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[15:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02C level executives - 06United States Names its First Chief Information Security Officer - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder if and when the title "President of the United States" will be changed to "Chief Executive Officer". That said, here's hoping the appointed CISO makes some rational objective decisions and sets some good systems in place.
[15:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Nice summary title, TFA, not so much - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:10] <exec> 08└─The article is not very interesting, but the summary title is. Article: Programs which use special instructions (intrinsics) instead of combinations of generic instructions run faster. The article example is population count to count the numbers of ones in a register. Summary: Hand coded assembly ru...
[15:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nice summary title, TFA, not so much - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:12] <exec> 08└─TFA is a good article because it's readable and presents actual code and performance numbers. And it tries several approaches that various readers would've asked about. It's easy to sit back and say "hand coded assembly is obviously faster, but it's not worth the dev time on AMD 64" w/o providing co...
[15:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"website is a treasure trove" - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:15] <exec> 08└─>refreshingly simple HTML 1.0 design >the true experts all have austere websites .. and kissing spying ass <script async src='//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js'></script>
[15:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02"RequestPolicy" - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 2548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:17] <exec> 08└─----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/> ## RequestPolicy ## by Justin Samuel Works with Firefox 4.0 - 31.0 Be in control of which cross-site requests are allowed. Improve the privacy of your...
[15:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Finally someone telling it right - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:19] <exec> 08└─I did tests over the years got the same results, but only a few ever listened. It is not just on the Assembly level coding it is even higher kanguages... Example: In C a(i++) += b(j++) vs. a(i) += b(j) i++ j++ which is faster?...
[15:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally someone telling it right - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:21] <exec> 08└─Experienced C++ programmers know that dereferencing an array and using a postfix increment or decrement at the same time is costly in terms of performance. So this isn't a great example.
[15:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally someone telling it right - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:23] <exec> 08└─This is a really bad example, because after SSA construction the compiler IR for the two will be identical. Then it's down to pipelining. It also depends hugely on the addressing modes for your target exactly what you want the reassociation to do in this case.
[15:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Well, popcnt isn't really a fair example... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:25] <exec> 08└─That Intel popcnt false dependency bug significantly hurt's the compiler's ability to optimize the loops. Baring the manual unrolling, most of this can usually be done in the compiler. Still, now that nodes don't really go down all that frequently, there's a real case for doing things manually. Afte...
[15:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, popcnt isn't really a fair example... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:28] <exec> 08└─I was talking to someone in the tools team at a major games studio recently. They compile with compiler optimisations disabled right up until betas, because they've found that fast compile cycles give a faster product. Algorithmic improvements are where the big speedups come from and being able to t...
[15:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Not sure this is news... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:30] <exec> 08└─Granted, I haven't programmed assembly in any sort of serious fashion for a very long time. However, I really don't think this article is news. Hand-crafted assembly has always been, and probably always will be, faster than compiled code. The problem is simply complexity. A human can craft 10 lines...
[15:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02compilers are dumb - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:32] <exec> 08└─One thing must be remembered above all else: compilers are dumb. I'm not saying using one is a bad idea, I'm saying they literally lack intelligence. For this reason, they will not outperform human devised assembly language. The difference is that humans can understand problems as a whole while a co...
[15:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:41] <exec> 08└─I love onii-chan!
[15:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:43] <exec> 08└─Notice me, senpai~! [knowyourmeme.com]
[15:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Lack of healthy level of distrust... - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:45] <exec> 08└─The researchers acknowledged the potential misuse of DecNef for brainwashing.
[15:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Lack of healthy level of distrust... - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:47] <exec> 08└─Expect heavy investment in this from corporate advert/marketing dept.'s, and their political puppets.
[15:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lack of healthy level of distrust... - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:49] <exec> 08└─Potential misuse? I would have said certain misuse, instead.
[15:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02mind control rays - 06Containing Our 'Electromagnetic Pollution' - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:59] <exec> 08└─Hmm, looking at the artical posted just after this one, could this be what we need to make our new tinfoil hats out of? Titanium carbide hats, sounds epic. And old sound card/RAM combination I used to have had a problem with RAM activity causing audio interference. It was very slight, but it was the...
[15:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02can't it be both? - 06Two Men Charged With Hacking CIA Director and Other High-Ranking Officials - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:07] <exec> 08└─Are they criminals, or patriots
[15:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:by legalize you mean not really - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:18] <exec> 08└─Good thing we don't have single-payer healthcare or the government could come between you and your doctor.
[15:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:I have a feeling these guys wont be very popula - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:26] <exec> 08└─It's possible to be too high to drive for a very large number of reasons, only a few have to do with drugs we can test for. Why not make the arrests and convictions based on *behavior* rather than chemistry, hmm? What's so wrong with that? It worked quite well for until one day the million mad moms...
[15:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:How does it work? - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:29] <exec> 08└─Saliva drug tests have been around for a while. The new thing with this is how fast it works, so it can be used roadside. Of course if you JUST smoked, the saliva in your mouth can be contaminated by the smoke itself, but detectable chemicals are secreted in saliva for (I believe) 12 to 24 hours aft...
[15:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:How does it work? - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:31] <exec> 08└─Got to it just before me. I followed some citations on Wikipedia and wound up with NORML's possibly out of date blurb [norml.org]: Saliva testing, like blood testing, detects the presence of parent drugs – not their inactive metabolites. Consumers take heart: THC is highly difficult to identify i...
[15:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02so - 06Dormant Bacteria in Blood Could Cause Diseases - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:40] <exec> 08└─all those blood treatments like ultraviolet irradiation exit the crackpot science stage...
[15:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not even in the same league. - 06 This Crowdfunded Electric Car Integrates Solar Panels for Self-Charging - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:01] <exec> 08└─Not even in the same league. The MPG numbers are for certain predefined conditions that are definitely not optimal, they can be optimized for, but they are not optimal down-hill-in-a-hurricane conditions.
[15:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a cyborg! - 06 This Crowdfunded Electric Car Integrates Solar Panels for Self-Charging - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:06] <exec> 08└─In Dearborn, MI, there's a turn-of-the-century, time capsule town called Greenfield Village where they drive Model T's and men ride penny-farthings (those old-fashioned bikes with the big front wheel) around the streets. Henry Ford had it built and he paid to have historic buildings like the courtho...
[15:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sign me up! - 06Japan Home to 541,000 Young Recluses, Survey Finds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:18] <exec> 08└─If your rent is low, that might be 25% of what you need to survive day to day.
[15:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Sign me up! - 06Japan Home to 541,000 Young Recluses, Survey Finds - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:19] <exec> 08└─Exactly. We're talking about a lifestyle that's quite different from an apartment dweller in Manhattan, for whom $2K/yr would pay maybe 60% of your rent for 1 month. But that different lifestyle could come with a higher score on the happiness index, depending on how adaptible you are. If you want to...
[15:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jobs - 06Japan Home to 541,000 Young Recluses, Survey Finds - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─You too can earn $4000 per month from home! All you need is a home computer!
[15:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Jobs - 06Japan Home to 541,000 Young Recluses, Survey Finds - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:30] <exec> 08└─I thought it was a nice counterpoint to Oldboy and The Man from Nowhere (which I also enjoyed). I have been looking for another Korean anime like Wonderful Days/Sky Blue for a while, so any recs you might have would be appreciated.
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"weebo" - 06Japan Home to 541,000 Young Recluses, Survey Finds - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, and you might also call someone who's white but wants to be Asian, "egg." "Asian fever" is the more polite form of "yellow fever."
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[16:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C level executives - 06United States Names its First Chief Information Security Officer - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:11] <exec> 08└─I agree. This scapegoat... I mean.. Position... could set some great policies.
[16:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:C level executives - 06United States Names its First Chief Information Security Officer - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:13] <exec> 08└─I wonder if and when the title "President of the United States" will be changed to "Chief Executive Officer".
[16:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Diebold voting machines - 06United States Names its First Chief Information Security Officer - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe for next time, or the time after that, but whatever is in place now is what we'll have. Look how long it took Florida to replace their punch card system.
[16:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Finally someone telling it right - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:29] <exec> 08└─Example: In C a(i++) += b(j++) vs. a(i) += b(j) i++ j++
[16:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:1) 02Re:can't it be both? - 06Two Men Charged With Hacking CIA Director and Other High-Ranking Officials - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:00] <exec> 08└─What a waste. Too young to be going to prison. Their youth will be gone from them when/if they see freedom again. All over a pointless move that accomplish nothing positive for them or any one else.
[16:08:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02I have a feeling these guys wont be very popular - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 958 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:11] <exec> 08└─I have a feeling these guys won't be very popular at professional gatherings for a few decades. Either their invention doesn't work, which obviously is a killer with the 'we make it work' crowd... or... Maybe it does work and a lot of their fellow engineers are going to suddenly have to start being...
[16:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:How does it work? - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:22] <exec> 08└─This is an important point. The process of the test seems very complex. Though it might work well in a clean laboratory environment, how well can it work in the field (where the minute amounts that can be detected could be floating around inside a patrol car from evidence carried or handled from a b...
[16:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02missing info - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:23] <exec> 08└─something that is mising from the main article is exactly which THC molecule this test can detect. There are hundreds of different "THC" molecules but only a handful of them are psychoactive, the most common on being THC-11, which is what gets you high. The thing is that the THC-11 gets metabolized...
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[17:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Hyper jack-off - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:06] <exec> 08└─So if i read about the results of this case online, will i die? If i hover my mouse over one of those links, does an angel not get its wings? Does Stephen King get hit by another car? Man, lets just shut down this 'innernet' thing i keep hearing about... too much freaking trouble. I'm gonna go back...
[17:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cyberlocker business model under attack - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:07] <exec> 08└─Offshore some more! Time to look into African hosting.
[17:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Seems perfectly reasonable... - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:10] <exec> 08└─...if you're a complete numpty who can't imagine that anybody would ever try to abuse or over-stretch such a law law for competitive advantage, financial gain or censorship or falsely claim copyright on an image. Nossir, those things never happen. ...and the definition of "the pursuit of financial g...
[17:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seems perfectly reasonable... - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:12] <exec> 08└─Funding Goal: $3,000 Progress So Far: $1083
[17:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02EFF cries wolf again - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:14] <exec> 08└─From TFA There are also many times when knowingly linking to something that is infringing is entirely legitimate. For example, a post calling out a plagiarized news article might link to the original article and to the plagiarized one, so that readers can compare and judge for themselves. According...
[17:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02missing the point - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:34] <exec> 08└─Compiler intrinsics are supposed to be a friendly C-like substitute for assembly. They let you do things that aren't easily expressed in standard C, like vector operations. The article shows that intrinsics actually don't work very well. The compiler does a pretty bad job of scheduling instructions...
[17:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well, popcnt isn't really a fair example... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:43] <exec> 08└─You also get developers running unoptimized code, which forces them to care more about not wasting performance. OTOH, the optimizer can uncover bugs. Finding these late can be painful.
[17:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, popcnt isn't really a fair example... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:45] <exec> 08└─Completely agree. For game developers compiler speed is a critical factor for the reasons you stated. I do the same in my personal projects ... even when compiler speed is a non issue. After all, no optimizer can make a poor choice in algorithm fast. However the optimization pass can bite you ... if...
[17:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure this is news... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, and the hand-crafted assembly usually has to be CPU-specific to get the best performance (pipelines and all that). About a million years ago (in 1999) I bought myself an AMD K6-2/400 because it had floating-point SIMD (3DNow) and I figured it would be cool to write some code for it, and I was k...
[17:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:compilers are dumb - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:52] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't the 'register global' keywords hint that you want to do something like that?
[17:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Two Minutes Hate - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:03] <exec> 08└─Emmanuel Goldstein
[17:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02pitiful - 06Two Men Charged With Hacking CIA Director and Other High-Ranking Officials - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:22] <exec> 08└─i don't know about the motivations of the crackas but the effected agencies and officials should be ashamed at themselves. Why aren't there stronger procedures in place. this is not the 90's. In fact these dipshits should be brought up on charges for dereliction of duty. How easy must it be for fore...
[17:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pitiful - 06Two Men Charged With Hacking CIA Director and Other High-Ranking Officials - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:24] <exec> 08└─Name of an example of a high profile organization that has proper security procedures in place.
[17:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a feeling these guys wont be very popula - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:39] <exec> 08└─what kind of suck ass has never smoked weed? wow! maybe you're a government comment bot?
[17:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a feeling these guys wont be very popula - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:44] <exec> 08└─You mean you want to punish people who are driving dangerously, rather than punishing people who ingested a certain substance even if they were not driving dangerously? That's insane, and you're insane.
[17:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pigs and the whores who love them - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:51] <exec> 08└─they can't just ticket people for actual driving infractions. they want to pay some scumbag whoregineers to make a test to detect whether you're automatically dangerous due to some scary drug. hey dumbasses. i can either actually drive or i can't. your test is just a lazy liars' way of not doing the...
[17:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pigs and the whores who love them - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:53] <exec> 08└─This. Unless it starts to cause as many problems as drunk driving, then there is no real need to test people.
[17:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DNA vs. Bacterial Cells - 06Dormant Bacteria in Blood Could Cause Diseases - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:03] <exec> 08└─The presence of bacterial DNA does not mean there are live bacteria present.
[17:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Be suspicious no more! - 06Dormant Bacteria in Blood Could Cause Diseases - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:06] <exec> 08└─I've similarly been suspicious of claims that urine is sterile.
[17:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Do Not Believe - 06 This Crowdfunded Electric Car Integrates Solar Panels for Self-Charging - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:28] <exec> 08└─It's got 7.5 m2 of solar cells. Assuming they get the equivalent of 2 m2 of oriented cells - a reasonable guess, looking at the car - that's about 500 watts. Park it outside all day you might get 3 or 4 KWHrs into the battery. That would get you 30 km of sedate driving. It also matches pretty well w...
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[18:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EFF cries wolf again - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:09] <exec> 08└─"For example, a post calling out a plagiarized news article might link to the original article..." Couldn't that put Soylentnews and that other one that must not be named (/.) out of business?
[18:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Soylentnews out of business NOW - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:11] <exec> 08└─Soylentnews shouldn't even be a business. Corporate news sites like Soylentnews need to die.
[18:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EFF cries wolf again - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:13] <exec> 08└─> C'mon guys, that's fair use and you know that would never result in a judgement. This is an NRA "they're going after all of our guns" type argument. Fair use is an affirmative defense - in other words you have to go to court in order to use it and going to court is never free. So even if the conte...
[18:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:EFF cries wolf again - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:15] <exec> 08└─C'mon guys, that's fair use and you know that would never result in a judgement.
[18:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EFF cries wolf again - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:17] <exec> 08└─unfunded site with a "Donate" button
[18:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:2) 02Communication to the public - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 2660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed, EFF is being quite a bit on the hyperbolic side of things here. The whole decision revolves around how to determine what is exactly a "communication to the public" in EU law. The court stresses repeatedly that this assessment needs to be made case by case. In making such an "individualised a...
[18:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Communication to the public - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:21] <exec> 08└─> you are indeed vulnerable to further prosecution (as you should be). talk about begging the question, jesus!
[18:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:EFF cries wolf again - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:23] <exec> 08└─Except that when Americans got their "Fair Use" codified years back, it was written such that the deciding point as to whether or not someone could claim fair use or not did hinge upon whether or not financial gain was an issue. Meaning you could get your ass dragged into court and fail with a Fair...
[18:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No, it does not threaten hyperlinking - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:26] <exec> 08└─It threatens the entire internet.
[18:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, it does not threaten hyperlinking - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:28] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Google will make this ruling go away because it threatens internet advertising.
[18:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, it does not threaten hyperlinking - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:30] <exec> 08└─Maxwell Smart to the rescue!
[18:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, it does not threaten hyperlinking - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:32] <exec> 08└─What brand of SIM card does Max use in his shoe?
[18:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02techno ignoramii - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:34] <exec> 08└─If you can reach ANYTHING by a URL then it is fair game - it's up to the SOURCE to secure it. https://www.mindofpseudodeity.org [mindofpseudodeity.org] How many lame jokes can you cram in a URL?
[18:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:compilers are dumb - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:08] <exec> 08└─That depends on how you define "outperform". If the project is sufficiently large, the compiler will outperform the assembly programmer simply from the fact that even for unoptimized compilation, by the time the high level code has been written, compiled, tested and run, the assembly programmer is s...
[18:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02LINPACK... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:10] <exec> 08└─for those of us that use the supers to solve problems too big to solve properly (in joke!) , the only constant in this is that the LINPACK performance is a high water mark. In essence, if your problem looks like LINPACK (or the BLAS subroutines), you have a shot at maxing your CPU. If your problem d...
[18:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of healthy level of distrust... - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:24] <exec> 08└─Fortunately there's an easy way to avoid it: Just buy a phone without a built-in MRI machine (which should be 100% of them for at least the next 50 years, given that MRI machines are not exactly portable).
[18:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a feeling these guys wont be very popula - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:58] <exec> 08└─I haven't, because I never had the desire to. It's funny how you would probably get angry at someone if they mocked you for having smoked weed, but if you mock someone for personally choosing to not do so then it's okay.
[18:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:pigs and the whores who love them - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:10] <exec> 08└─We shouldn't test for alcohol, either. Here's an idea: Pull someone over if they're driving dangerously, rather than caring about what substances they ingested. I mean, how else would you know if they're driving dangerously unless you've seen it? The tests are unnecessary.
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[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hyper jack-off - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:11] <exec> 08└─This obvious bullshit obviously paid for by the corporate lobby and needs to be killed. So you SHOULD read it and so should everyone else and keep reading things until the get the message: Your right to make profit does not trump my right to freedom.
[19:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Go after the advertisers instead - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─While this is probably contrary to most of the opinions on this site, I've always toyed around with the idea that copyright holders could hold the advertising companies which use the infringing websites monetarily responsible. Most if not all of the copyright infringing websites make their money off...
[19:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:C level executives - 06United States Names its First Chief Information Security Officer - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:40] <exec> 08└─Hired another "manage up, no-op piss artist" like they did with Tony Scott for US CIO. I lived in the wake of Mr. Scott's destructive wake, on two occasions. Perfect for bland sycophancy with no real ability to execute, while lining vendor coffers.
[19:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02idiots - 06United States Names its First Chief Information Security Officer - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:42] <exec> 08└─so, how much experience does this retired general have with technology? yep, we're super fucked.
[19:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure this is news... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:05] <exec> 08└─My project: http://sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net]
[19:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure this is news... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:07] <exec> 08└─wait. I thought the point of libraries was to write specialized, optimized code for well specified problems. are you saying I can do better in my own code than linking to FFTW? literally, if I copy their code into my source tree (because I know that they *do* optimize things by hand), how is that di...
[19:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:can't it be both? - 06Two Men Charged With Hacking CIA Director and Other High-Ranking Officials - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:42] <exec> 08└─When operating in the service of freedom and truth for the good of the people against a violent, authoritarian government you are ALWAYS a criminal. Defying that nations version of the Stasi (and there always is one) is ALWAYS a patriotic act. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi) Regardless of whet...
[19:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Crafty Russians - 06Two Men Charged With Hacking CIA Director and Other High-Ranking Officials - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:46] <exec> 08└─Making these poor guys patsies for their KGB computer wizards. Gotta elect Hilldog Clinton so she can nuke the reds.
[19:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I have a feeling these guys wont be very popula - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:07] <exec> 08└─Why not make the arrests and convictions based on *behavior* rather than chemistry, hmm?
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a cyborg! - 06 This Crowdfunded Electric Car Integrates Solar Panels for Self-Charging - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the moss was dead? I don't see how it could be continuously alive while stuffed in a seat and sat upon. Interesting on-topic anecdote, but dead moss doesn't make the Model T any more of a cyborg than any other vehicle with a leather interior. The insects, on the other hand...
[19:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Know what would help stop terrorism? - 06US Rules For Targeted Killing Using Drones Need Clarifying, RAND Report Asserts - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:18] <exec> 08└─I agree that we should stop all of the above and put all our effort into shifting to electric so there is no need any country to import oil but that would not stop such group from getting weapons and killing people. Frankly, I don't see any of them as much of a threat and the regional governments sh...
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[20:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I don't want to share my home with niggers! - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:09] <exec> 08└─But I still want to make a shitton of fucking money! Why won't airbnb let me be a greedy racist!! Dude bro the sharing economy isn't disruptive enough without racism!!!
[20:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't want to share my home with niggers! - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:10] <exec> 08└─Who would? They ruin every neighborhood you put them in. They're almost as bad as self-loathing white male SJWs who love to make themselves feel superior by destroying hypothetical strawmen.
[20:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Zippy - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:12] <exec> 08└─Someone in DAYTON, Ohio is selling USED CARPETS to a SERBO-CROATIAN
[20:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is there titanium on Titan? - 06Cassini Photographs Dunes and Other Features on Titan - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:20] <exec> 08└─Send robut miners.
[20:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Communication to the public - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:41] <exec> 08└─Agree...from EFF's own article: "The photos were hosted not by GeenStijl itself but at first by an Australian image hosting website, then later by Imageshack, and subsequently still other web hosts, with GeenStijl updating the links as the copyright owner had the photos taken down from one image hos...
[20:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure this is news... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:25] <exec> 08└─Cool.
[20:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:LINPACK... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:32] <exec> 08└─I moderated you interesting, because there isn't one for "sounds really cool but I have no idea what it's about." Care to elaborate?
[20:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02My results are the opposite - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 3552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:34] <exec> 08└─He did not give the compiler as much information as he used in his hand optimized one, and he could have. Mainly he did not specify the micro-architecture he was targeting to the compiler, but his optimizations were based around a false dependency bug in some particular intel chips. Anyway, I went a...
[20:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Some history for perspective - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:36] <exec> 08└─Compiler optimization is an old, old topic, and believe it or not goes all the way back to the first FORTRAN compiler... in 1957. The designers of the first FORTRAN compiler (John Backus, et al.) realized that they not only had to create a compiler that could generate assembly code from high-level F...
[20:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a feeling these guys wont be very popula - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:27] <exec> 08└─what kind of suck ass has never smoked weed?
[20:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a cyborg! - 06 This Crowdfunded Electric Car Integrates Solar Panels for Self-Charging - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:20] <exec> 08└─The same thing would have to be true of the moss in the Sion, too, because while the air conditioner could readily supply moisture, it would not be able to supply the necessary sunlight unless the car is transparent. Even if the car were transparent, it would be quite inconvenient to replace the mos...
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[21:07:04] <exec> 08└─Yow! destroying hypothetical strawmen feels so QUIXOTIC
[21:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't want to share my home with niggers! - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:06] <exec> 08└─It does however pave the way for a competing service, and will make a ghetto out of one or the other. One of the arguments for the Civil Rights Act was that change would not have happened on a wide basis, which is why anti-discrimination laws were needed. Airbnb does not have the authority of the go...
[21:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't want to share my home with niggers! - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:08] <exec> 08└─By some astonishing coincidence, the Civil Rights Act suffered a significant loss of public approval some time around 2008-2009.
[21:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't want to share my home with niggers! - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:10] <exec> 08└─It's arguable whether the Civil Rights Act made any significant advances socially, and probably galvanized a degree of racism that won't be going away any time soon. But as far regulating business, equality before the law is a cornerstone, I just doubt Airbnb has the authority to dictate to the mark...
[21:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score:1) 02Re:I don't want to share my home with niggers! - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:12] <exec> 08└─you probably meant this ironically, which is sad
[21:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Discrimination - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:16] <exec> 08└─Why are they discriminating against people without IDs? Who needs pictures? It’s none of their business if I’m a murdering, raping, fugitive from justice, illegal alien. They need to accept people no matter what.
[21:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Discrimination - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry no Uber for you. Have you tried the city bus instead? Government subsidized public transportation is your next-to-last-resort before walking. Oh sorry the topic is lodging. No Airbnb for you. Have you tried a hotel instead?
[21:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too Late... - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:20] <exec> 08└─I was going to troll this thread with racist crap, but the racists got here first. Oh well. Screw it! I'm here, I'm a troll, get used to it! Why is AirBNB being so stupid? I don't know why anyone would want apes in their house anyway. Everyone knows that the black are animals, without sense enough t...
[21:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too Late... - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you know, it just isn't very funny the second time around. Sorry.
[21:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too Late... - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:24] <exec> 08└─What's even worse is that once they get into your home, they'll just come back to rob it later -- or not even bother to wait.
[21:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too Late... - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:26] <exec> 08└─Have you ever heard Patrice O'Neal describe why ghettos are so ghetto? Anyone going past public housing doesn't need much prodding that they don't want that in their house. Even blacks discriminate against blacks.
[21:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's the Money, honey. - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:28] <exec> 08└─Yes it's always so queer to hear the rich black folk discriminate against the poor niggas and hear the rich niggas sing about how they gonna be rich black folk as soon as they have money.
[21:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score:1) 02Airbnb hires Eric Holder for anti-discrimination.. - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:31] <exec> 08└─disgusting convergence
[21:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Communication to the public - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:58] <exec> 08└─It's fine to not like ads. It's fun to use a ad/malware/tracking blocker. What's not fine is to send government thugs (court decisions are enforced by the state) after people for copyright nonsense just because some website makes money off of ads. The EFF is more pro-freedom than a lot of people her...
[21:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:"website is a treasure trove" - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:31] <exec> 08└─I don't think there's anything nefarious about analytics by themselves. I think of it as a glorified site hit counter. He probably likes to see where his users are coming from, what pages generates the most activity, etc. It's all great info to have.
[21:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, popcnt isn't really a fair example... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:41] <exec> 08└─Sure, algorithms come first. But mind you, x86 game developers are saying this while their engine developers are coding in C++ and spending most of their time crafting the minutes of the GPU streams with bit precision. Modern out-of-order super-scalars make life really easy. Switch to GPUs & DSPs, a...
[21:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:I have a feeling these guys wont be very popula - 06Engineers Develop the ‘Potalyzer’ — a Roadside Saliva Test for Marijuana Intoxication - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─It's so much easier to test for a stroke than for THC however. And if there is any question as to someones physical state and context we need someone trained in medicine to be answering the question, not beat cops. Alcohol is a good wedge issue, because the idea is really at it's most reasonable the...
[21:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a cyborg! - 06 This Crowdfunded Electric Car Integrates Solar Panels for Self-Charging - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:40] <exec> 08└─I, too, am skeptical of how well it will work in practice. In this part [youtube.com] of the video embedded in TFA it does look like the moss is behind a transparent pane, though sunlight has to go through the car window as well before getting to it.
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[22:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WHAT - 06"Cancer Moonshot" Releases Blue Ribbon Panel Report - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:01] <exec> 08└─Joe Biden still hasn't cured cancer yet? I thought he'd be done by now.
[22:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WHAT - 06"Cancer Moonshot" Releases Blue Ribbon Panel Report - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe if you and others like you had bought more Pabst, the Blue Ribbon Panel would've had the funding it needed to get the job done.
[22:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Who gives a fuck? - 06"Cancer Moonshot" Releases Blue Ribbon Panel Report - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:05] <exec> 08└─I have a recommendation for the panel: Pull your heads out of your fucking asses It doesn't matter if they cure cancer if the medical industry still exists. Note, I said industry because it is WHOLLY and COMPLETELY centered around profits. Otherwise it would be the medical community. "Curing cancer"...
[22:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who gives a fuck? - 06"Cancer Moonshot" Releases Blue Ribbon Panel Report - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:07] <exec> 08└─Note, I said industry because it is WHOLLY and COMPLETELY centered around profits.
[22:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's the Money, honey. - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:29] <exec> 08└─It's less the money than ownership. Several of those folks in the ghetto are making bank with most everything being subsidized; they can blow wads of cash on everything but making a nicer neighborhood. Shit on the floor? Fuck it, it ain't mine.
[22:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comments are disabled for this story - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:32] <exec> 08└─Please enjoy the ads though.
[22:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NASA channel - 06Cassini Photographs Dunes and Other Features on Titan - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:41] <exec> 08└─NASA Lie Channel. Oh, no, wait, NASA Live Channel!
[22:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:EFF cries wolf again - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:59] <exec> 08└─Cyberbegging is a fine example of the immoral grifting economy.
[22:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:No, it does not threaten hyperlinking - 06European Union Ruling in Favor of Playboy Could Threaten Hyperlinking - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:10] <exec> 08└─Duh, it's whatever brand was approved by CONTROL. If you want to know what that is, then step over here to the Cone of Silence and I will ..........................
[22:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally someone telling it right - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:41] <exec> 08└─x++ vs ++x Well that depends (like most things in computer science). If you are using C++ then the operator ++ is a time bomb of a performance sink. As it is almost never an intrinsic it is a method call with an extra copy (another method call) depending on which way you do it. If it is an integer i...
[22:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Finally someone telling it right - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:45] <exec> 08└─The second is WAY faster. Maybe. That depends on the CPU. For an old x86 CPU that was probably very true as the mul instruction was very slow. Many times these days it retires in less than 1 tick. If you do it right you can pair up to 2-4 (again depending on the CPU). Again it depends on the archite...
[22:08:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:Well, popcnt isn't really a fair example... - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 618 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:48] <exec> 08└─I was talking to someone in the tools team at a major games studio recently. They compile with compiler optimisations disabled right up until betas, because they've found that fast compile cycles give a faster product. Algorithmic improvements are where the big speedups come from and being able to t...
[22:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:compilers are dumb - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:59] <exec> 08└─A human can barely write assembly though, so it's no great loss.
[22:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Lack of healthy level of distrust... - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:19] <exec> 08└─There exist, however, portable ("ambulatory") electroencephalographs. http://emedicine.medscape.com [medscape.com] http://www.ebay.com [eb...
[22:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:total population 127 110 047 - 06Japan Home to 541,000 Young Recluses, Survey Finds - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:43] <exec> 08└─Unless I'm being stupid (happens) that means it would only take a bit over two years to reach a number of new very young people as large as the number of recluses in the extremely hypothetical situation that there were no abortions (and without in any major way inconveniencing the women i.e. using c...
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[23:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Whoa - 06First Cannabis Retail Licenses Approved by Alaska's Marijuana Control Board - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:04] <exec> 08└─Alaska...the next California?
[23:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who gives a fuck? - 06"Cancer Moonshot" Releases Blue Ribbon Panel Report - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:15] <exec> 08└─Linux wants to be free.
[23:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Who gives a fuck? - 06"Cancer Moonshot" Releases Blue Ribbon Panel Report - 4050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:17] <exec> 08└─Nobody is entitled to free software, but we should all be entitled to equal and free access to medical. Otherwise, it very quickly escalates to where hellbound immoral shitheads like Shkrelli and Bresch can raise barriers to access for desperately needed medicines. When we're talking about health, w...
[23:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too Late... - 06Airbnb Makes Anti-Discrimination Changes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you know, it just isn't very funny the second time around. Sorry.
[23:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Nice summary title, TFA, not so much - 06Hand-Coded Assembly is Demonstrably Faster than Compiler Intrinsics - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:45] <exec> 08└─This is exactly the kind of article that SN needs more of, in my opinion; along with NCommander's recent journals about assembler. Computing discussions such as these are a lot more relatable than obscure new species of bacteria discovered in the broiled anuses of Polynesian feral hogs. Computing di...
[23:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Lack of healthy level of distrust... - 06With MRI Technique, Brain Scientists Induce Feelings About Faces - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:28] <exec> 08└─What I learned in evolutionary biology class was that the reason why Black people are scary is because it is seeing white eyes against a dark background triggers our primal fear of being watched by predators in the dark, kind of like when you get up in the middle of the night to take a piss and see...
[23:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Do Not Believe - 06 This Crowdfunded Electric Car Integrates Solar Panels for Self-Charging - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:52] <exec> 08└─Horizontal panels would work well in the Sahara, or anywhere close to the Equator.
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