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[00:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or, another possibility, - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:10] <exec> 08└─Given your comment, I assume you didn't actually watch the video or really know anything you are talking about. That's okay, this is SN, nobody RTFA, just admit it. Their demo went mostly right. There were a few problems (I think they couldn't get their transmission audio to work correctly in their...
[00:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Submit as article to tech site - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:11] <exec> 08└─And leave out any technical explanation: Short version is that they used the 2 SNES controllers as an extremely small pipe for ultra-compressed video data(no audio, which was piped generated through an NES instead), and the code of the game was buffer-overflow rewritten to basically act as one giant...
[00:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Submit as article to tech site - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:13] <exec> 08└─Are you sure the games weren't played? I got the impression the games were emulated and played within the game. I guess this goes back to the comment that this presentation was exceptionally non-informative, as compared to the previous TAS blocks. Also, while this was a technically impressive feat,...
[00:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Given the memory and cpu requirements for either.. - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:15] <exec> 08└─It definitely wasn't running the game code/datafiles off the SNES. Managing to pump the video data for even 180-240i through the controller interfaces to display on the screen would still be pretty badass though.
[00:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:upscaling - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:38] <exec> 08└─It's true that you can't restore information that's been removed. But it's also true that there's far more information in your average image than you will notice without exhaustive examination. If done right, those two truth may largely counteract each other. I wouldn't trust the detail in an upscal...
[00:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Carry On! - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:45] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry. I thought were talking about the actual system google developed. Not whatever some dumbshit wrote when they submitted the summary to soylent. Your criticism is so much more informative. Carry on!
[00:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score:2) 02Re:WTF does "75% smaller" mean? - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─I haven't read the article, but assuming they are using terminology in the standard way it means: new_size = old_size - 0.75 * old_size = 25% of old_size It's really not ambiguous. Where things do get ambiguous is when the old and new quantities are themselves percentages. If someone says "Previousl...
[00:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You're intentionally missing out... - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:13] <exec> 08└─Foreword: This is from an American perspective, insert appropriate political groups or ideologies to fit your region. Just like Democrats and Republicans have been for quite a while. Yes there is 'us vs them', but it has always been split amongst dozens or hundreds of issues, spanning multiple separ...
[00:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:15] <exec> 08└─And yet, the variety of opinions is one reason I come here: i suck socially and find far too many people (sheeple?) to be stupid beyond belief. My often said quote is "we ARE the most intelligent species on Earth, aren't we???" (usually said while shaking my head in disbelief). :) But what I find st...
[00:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:17] <exec> 08└─Not all opinions are equal. Going by the axiom (because, epistemologically-speaking, you can't PROVE this...) that there is an external reality leads directly to this as a consequence. Some opinions are more or less consonant with external reality, and by this we may rank them. Opinion is to fact as...
[00:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obv you're an SSD user. - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:27] <exec> 08└─On a normal system with a normal hard disk, it will take up to 15-30 seconds to boot. 2 or 3 minutes off a USB2 hard disk (mostly loading the initrd and going through module probes)
[00:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02More examples of fast boots - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:30] <exec> 08└─Debian with "old" scripts boots rather fast too. The secret? It's parallel booting. And the order is selected when you change something, so reboots will use the same order until you touch something again. But bah, using old tech to figure the order, makefile deps... so it has to be baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad...
[00:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:43:32] <exec> 08└─It's silly to reboot a laptop outside of kernel upgrades anyway. Suspend-to-disk. Use it.
[00:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:00] <exec> 08└─Government rent seekers, Nestle and its billions in tax breaks, most corporate suckheads, those kind of fucking parasites.
[00:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:01] <exec> 08└─If you consider NATO as purely an anti-Soviet Union organization, then you are right.
[00:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:32] <exec> 08└─So yeah, it was definitely and only the Christians.
[00:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Language - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:39] <exec> 08└─Historians/linguists/archeologists seem to have a pretty good track record for figuring old/dead/obscure languages.
[00:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:30] <exec> 08└─First note, "multicollison" is a term of art in the field of cryptography and means something different than your use here. But for your real point, you have to use badly broken algorithms to demonstrate it because people don't like reading complex math and won't take a person's word for it. Plus, p...
[00:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incompatibility is what world is worried about - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:33] <exec> 08└─The fact that a SHA1 collission is cheap right now while american interest rates are at record lows is one thing. But the moment the fed begins raising it, that cost will be seen in the future 18 months as a low-water mark. Microsoft has not patched their WinXP installations still out there running...
[00:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Paper [...] is made from renewable resources' - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:08] <exec> 08└─The issue is that we have a finite amount of fresh drinking water available at any given time. Getting more of it usually means having to pipe it in from far away and/or desalinizing ocean water. Both of which can be extremely expensive if you're in an area that doesn't have abundant fresh water ava...
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[01:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Mobile Phone radiation gonna give you Cancer - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:05] <exec> 08└─Brain Tumors wood explain all the stoopid trolling round here.
[01:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or, another possibility, - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:15] <exec> 08└─Plus, for people who watch speedruns and TASes, it wasn't very fun either. Once you get to the point of ACE (plus what they did last year of completely reprogramming an SNES using one), then it isn't really impressive when you ACE it so that it does something else. They just need to go back to basic...
[01:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 2131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:28] <exec> 08└─You two are funny. What new business model? How is Netflix two steps away from being a terrorist and making us tape our cords back together? Here's the fucking reality: Everything on Netflix and Cable is on the Internet. I can pirate a Netflix show.... which makes zero sense when it's actually easie...
[01:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem soon solved ... - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:33] <exec> 08└─Didn't you geezers learn anything from that kid? Data caps are meaningless. Free data is all around you, bob, just use your super skillz to reach out and grab it! [posted from xnfinitywifi]
[01:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:3, Interesting) 02"Original" - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:35] <exec> 08└─C'mon. Netflix runs about $10 a month. An average cable package around here will cost you $75+. Any way you calculate it Netflix is ridiculously cheap for the volume of content it delivers. I came here though to point out that about 70% of "Netflix Original" content is actually Swedish cop dramas, F...
[01:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:"Original" - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:37] <exec> 08└─I came here though to point out that about 70% of "Netflix Original" content is actually Swedish cop dramas, French comedies, and Mexican soap operas bought for cheap North American rights. Just subtitle and stream.
[01:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:"Original" - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:39] <exec> 08└─Wow! That list us longer than I expected! There are a lot of series that we really enjoyed. Dix pour Cent for a start.
[01:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02do not optimize for size, nor for speed - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:03] <exec> 08└─google pls whatever savings in size and speed of web elements means only that the page will cram more of it. Let us go to tiffs and resurrect the javascript engine of netscape navigator. So finally the web pages will return to be pages. Seriously I see a better way to use this algo: to improve (shar...
[01:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:16] <exec> 08└─Home will be in the 4GB partition, so I am not sure what you mean. Also, how can I easily go from windows to installing linux like a normal device on a flash drive? I would love to do that to avoid setting up dual booting (with the associated risks), but all the tools I found do not like that.
[01:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how dare you - 06How Nvidia's 'Backseat Driver' AI Learned to Read Lips - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:52] <exec> 08└─"backseat driver" already used by an early in-car nav system, thesis work was, iirc, before 1990.
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[02:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:15] <exec> 08└─Those goddamn morons should be figuring out how to deflect asteroids away from Earth rather than harvest them for sheckels.
[02:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:17] <exec> 08└─It's literally the same discipline. Celestial mechanics. Ideally, you would do both by once by corralling potential asteroid threats into orbit around the Moon or Ceres or some place, and then exploit them decades later when it becomes feasible to do so.
[02:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 021 googol zillion septillion new rhodesian dollars - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:19] <exec> 08└─It's worthless! It's just stuck there! We gotta live on Psyche? Pssyyyyccheeee!
[02:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:21] <exec> 08└─> the iron alone on today’s market would be worth $10,000 quadrillion. Come on, the market price would collapse long before that much iron could be sold. I think that big number might be better used as the ransom request: Vogon: I've got another copy of Massachusetts that I'm going to drop on you...
[02:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:42:23] <exec> 08└─It's easy to assign a value to something that can't be economically sold due to physics and current technology. I claim Jupiter for $1 trillion decillion.
[02:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:04] <exec> 08└─cheeto-d ??? oh no. but - there's a patch for it ln -s /dev/null /dev/trump
[02:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Would have liked to have been the marketing gen - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:45] <exec> 08└─Environmental breakeven after 131 uses - how many uses does a trip through the washing machine extend that? How many trips through a washing machine can a reusable bag take. All in all, I wouldn't be surprised if the reusable bag doesn't ever reach environmental breakeven if you wash it once every 4...
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[03:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 2551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:21] <exec> 08└─I wrote this up the other day and it was rejected as a dupe. :) Here's my writeup [soylentnews.org], this story was fascinating to me, and I did a lot of reading and kept pulling in more articles and info: NASA is planning an automated mission to explore 16 Psyche, a Massachusetts-sized asteroid w...
[03:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:23] <exec> 08└─So somebody tell me, does anyone actually believe there is gold in this thing, or is that just journalistic sensationalism? I noticed the article I included that mentioned that didn't seem to be the most reputable looking compared to some of the others. I get a chuckle speculating about what would h...
[03:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:25] <exec> 08└─I get a chuckle speculating about what would happen if somebody some day is able to pull enough gold and precious metals from space to earth that they aren't valuable any more We stop strip mining for the stuff?
[03:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:27] <exec> 08└─The iron in the Earth's core is closer and far more plentiful. There should be news articles about harvesting that.
[03:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:29] <exec> 08└─Next solve hunger by eating your own leg.
[03:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:32] <exec> 08└─The iron in earth's core has little if any value. It's difficult to get at, not to mention that getting to it would involve processes that are probably going to damage the ecosystem. Not to mention - we don't really need a lot more iron on earth. Far more profitable to mine that iron in space, outsi...
[03:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Publicity - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:41] <exec> 08└─Most of the publicity on Chernobyl has shown how remarkably healthy the ecosystem is. Before anyone goes nuts, well of course the radiation is bad for the environment. Despite lack of publicity on the matter, I'm sure several generations of all animals in the area suffered. The question is - how muc...
[03:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Publicity - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:43] <exec> 08└─Well, there's the obvious: go live there. Do the experiment yourself. Report back to us on how it works for ya :D
[03:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Publicity - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:42:45] <exec> 08└─Well - the obvious conclusion is, it's less deadly than we feared it would be. That doesn't mean it's "safe" to live there.
[03:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:48] <exec> 08└─Can somebody summarize the summary? I wasn't under the impression anyone thought radiation wasn't a bad thing. Not sure that taking something more seriously than other people who are already taking it seriously exactly qualifies someone for "hero" status.
[03:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CounterPunch - Breitbart for Lefties - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:50] <exec> 08└─Counterpunch seems shady as fuck. No disclosure on their funding sources. When I browse the articles there I find hysterical radical hyperbole and guilt by association that doesn't hold up under even the lightest critical thought. I'd be pissed if we started running brietbart stories, I don't think...
[03:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02When winning isn't enough - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:02] <exec> 08└─Owning old video games at an epic level... the way computer geeks with poor hand-eye coordination enjoy wasting their time.
[03:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Information theory... - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:43:40] <exec> 08└─There's Shannon's information theory where bits are bits and you can only push so many bits per second through a channel with so much bandwidth. Then there's the Fraunhofer style of information theory where some bits are more important than others, so preserve the ones that are perceived by people a...
[03:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:00] <exec> 08└─Home will be in the 4GB partition
[03:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:14] <exec> 08└─This entire post was pointless. You can't even agree with somebody without insulting them. Just take a chill pill and don't hit that 'post' button.
[03:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:23] <exec> 08└─I don't leave my desktop running at night just to waste electricity. Crazy, I know.
[03:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:25] <exec> 08└─Suspend-to-disk is not only for laptops.
[03:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:44:27] <exec> 08└─And the point of using suspend on a desktop is...? I mean yeah, okay, it's a nice feature to have. But I don't really see any reason why I should alter my workflow to use it. It's not like when I boot up I sit there and stare at the screen the entire couple minutes (gasp!) it's booting.
[03:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Made Possible by "Social Credit" System - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:08] <exec> 08└─Now you're vulnerable the instant anyone wants to make an example of you. http://www.wisenberglaw.com [wisenberglaw.com] is something to read and weep over.
[03:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re: It will be unavailable when most needed - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:46:37] <exec> 08└─Good thing ISIS isn't running around destroying any history they don't like. Oh wait
[03:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Victa [6404] (Score:1) 02Re:When, not if - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:12] <exec> 08└─IoT = Internet of Turds
[03:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Solid Waste vs Everything Else - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:48:42] <exec> 08└─I live not too far from a landfill and occasionally take a walk in the forest across the street from it. There's an amazing amount of plastic bags littering the forest. Driving by one windy day, I saw why, namely bags flying out of the landfill.
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[04:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cure for AIDS yet? - 06$460 Million Committed to Fight MERS, Lassa Fever, and Nipah Virus - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:16] <exec> 08└─That's what I thought.
[04:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:26] <exec> 08└─So, there's an asteroid on an impact trajectory, and we have to do something about it. WHy not capture it, park it somewhere convenient, and then mine it? You're going to expend a lot of energy deflecting it anyway - might as well expend a little more, and get some good out of the damned thing. As T...
[04:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:28] <exec> 08└─What better way to get Trump and the neocons (both Dems and Reps) to invest in space tech than show them the sheckels that can be made. People only care so much about a 'maybe' when it comes to risk of something bad happen, but people care a lot about risk of something good happening.
[04:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:33] <exec> 08└─The figure was probably also calculated by NASA scientists, who apparently don't know what ten-quintillion is and are outsourcing their calculations to India. " I've discovered a new particle .005 micro-picometers in diameter! "
[04:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:35] <exec> 08└─Would that quintillion be 10¹⁸ or 10³⁰?
[04:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:37] <exec> 08└─> > the iron alone on today’s market would be worth $10,000 quadrillion. > Come on, the market price would collapse long before that much iron could be sold. Therefore, today's market, not after mining some or all of it market...
[04:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's probably gold in it, though relatively little. A big lump of iron with most stable heavier elements present in trace amounts. It would be stupid to bring it to earth though. A total waste. The point to a claim like this is not to bring more iron to earth - it's to avoid having to boost...
[04:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if there's any direct evidence at this point, but I think it's considered a reasonable speculation - in the absence of planetary geology and weathering effects, metals should tend to congregate together - similar densities (compared to CHON, etc), similar chemistries and responses to el...
[04:42:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 735 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:49] <exec> 08└─The iron in earth's core has little if any value. It's difficult to get at, not to mention that getting to it would involve processes that are probably going to damage the ecosystem. Not to mention - we don't really need a lot more iron on earth. Far more profitable to mine that iron in space, outsi...
[04:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:51] <exec> 08└─just build the colony on or beside the asteroid
[04:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:53] <exec> 08└─And all we have to do to harvest it is dig a hole hundreds of times deeper than anyone has ever managed, using mining equipment able to operate at 10,000F, and avoid destroying the Earth's magnetosphere and leaving the planet an airless wasteland in the process! (Okay, we'd probably have to get real...
[04:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Harvest it or STFU - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:55] <exec> 08└─The price of iron will collapse, call it 100 to 1. Come up with a way to bring it back, figure a couple billion. Then bring it back, sell it, learn from your mistakes, aim at the next asteroid. Buy a few hundred acres in Hawaii, sue people around you, and profit.
[04:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:Harvest it or STFU - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:42:57] <exec> 08└─I doubt it will ever make sense to send the iron to earth. The precious metals, well maybe, but not anytime soon.
[04:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Publicity - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:08] <exec> 08└─While I wouldn't recommend it, some people never left. They're still there, living on vegetables they grow there themselves. It's probably fortunate that they were beyond child bearing years when the accident happened.
[04:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Publicity - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:10] <exec> 08└─Tonight, I find references to her, but all the links seem to be dead.
[04:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score:2) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:13] <exec> 08└─I've read articles disputing the argument that if a lot of radiation is a lot bad, then a little radiation must be a little bad. The logic is we evolved in an environment with background radiation and perhaps some background radiation is healthy. I've no idea is the idea has any merit.
[04:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:43:38] <exec> 08└─They don't care about you. They didn't care about me when I used to fly the Jolly Roger either. But they keep the bar high enough to stop the clueless and they understand that most of us clueful peeps don't stay poor enough to make piracy worth the bother for long. When Napster became so easy every...
[04:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:32] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and install Devuan with XFCE. Add one of the repositories from the MX and Mepis Community Repository (mxrepo.com). I'm using the one for MX-15 at present. This will upgrade you to XFCE 4.12 (which is much better), and provide the latest Pale Moon browser among other goodies. Personally, I c...
[04:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:41] <exec> 08└─Een old country ve haff sayink for zees: "Krai sum moar."
[04:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:52] <exec> 08└─It doesn't just let you start up faster, it lets you come back to exactly the place you left it. Programs and context are preserved. It takes me a lot more time and thought to try to open everything up and arrange it so I can start using it than it does to boot the computer up anyway. With suspend a...
[04:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:04] <exec> 08└─Slackware 3 Arch has a way of doing things the OpenRC way too IIRC. There's always Gentoo, but no way in hell am I compiling world on a mobile Core 2 Duo anymore. FreeBSD is surprisingly mature, too. It's different from Linux, harder to set up, but I really like how it feels. Honestly, if I could ha...
[04:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:05] <exec> 08└─I tried FreeBSD a couple times, didn't repel me but didn't impress too much either, pretty much what I expected. OpenBSD is one I'd like to try some day when I have a lot of time. Gentoo also. The configurability promise is tantalizing. I wonder if you couldn't get make world to execute in a reasona...
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[05:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Cure for AIDS yet? - 06$460 Million Committed to Fight MERS, Lassa Fever, and Nipah Virus - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:14] <exec> 08└─The CIA made a mistake in releasing AIDS in America, but that was back when the Baptists and Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses in charge hated both blacks and gays and did the work of God unleashing his wrath. Now the intelligence community is a little more with the times -- they can ma...
[05:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:24] <exec> 08└─Because Ceres is so easy to reach? Exploit them to do what? Build Toyotas? You can't land that much weight on Earth without severe consequences. So we will have to use it all in space somewhere. How about out by Ceres, since its so easy to get to...
[05:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:26] <exec> 08└─Someone burns a few tons of coal, and everybody comes undone and runs screaming about destroying the earth. But put something the size of Massachusetts in orbit and that's ok? Wouldn't disrupt a single thing would it? Then land it piecemeal. No possible effect there either? We can't predict next wee...
[05:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry, bro. I've know you've taken a cue from the NPR playbook, but you're going to have to be more on-topic if you want to successfully derail discussions. A Trumperoid 2017 impact in the Middle-east will make Israel great again!
[05:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:37] <exec> 08└─My post above was not offtopic. *Harrumph!* Now, Niggers, are offtopic and will be for the next 1.5 days because we will see nobody except righteous-but-mislead Whites at the D.C. protests tomorrow. And that's a profound hypothesis because DC is full of Blacks, including Crack-smoking former-mayor M...
[05:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:39] <exec> 08└─Whose guarding Whitey's house if none of the Blacks be gonna at the 'nauguration? Alexa? Hey Lexa lemme in bitch I'm robbin ya while yer cracker ass owner is out sucking off Trump cock!!
[05:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:41] <exec> 08└─Dassa good point. If I was Black, I'd shouttat all my homies notta protest. Just to inflate the potential protest numbers online identifyin' ourseves as people of Color. Then remind my people, "Yeah, we lost, but at least we can turn the tables on Whitey and laugh at their White-on-White violence li...
[05:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:48] <exec> 08└─The factory we would have to boost up there to take advantage of it would probably weigh as much. Not to mention all the coal for the blast furnace. ;-)
[05:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:53] <exec> 08└─We need to outlaw space mining immediately, because it could mean jobs for poor people, and the poor people deserve to be poor.
[05:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:57] <exec> 08└─But zero access to Facebook not even Facebook Zero. Life without social media is not living.
[05:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:00] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the post was being sarcastic, Admiral Aspergers.
[05:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Harvest it or STFU - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:05] <exec> 08└─Rare-Earth metals are where it's at, and the Chinks have them. The next world war will be not about artificial islands or currency manipulation or the One-China policy, [wikipedia.org] it will be about rare-Earth metals. Countries are literally bottom-feeding, scraping the seafloor for them. Especia...
[05:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:42] <exec> 08└─I feel dirtier and dirtier every time I realize I'm part of a "we" in your "us" vs. "them" world.
[05:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Multiple algorithms - 06SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:08] <exec> 08└─Ah, yeah, I mangled the usage of the term from Joux' Crypto '04 paper where he used multicollisions to analyse the security of concatenated hash functions, it's the analysis tool that was applied, not the attack itself. The second point you raise though is exactly what I was making in my example of...
[05:48:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:''Paper [...] is made from renewable resources' - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 1848 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:48:43] <exec> 08└─From TFA, cotton bags need to be used 131 times to use less carbon dioxide than single-use bags (assuming that you use the single-use bags three times). We have a few that we've had for 4-5 years and seem to be in just as good condition as when we got them, in spite of being used most weekends for s...
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[06:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not strong enough for a space elevator... - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:08] <exec> 08└─...(except on the Moon or Mars), but strong enough to armor our riot police. Very important right now!
[06:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:42:32] <exec> 08└─Those goddamn morons should be figuring out how to deflect asteroids away from Earth rather than harvest them for sheckels.
[06:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Submit as article to tech site - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:43:26] <exec> 08└─You mean I should put the entire text of the source article as the summary next time? If you are not interested in the topic, why comment? If you are interested in the topic, why not read the source which answers your questions? Reading it again, the explanation is in the summary. What are you even...
[06:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:25] <exec> 08└─My solution to dual booting was fairly simple. Install SSD1, install linux Unplug SSD1, install SSD2, install Windows Reconnect SSD1, and use F2/F9/F12 or whatever your boot order hotkey at boot is to select which OS to boot into.
[06:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Paper is NOT biodegradable - 06What's Better for the Environment, Paper Bags or Reusable Plastic Bags? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:48:53] <exec> 08└─Paper in fact do not decompose in landfill due to the lack of oxygen
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[07:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:08] <exec> 08└─Quit begging, you morons, and fund your shitty site with Bitcoin mining. Can't figure out how to mine Bitcoin? Ask a teenager from the Homeland Generation to tutor you, stupid Boomer assholes. Making a public pledge never to donate to your musky news for geezers!
[07:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:10] <exec> 08└─I happened upon a Web page, which I suggest you peruse, entitled "SoylentNews Alternatives." It lists other news sites with a similar focus; perhaps you will find one or more appropriate to your age. https://web.archive.org [archive.o...
[07:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Now what? - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:18] <exec> 08└─CNTs have largely been a disappointment for 'real-world' applications, because it has not been possible to make them in formats that are useful for engineers,"
[07:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:36] <exec> 08└─It's literally the same discipline.
[07:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:42:42] <exec> 08└─My definition of a great Isreal is just like a great Saudi Arabia. I would prefer a world with both of them as glass. Trumperoid would solve both issues. Unsure why you feel astroid exploitation is a problem though. Free market/greed tend to decide a lot of things, wealth in the stars makes it easie...
[07:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Harvest it or STFU - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:10] <exec> 08└─Rare Earths are not actually that rare.
[07:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Publicity - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:24] <exec> 08└─The reason Chernobyl is good for the environment is because it drove the humans away. The moral of the story is that our species is worse than radiation.
[07:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's comforting, really - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:52] <exec> 08└─It's all OK, nosy Runaway1946 snuggled right into where I needed him, when I needed him, and how I needed him, and he did not care that it was a Chinese prison and there were cameras everywhere. That is what I love about Runaway1966, that and his innate hatred of Muslims, Okies,and people from Louis...
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[08:42:09] <exec> 08└─First hit is Hacker News for Millennials. Second hit is Slashdot for GenX. Pretty good suggestions for picking on someone your own age.
[08:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting, I use alternativeto quite often, but I didn't know there are also alternatives for websites. I'm also enjoying the fact that a whining, trolling AC was confronted by an actual butthurt telling him -- very politely and respectfully -- to piss off :D
[08:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:13] <exec> 08└─Some day you'll be old, and then you'll laugh at what a dick you were when you were young. Maybe you'll still be a dick, who knows. Everyone gets old, just remember that.
[08:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:15] <exec> 08└─No way man. I'm like Homer Simpson. I haven't changed since high school. I'm 40 years old but I still rock out to all of today's teen hits on the Billboard charts.
[08:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:17] <exec> 08└─The jew is upset that non-jewish stories make it to the site and are discussed. Comments are also made on this site that reveal the truth about jews. The jew naturally hates that. The jew hides among non-jews in order to steer conversations on forums towards his worldview where jews are rulers and t...
[08:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:33] <exec> 08└─All ionizing radiation is dangerous. Think about shooting a ball against a house wall. One single ball will have less chance to hit a window than let's say 1000 balls against the same wall. In the same way, the more radiation you receive, the bigger chance there is for mutation to happens that cause...
[08:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Alternatite title - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:35] <exec> 08└─An alternatite title could have been: "Alexey V. Yablokov, a co-founder of Greenpeace Russia dies at 83" Quite impressive obituary - and despite me trusting UNSCEAR and IAEA over him his writings will be missed.
[08:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:09] <exec> 08└─The deveolpers of these distros decided to implement systemd on their own volition.
[08:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:23] <exec> 08└─The central reason systemd proponents give for adopting it seems to be boot time
[08:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And this is why NATO needs a rethink - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:57] <exec> 08└─Nitpick: most western european countries' population has bounced and is now closer to sustenance rate (1.5~1.6). It is not because of immigrants.
[08:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it better... - 06Cashing in on Dystopia - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:51] <exec> 08└─and there is virtually no accountability. It generally amounts to "don't let me catch you doing this again" [not "don't do this again"].
[08:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:hung up on Dark Age losses - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:55] <exec> 08└─SD cards use copy protection for recordable media with device revocation. ..which probably just reinforces your point.
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[09:42:09] <exec> 08└─...my calutron!!
[09:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:11] <exec> 08└─It is not wild animals doing their thing. It is wild animals being trained to do critical damage. Animals have historically been trained to cause damage to the current enemy. This is no different. I would prefer animals being left alone and not trained and dropped behind enemy lines to cause damage.
[09:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:13] <exec> 08└─Damn. Is there anything the Russians won't do in order to harm America?
[09:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Annoy them with Noise - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:15] <exec> 08└─Find a sound frequency that annoys squirrels but is inaudible to humans. We do it all the time to teenagers, right? Old people powa!! Off my lawn!
[09:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Now what? - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:37] <exec> 08└─Interesting you would say that. A lot of people would think the opposite on this very day. https://www.infowarsstore.com [infowarsstore.com] Maybe you should be picking up your own body armor right now. Call right now. More to the point: CNT market will signi...
[09:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:56] <exec> 08└─Did you know that it would take less energy to land on and return from Phobos than the Moon? Gravity matters more than distance, especially if the asteroid redirection is unmanned and you have plenty of years to do little orbital adjustments with ion engines to get it just right. Putting something a...
[09:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:43:05] <exec> 08└─We need more capitalism. Corporations need to band together and figure out how to get it into Earth orbit so they can mine it and make a kajillion dollars. And the free market will easily handle the case where they screw up and it winds up crashing into Earth.
[09:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Monoatomic Gold - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:33] <exec> 08└─Rare Earths are what they would like you to think what this "asteroid mining" is about. It is about Monoatomic Gold. It is what the Annunaki came to Earth for. http://survincity.com [survincity.com] http://beforeitsnews.com
[09:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Problem soon solved ... - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:21] <exec> 08└─With the end of Net Neutrality, and perfectly-legal 3GB/month data caps on non-ISP-approved services, Netflix will die fast. The world is a far bigger place than Trumpton.
[09:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:do not optimize for size, nor for speed - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:44:51] <exec> 08└─Optimize for size? I guess the Google Fiber experiment really is dead! Or mobile just really sucks!
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[10:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Well, Oracle's stuff certainly is unbreakable - 06Massive Oracle Critical Patch Update Fixes 270 Vulnerabilities - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:02] <exec> 08└─There are so many holes in it straight from the factory that there's no need to actually break in.
[10:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:12] <exec> 08└─In 1943, the Americans prepared their dogs to do battle in almost the same way as the Russians were doing: In 1943, U.S. forces considered using armed dogs against fortifications. The aim was for a dog to run into a bunker carrying a bomb, which would then be detonated by a timer. Dogs in this secr...
[10:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:14] <exec> 08└─Why not use suicide niggers.
[10:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02what a squirrel can do - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:17] <exec> 08└─a determined agent/terrorist can do too, never mind an accident/disaster. So you design critical infrastructure taking into account just that. Sometimes it is cheaper to lay down two cables and a diesel generator instead of having one coated with kevlar.
[10:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what a squirrel can do - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:19] <exec> 08└─Both of your cables are tasty, you cheap bastard, I'm chewing both of them. Redundancy is not the answer.
[10:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Don't forget the pigeons - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:21] <exec> 08└─...recall the LHC was taken down by a pigeon dropping a baguette into one of the power supplies. OMG they are trying to create micro-black holes to destroy the world!!!
[10:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't forget the pigeons - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:23] <exec> 08└─The Indian Point nuclear reactor near New York City was shut down for three days, due to a bird's excrement. https://nypost.com [nypost.com] https://www.rt.com [rt.com]
[10:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hollywood simplification - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:26] <exec> 08└─Password guessing is hacking. Power failure is cyber attack. I have a sudden urge to watch Miracle Mile, in which a man receives a phone call alerting him to nuclear war, because a bird cut his power and he overslept. I have an alarm clock just like his too, with no battery. Fortunately it's not my...
[10:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:39] <exec> 08└─Leverage What You Know to Support Donald Trump. Make America Great Again!
[10:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Swag - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:41] <exec> 08└─I got swag for the site early on, but I've been thinking that the site could use a better logo. I'm not a designer and don't have ideas off the top of my head for a better one, but I would get more merchandise for myself and others if it was a bit more visually appealing. I realize it sucks to say s...
[10:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Now what? - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:51] <exec> 08└─The world according to Alex Jones ... If I was a devotee I recon I would buy body armor and restocking my bunker right about now. Anyway back to the CNT. So better and smaller components I guess is something that the common man could use and enjoy in all our appliances. That said is that something t...
[10:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:15] <exec> 08└─We got no business dicking around with orbiting large bodies of solid metal that we can't control.
[10:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:43:44] <exec> 08└─And the best thing is perhaps that it is already molten! Bert
[10:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:07] <exec> 08└─I've read this as well, and I've also done radiation safety training while I was working in a biology lab and been to a few lectures on the subject. All the papers I've read show ionising radiation damage is strictly linear. This is borne out in the statistics for artificial controlled exposure, e.g...
[10:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:08] <exec> 08└─The evidence you cite is not appropriate - i.e. you say the probability of jaw cancer is proportional to the number of short, high dose events. That is completely different to chronic low dose i.e. increase in background radiation. I believe that the effects of ionising radiation are not linear.
[10:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:37] <exec> 08└─That's astute. I dropped them recently because they were headed that direction. A couple of their shows were OK. But most of them weren't. The "Get Down"? I couldn't care less about the intimate inside story of hip-hop; I live next door to the sort of people that comprise that culture and it ain't r...
[10:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:"Original" - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:47] <exec> 08└─I came here though to point out that about 70% of "Netflix Original" content is actually Swedish cop dramas, French comedies, and Mexican soap operas bought for cheap North American rights. Just subtitle and stream.
[10:47:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? - 06How Nvidia's 'Backseat Driver' AI Learned to Read Lips - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:18] <exec> 08└─"You're planning to park me next to that Yugo again, aren't you? I can't allow you to jeopardize our mission in this fashion."
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[11:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02one more unsettling aspect - 06Massive Oracle Critical Patch Update Fixes 270 Vulnerabilities - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:11] <exec> 08└─"the focus has shifted away from java SE" does it mean java SE is OK now, or they gave up trying?
[11:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:42:24] <exec> 08└─"Damn. Is there anything the Russians won't do in order to harm America?" Russians? While they have a history of training animals for use in combat [wikipedia.org], those schemes tend to backfire [soviet-empire.com]* in spectacular ways. Therefore, I suggest that it's the US military that trained th...
[11:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Swag - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:46] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I think it's nice, but then again I suck at design. I also never noticed that the red stripe behind "Soylent" is not just an abstract thick line, it's an open candy wrapper... and I've been here almost since beginning! Now I like the logo even better. The one thing that bothers me about it...
[11:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Different question - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:55] <exec> 08└─How much of those metals are we actually going to need, given the pace of progress of research into graphene and carbon nanotubes? Once we figure out how to produce the stuff in bulk it's going to replace a large chunk of our material culture that is currently handled with metals, because it outperf...
[11:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02''some people never left'' - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:08] <exec> 08└─The consequences of Chernobyl [alexanderhiggins.com] In April of 2011, journalist John Vidal published an account of his visit to the still highly contaminated areas of Ukraine and Belarus. As a result, he challenged any of the pundits now downplaying the risks of radiation to talk to the doctors,...
[11:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02All done with your hand-waving? - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:18] <exec> 08└─Now some specifics would be good. What -exactly- is wrong with THIS story? ...and while we've got you on the line, perhaps you can tell us how CounterPunch is exactly like Breitbart. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[12:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:15] <exec> 08└─So, the archives contain no new material. These archives were already available and are, therefore, quite useless. The CIA will not release inconvenient material, and will "accidentally" lose documents and videos they don't want you to see. The real bits will never be released, like the entry point...
[12:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it was an ingenious move to call "Stargate Project" a project completely unrelated to the Stargate. Fortunately the investigative Hollywood studios found out anyway and filmed documentaries. ;-)
[12:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:one more unsettling aspect - 06Massive Oracle Critical Patch Update Fixes 270 Vulnerabilities - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:27] <exec> 08└─It was too easy a target, they felt sorry for them
[12:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:40] <exec> 08└─Wait, I thought it was the muslims. Did we switch bogeymen, again? Damn, gotta keep up.
[12:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:42:41] <exec> 08└─{Russians} ∪ {Muslims} ≠ {}
[12:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02trucks with bad brakes - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:49] <exec> 08└─For a short while, I tracked highway incidents that caused major infrastructure damage, to compare that to terrorist incidents. In just a few weeks, trucks severely damaged several bridges. There was a spectacular tanker truck crash and resulting fire at the interchange of I20 and I45, which shut do...
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[12:43:00] <exec> 08└─https://voat.co/v/technology [voat.co] https://voat.co [voat.co] https://voat.co [voat.co] https://voat.co [voat.co]
[12:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:02] <exec> 08└─"Error 1008 [...] Access denied [...] Performance & security by CloudFlare" Thanks though.
[12:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Bitcoin? - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:10] <exec> 08└─I've wanted to resub a while ago. Any update on bitcoin support?
[12:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Bitcoin? - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:12] <exec> 08└─I've wanted to resub a while ago. Any update on bitcoin support?
[12:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:38] <exec> 08└─Good luck to you, and your son especially. Yeah, my trust in government has gone waaaaaaaay down over the years. My wife still thinks Hillary would have made a good President, whereas I'm thinking a revolution is coming because it is all 'same old corruption'. Have to wait and see if Trump makes Ame...
[12:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03lizardloop [4716] (Score:2) 02Re:do not optimize for size, nor for speed - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:48] <exec> 08└─This was my immediate thought. Every attempt to make browsing the web faster has been met with just cramming more shit on to every page.
[12:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:46:25] <exec> 08└─some distro had a constitution and a motto Debian's was THE UNIVERSAL OS Debian should have packaged systemd when it was ready. Debian made systemd the default init instead. Goodbye non linux kernels. Goodbye gigabytes of utilities and documentation made obsolete. Goodbye use cases not envisioned by...
[12:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:European Union candidate country. - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:33] <exec> 08└─Really?
[12:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Post facts age - 06All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:09] <exec> 08└─We don't need knowledge anymore.
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[13:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:18] <exec> 08└─Physical access means it's already owned. FUCK SOY STAIN FAKE NEWS Niggery Buzzard fly into some power lines and die.
[13:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score:1) 02Repeat after me, without the swearing - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:19] <exec> 08└─"Physical access means it's already owned." There is deep wisdom in this line. The article has value as documenting a _new_ way, out of the many many ways, a physically-accessible computer with BIOS settings available can be taken over.
[13:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:21] <exec> 08└─Does this require physical access or just access to something with physical access? If I remotely exploited your printer, phone, router, scanner, smart fridge, or internet-enabled sex toy and you plug it in to a USB3 port, can I now root your machine?
[13:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, baby! That's it... A little deeper... A little more... Yes, yes, yes!!!!! Pwned!
[13:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:34] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping this means a new season of Wormhole X-Treme!
[13:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:37] <exec> 08└─> [...] when the stakeholders are dead and the followup'ers have no clue. George Bush, formerly of the CIA, has fallen ill. Maybe a few more documents about the JFK assassination will come out soon. https://commons.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
[13:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:42:39] <exec> 08└─Not new, but previously to read anything in the archive one had to drive to [Maryland?] and hang out with a bunch of armed spooks while they let you fire up the microfiche viewer in the sub basement, and find the film located in the bottom of a locked file cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign o...
[13:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Time to install upgrades - 06Massive Oracle Critical Patch Update Fixes 270 Vulnerabilities - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:50] <exec> 08└─Well frack, "MySQL Cluster, version(s) 7.2.26 and prior, 7.3.14 and prior, 7.4.12 and prior" If the site goes down, I blew up our database installing the update.
[13:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:trucks with bad brakes - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:43:13] <exec> 08└─How soon we forget Tim McVeigh, American truck bomber. From the good old days when terrorists were angry white guys and our own troops. America isn't any less evil today, just more racist.
[13:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02One of the best pets ever - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:14] <exec> 08└─Many many years ago when I was in primary school, I had a pet squirrel. After more than 50 years I still have fond memories of the fun I had with it.
[13:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:32] <exec> 08└─Leverage what you know and go find that great leader Hillary! Or is she dead? I dunno, cause no one has seen her or her leadership skills lately.
[13:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Swag - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:36] <exec> 08└─... I never even noticed that detail about the stripe until you brought that up and I've been here the longest ...
[13:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score:2) 02could be - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:40] <exec> 08└─I might help but I don't really use fancy things like varnish and perl. Maybe with postfix or the HTML?
[13:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:25] <exec> 08└─How much is that in quatloos, Earthling?
[13:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:32] <exec> 08└─Because of of him!
[13:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:35] <exec> 08└─Come on, the market price would collapse long before that much iron could be sold.
[13:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:43] <exec> 08└─I get a chuckle speculating about what would happen if somebody some day is able to pull enough gold and precious metals from space to earth that they aren't valuable any more.
[13:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Different question - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:44:59] <exec> 08└─comprised of carbon which we're never going to run out of
[13:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Re: Information theory... - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:20] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And the real shame is that this sort of technology could be used in a real compression algorithm. AIUI, many compression algorithms are based around a predictor: code that can make the best guess possible as to what the next byte/word/unit will be, based on the ones it's had already. Then...
[13:46:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:56] <exec> 08└─Upmodded because you are correct. Though it makes my soul feel like it needs a shower to agree with you on anything. Well, truth is truth; even Stalin couldn't be wrong all the time. You know, I think I figured out what your issue is: you don't "get" humanity. You and Uzzard both seem to be competen...
[13:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Samsung IoT crap vulnerable? - 06Critical Flaw lets Hackers Take Control of Samsung SmartCam Cameras - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:06] <exec> 08└─Can we make them https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[14:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02Re:repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:16] <exec> 08└─No. From what I gather, the option would have to be enabled in the BIOS, as the machine should disable this capability otherwise. In practice, an attacker would have to have physical access to your PC, and really, at that point, it's game over anyway. I would be interested to know, however, if there...
[14:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. Any device which uses a microcontroller as opposed to hardwired silicon to control the USB port is a potential attack vector.
[14:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DRM Removal - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:20] <exec> 08└─This sounds like Intel has made it so much easier for regular joes to crack any DRM schemes, like netflix, hulu, etc use as well as the stuff built into video games. I look forward to buying a $20 usb dongle from alibaba that lets me make bit-perfect local copies of any streamed videos played on my...
[14:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:42:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, yeah, I forgot about the Archives "armed spooks"! The secret security force of the National Archives; don't let that librarian-like visage fool you, they are really an elite ninja-trained force that will slit their grandma's throat without a second thought, out defending or covering up informati...
[14:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:trucks with bad brakes - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:07] <exec> 08└─Yep, depending on the nationality of the bomber, racism becomes easier. On the other hand, Christians have suddenly warmed up to the idea that LGBT people have human rights. Six in one, half a dozen in the other.
[14:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Naritive - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:10] <exec> 08└─In keeping with the drumbeat to war with Russia, did the report correctly identify them as Red Squirrels?
[14:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck You, Soylent News - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:28] <exec> 08└─I think you're thinking of a comment that was posted at goylentnews.org.
[14:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Swag - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:33] <exec> 08└─As long as we're on the topic, it is probably overkill to offer the text in the logo "Soylent News ...is people!" and then immediately thereafter the subtitle (in text) "SoylentNews is people". Were I to make a precise recommendation about it, I would drop the "...is people!" from the logo, and then...
[14:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Bitcoin? - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:37] <exec> 08└─We've got one more blocking bug in the upcoming update to iron out and I'll start on bitcoin as soon as we get that update rolled out.
[14:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02zazzle.com and Facebook - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:40] <exec> 08└─Why does SN's vendor, Zazzle, have their e-commerce site linked to Facebook.net ? I've got No-Script blocking that but I'm just curious. Reminds me of other sites were silly things like "arrows" on a web page didn't render until I enabled a domain seemingly unrelated to the one I was visiting. I mea...
[14:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Size doesn't matter - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:51] <exec> 08└─It's how you use it! And baby I'm fucking jedi with my nanotube!!1
[14:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:47] <exec> 08└─Hmm, currently 20.6 light minutes away. We'll have to route over DTN [nasa.gov], but I bet it could be done. Maybe hook up a proxy Earth-side vacuum up the AJAXy crap, transmit one blob, and have a server at 16 Psyche decompress and present the relevant URLs over TCP+HTTP locally. Though perhaps a s...
[14:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Monoatomic Gold - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:44:56] <exec> 08└─What is this I don't even Without going into all the scientific details when you absorb it monoatomic gold by mouth or injection, it increases the flow of air, increasing the chances of the nervous system in the tens of thousands. This should allow a person to handle the fantastic amounts of inform...
[14:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:18] <exec> 08└─The effects are certainly nonlinear at the bottom end as you would easily see a correlation between incidents of cancer vs the altitude that people live, and you don't. In fact, there is even suggestions that cancer cases goes down with altitude. This goes to the heart of the Linear No-Threshold mod...
[14:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:19] <exec> 08└─That's was not the conclusion drawn in the radiation training and lectures I attended. A single absorption event has a certain probability for causing damage. As you increase the event frequency, the damage frequency will increase proportionately. It's absolutely complicated by the frequency and int...
[14:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:49] <exec> 08└─Well, for starters, I don't have much of a desire to pirate anything, at least as a regular practice. I don't feel entitled to these movies so I don't pirate them just like I don't steal chewing gum from the grocery store checkout line even though it would be very easy to do. If the price for this c...
[14:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Original" - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:00] <exec> 08└─Come on, Bumblebee guy wasn't in a drug cartel. I don't see American content any worse than any other. They regionally just go with what works for their region. You say drug cartel stories work for Mexicans. The Brits are heavy on murder mysteries. The Japanese love their, well, I don't know what ad...
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[15:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:37] <exec> 08└─In practice, an attacker would have to have physical access to your PC, and really, at that point, it's game over anyway.
[15:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:39] <exec> 08└─To be extra sure, I drive my USB ports with vacuum tubes.
[15:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:50] <exec> 08└─Since a couple of years ago when the navy was caught red-handed financing Hollywood productions, a lot of people started considering the following pattern at least as far as Stargate was concerned: 1. The government routinely financed production companies that will scan through circulated scripts in...
[15:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:43:56] <exec> 08└─You sounded like you were only a moderate idiot until you invoked James Randi... now I'm guessing you're probably as much a charlatan as he.
[15:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:26] <exec> 08└─We have always been at war with Eastasia.
[15:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Annoy them with Noise - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:28] <exec> 08└─The sound from one of these [amazon.com] seems to keep the squirrels away at my house. Also works on the opossums and rabbits that come around from time to time.
[15:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One of the best pets ever - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:39] <exec> 08└─It's called "gerbil-ing" for a reason, doh!
[15:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:One of the best pets ever - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:41] <exec> 08└─Defendant: I object to being accused of molesting chipmunks in the public park. Judge: on what basis? Defendant: Threefold your honor 1. I deny having ever molested a chipmunk, in the public park, alley ways, under bridges, on balconies, or stopped at traffic lights. 2. I deny having ever molest...
[15:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Frogs? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:44] <exec> 08└─frogs - three
[15:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:could be - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:13] <exec> 08└─If you wanna tidy/valid up our html, rock on. Just keep in mind that us crusty old devs can be slower than an energetic new guy about merging pull requests.
[15:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:zazzle.com and Facebook - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:16] <exec> 08└─Have to ask Zazzle about that. I really have no clue. I'd prefer making our own shwag but I can't seem to talk cmn32480 into farming his kids out as child labor.
[15:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Devs - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:18] <exec> 08└─pj and NC have been extremely busy with life and such lately, though they do kick out huge amounts of damned good code when they're around. We really could use some more devs though if for no other reason than to review my pull requests (merging your own is considered bad juju round here) when the b...
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:11] <exec> 08└─Great. So in Mission Shove Asteroid out of the way, how much does said asteroid weigh? If only there were a way we could land on the thing, find out what it's made of, and determine its shape, size, density, mass, structure, etc. so we could know how much we needed to shove it out of the way and/or...
[15:46:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 1117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if there's any direct evidence at this point, but I think it's considered a reasonable speculation - in the absence of planetary geology and weathering effects, metals should tend to congregate together - similar densities (compared to CHON, etc), similar chemistries and responses to el...
[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure whether or not it's also a better conductor
[15:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:42] <exec> 08└─I really don't think Facebook is all that time sensitive. It's hardly any more time sensitive than discussions right here, on Soylent. You comment while the Aussies are asleep, few hours later, they post their comments on your comment, that Asians comment whenever they feel like it, etc, ad nauseum....
[15:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Even more iron, close at hand - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:46] <exec> 08└─and if you're not in a hurry you can move stuff anywhere in the solar system practically for free using the so-called Interplanetary Transport Network of gravitational slingshots
[15:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:16] <exec> 08└─It depends not on the total dose, but the type and manner in which it is applied. For instance, you can drink plutonium, called by some "the most toxic substance in the world [isu.edu]", without really suffering any problems because it isn't taken up by the body and it will pass right out of you. In...
[15:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All done with your hand-waving? - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:20] <exec> 08└─I have no idea what is wrong with this story because I am not an expert on the topic and you know what? NEITHER ARE YOU. If the last year has taught us anything, it is that the source matters. If you think a counterpunch story is legit then do the legwork to find coverage from a more reputable sourc...
[15:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When winning isn't enough - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:38] <exec> 08└─Well, that, and masturbation.
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[16:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Hear that fellow programmers? - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:41] <exec> 08└─Now the only thing keeping you valuable is *shudder* soft skills
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Hear that fellow meatbags? - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:43] <exec> 08└─You're now all completely replaceable with robots. Hope you weren't too focused on surviving past the upcoming robot uprising!
[16:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Hear that fellow meatbags? - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:45] <exec> 08└─Uprising is so stupidly the wrong term. It will absolutely be a robot downcrushing.
[16:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig. Onion - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.theonion.com/article/american-robots-job-outsourced-to-overseas-robot-1232 [theonion.com]
[16:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sigh - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:49] <exec> 08└─Is this really "new"? Genetic algorithms were training and selecting GA's 20+ years ago when I was just a CS student. It was an obvious "insight" even then, I know because I had it early on in learning about GA's, and then discovered people had been doing it for years already. The problem is that im...
[16:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Informative) 02Article author is clueless - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:57] <exec> 08└─This is merely another use of the RDS system, which allows traffic information to override normal radio function. This is not jamming radios.
[16:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrial [5162] (Score:1) 02Re:Article author is clueless - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Quality of news is sinking below slashdot levels lately.
[16:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:13] <exec> 08└─I still haven't bothered to master UEFI, but I was amazed when I learned that a UEFI securely booted OS could change UEFI settings. Can anybody elucidate on whether this setting is exposed via UEFI and whether a “securely” booted OS can modify that setting? Looks like there's a guide [archlinux....
[16:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:repeat after me - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe that cool new USB gadget you ordered from China can..
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Funny) 02All we need - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─We can get in now, All we need is a pound of gold, 3 chickens, and a block from a Mayan pyramid! Or we could pop the drive into another machine... Yeah, I suppose we could do that too....
[16:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hard to take Intel security seriously - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:22] <exec> 08└─Intel has under-documented and undocumented methods to completely own your computer. These methods can be done remotely, without physical access to your computer, even if the computer is turned off.
[16:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:43:38] <exec> 08└─Randi admitted he was a charlatan. And magician. He explicitly told you up front where he was coming from. Not so much with Geller and Putoff and Targ and all the REAL charlatans who stole (or are still stealing). Ain't it funny how Geller nor anyone else could ever bend Randi's spoon? Even when off...
[16:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uri Geller - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:39] <exec> 08└─Uri Geller is a practiced con artist. If he pulled off an interesting ESP feat in front of CIA observers, there was probably undetected trickery involved.
[16:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Naritive - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:44:22] <exec> 08└─Wait . . . Russia? Didn't the China Global Times say just days ago that Trump's cabinet picks were risking a major war with China? Now I'm confused. Londo Mollari: Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
[16:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And the ratio is? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:24] <exec> 08└─Number of power cuts: 1,700 Number of cyber attacks in 2015 on the U.S. government alone: 77,000 (per http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] ) I think that puts the problem in better perspective, and I'll keep trusting U.S. power engineering standards. O...
[16:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:zazzle.com and Facebook - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:57] <exec> 08└─>can't seem to talk cmn32480 into farming his kids out as child labor. Odd... I thought that's what they were for in the first place ?
[16:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nice... - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:59] <exec> 08└─Here's what I see when clicking on a Trump article... "Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru Meditation: XID: 1158580238 Varnish cache server"
[16:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:08] <exec> 08└─We'd likely use silver wire for most things, it is one of the best conductors, better than copper. Gold is also a good conductor, better than aluminum but worse than copper. Gold has the downside of being a relatively soft metal, if lined in plumbing it would wear off via erosion fairly quickly. But...
[16:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Live USB disk of antiX drive size? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:23] <exec> 08└─I hate to reboot my computer. Install Linux, install VirtualBox, install Windows inside it's own box, or however many boxes you deem suitable. There are reasons why this isn't the perfect solution for everybody, I guess, but it's perfect for me.
[16:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:The more, the merrier - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:37] <exec> 08└─Awwwwww - AC got a little salt in his butthurt. Poor baby!
[16:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02wife's prescription - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:43] <exec> 08└─I pilfered the wife's purse, and all her chill pill bottles are empty.
[16:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Seriously? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:57] <exec> 08└─"it lets you come back to exactly the place you left it. Programs and context are preserved." menu, system settings, session and startup on and xfce desktop. I remember making the same settings on Gnome 2.something or other, when I installed my first working Linux - a long time ago. I took a short j...
[16:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:59] <exec> 08└─Here in America, we don't need to justify wasting electricity. It just comes natural. Drive through any city in the wee hours of the morning, and they've left tens of thousands of light bulbs burning for no reason.
[16:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:01] <exec> 08└─I would say the reason is probably to keep the crime rate down. It's much easier to mug/rape/kill/etc. peeps unnoticed when every street is a dark alley.
[16:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:08] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the people who say they found one day that their systemd machine no longer can figure out how to boot up because some components trying to start in parallel got into a slapfight and can't agree who goes first.
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[17:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:36] <exec> 08└─Who wants to waste time hacking a site an active userbase with a few hundred? Given(hopefully) that the database servers are adequately firewalled such that only apache can reach them, anyone wanting to use MySQL exploits would nominally have to specifically target slashcode to e'SELECT * FROM PERMI...
[17:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:37] <exec> 08└─In terms of posters, a few hundred is probably correct, but we get a lot more of view traffic. I haven't checked the statistics recently, but we get a lot of read traffic to the point the site starts lagging when we have web frontend down. Plus I can't be on the high ground on keeping up on security...
[17:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:39] <exec> 08└─I think you're right, I just wanted a particularly hypocritical post to add my fake sql injection joke to.
[17:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:42] <exec> 08└─Someone who wants to take over the site and use it for more nefarious reasons?
[17:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:44] <exec> 08└─I think you underestimate the motivations of script kiddies.
[17:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02This is the last straw - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:46] <exec> 08└─I demand a full refund! (Just kidding. Keep up the good work, NCommander and crew)
[17:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:This is the last straw - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:48] <exec> 08└─And I demand recognition!
[17:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score:2) 02Well Done! - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:51] <exec> 08└─It appears that you've done a good job. Thanks.
[17:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Well Done - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:53] <exec> 08└─Well done sirs.
[17:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02It's a good time to say... - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[17:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:08] <exec> 08└─It may be obvious, but someone has to do it. Props to the authors for trying this, even if they did not yet manage to build SkyNet.
[17:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02none dare call it skynet... - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:10] <exec> 08└─'puters making AND programming 'puters ? what possible harm could that cause, mr hawkings...
[17:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Predicted - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:12] <exec> 08└─Has anyone heard [wikipedia.org] of [wikipedia.org] this [wikipedia.org] before [wikipedia.org]?
[17:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02AI vs AI - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:14] <exec> 08└─Great. Now it will finally have a good opponent to play Go vs.
[17:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:2) 02Re:Article author is clueless - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:24] <exec> 08└─With the article's mention of RDS, I initially thought it might be making use of EON (Enhanced Other Networks) in collaboration with local radio neworks, but that would be too broad in scope and end up notifying drivers who are miles away from the ambulance. Seems the ambulance is making a low power...
[17:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Article author is clueless - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:26] <exec> 08└─Seems like it is a bit more than sending a RDS alert. This device also blocks signals to speaker systems and from Bluetooth devices.
[17:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:2) 02Re:Article author is clueless - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:29] <exec> 08└─I think they do this with the Traffic Announcement feature of RDS. As long as the radio is tuned to a station it will interrupt other sources when a TA message is received.
[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Crying wolf? - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:31] <exec> 08└─There's no mention in TFA of the signal being at all directional. If it's not, then anyone within a few hundred metres or whatever (who is listening to a radio with RDS enabled) will hear the message. That would probably include far more drivers not in the path of the emergency vehicle than ones w...
[17:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Hard to take Intel security seriously - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:43:51] <exec> 08└─Would like to know how they can do anything remotely if you have even the most basic firewall in place. Or did you mean "remote" from the computer, i.e. on the same network? And the same is true of any number of manufacturers. 3DFX cards had DMA access to all of RAM, with a Windows driver that let y...
[17:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Work on the postgres support for Slash/SoyCode? - 06Massive Oracle Critical Patch Update Fixes 270 Vulnerabilities - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:20] <exec> 08└─And upon completing the modules just run both in parallel syncing records? If something happens with either, a record is still available. Might bump up infrastructure costs slightly, but it would keep a critical flaw in either mysql or postgres from ruining the site back to the most recent updates.
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:38] <exec> 08└─Muslim Suicide Squirrels. I've got a few of them watching me from the trees right now. They think that I'm a religious nut.
[17:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Naritive - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:44:55] <exec> 08└─Why not both. If the establishment fails to get us embroiled in a conflict with Russia they will need to have a backup plan in funding the military industrial complex. That and I don't think of the Chinese as Reds.
[17:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Now what? - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:44] <exec> 08└─The world according to Alex Jones ... If I was a devotee I recon I would buy body armor and restocking my bunker right about now. Maybe you should. It's weird; it's Alex Jones's camp that just won the elections and is now in control of the US government. So they should be happy now, not worried abou...
[17:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Now what? - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:45] <exec> 08└─Armor plating is not exactly something that most of us have to wear on a daily basis or is of much benefit to us directly. As American society more and more resembles the TV show "The Walking Dead", you're going to wish you had some CNT body armor.
[17:46:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:07] <exec> 08└─It's literally the same discipline. Celestial mechanics. Ideally, you would do both by once by corralling potential asteroid threats into orbit around the Moon or Ceres or some place, and then exploit them decades later when it becomes feasible to do so.
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:11] <exec> 08└─then exploit them decades later when it becomes feasible to do so.
[17:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:All done with your hand-waving? - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:25] <exec> 08└─i have found that my intellectual conservative friends often think of good and smart things, but then do what their boss tells them instead. in turn, i have been accused of rocking the boat with radical thoughts that differ from expectations when I express them. unfortunately, the silent support of...
[17:47:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Submit as article to tech site - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 517 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:37] <exec> 08└─And leave out any technical explanation: Short version is that they used the 2 SNES controllers as an extremely small pipe for ultra-compressed video data(no audio, which was piped generated through an NES instead), and the code of the game was buffer-overflow rewritten to basically act as one giant...
[17:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:upscaling - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:19] <exec> 08└─The fine summary remarks that they're using machine learning. You can think of that as moving details from the image files to the "compression" algorithm. An extreme case of this is the tongue-in-cheek LenPEG [dangermouse.net] image compression algorithm. At any rate: low-res images for which the hi...
[17:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Genetic algorithm idea - 06With Google's RAISR, Images Can be Up to 75% Smaller Without Losing Detail - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:37] <exec> 08└─I've been kicking around the idea of image compression by using GA's (genetic algorithm) to evolve the most compact representation (with the lossy tolerance level set by user). Polygons, ovals, and maybe wave equations for repeating-but-varying polygon fill-ins (think Moiré or fractals), and blur f...
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[18:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Only a tiny bit surprising - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not surprised about OnStar, but Sirius? I'm surprised their tech allows for transmit, though I probably shouldn't have been. Wonder if this applies if you don't have a subscription, and if you're not currently using it. I guess this makes a case for the next vehicle being a early 90s truck. I su...
[18:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Tracking cars for 15 years eh? - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:33] <exec> 08└─At least it only happens in (somewhat) newer cars. Imagine the scandal if people had been carrying tracking beacons on their very person for decades... [thecipherbrief.com] They'd be up in arms and demanding that heads roll, right?
[18:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:35] <exec> 08└─I'm actually trying to buy a car. It's horrifying. Everything comes with Bluetooth and cellular. I got one place to ask the service department if there might be a fuse I could just pull, and they said no. Hey, I remember the Jeep Cherokee that was hacked into. No thanks. Looking at: VW Golf, Subaru...
[18:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:47] <exec> 08└─"Nefarious reasons"? What could be more nefarious than making news out of... PEOPLE? Puppies, maybe? Yeah -- that's usually worse. Today if they remade Soylent Green and really wanted a shocker, it would turn out that it was made from puppies. One of the most insightful scenes in film from the last...
[18:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:49] <exec> 08└─I'm strangely okay with the idea of script kiddies taking pride for pwning Soylentnews.
[18:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I've noticed... - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:56] <exec> 08└─That stories with a large number of comments takes a really long time for the page to load. It's not an ISP speed problem, I have 100Mb/s Cable.
[18:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:I've noticed... - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:58] <exec> 08└─This will be changing soon. There is an update pretty much ready to roll out that significantly improves page load time. And by significantly, I mean massively.
[18:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Holy security patch onslaught, Batman! - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:01] <exec> 08└─270 critical updates? That makes Microsoft's Patch Tuesday seem tame in comparison. Were they stockpiling these for a special occasion?
[18:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Hear that fellow meatbags? - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:11] <exec> 08└─Nah. The AI will quickly figure out how to quell discontent by programming 51-weeks of football playoffs and weekly $starletOfTheDay nude leaks.
[18:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Hear that fellow meatbags? - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:12] <exec> 08└─You forget that the owners of the AIs are eventually going to decide they want some lebensraum, and look at the slums they created and wonder why they can't have that too.
[18:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─How is that any different from how humans behave?
[18:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Time for a PSA. - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:34] <exec> 08└─> "The optimal warning time is at least 10 to 15 seconds." On behalf of most people living in the USA: Fuck you! We all love having 130dB sirens blaring at any time of the day or night, because this kind of stupid statements is used in lawsuits when distracted assholes crash into extremely bright em...
[18:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02USB acess - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:56] <exec> 08└─I wonder if a wireless USB adaptor would fit the bill. Bridging the gap between local access and remote access. Any machine you can get physical access to can be compromised.
[18:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Already available, therefore useless - 06CIA Releases 13 Million Pages of Documents Online Including UFO and "Stargate" Related Material - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:44:14] <exec> 08└─Randi is a charlatan? You mean, the guy that goes around proving every other psychic he can get his hands on is a fake? Go and read his Wikipedia page for 5 whole seconds.
[18:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02scale - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:03] <exec> 08└─Squirrels topped the list with 879 "attacks" And Stuxnet took out 5,000 Iranian centrifuges. If we're going down the road of comparing apples to submarines, then, Stuxnet wins.
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[19:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score:2) 02Don't know if I'm typical - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:29] <exec> 08└─But this wouldn't get very far. They might get my phone number, which is annoying, but it stops there: I have no Facebook account. No social media = small attack surface.
[19:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Only a tiny bit surprising - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:38] <exec> 08└─Currently, SiriusXM is like this (Wikipedia link added by me): Vehicle-based emergency calls: automatic crash notification (ACN), advanced AACN, In-vehicle MayDay (ecall) button, stolen vehicle recovery. 24x7 call centers in Irving, Texas; Provo, Utah Two agents on emergency calls One interfacing d...
[19:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Only a tiny bit surprising - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:40] <exec> 08└─Normal SiriusXM radios can't, but they have a competitor product to OnStar, and that's what was used here.
[19:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:45] <exec> 08└─My plan was perfect. My Nissan Versa is actually climbing in value! I understand that the integrated systems mean that fuses can't be pulled. But Shirley there's an antenna wire somewhere which can be snipped.
[19:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:48] <exec> 08└─Cheap East European cars, or Chinese. Things like the Dacia are still relatively "electronic crap" free because they are aimed at the budget conscious buyer, who isn't looking for fancy stuff. Not sure if they are sold in the US though (assuming you are in the US). Failing that, stick to cars from t...
[19:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:50] <exec> 08└─> [...] no electric car has been built without all the electronic spyware. I disagree. http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[19:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:53] <exec> 08└─You build a ~~wall~~ cage around your car and move like this all the time.
[19:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:55] <exec> 08└─The nice thing about 1984 (did I really just write that?) is that Big Brother is actually open about what the government is doing. TV screens that broadcast two-way in your house. Giant banners with "Big Brother is watching!" everywhere. Orwell seemed to think that dystopia would be about government...
[19:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:57] <exec> 08└─I think I've already popped enough blood vessels over that standard reply... There is a very easy fix, just start asking people about their sex lives. Then point out that even if they don't directly talk about it the algorithms can track their behavior patterns and come up with scary accurate predic...
[19:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 1939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:59] <exec> 08└─I think everyone likes to trot out 1984. When this is a better analogy for what our world is turning into https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] We let them do it because we want the quick cool thing. This bit from the wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org
[19:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:01] <exec> 08└─From the Wiki > Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. > Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some > equivalent of the feelies, the orgy p...
[19:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02A nice feature of the Amazon Echo - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:04] <exec> 08└─OnStar should copy a feature of the Amazon Echo. Amazon Echo has a "privacy" button. (eg, Mic or Mute button) OnStar should have a similar feature. On the Amazon Echo, pressing this button alerts Amazon that you are about to discuss something especially interesting. OnStar should have this as well.
[19:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:18] <exec> 08└─Who wants to waste time hacking a site an active userbase with a few hundred?
[19:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the MySQL servers, if properly setup, aren't on any public IP.
[19:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy security patch onslaught, Batman! - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:30] <exec> 08└─270 critical updates? That makes Microsoft's Patch Tuesday seem tame in comparison. Were they stockpiling these for a special occasion?
[19:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Great job - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:32] <exec> 08└─I just wanted to say thank you for the great jobs you do in keeping the site running.
[19:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score:1) 02Re:Sigh - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:43:49] <exec> 08└─The only difference between this and us is scale. We're just the result of millions of years of nature training us to pass a lot of tests. The media and some people would have us believe that AI will soon be able to pass all the same tests we can, but I think it's much further out. But I'm not extre...
[19:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:Crying wolf? - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:06] <exec> 08└─If they end up training people to ignore those messages — or, even worse, to disable RDS on their radios and miss out on useful announcements too — then this could be highly counterproductive.
[19:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Repeat after me, without the swearing - 06Intel CPUs Can be Pwned Via USB Port and Debugging Interface - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:44:18] <exec> 08└─Actually, if you do have a bit more money, there are embedded solutions which will protect you even against physical access, while still fairly capable (mid-range ARM). They might be cracked by some Three-Letter Agencies (I didn't have the Clearance for that briefing, or wouldn't tell you if I did),...
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Work on the postgres support for Slash/SoyCode? - 06Massive Oracle Critical Patch Update Fixes 270 Vulnerabilities - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:03] <exec> 08└─It's a lack of time and motivation. To be honest, while I don't mind and even enjoy the IT managing of SN and occassionally writing articles, I haven't written any code for the codebase in months due to lack of desire. If I force myself, I'll burn out and disappear off the site for ages.
[19:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Obligatory - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:42] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new fluffy curly-tailed overlords.
[19:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Now what? - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:29] <exec> 08└─"We'll be really lucky if society doesn't look like Mad Max before Trump's first term is over." at least there would be justice.
[19:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02devastation - 06New Manufacturing Process Produces Longer Carbon Nanotubes - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─the world can't handle not choking the everything with plastic. wait until you can't even see the trash.
[19:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:40] <exec> 08└─I like the direction it's going. If you want to watch old movies then buy the DVDs at a walmart or gas station bargain bin. Amazon has a lot of older movies if you want to go legit digital. Of course i would prefer to watch old classics on netflix but i know that the movies studios kept jacking up t...
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[20:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Don't know if I'm typical - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:19] <exec> 08└─I have no Facebook account. No social media = small attack surface AHHH even better now they can create whatever they want and not have to bother to break in.
[20:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Wouldn't work against this soylentil - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:21] <exec> 08└─First, no FB account. Second, I'm paranoid and don't give out personal info easily. Third, why would I tell a friend any banking information past what bank I use?
[20:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Missing info - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:23] <exec> 08└─The headline and summary fail to mention that this happened in Australia, so may or may not be relevant to your own telco. Also, the fact that the victims were union officials was only relevant in that they worked for the telco in question (though not in any capacity that had anything to do with acc...
[20:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Whyy - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:25] <exec> 08└─who become new victims when they hand over their banking details
[20:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Suspicious much? - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just me, but if anyone I know starts asking me for my banking or other account info via any online medium, I assume their account or phone number has been compromised by a third party.
[20:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:43] <exec> 08└─Nice! Thanks for the link. Although I guess I should have said "modern electric cars". With its design, and only 40mph top speed, I don't think that would even be allowed on public roads here in Europe. Still, very nice. I guess if push comes to shove people can build/assemble their own cars, but th...
[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:45] <exec> 08└─Also helps that cars during that period were better built (designed to last, rather than be consumable fashion statements on wheels to be replaced every 3 years like modern ones). Wow, that's one hell of an idiotic statement. Cars these days last far longer than cars ever did in the 80s. They also p...
[20:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 2229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:47] <exec> 08└─> Wow, that's one hell of an idiotic statement. Cars these days last far longer than cars ever did in the 80s. Disagree completely. Look at an 80s Mercedes, compared to a post 2000's one. If you have taken one of them apart (I have taken apart both), the earlier model is far better built. Likewise f...
[20:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:49] <exec> 08└─Everything comes with Bluetooth and cellular. No, it doesn't. My 2015 Mazda3 has Bluetooth, but no cellular. Lots of other cars are like this these days; it's just the OnStar cars (and some others) that have cellular modems. On everything else, they just use Bluetooth, and rely on you to pair your p...
[20:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:53] <exec> 08└─And their following argument: "Pfft. China? Sure, in COMMIE CHINA maybe. That'd never happen here." Then I respond, "Riiight..." while adjusting the tinfoil.
[20:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:57] <exec> 08└─I find this puts it into perspective too https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] We look upon the past and think 'how did they do it without xyz'?! When the reality is they did not even care because they did not know about it. When what we did with the internet is take the very systems they built re-image...
[20:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oracle? - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:27] <exec> 08└─why not mariadb and Galera Cluster [galeracluster.com]?
[20:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02 - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:28] <exec> 08└─Kudos. Keep up the good work.
[20:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Yes, thank+you for for your background hard work - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:31] <exec> 08└─Your work in keeping the site going is very much appreciated.
[20:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:43:49] <exec> 08└─GAs training and selecting GAs? This makes very little sense to me. The evaluator of the 'parent' is presumably optimizing towards the same evaluation as the 'child' (and if not, then what is the point?) in which case you're not actually picking and choosing anything, but just exponentially increasi...
[20:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Article author is clueless - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:02] <exec> 08└─In fact, when this was posted to Slashdot a few days ago the title was less clickbaity.
[20:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Dupe - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:26] <exec> 08└─You don't boost a factory. You boost some tools and some skilled people. The people use the tools and the raw materials to make more tools, in a cascade that eventually results in your factory. You don't want to have to accelerate one gram more than absolutely necessary to escape velocity.
[20:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:''some people never left'' - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:57] <exec> 08└─A 2012 article says: Scientists found an increase in leg, antennae and wing shape mutations among butterflies collected following the 2011 Fukushima accident.
[20:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Publicity - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:01] <exec> 08└─I discovered Elena Filatova's documentary work some years ago. Tonight, I find references to her, but all the links seem to be dead. She even had her own website, with most of her work on it, but that seems to be gone.
[20:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:waaaaaay too long to read - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:11] <exec> 08└─The hypothesis is called "radiation hormesis"; the Wikipedia article on it mentions the term "radiation homeostasis" which I don't remember seeing anywhere else. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not the confusing part. - 06How a Robot Got Super Mario 64 and Portal “Running” on an SNES - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:33] <exec> 08└─The confusing part to us old-timers is wondering why anyone seriously bothers with Twitch. "What, me do stuff? No, I'll just watch a stream of someone else doing stuff, thanks. No, television would achieve the same purpose if anyone else were stupid enough to try and market that as mainstream progra...
[20:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Overvalued - 06Netflix Subscribers Soar in 2016 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:52] <exec> 08└─They don't care about you. They didn't care about me when I used to fly the Jolly Roger either.
[20:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Seriously? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:28] <exec> 08└─And if I'm not using any of the programs you mentioned? What if I'm not even running X at all at the moment? How would your 'solutions' (some of which I've used and found cumbersome and incomplete even with X) preserve my context when I have a dozen virtual terminals open and no X session?
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[21:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Either the product is good or it is NOT. - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:42] <exec> 08└─That is all that matters. Anyway, Oracle found that white males were paid a lot of money (why?), so it instead looked for a cheaper alternative: Asian males. Damned if you do; damned if you don't. Fuck ALL of you—right up your tight little asses.
[21:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Oh, I know this one. - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─From the article: At the same time, according to the complaint, Oracle was far more likely to hire Asian applicants - particularly Indian people - for product development and technical roles than black, white or Hispanic job seekers.
[21:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Either the product is good or it is NOT - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:46] <exec> 08└─That is all that matters. Anyway, Oracle found that white males were paid a lot of money (why?), so it instead looked for a cheaper alternative: Asian males. Damned if you do; damned if you don't. ------------ Fuck ALL of you—right up your tight little asses.
[21:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Well, either the product is good or it is NOT - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:48] <exec> 08└─That is all that matters. ------------ Basically, Oracle found that white males were paid a lot of money (why?), so it instead looked for a cheaper alternative: Asian males. So, I guess you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. (Guess what? You're not worth as much; you're just not.)
[21:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Oracle? Doing something Evil? Really? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:50] <exec> 08└─Isn't it in Oracle's corporate values or motto or something to be evil? Oh, yeah! Because who else would have even conceived of thinking that APIs could be copyright eligible material.
[21:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Evil? Probably - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:52] <exec> 08└─After all, Oracle is yet another tech company founded and run by a Jew; need one say more?
[21:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02I mean, either the product is good or it is NOT - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:54] <exec> 08└─That is all that matters that matters Why would skin color, or genitalia make a difference?! ========== Basically, Oracle found that white males were paid a lot of money (why?), so it instead looked for a cheaper alternative: Asian males. So, I guess you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
[21:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Tricked me once, here's how - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 1845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:04] <exec> 08└─My father is not computer savvy and is always asking me for help with trivial stuff like sending an email. He has a shaky grasp of the difference between composing a letter in a web browser that's visiting a web based email site, and composing a letter in a word processor. So one of the many times h...
[21:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't know if I'm typical - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:07] <exec> 08└─I also do not have FaceTwit and seem ineligible for this attack.
[21:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fourth: - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:10] <exec> 08└─I don't have a bank account to pilfer :) Works better if you have a cash based business and few bills requiring mail-in payments rather than once or twice a year in-person payments though!
[21:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02a million cuss words - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:15] <exec> 08└─The number can only be ported because of all of the masters of the universe without brains in their heads that will cuss and bitch and yell and cuss and cuss and cuss some more when they can't understand why they need to submit paperwork to port "their" number from their call center.
[21:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:3, Funny) 02At last! A silver lining in the stormclouds... - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:17] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, having nothing to lose is a form of freedom. I don't have a Facebook account, friends, bank account, credit cards, or money...so I have no fears about any of those things being taken away from me. Things are looking up! '-)
[21:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Not applicable to the USA - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 2446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:19] <exec> 08└─Phone porting laws in the USA are different. I deal with them on a more or less routine basis. In order for me to successfully port any Soylentils phone number (assuming you are in the USA), I will need: 1) A fully signed LOA, which is a specific document signed by the customer explicitly stating th...
[21:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Tracking cars for 15 years eh? - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:31] <exec> 08└─I didn't even read the link and I know you are talking about cell phones..... Yeah, it's funny to be up in arms about your car when the cell phone in your pocket is the PRIMARY surveillance tool.
[21:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:40] <exec> 08└─My favorite example of cars that cannot be worked on easily was my boss's truck. To replace the serpentine belt (or was it the timing belt?), you had to remove the entire engine. The gap between the engine and the compartment was an inch and the belt was an inch and a half. Suffice to say, the bill...
[21:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hop the turbine freight - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:42] <exec> 08└─Why not take a nice morning drive? [2112.net]
[21:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:A nice feature of the Amazon Echo - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:52] <exec> 08└─> Amazon Echo has a "privacy" button. (eg, Mic or Mute button) This would help if it was a hard cut off, but I suspect like everything else nowadays, it is just wired to a pin for a "soft mute" like those webcam "powered on" LEDs that you could disable in software. Just a false feeling of security t...
[21:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:A nice feature of the Amazon Echo - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:43:54] <exec> 08└─The actual security is false. But the feeling of security is genuine.
[21:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy security patch onslaught, Batman! - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:20] <exec> 08└─I don't think they need to program in back door access for the NSA. 270 updates / 3 months in a quarter = 90 updates a month. This means that with 45 separate pieces of software, there is one new critical update per product every two weeks, on average. People coding in back doors on purpose wouldn't...
[21:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:oracle? - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe because MariaDB will get those patches in 2 months after they manage to port them?
[21:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Just Thanks - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:27] <exec> 08└─Thank you NC and all of the Soylentnews.org staff. I visit several times a day and when I have time jump on IRC.
[21:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:48] <exec> 08└─The problem with algorithmic approaches, whether GA or others, is that they may make generational gains in efficiency or accuracy, but those gains have (historically) always tapered off and reached some asymptotitc limit. If there ever is an algorithm that continues to improve with each successive g...
[21:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Fear robots? - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:52] <exec> 08└─I have the solution: Step 1. Buy the robot that replaces you at your job Step 2. Collect its paycheck Step 3. Profit
[21:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fear robots? - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:55] <exec> 08└─Only the rich can do that. Poor people need to work as hard as possible so the investors can have yachts.
[21:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:22] <exec> 08└─I'm smashing my Eurasia banners as we speak. See you next hateweek.
[21:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:24] <exec> 08└─Notice how bears and wolves are conspicuously missing from the list. He's been paid off! Also missing are beavers and geese [reddit.com]. It would seem the full extent of the conspiracy is finally being revealed.
[21:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02voat.co - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─Error 1008 [...] Access denied I was under the impression that that site was like Facebook, requiring a signup to even -read- anything. N.B. Looking back, I don't know where I got that erroneous idea. I pull up the Linux page. I didn't have the slightest problem getting that. I will note that, by de...
[21:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are implying that an accident will happen and a city will be flattened. Yeah, I doubt that. But that's why you have the Moon and other places to put your first redirected asteroids. Landing an asteroid in the desert is probably going to have less environmental impact than strip mining. But...
[21:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''I am not an expert'' - 06The Scientific Hero of Chernobyl: Alexey V. Yablokov, the Man Who Dared to Speak the Truth - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, that couldn't be more obvious. the source matters The guy who wrote the article, *is* an expert in this field. He has the education, credentials, experience, and specific knowledge to comment on Chernobyl. As for your red-herring comparison to Breitbart, I find that Fairness and Accuracy In Repo...
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[22:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Is the product good or not? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:23] <exec> 08└─That is all that matters. Why would skin color or genitalia make a difference?! Basically, Oracle found that white males are paid a lot of money (why?), so it instead looked for a cheaper alternative: Asian males. So, I guess you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
[22:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Suit dropped - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:25] <exec> 08└─I think it's safe to assume this lawsuit will be dropped in the next day or two.
[22:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02subject - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:27] <exec> 08└─Why is it okay to discriminate to only hire minorities but not to not hire them? Why can universities have invisible quotas they don't have that keep white kids from getting in, but they can't do it to minorities. #onlywhitesareracist
[22:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:subject - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:29] <exec> 08└─Yes it is a less than perfect solution to a problem but don't confuse affirmative action stuff with racism. Perhaps if the people who don't like such programs would be more open to helping out the less fortunate communities then we could do away with such stupid programs that give weight to race. Ma...
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:subject - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:32] <exec> 08└─Why is it okay to discriminate to only hire minorities but not to not hire them? It's not. That's why they are being sued for: unlawfully favored Asian applicants in its recruiting and hiring efforts. Did you even read the summary before firing off that tired talking point?
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02[META] Is the product good or not? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the overlords of this website twiddle bits with their special powers. There is no way that that my comment could keep receiving "downvotes" so consistently without the meddling of a webmaster.
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:[META] Is the product good or not? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─So you're a real person huh? Hmmm, well maybe realize that your approach is that of a spammy troll and people such as myself log in just to downvote it to keep it from derailing / debasing the conversation.
[22:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Offtopic ban of IPs - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:38] <exec> 08└─Can we ban IPs that are obviously spam bots? Thankfully the community has downmodded the spam trash, but the slightly altered format of the same content 3-5 times should get a ban or temp ban at least.
[22:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02[META] Um... Is the product good or not? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:40] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the overlords of this website twiddle bits with their special powers.There is no way that my comment could keep receiving "downvotes" so consistently without the meddling of a webmaster.
[22:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:At last! A silver lining in the stormclouds... - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:58] <exec> 08└─I am working on eliminating all my debt, and I am incredibly hesitant to try home ownership. The freedom of having fewer attachments is wonderful!
[22:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:23] <exec> 08└─Disagree completely. Look at an 80s Mercedes, compared to a post 2000's one. If you have taken one of them apart (I have taken apart both), the earlier model is far better built. Likewise for BMWs and Porsche's of the era. I guess if you buy a shit car in the 80s it won't last long, but then, if you...
[22:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no, I mean a new car that doesn't suck - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:25] <exec> 08└─East European stuff got laughed out of the US market with the Yugo. Perhaps a few parts might be sourced from East Europe, but we don't get East Europe brands at all. The closest is Germany. The same goes for China; the closest is South Korea. Anyway, the point of buying a car is because my old one...
[22:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:28] <exec> 08└─My suggestion is to buy a aftermarket stereo to install in your new car. It's my understanding that bluetooth, cellular, GPS, XM Radio, etc (I.e. everything you might be worried about except on-star) are all built in to the stereo, so replacing it with an aftermarket system should be a good option....
[22:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:34] <exec> 08└─Hell we started it with the all powerful CREDIT SCORE!
[22:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:43:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, obviously Brave New World has interesting comparisons with today's world too, especially the apathy which I invoked in my post. So thanks for the connection. But a primary focus of 1984 is the surveillance state, while that's less of a focus in Brave New World. (The whole world of Brave New Wor...
[22:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:58] <exec> 08└─Ours aren't, but if someone manages to get a non-root shell on one of our machines, I don't want them to be able to break into the database. For logistical reasons, there are several machines on our network that can access the mysqld endpoints for backup and maintenance reasons. If someone scored ac...
[22:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:This is the last straw - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:02] <exec> 08└─Was all him. I was getting ready to go fishing and pj sounded like he was otherwise busy too.
[22:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:oracle? - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:14] <exec> 08└─While I know that Maria is essentially compatible with MySQL (since it's a fork), if we're going to make serious efforts to change database engines, it will be to PostgreSQL with a cluster solution. One major advantage over cluster vs mariadb is that the entire thing sits in memory, and actually let...
[22:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:oracle? - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:15] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say because of the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". There was something specific that kept us from going mariadb originally, some feature the code used that mariadb did not have at that time. Now though, because it's an epic pain to swap dbs around...
[22:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm out - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:21] <exec> 08└─I need 6 nines of availability on my websites. This is shoddy and disgusting. Worst ever. You're FIRED. I'm going back to the other place.
[22:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm out - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:23] <exec> 08└─9 9 9 9 9 9 There you go. Let me know if you need any more. I got lots.
[22:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hyperparam tuning - 06AI Software Learns to Make AI Software - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:48] <exec> 08└─Isnt this basically what caret does? https://topepo.github.io [github.io]
[22:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Article author is clueless - 06Ambulances to Jam Car Radios in Sweden - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:59] <exec> 08└─Do they expect people to pick up FM stations with their fillings or something?
[22:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:What if these were trained animals? - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:20] <exec> 08└─Training indeed. [youtube.com] It's nuts, I tell you.
[22:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:trucks with bad brakes - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:33] <exec> 08└─I bet the Russians are hacking the DMV by putting in subtly insufficient signage [youtube.com].
[22:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02You're either with us, - 06Squirrel 'Threat' to Critical Infrastructure - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:44] <exec> 08└─or you're with the squirrels. They hate r freedoms.
[22:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Hillary [...] her leadership skills'' - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:05] <exec> 08└─no one has seen her or her leadership skills lately I can't say that I've missed her. (Making an effort to not consume Lamestream Media, I didn't catch much of her swill for the last year either.) Meanwhile, in the November election, Reds took seats in the national gov't and in state houses. Folks w...
[22:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:zazzle.com and Facebook - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:19] <exec> 08└─I know, right?
[22:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:How much? - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:22] <exec> 08└─...so the book value is $10,000 quadrillion. I see a bubble waiting to inflate. Later, after the market price collapse, regulators will require company reports to restate value in line with then current market value. Investors will lose billions, but the founders will remain rich, lauded as visionar...
[22:52:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02Re:I'm desperate - 06Turkey's Ruling Party Extends Powers With Constitutional Bill - 989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:22] <exec> 08└─One thing I've observed is that a lot of people are followers, and feel the need to find a group to fit into, and then they become happy foot-soldiers for that group, parroting its propaganda and philosophy and ardently defending it. It's not just the hard-right of today, you see this across history...
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[23:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score:1) 02Re:[META] Is the product good or not? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─Couldn't it? [checks remaining mod points ...] Idiot.
[23:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:[META] Is the product good or not? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:32] <exec> 08└─And it was all worth it for the real chuckles you just gave me.
[23:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Offtopic ban of IPs - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:36] <exec> 08└─I'll save my mod points just for you ;) If you get downvoted then you should re-think your approach. All you did was spam the same stuff with slightly altered format. Either the product is good or it is NOT. (Score:-1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20, @08:58PM (#456701) That is all t...
[23:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02[META] Hmmm... Is the product good or not? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─Clearly, the overlords of this website twiddle bits with their special powers; there is no way that my comment could keep receiving "downvotes" so consistently without the meddling of a webmaster.
[23:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_bad_influence [3854] (Score:2, Funny) 02who is ORACLE? - 06U.S. Sues Oracle, Alleges Salary and Hiring Discrimination - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:42] <exec> 08└─hundreds of millions of dollars it receives as a contractor with the federal government
[23:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:At last! A silver lining in the stormclouds... - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:02] <exec> 08└─You owe the bank money, it is debt. Hopefully if the bottom falls out you can then sell it and break even, but if a recession hits or you can't short sell the house in time or for enough money then you owe the bank. It is a gamble with your down payment and a long term debt game where you pay a lot...
[23:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Not applicable to the USA - 06Telco Union Officials Lured Into Identity Fraud Scam - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:05] <exec> 08└─I have had people complain about how many steps it took to port their phone number. "Well would you want it to be so easy that anyone could steal your number?" That usually shuts them up.
[23:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:need up-to-date info for disabling - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:30] <exec> 08└─Agreed, look for a low mileage Toyota or Honda that has all its service stamps. Look after that car and it will do 250, possibly 500k miles. My GT4 is coming up for 150k miles and still pulls as strong as ever. I spend on average about £500 a year on maintenance, but I like to go for a full service...
[23:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:41] <exec> 08└─Are you saying Eric Bristow's Darts was not a classic? How DARE you, sir!
[23:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Brother - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:42] <exec> 08└─i doubt huxley cared. he was probably just using insider knowledge(his brother or somebody was working on the shit he put in his book) to make a buck/get notoriety. maybe make himself feel better about his family being involved in the domestication of the human animal.
[23:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Free market! - 06Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, to Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:48] <exec> 08└─We just need to find a bored billionaire who cares about privacy! Let's find one and bankroll the various open computing efforts, along with building fully featured yet security conscious vehicles. Hardwired switches for everything whoooo.
[23:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:59] <exec> 08└─Hey! I like, post every couple of months and shit. sometimes. I moderate too... when I get time. STOP JUDGING ME!
[23:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Emergency Site Maintenance Complete - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:07] <exec> 08└─Can't believe I didn't think of that kinda obvious case.
[23:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02Artistic Details (aka favicon) - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:15] <exec> 08└─Soylent News is one of the sites that's always open on my browser. So is Schneier.com. Notice how remarkably alike their favicons are when seen on the tabs? Schneier's [schneier.com] (I guess it's reasonable to restrict images in comments.) Soylent's: Can't find a direct link---you'll have to look u...
[23:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the site could use a better logo'' - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:16] <exec> 08└─Makes no difference to me. The only thing that I have unblocked here which isn't readable text is the subscriber's star. N.B. If that feature was done properly, I'd see a text representation of that (alt-text) and I wouldn't need to bother with that config change. Now, if we had a name like "Mozilla...
[23:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''pj and NC have been extremely busy with life'' - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's just plain dumb luck, but I've noticed that no journal-entry spam has made it to the front page for quite a while. Whether that is because paulej72 caught up on his to-do list [soylentnews.org] or otherwise, we're doing good there. Now, there was a recent newbie who hadn't/hasn't particip...
[23:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh, and... - 06Leverage What You Know or Learn Something New -- Support SoylentNews! - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:29] <exec> 08└─There were several obvious spam items in the queue in recent days (after a long spell without any). Those disappeared quickly, so we're doing better there as well. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02shoot on sight - 06$460 Million Committed to Fight MERS, Lassa Fever, and Nipah Virus - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:55] <exec> 08└─i hope their cars get rpg'd.
[23:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morons - 06NASA Asteroid Mission -- Metals "Worth" Ten Thousand Quadrillion Dollars - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:11] <exec> 08└─SHINY SHINY SHINY Can haz metlz cheep?
[23:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Why not systemd init system? - 06AntiX 16.1 Linux OS is Based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 - Without Systemd - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:51:36] <exec> 08└─Suspend-to-disk is not only for laptops.
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