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[00:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:19] <exec> 08└─While it might actually be a good thing to take down insecure devices, I'd like a chance to change the password after the first time the thing gets plugged in. Gimme a few minutes, and then come back to punish my dangerous laziness. It was once considered unlikely to keep Windows virus-free in the t...
[00:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:21] <exec> 08└─When I buy a new device first thing I do it change it's default password. That said, the first post guy had it right when he said he'd like the chance to change the password before it gets disabled. But I put that on the vendor. FFS, give the device a serial number, a default password based on that...
[00:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:23] <exec> 08└─It's hard to condone what amounts to vandalism, but I'm certainly on the fence on this one. Maybe, just maybe, this could help improve security across the board. If people stop bying brand X because they or someone they know have had their device fail inexplicably, that would finally provide the eco...
[00:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:25] <exec> 08└─The problem is a lot of these devices have their login credentials set at the base layer and are immutable to user changes, even if they have a "user level" login that can be changed. This means the devices are fundamentally vulnerable and the only repair is either a firmware upgrade from the vendor...
[00:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:27] <exec> 08└─I've started calling this kind of worm "vigilanteware".
[00:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:29] <exec> 08└─It's about time someone did this. I'm sick to death of reading every other day about a new botnet targeting known but unpatched flaws in IoT shat. Destroy the pieces of shit and make sure everyone knows how and why they were destroyed so the shitheads who make them have to deal with their reputation...
[00:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:40] <exec> 08└─If you mean slightly extra, but still less overall than what is paid today, then maybe. That satellite customer of SpaceX's reportedly got around a 10% discount, and that is expected to increase to 30%, and maybe a lot more in the future..
[00:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:39] <exec> 08└─I don't trust either currently, but at least with the government, I get to vote for who runs it once in a while.
[00:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:41] <exec> 08└─One of the new guys at the top
[00:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowd Art - When Pixels Collide - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:23] <exec> 08└─Where's Waldo? SHEEIT, too easy. :)
[00:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Sleep may act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:59] <exec> 08└─The majority of your analysis is invalid. The most important factor in sleeping by far is your perception/state of mind. The activities you think will help your sleep will and the activities you think won't help won't, so all your results are skewed. You should drill down into the science, not the r...
[00:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Around 42% of American Adults Have HPV, Over 20% Have Cancer-Causing Form - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:03] <exec> 08└─Water isn't wet when frozen, vaporized, or dried into a fine water powder. Most people get this wrong. It's ok, you don't need to go into a corner and cry.
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[01:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:20] <exec> 08└─No Mr. Shuttleworth. Announcing Mir a full year after Wayland was announced while borrowing parts from it creating YET ANOTHER incompatible layer of software was irrational. It reeked of NIH and was ridiculed as much as Wayland was for the same reason: we already had a working display server, X.
[01:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:22] <exec> 08└─Like sports fans... Cam High North sucks, only Cam High West rules! Modern tribalism, because we're low on real wars. Nobody was forced by anyone to use Wayland or Mir or X. Don't like it? Pick another of 600 distros... Some of which have 99% of the same components, except the one you don't want. I...
[01:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:36] <exec> 08└─The problem is that this is a problem. 2 solutions: a) as I said before, each device gets a serial number and the default password is unique b) let me fire up the device before connecting to a network and let me change the default password. c) Do neither, let my IoT doohicky join a DDoS, and I can j...
[01:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:37] <exec> 08└─It's hard to condone what amounts to vandalism, but I'm certainly on the fence on this one.
[01:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:40] <exec> 08└─This will be achieved a lot faster once people's fancy IoT fridges start dying, their washers start spinning until something breaks, and their furnace or AC run full blast in the wrong mode. A $100 toy is one thing, a multi-grand major appliance is a magnet for lawyers...
[01:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:51] <exec> 08└─Guess we won't see Space-X expand into China. Could become some really cheap rocket. India which supposedly is a H1-B nirvana could perhaps be a workable solution? Musk: Why won't the rocket fire? China: Rocket engine very expensive. Musk: WTF!? China: See, it looks just like yours. Musk: But it doe...
[01:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:53] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. Because the cost reduction is so drastic that even a few losses can still make the bottom line beat the one time use rocket. And Space-X is working towards another 10x cost reduction to achieve the goal of Musk target of 100x cost reduction. Perhaps one can make cheap rocket fuel i...
[01:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:55] <exec> 08└─Send rocket fuel to Earth? No, I think it will be used at refueling stations in space or to launch from lower gravity wells like the Moon. Imagine launching a payload to the Moon, attaching it to a set of rockets there, and then relaunching, achieving a greater velocity than could be done from Earth...
[01:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:57] <exec> 08└─http://www.space.com/30838-manned-mars-mission-moon-refueling.html [space.com] https://news.mit.edu [mit.edu] http://strategic.mit.edu [mit.edu]
[01:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:58] <exec> 08└─It's precisely as useful as its source for starting a discussion. [google.com] How 'bout that pepsi commercial though gais. A real conversation starter if there ever was one. Real shiny.
[01:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:59] <exec> 08└─Equality of opportunity is possible and equality of outcome is not; Get it through your stupid little head!
[01:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:01] <exec> 08└─I think you missed the point of my post. Parse the logic carefully, its a tautology. You might not be the only one who missed it though. You never know around here, lots of people who flatter themselves by claiming to be logical when they are really just willfully ignorant.
[01:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:04] <exec> 08└─Those books are so deep. If you are a college freshman. Are you gonna start quoting the church of the subgenius too?
[01:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:06] <exec> 08└─If you give promotions to females just because they are females in order for the org to balance the genders, then frustrated males will leave the company for better opportunities.
[01:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:08] <exec> 08└─> I suspect the idiot quote is more like 80%.. Nope, it is exactly 44.4%.
[01:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MathJax CDN Shutting Down on April 30, 2017 - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:28] <exec> 08└─The VPS example was the very first thing I thought in response to OP's comment, too. It is **much** cheaper for me to rent server time/space than to run my own. Do you (OP), for example, maintain your own vehicle service garage so you can always service your own car? Of course not, and that's why we...
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[01:48:30] <exec> 08└─Basically they eat the overages caused by DDoSes so the site using their service doesn't have to. However since the Krebs incident the amount of bandwidth they are eating during DDoS mitigation has gotten high enough that it is cutting into their profits, so now they are asking their clients to pay...
[01:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:22] <exec> 08└─For the good of society we still need to have a broad education, and I think K-12 does a modest job of this.
[01:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:23] <exec> 08└─Everyone should graduate high school, period.
[01:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:25] <exec> 08└─Anyone with a BS would beg to differ
[01:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:27] <exec> 08└─and people without any theoretical backing are going to write a ton of it.
[01:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowd Art - When Pixels Collide - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:01] <exec> 08└─Without destroyers, the end point of the final image might have been much better
[01:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seasonality of Auricular Amputations in Rabbits - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:58] <exec> 08└─Oh, THOSE rabbits. The rabbits in the article are hibernators. They lay around in warehouses sleeping in perfect climate control. ;^)
[01:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Around 42% of American Adults Have HPV, Over 20% Have Cancer-Causing Form - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:42] <exec> 08└─As my information on HPV vaccine seemed to be of interest. There are some developments on a Herpes vaccine too (HSV): First off, Duke University investigates the possibility to eradicate the HSV-1 by figuring out how to switch all copies of the virus in the host from latency to their active stage at...
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[02:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's very strange that free software advocates would dislike non-free proprietary user-subjugating software like Windows, and be upset that Ubuntu comes with proprietary software. This guy is probably just an "open source" proponent who doesn't care much about the ethical aspect of the matter,...
[02:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:19] <exec> 08└─Mir is GPLv3, which is about as non-proprietary as it gets.
[02:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:21] <exec> 08└─This is something I have never really understood. If they can make a better Free Software display server than X11 then it will catch on, and we’ll all be better for it. If they want to consume their developer cycles by creating a third competing display server beside X11 and Wayland then that’s...
[02:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:23] <exec> 08└─-1 Stupid. Mir wasn't proprietary, it was GPL and just as open-source and FOSS as anything else. The objection was that it was contributing to Linux fragmentation for a critical low-level infrastructural component, and creating more unnecessary work for downstream projects such as KDE/Qt and Gnome/G...
[02:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 2332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:26] <exec> 08└─As I said in a post above: the objection was that it was contributing to Linux fragmentation for a critical low-level infrastructural component, and creating more unnecessary work for downstream projects such as KDE/Qt and Gnome/Gtk+ which need to talk to the display server. It's not trivial to make...
[02:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:28] <exec> 08└─The problem is that X doesn't really work that well for modern uses. It's archaic and has a lot of problems, such as tearing. That's why they came up with Wayland in the first place. Moreover, the people who came up with Wayland were the very same people working on (modern) X, people like Keith Pack...
[02:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:30] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Standards matter because when they are adopted, they remove complexity, improve interoperability, reduce the learning curve, and result in more system stability because more programmers can focus their development efforts on the same code. Linux (the OS) only got to where it is today because...
[02:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:46] <exec> 08└─The difference being that for your example to match, it'd be not just posting about how to defeat it, but someone doing the rounds and opening all such deadbolts and jamming your door into a permanently open (or closed) position. I have no issue at all with someone posting the how-to (though I'd cer...
[02:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:47] <exec> 08└─Having to do either device-individualisation at factory end-of-line testing/provisioning or custom software to do dynamic password creation based on a hardware ID both would add several cents to the cost of the device. Not to mention complicating the user setup and needing more manuals printed. Bean...
[02:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:50] <exec> 08└─Come on people, you should all know by now that the 'S' in 'IoT' stands for Security.
[02:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:52] <exec> 08└─Like this? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I'm pretty sure Kryptonite are still around, and those locks are still being produced.
[02:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:54] <exec> 08└─I fail to see the difference. If I go to Home Depot and buy an expensive lock for $80, and you can hack it with a straight piece of steel, then.... Fark Home Depot and the Vendor, when it comes out I lost my TV/DVR to some crack addict with a hairpin and an internet connection I'm not going after th...
[02:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:56] <exec> 08└─Got it. But the days of not reading the manual to your TV and making it work are behind us. If you buy a device that can connect to the internet it's on the vendor to give you a fighting chance, and on you to take that chance. Actually, it's on the vendor. Period. Give every device a unique password...
[02:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:58] <exec> 08└─Then the problem is bean counters and that's where the fix energy should be applied. Denial-of-business tend to be effective. Ie all devices stop working when they are plugged in. Hmm.. sounds familiar..
[02:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people that buy shit and expose others to DDoS botnets got the favor returned.. ;-) Angry consumers will lash out on distributors that will lash out on manufacturers.
[02:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:22] <exec> 08└─Where do you work that the people's salaries are commonly known? Our HR creature is very careful at every discussion of pay to tell you "Don't tell anyone else what you're getting!" Like, if you're making minimum wage, and get a 2 cent raise, it should be top secret, because all those other minimum...
[02:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:24] <exec> 08└─In my experience - the government pays a flat wage for each paygrade, and everyone seems to be promoted into the paygrades fairly evenly. You don't walk into a government office to find all white males, or all white with male and female mix, or all Asian. You walk in to find a pretty balanced mix of...
[02:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Sleep may act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:51] <exec> 08└─no idea - it is SleepAnalyser in python, written a by a nice guy (Thomas Perl) who also wrote one for the N9. When the N900 gives up the ghost...! The phone has motion etc.. - I have been tempted to add sound sampling to measure any sudden noises , but work has drained my efforts! But looking at pat...
[02:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:57] <exec> 08└─You know what? Even if this was some sort of bullshit false-flag conspiracy, there is literally no question that Assad has been bombing the shit out of civilians for years now. That this one time Grump saw pictures of babies dying from nerve gas doesn't really matter. Assad has blown the arms and le...
[02:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Declining Carbon Dioxide Balanced Brightening Sun - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:55] <exec> 08└─and they had a graph showing that in (forget exactly) 100 million years (or was it one billion?) the CO2 level would have to reach zero and after that the Earth would become uninhabitable from heat.
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[03:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:35] <exec> 08└─Almost like one can sense a suspicion of sabotage by some climate change is just a hoax.. But how can they flunk a such basic function? Why no thermal battery? redundant compressor system? Use Einstein refrigerator that only needs heat? Warning system?
[03:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:52] <exec> 08└─All that's missing is for Shuttleworth to say he's going home and he's taking his ball with him. (Too bad nobody wants his ball anyway.)
[03:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:53] <exec> 08└─You know, it doesn't really matter why the haters hated Mir. Mir is dead. And I don't think the haters killed it, I think it just wasn't valuable enough to achieve escape velocity. So he's kinda touchy about having to kill Mir. I won't begrudge him that, he did put his own money into it, he earned t...
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[03:46:55] <exec> 08└─I was merely pointing out the fact that both projects were ridiculed. I remember the flame war on /. when Wayland was announced. How many people shat upon it because of the fact that it completely ignored network transparency preferring 3rd party protocols like VNC and RDP was insane.
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[03:46:57] <exec> 08└─Except I wasn't talking about Mir, but Ubuntu in general. Ubuntu tolerates proprietary software and includes it. You know, since he spoke about how Windows and Canonical got hate once they went mainstream, as if that's the actual reason. But ignore that part.
[03:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 2559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:59] <exec> 08└─I agree about Shuttleworth's whiny tone here, however it simply isn't true that no one wants his ball. Ubuntu is still one of the most popular distros (even after losing a bunch of users to Mint and others because of Unity). And go read the messages about the announcement about abandoning Unity and...
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[03:47:02] <exec> 08└─I'm glad he's still ought there trying. Ubuntu is a major accomplishment and even though its the collaborative product of tens of thousands of people it wouldn't exist without him. So he deserves slack (aka love). Not so much. I'm not sure why he was so touchy about Mir; no one really wanted Mir, bu...
[03:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:04] <exec> 08└─So, what's the alternative? Should everyone just settle for whoever has the first-mover advantage in low-level software, regardless of the relative merits of each solution? Should all FOSS projects be equal, though some more equal than others? I agree that standards do make things much easier for ev...
[03:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:06] <exec> 08└─To be fair, I think the Wayland team could have done a lot better there by addressing people's concerns. Network transparency is an important feature to many people, and it should have been included from the outset, by some means. If that means just adopting RDP and calling it done, then that's fine...
[03:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:08] <exec> 08└─Criticizing Microsoft which is a abusive monopoly is perfectly alright. To refer that as love to hate whatever is mainstream misses the point completely. And says more about Shuttleworth than anything else. Adding to that, equaling such criticism with ad-hominem that such persons are anti social jus...
[03:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:10] <exec> 08└─You can rip all of the proprietary software out of Ubuntu and still have a very much usable system if your hardware does not require any non-Free drivers.
[03:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:13] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. It's bad enough that they include proprietary software; they have to set an example by not doing so. By tolerating non-free software, they show that they are not truly opposed to it and therefore are not friends to the free software community. Just being better than Microsoft and their i...
[03:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 1734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:15] <exec> 08└─Should all FOSS projects be equal, though some more equal than others? Unfortunately, yes. What would you think if some small group decided to fork the Linux kernel, and make a different kernel that wasn't fully compatible, and then demanded that everyone write their software to work on that kernel...
[03:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:17] <exec> 08└─Unity and GNOME 3 are both designed around the idea that phones and desktops will share a UI. The actual functionality that we need is the ability to have a phone serve up a fully traditional desktop UI, and for a desktop PC to be able to run phone apps. Android developers already go one way with em...
[03:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:19] <exec> 08└─Mr. Shuttleworth is upset that his personal choices on things aren't automatically universally loved. He put his own money into the game, and doesn't understand why everyone out there can't just do the worship dance around his program. He has done some good stuff, but he needs to get a thicker ski...
[03:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:44] <exec> 08└─Then the problem is bean counters not understanding internet attacks, and not understanding spending an extra $0.03 cents per device keeps your company from being sued into oblivion.
[03:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:45] <exec> 08└─Okay, not those *exact* locks; it looks like Kryptonite (and other similar manufacturers) wizened up to that about 8 years ago, so that any new locks won't be susceptible to exactly the same hack.
[03:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:47] <exec> 08└─The hard part will then be *finding* the rigt company to sue. Shelf company one manages shelf company two, parts manufactured under comtract at company three, all registered in different countries (if registered at all) And the devices are packed, shipped, and sold by three or more additional compan...
[03:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 1514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:12] <exec> 08└─(3) Better work-life balance by the women That is the biggest factor working against "women". It has been noted by a number of people that wages aren't gender biased, so much as they are mother-biased. Women who take maternity leave and/or longer absences to care for family are "left behind" by both...
[03:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:13] <exec> 08└─You're high, right?
[03:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:15] <exec> 08└─Hitler has been considered to be on the "right" because the popular alternative in the 1930s was literally communism. He ran the national socialist party. The belief was that society was more important than the individual, and that this would be enforced by a strong government. By modern American st...
[03:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MathJax CDN Shutting Down on April 30, 2017 - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:38] <exec> 08└─Didn't know of the existence of MathJax until I saw this story. Sounds like it could be cool. There are sooo many libraries and tools and so forth I wonder that anyone can keep up with them all. Invariably, many of them disappoint in various ways. Like, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in HTML5 works...
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[04:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:30] <exec> 08└─Almost like one can sense a suspicion of sabotage by some climate change is just a hoax..
[04:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:31] <exec> 08└─Let's call it local warming. I think someones getting a hot seat too.. ;-)
[04:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:33] <exec> 08└─It was Trump. He hasn't been mentioned yet. He's the new godwin.
[04:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:04] <exec> 08└─Ok so I realize I'm in the minority here. But with Ubuntu dropping support for Unity I'm left wondering where to go from here. I like my Ubuntu desktop. I enjoy Unity, Gnome in it's various flavors does not give me the seamless experience and ease of use I got from Unity. I don't want to move on fro...
[04:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:05] <exec> 08└─Any suggestions?
[04:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:07] <exec> 08└─Personally the part that bothered me the most was when they started denying that X had the capability rather than concede that people used it and wanted it.
[04:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:09] <exec> 08└─It comes with RDP, yes. And I think X11, but I haven't played with it. Seeing as how this keeps coming up time and time and time again, they didn't do a good job communicating that. Now it's one of those tribal positions that Wayland has no support for even VNC, or something.
[04:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:12] <exec> 08└─Not friends to RMS, you mean.
[04:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:14] <exec> 08└─I still have no idea why Mir exists. Wayland has a lot of tangible goals. But I see now (elsewhere) that people are abandoning XOrg because it finally sunk in that it was the XOrg developers themselves who created Wayland. I will never understand tribalism. But y'all have fun going back to XFree86 o...
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[04:47:16] <exec> 08└─Gentoo? I felt the same way when I had to move away from KDE 3.5.
[04:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:18] <exec> 08└─Things like XCB or SYNC extension were created, yet we have to do them over again. And other things that were also impossible seem to be proving perfectly possible, because the issue is with the code, not the protocol. Xpra and firejail give you reconnects and security so other programs can't poke a...
[04:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:45] <exec> 08└─It's enough to target the company that puts the product on the market. It will make it disappear. Of course another one can sell it but then they also gets taken out. Eventually the cost piles up.
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[04:47:47] <exec> 08└─It's like the Darwin awards for corporations. They don't need to understand, they get wiped out anyway :p
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[04:47:49] <exec> 08└─I think Assa abloy locks are susceptible to a similar defeat.
[04:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:05] <exec> 08└─The idea would be to manufacture fuel from scratch in space on the cheap (moon ice + solar panels + accelerator?). And then send it with empty rockets returning back to earth. Kind of cabotage for space.
[04:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:18] <exec> 08└─He has no insight, just deliberate misrepresentation of reality and his concomitant anger because of reality's well known liberal bias.
[04:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, how great is it that all we ever do is rehash the same old shit over and over again? Never rising above the most basic arguments. What a freakin paradise!!
[04:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 1747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:21] <exec> 08└─>Men in the Bay Area keep jumping ship to find more elsewhere. Are women, especially those responsible children logistics, as likely to be fickle? Actually, in that case paying the men more would more certainly not be 'discrimination', it would be required to retain a more difficult to retain asset....
[04:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seasonality of Auricular Amputations in Rabbits - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:11] <exec> 08└─Chocolate bunnies change from brown to beige in the freezer.
[04:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cephalopods can Rewrite Their RNA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:33] <exec> 08└─You think RNA is bad, that's the modularised version. The DNA it's refactored from is real spaghetti code.
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[05:47:18] <exec> 08└─What, does Shuttleworth not accept that we have a Climate Change problem? He believes there's a real debate over the matter, rather than a bunch of denialism from anti-science, illiterate trolls?
[05:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:19] <exec> 08└─Debian?
[05:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:06] <exec> 08└─I also predict launching rockets from the moon through electromagnetic mountain guns, so they escape with considerable velocity before burning any fuel. Hyperloop technology will help with that.
[05:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:22] <exec> 08└─Minimum wage jobs aren't intended to support a family. They are there to be a first job for young adults to begin working and gain some experience before starting a career. If those types of jobs aren't allowed to exist, then how will kids work their way through college or afford vocational training...
[05:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:51] <exec> 08└─Those ideas are older than Zerohedge.
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[05:52:52] <exec> 08└─More like US testing out Russian air defenses, which were not completely impenetrable. Russia is upgrading as a response. The missile volley was pre-planned before the gas event. The gas event was probably organized by third or fourth party intel operatives. The question is whether this is a one off...
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[06:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:28] <exec> 08└─Well, it's obvious that this snake oil peddler is getting its money or pull from US govt. They're not even trying to not be obvious about it.
[06:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:29] <exec> 08└─only noting that "the American public should be deeply troubled by any WikiLeaks disclosure designed to damage the Intelligence Community's ability to protect America against terrorists and other adversaries. Such disclosures not only jeopardize US personnel and operations, but also equip our advers...
[06:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:32] <exec> 08└─Insider threats are the main threats at these agencies. An employee can grow a conscience and dumps docs. But it's not enough. Some of the public is against whistleblowers and leakers, but most of it doesn't care. God Emperor Trump could have changed things but has shown to be committed to fighting...
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[06:46:43] <exec> 08└─I want to know where khallow was when this "accident" occurred! We have already had the Harperpocalypse with scientific records, it is too much to imagine that some oil interests in (((Calgary))) might have made a very (((lucrutive))) offer to a certain ((unemployed)) code monkey (no, not you TMB, y...
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[06:46:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe global warming is fake and they know trump, unlike obama is going to grill them on it. So instead of admitting that they made convenient "adjustments" to the data, they melt the data.
[06:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:46] <exec> 08└─Yep, that is what they want us to think! It's just like that increase in violet stroms, tornados and such, when it is only that now we have "sensors" that can sense much more activity, and we know damn well that there used to be at least as much activity in the past, because we do not have any data...
[06:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:27] <exec> 08└─Oh for god's sake. Just run KDE. It's way, way ahead of Unity in every way. I finally gave up on bug-ridden MATE and switched to KDE. Granted it's sad to see a choice shrivel up and disappear. Thankfully nothing critical is lost in this case. This is what I don't understand: why doesn't some group j...
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[06:47:28] <exec> 08└─No, to the free software community. Free software advocates see proprietary software as unethical. For "open source" advocates, that may or may not be the case. That's the main reason for using the term "free software".
[06:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:31] <exec> 08└─at least there, most software isn't affected by the init system
[06:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:33] <exec> 08└─That put me off. Wayland is still important, but the bashing of everything X was just offensive. I was one of those users of network transparency. Yeah, it isn't perfect in all conceivable cases, but at the end of the day I got what I wanted out of it... a lot more than what they were offering.
[06:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:35] <exec> 08└─The solution, I think, is to accept the fact that plays like this are going to face criticism. If the play is in fact a good one, then arguments or experiments should show it. Don't forget this is Mark Shuttleworth, who has a history of responding poorly to criticism. It may be that his problem is h...
[06:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:37] <exec> 08└─From the headline I thought that Shuttleworth was: - badmouthing those who uttered criticism - thinks climate change is a hoax - thinks gun control is stupid Then, in the summary, it says: "[The Mir debate] became a political topic...". So instead of the above, he's saying: - the criticism got out o...
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[07:46:25] <exec> 08└─Machine learning you say? Death by spreadsheet :)
[07:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:25] <exec> 08└─So, what's the alternative? Should everyone just settle for whoever has the first-mover advantage in low-level software, regardless of the relative merits of each solution? Should all FOSS projects be equal, though some more equal than others?
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[07:47:57] <exec> 08└─Why would you put it on the Internet before trying to change the password? You plug it in, change the password, and THEN put it on the Internet. Same way you install an OS, change the password and then put it on the Internet (but never directly, always through a firewall/router). The problem is peop...
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[07:49:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.fastcompany.com/3049676/a-womans-most-powerful-salary-negotiation-tool-silence [fastcompany.com] https://www.monster.com [monster.com] In general women are more fearful and less (over)confident than men. That's why those "fail" vid...
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[07:49:33] <exec> 08└─The nationalist socialist party was so named because it was the result of the merger between the nationalist party and the socialist party. The nationalists ended up in power of the resulting party, but kept the name and thus the voters.
[07:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:35] <exec> 08└─To me if guys persist in trying to enter/compete in women's only areas they should get all their testicles removed (compulsorily by the State for repeat offenders). If they are still so attached to their testicles they aren't women. Real women would be happy to have them removed, especially for free...
[07:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:55] <exec> 08└─I met a couple of drop-outs with tremendous coding- and debugging-skills. For some of them I even assume that was the reason they dropped out (Once you find an interesting enough job with more than average pay [compared to other non-degree] it can be hard to stay motivated to learn e.g. ray-traycing...
[07:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Around 42% of American Adults Have HPV, Over 20% Have Cancer-Causing Form - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:21] <exec> 08└─You speak as if you actually have kids... in contrast to your parent post.
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[08:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06African Elephants Transport Seeds Further Than Any Other Land Animal - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:25] <exec> 08└─Humans have been transporting seeds for far greater distances even before air travel. I suspect migratory mammals might transport seeds further than 65 km might not be in poop though but attached to fur ;).
[08:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:50] <exec> 08└─It was like a changing room in a swimming pool.
[08:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:51] <exec> 08└─I want to know how the temperature in the freezer got to 40C. The ambient temperature [weather.gc.ca] was warm last week, but never above 10C. Best guess is the the heat came from the still functioning freezers. How that happened in the absence of compression, I don't know.
[08:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:53] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't say, but the UAlberta website [ualberta.ca] has a few more details on the failures (apparently the monitoring system failed too as a aresult of some DB corruption). For the temperature to go from -37C to +40C without an alarm going off and prompting some urgent human intervention...
[08:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:42] <exec> 08└─> PulseAudio (aka ESD I think you're mistaken. Pulseaudio was written by Lennart Poettering. Check the README file. It was intended to replace ESD; that doesn't mean it was ESD. Check the README: Copyright 2004 Lennart Poettering <mzcbylcnhqvb (at) 0pointer (dot) de> [...] It is intend...
[08:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:43] <exec> 08└─You're probably trolling, but whatever. Straight from Mr. Shuttleworth himself: being on one side or the other [of the debate is] a sign of tribal allegiance
[08:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:45] <exec> 08└─That's a shame to see. But, there are two separate issues in that bug: 1) A gratuitous dependency of procps on libsystemd 2) The requirement to mount a separate /usr (if any) in the initramfs The first is the real problem, dragging in unnecessary library dependencies in a minimalistic core tool. Ext...
[08:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:17] <exec> 08└─...to get IPv4-only equipment retired.
[08:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:19] <exec> 08└─Well, telnet is dead-simple. You can almost use netcat as a client (or so I have heard). Not sure why you would ever want it on the WAN interface though.
[08:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:58] <exec> 08└─Hey, ladies. Grow some balls
[08:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Sleep may act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:29] <exec> 08└─what sensors does it use?
[08:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Sleep may act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:30] <exec> 08└─Wet dreams were gone around age 13 due to regular, um, 'maintenance'.
[08:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:34] <exec> 08└─Imagine that they are improperly stored, containers with one component stacked in the same room as containers with the other components. A bomb hits at breaks open the containers. What would happen when the components mix? Apart from that, allow me to quote your own post: "Usually". Meaning when sto...
[08:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Nominee is a Proponent of "Adaptive Trials" - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:22] <exec> 08└─> This is true -- buy only if those who conduct the trail are unaware of p-hacking or are *perfectly aware* of p-hacking > (they are not [unaware].) you're close to working out the problem now.
[08:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Nominee is a Proponent of "Adaptive Trials" - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:24] <exec> 08└─There are several ways to p-hack. One is post-hoc trawling for relevance in a huge pool of data. Another is simply by running multiple experiments, and chosing (stopping at) the one that has the desired outcome. That latter form is probably the more familiar form of p-hacking: https://www.xkcd.com
[08:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Nominee is a Proponent of "Adaptive Trials" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:26] <exec> 08└─> The new "adaptive" means they can just remove the people who die "Outliers" in statistical terminology.
[08:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Declining Carbon Dioxide Balanced Brightening Sun - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:41] <exec> 08└─Ah, well, Revelations is all Code. The Number of the Beast, that is the 6-6-6 that is the barrier values on all the barcodes you run across everyday in the supply chain. But the Beast itself? Who do you think that is? And even more so, there is reference to the "Whore of Babylon", which I can only...
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[09:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:16] <exec> 08└─You have a $500 chip that is within 25% of a $1100 chip? I'd call that a super duper touchdown of a win. And who in the hell is recommending an Intel $1100 8 core as a gaming chip? Oh right NOBODY because its a workstation CPU,most games don't even do 4 threads these days, are you REALLY buying a 16...
[09:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:52] <exec> 08└─> that was only opened earlier this year > It was like a changing room in a swimming pool. I guess they are finding out about the bathtub curve
[09:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:53] <exec> 08└─In Canada, even freezers need heating sometimes. Likely as not, someone jostled the control for the heat pump.
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[10:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:30] <exec> 08└─Anything without ECC *IS NOT* a workstation chip. It may be classed as 'workstation class performance', but it is not sufficient for a workstation chip. The usualy standard would be dual socket is workstation, quad and above with single system image is server grade. Neither class has qualified witho...
[10:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:31] <exec> 08└─So long as you recompile every piece of software you have, and with a compiler that optimises towards that architecture, and assuming that this isn't "recoding" to make it better for that chip, but just a simple recompilation (hint: It's more than a recompilation, it's a re-optimisation for one part...
[10:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:49] <exec> 08└─There's a reason governments have in the past cooperated with wikileaks and confirmed authenticity while working with them to redact info that may have been missed. When a leak happens it can go from clusterfuck to unverified clusterfuck real fast. By which I mean there are any number of men and dev...
[10:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:08] <exec> 08└─Definitive proof that warming is man made...
[10:47:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 2332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:23] <exec> 08└─As I said in a post above: the objection was that it was contributing to Linux fragmentation for a critical low-level infrastructural component, and creating more unnecessary work for downstream projects such as KDE/Qt and Gnome/Gtk+ which need to talk to the display server. It's not trivial to make...
[10:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but this story has the most posts in last few days. Clickbait must be working :D The whole Mir hate-fest boggled my mind - it's free software that does something invisible really well. It became a political topic as irrational as climate change or gun control, where being on one side or the o...
[10:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:02] <exec> 08└─Try Lubuntu, with an LXDE desktop. Runs without a hitch on a Pentium dual-core T4500, 2GB RAM laptop. I can even use the laptop to sorta reasonable develop in Java and PHP using Eclipse (a thing that gobbles memory even if you only look at it).
[10:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:54] <exec> 08└─ULA, feeling the pressure? :p
[10:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:16] <exec> 08└─Well, the software that runs the site is named Rehash after all.
[10:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.
[10:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:20] <exec> 08└─Testicles *are* a prerequisite?
[10:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:22] <exec> 08└─Wait, isn't there a gender pay gap specifically because women have not done something about the problem?
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[11:46:39] <exec> 08└─What are you replying to? It's as if the parent had said "25% better" performance instead of "within 25%".
[11:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06African Elephants Transport Seeds Further Than Any Other Land Animal - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:48] <exec> 08└─When did further become a synonym for farther? 😢😭😢
[11:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:00] <exec> 08└─If our Government spooks had done their jobs, and meticulously avoided spying on American citizens, then they would enjoy a whole lot more support from American citizens. As it stands, the Three Letter Agencies have done their damnedest to alienate the very people who would otherwise support them. B...
[11:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:21] <exec> 08└─Just so you know, putting things in triple parens is something the alt-reich does when they're trying to point out some Jewish conspiracy. Unless you're attempting a form of Bayesian poisoning attack on the technique, it doesn't make sense to use it in this context. Though if you are, that's rather...
[11:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:23] <exec> 08└─That is bizarre. I mean "cold" is Canada's number one natural resource, jeez.
[11:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:17] <exec> 08└─10 reasons why Ubuntu should use KDE Plasma instead of GNOME http://www.alexl.netsons.org [netsons.org]
[11:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:19] <exec> 08└─The code is not ESD, but the problems, the performance and the difficulties getting rid of it is pretty much the same.
[11:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:21] <exec> 08└─Spot-on. My approach would have been to merge with or adopt as default the Ubuntu Mate distro honestly since that'd be a return to form (mostly; as of 1.18 Mate is gtk3 only and I *really* do not know how to feel about this...). But yeah, Plasma has been taking more and more of my time from Xfce rec...
[11:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:23] <exec> 08└─If they can make a better Free Software display server than X11 then it will catch on, and we’ll all be better for
[11:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:57] <exec> 08└─Never thought I'd be on the side of the WWW and NetMafia Gospel, but they're doing the Light's work here. Sometimes people are too stupid to learn through anything but pain.
[11:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crowd Art - When Pixels Collide - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:33] <exec> 08└─This is just reddit circlejerking over how they can ban the people who draw swastikas everywhere and claim "no hate symbols!" The only miracle is their marketing, you idiot. Fuck off.
[11:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Nominee is a Proponent of "Adaptive Trials" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:06] <exec> 08└─Pray I do not adapt it any further.
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[12:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:24] <exec> 08└─An outsider beat Washington at their own game. JK not an outsider, more of a designated driver.
[12:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:25] <exec> 08└─MSNBC, CNN, Wapo, NYT, ABC, Vice and so on. And on the other side, there's Fox. Not exactly comforting.
[12:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:27] <exec> 08└─Make is sound more like, this [technologyreview.com]. Can we do that as a team?
[12:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FuzzyTheBear [974] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:30] <exec> 08└─Best ,as always , is not to have personal info out in public. There's very bad people out here . From researcher dream to public nightmare the net is the instrument of it's own destruction. Major changes need to happen to privacy law before we can trust it. In fact , fake news has totally wiped off...
[12:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06African Elephants Transport Seeds Further Than Any Other Land Animal - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:53] <exec> 08└─Requiescat in pace, English language.
[12:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:17] <exec> 08└─The prediction was that this is not just about cost, it's about launch success odds. Right now folks have to be paid extra to fly on a used booster. I predict that will be shown to be backwards. The cost model I was thinking about was: B = cost to launch a one use booster B/10 = cost to launch with...
[12:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:01] <exec> 08└─This is the beginning of a renaissance in the apprenticeship model: The path into a particular productive role in society must be well defined from beginning to end.
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[13:46:30] <exec> 08└─The republicans have been slowly strangling [propublica.org] the SEC by taking every opportunity to cut their budget. [nytimes.com] Looks like they haven't cut deeply enough yet. Don't worry, they've got a plan for that. [barrons.com]
[13:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:41] <exec> 08└─Ah propaganda, the old loaded term for PR. Everyone within the US political system is doing exactly the same thing, singling out Trump in order to spin the propaganda narrative against him is the epitome of hypocrisy.
[13:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:43] <exec> 08└─Robert Mercer is an example of what happens when an idiot wins the lottery. He is a full-blown nutjob, [newyorker.com] like pizzagate nuts. He believes that the clintons ran drugs out of arkansas with the CIA and that they regularly murder people. That black people were better off before the civil r...
[13:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:45] <exec> 08└─"He believes that the clintons ran drugs out of arkansas with the CIA" What if you could interview a retired CIA agent who talks a little to much when he's had a few drinks? What if that agent told you how many times he watched the radar signature of an aircraft crossing the US/Mexico border, come i...
[13:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:47] <exec> 08└─Case in point. Too bad there is no hope for you, its 10x easier to fool someone than for them to realize they've been fooled.
[13:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:49] <exec> 08└─Wow. Better change your brand of Kool-aid.
[13:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Software is Better at Tracking Individuals in a Crowd - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:57] <exec> 08└─We're gonna need hats and hijabs that can change patterns and colors. They can't come soon enough.
[13:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:13] <exec> 08└─No problem! I'm a Gentoo user!
[13:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:35] <exec> 08└─https://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/12/12/2255212/google-bans-symantec-root-certificates [slashdot.org]
[13:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 2293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:58] <exec> 08└─If you lose a little refrigerant the cold side runs a lower pressure so its actually colder than normal, see the old AC or dehumidifier or car AC icing up. If you lose almost all of the refrigerant until there's not condensation anymore you're basically cooling the compressors and the "cold" side wi...
[13:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:00] <exec> 08└─I've experienced more woman-made warming than man-made . . . .
[13:48:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 460 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:48] <exec> 08└─From the headline I thought that Shuttleworth was: - badmouthing those who uttered criticism - thinks climate change is a hoax - thinks gun control is stupid Then, in the summary, it says: "[The Mir debate] became a political topic...". So instead of the above, he's saying: - the criticism got out o...
[13:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:00] <exec> 08└─A modernized, cleaned up X ceases to be X. All that legacy font handling stuff that nobody uses since GTK/Qt do it better and with antialiasing, line/box/bezier curve drawing cruft that nobody uses because again, the toolkits do it better, the hacks to make 8-bit displays semi-usable, all the stuff...
[13:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:01] <exec> 08└─How is firejail with xpra working for you? I tried it when firejail first started supporting xpra, but my main use case was jailing a web browser, and it was too slow to play even SD youtube video without stuttering.
[13:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:04] <exec> 08└─the whole reason UNIX died is because of fragmentation
[13:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:24] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter what they are "intended" to do. Facts are facts - corporate America forgot where they came from, and sold out their country, shipping good paying jobs to Outback Fuckistan, where people will work like a dog just to put food on the table. Do you know where your Levi's come from? But, d...
[13:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:45] <exec> 08└─Next is research: anybody can pull crap out of their ass, but being forced to use accepted sources requires students to expose themselves to ideas other than their own,
[13:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:03] <exec> 08└─Nah, Trump doesn't have the capability for that level of planning. Putin would probably have to talk to the the generals directly to put together a plan like that, which seems unlikely. The truth is just that Trump doesn't have a plan. Trump mostly just repeats whatever the last person he spoke to s...
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[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:45] <exec> 08└─Of course. When Obama had his tech gurus he was a revolutionary. When Trump does it, it's sinister. These guys are so fucking transparent. And I have no time for them, nor the useful idiots that actually believe them.
[14:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:46] <exec> 08└─Him donating use of his private jets to Hillary for her political purposes? Google altering search results regarding Wikileaks? Organizing her fucking campaign and being seen wearing a "staff" badge at one of her Party's parties? Yeah fucking right, fake news. You sure make me want to buy a subscrip...
[14:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06African Elephants Transport Seeds Further Than Any Other Land Animal - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:14] <exec> 08└─It's the c++ of human language.
[14:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:28] <exec> 08└─You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall!
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:54] <exec> 08└─it was aliens. not fucking trump. or fake news. or anti global warming cabals. aliens. repeat after me. ALIENS.
[14:48:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 1258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:46] <exec> 08└─That's a shame to see. But, there are two separate issues in that bug: 1) A gratuitous dependency of procps on libsystemd 2) The requirement to mount a separate /usr (if any) in the initramfs The first is the real problem, dragging in unnecessary library dependencies in a minimalistic core tool. Ext...
[14:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:57] <exec> 08└─So he's kinda touchy about having to kill Mir. I won't begrudge him that, he did put his own money into it, he earned the right to feel bad about having to kill it, even if the blame is (or is not) misplaced.
[14:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:58] <exec> 08└─phones and desktops will share a UI
[14:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:01] <exec> 08└─I like my Ubuntu desktop. I enjoy Unity
[14:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:03] <exec> 08└─The stated reason for Mir's existence was that Canonical thought they could do exactly what Wayland does, but ship a working product quicker than Wayland despite starting one year behind. They also presented some very sketchy technical criticisms of Wayland's design which were immediately refuted by...
[14:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:38] <exec> 08└─Flashing an individualized default password and printing it on the existing label on the bottom of the device adds nothing to the manufacturing cost or complexity. Nobody's burning EPROM's in batches & sticking them in sockets these days. There's already an individualization process to burn in seria...
[14:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:39] <exec> 08└─Are bean counters responsible for risk analysis too?
[14:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:27] <exec> 08└─Why would women want to do anything about this “problem?” They certainly would not want the deal given to men: figure it out or starve to death in a gutter, I don't care how, and fuck you. Nobody has a problem with men starving to death. Men are accountable for their own actions. If a man doesn'...
[14:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:28] <exec> 08└─You're right, and talking shit about SN is such a fresh perspective to see for once! Thank you for contributing! I have a feeling you're from Reddit, Facebook, or the Other Site where arguments are "actually solved" by the mods banning the opposition.
[14:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:30] <exec> 08└─I will share one of my favorite one-liners of all time... "You can't trust a dog, but you can trust a dog to be a dog."
[14:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MathJax CDN Shutting Down on April 30, 2017 - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:54] <exec> 08└─It's a risk, but much smaller. You pay for VPS, you have a contract with the vendor. You have some (limited) legal recourse if they mess up. More importantly, they presumably want to stay in business and will provide the service you're paying for so you keep paying them. Freebee CDN run by who knows...
[14:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:53] <exec> 08└─He goes on to say that currently about 10% to 15% of IBM's new hires don't have traditional four-year degrees
[14:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:55] <exec> 08└─Did you think up a loosely connected reason to post JUST to express (probably for the 8th time this morning) your disapproval that the person you wanted didn't get elected?
[14:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:57] <exec> 08└─Last is creative problem analysis
[14:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:59] <exec> 08└─For the good of society we still need to have a broad education
[14:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowd Art - When Pixels Collide - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:35] <exec> 08└─I kinda suspect it ended up with a lot of flags because flags are easy, particularly for people with zero artistic ability, particularly when you've got a straight grid of pixels already. The problem with a giant goatse is that even if everyone was cooperating on it, very few of them would actually...
[14:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Sleep may act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:14] <exec> 08└─Head on pillow for more than ten minutes and you don't feel sleepy? Your body isn't going to want to sleep. Get up, do something, try again later.
[14:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:20] <exec> 08└─I do believe the flip-flop. I was making fun of the OP's conspiracy fantasy by inventing an equally well-supported conspiracy fantasy.
[14:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:21] <exec> 08└─About the only political figure that has majority support right now is Bernie Sanders, and I think that's in part because a lot of people think the complaint from Democrats that he's "not a real Democrat" is a good start.
[14:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:24] <exec> 08└─Assad has publicly said he will hold elections as soon as the terrorists are gone.
[14:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:26] <exec> 08└─A common strategy is the house of cards. It is a sort of dead man's switch for self-destruction of the country with the dictator's presence being the key stabilizing influence. Remove the dictator and the whole thing collapses into chaos,
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[15:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:43] <exec> 08└─Why is the SEC enforcing these burdensome job killing regulations? These are people's jobs that the SEC is destroying! stock promotion schemes in which writers were secretly paid to post hundreds of bullish articles
[15:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:44] <exec> 08└─It seems to be absolutely impossible to get away from. I guess as the Trump cabinet continues its love affair with big business and more stories are allowed to propagate freely, it's going to be up to us to stomp them out. I'm glad for sites like this where people are free to call out this continual...
[15:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, but see, these are small corporations pumping the stocks of other small corporations. That makes it not OK. For it to be OK, it has to be big corporations pumping the stocks of big corporations. And if any of the regulators make a really big fuss about the behavior of the big corporations, then...
[15:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:48] <exec> 08└─There is a huge effort in the mainstream media to drop the value of Uber right now (disclaimer: I don't use uber any longer due to a very bad customer service experience and hope they go away). Anyone who has followed bitcoin knows about their "bitcoin is dead" scheme after every drop as well. The i...
[15:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed. An election is an accurate measure of a candidate's value, just like the stock market is an accurate measure of a company's value. Which, ironically, is how Robert Mercer got rich, he came up with algorithms to manipulate the stock market and has been made billions via his quant hedge fund.
[15:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:10] <exec> 08└─I just can't believe it. How many times do we need proof of election rigging to finally bring a court case against Trump and his administration? Oh, right. It doesn't matter. Americans are complacent about Russia and Trump swaying voters. And now that he's in power, it's just going to be more and mo...
[15:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:12] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm convinced. An unnamed person on a website indirectly alluded to some third-hand drunken gossip from someone who alleges to have seen a blip on a radar screen. Obviously the only logical conclusion is that Bill and Hilary Clinton are massive drug dealers. I can't conceive of any higher stan...
[15:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:14] <exec> 08└─I don't think the internet will be destroyed. But social media, good riddance. People should be able to distinguish trustworthy from untrustworthy information -- and media. The key to this: an educated populace. We are now reaping the failures of our education system that started some time back. Ign...
[15:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:16] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about the US law regarding elections, but is "influence" illegal? I'm having a very difficult time trying to find anything about it, and I've spent 5 minutes or so already searching. "US voting laws influence" doesn't yield much more than some articles written by SJW's about how bl...
[15:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:18] <exec> 08└─Googling . . . Propaganda is "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view". Propaganda is not PR. PR may be biased, but should not be misleading -- especially about politics. Trump is not being covered unfairly. Just critically. It is...
[15:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─If that were true, a conspiracy that big, involving that many people, could not be kept. Other radars would pick up that plane also. More people would come forward. All you seem to have is mere hearsay, if it is even that. I could make up crazy stories too. But we now live in a time when facts no lo...
[15:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:23] <exec> 08└─We are now reaping the failures of our education system that started some time back.
[15:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:25] <exec> 08└─Trump upset vested interests and pointed out media lies. Of course there will be a fight.
[15:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:27] <exec> 08└─When corruption goes far enough unpleasanties pop up.
[15:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:47] <exec> 08└─It's not an across the board thing. Some games play better on Ryzen and some don't. Ashes of the Singularity didn't and it's one of the few DX12 games so it sort of stuck out. No special compiler required. No special binary required. For ashes it was a recompile with a newer version of visual c++ be...
[15:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:48] <exec> 08└─I care and here's why. AMD fans who have been waiting over a year for Ryzen (and hopefully saving $$ for it) bought the very first available processor, which is the R7 1800(x). That was six weeks ago. Since then we've had bios tweaking, windows (power) tweaking, and now finally some game tweaking. I...
[15:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:50] <exec> 08└─Or you write a reusable library that encapsulates the differences into a single API. That's CS-101 stuff. Heck, AMD would probably pay devs to do it for AAA titles.
[15:48:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 987 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:13] <exec> 08└─If our Government spooks had done their jobs, and meticulously avoided spying on American citizens, then they would enjoy a whole lot more support from American citizens. As it stands, the Three Letter Agencies have done their damnedest to alienate the very people who would otherwise support them. B...
[15:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:16] <exec> 08└─It's worse than just distrust in the TLA's. The TLAs (or those 'overseeing' them) have caused the Americans to distrust government in general. More so than the 1960's and 1970's did. I don't trust anyone or any party with such awesome spying powers. It doesn't help with isolated law enforcement abus...
[15:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:44] <exec> 08└─it was aliens. not fucking trump. or fake news. or anti global warming cabals. aliens. repeat after me. ALIENS.
[15:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:45] <exec> 08└─As I recall the thermal transfer for compression heat pumps is 1/3 input electricity with 2/3 thermal power pumped out to the hot side. So the 1:5 factor seems like a lot. Is there enough refrigerant oil to burn and that can actually ignite easily? it must leak out of the tubing I assume? Anyway.. t...
[15:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:47] <exec> 08└─It was someone making a drink that needed some ice.
[15:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:49] <exec> 08└─it was aliens. not trump
[15:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:54] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. It's certainly a worthy goal to have some commonality in the appearance and interface across devices. But the idea that you'll operate a tiny handheld phone the exact same way you'd want to use a 100X-more powerful desktop computer with three large monitors is just bonkers. We need...
[15:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:56] <exec> 08└─From memory, the Wayland team originally stated that network transparency was never a consideration from the start and that they would investigate that in the future once the core was stable. I can get behind that because trying to satisfy every single use case including niche cases would infect the...
[15:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure it's fair to call it "tribalism" when what he means is "if you're in other tribe you're WRONG!" Tribe A - Mir is good (Canonical) Tribe B - Mir sucks ("Linux assholes")
[15:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:25] <exec> 08└─I've never visited a Google campus, but I'm willing to bet that few of their employees are at liberty to discuss wages.
[15:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowd Art - When Pixels Collide - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:29] <exec> 08└─There were a number of clones gaining momentum during the initial experiment. Whether any of them continue today, I'm not sure.
[15:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Sleep may act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:09] <exec> 08└─in python
[15:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Sleep may act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:11] <exec> 08└─I'm curious how the 2010s mythology of vision tint fits in with the deployment of color TV in the 60s or so. And pr0n, because everything's better with pr0n. Suddenly people went from reddish yellow incandescent bulbs to B+W TV (should be no tint thus no effect) to suddenly staring into vibrant colo...
[15:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:22] <exec> 08└─Make America Great In China (MAGIC)
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[16:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:22] <exec> 08└─Cooked brain, salt anyone? ;-)
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:24] <exec> 08└─Oxygen attenuates 60 GHz signals, a property that is unique to the 60 GHz spectrum.
[16:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:26] <exec> 08└─Ok, this solves the wire problem, but without the wire you need batteries. Lots of batteries. Why do you think Google pulled the plug on Glass? Longer term nobody is going to want to wear a pound of VR helmet. Even if it is just a passive receiver and display + sensors the power drain is going to b...
[16:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:28] <exec> 08└─I have good news for you. Before any sort of brain damage results from brain overheating, you'll suffer traumatic headaches that will alert you to take the thing off. Also: microwaves, radio waves, and infrared absolutely suffuse our world already. A dash more millimeter wave(i.e. the same UHF that...
[16:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:30] <exec> 08└─Just put the computer on the person. Then the cable only has to run down your back, to a fanny pack or backpack or similar. You could even put it into a gun or shield. Optical is another choice, but really, just wear the computer.
[16:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:32] <exec> 08└─Make the VR game be some sort of Mars thing. Run the game in a room with cold nitrogen and carbon dioxide. Players wear rebreathers to survive. High-end systems can even be low pressure, with players wearing pressure suits. Other options: Moon (just vacuum), World War I (nitrogen and chlorine), and...
[16:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:44] <exec> 08└─There will always be fraudsters. But as long as there's also a continuous negative feedback they won't be around long enough to mess up too much. So if SEC is reduced enough then the system may go into positive feedback. Just ask anyone in control theory how that works out..
[16:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─You need money above certain thresholds to corrupt the system successfully with the task ;-)
[16:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:48] <exec> 08└─The issue here seems to be one of simple fraud. If you disclose your association with a company or who is paying you it isn't a problem. But we always punish fraud, you can't say you are an unbiased analyst AND get a check from the people you are supposedly rating. But below a certain cutoff we shou...
[16:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─Why would bitcoin users care for what Uber thinks? ;-)
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─In other words, mainstream media is junk is should not be consumed by anyone with a brain? ;)
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─One problem is the working class may not be educated enough to tell truth from fiction. Nor do they have enough critical thinking to recognize outright lies. (Protip: anyone who frequently uses the following terms is a con man: "trust me", "I promise", "believe me", "it will be the biggest, best, .....
[16:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:56] <exec> 08└─"Hell, with enough eyes, we could have stopped Trump." Just try to offer a candidate who isn't already a laughing stock before even being elected. No more Clintons, no more Kennedys, forget all about Lurch Kerry. You might try running Bern again. Except, he's such an old bastard. Who else you have i...
[16:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:25] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Fox produces enough lies, bullshit, and distorted spin to counterbalance them a dozen times over, and I am no fan of MSNBC or CNN. Try another, less obvious fallacy.
[16:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:27] <exec> 08└─We are now reaping the failures of our education system that started some time back.
[16:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:29] <exec> 08└─So glad we said as a society that it's perfectly OK and legal, even desirable, for internet companies to use all this data to target advertisements. So glad we let "corporate cancerism" as I've recently seen it described have a level of access to our personal lives that, were the government to have,...
[16:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scottingham [5593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:31] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you can call winning the popular vote 'beaten soundly', but I get your point. She was pretty fucking bad. I was a Bernie man, so fuck it all at this point.
[16:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:47] <exec> 08└─It's just like that increase in violet stroms
[16:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:48] <exec> 08└─COP depends very strongly on outside air temperature. I checked the weather and its just below freezing at night so the COP should be super high. Refrigerant oils optimistically are refined not to burn well or easily but here they are in a multi-KW pump generating heat and wooshing around making mis...
[16:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:50] <exec> 08└─The triple parens thing is mostly useful as a sign that the poster can be safely ignored :) I'd just like to know what are the double parens around "unemployed" supposed to mean. Was it a mistake, or is there some new signalling that I can disappointingly shake my head at?
[16:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:58] <exec> 08└─The whole draw of Ubuntu was to be a unique, user-focused distro that's easy to install and use, which concentrates on innovating on the user-facing elements.
[16:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:00] <exec> 08└─It absolutely *is* tribalism, on one side: the Canonical side. The irony is that Mark is accusing the community of tribalism, when it's really just him and his small cadre of followers that are exhibiting tribal behavior on this issue. He is right about many other issues showing tribal behavior: cli...
[16:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:02] <exec> 08└─Wow, really? (I wrote the headline, in case it isn't obvious.) However, the way I see it, he has absolutely badmouthed those who've criticized him, particularly with Mir. But I never intended to imply he had any positions on climate change or gun control, though now I see how you read it that way, s...
[16:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:04] <exec> 08└─I'm glad he's still ought there trying. Ubuntu is a major accomplishment and even though its the collaborative product of tens of thousands of people it wouldn't exist without him. So he deserves slack (aka love).
[16:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:06] <exec> 08└─#include int main(void) { for(short int iter=1; iter=10; iter++) {printf("%d - Because Gnome 3 sucks!\n",iter);} return(0); }
[16:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:09] <exec> 08└─Niiiiice going, Soylent! Thanks for eatin' my brackets. It's almost like you all don't want some kind of shell exploit run through the forum software or something ;)
[16:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:11] <exec> 08└─Back when I maintained procps, it only depended on libc. It didn't even trust libc very much. It was prepared for some kinds of kernel bug that could hang it, producing output until hitting the kernel problem. When I was asked to support SELinux, I insisted on doing so without the external library....
[16:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:48] <exec> 08└─A lot of the reason is that it can make development a lot easier. All you need to do to debug things is plug it into the WAN and the device can connect to your testing servers and has a convenient way for you to go deeper than the shiny GUI. The problem is that they either forget to turn it off or (...
[16:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:10] <exec> 08└─The US might WANT SpaceX to launch foreign satellites. Interdiction. You can't place a bug or sabotage device on a foreign satellite if you can't get your hands on it.
[16:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 1695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:11] <exec> 08└─Is this (or is it not) possible? If launches become significantly cheaper, could this cause payloads to become cheaper? If the cost to put up a satellite becomes way cheaper, then maybe you don't put quite so much money into a payload? It still needs to accomplish its mission and design lifetime. Bu...
[16:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:41] <exec> 08└─He's facing unprecedented resistance
[16:53:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:22] <exec> 08└─Actually, those are exactly the sort of issues you find in academic code all the time. It turns out that Computer Science programs do not value clean code nearly as much as low computational complexity and abstract math.
[16:53:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:53] <exec> 08└─Anyone with a BS would beg to differ, and many other non-science degrees would also disagree. Running lab tests, learning advanced mathematics, advanced philosophical approaches, or even advanced knowledge and appreciation of women's studies can be very helpful for a job that actually uses those ski...
[16:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Sleep may act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:27] <exec> 08└─How did I miss the comedic opportunity to say . . . Recreational Sleeping is more recreational if you are (1) not alone and (2) not sleeping.
[16:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:38] <exec> 08└─It is not a strategy to prevent their removal. Its a strategy to deal with the fact that civic institutions are a roadblock to autocracy. Dictators dismantle institutions because they aren't set up to obey their every whim. The fact that it makes society more fragile is a side-effect, not the intent...
[16:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:40] <exec> 08└─So what? They just need to be right.
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[17:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:45] <exec> 08└─Hell, with enough eyes, we could have stopped Trump. We just need more communication among the working class to stomp this garbage out!
[17:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:46] <exec> 08└─Second problem is that the working class is happy to keep taking their Soma. And if the chocolate ration is increased this week to 20g, they are happy, even if they don't actually get any more chocolate than last week.
[17:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:49] <exec> 08└─> Who else you have in mind? Elizabeth Warren
[17:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:22] <exec> 08└─Any other UK denizens of a certain age fighting off images of trying to influence election officials by offering them playing cards printed with the specifications of cars or aircraft? Just me? Ok, I'll get my coat... (Number of pockets: 6 - haha! I win!)
[17:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:24] <exec> 08└─The search suggestions are cleaned up. Put in "Hillary Clinton is" on google and you only get nice suggestions. Try it on Bing or DuckDuckGo, and oh boy! Facebook does this kind of shit too, and twitter is probably the worst. Twitter carefully suppresses conservative opinion. Tweets get hidden from...
[17:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:26] <exec> 08└─You are probably too young to remember. But Pepperidge Farm remembers and so do I, when the Democrats supported Soviet Russia and called anyone who saw the pervasive Soviet infestation of our institutions an evil person practicing McCarthyism against innocent public servants. Amazing how that revers...
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:28] <exec> 08└─> The search suggestions are cleaned up. Put in "Hillary Clinton is" on google and you only get nice suggestions. Try it on Bing or DuckDuckGo, and oh boy! Put in Donald Trump and you get the same thing. Google sanitizes equally. You just didn't bother doing the comparison because its all about halt...
[17:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─The problem with conspiracy theories is that people like to believe them, even on flimsy evidence. It is fun to think you know something others don't. Ostensibly, the media may refrain from carrying many stories because they lack independent verification. For something like a rape accusation, that m...
[17:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:32] <exec> 08└─> If the NYT splashed someone's email on page 1 You mean like all those times they splashed Clinton's email on page 1?
[17:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:35] <exec> 08└─Different. WikiLeaks and the dastardly Russians did it, once it was out and a story the NYT had to cover it, who else could provide the proper context to the raw information? Who else could assure panicked Hillary supporters that there wasn't any real news here, to keep calm and donate again. You do...
[17:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Software is Better at Tracking Individuals in a Crowd - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:43] <exec> 08└─Unlike CVdazzle, I would be comfortable wearing such hats in public.
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─Unless you're prophesizing the imminent arrival of enthusiast-grade (i.e. overclockable) ECC memory, you don't appear to have thought this entirely through.
[17:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06African Elephants Transport Seeds Further Than Any Other Land Animal - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:09] <exec> 08└─https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/farther-or-further [oxforddictionaries.com] Around the time when they renamed their dictionary to "living dictionary"?
[17:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cyberattacks via CIA Tools Happened a lot, Symantec says - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:26] <exec> 08└─one day this apparatus may fall into the hands of an insane madman
[17:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:01] <exec> 08└─Another poster found more information [soylentnews.org] The Freezer was brand new: having undergone about 6 months of testing prior to loading the ice cores. The monitoring system apparently failed due to database corruption. They finally figured out something was wrong when the fire alarm went off.
[17:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:02] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they tested the freezer during the coldest months of the year instead of the warmest months of the year. Isn't that Bass-ackwards?
[17:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:19] <exec> 08└─So? The motto was "Linux for human beings", which covers "user-focused" and, given the implication that other distros were for nonhumans*, "unique"; you don't seem to be contesting "easy to install and use", so all that's left is "concentrates on innovating on the user-facing elements." Early on, th...
[17:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:20] <exec> 08└─Even Debian tolerates non-free software. They may discourage it, but they still tolerate it. And, depending on your precise definition of free, they even have some in their repositories.
[17:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:22] <exec> 08└─I think Mir would have been bad for the community if it caught on the way PulseAudio [...] did. It was fine until people started targeting PA, which we're stuck with now.
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[17:51:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but Earth is at the bottom of a hole, and it costs energy to climb down the hole without lithobraking at the end. Because you have to burn more fuel to land with fuel, you only get to sell a fraction of the fuel if you return it to Earth -- and then you're competing on price with locally-produ...
[17:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:54] <exec> 08└─No. Try reading the first three paragraphs here. [wikipedia.org] In fact, when those two parties merged (Freien Arbeiterausschuss für einen guten Frieden (Free Workers' Committee for a good Peace) and Politischer Arbeiterzirkel (Political Workers' Circle)), "socialist" wasn't in the resulting party...
[17:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:56] <exec> 08└─Wait, isn't there a gender pay gap specifically because women have not done something about the problem?
[17:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:58] <exec> 08└─I guess that's the difference between men and women, the men just give up and run away while the women do something about the problem.
[17:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:00] <exec> 08└─You're right, and talking shit about SN is such a fresh perspective to see for once! Thank you for contributing
[17:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:02] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about with misogynist laws against waiters/servers? That's a job that is roughly evenly split between men and women, so even if the laws were put in place to harm them, it wouldn't be misogynistic. And secondly, the laws are in place because gratuity is a substantial portion of...
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[17:57:01] <exec> 08└─It is not a strategy to prevent their removal. Its a strategy to deal with the fact that civic institutions are a roadblock to autocracy.
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[18:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06April 13th NASA Briefing on Ocean(s) Near Saturn (or Elsewhere) - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:36] <exec> 08└─If we exterminate life from those worlds, how do we know there isn't more of it lurking in the solar system?
[18:47:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 913 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:40] <exec> 08└─Googling . . . Propaganda is "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view". Propaganda is not PR. PR may be biased, but should not be misleading -- especially about politics. Trump is not being covered unfairly. Just critically. It is...
[18:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:58] <exec> 08└─Go read the writings of the people who designed the government schools.
[18:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:59] <exec> 08└─I think the difference is that these guys were spreading lies and bullshit while Obama's data efforts were driving things like get-out-the-vote efforts.
[18:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, the election was rigged. It was rigged before it even began, being monopolized by two corrupt political parties with long histories of criminality and blatant track records of favoring special interests over people. They have the corporate media and the government itself stacked with their own...
[18:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:03] <exec> 08└─Who else could assure panicked Hillary supporters that there wasn't any real news here, to keep calm and donate again.
[18:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:05] <exec> 08└─no, no, no! Everybody is equally venal and manipulative. There is no such thing as ethics and standards. Anyone who tries to live up to a standard and fails was just a crook all along. There are no principles, only tribes. The nazis were no worse than the americans.
[18:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:08] <exec> 08└─That is the trick, these secrets aren't kept they are merely suppressed.
[18:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Software is Better at Tracking Individuals in a Crowd - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:18] <exec> 08└─We're gonna need...hijabs that can change patterns and colors.
[18:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:37] <exec> 08└─He's Greek, where do you expect him to insert his faggotry?
[18:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:39] <exec> 08└─With a GSM-adapter one can circumvent the whole IT-department. Any server would only need power and no department-LAN. I'll expect the managers of the freezer room to have enough clue about SIM card. There has to be some minimum standard. Or it's like instructing the heart surgeon as a patient on su...
[18:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:41] <exec> 08└─They could always refreeze 'em, but they just won't taste the same.
[18:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:00] <exec> 08└─Gentoo works fine and comes without drama.
[18:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:02] <exec> 08└─My point was that most OSs should have at least some awareness of making life easier for their users, so if that's the only thing that sets you apart ("we do it better than everyone else") that doesn't really make you unique. Cf. Apple I guess? Overall I'd say Ubuntu has a positive balance of worth....
[18:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:04] <exec> 08└─Gentoo works fine and comes without drama.
[18:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rash of in-the-Wild Attacks Permanently Destroys Poorly Secured IoT Devices - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I wish they'd go a bit further than bricking them. Convert the compromised router into a captive portal that returns "YOUR DEVICE WAS HACKED BECAUSE THE MANUFACTURER IS COMPLETELY INCOMPETENT" instead of whatever site you're requesting. If it's got a screen, print that to the screen. If it's g...
[18:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:43] <exec> 08└─What? Where did I say "just because"? I do believe the average male will work harder on getting a promotion because society pressures them to get a promotion and earn more. It's not about one gender being better than another. The flip side is that on average females work much harder on their appeara...
[18:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 2023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:44] <exec> 08└─Assume a pay gap exists. Google genuinely discovers they can hire women to do the exact same quality and performance of work as men for let's say 70% of the wage, as one interpretation of the "extreme" pay gap mentioned. I'm a Google finance executive. My entire worth is measured in no small part by...
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[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:34] <exec> 08└─The computer adds to the weight and power consumption, although your backpack idea is a reality [soylentnews.org]. 60 GHz is not so crazy [lightreading.com]. It is the high frequency band used in 802.11ad [wikipedia.org] (aka "WiGig"). It makes complete sense that your desktop would be in the same r...
[19:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:36] <exec> 08└─Combine it with this [soylentnews.org]? The turbines could provide air flow and could run a generator set to provide power.
[19:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:58] <exec> 08└─Trump wasn't the Democrat's enemy - Clinton was.
[19:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:00] <exec> 08└─More like "No single source of information is to be trusted by anyone with a brain." And this is why we need to be teaching what is usually called "critical thinking" , ideally at a high school level but at least at an undergraduate level.
[19:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:48] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not - as a now Trump supporter I was donating small amounts to Bernie's campaign when I could afford to. Then it became apparent that he was going to race-bait as never before, and ultimately, was going to submit to the establishment. "We're gonna destroy the establishment!!! Oops, loo...
[19:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:50] <exec> 08└─"I'm going to claim that a minority is equal in strength to a majority because it serves my cognitive bias to do so." -Azuma Hazuki (Translated quote)
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─If you have not read Julian Assange's essay on Google, you are blind in this conversation. https://wikileaks.org [wikileaks.org]
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:54] <exec> 08└─That was true ten years ago. Nowadays every one of the "mainstream" sources including AP, BBC, has caught up to Fox in bullshit production quantity. The root problem is corruption, the force multiplier is incompetence. When you see journalists block and insult sources on social media for correcting...
[19:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:56] <exec> 08└─The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher [cantrip.org]
[19:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:58] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call it "courage" but in Germany there were two fellows who invented a refrigerator. Fearing what the Nazi government might do, they went to the United States, where they wrote a letter to the president that led to the realisation of the atomic bomb. https://en.wikipedia.org
[19:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, I'll let him speak for himself. https://wikileaks.org [wikileaks.org]
[19:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:03] <exec> 08└─Googling . . .
[19:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:05] <exec> 08└─> "I'm going to claim that a minority is equal in strength to a majority because it serves my cognitive bias to do so." You don't seem to understand how information works, do you? Here's a clue, its non-rivalrous. [wikipedia.org] Turns out that liberals spread their news consumption pretty broadly a...
[19:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:36] <exec> 08└─The article author Colette Derworiz wrote yesterday There was a temperature alarm, but it failed too. A computer system on the freezer was sending out alarm signals but they never made to the university's control centre. Investigation is ongoing. Several contingencies now...
[19:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:59] <exec> 08└─I agree that standards do make things much easier for everyone. However, deciding on and implementing a standard will always be much more straightforward and less painful under an organisational hierarchy. While the FOSS model will ultimately decide a standard or standards through community usage (h...
[19:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AudioGuy [24] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attack on Syria Cements Kremlin’s Embrace of Assad - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:44] <exec> 08└─My intended point was that it provides leverage for later action to insure that promise is kept. Which I did not make clear. My personal opinion is that Putin had the right idea, deal with the terrorists first, then deal with Assad. There is no doubt he needs to go, but -how- he goes may be the diff...
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[20:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:27] <exec> 08└─Don't fret yourself none. We only moderate stories and you were never going to see anything infringing in them anyways.
[20:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:28] <exec> 08└─In the old world six companies control pretty much every movie, tv show, magazine and book, establishing and maintaining a unified Narrative was and is easy. In the Internet world there are many and control of a Narrative is difficult. One of these worlds has a future and one does not. Which one sur...
[20:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:30] <exec> 08└─I think they are saying that if a user posts a comment that involves copyrighted material then SN would be in trouble because it moderates the content. In LJ's case the moderators were just volunteers (like SN). Checkout this snippet: Etsy, Kickstarter, Pinterest, and Tumblr, in urging the appeals p...
[20:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:32] <exec> 08└─This does not sound like that big a deal. If your site allows users to manage and post their own content, such as youtube, then the safe harbor applies. However, if your site has a policy that the content must first be reviewed and approved by a moderator then the safe harbor might not apply. It mak...
[20:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:35] <exec> 08└─What's the problem? 4chan has the most free speech of any site on the net. We should strive to be more like them.
[20:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 2366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:37] <exec> 08└─I am not a lawyer but I seem to get mixed up in legal things a lot. Also I'm willing to read and unlike the "journalists" involved I have no dog in the fight. So here goes. I can't get the copy/paste functionality working so deal with it. Page 4 explains that the leader of the mod team is an employe...
[20:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─I think they are saying that if a user posts a comment that involves copyrighted material then SN would be in trouble because it moderates the content.
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:41] <exec> 08└─I am not a lawyer, and advice on the internet from stranger is worth what you pay for it. That being said... But I can't help thinking of the impact this may have on SoylentNews.... if left to stand, this ruling could make running a site such as SN a very tricky line to walk.
[20:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─It's way harder to read at work : (
[20:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:46] <exec> 08└─So if TMB posts a plagiarized article (unbeknownst to him) with no credit or links
[20:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:48] <exec> 08└─The issue wasn't with LJ blog owners posting copyrighted content. It was users commenting with copyrighted content. The volunteer moderators removed the "offending content" after they were told but Mavrix is arguing that because they were volunteers who originally approved the comments then it remov...
[20:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:50] <exec> 08└─Plus it hooks into the argument about whether linking to illegal content is the same as uploading it yourself, which there may still be some dumb rulings on. I would hope that this threat would only apply to "gated sites" that don't publish content submitted by users before someone reviews it (which...
[20:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 13th NASA Briefing on Ocean(s) Near Saturn (or Elsewhere) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:59] <exec> 08└─You can follow the answer to that question live on The Expanse [wikipedia.org].
[20:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Compares Google's TPUs to the Tesla P40 - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:07] <exec> 08└─Article is a bit loose with the terms precision and accuracy. 8 bit versus 32 bit is purely precision. Accuracy is something else. E.g. 10 +/- 1000000 may be an accurate estimate. 10.000 +/- 0.0001 may be an inaccurate estimate. The precision is different. It says nothing about the accuracy of 10.
[20:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Compares Google's TPUs to the Tesla P40 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:09] <exec> 08└─Anyone else read the headline and think it was partly about Tesla cars? The current top Model S is P100D, so the names are very close.
[20:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:24] <exec> 08└─"How can we make jet packs more unsafe exciting for our customers?" "Trick them into thinking they're in a fantasy world!" "Brilliant! *sips whisky*" --- Oh wait, you're talking about a power generation scheme. Sounds loud as fuck, 0/10 immersion broken.
[20:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:26] <exec> 08└─Augmented superman!
[20:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:51] <exec> 08└─She won. But the Republicans cheated and stole the election, while screaming loudly that the Democrats were actually doing the cheating. Their complaints about people crossing state lines to vote twice were pure propaganda to justify the vote suppression, caging, and gerrymandering the Republicans h...
[20:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:53] <exec> 08└─Which explains why the republicans are so opposed to high-quality public schools. JK, that's just serendipity.
[20:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:50] <exec> 08└─You found an essay from 1991 that does not cite any historical documents by anyone. That's not proof that the public school system was designed to do anything. Its the opinion of one unhappy person. Seems more like your are trying to disprove #1 by personal example than prove #2.
[20:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 2744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:52] <exec> 08└─Not one of the outlets you mentioned is Anti-Capitalist. They are all on the Right side of the political palate. [politicalcompass.org] BIG HINT: Trying to use a 1-dimensional term to describe an entity's position is bound to make you look foolish. When it comes to The Working Class/workers' rights,...
[20:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:54] <exec> 08└─That is not at all what she was saying. You came in to attempt to justify anyway. For Fox News to be such a conservative bastian, it seems to be all of the liberal people I know who wait on it with baited breath to wail about what they just saw on it. I don't hear my conservative friends talk about...
[20:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:56] <exec> 08└─Really now? Creo que estás usando este software de traducción de forma incorrecta. Por favor, consulta el manual. Yeah, you don't get to drag me down to your level, asshat. Fox is well known to be full of shit. They've done to our parents what our parents worried violent video games would do to us...
[20:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:59] <exec> 08└─Assange? Isn't he the guy who has so utterly lost his shit about Clinton to the point of writing deranged tweets about her having parkinsons and a head injury? The guy who has convinced tons of people that Clinton had a DNC staffer murdered as revenge for leaking the emails he actually got via Russi...
[20:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:01] <exec> 08└─Modded up because you're right, but don't confuse the alt-reich with facts; they put feelz before realz, as it hath been written, and the first feel they put before what's real is that they feel everyone ELSE puts feelz before realz. They're hopeless; the best thing we can do is ridicule them until...
[20:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:03] <exec> 08└─> That is not at all what she was saying. But it is exactly what dinkdude was saying and that is who I responded to.
[20:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:05] <exec> 08└─The nazis were no worse than the americans. Well, apparently the Nazis didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons [cbsnews.com] so maybe you're on to something!
[20:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:07] <exec> 08└─Oh wow... Just wow... I don't... I tried, but I can't even.
[20:49:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 564 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:23] <exec> 08└─You have a $500 chip that is within 25% of a $1100 chip? I'd call that a super duper touchdown of a win. And who in the hell is recommending an Intel $1100 8 core as a gaming chip? Oh right NOBODY because its a workstation CPU,most games don't even do 4 threads these days, are you REALLY buying a 16...
[20:49:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 834 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:24] <exec> 08└─Anything without ECC *IS NOT* a workstation chip. It may be classed as 'workstation class performance', but it is not sufficient for a workstation chip. The usualy standard would be dual socket is workstation, quad and above with single system image is server grade. Neither class has qualified witho...
[20:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:33] <exec> 08└─The AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review: Twelve Threads vs Four at $250 [anandtech.com]
[20:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:42] <exec> 08└─Not for long. Pretty soon it will be corn.
[20:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:43] <exec> 08└─violet stroms are much worse than blue stroms
[20:51:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 2559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:07] <exec> 08└─I agree about Shuttleworth's whiny tone here, however it simply isn't true that no one wants his ball. Ubuntu is still one of the most popular distros (even after losing a bunch of users to Mint and others because of Unity). And go read the messages about the announcement about abandoning Unity and...
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[21:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:36] <exec> 08└─Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go...
[21:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:38] <exec> 08└─All of the same questions apply to humans behind the wheel, too.
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─>>> Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it. That pretty much defines how I learned to drive, and still do. Why is this different again?
[21:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:00] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, SN doesn't allow file uploads. So that's good. But it might be possible to merely link to a site that itself has infringing material. And the **AA holes would like linking to be copyright infringement. One could possibly link to an image that is copyright infringing which might really get the...
[21:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:01] <exec> 08└─Right but what they're calling moderation is a hell of a lot different than what we call moderation. Theirs actually control what's seen and what's not. Ours do not have that power and are in no way, shape, or form staff. Every registered user with over a month of time on the site gets moderator poi...
[21:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:03] <exec> 08└─However is SN starts posting stories like "mods please approve this as the best Microsoft Windows 10 (tm) download" and a mod hired by SN approves the best windows 10 torrent download, then SN is probably F'd.
[21:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:05] <exec> 08└─This is one of those situations where whats strategically not talked about is probably very important. no one titled "journalist" wants to talk about the first point the judges brought up in the opinion, which is the dude who ran the story was a LJ employee not a member of the DMCA general public sa...
[21:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:08] <exec> 08└─The ruling deals with moderated postings: every post goes through a moderator; with only about 30% being approved. The moderators not only moderate for content, but posts are required to include images; rather than just linking to third-party sites. The appeal court said that the lower court erred i...
[21:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:10] <exec> 08└─Most of the moderators were volunteers, but LJ apparently gave them very specific guidelines, including times of work.
[21:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─Their volunteers are not staff in any way, shape, or form either. SN's moderation is different yes, but not so different that it isn't moderation. Ours is more granular. Comments can be disappeared or promoted to higher visibility. Obviously SN is different than LJ but not so different that this ju...
[21:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, if our moderators could actually disappear a comment it might be an issue. They can't. Any user at any time can see any comment. If they choose not to based on community rating of that comment, that's their choice and has nothing to do with the comment being visible to the wide world.
[21:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Compares Google's TPUs to the Tesla P40 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:31] <exec> 08└─I always wonder about this for games. Why do they use floating point instead of pure integers that are much faster to handle?
[21:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:49] <exec> 08└─You're still going to need serious batteries. Receiving at a high rate will cost you power. Decompressing will cost you too. Then there is the stuff you have in any case: light, pixels, etc. (shrinking the portion used by any computer)
[21:48:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:45] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Fox produces enough lies, bullshit, and distorted spin to counterbalance them a dozen times over, and I am no fan of MSNBC or CNN. Try another, less obvious fallacy.
[21:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:21] <exec> 08└─As many have pointed out, the name of the game was never "get the most public votes" it was "get the most electoral college votes" which Trump did quite well with. He was even proven correct a few times when they did their recount and discovered there were more votes for Trump than they counted befo...
[21:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:23] <exec> 08└─I am going to recommend once more that folks DON'T just cut and paste URLs. A proper hyperlink with proper link text is the way to go. In this example, we have Eastern European non-Roman characters. What has resulted is not searchable via the S/N search engine nor via Google. 8-( ...not to mention n...
[21:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:25] <exec> 08└─Well, if anyone is qualified to know, its the people in the whitehouse. They have an actual nazi on staff, [lobelog.com] they probably just asked him.
[21:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:27] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if rehash was smart enough to clean up bare urls when it linkifies them.
[21:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:30] <exec> 08└─> But Pepperidge Farm remembers and so do I We all knew you were crackers, and that you are about as smart as a goldfish. But we never expected you to brag about it. [pepperidgefarm.com]
[21:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:32] <exec> 08└─there was true voter fraud (more votes for Clinton in certain districts and counties around Detroit than there were actual voters for instance) I would like to see your citation on that. ...and had The Orange Clown -not- done better than Killary in the Rust Belt states, we would have gotten a Neolib...
[21:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Software is Better at Tracking Individuals in a Crowd - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:43] <exec> 08└─can someone tell me what type of person sells their soul in this manner, to create such tools of oppression? is it because they are afraid they will not have enough to eat? did they go through school hungry because tax dollars were not approved to provide needy students the nutrients required, and t...
[21:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:59] <exec> 08└─You have a $500 chip that is within 25% of a $1100 chip? I'd call that a super duper touchdown of a win.
[21:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:09] <exec> 08└─So we have a overly complex monitoring system without redundancy.
[21:51:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:54] <exec> 08└─at least there, most software isn't affected by the init system
[21:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Air Force Receptive to Launches Using SpaceX's Recycled Rockets - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:34] <exec> 08└─X has another division up in the NW figuring out how to make check sat's for a world wide comm network.
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[22:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:29] <exec> 08└─All of the same questions apply to humans, regardless of what they're doing.
[22:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:30] <exec> 08└─"The car's underlying AI technology, known as deep learning, has proved very powerful at solving problems in recent years..." the word is assumed not proved assumption !== evidence and definitely not proof
[22:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:32] <exec> 08└─Unlike the robot, you have no soul.
[22:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:34] <exec> 08└─I just killed someone. I can't explain how it happened, although I have video from 10 cameras and a bunch of other sensors showing me plowing through that red light. I can't assure you I won't do it again. All you have to rely on, really, is past behavior, which we all admit is inexplicable. You can...
[22:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:37] <exec> 08└─But what doesn't apply to humans is utter lack of fear, pain, or consequences for misbehavior.
[22:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:39] <exec> 08└─How do you know he's a ginger?
[22:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:41] <exec> 08└─Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, except that one of these guy went on to create the first mini-supercomputer company building filing-cabinet sized machine that now fit in a phone, and I worked with him there: The Soul of a New Machine [amazon.com] And, as companies go, it was a lot more moral t...
[22:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:43] <exec> 08└─Calling people out for being Gingers should not be allowed on this site, it's discriminatory and would prevent hot women from posting
[22:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:45] <exec> 08└─This calls for the Yo Dawg! method of problem solving: Build an AI to explain other AIs to humans. Or, in other words: Yo Dawg, I herd you like AI, so I put an AI in your AI so you can understand while you understand.
[22:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:48] <exec> 08└─Without going to the religious concept of "soul", you make the right point. Neural networks (including our brain) train by experiencing a set of parameters, and deciding whether the outcome was satisfactory. The fifth time you throw that ball, it goes through the hoop, you learn that. For new experi...
[22:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─More like Yo Dawg!, I heard you like AI so I put the word AI in an expert system I wrote so that you would put your money in me, I behaves how I thought it should behave because I programmed it to do that but it's Artificial Intelligence really! just look at my business plan!
[22:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not an expert on current research but I don't think this is as simplistically true as you think it is, it may be true for some reflex memory and learning, like throwing a ball, but complex action seems to require a lot more reinforcement and active teaching than you assert and that is just for h...
[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:54] <exec> 08└─In some places, human drivers are expected to pass a written test. This software is somewhat like a human who couldn't.
[22:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:22] <exec> 08└─Anyone and everyone can set their threshold to whatever the fuck they want, including +5 or -1. Heck, if I was feeling whimsical, I could set all "Funny" moderations to count as -6 and "Offtopic" to +6. Your notion of "disappeared" is probably wrong and at best irrelevant. The comments are still the...
[22:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:23] <exec> 08└─If it was irrelevant than why do people care that they are modded down? Visibility matters.
[22:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:25] <exec> 08└─Visibility does matter. If it didn't matter then SN wouldn't need(want?) a moderation system. The moderation systems entire existence is to promote good content and hide bad content. More nuanced than LJs all or nothing approach, for sure.
[22:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 13th NASA Briefing on Ocean(s) Near Saturn (or Elsewhere) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:36] <exec> 08└─Unambiguous time specification: UTC 2017-04-13 18:00 Live stream, here: youtube.com/nasajpl/live [youtube.com]
[22:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:29] <exec> 08└─need glasses, thought it said "bullshit"
[22:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:43] <exec> 08└─...as in "Guess which of the dozens of character set this was using -before- it got changed to a Roman-equivalent for that site where I found it." I don't think you have a strong enough grasp of the subject to be commenting on it. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:44] <exec> 08└─Alright, how about one with more sources? [wesjones.com]
[22:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:46] <exec> 08└─I think this is the point. A fucked state is usually unmanageable for an individual. Thus even if one has all the knowledge the brains to understand it and everything around. It still won't matter much. And thus emigration is in most cases the most efficient option.
[22:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:48] <exec> 08└─> [...] DON'T just cut and paste URLs. I know how to do that, but I can't usually be bothered to make the effort. > In this example, we have Eastern European non-Roman characters. What has resulted is not searchable via the S/N search engine nor via Google. For me, the SoylentNews search has never w...
[22:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:51] <exec> 08└─It's a failure for the outcome of the society as a whole. The individual power brokers want to abuse others to profit and get power is another issue.
[22:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:53] <exec> 08└─...and those of you who refer to USA's "2-party system" without venom dripping from your voices: shame on you. We need more political parties in the mix. We need to experience a wider range of ideas. (A big raspberry for Lamestream Media here.) To make this effective, we need to adopt Ranked Voting...
[22:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:55] <exec> 08└─> ... and twitter is probably the worst. Those who ignore history are condemned to retweet it. -- David Brooks (recent NYT editorial)
[22:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:57] <exec> 08└─Wow, you kinda suck at this don't you? I cut-n-paste a URL, rehash fetches the page and looks at the results to decide what to use. Prick.
[22:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:59] <exec> 08└─Tis a field created by a man who quite openly cited Goebbels as his primary inspiration.
[22:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:01] <exec> 08└─Now you are just being a douche. There is plenty of evidence, you just go to great effort not to know about it. Guess ignorance is bliss. Wasting an hour digging up links would be a pointless effort. Learn to use Google. You want sworn testimony? It is out there. On the record accounts from former l...
[22:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:04] <exec> 08└─Having tried others and having been disappointed with the results, these days, I use Google exclusively. Google considers an underscore to be a searchable character. Sites which use that character in URLs would be wise to use the same text (with whitespace, of course) in the page title. Better still...
[22:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Software is Better at Tracking Individuals in a Crowd - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:14] <exec> 08└─Oppression, really? This software could help parents find children at amusement parks. It could help managers find laborers at a company picnic. It could help lovers find each other after an orgy. Where's the oppression?
[22:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:34] <exec> 08└─Though normally the best advice is to go for an R5 and spend the extra 200$ on the GPU. I think that's bad advice right now because AMD doesn't sell a high-end GPU
[22:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 2219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:35] <exec> 08└─Actually I have to wonder how much of "bulldozer not paying off" was due to the Intel Cripple Compiler [theinquirer.net] because I have an FX-8320e and use a lot of GCC compiled programs like Audacity and even on super heavy workloads like applying audio effects across multiple tracks the performanc...
[22:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:47] <exec> 08└─You've obviously never run into those women who have permanent blocks of ice for feet and insist on cuddling and sticking them against you during the middle of the night...
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[23:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Smell Helps Primates Flee Parasites - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:15] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, my nose can sense the unwashed, stinking proles long before they get their sticky fingers in my pockets.
[23:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:38] <exec> 08└─You could train a neural net on every single driving test on the planet; it would be far better at taking such exams than any human.
[23:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:40] <exec> 08└─> You could train a neural net on every single driving test on the planet; it would be far better at taking such exams than any human. And when they actually do that, and the AI proves itself by beating the test to the competence level of a human, then we can consider them fit for purpose, and can s...
[23:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe the lack of hormones, emotions and animal instincts will compensate for that.
[23:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:44] <exec> 08└─even banking systems have code that passes primary and regression testing, and QA, but even the pogrammers only know what they changed, not what the other programmer did - just fiddle 'til it "works". No one person understands how most complex systems work, top to bottom. The "dark secret" here is t...
[23:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:47] <exec> 08└─Driving is all about experience, and that's what neural nets are: Pure experience.
[23:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:17] <exec> 08└─I am not a lawyer but I seem to get mixed up in legal things a lot
[23:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:18] <exec> 08└─Yup, and it's nuance I'm prepared to fully argue for hiding behind.
[23:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─Use a shell and it will be fine.
[23:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:57] <exec> 08└─https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-191.html [berkeley.edu] (note that the summary also mentions using a phased-array system for 60 GHz)
[23:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:25] <exec> 08└─Critical thinking should start at school year four at least. I'll agree with your single source point. But sometimes it's all you got. However one might also so if the information connects to other pieces of information, ie makes sense and checks out.
[23:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:27] <exec> 08└─What they sow they will get for I see a man in a open car standing with his hand rigidly in the air while people cheers..
[23:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:51] <exec> 08└─Looks like bullshit to me. As in the guy is lying about what his sources actually say. For example, he claims: 3) The diagnostic and directive function. School is meant to determine each student's proper social role.
[23:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:52] <exec> 08└─Learn to use Google.
[23:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 3210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:54] <exec> 08└─Here are the goals of compulsory numb-school, as per Alexander Inglis's 1918 book, Principles of Secondary Education [archive.org]: (pointed out in the previous posters linked text) 1) The adjustive or adaptive function. Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course...
[23:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:56] <exec> 08└─Present day school policy managers perhaps also twists the original purposes the same way? That teacher after all tried to analyze his actual experiences during decades of teaching and student interaction. So even despite this, there's something seriously wrong with the way the school works. How com...
[23:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:58] <exec> 08└─>Entertaining socialists and communists Right, into the helicopter you go, nothing ever goes well with your kind.
[23:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:01] <exec> 08└─It is out there.
[23:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:03] <exec> 08└─> Here are the goals of compulsory numb-school, as per Alexander Inglis's 1918 book, False Those are some other guy's version of Inglis's goals. A guy who is pushing a very specific narrative that seems to be only superficially related to what Inglis actually wrote. There is so much irony in you two...
[23:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:46] <exec> 08└─I checked University of Alberta [ualberta.ca] own news ticker. Nothing.. Embarrassing? ;)
[23:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:48] <exec> 08└─I think that considering the expense of the cores. And the possibility that they possible can't be replaced or at least risk contaminating the source. Other research groups may depend on the availability of the ice cores. When funds are tight and global warming skeptics are abound it's necessary to...
[23:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:50] <exec> 08└─Serious question: what point are you trying to make by attempting to mock someone's username in relation to their post? Usernames are chosen by the poster, so they're highly likely to be comfortable with the name they chose. Without your answer, all I can divine from your attempt is a "your dumb!" r...
[23:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:52] <exec> 08└─In reality, there's several different camps in each forum. Here on SN, there's at least two main camps: the leftists, and the libertarians.
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