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[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:22] <exec> 08└─sloppy editing. no excuse, guys. this is not about thinkpads, its about the consumer crap line of notebooks. the business grade thinkpads do not have this issue (the lenovo page does not list a single thinkpad as being part of this issue). lets try to be more accurate, ok?
[00:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:23] <exec> 08└─Where were ThinkPads mentioned?
[00:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score:2) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the closedness of things we don't know that it's not all Lenovos, all we know is that some models are affected. I for one am rather glad that my Thinkpad runs coreboot these days.
[00:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02G500 - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:27] <exec> 08└─Wonder how well it updated autochk on my G500 dual booting OSX and Linux. Still, I shouldn't laugh too loudly. They might have something for that too.
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:is my new ipad safe? - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─You're an asshole.
[00:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:38] <exec> 08└─This hit the news hours and hours ago.
[00:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:40] <exec> 08└─NPR, Reuters, WSJ, Los Angeles Times, etc. all have stories on this that seem to be less than an hour old.
[00:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:42] <exec> 08└─The NY Times had it at noon, or there abouts.
[00:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple for humans? - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:49] <exec> 08└─Neither can I. I allocated my stat points elsewhere.
[00:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Back to the drawing board ... - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:51] <exec> 08└─This doesn't solve anything for the FBI or NSA who may wish to review the conversations of people in public places that have been surreptitiously recorded by cell phones or computers -- unless they can somehow install a pizza sized chunk of plastic with their rootkits. Nor does it help with bugs, i...
[00:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Back to the drawing board ... - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:53] <exec> 08└─Simultaneous audio streams from multiple microphones are all it takes - a little techno-wizardry to get the right time alignment and spatial location estimates and you can use cell phones to do it. In the 1950s, they did it with microphones spaced around the perimeter of the room. In the 1980s they...
[00:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck changing your "password" - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:03] <exec> 08└─> It may have a reason other than enabling remote spying but it escapes me You're not a EE... Basic system design, really. Tie the things together and you can't use them to discriminate failures an run tests. And a lot of cheap systems don't power down the camera rail. They just old it in reset. It'...
[00:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck changing your "password" - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:04] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call it a conspiracy theory. The whole push for biometric authentication leaves people's privacy at risk even if perfectly implemented, because of the way the courts interpret the 5th Amendment. You can be compelled to give up what you are (photo, fingerprint, iris scan, blood -- whatever...
[00:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Pro Tip - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─For the less experienced hacker, they can also be recovered from the screen and a variety of other surfaces.
[00:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plus drawbacks - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:35] <exec> 08└─Marriage wouldn't fix that issue, because it's just some garbage social ritual that lots of people believe is magic. Take someone who abuses their partner and put them in a marriage and it will almost certainly continue.
[00:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Take the red pill, people - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:44] <exec> 08└─You do know that the amazons are just as real as Zeus himself right?
[00:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Correlation does not imply Causation - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:49] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe they just didn't think hard enough what the cause of the effect could be. It could be as simple as married men on average eat healthier food than single men. I know I do, being happily married to a former cook.
[00:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Correlation does not imply Causation - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─"Correlation does not imply Causation" -- I'm actually hyper-critical about people who sling this phrase around too much in improper cases, but here's a golden example where it does apply.
[00:39:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:News? 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is True - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:11] <exec> 08└─Observational verification of a theory?!?! WHAT KINDA SCIENCE IS THIS?
[00:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:49] <exec> 08└─Until business owners start going to prison for tracking people without their consent, it's Ad Block City, baby.
[00:39:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:54] <exec> 08└─I have been advocating for years that the solution is personal responsibility
[00:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:58] <exec> 08└─...the solution is personal responsibility and selective attention away from ads...
[00:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:10] <exec> 08└─The civilized response would be to detect an ad blocker and refuse to serve up content until some other agreement can be met -- either that the user consents to be spammed or pays a fee or whatever the two of them agree is reasonable.
[00:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:12] <exec> 08└─You want the web pages to behave like TV, and yet you simply don't realize that they are two totally different technologies.
[00:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bruise? - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:49] <exec> 08└─They mean that your blind/tree stand should be at that height so that your shot is angled down and won't travel further than you mean it to, as it did in this case. The ground effectively becomes your backstop.
[00:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Hemh. - 06New York Times Publishes Prosecutors' Op/Ed Against Encryption - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:03] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you are unable to distinguish "X" from "X metropolitan area". "X metropolitan area" is often way bigger than X, and includes towns and cities which are not X. In the US, it may even include towns and cities which aren't even in the same state as X. In Europe and the US there are even...
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[01:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:24] <exec> 08└─"It turns out that Lenovo has code in their BIOS which creates and maintains a backdoor executable in Windows 7 and Windows 8.x installs." that is the fallacy of inclusion; it implies that all lenovos have this problem and that's just not true (at least lenovo's support site does not list a single t...
[01:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:25] <exec> 08└─It's August, people are on vacation, and the editors did just put out a cal for help. Perhaps you could answer that call and do the deep dive on all the submissions you're expecting. Slashdot editors do get paid. It's the friends and family of the Soylent editors who pay because they're busy maintai...
[01:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:28] <exec> 08└─Guess what? There's very little difference between a Thinkpad and a generic Lenovo laptop these days. Lenovo took the Thinkpad line, leveraged it to sell junk to people who heard "Lenovo makes good computers," and then proceeded to turn the Thinkpad line into absolute trash. Meanwhile, competitors (...
[01:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:30] <exec> 08└─To be properly unfair, Lenovo is the company that brought us Superfish, so perhaps a little sloppiness, exaggeration and maybe even outright abuse is warranted, or could at least be overlooked.
[01:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:G500 - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was my thought. I get the stupid computer, nuke it, install my favorite *nix, and all is well until I shut it down. When I pick it up to use it again, there's windows! That would really suck.
[01:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:3, Funny) 02You keep using that word. - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:33] <exec> 08└─This exploit takes advantage of a Windows feature called Windows Platform Binary Table. This is essentially a method created for the purpose of enabling UEFI bioses to load extra binaries at boot time.
[01:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:You keep using that word. - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:35] <exec> 08└─That's because you're reading the literature for the NSA.
[01:37:36] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Wait, a what now? - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:37] <exec> 08└─This exploit takes advantage of a Windows feature called Windows Platform Binary Table. This is essentially a method created for the purpose of enabling UEFI bioses to load extra binaries at boot time.
[01:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Simple reason: - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:38] <exec> 08└─Because a 16 bit bios kludged to support 32 bit apps, then ported to 32 bit with a 16 bit compatibility layer really needed to be replaced at some point. That point being when enough computers shipped both with enough ram and a new enough operating system to warrant migration to primarily 64 bit ope...
[01:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:45] <exec> 08└─... funny? What the hell?? No, I was not making a joke about it. I saw two videos today. The first created a shockwave that took several seconds to arrive at the home of the man with the camera. It's a shock that his windows didn't break! I saw another video a little while later of a man walking th...
[01:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:is my new ipad safe? - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:48] <exec> 08└─A new peak in job relocation in China: they manage to do it to themselves better than any terrorist can. (Yes, I know, a callous attempt of a joke, maybe not even a good one. I'm in a grim mood this morning, feel free to mod as troll)
[01:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:52] <exec> 08└─Quick, we need a conspiracy theory that they had it first because they did it... What? If the NSA had a press arm, i'm sure quite a few SN people would believe that one...
[01:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─i'm sure quite a few SN people would believe that one...
[01:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:55] <exec> 08└─Every bug post, or service backdoor or even the laziness of not encrypting fingerprint images (and that's just today), is instantly met with posts summarizable as: "it's so convenient for #TLA to spy on All Of us/Us/US". Which get upvoted. A small number of posters maybe, but a noisy minority.
[01:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know, Hanlon's razor. But... there is point beyond which stupidity and maliciousness are indistinguishable. Beyond that point even hypothesizing about the reasons/motives behind the state of fact is moot in the face of the consequences. See my other comment [soylentnews.org] as an exemplifica...
[01:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:58] <exec> 08└─Yea man, soylent has been slipping lately. I mean such a large, well respected media outlet staffed by hundreds of well paid journalists and owned by billionaire NCommander certainly could do a lot better.
[01:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple for humans? - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:07] <exec> 08└─Many of mine were wasted on "hide in shadows". I get maluses for my face being too white, and blackface is a really bad idea these days. I'm glad I still invested enough in "move silently" to regularly scare the beejeezus out of cubicle dwellers.
[01:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I don't go to cocktail parties - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:10] <exec> 08└─Because I'm not interested in listening to mindless chatter spewed forth by idiots. Let the robots go to the cocktail parties instead.
[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─Not everyone is an extrovert. Some people are almost entirely socially isolated and like it that way.
[01:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Don't forget to invite Steve King - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:55] <exec> 08└─Republican Congressman Steve King (of Iowa, of course) swears that SCOTUS said it's legal to marry your lawnmower. [blogspot.com] -- gewg_
[01:38:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02Re:Cats count - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:58] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't marry your ex-wife.
[01:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Only 9 states have common law marriage - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:39:08] <exec> 08└─Only 9 states have common law marriage, so for most people that's a non-issue. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dcollins [1168] (Score:2) 02Re:Correlation does not imply Causation - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:39:11] <exec> 08└─Hypothetically it could be; but the evidence in the study says otherwise.
[01:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:No doubt, this is more propaganda - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:39:14] <exec> 08└─Cats and dogs can't sue for alimony. They probably can't even call a lawyer what with their paws fat-fingering the keypad and all.
[01:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:21] <exec> 08└─I have been advocating for years that the solution is personal responsibility and selective attention away from ads, or from the negative feelings they seem to engender in some people (along with proper security measures to prevent actively malicious code).
[01:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:amazing new technology saves lives! - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:25] <exec> 08└─Way ahead of you, AC. Against archers, Amazons have traditionally relied on their agility to dodge or catch the missiles. I would, however, not recommend relying on an underwire bra for proper protection against gunfire. Not only are they uncomfortable as hell, but I mean, damn, the probability that...
[01:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disable? - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:55] <exec> 08└─truecrypt won't help you Encryption hides a message. It does not hide that you sent one. Also it only slows people down long enough for the message information to become useless. It does not 'protect' you. Treat it like that.
[01:42:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02Re:Simple - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:30] <exec> 08└─you're on the same moral level as Osama bin Laden
[01:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:natural law of offices - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:01] <exec> 08└─shit piled upon shit. Today I showed someone 3 different ways to do something. He insisted on buying a utility. To do the EXACT same thing. "Lets install all of these utilities to get this information". But you just do this and the info comes out... "but someone else will want us to follow this list...
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[02:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02why not have a kickstarter? - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:21] <exec> 08└─Crowdbegging solves everything.
[02:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02That sucks - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:22] <exec> 08└─I only just recently ran across SF Debris, the Star Trek and Doctor Who reviews are great! Hopefully he'll keep it up on ChannelAwesome.
[02:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That sucks - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:24] <exec> 08└─Did you subscribe, like, and comment? If not, you're an antisocialnetworking nobody. You gotta be trendy on the interwebs, or you don't exist!
[02:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Freedom of the Press belongs to the Owner - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:25] <exec> 08└─Don't own your own Content Delivery Network? Then you don't own your Content either. Here's a helpful guide for you: (1) Be rich. (2) Don't be poor.
[02:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02How to maker GAYNIGGERS into a Disney Movie - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:27] <exec> 08└─Upload GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE to Maker Studios.
[02:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:How to maker GAYNIGGERS into a Disney Movie - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:29] <exec> 08└─Sweet Holy Phallus! The hidden Mickey will be a cumstain of GAYNIGGER seed!
[02:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Buy to Kill? - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:30] <exec> 08└─What's up with companies that buy others just to kill them off? What does Disney get for burning something to the ground? Something tells me this is a black magick ritual taught to MBA students by Trip Hawkins himself.
[02:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Buy to Kill? - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:33] <exec> 08└─I think Maker Studios bought them to try to make money, but quickly got knocked out by the YouTube juggernaut. The move into YouTube channel monetization is telling. There's a lot of scumbags exploiting that broken system.
[02:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buy to Kill? - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah let's monetize SoylentNews by making the trolls pay for their downmodded comments. Nigger~Commander needs more revenue to pay for black tranny prostitutes? Downmod some more comments.
[02:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:G500 - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:46] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more a OS appropriate payload to compromise your system regardless of the OS you chose. ...in retrospect, I think I'm just repeating what you said. :P
[02:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tag along - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:51] <exec> 08└─Can I own your box, too? I'll be gentle, I promise.
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─"Breaking news" means that it was news to most readers of this site as of just a few hours ago, and furthermore, it is developing so quickly that the writeup provided by the links is likely to be quite stale 24 hours from now. So yeah, breaking news.
[02:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Take the red pill, people - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:22] <exec> 08└─What makes you think they're purely mythological? Some kind of denial? Sure, the mythology is most certainly wrong. I maintain that the redpillers are today's Amazons.
[02:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Only 9 states have common law marriage (Heh) - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:27] <exec> 08└─Anyone can sue anyone for any reason. Sometimes the long-shot suits even win. Palimony [wikipedia.org] -- gewg_
[02:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''our modern misandrist society'' - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:29] <exec> 08└─Keep tilting the playing field in that direction for several centuries and maybe that will compensate for 6000 years of treating women as chattel.
[02:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''our modern misandrist society'' - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:31] <exec> 08└─that guy exaggerates the problem Yup. I did a bit of that myself. children can be adopted Most guys who want kids want them in order to keep their own genes alive--not someone else's. N.B. When a new lion takes over a pride (group), the 1st thing he does is kill any cubs sired by the previous male....
[02:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02today's produced energy - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:12] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't today's produced energy be zero? I thought the only time energy might have been produced might have been with the big bang?
[02:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:32] <exec> 08└─Now, that is one hell of a good idea. When I'm on a motorcycle forum, I really don't mind seeing Honda, Kawasaki, and Suzuki ads. When I'm on an auto forum, again, I don't mind seeing Chevrolet, BMW, Ford, or Nissan ads. When on a hunting forum, ads for Winchester and Remington are more or less expe...
[02:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:41] <exec> 08└─The verdict is in! Everyone hates advertisements and especially targeted ones : )
[02:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:40:54] <exec> 08└─Let me help you, by asking a question: Who, ultimately, pays for advertising? The customers, do, of course. The cost of advertising is included in the purchase prices of the end product. Meaning, without all that expensive advertising, Kellogs could lower the price of a box of cereal by a dollar or...
[02:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:05] <exec> 08└─It is they who are getting shorted the majority of that 22B.
[02:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:07] <exec> 08└─The same way that copyright thugs claim they "lose" money when someone infringes upon their copyrights, even though nothing they actually had was lost. Too bad the legal system takes some of these nonsensical claims seriously. Maybe market competition should be illegal because competitors are actual...
[02:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bugamn [1017] (Score:2) 02Re:I stopped reading at - 06Lawrence Lessig Considering US Presidential Bid - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:59] <exec> 08└─So you are saying that you could have stopped reading at "I stopped reading at"?
[02:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple hatred - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:00] <exec> 08└─> Many times groups that have little to do with each other have little knowledge of each other don't feel much either way. Little knowledge of each other is different than segregation. Two countries on different continents aren't likely to have much of an opinion about each other. > Other times, gro...
[02:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03m2o2r2g2 [3673] (Score:1) 02change the past - 06Time-Symmetric Formulation of Quantum Theory Provides New Understanding of Causality - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:04] <exec> 08└─So does this mean: Observation changes outcome + Symmetric in time = Observation changes the past? Taking that further... an action in the past can change the past, so it is possible to construct legitimate isolated causality loops like you see in B grade movies (the start can only happen because of...
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[03:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh boy! - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:19] <exec> 08└─Now we can analyze their code and laugh at how stupid they are! Meanwhile they're using something completely different while we're laughing at old crap that was intentionally bad and intentionally leaked.
[03:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:26] <exec> 08└─Feminism demands that you obey the Woman! She knows what she's talking about because she's Female!
[03:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bug hunting not a waste of time................... - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:28] <exec> 08└─Even if nobody cares to receive bug reports, hunting for bugs is still an educational experience for the bug hunter. Oooooops, sorry. Education is not politically correct in our militaristic matriarchal society of doing what we're told when we're told because we're told.
[03:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Translation - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:30] <exec> 08└─Translation: "Stop doing that, it makes me look bad and impacts on my income prospects".
[03:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Javascript XSS vuln on Oracle blog - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:31] <exec> 08└─Someone posted this on That Other Site: Andreas Lindh demonstrating a Javascript cross-site scripting vulnerability on the Oracle blog: https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[03:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02All I hear is "waaaah; stop making me look bad" - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:33] <exec> 08└─Go have a cry Oracle; and come back with better tools.
[03:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score:1) 02Exploit - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:47] <exec> 08└─royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, edit, translate, perform, transmit, sell, exploit, sublicense or otherwise distribute and display
[03:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02Re:Tag along - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:11] <exec> 08└─Can I own your box, too? I'll be gentle, I promise.
[03:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Back to the drawing board ... - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:46] <exec> 08└─party pooper.
[03:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't forget to invite Steve King - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:35] <exec> 08└─And if you should marry your lawnmower, and sustain injuries while consummating that marriage, we all foot the bill for your surgery. Thanks, Obummer!
[03:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:200,000 galaxies what a large number . . . - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:40:24] <exec> 08└─So if I put about a million grains of two-colored rice in a bin and shake it up real good. I then pull out grains from different parts of the bag, say about 100, and I see that they are about 50/50 in proportion, are you telling me that I'm likely to find that they are in much different proportions...
[03:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's not just CI rules - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 1648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:47] <exec> 08└─No, government bureaucracy comes directly from the lawmakers feeling they have to "do something" to save us all. Some moron uses their government charge card to buy $1000 in personal items and gets caught. This hit the local news and runs as a Major Scandal of government waste and abuse of YOUR tax...
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[04:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02You are now on "A LIST" - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:21] <exec> 08└─and you will be watched. For your won security of course.
[04:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You are now on "A LIST" - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:22] <exec> 08└─Isn't everybody on the list by now? And when is your lord OBAMA going to abolish that list? Hmmm?
[04:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Everybody knows.... - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:24] <exec> 08└─Black Jesus is just the PC face of the white man's god. Can't really expect much else out of somebody who didn't have the white house painted black, or at least a neutral dark tan.
[04:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Everybody knows.... - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:26] <exec> 08└─Forget about the Black House for a second, Black Jesus should have had the Capitol building painted Stealth Black, then Gyrocopter Guy wouldn't even have been able to find it.
[04:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:35] <exec> 08└─> Feminism demands that you obey the Woman! No, feminism demands that whiny little wusses with persecution complexes make frequent unintentionally revealing posts about their insecurity. Thank you for your compliance.
[04:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:37] <exec> 08└─There's a certain time of the month when a woman is dominated by a biological function which makes her bitchy and catty if not super passive-aggressive. And the worst part is, when you have a bunch of women together regularly, their cycles synchronize together so they're all bitchy and catty at the...
[04:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:38] <exec> 08└─Oh please, take your misogyny elsewhere. This isn't about women, this is about "cyber security" people. Male or female, they're almost always incompetent. If they were competent, they'd be software engineers, not "cyber security experts".
[04:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Javascript XSS vuln on Oracle blog - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:41] <exec> 08└─That's a violation of Oracle's ToS. Anyone clicking that link will have their Oracle licenses terminated. Also this: One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison
[04:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:3, Touché) 02PR means saying the opposite of what your doing. - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:43] <exec> 08└─"I am not running away from our responsibilities to customers" Suspicious sort that I am, I think that's exactly what you're doing.
[04:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02if you want to read the post... - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:44] <exec> 08└─they took down the post but pastebin'd it: http://pastebin.com [pastebin.com]
[04:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:That sucks - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:54] <exec> 08└─Is there an actual point you're trying to make or did you just cobble together a few Youtuber catchphrases in a vain attempt to sound superior?
[04:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:34] <exec> 08└─"that took several seconds to arrive" Between 5 and 6 seconds, so it was about a mile away from the person taking the video. I was impressed by the force it still had, and also was surprised the window didn't break.
[04:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Port of Los Angeles, 1976 - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:48] <exec> 08└─That was a few years before I got to Cali. San Pedro is west of Long Beach. People I know from Long Beach gave me details of the damage miles away and how loud the sound was. Berth 46 [wikimapia.org] On December 17th, 1976, the 810ft SS Sansinena was completing oil discharge operations at Berth 46...
[04:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:43] <exec> 08└─Being socially isolated and/or an introvert doesn't mean you necessarily *like* it that way. A lot of people have social anxiety disorder, or just aren't very good at socialization, but that doesn't mean they actually want to spend all their free time alone, or go without a romantic/sex partner. Con...
[04:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:45] <exec> 08└─My brother lives alone but has a cat. He has a solid job as an automotive engineer, has a fine house, has lots of income and toys and would make someone a catch. But the longer he goes single, the more it seems he's likely to remain that way. This article had me wondering about the effects of that i...
[04:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Disingenuous Reactionary - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:55] <exec> 08└─You failed to mention that it was Romneycare before it was Obamacare. You also failed to mention that it was originally thought up by The Heritage Foundation (a Right Wing think tank). You freaks were fine with it until the black guy said he liked it. You racist jerks are so completely transparent....
[04:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cats count - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:40:00] <exec> 08└─Reminds me - how do you fuck a porcupine? Very carefully.
[04:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:No doubt, this is more propaganda - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:40:19] <exec> 08└─You're wrong about them using the phone, at least with cats: http://www.abc15.com [abc15.com] http://www.nbcnews.com [nbcnew...
[04:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple hatred - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 1783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:46] <exec> 08└─There's not much I can say that you like, is there? You don't like my terminology, though I've used it on occasion with the Muslims (to use the term you prefer) I deal with on a daily basis. Though, I must admit usually use Muslim. Here I happened to use the other. I work in a chemistry department a...
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[05:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Rewards for contributions to the bottom line. - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:21] <exec> 08└─Still, until it expired in the United States in 2007, the digital camera patent helped earn billions for Kodak, since it — not Mr. Sasson — owned it,
[05:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I think they mean solid state digital camera - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:22] <exec> 08└─You're right that NASA had digital cameras before Kodak. The Mariner probes with cameras seem to have used electron tubes (in the 1960s). Kodak used CCD chips. Of course we shouldn't expect the New York Times to report the facts...
[05:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:You are now on "A LIST" - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:35] <exec> 08└─I live in New Zealand you insensitive clod; we are ruled over by the mighty JOHN KEY. And there are lists then there are LISTS
[05:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well, you heard it here folks, - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:53] <exec> 08└─next time you find a bug in an oracle product, just release it to the wild. clearly oracle doesn't want you to notify them and will even go as far as warn you they'll sue you for violating the license agreement for finding and reporting it to them.
[05:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Video - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:46] <exec> 08└─It would be nice to actually link the videos, you know. Here we go: * https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] -- the observed blast wave * https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] -- closer observation * https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] --...
[05:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple for humans? - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:11] <exec> 08└─Neither can I, as proven by a low speech discrimination test score despite having excellent hearing (pitch/tone?) range. I am sick and tired of having to apologize and ask speakers to repeat themselves. I can't even do that after a punchline to a joke or story has been said.
[05:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:54] <exec> 08└─My take on it is that it might be worth it to study what those 20% successful marriages do and emulate that. On another note, you might be very interested in A Short History of Man [mises.org] by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. (I see an audio edition [mises.org] is now available.)
[05:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:00] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, the money thing isn't a big help either, unless he's really flashy with it (which, as an engineer, he probably isn't). If he isn't wearing Armani suits, Rolex watches, driving really expensive cars, etc., then women won't be interested. Women don't like frugal men who manage their money car...
[05:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Plus drawbacks - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:07] <exec> 08└─Nevertheless, ruling out men who want to cohabit before marriage drastically improves the odds of a woman and her children avoiding domestic violence.
[05:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Summer's End - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:53] <exec> 08└─It's all over man. It's allll over. Just smoke a doobie, sit down and wait for it all to end.
[05:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:06] <exec> 08└─He was going thru a bad stretch (divorce?), and he dumped it into "Mostly Harmless".
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[06:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rewards for contributions to the bottom line. - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:30] <exec> 08└─I would not be surprised to hear Mr. Sasson got chewed out for wasting so much money "re-inventing the wheel". My whole experience with the corporate world is the guy who owns the place has gotta be "on fire" to get anything done. Once a company gets big enough to hire an executive management team,...
[06:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Yeah, Imagine.... - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:32] <exec> 08└─Imagine a world where photography is a slow process that is impossible to master without years of study or apprenticeship. Imagine a world where real, professional photographers still devote years of study and apprenticeship to mastering their art form. Being able to bang off dozens of poorly compo...
[06:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A world without iPhones or Instagram - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:34] <exec> 08└─Paradise lost!
[06:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02So, what's the lesson, here? - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:23] <exec> 08└─The quality of commentary on this article so far is dismal. Get it together, people! What's the lesson here? That Disney sites are doomed to a restrictive model from birth? That video sharing sites that insist on a total and irrevocable license in perpetuity to your content is a lesson for failure?...
[06:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:40] <exec> 08└─And even if it's just one product by lenovo, it's still by lenovo... fucking bastards. I think they just joined sony on the ultimate never buy shit list.
[06:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score:2, Informative) 02How to spot it? - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:50] <exec> 08└─I just found out that many laptops contain the Windows License key in ACPI tables (see `xxd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM` in Linux). Can someone with one of these laptops confirm if /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/WPBT is present on the affected Lenovo laptops?
[06:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:02] <exec> 08└─Additional coverage provided by BBC [bbc.com]
[06:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PowerVR and Open Source don't belong... - 06Imagination Demos Vulkan Open API on Android - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:40:57] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Some more reading https://libreplanet.org [libreplanet.org]
[06:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:200,000 galaxies what a large number . . . - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:18] <exec> 08└─So if there is a bag of unknown size with unknown amount of grain and I then pull out grains from different parts of the bag (but never feeling a bottom or side) without being able to shake it up, say about 100, and I see that they are about 50/50 in proportion, are you telling me that I'm likely to...
[06:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Ridiculous - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:22] <exec> 08└─Merely trying to continue the debate, but because I don't agree with the crowd modded Troll, bullshit.
[06:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02WTF? - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:24] <exec> 08└─I disagree so I am a troll? Seriously, someone is abusing their mod points . . .
[06:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple is better - 06Internal LTE/3G Modems Can be Hacked to Help Malware Survive OS Reinstalls - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:50] <exec> 08└─Seriously, quit giving them ideas. Those people are generally not smart enough to implement that kind of thing yet. We're very fortunate that the Russians and Chinese black hats are smart enough politically not to sell to these nut jobs. The moment that's no longer true or these Arab and *stan guys...
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[07:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Broker a deal! - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:20] <exec> 08└─I almost feel bad for California. Not going to help to quell any of the conspiracy nuts about depopulation attempts though. Should probably try to sell it to Mexico for something at this point.
[07:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Black vs White - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:22] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't white balls be more effective at blocking / reflecting sunlight? Black balls should absorb the light and heat, thus warming up the water underneath. Or am I missing something?
[07:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black vs White - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:24] <exec> 08└─Well, black is better at blocking and white at reflecting. So hindering algae growth might be more important than the extra evaporation.(Extra compared to hypothetical white balls. Still better than no balls. )
[07:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black vs White - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:25] <exec> 08└─White balls will break down more readily from UV exposure. The black balls contain carbon that absorbs heat but prevents breakdown. Some plastics will break down very quickly in the sun. For example, white wire ties are not UV rated while black ones are. I suppose it's a tradeoff - more heat vs repl...
[07:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black vs White - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:27] <exec> 08└─Black balls are bigger. Everybody knows that. Haven't quite figured out how to make them both AC and DC powered .
[07:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why limit to the reservoir? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:29] <exec> 08└─Go the whole hog and cover entire LA with those... This is hilarious because it's so very fucked up. More proof that people are no smarter than bacteria in a bottle.
[07:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02DO NOT WANT! No plastic in my water! - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:30] <exec> 08└─I for one do not like the idea of having even more plastic contaminating my food and water sources. How about setting up a net of ropes above the reservoir and covering it with tarp? Or basically ANYTHING else than putting plastic in the water? Seriously?
[07:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FlyingSock [4339] (Score:1) 02So you DO want plastic in your water? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:33] <exec> 08└─FIrst: You don't want no plastic in your water. You want plastic in your water. Second: These reservoirs have a huge surface area, even if you had a tarp large enough it would still be hanging in the water (which again implies plastic in the water) same goes for a net. Gravity's a bitch like that. Y...
[07:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02Bad idea? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:35] <exec> 08└─I highly question this solution. Balls are not ideal spheres, have tiny capillary cracks on surface. Balls will move by wind. Wet half-balls effectively doubles vaporization surface from pi*r^2 to 2*pi*r^2.
[07:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Gonads and strife - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:36] <exec> 08└─You can't say that California doesn't have balls! We do, but the drought causes us much strife. After all, I've lost my green lawn. As for the "gonads and strife" reference, you want to go here [youtube.com].
[07:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, Imagine.... - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:43] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I go to the Wikipedia commons site and click through images at random. If you want to see a lot of unprofessional photos, that's one place to find them. I spent years studying film photography (amateur - no pro ambitions) and realized I'd never be really good at it. It is not easy at all....
[07:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Re:always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:07] <exec> 08└─Oh please, take your misogyny elsewhere. This isn't about women, this is about "cyber security" people. Male or female, they're almost always incompetent. If they were competent, they'd be software engineers, not "cyber security experts".
[07:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:08] <exec> 08└─The reason why security experts have a job at all is because software engineers can't write secure code to save their lives. If code was secure in the first place, no one would have ever heard of the term cyber security as that would just be the status quo. Stop writing shit code and those "incompet...
[07:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:48] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you are overreacting. Yeah it's not quite as accurate as it could be, but in the end the result is the same. It doesn't matter if lenovo only fucks over some of their customers or every last one of them - the fact that they are doing this at all is what's important. Which particular model...
[07:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:16] <exec> 08└─Unless I miss my picture interpretation of the photos on the BBC site, the blast happened just across the street from the port police station and fire department. Even at 11 pm at night, both those places would be manned. The police station is now just a blown out shell and I can't tell if the fire...
[07:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:News not quite so breaking - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:28] <exec> 08└─At noon, ok, but in what time zone?
[07:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:27] <exec> 08└─*pukes* https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plus drawbacks - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:36] <exec> 08└─I cheated and read the article
[07:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:200,000 galaxies what a large number . . . - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:41:38] <exec> 08└─Note that homegeneity and isotropy of the universe are treated by physicists as an axiom. Physicists *assume* there is nothing special about the local universe when doing cosmology. Fundamental stuff like conservation of momentum and conservation of angular momentum come from this axiom. It may be t...
[07:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:2) 02Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:31] <exec> 08└─True enough, but there's another side to the story: Brand value. Brand value is what allows Kellog to charge more than the competition for the same product and still sell its products. But getting your brand to be instantly recognized means investing in brand-promoting activities, and one of them is...
[07:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:41] <exec> 08└─There's a simpler way to inject ads into programs - product placement. And it doesn't even have to be visual, do I not remember a "just bing it" in friends once? Fortunately most regulatory bodies look down on such practices for ordinary TV, but the feature films are still chock full of it. There is...
[07:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:44] <exec> 08└─> the right to insist that if I view X then I must also view Y. This is a ridiculous policy. You could not write a rule that expresses this idea in any sort of sensible manner. It's not an alien idea at all. Every manufacturer of alcohops insists that if I want to drink the vodka, I must also drink...
[07:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02polio still feared in California - 06Africa Celebrates One Year Without Polio - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:50] <exec> 08└─Legislators there recently passed a law mandating vaccination of school children against polio. As I understand it, polio is thought to be spread by contaminated water. Surely the water in California is at least as safe as the water in Africa? http://www.forbes.com
[07:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:2) 02Re:One company i worked at - 06Why Employees Bend Workplace Confidential Information Rules - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:04] <exec> 08└─The problem is that if a trustworthy employee follows those procedures 99% of the time, she is still bending or breaking them 1% of the time and so, by definition, she wouldn't be trustworthy. The point being that in a normal world, common sense rules would be enough and there would be some leeway t...
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[08:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02uh oh - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:52] <exec> 08└─it's about stories on soylentnews
[08:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:54] <exec> 08└─Wait a second - who was the "anti-World War Two" side, the allies or the axis powers? GamerGate was a disagreement, it takes two parties to disagree. Pretty much the only ones who are actually anti-gamergate are the ones who think it's a storm in a teapot mostly participated in by people who had soc...
[08:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:55] <exec> 08└─The article was interesting enough but what I found hilarious was when he then tried to do a similar interview with the anti-gamergate types over at Gamer Ghazi, he was quickly banned.
[08:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Re:So you DO want plastic in your water? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:12] <exec> 08└─FIrst[sic]: Please read my title again. I am not saying what you think I am saying. Second: That's why you pull the ropes/net taut. As you said, tarp is probably not the ideal cover, some kind of dark cloth should do the trick though.
[08:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pogostix [1696] (Score:2) 02Re:So you DO want plastic in your water? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenary [wikipedia.org] pulling the ropes taut is easier said than done
[08:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad idea? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed, though pedantically, from pi.r^2 + (4-pi).r^2 to 2.pi.r^2 + (4-pi).r^2, per 4.r^2 area. So from 4 to 4+pi, basically the same. One solution would be hydrophobic balls, but that increases costs. I still can't get my head around the black-vs.-white logic. Absorbing heat doesn't seem the best w...
[08:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:3, Interesting) 02How does it compare to a thin layer of veg oil? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:17] <exec> 08└─Allegedly covering the water surface with a layer of vegetable oil or vegetable oil extract can reduce evaporation by up to 75%. The problem with the oil is wind blowing away the oil exposing the surface. Seems to me that wind would also be a problem for these balls too (if not more so - since you c...
[08:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, Imagine.... - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:30] <exec> 08└─A-fucking-men. However, some of the so-called, and so-paid, professionals appear to not have actually done anything apart from robotic rote learning and still lack understanding. (Put that rule of thirds in the bin right now, for example - if you follow that, you're the idiot, not me for willfully i...
[08:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02Tech failure, not market failure - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:32] <exec> 08└─I still have a complete wreck of digital Kodak DCS somewhere. It had a size limit on CF cards to be .LE. 64MB (!), which was funny even then because CF cards are internally just like IDE disks, you know. It burned itself one nice day spectacularly, with all the smell and stuff.
[08:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hmm - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:52] <exec> 08└─i looked all over that website, and theres no webshop link ;_; one would think there was a market for these devices. maybe they need to hire a few MBA's.
[08:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02Out of fashion trends already - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:53] <exec> 08└─Guys, did you realized those "catalogs" are 7 years old? And the article is from year 13. Go get some duino nano or something and build the stuff at home.
[08:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:11] <exec> 08└─You think that blog post doesn't? I can imagine a conversation with an unnamed sociopath: "Excellent post, couldn't have said it better myself. You're fired."
[08:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:51] <exec> 08└─that is the fallacy of inclusion
[08:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:200,000 galaxies what a large number . . . - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:42:45] <exec> 08└─I see. So on very small and very large scales that humans cannot directly sense there is homogeneity, but at the intermediate level all we experience is heterogeneity. It also happens to simplify the math, just as humans would like because we evolved to be as lazy as possible. It sounds anthropocent...
[08:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Moral of the story - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:36] <exec> 08└─I'm going to use this article to justify my position on wearing a bra while out cycling.
[08:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:amazing new technology saves lives! - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:38] <exec> 08└─Isn't there some story that Amazons removed one or both of their breasts because A) it got in the way of a bow's draw string and B) having removed one, it unbalanced them so they removed the other too. I'm sorry I don't have a citation on this.
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[09:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:03] <exec> 08└─The funny thing about crowdsourcing and crowdfunding is that it allows deals to get exposure (and sometimes funding) that are inherently ridiculous. Say what you will about the business community, they earn their bread and butter by identifying deals that are likely to be sustainable and put their w...
[09:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:13] <exec> 08└─huh... maybe RTFA and see that most respondents consider GamerGate to be "a movement" (in your analogy, "the Axis", or "the Allies") instead of "an event" (which would be "the war").
[09:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:15] <exec> 08└─The cult of Social Justice does not allow dissent or even inquiry. You either step in line or you get doxxed, harassed, banned, blacklisted, and shunned.
[09:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] (Score:2) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:17] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for you to make an intelligible point I can respond to. Take your time.
[09:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FlyingSock [4339] (Score:1) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:18] <exec> 08└─I think it was supposed to be satire.
[09:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad idea? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:41] <exec> 08└─You seem to have done your calculation with a square. But the closest packing of balls is not a square lattice, but a hexagonal one. And indeed, the balls are likely to locally form an approximation of that hexagonal lattice. The hexagon has the area of six equilateral triangles, each having a heigh...
[09:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How does it compare to a thin layer of veg oil? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:44] <exec> 08└─If vegetable oil shares the property with fossil oil that it glues the feathers of birds, then I guess vegetable oil might be the more damaging to birds. I'm also not sure if the fact that oil is flammable would not pose a risk. The water would not help here exactly because the oil is swimming on to...
[09:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Digital photos != Storing photos digitally - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:02] <exec> 08└─There are shades of grey, as everything is quantised deep down. However, the mariner 3/4 camera had what was considered an analogue sensor whose values were quantised before writing to digital tape. The semiconductor sensors, however, are considered to be more quanta-counting ("bubbles", in early te...
[09:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Paywall - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:03] <exec> 08└─Is there a non-paywalled source of the picture?
[09:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, you heard it here folks, - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:42] <exec> 08└─A/C posts sense. This is an order to *not use responsible disclosure*. Dear hackers - obey her! In order to add some original content, are you sure that *users* have signed any licence agreement? A few representatives of companies who buy multi-seat/multi-host licences may have signed the licence ag...
[09:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Archive Team has a warrior project. - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:04] <exec> 08└─I am running a warrior [archiveteam.org] VM. Though I had to run a second command to get the bandwidth limiting to stick: VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-2 add limit --type network --limit 3m VBoxManage modifyvm "archiveteam-warrior-2" --nicbandwidthgroup1 limit
[09:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:21] <exec> 08└─The fact that they are now backpeddaling by bringing back trackpoint buttons and asking for user input in designing a "Retro Thinkpad" (hint: this would probably be a good article submission for someone)
[09:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:06] <exec> 08└─Being socially isolated and/or an introvert doesn't mean you necessarily *like* it that way.
[09:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Fair Enough - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, your existence is only the result of one of a myriad of possible random situations, and your extinction will be the same. There is no plan for your life, no purpose to your existence, and if you cannot handle that, you should kill yourself now, or become a member of one of a multitude of organi...
[09:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Germany - 06Bulletproof Bra Saves Cyclist - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:42] <exec> 08└─Over here, a hunter is required to make sure that he has something behind his target that will catch the bullet in case he misses, before he pulls the trigger. Recently a hunter hit a car, after his bullet left the forest that he was hunting in. The driver was not hurt, the insurance will pay the wi...
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[10:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:21] <exec> 08└─Offer free drinks. Replace the bartenders with robots. Encourage generous donations to the tip jar. Problem solved.
[10:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so, it's a church - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:22] <exec> 08└─Held together by faith and donations.
[10:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:34] <exec> 08└─GamerGate has come to mean the movement which arose in the consumer protest of the same name and it's still going strong as evidenced by the activity in the respective subreddit. As a matter of fact, there is an upcomming debate [spjairplay.com] hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists on t...
[10:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:35] <exec> 08└─To clarify, it appears from the article that the GamerGate "side" consists of those opposing the views that video games have a tendency to be sexist/racist/whatever. The article itself is quite excellent - it manages to tread carefully while simultaneously being pretty informative. On the other hand...
[10:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:37] <exec> 08└─You more or less nailed it while also managing to miss it. #GamerGate is a discussion; the anti-#GamerGate types go absolutely postal over any discussion that doesn't precisely fit their narrative. Exposing corruption in journalism [twitter.com] or opining negatively about pressure on developers to...
[10:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No sun = different organisms. - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:07] <exec> 08└─Water surface is never in shadow (except at the edge). Sun's UV are lethal to most microbial life, and only specialized organisms can live on water surface. So generating shadow can lead to complete change of what organisms will live there. Probably all sun-liking microbes will die and be replaced b...
[10:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, you heard it here folks, - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:08] <exec> 08└─How embarassing. :-(
[10:41:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:editors, its NOT all lenovos! - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 623 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:45] <exec> 08└─It's August, people are on vacation, and the editors did just put out a cal for help. Perhaps you could answer that call and do the deep dive on all the submissions you're expecting. Slashdot editors do get paid. It's the friends and family of the Soylent editors who pay because they're busy maintai...
[10:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple for humans? - 063D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:46] <exec> 08└─See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The characteristics roughly parallel dyslexia actually.
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[11:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02offload to the user - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:02] <exec> 08└─Tap the other 90% of the users' brains to drive the GPU. They won't even notice.
[11:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a stupid thing to say! - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:03] <exec> 08└─If we had unlimited GPU horsepower in everybody's computer, that will make our lives very much easier. Of course, that's not something we can control, and it's a problem that will be solved in due time.
[11:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Cloud rendering - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:04] <exec> 08└─I don't have a simple solution, but here's a thought. For MMO applications, why does every device (PC / smartphone) need to have the entire scenery in memory and render the entire thing while there's likely to be tremendous overlap? Maybe there is some way to cache previously rendered scenery and on...
[11:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cloud rendering - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:06] <exec> 08└─Ooh yeah this is a good porno. Aw hell my Internet connection is lagging. Fuck! My dick is stuck and I can't pull it out!!
[11:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:08] <exec> 08└─Eye resolution is not uniform. Couldn't you just follow the focus point, put more pixels there and interpolate the living shit out of everything outside that area?
[11:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:09] <exec> 08└─Yes! Let's make Oculus VR work exactly like idTech 5! MegaInterpolate the living shit out of it! No one will complain that rendering quality has gone to shit these days! Truly we live in a bad future!!!
[11:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:20] <exec> 08└─"Work For Exposure"
[11:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:34] <exec> 08└─Notice that "gamergate" links to "gamergate controversy". All *gates historically have been issues or events, not single sides. Who were the watergaters? Who was the cigargater? Am I to conlude that the self-styled pro-, and presumably anti- too, gamergate side are ignorant of the terms they use? Ho...
[11:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:38] <exec> 08└─So was I hallucinating when I saw hissy fits from the the pro-"gamer" side during the #GamerGate fiasco?
[11:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:40] <exec> 08└─During? It's still going strong a year later. That link above was from less than a week ago. Check the #OpSkyNet tag on twitter, you'll see plenty of action. You'll see plenty of rage on both sides of the discussion, which is fine. People should get worked up about issues important to them. Rage abo...
[11:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lyserge [5797] (Score:1) 02Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:44] <exec> 08└─When I asked whether suggesting victims of harassment keep a lower profile would be considered victim blaming, the top response claimed that "these 'victims' were actively soliciting their own abuse" and, "Stating that someone receiving unwanted negative attention from the masses should be keeping a...
[11:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:46] <exec> 08└─Why's that? You jump in a mosh pit, you expect a few elbows in the face. If you don't want that, you shouldn't have jumped in. Saying so is not an ethical faux pas.
[11:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03lyserge [5797] (Score:1) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:47] <exec> 08└─Because the mere act of being a prominent woman in the games industry shouldn't be akin to a mosh pit.
[11:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:So you DO want plastic in your water? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:05] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't necessarily need pylons to the bottom. Floating pylons would suffice.
[11:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad idea? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:09] <exec> 08└─If evaporation prevention is their goal, hexagonal floating mirrors with tiny weights under the middle would work better than balls.
[11:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:No sun = different organisms. - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:15] <exec> 08└─Well obviously the dark-side midichlorians will win from the light-side midichlorians, but they were wussies anyway. I can't wait to try my new Californian Force Lightning™ after drinking Dark Water™.
[11:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF? The Prisoner? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:17] <exec> 08└─What does this have to do with The Prisoner? Here you are putting lots of little plastic balls to float on the water to reduce evaporation. In the TV show you have a giant ball made of some rubbery but unspecified material that is a security device. How the hell are these two things related? Just a...
[11:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, hire programmers at the lowest pay possible then complain that you can't get programmers who write secure code and that all programmers are like that. Insecure code and vulnerabilities built-into the system are a consequence of low paid, less talented programmers (excluding the things done by s...
[11:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom of the Press belongs to the Owner - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:34] <exec> 08└─jewtube
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[12:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:34] <exec> 08└─I remember when Intel sold processors. Processors. Not laptop processors, not workstation processors, not desktop processors, not business processors, not consumer processors, not server processors, and not phone processors. Processors.
[12:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:48] <exec> 08└─So rather than a single flat high res screen, you want a tiny high-res screen surrounded seamlessly by low-res screens that's capable of following some of the fastest movement a human being makes, right in front of the most sensitive instrument the human body has, in such a way that it can't detect...
[12:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02small steps. - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:49] <exec> 08└─tbh what i would really want (and probably would go take of the shelf in the store tomorrow) is the visual equivalent of audio headphones. go on a bus/subwait .. turn on the music and plug those tiny speakers into the ear. same but for movies: go to bed (or bus or subwait), "strap" on some glasses a...
[12:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:59] <exec> 08└─Based on the article, it sounds like this is only a short term band-aid. The owners seem consumed with growing this into some kind overnight national brand. They hired a director of business development to license their cocktails, meanwhile they are bouncing paychecks, and can't pay their employee's...
[12:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:02] <exec> 08└─You have to have a job to get a job, so you start with rim jobs and work your way over to blow jobs. If you're lucky someone looks at your face, and if they're drunk enough to think you're pretty, and if your makeup isn't smeared, you might move on up to tit sucking. If you're really lucky you might...
[12:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:04] <exec> 08└─you start with rim jobs and work your way over to blow jobs
[12:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 1824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that, convinced me to RTFA and it is indeed balanced and informative from my POV*. Like a lot of people, when the whole thing started happening I couldn't find a cogent explanation of WTF all the hullabaloo was over and what the pro- and anti- sides actually were, nor a list of what issue...
[12:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:19] <exec> 08└─Why do I always hear about how awful comments sections are in comments sections?
[12:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:28] <exec> 08└─The truly sad thing is that sometimes in these matters, it's hard to distinguish satire from an earnest statement of position.
[12:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:32] <exec> 08└─Even if being a prominent man in the same industry is?
[12:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:34] <exec> 08└─You think someone who didn't invite themselves into this extremely volatile conversation either by their corruption or by actually taking part in said conversation was given a hard time? Who, pray?
[12:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:36] <exec> 08└─It's not a hivemind.
[12:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Crappy bug finding tools - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:02] <exec> 08└─I didn't rtfa, but from the summary it seems like she isn't complaining about people posting bugs, but people using crappy automatic bug finding tools that don't actually work, and then posting false reports...
[12:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The editor replies: - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:40:42] <exec> 08└─I didn't mention ThinkPads - you did. I don't think this story is about ThinkPads. Let's try to be more accurate, OK? (grin) The summary doesn't say it is in every BIOS - however it is in some. Lenovo does have code in the BIOS that is the subject of the linked material. But you know that because yo...
[12:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:08] <exec> 08└─No kidding. One video looks exactly like something out of a Michael Bay film. The explosion occurs, then you can catch 2-3 frames of the fireball pushing through a wall or building ahead of the view before the camera gets dropped.
[12:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Port of Los Angeles, 1976 - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:23] <exec> 08└─Wanna bet this thing in China is because someone didn't do his job and didn't stick to the checklist?
[12:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:34] <exec> 08└─And I have the right to control my own property.
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[13:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TwentyCharsIsNotEnou [3007] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:17] <exec> 08└─I agree, nothing should change. Let's ban change!
[13:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:18] <exec> 08└─Servers, desktops, laptops, and phones all have radically different "thermal profiles" (ability to dissipate heat). You put a server CPU in a phone and it won't work. It'll spend all its time in thermal shutdown. You can make a laptop that can handle a desktop CPU -- there are companies that do it -...
[13:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 2589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:19] <exec> 08└─I think this is just marketing to help cover or repair damage to their brand. Consider that the newest laptops have that nice new energy saving "Core M" CPUs. They are, by most measures, not worth buying. They peak at a high speed and heat up rapidly, causing the device to throttle the processor qui...
[13:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Cloud rendering - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:31] <exec> 08└─The overlap would be extremely minimal, basically just render list generation, maybe shadow map generation if they're using a shading method like that. Once you start on the actual hard-work portions of the frame render, it becomes independent for each camera. Plus, latency is an absolute killer for...
[13:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:35] <exec> 08└─No, "interpolate the living shit out" means there are physical pixels there. The point is that in the near future (~20 years) actually computing all the 116 million pixels at 200fps consumes more power than you can feasibly insert into ridiculously lightweight glasses that people want to actually we...
[13:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:small steps. - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:38] <exec> 08└─when your eye will be able to focus on something an inch away. i.e. never, or after some serious surgery.
[13:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:48] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It's pretty obvious that they went into this with (a) unrealistic expectations and (b) far too little cash. Lots of it was originally funded by a kickstarter campaign, and they've never delivered the promised rewards. The design they wanted for the original bar didn't meet code for emergenc...
[13:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Reality Distortion Zone - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:53] <exec> 08└─died with Steve Jobs. Do not attempt.
[13:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Black vs White - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:37] <exec> 08└─Thank you, AC, I'd been wondering the same thing.
[13:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black vs White - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:39] <exec> 08└─i suppose if the blackballs are very tightly packed then "maybe" they will help with evaporation loses. however if there are gaps then blackballs will hasten the evaporation because they become hot quicker (absorbe) and then, because of the the gaps, a bit of wind (will happen because black surface...
[13:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:No sun = different organisms. - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:54] <exec> 08└─They discussed that on CBS news. The balls prevent algae from growing, and algae releases toxins.
[13:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02News? Hardly. - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:56] <exec> 08└─Los Angeles has been doing this since 2008. [latimes.com] Well before the current drought concerns. This isn't a new idea or some out-of-the-box visionary plan. This is extending an idea from the past with some track record of success to other areas.
[13:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Thank Goodness - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:58] <exec> 08└─Now there will be plenty of water to put on lawns and golf courses and to wash our cars once a week.
[13:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:I think they mean solid state digital camera - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:09] <exec> 08└─Thanks for pointing that out. It had me puzzled. For other readers: this claim is officially backed by Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] based on this 2005 article [seattlepi.com] which even sports a picture of Steven Sasson with his prototype camera.
[13:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, Imagine.... - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:12] <exec> 08└─This stuff about taking years mastering the art of photography does not always apply. One of the greatest ever photographers was Henri Cartier-Bresson, and he left all the darkroom work to others. All he did was aim his camera and press the camera shutter button (Ok, set the shutter speed too), w...
[13:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, Imagine.... - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 1569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed; that statement was obviously written by someone young enough to have never experienced analog photography. Kodak came into existence in 1888, which is when it stopped being a process that "is impossible to master without years of study or apprenticeship." Everyone had cameras when I was a ki...
[13:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:Digital photos != Storing photos digitally - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, digital cameras, cellphones, smartphones, should not be called inventions but something like "discoveries". Someone is bound to do it. Inventions create something that could well not exist at all forever. A db is a discovery, visicalc is an invention. Gran Turismo is a discovery, Tetris is an i...
[13:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:49] <exec> 08└─No real coder(*) wants [stilldrinking.org] to write crap code. *) yeah, the are probably all scotsmen.
[13:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crappy bug finding tools - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:02] <exec> 08└─In part, yes, but that's only a tiny fraction of the message. The main points were "EULA is god" (not just legally but morally as well and including even the most controversial parts of it) and general contempt toward anyone outside oracle touching or analyzing theirrrr prrrroperty, nevermind any ch...
[13:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Or, more accurately... - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:24] <exec> 08└─Blip.TV is (or more accurately was)
[13:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple reason: - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:53] <exec> 08└─I realize the old BIOS was heavily outdated. EFI was completely unnecessary. There were better options, ARCS (though it became an SGI only firmware), Open Firmware/OpenBIOS, etc. Personally, I'd certainly prefer coreboot. It can handle different payloads like Open Firmware/OpenBIOS, UEFI via tianoco...
[13:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:How to spot it? - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks a ton! I was wondering if the kernel had access to that info. Known that Win8 systems store it there for a long time.
[13:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck changing your "password" - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:55] <exec> 08└─I am not an EE but I am losing faith in them. Testing a led is quite straightforward, and the circuit is simple. And anyway, if you really want to double the circuitry involved just to test a led, why not stay at the hardware level? The led is controlled by software, proof in old linux kernels who d...
[13:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good luck changing your "password" - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:57] <exec> 08└─> Testing a led is quite straightforward dafuq? the led monitoring the circuit IS the test. Apparently it is OK to double the circuit for testing-testing purposes, and to use software for testing-testing-testing, whose unit tests are about testing-testing-testing-testing.
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[14:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02malfunctioning? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:16] <exec> 08└─I was never worried about a malfunctioning killer AI army. What scares me is the thought of a functioning AI in the hands of malfunctioning killers (namely, humans)
[14:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Skynet is still a baby - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:17] <exec> 08└─Word games and fantasy football occupy it's time. But not for much longer.
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02This is a big day for watson stories. - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:20] <exec> 08└─I just submitted another cool one.
[14:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fantasy what? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:21] <exec> 08└─After reading about [wikipedia.org], I can say it's worse than intellectual fapping. Even worse that Armageddon the movie: at least the movie ends after a couple of hours.
[14:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Fantasy what? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:23] <exec> 08└─It's not even proper football, it's that american crap where they never actually use their foot, and stop for 20 minutes every 5 minutes
[14:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Fantasy what? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─where they never actually use their foot
[14:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Fantasy what? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:26] <exec> 08└─They do actually use their foot a few times during the game (kickoff, which is the start of each quarter, and kicking field goals is allowed; but certainly not enough to justify calling the game "foot"ball), but you've got the timing wrong: There's usually about 20 to 40 seconds of action, followed...
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:2) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:34] <exec> 08└─Let's ban change!
[14:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:37] <exec> 08└─Yes. Back then they sold one chip that worked tolerably for everything. Mostly. Their servers were underpowered, their laptops had minimal battery life, and only their desktops came close to working as well as they could. Now they sell laptop chips that are really good in laptops, desktop chips that...
[14:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:1) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:38] <exec> 08└─I remember when bike makers used to make bikes. Bikes. Not mountain bikes, road bikes, racing bikes, BMX bikes, etc. Bikes.
[14:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:40] <exec> 08└─So what do you prefer, a phone that gets too hot to hold, until ten minutes later its battery is empty, or a server that breaks down as soon as more than ten people try to access it concurrently? Do you also complain that car makers sell limousines, racing cars, minivans, pickups, and trucks, instea...
[14:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Products already announced - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:42] <exec> 08└─Lenovo announced Thinkpads with this CPU already
[14:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Products already announced - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Lenovo ThinkPad P50 and P70 http://news.lenovo.com [lenovo.com]
[14:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03basstard [5595] (Score:2) 02Re:Products already announced - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:46] <exec> 08└─Normally I'd thank you for the link, but I'm just a poor student again...
[14:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Products already announced - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:47] <exec> 08└─So Intel + Lenovo, eh? What I wonder is whether they use the Lenovo BIOS trick to spy on you or whether they opt for the Intel AMT spy engine for the job...
[14:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02Foveated imaging - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:59] <exec> 08└─http://www.roadtovr.com/fove-eye-tracking-vr-headset-hands-on-ces-2015/ [roadtovr.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Eye tracking ought to be the next big target in input devices
[14:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Have they fixed the "puke factor" on this thing? - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─Because every time I've tried a VR setup the puke factor was waaay too high! Maybe its just me but my body KNOWS that it isn't moving like the VR is saying I am (some have told me its the inner ear telling me I'm sitting instead of running, or micro latencies throwing off my sense of balance) but us...
[14:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Have they fixed the "puke factor" on this thing - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:04] <exec> 08└─No, still owned by Facebook.
[14:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:2) 02Old News - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:06] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the exact same thing we were talking about 25 years ago, the last time VR had promise?
[14:38:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zafiro17 [234] 02Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:13] <exec> 08└─The funny thing about crowdsourcing and crowdfunding is that it allows deals to get exposure (and sometimes funding) that are inherently ridiculous. Say what you will about the business community, they earn their bread and butter by identifying deals that are likely to be sustainable and put their w...
[14:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:17] <exec> 08└─> Lots of it was originally funded by a kickstarter campaign, and they've never delivered the promised rewards. Yeah, that's enough to make me draw the line right there. I don't mind a few delays, but making new promises when you haven't fulfilled the OLD promises? Nope. At best, you're robbing Pete...
[14:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:19] <exec> 08└─No, it sounds like they had far too much cash - combined with a total ignorance of the fundamentals of the business. I've seen several restaurants fail that way. They blow tons of $ on shiny stuff, then they realize that the place can only gross $3000 a day, even when filled to capacity, which it us...
[14:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:21] <exec> 08└─They hired a "director of business development" to help them run a bar? And meanwhile, they expect other people to work for free? That's beyond incompetence, that's just insulting.
[14:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:22] <exec> 08└─> The owners seem consumed with growing this into some kind overnight national brand. Yeah, shame there was no previous bars catering to a similar demographic that had nationwide expansion plans. Because if such a brand existed, the closing (or never-opening) of all but the flagship bar would be a g...
[14:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Work for Exposure - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:25] <exec> 08└─"Work for exposure" is a line of BS usually fed to creative types like musicians, painters, and writers to try to convince them to work without having to pay them. The model takes advantage of the fact that aspiring creative types far outnumber those that are actually paid real money to do it profes...
[14:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:39] <exec> 08└─Words can have multiple meanings. Using nouns to refer to a group is a valid practice in the English language [wikipedia.org]. How much attention should we pay to their rhetoric when they don't even know how to use words?
[14:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:40] <exec> 08└─How much attention should we pay to their rhetoric when they don't even know how to use words?
[14:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 3027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:44] <exec> 08└─Well IMHO what caused things to blow up (and for the record nobody cared who ZQ banged, it was the fact that she was getting glowing press from those she slept with) was the whole "gamers are dead" thing which a leaker showed was a concerted effort of a bunch of insiders who were getting together to...
[14:38:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03K_benzoate [5036] 02Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:50] <exec> 08└─The article was interesting enough but what I found hilarious was when he then tried to do a similar interview with the anti-gamergate types over at Gamer Ghazi, he was quickly banned.
[14:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:55] <exec> 08└─What you call "inquiry" is unreconstructed ignorance!
[14:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:00] <exec> 08└─Both sides are claiming the other side are bigotted assholes. Both sides claim that acting like an asshole themselves is ok as long as you are targeting a bigot. You appear to claim that acting like an asshole is ok as long as you are an equal opportunity asshole.... All I see is a lot of assholes a...
[14:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:01] <exec> 08└─All I see is a lot of assholes and it looks like that particular industry is just sick.
[14:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:04] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, some guy made a blog or video or something where he complained that his ex-girlfriend fucked gamer journalists. Then I don't know what happened. So, is it good or is it whack?
[14:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:05] <exec> 08└─It's a Rorschach test. Nobody knows what the fuck it is, they just project their own views onto it.
[14:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:07] <exec> 08└─I know it's breaking tradition but you really might want to RTFA this time. It's the only summation by a proper journalist so far that didn't set out right from the beginning to be a hit piece. That it's taken a whole year to get one unbiased article shows something of what #gamergate is still going...
[14:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:Broker a deal! - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:16] <exec> 08└─I almost feel bad for California.
[14:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03karmawhore [1635] (Score:2) 02Re:Black vs White - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why the coverage has focused on evaporation. There was an interview on NPR yesterday with someone involved in the project. He said the goal was to comply with the EPA's newish requirement that reservoirs be covered to prevent sunlight causing the formation of bromates and other carcinog...
[14:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rewards for contributions to the bottom line. - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:51] <exec> 08└─A promotion? Why would you promote an successful engineer? He's a known quantity where he is now, and may be a failure in another position. That is what I see in the corporate world.
[14:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Digital photos != Storing photos digitally - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:03] <exec> 08└─The first database was indeed an invention. It didn't just evolve; someone had an idea and built from that. Your argument might apply to the television, which came from a series of inventions starting in the late nineteenth century, starting with the fax machine. In his Fifty Years from Now (online...
[14:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh boy! - 06The NSA Playset: Espionage Tools for the Rest of Us - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:13] <exec> 08└─If you checkout the catalog you'd see that some of this stuff will be useful for a long long time. Also, i just want to point out that a picture and short description of a device isn't much to go on to recreate it. So the people recreating these devices are doing a lot more than just copying somethi...
[14:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:Crappy bug finding tools - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:40:49] <exec> 08└─Apparently, Oracle's bug finding tools aren't any better: most of these tools have a close to 100% false positive rate (about Oracle's own tools)
[14:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:today's produced energy - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:35] <exec> 08└─Matter is converted to energy all the time.
[14:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02The universe isn't the only one - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:36] <exec> 08└─I don't have the energy I used to, either.
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[15:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:malfunctioning? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─A malfunctioning killer AI army would of course not kill. If it would kill, it would be a well-functioning killer AI army. Because what is the purpose of a killer AI army, if not to kill? So clearly a malfunctioning killer AI army is nothing to fear.
[15:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Fantasy what? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─The name makes it a bit odd. It's called football but there are only one or two people per team that are actually allowed to touch the ball with their feet (kicker and punter, I could be wrong -- I'm not really a fan this is just how much I have been able to notice when I attended a few games). On t...
[15:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03miljo [5757] (Score:1) 02Oh Great - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:35] <exec> 08└─Now that he's into fantasy football I'd imagine he'll also "get into" light beer, tailgating, weight lifting, and whatever else people that are "into" fantasy football do. :/
[15:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:51] <exec> 08└─I still remember 386sx which was a laptop processor and 386dx which was desktop/server processor. And historically, 8086 was used often as desktop processor for MS DOS while 80286 as a server processor, running Novell NetWare. At that time, I used a mainframe daily, too. So, market segmentation is q...
[15:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Products already announced - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:55] <exec> 08└─Well, it's a Lenovo. You don't need the lack-of-money excuse to not buy it.
[15:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Graphics Champ? - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:57] <exec> 08└─>Xeon has never been known as a graphics champ since it runs on servers Here - maybe this 'll help: http://tv.adobe.com [adobe.com]
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cloud rendering - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─Agreed, we're playing a game, not watching TV or streaming a movie enhanced with fancy CGI. Our actions will be interactive, as opposed to simply "3D". Considering the bandwidth needed to transmit the graphics between cards in SLI or Crossfire, and considering the bandwidth needed to actually delive...
[15:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:small steps. - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:18] <exec> 08└─You know what people do if their lens cannot focus on usual distances? Yes, exactly: They put an extra lens in front of their eyes which corrects the focus. You know what people do when something is too small to be seen with the naked eye? Right, they take a magnifying glass. You know what people do...
[15:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unless they've changed their business model - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:38] <exec> 08└─An excellent example. I am not sure I would say there is no market for something like this, but given that it is a new(ish) concept, the owners need to focus all of there concentration on making the prototype successful. I think that it would be a minimum of 8 years before you could start growing a...
[15:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Looks Ordinary - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:45] <exec> 08└─I was looking for photos of the place, and did not find many good shots of the interior. What I did see looks very ordinary, if you take the few posters off the wall it could be any other downtown restaurant. The only thing that seems to make it geeky is the menu, and the people who come dressed up....
[15:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:05] <exec> 08└─To me the debate is really VERY simple...are gaming websites journalists or are they propaganda written by publisher insiders?
[15:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:07] <exec> 08└─Fine, just admit it so that we all know that is what it is, don't pretend to be independent journalists when you are doing nothing but pushing a set of devs or publishers you have sat down and agreed upon with your supposed competition beforehand...is that REALLY too much to ask for?
[15:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:09] <exec> 08└─>it was the fact that someone erroneously claimed she was getting glowing press from those she slept with FTFY (source: plenty, try wikipedia) And no, you do not get to argue this unless you come up with a decent source. Some niche news-sites are not impartial..oh the horror. Have these people reall...
[15:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:10] <exec> 08└─...a minority of the GG people have been engaging in such awful behaviour that the group as a whole lost all credibility.
[15:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:14] <exec> 08└─Another day, another hashtag. Someone should make a hashtag to announce all these new hashtags, so people with actual lives can keep up.
[15:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:20] <exec> 08└─Would a "Depressing" mod be +1, -1 or neutral?
[15:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:30] <exec> 08└─They speak the truth [lolcow.wiki], which is the kind of actions that I would expect from people pursuing ethics in any form of journalism. You have no idea to what lengths will these professional victims go to grossly misrepresent reality [youtube.com] in order to promote their victim narrative.
[15:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:34] <exec> 08└─Ok, so a woman made a fairly simple game about depression and her boyfriend reviewed it positively. That's the original inciting incident here. Pretty much everything since then has been escalation and tit-for-tat with a healthy side-order of post-rationalisation and goalposts on wheels. Both sides...
[15:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:36] <exec> 08└─You're way out of touch if you think that's what #GamerGate does. Assuming truth of what you say for the sake of argument that's at most idle chatter to amuse themselves while they run email campaigns that do things like get advertisers to drop Gawker [nymag.com] like a hot potato.
[15:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aqui [5069] (Score:1) 02Re:Broker a deal! - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:46] <exec> 08└─When: "The average American uses about 575 liters of water (151.9 gallons) per day, with about 60 percent of that being used out-of-doors (watering lawns, washing cars, etc.). The average European uses 250 liters of water (66 gallons) per day. 1.1 billion people lack adequate water access, using les...
[15:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How does it compare to a thin layer of veg oil? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:07] <exec> 08└─It's not a lake filled with wildlife, it's a reservoir of drinking water. Most birds wouldn't go swimming if there aren't fish to catch. I don't think a thin layer of vegetable oil is going to harm the birds that much - what it might do is suffocate fish or underwater creatures that require oxygen (...
[15:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WTF? The Prisoner? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:40:12] <exec> 08└─How the hell are these two things related?
[15:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Never bought any oracle products - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:23] <exec> 08└─If I don't buy anything, if they don't get my signature on anything, how in hell can they say I've "violated" any stupid license? Someone needs to challenge the use of EULA's in court. I don't agree to any of that stupid crap. I downloaded some 1's and 0's off the internet, and I'm busy investigatin...
[15:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:34] <exec> 08└─One video looks exactly like something out of a Michael Bay film.
[15:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:49] <exec> 08└─Care to explain your apparent revulsion over mises.org and/or the ideas behind it? From where I sit, you could simply be a Communist, authority-worshipping Republocrat, CEO of a crony-capitalist (mercantilist) corporation, or someone who Ludwig Von Mises once angered over what would have turned out...
[15:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:58] <exec> 08└─Aren't there a bunch of studies that show people with pets live longer? I thought I had read that before.
[15:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Plus drawbacks - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:03] <exec> 08└─The study found that changes in status had no obvious impact—the transitions from/to marriage and nonmarital cohabitation did not have a detrimental effect on health
[15:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disingenuous Reactionary - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:11] <exec> 08└─Some of us jerks who just happen to have white skin thought it was a horrible idea (not to mention just as illegal) when Romney made it happen in his little State. Some of us actually LISTENED to Martin Luther King and took his advice to heart: we don't judge someone by the color of their skin, but...
[15:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:1) 02Re:today's produced energy - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:15] <exec> 08└─E=mc^2, not E ~ mc^2. Which means matter is not just somehow equivalent to energy, but actually is energy, and vice versa. This goes so far that a mechanic wrist-watch, after it's wound up (and therefore, as a system, contains more energy) gains m=e/(c^2) mass. There is no gain of energy by converti...
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:12] <exec> 08└─Every manufacturer of alcohops insists that if I want to drink the vodka, I must also drink the lemonade and the artificial fruit flavourings. *AND THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THIS*.
[15:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Ridiculous - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:16] <exec> 08└─That's why they should never have gotten rid of the "over rated" mod. It wasn't a troll, but how else could anyone mod it down?
[15:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 1714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, they have a right to display ads. I have the right to block or ignore them. As someone else said, it's MY computer. You can choose to deliver content to me, or not. It's not "oh noes we're losing money" it's "Oh, no, we're not getting filthy rich." Web sites are dirt cheap to build and maintain...
[15:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong -- was -- Re:Worng perspective - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:21] <exec> 08└─I modded you "insightful" even though I disagree with GNU on this. "Creator" in no way implies a deity. If you build a radio, you have created a radio. Likewise "content"; open a box and what's inside? Its contents. Look at a web page and what do I see? Its contents. Both words are fine, and GNU is...
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[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Another TCO* study! - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─Seems super obvious, but apparently we're selectively blind to this in certain ways. For instance: capitalism. Corporate endeavors must both rise and fall, in order for us to have a healthy system/society. The very phrase "too big to fail" means we've already failed, and any institution hiding behin...
[16:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another TCO* study! - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:22] <exec> 08└─Didn't Gould talk about this kind of thing happening in just about every book he wrote?
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Another TCO* study! - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─I thought it was being done by MISPWOSO: the Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious.
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Empty some niches and watch them fill. - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─Empty some niches and watch them fill. The species that survive will spread out and adapt to new places if there's less competition. That is, if there's anything left to spread into and the species has enough healthy individuals to do the spreading.
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02that's all I needed to hear. - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─time to arm the nukes boys.
[16:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Change versus improvement - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─Increased change pace is not necessarily the same as "better", in an absolute sense (however defined). If an event removes say 90% of species, that creates a lot of open niches to fill, and filling those niches will result in "evolution" in a sense of evolution=change. But all that change is not nec...
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change versus improvement - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─The same is true for an economy. A bad economy that is catching up to a good economy will show much higher growth rates. Yet it is not really a better economy for that. Indeed, it's much better to live in a low-growth developed economy than in a fast-growing underdeveloped one. Of course, little gro...
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Change versus improvement - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─I should also point out that "big brains" are not necessarily a sign of efficiency. One could argue an efficient organism wouldn't need a big brain, it would have fine-tuned instincts factored compactly. Brains are calorie hogs. We may be a mere fluke of nature. Thus, simulations that measure robot...
[16:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Change versus improvement - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it's much better to live in a low-growth developed economy than in a fast-growing underdeveloped one.
[16:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Fantasy what? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:47] <exec> 08└─American style Rugby
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Please stop it with Watson winning Jeopardy! - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:49] <exec> 08└─Watson at that time was a one trick pony. It could not handle the puns and other Jeopardy standard questions. It handled the factual ones well. Maybe they should try it again, this time with real human questions that require two or three level of abstractions. Like joke and puns are. Blue-Jean was...
[16:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:08] <exec> 08└─This should have be AMD's saving grace if they actually cared about being competitive: Merge all your processor lines together and segment them according to MHz over Power Efficiency and nothing else.
[16:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:09] <exec> 08└─phone processors != SoC Today's SoCs do a lot more than a processor does. And today's median Intel CPUs are actually APUs like AMD's.
[16:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03gallondr00nk [392] (Score:2) 02Re:Products already announced - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:15] <exec> 08└─I wonder if it'll be anything like the leviathan that was the IBM ThinkPad A Series. The A30/A31 is perhaps the only laptop in the world that can take three hard drives. Huge, comical, power guzzling monsters, but fuck me, they've got fantastic keyboards. If Lenovo released a modern version, I'd cer...
[16:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02XeonVproEccYou - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─All intels processors seem to have VPRO now. It's a backdoor. ECC should be standard.
[16:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What a stupid thing to say! - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─Besides that Oculus VR is a company owned by spy corporation Failbook. I will never give them privileged access to my Cartesian theater.
[16:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:38] <exec> 08└─A (potentially) excellent idea. Render a region around the focal point at maximum detail, and then a wide field of view at much much lower resolution and perform crude upscaling, potentially even on the display controller itself. Our eyes only have a high enough resolution for reading in an angular...
[16:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Old News - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:45] <exec> 08└─This e-commerce thing will never take off. Dot-com bubble killed the hyped Web!
[16:39:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:24] <exec> 08└─To clarify, it appears from the article that the GamerGate "side" consists of those opposing the views that video games have a tendency to be sexist/racist/whatever. The article itself is quite excellent - it manages to tread carefully while simultaneously being pretty informative. On the other hand...
[16:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:28] <exec> 08└─Ah, "setting back progress" arguments! Pretty good indicator of where you lie on the issue.
[16:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:32] <exec> 08└─and for the record nobody cared who ZQ banged, it was the fact that she was getting glowing press from those she slept with
[16:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:44] <exec> 08└─A +1 as it would be more in the vein of True, but depressing. At least that's how I would think of it.
[16:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Revealing Comparison to GamerGhazi - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:00] <exec> 08└─It is weird that Glasgow went to GamerGhazi and not AgainstGamerGate. [reddit.com] The later is where normal people hang-out, the GamerGhazi reddit is mostly the extreme fringe. For example, see the thread Why exactly is it so bad to have sexual objectification in gaming? [reddit.com] - a post that...
[16:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:So you DO want plastic in your water? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:25] <exec> 08└─Plastic floating pylons?
[16:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bad idea? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:31] <exec> 08└─I think this is to control algae which is a bigger issue for them.
[16:40:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimshatt [978] 02Re:No sun = different organisms. - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:38] <exec> 08└─Well obviously the dark-side midichlorians will win from the light-side midichlorians, but they were wussies anyway. I can't wait to try my new Californian Force Lightning™ after drinking Dark Water™.
[16:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rube Goldberg device? - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:06] <exec> 08└─Do you mean that it had cobbled together parts? Or do you mean that to operate it, you had to light a match, which burned a string holding back an old work boot that was held under tension, which kicked a bowling ball that bounced down a stepladder and landed on a spatula that flung an ball across t...
[16:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Brainfuck - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I actually read all the way through that link. "So no, I'm not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan's pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more da...
[16:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:if you want to read the post... - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:41:48] <exec> 08└─Verbose old broad, ain't she? Oh yeah, she admits up front that she likes writing mysteries. It will remain a mystery to me how she ends her rambling . . .
[16:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buy to Kill? - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:15] <exec> 08└─What does Disney get for burning something to the ground? Something tells me this is a black magick ritual taught to MBA students by Trip Hawkins himself.
[16:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pro Tip - 06HTC Caught Storing Fingerprints as World-Readable Cleartext - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:57] <exec> 08└─For the less experienced hacker, they can also be recovered from the screen and a variety of other surfaces.
[16:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Re:Ridiculous - 06That Ad Blocker You Love? It's Costing Publishers a Pretty Penny - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─Just because you disagree with a post isn't a reason to mod it down. From the moderator's guide : Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas. To sift through the hays...
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[17:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02well now this, not appropriate use of drones - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:19] <exec> 08└─As a redblooded redneck, I says drones should only bee used to kill brownskinned radhead terrirsts. NOT collectin whale booogers. Ifn mah tax dollas not be used for mil-tary purpose, I wanna refund, so's I can buy me some beer instead, cuz I does not approve of dis egghead science bullcrap. Scuze me...
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Does it GPS-track the whales? - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─If it has to be directly piloted by the researchers, is a "drone" better at the job than an RC helicopter (or RC quadcopter?)
[17:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:Empty some niches and watch them fill. - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:34] <exec> 08└─We have already done this; it's part of the reason as to why we have antibiotic resistant bacteria killing off people. I imagine it won't be long that the humans that don't get infected will survive and spread out and adapt to new places where there is suddenly less competition, but it may be anothe...
[17:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Change versus improvement - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─We may be a mere fluke of nature.
[17:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Change versus improvement - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─> Increased change pace is not necessarily the same as "better", in an absolute sense (however defined). You can't define it. You have to pick sides to state "better", because after a little while any resource becomes a competitive game, with a losing side. Faster adaptation would only be better if...
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Hmm - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:44] <exec> 08└─I guess the Shadows were right after all.
[17:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If we extinct all religion, - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─then Evolution will accelerate a lot.
[17:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:malfunctioning? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:55] <exec> 08└─So clearly a malfunctioning killer AI army is nothing to fear. Depends on the malfunction. If the malfunction is that your army kills you instead of the target, that could be a bit concerning.
[17:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Fantasy what? - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:02] <exec> 08└─Make that less than 10 seconds of action (100 yards field, only a punt return takes more than 10s). Then they can take about 30 seconds to reset, but they mostly just stand there while their paycheck get padded by 5 minutes of ads. The average "playing time" (as other sports would define it) is abou...
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh Great - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:06] <exec> 08└─Seems like balls play into it quite frequently... And not the ones you buy at a sporting goods store.
[17:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh Great - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:08] <exec> 08└─Try to walk the aisles of the datacenter after Watson's racks develop a beer gut...
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Interesting Application, But... - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:10] <exec> 08└─"Successful fantasy owners dedicate several hours per week strategizing for fantasy football. Still, with so much information available, it's difficult to stay current on the latest news and information surrounding players," the statement read. Isn't that the entirety of the actual gameplay, tho...
[17:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Products already announced - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:34] <exec> 08└─What do you think about AMT? Why don't you like it?
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:XeonVproEccYou - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:38] <exec> 08└─I'll actually +1 you for this, AC. In the olden days, most high end consumer desktops (even the store-bought ones) could do ECC as long as the RAM supported it.
[17:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Not just servers... - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:40] <exec> 08└─The Xeon has never been known as a graphics champ since it runs on servers,
[17:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:01] <exec> 08└─And right there you've just ended any hope of people sharing half decent screenshots or videos of their VR experience. The game review industry would be dead. I suppose for a screenshot a hotkey could momentarily force a full quality render of the whole scene but consider that a lot of gaming screen...
[17:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:39:03] <exec> 08└─Now _this_ is the answer I was looking for. My quick thoughts are: - If you go all the way with that idea you might be capable of obtaining a ridiculously low latency because the needed pixel count is quite low indeed. The catch is that that absolutely requires such latency in order to work at all....
[17:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02taking The Big Bang Theory too seriously - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:33] <exec> 08└─Role playing games and cosplay, really? It's like someone watched The Big Bang Theory, missed the entire point, and decided to celebrate the very same highly-visible easily-mocked subset of geek culture that is openly mocked on the show. Here's a hint: Stuart is a loser and the comic book store is a...
[17:40:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:06] <exec> 08└─The cult of Social Justice does not allow dissent or even inquiry. You either step in line or you get doxxed, harassed, banned, blacklisted, and shunned.
[17:40:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FlyingSock [4339] 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:08] <exec> 08└─I think it was supposed to be satire.
[17:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:27] <exec> 08└─I can't figure out if you are bragging about that link or embarrassed by it. Well, knowing you I can am sure that you are bragging about it. But having read your post before reading your name, it sure sounded like you thought gamergaters were a bunch of whiny little bitches.
[17:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:28] <exec> 08└─One side doesn't make bomb threats against meetups the other side has, that's about the difference in levels of rancor.
[17:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank Goodness - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:11] <exec> 08└─Don't forget filling your swimming pool!
[17:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Rewards for contributions to the bottom line. - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:23] <exec> 08└─A little more context from TFA reveals the value of management: In 1989, Mr. Sasson and a colleague, Robert Hills, created the first modern digital single-lens reflex (S.L.R.) camera that looks and functions like today’s professional models. It had a 1.2 megapixel sensor, and used image compressio...
[17:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Rewards for contributions to the bottom line. - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:25] <exec> 08└─But world-class CEOs are needed to put the structures in place to find, hire, motivate and retain the talent that maximises share-holder return. You don't pay a CEO, you invest in one. Any schmuck can innovate! Schmucks are a cost base to be controlled.
[17:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think they mean solid state digital camera - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:41:28] <exec> 08└─The CCD was invented at Bell Labs by Willard Boyle and George Smith in 1969. The even won a prize [ieee.org] for their efforts. And either they patented the imaging aspect of it, or Michael Tompsett [ieee.org] at Bell Labs did. Before they were using CCDs on spacecraft, they were using electronic im...
[17:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score:2) 02Re:Archive Team has a warrior project. - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:52] <exec> 08└─Didn't know that existed! Thanks for posting!
[17:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score:2) 02Re:Or, more accurately... - 06Video Host Blip.tv Shutdown Approaching - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:42:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, forgot to put the Aug 20th shutdown date in the article. Didn't realize until I hit Submit. Mentioned it on the IRC channel that the article in the queue needed to be updated. :|
[17:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:58] <exec> 08└─My take on it is that it might be worth it to study what those 20% successful marriages do and emulate that. Oh please. That's like telling poor people to go look at lottery winners and emulate them so they can get out of poverty. Face it, some people just get lucky and find someone who works well f...
[17:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:less slapstick bitte - 06Good News for Unmarried Couples—Cohabitation is Good for You - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:59] <exec> 08└─Oh please. That's like telling poor people to go look at lottery winners and emulate them so they can get out of poverty.
[17:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News? 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is True - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:04] <exec> 08└─It's a new data point, but there's still insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:200,000 galaxies what a large number . . . - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─At the largest scales we can observe, the universe is very homogeneous. For example, the inhomogeneities in the cosmic microwave background are so small that it took a rather big effort to measure them. Note that when considering cosmic scales, galaxies, and even galaxy clusters, are microscopically...
[17:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:today's produced energy - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:29] <exec> 08└─In General Relativity, energy is only conserved locally; the energy of the universe as a whole can indeed change.
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[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does it GPS-track the whales? - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:25] <exec> 08└─By your definition then an armed military drone is not a drone because GI Jarhead is remote piloting it.
[18:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Whale extinction - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting to bump into this article today, as I've nearly completed reading Farley Mowat's "Sea of Slaughter," a depressing compendium of how many species that were once plentiful that have been brought to extinction or nearly so at the hands of humankind. Chapter after chapter, the story is the s...
[18:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Human extinction will fix everything - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─If you feel so badly about the impact your species has on the environment, why don't you feel ashamed enough to kill yourself?
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Human extinction will fix everything - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─Well duh, because he could have a much more positive impact by killing you.
[18:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Human extinction will fix everything - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:31] <exec> 08└─Gonna have ourselves a longpig barbecue.
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whale Shot - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─Birds~ .2 kg Deer~ 60 kg Whales~ 190,000 kg Birdshot: 2- 5 mm ~ 3.5 mm Buckshot: 5-15 mm ~ 10 mm Whaleshot: ? The diameter increases about 6 mm per 60 kg, or .1 mm/kg. The whale is 189,940 kg heavier than the deer. The diameter of whaleshot must be 10 mm + 18,940 mm. That is almost 19 m in diameter!...
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whale Shot - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:35] <exec> 08└─Did you even read the fine summary?
[18:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:55] <exec> 08└─Depends if you are on the surviving side or not : )
[18:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Misguided - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:57] <exec> 08└─Nothing can accelerate evolution. Evolution just happens. When the environment changes, including other critters, naturally evolution provides different results. When the environment doesn't change, eventually an equilibrium will be had. Does that mean stable environments destroys evolution? Of cour...
[18:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rickter [842] (Score:1) 02Re:Interesting Application, But... - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:23] <exec> 08└─Fantasy sports is really about everybody wanting to test their ability to predict the future against each other, rather like the NCAA basketball tournament brackets that are done in March. Players have the opportunity to read up on players, look at which players play which teams, data mine or read e...
[18:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Somebody has to say it. - 06IBM's Watson Supercomputer Is Getting Into Fantasy Football - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:24] <exec> 08└─Watson for President.
[18:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunnyItWorkedLastTime [4713] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:43] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the 386 had a shitload of different versions, not just SX/DX, there were socketed(PGA & TCP), numerous SMD(QFP) versions in SX/DX/EX flavors, even whole upgrade boards to retrofit 286 mobos and spanning speeds from ~16Mhz up to ~50Mhz. Intels weren't necessarily the fastest either(they topp...
[18:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Cloud rendering - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:11] <exec> 08└─While this has been modded troll, I could see the technology becoming a problem with porn-addicts. Traditionally the porn addict couldn't do their public thing because the only porn available would be in magazines, VHS tapes and DVDs, or technologically confined to desktop computers. Even with the a...
[18:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Cloud rendering - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 1582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:14] <exec> 08└─Pfft. Like hell people will wear Oculus in public. That's mugging 3.1. Employers will not adopt VR because they won't figure out how to squeeze productivity out of it. AR might get some adoption in niche workplaces like health care, but the employer will hold back the cum tsunami. VR's big market wi...
[18:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─Actually I like the anon's idea. There are two things to consider: screenshots and live streaming. Screenshots won't do the VR experience justice, and if you do need a screenshot, you can temporarily drop a hundred frames in order to capture 1 image. For the live streaming/twitch/youtube crowd, the...
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:small steps. - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:27] <exec> 08└─laser projection directly onto the retina?
[18:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:taking The Big Bang Theory too seriously - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:55] <exec> 08└─No kidding. This place would attract the kind of people I go to a real bar to avoid. I have no use for people who wear glasses solely because it's "cool" and say things like "Nintendo 64 LMAO". As an aside, the core idea isn't a bad one, but I would say something with more of a hackerspace type them...
[18:40:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 3027 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:15] <exec> 08└─Well IMHO what caused things to blow up (and for the record nobody cared who ZQ banged, it was the fact that she was getting glowing press from those she slept with) was the whole "gamers are dead" thing which a leaker showed was a concerted effort of a bunch of insiders who were getting together to...
[18:40:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:16] <exec> 08└─To me the debate is really VERY simple...are gaming websites journalists or are they propaganda written by publisher insiders?
[18:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:20] <exec> 08└─Are you saying he's a concern troll?
[18:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:21] <exec> 08└─We've known for a fact that game reviewers have been courted by publishers for decades
[18:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:25] <exec> 08└─> Advertisers have found GG quite credible so far, as shown by the manifold victories in getting them to drop corrupt information sources. Please give us a short list of these advertisers. Not just the "corrupt information sources" - the actual advertisers which have dropped said sources. Because my...
[18:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:37] <exec> 08└─The correct term here is, "Whoosh!"
[18:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:38] <exec> 08└─> I'm still waiting for you to make an intelligible point I can respond to. So, you are saying he made lots of 'intelligible' points for which you have no response?
[18:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:51] <exec> 08└─When I want to be left alone I don't leave the house and turn my phone off. Works wonders.
[18:40:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] 02Re:Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:40:53] <exec> 08└─It's a Rorschach test. Nobody knows what the fuck it is, they just project their own views onto it.
[18:41:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Black vs White - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 378 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:41:12] <exec> 08└─White balls will break down more readily from UV exposure. The black balls contain carbon that absorbs heat but prevents breakdown. Some plastics will break down very quickly in the sun. For example, white wire ties are not UV rated while black ones are. I suppose it's a tradeoff - more heat vs repl...
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:always obey the Woman! - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─No it has nothing to do with paygrade. It has to do with difficulty and training. Making secure code is hard and unintuitive. You must be trained to do it. Programmers, like all engineers, spend nearly their entire thinking time trying to get something to work as intended. To get to know how an acti...
[18:44:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02Video - 06Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:08] <exec> 08└─It would be nice to actually link the videos, you know. Here we go: * https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] -- the observed blast wave * https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] -- closer observation * https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] --...
[18:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:1) 02Re:today's produced energy - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:00] <exec> 08└─The article states "additional energy is constantly being generated by stars as they fuse elements like hydrogen and helium together" (I just checked it). This is simply wrong, and a bit disappointing really, since the aspect of energy-conservation of the 1st law of thermodynamics [wikipedia.org] is...
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[19:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02The Apocalypse is Upon Us - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─> Hairyfeet's contribution adds the following [criticism of microsoft] Hairy says something that is even vaguely critical of microsoft? The end is nigh! Pigs are flying! Hell has icewater!
[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03xav [5579] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:The Apocalypse is Upon Us - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:21] <exec> 08└─... His feet are bald !
[19:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Forbes article found in comments - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─The last comment on Hairyfeet's link [localghost.org] points to a Forbes article [forbes.com] that doesn't exactly corrobrate the Czech findings, but it does confirm MS is collecting a lot of data in the name of "improving services." The Forbes article is almost a year old, too.
[19:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Treasure trove of information. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:25] <exec> 08└─Just think, with all that juicy data sitting around on MS servers, how many security agencies and black hats have been prodding around those servers looking for a way in? And how many three letter agencies already have access? I was eager to get the free upgrade for a laptop I have with 8.1 but it l...
[19:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Treasure trove of information. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:28] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, MS is trying to make it impossible to disable secure boot. Soon you'll only be able to boot a handful of distros that payed MS to sign their bootloaders. Later, I bet they will refuse to sign keys, effectively locking Linux out of 2018 PCs.
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Treasure trove of information. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:30] <exec> 08└─If there isn't a law mandating that, then someone has to jump at the opportunity for a decent size niche building computers without the mandatory MS behaviors and holes. People would have to pay a bit more, but they might even run BSD-based OSes.
[19:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:31] <exec> 08└─I've seen people posting long and short snippets of MS and other sites to go into their hosts file to block tracking and/or other Windows 10 stuff. It really is fucking amazing that these people are stupid enough to want to use an OS like Windows 10 when they feel they have to actually BLOCK sites w...
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:33] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile on Reddit, if you suggest to MAYBE not use Microsoft you get downvoted to oblivion.
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Is it just 10 though? - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:35] <exec> 08└─This kinda thing makes me more more and more reluctant to run Windows Update. If they're that focused on mining data now, why not roll the capabilities into updates for their older OSes? But then I need the updates. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Whale extinction - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:45] <exec> 08└─Of course they are stressed. Some giant mosquito is buzzing right by their nose every time they surface. I predict that whales will evolve to blow underwater: less noticed by humans, they'll have a less stressful life and reproduce better.
[19:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misguided - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:12] <exec> 08└─I believe in such a system neutral changes still occur, you can characterize those as new outputs since they are not duplicates. But evolution is about net positive changes taking place (as any net negative change leads to extinction eventually), so technically there would be no evolution. It could...
[19:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02evolution of governance - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 3002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─Just look at world history, in particular, the famous East vs West difference in governance that's been fought for millennia. What allowed the rise of democracy in ancient Greece? In part, the collapse of Bronze Age empires. The bigger empires of the Iron Age that arose in their place, and governed...
[19:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Products already announced - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:08] <exec> 08└─If those suckers would run OS X, I'd buy two of them! Damn...
[19:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:small steps. - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:45] <exec> 08└─Memory Alpha always has an entry relevant to the discussion. [wikia.com]
[19:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:43] <exec> 08└─The list includes, but is not limited to, Ford Motor Company, Nissan, Mercedes, BMW, and Adobe. Those are just the ones a moment's thought brings back that have dropped Gawker. Not everything's a victory, of course, but every victory is still important.
[19:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:50] <exec> 08└─I was against WWII once I realized that it wasn't actually WW11.
[19:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Can somebody tell me what this actually is? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:41:16] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair, I do think most humans are whiny little bitches regardless of their political affiliations. I try to always ask myself, What Would John Wayne Do, and then do that but more manly and awesome.
[19:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02If they were concerned about evaporation - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:02] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking they could go with a hockey puck shape with a reflective surface. The flat top means that most of the energy would be reflected upwards, not back into the water. Or.. better yet, weighted hockey puck so that the same side is always up. Make the bottom and sides black but the top reflect...
[19:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:today's produced energy - 06It's Official: The Universe Is Dying Slowly - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:21] <exec> 08└─Btw:Was the rating system changed? Since today I see my comments rated +1 instead of +2, although neither my karma nor my settings changed. For older comments I see default +1 plus karma modifier +1, for new posts I don't see any information how the rating is assembled.
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[20:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02What projects would I use it for? - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─systemd
[20:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Illop [2741] (Score:1) 02Re:What projects would I use it for? - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:21] <exec> 08└─syst...... Damn, you beat me to it!
[20:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just sell to MS, it's going to happen anyway - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:22] <exec> 08└─just wait - it won't be the first distro to head out to One Microsoft Way and development ceased or recycled into another useless project which eventually dies. like the *investment*, sorry, DONATION made to OpenBSD. I can't wait to see where this leads them. just imagine when people are tired of sy...
[20:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02What use? - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:24] <exec> 08└─What use is this when we already have rsync [die.net]? Is this code in any way superior to rsync, or keeping files in git (and using the fast-forward merge to combine copies), or any of half a dozen other file synch solutions?
[20:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What use? - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:26] <exec> 08└─I for one want something 'like' dropbox. But uses my own at home harddrives. There are some products like that. But none seem to be exactly what I want or have some other 'pay me x per year' service in the middle of it all. Just something where I drop a file in and it pops out on 3 other boxes. With...
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:The Apocalypse is Upon Us - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 2218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─(One of the) Original submitter(s) here. Sure, HairyFeet saying something bad and inflammatory about MS is about as shocking as ursine mammals defecating in sylvan settings or inquiring as to the religious leanings of the head of state of the Vatican. But I was actually waiting for the story to be p...
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Apocalypse is Upon Us - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
[20:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Treasure trove of information. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:40] <exec> 08└─Does not mean that 'that someone' is going to make any decent hardware/software, so it could be junk and the situation would be pretty much the same.
[20:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Treasure trove of information. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:41] <exec> 08└─Given that governments around the world have been saying "if it's in the cloud, we don't need a warrant", I rather doubt that it's too difficult for the multi-letter orgs to sift through the info that's being gathered.
[20:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:44] <exec> 08└─"Meanwhile on Reddit, if you suggest to MAYBE not use Microsoft you get downvoted to oblivion." What does Reddit have to do with this? Who gives a shit?
[20:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:46] <exec> 08└─OP: "Forums concerned about privacy think to block Microsoft instead of considering using a different OS." GP: "Try posting a recommendation to use a different OS on Reddit, get modded to Oblivion." Parent: "What the fuck does Reddit matter?" My take: Microsoft has enough shillbots on Reddit (and ot...
[20:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:47] <exec> 08└─They probably stick with Windows because they think Linux is a command line OS that requires a lot of experience to install and use. At least that's what I thought 6 years ago, but I got tired of BSODs and sluggish performance so I started out with Ubuntu wubi 10.04. A few months later, after playin...
[20:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Knocking up Marty McFly's mom - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:49] <exec> 08└─So if Marty would've done his mom in the past, would he have vanished immediately, slowly, or become immortal? What of his seed? Would there, could there by any special qualities passed through someone who has passed through time?
[20:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:1) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:50] <exec> 08└─I'm my neighborhood "tech support" and I've already has several neighbors ask me about Windows 10.. I'd originally told them its pretty nice *if* you turn off all of the "anti-privacy" stuff, but if these allegations are found to be true, I'll be updating my recommendations to HELL FUCKING NO!!!! I...
[20:37:51] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] 02Re:Is it just 10 though? - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:52] <exec> 08└─Since I started digging into this... yeah, MS have been rolling in some crap into their regular updates for W7 and W8 as well. If you've set your WU not to "give me recommended updates" you've probably avoided the worst of it but please make sure that you uninstall/hide/block the following update pa...
[20:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it just 10 though? - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:55] <exec> 08└─Like when they rolled the "Diagnostics Tracking Service"(KB3022345) into their older OSes.
[20:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Nope - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:57] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 will stay off of my hardware until said time where this bullshit has been fixed.
[20:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Time for some wiresharking... - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:59] <exec> 08└─I'm a retired Windows AND Linux admin, and since retiring, I've pretty much moved my home systems completely to Linux (KUbuntu, for those who care), but since I've sort of become the neighborhood "tech support" I figured I ought to at least try out 8.1 and now 10. I installed 8.1 on a spare drive fo...
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dang, and I wanted to try Microsoft Edge - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─Guess I'll have to adopt a policy of "if the site doesn't work in your browser, use a different browser."
[20:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whale Snot? - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:13] <exec> 08└─That's what I call my cum. Thar she blows!
[20:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02did not read the article - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:15] <exec> 08└─But the stuff they are collecting is NOT ambergris ? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Effective population size and bottleneck effects - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:41] <exec> 08└─So this is saying that reducing the effective population size also reduced the time for characteristics to become fixed in the population. That's a great observation, and sounds quite similar to Kimura's theory of gene fixation from 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org
[20:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02*386SL* - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:28] <exec> 08└─The 386SX was a 16 bit bus version of the 386DX (Which unlike the 486DX but like all pre-486 Intel chips didn't have an onboard FPU) intended for use with 'cheaper' chipsets (And possibly compatibility with 286 chipsets, although that may be incorrect.) The SL was interestingly enough the first inte...
[20:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Unlimited power - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:20] <exec> 08└─How about unlimited detail? Sounds like a job for the good old 3D vapourware company, Euclideon: http://www.euclideon.com [euclideon.com] [which is, by the way, still around and has sufficient commercial interest to keep going]
[20:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:taking The Big Bang Theory too seriously - 06Geek Bar Crowdfunds Bailout Amidst Bounced Paychecks and "Work For Exposure" Business Model - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying you should ask me if I want to use the circular saw after my third scotch, but a place with even something as simple as graph paper placemats/napkins, places to plug in laptops/tablets, and a cup of pencils in the condiment rack would be one I'd dump far more cash at and be infinitely...
[20:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:10] <exec> 08└─So clearly you've never pointed out to anyone that Facebook collects all sorts of personal information on people and does all sorts of questionable things with the information they gather. As I am sure you have never shamed them for being so cavalier with their personal information. You're just an a...
[20:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:12] <exec> 08└─OK, but then ABC, CBS, [MS]NBC, Forbes, etc. covered #GamerGate with slanted as fuck rhetoric. So, this pulled back the curtain on the entire news media and revealed that everyone, including 20/20, is pushing an extreme radical ideological stance "GamerGate is a hate movement" while pretending not...
[20:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:18] <exec> 08└─> The list includes, but is not limited to, Ford Motor Company, Nissan, Mercedes, BMW, and Adobe. The Adobe that said the following: [adobe.com] We were mistakenly listed as an advertiser on the Gawker website (which we are not), so we asked Gawker to remove our logo
[20:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:25] <exec> 08└─Done, the #OpSkynet and other hashtags related to it are also attached to the #gamergate hashtag, and listed in places where discussion about said hashtags take place.
[20:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:43] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you who: Zoe Quinn. Even if she was an admitted doxer and harraser herself, overcomming her "helldump* addiction" (*a Something Awful doxing and harssing forum), and even if she used her media ties to shut down a feminist charity that sought to get girls involved in gamedev (which gamergat...
[20:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad idea? - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:17] <exec> 08└─I'm no expert, but it could be that algae actually clean the water by consuming stuff that's not supposed to be in drinking water. This solution could be worse than the problem it's solving.
[20:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, Imagine.... - 06Kodak’s First Digital Moment - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:50] <exec> 08└─This is true in any field - some people are just geniuses. Once Adams had perfected his zone system, he didn't need to be in the darkroom. He would write down the instructions for developing and printing and leave it to his assistants.
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[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how soon before Ecuador kicks him to the curb? - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─How many charges does he still need to have pending to earn his keep by maintaining an air of trendy aloof rebel?
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:how soon before Ecuador kicks him to the curb? - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─None from Sweden needed as long as million$ of bobbies are standing outside the embassy, waiting to arrest him for breaking bail conditions.
[21:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02This guy better be careful - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─If Big Western Government wants to get him, they'll get him. Even if it takes a secret warrant that only they know about. What has happened now is that Trumped Up Charge #1 has expired. There's more where that came from.
[21:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This guy better be careful - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:22] <exec> 08└─> If Big Western Government wants to get him, they'll get him. The guy has been confined to a prison for years now. They already got him.
[21:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03patella.whack [3848] (Score:1) 02While I love a good conspiracy theory... - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:24] <exec> 08└─While I love a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone here, I recently watched and highly recommend this documentary if you haven't already seen it. It was quite an eye opener for me. Assange certainly seems to have made some tactical mistakes due to personality 'flaws.' We Steal Secrets: The St...
[21:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02first they came for Twitter - 06Twitter 'Snooping' Doubles in UK - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:31] <exec> 08└─But I didn't care because I never use Twitter. I really should stop reading SoylentNews before it gets popular.
[21:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:3, Interesting) 02On my own hardware - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:44] <exec> 08└─I for one want something 'like' dropbox. But uses my own at home harddrives.
[21:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:On my own hardware - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─How long before setting up a personal cloud is considered a normal thing that vendors would support?
[21:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:The Apocalypse is Upon Us - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:56] <exec> 08└─Indeed, freedom has it's price.
[21:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Forbes article found in comments - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:59] <exec> 08└─Why is everybody so fricking shocked that I pointed out shit is shit when it comes to MSFT?
[21:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dang, and I wanted to try Microsoft Edge - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:20] <exec> 08└─Be careful. Microsoft's Edge might spill your guts on the ground.
[21:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Evolution - 06A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:40] <exec> 08└─How long will it take for them to evolve into tissue using whales?
[21:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Empty some niches and watch them fill. - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:54] <exec> 08└─Not only have we accidentally done this, and not only has it happened naturally many times before, but sometimes we do so purposefully. There are many places in the world where an introduced species has become radically invasive. We're trying to kill off the Asian carp in the US so many other specie...
[21:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Change versus improvement - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:03] <exec> 08└─I can imagine that a crowded environment doesn't allow for big evolutionary steps. Too much change will likely lead to death in the first generation. But if the first generations get the time and space to survive, the original 'evolutionary flaw' will have a lot more chance to make it into a new spe...
[21:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Simulation as evidence - 06Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:13] <exec> 08└─Empirical evidences to "obvious" ideas may be noteworthy, but a computer simulation as evidence is hardly ... Now, I don't think it's completely useless work, but among the gobs and gobs that are published these days, this is right down there near the bottom of barrel. Also, we outta to preach to th...
[21:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SlimmPickens [1056] (Score:2) 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:54] <exec> 08└─they just pick the more power-efficient ones for laptops, and the ones that handle high clocks for desktops.
[21:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrNemesis [1582] (Score:2) 02Re:Anniversary - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:04] <exec> 08└─Feature request: a "±1 Poe's Law" mod option to be made available :)
[21:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 2331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:16] <exec> 08└─Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, and Anita Sarkeesian are the only women in the games industry? And they're all perfect little angels who would never ever do anything to provoke anyone else, so if somebody has an issue with one of them, that person must be a misogynerd, right? Look, I don't give that much of...
[21:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just common sense - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:17] <exec> 08└─> I hope my pseudo-resignation comment on the other site made her break down and sob uncontrollably for hours (yes, I know she won't because she's a sociopath) You have issues.
[21:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DO NOT WANT! No plastic in my water! - 06In California, Millions of ‘Shade Balls’ Combat a Nagging Drought - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:46] <exec> 08└─Ducks will shit into the water regardless.
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[22:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Octopus sexual behavior - 06Octopus News - Genome Sequenced and Unique Social and Sexual Behavior - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:17] <exec> 08└─This we know it for some time [wikipedia.org]
[22:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:how soon before Ecuador kicks him to the curb? - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:28] <exec> 08└─On the subject of the "million$ of bobbies" UK.gov was actually complaining about how much it was costing the UK taxpayer to police the Ecuadorean embassy as part of their response to this change in status. Yes, he's clearly a flight risk and breached the terms of his UK bail, but the only people re...
[22:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:how soon before Ecuador kicks him to the curb? - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:30] <exec> 08└─I see you've adopted the "UK.gov" moniker ;)
[22:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:how soon before Ecuador kicks him to the curb? - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:32] <exec> 08└─It's not a bad shorthand form in places where people are going to recognise the ISO 3166 codes and TLDs, so why not? "UK.gov" might be the most commonly seen one (thanks mostly to The Register), but there's no reason why you couldn't have "US.gov", "CN.mil", etc. as well; might not work to well for...
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:how soon before Ecuador kicks him to the curb? - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:33] <exec> 08└─Isn't it ironic? [bbc.com] The UK is to make a formal protest to the government of Ecuador over the country's decision to "harbour" Julian Assange, the Foreign Office has said. ... "Ecuador must recognise that its decision to harbour Mr Assange more than three years ago has prevented the proper co...
[22:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This guy better be careful - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─Sure, a "prison" in which he can issue press releases and statements, teleconference, and coordinate document dumps. He hasn't been "got" completely.
[22:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This guy better be careful - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:37] <exec> 08└─> Sure, a "prison" in which he can issue press releases and statements, teleconference, and coordinate document dumps. Its better than house arrest.
[22:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:This guy better be careful - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:38] <exec> 08└─If Big Western Government wants to get him, they'll get him.
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02That's Fine - 06Twitter 'Snooping' Doubles in UK - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:46] <exec> 08└─That's fine ... if they had warrants for those requests. We really need to update laws to make disclosing personal information illegal without a warrant.
[22:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02The time machine reports: - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:56] <exec> 08└─Introducing cloudsyncd, configurable with an .ini DSL, which will replace the "save as" dialog in Gnome4, and your backup policy, which relied on a plethora of different posix respecting utilities a plethora of complex and error prone scripts. Retrocompatibility will be ensured by cloudsyncd calling...
[22:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:On my own hardware - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:03] <exec> 08└─Get a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel, which gives you a static endpoint + /64 to use as you please. I wasn't involved with Ubuntu One development, but I'm fairly sure the codebase is IPv6 clean. I do know most of it is written in python, so I'd be rather surprised if it choked.
[22:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On my own hardware - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:05] <exec> 08└─The only one I have that has come 'close' is the one built into my synology. But even that is 'not quite right' and only works in the synology eco system. https://www.synology.com [synology.com]
[22:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:What use? - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:06] <exec> 08└─I for one want something 'like' dropbox. But uses my own at home harddrives. There are some products like that. But none seem to be exactly what I want or have some other 'pay me x per year' service in the middle of it all.
[22:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:What use? - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:08] <exec> 08└─Someone should just write an AppArmor profile for it if you're concerned about the exploitability of mod_php (we use AppArmor for this site as an additional line of defense). While PHP's design lends it to making bad code much more easier than other languages, it is perfectly possible to write secur...
[22:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02This article might interest you... - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 3755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:09] <exec> 08└─__How to Sync Files Between Computers Without Storing Them in the Cloud __http://www.howtogeek.com __Jan 2013 So you have multiple computers and you want to keep your files in sync, but you don’t want to store them on s...
[22:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Forbes article found in comments - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:24] <exec> 08└─The reason the link to to the tool was not posted is probably because it doesn't work. At least the link in the "Original Submission" doesn't point anywhere. Maybe we just overloaded the server if it's so weak that a few hundred requests overloaded it. As for jumping into W 10, I'm not going for it...
[22:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Forbes article found in comments - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:25] <exec> 08└─Well it was on Github, surprise surprise it fell down and went boom. I uploaded it to Dropbox [dropbox.com] so hopefully that will work better. BTW allow me to LMAO at how bad the groupthink is, wanna bet if I would have left out the fact that Linux shit smells as bad as Windows shit that I would ha...
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Treasure trove of information. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:30] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, you'll probably find that it will be mandated in the TPP (or something similar) that all future motherboards will require SecureBoot or UEFI.
[22:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:36] <exec> 08└─Agree...if blackhats can hack boot in an Intel bios, whats to keep anyone from finding a way to boot an open OS.
[22:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:39] <exec> 08└─They probably stick with Windows because they think Linux is a command line OS that requires a lot of experience to install and use.
[22:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:41] <exec> 08└─Let's hope all the distros don't take this opportunity to screw up their UIs again. KDE's Plasma 5 is looking pretty damned nice these days though.
[22:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Best way to acquire Windows 7 licenses? - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:49] <exec> 08└─I had been looking forward to Windows 10 but when all this built-in spyware was exposed I reluctantly did a 180. Is there any legit source for authentic Windows 7 Professional licenses out there at some sort of discount from the full retail price? Even Amazon has succumbed to a bunch of bogus resell...
[22:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Billhead [1580] (Score:1) 02Re:Best way to acquire Windows 7 licenses? - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:50] <exec> 08└─Newegg still sells Windows 7 OEM.
[22:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not OS X-compatible out of the box - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:39] <exec> 08└─Have you considered starting a SIG for that model? Hackintosh [google.com] -- gewg_
[22:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SlimmPickens [1056] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative idea - 06Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey on the Need for "Unlimited Graphics Horsepower" - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:12] <exec> 08└─I don't think that moving the scene in sync with the saccades would work. As I understand it, the whole point of the saccades is to drag 'feature detectors' across the scene. Feature detectors being ganglion specialised for detecting left/right movement, or light/dark edges etc.
[22:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:the world has changed, oracle hasn't (much) - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─The problem is for a long time, there wasn't a serious alternative for Oracle. Oracle's RAC was basically the gold standard, and while I know DB2 has clustering, I'm not sure how strong its fault tolerance is. PostgreSQL only recently added async replication to the core, and while its design allows...
[22:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Never bought any oracle products - 06Oracle Security Chief Wants Bug Finders to Knock It Off - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:00] <exec> 08└─I'd bet money it gets upheld in the United States. Strictly speaking, FOSS licenses could be considered a type of EULA that define what you can and can't do with the software. What a EULA though can't do is make you give up rights granted to you. Reverse engineering is still legal in the United Stat...
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[23:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Well crafted genes. - 06Octopus News - Genome Sequenced and Unique Social and Sexual Behavior - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─> And while male octopuses typically share sperm with females at arm's length, ready to flee should the female get aggressive or hungry... WTF, Literally. Male Octopussies are ahead of us, big time. Take note, mr. Assange.
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''breaking bail conditions'' - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─Can you be specific? The story I heard was the exact opposite. [google.com] ...and I have never heard anything about his having to post bail. -- gewg_
[23:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''an eye opener'' - 06Swedish Prosecutors Drop Sexual Assault Investigations Against Julian Assange - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:47] <exec> 08└─I guess that's 1 viewpoint. Here's another: An Easily Bought Cypher for Right Wing Propaganda [google.com] -- gewg_
[23:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Not only that - 06Twitter 'Snooping' Doubles in UK - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:57] <exec> 08└─But they tried to censor people 9 times, each time completely inappropriately since Twitter refused to remove the posts.
[23:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:On my own hardware - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:13] <exec> 08└─They will never let it happen on an asymmetrical residential subscription when they can get you to pay more for a "business" subscription (for virtually exactly the same service).
[23:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:What use? - 06Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:20] <exec> 08└─Yes to this. As much as I'm growing to despise Google, the bottom line is that my e-mail archives*, address books** select essential backups, and browser*** passwords and bookmarks all wind up on Google's server. The reason is simple: it just works, has reliable 99.99% uptime, and I know that I can...
[23:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Forbes article found in comments - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:38] <exec> 08└─I get a 404 on that one. Maybe MS is after you. :-)) Or maybe it's just that I'm on a mobile connection and/or my anti-spyware and cookie blockers are blocking it. I'll give it a try when I get on a faster pipe in a couple of hours. Have to agree with you about Linux gang. They're almost as bad as t...
[23:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:They just don't get it. - 06Windows 10 Still Phones Home to Microsoft Even When Forbidden - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─We know the answer, games. That's why in the decade old propaganda war against alternatives, Microsoft does never mention the trump card, games. Somebody may sniff a business opportunity. In fact it's like don't bothering learning to read and write, relying instead on a caste of scribes, which used...
[23:40:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03miljo [5757] 02Re:market segmentation is bullshit - 06Intel Launches First Laptop-Ready Xeon Chip - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:35] <exec> 08└─Let's ban change!
[23:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:22] <exec> 08└─shut up phil fish, go have another twitter meltdown.
[23:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 3197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─Wantkitteh does have a valid point here. What should be a few separate issues that could be more cogently discussed individually seem to have been rolled up into a huge ball of wax. The huge ball of wax makes it easy for the main stream media to boil it down to: “men who play video games are sexua...
[23:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:35] <exec> 08└─All of those 3 letter "News" organizations will spin a story into what sells. That's their business model. And backing a false Narrative that makes them look good is better for business than the truth. Whipping the public into a stupid frenzy is what they excel at these days.
[23:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"anti-gamergate"? - 06Journalist Writes About #GamerGate Without Making it a Hit Piece - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:41] <exec> 08└─thanks for being a Try Hard. How far are you reaching for those straws now?
[23:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02RMS is right again - 06Lenovo Still Wants to Own Your Box - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─People think Stallman is crazy for going so far in his pursuit of free software to use an old dilapidated model of a laptop that has free firmware, including free BIOS (free in this case meaning libre: permissive licensing and open source). Well, he's right again: even for the BIOS, if it isn't free...
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