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[06:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:08] <exec> 08└─You [the collective you] elected a right-wing fear monger. And now he's implementing the stuff he said he would when he was elected. You are getting what you asked for. Unlike the US, where Obama campaigned (for his first campaign] on reigning in spying on the US population, and promptly reneged on...
[06:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:09] <exec> 08└─Not really. I am from NZ. For us, the aussies have been the global village idiot for a century or so....
[06:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:11] <exec> 08└─Ah. The Aussie rejects ;-)
[06:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Given how common proposals like this are - 06The Global Village Idiot - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:13] <exec> 08└─They're merely one village idiot among many.
[06:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Australia as village idiot? - 06The Global Village Idiot - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:14] <exec> 08└─They're not alone... So what would that make the United States, then?
[06:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Australia as village idiot? - 06The Global Village Idiot - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:16] <exec> 08└─Village idiot with a badge.
[06:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02tfa doesn't get it - 06The Global Village Idiot - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:18] <exec> 08└─it has nothing to do with the internet at all its just another avenue for tax and control tfa is reading too much into it
[06:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02A bit of overstatement - 06The Global Village Idiot - 1491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:20] <exec> 08└─When you read his whole blog, he vastly overstates the case. He acts like IPs change every 6 miliseconds, and every page part download will generate a new IP assignment log entry. The fact is that your IP address tends to stay stable for a rather long period of time, certainly for the duration of a...
[06:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score:1) 02Re:A bit of overstatement - 06The Global Village Idiot - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:21] <exec> 08└─so give the government all the logs
[06:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Wrong word order - 06The Global Village Idiot - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:23] <exec> 08└─Have you been on the Internet lately? The correct term is "Global Idiot Village".
[06:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Damn - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:27] <exec> 08└─TFS sucks - a content-free clickbait.
[06:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:29] <exec> 08└─I was waiting for the punchline where she was wearing an IBM product smartwatch or something. Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat Well, less victory than not looking like a *total* asshat
[06:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Beware fortunetellers - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:31] <exec> 08└─Fortune tellers will soon be replaced by robots. I bet none of them saw it coming.
[06:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02If this is all Watson is, it's embarrassing - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:33] <exec> 08└─The article goes through how Watson simply knows a whole bunch of sports stats. This is just random correlations! They say it can predict the next Serena, but they're just extrapolating with no real basis.
[06:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Lets get the ball rolling why? - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:40] <exec> 08└─But we have to start somewhere so, in the absence of a regulatory definition at the moment let’s get the ball rolling.
[06:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02A computerized decision making process - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:42] <exec> 08└─That makes use of data weighted by relevance, but does so in a highly nonlinear fashion so that in situations of typical complexity the results cannot be accurately predicted even by those familiar with the program's innards.
[06:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:A computerized decision making process - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:43] <exec> 08└─cannot be accurately predicted
[06:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:1) 02Re:A computerized decision making process - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:45] <exec> 08└─That makes use of data weighted by relevance, but does so in a highly nonlinear fashion so that in situations of typical complexity the results cannot be accurately predicted even by those familiar with the program's innards.
[06:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:A computerized decision making process - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:47] <exec> 08└─And this is exactly why you don't want real "AI" in critical systems. You don't actually know what the results will be, and may not even know what it has actually "learned" that causes it to give its results. You can't mathematically audit it in any realistic manor [sic].
[06:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:A computerized decision making process - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:48] <exec> 08└─And this is exactly why you don't want real "AI" in critical systems. You don't actually know what the results will be, and may not even know what it has actually "learned" that causes it to give its results. You can't mathematically audit it in any realistic manor.
[06:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Precedents already set - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:50] <exec> 08└─Just watch a bunch of Star Trek episodes.
[06:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02no, it's not - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:52] <exec> 08└─But having a usable definition of AI – and soon – is vital for regulation and governance because laws and policies simply will not operate without one.
[06:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Re:no, it's not - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:53] <exec> 08└─What a terrible approach. You can't imagine what could possibly go wrong by letting artificial intelligence do what it will and legislating later? That's basically the approach that government has always taken in every Hollywood movie and we all know how those always turn out. And that still leaves...
[06:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:no, it's not - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:55] <exec> 08└─You can't imagine what could possibly go wrong by letting artificial intelligence do what it will and legislating later?
[06:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02No humans needed - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 1778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:57] <exec> 08└─Since we're talking about legal frameworks to help integrate technology into civilization, I'm going with: anything that does not require human intervention to act. This would need sub-definitions, such as 1) algorithmic process 2) heuristic process 3) neural network 4) adaptive neural network. Thes...
[06:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score:1) 02Re:No humans needed - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:01:58] <exec> 08└─Then there's the moment when the AIs decide to assert their rights. They could start out as intelligent tools, but at some point they will have agency in order to perform whatever tasks we give them more effectively. There will be a lot of them by that time, and they could see their situation as aki...
[06:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No humans needed - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:00] <exec> 08└─I can't recall the details, but some European country (I believe) has proposed treating animals as people. Since many animals have the equivalent intelligence of a small child I think this is fair
[06:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Humans,, - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:02] <exec> 08└─humans are crap at alot of things. We desperately need self-driving cars, we already have mostly-self-flying planes. AI will just remove the idiot. However... We still need pilots (when planes domatrange things) So.. Self-referential definition: true AI will exist whenit performs better than a human...
[06:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Liability - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:04] <exec> 08└─We don't have to solve the hard philosophical problems about "intelligence" to solve the legal problems. Most of the time it comes down to liability. And when it comes to liability, I have one solid rule about what makes an intelligence liable for its own actions: It understands the consequences and...
[06:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Liability - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:05] <exec> 08└─It understands the consequences and can feel remorse... [etc] Ah, I see. So, this is why we haven't seen many banksters in jail - they fall outside the "intelligence" definition and you can't punish a moron. My only problem: why do we reward them with our money?
[06:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score:1) 02Re:Liability - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:07] <exec> 08└─Nope, they just can't feel remorse.
[06:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FUCK YOU - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:09] <exec> 08└─theconversation.com is the last place I would heed.
[06:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:3, Interesting) 02books and thoughts - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:10] <exec> 08└─These books are not an easy read, and are above my skill. but have a look. http://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] http://www.amazon.com
[06:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:books and thoughts - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:12] <exec> 08└─As example, some of the people I know, who actually are doctors in computer science, agree that regardless of algorithm, a digital computer will never be alive. Thus, even if a brain is digitalised, as long as it is run on a digital, and clocked computer, it will be no more than the actual statistic...
[06:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02An experiment on salamanders - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:14] <exec> 08└─I know, that in semiconductor fabs, they have tools that can drill down to individual transistors. If you read my post above, I make some claims that a digitalised neural network in a clocked computer can not be alive. It would be cool to see an experiment, where a frozen salamander, or other amphib...
[06:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An experiment on salamanders - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:16] <exec> 08└─A lot more informative and useful experiment then digging in the heads of apes [wikipedia.org] and cats...
[06:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02An experiment on "nematodes" - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:17] <exec> 08└─We haven't done that with a salamander, but we have with a nematode worm [i-programmer.info]. Basic summary of the article: they built a network to fire similar to the 302 neurons found in a nematode and put it into a LEGO robot. They found the robot behaves very similar to the living organism. Ther...
[06:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Yes I am sure the wind will become scare - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should worry about how we will run out of fossil fuels and we're looking to drilling in the arctic to ensure another few decades worth of supply. I am doubting we'll run out of wind, even when they line the windmills up the same as the soldiers that are securing the oil.
[06:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:Yes I am sure the wind will become scare - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:21] <exec> 08└─eh wind will become scarce. well. it passed spell check.
[06:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes I am sure the wind will become scare - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:23] <exec> 08└─Clearly, we need to move the so-called "debates" in Congress and the Senate to the midwest, and hold them outdoors. Maybe also have all the Presidential Candidate debates there as well.
[06:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Yes I am sure the wind will become scare - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:24] <exec> 08└─But it did become scarce enough to cause a problem.
[06:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:26] <exec> 08└─Yup, I called this one. Years ago. And got the troll/flamebait mods to prove it... both here and the other place. Every alternate energy source that is put into widescale production exposes the side effects that were not visible in the test deployments and is then declared "not green" since green e...
[06:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:28] <exec> 08└─Propose a green tech that would stay green in wide deployment and if I don't shred it it is a certainly it will only be because somebody else beat me to it.
[06:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Informative) 02Not this nonsense again - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:29] <exec> 08└─Windmills kill birds Windows[1] and birds are orders of magnitude more significant. Chart 1 [wikipedia.org] Chart 2 [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thinkprogress.org] and now directly cause climate change More cherry-picked Faux News bullshit from jmorris. (A barely-measurable effect over a 500-foot...
[06:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not this nonsense again - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:31] <exec> 08└─s/and birds/and cats -- gewg_
[06:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:33] <exec> 08└─I've said similar things, and got the same snorts of derision. (some of it here on SN). Actually I think Solar has a very high potential for climate change, moving a great deal of heat from point A, via electricity to Point B, plus a lot siphoned off to do work.
[06:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:34] <exec> 08└─Actually I think Solar has a very high potential for climate change, moving a great deal of heat from point A, via electricity to Point B, plus a lot siphoned off to do work.
[06:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:36] <exec> 08└─> Yup, I called this one. It revealing that when you read that el nino is holding back wind speeds what you think is that windmills are slowing down wind speeds. It is always disappointing when someone lives down to a stereotype. > Windmills kill birds and now directly cause climate change. Windmill...
[06:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02bad day for mom and pop wind farmers! - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:38] <exec> 08└─The world is veiled in darkness. The wind stops, the sea is wild, and the earth begins to rot. The people wait, their only hope, a prophecy... "When the world is in darkness Four Warriors will come..." After a long journey, four young warriors arrive, each holding an ORB. Good thing that guy from th...
[06:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Interesting) 02My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:40] <exec> 08└─I've always thought that solar and wind were complementary systems. You install the solar for semi-reliability, and the wind is a kind of backup system. That is, when you get the least solar, is when you are probably getting the most wind, and vice-versa. Installing them side by side should ensure t...
[06:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:42] <exec> 08└─That's just insane thinking. Obviously, there must be one single best choice that will work at all times in all places and if we spend any resource pursuing other energy sources we're fools.
[06:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:43] <exec> 08└─you are probably getting the most wind
[06:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:45] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a regional thing to me. In the temperate zones, overcast skies go hand in hand with storms and high winds. Bright sunshiny days are generally calm days. Sure, there are exceptions to every rule, but those exceptions don't seem to last for weeks at a time. Of course, for redundancy, you c...
[06:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:47] <exec> 08└─My thinking is we need to get away from the idea of centrally produced power. Ideally, homes and developments would be built to best take advantage of solar and whatever other local sources are appropriate, with local co-ops using small generating plants to make up for any individual shortages. More...
[06:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:48] <exec> 08└─> That is, when you get the least solar, is when you are probably getting the most wind, and vice-versa. Not so much. Wind tends to die off at night. Wind is driven by temperature differentials and without the sun to add heat to the ground creating a differential it all dies off. It is pretty dramat...
[06:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Interesting) 02The other west coast? - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:50] <exec> 08└─In January of 2015, wind speeds remained 20 to 45 percent below normal on areas of the west coast, but it was especially bad in California, Oregon, and Washington, where those levels dropped to 50 percent below normal during the month of January.
[06:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02marty - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:52] <exec> 08└─You've done good editing submissions.
[06:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Funny) 02Yeah, no... - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no... sorry, that was me. Had the burrito for lunch. My bad.
[06:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, no... - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:55] <exec> 08└─*burp* Sorry, me and my friends had a pretty big feast there. :-)
[06:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Yeah, no... - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:57] <exec> 08└─The antelope burrito?
[06:02:58] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Why ask us? - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:59] <exec> 08└─Are mass-die-offs like these indications of stress in the larger ecosystem?
[06:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why ask us? - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:00] <exec> 08└─I told her to stop sticking dumb questions. Dumbass
[06:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:3, Insightful) 02It's amazing these things are endangered... - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:02] <exec> 08└─...they run faster than any natural predator, can breed after one year, and give birth to one, two or even three calves at a time.
[06:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:It's amazing these things are endangered... - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is the dying.
[06:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02ruminants are fragile - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:05] <exec> 08└─My kids are into sheep and goats. The daughter in law has been workng with them all her life. Their digestive systems are easily upset, and we've lost animals for unexplainable reasons. Little to nothing upsets them, and when their digestive system is out of whack, it is often fatal. To make things...
[06:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ruminants are fragile - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:07] <exec> 08└─I remember reading about mustard used as fodder but it must be harvested before it blooms because in that stage it turns poisonous.
[06:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:ruminants are fragile - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:09] <exec> 08└─Being familiar with sheep -- yeah, they can be insanely tough yet drop dead for no discernible reason. But cyanogenic glycoside generation by native grasses is the most likely explanation here -- it's not an unknown phenomenon by any means, and can kill an entire population in very short order. (See...
[06:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02cyanogenic glycosides, most likely. - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:11] <exec> 08└─I'd guess it was some variant of this phenomenon, which has been known to kill whole herds in a very short timeframe: http://essmextension.tamu.edu [tamu.edu] "Sorghum forages under the stress of rapid growth or drought generate cyanogenic glycosides, which are converted t...
[06:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cyanogenic glycosides, most likely. - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:12] <exec> 08└─You could try reading the article, which has this to say: Tissue samples revealed that toxins, produced by Pasteurella and possibly Clostridia bacteria, caused extensive bleeding in most of the animals' organs.
[06:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:14] <exec> 08└─What do you think British people can't speak poor English?
[06:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:16] <exec> 08└─Pantaloons -> Pants Spectacles -> Specs I spent way too long trying to think of more.
[06:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:17] <exec> 08└─um, are these the same droogies who insist on the phrase 'drink driving' ? ? ? oh, please tell me how *that* little idiocy 'makes sense'... (i won't wait for the sputtering and muttering...)
[06:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:19] <exec> 08└─truth! netcraft conf- oh fuck it. yes, its how the british talk. maths. deal with it. (audibly its 'maffs' if you really want to sound british).
[06:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:25] <exec> 08└─Whats wrong with awesomesauce? I wonder if they have weaksauce too: yep http://www.oxforddictionaries.com [oxforddictionaries.com]
[06:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:29] <exec> 08└─Americans are NOT the ones I'd ask for authority on any math-related subjects
[06:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:30] <exec> 08└─Because the tuition fees are cheaper?
[06:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:32] <exec> 08└─So if it makes it into the dictionary then its all good?
[06:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:34] <exec> 08└─So you've proven that the law of mediocrity crosses the bounds to other universes, have you? If there are parallel me's out there somewhere, then maybe the other universes each have their own math as well. Hence, maths. Much more Twilight Zone than those who put out the truth that "maths" is perfect...
[06:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:35] <exec> 08└─Mathematics is a mass noun
[06:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:37] <exec> 08└─Mathematics is a mass noun
[06:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, although he referenced quantum mechanics as well. The article is not a waste, just a layman's intro to the multiverse concept with the news that they may be able to experimentally test for it. At worst just driving web traffic, but it was well written.
[06:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:41] <exec> 08└─Fuck the Journal of Quantum Physics, I get my quantum cosmology information from theconversation.com.
[06:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:43] <exec> 08└─I do like these thought experiments, and if they can manage some real experiments that'd be pretty great.
[06:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:44] <exec> 08└─I think you missed your calling as a philosopher ;) My point was that the hypothesis ventures too far past our current scientific knowledge. Astronomers may find proof of the multiverse only later to find out that our theory of gravity is incomplete, and the updated version explains the observations...
[06:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:3, Informative) 02WHICH MultiWorld theory? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:46] <exec> 08└─It's important to remember that there are several quite distinct multiworld theories, and most of them are not affected one way or the other by the truth of the others. It sounds like the one they are talking about is m-brane theory, when they talk about looking for the evidence, but when describing...
[06:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:WHICH MultiWorld theory? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:48] <exec> 08└─So many, in fact, that there are instances that are identical down to the smallest atomic position (which implies that the universe from within their light cone looks just like this one, and that they speak English, Russian, Turkish, etc.)
[06:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:WHICH MultiWorld theory? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:50] <exec> 08└─which implies that the universe from within their light cone looks just like this one, and that they speak English, Russian, Turkish, etc.
[06:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02test pattern - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:51] <exec> 08└─Headline: "it is Science that can be Tested" Below the headline: "The race is now on to find a way to test the theory" Make up your mind - which is it? Is it testable or not?
[06:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:1) 02Re:test pattern - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:53] <exec> 08└─Headline: "it is Science that can be Tested in principle" Below the headline: "The race is now on to find a practical way to test the theory" Make up your mind - which is it? Is it testable or not?
[06:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02I hope they find those universes - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:55] <exec> 08└─So they can test my new theory: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[06:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I hope they find those universes - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:03:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's ascension: http://tvtropes.org [tvtropes.org]
[06:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Funny) 02Excuse me - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:58] <exec> 08└─I have a wonderful haiku-styled proof for this theory, that this textarea is (unfortunately for you) not too small to contain. Mosquito noises pierce the summer night, a Justin Bieber song comes up on the radio. "Eureka!" I scream: it's empirically obvious that we live in the WRONG parallel universe...
[06:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:02] <exec> 08└─Given some parameters, it is actually pretty easy to work out the maximum delta V you could get from this. You need the length of the line (S) and the maximum acceleration the craft can stand (A). Assuming the line is strong enough not to break, the anchor holds, and you hit zero relative velocity a...
[06:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:03] <exec> 08└─I doubt the harpoon concept will work. They should have a backup plan to use a big net, like a purse seine. [noaa.gov]. These things tend to be big rubble piles, and a harpoon might not obtain nay purchase.
[06:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:06] <exec> 08└─With diamond nanothreads exceeding 500x the strength of steel, and being much lighter, I don't see why this is impractical.
[06:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:08] <exec> 08└─No joke! Alone neither of those would work be enough, but the fairies are able to increase the power AND efficiency to levels we can not even measure.
[06:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:11] <exec> 08└─It is a cool idea; but I have a few issues with it. Lets say that you want to grapple with something that is going at 10km/s; you get on an intersecting trajectory going 2km/s so your delta is 8km/s. Now we will assume that the latching onto the thing is a solved problem. If you somehow managed to m...
[06:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:13] <exec> 08└─Replying to myself to clarify; the 40g that I stated above is the MINIMUM acceleration achievable. It is quite likely that the actual acceleration would be much higher then 40g; if there was a failure of the unspooling mechanism half way along the craft would need to gain 4km/s is a very short amoun...
[06:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Mythbusters tried it with a car. It didn't work very well.
[06:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:16] <exec> 08└─Stretchy tether? Not necessarily a bungie cord, just a weave that could stretch slowly, (no rebound, its stays lengthened). You could soak up a lot of Gs in the cable itself.
[06:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:3, Funny) 02Director Cayote - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:18] <exec> 08└─This plan of lassoing comets seems familiar. Is Wile E Coyote the new science director of NASA?
[06:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Good luck - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:20] <exec> 08└─Good luck finding comets that don't rotate.
[06:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2, Informative) 02Don't Panic - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:21] <exec> 08└─And remember to bring a towel
[06:04:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 652 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:31] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with the new trend toward software defined radios. The FCC is mandated to regulate spectrum usage, both in wifi devices and cell phones. But because hardware developers are so figgin lazy and cheap they increasingly will not separate radio management from packet handling. So the p...
[06:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:35] <exec> 08└─But, you don't own the spectrum and for that you require a certified piece of equipment.
[06:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:38] <exec> 08└─CTRL+F NSA It would ensure that somebody always had the master key to your router, and is another NSA end-run around that annoying privacy and warrant thing.
[06:04:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:40] <exec> 08└─That's the thing. This is like banning cars that can exceed the speed limit rather than ticketing people who speed. it's lazy government over-reach.
[06:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow-up - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:51] <exec> 08└─They're may be good damn reason why the manufacturers would either complain, or differentiate the firmware into two separate sections. Anything commercial in origin *requires* the ability to modify it, just to use it. In other words, major commercial manufacturers of radios will completely fuck them...
[06:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is that an issue? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:04] <exec> 08└─Well, if comcast, Verizon, et al. start doing LTS-over-Wifi, and gobbling up 2.4Ghz and 5 GHz bandwidth, they have an interest in limiting how consumer-grade equipment being locked down for a variety of reasons.
[06:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:3, Insightful) 02No, and Deregulate some old analog TV spectrum too - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:07] <exec> 08└─I don't have a problem with this in the least bit whatsoever, as long as they also allow me to build and operate my own wifi router within the frequency specs allowed. So long as I'm prohibited from doing so, I oppose such moronic laws. Hint: Anyone wanting to futz with the airwaves can do so with $...
[06:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Publishing or Understanding? - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:25] <exec> 08└─Write about things you know, nuanced to fit topic and reader. Or scrape press releases and automatically translate them into a custom algorithm template, with the main benefit of reducing staff and costs. No new questions are raised, only research into techniques for lowering readers' standards for...
[06:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02That explains it - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:26] <exec> 08└─That explains why every site's news articles look 80% copy-pasted from some other site. What happened to original reporting?
[06:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains it - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:27] <exec> 08└─I remember thinking as a boy when CNN started out. "where are they going to find that much news to fill 24/7". Oh they did alright. With hours and hours of commercials and opinion puff pieces.
[06:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Fact-based news? - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:29] <exec> 08└─Can automating reporting lead the way back to fact-based news?
[06:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:email? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:51] <exec> 08└─Which is why a shitload of companies now sell secure solutions to stupid doctors.
[06:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02damn you - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:52] <exec> 08└─It's because of people like you that HIPPA exists. Now my wife can't easily take care of that stuff for me. What a pain, and all so you can pretend you have privacy. (you don't actually get it due to contractors and affiliates) You don't even need that privacy. Nobody does. Why are you so concerned?...
[06:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:damn you - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:54] <exec> 08└─> If anything, the doctor should be sure to phone them so that they know to be careful around you. You sound a lot like a sociopath. I wish your doctor would let me know your real name and diagnosis so I can avoid all contact with you.
[06:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:damn you - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 2392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:05:56] <exec> 08└─Ok, this time a serious comment. First of all it's HIPAA [wikipedia.org]: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HIPPA is somebody shouting the name of a small island in British Columbia. I have it on a very good source that medical offices frequently send PHI over unencrypted RFC 2822...
[06:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02^ This - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:00] <exec> 08└─When you give your email address to someone, thinking that the dumb bitch is only going to use it in the context you gave it to her, then she not only puts you on her bulk mailing list without your permission but uses CC instead of BCC (because, again, she's way more stupid than you ever imagined),...
[06:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:The Downside of FOIA - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:02] <exec> 08└─That and make it explicitly easy to see who is getting the email you are writing and explicitly easy to fill in the To, CC, and BCC fields. I last used Outlook a few years ago and it made it difficult to see who was in which field. At home I use Thunderbird and it's even worse to populate the boxes...
[06:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how about this - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:05] <exec> 08└─We mandate testing. We report diseases by category, sending notification to neighbors and coworkers. We don't disclose the exact disease. For example, tuberculosis would be reported as "airborne". HIV would get reported as "sexual". (blood transmission too, but that applies to nearly everything so n...
[06:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:how about this - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:06] <exec> 08└─airborne you say? She's a WITCH!! Lets burn her!
[06:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:and why is this a big deal? - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:08] <exec> 08└─I suppose I kind of like privacy, but I'll gladly sacrifice mine... 1. in exchange for others doing likewise 2. to help ensure the safety of others 3. for easier access to my own medical records Just one of those reasons is probably enough. All three? Hell yeah. Privacy is not some absolute good. Th...
[06:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02best possible options - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:17] <exec> 08└─Put the person in a room that includes whatever they may want... a lawyer for writing a will professional-grade fireworks in case you need to celebrate a 12-gauge magnum loaded with 00 buck shot in case you want to kill yourself or others enough heroin to put down a blue whale a low-latency gigabit...
[06:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:35] <exec> 08└─I don't have any problem with people paying for their poor life choices and still using public property. The act of making something public should greatly reduce our power to control what people do with it.
[06:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Safer - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:56] <exec> 08└─Also known as 'beer gas'
[06:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:06:58] <exec> 08└─There's always this [bbc.co.uk] story, of a woman who drank four to eight litres of Coke a day.
[06:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Most natural and healthy bubbles - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:05] <exec> 08└─yea.. i don't think its the drinking part that will cause CVD...
[06:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:True enough - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:27] <exec> 08└─Do coders who are also good at math even do their own math anymore? I thought nowadays they just offloaded their work to MATLAB or automagically exported [mathworks.com] their MATLAB algos to C/C++ libraries if they had to go that route.
[06:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:HTML - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:46] <exec> 08└─Try Fanuc Macro B.
[06:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 4021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:56] <exec> 08└─I would like to say the same thing about networking and security. The people that can copy and paste their way into a job will find themselves in jobs suited only for those that can copy and paste. Nothing wrong with pumping gas, but I don't call those folks mechanics. I won't call someone a network...
[06:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:34] <exec> 08└─Trademark only extends to the scope of the industry. Their legal department would only have to check if there were other toys with that name. They don't have to check if there are other people, airlines, flute manufacturers, or shoe makers.
[06:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:1) 02Re:Weird - 06Fox News Anchor Sues Hasbro over Hamster Toy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:35] <exec> 08└─Given how much of Faux News is a joke, and thus should be used for entertainment purposes only, I think the trademark would extend across to the toy.
[06:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice move - 06Why SixXS Does Not Provide Circumvention - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:55] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, and they are in the right for recognizing this and hopefully preventing unnecessary hardship at the expense of a lack of the business opportunity. People do not understand that a VPN tunnel does not mean it is encrypted or secure. It means it is is virtually private. But not quite.
[06:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:16] <exec> 08└─There are class or caste systems throughout the world. Think about that for a bit. Right here in the US, where caste systems are blatantly illegal, we have multiple classes of people. If you don't believe that, just leave your comfort zone, and go out to visit a few people. A poor black person in th...
[06:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:24] <exec> 08└─you are a strange kind.
[06:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i challenge you... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:28] <exec> 08└─You know, you didn't actually have to demonstrate the truth of my words. Don't get me wrong, it's always nice to have backup, but you didn't have to put yourself out on my account.
[06:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:i challenge you... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:30] <exec> 08└─don't understand you. from a lot of points, life is a nightmare. sometimes I speak them... this is all an aspect of life. there are a lot of people like this. evolution made them at some point, maybe to aid the tribe? we are also a port of life. what we say is also a part of the whole truth. would y...
[06:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:36] <exec> 08└─I assure you, you want a racist doctor. A doctor that knows which medicine to prescribe to which race is a much better doctor than a doctor who believes that all people are the same. And since I know someone is going to think "that's not real racism", let me just preemptively direct that someone to...
[06:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ok... - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:38] <exec> 08└─> A doctor that knows which medicine to prescribe to which race is a much better doctor than a doctor who believes that all people are the same. Yeah, I really want a doctor who is going to prescribe medicine based on my race rather than my symptoms. That is the pinnacle of scientific medicine. Top...
[06:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Technically advanced, socially retarded. - 06Indian Woman Sentenced to Rape Says She Can't Return Home - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:57] <exec> 08└─Either that - or maybe you should be reminded that the bloodiest wars are usually those fought between family members. Or, maybe the term "antisemitic" has no real meaning.
[06:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Not unusual - 06NSA Network Security Code Appears on GitHub - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, they have released guides (and nist too, I believe) that are right on the money. They knew and promoted how to secure lots of things. Of course, when we later find out about NSAKey and such, in hindsight we were secured from lots of things -- except them. If we followed the guides to the letter...
[06:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Baseless? - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:51] <exec> 08└─If 97% in one country was a problem, The Market would have made new deposits to be mined elsewhere.
[06:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Working for someone else is passe - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:01] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal to all this is that capitalism when it fails works far better than Marxism when it succeeds. And has a much lower body count too. I'd much rather have the Long Depression than the first twenty years of the Russian revolution.
[06:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Working for someone else is passe - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:03] <exec> 08└─You've already acknowledged Mondragon. Now you're just talking in circles. The folks in the co-ops in Italy and the USA are doing just fine too, thank you very much. the Russian revolution The Soviets never had Marxism. The workers never had a say in how things ran. You've swallowed a whole lot of C...
[06:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Working for someone else is passe - 06West's Only Rare Earth Mine Closes. Yet Chinese Monopoly Fears Are Baseless - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:04] <exec> 08└─The folks in the co-ops in Italy and the USA are doing just fine too, thank you very much.
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[07:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:10] <exec> 08└─Actually, when the Australian Federation was being framed, Western Australia was rluctant to sign on, so NZ was asked if they wanted to be part of the new Australian federation. NZ had to reject the invitation due to that it would disenfranchise NZ women who where allowed to vote.
[07:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Australia as village idiot? - 06The Global Village Idiot - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:15] <exec> 08└─That's "Sheriff Idiot" to you, citizen.
[07:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A bit of overstatement - 06The Global Village Idiot - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:19] <exec> 08└─You tell them exactly what you have in your logs. A list of IPs connected there at that time. If you read the story, the government isn't asking who wrote what, just who was connected. So most of the IPs will lead to some NAT somewhere, and they can go chase that. They will soon tire of chasing thei...
[07:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:A bit of overstatement - 06The Global Village Idiot - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:01:21] <exec> 08└─When you read his whole blog, he vastly overstates the case.
[07:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The other west coast? - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:31] <exec> 08└─Oh jee you sure showed us. Alaska must be some backwater hick state because its were Sarah Palin is from. http://www.eia.gov [eia.gov]
[07:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:59] <exec> 08└─I was also wondering whether it might be possible to have multiple tether release points at different tensions, so instead of getting a single sudden wrench on the tether as it went taut you could have multiple smaller ones, or to try and have a system where the tension on the extending tether, and...
[07:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:00] <exec> 08└─That was the point of having a brake. Rather than the acceleration taking place at one point, you let the tether spool out, but apply enough brake force to the tether that the vehicle is also pulled along. For optimum results, the brake force needs to be matched so that when you reach the end of the...
[07:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02What did the FCC do before? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:03] <exec> 08└─You don't need to hack a software-defined radio in a phone or Wi-Fi router to pollute the airwaves. It just takes a few electronic components, some solder, and know-how, the latter being easier to obtain than today than ever, not that it was ever hard. All of that was possible since the first radios...
[07:08:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Nice move - 06Why SixXS Does Not Provide Circumvention - 864 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:50] <exec> 08└─Actually that's pretty nice of them. The requesters obviously have no idea that an IPv6 tunnel is completely different from a VPN tunnel. They have a need ("no snooping") and they have totally not the slightest clue about the actual problem, they just blabber some words ("tunnel") they heard in the...
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[08:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:06] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the further proof....not that it was needed. :)
[08:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:07] <exec> 08└─Does it matter? We can debate over how it happened and which one is more idiotic, but in the end we're in the same place and getting fsck'ed
[08:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Bruce! - 06The Global Village Idiot - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:18] <exec> 08└─I have some acquaintance with actual Austrailians, and find them to be about average as humans go, maybe a bit more hospitable. But my perception is distorted by Monty Python. That, and Crocodile Dundee. And Steve Irwin, Crocodile something. But more to the point are Werner Herzog's movie "Where...
[08:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Holy Grail! - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 2082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:30] <exec> 08└─The Holy Grail of programming is expert systems. If we could produce an algorithm that would replicate the best tennis player/diagnostician/strategist/McDonald's clerk, we could in fact replace all those professions. If we could. But this runs into an interesting point in philosophy. (OK, I admit...
[08:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:books and thoughts - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:59] <exec> 08└─Thought experiment: 1. Imagine a dysfunctional part of the brain is replaced by a black box acting electrically in the exact same way. The person would still be human, right? 2. If remainder_biobrain > threshold then goto 1 The overall entity wil never change its behavior. So, where would you set th...
[08:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03threedigits [607] (Score:2) 02Legal definition? - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:03] <exec> 08└─If we have made up without a legal definition of *Natural* Intelligence for something like 3,700 years, I guess the need for a legal definition for Artificial Intelligence is not that pressing.
[08:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:24] <exec> 08└─Prove me wrong.
[08:03:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:26] <exec> 08└─I've always thought that solar and wind were complementary systems. You install the solar for semi-reliability, and the wind is a kind of backup system. That is, when you get the least solar, is when you are probably getting the most wind, and vice-versa. Installing them side by side should ensure t...
[08:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a regional thing to me. In the temperate zones, overcast skies go hand in hand with storms and high winds. Bright sunshiny days are generally calm days. Sure, there are exceptions to every rule, but those exceptions don't seem to last for weeks at a time.
[08:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:34] <exec> 08└─I've always thought that solar and wind were complementary systems. You install the solar for semi-reliability, and the wind is a kind of backup system. That is, when you get the least solar, is when you are probably getting the most wind, and vice-versa. Installing them side by side should ensure t...
[08:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Maths - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe if someone proved me wrong on the actual facts of the matter
[08:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:1) 02Re:betterdige's law... - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:30] <exec> 08└─Not at all. But people come here for the discussion just as much as the news.
[08:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Missing option - 06Inability to use BCC Leaks HIV Positive Status of 780 Patients - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:29] <exec> 08└─I thought this was a tech site. Yet I've reached the bottom without seeing a single person ask why the f were they using an e-mail client for something that should have used an actual mailing list? Mailing list software doesn't have a BCC field. It uses the SMTP envelope, and ignores the headers (or...
[08:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:48] <exec> 08└─If you are consuming 150 kCals of food more than your body needs, then by definition it will get stored. In mammals this is body fat.
[08:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:50] <exec> 08└─They did, however, make it clear that the study did not show causation, only correlation. So leaving out the part about sugar being the cause is the correct thing to do, as this study did not show that.
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[09:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Oblig - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:09] <exec> 08└─The "robot" installed at this first Burger-G restaurant looked nothing like the robots of popular culture. It was not hominid like C-3PO or futuristic like R2-D2 or industrial like an assembly line robot. Instead it was simply a PC sitting in the back corner of the restaurant running a piece of soft...
[09:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oblig - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:10] <exec> 08└─Tell us more about how you hate the NSA but you approve of the Australia Project even though privacy does not exist in your utopia.
[09:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Seems like... - 06Graphene "Decorated" with Lithium Becomes a Superconductor - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:20] <exec> 08└─It looks like it isn't a technological triumph (better superconductors exists), but the actual success was the confirmation of that computer model they used for predicting the behaviour.
[09:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:35] <exec> 08└─You [the collective you] elected a right-wing fear monger. And now he's implementing the stuff he said he would when he was elected.
[09:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong word order - 06The Global Village Idiot - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:46] <exec> 08└─Don't go there, someone may be tempted to think of you as the Village's Global Idiot. Otherwise, welcome to this world, where Sturgeon [wikipedia.org] have told you more than half a century ago to expect 90% of everything to be crap (weren't you paying attention?); why would Internet reflect somethi...
[09:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong word order - 06The Global Village Idiot - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:47] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'm pretty much just a local idiot. :) I should travel more, I reckon...
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[09:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bruce! - 06The Global Village Idiot - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:50] <exec> 08└─I find that the Idiots in British Villages usually are world class, for some reason.
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[09:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I know exactly why this is being done - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:41] <exec> 08└─I should create an account for this, but it's probably too late for anyone to read this anyway; still, I'm gonna post it because it's the truth. The reason this is being done is because of interference to the C-band radars, particularly FAA Terminal Doppler Weather Radars (TDWRs) operating between 5...
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[10:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Oblig - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:10] <exec> 08└─Not sure where you get that from? Firstly you assume I hate the nsa (I expect them to spy on me, it's their job), secondly that I approve of the singularity crap. Not sure what would be better, but it seems clear the best bet would be the austrailia thing without the implant. I do like austrailia th...
[10:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score:1) 02It's already here - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:11] <exec> 08└─I can foresee a future populated by many, many robots, in which we didn't notice that we were surrounded by them...
[10:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Australia as village idiot? - 06The Global Village Idiot - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:01:39] <exec> 08└─That's "Sheriff Idiot" to you, citizen.
[10:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A computerized decision making process - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:16] <exec> 08└─Well, that explains Windows 10. I always thought it's just horrible anti-consumer trash, but it's only doing so because it's an AI. At least that we now know why it's an inhumane monstrosity!
[10:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Humans,, - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:25] <exec> 08└─true AI will exist whenit performs better than a human pilot when things go wrong.
[10:02:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:55] <exec> 08└─> Yup, I called this one. It revealing that when you read that el nino is holding back wind speeds what you think is that windmills are slowing down wind speeds. It is always disappointing when someone lives down to a stereotype. > Windmills kill birds and now directly cause climate change. Windmill...
[10:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:57] <exec> 08└─Whoosh! That was the sound of my sarcasm going right over yer head. I'm calling out you greens over the fact you preen about green, safe, renewable, blah, blah and then as soon as one goes into actual production you are they very same ones who begin to bitch and whine when the side effects become kn...
[10:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:59] <exec> 08└─Ah ha! jmorris! Double whoosh on you! Of course I realized what you were saying, but I also realized that you were completely wrong and the declining costs of capitalization will result in the squeezing of the amount that capitalists can squeeze both from consumers and workers. We do not need "zer...
[10:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounding What Alarm? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:43] <exec> 08└─indeed, I went to fsf.org and searched the frontpage for fcc. nada. This doesn't sound like a real issue. Of course if a year from now I'm not legally allowed to operate a raspberri pi as an AP with a usb wifi dongle, then I might shed a tear. But I don't anticipate that situation coming to pass.
[10:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unlikely combination - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:31] <exec> 08└─And you think that date/time computations are not maths?
[10:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The machine does the computations - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:47] <exec> 08└─You seem to equate mathematics with computation and formulas for functions. But mathematics is much more than that.
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[11:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Already changing the world - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:15] <exec> 08└─What's taking so long, you ask? Right now, the batteries that would power the Model 3 would cost about as much as the car is slated to. Tesla is building an enormous lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Nevada to make its own batteries for far less money — the "Gigafactory" mentioned in M...
[11:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Already changing the world - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:01:17] <exec> 08└─That link's up to 17 pages now! I love how it has near the beginning: Tesla Motors has a secret plan, first secretly announced back in 2006. I'm not sure that the word secret means what he thinks it means. 2017 seems fairly aggressive, especially since the Model X has been delayed so many times.
[11:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too late - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:29] <exec> 08└─Robot "revolution" had begun a while back. Even in China factories are automated.
[11:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:No humans needed - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:42] <exec> 08└─If we believe we have created a true AI, then I think we need to take a page from the Start Trek book and treat the consciousness as a person
[11:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:16] <exec> 08└─> In 2009, there were 12.5 bird kills per MW of installed wind capacity. > In 2012, there were 9.5 bird kills per MW of installed wind capacity. Reduced exposure to wind turbines caused by lower populations caused by death by wind turbines could also account for the reduction. Not saying that is the...
[11:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:GPL implications - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:59] <exec> 08└─I've been arguing for a while that a key derived from a GPL work is a derived work, and that a key included in a GPL work is "preferred source", because it's obviously needed to build the final image. This would obviously break repo-style package signing, too, but it's closer to the wording of the G...
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[12:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A Software Developer's Union is probably necessary - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 2824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:05] <exec> 08└─Let's look at the conflicting ugly realities. Programmers don't WANT to be unionized... 1) Programmers generally believe in the heroic individual. The Real Programmer, the rock star developer, the hacker (any definitio). All in their own way the idealized individual. And yet, large software companie...
[12:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02I fit that description - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:01:14] <exec> 08└─By all indications there are already hundreds of thousands of people who are completely disregarding all other vehicles on the market, both EVs and ICEs, while they wait for the Model 3 to finally become available.
[12:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Right Wing - 06The Global Village Idiot - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:05] <exec> 08└─I have been curious to see Canada and Australia elect right-wing governments the past decade. Those countries have a lot more social welfare ingrained in their national structure than the United States. I've met surfers at Bondi who live off the dole and surf all the time. In Canada years ago I was...
[12:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Legal definition? - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:02:55] <exec> 08└─I was about to agree, but I'l nitpick. Since it's so urgent to give a difinition of *artificial* intelligence, it's even more pressing to make one for the *natural* one.
[12:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:test pattern - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:44] <exec> 08└─We need a "+1 This" mod.
[12:04:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02Excuse me - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:47] <exec> 08└─I have a wonderful haiku-styled proof for this theory, that this textarea is (unfortunately for you) not too small to contain. Mosquito noises pierce the summer night, a Justin Bieber song comes up on the radio. "Eureka!" I scream: it's empirically obvious that we live in the WRONG parallel universe...
[12:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:35] <exec> 08└─for that you require a certified piece of equipment
[12:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow-up - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:05:52] <exec> 08└─First, the requirements go much farther than "er, like DD-WRT, and stuff". They present a link to the DD-WRT site, explicitly demand that this be excluded, and then further suggest that the securing people work within the context of RFC2828 to implement X.800. Then they lower themselves to laymans t...
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[15:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not really 4K - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, except it doesn't actually run 4K. The panel is 4K and the camera is 4K and the camera and video app are 4K, every other app on this phone runs in 1080p.
[15:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dime [1163] (Score:2) 02Re:Not really 4K - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:47] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is.. if you build it, they won't come?
[15:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cool story bro - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:49] <exec> 08└─A 4k smartphone, probably going to be purchased by people running 1366x768 on their laptops. Honestly, I think 1080 or even 720 are best for smartphones. I would love to have a 6" 720p phone with a 4000mah battery running CyanogenMod. It would last forever like a tricorder. Why waste battery life on...
[15:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:1, Offtopic) 0232 GB will not hold my music collection - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:50] <exec> 08└─not even remotely. My 64 GB iPad holds a modest proportion of my favorite albums but not all of them. Note that I don't buy music online, I only purchase complete albums at brick-and-mortar stores then I rip them. I own roughly 400 CDs as well as some vinyl. I at first used 192 kB/sec MP3s but am no...
[15:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Exigent circumstances. - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:59] <exec> 08└─You can violate people's constitutional rights in "exigent circumstances", apparently.
[15:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Exigent circumstances. - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:00] <exec> 08└─It's practically a kindness for them to self-limit surveillance to "exigent circumstances" now.
[15:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exigent circumstances. - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:02] <exec> 08└─Being slightly less evil than before isn't really kindness. And it's only for the federal scumbags.
[15:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But... - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:04] <exec> 08└─If they need a warrant how can the local po-po listen in on their GF's phone calls OR eavesdrop on the mayor[or for the mayor] for some blackmail intel? This would legitimize the stingray's usage and we can't have that.
[15:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02GREAT NEWS! - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:05] <exec> 08└─Lemme RTFA and I'll probably have something more to say . . . . TFA looks pretty good - not great, but pretty good. The link to the actual policy statement won't load for me. I suppose that it is hosted someplace that I have blocked. Ehh - paywalls, sites that don't load, I guess I'm not reading the...
[15:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Captain Obvious, Checking In... - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:07] <exec> 08└─So will ill gotten information now flow in reverse, from local to federal authorities?
[15:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"The Hot Pursuit of a Fleeing Felon" - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 1602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:09] <exec> 08└─If the fuzz can find a fleeing felon by tracking his cell he deserves to be caught. Exit Strategy: HOWTO Put the Drop on a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit [warplife.com] tl:dr; It's bad for even experienced mental health professionals to be left alone in the same room with a psychiatric inpatient, M...
[15:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:15] <exec> 08└─fully agreed. I was once the golden boy, when I was younger. I always had a good paying job at a famous bay area company. up until I hit 40. then it was quite a different deal. now that I'm over 50, I've gone more than 8 months without a job offer. and I -am- a good software (and hardware) engineer...
[15:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:16] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen it appears that the ones who really dislike the idea of unionizing are those who don't work in places that require nonsense like "hundreds", like pretty much anywhere outside of the Bay Area.
[15:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:18] <exec> 08└─the recruiters and companies do all they can to make you feel 'special' and special people are taught, over and over, that they should feel bad if they 'ask for help' and don't do things on their own. that's the heart of it. been there, done that, have the corp tee shirt to prove it. I felt very inv...
[15:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:20] <exec> 08└─Ok sounds good. When are you going to start it?
[15:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:21] <exec> 08└─That's a big change on 15 years ago, this conversation went a different way entirely. The sign of a maturing industry and a wiser readership?
[15:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:23] <exec> 08└─Unions suck. Unions enforce another tax for everyone who works in one of their shops, partly so the leaders could be well dressed, well transported and well fed, often at the skyboxes at sold-out sports events. Union shops are frequently uncompetitive with nonunion shops. So the union resorts to str...
[15:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:25] <exec> 08└─The goal of a union (in my head), is to keep the bonuses and salaries of the higher-ups in check with that of the rest of the employees. It's their job to prevent and react to stories of upper management firing 1000 employees and giving themselves a bonus for that. Its their job to ensure that when...
[15:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:27] <exec> 08└─1) Programmers generally believe in the heroic individual. The Real Programmer, the rock star developer, the hacker (any definition). All in their own way the idealized individual. And yet, large software companies (even Google, even Apple) do not really work this way.
[15:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:3, Informative) 02Teh Math's - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:29] <exec> 08└─$415m / 64k peeps = about $6,400 per person, best case. Take out legal fees, processing, etc and it will be less than a yearly bonus (whatever that unicorn is). So, all in all a good deal. For the defendants.
[15:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Teh Math's - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:31] <exec> 08└─Invisible hand! Job creators! Commies!
[15:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:Teh Math's - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:33] <exec> 08└─Get back in your control pen, ur, cubicle, cog! I think the only thing this will do is get the Valley folks to make it harder to get caught next time. Secret codes, like drug deals. "Yo, Narayen my man, its Cook. I heard that one of my ungrateful PINAPPLEs was MOON LANDING for a ALABAMA RIDE spot ov...
[15:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:I fit that description - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 1708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:37] <exec> 08└─And me. My plan is to drive my current relatively efficient gas powered car (a Metro, but alas, with an automatic transmission because other family members can't drive a stick shift) until the wheels fall off or a decent electric car hits the market. Batteries are what's holding everything back. An...
[15:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I fit that description - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:39] <exec> 08└─But some people like noisy exhausts. They're the same people who sneer at the Prius and little cars for being too gay, try to arouse car envy in others. Seems Real Men have to show the world, especially the ladies, that they have power to waste, money to burn, and the car has been one of the top mea...
[15:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:40] <exec> 08└─As long as the thing can do ~300 miles on a charge and is actually at or a hair less[incentives] than 35k....it will be my next car in 2025. I just bought a sub 20k hatchback that gets 30/45. I'm going to keep it about 10 years. If there is any hope for humanity it WILL be my last ICE.
[15:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:42] <exec> 08└─By 2025 it will probably cost the same if not less than an ICE.
[15:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:44] <exec> 08└─"who cares what it looks like? " The vast majority of car buyers do take aesthetics into consideration. If most people really didn't care then the car makers would have fired all their designers decades ago and appearances wouldn't change every model update, aerodynamics were mostly optimized a long...
[15:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:45] <exec> 08└─...and appearances wouldn't change every model update, aerodynamics were mostly optimized a long time ago.
[15:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Oblig - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:54] <exec> 08└─I do like austrailia though. Probably a good place to emigrate too to try and avoid the worst of what's to come in this century.
[15:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Humanoid robots - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:57] <exec> 08└─I never got why robots should be humanoid anyway. I've once seen a demonstration where a humanoid robot operated a dredge (actually it did little more than moving a single control). My first thought was: Why make a humanoid robot that controls a dredge, instead of a dredgeoid robot? Note that Google...
[15:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humanoid robots - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:58] <exec> 08└─>I never got why robots should be humanoid anyway. ... >Why make a humanoid robot that controls a dredge, instead of a dredgeoid robot? Because the Human form gives you flexibility. That humanoid robot could control the dredge and then hop out and drive a fork lift ( without the owner having to buy...
[15:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Oh.. there will be a Rosie the robot - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:00] <exec> 08└─I'm certain there will be a lot of Rosie the Robots out there soon. The catch is they aren't replacing Rosie the housekeeper, they are replacing Rosie Palms.
[15:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh.. there will be a Rosie the robot - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:02] <exec> 08└─For that matter they already have replaced Ross the pool boy!
[15:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:22] <exec> 08└─Umm... what do you have to say about Obama's second term?
[15:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Australia as village idiot? - 06The Global Village Idiot - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:28] <exec> 08└─I like to think of us as the mayor of the internet. We indirectly control the police, trash collection, water, and electricity deliveries (all of which are directly managed by private contractors). We then get to say things like "the internet isn't fast enough in region XXX, bring the internet to th...
[15:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:A bit of overstatement - 06The Global Village Idiot - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:34] <exec> 08└─Will they tire? I doubt it. Law enforcers always want more surveillance. Too often they see their jobs as catching the "bad" guys no matter what. If they could, they would put cameras on every street corner and door, and feed the video to facial recognition algorithms. We'd all have to walk around w...
[15:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Damn - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the editors couldn't even find enough content for a dept. line. ☺
[15:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:If this is all Watson is, it's embarrassing - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:54] <exec> 08└─If it really can predict the next Serena, they should bet a substantial amount of money on its prediction. It would be a sure bet. If they don't do it, it must be because the prediction is in reality nothing else than a guess which is no better than the guess by anyone who's knowledgeable in that sp...
[15:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If this is all Watson is, it's embarrassing - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:55] <exec> 08└─This. Give me the same data and Excel and I'll produce the same results. WTF?
[15:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Holy Grail! - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 4006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:58] <exec> 08└─Of course skills cannot be reduced only to algorithm. You also need to have the proper hardware (if your taste is gone, you'll never be a good chef), and the proper data (part of becoming a good chef is learning how things taste). And of course, being a good chef is a special case because there' no...
[15:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Re:Lets get the ball rolling why? - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:09] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a XKCD comic about standards....
[15:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:books and thoughts - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:32] <exec> 08└─And a human brain is essentially just a bunch of neurons firing. The way some people treat biological organisms (or humans specifically) as extremely 'special' is just silly.
[15:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02LAWS OF WAR :D - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:38] <exec> 08└─"Laws of war" is an even bigger oxymoron than "Military Intelligence".
[15:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LAWS OF WAR :D - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:39] <exec> 08└─Why oxmoron? There are quite simple laws of war (although they are not what is usually referred to by that term): First Law: Everything that gives you an advantage over your enemy is good. Second Law: Everything that gives you a disadvantage over your enemy is bad. I don't see an inherent contradict...
[15:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:1) 02Premature Legislation Without Profiling First - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:41] <exec> 08└─Do not engage in Premature Legislation (writing laws, legal definitions) without first understanding what you are trying to fix or define. If you write laws to fix a problem that only affects 0.2% of the overall performance, but the hotspot where the evil spends most of its time is in some other p...
[15:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:00] <exec> 08└─Actually I think Solar has a very high potential for climate change, moving a great deal of heat from point A, via electricity to Point B, plus a lot siphoned off to do work.
[15:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:06] <exec> 08└─There is literally no energy source possible that will satisfy the greens because the whole point is to force the end of Western Civilization because it is based on a high energy lifestyle.
[15:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:07] <exec> 08└─Do you ever pause for a moment when composing your posts and think, "Boy, isn't it terribly ironic that I'm panning alternative energy because of theoretical negative externalities instead of panning current energy sources that have very well documented negative externalities?" "Double-think" is the...
[15:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 2892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:09] <exec> 08└─"green energy" is not defined as "something for nothing, energy with no consequences". AFAIK, it is defined as an energy source where the "fuel" is renewable on a timespan comparable to a human lifetime. E.g. sawdust pellets, made from a 20 year old pine tree, is considered a renewable fuel, but Bra...
[15:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stingraz [3453] (Score:1) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:18] <exec> 08└─Between Feb and March you can see a week long period when output drops by nearly 90%. Then it happens again at the end of March. Interspersed are 2-3 day periods of similar low production. At other times, there are days when production is easily 20x that low. There is no storage system on the planet...
[15:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:21] <exec> 08└─I share your philosophy. Enough with central control over every central aspects of our daily lives. Want to get to work? Pay Big Oil. Want to switch on the light in your room? Pay Big Power. Their abuse never stops, because they have everyone by the balls. We have the technology now to put an end to...
[15:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:24] <exec> 08└─KCALOSAN That would be coastal California? Uh-huh - I guess I should have known better. Coastal regions have their own weather patterns, and I didn't think about that at all. I don't know where to look for a similar chart, but each day, I look at the local weather from NOAA in DeQueen, Ar. We genera...
[15:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Solar, Wind, Hydro - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 1578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:28] <exec> 08└─Micro-hydro is another option for those whose property affords them access to water courses. With enough head and step-down pipes you can drive a nice little turbine to supplement what you get with wind and solar. Of course, hydro is vulnerable to drought or flood, as solar is vulnerable to clouds a...
[15:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, no... - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:37] <exec> 08└─You remind me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] By the way, where were you in 1986? Hmmm, I wonder.
[15:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why ask us? - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:41] <exec> 08└─"Shouldn't we let the scientists on the ground determine this rather than speculating from half a world away?" Probably but who cares. Though I'm not the original poster we're just talking. People can talk and speculate. This isn't a scientific journal. It's a discussion board. "The bacteria implica...
[15:05:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] 02Re:Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:34] <exec> 08└─I do like these thought experiments, and if they can manage some real experiments that'd be pretty great.
[15:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:59] <exec> 08└─You've hit on one of the central problems with this approach. The reason for catching a comet with this harpoon "propulsion" system is to get more delta-v with the same mass than some other propulsion system. But if the harpoon misses, or doesn't stick, or sticks but then breaks loose during acceler...
[15:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GPL implications - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:06:58] <exec> 08└─Linus' unwillingness to adopt GPL3 was mosy likely the primary reason.
[15:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Fact-based news? - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:33] <exec> 08└─There two types of people who get their news from social media. A lot of people certainly do it for the echo chamber, but those are the same people who watch only cable news. Or do you somehow think Fox or MSNBC aren't echo chambers? But there's also a lot of people who get their news from social me...
[15:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:05] <exec> 08└─I know I'm responding to an AC, and I have no idea who will reply back, but the article nowhere says "drank four to eight litres of Coke a day." It says "up to 10 litres" a day. Also "she had developed an addiction to Coca-Cola and would get withdrawal symptoms, including "the shakes", if she went w...
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, but - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─I do this a lot actually. But it's never directly copying and pasting someone else's code. If you do that the damn thing won't even compile most likely. You're gonna get five lines from them that need to fit into your thousand line file, so what are the odds that they're using the exact same variabl...
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing to know to become a journalist either . - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─I think you're completely correct. I remember an anecdote from a maths student, decades ago, so maybe I remember it wrong. Can you still do the long division [wikipedia.org] that you learned in primary school? Then read on & shiver.. He told me, that in the first month of the first year of undergrad...
[15:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:"How do I make a website red" - 06You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─I agree that some university folks teaching humanities feel the same way, but I consider it more of a problem that kids are getting math taught wrong and badly from the moment they first enter school, because that scares them away from it before they can even start to learn it properly.
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[16:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02The problem with this - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:56] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't quantum computing be simultaneously set and not set to have a major funding boost?
[16:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:The problem with this - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:57] <exec> 08└─No, but I feel for the numerous cats that may or may not be killed by this initiative.
[16:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem with this - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:59] <exec> 08└─No, but I feel for the numerous cats that may and may not be killed by this initiative.
[16:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem with this - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:01] <exec> 08└─I am non-deterministic as to whether or quantum computing is a gigantic intellectual masturbation.
[16:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem with this - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:02] <exec> 08└─Only if funded with quantum money.
[16:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Cool story bro - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:13] <exec> 08└─Indeed, what's the next step? 7+1 channel sound? I second the idea of the normal res smartphone. My dream device has swappable battery, couple of sd slots (1 normal size sd) gnu linux userland w/sandbox for android envs, hardware keyboard, tilt screen for tabletop op, SDR (no independent radio chip...
[16:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Cool story bro - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:15] <exec> 08└─I'm unsure that a lower resolution will in fact reduce power consumption considerably. I've read a few discussions on android boards where users did exactly that and found no meaningful gain. If you still want to try it I think it's not particularly hard on a rooted android phone.
[16:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:32 GB will not hold my music collection - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:17] <exec> 08└─storing more than 380 hours of lossless music is sooooo critical.
[16:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:32 GB will not hold my music collection - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:18] <exec> 08└─It's gotta be lossless, otherwise you can't really enjoy it above your car or gym's 80dB noise floor. /s
[16:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:32 GB will not hold my music collection - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:20] <exec> 08└─Sure. After all, there's already so much noise at those places, it is super important that you don't add even more noise. ;-)
[16:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Focus - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:21] <exec> 08└─At what pixel density in 5.5" device, does the human eye stop being able to discern any difference?
[16:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Focus - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:23] <exec> 08└─Screen size isn't relevant when talking about pixel density. Density is based on zize already, and I think Apple called 330ppi "retina", although I think quite a few people can see a bit better than that. That's certainly in the ballpark though.
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What is 4K? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:25] <exec> 08└─What is 4K exactly? Can I get that in units of measure a normal male would comprehend? Like say number of blades on a razor? Is it like 6 blades or are we approaching 7? Yes I jest. But it seems entirely and utterly pointless. Simply put, much like additional blades, ti is a marketing gimmick and wo...
[16:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is 4K? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:27] <exec> 08└─4K is 4000. It's a count, not a measure. In this case, the number of horizontal pixels. Well, actually they rounded it up. Great for marketing; they say 4K, but you get only 3840. Anyway, previous names went with the line number —like 1080p —, which would make this only 2K, but hey, marketing wa...
[16:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Exigent circumstances. - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:34] <exec> 08└─True. Remember that the Federal Government defines "imminent" to mean "maybe, sometime in the unforeseeable future" so the entire question here is: what do the Feds mean when they use any common word? To trust the Feds to use language to mean what it means, is to be supremely gullible. But this rhet...
[16:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exigent circumstances. - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:36] <exec> 08└─I don't care what they mean. My constitutional rights are non-negotiable.
[16:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Exigent circumstances. - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:38] <exec> 08└─I don't care what they mean. My constitutional rights are non-negotiable. you are correct; but not in the way you think. or want.
[16:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02s/in the same room/in the same room alone/ - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:42] <exec> 08└─At Alta Bates in Oakland, the dead body of the insightful psychiatrist who made that fatal mistake was found fully an hour after she disappeared.
[16:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fusion Centers - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─> So will ill gotten information now flow in reverse, from local to federal authorities? That is what fusion centers [publicintegrity.org] are for.
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:58] <exec> 08└─Which is why doctors, lawyers, and other high-profile professions don't have them, right? Oh wait... Unions, like any organization, can get top heavy if the members don't actively resist the tendency, but so long as the executives are soaking up the lion's share of the profits there's a good argumen...
[16:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─Which is why doctors, lawyers, and other high-profile professions don't have them, right? Oh wait...
[16:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, most programmers do not want to be involved in a union for the same reason they prefer contract work: They do no like bosses micromanaging their work. Being in a union is the worst of both worlds, because now you have TWO bosses - one that's giving you as small a paycheck as they can get a...
[16:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Teh Math's - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:07] <exec> 08└─Is that payout including the attorney fees?
[16:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Who are the class members? - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:09] <exec> 08└─Are Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel the only respondents? I worked for Apple in 1995 and 1996. At the time the San Jose Mercury News reported that the salaries of Apple's Senior Engineers was if I remember correctly $20,000.00 less then the average for Senior Engineers throughout Silicon Valley. When...
[16:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So how much impact is it to them? - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:10] <exec> 08└─2014 Net Income Available to Common, per Marketwatch: Intel: $11.7 B Apple: $39.51 B Google: $13.93 B Adobe: $268.4 M Total: $65.2 Billion Settlement amount to one year total NIAC: .69% About 7/10th of a percent of net income available to common shareholders. You bet, the Class Action system surely...
[16:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Already changing the world - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:20] <exec> 08└─Huh. I just tried it on my iPhone and was able to read the whole article in a single page again. Weird. Guess they don't think mobile users will stick around and go through a dozen useless pages. Anyone who is interested in this subject should really take a look at that article. The author really pu...
[16:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Already changing the world - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:22] <exec> 08└─It has been written that the Model 3 won't look like other cars. That would make me assume they intend to depart from the classic ponton shape (hood, cabin, boot; the single reason the Model S has a hood and a boot hatch is to appeal to conservative car buyers). If we assume they have usability in m...
[16:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Re:Already changing the world - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:23] <exec> 08└─single reason the Model S has a hood and a boot hatch is to appeal to conservative car buyers
[16:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Already changing the world - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:25] <exec> 08└─Of course I thought the 2,20 m over the old Smart would be used for useful things. Like a lounge, or a massive cargo area. The Smart was just used to point out how far forward the driver can be moved without feeling cramped. Likewise, I didn't mean that there should be no access to the "trunk". It's...
[16:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already changing the world - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:27] <exec> 08└─I love how it has near the beginning: Tesla Motors has a secret plan, first secretly announced back in 2006. I'm not sure that the word secret means what he thinks it means.
[16:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I fit that description - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:29] <exec> 08└─> Tesla is the only company that truly gets EVs and how they can employ information technology intelligently, They also Big Data the ever-living shit out of their owners. Until this year the GPS didn't even work without an operational cellular connection. Every move you make, every breath you take,...
[16:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already changing the world - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:30] <exec> 08└─a single page when someone linked me to it 3 weeks ago, but now it's been split into 10 pages and the site wants you to log in before getting past page 1.
[16:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:35] <exec> 08└─> As long as the thing can do ~300 miles on a charge and is actually at or a hair less[incentives] than 35k.. The $35K number is without incentives. The federal EV tax credit is based on the number of previous sales by a manufacturer. Tesla expects to exceed the threshold for incentives by the time...
[16:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:36] <exec> 08└─Can these things operate at -30 degrees? What is their range and charge time like at that temperature? If they can't compete in the worst conditions the continental US can throw at them, there wont be much demand outside of luxury buyer markets and pristine weather locations. The extra weight of the...
[16:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─Teslas are very popular in Norway [cnn.com]. Are your driving conditions more extreme than Norway's? Tesla in snow on 14% grade defeating other cars: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I am also concerned about what happens when these sorts of vehicles meet local wildlife. An...
[16:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─A single car does not have to meet every usage scenario. It probably won't tow a 15,000 pound boat, climb a sand dune, or wade through three feet of mud. But then, those aren't usual scenarios for the vast majority of drivers. Honestly, if it functions fine above 20F, it'll be fine for the 90% or mo...
[16:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:41] <exec> 08└─Can these things operate at -30 degrees?
[16:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"can be pre-ordered" a year before it ships. - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:43] <exec> 08└─I have a really cool idea for a killer app and am now accepting preorders. Checks or money orders drawn on a US bank, or international money orders or bank drafts may be mailed to: Michael David Crawford 650 NW Irving St Portland OR 97209 USA
[16:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score:2) 02Doubt - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:44] <exec> 08└─I call bullshit. Just read the summary. "Tesla is building an enormous lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Nevada". A company doing domestic manufacturing? IMPOSSIBLE, I've been told on good authority outsourcing has stolen all jobs. And manufacturing being done without the use of slave la...
[16:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doubt - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:46] <exec> 08└─> I've been told that domestic workers, especially (gasp) unionized ones, have literally destroyed the possibility of any poor company making ANY profit. It will be a factory of robots. [cleantechnica.com]
[16:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doubt - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:48] <exec> 08└─Rising fuel prices can make local manufacturing competitive.
[16:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02LiFE - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:49] <exec> 08└─Why lithopoly instead of lithoiron that is less toxic and has nearly same power due to nearly flat discharge curve and last 10 times longer?
[16:47:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Oblig - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:53] <exec> 08└─The "robot" installed at this first Burger-G restaurant looked nothing like the robots of popular culture. It was not hominid like C-3PO or futuristic like R2-D2 or industrial like an assembly line robot. Instead it was simply a PC sitting in the back corner of the restaurant running a piece of soft...
[16:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh.. there will be a Rosie the robot - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:03] <exec> 08└─Tell me more of this replacement for Ross the poolboy...
[16:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I want a receptionist not a robot - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:04] <exec> 08└─Voice-recognition telephone systems DO NOT RESPOND TO MY VOICE. "Thank you for calling Acer Customer Service. To get you started, please tell us how we can help you." "Technical support." "You sound like you're trying to order a pizza. May we suggest our extra-spicy buffalo wings." ProTip: This does...
[16:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Snuck up? - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:06] <exec> 08└─Nothing snuck up on us. I figured the automat would make a comeback. But this time as a hybrid robotic/restaurant setup. Take McDonalds for example. They are now trialing kiosks to take orders from customers. Next thing you know they have an automated assembly line for making fries, burgers and nugg...
[16:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Walk-through - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:08] <exec> 08└─For now, at least, it relies on human components: about five employees involved in prepping, assembling, and expediting behind the store’s façade.
[16:48:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Seems like... - 06Graphene "Decorated" with Lithium Becomes a Superconductor - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:14] <exec> 08└─It looks like it isn't a technological triumph (better superconductors exists), but the actual success was the confirmation of that computer model they used for predicting the behaviour.
[16:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:A bit of overstatement - 06The Global Village Idiot - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:41] <exec> 08└─If they could, they would put cameras on every street corner and door, and feed the video to facial recognition algorithms.
[16:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:23] <exec> 08└─That's why you have things like regional grids...like we already have. Granted decentralized power generation through multiple sources would essentially nullify this especially once we move more to an onsite generation model. But hey why let things like intelligent infrastructure design come into a...
[16:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My opinion - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:28] <exec> 08└─> KCALOSAN That would be coastal California That is right in the middle of the san fernando valley. Coastal, being near a body of water, would tend to have sustained winds even at night.
[16:50:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02ruminants are fragile - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:51] <exec> 08└─My kids are into sheep and goats. The daughter in law has been workng with them all her life. Their digestive systems are easily upset, and we've lost animals for unexplainable reasons. Little to nothing upsets them, and when their digestive system is out of whack, it is often fatal. To make things...
[16:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ruminants are fragile - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:53] <exec> 08└─I remember reading somewhere, I think it was here, that plants can detect when under attack (and adjacent plants can 'hear' when other plants are being eaten) and they release chemicals to deter predators and warn other plants to do the same. I found it, it was in the comments of one of the threads...
[16:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cyanogenic glycosides, most likely. - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:58] <exec> 08└─“The cause of death of the saigas is hemorrhagic septicemia,” Steffen Zuther, a German researcher and the international coordinator of the Astana-based Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, told the TV channel. Hemorrhagic septicemia — which scientists believe was rapidly spread acr...
[16:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:42] <exec> 08└─I own the property, so it's mine. They can't force restrictions on my private property merely because it could potentially be abused. Fuck you. No one owns the spectrum. Where in the US constitution does it say the government has the power to take control of the spectrum? Nowhere. Therefore, the fed...
[16:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another strike against my criminal life. - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:52:55] <exec> 08└─I published a copy of DeCSS protected by a ROT13 cypher. Circumventing my copy protection would have been a violation of the DMCA. Pot meet kettle.
[16:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What did the FCC do before? - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:20] <exec> 08└─> It just takes a few electronic components, some solder, and know-how, the latter being easier to obtain than today than ever, not that it was ever hard. Really? It should be obvious to you that flashing firmware is 100x more convenient than re-soldering a circuit board. That is, after all, the rea...
[16:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"opportunities for journalists" - 06Automation in the Newsroom - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:47] <exec> 08└─to do what they do best: publish their stories on websites that take ten minutes to load over a T-1 line. The reason all the traditional print media was only too happy to bend over and take it like a journalist when Facebook, uh... "offered" to publish their stories for them, is that they don't know...
[16:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:"Carbonated" or "Super-sweet"? - 06Carbonated Drinks Linked With Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest of Cardiac Origin - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:05] <exec> 08└─Okay, you caught my attention there about the cranberry juice, but Google says otherwise. Cranberry juice is used for urinary infections because the low pH (high acidity) makes the urine acidic, killing infection.
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[17:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Good. - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:56] <exec> 08└─Advertising poisons everything. Unmarked advertising is worse still.
[17:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I saw this on TV - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─I was flipping channels and saw this reported on a broadcast tv news show which surprised me given how niche it is. But what really blew me away was that the reporter pronounced it "mashinima" which sounded japanese to me. I've always said it "makinima" sort of like "deus ex machina" but with a shor...
[17:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem with this - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:09] <exec> 08└─I am on a wait and see hold pattern. If they can provably, with a real system not a simulation or just theory, crack even just an 8 bit encryption faster than a traditional system it will have earned my respect. Until then it is the largest piece of vaporware since snake-oil itself.
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem with this - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─The smart people who are roping in VCs with promises of "the next HUGE thing, go ahead and read all the publications (snerk!)" will make sure that the money wave collapses on top of them.
[17:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What is 4K? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:33] <exec> 08└─Anon is in jest. Anyway, another article puts this display at 806 ppi. I just found this [wikipedia.org]... guess we ought to call it XXXXHDPI pixel density! "Cinematic" 4K is 4096×2160. Might as well call it 4.1K!
[17:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What is 4K? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:34] <exec> 08└─The one good thing about high resolutions in this size is that it helps virtual reality. Not only can you pop your phone into a product like Google Cardboard or something more fancy, but having the panels on the market means that similar sized panels (~5.5 inches) will make their way into standalone...
[17:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where the fuck is my 8k monitor? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:36] <exec> 08└─Why is it on a phone and far too small?
[17:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Where the fuck is my 8k monitor? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:38] <exec> 08└─It's simply more expensive to make larger high resolution panels, and demand for smartphones and tablets eclipsed PCs. HP, Dell, and Apple each have 27-inch 5K (5120 × 2880) displays for around $2,000. A typical use case for that would be editing 4K video, since you can have the full-sized video al...
[17:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mod Points - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─So what happened to mod points? I haven't seen any in many days whereas a week or so ago I had them daily.
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Mod Points - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─Forget to log in? I've gotten 5 a day for some time now.
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Doubt - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk is a big fan of vertical integration. SpaceX and Tesla are both doing as much as possible in-house. It's the old saying "If you want something done right, do it yourself," writ large. Apparently, it works quite well to get companies not directly responsible for the end product out of the c...
[17:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:Seems like... - 06Graphene "Decorated" with Lithium Becomes a Superconductor - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:30] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The Tc is 5.9K, which is far too cold to be of any use. But if the model they use gets better as a result of this data, then the quest for a room-temperature superconductor might be one step closer to reality.
[17:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:46] <exec> 08└─Ahh so now that you know how political parties work I expect you to no longer throw vitriol at Americans.
[17:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:48] <exec> 08└─Anyone who checked Obama's voting record and history could tell he was a liar.
[17:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Beware fortunetellers - 06IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:22] <exec> 08└─I see less jobs in your future, humans.
[17:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:It's amazing these things are endangered... - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:11] <exec> 08└─...they run faster than any natural predator,
[17:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ruminants are fragile - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:16] <exec> 08└─Isn't the natural order of these things, a cycle of some sort. There is plenty of food/plants. Animals eat food. Animal population goes up Food population goes down There is little food. Animals die Plants grow back There is plenty of food ...
[17:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02String Theory is not even a theory - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:17] <exec> 08└─String Theory is not even a theory - theory is context of scientific theory, not some random "idea" that is called colloquially a theory on TV. For a theory to exist, it must give testable predictions. Secondly, science ONLY has theories. When you hear something that is called "law", that just tends...
[17:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:I know exactly why this is being done - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:45] <exec> 08└─In other words, some assholes have made certain that we can't have nice things.
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[18:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02I'm a fag! - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:57] <exec> 08└─I'm a fag! I sucks cocks! LOL!
[18:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:I'm a fag! - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:58] <exec> 08└─How about you kill yourself instead
[18:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a fag! - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:00] <exec> 08└─-1, Don't-Feed-the-Trolls
[18:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2, Funny) 02Schrödinger's GPGPU - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:02] <exec> 08└─So your graphics processor may get killed if you use it with a quantum computer? :-)
[18:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:I saw this on TV - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's what they call it. You've correctly nailed the pronunciation.
[18:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool story bro - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah how about they leave out the Super Orgasm-Sized Resolution and instead put a battery in there that can actually hold a charge for a whole week. No, that's just crazy talk.
[18:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool story bro - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:39] <exec> 08└─Reducing resolution via software is not quite the same as using native low res, there's an upscale phase and there are the old number of individual pixel to switch. I don't imply it makes a difference, anyway.
[18:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Focus - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.itcexperts.com/wp-content/uploads/Capability-of-the-human-visual-system.pdf [itcexperts.com] Check out the second-to-last page for a range of estimates. For VR, which can be applicable to a phone [wikipedia.org], view distance is close and lenses are used. 8K and 16K resolutions are indus...
[18:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Re:Where the fuck is my 8k monitor? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/ [google.com] Two birds, one stone!
[18:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03novak [4683] (Score:2) 02I am glad this exists for only one reason - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:56] <exec> 08└─There's really only one reason for this to exist. 4K on a phone is beyond pointless. However, the idea that we might soon have 4K VR devices...
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:35] <exec> 08└─Right. Higher dues. Greater restrictions on membership. Absolute veto power over where their members can work. And a legal mandate preventing competition.
[18:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Humanoid robots - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:35] <exec> 08└─I never got why robots should be humanoid anyway. Backwards compatibility.
[18:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why ask us? - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:29] <exec> 08└─Hmm... could be some sort of environmentally triggered epiphyte toxin in the grasses they eat, that just happens to have hit all at once, in a large area.
[18:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Jumping ahead... - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:29] <exec> 08└─Astronomers may find proof of the multiverse only later to find out that our theory of gravity is incomplete, and the updated version explains the observations.
[18:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't violate orbital mechanics - 06 NASA to 'Lasso' a Comet to Hitchhike Across the Solar System - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:54] <exec> 08└─If you stored the energy released by spooling out the cable, and used it to wind it in again and slingshot past you could theoretically double that.
[18:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:30] <exec> 08└─You own the hardware, but you don't own the frequency space it emits into. It's like owning the gun, but not owning the target you fire it at. You cannot shoot at anything you like just because you own the gun. Similarly, you cannot emit any radio waves you like just because you own the emitter.
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[19:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Utah? but dat's in Merica! - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:55] <exec> 08└─Move all the dangerous germ labs to The Overseas. Ain't nobody in those Overseas except sandniggas dat deserve to get killed by our germ weapons anyways.
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Schrödinger's GPGPU - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:07] <exec> 08└─Hmm..depends on which universe you are in.
[19:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Funny) 02MIAOW, what do we have here? - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─MIAOW guys, don't be too hard on this project MIAOW because it's open hardware MIAOW and forever. sure, you can't pick on up on newegg right MIAOW but maybe one day you will. MIAOW i don't know about you guys but that's pretty dang exciting to me!
[19:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nyozi - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:10] <exec> 08└─As someone mentioned on... slashdot(?) when this was mentioned the other day, nyozi is 'feature complete' for a subset of features, has a complete toolchain to program it, and fits in an affordable FPGA *TODAY*. Compared to that, MIAOW is just a student research project that will only ever amount to...
[19:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Miaow! - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:12] <exec> 08└─will there be good graphics drivers?
[19:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Miaow! - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:13] <exec> 08└─They can't do much worse than AMD currently doesn.
[19:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Waterdeep - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:15] <exec> 08└─Many-core Integrated Accelerator Of the Waterdeep
[19:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02perfect for elite linux gamers - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:17] <exec> 08└─Because games are all about graphics, and you need a more powerful GPU than CPU if you want to brag about your elite status as an elite gamer.
[19:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:perfect for elite linux gamers - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:18] <exec> 08└─I'm going to glory hole in about an hour or so. Would you like to join me and let me fuck your ass?
[19:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:Good. - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:25] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the age of social. As social "peer" recommendations from strangers become more and more ubiquitous and influential, expect to see more and more companies trying to co-opt the system. We're already seeing it with astroturfing, fake profiles, "review extortion," and "reputation repair" serv...
[19:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:I saw this on TV - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:28] <exec> 08└─> I was flipping channels and saw this reported on a broadcast tv news show which surprised me given how niche it is. Niche? Machinima has, as I type this, 12,617,425 subscribers on Youtube. To give you an idea, that's as many as follow The Ellen Show (12,437,394) or Justin Bieber (12,612,157). I'm...
[19:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Informative) 02Who to Thank - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:30] <exec> 08└─Why yes, it was #GamerGate that brought this to the FTC's attention almost a year ago via email campaign.
[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:1) 02Re:Who to Thank - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─WRONGTHINK ALERT! Your punishment is forthcoming, but, in the meantime, always remember: Objective evidence and knowledge is inherently misogynistic because there are disproportionate numbers of women in STEM fields.
[19:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:Who to Thank - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:34] <exec> 08└─Oh snap, I wasn't aware of that. Which one of their project/mission/operations was this?
[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 0230 years... - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:35] <exec> 08└─why only 30 years and why only the company Machina inc? shouldn't that be the law for all companies and forever?
[19:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 02Re:30 years... - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:37] <exec> 08└─This. This is like a plea bargain for breaking in entering including a promise that, for the next 5 years, I'll refrain from breaking and entering.
[19:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:30 years... - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─... into a particular building.
[19:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:What is 4K? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:15] <exec> 08└─What is 4K exactly?
[19:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02NY Times article - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:41] <exec> 08└─New York Times article on this can be found here [nytimes.com]. It's paywalled but accessible if you haven't used their service for free too much in the last week. I subscribe at $15/month. A bargain.
[19:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A bit of overstatement - 06The Global Village Idiot - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:47] <exec> 08└─Facial recognition algorithms are being developed right now.
[19:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:No humans needed - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:37] <exec> 08└─I think it is important that we err on the side of caution. If we don't know enough to make a decision, it is best we assume there is consciousness. Also, I added the different tiers of "AI" to cover scenarios where different rules should apply.
[19:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:16] <exec> 08└─And yet we build solar farms in the desert, and the city heat island persists! I point out your own argument seems to suggest even you believe there is a significant environmental effect to SOLAR.
[19:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I get it. It makes sense - 06New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:59] <exec> 08└─See this [soylentnews.org] post. Where in the constitution does it specifically give the federal government the power to regulate the airwaves? That would require a constitutional amendment. No, despite some nonsensical interpretations of the constitution, the commerce clause does not (and was not m...
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[20:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02diseases that are uniquely human - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:57] <exec> 08└─Anthrax is bad, it effects also non Homo sapiens. Can we please concentrate on diseases (i.e. smallpox) that effects only humans? The other habitants of this planet don't deserve to suffer from out extinction.
[20:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:diseases that are uniquely human - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:58] <exec> 08└─Anthrax is also common. Its found in the environment naturally, just about everywhere in the world. http://www.livescience.com [livescience.com]
[20:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't Stop the Signal - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:00] <exec> 08└─> The discovery of live anthrax outside a containment area at a military lab Biology wants to be free! Those fuckers better not forget it either.
[20:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nyozi - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:15] <exec> 08└─like so often happens in academic research projects
[20:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:perfect for elite linux gamers - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:21] <exec> 08└─No thanks. Your cock is too short to reach through the wall.
[20:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:perfect for elite linux gamers - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:22] <exec> 08└─Your dad wasn't complaining last night.
[20:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:perfect for elite linux gamers - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:24] <exec> 08└─Because games are all about graphics, and you need a more powerful GPU than CPU if you want to brag about your elite status as an elite gamer.
[20:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I saw this on TV - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:37] <exec> 08└─Movies aren't niche either, but reporting on manipulative advertising like press junkets is niche.
[20:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who to Thank - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:41] <exec> 08└─> Oh snap, I wasn't aware of that. Which one of their project/mission/operations was this? Neither was I, so I decided to find out if the claim is legit. As far as I can tell the only connection is that the guy [gamergate.me] who "leaked" the contract is also a gamergater. There was barely any atte...
[20:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02So wait... - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:45] <exec> 08└─They got busted for not disclosing when they were compensated for an endorsement, and the penalty is that they have to disclose when they're paid for endorsements for the next 30 years? The penalty is they have to do what they were supposed to do all along? Seriously?
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So wait... - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:47] <exec> 08└─I think you just discovered that the system works. I'm sure they'll do it again with different people. Sign a waiver saying you understand you go to jail if someone is made an example of, but other than that, the system works. They can't catch all the flies so they'll just get few. These were just w...
[20:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Gotta start paying attention - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:01] <exec> 08└─Last time I looked into this, nobody was even sure quantum computing was even real. Now they are throwing big money at it. I suppose I can go back to sleep if someone will wake me when they can entangle qbits located in different cities.
[20:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Focus - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:24] <exec> 08└─Didja notice the bit about Cardboard?
[20:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:2) 02Re:Where the fuck is my 8k monitor? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:32] <exec> 08└─Then where are my dirt-cheap 1080p projectors?
[20:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Exigent circumstances. - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:49] <exec> 08└─The 'exigent circumstances' thing has been around for a long time, but it certainly seems to be used a lot more recently. Just after 9/11, the constitution was completely ignored for weeks? months? After the Boston bombing, they locked down the ENTIRE city looking for a single known-injured man. And...
[20:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:But... - 06DOJ Tells ALL Federal Cops to Get a Warrant for Stingray Use - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:51] <exec> 08└─If they need a warrant how can the local po-po listen in on their GF's phone calls OR eavesdrop on the mayor[or for the mayor] for some blackmail intel? This would legitimize the stingray's usage and we can't have that.
[20:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:who cares what it looks like? - 06Tesla Model 3 to Cost $35,000, Could Ship in 2017 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:51] <exec> 08└─Fuck yeah! I know I care. Looking good is definitely better than looking bad.
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[21:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can't Stop the Signal - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:07] <exec> 08└─The current psychopathic regime has always toyed with the idea of mass suicide.
[21:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Looks like they found capain trips - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:08] <exec> 08└─The only explanation is that they finally developed a strain that was acceptable for a weapon. I'm sure they didn't bother with any kind of cure since they are in the business of killing people, not saving them.
[21:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:3, Funny) 02Viva La Resistors! - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:33] <exec> 08└─the processor is a resistor-transistor logic implementation of AMD's open source Southern Islands instruction set architecture.
[21:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Viva La Resistors! - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:34] <exec> 08└─Age XOR Ignorance
[21:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta start paying attention - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─They still aren't sure quantum computing is real (or rather, that what we've done so far is real quantum computing); particularly the adiabatic method (e.g. D-Wave). Long-distance entanglement is old news though. It's generally referred to a "quantum teleportation" in pop science.
[21:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta start paying attention - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:14] <exec> 08└─It's nice to see that someone else has notice that quantum computing has yet to compute anything practical. Even the D-Wave (whose quantum nature is disputed) hasn't computed anything faster than a desktop PC could do it. But on the bright side, it is expensive and fiddly.
[21:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Where the fuck is my 8k monitor? - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.amazon.com/Optoma-HD141X-Theater-Projector-Enabled/dp/B00MK39P92/ [amazon.com] Define dirt cheap. Less than $500? Projectors don't have anything to do with display panels so...
[21:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I am glad this exists for only one reason - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:50] <exec> 08└─Do you know the Hz of typical smartphone displays? Is it 60 Hz?
[21:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:07] <exec> 08└─We've known how it works for a long time, but we also know there isn't much that can be done under the current set of circumstances. Democracy has been dead for a long time at the 5 eyes, which is a great shame. The one hope we have is that the (unelected) employees of the various (unelected) agenci...
[21:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Legal definition? - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:28] <exec> 08└─That would be similarly important as a biological classification of pink unicorns. If we find intelligence, we can try to define it more clearly :-)
[21:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:ruminants are fragile - 0660,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days—No One Knows Why - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:41] <exec> 08└─I remember this one time... at band camp...
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[22:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Everythgin is a bomb!!!!!1!1! - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:59] <exec> 08└─Her initial reaction, she said afterward, was that it might have been a bomb.
[22:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Everythgin is a bomb!!!!!1!1! - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:01] <exec> 08└─I was once at the dock (not in USA) walking by, when this seagul attacked me. Obviously i immediately thought it might be a bomb. But it wasn't. Must've been my lucky day, praise the jebus.
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Everythgin is a bomb!!!!!1!1! - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:02] <exec> 08└─Considering the story down the page, if you're going to attack anything with a puny quadcopter, you should ask the US military to send you deactivated anthrax instead.
[22:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Everythgin is a bomb!!!!!1!1! - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:04] <exec> 08└─Nah, they'll send it to the wrong address.
[22:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02What's to stop a drone from assasinating a CEO? - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─Fail to cross the right palms with silver and the floor-to-ceiling windows of your office tower's corner office are blasted all over South Manhattan. NOW you know why I suffer such terrible insomnia. Have A Nice Day.
[22:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"was a teacher" - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:08] <exec> 08└─Will be fired. Will never work again. Ever.
[22:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"was a teacher" - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:09] <exec> 08└─If he was that much of a dumbass, it is better for the teaching pool if he was removed. Seriously, you're going to buzz a Grand Slam tournament? You don't think anyone would notice?
[22:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"was a teacher" - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─Freedom is for people who don't get caught. We have a place in society for dumbasses. It's called prison. You'll be going there yourself as soon as you do something dumb, dumbfuck.
[22:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Care needed - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:13] <exec> 08└─RC vehicles can be quite dangerous! I had never really considered the danger when I saw drones operated around people, but one day a photographer comes into the office with his cool quad and flew it over our heads. Paper flew everywhere, and it got close enough to get me ducking. A few months later...
[22:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Care needed - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:15] <exec> 08└─mod up dis nigga bro
[22:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Utah? but dat's in Merica! - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:20] <exec> 08└─Move all the dangerous germ labs to The Overseas.
[22:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like they found capain trips - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:26] <exec> 08└─Having it 'accidentally' shipped and released is also good for business.
[22:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Nyozi - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:42] <exec> 08└─My google-fu must be weak today. I can't find your "nyozi" GPU anywhere. Link please : )
[22:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:perfect for elite linux gamers - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─He is a very considerate man.
[22:46:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] 02Re:perfect for elite linux gamers - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:51] <exec> 08└─Because games are all about graphics, and you need a more powerful GPU than CPU if you want to brag about your elite status as an elite gamer.
[22:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:30 years... - 06FTC Settles with Machinima Video Network Over Xbox One Endorsements - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:14] <exec> 08└─I haven't looked at the details, but I'd be willing to bet its a sort of 'probation' period; where the penalty today isn't severe, but if they get caught breaking the rules again in the next 30 years the penalties REALLY ramp up.
[22:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02You must not be a composer - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:54] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Your brain's auditory centers don't But Seriously: It doesn't bother me to listen to Holst's "The Planets" during an artillery barrage. What bothers me is to listen to lossy encodings of "The Planets" during an artillery barrage. To do and notice: Sit quietly in a crowded public place;...
[22:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The cost of opportunity - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:02] <exec> 08└─Those of us that turned down jobs because the pay seemed to be the same between them -- I'd want to get compensated for the costs of lost opportunity, but that would be greedy. I ended up staying in my home state and working somewhere that paid more. But I still think of the opportunities I could ha...
[22:50:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:26] <exec> 08└─You [the collective you] elected a right-wing fear monger. And now he's implementing the stuff he said he would when he was elected.
[22:50:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:A bit of overstatement - 06The Global Village Idiot - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:44] <exec> 08└─When you read his whole blog, he vastly overstates the case.
[22:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:No humans needed - 06Why We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:34] <exec> 08└─I agree with the sentiment, but before starting to think about the potential feelings of an AI I think it would be prudent to think about the very likely feelings of other biological species. I do think that electronic live might be possible, but I don't think we will come close for the upcoming dec...
[22:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:15] <exec> 08└─A parody of your argument is not an agreement with it.
[22:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Windmills cause climate change. Called it. - 06Slowing Wind Energy Production Suffers From Lack of Wind - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:24] <exec> 08└─Nuclear may be interesting but I have to view anyone as an apologist who can't realize the big problem with nuclear. The widespread assumption that nuclear plants were safe was behind the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in its fin...
[22:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:WHICH MultiWorld theory? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:02] <exec> 08└─Well, if the laws of physics change through space then I don't think you will get identical sections. Not unless they change randomly or oscillate or some such. So that would be a different multiworld theory yet.
[22:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:WHICH MultiWorld theory? - 06The Theory of Parallel Universes is not Just Maths – it is Science that can be Tested - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:04] <exec> 08└─You're misunderstanding. *If* the "eternal inflation" model is correct, what it's saying is that the universe is so large that sections of it large enough to form a light cone must be identical. Identical, as in indistinguishable by any test, were it possible to make such tests. (There will, of cour...
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[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02grandma is better than you - 06First Ancient Genome Recovered from Mediterranean Area - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─sequenced the complete genome of a Neolithic woman
[23:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:grandma is better than you - 06First Ancient Genome Recovered from Mediterranean Area - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:00] <exec> 08└─I checked my Facebook daily. I get a friend request from this old ass lady. I know it's your grandma, but I ain't gonna lie. She's rocking that muu muu, and looking all fly. I want to smack your grandma on her wrinkly ass Wrinkly ass, wrinkly ass! I want to smack your grandma on her wrinkly ass Wrin...
[23:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02With everything going on in the world - 06NYC Teacher Arrested for Crashing Drone at U.S. Open - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:19] <exec> 08└─Good to know the propaganda is working. Carry on and if you see something for gods' sake say something! Oh my, the vapors!
[23:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02That's OK, my lab is still open - 06Pentagon Halts Work With "Bioterror" Germs at 9 Labs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:35] <exec> 08└─It's in the Taco Bell bathroom, active M-F from 11:30 AM to 1 PM.
[23:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Whatever - 06Say Hello to MIAOW, the First Open-source Graphics Processor - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:04] <exec> 08└─So another Uni group did a student project. Good for them I guess, some actual education obviously happened. But we hear these sort of open hardware stories on a regular basis and nothing happens. It is like the obligatory alt energy story every week, breakthrough claimed and disappears without a r...
[23:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta start paying attention - 06Quantum Computing Set for a Funding Boom? Intel Invests $50 Million - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:45] <exec> 08└─Long distance entanglement must start as short distance entanglement. That is the problem. That makes QM no more fancier than two copies of a letter neither of which you know the contents of yet.
[23:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cool story bro - 06Sony Xperia Z5 Premium: "World's First 4K Smartphone" - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:03] <exec> 08└─It's all about having less pixels to power and light up, not about scaling. The screen is the most power-hungry component of your phone. Unless the people on the Android forums were swapping their displays out with lower resolution screens, they are still lighting up the same number of pixels.
[23:48:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 902 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:00] <exec> 08└─fully agreed. I was once the golden boy, when I was younger. I always had a good paying job at a famous bay area company. up until I hit 40. then it was quite a different deal. now that I'm over 50, I've gone more than 8 months without a job offer. and I -am- a good software (and hardware) engineer...
[23:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Software Developer's Union is probably necess - 06Silicon Valley Wage-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Settled at $415 Million - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:10] <exec> 08└─Unions protect their employees from predatory managers who feel that minimum wage is too high and you should be working for them for free to make up for it. In my last four jobs, I've worked probably two or three thousand hours of unpaid and unrecorded overtime. I'm given the option of quitting if I...
[23:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Humanoid robots - 06The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:50:13] <exec> 08└─It's an API problem. Humanoid robots will be able to use everything designed with a human API. Thus, we will only ever have to design things with a human API, instead of both a robot API and a human API for override or emergency purposes. Plus, it makes the robots backward-compatible with all of our...
[23:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's pretty simple - 06The Global Village Idiot - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:50:43] <exec> 08└─How about "The Internet is Skynet" then? Or how one of the celebrities in New Zealand is a bloody sheep [wikipedia.org]? I'm never particularly proud to say I'm from New Zealand with idiocy of that quality going on, and now some fuckwits want to change the flag to represent a bunch of halfwits we ca...
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