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[00:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Seppuku bot - 06Endoscope Surgery Robot Uses Air Power for a Steady Touch - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:57] <exec> 08└─When the surgeon sneezes.
[00:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:08] <exec> 08└─When I read this post, I couldn't help thinking, this is the kind of person who would destroy the little robot.
[00:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 1928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:09] <exec> 08└─Why am I not surprised that this has been labeled "Troll" This new influx of shit-tier internet users cannot identify the difference between a true troll and someone with a dissenting opinion. Now for the real challenge: The highest crime rate areas of the United States are invariably have large qua...
[00:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:13] <exec> 08└─Far cry from what happened to this one. Maybe it was that it was interacting with the driver/passengers, or maybe the USA just has more assholes than it did.
[00:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:14] <exec> 08└─I think the biggest difference was the construction method. This robot doesn't look very sturdy - all it takes is one bored drunk that happens to walk by, and it's toast. But destroying a piece of plywood with your bare hands is a lot of work - that would take a very dedicated drunk. Maybe a meth-he...
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My original comment - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:16] <exec> 08└─My comment in the first article, before it actually started hitchhiking, was: Yep, it's toast. I've seen people swerve into the ditch to kill small animals, so I don't think this little robot will last very long.
[00:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:27] <exec> 08└─finally found the video that supposedly shows the flight path. I didn't see anything that could not have been easily faked by the drone owner. And if he new exactly where the drone came down why doesn't he provide the video form the drone's camera? As I understand it the drone owners claim is that m...
[00:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─Not if Michele Bachman saves our incandescent lightbulbs!
[00:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:00] <exec> 08└─You might not be able to complete a turn in a minute, but you can start turning it in a second.
[00:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:01] <exec> 08└─And more importantly, you know when you need to have stopped turning. Ships turn for other reasons than rogue waves. One minute is good enough to keep you from getting caught in the middle of an aggressive turn.
[00:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─It's not that simple. A comparatively tiny self-bailing lifeboat is probably "safer" than any size ship in the face of rogue waves. Coast guard boats and ships are also comparatively very small, but prodigiously seaworthy. I wouldn't give a plugged nickel for the chances of a grossly top-heavy conta...
[00:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Fastest Computer Will Be A Green Computer. - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:03] <exec> 08└─Video is a 13 months old as of this writing. More interestingly, and no one here brought up nor in the comments of the video itself, is that this appears, at least to me, to be an optical ANALOG computer: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The give-away in the video the ex...
[00:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:13 feet ~ 4 meters - 06Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:41] <exec> 08└─An experience cyclist on a lightweight road bicycle could likely push it up to 18+mph (29+ kph), making that trip take about an hour.
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[01:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Brief Outage? - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:56] <exec> 08└─For a short while, loading SN url gave me a pretty much a blank page.
[01:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, a fellow east coaster! Glad you could join us.
[01:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying people in the west are all ponies and rainbows nice, but the asshole quotient in the states you mention is extremely high.
[01:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─"These countries have the lowest crime rates world wide, and just so happen to have the lowest quantities of blacks. Not for long.
[01:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:24] <exec> 08└─All it takes is one asshole to fuck it up.
[01:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:26] <exec> 08└─AS a Canadian, i'd like to apologize for our NOT destroying the robot first, and leaving it to you poor Americans to show that only you have the wherewithal to destroy something nice; something that could have been treasured. George Bush asked "why does the world hate Americans so much?". I'm sorry...
[01:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:2) 02US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:28] <exec> 08└─HitchBOT has been around the world, including trips across the entirety of Canada and Germany without major incident. But America is clearly a hard land for our robot brothers and sisters.
[01:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Assumptions make fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:50] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, not flying your drone over an armed neighbour’s property is a good way to keep your drone from getting shot down.
[01:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Re:Obtuse - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:02] <exec> 08└─To make the attack, you don't need to control the app or have any contact with the app store. It's the victim's viewing of an invoice from an app store purchase that triggers the attack, it doesn't matter what they bought. You do need to be able to change the victim's device name though so...
[01:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Change the name of YOUR OWN device - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:03] <exec> 08└─...and pwn Apple internal computers for fun and profit. Sellers and Apple staff viewing a copy of the invoice will also get attacked.
[01:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's called cognitive dissonance - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 2233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:47] <exec> 08└─The Wikipedia article you cite states that "cognitive dissonance" is "the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs." That article has some relevant side topics related to Silicon Valley, such as Social Engineering and Marketing; also keep i...
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[02:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Brief Outage? - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:36:59] <exec> 08└─Ongoing troubles: sometime a blank page, sometimes the CSS-es aren't loaded.
[02:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:00] <exec> 08└─There's not much chance of your Linux computer being infected with this stuff. For Windows, it's useless because spyware is baked right into the OS, so what's the point of scanning it for more? It's all over the news that Windows 10 is packed with spyware right from MS. If you use Windows 10 willing...
[02:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not so fast! - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:02] <exec> 08└─"There's not much chance of your Linux computer being infected with this stuff. " Actually, there is. A company in the news recently (unrelated to Detekt) has released scanners and the source for Windows AND Linux. The story has made the rounds at various techie news places, even buck feta, but the...
[02:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:03] <exec> 08└─It's not Google. The handset makers are entirely to blame for this. Google's Nexus devices keep getting updates to the most recent versions of Android as long as the devices are capable of handling it. My nearly four-year old Nexus 4 was running official Lollipop 5.1.1 until an accident with the cha...
[02:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:05] <exec> 08└─My nearly four-year old Nexus 4 was running official Lollipop 5.1.1 until an accident with the charging cable catapulted it across the room and cracked the screen.
[02:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:27] <exec> 08└─Only if NIGGERS move in.
[02:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah. Not even slightly surprising - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:32] <exec> 08└─My 1st thought was also small minds with big guns. [google.com] -- gewg_
[02:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:38] <exec> 08└─Sigh, there's a portion of the populace that is violent. You're talking about a small percentage of the population that's violent. Most Americans aren't violent. There's a ton of assholes and generally worthless people, but most of them aren't violent.
[02:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's hard to work yourself up to actual violence when you're fat and complacent.
[02:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:41] <exec> 08└─Not true. Those fat-assed Grecians were getting pretty worked up lately, and the French will readily jump with such vigor if there is any suggestion that they need to do any actual work. If they put in only a fraction of the effort it takes for them to take to the street, burn cars, and battle poli...
[02:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:43] <exec> 08└─Just out of curiosity, from what enlightened society do you hail where there is no violence? You must be an Organian to have the hutzpah to cast such stones.
[02:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Where around the world did it go? - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:45] <exec> 08└─So what cities did it go through when it went through Canada and Germany? What kind of press preceded it? There are some pretty bad parts of Philly, did it go through those parts or was it in the suburbs? Did it go through rough parts of Germany or Canada, or are we comparing a jaunt through the rur...
[02:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:55] <exec> 08└─I was looking up range info for #8 shot earlier, and it seems that for clay pigeons people talk of a useful range of 40 yards. It can apparently travel 200+ yards but you're looking at perfect angle and wind conditions. On the other hand, the guy who shot it down sounds like a total asshole. Maybe t...
[02:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CSS problems, Soylent? - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:06] <exec> 08└─I tried to load the front page earlier this afternoon. The page title was in the title bar but all I got was a blank page. By default, I block everything that isn't text. When I pulled up my blocking widget, it was blank too (it's usually full of blocked items). Strange. -- gewg_
[02:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02The judge is no moron... - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─The judge probably thinks that taxi license racket is obsolete, and found a technical reading of the law that let him rule in a way that makes sense. You can't claim that the justice system is ever actually about justice - not in the USA and probably not in Canada, either. At least this time, it's t...
[02:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Valuation - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:52] <exec> 08└─OP stated: For a company whose business model is illegal in most of the world. Wall St. must be drooling with anticipation to get their hands on this so they can sell it to you. They'll make an even bigger killing than BABA or FB.
[02:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:One rule for them, one rule for us - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:48] <exec> 08└─Amusingly, Congress actually does reign while practicing insider trading.
[02:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:05] <exec> 08└─Exactly. That's why the focus on "jobs" is deceptive. The focus should be on GOOD jobs.
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[03:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another NYT Bestsellers List fraud - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:57] <exec> 08└─The Discipline of Market Leaders [wikipedia.org], a (real) business book published in the 1980s, which is still in print. [amazon.com]
[03:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rook Security - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:09] <exec> 08└─the company name might be Rook Security. they released binaries for win/nix on their site, i believe, and to github.
[03:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:12] <exec> 08└─LOL Shellshock and Heartbleed don't ring any bells? News Flash Linux has just as many bugs as any other OS in fact last year Linux and OSX had more vulnerabilities than Windows [betanews.com] by a pretty decent margin, you simply do not hear of them because the MSM really doesn't see an OS with a 1%...
[03:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:13] <exec> 08└─Fight the fight Hairy. Every time you make that vulnerability argument and provide that link, you get your ass handed to you showing you how unbelievably misleading those stats are (for those too lazy to look up one of his older "arguments", suffice it to say that to do an apples-to-apples compariso...
[03:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:15] <exec> 08└─^Must be a MS employee.
[03:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02grand stream dreams blog entry reference/news - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:17] <exec> 08└─http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2015/07/rook-security-milano-tool.html [blogspot.com]
[03:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:41] <exec> 08└─I've never met a dark-skinned nigger. Every nigger I've ever seen was white.
[03:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:went as expected (for pragmatists) - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:43] <exec> 08└─Selfishness and fucking over everyone possible for entertainment or personal gain is the American way. Its literally the core of American society, what everything else is built on.
[03:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:51] <exec> 08└─George Bush asked "why does the world hate Americans so much?".
[03:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:53] <exec> 08└─Or maybe with all the sinister ways the government and corporations attempt to spy on us whoever picked up this bot figured it was just another sinister plot to somehow invade our privacy and so they figured, 'I'll show them!!!"
[03:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:58] <exec> 08└─and the French will readily jump with such vigor if there is any suggestion that they need to do any actual work.
[03:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Where around the world did it go? - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:01] <exec> 08└─So what cities did it go through when it went through Canada and Germany?
[03:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Should've started on the west coast instead - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:03] <exec> 08└─You'd see photos of hitchBOT smoking a doobie.
[03:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Should've started on the west coast instead - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:05] <exec> 08└─That comment was one toke over the line.
[03:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:1) 02What a City - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:06] <exec> 08└─As someone who was born in Philadelphia nearly four decades ago, raised there, and lived in the city all my life... I love my city. What other city would decapitate and dismember a defenseless robot and boo Santa Claus?
[03:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They arrested the wrong person - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:14] <exec> 08└─Though the US is a full-blown police state at this point, non-drug cases still require evidence that a crime has been committed in order for somebody to be guilty. Do you have any proof that he was using the drone to spy on the children, or are you just spreading bullshit and FUD?
[03:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:19] <exec> 08└─Would you feel the same if a drone was hovering over your backyard while your daughter was sunbathing? Or what if you caught it peeking in your window?
[03:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:24] <exec> 08└─Are you psychic? Can you read minds? No? So what then, you're thinking that, if it was you, you'd be peeking, so you can't imagine anybody doing anything else? You have no possible way of knowing what he was doing.
[03:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:31] <exec> 08└─If this was 15 years ago and it was a RC airplane then it wouldn't have been shot down.
[03:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obtuse - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:46] <exec> 08└─... change it to some JavaScript long enough to generate an exploit.
[03:39:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 1297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:13] <exec> 08└─How far do you need to turn? Never more than 90 degrees. If the rogue is coming at you directly from port or starboard, then you need to turn 90 degrees, right? What about when the wave is coming at you from a relative bearing of 270? You only need turn 30 degrees to meet it head on. Or, it's coming...
[03:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Happy 20 SOHO - 06Nearing 3000 Comets: SOHO Solar Observatory Greatest Comet Hunter of All Time - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:37] <exec> 08└─I used to use some of the charged particle data from SOHO back in the 90's. Kudos Mr. Knackerbracket on this story. We need more like this so that we don't have to listen to the same tired political tripe that gets thrown around here for "discussion". Too bad nobody wants to have any discussion on t...
[03:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:She has bigger balls than Ars does - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:51] <exec> 08└─I got to hear her give a talk on the history of her carbon research fairly recently. Fortunately, it was to a scientific audience so it was light on the kind of questions you're talking about.
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[04:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:08] <exec> 08└─... One literary gossip columnist even wrote in a leading newspaper, "Had a delightful lunch the other day with Frederick R. Ewing and his charming wife, Marjorie."
[04:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:10] <exec> 08└─Which part of it are you struggling with?
[04:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:12] <exec> 08└─Obviously not reading TFA.
[04:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:26] <exec> 08└─If you want to be spied on, just say "hey google." Actually, it's already listening to you by the time you said that. Google is spying on you almost as much as MS with W10. I mean, why does wallpaper need access to your location data? Or a card game need to see your entire contact list? Ever since I...
[04:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds just like Ubuntu to me.
[04:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hmmm - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:33] <exec> 08└─If I were being spied on by numerous state and independent agencies, I would probably not want to get involved in a cyber-warfare arms race against them.
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:34] <exec> 08└─it's *my* property, I have every right to defend it.
[04:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:37] <exec> 08└─Not when you have only licensed it...
[04:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Old TEch - 06Endoscope Surgery Robot Uses Air Power for a Steady Touch - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:43] <exec> 08└─They'd better not have been granted a patent on this. I worked with a guy in school (like 30 years ago) that was developing robots using air pressure for movements. It's not only very good a delicate operations, it can be used to provide quite a lot of strength and it feels liek human muscle resista...
[04:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:went as expected (for pragmatists) - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:03] <exec> 08└─Every country has its form of humour. France uses farce, for example. The basis of US humour is insults. Says a lot about the people.
[04:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah. Not even slightly surprising - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:09] <exec> 08└─I see a fair amount of those in Europe too.
[04:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:13] <exec> 08└─Don't confuse Americans that choose to have "must murder other human beings" in their job description with the ones that actually are nice and saw through the nonsense of military action in the middle-east. Just by doing that you certainly showed you were a dick amongst dicks while all the decent hu...
[04:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:15] <exec> 08└─Assume the percentage of assholes within a population is the same between populations. The US has a higher population, therefore more assholes. Simple really.
[04:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:24] <exec> 08└─America is inherently more violent than other countries and Americans are inherently unable to deal with it... or do anything about it.
[04:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where around the world did it go? - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:27] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make any sense. Just because it went coast to coast does not necessarily mean it hit any cities let alone most major ones. I have driven 1000 miles west to east in Canada and never hit a town large enough for two traffic lights.
[04:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:They arrested the wrong person - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:39] <exec> 08└─Why are people hung up on the matter of who was down there? Is it OK to fly a drone over your neighbor's property to watch the place as long as no girls are there?
[04:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assumptions make fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:00] <exec> 08└─Horray for victim-blaming!
[04:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Obtuse - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:14] <exec> 08└─The exploit can be used against Apple employees by a malicious user, perhaps gaining access to or causing damage to Apple internal systems. Not a huge exploit, but once again an example of Apple's attitude towards security and input from users.
[04:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:*Quack* - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:55] <exec> 08└─He's basing the decision on the same sort of "technicalities" that let the guilty go free, and law is decided on the letter of the law, and not the intent. Almost all law seems to need a serious refactoring, I think.
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[05:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:12] <exec> 08└─it's an anon, so probably literacy in general. ;)
[05:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:13] <exec> 08└─For a start, who are the persons being mentioned? Is he the fictional author? There is zero explanation whatsoever as to what makes this part relevant/interesting.
[05:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ubuntu/Amazon - SUSE(Novell)/Microsoft - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:35] <exec> 08└─I quit Ubuntu when their desktop had a bar/dock appear/disappear on the left hand side of the screen and I heard about the deal with Amazon. Fuck that. (I also avoid any other distro which pulls/bases packages from Ubuntu's repos. I quit SUSE during the whole Novell/Microsoft love-in. Fuck that. (I...
[05:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:37] <exec> 08└─If it works, it's not useless.
[05:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:41] <exec> 08└─"Not when you have only licensed it..." it is mine. i will defend it.
[05:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:28] <exec> 08└─Let's not make this into a nationalistic pissing match. One robot is a poor sample size to measure general vandalism.
[05:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good, was SJW project. - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:37] <exec> 08└─Free Hans Reiser.
[05:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:the simple cure is to fix it! - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:20] <exec> 08└─even if the store didn't use javascript, the javascript injection vulnerability would still remain. a proper fix would be to print the name using HTML's &hex; format.
[05:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:*Quack* - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, he is ignoring the plain language of "taxi owner" and engaging in clever interpretative shenanigans. On a side note, when you say "technicalities" what you mean is the Bill of Rights. Not to worry though, through similar interpretative tricks we are almost completely done with that, and th...
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[06:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Are technologists dehumanizing the world? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:04] <exec> 08└─Yes. Next question?
[06:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are technologists dehumanizing the world? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:05] <exec> 08└─A classic in this vein is Langdon Winner's essay "Do Artifacts Have Politics?". Copy pasting that name with quotes included into your favourite search engine will produce a copy. I for one believe we should be quite worried. Machines are controlling the society ever more. If they shut down today, mi...
[06:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig. xkcd. - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:07] <exec> 08└─http://xkcd.com/1227/ [xkcd.com] I don't see what people are complaining about. It's not as though I have a red bull IV drip hooked up and will die of caffinnnneeeeee ppooooiisssooonnniiinggg aannnnyy ^$%*ĝ9*9& [ NO CARRIER ]
[06:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:27] <exec> 08└─Ah - good point, and I should probably have cut a bit more of the section quoted which does need the context. My Bad. "Frederick R. Ewing" was the author of the fake book, and also did not exist. The relevant bit of TFA: Shep quickly created a fictitious author: a retired British military officer an...
[06:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmm - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:55] <exec> 08└─You have been sucked in with the propaganda and the brain washing. Why I purchase a machine, it is MINE. Simple as that. I don't go to Newegg, or Dell, or WalMart, to sign a lease agreement.
[06:38:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:33] <exec> 08└─AS a Canadian, i'd like to apologize for our NOT destroying the robot first, and leaving it to you poor Americans to show that only you have the wherewithal to destroy something nice; something that could have been treasured. George Bush asked "why does the world hate Americans so much?". I'm sorry...
[06:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:37] <exec> 08└─"why does the world hate Americans so much?" Bombings and control.
[06:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:39:12] <exec> 08└─Same reasoning applies to the drone owner. You don't like getting Your drone shot down? Don't fly it over my property. Not only that, how is my personal, private back yard a public space? Even if I erected a privacy screen, a fence or at least some bushes that shield it from the public view, drone o...
[06:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn it Nadella! - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:32] <exec> 08└─I had high hopes when the Ballmernator got his walking papers they'd bring in somebody with some sense, instead we get Windows 10 which is so full of datamining and spy shit it makes Google look privacy focused
[06:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:12] <exec> 08└─Problems you have, with reading comprehension. You're going to SELL it? That is commercial use. The moment you accept one thin dime, you lose the protections afforded a private citizen. Now - who is the bigger asshole? You, or me?
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[07:37:52] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Can we find similar quotes from 100 years previous?
[07:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig. xkcd. - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:53] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought. Something from 1815 perhaps. I do know this and have been passing it around the news aggregators for fifteen years: “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; the...
[07:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02problem is not technology but conformity - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:55] <exec> 08└─In a world where you can't even discuss the artistic merits of a satirical comedy film like GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE without being modded down into oblivion, artists have good reason to be worried. For instance, have you noticed how the film GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE starts out in black-and-whi...
[07:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Navel gazers - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:57] <exec> 08└─In the early days of factories, I am sure that some artists thought that working with machines was dehumanizing. Of course, the overall reduction in back-breaking field labor was actually hugely beneficial to people overall. It's much the same now. Technology proceeds apace, we have even less physic...
[07:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03spamdog [4335] (Score:1) 02Your move, art - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:58] <exec> 08└─Well maybe artists should start making art that lets me download gigs and gigs of porn.
[07:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your move, art - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:00] <exec> 08└─Your one-stop site for amateur art and amateur porn. [deviantart.com]
[07:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Yes, no, maybe? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 2210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:02] <exec> 08└─I look at the world around me - and yes, people are far to engrossed in their electronic toys. They have been "dehumanized" to some extent, because they prefer to play with their toys, than to interact with the people around them. But, good things come from all this tech. The single best thing I can...
[07:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02They're making the rest of "us" live in? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:03] <exec> 08└─Who's "us"? It certainly doesn't include me. 90% of the internet serves no purpose and exists only to capture peoples' attention so advertisers can sling their pitches. That's what these technologists are doing to "us", I guess. Except "us" ain't "me". At the end of the day, people get what they des...
[07:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sure - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:05] <exec> 08└─It has always been the case that the world was getting better and better until the time of your childhood, but then it started to go downhill. It doesn't matter when or where your childhood was.
[07:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another NYT Bestsellers List fraud - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:19] <exec> 08└─First publication date according to your list was 1995.
[07:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Haha, great hack! - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:26] <exec> 08└─"If you can't win em, join em"! :)
[07:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:25] <exec> 08└─This new influx of shit-tier internet users cannot identify the difference between a true troll and someone with a dissenting opinion.
[07:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where around the world did it go? - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:39:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well Canada's a big country, so you can go a long way without seeing many people - depending on your route. Nunavut is the size of western Europe but only 35,000 people live there. OTOH, if you go coast to coast, then you're pretty much guaranteed to pass through several major cities - especia...
[07:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Philadelphia.... - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:58] <exec> 08└─Proving once again why they needed DC as a slightly more upscale hive of scum and villainy... erm Capitol.
[07:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Assumptions make fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:33] <exec> 08└─To be fair, I'm sure the drone was dressed provocatively. :)
[07:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How far into the air a person's private property - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:34] <exec> 08└─That's easy to answer, at least a minimum distance is easy to state: how tall the tallest skyscraper?
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[08:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score:1) 02Maths? - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:47] <exec> 08└─Production per person from 8k to 21k, but persons down from 650 to 60, soooo... lower production over all? Or how was that counted?
[08:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:48] <exec> 08└─"Is eliminating the work force the best way to solve labor unrest?". yes, as long as you keep paying the wages.
[08:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:49] <exec> 08└─Depends on how you eliminate them. E.g., for the present, transforming them in Soylent Green is still frowned upon.
[08:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:51] <exec> 08└─Soylent Green is the Final Solution to the Worker Problem. Hitler was a century ahead of his time.
[08:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:52] <exec> 08└─The work force will solve itself by starving to death.
[08:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Navel gazers - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:08] <exec> 08└─That's my polite explanation: artists are people who are frightened by change.
[08:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Glued eyeballs - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:14] <exec> 08└─There is the common refrain that everyone’s eyeballs are glued to their smartphones, even while walking into traffic
[08:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02By definition - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:16] <exec> 08└─In the English speaking world, "If its useful, its not art". Artists go out of their way to make sure their products have no useful function, while "technologists" deliberate ignore appearance. There are exceptions (Shakespeare plays teach about the outcome of social scenarios, Apple, Sony, while Mr...
[08:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:35] <exec> 08└─A summary should make sense by itself without having to read TFA. That's rather the point of summaries.
[08:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Hyperdimensional buttcam - 06Endoscope Surgery Robot Uses Air Power for a Steady Touch - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:18] <exec> 08└─The Emaro scope can move along four axes
[08:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:went as expected (for pragmatists) - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:44] <exec> 08└─Considering the robot traveled just fine all over the world, and (as you pointed out) was only damaged by assholes in the USA, I don't think that people on the English-speaking Internet are related to this problem. It increasingly seems to me like people in my (our?) country are becoming overly pron...
[08:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:55] <exec> 08└─Well, from his post I conclude the other people he was talking about had the very same job description as those Americans. Therefore the comparison is valid.
[08:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:46] <exec> 08└─If this was 15 years ago and it was an RC airplane then it wouldn't have had a camera.
[08:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:37] <exec> 08└─control content that is freely available on the web
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[09:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:37] <exec> 08└─I recognized from day one that Google+ had potential. Unfortunately, it was handled wrong on many levels. Tied to every other Google service? Huh, wut? Totally freaking wrong. Email, most importantly. Piss off some half-wit on G+, he gets your account suspended, and your email is gone too? Worse, wa...
[09:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths? - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:48] <exec> 08└─Just wait until they build the first fully robotic factory. Then the production per person will be infinite even if they manage to produce only one item per year.
[09:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths? - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:49] <exec> 08└─By my math production is down nearly 80%. This level of spin indicates propaganda. Rather odd that "the People's Daily" would be proud of the destruction of the need for their huge population.
[09:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths? - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:50] <exec> 08└─Chairman mayo says SHUTTHEFUCKUP!!
[09:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:55] <exec> 08└─Hitler was a century ahead of his time.
[09:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:56] <exec> 08└─No coal was used to burn anyone. Bodies were piled on top of each other and set on fire. They burned all by themselves and nothing remained (within half an hour). In open pits. There are living witnesses who saw this happen with their own eyes.
[09:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:58] <exec> 08└─Bodies are terribly hard to light on fire. All that moisture and flame resistant skin you see. Easier to feed 'em to the pigs. Have to get the teeth out for the piggie's digestion first though. Nasty business, that.
[09:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:00] <exec> 08└─Bodies are terribly hard to light on fire.
[09:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:01] <exec> 08└─Which, of course, they'll do quietly and orderly, and nothing bad will happen as a result.
[09:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02and when no humans have jobs - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:03] <exec> 08└─They just need to build a robot Steve Jobs to convince all the other robots to buy the stuff they're making.
[09:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Long-term future of robot production - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:04] <exec> 08└─If only a handful of factories do this then profits for them will increase. When everyone uses robots for production then no one makes any more profits than they used to because of competition. Also this is a good way to shut out newcomers because newcomers may not have the capital to invest in robo...
[09:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02My experience - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 2306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:06] <exec> 08└─Our plant used plastic injection machinery to produce parts for equipment. Our worst problem over the years, involved plastic chassis with metal inserts. An operator at the machine placed the metal inserts onto pins inside the mold each time the machine cycled. We had a fair amount of rejects, becau...
[09:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Glued eyeballs - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:27] <exec> 08└─It's called natural selection... It's nature's way to cope with improved health care and car safeties...
[09:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02not a surprise, is it? - 06NVIDIA Shield Tablet Recall Due to Overheating Batteries - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:37] <exec> 08└─As told in half a dozen sci fi stories, when you really need the shield, it is overheating.
[09:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:54] <exec> 08└─You mean the problem is that people posting as Anonymous Coward are in general too literate to be able to overlook such problems in the summary?
[09:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:15] <exec> 08└─Ever since I got an Android phone, I've been waiting to root it and install something like Cyanogenmod
[09:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:useless - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:19] <exec> 08└─What an absolutely ridiculous claim to make. How can you compare three numbers when two of them are corporate secrets? Also, Linux is a kernel, not an operating system...
[09:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 2216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:03] <exec> 08└─Ok, quick lesson for all the "shit-tier" Internet users who supposedly cannot identify a Troll post. I'm assuming this group includes whoever wrote the post I'm replying to, you'll see why in a second. Also, it's worth nothing that I'm aware this may seem like I'm dignifying both the parent comments...
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[10:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdr_tofu [5669] (Score:1) 02DNS and Bind on IPV6 - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:59] <exec> 08└─The Oreilly book DNS and Bind on IPV6 is a good book. It's written by the same author as the DNS and Bind book (Cricket Liu). I have no experience with Ipv6, but was able to follow the book ok. http://shop.oreilly.com [oreilly.com]
[10:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02mark of the beast - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:09] <exec> 08└─rest easy. it won't be long b4 implanted chips connect us all mark of the beast kinda thing
[10:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02g+ - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:10] <exec> 08└─That's an old meme now. http://www.memes.com [memes.com]
[10:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02for history's sake - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:12] <exec> 08└─I hope they'll leave the server running, like they did with http://orkut.com [orkut.com], so scholars will be able to see what happened there. When Yahoo turned off the PC that Geocities was running on, something was lost.
[10:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03virens [5530] (Score:1) 02The idea of Google+ was fine... - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:13] <exec> 08└─it was an over-aggressive and intrusive peddling that ultimately killed it. YouTube comments, Blogger photos, reviews on Android store - you name it, and the worst part that there was no way back. People are generally unhappy when something forcefully pushed on them, especially when they did not wan...
[10:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Play Store - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:15] <exec> 08└─Does this mean I can now start leaving reviews for shit products on the play store. I refuse to use G+
[10:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Journalists and maths are natural enemies - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:27] <exec> 08└─>By my math production is down nearly 80%. This level of spin indicates propaganda. No, it indicates an idiot drone at Techrepublic could not even retell a press release right. The mismatch is absent in original source: http://en.people.cn [people.cn]
[10:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:35] <exec> 08└─No coal was used to burn anyone. Bodies were piled on top of each other and set on fire. Open pits were used in the early days, but later it was much better engineered than that. Coal was not used, not later at least. The heat from burning one batch was used to pre-heat the next batch. That melt...
[10:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:38] <exec> 08└─How ecological of them!! </sarcasm> Unfortunately, that's not true. Really now: more than 66 furnances. [wikipedia.org] As ghastly as is sounds. here are some details [nizkor.org]. In comparison, the incineration of the Nazi victims of homicidal gassing at Auschwitz was done with no such restrictio...
[10:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:41] <exec> 08└─With enough troops, it doesn't matter how they do it. Ask Joe Stalin.
[10:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:42] <exec> 08└─Starving peasants have been the trigger for several of the most well know revolutions in recorded history. The French revolution comes to mind, and unless I'm recalling it wrong the revolution in China that led to the current government coming to power had a starving populace as one of its triggers....
[10:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:44] <exec> 08└─Nah, the Communist party that took over China was lead by young wealthy intellectuals that used a populist messaging to oust the republic and establish a communist dictatorship. The starvation of Chinese that you're thinking of was caused by Mao Zedong when he implemented his "Great Leap Forward" pr...
[10:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Uh... - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:47] <exec> 08└─Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots
[10:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh... - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:48] <exec> 08└─Now that's a summer ballbuster waiting to be made.
[10:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Factories need not be in China Then - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:50] <exec> 08└─The whole point of so much manufacture moving to China was that the workers were cheap and (supposedly) more diligent than ones in the West. [As an aside, the are not more diligent in my experience. Most Chinese stuff I buy - usually I have no choice - turns out to be crap, and they are too far away...
[10:39:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Navel gazers - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 1101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:05] <exec> 08└─In the early days of factories, I am sure that some artists thought that working with machines was dehumanizing. Of course, the overall reduction in back-breaking field labor was actually hugely beneficial to people overall. It's much the same now. Technology proceeds apace, we have even less physic...
[10:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Navel gazers - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:07] <exec> 08└─Ask Bruce Jenner.
[10:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Dating Websites? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:16] <exec> 08└─WTF have they got to do with "de-humanising" ? I thought they were about bringing people together. Better than sitting in a basement waiting for "heaven" to do something,because it doesn't happen. Of course, "artists" move in circles where they meet plenty of other people and by nature are perfectly...
[10:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03C R Johnson [5368] (Score:1) 02Technologists are deanimalizing the world - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:17] <exec> 08└─What technologists are doing is what make humans different from animals: Creating things by thinking and production. It takes us further from our animal self's. Away from living in nature and being emotion driven. De-animalizing is more correct. Most artists I know are emotional basket cases and are...
[10:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:1) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:45] <exec> 08└─Revising the summary to say 'I, Libertine by Frederick R. Ewing, a book which...' would clarify things a bit.
[10:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old TEch - 06Endoscope Surgery Robot Uses Air Power for a Steady Touch - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:40:28] <exec> 08└─I saw an article around that time, perhaps in Popular Electronics, detailing how to build a robot which moved under the power of compressed air, controlled by repurposed automotive EGR valves.
[10:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 1751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:56] <exec> 08└─My understanding is the there is a 6ft high fence around the shooters property. Given that fact he and his daughter did have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Had the drone operator and his buddies physically hoisted themselves up to look over the fence they could have been charged with some crim...
[10:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When a drone shoots a man, that is not news, - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:17] <exec> 08└─because it happens so often. But if a man shoots a drone, that is news.
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[11:37:36] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Wherever you would normally put an IPv4 address, put the IPv6 address into it. The only "oddball" - wherever you would normally change an A DNS record, change the AAAA instead (why they are different I've never worked out - MX records are the same for both). The tools for IPv6 have slight...
[11:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02IP Daily... - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:37] <exec> 08└─...the best source of IPv6 nutrition
[11:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02I didn't like the interface - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:52] <exec> 08└─Having a Gmail account, I ended up with a Google+ account one day; not being into social networking and comfortable being alone, I never visited. Anyhow, I eventually ended up visiting a few G+ discussions by some people I know; I remember trying to leave a reply at one discussion and the reply form...
[11:38:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02My experience - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 2306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:23] <exec> 08└─Our plant used plastic injection machinery to produce parts for equipment. Our worst problem over the years, involved plastic chassis with metal inserts. An operator at the machine placed the metal inserts onto pins inside the mold each time the machine cycled. We had a fair amount of rejects, becau...
[11:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:My experience - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks, Runaway, quite interesting.
[11:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02The ends of the quality spectrum. - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:29] <exec> 08└─I lived in China in Beijing and Harbin, in Manchuria. I have seen the care they take with everything. Slapdash is about the nicest way you can put it. If there were an opposite end of the quality spectrum from the Swiss/Dutch/Germans, who have an obsessive need for everything to be genau ("exact"),...
[11:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Factories need not be in China Then - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 1681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:31] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, it is not the workers to blame. There is an entire infrastructure required to keep any plant running. Engineering, maintenance, sales, etc. Sales can be blamed for some of the junk - if they write out contracts for low grade junk, then any plant can produce that low grade junk. No plant i...
[11:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Iwill & Gigabyte TV programme - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:32] <exec> 08└─Quite some time ago, I saw a report about how mainboards were made at Iwill and at Gigabyte. (Just looked, but it seems not to be on Youtube?!). Iwill was on the 2nd floor of some average commercial building in Taipeh, where everything was handled in an automated way, while Gigabyte had this huge fa...
[11:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Are technologists dehumanizing the world? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:43] <exec> 08└─One important building block of this is Free software. https://fsf.org [fsf.org] [fsf.org] We also need free hardware to run it on.
[11:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Navel gazers - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:51] <exec> 08└─That's my polite explanation: artists are people who are frightened by change. Less polite is: Too many professional artists are navel-gazers who think their personal insights into the world are somehow more important than anyone else's. Who believe that being a professional artist makes them superi...
[11:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Your move, art - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:54] <exec> 08└─"Artists" make the gigs and gigs of porn. At least, that's what the porn actress I met once called herself.
[11:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02whatever - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:03] <exec> 08└─Someone ought to remind the artist that they're the ones who pumped out their dystopian future stuff for many, many decades before any of this technology stuff was ever invented.
[11:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:To submitters (and editors) - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:29] <exec> 08└─I was able to infer that fact from the context, but I think inferences are a lost art these days.
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[12:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Overuse of satellites - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─I cannot imagine which advantage it should have if trains use GPS data as main source for deciding on the number of doors. I mean, it's not as if the train could go anywhere it wants; it is bound to follow the track, with switches as the only points where there's any decision where to go, and even t...
[12:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Overuse of satellites - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:36:59] <exec> 08└─I've also read on SN that some data centers use GPS for setting their time. What's the point of that?
[12:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Interesting) 02More extreme space weather? - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:00] <exec> 08└─how our growing amount of space infrastructure would fare against the more extreme space weather that we might face.
[12:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:11] <exec> 08└─Its more a conceptual thing once you get above device level. One huge entertainment for the noobs is ALL ipv6 interfaces have multiple addresses, a link and a global at least. This can get people all confused, they "can't access the internet but have a perfectly good (link) ipv6 addrs so the router...
[12:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02IPv6 in practice, by Benedikt Stockebrand - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:13] <exec> 08└─Hi, you may want to have a look at this book: http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de [benedikt-stockebrand.de] I was lucky to follow a tutorial by Benedikt at LinuxKongress about 10 years ago, the course materials went on to become this book. You get both theory and practical ap...
[12:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Old old old - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 2233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:14] <exec> 08└─Its VERY old technology, like 20 years old. This leads to some significant problems. Before the turn of the century I got a nice new book about the "new ipv6" and its full of now obsolete stuff like how to use and test A6 DNS records. Its unlikely you'll find a windows10 book almost 20 years out of...
[12:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Old old old - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:16] <exec> 08└─I used HE for a static tunnel on a machine with a static ipv6 addrs
[12:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:Old old old - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:18] <exec> 08└─I like how the original IPV6 was designed for, what shall we call it... "security", and took consideration for issues still vexing modern communications (it was not a cure-all, of course -- but it did help get the hosts a few more defenses in how the protocol behaved). Probably around 2002 or 2003 I...
[12:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe its just me, but if I were hiding from people that wanted to harm me, I WOULDN'T BE USING SOCIAL MEDIA. Staying alive is FAR more important than posting what. the. fuck. ever. to social media.
[12:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:28] <exec> 08└─real name bullshit
[12:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I didn't like the interface - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:33] <exec> 08└─the reply formatting system used at G+ drove me fucking crazy!
[12:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Its the UI stupid. - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:35] <exec> 08└─Of all the social networking sites out there, g+ is the most confusing of them all. G+ put everything into one page in a jumbled mess that included stuff you did not subscribe nor wanted.
[12:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Journalists and maths are natural enemies - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:46] <exec> 08└─Well, submitter and SN editor were non wiser.
[12:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02propaganda - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:12] <exec> 08└─full-scale chinese propaganda. no such factory exists.
[12:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig. xkcd. - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:27] <exec> 08└─I don't see your point. This thread was about art versus tech, not old versus young.
[12:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig. xkcd. - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:29] <exec> 08└─The XKCD link certainly has quite a bit of truth to it, but it misses something fundamental with art created by software: 1) Some files can no longer be open opened [I have some old word processing documents from the DOS days that I can no longer open], 2) Dependencies [Related to #1; Soylent News b...
[12:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:They're making the rest of "us" live in? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:40] <exec> 08└─90% of the internet serves no purpose and exists only to capture peoples' attention so advertisers can sling their pitches. That's what these technologists are doing to "us", I guess.
[12:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Glued eyeballs - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:44] <exec> 08└─sup bro callin you ablnc now #EmergencyServicesYUNoTwitter #HelpWonkeyMonkey #ItsBleedingRealBad #IsThatMeantToBeStickingOutLikeThat wot fone u usin tat dnt brk whn u hit bi cr?
[12:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Artists are winning - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:49] <exec> 08└─Remember when the Fappening happened, the artists sued Google for aggregating links to the photos, not Apple for hosting the photos with shit security. 10 years ago, the major fear was that Intel had enough purchasing power to buy every major movie studio and turn them into something different (prob...
[12:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Another NYT Bestsellers List fraud - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:06] <exec> 08└─That particular scam is still around today: Since they now look for thousands of books purchased by a few to make it look like there's more interest than there really is, nowadays they pay people $5 or something above the purchase price to buy the book. Poof, New York Times Bestseller! This is parti...
[12:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:14] <exec> 08└─East-Coasters are a bunch of loud, rude, obtuse, unpredictable obnoxious gorillas best left to performing in zoos and freakshows
[12:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:21] <exec> 08└─I'd like to point out that I don't make a habit of replying to AC posts like this
[12:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:23] <exec> 08└─The highest crime rate areas of the United States are invariably have large quantities of blacks.
[12:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:20] <exec> 08└─Telemetry shows that the drone didn't linger over the property. From the height shown the operator wouldn't have seen much. Of course it might be fake, but the shooter didn't take any photos first so has pretty much destroyed any chance he might have had to prevail in court.
[12:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:13] <exec> 08└─Modern cruise ships don't use rudders - they have "azipods" that can rotate 360 degrees and provide thrust in any direction. It's still not an instant turn, but it's a lot faster than the rudder era. But as others said, the other advantage would be giving time to get people away from the windows.
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[13:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Re:Overuse of satellites - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:09] <exec> 08└─You will know about 100-150 ms in advance of the incoming Armageddon and may put a sell order ahead of the rest.
[13:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Here's hoping - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:11] <exec> 08└─With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill
[13:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Old old old - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:27] <exec> 08└─They used to state that IPV6 was designed for security from the ground up. No one says that anymore. It may be old, but someone had designs on the design process and gutted the end-to-end security capablility/the hooks to make it easier to use encryption. I wonder who that might have been? But seri...
[13:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Old old old - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 1797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:28] <exec> 08└─The history of ipsec in ipv6 mirrors the history of ipsec in general or in ipv4, in that I feel it was intentionally F-ed up and made into a hard to use mess of a technology which made ipsec useless in general. That has a side effect of making it completely uninteresting to the first two decades of...
[13:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Old old old - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─The implementation may have been flawed, but I'm not convinced it is an architectural mistake to try and 'bake-in' security. It depends on what you are baking in, and how flexible it is e.g. with the ability to change to new encryption algorithms. I come from the school of 'the network should be dum...
[13:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:41] <exec> 08└─Mmmm-hmmmmm. So, if you were in a witness protection program or some such thing, you would find absolutely no potential value to having a social media account? Like, maybe just checking on the health and welfare of a friend or family member? Having an account is not the same as blabbing everything y...
[13:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:43] <exec> 08└─Like, maybe just checking on the health and welfare of a friend or family member?
[13:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:44] <exec> 08└─The reason they pushed real names is their focus is big corporate for ad sales and marketing.
[13:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Re:I didn't like the interface - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:52] <exec> 08└─nouveau-iconoclast hipsters
[13:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:16] <exec> 08└─Entire stories can be made up, complete with details. Then one must wonder why the obviously efficient techniques developed were never used again. There have been a number of disease outbreaks in animals: Foot and mouth disease etc and these already perfected efficient techniques were never used, wh...
[13:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:23] <exec> 08└─And, here's something a lot of people gloss over: in a nearby time period, across the globe, it's quite possible millions of Americans starved to death in the great depression(we think. There wasn't enough observation to have statistical confidence the number reaches the millions for sure). That's n...
[13:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:propaganda - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:36] <exec> 08└─I have no data either way, but it did seem odd that the original article (linked above, http://en.people.cn [people.cn] ) used a stock photo of a robot welding line for cars...not pictures of robots assembling electronic components. The first six pages of a Google sea...
[13:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig. xkcd. - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 1421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:50] <exec> 08└─Old always complain about the young's pointless addictions. Its no different than complaining about kids watching TV (mine don't, they're all about the youtube). TV used to be described as a vast wasteland because everybody watched a few channels of crap, but now nobody watches hundreds of channels...
[13:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Navel gazers - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:57] <exec> 08└─Too many professional artists are navel-gazers who think their personal insights into the world are somehow more important than anyone else's.
[13:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:They're making the rest of "us" live in? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:06] <exec> 08└─When the internet was owned entirely by techies it was used almost entirely for the transmission of technical information, without graphics,
[13:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Where around the world did it go? - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:17] <exec> 08└─Did it go through rough parts of Germany or Canada
[13:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:39] <exec> 08└─Erratically moving? It might have been, but generally quadracopter drones are steady in flight, whether hovering, or moving in perdictable lines. And it's quite revealing of your bias that you suspect the flight data might have been faked, but you take the word of the shooter what kind of lead he wa...
[13:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:43] <exec> 08└─What daughter? I can't see anything in the story about a daughter. Are you confusing someone's hypothetical with the actual case?
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[14:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wow - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:11] <exec> 08└─Who would have thought that antennas are influenced by resonance?
[14:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dr zim [748] (Score:1) 02Just an antenna... - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:12] <exec> 08└─Does wireless charging solve any problems that an industry-adopted connector standard wouldn't?
[14:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:More extreme space weather? - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:30] <exec> 08└─> more extreme space weather Caused by global warming, presumably.
[14:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02C'mon, just read the RFCs - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:49] <exec> 08└─*snicker* [ipv6now.com.au] This whole effort seems to be a support contract/lifetime employment scam concocted by some Cisco engineers and marketers.
[14:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:03] <exec> 08└─Mail and POTS are more easily tapped than some anonymous person browsing around Facebook. If you're a criminal mastermind, you can easily have someone bug your target's mother's landline. Yes, OF COURSE it is illegal - but you can get it done. The mail is little more difficult, but you can have some...
[14:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:05] <exec> 08└─You might be surprised at what your metadata can reveal about you.
[14:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:07] <exec> 08└─Mmmm-hmmmmm. So, if you were in a witness protection program or some such thing, you would find absolutely no potential value to having a social media account? Part of the witness protection program is giving you a new identity, which especially means a new real name, complete with the papers provin...
[14:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:40] <exec> 08└─Hitler used dedicated structures for the purpose. He shipped the victims to the structures. Farmers and ranchers don't have these dedicated structures, specially engineered for the disposal of carcasses. The comparison is rather silly, IMHO. A wood bonfire, laid on open ground, is never going to get...
[14:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:42] <exec> 08└─Even a replica of the original structures has not been made or used. I'm sure that during the last 80 years someone would have developed a furnace on similar principles if it really was real, but no. It only ever existed on paper, where it will always remain.
[14:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:Iwill & Gigabyte TV programme - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:59] <exec> 08└─When manufacturing can be done for cheap anywhere, then it is a matter of whether it is cheaper to move the resources or the product and where they will pay most for the product.
[14:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They're making the rest of "us" live in? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:33] <exec> 08└─Ah, CSHOW was a delight to behold. For informational purposes only, of course. I am not sure who actually downloaded pictures of like balloons and apples and trees and stuff, except for vendors selling new VGA monitors and needed something family friendly to display in the store. Then bikini picture...
[14:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02too bad for the elder race of man - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:43] <exec> 08└─Are technologists dehumanizing the world?
[14:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:44] <exec> 08└─Short version: No. Longer version. What is this "the world we live in" is? Nature? It was never about humans to begin with. The world of humans? We are creating and changing our world therefore it is not "dehumanized," whatever that means.
[14:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:went as expected (for pragmatists) - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:41:21] <exec> 08└─France uses farce, for example.
[14:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:12] <exec> 08└─American sizes below one mile is the standard football field.
[14:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:*Quack* - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:35] <exec> 08└─No, officer, I don't need a driving license. You see, I didn't drive this car. I was only pressing pedals and turning the steering wheel. Last I checked, neither pressing pedals nor turning a wheel required a driving license.
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[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Tooth-proof Charging - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:02] <exec> 08└─"Does wireless charging solve any problems that an industry-adopted connector standard wouldn't?" Puppies chewing on charger wires.
[15:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Tooth-proof Charging - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:03] <exec> 08└─Worn out contacts in the device to be charged, making charging unreliable.
[15:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score:2) 02Re:Tooth-proof Charging - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:05] <exec> 08└─Not just worn out contacts - prevents broken connectors and corrosion, and allows for better waterproofing. And then there are the cosmetic possibilities.
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tooth-proof Charging - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─Waterproofing was also my first thought. Basically, most devices have at most two reasons for connectors: Power, and data. For data, we already have connector-less solutions (bluetooth, WiFi), but power up to now still needs a connector. With that last connector also gone, you can make devices which...
[15:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The CPU-makers already have security functions - 06Rackspace and Others Planning to Share Security Information - 2347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:12] <exec> 08└─It's called the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance [osxbook.com]. TCPA is built into my Early 2006 Core Duo - not Core 2 Duo - MacBook Pro. I expect it's in my Early 2013 Core Quad i7 MacBook Pro as well but haven't actually checked. Apple uses the Infinieon SLB 9635 TT 1.2. It has ten key register...
[15:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:37] <exec> 08└─What about netmasks and subnets?
[15:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:02] <exec> 08└─I can't believe I actually have to give my anecdotal story to refute this: I know a woman who was abused. She and her husband ran a business and they absolutely needed social media for the business. The business is how they earned money to live and survive. So WTF is wrong with using pseudonyms (lik...
[15:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:07] <exec> 08└─Well, your SN pseudonym definitely helps bolster the "old man on the lam" story.
[15:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:for history's sake - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─So many "under construction" gifs and midi loops. Just snuffed out in their prime like that.
[15:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe the need for replicating it didn't arise?
[15:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03OwMyBrain [5044] (Score:1) 02You posted the wrong XKCD - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:21] <exec> 08└─When I saw you post an XKCD comic in this article, I though for certain it was going to be this one. [xkcd.com] These artists can continue to go on about how technology is dictating people's lives, and I will continue to ignore them. Technology is not forcing people to have their face in their phone...
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:problem is not technology but conformity - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─Nice try. No way I am looking at a movie whose title contains unnecessary caps.
[15:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:problem is not technology but conformity - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:24] <exec> 08└─The article reflects a very naive POV. Technologists do NOT control the world. Artists never did. Look at apple. They tried for 20 years to push the envelope, result, almost bankrupt. Then they lock things up with their imacs and ipods and app stores, result, a shower of billions. No way you can exp...
[15:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:whatever - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:46] <exec> 08└─I feel inclined to point out that much of the technology in dystopian fiction is identical to the technology in utopian fiction. It seems to be up to the author as to whether the people using or controlling it are good or a shower of bastards. And that has always been the problem that the artists, a...
[15:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Heard it all before: - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:50] <exec> 08└─"These satanic steam engines and other machines will dehumanize the world! Man shall have to be a machine himself as these won't adapt to his way of working!" Yeah, buddy, having a washing machine instead of doing the "humanizing" task of pounding my clothes at the stream with a rock really dehumani...
[15:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02A Christmas Story - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:19] <exec> 08└─This may be mentioned in the article, but Jean "Shep" Shepherd is the original author whose work was made into the film A Christmas Story.
[15:41:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:45] <exec> 08└─HitchBOT has been around the world, including trips across the entirety of Canada and Germany without major incident. But America is clearly a hard land for our robot brothers and sisters.
[15:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Assumptions make fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:42:39] <exec> 08└─The question that wasn't answered is whether this new hunting target tastes like chicken.
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[16:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02You're fired! - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:57] <exec> 08└─Even though the things you said probably helped share-holder returns, it hurts the people with the most money and ego. Get out!
[16:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02This won't help - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:58] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the people who are setting CEO salaries are all members of a "big club" (as George Carlin aptly put it), representing a very small number of rich individuals and staggeringly rich financial companies. The rich individuals mostly got rich by being C-level corporate executives, and...
[16:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02No Correlation Between Pay and Performance - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:00] <exec> 08└─Why anyone would agree to an exorbitant salary for a CEO is beyond me, since pay-for-performance is largely a myth. http://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] http://www.forbes.com
[16:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:09] <exec> 08└─The Summary is so vague its not clear this even was an antenna. Sounds like it was just a loop of wire (hula hoop) not connected to anything. To answer your question, apparently NOBODY thought of this before. So what you seem to suggest should be plainly obvious to the most casual observer, somehow...
[16:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:11] <exec> 08└─It would seem a bit obvious; the efficiency drops approximately proportional to the square of the distance, and with this resonant loop, that is basically a receiver and transmitter at the same time, they have reduced the distance between the original coils to two lengths of half the original distan...
[16:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:13] <exec> 08└─Add to this the fact that if TFS is accurate, that is some really fat wire! Given the size of that coil of 4.25 cm diameter wire, where are you going to put that, period? Wherever you do put it, don't let the crackheads know where, or it's going straight to the closest sketchy scrap yard.
[16:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wow - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─The Friss link efficiency equation does not apply in this situation as the antenna operate in the reactive near field. Information about the performance of air cored wireless power transfer systems with respect to distance and misalignment can be found here: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk
[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Just an antenna... - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─The main reason I used to have a wireless charger was so I wouldn't have to plug my phone in to charge it.I could just set the thing down and not worry about charge. But, it also means that you can completely seal the phone, so you can get real waterproofing for applications that need it. You also d...
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Just an antenna... - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:18] <exec> 08└─But at what cost? Does the wireless charger consume (radiate, leak) power when the phone is NOT there?
[16:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Just an antenna... - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:19] <exec> 08└─A properly designed system isn't going to be transmitting constantly, that would be wasteful. Radiation shouldn't be a concern beyond the wasted electricity. The system I was using used conductors to tell the device to turn on and the actual charging was wireless. The main reason I'm not still using...
[16:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just an antenna... - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:22] <exec> 08└─> Does the wireless charger consume (radiate, leak) power when the phone is NOT there? Everything I've read says no. But just to be sure I put a kill-a-watt meter on the wireless charging cradle [amazon.com] for my hp touchpad and it measured, before, during and after putting my touchpad on the crad...
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just an antenna... - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─I tried a reflector! it has to reflect in phase though as the wavelengths are big at these frequencies. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org [ieee.org]
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Eliminate Barrel Connectors - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─Anyone who's ever had to replace the female barrel connector on a laptop's motherboard will know the potential value of wireless charging.
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02It won't be a standstill, except at first - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─I think everyone agrees it is a matter if when, not if, that we get our tech fried. When technology fails people wait for technology to come save them. That is when there is standing still*. As people realize they will not be saved by anyone except themselves attitudes change, plans are formed and...
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Old old old - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:04] <exec> 08└─After all, we have gone from open WiFi to WEP to WPA: if encryption were purely an end-system requirement, none of that would have developed.
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:23] <exec> 08└─Love it or hate it, being social in today's world means using social media in some form or fashion.
[16:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:24] <exec> 08└─I doubt she absolutely needed to have FB, Twitter or any of the other social media accounts for business. I know that FB and whoever else would like you to think that it's necessary, but direct to customer email-lists are much more effective. Not to mention company blogs that can be run from your ow...
[16:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─They already have that, especially when looking at relationship data, geographical IP data, etc. The only people who don't have that data are the general public, my neighbor, random social media contacts, etc.
[16:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:30] <exec> 08└─They have something close to that. The reason the "real name" policy matters to the social networking folks is that pseudonyms are hard to detect and make their profiles less accurate. For example, let's say that our subject John Smith had established an online pseudonym of "Jack Jones", with a sepa...
[16:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:32] <exec> 08└─LOL - I was a runaway. I left my father's house for the last time when I was fifteen years old. Child services didn't like that idea very much, and they spent the entire summer searching for me - or my body. They weren't real sure that I really DID run away. Ehhhh - they found me, labor day weekend,...
[16:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Don't worrry! - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:42] <exec> 08└─Within two years, Google will be trying to force you to use a revolutionary new social media experience: Google++!
[16:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Factories need not be in China Then - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:25] <exec> 08└─> I am quite certain, though, that China lacks the infrastructure that we used to enjoy here in the US. Even if you can't fly to Beijing, Shanghai, or Shenzen, I'd recommend you point your google that way and realize how wrong you are. Then browse around to find a few smaller cities: when you've got...
[16:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:propaganda - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:31] <exec> 08└─You may be right that this story is a fabrication...
[16:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:You posted the wrong XKCD - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:50] <exec> 08└─These artists can continue to go on about how technology is dictating people's lives, and I will continue to ignore them.
[16:40:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Glued eyeballs - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:08] <exec> 08└─There is the common refrain that everyone’s eyeballs are glued to their smartphones, even while walking into traffic
[16:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad for the elder race of man - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:18] <exec> 08└─Nope, say sorry. We live in a world where yap-yap-yap duckspeaking masses value the Kardashians, the intrigue of Caitlyn Jenner, and iBling.
[16:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Heard it all before: - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:21] <exec> 08└─Even writing was once considered to be a serious threat to humanity: [wikisource.org] for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The spec...
[16:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Seppuku bot - 06Endoscope Surgery Robot Uses Air Power for a Steady Touch - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:30] <exec> 08└─Thanks for reminding me of this [gamesradar.com]
[16:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:went as expected (for pragmatists) - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:05] <exec> 08└─It was damaged by one asshole in the US, or possibly a half dozen. At this point there's no reason to believe that this had anything to do with the roughly 99.999999677% of Americans that didn't do this. This is one example, it could easily have been destroyed in one of those other countries, either...
[16:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:went as expected (for pragmatists) - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:07] <exec> 08└─I've traveled enough of Europe to know that destruction of unguarded property "for fun" is not as US-only thing. Bored teenagers, drunks, and rednecks exist everywhere. They just differ in their weapons and youtube upload speed. It would be an interesting experiment to drop lots of little bots in th...
[16:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:28] <exec> 08└─You should reread that article you linked to, it doesn't say that the French are the most productive, it says that they're "likely to be the most productive" that's a completely different matter. The US worker is the most productive worker over all, but the Norwegians are usually up there if you do...
[16:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Darren you silly bitch - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:24] <exec> 08└─In my experience, all of Apple's web presence that isn't marketing/sales related (dev tools mostly) has a poor track record in both usability and aesthetics. Not to say Steve was right in that story or anything, but building the back of the cabinet with shitty wood is exactly what they've been doing...
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[17:37:12] <exec> 08└─> none of the big funds ever manage long-term performance better than a monkey with a dart board Define "big" and I'll prove you wrong with one counter-example.
[17:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uses for wireless charging - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:36] <exec> 08└─I see primarly four main uses for wireless charging (compared to standard connector) 1) Waterproof housing for devices (for instance - consider a camera for underwater use, especially if combined with wifi (this would allow for "factory sealed" units)) 2) "hat rack"/"coat hanger" (if the distance is...
[17:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overuse of satellites - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:55] <exec> 08└─If I'm setting up a data center, particularly a big one, why wouldn't I want a local time server? It is trivial to get an appliance that runs an ntp server off of GPS. I have no idea what time synchronization requirements are for a decent sized data center, if any, but it is cheap and trivial to set...
[17:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Don't worrry! - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:59] <exec> 08└─Or even G#...
[17:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Factories need not be in China Then - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:43] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to the internal infrastructures of companies and corporations - or to the governmental infrastructures, like highway systems, electricity grids, dams, and such? It is a pretty well known fact that China has produced some terribly bad products in the past few decades. Remember the p...
[17:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Factories need not be in China Then - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:45] <exec> 08└─1978 [wikipedia.org] was a long time ago WPG [wpgholdings.com] is scaring the [bleep] out of Avnet and Arrow (probably triggering the purchase of NuHo). And in case you missed it: Hon Hai's factories [wikipedia.org] "together assemble around 40 percent of all consumer electronics products sold", inc...
[17:40:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] 02Re:whatever - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 360 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:34] <exec> 08└─I feel inclined to point out that much of the technology in dystopian fiction is identical to the technology in utopian fiction. It seems to be up to the author as to whether the people using or controlling it are good or a shower of bastards. And that has always been the problem that the artists, a...
[17:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score:1) 02Radio show - 06The Bestseller Book that Didn't Exist - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:12] <exec> 08└─I was an avid listener to Shep on WOR radio in NYC.
[17:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─http://www.rc-cam.com/rc-cam1.htm/ [rc-cam.com] I wouldn't be so sure. Video wasn't so great 15 years ago, but pictures wouldn't be out of the question.
[17:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03scarboni888 [5061] (Score:1) 02Re:When a drone shoots a man, that is not news, - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:37] <exec> 08└─They're not men they're 'enemy combatants' and hence the reason why they're not worthy of the news.
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:*Quack* - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, I agree, hence "technicalities" being quoted. The same technique is used to charge people who are innocent of what most would consider the intent of the law, although much less frequently. I still think a lot of it could be made much more clear by cleaning up the way laws are written.
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[18:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:04] <exec> 08└─I don't see how these restrictions help maintain dominance. One of the reasons manufacturers want to create better products is because they want to be able to recoup their costs and make a profit. That's what justifies making their investments into these advancements. Limiting exportation of these p...
[18:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02$2.8B - 06Nokia's Digital Mapping Business Bought by German Carmakers - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:12] <exec> 08└─How many man-years could they have added to OpenStreetMap for half that cash?
[18:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Damn! Another loss? - 06Nokia's Digital Mapping Business Bought by German Carmakers - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:13] <exec> 08└─This month I added "Here" maps to my Android phone. It puts Google's product to shame, mostly by being what Google Maps was five years ago before they improved it into unusability. I find Google's product an exercise in frustration, with functions that I need hidden in obscure places while it shoves...
[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:it's a different world they live in - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─Berkshire Hathaway is not a fund.
[18:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02John Hammergren is a douche - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:27] <exec> 08└─He wrote a book a while back, and to pump up sales and divert company money into his wallet, he issued a copy of the book to each of the thousands of employees at the company. I would call that embezzlement. Since I had retirement funds as company stock, I was not happy about it. Source: I worked at...
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02A fortune on copper - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:52] <exec> 08└─Imagine the cost, or the weight: "4.25-centimeter- diameter copper wire"
[18:38:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02More extreme space weather? - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:11] <exec> 08└─how our growing amount of space infrastructure would fare against the more extreme space weather that we might face.
[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─What do you think about social media like meetup.com?
[18:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─I think they're utter garbage and that people should value their privacy and anonymity more.
[18:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 1445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, I'm about as anti-social networking as it can get. I hate almost all forms of it... but from a business perspective, why not if both parties are into that kind of stuff? And to be frank, websites like Soylent News are a kind of social media. Not the popular kind, but one of them none-the-l...
[18:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stackOVFL [5682] (Score:1) 02Re:g+ - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:08] <exec> 08└─Now this is a old meme: http://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:for history's sake - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:11] <exec> 08└─I'd take them over tweets, blogs and social media any day. Remember then, when you know, actual websites were popular.
[18:39:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] 02Re:Don't worrry! - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 13 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:20] <exec> 08└─Or even G#...
[18:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score:2) 02delete? - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─So all those Google plus accounts that were generated automatically by just having email... are those getting automatically deleted or will we have to do that manually? I still get spam mail for posts from people in my email contact list even though I have no friends or circles or whatever and have...
[18:39:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03szopin [5710] 02Maths? - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:31] <exec> 08└─Production per person from 8k to 21k, but persons down from 650 to 60, soooo... lower production over all? Or how was that counted?
[18:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hogger [1090] (Score:1) 02Re:propaganda - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:11] <exec> 08└─This story [technews.co] is from May 6, and appears to be about the construction of that facility.
[18:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"artists" - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:41] <exec> 08└─Funny thing - if they phrased it such that joe schmos find the observation concerning, I (and likely many others) would have responded with "hmmm... maybe there is something there." Instead, it says "artists are worried", and it comes across as whining of some pretentious douchebags who think too hi...
[18:40:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03No Respect [991] 02They're making the rest of "us" live in? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:47] <exec> 08└─Who's "us"? It certainly doesn't include me. 90% of the internet serves no purpose and exists only to capture peoples' attention so advertisers can sling their pitches. That's what these technologists are doing to "us", I guess. Except "us" ain't "me". At the end of the day, people get what they des...
[18:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Re:US is inherently violent - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:13] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how this is insightful. Inherently violent? Based on what information? Based on a couple internet news articles?(the Guardian maybe?) Based on the decisions of its leadership? These are hardly representative of the population as a whole, yes they were elected in our system, but that do...
[18:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02No way 200 feet. - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:03] <exec> 08└─There’s no way you can take out a drone with birdshot at 200 feet. At that range it won’t even break skin. I doubt it would take down a metal plastic drone. It needs to be used close up, Dick Cheney style, in order to be effective. If anything to be learned from this, is that property rights sho...
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[19:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:1) 02Fuck the feebs - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:00] <exec> 08└─Who would want to work for the dirty fucking pigs?
[19:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck the feebs - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─Gray hats maybe. Black hats don't want anything to do with law enforcement, and white hats are more discriminating that most cops. WTF do the idiots at the FBI think they have to offer a white hat? When has the FBI ever been a do-good organization? They blow with the political wind, worse than the C...
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02No one wants to work for the man - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe if the FBI had a more balanced opinion on security topics. First, they mandate all hardware must be crackable on demand, then people start implementing purely software-based solutions that they haven't had the change to 'Truecrypt' yet and suddenly they can't do their jobs anymore. What kind o...
[19:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Because then they wouldn't be White Hats. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─A White Hat who works for the FBI would almost certainly become a Black Hat eventually, giving the FBI's general disregard of the constitution and people's privacy and liberties.
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:3, Informative) 02Market - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─Generally the answer to "we can't find anyone to work at this pay grade for this level of working conditions" is "increase the pay and improve the working conditions". Even the FBI is subject to the market. ("Invasive recruitment processes" count as working conditions here. The more hassle people ha...
[19:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Re:Market - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:07] <exec> 08└─This. Who wants to help catch black hats, pedophiles, terrorists, and organized criminals on a civil servant's salary. Now if these were computational demonologist positions, I'd take a second look. ;-)
[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Market - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:10] <exec> 08└─Rather, who wants to be the sort of scumbag who violates people's constitutional rights? I don't care how much money they offer. The FBI isn't exactly an ethical organization, so ethical individuals will avoid them. They usually create the 'terrorists' in the first place and then set them up. As for...
[19:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Market - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─("Invasive recruitment processes" count as working conditions here. The more hassle people have to go through, the more you need to pay them to compensate them for the hassle.)
[19:37:12] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] 02Hat color does not matter - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:13] <exec> 08└─You cannot enforce discipline on a hat who understands freedom in thinking. And if you break him to obedience, which works perfectly on soldiers, he'll become unusable as a hat. Because free thinking outside the rules is the main quality of hats.
[19:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:18] <exec> 08└─Lets also not forget that these advancements aren't cheap. Some of the revenue that a manufacturer makes could be reinvested back into advancing their products. Limiting exportation reduces revenue and hence reduces investments to create advancements causing a country to fall behind those without su...
[19:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons manufacturers want to create better products is because they want to be able to recoup their costs and make a profit. That's what justifies making their investments into these advancements. Limiting exportation of these products makes it less likely manufacturers will recoup their...
[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:21] <exec> 08└─and the country that exports products can receive more tax revenue from manufacturers to fund more government investments as well. Advancement requires capital and countries that export more make more revenue and can use that revenue to invest back into more advancements. A country that wants to be...
[19:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:23] <exec> 08└─Advancement requires capital and countries that export more make more revenue and can use that revenue to invest back into more advancements.
[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:25] <exec> 08└─"In fact, many such discoveries are paid by govt grants to universities in US. And all NASA discoveries are also done by public funding. Care to think how come the former USSR/current Russia managed to have better rocket engines than USofA for more than 30 years now?" and where does that money come...
[19:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:28] <exec> 08└─This is not about market, this is about global strategy. I still remember a COCOM https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] export restrictions on mainframes and PC's. And yes, I did smuggling computers, some 30+ years ago.
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn! Another loss? - 06Nokia's Digital Mapping Business Bought by German Carmakers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:33] <exec> 08└─Sadly I assume that Here will become another great product lost to corporate madness.
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02a big club [of] C-level corporate executives - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:43] <exec> 08└─A recent illustration of the issue: Like-minded friends get hired [dilbert.com] Followed by Too much truth [dilbert.com] -- gewg_
[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Baby steps in the right direction - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:45] <exec> 08└─In 2013, the Swiss had an initiative that would have capped the ratio of worker pay to executive pay at 1:12. It is unfortunate that Swiss workers see themselves (as USAians do, as pointed out by John Steinbeck) as temporarily embarrassed millionaires so, 65 percent were convinced that they should v...
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:it's a different world they live in - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─What I find hard to understand is how these people can look in the mirror and think that they are worth that much money.
[19:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:A fortune on copper - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:16] <exec> 08└─There's an ambiguity there -- I read it as a 4.25 cm coil diameter -- it would be really hard to make any sort of small coil from wire with that diameter.
[19:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A fortune on copper - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:17] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to take wonkey_monkey's job writing failed jokes based on obtuse interpretations of the text?
[19:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Overuse of satellites - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:38] <exec> 08└─You think that NTP and GPS are the only sources for time?
[19:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't be a standstill, except at first - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:44] <exec> 08└─or it will be night time so the other side of the earth will get blasted instead of me.
[19:39:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 1275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:13] <exec> 08└─I recognized from day one that Google+ had potential. Unfortunately, it was handled wrong on many levels. Tied to every other Google service? Huh, wut? Totally freaking wrong. Email, most importantly. Piss off some half-wit on G+, he gets your account suspended, and your email is gone too? Worse, wa...
[19:39:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:23] <exec> 08└─Love it or hate it, being social in today's world means using social media in some form or fashion.
[19:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:26] <exec> 08└─Ok. Fair enough. Serious question since I'm not getting the results I want when trying to get out and meet people face-to-face (and I'm using social media to do it). In today's world, how would you recommend meeting technology people face-to-face without websites like meetup.com? Specifically, I'm l...
[19:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:29] <exec> 08└─Categorizing sites like SoylentNews as "social media" sites is ridiculous. The types of comments you'll see are totally different, the purposes of the sites are totally different (Facebook, Google+, and others exist to gather as much information about people as possible so they can make money off of...
[19:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:31] <exec> 08└─Hmmm... Then I suppose you and I have different definitions of social media. I based my definition off of this one: www.google.com/search?q=define+social+media [google.com]
[19:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02For social login perhaps - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:33] <exec> 08└─In order for a site to let users log in with their Twitter credentials, the site's operator has to have a Twitter account in order to register the site with Twitter. The same is true of Google and Facebook.
[19:39:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number6 [1831] 02I didn't like the interface - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 1273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:47] <exec> 08└─Having a Gmail account, I ended up with a Google+ account one day; not being into social networking and comfortable being alone, I never visited. Anyhow, I eventually ended up visiting a few G+ discussions by some people I know; I remember trying to leave a reply at one discussion and the reply form...
[19:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02from the nonplussed dept. - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:53] <exec> 08└─Haha, kudos good Sir! :D
[19:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:29] <exec> 08└─Quite true, the lesson being, governments kill. And the greater the central consolidation of power by governments, the greater their ability to kill their own people.
[19:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─No, my friend, those people starved because there was no one there for them in the harsh world of capitalism. It prompted our government to fix itself in that particular way.
[19:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My experience - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 1774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:35] <exec> 08└─I lived through a slow transition at a factory from old-school humans to full automation. Something I always found interesting was that the machines were treated better. The humans were just given a box of each part and shown how to do the job a couple times. The machines had humans or other machine...
[19:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Navel gazers - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:16] <exec> 08└─And yet, as much as I love technology it has never come close to moving me to tears.
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[20:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Right. So that'll be expensive - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:57] <exec> 08└─But then it might be cheaper once the rest of the country has to follow suit. Maybe.
[20:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:58] <exec> 08└─All it takes is another Enron for 100% electric cars to stop - or perhaps some real troubles (as opposed to faked ones) with the grid. May as well introduce some incentives for personal solar panels installations and it may be dandy.
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─May as well introduce some incentives for personal solar panels installations and it may be dandy.
[20:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:01] <exec> 08└─If it needs incentives then it is not economically feasible.
[20:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Which is cheaper? - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 1779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:03] <exec> 08└─I teach chemistry and physics and every year my students and I tackle some aspect of climate change. Last year we looked at the cost of absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere using solar, wind, and nuclear power. We decided on an amount of 350ppm and a timeline of 85 years, which by a convenient coincide...
[20:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Market - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─My rule of thumb is, if I can get fired or even disciplined for anything I do outside of work that has no effect on the work itself, then I'm not working there. Seeing a friend lose her plum job working for the Sheriff's office just for living in a house with personal-use amounts of marijuana in it...
[20:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hat color does not matter - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:21] <exec> 08└─And, Arthur is not a real person. I mean, "Knackerbracket"? Not a real name. Hmm, what's he doing here, submitting articles? Maybe whoever he is, he already found a job?
[20:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:3, Insightful) 02struggling to hire computer scientists - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:23] <exec> 08└─Does the FBI hire people? I would have guessed the FBI only hires contractors and consultants, not directly. That's the way the government usually works. If nothing else, this is a PR fail because I didn't know the FBI did direct hires. Suppose someone was willing to take a pay cut and work for the...
[20:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 2271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─I have never applied to the FBI. I can admit that I did apply for a position with a similar agency at one point. That process turned out to be such a hassle that I withdrew my application before the process was finished. If you apply for these kind of jobs know that time is a factor, much more so if...
[20:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─The thing that drags this out is the security clearance issues.
[20:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:29] <exec> 08└─I spent some time with the FBI doing just this after completing my third doctorate (the one from Yale). They're pretty uptight at the management level, but the average guy in the office isn't as bad as you'd think. I was only 17 at the time, so I quickly parted ways with them since I was a little to...
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:39] <exec> 08└─You seem to be changing the subject.
[20:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:41] <exec> 08└─Free market capitalism implies competition. The problem with ISP's is that they lobby to restrict competition. Yes, this harms advancement. but, again, that's a separate issue and you are once again changing the subject. I am not advocating that private companies should receive special monopolies. T...
[20:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:43] <exec> 08└─So, what, do you advocate for a self sufficient government? Are you advocating for communism (and I know China is communist)? and, yes, Russia did make advancements. As have many other countries. It is not being argued that being isolationist will result in no advancements just that more advancement...
[20:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Say it ain't so! - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:45] <exec> 08└─Indian spy drone?? Look, I've been around here from almost Day One and one thing I've taken away from all the comments is that it is patently clear, from pretty much every story, that the US is the only one who uses drones and is the only one who spies. NOW you're going to tell me this isn't so? I f...
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:$2.8B - 06Nokia's Digital Mapping Business Bought by German Carmakers - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─I support OSM but here is why they don't want to use it: 1) There's no-one to blame when something goes wrong 2) When something goes wrong, there's no-one they can sue or recoup moneys from 3) Imagine an attack on OSM where thousands of bots suddenly start corrupting OSM data in subtle ways (add roa...
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn! Another loss? - 06Nokia's Digital Mapping Business Bought by German Carmakers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:57] <exec> 08└─Does it benefit from a massive user base that will send in corrections and traffic data otherwise, if there is no free app version?
[20:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:it's a different world they live in - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:14] <exec> 08└─You want someone who can call the bank and get a $20M credit line within ten minutes.
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:it's a different world they live in - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─And because those companies valued that one name, it didn't matter to George W Bush's future what George W Bush actually did.
[20:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:29] <exec> 08└─'bubbles depot!" lol
[20:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Am I the only one? - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:44] <exec> 08└─Note the separation (12.2cm, or almost 5 inches; about 3x the coil diameter) between coils. The inductive charging systems currently on the market (e.g. Qi) operate at a few mm spacing, and so get much better efficiencies.
[20:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:A fortune on copper - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─From the research paper (note: "MM" is using the metamaterial and "MR-FE" is a "resonant loop field enhancer"): . In Fig. 1(b), an isotropic MM (I-MM) disc is inserted equidistant between the source and receiver (optimal µmm = −1 − 0.1j from [3]) with a thickness of 0.25 m and a radius, RMM=0....
[20:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Overuse of satellites - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:08] <exec> 08└─Depends on how accurate and how standardized you need the time to be. Personally, if it were easy I'd set up my computer to syn to NTP time once a day...or perhaps once a week. I've noticed that if I don't sync regularly my clock time tends to drift. But I don't have any need that's even approximate...
[20:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Overuse of satellites - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:09] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock#List_of_radio_time_signal_stations [wikipedia.org]
[20:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:It won't be a standstill, except at first - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:16] <exec> 08└─You can watch the first episode of Connections here [youtube.com].
[20:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Not everything will come to a standstill - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:18] <exec> 08└─I could draw upon the wad of cash I have in my safe and ride a bicycle around! And my house has solar panels. I could charge my car battery during the day and run my computers and a few lights off it at night using an A/C inverter. Who needs Internet? I have lots of real books! I can be happy as a c...
[20:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:01] <exec> 08└─In today's world, how would you recommend meeting technology people face-to-face without websites like meetup.com?
[20:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Lot of potential - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:06] <exec> 08└─Right. Not a very useful definition, at least not for how you're using it. There are many words [gnu.org] that, while commonly used and accepted, only serve to cause confusion or spread propaganda. But we can fight back. The one that came up for me (on a different search engine) is this: "websites a...
[20:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:54] <exec> 08└─Well, if you dry them out first they would burn nicely, though not as well as if they contained more fat. OTOH, piles of moist oily rags can undergo spontaneous combustion, so perhaps a large enough pile of corpses would also. You should, however, expect this to take awhile.
[20:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:00] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that during the last 80 years someone would have developed a furnace on similar principles if it really was real, but no. Probably because the general public and law enforcement frown at the idea of heating your home with people.
[20:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:02] <exec> 08└─So why not build robots to do all the jobs, elimate money, and we all could enjoy our lives?
[20:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:11] <exec> 08└─LOL. Okay, dude. Thought you could read. Nobody ever starved under feudalism, right? We should go back to that, I suppose. Or are you referring to FDR's "fix" that took control of food production by burning and destroying food [answers.com] instead of distributing it to the poor? Governments are ev...
[20:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:2) 02Re:My experience - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:17] <exec> 08└─This post made me pause and think.
[20:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Iwill & Gigabyte TV programme - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:28] <exec> 08└─You left out government regulation. Some things that, e.g., pollute the environment, can only be done (or done cheaply) where they aren't regulated out of existence.
[20:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Everyone thinks they are marginalized - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:25] <exec> 08└─When I was religious I heard the message all the time that the popular, secular world was out to destroy everyone's faith and that the world was becoming more and more secular. Now I am not and it certainly seems like the religious-right is in control of most politics and steadily making inroads int...
[20:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:19] <exec> 08└─not all american troops were infantry, and MOS had no bearing on whether one was an asshole or not; some US infantry were decent people, and some US non-infantry were bigger assholes than any infantrymen i've ever met. non-US soldiers, on the other hand, were polite and equitable regardless of their...
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[21:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02New Horizons KBO extended mission - 06Pluto Findings Recap - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:01] <exec> 08└─http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Perspectives.php?page=piPerspective_10_23_2014 [jhuapl.edu]
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:12] <exec> 08└─Solar better come first, because the best estimates are that if the auto fleet were converted to electric tomorrow we would need easily twice the grid capacity that we have today. Most places are already trying to tax households with car chargers built in. Of course none of that money will go to gri...
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─Then why is there still so much petroll used?
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─Good question. I assume you are referring to the various perks that the oil industry gets. I am for the removal of all government subsidies. If you did that then oil and renewable tech would be on more equal footing. We know that green tech (in its current form) can't exist without subsidies and it...
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score:2) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:17] <exec> 08└─There are lots of things that wouldn't normally turn a profit for the entity doing them that we're still better off doing as a society.
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─Totally and completely untrue. Not even in an "all generalizations are false" sense. Just in a "refuses to acknowledge any sane system of economics" sense. The US government has price supports for food crops to ensure that in the event of a war or blockade, it can feed its own citizens. This is loos...
[21:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:21] <exec> 08└─We don't need another Enron. We already have an ageing infrastructure ran by for-profit energy companies that would shit itself from the additional load. No where in the article is this talked about. Point is if they want to push electric cars as hard as they want to, they also have to push utilitie...
[21:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Which is cheaper? - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:23] <exec> 08└─Btter yet, it's not even us, it's our children. Strangely, the "think of the children" line works less well when there's any sort of money involved. We're a greedy species.
[21:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which is cheaper? - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:25] <exec> 08└─Problem is, we are also a lying species. When one herd of fatcats is attacking another "because ecology!" and it makes you believe they are really caring about someone, or something besides their bank accounts... Well, there is that bridge for sale somewhere.
[21:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which is cheaper? - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:27] <exec> 08└─So you teach wild ass economic speculations as physical science? I think what you describe is bizarre. For example, why is the cost of saving Miama = cost of absorbing CO2? You could also just build a system of dikes and canals... That is just for example.
[21:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Well, it's inevitable. - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:29] <exec> 08└─Internal combustion cars will have to go eventually. I'm glad someone's facing up to reality. The only other option is to come up with a sustainable, carbon-neutral way to make automotive fuel.
[21:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 0249 States Laws - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:30] <exec> 08└─In Massachusetts law, there are certain regulations about vehicles that are legal in all 50 states and ones that are legal in 49 states. I wonder if California's overreach here will cause other states to remove their legal links to California's requirements? Energy has to come from somewhere, so unl...
[21:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Read the words and hear what they imply - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:32] <exec> 08└─we've got to get people used to a zero-emissions world
[21:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02The service infrastructure - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:35] <exec> 08└─I wonder if she also considered the service infrastructure? Since ICE automobiles have to handle multiple semi-open fluid systems (electrons don't count) under hostile conditions, it seems that much of the fabrication, distribution, servicing, and technology of those fluids, hoses, and other parts w...
[21:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Only greener if power plant is green - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:37] <exec> 08└─The topic of electric cars and carbon output was on the radio last night, [nashvillepublicradio.org] so this conversation today seems appropriate. Driving an electric car is better for the environment only if your electric power is generated by a clean power plant. This means that they make sense in...
[21:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soybean [5020] (Score:1) 02Re:Market - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─My rule of thumb is, if I can get fired or even disciplined for anything I do outside of work that has no effect on the work itself, then I'm not working there.
[21:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:struggling to hire computer scientists - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:49] <exec> 08└─What are these jobs, anyway?
[21:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:53] <exec> 08└─Heh I'm assuming this was a joke, but if not, I have to wonder who exactly the FBI thinks they serve sometimes. I always wanted to work with them from a young age, thinking they were the best of the best, but the more I learned about their willfully ignorant hiring practices the more I decided I wan...
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:55] <exec> 08└─Good god man, my sides LOL
[21:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah it probably is funny if it weren't so close to the truth, and so insulting to american citizens. :P
[21:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─The fact they are also paying less then the private sector and they are not offering much in the way of perks makes the whole thing less appealing
[21:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:02] <exec> 08└─Plus if anyone kills you, even accidentally, they get the death penalty.
[21:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Boundless Informant - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:18] <exec> 08└─China isn't doing anything that the US isn't doing also. Nothing new under the sun here. Back in the day, you couldn't export a Mac G3 or G4 because it was used in running simulations for nuclear bomsb. Look at what doing these things ("If you export shit, you've gotta give us the blueprints") gave...
[21:38:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02it's a different world they live in - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 1137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:42] <exec> 08└─As TFS points out, these shareholder votes are pretty meaningless, because most of the shares are held by huge investment funds, where those responsible are busy siphoning off their own millions. Not "earning" but "siphoning off", because none of the big funds ever manage long-term performance bette...
[21:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When will people understand why CEOs are paid... - 06Some Boards Listen to CEO "Say on Pay" Shareholder Votes - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:51] <exec> 08└─When will people understand why CEOs are paid regardless of performance? It has zero to do with doing the job, it has everything to do with not using the job for personal gain. The ridiculous CEO pay is essentially how private sector "fixed" the problem of corruption. If you pay a CEO more than he c...
[21:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old old old - 06Ask Soylent: Good source for Practical IPv6 Training? - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:13] <exec> 08└─I'll second the recommendation of https://ipv6.he.net [he.net] I did it a couple years a go and, yes, they mailed me a t-shirt. :-) It is all _very_ basic stuff: configure a machine for ipv6, set up DNS, a web server and a mail server on that machine so they answer to outside ipv6 r...
[21:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Re:I didn't like the interface - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:00] <exec> 08└─To cut this story short, I found the G+ interface a total piece of shit in the same sense that I find the Tumblr interface a piece of shit.
[21:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:Don't worrry! - 06No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:04] <exec> 08└─I think it'll catch on, that G# moniker, as long as it is cross-functional between applications. Most importantly, I believe that Glassholes can use a sharp g-pounding! Everyone else can go get pounded by Google, too, if they haven't already.
[21:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:48] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about welfare and later food stamps. Virtually no one starves to death in the US anymore. There are places people do, and they're not characterized by large governments. Well, maybe North Korea. And plenty of people starved under feudalism.
[21:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:time for another famine - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks for all the replies to my comment. learned some things I didn't know and adjusted my worldview in response. Good way to start the week :)
[21:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are technologists dehumanizing the world? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:19] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[21:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Apphole's success - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:32] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention how they hired marketing people (I use the word "people" loosely) to sell overpriced stuff to the boutique crowd. In both cases (as Nuke (3162) hints at below), you have artsy types who would be assigned to The B Ark. ...and you're talking about a perverse market that is common...
[21:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Navel gazers - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─In the early days of factories, I am sure that some artists thought that working with machines was dehumanizing.
[21:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''have no useful function'' - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:54] <exec> 08└─I disagree. There is no reason that a tech venture can't employ artsy types to make the facade of their products more appealing. In fact, it happens all the time. Sometimes form even follows function and you get something better than the technologists' prototype. Apple, Sony Interesting that you cho...
[21:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02...if you overlook the side effects - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:05] <exec> 08└─In your rosy picture, you're overlooking the externalities. Think: the nasty air in London for over a century. [google.com] For USAians: St. Louis for many decades; L.A. too. ...then there's fracking to get cheaper hydrocarbons and the nearby folks who can now ignite what comes out of their water ta...
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[22:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Visit to Yuggoth - 06Pluto Findings Recap - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─But did they find any trace of the Mi-Go? That is all that really matters.
[22:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:All it takes - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─Cars themselves aren't economically feasible by themselves. This comes up constantly in publicly funded car and airport vs completely privately owned train discussions.
[22:37:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Covalent [43] 02Which is cheaper? - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 1779 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:20] <exec> 08└─I teach chemistry and physics and every year my students and I tackle some aspect of climate change. Last year we looked at the cost of absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere using solar, wind, and nuclear power. We decided on an amount of 350ppm and a timeline of 85 years, which by a convenient coincide...
[22:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score:2) 02Re:Which is cheaper? - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:24] <exec> 08└─No, he's teaching them how to think a problem through. To be a good scientist, you need to be able to attack these kind of order of magnitude problems. That's why Enrico Fermi cared how many piano tuners there were in Chicago [utexas.edu], among other things [umd.edu]. Too many people think Googling...
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which is cheaper? - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:26] <exec> 08└─he's teaching them how to think a problem through
[22:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Which is cheaper? - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:27] <exec> 08└─You know, we abandoned Detroit and nobody really gave a F. I'm not thinking abandoning a couple more cities is going to matter.
[22:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Read the words and hear what they imply - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:30] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is I can't see how we can do it, too hard. Hope you didn't waste your time by going to university. They do hard shit for a living.
[22:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Read the words and hear what they imply - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:32] <exec> 08└─You still need to increase national electric generation by greater than 25%. This will not happen.
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:2) 02Re:Only greener if power plant is green - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:34] <exec> 08└─Having all of my dirty socks in the hamper doesn't make my socks cleaner, but it makes my house nicer and makes it a lot easier to do the laundry when the time comes.* *This comment may not reflect my actual sock-handling procedures.
[22:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hat color does not matter - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:55] <exec> 08└─This "hat" crap is a load of juvenile crap. Do we refer to corrupt police as "black hat"? How about politicians, for that matter? What about bankers, bureaucrats, and public servants? The topic is not so complex that we have difficulty distinguishing between people who do it for love, and people who...
[22:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:struggling to hire computer scientists - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, they do direct hire. They had a booth at my University's job fair the year I graduated, and were looking to recruit field agents. Yes, there's a job list: https://www.fbijobs.gov [fbijobs.gov] There are field agent positions in all major cities across the U.S., and some overseas postings at em...
[22:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02clearance comments and tangent - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 2389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:07] <exec> 08└─I did a lot of BBS stuff although never busted in the 80s and subscribed to 2600 etc and getting a "secret" clearance for the Army to basically be a glorified sysadmin was no problemo, went to the pot smoking capital of the midwest for uni, although I didn't personally smoke, etc. Hard to say if tha...
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:23] <exec> 08└─In fact your example is another example of how government interference harms advancement.
[22:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:27] <exec> 08└─So, what, do you advocate for a self sufficient government? Are you advocating for communism (and I know China is communist)?
[22:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─Care to think how come the former USSR/current Russia managed to have better rocket engines than USofA for more than 30 years now?
[22:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Restrictions to maintain dominance? - 06China Tightens Control on Export of Drones and Supercomputers - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:30] <exec> 08└─no minimum wage, so everyone was motivated to succeed rather than only those that didn't feel cheated by a wage hike driven by politics rather than actual talent
[22:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not everything will come to a standstill - 06With So Much Vested in Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Everyday Life to a Standstill - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:05] <exec> 08└─It's all fun and games until your glasses break, Burgess Meredith!
[22:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:your answer here - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:45] <exec> 08└─Easier to feed 'em to the pigs
[22:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cold War propaganda mixed with some truth - 06Chinese Factory Replaces 90% of Humans With Robots, Production Soars - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:04] <exec> 08└─wealthy intellectuals Smart? Yes; Educated? Yes; Rich? No. Under the Kuomintang regime, China still had a working meritocracy. If you were smart and ambitious, you got a good education gratis; you didn't have to be rich to get schooling in line with your abilities. to oust the republic Can we admit...
[22:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Are technologists dehumanizing the world? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:37] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't whether or not we control the machines, but whether or not the machines control us.
[22:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:00] <exec> 08└─Trolls reach a new low-- Moderate accordingly! The needle is pegged...
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[23:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02What? - 06America Offline? 15 Percent of US Adults Don't Use the Internet - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:02] <exec> 08└─So many niggers in prison already?
[23:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02much more to life - 06America Offline? 15 Percent of US Adults Don't Use the Internet - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:03] <exec> 08└─There's much more to life than "being online". I've been in IT for decades but I am getting really tired of Zuckerscheize and the boys[1] with their ruthless, dehumanizing "plans" for world domination and the destruction of privacy for the benefit of their financial backers and the multi-national ma...
[23:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Doesn't surprise me. - 06America Offline? 15 Percent of US Adults Don't Use the Internet - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:05] <exec> 08└─I have multiple family members (parents and their siblings) who are 80+. What on earth do they need the internet for? Most of them don't even watch TV, it is all phone and radio for them. They probably wouldn't take it even if you gave it to them for free.
[23:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Relayed Message: - 06America Offline? 15 Percent of US Adults Don't Use the Internet - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:06] <exec> 08└─I'm posting a reply for one of those offline types. He says: "But I'm Amish you insensitive clod!"
[23:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Maybe they're like my brother - 06America Offline? 15 Percent of US Adults Don't Use the Internet - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:08] <exec> 08└─He gets a computer and an internet connection. The computer gets infected with crap. He gives up. Months later I fix his computer and add anti-virus and other stuff. He gets back online and eventually clicks on the wrong link. The computer gets loaded with crap the anti-virus can't fix. He gives up...
[23:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they're like my brother - 06America Offline? 15 Percent of US Adults Don't Use the Internet - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:11] <exec> 08└─For everything else, there's the Chromebook :-)
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Eliminate installation/permitting costs. - 06California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─For 30k per household, California could, TODAY, all but eliminate power plants. Figure in a couple grand extra for 1KW wind generators to supplement the solar on low output days and you can have 24/7 power production with battery backing (unlike those tesla packs 10ish KWh of lead acids are only 2-3...
[23:38:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Because then they wouldn't be White Hats. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:03] <exec> 08└─A White Hat who works for the FBI would almost certainly become a Black Hat eventually, giving the FBI's general disregard of the constitution and people's privacy and liberties.
[23:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Hat color does not matter - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:14] <exec> 08└─The distinction is not one of love and money. And yeah, we do have different names for good/bad versions of other professions. You used two of them. A bureaucrat is bad. A public servant is good. A banker is bad. A financial manager is good. Dirty cops, snitches, shills, astroturfers, blackhats: all...
[23:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Hat color does not matter - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:16] <exec> 08└─Do we refer to corrupt police as "black hat"?
[23:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:struggling to hire computer scientists - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:19] <exec> 08└─And let's say that you were publicly minded and talented in systems. You would still have to put up with the mind-numbing crap that falls upon any bureaucrat and have to report to the sociopath scumbags who comprise the middle- to upper echelons of government. Who would do that for any amount of pay...
[23:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:struggling to hire computer scientists - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:21] <exec> 08└─The same problem everyone 'else' has with 'getting qualified people'. They want 'people to hit the ground running'. Then do not want to train or mentor anyone. Then are surprised when the few they do hire leave. You built someone whos job it is is to be independent and your shocked when they take of...
[23:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Time and attitude. - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 1647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:29] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time I was a very patriotic person and wanted very much to help my country. But I had experiences similar to yours with government agencies. I have gone to the end of the process with the CIA and the Foreign Service. In both cases, I did as you did, and withdrew my application. In the ca...
[23:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:clearance comments and tangent - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:31] <exec> 08└─Well, that's it. Who wants to jump through hoops for a year to get a crappy job with the government where the top dogs are not the guys that do what you do, or even the guys who have badges and guns, but the press department and the political appointee whose ass they kiss all day long? What self-res...
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:1) 02good will hunting - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:33] <exec> 08└─This dramatization provides some insight into why an intelligent person wouldn't want to work for a 3 letter agency: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02White Hats Don't Want to Work for the FBI - 06White Hats Don't Want to Work for Understaffed FBI - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:34] <exec> 08└─Because the FBI are the bad guys.
[23:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:A fortune on copper - 06Boosting the Transfer Efficiency of Wireless Power Transfer Systems - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:02] <exec> 08└─I dunno, wonkey_monkey says funny things once in a while. I also once saw him write something interesting.
[23:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Are technologists dehumanizing the world? - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:05] <exec> 08└─The machines control the people, and the ruling class controls the machines. This is the natural order, n'est pas?
[23:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:too bad for the elder race of man - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 3442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:50] <exec> 08└─More seriously, I suppose it's a problem of visibility. Never before has the common man been able to get up on Twitter, Facebook, or to a lesser degree YouTube and make the entire world aware of his ignorance or perhaps “vulgarity” (to use an archaic sense of the word). Therefore, it seems that...
[23:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:...if you overlook the side effects - 06Technologists Control the World We Live in — and Artists Are Worried - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:54] <exec> 08└─I'm probably one of the few here who can say they've done laundry in a stream pounding it with a rock (extended field exercise in the Army). I am confident that a few times doing so the new of it wears off will make you put the "externalities" in context. Besides, getting the effluent put through a...
[23:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:grand stream dreams blog entry reference/news - 06Detekt Version 2.0 is Out (Jul 28, 2015) - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:48] <exec> 08└─got milano ... over 20 hours later it is s.l.o.w.l.y. picking its way through places in *nix we were taught to stay the heck out of - precisely the areas where the devious smirkheads would plant their sh!tewarez. picked up detekt for the wife's legacy machine. fight back we must, lose we cannot.
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