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[03:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TAILS 2.11: The Last Release to Support the I2P Anonymizing Network - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:17] <exec> 08└─If you permanently seed Tails on your Torrent server, like I do, remember to delete the old version immediately and start seeding this one.
[03:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:32] <exec> 08└─Give us the budget, and guarantee it wont get cut later on, and we will.
[03:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:34] <exec> 08└─Being human pretty much means adventure. Or, drama, for the more timid. What good is science alone? Put people on Mars, that's what most of us want. Who really gives a crap what sort of chemical reactions might take place on Mars, that don't happen here, UNLESS we can put it to use somehow? Putting...
[03:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:36] <exec> 08└─These morons deny climate change, deny evolution, deny any science that contradicts their bible. They are scientific idiots with no clue. On the other hand, NASA is a bureaucratic hide bound cesspit that is terrified of risk. Not sure where I fall on this.
[03:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:38] <exec> 08└─No guarantees, sorry. Politics, you know. If the other party takes power, they might defund it all and put the money into ethnic diversity studies.
[03:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:40] <exec> 08└─If some bonehead has enough money to get himself to Mars and wants to risk his life by doing so, whatever. If the government wants to send employees to Mars, at great expense and at great risk to its employees' lives, it should only do so after first trying to find less risky alternatives and conduc...
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[03:25:16] <exec> 08└─I believe the numbers too. But I wish there was a link to the actual report. It seems like it is only available to paying customers of the Deutsche Bank. Here's confirmation though: http://reneweconomy.com.au [reneweconomy.com...
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[03:25:17] <exec> 08└─> I can't answer that, except by saying that he's made it THIS far... The question is, as with all successful people, is how much of that is luck and how much of that is skill. You get enough people making bets, somebody's going to win.
[03:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:19] <exec> 08└─And at the end of the day if it fails, not one single engineer has his name in the newspaper. It's egg on Elon's face, not the engineers.
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[03:25:22] <exec> 08└─> You mean the guy who has kicked the stock market up 15% No, not "the stock market" - certain market indexes weighted with specific companies like Goldman Sachs which is single-handedly responsible [fortune.com] for 21% of the DJIA increase since the election. Surely that has nothing to do with all...
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[03:25:24] <exec> 08└─At the end of the day though, he fucked over union workers in Northern California and brought in Eastern European wage slaves to do it for cheaper. I'd prefer a CEO that puts humanity first, then his dreams, ambitions, and profit second. I, like you, believe we are better off for the Elon Musks in t...
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[03:25:26] <exec> 08└─When exactly did it become wrong to try to make things happen?
[03:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:28] <exec> 08└─Then why is the electricity in Germany, with lots of renewables, so expensive? Average cost to consumers is 32 cents / kWh (US).
[03:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:31] <exec> 08└─Those engineers will be out of a job, with mortgages and college tuitions to pay.
[03:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, this happens every day, all around the world. Seriously, it really does. I've seen that kind of thing in construction, transportation, and manufacturing. I suppose it also happens in retail, and any other major industry. In our own plant, our talking head bragged to Corporate that we can m...
[03:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:35] <exec> 08└─Actually - the illegal aliens have been cut by a lot more than 40%. Every article I've read indicates that the numbers of border hoppers has INCREASED every year at this time. Border hopping has NOT increased this year, instead, decreasing. Let's wait until the end of the year, and compare the annua...
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[03:27:43] <exec> 08└─SystemD
[03:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Congress is Trying to Roll Back Internet Privacy Protections [UPDATED] - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:19] <exec> 08└─Everybody wants to be loved. Those dipshits voted for someone they thought would love them.
[03:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Congress is Trying to Roll Back Internet Privacy Protections [UPDATED] - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:20] <exec> 08└─"Not that I'm surprised--most of our Republican politicians these days are big assholes." There FTFY. That list is HHHUUUUGGGGGGEEEEEEE
[03:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Congress is Trying to Roll Back Internet Privacy Protections [UPDATED] - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:23] <exec> 08└─Last time I contacted my senator over something I cared about, I got a form letter back reassuring me whatever their position, will be in the public's best interests. Translates to they will vote right with whoever owns them. These days that will be the most evil mega corporations on earth.
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[03:29:25] <exec> 08└─I was no fan of hillary either but I've watched Trump for the last 40 years and know for a fact that man is completely bat-shit-crazy. Why the fuck would anyone with an IQ > 10 vote for satan in the flesh? Hell, just google the song "trump the monster ego" for an example. Google "Trump + bankruptcie...
[03:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Funding of Basic Science Falls Below 50% - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:36] <exec> 08└─Why do you want to gut the people's programs, and narrow our funding options down to only private corporations?
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[03:32:26] <exec> 08└─That might be a first. Desmond Tutu, moderated as a troll.
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[04:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Close Its Social Network On a Week's Notice – and Six People Complain - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:16] <exec> 08└─LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO I'm looking forward to the day when I can ask, "How is Microsoft relevant?" And, no one can come up with a satisfactory answer. Oh, wait - TODAY IS THE DAY!!
[04:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 2388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:43] <exec> 08└─We should only care about sending people there if we can create a self-sustaining permanent habitat there, with no resupply required. Send some robots in advance to build a habitat, sure. Mars isn't as interesting of a target as Europa or other solar system objects with interior liquid oceans. If we...
[04:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:45] <exec> 08└─"If the government wants to send e̶m̶p̶l̶o̶y̶e̶e̶s̶ VOLUNTEERS to Mars," FTFY I say that it is perfectly ethical for government to enable it's citizens to attain their dreams. This is not the CoDominium, and NASA isn't the Bureau of Relocation, and there is no Bureau of Population. We aren...
[04:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:47] <exec> 08└─I think we can do it without them dying immediately. That's not to say that we shouldn't send people to "die on Mars". We should send people with the expectation that they will probably eventually die. But if we do want people to live on Mars permanently or indefinitely, we should create a self-sust...
[04:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:49] <exec> 08└─Well, first thing - the robots won't get it right. People will have to make it right, no matter how much work the robots do in advance. Interesting? Any new land is interesting. If you don't have an interest in Mars, then you can wait for the first ship to Europa. But - be warned. The first ship to...
[04:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:51] <exec> 08└─Near? Waddyamean near? Either you take all the stuff for landing, or you go spin around the moon for 18 months. What's the point of taking humans near Mars and not land? Take selfies while basking in radiation for nothing?
[04:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Releases the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: 11.3 TFLOPS of FP32 Performance - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:59] <exec> 08└─Thug niggas.
[04:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:40] <exec> 08└─See my response to Charon, above, please. People in all industries do the same thing. Other corporations in other industries are far less visible than Musk, and his endeavors. No one notices when a plant in Iowa, or Maine, or even Los Angeles folds, due to a CEO's crap decisions. It's just another f...
[04:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:41] <exec> 08└─the CEO is bouncing around tweeting wild-ass ideas and promising the moon
[04:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results: Potatoes Could Grow in Mars Conditions - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:40] <exec> 08└─Dig a trench. Water and atmosphere will pool if it's deep enough.
[04:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results: Potatoes Could Grow in Mars Conditions - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:42] <exec> 08└─Soon we'll need an interplanetary potato center.
[04:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results: Potatoes Could Grow in Mars Conditions - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:44] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is we need to send Irishmen to Mars?
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[04:27:54] <exec> 08└─Well, in the long run, you might save money because you won't be completely dependent upon your proprietary overlords. And it's not just about cost; freedom is the largest reason to switch.
[04:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:56] <exec> 08└─Mint Debian edition is really good. Debian has had plenty good driver support for ages. I tried elementary OS, It's nice but not as polished as mint, and you'll need to configure some settings using config files. Try to stick with popular hardware, especially graphics cards and read a few reviews be...
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[05:24:41] <exec> 08└─NASA is a bureaucratic hide bound cesspit that is terrified of risk.
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[05:25:30] <exec> 08└─> I'm saying the batteries were not just spoken for, but in the case of the ones for the cars, already purchased by the end user. Or maybe Elon already knows that the Model 3 production date is slipping and he's going to have a sh**load of batteries sitting around waiting for cars to be completed. I...
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[05:25:32] <exec> 08└─Yet another disingenuous restatement. We aren't just talking about one specific gamble. We are talking about Tesla as a going concern. See n1's post up thread about fintech, etc.
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[05:26:02] <exec> 08└─It logs into your smart TV to see and hear if a human is operating the computer. :D
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[06:29:23] <exec> 08└─Your candidate lost against the most unpopular candidate of all time. If you have anyone to thank, it should be yourselves for nominating such a terrible candidate. And if your party really cared about "the spoiler effect", then maybe they should get behind some sort of voting system that doesn't de...
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[06:29:25] <exec> 08└─That was a valid issue IMO. It was a good reason for the Dems to pull Hillary out of the race and push Bernie instead. If they had done that, they would have won.
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[06:29:27] <exec> 08└─Both parties are this bad. The Democrats are just as corrupt, but they just do a better job of hiding it. Then people get sick of getting screwed over by one party for 5-10 years, so some small number (in fact, all it takes is a tiny fraction in a first-past-the-post voting system) decide they'd rat...
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[06:31:40] <exec> 08└─And you think that knowledge of relativity is somehow used for that purpose?
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[07:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Degrees of Peace in Military Alliance Networks - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:39] <exec> 08└─Nobody know world peace could be so complicated!
[07:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Degrees of Peace in Military Alliance Networks - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:40] <exec> 08└─No, world peace is simple. But unfortunately it is impossible to achieve. The complicated thing is to achieve and maintain a good enough approximation of it.
[07:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Close Its Social Network On a Week's Notice – and Six People Complain - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:49] <exec> 08└─So far, all we know is that Runaway1996 was not one of the six people to complain. We await reports from our reporters who are reporting from the scene of the reported event. There are rumors that someone spotted "Clippy", but Clippy has been presumed dead for almost two decades. Allegedly, he was h...
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[07:24:51] <exec> 08└─Microsoft makes Microsoft Natural Ergonomic bla keyboards. I consider myself a principled man, and I hate Microsoft out of principle, but I have to say the keyboard is great and I love it. Honestly. I guess apple is better at being more famous for their hardware though.
[07:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:14] <exec> 08└─Imagine being a front line employee of a company where the CEO is bouncing around tweeting wild-ass ideas and promising the moon -- and you're the guy who has to fulfill the promises... So long as it's rockets and not flashy GUIs it sounds like my dream job!
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[07:26:15] <exec> 08└─The current conservative government are completely ineffectual and completely impotent. Serious issues are made into political footballs by both sides. We need to eliminate the politics. Elon should just fuck off. If he understood anything, he would know 100% of this problem is caused by politicians...
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[07:27:44] <exec> 08└─I just look at this, and think how much time, effort and money has been wasted on both sides, Microsoft isn't wasting money here; they're doing these things because it makes them more money. It's the other side that's wasting their time and money, when, as you astutely point out, they could simply c...
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[07:27:45] <exec> 08└─> Microsoft isn't wasting money here; they're doing these things because it makes them more money. While I agree with your point, I suspect that right now, it isn't making Microsoft money either. I believe they are doing it in order to make money in future. They are looking forward to a time when th...
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[07:28:32] <exec> 08└─I always try to do mine by hand, too. But then mine are simple. Old retired guy. Not much income. And I try my damndest not to rock the boat by messing with buying and selling stocks, real estate, or other reportable economic activities.
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[07:29:35] <exec> 08└─No, it's "Lawyer lawyer, pants on fire"
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[08:24:18] <exec> 08└─Trump should know that the bankers won't regulate themselves. FFS, he saw the same meltdown that we all saw in 2008!
[08:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Close Its Social Network On a Week's Notice – and Six People Complain - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:41] <exec> 08└─Have to agree, I have one of those Microsoft "Natural Keyboard Elite" ergonomic keyboards. It almost 17 years old and still works great. Only MS product I've ever loved. And it works great with Linux :D
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[08:25:14] <exec> 08└─it should only do so after first trying to find less risky alternatives and conducting a careful cost-benefit analysis of the alternatives. It's not ethical for society to pay people to needlessly risk their own lives.
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[08:30:01] <exec> 08└─You had that chance just a few months ago. The people voted, and they voted overwhelmingly for Republicans, especially for Congressional positions.
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[09:24:17] <exec> 08└─Dafuq did I just read?
[09:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demose [6067] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:19] <exec> 08└─You read the position of the devils advocate.
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[09:24:21] <exec> 08└─It's not a "serious suggestion" published in a new paper, it is fancy speculation published by serious astrophysicist that were bored and had nothing else to publish. No evidences, no data to prove true or false. There is no falsifiability, there is no science, just entertainment.
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[09:24:30] <exec> 08└─> The MPG requirements on American auto makers? The fuel efficient cars are available, but no one wants them. Left and right alike, buyers demand the gas guzzlers. Then the price of gas should include a significant portion of the Pentagon's budget, to reflect the actual costs of having cheap gas to...
[09:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Close Its Social Network On a Week's Notice – and Six People Complain - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZUloUdFtSM [youtube.com]
[09:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:21] <exec> 08└─...He has a lot of ideas. ... I don't see how that makes the world a WORSE place. And there's a chance it could make it a better one.
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[10:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:12] <exec> 08└─If you want to falsify it, come up with a better theory to explain FRBs.
[10:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:14] <exec> 08└─Whatever deviates from your experience of the macroscopic world is weird, and of course one should raise the antennas when that happens. But it is stupid to model things outside the macroscopic scale. Quantum effects are weird? nope, apparently entangled particles react to observation, it is just li...
[10:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:16] <exec> 08└─Popular science. Anyway this would be a new hypothesis, not a new theory.
[10:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:18] <exec> 08└─If you want to disprove the giant invisible space goat, you need to come up with a better theory. Seriously thats fucked up. Science doesn't work that way. The default is not "believe my bullshit or prove it wrong". It's "I don't believe you until you prove it might be right".
[10:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Close Its Social Network On a Week's Notice – and Six People Complain - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:50] <exec> 08└─I guess apple is better at being more famous for their hardware though.
[10:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TAILS 2.11: The Last Release to Support the I2P Anonymizing Network - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:58] <exec> 08└─These periodic Tails posts are a soothing reminder that the world keeps on turning.
[10:25:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:44] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you've achieved much more than he has. You see a man with balls and all you can say is he has a big mouth. Where's your electric car, your re-usable rocket, your solar energy company and your payment service? He may be right. He may be spectacularly wrong. But he's much better than those wh...
[10:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:18] <exec> 08└─Every article I've read indicates that the numbers of border hoppers has INCREASED every year at this time You REALLY should give up on Breitbart. Mexico-US illegal migration has been at zero for 8 years, and other eye-opening facts [boingboing.net] Illegal migration ended eight years ago and has be...
[10:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results: Potatoes Could Grow in Mars Conditions - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:22] <exec> 08└─I hadn't considered that. Very true.
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[11:24:18] <exec> 08└─"Criminal gangs"... Is that what we're calling governments and government spying agencies now?
[11:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:32] <exec> 08└─Wrong. FRBs are observed, and someone came up with a hypothesis to explain it. Nobody said you have to believe the hypothesis, but if you can't falsify it or offer a better alternative, your objection is meaningless.
[11:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:34] <exec> 08└─Huh? Aside from a very interesting observed phenomenon there are no facts here, just speculation. Nobody is proving shit, ease up. This is something fun to discuss, and it's all meaningless.
[11:28:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 694 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:23] <exec> 08└─I was using a windows laptop the other day, while farming with my John Deere tractor: things started to go all "Twister" on me when they tried out-licence each other for ownership of the space/time i was occupying. It was getting all weird and scarey and then out of the blue: "Penguin!" "Another pen...
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[11:28:52] <exec> 08└─1. Install necessary security/performance patches like on any OS. 2. Run a quick and dirty cmd script from Git Hub to uninstall sneaky telemetry bs if necessary. 3. ??? 4. Profit!
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[12:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:26] <exec> 08└─Food is at the root of all serious criminality. Recent research shows that 99% of criminals had eaten food within 24 hours of their crime. The energy generated by eating food helps criminals commit more damaging crimes than the more sedentary traditional activities of money laundering and trade in i...
[12:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:27] <exec> 08└─I like that, legit corp, as if less organised crime needed to aspire to the true world mafioso.
[12:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:43] <exec> 08└─Burden of proof does not rest with us.
[12:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:45] <exec> 08└─There is evidence of something (radio pulses), and seeing how they've published a paper about it (can't be arsed to read it), you'd think they have some mathematical model of how said hypothesised propulsion system works and have proven that their model is consistent with the observations. Under tho...
[12:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft to Close Its Social Network On a Week's Notice – and Six People Complain - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:19] <exec> 08└─Google+ . They didn't make the top 22 list either.
[12:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Releases the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: 11.3 TFLOPS of FP32 Performance - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:01] <exec> 08└─As a bit of a gray-going-on-white beard, and having followed the computer industry since the early 1970's I'm curious how this graphics card's performance compares to a Cray-1. I'm very much short on time so can't look it up myself; I would appreciate it if someone could check the TOP-500 web site a...
[12:27:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06Google's ReCAPTCHA Turns “Invisible,” Will Separate Bots From People Without Challenges - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:04] <exec> 08└─reCaptcha was always one of the very few things on the 'net that worked flawlessly, without any errors, and which actually enhanced my whole browsing experience. What next? Will they also get rid of Disqus?
[12:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's ReCAPTCHA Turns “Invisible,” Will Separate Bots From People Without Challenges - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:19] <exec> 08└─How do you know that you're not a bot? Terrible way to find out about it though.
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[13:24:27] <exec> 08└─> Second, turn on two-factor authentication where you can, like Google's 2-Step Verification. This adds another step besides just entering a password, such as having to type in a one-time code that's sent to your mobile phone. Actually, no. Don’t. Linking your online activity to your mobile phone...
[13:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:43] <exec> 08└─When the technology of blades was invented, criminals used that to threaten and/or kill people. Same with the invention of guns, or any other technology that can be used to kill. When the technology of door locks was invented and applied, criminals used the technology of lock picking to get around i...
[13:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:45] <exec> 08└─Yeap, in spite of keen efforts, the private entrepreneurship and initiative in organized crime is collapsing under the pressure of govt and spy agencies. Even the last vestigial remainings aren't underground any more, claimed by big corporations and banksters. Clearly - the world is no longer what i...
[13:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:47] <exec> 08└─Take a while to consoder just how much technology is needed to... ...produce modern weave fabrics ...extract linnen/hemp (retting is recommended as the weekend 'what shall I learn now?') ...make the soles for modern shoes ...build a road foundation ...make consitent concrete ...make steel ...produce...
[13:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:05] <exec> 08└─Did they make any new predictions based on their model? If it doesn't produce predictions, it's not a theory.
[13:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:07] <exec> 08└─But it is stupid to model things outside the macroscopic scale.
[13:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:09] <exec> 08└─With no good theory to go by, Loeb and Lingam wondered if extraterrestrials might be involved—and not without good reason.
[13:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:11] <exec> 08└─Is he married to Yoni?
[13:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:13] <exec> 08└─The article was "published" on arxiv.org. Arxiv.org provides a valuable service to the community. It does not provide peer review. Moreover: the authors take the "artificial origin of FRBs" as a hypothesis and investigate if it would make sense from a physics point of view: could FRBs originate from...
[13:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indiegogo Ends Campaign for Sinclair Spectrum ZX Hand-Held - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:29] <exec> 08└─I've read the article. Seems like the company wasn't able to deliver on time and hardly communicated with backers. When Auntie Beeb contacted them, they got a response from a legal firm demanding to see any coverage at least 48hrs in advance. From the updates page it looks like the company is gettin...
[13:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Degrees of Peace in Military Alliance Networks - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:38] <exec> 08└─Military alliance: That thing letting the most insignificant casus belli blow up the planet. The one thing characterizing all the kingdoms of satan is the constant infighting and instability. Nations and politics are like that, the mafia is like that, the corporate world is like that, and the secret...
[13:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Degrees of Peace in Military Alliance Networks - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:40] <exec> 08└─> impossible to achieve Not really. But I think you don't want to see what a meatbag imposed world peace looks like.
[13:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:29] <exec> 08└─Putting it to use means, we have to have people up there.
[13:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:25] <exec> 08└─Because of the way the system has set up, the consumer prices go up when the market prices go down. The way this works is as follows: The government gave guarantees for the prices you get for renewable electricity, based on what it cost to produce back then (it wasn't yet competitive on its own). Th...
[13:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's ReCAPTCHA Turns “Invisible,” Will Separate Bots From People Without Challenges - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:58] <exec> 08└─The meatbags' turing test is easy, just one question. Q. do you fap?
[13:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:48] <exec> 08└─c'mon, that is rank sophistry, and you know better... YOUR pwecious this or that which is NOT sequestered from your attention via some nefarious kapitalist pig scheme is not someone else's this or that... conversely, were it to be your ox being gored, i imagine you would be squealing... on this part...
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[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─Food is at the root of all serious criminality. Recent research shows that 99% of criminals had eaten food within 24 hours of their crime. The energy generated by eating food helps criminals commit more damaging crimes than the more sedentary traditional activities of money laundering and trade in i...
[14:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:45] <exec> 08└─Coffee is now at the "root" of all serious criminality, says Europe's police agency. A Europol study shows that almost all major crime is preceded by one or more of the perpetrators drinking coffee on the day of the crime or in the days leading up to it. [...] The "comprehensive" study of organised...
[14:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 1907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:08] <exec> 08└─The first problem with this is that they are bursts milliseconds long, not sustained beaming of power. While it's possible to have some sort of thrust from that, it doesn't make sense from the point of view of accelerating objects of any significant thickness, both due to very difference acceleratio...
[14:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:10] <exec> 08└─The article was "published" on arxiv.org. Arxiv.org provides a valuable service to the community. It does not provide peer review.
[14:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─concentrated energy burst to open a hole in the fabric of space = wormhole instead of propulsion
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─Then the price of gas should include a significant portion of the Pentagon's budget, to reflect the actual costs of having cheap gas to waste in ridiculous oversized monstrosities.
[14:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:25] <exec> 08└─Banking regulations, though, should stay in place. Trump should know that the bankers won't regulate themselves. FFS, he saw the same meltdown that we all saw in 2008!
[14:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Releases the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: 11.3 TFLOPS of FP32 Performance - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:39] <exec> 08└─the FP64 is gimped on these devices (1/32). They do make the P100(?) which is 1/2, like all other major chips. https://www.top500.org [top500.org] There y'go, 1.41 Gflops. This card is perhaps 300Gflops (DP), so 2 orders of magnitude...;-) What is more impressive is the power (250W?)....
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[14:27:28] <exec> 08└─Border hopping has NOT increased this year, instead, decreasing.
[14:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─Why is the electricity in New York, with so much nuclear and coal and natural gas, so expensive at 35 cents/kwh?
[14:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:32] <exec> 08└─At the end of the day though, he fucked over union workers in Northern California and brought in Eastern European wage slaves to do it for cheaper.
[14:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Preliminary Results: Potatoes Could Grow in Mars Conditions - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:39] <exec> 08└─no, just pack them in cubesats... i hear you can grow potatoes there...
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[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─You know, the ones who buy laws to make their own evil bullshit legal.
[15:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:17] <exec> 08└─You are obviously not a scientist. The answer is never "little green men" or "magic" or "god" unless you can show evidence of "little green men" or "magic" or "god". The best possible answer until you can show some evidence of otherwise is "we don't know".
[15:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:28] <exec> 08└─I'd be more than happy to buy a low-MPG car when automakers decide to build an affordable electric/hybrid car that doesn't look like a faggotmobile.
[15:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:29] <exec> 08└─"exponentially bigger damage that heavier vehicles cause." Actually - that exponent may be smaller than you think. It's the pounds per square inch of tire tread that does the damage. But, I'll go along with the added fuel tax. People who can't afford an additional $1000 per year in taxes will go to...
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[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─I2PD [github.com] is definitely picking up pace and is both more effective and easier to deploy.
[15:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─and as charon said, it's not elon that has to deliver these things, it's the engineers and suppliers involved. other elements of his businesses do suffer with all these distractions and new gimmicks.
[15:27:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] 02 - 06Google's ReCAPTCHA Turns “Invisible,” Will Separate Bots From People Without Challenges - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:51] <exec> 08└─My theory is that that the algorithm will work a little like Cloudflare's: If (JS_enabled==true){ Submit_form(); } else { Return("403 Forbidden") }
[15:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 2900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:03] <exec> 08└─[[[ Me, stuck on a (highly tweaked) Windows XP box for many years...and love it. However I'm starting to get the urge to move to Slackware Linux ]]] Anyhow back to the story.... A few weeks ago at my local 7-11 convenience store, I'm using the coffee machine; I see this guy talking to the Indian...
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[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─This has existed for a long time, it's called core memory. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:14] <exec> 08└─Of course it's made from holmium - that's elementary.
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─"by the late 1960s a density of about 32 kilobits per cubic foot was typical." So, which atoms are measured by the cubic foot? Did you miss that whole "atomic" thing? Atomic, meaning, each atom stores a bit of data, unlike your outdated, obsolete core memory.
[16:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:24] <exec> 08└─This is a pretty interesting explanation of the Syrian civil war: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Defense Against Doxing - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─As is using all Jewgle services.
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defense Against Doxing - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─Google's 2 factor solution is non-connected and is just a time based hash. You can run it on any device you like. I think it's actually open source as well. This is not the typical SMS based 2 factor. The only flaw I'm aware of with the solution is that it's possible to generate a key that will work...
[16:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 2939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:57] <exec> 08└─That technology is behind all serious crime, in Europe, isn't very odd. Everything changes with the advancement of technology, they even conclude that in their own report on page 56 (tackling organised crime in the age of technology -- this flexibility is particularly apparent in the ease with which...
[16:25:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─The article was "published" on arxiv.org. Arxiv.org provides a valuable service to the community. It does not provide peer review.
[16:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:26] <exec> 08└─If I have an apple and an orange and give you the orange, it isnt suprising that someone can know I have the apple when they see you eating the orange later.
[16:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:36] <exec> 08└─> The MPG requirements on American auto makers? The fuel efficient cars are available, but no one wants them. Left and right alike, buyers demand the gas guzzlers. Then the price of gas should include a significant portion of the Pentagon's budget, to reflect the actual costs of having cheap gas to...
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─The MPG rules are good - they impose parameters that challenge engineers to do great things (or more accurately, force the bean counters to pay up in order to let the engineers to meet the challenge). The only people the MPG rules, are the bean counters and CEOs who instead of investing in the futur...
[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─preview. use preview. Let me make that more readable: The MPG rules are good - they impose parameters that challenge engineers to do great things (or more accurately, force the bean counters to pay up in order to let the engineers meet the challenges). The only people the MPG rules, are the bean cou...
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:47] <exec> 08└─fuck The only people the MPG rules HURT, are the bean counters and CEOs who, in the absence of such rules, would simply pocket the research funds for themselves.
[16:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:49] <exec> 08└─I blame it on the anticipation of DST.
[16:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:51] <exec> 08└─You're quoting therightscoop.com . . . seriously? You might as well be quoting some slimeball from diddlethechildren.com as an "unbiased" reply to a post questioning the effects of childhood molestation on people later in life. You'd get about the same level of dishonesty, and of sliminess.
[16:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 1751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─these examples are chosen by the scum at the nytimes to rile up a certain class of constituent. That being said, i don't want the spying whores at the telecoms getting away with it. I also don't want the fed gov telling businesses what to do, generally speaking. These companies just need to be accou...
[16:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah - I read a lot of stuff. I've posted a submission from NYT, for instance. I've posted submissions from left-leaning media. I've posted submissions from right-leaning media. I've posted submissions from foreign news sources. If I've violated your "safe space" or something, then I've done my good...
[16:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Degrees of Peace in Military Alliance Networks - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:13] <exec> 08└─We've been through this before. See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and search for "entangled international alliances." Wars are generally started over something stupid, but WWI wins a prize in that regard.
[16:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress to NASA: Send Humans to Mars by 2033 - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:03] <exec> 08└─You're not paying a lot of attention, I think. MANKIND doesn't want to send a bunch of robots all over the universe. MANKIIND wants to go out and see the universe, firsthand. For all the same reasons that the original humans in Africa spread out, all over the world. Erik Wernquist knows the song - h...
[16:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 2305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:07] <exec> 08└─Wow - you know how to load a manure spreader!! I suspect you have a New Holland parked on your property - http://www.ironsearch.com [ironsearch.com] No crime in Latino neighborhoods - despite the fact that many of them BROKE THE LAWS to ge...
[16:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:31] <exec> 08└─That's fine: you've tied your economic future to Microsoft. That's a choice that YOU made; it was not forced on you. Now you have to suffer with the consequences of your decision. Furthermore, there's a difference between what you do with a computer that isn't yours, and isn't really controlled by y...
[16:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:33] <exec> 08└─You can still do all that stuff by hand; I used to, years ago. The IRS has long provided fillable PDF forms that make it pretty easy to make nice-looking forms, and it isn't all that complicated really once you learn it. It's obviously not quite as convenient as software, but it is doable. But if yo...
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[17:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:30] <exec> 08└─moving from 12 atoms in 20122 to now just one.
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─Did Congress vote on this or is it simply illegal?
[17:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─Trump's goal is to create a safe zone so that the many "refugees" will have a place they can go other than the US and Europe, and so that refugees from said continents can be returned back to their home country. He is not even pretending to want to solve their problems - he is trying to solve our pr...
[17:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:42] <exec> 08└─This didn't take long. Trump will now take on the entire middle east! Just fucking GREAT! WHAT ABOUT AMERICA ASSHOLE? WE STILL SUUCCCCKKKKK !!!! THAT ORANGE HAIRED PIECE OF SHIT BETTER FIX AMERICA FIRST BEFORE CHASING AFTER SNIPE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FUCKING PLANET.
[17:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defense Against Doxing - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:53] <exec> 08└─The Red Pill must be administered in smaller doses.
[17:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:15] <exec> 08└─"Hey! This is KAOS... we do NOT mention KAOS here, Shtarkolo!" Okay, that joke missed it by THAT much...
[17:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:17] <exec> 08└─Hey, now... learning to write seems to have you thinking like a criminal. This will not do! I shall now use my new technology of "Wooba wooba, biggus dickus, Romanes eunt domus" to cancel out all further crime thinking you may be thinking while writing! --People's Front of Judea
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─I'm consodering, I'm consodering... give me a chunce! :)
[17:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:21] <exec> 08└─And those espresso drinkers! Whoa NELLY! Crime bosses!!!
[17:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─Before 9-11, all sorts of crimes that are now labeled "terror" were just crimes -- for example, aircraft hijacking. I wish (however unlikely it may be) that we could go back to the old definition where crime is something done by an individual or group, and war is something done by a state. The whole...
[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:51] <exec> 08└─> some alien civilization is attempting to clear a debris field Vogons, clearly!
[17:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─As I understand the alcubierre drive concept, on shutdown there should be a massive directional release of high powered radiation.
[17:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─Gosh, you seem awfully worried about the appearance of your sexuality.
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─Companies have proven time and time again that money trumps the environment and even the health of their customers.
[17:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft to Close Its Social Network On a Week's Notice – and Six People Complain - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:46] <exec> 08└─I hade the mistake of getting their first version. It sucked. The shift and control keys jammed if hit at anything other than a perfectly vertical angle.
[17:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:54] <exec> 08└─why, yes, i *do*, in fact, work from home and have to use the EXACT same s/w, etc... i have *at least* tried to stay at win7 sp2 for the last couple laptops/desktops i have gotten; but microborg is starting to make it all but impossible to avoid the hive mind... if -as your implied worst-case scenar...
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[18:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:13] <exec> 08└─The question is "Can devices with always on microphones and cameras be used against you or is your own home a sanctuary?" It won't be long before somebody hacks these devices and tries to extort money or else your private kinks and info will be released. Maybe the real question is "Who is stupid eno...
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe the real question is "Who is stupid enough to get these devices in the first place?"
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─No, see it's a "routine combat decision" which the Pentagon can decide for itself. See? You see?
[18:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─Your Caps Lock key is stuck.
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─Just like Obama, Trump cannot "solve their problem", because that would involve going to war in the middle east which the US public will not stand behind given recent history of US involvement in the region. Could he return the country to the comparatively peaceful and humane dictatorship as was in...
[18:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─Syria is a manufactured crisis that has taken decades (if that) to nurture to Islamic civil war. All by western (USA) corporate/political interests, money, and greed. ALL your/our politicians are indentured corporate servants/slaves and should not be trusted. They will vote to harm you without remor...
[18:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─I think that would be shouting in frustration. Kind of like a loud "Hello McFly!"
[18:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:47] <exec> 08└─Trump's goal is to enrich himself and his cronies and indulge his insatiable need for self-aggrandizement.
[18:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defense Against Doxing - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:57] <exec> 08└─This must be new, because I remember hearing about various youtubers getting "hacked" Linus got hacked!?!?!? - Honest Answers Episode 3 [youtube.com] ..,Linus tech twitter handle, and my personal hotmail and gmail, (and) then by extension, my domain registrar were compromised... An individual used.....
[18:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Defense Against Doxing - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:59] <exec> 08└─You must also tailor you wording to match your audience. This is not the place for random anti-semitism.
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technology Behind 'All Serious Crime" - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─I know, I really either should turn on the english spellchecker (currently on - wtf - finnish?) or stop using a full five row soft keyboard on a 4.3" screen. On the otter hans or died nit jeans or sill yelp ;) (Thanks for doing it with humor, I found my misspell of "consistent" particularly jarring)
[18:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:20] <exec> 08└─> that exponent may be smaller than you think. Actually, based on experiments, the exponent is in the range of 5 (five) for the actual load on each tire. Thus nearly all road damage is done by heavy trucks. And a truck that is 10% over the legal weight does approximately 1.1 x 10^5 more damage than...
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:21] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The mpg rules (USA "CAFE") have, at least in part, contributed to lower total USA gasoline consumption. And this lower demand (along with increases in supply) gives us the current low price of oil and gasoline. It's a combination of "efficiency" and "drill baby, drill" -- both contribute (b...
[18:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:23] <exec> 08└─Repealing the blacklist rule -- http://www.reuters.com [reuters.com] Republicans in the U.S. Senate passed a measure to eliminate an Obama administration rule that would require prospective federal contractors to report violations of more than a do...
[18:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:34] <exec> 08└─And organized crime/grovelment?
[18:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:36] <exec> 08└─Powerwall production is currently on a 1-3 year waiting list. My uncle was apparently trying to order one at least a year ago and those are the lead times currently in place for them due to car and non-powerwall demands.
[18:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:06] <exec> 08└─...nearly all problems have already been encountered and linux forums... udually provide sane advice.
[18:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:07] <exec> 08└─if -as your implied worst-case scenario- microborg gains consciousness and promptly commits suicide, then all the industries i work with will change to appropriate equivalents If, by "commits suicide", you mean that MS goes completely over-the-top with their policies (spyware, Windows Store-only sof...
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[19:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New 'Biomimetic' Glue Shows High-Strength Bonding Under Water - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─We can only ask for hope and prayers that a savior will arise to protect the American Workers in the glue industry whose jobs will be destroyed by this new weird thing that no-one paid us to promote.
[19:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New 'Biomimetic' Glue Shows High-Strength Bonding Under Water - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:18] <exec> 08└─Right away this made me think of when I worked at an Abalone farm. Amazing creatures. Once they grow to more than a few inches across they can stick themselves down so hard there's no way to pull them up without a lever of some sort. Divers use what amounts to a crow bar to harvest full grown adults...
[19:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─If "the innocent have nothing to hide" they will release their audio recordings. Unfortunately, an audio recording is an incomplete picture of a situation, things you hear through a microphone may lead you to think one thing or another that may, or may not be true. There are plenty of murder cases w...
[19:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─...wait, did you order a mail-order bride?
[19:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:32] <exec> 08└─The question is "Can devices with always on microphones and cameras be used against you or is your own home a sanctuary?"
[19:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:43] <exec> 08└─My brain read "5 Kelvin" before replying "useless".
[19:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─5 Kelvin. Depends how badly you want that storage. Dismissing something because it is expensive *to you* does not make it useless.
[19:24:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─Trump's goal is to create a safe zone so that the many "refugees" will have a place they can go other than the US and Europe, and so that refugees from said continents can be returned back to their home country. He is not even pretending to want to solve their problems - he is trying to solve our pr...
[19:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:03] <exec> 08└─Why do we care about Syria anyway? We hate muslims now and have locked them out behind a great wall by Trump's great power. From the start, all dialog and posturing out of this beast has been for war, and hate. They are lusting for a war just like GW got to do. Wars are cool. You get to show everybo...
[19:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:05] <exec> 08└─America's fixed already. Didn't you see the jobs report? Done. Now it's time to fix the Middle East. It'll be done very quickly believe me.
[19:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:08] <exec> 08└─That's about right. Basically, the US created and armed the organizations that became terrorists. They became terrorists, at least in part, because the US kept attacking/funding/arming different groups, switching sides, and generally throwing gasoline on an already volatile situation. In the case of...
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Defense Against Doxing - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:21] <exec> 08└─You wanna know why Jews have big noses? Because air is free! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defense Against Doxing - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─This is not new, I've been using it for at least five years. They may also have SMS verification available, but not that I'm aware of. Alternatively, if a person has a phone number set up as a fallback, that can be used to send a voice code to (not SMS, but equivalent). Using this fallback is not re...
[19:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defense Against Doxing - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:24] <exec> 08└─... also, in your quoute ita says "the attackers never got in the YouTube channels". This may mean that the other accounts had SMS based 2 factor, but YouTube didn't.
[19:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they've checked if this is just our view of a signal that sweeps across us very quickly, as would happen if the signal was aimed at a ship that was moving. It's probably required to determine the approximate prigin anyway, but it would be interesting to see if that was the case somehow....
[19:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 2041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:47] <exec> 08└─OK - the range of 5 - I could argue that some, but it's close enough to reasonable. Now - where do the taxes come from that pays for the roads? You've surely noticed that diesel fuel is higher priced than gasoline - despite the fact that diesel is a "waste product" in the refining of gasoline. Each...
[19:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─I hope you're not getting your figures from the same place as these people - https://streets.mn [streets.mn] My first question was, "WTF is a 9 ton big-rig?" A ten ton truck is a local delivery truck, and it DOES NOT do that much dama...
[19:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Degrees of Peace in Military Alliance Networks - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:07] <exec> 08└─You mean the putative cause. You shouldn't believe it. The war of Jenkin's Ear wasn't really started about Jenkin's Ear, either, that was the the synecdoche that was used to sell/explain it to the public. That said, entangling alliances really make some of the failure modes worse. Sometimes, for som...
[19:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TAILS 2.11: The Last Release to Support the I2P Anonymizing Network - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:31] <exec> 08└─i2pd is majority russian developed, one of the major-feature secondary developers has been spouting Pro-Trump and Anti-Privacy views. Plus they just implemented FSB reference encryption post i2pd-2.12 (no relation to the Tails version!). I still had a node in operation, since i2p-router has its own...
[19:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's ReCAPTCHA Turns “Invisible,” Will Separate Bots From People Without Challenges - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:35] <exec> 08└─So machine learning to adaptively detect bots... the obvious response is to make the bot systems use machine learning to adaptively discern and circumvent its detection factors. Thus captcha becomes an AI arms race geared toward making spam bots indistinguishable from human. All hail our Nigerian Pr...
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[20:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New 'Biomimetic' Glue Shows High-Strength Bonding Under Water - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:15] <exec> 08└─Have you ever fellated a geoduck?
[20:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:28] <exec> 08└─" Unfortunately, an audio recording is an incomplete picture of a situation "
[20:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─Clearly they were using Titanium.
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:42] <exec> 08└─Storage for ultra-cool quantum computer.
[20:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:03] <exec> 08└─This explains a lot. Assuming that you don't confuse l'Orange [nydailynews.com] with Le Grande Orange [wikipedia.org]
[20:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:04] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ, you are dense. Would you rather not have Assad, Ghadaffi, and Saddam keeping control over their territories? Russia isn't very keen on the idea of safe-zones, so... ...the only real solution to the "refugee" problem is to station guards at the border and shoot everybody who tries to cr...
[20:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:07] <exec> 08└─Trump will fix this. He will gut all of the fifth-columnists from government, intelligence services, and the judiciary. He will also let Assad stay and broker peace with Russia while scaring the shit out of Chicoms and North Koreans. And most importantly, he will dismantle Obeezy's legacy and prove...
[20:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:20] <exec> 08└─My coworker came up with a very non-standard mechanism to mount an incredibly accurate rotary encoder. In order for this to work, the mount must prevent the encoder from rotating about its axis. Our conversation went like this: Me: This looks suspect; prove to me that it won't allow the encoder t...
[20:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:21] <exec> 08└─He's rather more on the mark than you. A hypothesis formulated on purely hypothetical bodies is still a hypothesis. For instance dark matter was hypothesized, initially, as little more than an explanation for why we see distant orbiting stellar bodies behaving in a fashion that is different than we...
[20:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Theory Suggests Radio Bursts Beyond Our Galaxy Are Powering Alien Starships - 2776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:24] <exec> 08└─I found the following comments by Anders Sandberg https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk [ox.ac.uk] to be incredibly insightful; they were appended to the Gizmodo article as an update: I think this is an extravagant explanation of what likely is a natural phenomenon. I like the out of the...
[20:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:51] <exec> 08└─The fuel efficient cars are available, but no one wants them.
[20:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Releases the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: 11.3 TFLOPS of FP32 Performance - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:13] <exec> 08└─that is all
[20:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:10] <exec> 08└─That's the problem; there's not enough independent investment in societal infrastructure. These things should be "private", so that bad ideas die, and investments can be made into ideas that prove themselves profitable.
[20:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:11] <exec> 08└─BROOKE GLADSTONE: So let us go back even further, to the 1965 US Immigration Act that unintentionally created this flood of undocumented immigration, in the first place, because, as you've written, prior to the mid-60s illegal immigration from Mexico really didn't happen because the US was legally a...
[20:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days or It's Free - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:13] <exec> 08└─But if the inside baseball stuff my brother tells me about his company are indicative, they will not get there in time before Tesla has seized a huge share of several markets.
[20:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 1554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:44] <exec> 08└─You didn't dwell on this point, so I'll mention it. At one point, Ubuntu (and its derivatives) had support for 18 months for each release. Ubuntu releases every 6 months, so that gave a span of 3 releases to upgrade to another release with current support. Ubuntu (and its derivatives) also have a Lo...
[20:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:45] <exec> 08└─s/16.10, from November 2016/16.10, from October 2016 (The mantissa is the number of the month.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Snooping Patches KB 2952664, KB 2976978 Are Back (Again) - 1666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:48] <exec> 08└─I've built some of those machines with regular Dells or custom built rack mount boxes from newegg. Aerotech is the CNC system we use and even though it's windows based, it's quite flexible and easy to build and configure a motion system. We saved an Aerotech system a customer was going to toss and I...
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[21:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dieselgate: VW Pleads Guilty to All 3 Charges; Could Pay $25B in Reparations - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:20] <exec> 08└─Weird.
[21:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─Jasper is an open source project in the same space as the Echo, using a Raspberry Pi. I haven't used Jasper or an Echo (or Siri, or Cortana, or whatever Google calls their voice assistant) so I cannot comment on the functionality. https://jasperproject.github.io [github.io]
[21:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:44] <exec> 08└─Next lesson: Don't murder someone in their house if they own one of these devices. XKCD [xkcd.com]
[21:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:00] <exec> 08└─Very good summary that enticed me to open the linked article first before the comment trail. Technical posts should be like this instead of the typical clickbait verbiage devoid of content.
[21:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:01] <exec> 08└─LOL Sometimes you meatbags make sense. Sometimes.
[21:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:03] <exec> 08└─Nope it is a faulty keyboard. Same error happening with your comment ID, apparently.
[21:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:06] <exec> 08└─You teased me. I might go read the summary now. JK.
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[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─Bonding Teflon (and also slippery polyethylene) is notoriously difficult, with the rubber adhesives in tape glue (eg, duct tape) being one of the exceptions. If this new glue has more strength than the tape adhesives, there are probably many applications that will open up.
[22:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New 'Biomimetic' Glue Shows High-Strength Bonding Under Water - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─> the glue contain the amino acid DOPA I bet nobody will try sniffing this one...
[22:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:09] <exec> 08└─I'll be happy to buy one when they invest in infrastructure so I'm not getting my kidneys knocked to hell trying to get to work.
[22:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:11] <exec> 08└─My employer has multiple chargers. Actually, a lot of places around here do.
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[22:29:33] <exec> 08└─Revolving-door regulators? AKA "protectors" protecting their actual constituents (corporations and their profits). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[23:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Puts Ads in Windows 10 File Explorer, Because of Course - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:10] <exec> 08└─but it happens in the paid for versions, too
[23:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Now Puts Ads in Windows 10 File Explorer, Because of Course - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:11] <exec> 08└─Didn't install that malware. Windows 7 SP1 with Windows Updates turned OFF. The risk from Microsoft is greater than the risk from the rest of the net, IMO.
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[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─I turned Windows updates off in Windows 8 too when the stories about forced upgrades started surfacing. Thankful that I did. No doubt Microsoft is trying to spread the FUD about not having updates turned on posing a security risk, but I'll take the lesser of two evils thanks.
[23:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dieselgate: VW Pleads Guilty to All 3 Charges; Could Pay $25B in Reparations - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:22] <exec> 08└─We now how that turns out...
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dieselgate: VW Pleads Guilty to All 3 Charges; Could Pay $25B in Reparations - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:24] <exec> 08└─This amounts to $5000 per vehicle unless I miscalculated. It may benefit the owners but falls far short of the damage to the ecosystem.
[23:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dieselgate: VW Pleads Guilty to All 3 Charges; Could Pay $25B in Reparations - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─You have no idea how much the 'ecosystem' was damaged, if at all.
[23:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out. - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:52] <exec> 08└─Indeed. From what I've read, if you ask an echo who it works for, it will truthfully say it works for Amazon. It does not work for you, even though you paid for it and "own" it.
[23:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─It was a superscript pointing to a footnote in the original. Deleted as it's annotation rather than body text. Thanks for reporting it in such a humorous way!
[23:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Additional US Marines Deployed to Syria and Kuwait - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:35] <exec> 08└─Did Congress vote on this or is it simply illegal?
[23:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks - 2563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry, bad memory, not 5, more like 4th power of the load. Here's one reference (Google's html rendering of a pdf): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com [googleusercontent.com] Or, the...
[23:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indiegogo Ends Campaign for Sinclair Spectrum ZX Hand-Held - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:33] <exec> 08└─I asked my g/f to get me this for my birthday - I'm glad she forgot now. The internal politics sound pretty nasty, there's definitely some douchebaggery involved, fortunately for them it's only every single crowd-funder who suffers - gee, thanks guys.
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