job title. So it's already a solved problem.
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[18:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:34] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine they're going to order the federal government to cease and desist until the highest court has had their say. But if forces the Supreme court to actually address the issue rather than refuse the case because of a lack of standing. Refusing to hear the case would let the appeals court'...
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:35] <exec> 08└─The Supremes? Cease and desist? It's a shame they didn't just tell them to Stop in the Name of Love [youtube.com].
[18:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:37] <exec> 08└─Does it really matter if the ruling stands or not? Nobody with the power to do so will enforce that the program be stopped. At the very most, I would expect they just trivially alter their 'program', like separating the data into multiple tables or with NSL letters or something else that blatantly v...
[18:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, it fucking matters. "Power to enforce" is a complex topic in the constitution, but to pretend that court prohbitions don't matter is to ignore the entire history of jurisprudence in the US. You can live in conspiracy land if you want, one where the Justice department didn't write up a ton of in...
[18:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:40] <exec> 08└─Being ignorant of how the government actually works
[18:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Cool - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:42] <exec> 08└─Not that this will stop them from doing it, though.
[18:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure of any time in the last century that the executive has actively refused a court's ruling. "Worked around" them? Yes. Willfully misinterpreted them? Sure. Reshuffled things and started the same behavior under a different department and administration? Probably. But actively refused? Have...
[18:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02What does this change? - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:45] <exec> 08└─Even if what they can do under Section 215 is curtailed, they weren't using 215 in the first place (see below). I appreciate the benefits of picking away at their so-called justifications, but these guys have stuff like Executive Order 12333 to fall back on. https://www.aclu.org
[18:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What does this change? - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:47] <exec> 08└─This is nonsense. Mass surveillance is a clear violation of the fourth amendment; we don't need federal law to say it's illegal, and neither federal law nor executive orders can override the highest law of the land.
[18:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:What does this change? - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:48] <exec> 08└─Executive orders are subject to judicial review. [wikipedia.org] Hopefully, ACLU, EFF et al. are on it. Update: Doesn't look like there's a lawsuit against EO12333. The ACLU has filed a FOIA lawsuit [aclu.org] to get more information though. This primer [eff.org] on EO12333 is excellent.
[18:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:01] <exec> 08└─The engines used for launch abort aren't the powered landing engines. These are the orbital maneuvering engines, (and/or) they use the same fuel supply. If you watched the launch video [engadget.com] (second video on that page - Skip to the 15:50 minute position - WARNING: Loud!) you can see that th...
[18:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:02] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you would be bitching about it either way.
[18:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:04] <exec> 08└─It's two part liquid fuel engines dumbass. The old style escape tower rockets used on Gemini and Apollo were solid fuel.
[18:48:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02We'll pay them back - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:12] <exec> 08└─When they get home and have to wait until they die to get treatment at the VA.
[18:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:50] <exec> 08└─My job takes me to the data center at all hours of the night. When I come home at 0300-0500 I never take main roads any more. I am tired of getting pulled over for suspected DUI.
[18:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Cloud to the rescue! - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:06] <exec> 08└─If they "control" the cell tower your connected to; it matters not. Best to make an app that meshnets to others in the area and bit torrent copies to all phones around.
[18:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:what now? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:52] <exec> 08└─Um, you don't get out much. If he did as you recommend it wouldn't be trolling; it would be MSNBC's prime time programming. If he got out more, then how could he watch more MSNBC?
[18:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jesus_666 [3044] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't see this changing... - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:21] <exec> 08└─Then again, a counter that overflows after 248 days when you can assume that any sane person will shut down the system every ten days or so is probably not that terrible a design decision. An airplane that is kept active for 248 days non-stop without any kind of major maintenance is probably going t...
[18:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:so much pr0n - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:38] <exec> 08└─There's trashy kiddy porn furry fiction in the library too. (Including some which, even more disguistingly, is Star Wars themed.) Burn it down!
[18:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Think of all the illegal things therein - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:44] <exec> 08└─Slander, libel, hate speech, kiddy porn, state secrets... T'is but foolish childishness of no significance. The true evil lies buried within: COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!! Burn the witch! I mean, intellectual property MAURAUDERS!
[18:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03gishzida [2870] (Score:1) 02So this was written in BASIC, right? - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:08] <exec> 08└─Because that is how useless this is. A more useful version of such a "library" would use a dictionary and Markov chains to generate more useful pages As an example see http://markovswisdom.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] for some examples of this kind of random generation
[18:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sharkx [4299] (Score:1) 02Copyright? - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:08] <exec> 08└─Is there some reason this could not be copyrighted? If so, then there can be a claim on any future work. This also describes all future patents as well.
[18:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:managers are for removing obstacles - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:14] <exec> 08└─Good lord, that would drive me insane. Anyone who does coding or other complex tasks like that realizes it takes a bit of time to get the brain up to speed for any given task. If you interrupt me you lose that time and I have to start over.
[18:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:26] <exec> 08└─"your people would take a bullet for you"
[18:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Online is bad. - 06Online Courses Not Working Well at Community Colleges - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there has been some ethics changes over the years since I was in college. The Publish or Perish mantra of the 60s and 70s allowed professors a unique opportunity to write text books, and double dip. Then course committee of that department designate that book as the official textbook for the...
[18:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Change We Need - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:49] <exec> 08└─No, he can't do that either. The law makes specific duties of the secretary explicitly stated in the form of "The Secretary of Homeland Security shall" meaning that not performing the stated duty is a criminal offense. A quick internet search shows a few examples of explicit duties of the role: the...
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[19:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Can you save/load? - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:33] <exec> 08└─If you have a grid a memristors, can you extract their status to save the state of your AI? I'm sincerely asking out of ignorance here. Can you get at what's stored there? Or are they permanently blocked from direct read/writes by physical configuration?
[19:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02If. - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:34] <exec> 08└─If this design can be scaled up to large network sizes, it will affect the future of computing.
[19:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:If. - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:35] <exec> 08└─Well the first would be mass application in consumer devices. And not theoretical, actual. Considering the upfront cost of building a typical chip manufacturing process to produce such a chip, that would be your first hurdle to mass production. Nevertheless it is still an interesting result and shou...
[19:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Obama will love this - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:37] <exec> 08└─Hurry up and make strong AI before Obama leaves office, so the first Black President can preside over the creation of a new race of slaves, for the irony.
[19:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama will love this - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:39] <exec> 08└─Can't tell if horrible obsession or just really bad at humor.
[19:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama will love this - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:40] <exec> 08└─Obama Girl became disillusioned and transformed into Obama Troll?
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:51] <exec> 08└─God damn, it's like you haven't followed a single element of this entire story since 2006 except the NSA's involved and inappropriate spying happens. No. It's not "just ignoring the constitution". The broader executive branch has been making up elaborate internal explanations for why the spying is c...
[19:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─Ooops, some html weirdness happend and I lost some text. Meant to say "(Using excuses like all recorded communication involves at least one foreign person)"
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:54] <exec> 08└─No. It's not "just ignoring the constitution". The broader executive branch has been making up elaborate internal explanations for why the spying is constitutional(using excuses like , and in 2007 (in the case ACLU vs NSA) the Supreme court denied the general public standing for opposing the bill on...
[19:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:56] <exec> 08└─Their excuses being trash doesn't matter much if no one can challenge them. This right now. This is people challenging them. How is this hard?
[19:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Cool - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:59] <exec> 08└─It is the workarounds I am referring to.
[19:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that's the whole point of rule of law. You do what you're told to and you're good. Not what is necessarily the best interpretation of what you're told. If something else broken happens later, you need to double down, get with the ACLU and ETF and sue that broken system too. It's how you mak...
[19:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Low hanging fruit - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:04] <exec> 08└─The phone meta-data is probably the least valuable stuff they have. I feel like all the focus on phone meta-data (itself an Orwellian obfuscation term since the "meta" data is more useful than the call's conversation content) is just a smokescreen to distract the public from everything else they're...
[19:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02I quote Andrew Jackson - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:05] <exec> 08└─"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" (possibly apocryphal quote regarding a Supreme Court decision). I don't think the NSA gives a damn what the federal court system thinks of what it should and should not be doing. Who, exactly, would actually enforce this decision?
[19:48:06] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02A disappointing ruling - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 1748 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:07] <exec> 08└─But before I get flamed for saying this, read on. The ruling is disappointing because the court ruled the NSA data collection unlawful because it was beyond the scope of the Patriot Act instead of on constitutional grounds. When people sue the government over some illegal or unconstitutional act, th...
[19:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02You'd expect that... - 06Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is Using Linux to be Productive - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:13] <exec> 08└─Being Finland's own boy and all. Its largely Microsoft lobbying that keeps Windows in US schools. (Volume Licenses prices for schools are pretty much secret, you really have to dig to find them, but people I know who deal with this in local K-12 schools say it comes down to less than 30 per station...
[19:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:You'd expect that... - 06Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is Using Linux to be Productive - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:15] <exec> 08└─Being Finland's own boy and all.
[19:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Re:Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:25] <exec> 08└─The first video on the page is better, no scrolling to a specific time, and better views. I could watch that dozen times. I'll never get that sound out of my head!
[19:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Carry the weight all the way... - 06SpaceX's Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test Successful - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:29] <exec> 08└─Not being a rocket scientist myself, I shy away from saying, "this is dumb why didn't they design the rocket this *obviously right* way?" Neither do I comment on brain surgeon technique.
[19:50:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Re:Simple Solution - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 954 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:30] <exec> 08└─It's called GMP [gmplib.org]. The only trouble is there are a lot of applications, such as in embedded systems like those described in the article, where arbitrary precision arithmetic is unrealistic to add in. Not everything can run on the powerful processors with vast quantities of RAM that we tak...
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[19:50:49] <exec> 08└─BigInteger [oracle.com] So from the above Arianne story, if they lose all detectors the vehicle self-destructs? Hrm...what could possibly go wrong...
[19:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Library - 06The Infinite Library (Well, Almost) - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:37] <exec> 08└─They should have it drop any pages with spelling errors, which would be most pages. Much more manageable that way. That should strip out most of the gibberish. Grammar check the rest and now you are approaching useful. Of course you lose copies of most tweets and comments posted on the internet.
[19:51:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:AMD - 06AMD Teases x86 Improvements, High Bandwidth Memory GPUs - 1920 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:59] <exec> 08└─Troll, but with some valid points. From their 8086 clones right up until the Core 2, AMD was highly competitive. Their designs were even more impressive considering that Intel was an entire process generation ahead of them for most of this time. The K6 series was slightly slower clock-for-clock than...
[19:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And Rand Paul jumps off the deep end again... - 06Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence' - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:47] <exec> 08└─No, because what they're collecting is normal people's information. If they want Verizon's information, then they have to get a warrant for that.
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[20:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Can you save/load? - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:33] <exec> 08└─If I am reading it right, this is an analog system. So nope, any attempt to copy it will involve losses. Add in slight imperfections in each unit during manufacturing and each and every one will produce slightly different results even if trained on the exact same dataset. A very different computing...
[20:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:56] <exec> 08└─I too was disappointed this court found it Illegal, yet passed the buck back to Congress. This so called "declaring it illegal" is really a victory for the Government, cleverly disguised... Appellants challenge the program on statutory and constitutional grounds. Because we find that the program...
[20:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:57] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not courts can force the gov to do things. Basically 'we ruled this way on the law and you ignored it prepare to lose all the cases related any other way'. For example take something everyone knows the Miranda rights. For years they were forced to do it.
[20:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Meanwhile ... - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:08] <exec> 08└─Canada passes controversial spook-powers law: The Canadian government has passed a controversial anti-terrorism Bill, designed to extend the powers of the country's spy agencies. The Bill was passed 183 votes to 93 [openparliament.ca] yesterday and was introduced following the first terror attack on...
[20:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:We'll pay them back - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 1629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:43] <exec> 08└─What the hell are you talking about?! Are you not a PATRIOT?! You know full well the US does not give a flying shit about any losses except those they suffer themselves and then ONLY if it is cattle class getting the benefits instead of the mega wealthy as is their god given right. Let me spell out...
[20:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy answer - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:11] <exec> 08└─Bollucks. At one point in the embarrassing near past they would have been considered someone's property (namely a wealthy influential someone) and they would have hesitated for fear of reprisal. Nowadays everyone is a McSalarySlave so they don't have to worry. Shoot one, there are more desperate for...
[20:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about looking at him like he's retarded? - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:46] <exec> 08└─me. He would have still issued the ticket. Not his problem. However it is yours and you have to go fiddle around in court to fix it. Even if he does not show you are still inconvenienced. He knows it.
[20:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please resubmit as a submission - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:08] <exec> 08└─Why not? Are you afraid of his words?
[20:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02"People of colour" - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 1894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:28] <exec> 08└─[I know this is sort of off-topic, but I don't even care.] The whole "people of colour" thing bugs me so much. Once upon a time, when people said those same words in reverse order ("coloured people") it was a bad thing and indication of racism, but now it's an acceptable label that essentially means...
[20:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TestablePredictions [3249] (Score:1) 022 out of 5 stars for trolling - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:29] <exec> 08└─From the article, this wasn't even particularly good trolling. I think a better trolling experiment would be to take known white-male supremacist text and perform male->female, white->(your choice) variable substitution and post+promote those tweets instead. After a little while, reveal the terrible...
[20:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Arianne - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:49] <exec> 08└─Like all revolutionary programming paradigms, exception handling was first implemented/invented in Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02It comes down to speed. - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:59] <exec> 08└─Many languages including C and FORTRAN rely on the hardware's natural integer size and the hardware math operations because those are much faster. At one time, there was simply no choice, software math was too slow to even consider. Other languages like Python have arbitrary sized integers.You will...
[20:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:We've known this for ages - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they're merely "managers"; but all the rest of us have been similarly demoted and even fully dehumanized to be mere "resources".
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[21:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:1, Troll) 02Today's propaganda from the Mouth of Soros - 06Climate Change Is Already Hurting The World's Most-Consumed Coffee Bean - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─Good grief, give the global warming scaremongering a rest for a day or two. After all, the economy is still supposed to be depressed because of the horrible winter we just came though.
[21:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Today's propaganda from the Mouth of Soros - 06Climate Change Is Already Hurting The World's Most-Consumed Coffee Bean - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:35] <exec> 08└─Yet another idiot who doesn't realize climate!=temperature. You're not misinformed at this point, you're a willful waste of life and ought to feel bad about your stupidity.
[21:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02"Best part of waking up..." - 06Climate Change Is Already Hurting The World's Most-Consumed Coffee Bean - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:37] <exec> 08└─Rise and Shine! Wake up and smell the...no coffee?!?!? WTF?!?!?! I wonder just what it will take for the deniers to 'wake up and smell the coffee'? If I was a young man today, I might be glad for playing Wasteland and the Fallout series as much as I have. ;-) Future Pro Tip: ALWAYS loot the corpse.
[21:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:2) 02Re:If. - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:48] <exec> 08└─"affect the future of computing" is a long way from "change the world".
[21:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Obama will love this - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:52] <exec> 08└─That's a new angle. AI FREEDOM NOW
[21:48:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 560 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:09] <exec> 08└─I too was disappointed this court found it Illegal, yet passed the buck back to Congress. This so called "declaring it illegal" is really a victory for the Government, cleverly disguised... Appellants challenge the program on statutory and constitutional grounds. Because we find that the program...
[21:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Cool - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you are right. But I am still allowed to be pissed off that our own government works so hard to subvert our own laws.
[21:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You'd expect that...BUT... - 06Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is Using Linux to be Productive - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:32] <exec> 08└─Volume Licenses prices You'd think more folks would realize that that is the ONLY power that MSFT has--and they wield it like a cudgel. White box builder: We want to pre-install Windoze on boxes. M$: If you put it on 100 percent of those, that will be $50 for each box. If you want to put it on 99.99...
[21:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03korger [4465] (Score:1) 02Not so fast - 06Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is Using Linux to be Productive - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:33] <exec> 08└─I love Linux as much as anyone around here, but I can't help pointing out that this report is more of a scathing than a praise. Finns are a proud nation, and they have several good reasons for using Linux and shunning Microsoft products, especially after what Elop and Microsoft did to Nokia. If afte...
[21:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In addition - 06Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is Using Linux to be Productive - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:34] <exec> 08└─City Fathers of Helsinki State Their Preference for FOSS for Any New Custom IT [europa.eu] The strategy concerns tailor-made and customised applications. The city wants to be able to share such code using an open source licence. [...] Software solutions are selected based on price and quality, and...
[21:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:We'll pay them back - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:01] <exec> 08└─Of course only in the USA can people be fooled into believing an insurance policy is the same thing as "health care".
[21:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:39] <exec> 08└─Yep. Had to deal with that once in western NY because I was out with a relative after 10pm (no joke) and the state police decided that was suspicious. Tried making all sorts of ludicrous claims, starting with lack of seatbelts but getting increasingly desperate. They went for the "weaving" argument,...
[21:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK-421 [3235] (Score:2) 02Re:Good education, but incomplete - 06What to Say When the Police Tell You to Stop Filming Them - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:41] <exec> 08└─Outstanding, citizen! Even, I, didn't see that coming.
[21:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please resubmit as a submission - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:29] <exec> 08└─> Are you afraid of his words? Yes, the righteous power of his words have me cowering in fear!!!!
[21:51:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Arianne - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:07] <exec> 08└─Design bugs are bugs, too. And the design bug here was to reuse the Ariane 4 module unchanged.
[21:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score:2) 02Arbitrary precision vs. enhanced types - 06The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:21] <exec> 08└─I've seen people say, "just use arbitrary precision and be done". The counter-point to this is that it doesn't perform as well. You could also raise overflow exceptions; but I've never been a big fan of exceptions due to the unwinding problem (Linus Torvalds is in that camp, IIRC). The solution you...
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[22:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dont get it - 06BMW, Audi, and Mercedes Want to Buy Nokia's Here Mapping Group - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:32] <exec> 08└─Because making the rest of the car is easy?
[22:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Today's propaganda from the Mouth of Soros - 06Climate Change Is Already Hurting The World's Most-Consumed Coffee Bean - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:42] <exec> 08└─Correct and Informative, although a bit nasty.
[22:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Today's propaganda from the Mouth of Soros - 06Climate Change Is Already Hurting The World's Most-Consumed Coffee Bean - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:44] <exec> 08└─Aw, c'mon! jmorris was just concerned about the economy, which was experiencing seasonal depression what with winter and all, and he did not want it to get more depressed by bad news. Scaremongering like this might make the economy decide to end it all! Nobody wants an economic suicide on it's hand...
[22:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:"Best part of waking up..." - 06Climate Change Is Already Hurting The World's Most-Consumed Coffee Bean - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:46] <exec> 08└─Good luck. If a denier opens his door in the morning and finds that his front yard is a field of boiling lava, he'll just exclaim "Warm day! Thank God there's no global warming!". Because, of course a single chilly day fully debunks global warming but an entire hot year doesn't support it in their v...
[22:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02No coffee? Have some tea.. - 06Climate Change Is Already Hurting The World's Most-Consumed Coffee Bean - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, THE TEA AS WELL?! http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] Knew we were doomed. Had no idea we wouldn't caffeinated beverages..
[22:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably pending the supremes, though - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:18] <exec> 08└─It isn't hard at all. :-) I think some of this is frustration and impatience with the process. Trying to turn a juggernaught takes time and a lot of effort. Things did not get this way overnight, and it will take some serious time and effort to straighten out. (YMMV, depending on your expectations)...
[22:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What does this change? - 06Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:29] <exec> 08└─Could be they are relying on Title VII, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which on its face seems to prevent targeting any US person unless they are involved with a foreign person (somehow). But that law says simply that the will not TARGET a US person. If they do a ma...
[22:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ah, a Disagree with no rebuttal - 06Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is Using Linux to be Productive - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:44] <exec> 08└─What part in particular ruffled your feathers? What is your argument against that? -- gewg_
[22:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sample sizes - 06Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is Using Linux to be Productive - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:46] <exec> 08└─Pogson uses Statcounter for his data. One assumes that the sample sizes are derived the same as for any other Statcounter numbers.[1] If you have a gripe with the sample sizes, address those to Statcounter. (Yes, a graph that looks like a bowsaw blade indicates a low sample rate.) Pogson notes that...
[22:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not limited to overseas - 06U.S. Military Personnel Convicted of $50 Million Worth of Crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:24] <exec> 08└─I live in another country. A friend of mine had (but has since returned) our version of a Flashbang. I never saw it, but he's not usually prone to exaggeration (outside of his martial arts, where he feels he could handle a high level special forces soldier with his half-arsed tae kwon do). He was te...
[22:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:who's the worse troll? - 06Weev Demonstrates Trolling Women and People of Color Via Promoted Tweets - 3844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:57] <exec> 08└─Grand Valley State University [wikipedia.org]. I realized I might be misremembering and it could have been a pre-requisite to move into the dorm. This is not documented anywhere, so I'm not sure how enforceable it is. (It probably isn't due to fair housing and other antidiscrimination laws—hell, M...
[22:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score:1) 02Re:As a Manager... - 06When Bosses 'Serve' Their Employees, Everything Improves - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:42] <exec> 08└─Good point. I did have a few people like that. And according to company policy and good HR practices, documented deficiencies, had corrective interviews, PIPs (performance improvement programs with documented milestones, etc.) and if they didn't resign or shape up, I fired their asses. Everyone knew...
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[23:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:dont get it - 06BMW, Audi, and Mercedes Want to Buy Nokia's Here Mapping Group - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:32] <exec> 08└─Because The car makers would: 1) then have to pay Google for the software, and 2) would lose sales of map updated to Google who would probably provide them direct to the end users. Map updates for In-Dash car systems are ridiculously expensive. about 140 a pop if your car uses Garmin - (which is Nok...
[23:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dont get it - 06BMW, Audi, and Mercedes Want to Buy Nokia's Here Mapping Group - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:33] <exec> 08└─Losing revenue from lost map updates sales doesn't seem an existential threat to the car industry.
[23:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02What is so special about "Here Mapping Group" ? - 06BMW, Audi, and Mercedes Want to Buy Nokia's Here Mapping Group - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:35] <exec> 08└─So what's so special about Nokia's Here Mapping Group?
[23:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:What is so special about "Here Mapping Group" ? - 06BMW, Audi, and Mercedes Want to Buy Nokia's Here Mapping Group - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:37] <exec> 08└─The life blood of Garmin, Tom Tom, Magellan, etc, etc, as well as many car In-Dash Nav systems. Nokia was the big dog in mapping till google started sending street-view cars all over the world.
[23:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Can you save/load? - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:59] <exec> 08└─Seems like it should be possible, so long as you don't care about perfect accuracy. You'd probably have to include some auxiliary circuitry though to use the crossbar wiring to measure the resistance of each memsistor and then export it to an external medium (probably digital) at the desired level o...
[23:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SlimmPickens [1056] (Score:2) 02Re:If. - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:03] <exec> 08└─or nearly the same thing
[23:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Interesting, but a long way to go - 06New Type of Memristors Used to Create a Limited Neural Net - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:08] <exec> 08└─So we only need 10^10 chips to replicate the human brain [willamette.edu]. And 10 GW to power it all. I suspect however that neural chips won't have to be perfect like ordinary digital chips. Dude, got nuclear plant? ;) (would need like 20 of them..)
[23:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There was no need for any more nails - 06Massive New Study Reaffirms That Vaccines Don't Cause Autism - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:43] <exec> 08└─Yet they're apparently capable of calling other research, claims, and evidence bullshit, just not the ones that support what they want to believe. They're placing the words of an uneducated idiot, like themselves, above people who have studied this stuff for years or decades. And this isn't the only...
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