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[00:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:53] <exec> 08└─Because there are some pretty cool presets you can create for your home lighting. Automatic lights on/off, dimming at night, for color changing bulbs you can have preset color schemes for fun mood lighting. I personally have none of it, but I see the appeal.
[00:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:55] <exec> 08└─Hue will be relegated to niche product status.
[00:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:57] <exec> 08└─> Hue will be relegated to niche product status. It isn't already?
[00:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:59] <exec> 08└─Niche enough that it doesn't even have an entry on wikipedia it seems...? The Philips Hue is a premium-priced LED lighting system
[00:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:01] <exec> 08└─Apparently the Philips controller no longer talks to third-party bulbs using the ZigBee standard. They claim the move is designed to ensure that all “Friends of Hue” bulbs support the same features [meethue.com].
[00:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02I have actually bought Phillips light bulbs... - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:02] <exec> 08└─I am thinking of sending them a note explaining that while I was interested in their various (passive) LED offerings in the past, I no longer am. I actually spent about $40 on a Phillips LED light bulb (model 9E26A19DCAAAA) in the past year and a half.
[00:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:what's best for China - 06China May be Biggest Electric Car Market; Plant to Open in Nevada - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:21:12] <exec> 08└─if i've learned anything from the Chinese government officials it's that they will do whatever is in their own best interest, Crazy thought, but, perhaps they consider not needing SCUBA* gear to go outside in their best interest. The recent Red Alert in Beijing clocked concentrations that were i...
[00:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:29] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you shouldn't have let so many immigrants in then. Quite, down with this sort of thing: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
[00:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:30] <exec> 08└─Confused! Can't tell if serious or troll....Trump is to blame.
[00:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:33] <exec> 08└─This is why I'm truly ashamed of this country ATM, we went from a country that looked at true horrors like the Atlantic wolf packs and the Kamikaze and refused to back down to a country where the young demand "trigger warnings" at colleges and anybody can make the most random of threats and shut dow...
[00:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:47] <exec> 08└─Censorship is bad, and government-mandated censorship is intolerable.
[00:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:48] <exec> 08└─We're at war, boy. Censoring your enemy's propaganda, or at the bare minimum not broadcasting it daily and in the process encourage potential traitors, is pretty much part of the war plan. Not every loser looking for a cause should be able to easily find materials showing them how they will be someo...
[00:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:50] <exec> 08└─> band on liquids ? [wp.com]
[00:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:22] <exec> 08└─I looked, but couldn't find a single word about fiber and packets or bits in the constitution. And while you think the first Amendment allows all speech, (even when you KNOW damn well it does not), it does not compel the government, at any level to carry that speech. You do not have a constitutional...
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Too funny : ) - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:29] <exec> 08└─I love this stuff! Small government people argue that private industry can do it faster and more efficient than a government organization. But then we have things like this where private industry can't even come close to a government organization. In this case the private industry is so bad at compe...
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:frightening - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:21] <exec> 08└─Man, I don't know why Unistaters put up with that shit. You actually pay to receive calls and SMS's.
[00:24:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hogger [1090] 02Re:Improvements - 06VDI Comes to the Raspberry Pi - 595 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─I use it almost daily on 64bit Debian. I just installed the latest one (13.2.1) yesterday via their deb file. It installed and worked ok. What prompted me to get the latest version was an upgrade of my kernel to 4.x, and moving citrix apps across the screen was leaving trails. I'd never had that pro...
[00:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:Load Resistance - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 2762 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:35] <exec> 08└─A more likely scenario would be an open neutral leg or failed voltage regulating transformer. Any properly built home in the last 60+ years would have its panelbox neutral and ground line connected together. The utility transformer would also be tied right to ground creating a return path but of hig...
[00:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:Surge suppression - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:04] <exec> 08└─That's true. A number of years ago, I was TDY to London and had to setup US spec computer equipment. So we had transformers to convert the 220 to 120. Part of our setup process involved testing of all of the components prior to use. It was an important event and our shit had to work. So I plugged in...
[00:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:29:11] <exec> 08└─Paladin's Quest's lack of MP
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[01:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:20:59] <exec> 08└─It would be nice to have my entire house work like f.lux [justgetflux.com] does with my computer screens; white sunlight temperature light during the day and orange/red warm light at night. I'm not totally convinced of the claims that it makes you sleep better but it definitely is more comfortable t...
[01:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:00] <exec> 08└─I want to never have to touch a light-switch again. When I walk in a room, it lights up. When I leave, the lights dim to black. When I lie down in my bed at night, the lights dim to black and when I wake and sit up, the lights ramp back up. In the rare case where I need the lights to do something o...
[01:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:02] <exec> 08└─In the rare case where I need the lights to do something out of the ordinary I want to just gesture with my hand and make and have it automagically do what I want.
[01:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Encrypted for (Y)OUR protection - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe. How'd that work out for the coffee pod manufacturer? Incredibly well, unfortunately. $13.9 billion dollars worth of well, to be exact.
[01:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:10] <exec> 08└─I had mistrust for them with their initial "Apple only" launch. It's rarely a good sign.
[01:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:I have actually bought Phillips light bulbs... - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:12] <exec> 08└─Trying to invoke lockins the minute you notice people are eating your market share is virtually never successful. I'm not aware of having purchased any Phillips LED bulbs in the past, but I assure you I won't in the future. I've replaced just about every incandescent and compact florescent bulb in m...
[01:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have actually bought Phillips light bulbs... - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:14] <exec> 08└─> Trying to invoke lockins the minute you notice people are eating your market share is virtually never successful. I've been holding of buying any smart bulbs, waiting for Philiips to do a 2nd generation of theirs with increased lux and decreased prices. Instead of competing based on value they too...
[01:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:I have actually bought Phillips light bulbs... - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:16] <exec> 08└─There are $5 and $10 bulbs on the market (although the 60 W versions are a little pricier than 40 W). I'm guessing you went for that one because it is dimmable?
[01:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have actually bought Phillips light bulbs... - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:18] <exec> 08└─No, I went for if because it fit in a weird ceiling fan fixture, when CFL bulbs did not. I also got 2 incandescent bulbs at the time. Power draw went from 120W (3x40W) ->88W.
[01:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:I have actually bought Phillips light bulbs... - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:19] <exec> 08└─Cree is eating up the market in LED bulbs. They sell out of Home Depot and are good quality and have lots of sizes. They aren't the best, but they're pushing the price point down. I built my house 4 years ago and it was almost all CFL bulbs at the time (incandescents for dimmable and a few odd shape...
[01:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have actually bought Phillips light bulbs... - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:21] <exec> 08└─I want to use an open technology so I know that the software won't be outdated while the bulb is still in the socket.
[01:21:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:what's best for China - 06China May be Biggest Electric Car Market; Plant to Open in Nevada - 557 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:21:27] <exec> 08└─Chinese government's #1 priority: stability. If that means shuffling millions of people to get more jobs to sustain growth, they'll do that. If that means solar, windmills and electric cars so that people don't riot over the inability to breathe, especially in the government's home town, they'll do...
[01:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02madbomber@cock.li - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:41] <exec> 08└─You read that right [boingboing.net] - the threat was sent through the anonymous email account "madbomber@cock.li" Some kid is alternating between laughing his ass off and scared shitless he's going to gitmo.
[01:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:49] <exec> 08└─I'm certain the Indians, er, Native Americans, would agree with you wholeheartedly.
[01:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:53] <exec> 08└─To be fair, e-cigs do contain a bunch of nasty chemicals, which are likely to be trouble regardless of not having had time yet for long-term studies. I don't smoke them, but some guys do seem to take pride in blowing the nastiest-looking giant clouds of smoke, which drift around in ways even cigars...
[01:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:09] <exec> 08└─We're at war, boy.
[01:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:10] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the people arrested for "providing material support to a terrorist organization", which is what the Internet giants and the US media have been doing. I know, you're going to tell me that ISPs are not responsible for the data they carry, nor is google responsible for search results nor t...
[01:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Wait, what? - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:16] <exec> 08└─I missed the memo. What, exactly, happened recently that we should base precautions on?
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─Clinton is as much in the Telcoms pocket as Rubio
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:48] <exec> 08└─And while you think the first Amendment allows all speech, (even when you KNOW damn well it does not)
[01:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:50] <exec> 08└─You missed my point: IF the govt is your ISP, then they shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. I can't force the govt to lay down a fiber to carry my speech, but if I pay them to as my ISP, they don't have the right to choose which speech I, or the companies sending me data, will make th...
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Competition sorely needed - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─Consumer telecoms often tie with airlines for the worst customer satisfaction. Please, let ANYONE compete. This vote is a good test of corporate bribery in D.C.
[01:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:follow the credentials - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─>given how flawed-to-meaningless p values have been demonstrated to be. uh wut? they have to be used with care sure, because stats, but "flawed-to-meaningless"?
[01:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:frightening - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:50] <exec> 08└─Man, I don't know why Unistaters put up with that shit. You actually pay to receive calls and SMS's.
[01:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02this is not helping humanity - 06Ocean Discovery X Prize Competition for Mapping the Sea Floor, Sponsored by Shell - 469 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:06] <exec> 08└─the problem i have with this project is that it's not about helping humanity achieve something new and great, it's about helping shell designing new deep sea robot technologies so that they can drill in the depths of the ocean. what's worse, is that what they are drilling for will continue the ruina...
[01:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Request assylum in Rome - 06Assange Inquisition Closer After Sweden, Ecuador Sign Pact - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:27] <exec> 08└─If no country will protect him, he needs some place where he is safe. The closest place is the Pope's compound. He is being persecuted, so this should be a no brainer.
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[02:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Just saw this one - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:25] <exec> 08└─littlebits.cc - pricey, but cool. and, incase you've been living under a rock for 3 years, Raspbe... you know.
[02:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:26] <exec> 08└─Just Legos....
[02:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02No Spotlights, Please! - 06Tiniest LED Implants Let Probes Illuminate Brain - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:34] <exec> 08└─I think that for some of us, keeping the 'dark corners' of our brains DARK, is a matter of survival in society. Some of that stuff should never have the light force it into attention! You never know what is lurking in someone's mind, and sometimes that is a GOOD thing! ;-)
[02:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:46] <exec> 08└─It gets a lot more complex wen you start considering the vast array of activities once you get on your bed. Setting up a computer to identify them all reliably is a lot more complex than putting a dimmer somewhere. Especially if preventing accidental "full lights" requires pointing a camera at your...
[02:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02An application - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:47] <exec> 08└─If you want your house to look lived-in while you're on vacation, this could do that. Unlike the outlet-centric timers, these will also work with ceiling lights. Has a high amount of variability as well. Add some controlled table radios for audio accompaniment. In normal everyday life, like you, I d...
[02:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:2) 02Re:Encrypted for (Y)OUR protection - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:51] <exec> 08└─Incredibly well indeed! At least for a while. This article [fool.com] suggests they're not doing so good now.
[02:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:21:58] <exec> 08└─They do seem to have the Sony attitude towards standards.
[02:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Cost.. - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:06] <exec> 08└─retro-fitting a house with centrally-controllable electric devices is painful and expensive. "Standards" for home automation are a joke. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.digitaltrends.com [di...
[02:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the ban on liquids [...] was reasonable'' - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:54] <exec> 08└─You thought that because you are poorly informed about how difficult it is to manufacture a binary explosive onboard a commercial aircraft. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [theregister.co.uk] Man, I miss Thomas C. Greene's column in El Reg. -- gewg_
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:01] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the people arrested for "providing material support to a terrorist organization", which is what the Internet giants and the US media have been doing.
[02:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Xenophobe|racist|bigot - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─All hominids evolved in Africa. Any hominids anywhere else are migrants or the descendants of migrants. If the "I was here first" argument holds water, then Red Indians|First Nation folks|Native Americans would have a right to tell all you racist white folks to "Go back where you came from". gewg_
[02:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:27] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed he has been ramping up the crazy slowly?
[02:23:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 376 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:29] <exec> 08└─Clinton is as much in the Telcoms pocket as Rubio. You might want to consider Sanders, even if he doesn't get the nomination if enough people write him in it will send a clear message that NONE of the Dem/Rep candidates are acceptable. Remember: Your vote is like a coupon for a free dinner at your f...
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:36] <exec> 08└─because the fanbase is insane
[02:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Wow! what a First World problem! - 06New York Attorney General to Investigate ISPs Using Customer Speed Results - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:17] <exec> 08└─Getting cheated by an oligopoly
[02:26:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Covalent [43] 02Subject of my Master's Thesis - 06Climate Scientists Focus On Extracting the Carbon Already in Our Air - 863 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:48] <exec> 08└─I analyzed the possibility of using solar power to electrolyze ocean water. The by-products are aqueous calcium hydroxide and chlorine gas. You collect the chlorine gas and sell it to offset part of the cost (or use it to chlorinate city water or water from your desalination plant...it was an involv...
[02:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Load Resistance - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:05] <exec> 08└─IMHO ferroresonant transformers are underrated, meaning, they should be used more. They work by core saturation, BTW, so if input voltage increases, you just get more input current flow, but not more output voltage because the core is saturating (clipping). They're not as efficient as a good switchi...
[02:27:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:''Split phase'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:38] <exec> 08└─It's not always split phase. Some areas will feed you from a 120/208 3 phase Y using two of the three phases. Makes balancing a 3 phase high voltage feeder much easier. If the phases are labeled A, B and C, homes are connected A-B, B-C, C-A to achieve balance. The only downside is appliances expecti...
[02:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02OS - 06CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:51] <exec> 08└─First things first, it depends on the OS. It's certainly possible to write an OS that can guarantee X seconds of sleep within some margin of error. Also, this kind of thing I learned in my second CS class. I guess not everyone is lucky to study a competently built curriculum.
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[03:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just saw this one - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:55] <exec> 08└─I was just looking at this for my kids, looks awesome, but its a lot to spend on something I would have to encourage them to play with.
[03:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:57] <exec> 08└─... and if LEGO is a bit to childish for the intended audience there is Meccano. http://www.meccano.com [meccano.com]
[03:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02mod topic - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:59] <exec> 08└─How about $30. ?
[03:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02First - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─Don't go yakking about "STEM".
[03:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02tinker toys - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:03] <exec> 08└─Suggested age range: 15-18
[03:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:21:21] <exec> 08└─> the vast array of activities once you get on your bed It isn't a case of identifying all the "activities" on your bed. You only need to identify the cases where you want the lights to react. > requires pointing a camera at your bed "for the lights only". You don't need a "camera" you just need 3d-...
[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overreaction? - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:22] <exec> 08└─That's precisely the point I was trying to make. Until people have experienced this type of humongous false alarm, they're going to demand that any threat, no matter how farfetched, results in the most prudent course of action, which means disruption of everyday life. Terrorists and random jerks wil...
[03:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─The federal government is supposed to just be a mutual defense compact for the states
[03:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Relaxation - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:41] <exec> 08└─Visualizing this could be relaxing. It might.
[03:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:follow the credentials - 06Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:49] <exec> 08└─"there are lots of serious academic fields where the same people are always co-authoring papers." Name three.
[03:26:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Load Resistance - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 1089 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:37] <exec> 08└─Your friend was correct about the voltage swings, although this is done by the power company our of necessity. The reason why your friend mentioned unbalanced power levels on either side of the AC line is because, in the event of a massive power-failure, specially-trained linemen have to sever the p...
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[04:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's real simple.... - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:56] <exec> 08└─The one true Astro-Nut. Homer Simpson!
[04:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Assumptions - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:57] <exec> 08└─I thought the reason was going to be "because they're already used to living in a barren wasteland".
[04:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02selectors - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:59] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, none of the people from these areas would be eligible for the program NASA is now hiring for -- the agency is only looking for American applicants. So who in the United States might be best suited for withstanding the most cosmic radiation?
[04:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just saw this one - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:07] <exec> 08└─Wow.... just gives me flashbacks to bad playgrounds. Some one please take that web idiots computer away so it can't hurt the intertubes and my eyes anymore.
[04:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeriatricGentleman [1192] (Score:1) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 2834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah...and I think lego tries too hard these days too. Those stupid theme packs annoy me - my kids (8 and 10 year old girls) got a couple of them from work Xmas parties and they follow the booklet, make the picture, then ignore them (so all done in an hour to languish on the floor until they want so...
[04:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AIDS - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:14] <exec> 08└─Give them the greatest gift: the gift. AIDS.
[04:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02growing toy - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:16] <exec> 08└─Give them the gift of science and nature. [zamnesia.com] Suggested age range 12-50.
[04:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:growing toy - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:21:19] <exec> 08└─NSFW ass....
[04:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WalMart "Techie" Section - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:21] <exec> 08└─Walmart website's "Techie" section had an iPad as its foto. So I would start there. /s
[04:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Overreaction? - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:39] <exec> 08└─You don't just ignore a threat. You put as many extra cops and/or security people as possible on it. Search the buidlings. If/when you find any evidence that suggests the building is in danger, you evacuate THAT BUILDING. You don't shut down a city because of some vague threat. .6 million students a...
[04:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:I want thiis game to fail - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:26] <exec> 08└─This Forbes post from yesterday sums it up well. http://www.forbes.com [forbes.com]
[04:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''ferroresonant transformers'' - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:27:00] <exec> 08└─They're more expensive than regular old silicon steel transformers, bulkier per watt, and run hotter (less efficient). The only place I've seen them deployed where they were justified was in a product acceptance test setup where *repeatability* of results was paramount. ...then again, I live in a Fi...
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[05:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02swallowable neodymium magnets - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:19] <exec> 08└─Those pill-sized magnets would be the best gift, but they are banned in the U.S. For U.S. people, the song "Miracles" by Insane Clown Posse might be the next best thing. It's included on one version of their album "Bang! Pow! Boom!". Water, fire, air and dirt Fucking magnets, how do they work? And I...
[05:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When I was a kid... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:20] <exec> 08└─The older boys had a can of gasoline; they splashed a little in the driveway and lit it to create an instant fun zone. I myself liked to play with optics. A telescope borrowed from school was a fascinating way to survey the neighborhood. A magnifying glass became a way to beam death down upon haples...
[05:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We have plenty of smart scientists already - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:22] <exec> 08└─I think the social sciences and the law could use a few smart people as well...
[05:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We have plenty of smart scientists already - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:24] <exec> 08└─You are not allowed to be a smart cop... http://abcnews.go.com [go.com]
[05:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:39] <exec> 08└─Having windows, and using bulbs with a low color temperature (search for "red party bulb"), would achieve this effect. During the day, bluish light would come through the windows. I know, I know, some dwellings [wikipedia.org] don't have windows.
[05:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:An application - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:45] <exec> 08└─Unlike the outlet-centric timers, these will also work with ceiling lights.
[05:21:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Re:Encrypted for (Y)OUR protection - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:21:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe. How'd that work out for the coffee pod manufacturer? Incredibly well, unfortunately. $13.9 billion dollars worth of well, to be exact.
[05:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And this is exactly why you should DIY - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:03] <exec> 08└─unless you like paying the danegeld...
[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Land of the wimp - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─Uhh you DO know that most of the "studies" the government uses has been paid for by a PAC that is owned by the big tobacco companies? There is a REASON why they want to ONLY block the e-cigs made after 2007, because guess who owns the brands that were out in 2007? RJ Reynolds and Lorillard. But that...
[05:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:44] <exec> 08└─From where I sit, there isn't much difference. The constitution set up the judges, and unless someone is willing to find a way to impeach them, they have control of the constitution. This is why we have laws against hate speech. Because to get rid of such nonsense, you have to tear down the entire g...
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[05:23:46] <exec> 08└─No, I think I pretty well understood this to be your point. And I don't think we are all that far apart. You just trust government a bit more than I do. But I'll be more convinced the day the SCOTUS declares there is no such thing as Hate Speech, and strikes down all the laws forbidding it. In the m...
[05:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:48] <exec> 08└─But but but, dat's Communism and Socialism!!!11 We have the god given right to gget all those services as well for a greatly inflated price and at a sub par quality!
[05:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:1) 02Re:Load Resistance - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:13] <exec> 08└─Ferrorresonant transformers are awesome, best power protection you can get (within sane price limits), they're almost indestructible. The downside to them is that they buzz like a small substation, and they're quite lossy, efficiency can go as low as 60-70% under low load, and you're throwing away t...
[05:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:1) 02Re:Another possibility: - 06Unusual Electric Power Failures - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:24] <exec> 08└─You can get 12V UPSes, it's basically just a 12V SLA with a trickle charger and a failover switch. Unfortunately they're a bit hard to find (although you can homebrew one with a PicoUPS), the least difficult to source are the CyberPower ones, e.g. the DTC36U12V. So you replace your router PSU with o...
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[05:27:36] <exec> 08└─A common problem with PV, which is why they're supposed to have anti-islanding capabilities built in. This means they stop producing power in the event of a grid failure, so they don't electrocute the people trying to repair the fault, or at least stop feeding it back onto the grid.
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[06:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score:1) 02Re:selectors - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:06] <exec> 08└─Or immigrants from any of those places.
[06:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The US has the highest levels in the world - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:07] <exec> 08└─The capital, I believe, is Boyertown, Pennsylvania.
[06:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02or choice B - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:09] <exec> 08└─there may be no need to engage in controversial "editing" of human genetics to create radiation-resistant astronauts because there might already be good prospects in a few corners of the world.
[06:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02how to stop smoking - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:11] <exec> 08└─everybody knows that high background-radiation makes zigis taste jucky. maybe i will apply to go to mars because the high background radiation will make my zigis taste jucky too?
[06:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Guess what STEM is? - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:21:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, these days Dr. Who and Call Of Duty count as STEM. What is this world coming to?
[06:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Microsocopes - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:36] <exec> 08└─I haven't had the opportunity to give this as a gift yet (my lone niece is only 3) but my absolute favorite science-related gift at around ages 10-12 was a microscope set — one box was the microscope (full size with battery-powered light for illuminating slides from below + blank slides, dye, tool...
[06:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Bots - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:37] <exec> 08└─You don't mention the kids' ages, but robots are probably a good entry point and the arduino makes it really easy as long as they aren't toddlers. Here are some examples [amazon.com]. I think my 12 yo self would have gone nuts for something like anything in that list -- I know I had a great time wit...
[06:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Boardgames. - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:39] <exec> 08└─... teach them Science, Tech, Engineering, Math (STEM) fundamentals without their knowing it.
[06:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:02] <exec> 08└─That's because you don't own them. I use 2 colors, the timer and dimmer. With other options I would need at least 2 fixtures for the colors, a timer and dimmer. A whole lot less convenient. Plus you would need bulbs that handle the colors and those aren't that cheap.
[06:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah they probably introduced the incompatibility at a higher level. Getting ZigBee radios to speak something else would be needlessly difficult (like getting a Bluetooth device to work with Wi-Fi). Also the Philips web site says they still use ZigBee.
[06:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Thanks for the heads up! - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:22] <exec> 08└─This is why I like this site. I'll never buy any Philips products.
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[07:20:56] <exec> 08└─OMG! Everything I know is a lie!!! I MUST read this article. Or not.
[07:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Everything you know about good headlines is wro - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:20:57] <exec> 08└─Well let's see now. If you're not willing to believe that you might be wrong, then you're just a pigheaded asshole. Good day to you, pig.
[07:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The ping is TOO DAMN HIGH - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:58] <exec> 08└─"IT SLOW!" they scream. That's all, folks. That's everything you will ever know about latency. It's everything anyone ever WANTS to know about latency. Slow. Slow! SLOW!
[07:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Letter in the mail - 06Your Cells Make Bubbles that are 'Exciting But Scary’ - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:06] <exec> 08└─"you don't know whether it's a letter saying that you won the lottery or a letter containing anthrax." Either way sounds like spam to me.
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[07:21:15] <exec> 08└─I thought the same thing. I do not believe I have "what it takes" to survive in a lot of places. I see what other people are surviving in and ponder if I would make it there. Even if given 100 acres in the middle of Anza-Borrego "badlands" to survive on, just how long would I survive on my own? A...
[07:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:21:30] <exec> 08└─buckyballs! if they figure out how to stay alive while playing with them, clearly they are genius.
[07:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02You're going about it wrong; use their interests. - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:49] <exec> 08└─Like someone above said, STEM interest is all sourced from the same place: curiosity. Instead of trying to find STEM-related things they might like, work off of their current interests instead. It doesn't even have to be a practical thing; a boring-seeming topic becomes a lot more interesting when y...
[07:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02Lego WeDo and Scratch - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:49] <exec> 08└─For 5-10 year olds Lego WeDo is a great option. It adds motors, distance and tilt sensors to standard lego and can be programmed with Scratch. It opens up lots of options for just creating stuff and programming is a lot more fun when you can make things move or respond to sensors.
[07:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hsander [331] (Score:1) 02RobotMagic- robot game that teaches programming - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:51] <exec> 08└─http://robotmagic.org/ [robotmagic.org] [robotmagic.org] teaches programming and STEM concepts with 3D robot challenges. The game starts with a Scratch-like block editor but also supports editing code in JavaScript- so kids can eventually write their own blocks and complete programs. Challenges like...
[07:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:13] <exec> 08└─It's not only about identifying the activities. Some people prefer certain activities in the dark, others prefer lights on. In some cases the decision might depend on the perceived attractiveness of the other person(s) or creature(s) involved. Probably this is a good case for a webcam pointed at you...
[07:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Encrypted for (Y)OUR protection - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:20] <exec> 08└─The company is in the middle of being acquired for $14 billion...even though they aren't "doing so good now"
[07:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And this is exactly why you should DIY - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:37] <exec> 08└─danegeld? Is that a new daemon I hadn't heard about yet?
[07:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Plot from Homeland - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:05] <exec> 08└─Or he lives in Miami and sent the message to the wrong school district.
[07:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:10] <exec> 08└─Free dinner? Why, that's communism! I'm going to skip this restaurant and head straight for the dumpster (TM) out back, where one hundred million of my fellow citizens and I will commence the search for the second-least edible thing to be found within.
[07:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am here! - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:33] <exec> 08└─"hello little town folks. You cannot build your own fast cheap internet extension because my friend, who couldn't make it here today and who got stuck on the tarmac in his private jet after a fantastic round of golf, will not sponsor/contribute to my great ideas for the future if he cannot sell you...
[07:25:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Radar - 06Google Has Quietly Launched an Akamai Competitor - 890 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:02] <exec> 08└─This is bad... this worries me greatly and is really bad... Eventually there will be no way to NOT touch any of Google's servers when you interact with the internet. They will track everything and anything you do. Sure, you can block the domains but then 90% of your websites won't work (currently, m...
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[08:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:promissed myself not to post drunk... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:58] <exec> 08└─I reviewed TFA. It appears they are talking about latency in web applications: where you make dozens if not hundreds of requests to external web-servers. The TFA argues that a typical page load will encounter at least one degenerate object load. Patient: It hurts when I load hundreds of objects from...
[08:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Everything you know about good headlines is wro - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:20:59] <exec> 08└─I just skimmed TFA, and it really is worth looking at. Just one example: Lots and lots of testing code is done in a loop for (a zillion tests) { start_time = current_time run test latency = current_time - start_time } Suppose your system is processing 1000 tests/second, freezes for...
[08:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:21:35] <exec> 08└─LEGO. It's LEGO. Why do people keep saying it WRONG!!?? To be even more pedantic, it's 'LEGO' for the brand, and 'LEGO bricks' for the actual, um, bricks. ** goes back to building today's toy from his LEGO Advent Calendar **
[08:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Re:Encrypted for (Y)OUR protection - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:25] <exec> 08└─So DRMing lightbulbs is a profitable move, if coffee pods are a fair comparison.
[08:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Encrypted for (Y)OUR protection - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:26] <exec> 08└─Certainly. There are a LOT of stupid people out there.
[08:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Encrypted for (Y)OUR protection - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:27] <exec> 08└─I went ninja over keurig in large part due to the former allowing me to use any coffee I want to. Those kcups are ridiculously expensive.
[08:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:33] <exec> 08└─Probably time to complain to the AG, about the false advertising. It wasn't a selling point for me, but it was printed on the box. And people did buy it for the support.
[08:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jaruzel [812] (Score:2) 02Not for Outside - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:47] <exec> 08└─Whereas I love the concept of the HUE range, I hate the way a) Philips have tried to own the market, and b) the complete lack of open documentation, and c) the limited use cases for the actual bulbs. Taking point C, I want to use these bulbs in my outside lights. I have four carriage style lamps acr...
[08:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Typical Philips, unfortunately - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:48] <exec> 08└─From my experience with Philips products, this is typical. They make good hardware, but they think they need to provide software to go with it. That's not their strength, their software is crappy, so why do they waste the time and effort? An example from a different area: I have external Philips spe...
[08:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Fucking rubio - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:18] <exec> 08└─Right now, I think so little of our Congress that I would vote for almost anybody that is not a career politician. The career politicians all claim they will "fight for me", then once granted authority, they have a terrible record of selling me out.
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[09:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Everything you know about good headlines is wro - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:21:03] <exec> 08└─Well, that still makes the headline wrong. If you don't know about the freeze, (and at some level all code has freezes waiting on one thing or another) then measuring at a different level of detail simply gives you information at a different level of detail. For some purposes that's just fine. For s...
[09:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:21] <exec> 08└─> Hand gestures I'd really hate. It would just be weird to start gesturing in certain situations. Compared to getting up and walking to a wallswitch, or getting out a smartphone/tablet? Yeah, so weird...
[09:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:54] <exec> 08└─> We're at war, boy. Oh, so you are one of those "you can't handle the truth!" idiots. "Boy" jesus christ. WWII was war, whatever this is with SISI isn't war, its a distraction. White nationalists kill more american civilians than 'radical islamists' do. Where's the war on 'radical whites?'
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[10:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Informative) 02Correction re: Josh Duggar - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:56] <exec> 08└─Family Research Council Josh Duggar [...] resigned in disgrace after being shown to have multiple accounts with the website
[10:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Everything you know about good headlines is wro - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:21:08] <exec> 08└─That isn't wrong, but it's measuring something different. Not having read TFA, it sounds like what he's actually talking about is tail latency. If you're doing everything with distributed systems, this is what you measure because it's the thing that affects overall system throughput. The canonical e...
[10:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02waah! red again ... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:10] <exec> 08└─i wish someone would do a study about the latency when i'm in the car and on the road ...
[10:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02I'm a good candidate - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:31] <exec> 08└─The fallout I leave after I sit on the toilet for a while should make me a great candidate. That stuff is lethal, yet I live. ;-)
[10:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03endurancerobot [5982] (Score:1) 02EnduranceRobots.com is looking for enthusiasts - 06Tiniest LED Implants Let Probes Illuminate Brain - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:12] <exec> 08└─EnduranceRobots.com is looking for enthusiasts and hobbiests in robotics and laser industry. We are looking for tech smart people who would like to help us to improve our products and positioning on the markets. We are still very early startup and can not pay big salaries but we can pay some. Please...
[10:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly. As we are discussing the bedroom situation, my smartphone is usually next to the bed on the bedside-table, so no big deal. Watching out to not do the wrong moves to avoid accidentally toggling the light (if the recognition algorithm is too lenient), or to do the same gesture over and over a...
[10:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Thanks for the heads up! - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm doing a lot of house renovations and wanted to kit out my 'office' *cough* gaming room *cough* with LED strips. I was looking at Philips, but now will think again.
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[11:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:Boardgames. - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:05] <exec> 08└─Try this one: http://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] My 11-year-old loves it, it's fun to play, there's no "winner and losers" so younger kids can join the team, and it doesn't take that long to play (maybe 30 minutes). We have lots of STEM gifts gathering du...
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[12:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Call me a terrorist if you like - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:01] <exec> 08└─But he's no more guilty of anything than the company are, and the supplier of the web engine. Broken software should be known to be broken. The companies behind it should be named and shamed. Companies who do not take due diligence to ensure their customers' data is secure should be outed.
[12:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just go ahead and leak the data... - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:09] <exec> 08└─Scumbags looking to get their willy wet deserve being served divorce papers, or at least a bobbit from their pissed off wives. http://www.urbandictionary.com [urbandictionary.com]
[12:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Just go ahead and leak the data... - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:11] <exec> 08└─How do you control the data leak for the insertion of false positives? You do not have the original data, and can't tell which names were inserted into the list before it was released. Maybe all of the names are correct, except for the Presidential candidate and CEO of a major charity. There's no wa...
[12:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Article must be all wrong - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:25] <exec> 08└─Because it mentions that one of the causes of latency spikes is garbage collection, and we're old by high priests of java that GC never causes any slowdowns, ever.
[12:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Most folks say ''yucky'' - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:46] <exec> 08└─When they were making the album cover for Houses of the Holy, they needed you to turn their Y in a J. I took the wife to the Caribbean last month. D'jer maker? No, she wanted to go. -- gewg_
[12:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score:1) 02low levels of radiation health benefits - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:48] <exec> 08└─It's called Radiation Hormesis [wikipedia.org]. But let's not spread the news. It upsets the green church.
[12:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Hormesis - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:50] <exec> 08└─Radiation hormesis [nih.gov], exactly, you beat me to it. Look at the chart on radiation values in this article. [world-nuclear.org] 2.5 millisieverts is average, normal background radiation. 50 millisieverts is the lowest dose at which there is any evidence of increased cancer rates. 100 millisieve...
[12:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Washington DC? - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 2002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:52] <exec> 08└─#VoteThemOffThePlanet (with one way or return options...) Seriously, with our current near term projected tech level there's a high chance of it being a suicide/execution mission, or another way to siphon off tax-payers money. It's because NASA et all don't seem to be taking serious steps (go see ho...
[12:22:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GeriatricGentleman [1192] 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 2834 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah...and I think lego tries too hard these days too. Those stupid theme packs annoy me - my kids (8 and 10 year old girls) got a couple of them from work Xmas parties and they follow the booklet, make the picture, then ignore them (so all done in an hour to languish on the floor until they want so...
[12:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Typical Philips, unfortunately - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─I have a Philips TV (and my work place does also). Moving through the EPG requires 5-20 button pushes per row. Yeah, that's right PER ROW (aka channel). There's no way to remove channels from the EPG, even though the manual says there is (no, there is no option for it even though the manual says so)...
[12:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:27] <exec> 08└─>The goal of terrorism is to instill fear in the population. Population that becomes sheep of the ones already in charge.
[12:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait, what? - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:33] <exec> 08└─Man on subway said the end was nigh.
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[13:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Southpark ruined Yelp for me... - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:55] <exec> 08└─So you're one of the yelpers special blessed, You demand a restaurants' very best. Well their gonna treat you special, I'm telling you chum. Now get yourself ready for some boogers and cum. ...
[13:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03CHK6 [5974] (Score:1) 02Grow or die - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:56] <exec> 08└─This is a warning shot to Yelp. You cannot be a one trick pony in the IT world. You are either growing or dying, it's simple physics.
[13:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fyff - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:58] <exec> 08└─fuck yelp. fuck facebook.
[13:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02They caught a hacker!!! - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:06] <exec> 08└─So our "cyber" defenders finally caught a hacker! This is the lowest of the low hanging fruit, but they finally caught one. Have they ever caught anything but low-hanging fruit? This guy will have the book thrown at him because he's the only hacker they've caught in years, and we've spent billions o...
[13:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02If the shoe was on the other foot... - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:08] <exec> 08└─If a Hong Kong hacker broke into a UK Toy company, everyone would just write it off and go about their day.
[13:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02he's in deep shit - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:10] <exec> 08└─this guy is in deep shit. there were photos of the kids from their toys and he had tens of thousands of photos. guaranteed to be some nudes. so now he's hacking for cp. sounds like the kind of shit a court would want to make an example out of. nice life buddy. too bad it ended at 21.
[13:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just go ahead and leak the data... - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:18] <exec> 08└─Screenshots, do they have profile photos?
[13:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Assumptions - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:48] <exec> 08└─You have a very strange definition of "barren"... Ramsar is a popular sea resort for Iranian tourists. The town also offers hot springs, the green forests of the Alborz Mountains, the vacation palace of the last Shah, and the Hotel Ramsar. [wiki]
[13:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:When I was a kid... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:23] <exec> 08└─Another fun time was when I found a pool of mercury. I discovered that by electroplating it onto pennies, I could turn them into "silver" coins, temporarily.
[13:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:We have plenty of smart scientists already - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─Wizened Soylent ACs frequently tell us those subjects are a joke.
[13:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Guess what STEM is? - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:30] <exec> 08└─I can appreciate that on a philosophical level, but it has zero practical value with respect to Christmas. Should we parents give them empty boxes of curiosity? That would scar a kid for life: Patient: "And, and, when I was 6 I woke up on Christmas morning and all the presents under the tree were em...
[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsocopes - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that's a good suggestion.
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Bots - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─Cool stuff. Ah, screw the kids. Looks like it's present time for daddy...
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Boardgames. - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks, combined with the point upthread about spending time with the kids this sounds like a solid solution, too.
[13:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:41] <exec> 08└─War with who? An idea? Isis is just one embodiment of the idea of militant Islam. Boko Harem and Alquada, and the ones in Somalia are others. Now if you wanted to declare war on the source of this - certainly sanctions, perhaps a blockade, I could be in favour of that. Blockading Saudi Arabia would...
[13:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What would happen if... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:34] <exec> 08└─You can't kill Anonymous Coward ... there'll be others!
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[14:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:56] <exec> 08└─Your stomach might be a bit too weak for this: http://bit.ly [bit.ly] No, I really do welcome my auto-driving overlords. I drive over 50 miles a day, and pretty regularly I see mangled cars (and bodies). Anything that reduces the number of fatalities / injuries by even 1% is a good thing. Jo...
[14:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:58] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I don't even thing driverless cars need to be perfect. They just have to be better than humans, and that seems like a pretty low bar to set when you see how reckless people are DAILY. I hate saying, "Because of this one bad person everyone should suffer.", but in this particular case, I thin...
[14:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:00] <exec> 08└─I do, too. I can't tell you how often I see morons driving down the road, cell phone in hand, wandering around and sometimes out of their lanes. Getting them to stop is hopeless. I really think the only solution is making it acceptable by having them in cars that don't crash (or crash less than a co...
[14:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Driverless cars exist now - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:02] <exec> 08└─There is an observation that if you want to see what you will be doing in the future, look at what the rich are doing now. The rich have had driverless cars forever: or rather, they have had cars they do not need to drive themselves ever since the invention of the cart - they have always had coachme...
[14:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Driverless cars exist now - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:04] <exec> 08└─If you can get Adblock on your device, you can resist the monetization of your commute.
[14:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:06] <exec> 08└─i look forward to setting up a table and chair in the middle of the freeway and sipping tea as a thousand robot cars wait patiently for me to move.
[14:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:3, Informative) 02Seriously? Apple, Uber, but not Mercedes/Audi/BMW? - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:07] <exec> 08└─Mercedes had the first autonomous driving car on test drive 100km 2013 [here.com]. Mercedes, BMW and Audi just invested heavily to buy HERE for this purpose, all three are experienced car makers. I would think this makes them a credible competitor in this market segment. As for Uber: I saw some arti...
[14:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:he's in deep shit - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:22] <exec> 08└─What kid of toys are this? My kids have some vtech toys (toot toot drivers, baby walker, etc). I'm not aware of them having cameras or connecting to the internet. What kind of toy needs internet access? How does it connect without the parent knowing?
[14:21:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Correction re: Josh Duggar - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:29] <exec> 08└─Family Research Council Josh Duggar [...] resigned in disgrace after being shown to have multiple accounts with the website
[14:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02too late/bad timing - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:33] <exec> 08└─who remembers ashley madison anymore? it's star wars and christmas and new years. nobody is going to pay attention to months old news with all the shiny consumerist shit we're being bombarded by. isis can't even beat star wars for attention. what hope does ashley madison ransom have?
[14:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 028====D~~~ - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:48] <exec> 08└─headline: Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong first sentence: Okay, maybe not everything you know about latency is wrong. excuse me while i draw dicks all over this garbage 8====D~~~ 8====D~~~ 8====D~~~ 8====D~~~
[14:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02latency cube - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:49] <exec> 08└─Went to TFA. I feel like I've just read Timecube but with C# snippets and graphs. I think get it! When your apping app requests 1 page view, 2 major page view axes are created are the opposite sides of the internet. Where the 2 major page view forces join, synergy creates 2 new minor page view point...
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Lego WeDo and Scratch - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─Along with the suggestion downthread, maybe this will be the secret sauce to get them into Scratch. So far I haven't been able to interest them in it. Having what they build affect physical objects would make it real.
[14:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:RobotMagic- robot game that teaches programming - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'm gonna try this. I set them up with Scratch, but haven't been able to get them into it.
[14:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Is Phillips familiar with MiniDisc? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─- apple only policy, locked out of light bulbs - "everything but apple policy", locked out of eden and people worry about black cats...
[14:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Danegeld - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:53] <exec> 08└─No, it is more about how paying bullies to go away [wikipedia.org] does not really work (long-term anyway).
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:4, Informative) 02They're backpedalling - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─see here [meethue.com]. They're working on rolling out an update to allow any bulb to work again (as before). This is due to the backlash - so apparently, they do notice that and even care. A bit. At least enough to claim so.
[14:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02stats please - 06China May be Biggest Electric Car Market; Plant to Open in Nevada - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:14] <exec> 08└─>The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) has predicted that 220,000 to 250,000 electric cars (including plug-in hybrids) will be sold in China in 2015, there's two weeks left in 2015. predictions can eat a dick. give me the stats.
[14:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just play freelancer - 06Star Citizen Reaches $100 Million in Crowdfunding, Alpha 2.0 Released - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:53] <exec> 08└─glad we are all here to witness the shark jump for crowd funding. so many overfunded projects have failed and burned their backers already, but this one will become the classic example of why crowdfunding doesn't work. Freelancer did everything this game aspires to do and had no fat whatsoever. >inb...
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[15:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:53] <exec> 08└─Another big factor you left out: Automated cars don't get drunk. Just that would save 12,000 Americans' lives every year. The biggest barrier so far has been liability: If an automated car crashes, who has to pay up? The driver, like it currently is? The car manufacturer? The software company that s...
[15:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:55] <exec> 08└─I can't possibly list all the great things that could come. Having transportation to get home is a huge factor in if I'm going to go out to dinner and drinks with friends. Last bus to my place goes at 9:30 PM and it's nearly impossible to get a cab that will leave the downtown. 30 minute drive out t...
[15:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:57] <exec> 08└─So how long before you and the tyranny of majority deprive me of my right to enjoy a recreational drive?
[15:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:59] <exec> 08└─track day bro
[15:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:01] <exec> 08└─Won't someone think of the ambulance chasers and traffic cops. Are they to earn a living cage fighting? Are the meter maids going to join ISIL? What about the ticket industry? How will governments replace the revenue? All the radar/laser/vascar manufacturers will go out of business. All the staff o...
[15:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:03] <exec> 08└─Anything that reduces the number of fatalities / injuries by even 1% is a good thing.
[15:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:05] <exec> 08└─What's stopping you from trying that now?
[15:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? Apple, Uber, but not Mercedes/Audi/B - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:07] <exec> 08└─all three are experienced car makers.
[15:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Insightful) 02In the future robots will give us all leisure time - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:08] <exec> 08└─that's why there are four thousand homeless people in Portland, Oregon.
[15:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:10] <exec> 08└─Self-driving cars promise to create a new kind of leisure, offering passengers additional time for reading books, writing email, knitting, practicing an instrument, cracking open a beer, taking a catnap, and any number of other diversions.
[15:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:12] <exec> 08└─Why not practice playing the bagpipes while you're a passenger. That way you won't be the only one who feels sick and they'll insist that you to drive.
[15:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:14] <exec> 08└─I don't get motion sickness unless I try to read as a passenger.
[15:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:4, Insightful) 02More leisure? Yeah right. - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:16] <exec> 08└─Self-driving cars promise to create a new kind of leisure
[15:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02My friend's mother always flew in the Concorde - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:18] <exec> 08└─... whenever she visited Europe, as she was a high-power corporate attorney. Cutting down on the time aboard passenger jets gave her more time to work.
[15:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We already don't have to cook - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:20] <exec> 08└─We can buy a delicious, reasonably healthy hot meal for less than 10 USD. Plenty of choices, too. We needn't bother learning to play a musical instrument - all the music we could ever hope to create is available on the Internet, for free or monthly streaming fees. Owning and taking care of a house?...
[15:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:22] <exec> 08└─Self driving cars that act like well driven cars would be a neat trick, but miss the real opportunity. I want a self driven car that negotiates with the self driven cars around it for smooth lane changes. I want a self driven car that makes an appointment with the intersection(s) in its path, and re...
[15:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:25] <exec> 08└─I want a self driven car that makes an appointment with the intersection(s) in its path, and reaches the intersection when the light is green.
[15:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:27] <exec> 08└─I want a self driven car that makes an appointment with the intersection(s) in its path, and reaches the intersection when the light is green... And I want all the cars around me to do the same. The only time a self driven car should stop is if something/someone who/that doesn't belong in the road...
[15:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02As a programmer.. - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:28] <exec> 08└─I welcome more systems that need to be programmed. Vehicle automation is as likely to replace me as those scripts i write to automate manual tasks at work. Automating manual tasks only frees me up to do more interesting work. Anyone put out of work by automation was doing a highly repeatable manual...
[15:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Southpark ruined Yelp for me... - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 1749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:30] <exec> 08└─Yelp killed itself for me. I know a lady who owns a restaurant. Some guy decides he wants a free meal for him and his group at a decent high end restaurant. He takes his dog into the place, they obviously ask him to put the dog outside. Starts yelling that he is being treated badly. That he is a ex...
[15:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Grow or die - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:32] <exec> 08└─that sounds like some marketing horseshit reason for crap software like systemd. if you are consistently better, more convenient and more reliable than the competition, there is no need to change.
[15:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wait - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:34] <exec> 08└─People still use facebook?
[15:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Coordinates for internet pages - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:36] <exec> 08└─I think it would be a great idea if we standardized on a way for web pages to report coordinates. (and radius of operation) This would really help find things without having to use silly, usually centralized 3rd party listings, one could simply use a search engine, potentially 1st party operated. As...
[15:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:They caught a hacker!!! - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:39] <exec> 08└─Plausible deniability is built into this stuff.
[15:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Correction re: Josh Duggar - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:49] <exec> 08└─Not to excuse the criminal behavior, but actions taken as a minor are often viewed in a significantly different light than those taken as a legal adult. Wikipedia notes that the sexual assaults were committed when Josh Duggar was 14-15 years old - not as an adult as a typical reader may easily assum...
[15:21:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02Re:Just go ahead and leak the data... - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:51] <exec> 08└─How do you control the data leak for the insertion of false positives? You do not have the original data, and can't tell which names were inserted into the list before it was released. Maybe all of the names are correct, except for the Presidential candidate and CEO of a major charity. There's no wa...
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too late/bad timing - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─Should I be paying attention to it? Perhaps these people should be persecuted until the day they die?
[15:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too late/bad timing - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:56] <exec> 08└─I have special preview tickets to see Star Wars a day early, but can't make it. Sucks more than ashley madison.
[15:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too late/bad timing - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:59] <exec> 08└─With all the hype, no reviews and the large number of screens I suspect it will be a turkey. Disney appears to be trying to make as much money as it can before that becomes widely known.
[15:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:promissed myself not to post drunk... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If a user will be annoyed by whichever is worst of 100 things, then you should measure the worst of those hundred, all the faster ones are irrelevant. This is common sense, but apparently not well known. But as you say, you do need to ask yourself why you're doing 100 different things in or...
[15:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:selectors - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─Can't we just send lawyers?
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Washington DC? - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's because NASA et all don't seem to be taking serious steps (go see how much $$$$ and people involved) to develop the necessary tech to maturity like artificial gravity and radiation shielding.
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Washington DC? - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the obvious rebuttal. Every element you need to survive is present on Mars in useful quantities and it has sufficient sunlight. Unlike living on the Moon or asteroids, you don't need permanent supply from elsewhere to maintain the colony. So unlike most of the Solar System, you can buil...
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─On rare occasions they get their blocks out and build something lame, but that is about it.
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─Lighten up, Francis. It's slang. Some of us and our friends have been calling them Legos since the 1970s.
[15:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:We have plenty of smart scientists already - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─social sciences
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Boardgames. - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:24] <exec> 08└─Pandemic is a good choice to, just don't buy Pandemic Legacy as it might be a bit much until you played the base game a few times - or I guess you could buy it and not just play with the Legacy part until you feel ready for that.
[15:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Boardgames. - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─The big one trending now is Pandemic: Legacy. It's a little bit extra but the game grows with you. That keeps the puzzles fresh and engages the group for many more play sessions than the static game that plays basically the same every time.
[15:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03millert [3626] (Score:1) 02Snap Circuits - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:32] <exec> 08└─The age range is 8+ but my 5 year old loves building the Snap Circuits Jr. projects and trying to make his own. I've also given this to my 6 year old niece who also loved it. The basic SC-100 set is inexpensive and there are upgrade kits with additional components so you can do larger projects. High...
[15:24:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mmcmonster [401] 02Re:I have actually bought Phillips light bulbs... - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 700 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:22] <exec> 08└─Cree is eating up the market in LED bulbs. They sell out of Home Depot and are good quality and have lots of sizes. They aren't the best, but they're pushing the price point down. I built my house 4 years ago and it was almost all CFL bulbs at the time (incandescents for dimmable and a few odd shape...
[15:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong contact page? - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:24] <exec> 08└─So I was told I called an industrial support number, and was told to call a consumer number at 1-800-555-0050. When I finally reached somebody in the Hue lighting department, they had no idea why I was calling despite not owning a Hue system. This is reflected in their new update [meethue.com]: Q. W...
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[16:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pfffttt - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:52] <exec> 08└─Lose some weight Fatties!
[16:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Explanations - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:53] <exec> 08└─The boson remains unidentified because it's very sensitive about this issue and wishes we'd all just stop bugging it about all this.
[16:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Santa particle - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:55] <exec> 08└─OK, so it's incredibly heavy (even more heavy than the God particle). And it is found shortly before Christmas. That allows only one logical conclusion: This must be the Santa particle. I therefore predict that they won't find it in the data taken next March (they might instead find the Easter Bunny...
[16:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:06] <exec> 08└─I hate saying, "Because of this one bad person everyone should suffer.", but in this particular case, I think there's a huge net benefit.
[16:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotLove [3304] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:12] <exec> 08└─This kind of thinking is not useful. "Because we can't fix the worst possible thing, we shouldn't fix anything." Unless you can show that the money that is being invested in driverless cars would have otherwise been invested in successful research, it is not a waste.
[16:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:14] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure almost no one qualified to work on a self-driving car is also qualified for doing medical research.
[16:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:16] <exec> 08└─Anything that reduces the number of fatalities / injuries by even 1% is a good thing.
[16:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:18] <exec> 08└─You'd have the same 'freedom' of mobility with or without a driverless car, but driving isn't a freedom, as in a right, it's a privilege. On top of that driverless cars will allow people who can't drive to have the 'freedom' of mobility the rest of us enjoy. There's also the fact that some day you'l...
[16:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Driverless cars exist now - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:20] <exec> 08└─Lets call them window blinds so you can obscure there million billboards that will pollute the every inch of highway space. After all, they will no longer be dangerously distracting... I don't think I would enjoy it at all. The boards I do see now (and plenty since I live in a high density area) are...
[16:21:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:22] <exec> 08└─What's stopping you from trying that now?
[16:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? Apple, Uber, but not Mercedes/Audi/B - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:25] <exec> 08└─What makes you say that? Uber/Apple: Yes, probably. The others: I have some doubts. Afaik, Google self driving cars are currently being tested on highways and in specific areas of Mountain View, where Google has a small high-definition map segment. Not sure if this is still true. However, as I menti...
[16:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? Apple, Uber, but not Mercedes/Audi/B - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─I have a story in the queue about Ford's autonomous vehicles. You will likely see it soon since subs have been low.
[16:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:31] <exec> 08└─The issue with buses, or trains for that matter, is they don't go DIRECTLY where you want and they take a long time to get you there because of all the stops they make in between. It's a 1.5 hour bus trip from my house to work, and 1.5 hours to get home, where the nearest bus stop from my office is...
[16:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:33] <exec> 08└─Suck on a mint. I recently came across this. I am mr 'i am going to blarf if I dont drive'. This has worked wonders. I learned it from a pregnant lady who was getting morning sickness. Dont know why it works. Dont care. It just does.
[16:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We already don't have to cook - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:36] <exec> 08└─Short term rental is where it's at now I love suckers like you! You make it easy for me to have 'all the money' and 'all the goods'. You dont care and you rent. Lets say you rent a house for 500 a month (which is low in many areas). You do that for 10 years. At the end of the time your landlord has...
[16:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:We already don't have to cook - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:38] <exec> 08└─I love suckers like you!
[16:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:We already don't have to cook - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:40] <exec> 08└─Some people don't want to deal with hassles of ownership (it's not all peachy). Plus renting gives you flexibility that ownership does not. Due to costs associated with transfer of property, it is really a non-liquid asset, over which value you have very little control over. Pour money into it then...
[16:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:We already don't have to cook - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:41] <exec> 08└─Lets say you rent a house for 500 a month
[16:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:43] <exec> 08└─I would expect our cars to negotiate the issue and I would smoothly allow you to pass. (If it is a two lane road, then the pass would be coordinated with ongoing traffic to allow a smooth and safe move) If A pass isn't possible, then again negotiate and split the difference where I am going faster...
[16:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score:1) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:45] <exec> 08└─Have your car ask his car to move out the way.
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─I don't imagine a single mega-mind planning all traffic in the city. Simply cars that are in constant communication with the cars and intersections around them, and using heuristics to keep everything moving smoothly. Cars would negotiate with each other for smooth maneuvers. Traffic lights wouldn't...
[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:49] <exec> 08└─Wow. "The perfect is the enemy of the good" writ large in one article.
[16:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:51] <exec> 08└─ummm... Where did I say we shouldn't have self driving cars because they don't do everything that I want? That's right, I _didn't_ say it. But thanks for playing.
[16:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:53] <exec> 08└─You seem to have missed a real opportunity I want self driving cars to do away with multiple lanes altogether, and to interact with eachother like train cars, attaching and detaching from an aerodynamic convoy as they travel as over 200kph I want the advent of self driving cars to herald the end of...
[16:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:55] <exec> 08└─What you suggest would naturally follow. (except for the traffic lights I think. They wouldn't actually be needed as cars would only enter intersections when they have a reservation, but I _think_ that they would remain as a failsafe/verification) The key element is self driving cars in constant com...
[16:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Think of all the lives that will be saved - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:57] <exec> 08└─... by self-driving suicide bombs. You might think this is a bad joke but I worry about stuff like this; it keeps me awake at night.
[16:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Think of all the lives that will be saved - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because a car full of explosives is such a common thing on American streets. Why, today on my commute I saw TWO cars blow up in hellish terrorist infernos and this was a LIGHT day!
[16:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02unexamined assumptions - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:00] <exec> 08└─After automation puts everyone out of work
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The refried beans at Taco Bell - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─I know of a specific location where one of the staff was caught red-handed (so to speak) pleasuring himself into the refries. I'd tell you where, but this was long ago I don't want to ruin their business. But I will tell you that two friends of mine also worked there.
[16:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Wait - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:07] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, it's the new AOL. On the bright side, I'm hoping it's the new AOL.
[16:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I do. Here's why: - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:09] <exec> 08└─My Cousin Chuck was the valedictorian of his high school, got his master's degree at harvard. He is incapable of using email but is completely cool with facebook. Oddly he knows how to code in fortran. There are many people who think that "FaceBook" and "The Internet" are synonymous. I expect that i...
[16:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Coordinates for internet pages - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:11] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/31/0145236 [soylentnews.org] ?
[16:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:3, Informative) 02Not a huge swing - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah Yelp dropped a bit yesterday, more than most days, but it's not really far enough outside its normal trading range to really be newsworthy. It's back up almost half that drop this morning in the first 45 minutes of trading. Yelp's off about 50% [google.com] from this time last year, so you can...
[16:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tracked, hunted and the internet shrinks - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:14] <exec> 08└─... And thus, more and more of the internet moves behind a wall. More and more, it shrinks. The internet is in danger of becoming "google+fb+amazon+microsoft+apple". There will be nothing outside of it...
[16:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I'd like to see Yelp Die In A Fire - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:16] <exec> 08└─So I google for "Portland Glory Holes" and the #1 hit is "Find reviews of Portland Glory Holes at Yelp". So I click the link to find a page that asks me to be the first to write a review. Yelp specifically makes it very difficult to use a search engine to find a brick-and-mortar business. I don't th...
[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:2) 02Re:he's in deep shit - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─hints are that its the vtech tablets. We have the 1st gen one, sans camera and its the only reason I signed up to learning-lodge. They offered a set of credits for free apps in the box. As I remember the offerings available we not very interesting.
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just go ahead and leak the data... - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─because those can't be faked, right?
[16:22:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:promissed myself not to post drunk... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─I reviewed TFA. It appears they are talking about latency in web applications: where you make dozens if not hundreds of requests to external web-servers. The TFA argues that a typical page load will encounter at least one degenerate object load. Patient: It hurts when I load hundreds of objects from...
[16:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:promissed myself not to post drunk... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─you do need to ask yourself why you're doing 100 different things in order to handle one request
[16:22:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02latency cube - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 743 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Went to TFA. I feel like I've just read Timecube but with C# snippets and graphs. I think get it! When your apping app requests 1 page view, 2 major page view axes are created are the opposite sides of the internet. Where the 2 major page view forces join, synergy creates 2 new minor page view point...
[16:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:latency cube - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─If you alter the page on your end, does it instantly alter via entanglement the page view on the other side of the internet?
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Median - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─From TFA: The median is the number that 99.9999999999% of response times will be worse than. This is why median latency is irrelevant.
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Maybe it's my background, but... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─I've spent half my career working with Real Time Systems. You know, the ones where if you miss an interrupt Bad Things (tm) happen (for example, your stepper motor is forever more 1 step behind). TFA is essentially saying that you can't throw out the worst case reading. In my experience, it's the wo...
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a good candidate - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a load of crap to me.
[16:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:We have plenty of smart scientists already - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─If they are that smart they go to places that pay better.
[16:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Mousetrap - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─Although it wasn't ultimately the field I went into, the classic Mousetrap board game really got me into mechanics at a young age. Levers, gears, fulcrums... kids might not learn the terminology until later, but become familiar with the concepts and how they work in the real world.
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02No one mentioned tools - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:26] <exec> 08└─When you want to tinker, you need the tools for the job. The best part about getting them tools for Christmas is you can always get them something new, something they need, and something that's age appropriate. And if you get them the right ones, they'll last a long time. "Playing" takes on a whole...
[16:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:53] <exec> 08└─And I don't see anything in the Constitution that says "Oh, but if we don't like the president-elect's policy, we can secede and start shooting at you, and you aren't allowed to do anything about it."
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─The constitution set up the judges, and unless someone is willing to find a way to impeach them, they have control of the constitution.
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[17:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pfffttt - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:20:58] <exec> 08└─The Christie Boson
[17:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thank $BOSON! - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:01] <exec> 08└─Finally we'll be able to bury 90% of the remaining 10% of the supersymmetric models (If you think there was only one "supersymmetry" guess again - there were about 100, but most of them have been aborted). What I want to know is when Nima Arkani-Hamed will eat his fucking hat. He's been promising he...
[17:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank $BOSON! - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:02] <exec> 08└─Burying hairbrained theorie - this is good science - long may it continue.
[17:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank $BOSON! - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:04] <exec> 08└─but most of them have been aborted
[17:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:06] <exec> 08└─This pushes supersymmetry closer to the point where many physicists might give up on it, Peskin says.
[17:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:08] <exec> 08└─You have to start somewhere. Different theories/hypotheses are put into the hopper, and all poked and prodded to test them. Those that best match reality then rise to the top. If they still all seem unsatisfactory, such as being overly complicated or failing to match observation, time to get back to...
[17:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:10] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I strongly object against putting string theory and dark matter/dark energy into the same pot. String theory is pure mathematics with exactly zero evidence whatsoever. Dark matter and dark energy is something which, when inserted into our equations, allows us to correctly describe observe...
[17:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─If you demand that science may only consider things known to be true, then you can just as well demand that we stop doing science. Because under those conditions, science is not possible. At all. If you have a theory that correctly describes observations not correctly described by only using establi...
[17:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02OK, so this isn't a gluino then? - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:15] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming from the article / summary that this isn't a gluino (correct me if I'm wrong). If so, then what is it? Does the standard model predict anything this heavy / energetic? If not, then does that indicate a crack in the standard model? Facts people...I need some.
[17:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:OK, so this isn't a gluino then? - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:17] <exec> 08└─If so, then what is it?
[17:21:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 956 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:20] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I don't even thing driverless cars need to be perfect. They just have to be better than humans, and that seems like a pretty low bar to set when you see how reckless people are DAILY. I hate saying, "Because of this one bad person everyone should suffer.", but in this particular case, I thin...
[17:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02reduce dependency on car - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe your grandfather wouldn't have ended up house bound if it was practical to walk. (Of course walkways must accommodate wheelchairs.) Driverless cars are all very well, if they work. But I'd like to see more thought and work put into walkways, less fixation on cars. Take the "side" out of the si...
[17:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:31] <exec> 08└─I didn't say we shouldn't fix anything. I specifically pointed to something that should be fixed insead because it causes a far bigger amount of deaths and economic drain than car accidents.
[17:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:33] <exec> 08└─People are already pouring billions into medical research, hell the funds spent on developing this tech is a drop in the bucket compared to what pharmaceutical companies spend. Putting more funding there doesn't mean more problems get solved there. Putting money into other areas where lives can be s...
[17:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:35] <exec> 08└─I never said they would be which is why I was purely talking about the funding. The funding for the cars could be spent to actually solve problems that account for the deaths of 100s of times more people a year than all deaths due to accidents.
[17:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should also shut down cinemas, theaters, football/baseball/whatever league, fast food restaurants and so on. It's also quite a lot of money which could be used to fund medical research. We might live so much longer... Or, at least it might be perceived as living longer due to boredom :-)
[17:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:39] <exec> 08└─Not really. The money spent on driverless cars could be spent on curing diseases and other societal problems that amount for magnitudes more deaths than automobile fatalities. Cardiovascular disease in the US alone kills more than 20 times the people who die due to cars.
[17:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:41] <exec> 08└─I don't see being forced to sit behind the steering wheel and concentrate on the road as freedom. Quite the opposite. Not having to do this is freedom. The freedom a car brings you is not the freedom to operate a machine. It's the freedom to go wherever you want to go with relatively little effort....
[17:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:43] <exec> 08└─Anything that reduces the number of fatalities / injuries by even 1% is a good thing.
[17:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:46] <exec> 08└─Well, the robot cars may be patient. The people inside will not be. And you should always remember that those cars have doors, and the people inside the cars can leave the cars through the doors. And when they do, I can assure you they'll not let you sip the rest of your tea.
[17:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:In the future robots will give us all leisure t - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:52] <exec> 08└─No. There are 4,000 homeless people in Portland because Portland attracts homeless people from all around the country (even my hometown of Detroit). Homelessness can seem like a MASSIVE problem when you're in Portland, but it just looks worse there than almost everywhere else thanks to incredibly la...
[17:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:2) 02Re:Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:58] <exec> 08└─The problem with buses are that they're less comfortable than cars, they're slower than cars, and they don't go between any random two points like a car can. Self-driving cars should be able to do all three.
[17:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:00] <exec> 08└─Try looking outside. I'm serious. Motion sickness comes from your eyes telling you different things from your vestibular system. By looking outside (to the horizon if in a boat) you make those information streams match again in your brain.
[17:22:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lunix Nutcase [3913] 02More leisure? Yeah right. - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:01] <exec> 08└─Self-driving cars promise to create a new kind of leisure
[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:misses the real potential - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─You still need traffic lights for pedestrians.
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tramii [920] (Score:2) 02Re:he's in deep shit - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─guaranteed to be some nudes. so now he's hacking for cp.
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction re: Josh Duggar - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─Well, not that it changes my view about it as such, but I think I had him mixed up with another recent case when I wrote my post.
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too late/bad timing - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─I have special preview tickets to see Star Wars a day early, but can't make it. Sucks more than ashley madison.
[17:23:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimios [201] 02Everything you know about good headlines is wrong - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:16] <exec> 08└─OMG! Everything I know is a lie!!! I MUST read this article. Or not.
[17:23:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:promissed myself not to post drunk... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 1633 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If a user will be annoyed by whichever is worst of 100 things, then you should measure the worst of those hundred, all the faster ones are irrelevant. This is common sense, but apparently not well known. But as you say, you do need to ask yourself why you're doing 100 different things in or...
[17:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:promissed myself not to post drunk... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─in general, yet. It's improved with 3rd party content, and javascript, disabled. However, I dislike the mutli-icon bitmap sliced and diced at the client end method of avoiding mutiple image loads. Set your caching information correctly so that once the image is loaded it never gets loaded again. Bet...
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Median - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─you missed the preamble. IF a request is considered satisfied when the final result is back from 40 independent sub-requests whose latencies all share the same distribution, then the median is ... (take the log2 of 1 - his-number, that will tell you what what the "40" really is, I eyeballed) However...
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Re:Maybe it's my background, but... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─TFA is essentially saying that you can't throw out the worst case reading. In my experience, it's the worst case reading that you care about.
[17:24:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 14 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:15] <exec> 08└─Just Legos....
[17:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Big and little - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:25] <exec> 08└─There is another problem, which is more visible if you scale down your argument from state-level to smaller groups of people:
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[18:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Re:Pfffttt - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:01] <exec> 08└─Boson not Bozo.
[18:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:11] <exec> 08└─The String Supposition, and not even wrong, all that it turns out to be. (to be wrong, you need something testable, something String Supposition never provided)
[18:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, so this isn't a gluino then? - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:15] <exec> 08└─short answer: they suspect it could be the graviton. long answer: they don't know yet and they don't even know that there *is* something, there is just some discrepancy in their data (a bump as they call it) which could be explained as well by a new particle or by statistical noise. However, the Hig...
[18:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:50] <exec> 08└─If there's a stationary object in a designated road, then the cars will likely contact the local highway maintenance authority with pictures of it automatically. If the pictures show someone drinking tea, then they'll forward it directly to the police, who will happily arrange for a room where you c...
[18:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously? Apple, Uber, but not Mercedes/Audi/B - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:54] <exec> 08└─I used Here (BETA) for two years to navigate around my state and it performed as-well-or-better-than Google Maps. I, for one, feel that the Mercedes+Here combination is competitive with Google. There are three fundamental pieces of technology that you need: Cars, On-Car data processing, and Maps. Go...
[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:05] <exec> 08└─Self-driving cars promise to create a new kind of leisure, offering passengers additional time for reading books, writing email, knitting, practicing an instrument, cracking open a beer, taking a catnap, and any number of other diversions.
[18:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Motion sickness - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:06] <exec> 08└─motion sickness
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:We already don't have to cook - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─a hassle-free roof over your head
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:We already don't have to cook - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:16] <exec> 08└─The idea of getting rich with residential real estate renting is a lot like the idea of getting rich by joining Amway. Actually, I think Amway is a safer bet. Being a landlord is a complete pain in the ass and has a huge amount of risk: one bad tenant can completely wipe out your profit by wrecking...
[18:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03CHK6 [5974] (Score:1) 02You sound old and crusty - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:33] <exec> 08└─Like my neighbor who rejects the internet in favor of his newspaper. The init.d daemon doesn't need to be profitable. Yelp on the other hand does.
[18:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:38] <exec> 08└─What is the a good alternative for that forum? Tumblr?
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:promissed myself not to post drunk... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:28] <exec> 08└─> However, I dislike the mutli-icon bitmap sliced and diced at the client end method of avoiding mutiple image loads. Since you chose not to explain why you think that: Cool story bro!
[18:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Median - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─Ooops, karaoke is doing my nut in... s/will be the amount/will *not* be the amount/ FFFFFUUUUUU!!!!!!!! now in the cafe surrounded by noisy little crack monkeys...
[18:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Endemic population - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:13] <exec> 08└─Nobody living in the US unless were native americans lived enough generations in an endemic high radiation area so that had any genetic influence and could be a valid reason to be eligible. Unless you argue that for these people anyway the radiation increase of living in Mars and the increased risk...
[18:24:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dime [1163] 02Guess what STEM is? - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:46] <exec> 08└─Guess what STEM is? It's not science, technology, engineering, or maths. It's what drives all of those, curiosity. Focus on things that get them curious, like puzzles and problems they can solve. IMO, what kids need are the building blocks that their brain can dissect and permutate. Stop trying to b...
[18:27:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:00] <exec> 08└─Of course, I was under the impression that the terrorists had won at least since I found out the band on liquids for air passengers was not temporary.
[18:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The terrorists have won. - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:13] <exec> 08└─I guess I should have closed a sarc tag after the "boy". The point does remain that their recruiting propaganda is the only weapon that those idiots have against the West (whatever presidential candidates claim). So we need to stop enabling them. If the networks were not driven by "these guys are sc...
[18:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:00] <exec> 08└─No, they have some amount of legal power, and the apparent ability to create legal fictions. This doesn't translate into them having the ability to alter reality.
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[19:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Giant salt deposits visible from space? - 06Dawn Mission Team Reports First Results From Ceres - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:00] <exec> 08└─That sounds almost as salty as the fries from McDonalds.
[19:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:21] <exec> 08└─Many of the big daddies in top schools spent their career building up this house of hype, and aren't about to fess up anytime soon. They even resorted to bullshit like anthropic principle, multiverse, and trying to twist what it means to do physics. Hopefully, they'll be turfed out into retirement...
[19:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:36] <exec> 08└─The biggest barrier so far has been liability: If an automated car crashes, who has to pay up? The driver, like it currently is? The car manufacturer? The software company that sold them the automated driving package? And so forth.
[19:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:37] <exec> 08└─Mostly I agree with what you said The answer to "whose fault is it?" is, it depends. Just like the answer to "whose fault is it?" NOW without driverless cars is, it depends. If it's a software bug, the manufacture. If it's soddy maintenance, the owner of the vehicle, who can then take it up with the...
[19:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vanderhoth [61] (Score:2) 02Re:reduce dependency on car - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 2563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:41] <exec> 08└─Practical to walk is a bit subjective here. Walking several blocks is nothing for me, but him just making to the driveway was a challenge. It happens when you get old and have all kinds of medical issues. There are also other factors like climate to consider. I'm Canadian and we do get quite a bit o...
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Cost of lightning protection - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:53] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting question. I realize this isn't particularly sound research, but it's the best I could do with the 5 minutes I was willing to dedicate to it. I'll also just use US numbers. Apparently some guy estimated that the US spends $1B per year fighting terrorism. I decided for "preventin...
[19:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost of lightning protection - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:54] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting question. I realize this isn't particularly sound research, but it's the best I could do with the 5 minutes I was willing to dedicate to it. I'll also just use US numbers. Apparently some guy estimated that the US spends $1B per year fighting terrorism. I decided for "preventin...
[19:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:06] <exec> 08└─And what happens when there is a painting held up on the road showing a tree or a car crash?
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:selectors - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:04] <exec> 08└─Phone sanitizers.
[19:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Gotta love humans... - 06Why the Best Mars Colonists Could Come from Places Like Iran and Brazil - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─- Here is your share. It's largely sufficient if you manage it properly. - Dude, look at that extra piece I could have! True story of Humanity...
[19:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Natural monopolies and basic utilities... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:05] <exec> 08└─The Constitution hasn't been in force for a long time.
[19:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03evil_aaronm [5747] (Score:1) 02Congress... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:19] <exec> 08└─Congress - the best whores money can buy.
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[20:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Thank you - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:56] <exec> 08└─I'm still confused about exactly what a spectral gap is, but it's clearly important, and that it can't be determined for the general case is quite important.
[20:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thank you - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:20:57] <exec> 08└─Sounds like energy levels for electrons. Only discrete levels are allowed, and their gap can be represented by frequency spectrum of photon energy required for electron transition.
[20:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:58] <exec> 08└─Why did it take so long to admit that the most fundamental problem of physics just cannot be solved: Two separate observers cannot agree on what constitutes a foot-long object, with some perceiving it as much as 1/3 shorter.
[20:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:00] <exec> 08└─Isn't that sorted out by special relativity?
[20:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02DRM - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:02] <exec> 08└─Ever get the feeling that quantum mechanics is the universe's implementation of DRM?
[20:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Explanations - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:17] <exec> 08└─The boson invented Bitcoin. I'd hide in an incredibly high energy state as well if I knew the IRS was after me.
[20:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:28] <exec> 08└─Never directly observed, but it "must be there" according to our current understanding of the universe. We never directly observed viruses, either. Until we did.
[20:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 2961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:47] <exec> 08└─I was in an accident years ago, a head on collision, caused by a young woman applying makeup while making a left turn. She said she didn't see us. I was a passenger. The seat broke; I was belted in. The seat breaking allowed me and the seat to keep going at full speed, thankfully the dashboard stopp...
[20:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost of lightning protection - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:04] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I was just curious about that, and since I'd done some simple maths I figured I'd share them.
[20:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:09] <exec> 08└─But lives will be saved. And that's a good thing.
[20:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:15] <exec> 08└─Humans are terribly impatient. Especially at tea time whilst still on the motorway.
[20:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? Apple, Uber, but not Mercedes/Audi/B - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks, sounds interesting. I think there is a lot of development in that market segment, and while working for HERE might give me a biased view, I like to see that view corrected once in a while. Just this article set me off a bit, partly because Uber was also rumoured to try to buy us, which was a...
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Southpark ruined Yelp for me... - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─How is a review from 2-3 years ago helpful *at* *all*.
[20:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The refried beans at Taco Bell - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a ☆☆☆☆☆ Portland glory hole to me.
[20:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Grow or die - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─that sounds like some marketing horseshit reason for crap software like systemd. if you are consistently better, more convenient and more reliable than the competition, there is no need to change.
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I do. Here's why: - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:56] <exec> 08└─surely your harvard educated friend has some concerns with advertising and privacy? or perhaps because he can't track people in fortran, it cannot be done otherwise? I have encountered people that disbelieve if a problem exists if their academic situation doesn't permit it to exist for them locally,...
[20:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:58] <exec> 08└─I wished for years there was an easier way to communicate with friends and family and I set up websites, email addresses... nothing worked better than an ad supported platform that cloud. some of my family members don't even call this thing the internet anymore. they call things based on the applica...
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too late/bad timing - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─Lets see... stay home with the flu or get an std, I'll take the former.
[20:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Everything you know about good headlines is wro - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─OMG! Everything I know is a lie!!! I MUST read this article. Or not. We have articles now?
[20:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:51] <exec> 08└─Is Meccano compatible with old-style Erector sets from the 50s?
[20:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Guess what STEM is? - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 3230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:14] <exec> 08└─Excellent summary. I have said it before and will say it again: Feed them a wide variety of things little by little and see what they home in on. They will naturally be drawn towards things that stimulate them and once you see what stimulates them, feed them more of that. And feed them a little of e...
[20:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02They're backpedalling - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:33] <exec> 08└─see here [meethue.com]. They're working on rolling out an update to allow any bulb to work again (as before). This is due to the backlash - so apparently, they do notice that and even care. A bit. At least enough to claim so.
[20:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''the ban on liquids [...] was reasonable'' - 06Public Schools in Los Angeles Closed over Threatening Message - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:29] <exec> 08└─Liquid explosives have been used in the past. For example Korean Air Flight 858 [wikipedia.org] in 29 November 1987. On 27 November, two guidance officers who had arrived in Yugoslavia by train from Vienna gave (the bombers) the time bomb, a Panasonic transistor radio made in Japan, which contained...
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[21:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They don't deprecate versions <11 - 06Is Microsoft Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─They deprecate all but the highest version available on the OS. So IE9 and 10 remain supported on supported Windows versions that don't have access to IE11.
[21:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They don't deprecate versions <11 - 06Is Microsoft Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:56] <exec> 08└─WinXP is no longer supported, and I don't think vista is either Win7 has become Win10 because of the upgrade nagging, so has win8 and win8.1. Essentially, there is only Win10 which has access to Edge, what is your point?
[21:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:58] <exec> 08└─Want to make browsers more secure? Here's an idea: stop trying to make the web into a second operating system. Take a look at all the things [caniuse.com] browsers are expected to do. Custom UI widgets, scriptable 2d and 3d graphics and animation, audio/video rendering and playback, mathematic types...
[21:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:00] <exec> 08└─As much as I have to admit to it, the webbrowser has effectively become the OS. Talk to your gran, your parents or your sister; when they open their computer, what do they use? facebook, google, maybe Office365 which they get from school... We're back at mainframes, man...
[21:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:11] <exec> 08└─Special relativity solves nothing. It only elongates the search for the fundamental particle cascades of the known universe.
[21:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:12] <exec> 08└─Try to learn to read before worrying about fundamental particles business.
[21:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:14] <exec> 08└─I have my online degree in Chemical Mathematics again. I'm simply more likely to be right.
[21:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:16] <exec> 08└─12 inches vs 8 inches... Was that a penis joke?
[21:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of an old joke: One day a man walks into a bar and to his amazement, he finds a tiny person playing a tiny piano. Stunned, the man asked the bartender where he got this amazing tiny person. The bartender replied that inside the closet there is a genie that will grant him a single wis...
[21:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:20] <exec> 08└─Subway answers this for about $6.
[21:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame quantum physics, then... - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:22] <exec> 08└─Your girlfriend already told me all about that fight. Stop kidding yourself!
[21:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wait, what? - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:24] <exec> 08└─Some of it, just like magic. for magic, the parts that are provable we call science. For homeopathy, the parts that work we just call medicine.
[21:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wait, what? - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:26] <exec> 08└─I doubt it. I haven't read the paper, but as far as I can remember, the main claim of homeopathy is that the system remembers whether a molecule was present at some point in the past, no matter if the molecule is still there. Also, they would probably claim that the system is affected by the presenc...
[21:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The halting problem only applies to Turing machine - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:27] <exec> 08└─Since practical computers have a limited amount of memory, no halting problem! *ducks*
[21:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So Quantum Physics is Not Real Science? - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:29] <exec> 08└─The consensus around here is that the one and only characteristic of a field of study that qualifies it as science is that results must be independently reproducible. So now quantum physics is just as non-sciency as the social sciences. Oh knoes!
[21:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Embrace fuzziness - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:31] <exec> 08└─Lack of theoretical solutions doesn't necessarily prevent practical solutions. Quantum physics may ultimately depend on probability at the lowest levels such that "discrete" models are theoretically impossible, except as approximations of reality. But, that doesn't mean that useful and practical mod...
[21:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TestablePredictions [3249] (Score:2) 02Implications for quantum computation - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:33] <exec> 08└─Does this mean I could transform an undecidable computer science problem into an equivalent spectral gap solid-state physics problem and produce the material in question to evaluate the answer?
[21:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:53] <exec> 08└─uhm... you shouldn't equate supersymmetry to string theory. they are quite different.
[21:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:09] <exec> 08└─> A lot of people will just take the chance with a couple of drinks. Driverless cars solve that problem. There is a flip-side to that - some people never drink in public, not even one beer, because they won't take the risk of driving impaired. But that's bad for the restaurant business. More drin...
[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─Is there a reason that we can't work on both (and more) issues concurrently?
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 2089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─First, I disagree with the heart disease thing. Maybe you're more likely to die of heart disease than car crash, but I'm quite sure that I am not. Not everyone has even remotely equal risk for medical things like that. Some people are at high risk for heart disease, other people are at very low risk...
[21:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tracked, hunted and the internet shrinks - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:21] <exec> 08└─Or on the other side: Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Netease and Vipshop.
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'd like to see Yelp Die In A Fire - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:23] <exec> 08└─Yelp specifically makes it very difficult to use a search engine to find a brick-and-mortar business.
[21:25:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:11] <exec> 08└─buckyballs! if they figure out how to stay alive while playing with them, clearly they are genius.
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[22:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Re:They don't deprecate versions <11 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:55] <exec> 08└─Win7 has become Win10 because of the upgrade nagging, so has win8 and win8.1.
[22:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:58] <exec> 08└─Amen!: Make the browser a simple coordinate-based vector and polygon display engine with standardized fonts, and let the server do most the rest, including resizing to fit different devices etc. Time to start over and do it right. Fat-client is messy for both development and security. We Are Doing I...
[22:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:00] <exec> 08└─Fonts...? FONTS!?!?!? You will display in whatever font my terminal is set to use, you insensitive clod!
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03prospectacle [3422] (Score:2) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:02] <exec> 08└─Are you saying sandboxes are fundamentally flawed and untrustworthy, or that there is something special about both flash and the web platform that makes the latter as bad as the former? What about the differences: Flash was almost exclusively implemented as a single proprietary plugin. The web (whic...
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02No - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─Thanks for this post, I was trying to describe Betteridge's law to a coworker and this was the first thing that came up!
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:06] <exec> 08└─...nor "open". The Shameless Openwashing of Rebranded Internet Explorer, "Edge" [techrights.org] Despite all the openwashing, 'Edge' is proprietary and standards-hostile. It is "cancer on the Web", to use a popular characterisation of Internet Explorer, whose extremely bad reputation 'Edge' is mere...
[22:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:07] <exec> 08└─One could argue that by responding "I'm Edge" instead of "I'm IExx", the new browser prevents some older malware from executing specific exploits, regardless of whether they would still work, and is therefore MORE SECURE! [cue rainbows and unicorns]. Probably a tiny fraction of 1% more secure, beati...
[22:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:09] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares about the "openwashing". What's actually happening is that the browser is more standards compliant. I guess you can throw "open" in front of "standards compliant" for added confusion. Edge is a clean break from old IE rendering engines. Even if it reuses old IE code, they can break many...
[22:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Thank you - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:15] <exec> 08└─They're pretty nasty really. I deal with them almost weekly. There's only really a handful of ways you can deal with them. A +1 weapon kind of works, but there's only a 50% chance it'll have any sort of effect. Force spells are the most reliable, but then you have to worry about overcoming spell res...
[22:21:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02DRM - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:25] <exec> 08└─Ever get the feeling that quantum mechanics is the universe's implementation of DRM?
[22:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The halting problem only applies to Turing mach - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:30] <exec> 08└─Um, a computer program can run definitely without consuming more memory.
[22:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02I disagree - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:34] <exec> 08└─The fact that these scientists cannot predict behavior of quantum particles in a complex lump of matter doesn't mean that there is no way at all. The particles know how to behave, so there must be a way to at least describe their behavior. Science just hasn't found out how to predict it yet. But as...
[22:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:2) 02Re:OK, so this isn't a gluino then? - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:06] <exec> 08└─It's a statistical anomaly. It's not real. Yet.
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 1464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:21] <exec> 08└─Our judicial system is currently oriented around punishing the guy least able to defend himself, because of evidence, or more commonly race / poverty / etc. Currently the folks at the bottom take their chances with their own skill and judgement, which oddly enough isn't really all that bad. With au...
[22:22:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─I hate saying, "Because of this one bad person everyone should suffer.", but in this particular case, I think there's a huge net benefit.
[22:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:25] <exec> 08└─> It's way more than one person. I'd say a good 5-10% of drivers are selfish, irresponsible assholes. When people drive well you don't even notice them. If 1 out of 20 drivers really were that reckless we'd have thousands of deaths a day rather than thousands of deaths a years.
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathElk [4834] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe you can borrow someone's horse buggy...
[22:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─So which is scarier AC, the people who write and maintain the code for self driving cars not being "safety of human life qualified" like avionics, or the limited pool of IQ 140+ people currently writing "safety of human life qualified" avionics working on cars instead, such that planes fall out of t...
[22:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:51] <exec> 08└─I don't see being forced to sit behind the steering wheel and concentrate on the road as freedom.
[22:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─As long as you can still go where you wish when you wish
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─take away a major freedom
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Driverless cars exist now - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─There is an observation that if you want to see what you will be doing in the future, look at what the rich are doing now.
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:03] <exec> 08└─Knowing that he'll probably be hit by a texting/distracted driver who doesn't pay enough attention to the road to see him until it's too late?
[22:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:07] <exec> 08└─It'll be detected as a flat surface by the car's LIDAR or 3D cameras, probably with much greater accuracy than human binocular vision. Next question?
[22:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02The Internet ≠ Local - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:36] <exec> 08└─I have never found Yelp of any use. Like any number of review sites they tend to filled with obvious astroturf, or with one line trash reviews from someone with no objectivity and less knowledge. I can't see that Facebook review would be any more useful, except that possibly I'll know the person rev...
[22:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:2) 02Now they've made a mistake! - 06Ashley Madison Blackmailers Try Again With Snail Mail - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:09] <exec> 08└─Sending threats by mail, being a crime of 18th century technology, is a something every judge, prosecutor, and police department can understand. Someone's going to jail now.
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's why I didn't volunteer at SN - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong
[22:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:29] <exec> 08└─I suppose they do like to make and play with non-Newtonian fluids sometimes.
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[23:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Funny) 02Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:54] <exec> 08└─Dun Dun Dah Dah DAH DAH Dun Dun DAH DAH!!!!!! [youtube.com] My favorite when I was a little kid and Bugs Bunny introduced me to it. If the stories are true, it's mostly responsible for my broken arm and wrist when I sang this and leaped off the jungle gym at the playground. I didn't end up flying li...
[23:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:55] <exec> 08└─Bugs Bunny introduced me to it. If the stories are true, it's mostly responsible for my broken arm and wrist when I sang this and leaped off the jungle gym at the playground
[23:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ride of the Valkyries - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:57] <exec> 08└─> it's mostly responsible for my broken arm and wrist when I sang this and leaped off the jungle gym at the playground. I love the smell of school lunches in the morning. Smells like ... victory!
[23:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dogvomit [5452] (Score:1) 02"Classical" music? - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:59] <exec> 08└─When I play Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin or even Rolling Stones, my kids (ages 19 and 21) call it classical music. Of course, by the standards of the submission those certainly qualify. Everything just flows together and intricate passages combine into something much greater than their constituent p...
[23:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:"Classical" music? - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:01] <exec> 08└─I always call that classic rock. And classical music has greatly influenced a lot of rockers, some of which were classically trained. Randy Rhoads, guitarist for Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne, was classically trained on guitar and Piano.
[23:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:"Classical" music? - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:03] <exec> 08└─The ultimate example to me is Rick Wakeman of Yes fame. Classically trained pianist who then helped write loads of Progressive rock, some of which is structured very like classical symphonies. In fact Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition was covered (if that's the right word), by Emerson, Lake and...
[23:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chopin's Nocturne in Eb Major - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:04] <exec> 08└─It's like a short poem, with a doddering, drunken feeling that resolves into blissful peace, like people staying up all night to watch the sunrise. Chopin was a genius who wrote a lot of stuff for solo piano. The dynamics of the final note is scored as "ppp" (vanishingly quiet).
[23:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aitmanga [558] (Score:1) 02Re:Chopin's Nocturne in Eb Major - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:06] <exec> 08└─Chopin was awesome. Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1 and Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 being my personal favorites. Wikipedia has some free(libre) interpretations here: https://en.wikipedia.org(Chopin) [wikipedia.org]
[23:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Requiem - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:08] <exec> 08└─I always liked Verdi's Requiem. Especially the Dies Irae part. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] is my favorite performance.
[23:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shostokovitch - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─Starting in the middle, but the violence of this sometimes feels just right: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02Of Music and other pleasures - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:12] <exec> 08└─Define "classical" Either way my top favorite would be: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach [youtube.com] Piano Sonata No. 14 - Beethoven [youtube.com] I also like Impressionism: Clair de lune - Claude Debussy [youtube.com] Bolero- Ravel [youtube.com] and of course Waltz: Waltz No. 2 - Dmitri Shosta...
[23:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good idea for a post - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:15] <exec> 08└─Some of these might be baroque I never learned the difference: Mozart symphony 25: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Beethoven 9th symphony, movement 2: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2: https://www.youtube.com
[23:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03prospectacle [3422] (Score:2) 02Good idea for a post - 06Ask Soylent: What Are Your Classical Favorites? - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:17] <exec> 08└─(sorry for dupe, forgot to login) Some of these might be baroque I never learned the difference: Mozart symphony 25: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Beethoven 9th symphony, movement 2: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2: htt...
[23:21:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 632 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:19] <exec> 08└─Want to make browsers more secure? Here's an idea: stop trying to make the web into a second operating system. Take a look at all the things [caniuse.com] browsers are expected to do. Custom UI widgets, scriptable 2d and 3d graphics and animation, audio/video rendering and playback, mathematic types...
[23:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:22] <exec> 08└─I think it remains to be seen how effective sandboxing really is at isolation in a practical setting. At least as long as it is done at the app level rather than at the OS.
[23:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OS/2 - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:24] <exec> 08└─Are you saying sandboxes are fundamentally flawed and untrustworthy,
[23:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The word is that Edge isn't even "new" - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:27] <exec> 08└─99% of the time I browse with firefox impersonating ie, chrome or safari and have never had a malware infection succeed (that I know of). But I also disable javascript 99% of the time, so that might have something to do with it too.
[23:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The big news. - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:29] <exec> 08└─The big news that that they finally filled ActiveX. I have been waiting since 1998 for this day! (Don't know why they ever thought it was a good idea)
[23:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:er *killed* Active X - 06Is Microsoft's Edge Browser any More Secure than the IE it's Supposed to Replace? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:31] <exec> 08└─must be more careful proof-reading.
[23:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So Quantum Physics is Not Real Science? - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:55] <exec> 08└─So now quantum physics is just as non-sciency as the social sciences.
[23:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Implications for quantum computation - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:58] <exec> 08└─If you manage to produce an infinite amount of that material, then yes. ;-)
[23:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I disagree - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:01] <exec> 08└─Particles are not sentient. They don't 'know'. Some things are determined by chance, i.e. random. You often can't really make predictions about single partibles in quantum mechanics, just about averages. So it does not suprise me some of the 'unknowables' extend to multiple-particle materials. Stubb...
[23:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:1) 02Re:I disagree - 06Some Fundamental Physics Problems Cannot be Solved — Provably - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:03] <exec> 08└─Right. For instance, the article summary says the physics problem is equivalent to the halting problem. I expect they butchered the science in making this equivalence, but it means the halting problem can't be solved with a Turing machine, and so neither can the physics problem. This means, we can't...
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:String "Theory" nice math exercise - 06LHC Sees Hint of Boson Heavier Than Higgs - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─I think you forgot to drink your coffee, or you're making a joke that whooshed me... OR you've been a BOT this whole time and just got rolled :D
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:16] <exec> 08└─First, I disagree with the heart disease thing. Maybe you're more likely to die of heart disease than car crash, but I'm quite sure that I am not. Not everyone has even remotely equal risk for medical things like that. Some people are at high risk for heart disease, other people are at very low risk...
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one... - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─Your paranoid dystopian vision is rather Kafakesque. I commend you.
[23:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not in our lifetime will this ever work - 06The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:38] <exec> 08└─If you try that in my country, you'll not have time to finish your cup before someone gets out and punches you in the face. We put up with anything, unless it blocks traffic.
[23:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:I'd like to see Yelp Die In A Fire - 06Yelp Shares Fall 9% as Facebook Tests Review Service - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:09] <exec> 08└─I was thinking it was time for MDC to open a glory-hole-emporium in Portland. I mean -- it seem there's an open port -- or opportunity to provide open ports in Portland -- awaiting an industrious entrepreneur! It could be the land of gloryholes, portland oregon! As the owner, you can be the first to...
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:he's in deep shit - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, kids tablets have the problem of not being mainstream so they end up being no better than the cheap non-name chinese models. For most people its just better to get an old ipad, put a big thick shock-absorber case on it and curate the apps yourself.
[23:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:he's in deep shit - 06UK Man Arrested Over Hack of Toy Maker - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:25] <exec> 08└─What nefarious thing did he do, besides exposing the problem? It doesn't seem like he profited from it other than benefiting the world from his actions exposing how bad "cloud" security can be. Just because he thought of the children doesn't mean you can go around screaming think of the children! lo...
[23:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:latency cube - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:09] <exec> 08└─You're already modded high but I wanted to say that a) you referenced the time cube and b) +1
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Common latency issue... - 06Everything You Know about Latency is Wrong - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:16] <exec> 08└─No, I didn't watch TFV (which seems concerned with layer-7 "latency", not layer 3 or below), but here's a common latency issue that people don't seem to think about but I encounter in different situations all the time at various locations: A path through a network seems slow -- everything you do is...
[23:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:1) 02Re:Sometimes we try too hard.... - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:10] <exec> 08└─and 'LEGO bricks' for the actual, um, bricks.
[23:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02How about non-STEM but still brain-building? - 06Ask Soylent -- STEM-based Gifts for Kids - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:48] <exec> 08└─I have two nephews. I try to find fun but skill-building gifts for them. The older one is obviously STEM-leaning. He takes challenges head on -- the more frustrated he gets, the more determined he is. STEM gifts are falling out of the sky right now -- grant you, most of them are total junk since eve...
[23:27:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:03] <exec> 08└─Why the fuck do your light bulbs need a computer? I never got this.
[23:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Witty Subject Line - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:17] <exec> 08└─You are a wise person. I never would buy these because you don't need a computer, you need a cell phone and an apple ID or something to then run the DRM on your bulbs... No thanks. I can't see why this is attractive, unless perhaps one already is signed up for all of the rest. My desktop shouldnt ne...
[23:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks for the heads up! - 06Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out Of 3rd-Party Bulbs With Firmware Update - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─You know, *my* gaming room doesn't have LED strips from Philips, but it does have a CD-I with "The Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon", in its original store-bought package. It probably has brought more joy to my life than any DRM ever has, and the game is horrible! HORRIBLE
[23:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congress... - 06U.S. Senators Oppose Municipal Broadband in Letter to FCC - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:00] <exec> 08└─Not really. They don't give a lot of bang for the buck.
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