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[00:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Large NEO are not even the most threatening. - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:42] <exec> 08└─Actually the Hiroshima device was 12-15 kton TNT and asfair the standard device currently is circa 2 Mton TNT so it's not really a good comparison. But yeah still "small" NEOs are a scourge. But they perhaps a smaller landing of such object will prove to be a proper incentive to get people in a posi...
[00:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Large NEO are not even the most threatening. - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:43] <exec> 08└─We've had these all along. But they are rare, and likely to get more rare as time goes on. (Or so says I've heard). In fact we just finished counting all the impacters of significant size: http://news.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] In 20...
[00:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Large NEO are not even the most threatening. - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:45] <exec> 08└─> destroy any city in the entire solar system just by giving a rock the proper nudge IN ONLY THREE ORBITS - of 5 years, and provided you don't intercept using an equivalent asteroid-orbit modifying device to counter mine, and hoping my calculations properly encompasses all other orbit-changing facto...
[00:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Congress wont fund the scopes we actually need - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:47] <exec> 08└─I used to work for astronomer Jeremy Mould. He told me that what we needed were lots of modest sized scopes so everyone could get observing time. What Congress wanted was one single very large scope so we could see farther away but such a scope would be so expensive that the votes to fund it werent...
[00:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress wont fund the scopes we actually need - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:48] <exec> 08└─> we need enough scopes to cover the entire sky over the course of a year I'm pretty sure that would settle the dispute about anthropomorphic global warming.
[00:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress wont fund the scopes we actually need - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:50] <exec> 08└─so everyone could get observing time.
[00:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress wont fund the scopes we actually need - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:41:52] <exec> 08└─How much does a proper scope for NEO observation contribution cost? and what are the more detailed specifications? I recall some filthy rich person giving away loads of analog video cameras when those were expansive and used cassettes to a lot of people all around the globe in order to tape abuse of...
[00:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Quick Calculations - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:53] <exec> 08└─I just did a quick calculation of the kenetic energy of an inro astroid of 300m in diameter traveling at 46000mph reletive to Earth....I was thinking 300m isn't really that big in the scheme of things....turns out that KE=44.5GT of TNT. This is assuming pure iron (density of 7870kg/m^3). But still e...
[00:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so impressed - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:43] <exec> 08└─Artificial is to Intelligence as Biological is to ___________. a. Life form b. Spiritual c. Book smarts d. Nun of the above Being a sentient system yourself, please answer as humanly as possible.
[00:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Ever read a - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:01] <exec> 08└─You're sold like taco on a street corner.
[00:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02You must be very lonely - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:11] <exec> 08└─I like to chat with the people I meet in brick and mortar stores. That does not work well with amazon. I always pay cash. I dont use store loyalty cards.
[00:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:You must be very lonely - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:12] <exec> 08└─Not really, I moved out of my parents basement many many decades ago. I actually have a wife, offspring, grandkids, neighbors, guests, and friends. My problem is finding enough peace and quiet. I don't walk/drive to a store just to accost some random person.
[00:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeffPaetkau [1465] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Satya Nadella's tombstone... - 06Microsoft Outsourcing Online Ad Management to AOL - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:11] <exec> 08└─They may not be losing revenue, but they are nosediving in terms of relevancy
[00:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Satya Nadella's tombstone... - 06Microsoft Outsourcing Online Ad Management to AOL - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:13] <exec> 08└─In my circles, Microsoft has been irrelevant for a long long time. They own the legacy market*, but that isn't a growth market. Even their own cloud services are cannibalizing their traditional lines like MS Exchange, but if MS didn't offer o365, they would lose all those customers to Google Apps. I...
[00:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:wait, what? - 06How Television Beat the Internet - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:50:41] <exec> 08└─That's assuming abandonware was/is a problem. I see GOG's approach as problematic instead... The company is making money off games they didn't help create by bundling it with an emulator they also have no hand in — and that'd be fine (nothing wrong with making money by creating the bundles) *excep...
[00:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Resources + I'm not sure the approach is good - 06Ask Soylent: Beginning in Artificial Intelligence Methods - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:51:37] <exec> 08└─I think you are wrong to ignore the distinction. Using your vague definition of "artificial intelligence" would allow any kind of updating procedure to be classed as such. People would not call gradient decent or mcmc examples of intelligence. They are just algorithms that compare different models t...
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[01:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about Yellowstone going thermonuclear? - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:01] <exec> 08└─I thought that was the one we really had to worry about, b/c that would take civilization back 30,000 years, but I'm not on top of these things.
[01:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Typical Brain Matter here - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:02] <exec> 08└─Have not read the article or the paper but I have to ask, is it the case of the AI truly understanding the test demands as a whole or just being better at taking quizzes? Wasn't there a case where people found out that kids' IQ score is increasing in a country but found out that they are actually ge...
[01:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical Brain Matter here - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:03] <exec> 08└─or just being better at taking quizzes?
[01:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:1) 02Re:More MS slight of hand? - 06Uber Acquires Mapping Assets and Employees From Microsoft/Bing - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:21] <exec> 08└─no need for tinfoil hats. The explanation is easy. They have big ambitions in the self driving car space. This has been covered in detail a lot of times on this site. Self driving cars need image processing and good map data. Hiring imaging and mapping engineers is a good step toward getting that. h...
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[02:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Jump Start? - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:41] <exec> 08└─Policy makers hope the changes will jump-start the use of mobile services in Europe.
[02:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jump Start? - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:42] <exec> 08└─Which part of "in Europe" don't your understand?
[02:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Currently 28 - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:44] <exec> 08└─European officials agreed on Tuesday to outlaw cellphone roaming charges, beginning in 2017, when people travel across the 28-member bloc.
[02:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress wont fund the scopes we actually need - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:02] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Resources [wikipedia.org]
[02:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Quick Calculations - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:04] <exec> 08└─Here's a good link for actual computations: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu [arizona.edu] Your asteroid would make a crater 8 km wide or so. Your energy calculations seem to be a little off though. Kinetic energy is "only" about 10 gigatons TNT (4.45×1019 J) for pure iron. Enough to...
[02:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about Yellowstone going thermonuclear? - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:06] <exec> 08└─Re:What about Yellowstone going thermonuclear?
[02:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:1) 02Re:The problem is that the clients screwed up IPv6 - 06Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) leaks users' details. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:23] <exec> 08└─This is as bad as requiring a new OS licence when the motherboard and hard drive go at the same time.
[02:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:How they do it - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:06] <exec> 08└─It's a word association game played on connotations, and yes, connotations are quite literally observations of statistical associations of words with contexts. I remember calling these context clues in elementary school. Associations with ��other words give you maybe 80% of the information...
[02:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Re:Typical Brain Matter here - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:11] <exec> 08└─Well, according to the paper (skimming through it), they first classify the question into 5 different categories before applying the appropriate solver (all of which refer to a common 'database' or sort). It is essentially like other agents, exploiting the structure of a problem to gain leverage. Ad...
[02:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Demonstrates superficiality of verbal IQ tests - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:13] <exec> 08└─I skimmed over the article - basically authors built a system that is able to understand five different types of verbal questions (two analogies, classification, synonym, antonym). While building such a system is an interesting achievement from a computer science standpoint, I find that in the overa...
[02:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Re:Demonstrates superficiality of verbal IQ tests - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:14] <exec> 08└─It's like other AI agents, exploit structures within a problem to solve them (arguably like other computer algorithm). The article should be titled, "Amazon Mechanical Turk can now be Automated".
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[03:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03moylan [3063] (Score:1) 02Re:Jump Start? - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:41:44] <exec> 08└─i do have a stack of phones with multiple sims on prepay. :-) i spend €5 every 2-3 months for calls and data which i rarely use. 2 days of data per month when gaming and a few sms and calls to organise meetups. prepay though is getting harder to find here in ireland as they phase it out in place o...
[03:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:3, Informative) 02Net Neutrality out the window in the same move - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:46] <exec> 08└─And in the same move, net neutrality is scuppered [laquadrature.net]. The roaming announcement is just a distraction for a major loss. The new arrangement specifically allows tiered access [wired.com] also known as so-called fast lanes [arstechnica.co.uk], the the antithesis of an open Internet. It'...
[03:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Congress wont fund the scopes we actually need - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:03] <exec> 08└─or are they all busy serving ads, sending spam, or skript-kiddy-ing their way into my ssh server? yes.
[03:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Quick Calculations - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:09] <exec> 08└─Seems I'm also a bit off, having forgotten the factor of ½ in kinetic energy calculations. Iron meteorite would be 5 gigatons, and ice would be 500 megatons. XD
[03:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02How many VPN users care? - 06Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) leaks users' details. - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:29] <exec> 08└─I have always assumed that the majority of the users of these VPN services want to get around geographic content restrictions. They probably don't care about IPv6 leakage.
[03:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:53] <exec> 08└─If they had to pass the Turing test they'd lose half their membership.
[03:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Thanks the FSM - 06Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:12] <exec> 08└─That it's not the CSIRO doing this to any of our native Australian spiders. The last thing we need is some of those bastards to have unbreakable webs. I prefer my intestines unliquified, thankyouverymuch.
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[04:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Unrenewed Domain Names - 06Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff’s Use - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:38] <exec> 08└─Aren't shady companies still buying up .com domains whenever they expire? This is to ransom them back to the lapsed owners or cause a bidding war.
[04:41:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02Net Neutrality out the window in the same move - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 520 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:49] <exec> 08└─And in the same move, net neutrality is scuppered [laquadrature.net]. The roaming announcement is just a distraction for a major loss. The new arrangement specifically allows tiered access [wired.com] also known as so-called fast lanes [arstechnica.co.uk], the the antithesis of an open Internet. It'...
[04:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:How they do it - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:15] <exec> 08└─I know that for me consciousness seems inherently non-material in that I have no clue whatsoever where in the material world my representations of nerve stimuli come from. The Chinese Room problem is just a lengthy statement of this frustration. Even if I know that the brain is assembled out of cogn...
[04:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02abuse of iq test anyway? - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:24] <exec> 08└─Someone correct me if I am remembering this wrong. But was not the IQ test designed not to find 'very smart people' but the reverse? To help find and weed out people who are basically retarded? There are better qualities to measure than 'IQ'. Scoring good on an IQ test just means you are not stupid....
[04:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It didn't take a NYT article to convince me - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:14] <exec> 08└─Then those "real people" aren't doing their jobs as citizens and are part of the problem. This is the kind of article you send your relatives who think you are a paranoid kook every time you try to warn them.
[04:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acharax [4264] (Score:2) 02I don't trust privacy policies - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:16] <exec> 08└─Once your data is stored on another entities' system it's your best guess what'll be done with it eventually. Even if they'll make themselves liable by violating their own privacy policy, how are you going to find out? Hell, even if you find out they can just claim it's a leak and you'd have no evid...
[04:45:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02Satya Nadella's tombstone... - 06Microsoft Outsourcing Online Ad Management to AOL - 1687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─So Satya Nadella's tombstone will have "outsource everything, open source the rest" after he destroys Microsoft. The idea is to outsource everything that isn't a core business function, but ... what is MS's core business now? I see a lot of heat out of MS these days, open sourcing this, supporting t...
[04:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:USA today at a glance - 06US Supreme Court Strikes Down New Anti-Pollution Rules - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:47:06] <exec> 08└─Your argument started with "only the US...", so it does matter what other countries do because it both makes your argument wrong and you an idiot.
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[05:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:42] <exec> 08└─The 800 lb gorilla is that some people are easily offended.
[05:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Maybe it was an Easter Egg - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:43] <exec> 08└─The mac os word 5 spellchecker flagged childcare, suggested kidnaper as a replacement.
[05:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"Dan Lungren is running for Attorney General." - 06Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff’s Use - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:52] <exec> 08└─"Did you register his domains?" "Com, net and org!" http://www.sfgate.com [sfgate.com] All Andy really wanted was a job so he registered the domains of all the SFO mayoral campaigns then waited around for an offer. I roffle co...
[05:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 0230" newtonian about $30,000.00 - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:24] <exec> 08└─schmidt cameras arecwuite difficult to make as they use a correcting lens in the front that has a complex shape. Maybe $100,000.00 for a thirty inch. You need real estate that is free of light pollution but a national or state park might permit it. You need someone to operate it, they need living ex...
[05:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02World Police - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:30] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm not a big fan of the self proclaimed World Police that is the U.S. of A. But what are _other_ nations doing about a possible scenario that effects all of humanity? At least the U.S. tried to do initiate something, although with pitiful results.... maybe there are other initiatives by other...
[05:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Cancer? What cancer? - 06Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:24] <exec> 08└─since spiders just are not cute enough.
[05:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:I must be superman - 06Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:37] <exec> 08└─If spider silk is so god damn strong why can I tear it to shreds with my bare hands?
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[06:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GoonDu [2623] (Score:2) 02Whatever happens to unknown? - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:41] <exec> 08└─What if the person in the photograph do look like a gorilla? On a serious note, if an image recognition algorithm misclassifies, I would not go as far as to cry 'racism'. Just simply a mistake.
[06:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:2, Informative) 02Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:42] <exec> 08└─Now I know this will come off as insulting, and I really don't want it to be, but... *TO A COMPUTER* Gorillas have the same humanoid shape as people, and unfortunately the colour of the hair covering on most Gorillas are black. So a person who has darker skin is more likely to fit into that bucket i...
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[06:41:43] <exec> 08└─This kind of thing is nothing new. Years ago HP was scolded for their face-tracking technology not working with Black people. [gizmodo.com] Although I can't help but chuckle, because I'm an asshole, this isn't a symptom of racism but rather shoddy design that isn't tested and developed using enough...
[06:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:45] <exec> 08└─*TO A COMPUTER* Gorillas have the same humanoid shape as people
[06:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:47] <exec> 08└─The donkey would be quite happy...
[06:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Written by - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:48] <exec> 08└─And I'm willing to bet that the software was written by an almost exclusively white team of programmers.* *Displays his knowledge that there are very few black programmers in the most offensive way possible.
[06:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Written by - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:50] <exec> 08└─Hm, I thought I could trick it by uploading some pictures of albino gorillas (I edited and blurred the pictures so it can't cheat too much). It correctly identified them as animals. I'm impressed -- image recognition is hard.
[06:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02when image recognition goes horribly right - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:51] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/06/20/1640240 [soylentnews.org]
[06:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:10] <exec> 08└─This is becoming a religious belief in some people that scoring high on a test that measures pattern recognition and puzzle solving makes one very unlikely to have any brainpower. It smacks of bitterness and "doth protest too much."
[06:43:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Slightly misleading - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 1045 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:34] <exec> 08└─The results are somewhat misleading. I read the journalist output and skimmed the paper. First they didn't really do an IQ test they just dived into some weird game-able vocabulary tests. Its like saying human mathematicians are doomed because the graphics card I threw out today can do more raw FLOP...
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[07:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:47] <exec> 08└─There was also the issue with a camera's facial recognition tech that had a habit of assuming that Asian people were blinking or even had their eyes closed and helpfully suggesting that the photographer retake the photo, compounded by the fact that the camera vendor was Asian. There are so many subt...
[07:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:50] <exec> 08└─The horse would be offended to be tagged an ass, a wild ass [wikipedia.org] even more. Understandable; wouldn't you feel the same?
[07:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Informative) 02the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:55] <exec> 08└─image in question: https://pbs.twimg.com [twimg.com] actual gorilla: https://c1.staticflickr.com [staticflickr.com] a very dark face with a wide nose and seemingly surrounded by black. is it really a surprise it was labeled as being gorill...
[07:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:57] <exec> 08└─The human brain treats faces separately from general recognition tasks. Maybe Google should implement something similar to its algorithms. Have some "looks like a face" detector and divert anything that qualifies to an extra algorithm that is specialized in recognizing human faces.
[07:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:58] <exec> 08└─Have some "looks like a face" detector and divert anything that qualifies to an extra algorithm that is specialized in recognizing human faeces.
[07:42:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02The problem is that the clients screwed up IPv6 - 06Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) leaks users' details. - 1050 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:58] <exec> 08└─The leak problem is on the client side. And the cure is simple: Disable IPv6 completely on your local system while using the VPN service that only handles IPv4. And watch out for what DNS requests that leave your network. Another solution is to make sure your local IPv6 traffic and DNS requests goes...
[07:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:One step forward... - 06US Supreme Court Strikes Down New Anti-Pollution Rules - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:48:00] <exec> 08└─Holy What the Flying F**kity F**k. Flamebait? Really? I get the feeling maybe those who moderated my post above as Troll and Flamebait did not grasp that I was referring to this as being a very bad decision based on my usage of half the common phrase "One step forward... TWO STEPS BACK". This is why...
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[08:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not a good idea - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:40] <exec> 08└─From my observation, it's just now that Apple laptops are getting traction (I see lots of them; that was not the case just a few years ago).
[08:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02mims please - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:41] <exec> 08└─Focus? Resources? I think a $230 billion company can afford a handful of engineers to figure out how to get the high DPI panel (made by LG Display [ifixit.com]) stuffed into a MacBook or iMac. As long as professionals keep on buying them, they'll keep on selling them. Paywall busted: http://www.bdli...
[08:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Focus - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:42] <exec> 08└─Christopher Mims writes at the WSJ that Apple like all ambitious companies occasionally strays from its focus.
[08:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Focus - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:44] <exec> 08└─BREAKING: Wall Street Analyst Cannot See Forest From All the Trees That Stand in the Way. Next: Ice-cream tastes good.
[08:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yeah, why indeed - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:46] <exec> 08└─The answer is simple: because iphone depends on macs. You can only develop for them with a mac. If mac didn't exist you could do that with a normal windows or linux pc and that goes against apple's core strategy.
[08:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Uhh - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:47] <exec> 08└─Despite the fact that OS X has sucked horse nuts since 10.7, these people that think that killing off the PC in favor of brain damaged tablets and smartphones is a good idea, well, they are definitely not developers. I hate tech pundits who know nothing about tech. It's all about the feel of the key...
[08:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:08] <exec> 08└─A face detector wouldn't be enough, because gorillas have faces. Looking at the photos, it's a selfie with a black girl's face taking up most of the picture; the guy is way in the background. The girl has long black hair on both sides of her face, and her body (which would have been helpful for disa...
[08:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:09] <exec> 08└─Oh, also, I would guess it's highly likely Google already has a face detector. That's one of the easiest ways to find people in a photo.
[08:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03malloc_free [3034] (Score:1) 02However, I uploaded an image of yo mama... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:11] <exec> 08└─...and she was correctly identified as a 'crack whore'. Something is obviously working XD
[08:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Jump Start? - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:30] <exec> 08└─They mean when travelling. It used to be that people didn't take their phones on holiday with them, or had special ones for business trips. Since it has been known that this was coming for a long time many operators have started offering free roaming in most EU countries anyway. My own operator, 3,...
[08:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Wrong risk - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:59] <exec> 08└─Surely a Zombie invasion is a far bigger risk than an avoidable hit by an asteroid that might do serious damage? Why not address more serious, imminent, threats like Alzheimers, Ebola, or plague. Even if globule warming is not man made, it will still do us in before an asteroid. Here in Europe, inva...
[08:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is that the clients screwed up IPv6 - 06Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) leaks users' details. - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:17] <exec> 08└─Your most is mostly good, but this bit is just FUD: Microsoft addicts may want to pay attention to that disabling IPv6 is an unsupported configuration that can make the support contract and license keys be gone.
[08:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:36] <exec> 08└─This is becoming a religious belief in some people that scoring high on a test that measures pattern recognition and puzzle solving makes one very unlikely to have any brainpower. It smacks of bitterness and "doth protest too much."
[08:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which is why... - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:49] <exec> 08└─OK, so based on the serial number, you can say that I probably bought some stuff at the larger shop ("probably" because I could as well have given that same bank note to a taxi driver who used it to pay a hair cut at a small shop, where the same note was later given as change to some other guy who u...
[08:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which is why... - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:50] <exec> 08└─err ... s/of some bicycle equipment/or some bicycle equipment/
[08:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Satya Nadella's tombstone... - 06Microsoft Outsourcing Online Ad Management to AOL - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:41] <exec> 08└─*Most laptops sold in the last several years do not have windows installed on them.
[08:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:UK Law means it has to be on free to air - 06Discovery Outbids National Broadcasters for Olympics - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:26] <exec> 08└─This raises some interesting questions. Will the BBC just get highlights? Or a simple live feed from Discovery with Discovery commentators and advert breaks? Will it even be in HD? Japan is planning to do the first 8k broadcast for their summer games in 2020. Freeview is crowded and space for HD cha...
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[09:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a good idea - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:47] <exec> 08└─I believe the correct response would be for the WSJ to not be telling Apple what to do. One of these companies is one of the highest stock-market caps in the world [which is really all that is important in the US], and makes billions and billions of dollars in profits, including from the division ma...
[09:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:yeah, why indeed - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:52] <exec> 08└─Add to that: the core OS is shared between OS X, iOS and even the watch to a surprising degree. The cost of developing the desktop version is not very large and, importantly, means that they have a platform where they encounter different issues to mobile (e.g. 64-bit switch - they got to do some nea...
[09:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yeah, why indeed - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:54] <exec> 08└─This. Not only would killing the Mac kill all development for iPhone/iPad, Apple has time and time again proven that when they attempt developing for other platforms, the result is bloatware that people will do anything to avoid. And without apps, the iPhone and iPad would be as popular as Windows P...
[09:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uhh - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:56] <exec> 08└─yeah, this is just another THE DESKTOP IS DEAD HEY WHY ARE PEOPLE BUYING DESKTOPS? Because the desktop is far from dead.
[09:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhh - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:58] <exec> 08└─Not just developers, but anyone who uses their computer creatively. Just try to whip up a complicated CAD drawing on an iPhone, even the 6 plus, or a computer generated monster for a movie on a Nexus 7. How about dealing with a simple 12 column spreadsheet, or write up a basic ten page report? Basic...
[09:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhh - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:00] <exec> 08└─Darn it, double reply. I recently "downgraded" from Snow Leopard to Yosemite (except on this laptop -- still has SL on it). Apple definitely needs another Snow Leopard -- in tracking down a solution to an issue I ran into this article: http://www.tekrevue.com
[09:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a douche - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:01] <exec> 08└─What a humongous moron this Christopher Mims is. First of all, that's where apple came from. It wasn't the ipods and other stuff. Secondly, even if it is just a "rounding error" of other sales, it's still brings in money, so now you just want to dump it, because it's not making enough? Way to think...
[09:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Dying PCs - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:03] <exec> 08└─According to Mims the iPhone is just coming into its prime, the iPad is an immature platform and the iWatch is in its infancy
[09:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Last-century technology, eh? - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:04] <exec> 08└─Gee, arrogant much? Building good PC's may not be the biggest profit center or the sexiest new hipster fad, but if refining a mature technology still makes money, why not? A buck's a buck, isn't it? Let's examine a few buggy whips that, while mature, remain bleeding-edge on the R&D front: Cars. Powe...
[09:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:18] <exec> 08└─Did you hear that, Shrek? I'm a *STEED* !!1!
[09:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:27] <exec> 08└─A face detector wouldn't be enough
[09:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:29] <exec> 08└─Apologies. That's a good idea: detect faces, and then spend extra effort trying to classify the species of the face if it's not obvious from other parts of the photo. Many photos wouldn't need the extra effort, even if there's a face, because you know from the wearing of clothing and/or shape of the...
[09:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Not using the domain - 06Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff’s Use - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:40] <exec> 08└─The workbetter.com domain is currently not used - it just redirects to Kneen's blog. I don't know if this is recent or if this has been the case since 1999. Maybe Office Space Solutions inc is a bunch of $REDACTED_FOR_PG_RATINGS, but the current situation does seem to be that Kneen has a domain name...
[09:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Jump Start? - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:51] <exec> 08└─Not just roaming in the EU. Roaming in the US on 3 is cheaper than getting a local SIM, to the extent that they added something to their T&Cs saying that you had to use the SIM in the UK at least once every three months, because people were buying them solely for use in the US. Roaming in Canada is...
[09:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jump Start? - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:52] <exec> 08└─Mobile phone plans are much cheaper in most European countries than in the US, but the EU is not one country, so roaming charges apply if you use your phone outside of your home country, even in other EU countries. This has many people disabling data roaming altogether, so while data usage is throug...
[09:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SO ? - 06Microsoft Outsourcing Online Ad Management to AOL - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:46:50] <exec> 08└─What does C*ck mean? I can't understand, because it's obscured.
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[10:42:58] <exec> 08└─Of course the desktop is dead. I've been using towers exclusively for the last 20 years!
[10:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 3082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:04] <exec> 08└─My first experience with a Mac was in 1984 or thereabouts when the university I was going to acquired two of the original 128k Macs. The screens were small, only black and white, the thing took forever to boot and you could only write eight pages or so of a MacWrite document before you ran out of me...
[10:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Christopher - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:06] <exec> 08└─Christopher Mims writes
[10:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:However, I uploaded an image of yo mama... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:36] <exec> 08└─I got "Nubian princess" on my images, Gonna say google got it right for once.
[10:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kharnynb [5468] (Score:1) 02I don't get it - 06Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff’s Use - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:48] <exec> 08└─It's 2 dictionary words, put together in a rather common way... The guy owns the domain and they want it, but he doesn't want to sell (for whatever they offered anyway) So now they want to use the courts to get their way? sounds like "office space solutions" are a bunch of babies that threw their to...
[10:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:27] <exec> 08└─You misspelled "Whoosh". [merriam-webster.com]
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[11:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Car Analogy - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:57] <exec> 08└─Some people own ordinary everyday cars, but aspire to own a Ferrari. Some people own ordinary everyday computers, but aspire to own a Mac Pro. Hell, if I had the money to burn, I'd buy one in a heart beat!
[11:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:08] <exec> 08└─Yes and it is because we are living in the future; algorithms can now be racist. Now where the hell is my flying car?
[11:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:However, I uploaded an image of yo mama... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:43:30] <exec> 08└─I was just giving soylent a second chance after being turned off by the juvenile troll shit that was taking hold here. This shit isn't funny, and fuck you. I'll check back in a few months and see if the community has grown up at all. (guess what race i am...)
[11:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tmh [1215] (Score:1) 02Re:Not so impressed - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:32] <exec> 08└─No it wasn't. Wired exposed the bot in 2 questions: Q1: Where are you from? A1: Odessa, Ukraine. Q2: Cool i am from Ukraine, have you ever been there? A2: No, never, [some deflection] The turing test requires to fool an "examiner", not some random idiots from the street
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[12:41:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02mims please - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 968 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:43] <exec> 08└─Focus? Resources? I think a $230 billion company can afford a handful of engineers to figure out how to get the high DPI panel (made by LG Display [ifixit.com]) stuffed into a MacBook or iMac. As long as professionals keep on buying them, they'll keep on selling them. Paywall busted: http://www.bdli...
[12:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:59] <exec> 08└─I still think that Windows 95 was perhaps the greatest piece of software engineering in history given what Microsoft had to overcome to make it work.
[12:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Car Analogy - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:01] <exec> 08└─I'd buy one in a heart beat!
[12:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Car Analogy - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:03] <exec> 08└─In other words, while it benefits them in some way they should keep building them. You probably have something there.
[12:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:3, Funny) 02A better headline - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:05] <exec> 08└─A better headline should be: "Should Apple Kill Off the Mac?" Then we would all know the answer.
[12:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Average fail - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:06] <exec> 08└─"Showpieces like iMacs with screens that have more pixels than any PC ever (and four times the average selling price of a PC)
[12:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:17] <exec> 08└─To be fair, she was explicitly NOT easily offended and reacted in a VERY understanding and reasonable manner.
[12:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:18] <exec> 08└─> To be fair, she was explicitly NOT easily offended and reacted in a VERY understanding and reasonable manner. Why ruin a good case of confirmation bias with facts? The irony is that penguinoid was too easily offended by the story and so made up his own narrative to justify his reaction. That seems...
[12:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:28] <exec> 08└─*TO A COMPUTER* Gorillas have the same humanoid shape as people
[12:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:29] <exec> 08└─> There was no malice involved (as management would not allow the extra engineering time to program malice in). Of course there was no malice involved. It is the unconscious assumptions of the developers that get programmed in because management does not allow the extra engineering time to even con...
[12:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:1) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:40] <exec> 08└─I think having gorillas been classified as people would also make people lose their shit (no pun intended), although probably not as much. But it got me thinking, we can differentiate between gorillas and humans quite easily, even though we are VERY similar, what do we use to differentiate? face pr...
[12:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:However, I uploaded an image of yo mama... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:44] <exec> 08└─Try setting your thresholds higher.
[12:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slashdot 1999 - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:45] <exec> 08└─Deja vu all over again Microsoft Encarta got in trouble for labelling a family as "monkey", the monkey bars in the playground behind them was the reason given http://www.zdnet.com [zdnet.com]
[12:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so impressed - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:41] <exec> 08└─Artificial is to Intelligence as Biological is to Nun of the life form spiritual book smarts?
[12:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:How they do it - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:47] <exec> 08└─I know that for me consciousness seems inherently non-material
[12:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It didn't take a NYT article to convince me - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:50] <exec> 08└─> Then those "real people" aren't doing their jobs as citizens and are part of the problem. Kind of like how you didn't your job as a citizen and actually read the line of my post you quoted and went off on a strawman?
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[13:41:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Not a good idea - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 552 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:40] <exec> 08└─I believe the correct response would be for the WSJ to not be telling Apple what to do. One of these companies is one of the highest stock-market caps in the world [which is really all that is important in the US], and makes billions and billions of dollars in profits, including from the division ma...
[13:41:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02Uhh - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:47] <exec> 08└─Despite the fact that OS X has sucked horse nuts since 10.7, these people that think that killing off the PC in favor of brain damaged tablets and smartphones is a good idea, well, they are definitely not developers. I hate tech pundits who know nothing about tech. It's all about the feel of the key...
[13:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Not the UI - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:03] <exec> 08└─Most of the responses WRT phone vs desktop have focused on the phones really poor UI for serious tasks. However I'd propose there's bigger differences like the walled garden vs relative freedom. A world where I can only develop software that apple approves of and is flawlessly politically correct an...
[13:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:17] <exec> 08└─RTFA! In spite of Google accidentally making a comment that has long been used as a hateful racial slur, the mis-identified person rather matter of factly pointed out the obvious error without going into any sort of rant. How did you manage to translate that into "easily offended"?
[13:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:18] <exec> 08└─Because everything is a front of a culture war now.
[13:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:25] <exec> 08└─compounded by the fact that the camera vendor was Asian.
[13:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:32] <exec> 08└─software is heavy on statistical matching
[13:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:Not using the domain - 06Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff’s Use - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:58] <exec> 08└─Domains can be used for much more than hosting something at the root level. I had a discussion with someone about my domain claiming I "wasn't doing anything with it" because ${root}.net/index.html didn't have anything on it. I have plenty of machines utilizing dns, and a fairly big email setup - I'...
[13:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jump Start? - 06E.U. to End Cellphone Roaming Charges in 2017 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:13] <exec> 08└─To make a more accurate analogy, consider the borders between countries in Europe as the borders between states in the US. Now does it make sense?
[13:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:How they do it - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:53] <exec> 08└─I get that. I know about case studies where functions are disconnected by brain damage from other parts of the brain and function autonomously or with limited coordination with other functions. I still don't get where it comes together. I don't get where you go from untyped sense data to typed sense...
[13:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:ATM machines and cash serial numbers - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:37] <exec> 08└─Right, and that's why bad data gets into these systems about people. They're imperfect.
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[14:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Why he's not a billionaire - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:33] <exec> 08└─he was often quick to point out that he did not invent the technology single-handedly.
[14:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Why he's not a billionaire - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:34] <exec> 08└─This is what actual engineers who contribute to technological progress do.
[14:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Hooray for price gouging - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not up on the latest standards, but back on original GSM -- SMS messages were taking advantage of unused bytes in existing packets. This is where the size limit came from. They also had no guarantee of delivery. That's why your mobile provider loved to charge you per SMS sent (or to seem generou...
[14:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray for price gouging - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:38] <exec> 08└─The 4g corruption almost certainly has to do with the whole digitization->compression->loss->decompression->analog chain.
[14:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Good riddance - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:49] <exec> 08└─Not exactly correct. The article you linked to clearly states: OpenDNS provided an ad-supported service[4] "showing relevant ads when we [show] search results" and a paid advertisement-free service.
[14:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03liquibyte [5582] (Score:1) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:05] <exec> 08└─(2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains— (C) information from any protected computer;
[14:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft: - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:16] <exec> 08└─A vacuum is defined as a space where there is nothing. So a vacuum of stupid is a space where there is nothing stupid. Sounds like a great place to be!
[14:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft: - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:17] <exec> 08└─A vacuum of stupid means a vacuum that is part of stupidity. This is a perfectly reasonable English usage of the term "of" even though it doesn't let you be incorrectly pedantic.
[14:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Compare to the PlayStation - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:34] <exec> 08└─Just because tools to make apps aren't available to the general public doesn't mean there will be no apps. Case in point: The PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS have plenty of games even though access to the devkits is curated.
[14:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Re:yeah, why indeed - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:35] <exec> 08└─Apple could kill iMac, kill MacBook, and kill Mac mini. Then it could still keep making Mac Pro in what the article calls "volumes that are a rounding error" to sell to established software companies. The major video game console makers have employed this strategy successfully with their devkits.
[14:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yeah, why indeed - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:37] <exec> 08└─Successfully is a relative term. The iPhone is worth 700 billion, PlayStation isn't. Had it had such a steep new developer entry bump, the app store would have been stuck with a chicken-egg problem. Few users -> no point to spend immense effort to make apps -> still few users etc
[14:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:47] <exec> 08└─I still think that Windows 95 was perhaps the greatest piece of software engineering in history given what Microsoft had to overcome to make it work.
[14:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:Car Analogy - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, to extend the analogy -- how many car manufacturers have a "halo car"? One that few buy, but many want. I think it's a pretty well understood marketing concept.
[14:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe it was an Easter Egg - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:12] <exec> 08└─I'll drink to that. Word 97
[14:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Break ties with the pose - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:14] <exec> 08└─What if the person in the photograph do look like a gorilla?
[14:43:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] 02Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 859 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─Now I know this will come off as insulting, and I really don't want it to be, but... *TO A COMPUTER* Gorillas have the same humanoid shape as people, and unfortunately the colour of the hair covering on most Gorillas are black. So a person who has darker skin is more likely to fit into that bucket i...
[14:43:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─Did you hear that, Shrek? I'm a *STEED* !!1!
[14:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:25] <exec> 08└─Well that escalated quickly...
[14:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Written by - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:30] <exec> 08└─Have you tried using chimpanzees instead of albino gorillas? Looking at this resemblance [seedsofdoubt.com] between a prominent political figure and a chimpanzee seems like that might work to fool it.
[14:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Written by - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:32] <exec> 08└─I think I might need to upload that picture to facebook and see what it's facial tagging does. I know who is going to be labeled a chimp and who is going to be labeled George W. Bush if I can tag them. Now I want to do the same for this one as well [nobeliefs.com].
[14:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:However, I uploaded an image of yo mama... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:43] <exec> 08└─What's a Nubian? /banky
[14:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:However, I uploaded an image of yo mama... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─FFS, no one gives a damn what race you are. There are some pretty serious, informative posts here, and there are some juvenile bullshit posts here as well. I don't care WHAT race you claim to be, if you can't see the obvious, then you're dumber than a box of rocks. Don't like the stupid bullshit? Ch...
[14:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:However, I uploaded an image of yo mama... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:48] <exec> 08└─(guess what race i am...)
[14:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Statistical matching - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:50] <exec> 08└─The error is probably in the training data. In photos, 90% of gorillas are very dark in coloring. In photos, only about 10% of humans are very dark in coloring. The algorithm probably thinks that coloring is the primary differentiator between humans and gorillas. The problem is that the training dat...
[14:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Gorillas... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:51] <exec> 08└─Has a good chance at a class action lawsuit for theft of identity.
[14:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not surprising - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:53] <exec> 08└─This is the result of Social Justice. Everything is horrible offensive, and everything must have a hate campaign against it.
[14:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Not using the domain - 06Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff’s Use - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:03] <exec> 08└─I see you have a rather nice sized front yard that you're not using for much of anything. I'm filing a lawsuit to get eminent domain on it so I can plop a strip mall in there. I'm sure the system wants my $REASON to trump your $ELIPHINO...
[14:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is that the clients screwed up IPv6 - 06Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Leak Users' Details - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:06] <exec> 08└─Or just disable IPv6 locally. Most people are not using it on their local networks (not on purpose at least) and it tends to cause more trouble that it's worth with Windows current implementation. Even if your ISP is handing out IPv6 addresses now (and few overall are) you probably are not going to...
[14:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Could have been worse! - 06Discovery Outbids National Broadcasters for Olympics - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:43] <exec> 08└─Hitler just pretended to loose
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[15:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:40] <exec> 08└─Is how effective our previous of emissions have been in terms of limiting harm. Scrubbers and catalytic converters do a lot to keep our air clean. Fireworks don't have any of that, and even though they're causing far less total chemical energy to be released than our various coal plants and combusti...
[15:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:41] <exec> 08└─A remarkably large number of Darwin Awards are given out for actions taken on July 4th - the combination of explosives and alcoholic stupor is enough to remove many from the gene pool.
[15:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:42] <exec> 08└─remove many from the gene pool
[15:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:44] <exec> 08└─five people per year were killed directly by fireworks ... no reported fire deaths
[15:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OMGWTFBBQ! - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:46] <exec> 08└─I am sure that BBQs "temporarily increase particulate pollution" as well. Is it really a "toxic effect on our atmosphere" if it is only one day for a hand-full of hours?
[15:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why he's not a billionaire - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:55] <exec> 08└─I invented a really excellent mousetrap. The prototype has been sitting in my box in my garage for the last ten years.
[15:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray for price gouging - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:58] <exec> 08└─Nah -- I'm talking corruption where you get to hear yourself, corrupted to buggery, or just complete call failure, or various other things that just shouldn't happen, ever, in a digital system. My favourite detail from the GSM specs was "comfort noise" -- this is where your phone generates white-noi...
[15:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hooray for price gouging - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:59] <exec> 08└─It's not to convince you your phone is still working, but to convince you that the connection is not dead. You won't consciously notice that noise, but you will notice its absence (assuming you're not in a noisy surrounding, of course).
[15:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Hooray for price gouging - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:01] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, that's what I meant. Full points for pedantry! :-)
[15:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02google 8.8.8.8 - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:13] <exec> 08└─What re-directs and other stuff? I've used that for years with no questionable activities noticed.
[15:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:google 8.8.8.8 - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:14] <exec> 08└─I've not heard anything bad about Google's DNS either, other than the suspected tracking. dig results, or it didn't happen!
[15:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score:1) 02Alternatives? - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─For me, OpenDNS was a no-brainer but now i'm having my doubts. So what alternatives are there besides Google's DNS service (might as well stay with OpenDNS) or running my own DNS (me to stoopid)? Yes, i could "just google it" but i thought i'd throw it out to all here for an informed opinion, all in...
[15:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:31] <exec> 08└─So, Microsoft accessed a computer without authorization by implementing this feature? Sorry, I don't see that flying.
[15:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft: - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:44] <exec> 08└─Well, you're clearly living in a vacuum, or else you would have heard a loud whoosh sound as that joke went straight over your head.
[15:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Skittles [1651] (Score:1) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 1217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:16] <exec> 08└─I've worked in support at several companies over the years and always loved to hear how awesome Apple hardware is from my users. Having actually worked on them on a daily basis I can say that they're *far* from perfect. Drink spills are the worst on Macs, the curved bottom panel holds the beer/curry...
[15:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 2303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─I had my first experience with a Mac in college in 1987, got my own PC in 1990 but went DOS (DR-DOS) because I wanted a color screen for games. I actually liked GEO-Works for its word processor. During grad school I used Windows 3.1 on an early-ish laptop (486-sx with 16 shades of gray and a clip on...
[15:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pmontra [1175] (Score:1) 02To develop apps - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:26] <exec> 08└─They need the Mac to own the application environment to develop apps for iOS. A lot of things could be suboptimal if they had to support generic Windows hardware. I say this even if I'd like a cross platform Xcode and no ties with OS X.
[15:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Bah.. Christopher Mims != serious computer user - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:28] <exec> 08└─I have a 5 year old twin-Xeon Mac pro (with the tower form-factor instead of the dustbin). I paid a lot for it, but an equivalent Windows machine would have cost similar. It has easily paid for itself in reduced compile times and general lack of hassle. It still kicks arse, despite being 5 years old...
[15:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:59] <exec> 08└─"*TO A COMPUTER* Gorillas have the same humanoid shape as people," Uhhhh - how about to people as well? Understand that I have never had "normal" vision. Although there are circumstances in which I can see some things better, and quicker than people around me, there are many more circumstances in wh...
[15:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:00] <exec> 08└─Knew the racist angle would be immediately trumpeted. But where are all the offended Creationists? Fact is, all of us look similar to chimps and gorillas for the very good reason that we are closely related. We look much more like chimps than we look like, say, dogs or cats.
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[16:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Choice quotes from the OP - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:35] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a neat idea... until you real the whole article. Enigma’s creators say their decentralized encryption process... multiplies the computing requirements for a calculation by less than 100 fold.
[16:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:47] <exec> 08└─It really isn't, yet many states heavily regulate fireworks.
[16:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:OMGWTFBBQ! - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:49] <exec> 08└─That depends on what sort of pollution we're talking about. Toxicity isn't a binary state. Smoke from burning wood or charcoal can be a problem if there's a lot of it, but it's been occurring naturally for as long as there were trees, so most lifeforms can tolerate it. Fireworks contain a lot of exo...
[16:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Shorhand - 06Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:05] <exec> 08└─FPOTTD = Finnish Pioneer of Texting Tech Dies
[16:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:16] <exec> 08└─Unbound Installation and Configuration instructions [calomel.org] from the guys who make the best (only?) SSL validator for firefox. [calomel.org]
[16:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternatives? - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:23] <exec> 08└─I use 4.2.2.2 (and neighbors). [tummy.com]
[16:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:41] <exec> 08└─"So, Microsoft accessed a computer without authorization by implementing this feature? Sorry, I don't see that flying." There are none so blind as those who will not see. - John Heywood (1546) still applies nearly five centuries later...
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:42] <exec> 08└─Bob visits Alice's house. Since Bob is in Alice's contacts and Bob and Alice both use Microsoft products, Bob now has access to Alice's WiFi--whether she explicitly shared it to him or not (remember, it's opt-out, not opt-in). Martin is Bob's bar friend, and so he is in Bob's contacts to coordinate...
[16:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Turn off Location Services - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:56] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I read this article. I plan on turning off location services on any Windows 10 computer that our business works on. This should stop the madness. If customers want to use this feature, and I suspect few to none know it exists, I'll turn it back on when we're finished servicing their Windows...
[16:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:3, Informative) 02Can select networks to share - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:57] <exec> 08└─From the WP FAQ: http://www.windowsphone.com [windowsphone.com] "Do I have to share all networks?", 3rd from the bottom: "No, you determine which password-protected networks you want to share. If you don't want to share a particular network, just untick...
[16:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:yeah, why indeed - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:18] <exec> 08└─No, the answer is even simpler than that: because Apple is still making money on Macs. Business isn't sports. Beating your competitors (by whatever arbitrary metric you choose) isn't the point of the game, the point is profit. As long as you're profitable, you're winning.
[16:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:28] <exec> 08└─Don't start throwing the racist card at this... But I've noticed some peoples faces do look like Gorillas, AND... I've heard young children say "mommy, look at the monkey" when seeing a black person. It was totally innocent, and no racism was implied.
[16:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not surprising - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:40] <exec> 08└─Yup. The "Dukes of Hazard General Lee" Hot Wheels car is now offensive and banned, but now selling for up to $300 on eBay.
[16:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:ATM machines and cash serial numbers - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:33] <exec> 08└─Yet, I challenge you to find one authoritative source that says Cash Machines record who gets which serial numbers.
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[17:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Choice quotes from the OP - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if you like the sound of this, I have some swampland on the moon to sell you...
[17:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Informative) 02Somehow I read this different - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:40] <exec> 08└─I've been aware of this area of research for some time, (although not MIT's project) and it has always had a different focus that either TFS or TFA seems to suggest. Safely Decoding the data has never been difficult in cloud computing. All that is important is client side encryption, and ONLY client...
[17:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yeah! promotion! - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:41] <exec> 08└─so this is a promo for the sub-government agency responsible for spying's "FRONT-looking BACKDOOR EVERYWHERE" program? maybe if we can change the three letters "MIT" to maybe four letters they will be less inclined to be such an attractive recruiting pool for other 3 letter ..uhm .. outfits?
[17:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:yeah! promotion! - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:43] <exec> 08└─FEMA? NASA? NOAA? FDIC?.... I'm not quite sure where you're going with this. Some insight into what 4-letter acronym you're thinking of would help.
[17:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yeah! promotion! - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:45] <exec> 08└─ʎƃoʃouɥɔǝʇ °081⊥Oᴚ ƃuısn pǝʇdʎɹɔuǝ sı ƃıs sıɥ⊥
[17:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:yeah! promotion! - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:46] <exec> 08└─Sorry engineering skills don't necessarily grant morals. We're not better people than anyone else.
[17:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Why do I need the cloud? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:48] <exec> 08└─Ive been bookmarking a lot of articles on my ipad lately. I want to link them from the website Im building on my linux box. So how to transfer them? Oh thats easy there are lots of tutorials. Just register for iCloud, sync my bookmarks with the cloud, then use a windows iCloud client to transfer the...
[17:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:59] <exec> 08└─Freedom to use high explosives? Just don't tell ISIS about this...please.
[17:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:01] <exec> 08└─Your freedom stops well short of my roof.
[17:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:02] <exec> 08└─Well, in all fairness that might point to the success of the regulations. You'd need a before/after snapshot to make any strong claim.
[17:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:04] <exec> 08└─Drunk driving is also regulated.
[17:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:06] <exec> 08└─Not enough...
[17:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:OMGWTFBBQ! - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:07] <exec> 08└─BBQ is awful for organics / hydrocarbons, not particulates. I would imagine propane is particulate free and charcoal isn't going to be too bad. Now on the other hand, that last batch of brats I grilled probably squirted more hydrocarbons into the atmosphere than my wife's Prius lifetime emissions. M...
[17:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sparky [5496] (Score:1) 02Thanks for the warning - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:09] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the warning NOAA. I accept the risks. Joe Dirt: So you're gonna tell me that you don't have no black cats, roman candles, or screaming mimis? Kicking Wing: No. Joe Dirt: Oh come on, man. You don't got no lady fingers, fuzz buttles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut buste...
[17:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:35] <exec> 08└─The thing that I linked to is a DNS server
[17:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:36] <exec> 08└─Find the link at the top, it's the first post. And yes, recursive resolvers start at the root, but there's some caching involved. There are literally hundreds of root servers all over the world [root-servers.org], and they only need to serve the root zone. It's their job.
[17:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:37] <exec> 08└─and they only need to serve the root zone. It's their job.
[17:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:39] <exec> 08└─Let's see now...an AC wants us to go to a supposedly open DNS server. But the site wants you to download something. Why, if it's an open DNS server, can't we just point our network connection straight to it like to google DNS server or OpenDNS?
[17:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternatives? - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:47] <exec> 08└─4.2.2.2 = https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If they don't boot you off, why not?
[17:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternatives? - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:48] <exec> 08└─My questions is what is the alternative that has the filtering (at least by category) like OpenDNS. That was the real hook that got me to start using it for work.
[17:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternatives? - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:50] <exec> 08└─How about just take a wait-and-see attitude on this. If there is a scale of corporate evilness then Cisco is way down on the list from the likes of Oracle, Apple, MS, ATT etc. I think Cisco is serious about an open and secure internet.
[17:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02new public cisco search engine? - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:52] <exec> 08└─took a while for me to notice but when building a functional web search engine then it HAS TO be paired with a free dns resolver. the dns lookup logs provide a very valuable source for the actual search engine database, that is you want to provide a dns server, then use the web-spider/crawler to ind...
[17:42:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:00] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly sure that this runs afoul of several laws.
[17:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:10] <exec> 08└─And you totally missed the part of the bar buddy living one floor up from Alice, and therefore having free wifi for life at Alice's expense, and access to her shared music and video collection on her NAS box Public folder. And bar buddy doesn't even have to know Alice/ This is totally different tha...
[17:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:11] <exec> 08└─"...without authorization or exceeds authorized access...." Did you actually read the TOS for Win10?
[17:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:57] <exec> 08└─I think he is referring to Microsoft's move from DOS/Win 3.x to a graphical OS. The road to NT was a long one that was carefully planned out. Even though NT was technically superior to Windows 95/98/Me, Microsoft could not tell an entire industry running on DOS/Win3.x to suddenly switch. If Windows...
[17:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03enigma32 [5578] (Score:1) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 1580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:00] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the experience varies from person to person. Personally, when I sit down at a mac, I find it impossible to get anything done because the UI doesn't work the way I want it to and I can't tweak it to work as such. (It's impossible. I've really, really tried.) My macbook air works great...
[17:44:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Christopher - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:02] <exec> 08└─Christopher Mims writes
[17:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To develop apps - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:12] <exec> 08└─Love it how the blind fanboys don't realize that their fabled Macs are generic Windows hardware... It used to be wintel but these days it's also mactel. But hey, go ahead, pay a premium for your unicorn milk and dragon horn built wonder machine...
[17:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Almost, but no cigar - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:13] <exec> 08└─Yes it is Intel based, and yes some of the hardware is shared, but it ain't generic. If that were the case, building a hackintosh wouldnt be an accomplishment . . .
[17:44:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimshatt [978] 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:25] <exec> 08└─To be fair, she was explicitly NOT easily offended and reacted in a VERY understanding and reasonable manner.
[17:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:27] <exec> 08└─Yes but a lot of her friends seemed to be much more offended. And I suspect a lot of her probably-not-friends like Jesse Jackson will be going totally ape-shit.
[17:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Break ties with the pose - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:34] <exec> 08└─Nice ideas that don't work at all with deep learning. These neutral nets have no human prior information other than labels on their training data. If you want it to learn to differentiate two things it's misclassifying, you have to feed it more correctly labeled training data on either side of the e...
[17:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:1) 02more than color - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:49] <exec> 08└─The comparison wouldn't be offensive if it didn't have some truth to it. We'd just laugh if the label was "starfish" or "ice cream". Suppose you are comparing noses. Compare one of those wide flat African-style noses with one of those skinny long European-style noses. Which is more likely to be misl...
[17:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:1) 02kids are brutally honest - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:04] <exec> 08└─We learn to suppress such thoughts as we grow older. We learn there are things you can't say or even think. Other good ones involve obese and pregnant people being confused, especially when male. :-)
[17:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:World Police - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:08] <exec> 08└─It isn't "self proclaimed". It becomes de facto because everyone else in the West sits on their hands and waits for the US to do something, especially the EU. Well, that's not fair. They don't sit on their hands, they wring their hands and issue strongly worded proclamations. Russia rolling into Ukr...
[17:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem is that the clients screwed up IPv6 - 06Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Leak Users' Details - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─Two things that might be "gotchas" with IPv6 is addresses made up of local Ethernet MAC and that all units will now be 1:1 with internet as it actually was meant to be before the NAT mess. And lets not forget that address specification notation. Someone will screwup with that many time more than for...
[17:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─You shoulda read the definition.
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[18:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Recognized Research Outfit - 06Holland to Open Roads to (some) Experimental Self Driving Robots - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:36] <exec> 08└─Would Nikola Tesla have been recognized as a researcher? Many researchers work in secret, and have done so for thousands of years. While I recognize the need for safety I am dismayed that any government would concern itself with who was a researcher and who was not. Pierre Fermat wasnt really a math...
[18:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do I need the cloud? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:53] <exec> 08└─Off topic much? You could always email yourself each link you wanted to share, using, you know, the sharing button. Jailbreak? Good luck running random code off the internet. I'm sure there's nothing nefarious in there, at all.
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Not off topic, but I should have been more clear. - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:55] <exec> 08└─The security and privacy of the cloud is not a concern if one does not use it. If Apple werent a cloud provider I expect there would be a simple, direct way to transfer my bookmarks. That is, unless some other cloud provider paid Apple for sending customers their way.
[18:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Not off topic, but I should have been more clea - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:57] <exec> 08└─If Apple werent a cloud provider I expect there would be a simple, direct way to transfer my bookmarks.
[18:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do I need the cloud? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:58] <exec> 08└─If you're going to go to that trouble, you at least used to be able to browse through your iPad's backups on your computer and find what you needed there. I was able to extract my text messages from my iPhone several years ago. Newer iOSs might be locked down more, but it used to be pretty easy. You...
[18:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02DRM for data? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 1501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:00] <exec> 08└─I can usually grok crypto stuff -- not to the level that I'm going to write my own, or spot NSA-introduced math flaws -- but I can usually get how it is advertised to work and how to deploy it. I even think I have a fairly good grasp of the Bitcoin blockchain concept. But I cannot figure out what th...
[18:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DRM for data? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe yes. maybe no. Maybe yes and no. Maybe yes or no.
[18:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:10] <exec> 08└─I hereby promise to purchase my kids an extra 5 dollars in loud nasty polluting fireworks for every comment that whines about fireworks in any way on this today.
[18:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, look, an asshole responding to harmless observational comments as if they were an attack on a national holiday. I have some ideas about where you can put those fireworks.
[18:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:18] <exec> 08└─Your freedom to drink alcohol is preserved at the cost of 30x more deaths on the same day. You have a point though. Maybe aerial fireworks should be legally restricted to a certain area.
[18:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:OMGWTFBBQ! - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:24] <exec> 08└─I am sure that BBQs "temporarily increase particulate pollution" as well.
[18:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OMGWTFBBQ! - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:25] <exec> 08└─There is no BBQ without smoke. BBQ is low heat slow cooking. Gas grills or high-heat cooking of food on a grill is called grilling.
[18:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Thanks for the warning - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─Meh! Around here, things have totally turned upside down. Its hard to find the high shooting consumer grade sky burst type fireworks, UNLESS you go to the Indian reservations. City/county regulations progressively ban them, but they can't touch the reservations. Oddly authorities used to ban gun run...
[18:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks for the warning - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds similar to every fireworks stand within eyesight of the MN WI border. Sadly I have found it better to go over to Wisconsin to buy Minnesota legal fireworks than to buy from a temp stand near my house. The bigger permanent chain stands have their own lines of house brand stuff that is cheaper...
[18:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:59] <exec> 08└─Good thing the root servers aren't as lazy as you are. On the page about the root servers that I linked to is a link to a traffic analysis [ripe.net] of an event with heightened request rates on one root server. The operators decided not to block the erroneous traffic because it didn't cause problem...
[18:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I will never sell a company, nor go public. - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:12] <exec> 08└─I dont yet have a profitable company but I am working on some ideas. I dont always tell others the ideas I have, I only do so when I regard it as helpful. Just Because You Can It Doesnt Mean You Should should be tattooed onto everyone's foreheads to serve as a reminder.
[18:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:WP Useage - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:44] <exec> 08└─Right...an option that's probably on by default, and which 99.99% of Windows users won't know exists. So now you give your wifi password to the friend visiting for the weekend...and now a thousand random strangers have your wifi password. Including all the shady spammer fake profiles they've accepte...
[18:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Can select networks to share - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:51] <exec> 08└─Also note that it's enabled by default. Most users won't have a clue what it means, but since it's on by default, they'll assume it should be kept on. I mean christ, we wouldn't accept that for *sending an email* -- imagine a company saying "Well, you haven't come to our website and registered to op...
[18:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confused - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:52] <exec> 08└─So if a friend comes over with a windows 10 device and I tell them my wifi password, it will then tell that wifi password to everyone classified as a "contact" on that device? Essentially you cannot let anyone using windows 10 connect to your network without letting everyone in range do so. All pass...
[18:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pretty stupid! - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:54] <exec> 08└─crap! now i have to have nmap scan every wifi client first and if it find windows 10 running hardware add the MAC to the "no-legal-fees.txt" list and route all future traffic to 127.0.0.1 .. or something. it is always wonderfull to see a commercial OS that HIDES stuff from the user .. customer, does...
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02If SkyNet knows my location the Terminator can... - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:55] <exec> 08└─... find me. Just last nightbI noticed that gmail asked me if I could narrow my location down to something more specific than Eugene, Oregon. Look if you're going to stalk me you could at least be discreet about it rather than leaving your business card in my underwear drawer. Many of my contacts ar...
[18:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Why WSJ should kill off it's paper. - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:41] <exec> 08└─Who wants to bet as to whether Apple will be profitably selling desktops longer than WSJ is profitably selling papers?
[18:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Finance people say the darnedest things! - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:42] <exec> 08└─WSJ also says that we should do away with solar and wind power because they are a growing threat to coal. I observed not long ago that most people make decisions without considering the effects of those decisions on entire systems. Mims is considering only the money made by selling a box. How much r...
[18:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:57] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there ;)
[18:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Large NEO are not even the most threatening. - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:25] <exec> 08└─"It's as I always say: He who rules the asteroid belt rules the solar system." Yeah, because if you don't do what I say, I will unleash giant Asteroids to destroy the earth?? I'm thinking there would be a few people who might be willing to totally destroy someone dumb enough to mess with the Asteroi...
[18:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so impressed - 06A Chinese Artificial Intelligence Program Just Beat Humans in an IQ Test. - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why this hasn't been done yet. (Please enlighten me, oh AI programming overlords.) If you parse phrases instead of individual words, it shouldn't be impossible to make a database of idioms. I suppose the next hardest part would be understanding the idiom within the given context....
[18:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02uh oh, electrically conductive spiderwebs coming? - 06Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:07] <exec> 08└─So a little pollution from waste carbon fiber nanotubes gets away. Hey, what's the worst problem that could happen? How about those spiders that spin their webs in electrical and telephone boxes, eh?
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[19:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:3, Informative) 02I felt - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:39] <exec> 08└─I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of server fans suddenly screamed back to life
[19:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:I felt - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:40] <exec> 08└─That much rotational momentum must be why NIST had to add the last night leap second.
[19:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:I felt - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:41] <exec> 08└─Argh. +1 Funny. Normally I have many unused mod-points to spend. Right now I have none. Please, time your jokes better.
[19:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02yeah, that's the ticket - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:43] <exec> 08└─just like congress deliberately didn't give them authority in the first place!
[19:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:yeah! promotion! - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:07] <exec> 08└─Lies! I wrote a program that says I'm the best. IN ASSEMBLY.
[19:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Using the cloud enables the mining if one's data. - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:12] <exec> 08└─If one did not use the cloud then ones data could not be mined despite MIT's best efforts. Its easy to export your firefox bookmarks just look in your profile folder.
[19:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:Using the cloud enables the mining if one's dat - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:13] <exec> 08└─If one did not use the cloud then ones data could not be mined
[19:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:DRM for data? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:18] <exec> 08└─Does this get us any closer to that?
[19:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:DRM for data? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:20] <exec> 08└─I cannot figure out what these blokes are on about. Anyone?
[19:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─My kids thank you, your up to $10. You ever think that maybe it gets old hearing gripes about relatively harmless things like fireworks when you have billion of tons of carbon dumped into the atmosphere just by shipping our manufacturing base overseas. My week of fun with sparklers and smoke bombs a...
[19:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:32] <exec> 08└─Do what you want, any contrary opinions you think I have are a delusion. All I was doing was observing the quality and utility of goddamn catalytic converters, and you're playing the "I'm so oppressed by your unrelated opinions that I really have to be fucking insane to twist into some attack on me"...
[19:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:40] <exec> 08└─So basically, we cannot allow people to have freedoms that might possibly be used to harm others, right? Sounds like a quick way to strip away all freedoms to me.
[19:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Also spiking on July 4th - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:41] <exec> 08└─That does seem to be the way things work in the socialist nanny state environment that most young voters prefer. We sadly have slipped under the control of the least capable yet most demanding government teat suckers in history.
[19:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks for the warning - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, don't know about tribes in Minnesota. I use to live their, and know that some of the tribes have right to go across the border any time they want, but their reservation rules are from a different treaty than the ones in Washington State. Seems the various regions of the US have totally differe...
[19:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:24] <exec> 08└─single K-root server, arrived at a rate of up to 40 thousand per second.
[19:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I will never sell a company, nor go public. - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─That's the last place they would ever see it, unless you tattoo it in reverse. Besides, they are too busy looking at the tattoos on the back of their hands. On the left hand it says "Take the Money". On the right hand it says "And Run".
[19:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:58] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to understand how one could legitimately claim that Microsoft committed a crime by including this feature. For one thing, Microsoft did not access anything. They provided you software that has a feature that shares data you provide it in a way that is by all superficial appearances insecu...
[19:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:59] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to understand how one could legitimately claim that Microsoft committed a crime by including this feature.
[19:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:01] <exec> 08└─As the AC points out providing your wifi key to world + dog is if you or I do it the crime, MS on the other hand with the litany of crimes they have committed and bought their way out of in the past probably will get nothing but at most slap on wrist for doing it.
[19:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:04] <exec> 08└─Is the transitive relationship unlimited? I don't know how it works, but if I were implementing something like this, I'd limit the sharing to one degree of separation from the person who actually entered the key. Otherwise, Kevin Bacon would have all of our Wifi pre-shared keys by the end of the wee...
[19:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:I suggest another workaround - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:10] <exec> 08└─You password is only 12 characters long?
[19:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Last-century technology, eh? - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:55] <exec> 08└─if refining a mature technology still makes money, why not?
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:02] <exec> 08└─I actually liked GEO-Works for its word processor.
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─System76? I've never used one but their computers do look nice and are reputably well made. As for chicklet keyboards, I've gotten used to them, but my TRS-80 Color Computer (16 extended color basic) had those back in the mid 80s, though it was much harder to type on than the current chicklet system...
[19:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:07] <exec> 08└─preview dammit. That was a "16k extended color basic" version. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:08] <exec> 08└─but when I try to do anything with xcode I deal with error messages and crashes.
[19:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Average fail - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:16] <exec> 08└─They didn't invent the ultrabook format. They may have a great entry in the area, but they were far from the first to try.
[19:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Why WSJ should kill off it's paper. - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:23] <exec> 08└─The WSJ is profitably selling papers?
[19:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:42] <exec> 08└─The 800 lb gorilla is that some people are easily offended.
[19:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Break ties with the pose - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:49] <exec> 08└─Break ties with the pose.
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate byproduct.... - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:04] <exec> 08└─You don't hear creationists trumpeting in, because we don't care about how you think we look like Gorillas. Why would it be an aberration for God to make an animal that has some features resembling humans? You can think we evolved from apes, but I choose to disagree. There's not much of a discussion...
[19:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:19] <exec> 08└─Intelligence.
[19:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:kids are brutally honest - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─Yes. My point was... If innocent children can make that mistake, then so can a computer algorithm. I have yet to see a racist program, unless it was intentional. Good point about the mistaken pregnancy label, done it myself.
[19:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ragequit [44] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong risk - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:29] <exec> 08└─It would hilarious if we cured cancer and then 3 months later got obliterated by an asteroid we didn't see coming.
[19:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Underfunded and disorganized - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:30] <exec> 08└─Seems like a "hit or miss" type of operation.
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[20:41:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03skullz [2532] 02I felt - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:39] <exec> 08└─I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of server fans suddenly screamed back to life
[20:41:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] 02Re:I felt - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:40] <exec> 08└─That much rotational momentum must be why NIST had to add the last night leap second.
[20:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:I felt - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:43] <exec> 08└─Neat. It explains global warming too.
[20:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I felt - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:45] <exec> 08└─You are mistaken. That is simply cognitive error due to accumulated decades of NSA bull$hi7. There are no servers, there is no NSA. They certainly didn't resume something they certainly never did in the first place - certainly not before congressional approval.
[20:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:yeah, that's the ticket - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:47] <exec> 08└─It's like one of those "useless box" toys.
[20:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02180 more days of bulk collection - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─"As described more fully below, the Government submits that Section 1861, as amended by the USA FREEDOM Act, authorizes the Court to approve the Government's application for the bulk production of call detail records for a 180 day transition period." -the application PDF This reauthorizes the bulk c...
[20:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:180 more days of bulk collection - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─Providing that Congress doesn't pass something in the dead of the night on Christmas Eve to allow it indefinitely again.
[20:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:180 more days of bulk collection - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:53] <exec> 08└─Recall that they started this back in the bush administration, not because of language in the patriot act authorizing it, but because of legal memos interpreting that language somewhat broadly. There's not necessarily reason to believe that loopholes being reopened necessarily has to be an act of co...
[20:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Naked tyranny - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:55] <exec> 08└─There exists no context, even in theory, in which a secret court is consistent with a government of, by, and for the people. A Star Chamber such as this can only serve the purposes of an unrepresentative ruler; it is utterly useless, worse than useless, to the people. Even though I recognize the pru...
[20:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Recognized Research Outfit - 06Holland to Open Roads to (some) Experimental Self Driving Robots - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:01] <exec> 08└─Many researchers work in secret, and have done so for thousands of years.
[20:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:DRM for data? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:30] <exec> 08└─OTP value is 253
[20:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks for the warning - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:05] <exec> 08└─Well the different rules seems to come from that fact that each tribe is considered to some degree to be it's own nation. It makes for a legal mess and at least in Minnesota has caused a number of issues. One that I remember from a few years ago is that the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's res...
[20:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:39] <exec> 08└─One server handled an additional load of 40k requests per second, without a problem. The normal request rate is more like 4k requests per second, so there's ample headroom. If 16 billion devices needed to make one request to the root servers per hour, it would raise the request rate (let's say avera...
[20:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternatives? - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:51] <exec> 08└─you can run "T0R" [client -or- relay mode] on a computer and activate the tor-resolver functionality. now just point your 1an clients that need to resolve a ip for a domain name to the ip of the tor running computer. you don't even need to know a single working ip address of a dns server for this to...
[20:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:20] <exec> 08└─If Microsoft has the key then NSA has the key.
[20:45:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geezer [511] 02Last-century technology, eh? - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:11] <exec> 08└─Gee, arrogant much? Building good PC's may not be the biggest profit center or the sexiest new hipster fad, but if refining a mature technology still makes money, why not? A buck's a buck, isn't it? Let's examine a few buggy whips that, while mature, remain bleeding-edge on the R&D front: Cars. Powe...
[20:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:17] <exec> 08└─I find it strange to be arguing for Microsoft here given how much I generally loathe their products but I must. While I agree with you that Windows NT was a superior operating system on the whole when compared to Windows 95, Windows NT required a computer with vastly more memory and was about as unf...
[20:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Albino gorilla (singular) - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:27] <exec> 08└─I remember when Snowflake made the cover of National Geographic in 1967. At first, the Barcelona Zoo was not aware that Snowflake was a unique specimen. They sent a message to Sabater Pi saying, "Please send more white gorillas." [...] Snowflake fathered twenty-two offspring by three different mates...
[20:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:the images - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:38] <exec> 08└─I think having gorillas been classified as people would also make people lose their shit (no pun intended),
[20:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What the Hell? - 06Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Leak Users' Details - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:53] <exec> 08└─Follow-up: http://torrentfreak.com [torrentfreak.com]
[20:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02follow-up - 06Most Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Leak Users' Details - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:06] <exec> 08└─http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-respond-to-allegations-of-data-leakage-150701/ [torrentfreak.com] A team of researchers from universities in London and Rome have published a paper in which they claim that many of the world's top VPN providers leak IPv6 traffic. TorrentFreak has spoken to seve...
[20:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:ATM machines and cash serial numbers - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:49:43] <exec> 08└─I cannot do this. I'm half considering revealing the name of my previous employer, and their product name, and half realizing that would be an impotent measure to impress internet strangers that hurts my professional ethics.
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[21:41:39] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 812 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:39] <exec> 08└─I read something recently, though it may have been propaganda, by a retired Cuban doctor. I lost my original link, but I can find other [sweetness-light.com] sources [cubaverdad.net] making similar claims pretty easily. So, the background here is that Cuba has an extremely(almost impossibly) low inf...
[21:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:40] <exec> 08└─I don't know why people have modded you Flamebait. They may disagree, which is their prerogative, and they may think you're an idiot (also their prerogative), but I can't see that this is flamebait by any stretch of the word.
[21:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:42] <exec> 08└─less than 2% of children whose mothers have HIV are born with the virus
[21:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02In America - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:44] <exec> 08└─In America we don't have sex with our kids, so, like, whatever, Cuba.
[21:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:In America - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:45] <exec> 08└─Hey AC you do know the history of the Catholic church in Cuba, right? Castro wasn't exactly a huge fan. I bet there's been more "action" in NYC than Havana, for example.
[21:42:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Naked tyranny - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 722 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:02] <exec> 08└─There exists no context, even in theory, in which a secret court is consistent with a government of, by, and for the people. A Star Chamber such as this can only serve the purposes of an unrepresentative ruler; it is utterly useless, worse than useless, to the people. Even though I recognize the pru...
[21:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Re:DRM for data? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:42] <exec> 08└─I have seen an application of this as a component of an online voting system. People submit encrypted ballots and the server is able to tally the ballots without being able to see the details of each ballot individually. The computational requirements are relatively heavy. There are also probablisti...
[21:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DRM for data? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─Bonus points for making your answer come out "42" !
[21:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:58] <exec> 08└─Just make it $1000 -- spend your whole paycheck even. I used to be a total pyro. In recent years though, I'm just not that interested in summer fireworks because it is so damn hot outside, and I have to close all my windows to keep the smoke out. That makes for one long miserable stuffy night. Plus,...
[21:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:59] <exec> 08└─Let me guess. You shit on the sidewalk because you don't like the attitude of the people who own indoor toilets?
[21:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:01] <exec> 08└─I hate fireworks, dad.
[21:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks for the warning - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:23] <exec> 08└─Where I live, you have to go to Pennsylvania for fireworks. Here's how fucked-up the legal situation is: In PA, you can buy and possess fireworks, but only if you're not a PA resident. You can't use the fireworks in PA. And the fireworks are illegal to use or possess in every state bordering PA.
[21:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:google 8.8.8.8 - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:04] <exec> 08└─Could be his ISP is breaking DNS. Best to route your DNS traffic through a local VPN
[21:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:36] <exec> 08└─Nevermind PROVIDING.... What about just TAKING your WIFI Password? Even if they have no intent to use it (they are after all several thousand miles away from most users), mere possession might constitute a crime. Note: the federal statute quoted up-thread may not apply unless the computer was a "pro...
[21:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Macs matter - 06Why Apple Should Kill Off the Mac - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:42] <exec> 08└─For whatever reason, I grip my pens or pencils like I'm trying to choke them to death. If couldn't have used a keyboard most my entire life, I'd have a totally useless writing hand by now.
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[22:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Will Zuckerberg be a real life Hari Seldon ? - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:43] <exec> 08└─Hahahahahahaha . . . . No
[22:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will Zuckerberg be a real life Hari Seldon ? - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:45] <exec> 08└─+1. Fuck the Zuck!
[22:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who gives a fuck about the Zuck? - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:46] <exec> 08└─People on his payroll? :)
[22:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Fuck the Zuck! - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:48] <exec> 08└─Fuck the Zuck!
[22:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Fuck the Zuck! - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:50] <exec> 08└─Fuck the Zuck!
[22:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Not likely - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:51] <exec> 08└─I agree with e_armadillo's post, basically. Zuckerberg ain't a Seldon. But, let's keep in mind that the more the public knew of Seldon's work, the less accurate his work became. His figures pretty much only applied when the public was kept ignorant. And, just as important, Seldon's work could be bor...
[22:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02+1 Fuck the Zuck! - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:53] <exec> 08└─+1 Fuck the Zuck!
[22:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Not likely - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:54] <exec> 08└─We all know what happens when some jackass comes up with an overly simplistic mathematical formula [scientificamerican.com] people exploit for money. Although in this case it will be simply a gimmick to sucker the Goyim for more sheckels. Not that ZuckerJew needs any more sheckels, he has plenty of...
[22:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:03] <exec> 08└─The Cuban government employs all the doctors, and all the people who collect the health statistics, and all the people who might try to audit the statistics. And the government is not answerable to anyone. The real question is: why the fuck would anyone trust their numbers?
[22:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:05] <exec> 08└─But we should trust the US government, right?
[22:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:06] <exec> 08└─Doubts are reasonable. My government has always harped on how very hellish life is under communism. Every communist country in the world is comparable to Dante's Inferno. Meanwhile, Cuba has been exporting mercenaries and doctors around the world for just about all of my life. Propaganda is a two wa...
[22:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:08] <exec> 08└─So, where is the truth? If Cuba is reporting accurate facts, great. If they're manipulating the facts, well, that just sucks. I don't know how to dig the facts up though.
[22:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In America - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:10] <exec> 08└─Was your parish priest your mother?
[22:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I felt - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:20] <exec> 08└─> Please, time your jokes better. Hey, they announce the leap second; it's not my problem if you didn't set your watch.
[22:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:27] <exec> 08└─The fireworks set off my asthma, Dad.
[22:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:28] <exec> 08└─Loud fireworks should be banned. Love, The Dog
[22:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What this really shows - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:30] <exec> 08└─Fireworks are for rednecks, Dad. -Annon Jr.
[22:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks for the warning - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:52] <exec> 08└─This also is likely a problem with some of their random 40-160 acre holdings they have up in northern MN. Unlike all other land in MN, if you can't tell that it is privately owned (posted or clear transition of the land) the owner can demand you leave and you have to but that is it, if you happen to...
[22:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:28] <exec> 08└─This is why the internet, and DNS servers are designed by experts rather than taking the advice of some random AC on a website.
[22:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:Look no further than... - 06OpenDNS Snapped Up by Cisco - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:30] <exec> 08└─> Why, if it's an open DNS server, Because it isn't an open DNS server. Unbound is a standard package in Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Fedora, CentOS and probably others.
[22:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more than color - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:16] <exec> 08└─> The comparison wouldn't be offensive if it didn't have some truth to it. Are you honestly ignorant of the long history of racial slurs against black people comparing them to apes and gorillas? Here's one against Michelle Obama. [wistv.com]
[22:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more than color - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:17] <exec> 08└─"Are you honestly ignorant of the long history of racial slurs" And, are you honestly ignorant of the fact that people resemble monkeys and apes? Are you honestly ignorant that coloration tends to reinforce the resemblances? You might address the issue, rather than slamming reasonable observations....
[22:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Quick Calculations - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks that is a cool calculator. I get about 6GT. Still for a "small" impactor that is devistating.
[22:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:ATM machines and cash serial numbers - 06Your Personal Information is Private, Unless We Need to Sell It - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:41] <exec> 08└─Still, even without violating your employers NDA, there would be dozens of such references on the net if it were true. It would have appeared in court testimony. It would be in news papers. There would be people moaning about it on privacy grounds. But all you ever see is people speculating without...
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[23:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will Zuckerberg be a real life Hari Seldon ? - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:42] <exec> 08└─Don't you know, money == smart? Bill Gates: Genius! Zuckerberg: Genius! Steve Ballmer: er, well, ok, so it doesn't hold ALL the time.
[23:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02john nash beat you by over half a century - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─> a mathematical relationship between people Nash equilibrium describes this for 'rational actors', though i'm guessing that doesn't model facebook users activity well enough for zuck. Good look finding the algorithm which can model the behavior of desperate narcissists and morons though I suppose.
[23:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:john nash beat you by over half a century - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:51] <exec> 08└─Nash equilibrium does not work with populations. Nash equilibrium is about attaining optimal solution based on risk/reward formula. Populations, on the other hand, don't work like that. Populations don't make rational decisions - decisions that lead to war, chaos and destruction tend to be 100% emot...
[23:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:john nash beat you by over half a century - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:53] <exec> 08└─People vote for the same politicians and expect a different result the next time.. Rationality 101 ;)
[23:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 027.24*10^9 - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:54] <exec> 08└─There's probably not one equation, there's probably more than 7 billion of them; one for each living person. We all process stimuli and inputs differently. These concepts are abstractions in our mind but can be structured into formalized systems of symbols (sounds, shapes) so that other minds with a...
[23:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Keep dreaming - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:56] <exec> 08└─a fundamental mathematical law underlying human social relationships that governs the balance of who and what we all care about
[23:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03toygeek [28] (Score:2) 02FTFY, Zuck! - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:58] <exec> 08└─"I'm also curious about whether there is a fundamental mathematical law underlying human social relationships that governs the balance of who and what we all care about," Zuckerberg added. "I bet there is, and when I figure it out, I'm going to post even more crap you don't want on your wall, and yo...
[23:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02For dead fish there probably is an equation - 06Facebook's Zuckerberg Wants to Figure Out Social Equation - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:59] <exec> 08└─For dead fish it probably quite simple, it's somehow related to the flow of fluid.. ;) Just follow all the celebrity chit chat and latest new-shiny and you know what the dead fish may think of. For the rest that kind of algorithmic approach is likely SOL. And even if it would succeed. You can't trus...
[23:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:10] <exec> 08└─While you bring up a good point, in the ol' US of A, numbers have been flat out ignored by Big Pharma for greater profits. My country is not completely innocent, or without blemish on its medical community. So I must seriously question, without any intended hyperbole whatsoever, how the fuck can we...
[23:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:13] <exec> 08└─Won't get fooled again.
[23:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:15] <exec> 08└─GP suggests that the WHO might have been gamed, and offers an explanation of how that might have been done. If infant deaths aren't recorded, or are written off as being due to other causes, then WHO can't really validate things very well, can they?
[23:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:So... Cuba and child mortality - 06Cuba Cuts Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions to 2% - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:16] <exec> 08└─Seems to be lower than US? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I don't understand your comment though. Is this some kind of "penis envy" or something? It seems to be nothing but propaganda from the "expats" and/or "commie haters" that have nothing...
[23:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:180 more days of bulk collection - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:36] <exec> 08└─You recall wrongly. Fisa courts were authorized in the Carter Administration in 1978. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:180 more days of bulk collection - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 2509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:37] <exec> 08└─They already did. Instead of the NSA violating the Constitution by collecting the data itself, for its own purposes, all it needs to is ask the corporations, that are now required to collect the data, to turn over the data when properly asked in the context of due process Now, of course all that is...
[23:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Naked tyranny - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─Agreed, I still can't understand why this court exists. War time exigencies have long since passed, if they really existed at all. The problem appears to be that there is nothing explicit in the constitution that forbids such a court. You can get a "secret" (undisclosed) search warrant or Arrest Wa...
[23:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Naked tyranny - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:42] <exec> 08└─I can't remember the language (not well enough to search for it), but I believe that somewhere in the Constitution secret courts ARE explicitly forbidden. But it could have been the declaration of independence. If I thought they still paid any attention to the constitution I might do the appropriate...
[23:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Naked tyranny - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:43] <exec> 08└─I suggest that the Constitution is not so long, nor the language so opaque, that your search for such a prohibition, if fruitful, would be a great service to all US Citizens.
[23:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A less-invasive spying program - 06Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying. - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:45] <exec> 08└─The USA Prison Act just reauthorized the spying. Having some data stored on company servers does not make any of it less-invasive. The real invasive part is that the data is being collected at all.
[23:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Recognized Research Outfit - 06Holland to Open Roads to (some) Experimental Self Driving Robots - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:55] <exec> 08└─Many researchers work in secret, and have done so for thousands of years.
[23:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:DRM for data? - 06MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:27] <exec> 08└─Homeomorphic encryption will, in theory, allows you to encrypt some data and send it to a second party; Then, while still encrypted the second party can perform computation with the encrypted data as input and with a new encrypted payload as output.
[23:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:OMGWTFBBQ! - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:02] <exec> 08└─If you breathe the smoke from burning plastic you get dioxin which is a known strong cancerous substance and poisonous. So if anyone does it in your surroundings I suggest you take harsh action against the ill doers.
[23:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Worry about the water and soil pollutants instead - 06NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:12] <exec> 08└─Don't worry too much about the smoke. The pollutants that leak from used fireworks that ends up on the ground after all. Will contain stuff you don't want in your drinking water or for farming use. Bonus points, you can get firework pollutants in your food from other countries too.
[23:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:I suggest another workaround - 06Windows 10 to Share WiFi Key With Contacts - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:38] <exec> 08└─What does your question have to do with the article? If Microsoft does this, it won't matter how long anyone's password is.
[23:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:11] <exec> 08└─Indeed. When metro.co.uk reached out to them to use the picture, and they responded, "sure, feel free under the CC-BY-ND license." Very reasonable license choice! They were ultra cool through the whole event.
[23:47:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Big mistake - 06When Image Recognition Goes Horribly Wrong - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:12] <exec> 08└─RTFA! In spite of Google accidentally making a comment that has long been used as a hateful racial slur, the mis-identified person rather matter of factly pointed out the obvious error without going into any sort of rant. How did you manage to translate that into "easily offended"?
[23:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Wrong risk - 06The Underfunded, Disorganized Plan To Save Earth From the Next Giant Asteroid - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:00] <exec> 08└─It is an interesting point you made; but I propose that we work on all of the issues at once.
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