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[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─Ever since Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post it has been targeting a younger audience to try to stay relative. Apparently part of that strategy is to ramp up the hyperbole, use click-bait headlines, and have little to no editorial oversight or basic journalistic standards. These days I take them...
[00:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:31] <exec> 08└─That is intentional, they lie but if called on it can honestly claim they weren't "lying" lying. Misdirection and omission are far better ways to lie than outright falsehoods. Of course as the article we are commenting on shows, they aren't above a bit of that too if they think they can claim plausi...
[00:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─Remember the Mirror of jmorris! Abandon reason, all ye who gaze into it! Remember the Three Laws of jmorris: 1. jmorris Always Lies 2. jmorris Always Doubles Down 3. jmorris Always Projects
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Classic - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─OK jmorris, this is your chance! Reply to parent and say 'I'm lying' and see if his head explodes!
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Fake News Matrix - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Roughly speaking, "wrong" news falls into one of the following categories: +-----------------+----------------+----------------+ | | ACCIDENTAL | DELIBERATE | +-----------------+----------------+----------------| | IDEOLOGICAL | (1) |...
[00:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake News Matrix - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─Where is Greenwald wrong, ie. reporting nonfacts and not just a biased interpretation? As long as he is using facts, unlike WaPo, he is not a Cat 1 Fakenado in The Matrix. If he is called out for being wrong, does he provide a rebuttal or apology, or just a little-seen editor's note like WaPo does?
[00:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─**If you don't remember this, in early 2016 WaPo editor Capehart published a story claiming that a Civil Rights-era photo of Sanders was NOT Sanders and people should stop circulating it. When the actual photographer came forward -- a famous photographer -- and said it WAS actually Sanders (not to m...
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Not connected to our organization's grid system - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─You are 100% correct, this is still a dire threat.
[00:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:2) 02Re:Not connected to our organization's grid system - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─FWIW here's my take: (1) Malware targeting infrastructre is a threat in general. So much infrastructure is internet connected that even generic malware/ransomware type stuff is a serious problem that we should be putting a lot more work into mitigating. If it takes a couple of scare-mongering storie...
[00:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not connected to our organization's grid system - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:59] <exec> 08└─It's a serious security breach. Saying it was never connected to the grid is a bullshit copout to smooth things over. Whoever used that laptop should be fired.
[00:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:13] <exec> 08└─Sending keyboard (or other input) events over UDP is generally a bad idea. What will your commands do if a few packets with crucial characters went missing? (e.g. 'rm -rf /lib' instead of 'rm -rf ./lib') Or the result in your text editor when a key-up event goes missing? (For extra drama make it the...
[00:23:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 683 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:15] <exec> 08└─TCP: "Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke." "Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke." "Ok, I'll tell you a TCP joke." "Ok, I will hear a TCP joke." "Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke." "Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It wil...
[00:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score:2) 02Re:The comments under TFA go back to 2008 - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:21] <exec> 08└─Is it important for learning important things, that something is news? Rarely. GungnirSniper had a good point. Nether TCP nor UDP change so much we needed a new textbook. Nor did we need yet another "news" article: technical people are well aware of the both technical and use-case differences of TCP...
[00:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 2125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:50] <exec> 08└─I suspect one reason for the great silence is that there is too much interference and distance to find and recognize intelligent broadcasts. Combine that with a low likelihood of intelligent life being in a say, 100-1000 light year sphere surrounding us, and we get discouraged and presume all civili...
[00:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:New Year Convictions - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:40] <exec> 08└─Leap seconds are not factored into sentences, so if one happens when you're serving time, you end up being imprisoned for a second longer than you should.
[00:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─The other problem with his comic is that it's not funny. That's not to say there isn't the occasional strip that gets a chuckle, but you can say the same thing about Garfield. It says a lot that goatkcd [goatkcd.com] (warning: goatse) manages to improve over XKCD in every way.
[00:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─Not to invalidate your point, but none of the webcomics I frequent have transcripts. Often this is impossible because of the visual nature of the comic, but xkcd is often transcribable. That the transcription is even available on another site is rather rare, and just because the title is a bit offen...
[00:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:45] <exec> 08└─Dammit, I left test.xml in there. Just remove test.xml from the xmlstarlet command so it'll read from stdin. And just for fun, pipe it to some text-to-speech engine. Hilarity ensues.
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[01:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Jobs - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:24] <exec> 08└─And so it begins. Manufacturing jobs and many others, today might considered white-collar like medicine and law, are going to be lost as well. Society must start thinking and planning for the future, before a new Karl Marx gives rise to a new wave of bloody revolutions. Highly recommended conference...
[01:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─We've had a 1st world living standard since nasty #2 ended, some 70 years ago. The Chinese got a taste some 10-15 years ago, only to have it yanked out from under them due to automation and AI. Actually, gotta feel for the 90% of the human race that will be displaced in the next 10-15 years. My hope...
[01:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:28] <exec> 08└─So You Think You Can Dancebot
[01:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Foxconn won't have to lay off any workers - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─After they stop hiring, the attrition from suicide will clear the way for the new robotic labor force.
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Classic - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─No chance, BK! I am jmorris's SJW!!!
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Classic - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─For all you young'uns out there: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Even so... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─Our security sucks ass to the extent it may not be possible to even know who has compromised us at what point in time.
[01:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:01] <exec> 08└─But with all that said, I'm also very critical of those who want to portray this WaPo story as "fake news." There's plenty of actual news out there that is LITERALLY fake, as in someone writes a story with facts they KNOW are false.
[01:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Juddges work on Sundays? - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:47] <exec> 08└─The change occurs 2 AM on Sunday mornings. Judges hand down sentences on Sunday?
[01:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:30:42] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with all of Scott Adams' political tripe, but his bit about persuasion is pretty good - persuasion is most effectively accomplished with: 1) Identity (does your target identify with you, are you "one of their people"?) 2) Analogy (can you make an analogy that the target "gets" at a gut...
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[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We need new HARDWARE - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─Read about RISC-V; it's a royalty-free ISA, with many burgeonining "open-source" implementations from the embedded to the general-purpose.
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02RISC-V doesn't solve these issues. - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─Go read up on the ISA/ABI. It has a number of limitations in it compared to modern general purpose processors, a number of which were brushed off as unnecessary or saved for a later revision of the standard. I don't remember them all off the top of my head, but it should be easy to find reading over...
[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02App more apps! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─We need an app that apps apps because only apps can app apps!
[02:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:re Jobs - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─Or it doesn't begin, like it hasn't begun for the past few centuries. You still have the problem that developments like this create jobs as well as destroy them.
[02:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just make sure the safety nets... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:44] <exec> 08└─Are steel and subject to faulty grounding with ill maintained overhanging ac wiring... Given that this is China they may already have it in place :)
[02:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:55] <exec> 08└─When I knew the legacy media was dying, I didn't expect it to go out like Pravda.
[02:22:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 1572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:56] <exec> 08└─That is intentional, they lie but if called on it can honestly claim they weren't "lying" lying. Misdirection and omission are far better ways to lie than outright falsehoods. Of course as the article we are commenting on shows, they aren't above a bit of that too if they think they can claim plausi...
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Replace SJWs with... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─Alt-Right Democrats Republicans Most Corporations People in general And you would still be correct. It is funny to watch people make these comments against a particular group when it often covers their own group as well...
[02:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Tired, old news, yet again... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:22] <exec> 08└─Security has mostly been relegated to secondary(best case), or tertiary(usual case), since...well, forever. Why is this news now? EVERYONE involved has known(or should have) for decades. KISS: if it's accessed via 'online', then, like Ma Bell, it's the next best thing to being there(ie: physical acc...
[02:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:44] <exec> 08└─The typical solutions to things like this is to have a real rubric. Much of what's wrong in the justice system is that we have people making judgments about how long people go to prison based upon their personal feelings or even worse are the places where there's mandatory minimums that don't take i...
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[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:RISC-V doesn't solve these issues. - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of OpenRISC. In contrast, RISC-V is designed to be modular and extensible; indeed, there is nothing scary about "future" development, as the entire architecture has been designed for revision. That being said, RISC-V supports both contemporary ideas for general purpose computing, as...
[03:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:App more apps! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─Sure. And write it in Ada to minimize bugs...
[03:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:App more apps! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:37] <exec> 08└─The last time I wrote something nontrivial in Ada I found bugs in the compiler because nobody uses the Ada compiler often enough to notice bugs.
[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bring on real languages! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:39] <exec> 08└─COBOL. RPG. Fortran. Basic. The rest are not real languages, just a bunch routines that are not a unified language between them
[03:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02The key is knowing you need to be secure - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─I've done several projects that were small scope, then got sold with minor changes outside of anything I ever considered when developing the code. You pay me $120/hr to develop software according to your specs, I develop the software to your specs. I don't spend an extra hour or three thinking about...
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Jobs - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─Job destruction provides potential for job creation, but work needs to have value. Work isn't a job if you don't get paid for it. If I get laid off tomorrow, I could troll SN all day. Trolling takes work, but that doesn't mean a job was created, because trolling SN is not a job that anyone would pay...
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:re Jobs - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:54] <exec> 08└─How many jobs are created by automating away 60,000 jobs? Maybe 1000 if we're generous? Sure, nothing to worry about, 1.7% of those people can still have jobs.
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No company does it if... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─No company replaces workers with robots if they have to spend more, by means of workers or by means of robots that another company created using the excess workers. It's always about cutting the costs, and workers are taken as costs. Nevermind they have other facets, like customer of someone else bu...
[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─Why would a VR bot need Autotune?
[03:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:02] <exec> 08└─Have to agree with the sentiment about autotune. If anything, it'll be the opposite. I'm reminded of R. Instro's piano lessons to R. Dorothy Wayneright. Chakotay had to help Seven with a similar lesson. Small imperfections are what humans find enjoyable.
[03:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:4, Insightful) 02re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 1962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:07] <exec> 08└─Think about it for a bit. Back in the time before the Industrial Revolution most people were farmers, during the Industrial Revolution many people moved from the fields into the city and became laborers, i.e. doing manual work alongside the newfangled machines. You didn’t need to know a lot to ten...
[03:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─You, sir, have it made, and I'll tell you why. You can spit out an opinion piece on demand. Now what you do is you publish a collection of your opinion pieces on a blog. Then you run pop under advertising on your blog. Don't use banner ads. Don't use pop up ads. Only use pop under ads. That way your...
[03:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Replace SJWs with... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:27] <exec> 08└─Except, there are no SJWs! The are like gay Nazi unicorns, a figment of a disordered alt-right fevered imagination.
[03:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Replace SJWs with... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:29] <exec> 08└─SJW is just the latest coded defensive-dude swear word. Some past synonyms: feminazi self-hating jew race traitor fag-lover rino cuck libtard feminsta cultural marxist tree-hugger
[03:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Not connected to our organization's grid system - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:48] <exec> 08└─Are you sure that the senior officials actually said any of that, or are their quotes simply fabricated like much of the rest of the story?
[03:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not connected to our organization's grid system - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:50] <exec> 08└─Do you see any of them threatening to sue for libel? They said it on the record dude. If you are so disconnected from reality that you can't even accept something as basic as that then you need to do some serious self-reflection.
[03:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:07] <exec> 08└─This is not the use case for UDP. This is: you shoot a bullet in an FPS. Your key press gets lost on the network, you utter a curse on the gun and pull the trigger again. In the worst case, your avatar got shot in the mean time and you respawn.
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[03:24:08] <exec> 08└─Great summary! It's interesting that you mention performance considerations in regard to dialup modems and the like, there's a lot of historical baggage around TCP vs. UDP that dates back to fuzzball routers and 2BSD and similar, before every NIC had hardware offload and every router was done in ASI...
[03:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02airports - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:18] <exec> 08└─We really need to be treating passenger rail like flights, complete with flight numbers in the normal air travel ticketing systems. The stations need to be inside the secured area, and the baggage needs to be handled as normal for flights. Connect each airport to the near-by neighbors. This lets you...
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[04:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02J'suis immigranting immediatlement! - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:22] <exec> 08└─Your labor laws are intriguing to me and I wish to immigrate to your country.
[04:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:App more apps! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─What opinion do LUDDITES have of this?
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:App more apps! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:37] <exec> 08└─Luddites disable apps! Did you know you can disable Google Keyboard! You Luddite! Every app has crashed!
[04:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Good enough! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 1394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:41] <exec> 08└─It's the old refrain. Make it "good enough", and push it out the door. Ease and convenience are primary concerns, security and vulnerability can be addressed some time in the future - maybe. If we get around to it. The world would be so much better off, if we all relied on Unix-like operating system...
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Like OpenSSL ? - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─Quality, time tested open source code like OpenSSL? Here is a piece of code that much of the world had been using for years, it was crap, and devasting bugs were found only after YEARS in this library which was open source for all the world to see. Too bad nobody cared to look. You say you can alway...
[04:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Security requires we take personal responsibility - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:45] <exec> 08└─that's less likely to happen than the solution to drunk driving and extramarital affairs. Look we know all kinds of ways to make our software and servers more secure, yet our databases still use in-band signalling. I personally cannot be bothered to run Windows update. I find it very disruptive. Sur...
[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Security requires we take personal responsibili - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:48] <exec> 08└─Surely I'll get cryptolocked someday but when I do I'll throw my Acer in the Willamette River then purchase a new one.
[04:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score:1) 02"100 times fewer vulenerabilities" - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:50] <exec> 08└─How does that work? If, say, the hypothetical software that needed improving had 1 vulnerability, its shiny new replacement with "100 times fewer vulnerabilities" would presumably have -99 vulnerabilities -- how is that even possible? The only input for which the phrase "100 times fewer vulnerabilit...
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:06] <exec> 08└─FFS, when did choreography get more important than talent?
[04:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─Is wealth absolute or relative? That is, is it important to have enough to live in reasonable comfort, or is it more important to be ahead of your neighbors? All this automation is going to create more wealth at less expense. We will all be richer. We need to be more careful we don't let the greedy...
[04:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 1698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your reply and insight. I believe that having enough is sufficient. Do you really need the latest and greatest sports car? I can tell no, after owning a couple of them. The reason I changed my mind was that, a little late, I learned that all the money in the world does not stop time an...
[04:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:16] <exec> 08└─What sort of jobs will the economy offer them? Flipping burgers?
[04:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:18] <exec> 08└─Full service gas stations weren't even automated away. The business just forces the customer to work for free and calls it self service instead.
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pk [2591] (Score:1) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:30] <exec> 08└─When I knew the legacy media was dying, I didn't expect it to go out like Pravda. I don't know why. I don't even know what I was expecting. I guess I thought it would be like factories in the midwest dying in my grandpa's generation where it all just kinda stops one day and everyone does something e...
[04:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02WOW - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:19] <exec> 08└─Not only ON-TOPIC, but funny as well... Who are you and where did you come from, and what have you done with our regularly scheduled troll ?? arp arp arp arp
[04:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Like Japan - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:26:18] <exec> 08└─They blame it on lazy liberal children just like their parents generation blamed them for their ills of society. Rinse wash repeat. George Carlin summed it up nicely: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[05:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:30] <exec> 08└─... French People lose the right to make private agreements with each other.
[05:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:31] <exec> 08└─Since when do people paying each other under the table need companies involved?
[05:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:33] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of types of contracts that are not recognized as valid. You can't sign yourself into slavery, for instance. This is a less extreme example, but I see no problem with declaring certain types of contracts which are typically used to exploit people as invalid.
[05:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Is there a Quebec version? - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:36] <exec> 08└─Could you please port this feature to Quebec? I'm on the no-fly list but Quebec I could reach on foot.
[05:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like OpenSSL ? - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─Quality, time tested open source code like OpenSSL?
[05:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Personal responsibility nothing to do with it - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:58] <exec> 08└─Personal responsibility has nothing to do with it. If you want to ensure it happens, write it into the contract as a deliverable or make it part of your company's official process for non-contracted software. Have a security standard to follow with a standard test suite. This is common on Defense pr...
[05:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:23:25] <exec> 08└─I saw this kind of thing in Cuba back in the late 70s. They had engineers and architects cutting sugarcane because they had no jobs for them. If a young doctor or engineer can’t get a job even flipping burgers, how are they going to make a living? Years ago a good education, I mean a degree in so...
[05:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:18] <exec> 08└─Read Footfall for one take on why and how beings from Alpha Centauri come to Earth to attack and hopefully take over. Herd creatures with a surrender instinct fight wars differently and being the second intelligent life to evolve on their planet, have technology handed to them rather then discoverin...
[05:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:21] <exec> 08└─Anybody remember when "strongly typed" meant you you were trying to make five or six carbons?
[05:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:27:27] <exec> 08└─Graah! So that's the reason surreal numbers were invented: to fix the mess. Couldn't they even have gone the malbolge way and named the operation "crazy" instead of "addition"? I mean, while the definition uses concatenation, in the end it's just tossing out "lower-rank" components from the left sid...
[05:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:This much stupidity should have a warning label - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:28:36] <exec> 08└─Damn it, did you forget to take your meds AGAIN, J-Mo? How many times do I have to tell you, no internet before you've had your Haldol!
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[06:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How much social capital? - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:33] <exec> 08└─How much social capital do I need to buy weed? Do I need to be in with the in crowd? Do I need to find a dealer through black market secret handshakes? Because if I can't walk into a public shop and buy with cash and no questions asked, then it's not legalized.
[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─Why not?
[06:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:46] <exec> 08└─We do have a form of slavery one can sign themselves into if they aren't careful. Its called DEBT. Its really easy to get sucked into this thing, but often very hard to get out of it.
[06:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:48] <exec> 08└─We do have a form of slavery one can sign themselves into if they aren't careful. Its called DEBT. Its really easy to get sucked into this thing, but often very hard to get out of it.
[06:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:50] <exec> 08└─I know what they ( the banking elite ) are doing, and it really sickens me. But what sickens me even more is the docile public accepts it and will play the game by the rules set out by the elite.
[06:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you mean by "slavery". It seems like you're saying that it's not possible for a person to agree to do something that is disagreeable; your argument is a tautology—you are making a poor deduction based on your own poor set of terms.
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:55] <exec> 08└─It seems like you're saying that it's not possible for a person to agree to do something that is disagreeable
[06:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:57] <exec> 08└─Yes. Your argument is indeed ridiculous.
[06:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:00] <exec> 08└─But it seems it is illegal in some countries.
[06:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:02] <exec> 08└─過労死
[06:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"100 times fewer vulenerabilities" - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:26] <exec> 08└─Marketdroid-speak... Advertisers have to spend one or two minutes full of nonstop verbiage, yet not commit to a thing. Undefined variables are their lifeblood. 100 times fewer vulnerabilities than what? Up to dream performance for only $xxx* ( * other charges may apply ). Order now and we will incl...
[06:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:re Jobs - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:38] <exec> 08└─How many jobs are created by automating away 60,000 jobs?
[06:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:46] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it ol' Shakespeare who noted something to the effect that all the world is a stage and we are merely actors? Seems like my greatest sin was not knowing my lines, but not appearing in the correct costume. I hated dressing up in suit and tie.
[06:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Replace SJWs with... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:24:17] <exec> 08└─You forgot DFH, and Dagos and Wops and Bohunks and Polacks and Serbo-Croats, and Misegenists and Communists and Socialists and Anarchists and Gold-standardists, and Roundheads and Cavaliers, and Papists, and Pepsi-lovers, and Pacifists and Anti-war Dirty Fucking Hippies, and we are back at the begin...
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[07:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much social capital? - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:36] <exec> 08└─Alaska, California, Colorado, Oregon, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada and Washington: No social capital. Some states: No social capital if medical card is easily obtainable. Social ability to talk to a chuckling pothead doctor for 5 minutes. Other states: In crowd if medical card is restricted to actua...
[07:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They keep saying it went into effect on Jan 1st - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:37] <exec> 08└─Prop 64 went into effect on Nov 9thm the day after it passed. Same with the 1 time use plastic bag ban.
[07:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:They keep saying it went into effect on Jan 1st - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:40] <exec> 08└─edited from: "On the day that cannabis legalization went into effect in California and several other states," to: "Weeks after cannabis legalization was passed by voters in California and other states,"
[07:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02"Younger" people - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:42] <exec> 08└─younger people, particularly 25- to 44-year-olds
[07:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:03] <exec> 08└─Don't bother, Bog'll look at that and go "hurr hurr I don't into Chinee chinkee hong yang howaaai~!" or some shit. I am also willing to bet he's never seen what fruit pickers do during the average workday, and most certainly could not endure it himself.
[07:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:App more apps! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:17] <exec> 08└─The last time I wrote something non-trivial in ADA I ended up finding another job before it finished compiling. This was 90/91, first generation of ADA compilers, it really sucked.
[07:24:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:32] <exec> 08└─But with all that said, I'm also very critical of those who want to portray this WaPo story as "fake news." There's plenty of actual news out there that is LITERALLY fake, as in someone writes a story with facts they KNOW are false.
[07:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:WOW - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:01] <exec> 08└─Copy and paste from internet I'm afraid
[07:28:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:28:49] <exec> 08└─In general food seems enhanced by hot naked 25 year old women. I'm kinda surprised waitresses and bartenderesses and baristas wear any clothing at all
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[08:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so nostalgia such old - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:22] <exec> 08└─This takes me back. To the day I wrote my first polymorphic virus. It infected a library computer. Repeatedly. I had poorly designed the protection against multiple infections. The virus failed to recognize itself because it changed form on every infection. Good times. Lucky for me that was 25 years...
[08:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:51] <exec> 08└─Your ability to comprehend what is being said is nearly nonexistent.
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:App more apps! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─GCC has an Ada compiler, it's slightly better now.
[08:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Like OpenSSL ? - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:18] <exec> 08└─I'd also argue that it's an ethical imperative for software to respect users' freedoms
[08:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Proprietary software will never adopt these - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:26] <exec> 08└─Only features and glitz sell. Let's see how soon the IoT craze will kill the internet...
[08:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:No company does it if... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:39] <exec> 08└─It's not just costs. It's also the value of what you can do. Automation allows people to do more. And jobs that were previously nonviable can become viable. Historically, it's been the case that automation created more valuable work in the process of destroying existing jobs and I don't see evidence...
[08:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:52] <exec> 08└─I think an even baser instinct is at work here and greed is just a dress for it - we will continue to have a basic instinct to compete with each other to attract a partner. For as long as that competitiveness is here, there will always be imbalance, and enough of us will be subservient to that insti...
[08:24:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:08] <exec> 08└─When I knew the legacy media was dying, I didn't expect it to go out like Pravda.
[08:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Classic - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:24:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox [wikipedia.org]
[08:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:The comments under TFA go back to 2008 - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:06] <exec> 08└─He probably assumed it has some significance that this site is called Soylent News.
[08:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:New Year Convictions - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:31] <exec> 08└─But does a leap second affect the judge passing sentence, as per DST?
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[09:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shuffler is software, right? - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:21] <exec> 08└─Waiting for the headline about an exploitable bug discovered in shuffler.
[09:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Is there a Quebec version? - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:53] <exec> 08└─We had a story about the Québec equivalent the week before last. /article.pl?sid=16/12/23/109218 [soylentnews.org]
[09:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:57] <exec> 08└─Crom: Look. This... is all a mistake. I'm just a compound interest program. I work at a savings and loan! I can't play in these video games! Guard: Sure you can, pal. You look like a natural athlete if I ever saw one. Crom: Who, me? Are you kidding? No, I run to check on T-bill rates, I get out of b...
[09:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:re Jobs - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:41] <exec> 08└─A quicker overview of the same general scene as that Harari lecture: https://www.youtube.com
[09:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:35] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find little of that except maybe on comedy sites or on the Onion. What you've just said is that REAL fake news (real scottsmen?) must not only contain false 'facts', but that the author had to have KNOWN that they were false at the time he/she wrote them. That means that you have to k...
[09:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Laptop - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:45] <exec> 08└─in a single laptop that was not connected to the electric grid.
[09:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:36] <exec> 08└─A bit touchy, aren't we? Did he hurt your feelings, you poor snowflake? Seriously, the amount of stuff in his work that could be considered related to social justice is tiny. If it's enough to make you this upset, there is something wrong with you. Let me guess, it was the free speech PSA that tippe...
[09:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:40] <exec> 08└─If you send a message to Randall Munroe describing your experience of his comic, he might be motivated to make changes to accommodate your needs - it might appeal to his geeky, problem-solving side. On the other hand, if you haven't let him know, and simply fulminate on the Internet, then that might...
[09:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:27:56] <exec> 08└─I can tell you exactly how it happens. Programmer A writes this great booking system for Airline A. It carefully sanitises all input, can handle names like "Null" and "O". But then the airline partners up with another and they need to share booking data. Airline B says "why don't you just submit dat...
[09:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:stupid coders - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:07] <exec> 08└─Or merging Japanese and Chinese and Korean in Unicode. That's why Unicode hasn't taken off much in the far East, companies can't use it because if their system is Chinese and a Japanese person enters their name it displays wrong.
[09:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score:2) 02Re:Trouble getting flights - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:18] <exec> 08└─Bin Laden's relatives have had issues with the name, being unable to travel or get bank accounts or work.
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[10:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02No thank you - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:20] <exec> 08└─It sounded interesting until I got to this: and it pulls vehicle-specific calibration from the cloud to be added to the core program as the car or truck exits the assembly line.
[10:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Interesting) 02affected vs. infected - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:30] <exec> 08└─This just tries make the infection ineffectual, and does nothing to prevent the infection in the first place. And what will it do to binaries which massively fork (in order to protect different parts of the program from each other, such as separate tabs in a browser)? Currently, all of the executabl...
[10:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:How much social capital? - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:40] <exec> 08└─Even in states that restrict medical cards to physical conditions, getting approved is just a formality. Judges, police, and prosecutor all laughed and told me "that doesn't matter", when I said I didn't have a card because I was healthy.
[10:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Jobs - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:48] <exec> 08└─trolling SN is not a job that anyone would pay me to do.
[10:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:No company does it if... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:53] <exec> 08└─What world do you live in? Machines pushed humans out of the primary sector into the secondary and tertiary sector. Robots are pushing humans out of the secondary sector and information technology is pushing humans out of the tertiary sector. *There is no 4th sector*. Humans are becoming more and mo...
[10:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:02] <exec> 08└─Actually its already hapening [youtube.com]. They only have to record the vowels and consonants once and then the computer does the rest. I predict within 5 years the same will be true for ALL musicians, the computer will simply build the songs from base sounds and since we already know which patter...
[10:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:11] <exec> 08└─All this automation is going to create more wealth at less expense.
[10:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:13] <exec> 08└─Goddamn I f'd up my quote leaving out the silly end I object with "All this automation is going to create more wealth at less expense. We will all be richer."
[10:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03splodus [4877] 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:47] <exec> 08└─Good comment. I don't know enough to add to what you say (let alone take issue with any of it) But it did make think of this (of course) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I think the smart thing to have done would have been to hold back, investigate, verify... Maybe, in the i...
[10:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Anyone else smell something fishy.. - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:04] <exec> 08└─When it comes to the whole "pizzagate" thing? first of all you read the emails and IDK WTF the guy is talking about but it damned sure is in code of some sort, I mean hankies with maps to pizza? WTF? And the few that aren't in code, like the one talking about the 3 kids in the hottub...DaFuq? Then y...
[10:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:25] <exec> 08└─Short version: UDP for "send this now, if it doesn't reach the receiver, it will be too late anyway". Packets may arrive out of order, or not at all. TCP for "send this, and make sure it reaches the receiver, even if you have to block sending for several seconds while retransmitting". Data arrives i...
[10:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02iPads as Plates? - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:35] <exec> 08└─iPads as Plates? That's nothing, grandpa uses it as a cutting board. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[10:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:31:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, I like that! He can cuss me out and not get down modded, but self defense is... No bias there, right?
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[11:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:No thank you - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:23] <exec> 08└─Agree. Your gearbox was unable to confirm its authenticity. You may be traveling with an illegal gearbox. Please turn your car off and on again. R)retry, A)bort, I)gnore. The BCA (Business Car Alliance) has been informed and will conduct an audit as soon as possible to ensure you are compliant with...
[11:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:No thank you - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:24] <exec> 08└─Pay no attention to that. It's just the marketing flunkies trying to stuff as many buzzwords in as they can.
[11:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:01] <exec> 08└─Well, the system is set up that you'll have a very hard time if you don't play by the rules.
[11:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:02] <exec> 08└─Debt is offset by government funding. Two factors are behind it: (A) It incentivizes universities to increase fee (B) It allows government to interfere in college administration. The unintended consequence is that it puts pressure on colleges to perform, so they hire smart poor students from abroad...
[11:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:41] <exec> 08└─Having dug through your frothing i see the kernel of what you're saying. Probably explains why this "hacking" story hasn't had much coverage in the uk (either when it first came out or now)
[11:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Laptop - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:07] <exec> 08└─Anonmodding you +1 hilarious! xDDD Nice stab!
[11:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Anyone else smell something fishy.. - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:09] <exec> 08└─Alien UFO visitation is real. How do we know this? Because the MSM can effectively sweep it under the rug like pizzagate. There is no need for absolute secrecy anymore, just absolute deflection. You can be a pedo making dough out in the open and not get caught.
[11:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TCP_NODELAY is your friend - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 2248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:38] <exec> 08└─The author basically suggests rolling a custom version of TCP on top of UDP. Which might be a good idea if you're building a 120fps shooter. But TCP is probably good enough for most other games once you turn crap[1] like Nagle's stuff off. The author says with TCP bad stuff happens if packets are lo...
[11:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score:2) 02Re:Profits - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:45] <exec> 08└─Deutsche bahn (the German railroads) had an operating profit [ajot.com] of 2.1 billion euro in 2014 -- 5 percent lower than in 2013 -- on revenues of 39.7 billion euro (+1.5% compared to 2013). The operating profit [railjournal.com] of SNCF (the French railways) was 1 billion euro in 2013, down 333...
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[12:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:2) 02Oh noes teh cloud - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:33] <exec> 08└─Why is it that every time "the cloud" is mentioned, someone's got to post a boilerplate anti-cloud response? The "cloud is always bad" brigade is missing the point just as badly as the "cloud is always good" lobby. It's one sentence in a general article. It's not a technical article for software arc...
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Wires. - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:34] <exec> 08└─with the control module mounted outside, it will be easier to package for different vehicles, but the wiring between the gearbox and controller will be where many future faults will be found. Also, it says "cloud", but it doesn't say "wirelessly", (and many company PR firms and CxOs call the company...
[12:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Ehh - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─I'd rather take a 30 min call on Saturday than spend hours fixing the problem on Monday when they inevitably fuck it up.
[12:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I am not responsible for others - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:50] <exec> 08└─I will not take personal responsibility for you or anyone other than myself. I have not hurt systems or generations of systems, because I am not a traitor. Those who sell off everyone for a little financial gain deserve to be punished, as only they benefited from it. You can count on me to NOT take...
[12:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:19] <exec> 08└─> /// FFS, when did choreography get more important than talent? The Twist? The Mashed Potato? The Locomotion? Let's call that well over half a century.
[12:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score:1) 02Conserned world citizen - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:23] <exec> 08└─I am very concerned (not being from the US) about one of the largest countries on earth, with a very large military. It seems (from far away) that this country is run by morons and the media can push stories blaming other countries, without any critical response from the leaders/citizens. This means...
[12:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Conserned world citizen - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:25] <exec> 08└─They need DMT! Open the third eye!
[12:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:42] <exec> 08└─the killer is latency from the lossless retransmission of TCP
[12:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:The comments under TFA go back to 2008 - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:25:54] <exec> 08└─Since 2008, SCTP went from being a weird research thing to a widely supported protocol, making most of the discussion irrelevant. Mobile networks went from being things that a few people used to being a huge percentage of total Internet traffic. IPv6 went from being a niche to something that worked...
[12:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:43] <exec> 08└─All green of skin. 800 centuries ago their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundimental truth and self-determination of the cosmos. For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
[12:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:00] <exec> 08└─Sentencing guidelines already exist and a lot of people are bullied and pushed through the system without a trial, because everyone in the courthouse will tell you that going to trial will only make your sentence worse... The so called "justice" system needs to be torn down and completely redesigned...
[12:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:53] <exec> 08└─Not even PHP or JavaScript think that "null" == null... This looks like a SQL ballsup.
[12:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:now how i understand the Bible - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:30:36] <exec> 08└─The Book of Mormon etc provide important clarifications
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[13:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02carrier has arrived - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─Carried by an airship, the warehouses would visit places Amazon expects demand for certain goods to boom.
[13:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Reminds me of an old animated series - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─Is it just me or is anyone else thinking Tailspin [wikipedia.org] when they read "Flying Warehouse"?
[13:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What exactly is the patent for? - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:29] <exec> 08└─Is it for just the idea of a flying warehouse? That sounds pretty generic. Or is it for a certain implementation of it?
[13:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh noes teh cloud - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─"It's new and I hate it. Now get off my lawn!"
[13:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:No thank you - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─You obviously didn't read this bit: added to the core program as the car or truck exits the assembly line.
[13:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02So what's new about this exactly? - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:45] <exec> 08└─The controller is mounted outside the gearbox to reduce packaging and manufacturing complexity, and it pulls vehicle-specific calibration from the cloud to be added to the core program as the car or truck exits the assembly line. It also enables manual shift control and grade logic, GM says.
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so nostalgia such old - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─I came here to say pretty much the same thing.
[13:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much social capital? - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 1902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:06] <exec> 08└─I sense privilege! ______ privilege!!! If the police decide to go after you, you'll wish you had that formality. If the feds decide to go after you, that formality won't help. And I think you'll find that certain states [wikipedia.org] are very strict on this issue, because they don't want the syste...
[13:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:36] <exec> 08└─Except, of course, that hard work does in fact kill people: * About 4500 Americans a year are killed on the job [bls.gov]. In less developed countries, that number is much higher. * Even more end up with diseases they contracted on the job [who.int]. Again, worse in less-developed countries, but we'...
[13:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Automated software analysis = bad design - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:09] <exec> 08└─Software may be only as safe as the OS it runs on. And the hardware the OS runs on. Sadly, some people have attempted to equate safe with slow. Today's software is slower than it has ever been. Bad, slow, unsafe frameworks are being sold as replacement for good programmers and good code. The lowest...
[13:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02Why "supports Optane"? - 06Intel 3D XPoint... Still Coming Soon - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:25] <exec> 08└─If it's a standard form-factor and interface, why does some laptop model have to specifically "support" what is essentially a blackbox technology? An M.2 drive is still an M.2 drive. A SATA interface drive is still a SATA interface drive. Outside of things like TRIM and RAID support, which, again, h...
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[14:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I was just thinking... - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─We finally know how they funded all those airships in 'Future World' in Fringe :) They were Amazon delivery warehouses with panopticon surveillance tech as part of the Amazon Prime Prime government bundle :)
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dyslexic Pimps up in Arms! - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:36] <exec> 08└─How can they compete with that?
[14:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score:1) 02Zeppelin - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─Post-shopping stress will look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02floating? - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─There's probably already a patent on floating warehouse drone delivery. That one makes a little more sense. Something I don't understand from the perspective of customs and border patrol is you can kinda trust Amazon not to deliver coke, but once everyone is used to drones and motherships all over r...
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh noes teh cloud - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:52] <exec> 08└─How are these 10 plants supposed to get their software updates? Private jet? What in the world is wrong with the plants pulling updated firmware from a repository in "the cloud"?
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Wires. - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─Most automatics these days have external TCMs, it's not anything new. While it's possible, it's highly unlikely to develop any issues with the wiring after it leaves the factory. One thing the automotive industry is good at is overbuilding connectors for the onboard computers. Yes, they do occasiona...
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Wires. - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─That'll also allow fun such as only dealers are able to do transmission service, never a 3rd party or god forbid an end user shade tree mechanic. Also they can run a simple SQL DELETE query on it every year to make sure no one is violating the license by using a transmission older than 8 years, 10 y...
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 029+3*3? - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─With a computer controlled transmission providing lots of gear ratios, Do you make a single stage unit with 9 separate gear sets, of one with 2 stages of 3 gear sets each? Not much detail in the article for a nerd's appetite.
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:affected vs. infected - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:12] <exec> 08└─I'm quickly persuading myself you don't know what you are talking about.
[14:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:affected vs. infected - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─RAM is dirt cheap. Sure this isn't appropriate in every situation. But any professional developer would already know that no tool works for every problem.
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02CBD - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─What makes CBD especially appealing is that it doesn't get the user high. Most recreational marijuana users want this effect, of course, but many patients would rather avoid it. This has allowed CBD to sidestep many of the political, legal and medical concerns that have hindered the spread of medica...
[14:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:50] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you mean by "slavery". It seems like you're saying that it's not possible for a person to agree to do something that is disagreeable; your argument is a tautology—you are making a poor deduction based on your own poor set of terms. I don't know what you mean by "slavery". It seem...
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─It appears you have no clue what hard work is. To point to some extremes, in Germany forced labor was used to work humans to death. But also under more common circumstances, exhaustion due to work has severe live-shortening consequences. Stress can lead to sudden-death by e.g. heart-attacks, lack of...
[14:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:02] <exec> 08└─As long as this is a good-will thing, I agree. I also fixed/updated things on weekends once in a while. Since I'm working on a CI environment, it is often much more relaxed to spend a weekend, while no-one else is using the system and a minor fuck-up can be fixed without much pressure. Even if I did...
[14:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:No company does it if... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:50] <exec> 08└─Machines pushed humans out of the primary sector into the secondary and tertiary sector.
[14:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:08] <exec> 08└─"Some think that a popular revolt has not chance against drones and other modern weapons, but they forget that the people pulling the trigger are not the oligarchs, but regular Joes who could turn against their masters. But their turning would not prevent a bloodbath and I fear a reenactment of the...
[14:29:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:18] <exec> 08└─Airlines, apparently. You should see how the avionics are coded...
[14:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:32] <exec> 08└─Mmmm, ningyozushi...
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[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Informative) 02Elected to Congress = turn on the money spigot - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─The reality is quite simple: If you are elected to Congress, your financial future is secure. While there are a few exceptions the vast majority of Congresscritters do very well for themselves [ballotpedia.org]. Influence peddling pays. Can't have a measely "ethics office" interfering with the payol...
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Elected to Congress = turn on the money spigot - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Ah yes! Corruption at it's finest. Now with the foxes in total control of the hen house
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Reducing government regulation? - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─Disgusting. Free swimming passes for those draining the swamp?
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reducing government regulation? - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─You must first create a swamp before you can drain it or swim in it.
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Of course this fixes everything - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─With this change now in place, I fully expect that the Office of Congressional Ethics and the House Ethics Committee won't find anything wrong with Congressional ethics, at least on the Republican side of the aisle. This marked reduction in ethics issues will of course be hailed as a great improveme...
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course this fixes everything - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─Of course, the system will still be there for any Congresscritters who happen to step out of line and, say, question the wrong Three-Letter Agency or something.
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02GOP is unethical - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─What else is new...
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02[Meta] Quick check - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:48] <exec> 08└─Is this Politico? I do enjoy the political stories... And we do use the submissions that we get... In one of their first moves of the new Congress, House Republicans have voted...
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A better question might be: - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─Is this front page news, or news for politics.soylentnews.org subsite, just like slashdot had? Personally, I would like to see the default soylentnews homepage only contain tech stories without a product marketing angle, verified new science or technology, and anything that doesn't meet that burden...
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Really? - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:52] <exec> 08└─Are we gonna have yet another bitchfest because a non-tech story gets posted on a slow news day? A story that indirectly affects not just the US but much of the world? Congress makes foreign policy after all. Come on.
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as an "independent" body.
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh noes teh cloud - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─Why is it that every time "the cloud" is mentioned, someone's got to post a boilerplate anti-cloud response? The "cloud is always bad" brigade is missing the point just as badly as the "cloud is always good" lobby.
[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Wires. - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:27] <exec> 08└─You can still repair it, it won't brick it but it may not perform quite as well as it did before the repair. No doubt the dealers do love the lock-in though.
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:9+3*3? - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─They appear to be dual clutch 9 speeds AMT's with five gears on each clutch (9 forward, 1 reverse). Using a concentric shaft setup, the transmission is actually two automated manual gear boxes each with its own clutch and a shared output. The gears alternate between transmissions so the next gear ca...
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02redesign - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─at some point it'll be cheaper and lighter and more reliable to replace the pile of gears with an alternator, VFD, motor combo. Perhaps it already is better. So its interesting to estimate when they'll give up on adding more gears and wholesale replace the whole antique works with diesel locomotive...
[15:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Ford Quality - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping this is more reliable than my friends Fiesta transmission. It's failed every six months in the last three years. They've extended the warranty to 15 years or something, but it's obviously flawed and they can't seem to either get it right or replace it with a different transmission. It's n...
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Dirt cheap != free - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─RAM is dirt cheap. Sure this isn't appropriate in every situation.
[15:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thank You Captain Obvious! - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:49] <exec> 08└─
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02possible circumvention mechanism? - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:51] <exec> 08└─“Attackers are unable to figure out the program’s layout if the code keeps changing.”
[15:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:2) 02Re:possible circumvention mechanism? - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:54] <exec> 08└─Sourcecode will tell you that a vulnerability exists, but exploiting it typically needs to manipulate the compiled binary. For example a stack overflow attack typically puts machine code into a variable which ends up overwriting the return value and jumping into some other portion of the code. If th...
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:How much social capital? - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:05] <exec> 08└─I just call my dealer.
[15:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─Because we spent centuries getting rid of crap like this.
[15:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:42] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernichtung_durch_Arbeit [wikipedia.org] :)
[15:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:09] <exec> 08└─Historically they'd get the basic facts right, at least mostly, and merely slant the story via extreme language and strange insinuations, and now they're not even bothering with fact checking, its pure creative writing class. Like the difference between "The sun rose in the east this morning, lighti...
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Replace SJWs with... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:22] <exec> 08└─In order to address a problem, you must first accurately label it. Most of those are very accurate, unlike the wing-nut leftist labels of "Racist" "Bigot" "RACIST" "Xenophobe" and of course their favorite "RACIST!!!!!" I think the last one is starting to lose it's power, the rest have already been r...
[15:26:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Even so... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 1194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:24] <exec> 08└─There is still a problem. Our cybersuckurity is an issue created by toxic avaricious executives who will not pay for security in anything less than a pure reactionary stance, and our leaders having deliberately weakened security for domestic spying capabilities. You would think the NSA would be for...
[15:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake News Matrix - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:36] <exec> 08└─That's a nice graph and explanation AC However I fail to see how this is non-ideological when "Russian election hacking" is exclusively a left wing conspiracy theory. The right has their own fascinating conspiracy theories, but whats relevant is this particular meme is purely a fever dream of the le...
[15:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Not connected to our organization's grid system - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:47] <exec> 08└─The US allegedly destroyed Iranian centrifuges by using
[15:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:28:35] <exec> 08└─Oh boy, now we get the prejudices of the coders instead. As someone who writes perfectly logical code for a living, the hundreds of exceptions I don't think of while carefully planning my software every single week(most of which are caught by my own testing) hint at the great danger in trusting in y...
[15:32:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:1) 02Re:not how i understand the Bible - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:10] <exec> 08└─No. The Church has been very open about what has changed (grammar/spelling etc to correct printing errors & the like since the original, to conform better to the earliest materials), and I've been reading from these books my whole life (I am a grandparent). Please specify the before & after text and...
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[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─s/foxes/rats/ s/hen house/swamp/
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Reducing government regulation? - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─It was always abundantly clear that the people using the phrase "drain the swamp" were adamantly pro-corruption(or actually corrupt) in everything but words. Actual anti-corruption reform takes, you know, a plan, and a methodology. The minority of Americans that voted for the republicans who control...
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GOP is unethical - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─"Score:2, Informative" This website is shite.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:GOP is unethical - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─I don't moderate ACs up at all, sometimes I'll mod them down.
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─No, but there is such a thing as "Not directly at the beck and call of highly partisan forces, with accountability to more than one highly self-interested organization" I mean, we've all experienced enough American politics to know that "Bipartisan measure" often means "Partisan along more complex l...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:4, Interesting) 02fake news - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 4033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─It appears to be fake news about a fake office. It appears from wikipedia the office served no purpose in its creation beyond hand wavy "we must symbolically do something" so they did something, that changed as little as possible while appearing as active as possible. The wikipedia article explains...
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:fake news - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─> the office website itself the group never had any authority or power The office had the ability to do investigations and make the results public without having to kowtow to the people they were investigating. Your entire screed is based on the fact they were part of the process instead of the enti...
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:fake news - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─make the results public
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Shell game - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─If the House had the power to do this, then the group never truly was independent. True independence would be if people could choose to belong to a different government in the same territory.
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Trumped - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Apparently [bbc.co.uk] even Trump thinks (or rather "tweets" - not necessarily the same thing) that this was a bad idea. NB: I assume that once the swamp is drained, someone plans to make a killing building hotels and golf courses on top of it (while denying the science that suggests it could result...
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh noes teh cloud - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─Nice rant. Totally does not apply to the transmission in this article, but really: nice rant.
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No thank you - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─If it requires a manual installation step, how much more difficult it would be to perform the installation from, say, a pendrive instead of having to rely on a cloud service? If it is automatic and done wirelessly, how hard is it to convince the car it needs an update or that it never left the assem...
[16:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:redesign - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─Continuous Variable Transmission. Been around for decades.
[16:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fiesta is Ford's cheapest crapbox - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:44] <exec> 08└─The Fiesta has always been Ford's cheapest crapbox. It has always fallen apart. I wouldn't judge Ford's better cars by using the Fiesta as a yardstick.
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fiesta is Ford's cheapest crapbox - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─they put plastic timing components in the late 90's explorers and mountaineers and they do break like you would expect plastic to break inside a hot engine. they have no shame.
[16:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CVT transmissions... - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─Have infinite gear ratios, but so far have been unreliable for most auto manufacturers. I think Subaru and Nissan are the only ones that don't have problems. GMs CVT transmissions were so bad they didn't last 20k miles, and they stopped using them.
[16:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't handle much torque - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─The reported application for Chevy was in a high performance over 600 horsepower car - this car will also develop substantial torque. There is no CVT I know of that handles high levels of torque which is why you only find them on cars and a few crossover type SUVs. Nothing with a CVT in consumer han...
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CVT transmissions... - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─CVTs can't handle a decent amount of power, that's why you don't see them on many vehicles with more than 200 HP, or even that much.
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:CVT transmissions... - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Something I didn't know: CVT was banned from Formula 1 as it was felt that the best funded team would just win hands-down with one. Given the driver that Formula 1 is to modern car equipment a few decades after, and that people have been making CVT for the last 100 years, and still include it on mod...
[16:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02open source? - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─when are people going to wake up and demand open source cars? people could fabricate & print parts at home and sell them online. people could assemble and repair their own cars. Or you could just buy them preassembled but get all blueprints, etc in case you wanted to do your own repairs. It could al...
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Ho hum, that good old "choice" fallacy. - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:48] <exec> 08└─Why not?
[16:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:No company does it if... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:54] <exec> 08└─The world is precisely like the tale I spin, or at least is heading in the direction I claim. Employment in primary industries in all of the technologically-advanced countries is negatively correlated to mechanisation over time. And don't weasel-word with "turnover", the word you are looking for is...
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─Historically they'd get the basic facts right, at least mostly
[16:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why are you such a failure? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:58] <exec> 08└─> However I fail to see how this is non-ideological when "Russian election hacking" is exclusively a left wing conspiracy theory You are pretty much a failure all around. Lots of republicans think its a serious issue. That includes John McCain, Lindsey Graham, [foxnews.com] Tom Cotton [washingtontim...
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[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Sad - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─Facebook should already know everything about everybody, even most of the ones who won't open an account. If they are out buying data they have obviously failed in their core mission, to be the most obnoxiously snooping assholes on the Internet. Google's Evil(tm) plan to only hire really smart peopl...
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─When the war starts, farcebook wants to be in front of goggles to profit. Can't let the competition get ahead. The mighty dollar is more important than moral, ethics, fairness or justice. And when the connected generation is on the political path, no time awaste for a good Hoover style pinch to sque...
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02"better" ads. - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─All that effort to gather Big Brother-level data, so that some prick can waste it on a stupid flashy ad that interferes with your browsing and makes you rush for uBlock.
[17:22:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02Reducing government regulation? - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:54] <exec> 08└─Disgusting. Free swimming passes for those draining the swamp?
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Reducing government regulation? - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─Oh, I see some bitter morons have mod points. Here, mod me flamebait again, suckers. Thanks again for destroying your country to protect your fragile egos.
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you wrote. But being a whiner just undermines your message.
[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─Nah, my first post was rude as fuck. My second post was probably no less mature. But the thing is, these stupid fuckers really are stupid, and I'm desperately searching for a way to rub their noses in the mess they created, get them to recognize what they did was top-shelf brainless, and they'll nev...
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Are You Sorry Yet? - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─You'll never convince someone to change their mind by calling them stupid. The only reason to do that is to make yourself feel better. I've given up on changing their minds, now I just use them as punching bags because that's the best you can expect from most of them. Along those lines: Are You Sorr...
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Correction: Complaint Review - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry guys. Got it wrong, its "Office of Congressional Complaint Review." Not so funny any more. But unlike that intellectually dishonest asshole, VLM, [soylentnews.org] I prefer truth over truthiness so I have to correct my error.
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course this fixes everything - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─For now at least, the committee is non-partisan. But while that means we won't see one party singled out over the other, it doesn't mean ethics violations will be caught. The independent ethics board was originally created because both parties were engaged in ethics violations and neither one wanted...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course this fixes everything - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─The Abrahamof scandal that prompted the creation of the office was pretty much all on the republican side.
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GOP is unethical - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─Your policy is as stupid as most of your comments. What does posting as an "AC" matter? Surely, what matters is the quality of the content; I mean, heck: You are not an "AC", and yet your own content is almost exclusively crap.
[17:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:[Meta] Quick check - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:22] <exec> 08└─You can filter out stories in your account settings. People complain when we don't run a lot of articles in a given day, they complain we ignore political issues, etc. Speaking as head of staff, we can't satisfy everyone. At best, we can provide options to let people exclude some topics. Perhaps we...
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:[Meta] Quick check - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─This is not a science and technology site. Lacking that angle is not a problem. The problem is that when ANYONE moves to remove ethical oversight, it affects all of us. This allows people in positions of power to unduly influence us (or your science and technology if you insist) negatively while cre...
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─potentially republic-ending level of direct control.
[17:23:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02fake news - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 4033 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:31] <exec> 08└─It appears to be fake news about a fake office. It appears from wikipedia the office served no purpose in its creation beyond hand wavy "we must symbolically do something" so they did something, that changed as little as possible while appearing as active as possible. The wikipedia article explains...
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02You are So Full of Shit - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─> I'm sure you're completely shocked that the only party the office ever went after were republicans That's false. Are you now writing fake news? Here's a list of investigations [house.gov] conducted by the OCE. An incomplete tally of the democrats on that list: Tim Bishop [wikipedia.org] John Tiern...
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:fake news - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─The website of the office claims to be non-partisan but the wikipedia page lists the current board of directors of which exactly 1 is a republican. I'm sure you're completely shocked that the only party the office ever went after were republicans and the only supporters of the office after it got sp...
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Shell game - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:40] <exec> 08└─I have a fun fact for you: the house and senate, as a pair, have the power to do all sorts of evil shit and frequently do. That's what being elected as a representative means in a republic. The fundamental and unbreakable* constitutionally mandated checks and balances have nothing to do with ethics...
[17:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More Trump Bullshit - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─> Apparently even Trump thinks (or rather "tweets" - not necessarily the same thing) that this was a bad idea. As always, Trump is playing both sides. Here's the tweet: With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as...
[17:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02Re:floating? - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─They're already using drones for this. The US-Mexico border is often trespassed by small drones carrying drug payloads such that they have been attempting to implement countermeasures of various sorts (the most successful was apparently just guys with shotguns, last I read, but they were trying othe...
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Such fscking BS - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:59] <exec> 08└─Next headline: "Amazon patents cure for Cancer and AIDS." Patent reads: Medicine administered orally, intravenously, anally, optically, psychically, by osmosis, or placebo which like totally cures all AIDS and cancer and stuff. Illustrations of the patent include needles, liquids, pills, vials, and...
[17:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh noes teh cloud - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:13] <exec> 08└─Centralized resources and centralized control of data are new things? You must be young, so yeah, get off my lawn!
[17:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:redesign - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:28] <exec> 08└─The problem with CVTs if if I have to pay $7K every 50K to 100K miles I'd rather have an electric car. Its like all the sudden expense of an electric PLUS you get to burn gas, whoo hoo
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Exactly the opposite of what I want in a vehicle - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─Frivolous mechanical complication designed to generate trivial conversation for the sake of advertisement. I want my car to run well and last long, not be "cool" until next year's model comes out, at which point the warranty on several parts will likely have just expired, and the vehicle will begin...
[17:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Any fool can tear shit down. - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:53] <exec> 08└─Why are you so interested in focusing on the places where it is not practical? What's the point? Why not focus on the places where it is practical? Or even technologies that would make it more practical, like memory dedupe? [wikipedia.org] Any fool can tear shit down. It takes knowledge and effort t...
[17:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:31] <exec> 08└─You can't really blame them, that's their job.
[17:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ho hum, that good old "choice" fallacy. - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:35] <exec> 08└─You are angry at the finite availability of resources in the universe, not employers; after all, those "evil" employers are necessarily better improving the lives of the people they employ, even if only a little.
[17:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gotta feel for the Chinese - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:51] <exec> 08└─So hey, I agree with you, but the people that keep voting for circuses are too dumb to notice the lip syncing unless it's very apparent. Then they buy more tickets anyway. They don't want to be inconvenienced with the reality of performer huffing and puffing during the dance routine -- and the dance...
[17:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Even so... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:38] <exec> 08└─While not as strong as it could be the security requirements for the bulk electrical system in the US and Canada is substantially better than almost any other industry. Unfortunately the NERC CIP standards [nerc.com] don't apply to small operators but a number of them do follow it because it is reas...
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[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─to profit
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─Have you considered that for some people, it feels painful to change their mind, and they don't like to do it? They're not stupid on average, ours than differently works processing logic their but. Capiche? Go download and read "the Authoritarians" [umanitoba.ca] if you haven't done so yet. Go on, I...
[18:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─Ah, good old "both sides are bad" from a hyperpartisan who's quietly hiding that he's in favor of every shitty thing about to happen. Fuck your "centrist" false persona mighty buzzard. You need to own the shit salad you foisted on us. Sure, one side is actively circumventing measures in place to pre...
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─I'd rather you had respect for each individual, rather than respect for this thing you call "our republic".
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─Oh, good. I'm glad you're here to protect the mighty buzzard from mean words and keep us from worrying about the actual real-world consequences of a (admittedly still kinda hypothetical) collapse of liberal democracy in the United States. Got your priorities in order there. No really, it's okay to t...
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:3, Informative) 02Apparently, they've changed their mind... - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─From this BBC News Article [bbc.com]: Republicans are to drop a plan to gut the independent body that investigates congressional misconduct, following an outcry.
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02The House has backed down - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─The NY Times just reported [nytimes.com] that the House has backed away from what they did last night. Good for them. Now all we need is a good ethics investigation of the House in general. Half of the Congress would be caught up in it! Talk about emptying the swamp.
[18:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:No thank you - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:59] <exec> 08└─Pay no attention to digital bullshit until it fucks you over.
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:No thank you - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─I'm chalking it up to buzzword soup. Using cloud makes it sound as if they are hip to the cutting edge tech.
[18:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Fiesta is Ford's cheapest crapbox - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─I would think the way their cheapest car would be the *best* way to measure them.
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrmcferren [5500] (Score:1) 02Re:CVT transmissions... - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:28] <exec> 08└─The only thing with the Subarus is the 2010 to 2012 Legacy (and Outback) have issues with the CVT torque converters, they usually fail under warranty so it is an inconvenience more than anything. I unfortunately can't say anything about 2013 and 2014 due to fact that I have a 2012. The replacement t...
[18:24:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02affected vs. infected - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 732 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:41] <exec> 08└─This just tries make the infection ineffectual, and does nothing to prevent the infection in the first place. And what will it do to binaries which massively fork (in order to protect different parts of the program from each other, such as separate tabs in a browser)? Currently, all of the executabl...
[18:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Randomly creating vulnerabilities - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:49] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that randomly scrambling the code will create new vulnerabilities. That is, if you use Shuffler, your program is guaranteed to be exploitable during some number of permutations simply by nature of randomness. If Shuffler starts seeing use, I expect to see new exploit kits taking advan...
[18:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:"Younger" people - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─That's my fault. They just want to keep me from using the "I'm an old fart" excuse for my general grumbliness.
[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:More like... - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:25] <exec> 08└─Well, the system is set up that you'll have a very hard time if you don't play by the rules.
[18:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:Good enough! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:10] <exec> 08└─Is Scott Adams here on SN somewhere? Today's Dilbert http://assets.amuniversal.com [amuniversal.com]
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:re Progress - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:02] <exec> 08└─"I'll be happy to hear your thoughts and comments, particularly if you disagree." Bernie Sanders will get elected in 2020 and he is going to make everything free.
[18:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:25] <exec> 08└─That was great! I was expecting a TCP joke (eventually), but then I was totally blindsided by a UDP joke.
[18:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02#1 Rule - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:35] <exec> 08└─#1 Rule for building networked games: avoid as much randomness as you possibly can. If every client can reliably determine the exact same game state from the exact same inputs, they can all predict what the server is going to say. Corrections and cheat detection can happen later.
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[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─No person should have the kind of power that these people have; a phone call "about the weather" should never be news.
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:35] <exec> 08└─If you read the whole call transcript, he talks about a lot more than the weather; he talks about how he is continuing to exert power and what he and George Bush should continue to push for after the changeover. He even talks about how the new constitutional convention in his country didn't go the w...
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, I read it.
[19:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:39] <exec> 08└─So would you say your ideology is ultra-republican(note the lowercase r), where no substantial power, no matter how limited by the confines of laws, courts, checks, balances, and elections, should ever be placed in hands of an individual? Because, as much as I'm a republican(again lowercase r, fuck...
[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:42] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a version of the old Polish "Liberum Veto" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] - where all decisions must be unanimous; any single person can voice an objection and stop the proceedings? That worked out so very well for them.
[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─No person should have the kind of power that these people have; a phone call "about the weather" should never be news. The progression from discussing threats of global nuclear war to the weather is a bit newsworthy. If you recall, those nukes were pointed at us at one point.
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah... - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─All this shows me is that these two fuck ups talk just as much vapid bullshit to each other as they do to their own people. Hollow Men indeed....
[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No comparison - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─To use this exchange in some parallel with current events is almost a grossly negligent willful ignorance of history.
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hope Not - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─With all the talk of Trump and Putin being business buddies, it looks like there is at least some precedent of the two cold war country leaders carrying on a civil conversation.
[19:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Facebook's business is analytics - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:01] <exec> 08└─News at 11. Target does the same thing as well, albeit on a smaller scale as they do not own their own social media site used by hundreds of millions of people. http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[19:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:22] <exec> 08└─I have absolutely read The Authoritarians. I even followed some of Bob Altemeyer's actual peer reviewed poli-sci papers(too bad about him retiring from the field in 2012, I'd love to read his analysis of the whole Trump thing). So no need to worry about me being bothered by the footnotes. I've actua...
[19:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:44] <exec> 08└─> neonazis > neonazis > waah > waah Blow it out your anus, nigger, before I find something else for you to blow.
[19:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:45] <exec> 08└─You sound triggered.
[19:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:47] <exec> 08└─Help the world, make a Nazi bleed. Fascism is a loser ideology. You're a fascist because you're a loser and you're a loser because you're a fascist. If you'd made half an attempt to understand the world around you, you'd be neither.
[19:23:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02You are So Full of Shit - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 1066 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:52] <exec> 08└─> I'm sure you're completely shocked that the only party the office ever went after were republicans That's false. Are you now writing fake news? Here's a list of investigations [house.gov] conducted by the OCE. An incomplete tally of the democrats on that list: Tim Bishop [wikipedia.org] John Tiern...
[19:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You are So Full of Shit - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the research. It's too bad that several posters had to waste their time debunking what turns out to be BS. I have to admit that I find it profoundly disturbing that VLM's post remained at "+5 Insightful" for so long. (It even dipped down briefly, but was modded back up. As I write, it is...
[19:23:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:fake news - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─The website of the office claims to be non-partisan but the wikipedia page lists the current board of directors of which exactly 1 is a republican. I'm sure you're completely shocked that the only party the office ever went after were republicans and the only supporters of the office after it got sp...
[19:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What exactly is the patent for? - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:14] <exec> 08└─This just in, modern patent law is a sick joke with no punchline.
[19:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score:2) 02Re:No thank you - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:33] <exec> 08└─The less fancy version is: the assembler scans a barcode associated with a particular car/set of options, and this loads the presets into a controller on the transmission.
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:9+3*3? - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:51] <exec> 08└─So it's two gearboxes in one, with nine gear ratios, and beefy enough for a 640hp camaro. I'm assuming the thing must weigh over 250lbs.
[19:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CVT transmissions... - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:04] <exec> 08└─The first time I test drove a Subaru with a CVT I thought the transmission was AFU. It's definitely different if you never drove one before. When I ordered a new Saturn Vue, the only choices in 2004 was a CVT or 5-speed manual. I got the 5-speed, and good thing because the CVTs were breaking down af...
[19:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score:1) 02complexity is the enemy of reliability - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:08] <exec> 08└─How many years, if ever, will it take to sort out the weaknesses? I'm sure many of us have experienced fiascos such as the 4T80E which has a failure-prone solenoid and seal in the TCC circuit. $25 part buried under $3000 of labor.
[19:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 1155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:17] <exec> 08└─Except, of course, that hard work does in fact kill people: * About 4500 Americans a year are killed on the job [bls.gov]. In less developed countries, that number is much higher. * Even more end up with diseases they contracted on the job [who.int]. Again, worse in less-developed countries, but we'...
[19:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:App more apps! - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:38] <exec> 08└─This was 90/91, first generation of ADA compilers That can't quite be right, seeing as I wrote my Masters' Thesis in Ada in 1986. The compilers had a few bugs, but they were easy enough to work around. Anyway, that was to be expected given the size of the language. By 90/91 you were surely living in...
[19:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:25] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find little of that except maybe on comedy sites or on the Onion.
[19:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:28:26] <exec> 08└─But then the right-wing decided to redefine the English word "fake" to mean "biased" or "mistakenly erroneous" and then created this whole narrative about it
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[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─I think your question is inherently wrong; if you base your society around the notion that it is acceptable for one particular organization to allocate resources through coercion (violence, or the threat of violence, etc.), then you'll never achieve anything but this kind of catastrophic distributio...
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, if I knew I was going to get an ancap reply I'd have saved my breath in trying to suss out some ideological depth. There's none to be found in this wading pool. Your ideology is even less pragmatically possible than Marxist communism and would kill untold millions, while destroying the lives of...
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─The shallowness is in your own thinking. Nowhere do I propose instituting anything so abruptly as your analysis implies; only a statist such as yourself could possibly think in such primitive terms. What I describe must be evolved into existence, likely over a very long period of time indeed. Your m...
[20:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─I have a rule of thumb for you: if your position on a subject relies on everyone who disagrees with you being brainwashed: you're totally wrong about that subject. I'm not a "statist". I just don't think of "contracts" as magical deals with the devil that force people to keep their word through an i...
[20:22:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Hope Not - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─With all the talk of Trump and Putin being business buddies, it looks like there is at least some precedent of the two cold war country leaders carrying on a civil conversation.
[20:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook's business is analytics - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─I want to know why it is legal for a credit bureau to sell this info. Yes, they are private companies, but they set and determine important aspects of your everyday life. There needs to be a HIPAA-like law to substantially cover credit/financial data transactions and disclosures.
[20:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:20] <exec> 08└─You can't. They only learn when they suffer from it, and it has to have a personal face on it; it can't just be something like a stock crash that wipes out their 401K, it needs to be something they can connect (truthfully or not) to a person or entity they place their loyalty in. For example, someon...
[20:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:22] <exec> 08└─Or, someone who will take away their healthcare.
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─Well, then I apologize for egging you on. And if you find any interesting news on breaking people out of that trap, please share it with us soylentils.
[20:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02alternative? - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 1903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:26] <exec> 08└─At least for the president, I don't recall having an alternate choice that wasn't obviously criminal. One should choose the lesser evil, not the greater evil! I mean geeze, just off the top of my head... giving a Philippine citizen access to the presidential daily brief (OMG WTF) taking "donations"...
[20:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course this fixes everything - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:33] <exec> 08└─And the left didn't want to point fingers because...well we may never know exactly why.
[20:23:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02GOP is unethical - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─What else is new...
[20:23:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02[Meta] Quick check - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:40] <exec> 08└─Is this Politico? I do enjoy the political stories... And we do use the submissions that we get... In one of their first moves of the new Congress, House Republicans have voted...
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─You stupid bastard. Trump makes Nixon look classy, above-ground, and honest. Obama sucks, but he's nothing like this maniac. You're approaching J-Mo levels of willful stupid; I may need to reevaluate my assessment of you as "an asshole but not actually insane."
[20:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:2) 029-Speed? 10-Speed? Pfft. - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:07] <exec> 08└─Call me back when they go up to 11.
[20:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02Oh, great. How long 'til malware incorporates it? - 06New Software Continuously Scrambles Code to Foil Cyber Attacks - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:27] <exec> 08└─Just what we need—unidentifiable malware.
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[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hm... - 06Investigations of the Skyrmion Hall Effect Reveal Surprising Results - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:26] <exec> 08└─That sounds like some right proper basic engineering research. Hope SN readership grows soon to have people with relevant expertise to explain/elaborate/comment on such topics.
[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What the hell is a whorl? - 06Investigations of the Skyrmion Hall Effect Reveal Surprising Results - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─Nuf said.
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─Straw men and personal attacks. Nice. Brainwashing? I'm not the one forcing children to make a daily pledge of a allegiance to a flag...
[21:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 1845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, the misidentified logical fallacy, the first refuge of the bluster-fueled idiot who desperately wants to pretend to care about rational discourse. Let's start with the general notion of what a logical fallacy is: In the strictest sense, a logical fallacy is an argument that posits a claim that i...
[21:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─OK
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─I have a rule of thumb for you: if your position on a subject relies on everyone who disagrees with you being brainwashed: you're totally wrong about that subject.
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, just like its proponents Ancaps got no reason Ancaps got no reason Ancaps got no reason To live They got little hands Little eyes They walk around Tellin' great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty lit...
[21:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Hope Not - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─I would argue that Putin is more pragmatic than he is reactionary. He is of course being portrayed as reactionary by a press and government that is willfully ignorant of their own hypocrisy in that regard. I don't think Putin and Trump are friendly either, even in a political sense rather than perso...
[21:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:Facebook's business is analytics - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:12] <exec> 08└─It's easy... there is no liability for exposing or misusing the data. Therefore, the cost to acquire and keep data on any one individual is close to 0. It becomes a commodity rather than a liability. Personally, I think the only practical answer is to create statutory civil liability where individua...
[21:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Force cell phone number with account - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:13] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong!
[21:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Elected to Congress = turn on the money spigot - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─The reality is quite simple: If you are elected to Congress, your financial future is secure. While there are a few exceptions the vast majority of Congresscritters do very well for themselves [ballotpedia.org]. Influence peddling pays. Can't have a measely "ethics office" interfering with the payol...
[21:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:04] <exec> 08└─You obviously cannot grok that libertarians are not centrists. We are radicals. We just do not fit into your two-party, one-axis thinking.
[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, see, I'm not concerned with your political affiliation. I'm concerned with the stated opinions you've had all over this website that establish a pretty clear pattern of Trump support and general right-wing delusions. That you don't take the label isn't particular important in my thinking you...
[21:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:09] <exec> 08└─Too late. You've already went there. Nowhere left to go with your unthinking venom now, eh? Pity.
[21:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:11] <exec> 08└─Venom? Sure. "Unthinking?" Absolutely not. Sorry Uzzard, but you not liking it when I tell the truth about you, and expose you for all to see as the utter sociopath you are, does not make me "unthinking" and nothing, NOTHING, that you do, damns you any more thoroughly than your own words on this ver...
[21:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fake news - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:19] <exec> 08└─why are all of these older users suddenly coming out as cranks in this election cycle? Many of these people (not all of them) were pretty normal sounding prior to the election. Spouting pure BS under the assumption that people here would not fact check anything? It's like Ethanol Fueled is possessin...
[21:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fake news - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:21] <exec> 08└─You just didn't realize their idiocy because they weren't talking about politically topical issues. Ethan talks about politics, mostly white supermacy, more than anything else so everybody knows he's an idiot. People can be pretty smart about one topic, especially one they have professional involvem...
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fiesta is Ford's cheapest crapbox - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─Why would you think that? Their cheapest car is going to have their crudest parts. It is going to be manufactured in their cheapest Third World plant. In some cases (not with the Fiesta), the car is just a rebadged import made by a different cheap foreign automaker. I would like to understand your r...
[21:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Automated software analysis = bad design - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:14] <exec> 08└─I disagree on automated tests stopping good developers from doing useful work. With automated tests you can refactor code or modify existing features and quickly verify that the existing functionality is intact. I've also found them extremely useful when recreating and resolving bugs and edge cases....
[21:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:re Jobs - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:29] <exec> 08└─The automation makes some more jobs viable by reducing the value of human labor. So instead of making x iphones with y people, you can make x iphones with y/z people, or x*a iphones with y/z*a people. Actually automated factories don't quite scale that way, doubling your staff can quadruple your out...
[21:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:No company does it if... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 2101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:36] <exec> 08└─Here again Marxist concepts are very useful. The pertinent concept is capital intensification: the longer capitalism goes on, the greater the percentage of production will be from capital (machinery, technology, robots!) and the lesser from labor costs. The mechanism is rather straight forward. Capi...
[21:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score:1) 02Re:No company does it if... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:38] <exec> 08└─Humans are becoming more and more useless, not more and more valuable.
[21:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score:2) 02old gamasutra postmortem - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:35] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of this [gamasutra.com] article. Although....it seems like I remember another Gamasutra Postmortem from around the same time frame, where the devs struggled with picking TCP vs UDP. Anyone else remember those old postmortems? I always thought they were fascinating. You could really tell t...
[21:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 1567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:30:50] <exec> 08└─At least the code would be consistent and open source, instead of each enforcer having their own secret code of law. As it is, like I said before, enforcers will "interpret" the law more harshly for people they don't like. You have to sanitize your inputs. Maybe this could be accomplished by blind t...
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[22:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:What the hell is a whorl? - 06Investigations of the Skyrmion Hall Effect Reveal Surprising Results - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─Nuf said? C'mon now, a basic search for the word would have helped you out. A little magnetic tornado is basically what they're talking about. Rotating systems tend to be stable, and I guess they tried to portray that through a common example of a rotated system that is hard to change (hair whorls,...
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What the hell is a whorl? - 06Investigations of the Skyrmion Hall Effect Reveal Surprising Results - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:31] <exec> 08└─What's "nuf", yo? I left my dictionary at work.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02100 PB hard drive - 06Investigations of the Skyrmion Hall Effect Reveal Surprising Results - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─If you build it, they (customers) will come. As is, SSDs will overtake hard drives in capacity soon and cost within a few years.
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:100 PB hard drive - 06Investigations of the Skyrmion Hall Effect Reveal Surprising Results - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─I think we can agree that it would finally qualify as "an excessive amount of porn".
[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 2653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─I can give you a few different answers that all add up to radically different views, many of which I'd contest harshly, and even make assumptions about a person's character because of: Different core propositions to their worldview. This is most obvious with highly religious people whose worldviews...
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:58] <exec> 08└─I know it's off-topic, but I'd really like to hear your views on container ships. Would you please share?
[22:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No comparison - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─It's been 25 years since that phone call, when the USSR came apart. A few weeks later, I met a young guy who had been in Berlin when the wall came down, he was still exuberant. Anyone here have stories from that time?
[22:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Hope Not - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:08] <exec> 08└─My anecdotal experience kinda backs up your point about Putin. I have a couple Russian migrant colleagues and their comment has always been that Putin is doing what he is doing in order to keep in check all the corrupt and very powerful officials. The moment he shows any weakness, he's a dead man. A...
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Sad - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─My observations are FB use is very power law in that virtually everyone logs in once per year and virtually no one logs in every day.
[22:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Facebook's business is analytics - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─uarejackscommonsense
[22:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:48] <exec> 08└─I try keeping my head above water but it is all too easy to be swayed by the negativity and forget that probably over 50% of your fellow citizens legitimately have your back.
[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course this fixes everything - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:58] <exec> 08└─Because getting the office of ethics implemented was better for the country than just partisan sniping? Both parties can go low. But its the GOP that's been incapable of going high for over a decade now.
[22:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:19] <exec> 08└─Regurgitating the freedom rhetoric we all get beat into our heads in school
[22:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:20] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, please tell me the lesson plans that included trusting the government. No really. Tell me about the days you went into class and had a teacher tell you that your government was looking out for your best interest. It was never once for me. I guess they taught kids to call 911 for emergencies...
[22:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Independent" - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:23] <exec> 08└─but but but Obama didn't successfully shut down Guantanamo over an obstructionist congress.
[22:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Fiesta is Ford's cheapest crapbox - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:20] <exec> 08└─The real measure of someone isn't the best they've ever done, but how low will they go.
[22:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Honda no longer so well made - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:30] <exec> 08└─Honda is no longer the path to maintenance free joy, my friend. I was a Honda man for decades, but my last Honda (Odyssey) was built with cheap parts that fail early. (My neighbor has one as well with the same exact issues.) The killer is that the scheduled maintenance (forget the maintenance to fix...
[22:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CBD - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:09] <exec> 08└─The DEA is a blue collar jobs program. Weed is their #1 seized drug and what creates jobs and forefeiture money. They will NOT let weed ever be legalized if they can help it. Weed has been VERY good to them.
[22:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02actually a cool writeup - 06Safer, Less Vulnerable Software is the Goal of New Computer Publication - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:23] <exec> 08└─The Fine Article seems like a solid writeup, an interesting read (if rather dry). They review a lot of current research ares. Formal methods, for example - lots has happened here since I last looked at it. This will take me some time to digest, but it seems well worth while for the practicing progra...
[22:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No company does it if... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my prediction will be that 1% of people will work making ridiculous amount of money which will then have 90% tax applied to it, to spread around to the other 99%. That is the outcome in the near future until all work is removed, which wont happen for a long time and if it ever did the machines...
[22:28:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 736 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:20] <exec> 08└─Actually "The Washington Post" is what they mean by fake news. When I knew the legacy media was dying, I didn't expect it to go out like Pravda. I don't know why. I don't even know what I was expecting. I guess I thought it would be like factories in the midwest dying in my grandpa's generation wher...
[22:28:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 740 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:21] <exec> 08└─Ever since Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post it has been targeting a younger audience to try to stay relative. Apparently part of that strategy is to ramp up the hyperbole, use click-bait headlines, and have little to no editorial oversight or basic journalistic standards. These days I take them...
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[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Food Pyramid - 06Nutrition Data Review Shows Red Meat Has Neutral Effect on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─The food pyramid is not horrible, pop had a far bigger effect on the obesity epidemic then telling people that the way they were already eating was good.
[23:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Food Pyramid - 06Nutrition Data Review Shows Red Meat Has Neutral Effect on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─Pretty good summary of 2016's year-in-health-news. [arstechnica.com] A lot of evidence for corruption in the formation of those recommendations came out this year, among other interesting bits.
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If red meat is OK... - 06Nutrition Data Review Shows Red Meat Has Neutral Effect on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─...let's keep having the political stories.
[23:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:2) 02Not enough meat: No real conclusion - 06Nutrition Data Review Shows Red Meat Has Neutral Effect on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─"Total red meat intake of >=0.5 servings/d". The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends consuming no more than an average of 1.8 ounces of red meat daily, while this study looked at 1.25 oz. I was hoping that this study would indicate that I could regularly violate the USDA recommendation, but it...
[23:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Note: short-term and small amounts - 06Nutrition Data Review Shows Red Meat Has Neutral Effect on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:36] <exec> 08└─A few details are probably important to highlight here from TFA: For example, the length of time these experiments were done ranged from a few weeks to a few months as opposed to the years or decades that it could take people to develop cardiovascular disease or have a cardiovascular event.
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Really - 06Nutrition Data Review Shows Red Meat Has Neutral Effect on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:38] <exec> 08└─How bloody hard is it? Everything in moderation. Red meat isn't going to kill you any more or less than organic vegetables. Have a bit of both, don't pig out on either, eat sensibly. We really don't need scientists to tell people this stuff. And, if you want a full English breakfast fried in lard, h...
[23:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:100 PB hard drive - 06Investigations of the Skyrmion Hall Effect Reveal Surprising Results - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─I think we DON'T. 8K resolution per eye 360 degree VR, with 12-bits per channel color at 300 FPS should fill that up quickly.
[23:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02must be the hangover - 06Investigations of the Skyrmion Hall Effect Reveal Surprising Results - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─I misread the headline and almost posted about curved swords. Curved. Swords. But then I took an arrow in the knee.
[23:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:16] <exec> 08└─Well, it goes like this. My original view was that pacific container ships were wasteful horrible things, running on nasty hugely inefficient(in terms of BTUs/tons of carbon). The stuff is even worse than diesel in that regard and just called "fuel oil" in the petrochemical industry, though it's pre...
[23:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:18] <exec> 08└─I'll be constructive here since I really do like ancap thinking, but I remain unconvinced that it could ever be practical. Do you have any recommended reading that can help me to become better informed?
[23:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:21] <exec> 08└─I will grant you this: if men were angels, such a system would work. Heck, I'll even give a stretch that if the contract enforcers were angels, it could still work and be vastly better than what we currently have.................
[23:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─One blessed, ordained monopoly on violence (a "government") is what requires men to be angels; in contrast, a market of competing service providers negates the need for such angels.
[23:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:It's all so stupid - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 1960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:25] <exec> 08└─You've spewed quite a vitriolic rant but you have given little factual or logical support for your contentions, and that's being generous. You say AC would "kill untold millions, while destroying the lives of billions, if ever seriously attempted" which certainly sounds awful, but you give us no rea...
[23:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hope Not - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─Putting Russia first? Imagine the concept.. Them Russians must hate him
[23:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hope Not - 06President Gorbachev’s Last Phone Call - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:36] <exec> 08└─I have a couple Russian migrant colleagues and their comment has always been that Putin is doing what he is doing in order to keep in check all the corrupt and very powerful officials.
[23:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sad - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:47] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that "virtually no one logs in every day" is probably a false statement.
[23:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Force cell phone number with account - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:55] <exec> 08└─I didn't like walkie-talkies or CB radios when they were fads, and I don't have a cell phone now, you inconsiderate clod! (I do borrow a flip phone from my sister on rare occasions, she hardly uses it.)
[23:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Re:Force cell phone number with account - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:57] <exec> 08└─Sadly, more and more websites and services are doing just that. And/or forcing you to login with Facebook, Google, or Twitter.
[23:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Force cell phone number with account - 06Facebook Buys Data on Users' Offline Habits for Better Ads - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:59] <exec> 08└─Then the list of websites I'll never use out of principle just keeps increasing.
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Re:Haters gonna hate. - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─I bet she just loved the Affordable Care Act, and just hated that terrible Obamacare.
[23:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Branding matters - 06House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:25] <exec> 08└─This is a lesson for all those people who think marketing is evil. Branding matters. Sometimes it REALLY FUCKING matters. He should have gone whole hog and made Obamacare the official name. Yeah republicans would have accused him of megalomania. But it was the GOP that wanted to tar the plan with hi...
[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no sales tax - 06Amazon Files Patent for Flying Warehouse - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:18] <exec> 08└─No presence on the ground means no state/local taxes need be collected. Smart!
[23:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:9+3*3? - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─I'm going to retract my earlier statement, it does not appear to be an AMT but a hydraulic transmission similar to the current 99 kg (218 lbs) 8L90. What confused me is using the term clutch when I usually refer to them as "clutch packs" in hydraulic transmission.
[23:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Honda no longer so well made - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:08] <exec> 08└─I have a friend of mine who insisted that Honda was a Chinese made car in a recent argument because they have declined in quality and reputation so bad. We literally had to stop and look it up before the conversation could move on.
[23:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That giant sucking sound... - 06GM & Ford Introduce New 9-Speed Automatic Transmission - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:12] <exec> 08└─...is coming from the transmission.
[23:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:CBD - 06"Hollyweed" and More Cannabis Stories - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:50] <exec> 08└─Trump is coming and he wants to eliminate the DEP.
[23:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Hard work never killed anyone - 06French Workers Win 'Right to Disconnect' - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:27:25] <exec> 08└─*Whoosh* I guess some senses of humour are far too subtle for SJW's to understand. Here's an ice cream. Shove it down the back of your pants to soothe thine butthurt.
[23:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump will bring back the manufacturing jobs... - 06Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:53] <exec> 08└─...both of them.
[23:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:30:49] <exec> 08└─Link discriminates against ETs: Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.
[23:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Former SETI Human - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:31:01] <exec> 08└─This Douglas Vakoch organism is not only a traitor to his species. He's a traitor to all life on Earth.
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