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[00:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:33] <exec> 08└─On its own maybe not, but when they arrogantly challenge the hacking world to break it just a few weeks ago, yes, it is indeed quite newsworthy :)
[00:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:35] <exec> 08└─I want to know how loud the screaming and cussing from the board room is every time one of the Denuvo games is cracked. I sort of feel sorry for the developers who are going to get excoriated before the masters of the universe, but on the other hand, that's what you get for working for stupid people...
[00:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:37] <exec> 08└─I think it's groundbreaking only because its ballsy for SN to post it and hope they don't get a cease-and-decist -- though there is often a fine line between reporting on and condoning something, and they probably have decent latitude to say, "Fuck you, we're just reporting on it." The DRM cancer is...
[00:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:59] <exec> 08└─Wow, exactly my list, even though I never liked XP. Since then nothing.... 8, 8.1, 10, 10-whatever, all of them so maddening!! 7 is probably the best of all of them. Not the lightest.
[00:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:00] <exec> 08└─Just so people don't forget, or perhaps some kids who don't know.... ATI hasn't existed for over 10 years since being acquired by AMD, and the branding has not been used for around 7 years.
[00:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:10] <exec> 08└─Well, I was halfway joking. In all seriousness, you better have more than one bullet, and you better catch the dog off guard. A really sincere pissed off Rott that is trained as a guard dog is a serious thing. He took guarding the property a lot more serious than we wanted him to, but we had no doub...
[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:11] <exec> 08└─In recent years, IPMI has become something built in to the motherboard because it's too inexpensive to justify a second SKU or the sub-board connections. The thinner connection the BMC has to the rest of the system is a feature! It limits the shenanigans should someone get control of it.
[00:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:19] <exec> 08└─the shale oil boom has made America a net oil producer
[00:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:20] <exec> 08└─U.S. Net Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products (Thousand Barrels per Day) [eia.gov] Look at the bottom of the table for the current year: 5,007 3,610 4,174 Or how about this page: How much petroleum does the United States import and export? [eia.gov] In 2016, the United States imported...
[00:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:53] <exec> 08└─Our tax dollars a work. Yay freedom! Long live the king!
[00:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trying to Solve the Gerrymandering Problem - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:04] <exec> 08└─Not at all. They represent different constituencies, as coded in the designation 'Democratic Republic.' The House is the Democratic part. But it can't function alone. It holds the purse strings but it does not hold sovereignty - that's for the Senate. The Senate is the Republican part, and Senators...
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[01:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 2383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:46] <exec> 08└─Under normal circumstances I would agree, I think an exception could be made for Denuvo. For the hardness of the protection and the infamy of the product. Normally I don't give two bits of interest anymore for the scene but with all the news and talk of Denuvo I at least find it moderately interesti...
[01:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:47] <exec> 08└─Will people ever stop buying copy protected software? People have known how STUPID copy protection is since at least the early 1980s. Bring home the brand spanking new copy of dBase III or such and such, try and load it up and oh "unauthorized copy?", yea the copy protection doesn't even work on tha...
[01:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:12] <exec> 08└─Both are still used fairly interchangably, especially in Linux/Xorg. $ lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tobago PRO [Radeon R7 360 / R9 360 OEM] (rev 81) and /var/log/Xorg.0.log has these: (II) LoadModule: "ati" (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drive...
[01:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:30] <exec> 08└─Not identical, for sure. Temperature? They ought to be doing these things somewhere in Antarctica. Mars is a very hostile environment. Why do we "experiment" with people in one of the most benevolent environments on earth? Can cabin fever even be induced in Hawaii?
[01:36:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 323 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:51] <exec> 08└─Gotta RTFA sometimes (or read the Ars version). A firewall running on the same processor will simply not see those packets, as they get diverted to SOL. Missing from TFS is the fact that this is all disabled by default. You need another malware, or a questionable configuration to enable it first, be...
[01:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:26] <exec> 08└─Purism has been making major strides in completely disabling this. See https://puri.sm [puri.sm]
[01:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:02] <exec> 08└─What? More science? What is this place for? Where are all the political stories??
[01:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:37] <exec> 08└─And yet we see more than a halving in the net importing of oil from 2006 to 2017. I grant that the earlier poster was incorrect in their assertion of the US being a net exporter, but the importing of oil goes from well over half the oil consumed in the US to the present quarter. That's a huge drop i...
[01:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:12] <exec> 08└─They can come and get me, eh! Hosers. I. AM. CANADIAN. ;)
[01:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:14] <exec> 08└─The whole idea that Clinton should be prosecuted for her email server is a clear example of partisanship. Republican politicians want it for political reasons, but can justify their politics with the law. Meanwhile, Democrats will ignore any legal wrongdoing, again for purely political reasons.
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[02:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:40] <exec> 08└─Up my ass, prostrate cancer!
[02:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:42] <exec> 08└─... yes that is the usual way to check. Enjoy the good life of being a 40+ year old man.
[02:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:44] <exec> 08└─I'm just pissting here as an ALCOHOLIC
[02:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:46] <exec> 08└─Before this story: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[02:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:23] <exec> 08└─Durrrr durrrrr (see title)
[02:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:42] <exec> 08└─I made the same mistake. I was going to argue that this is the technically correct interpretation due to capitalisation, but it seems like the Tor kind of onion links are usually styled as ".onion links." In light of this, I now contend that we should assume ikanreed mistook your href for a single l...
[02:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:38] <exec> 08└─ayyy lemao babi
[02:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:05] <exec> 08└─Your electric bill is not normal. If you actually pay the full cost of your share (one house worth) of the grid maintenance, then things are at least sort of fair. You also shouldn't be getting retail rates when you generate. Most people don't pay a separate fee. They don't even have a single power...
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[03:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bee Buzzes Could Help Determine How to Save Their Decreasing Population - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:36] <exec> 08└─Best thing about this is the dept. line. :) Bees aren't flying: they're falling..... with style! Buzz Buzz
[03:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:26] <exec> 08└─I remember folks who got a "Windoze" app and it wouldn't run on their 9x install. Turned out it was NT-only. ...and folks say that Linux is confusing with all those distros. Heh. 2000 was the last one that didn't require Product Activation. After that, Windoze was dead to me. Not even interested in...
[03:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:17] <exec> 08└─Of course I noticed. NOAA issues such advisories multiple times per year. It's like a "it will be hot today" advisory or a "strong winds today" advisory. The way this was presented here with the headline seems to imply this is unusual or should be read as having greater significance than a routine w...
[03:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:54] <exec> 08└─It is a huge drop, and it is IMHO, very good for the USA. Russia has a huge sovereign wealth fund and has been able to build up its military. However, with low oil prices, due in part to the fact that the USA is importing much less oil, both Saudi Arabia and Russia have been spending through these f...
[03:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:31] <exec> 08└─stories on unwanted nexuses (nexii?)
[03:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:15] <exec> 08└─You are correct that we've only heard one side of the story, and it could be inaccurate or exaggerated. You're NOT correct that United has "asserted" there was no room left in any storage compartments -- the violinist merely states she was told there wasn't room, but it isn't clear -- given that the...
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[04:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bee Buzzes Could Help Determine How to Save Their Decreasing Population - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:48] <exec> 08└─First, the team analyzed the characteristic frequencies -- what musicians call the pitch -- of bee buzzes in the lab.
[04:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:00] <exec> 08└─All men deserve to die. Death to the patriarchy.
[04:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:01] <exec> 08└─It's caused by the accumulation of toxins in the prostate gland. If you spank the monkey every day, it will wash those toxins away.
[04:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:04] <exec> 08└─Daily masturbation is also effective for lowering blood pressure.
[04:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:06] <exec> 08└─Good start. Now flip off random strangers and carry an illuminated flashlight in the daytime, and you'll be halfway to becoming Diogenes.
[04:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adding Abiraterone to Standard Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer Survival by 40 Percent - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:08] <exec> 08└─Why would we want cancer to survive?
[04:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:48] <exec> 08└─MS realized they made something too good with 7, meaning they went "Shitshitshitshit we made another XP, they're still gonna be using this by the time we have Moon colonies." So, with the typical too-big-for-its-britches corporate blend of arrogance, tone-deafness, greed, and hubris, they invented T...
[04:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:50] <exec> 08└─Windows 8.1, that is to say Windows NT 6.3, *is* effectively Windows 9. Technically Windows 10 is NT 6.4, but they popped the version string up to 10.x.y because fuck you.
[04:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:52] <exec> 08└─Why? What is wrong with nVidia keeping their gear closed source? They've got the longest track record of vastly superior Linux support (i.e.: drivers that actually work), and their cards are considerably better than Intel (performance wise) and ATi/AMD (in every way).
[04:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:07] <exec> 08└─How's this lot [fish2.com] for a start? That's not just AMT, that's the entire class of management-engine type gunk all in one. Here's a start on attacking the things [rapid7.com]. The security community has been warning about this stuff for years.
[04:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:59] <exec> 08└─As for those who complain this is supposed to be a tech site, why is it that hardcore tech articles generally only have a very few comments, sometimes in the single digits, while the political articles invariably get far more comments?
[04:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:00] <exec> 08└─Technically, all our servers are hosted in Dallas except the off site storage, so the loss of New York City would only affect me personally.
[04:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:02] <exec> 08└─To answer this question: The short version is yes. The longer version is it depends. If we're dealing with a story drought, we might hold some articles that aren't time sensitive for another day to help pad things out over the weekend. Usually though, if its something we like, it goes in a FIFO queu...
[04:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:25] <exec> 08└─The hardware may have gone nowhere, but the software is very widely used, ITRON seems to run half of Japanese industry. Also, while it's easy enough to put down the Fifth Generation hardware, the same sort of bet-the-company thing was what made IBM at one point not just the world's largest computer...
[04:42:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:35] <exec> 08└─Found the victim blamer!
[04:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:46] <exec> 08└─Naah, a travel ban is ridiculous, all we need is a system of internal passports to decide who is allowed to travel and who can live and work where. There's a long precedent for these, Propiska in the Soviet Union, the Personalausweis in Nazi Germany, it all worked quite well there to control movemen...
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[05:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:27] <exec> 08└─If mouthwash keeps your mouth clean, just imagine how denatured alcohol will keep your gut clean.
[05:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:28] <exec> 08└─Isn't it amazing that such findings seem to always come from the anglo-saxon space? Might have something with puritansm. I mean, look, the french people have their daily glass of wine and heaps of other tasty spirits, sie Germans have their Oktoberfest, the Russians have their vodka chilled at low t...
[05:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:30] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "While those consuming over 30 units a week were at the highest risk compared with abstainers, even those drinking moderately (14-21 units per week) were three times more likely to have hippocampal atrophy compared with abstainers. There was no protective effect of light drinking (up to 7...
[05:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Citing Costs, US Air Force Turns to SpaceX for its Next Spy Plane Launch - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:38] <exec> 08└─In an unprecedented move, Trump is now privatizing the military.
[05:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Citing Costs, US Air Force Turns to SpaceX for its Next Spy Plane Launch - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:40] <exec> 08└─...also the space
[05:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Citing Costs, US Air Force Turns to SpaceX for its Next Spy Plane Launch - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:42] <exec> 08└─Someone wasn't awake during the second part of the Iraq occupation, I guess. Just a sample: https://en.wikipedia.org(company)#Role_in_the_Iraq_War [wikipedia.org]
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[05:36:05] <exec> 08└─Because it multiplies very quickly and we can try to weaponize it against $Enemy(decade) ?
[05:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:19] <exec> 08└─I don't give two bits of interest anymore for ...
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[05:36:49] <exec> 08└─Apparently it would be pointless to attempt to explain it to you. May your chains lie lightly upon you.
[05:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:17] <exec> 08└─Tesla is a low-volume manufacturer; that increases costs. Moreover, an enormous amount of resources has been poured into research and development of the car, from the ground up. Something like a Tesla car doesn't just pop into existence when a few fratboys get together in their garage and decide to...
[05:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:21] <exec> 08└─The hardware may have gone nowhere, but the software is very widely used, ITRON seems to run half of Japanese industry.
[05:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Could Build New Nuclear Plants or Replace Existing Ones - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:22] <exec> 08└─Link [super-nova.co.jp] to said diatribe.
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[06:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopp [2833] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:35] <exec> 08└─Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. How many times a day is Trump right?
[06:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:36] <exec> 08└─That is what makes him a conservative! :)
[06:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:38] <exec> 08└─IN THE NAVY! SUCKING STEAM OUT OF CATAPULTS!
[06:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:41] <exec> 08└─Um, yeah, favoring longstanding tradition is the very definition of conservative.
[06:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:43] <exec> 08└─Do those EMALS need to mature only when mounted on a ship? I mean, what difference does it make if one makes a mockup earthen platform to model the ship's takeoff strip and mature those catapults however long they want there?
[06:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/alcohol-facts/alcoholic-drinks-units/what-is-an-alcohol-unit/ [drinkaware.co.uk] One unit is 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol. Because alcoholic drinks come in different strengths and sizes, units are a way to tell how strong your drink is.
[06:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:56] <exec> 08└─What is a "unit" in this context?
[06:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/unit-calculator [alcoholconcern.org.uk]
[06:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:00] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews should like totally accept donations in alcohol units!!!! Fuck SN Fuck SN Fuck SN Fuck SN Fuck SN Fuck SN Fuck SN Fuck SN Fuck SN nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger
[06:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:02] <exec> 08└─Yeap, you guessed it: the brits, USians and to a certain extent even the Australians can't sleep at night [over?] how much my smoking costs the health system (to date, none at all) [...]
[06:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:05] <exec> 08└─I shrug to think of what an ethanol-powered SN would look like.
[06:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bee Buzzes Could Help Determine How to Save Their Decreasing Population - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:22] <exec> 08└─There actually is no problem at all. The only bees suffering die offs are the overbred, mistreated species that get trucked from mono-culture to mono-culture. So get rid of them. Breed in wild genes. Those "killer bees" are simply a lot closer to the wild species that should exist, but have been nea...
[06:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:23] <exec> 08└─What's this with jmorris making sense? Have I crossed into the bizarro world? Is there any way we can get jmorris to only comment on graphics cards?
[06:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Adds Lots of Certified Pre-Owned Model S Vehicles for Under $40,000 with New Warranty - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:52] <exec> 08└─The AC, as any driver of an old Ford ranger, is someone with very limited intelligence. He can transport a couch for you, perhaps load up some hay for cows, but mostly he needs it for his and his disgusting cow of a wife, since they are incredibly overweight. He thinks he is making a counterpoin...
[06:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:33] <exec> 08└─I was really rooting for the UKIP. Paul understands what the U.K. must do to end the terror attacks against your country. He knows that torture works. Smart guy. Not like Theresa or Sadiq. But the UKIP lost its seat in the Commons. And Paul quit as party leader. He's still a winner in my book.
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[07:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:43] <exec> 08└─The USS Ford is the first in its class of ships, one with loads of new technologies. There are bound to be bugs and problems to be worked out. The electromagnetic catapults, for example, are a great idea and, in theory, are going to reduce maintenance issues and increase reliability in the long run....
[07:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:44] <exec> 08└─A mockup would mean lower revenue for the military industrial complex. It's a bit harder to get the DoD to pay as much for stuff running on your mockup - "your problem" compared to stuff running on their ship "their problem". So as long as you manage to get your leech(es) onboard their ship, it's go...
[07:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:46] <exec> 08└─25% over budget in pentagon weapons development practically under budget.
[07:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 3505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:48] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I love your tweet. Love the sentiment and love the cute, cute smile. Such a sweet smile! How old are you? Are you a boy or a girl? Have you ever been in a locker room at a beauty pageant? I have. Do you know how to EMAIL? I don't. Not like Crooked Hillary. She did a lot of crooked stuff w...
[07:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:04] <exec> 08└─Pretty much like the post you replied to.
[07:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:06] <exec> 08└─I wondered the same thing, here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] What the authors call "moderate alcohol consumption" (14-21 units per week, i.e. 2-3 units per day) means drinking one bottle of beer or one glass of wine every day. I personally wouldn’t have call...
[07:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:41] <exec> 08└─Because like guns computers are simple time proven mechanical contraptions anybody can build at home...
[07:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:43] <exec> 08└─I can see a cost advantage of having a KVM solution in the CPU. The problem is all the secrecy and lack of trust. The interface is not documented and the software is not declared with source. And if "KVM" processor is prevented from loading its code it will reset the main CPU every 30 minutes, which...
[07:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:45] <exec> 08└─The 30 minute reset only occurs if you force the issue by zeroing the sections that contains the essential code for the AMT sub-processor. Because that will prevent it to work at all.
[07:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:47] <exec> 08└─CPU: Intel i7-6500U (Skylake) @ 3.10 GHz RAM: 16 GB DDR4 Storage: SATA3 2.5" 7.0 mm Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520 Screen: 13.3" 1920×1080p Matte IPS @ 60 Hz Price: 1400 US$
[07:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:24] <exec> 08└─If only the world was so easily predictable... For example, what is the reaction when you add slightly more uranium to a slightly under critical mass of uranium...? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:25] <exec> 08└─Of course you did. But there is absolutely nothing speculative about how it was presented here, it's a word for word copy!
[07:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry to inform our alt-right special snowflakes but the world doesn't stop turning when you close your eyes.
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[08:35:28] <exec> 08└─Dupe.
[08:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:30] <exec> 08└─Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[08:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:46] <exec> 08└─for warships and planes. On the day of the planned shipment date, every de facto owner of all the corporations involved in the construction MUST operate the new gear (as a passenger if unable) in combat role. > b...but it is not finished yet then you go out with whatever you did, doesn't fly, sinks,...
[08:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:04] <exec> 08└─I think most people who drink can easily exceed that. 12 units in one day? No problem. 30+ units a week. The unit needs to be equivalent to a 12 oz 5% beer/cider, if not 16 oz. Although changing the unit doesn't change the health risks, just could make teaching people about the risks easier.
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[09:36:08] <exec> 08└─When I read about the dangers of drinking, that's when I gave up reading.
[09:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 1410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:10] <exec> 08└─Moderate drinking is culturally determined. From my perspective, Americans who have just one beer of an evening when they go out for 'a drink' are weird - but I grew up in a culture where going out for 'a drink' meant drinking several pints with companions. Similarly, in other countries, drinking a...
[09:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:12] <exec> 08└─Memory and spatial navigation, so that's why I can't remember where I put my bottle.
[09:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:14] <exec> 08└─Not these: Unit (Australian Slang): flat, apartment http://www.slang-dictionary.org [slang-dictionary.org] And here are some you can buy: http://www.realestate.com.au [realestate.com.au]
[09:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Citing Costs, US Air Force Turns to SpaceX for its Next Spy Plane Launch - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:25] <exec> 08└─I have a plan to privatize the air traffic control system. Privatize and monetize it. Privatize, monetize and modernize it. Not our military. Not my great, great military. But it wouldn't be unpresidented. President Obama did it. President Bush did it, the great Presidents Bush and Obama. A lot of P...
[09:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Citing Costs, US Air Force Turns to SpaceX for its Next Spy Plane Launch - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:27] <exec> 08└─Er, no. The previous launch supplier (ULA) was also private. Trump (or someone) is just switching to a cheaper competitor - quite possibly to put price pressure on ULA. The big thing is actually that the military have decided Falcon 9 is an acceptable risk-level replacement for Atlas V, that is a hu...
[09:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bee Buzzes Could Help Determine How to Save Their Decreasing Population - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:39] <exec> 08└─There's also solid evidence that Langstrom hives and the legally mandated regular opening and inspection of hives is a major factor in colony collapse.
[09:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:09] <exec> 08└─Kill DRM! [defectivebydesign.org]
[09:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:42] <exec> 08└─While I completely agree with the spirit you just said I just wanted to point your own chains to you * steam is DRM and thus fundamentally incompatible with free software * apparently all modern GPUs these days require proprietary firmware (please correct me if I'm wrong anybody)
[09:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:43] <exec> 08└─"Effectively" doesn't cut it. GP was talking about the actual Windows ⑨: Strongest Edition [google.com]. Alas, Microsoft thought that Windows ⑨ would be too strong [touhouwiki.net].
[09:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:46] <exec> 08└─2K3 X64/XP X64 was a damned fine OS (I used it to completely skip Vista at home after seeing what a POS it was on my pretty beefy work PC) and 8.1 once you toss the fugly desktop for a Win 7 desktop (which I see as no different than using a different shell in Linux) is a quite solid OS. But I honest...
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[10:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:30] <exec> 08└─So.......SN is getting a state senator as a political editor? Excellent news.
[10:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:31] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Frontier Internet is up to date with all patches. Too bad if someone were to discover a hole..
[10:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:57] <exec> 08└─Steam-powered catapults
[10:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:11] <exec> 08└─TorrentFreak posts about torrents and stuff all the time and is still up and running. Does not mean shady companies didn't try DMCA it from Google search results, though.
[10:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:47] <exec> 08└─Sure, unless you want to actually play your games. It’s not a good situation, but if you are a gamer you don’t really have much of a choice here.
[10:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 2033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:07] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, which is why I caveated it with "of sorts" - it was a fairly firm rejection of a Hard Brexit, but beyond that it's shades of grey and multiple issues are obviously at play, which does indeed include how the electorate feels about the person who is likely to lead as well as their policies, b...
[10:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, we always favor the community over the dollar. This should not be a surprise by now.
[10:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit, Amazon Push for "Day of Action" on July 12 to Protest the Killing of Net Neutrality - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:12] <exec> 08└─I think they're hoping that people will dump an ISP if they don't provide NetFlix properly, which is probably a decent bet.
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[11:35:30] <exec> 08└─Well, over-engineering for expected growth is against the "XP" sort of idea that you should "do the simplest thing that could possibly work", but usually not designing for potential growth or future changes bites you in the ass in one way or another. It's always a call that needs to be done based on...
[11:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's about predicting where the project will be in n years and deciding to make certain subsystems expandable while making other KISS-adherent.
[11:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:41] <exec> 08└─It would be a shame if someone were to frame Mitch Carmichael for hacking Frontier Internet.
[11:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:44] <exec> 08└─Although I normally can't stand them, this guy does deserve respect for sticking to his principles and supporting his constituents and the public even if it cost him. We need more people in Washington like that.
[11:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:46] <exec> 08└─It is astounding that he had a regular job and was not a career politician. But of course Charleston is not Washington.
[11:36:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 3505 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:08] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I love your tweet. Love the sentiment and love the cute, cute smile. Such a sweet smile! How old are you? Are you a boy or a girl? Have you ever been in a locker room at a beauty pageant? I have. Do you know how to EMAIL? I don't. Not like Crooked Hillary. She did a lot of crooked stuff w...
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[11:36:12] <exec> 08└─The USS Ford is the first in its class of ships, one with loads of new technologies. There are bound to be bugs and problems to be worked out. The electromagnetic catapults, for example, are a great idea and, in theory, are going to reduce maintenance issues and increase reliability in the long run....
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[11:38:04] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong, but you're focusing on the wrong thing. Who cares about the binary blob on your GPU, it's *probably* not spying on you. You should be very afraid of the binary blob in your CPU that *is* spying on you though.
[11:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:05] <exec> 08└─Blobs anywhere are bad, for freedom and for security among many other things.
[11:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:28] <exec> 08└─because the US is the source of an awful lot of the awful technology that we all use daily
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[11:42:29] <exec> 08└─I. AM. CANADIAN.
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[12:35:28] <exec> 08└─This is what I have been teaching my students for years. You most likely don't need it if people talk a lot about it like the "next big thing". I make them research and try these technologies and find actual case studies to show how it does apply but only very specific settings.
[12:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I have found basing things on a fundamentally scalable architecture then KISS-Inc the hell out of it usually works well. You can usually buy time to fix and upgrade individual subsystems as long as you don't have to rip out and rebuild the whole system. Balanced against "The real problem is th...
[12:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SixGunMojo [509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:42] <exec> 08└─This was my first thought also, then my more cynical side woke up. A senator with a job as a "sales manger" is a lot like Tony Soprano being a "nightclub owner", an awful lot of shenanigans could be hidden behind the title.
[12:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:09] <exec> 08└─The Ford class has horrendous issues beyond just the cats. The arresting gear is unreliable, the SSTG's (ship service turbo generators) suck, and the whiz-bang toys in CIC (Combat Information Center) are proving difficult to integrate into existing NTDS (Naval Tactical Data System) frameworks. The w...
[12:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:10] <exec> 08└─The catapult failures were apparent on the land-based test bed. Ditto the arresting gear (made by the same company). But like most Navy boondoggles (the LCS ships, the Zumwalt, rail guns, etc.) it was still Full Flux Ahead! (no steam, just magnetic flux, get it?). The Navy is all fluxed up.
[12:37:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 887 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:20] <exec> 08└─I think it's groundbreaking only because its ballsy for SN to post it and hope they don't get a cease-and-decist -- though there is often a fine line between reporting on and condoning something, and they probably have decent latitude to say, "Fuck you, we're just reporting on it." The DRM cancer is...
[12:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:05] <exec> 08└─This sort of confusion is why one should refrain from referring to GNU as "linux." Android (ab)uses linux, but it doesn't provide any of the benefits of GNU-linux to the user, it's entirely for the convenience of your owners.
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[13:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:19] <exec> 08└─If computer science is an art, and we learn in SICP that we "conjure" the "spirits" of the computer with spells... then computer science must actually be a deceptive art! I mean, who are we truly kidding here...? It isn't even really about computers OR science!
[13:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:30] <exec> 08└─Technically, we're greatly over-engineered from both a code and a network perspective. It's been working out pretty well for both us and the community though. From a network perspective, we could probably get by on like three servers. I, however, quite enjoy the lack of downtime, separation of criti...
[13:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:44] <exec> 08└─It is astounding that he had a regular job and was not a career politician. But of course Charleston is not Washington.
[13:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:13] <exec> 08└─No, this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:14] <exec> 08└─Hey, first thing learned today. I didn't know Sweden used "HMS" until I looked it up...
[13:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Citing Costs, US Air Force Turns to SpaceX for its Next Spy Plane Launch - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:49] <exec> 08└─Hope they can build refurbish those falcons fast enough without QA issues creeping in.
[13:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:09] <exec> 08└─“I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion,” he told Silverman. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.” Silverman looked stunned. “Tide goes in, tide goes out?” he stuttered. O’Reilly...
[13:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Election Results; Fired FBI Director's Testimony on Trump; Trump Nominates New FBI Director - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:35] <exec> 08└─The only thing they successfully managed to do in all that was render UKIP defunct by promising a hard Brexit.
[13:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:24] <exec> 08└─yeah, if you want to be a boring person with a boring life - sure stop flying. what country is it you "actually get to see" loser? The one you're already living in?
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[14:35:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:52] <exec> 08└─Although I normally can't stand them, this guy does deserve respect for sticking to his principles and supporting his constituents and the public even if it cost him. We need more people in Washington like that.
[14:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:27] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the lead. I had never heard of the Vasa. Would you say that this is a fair summary? chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf It resembles our own shipbuilding today. The USS Nimitz is known to have a higher center of grav...
[14:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:28] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Did it again. The real link is contained within my non-working link above. http://faculty.up.edu [up.edu]
[14:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Citing Costs, US Air Force Turns to SpaceX for its Next Spy Plane Launch - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:06] <exec> 08└─The headline is incredibly misleading. This was not a cost issue. In fact the main competitor, ULA, was not even allowed to bid on the contract for this. The reason is, as the quote mentions, assured access to space. Air force launches have been mostly monopolized. Not only does this mean higher pri...
[14:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:49] <exec> 08└─I sort of feel sorry for the developers who are going to get excoriated before the masters of the universe, but on the other hand, that's what you get for working for stupid people motivated purely by avarice.
[14:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:30] <exec> 08└─I run Linux. I run Nvidia cards. I use the Nvidia proprietary drivers. That is only because I think that I can trust Nvidia. I don't KNOW that Nvidia is trustworthy, I just think/hope they are. We've had a number of exploits, over the years, based on proprietary drivers and proprietary firmware. The...
[14:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Closer-than-Normal Moon Will Bring Higher-than-Normal Tides this Summer - 1578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:30] <exec> 08└─The headline is NOT in the NOAA advisory. Also, the summary selected a bit out of the explanation concerning flooding. Again, why put that in a summary unless it's something you want to imply is an unusual concern (which it's not). When you have a headline saying "closer-than-normal" moon and "highe...
[14:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Airlines Supervisor Injures Musician's Hand While Wresting Antique Violin in Baggage Dispute - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:44] <exec> 08└─Of course he has heard of a ship. He also has an IQ over 80, so he realizes that adding extra days to travel time means you have less time at the destination. I know, hard concept to grasp for someone without a real career who stretches a stupid sarcastic one-liner to 3 paragraphs. It's one of those...
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[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─Technically, you can upgrade them. It takes cutting some adhesive to remove the screen (as I recall - I read the iFixIt article the other day). Then, you have to pull a bunch of stuff out and remove a sticker that warns you that you're going to void the warranty. (Which, depending on your jurisdicti...
[15:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:33] <exec> 08└─... because the standard iMac is sharing parts with the forthcoming iMac Pro. Apple have finally listened to the people they built their brand on and are, once again, starting to deliver true workstation class machines. [appleinsider.com]
[15:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq4DGqx5nqI [youtube.com]
[15:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:54] <exec> 08└─"It's always a call that needs to be done based on experience," There's a term for that - "judgement". Some people are qualified to make a judgement call, others are not. Personally, I've always "over engineered", but my work is in the more concrete real world. Yes, you can overdo it, but even when...
[15:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 1550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:55] <exec> 08└─But I still feel the lure of new interesting systems and technologies. I'm just suffering from the illusion that my experience makes me able to step back and think about it. The blog post is spot on. In a project I was fooled into using a nosql databases (couchdb and riak in this case). It turned ou...
[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:17] <exec> 08└─I had to RTFA to discover that this feature is OFF by default; you have to manually turn it on. Little to worry about here.
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─oh, yeah. it's "off". are you really that naive or are you just shilling?
[15:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─I bring home a six-pack. I drink one, maybe two, the rest sit in the fridge for awhile. One of the sons finds them, and scarfs them down. Rinse and repeat every four to eight weeks. Long ago, before the sons came on the scene, I could buy a six pack, drink one or three, and the rest would sit in the...
[15:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:11] <exec> 08└─HA! My son has some 'Not Your Father's Root Beer' in the cooler. I'll show him!
[15:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:52] <exec> 08└─only the skankiest of whores buy nvidia.
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[15:38:54] <exec> 08└─why? because they want me to "buy" their slaveware and then run their APT on my computer. are you some kinda moooron?
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[16:36:06] <exec> 08└─I'm impressed with and totally respect Carmichael. He put his economic life on the line to do something good. If he has a gofundme page, I'll donate, even though I'm certainly way to the left of him on probably everything else. We need more politicians like that rather than those who talk sweet and...
[16:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:18] <exec> 08└─Yet on mine it was on when I tested it. Off? Are you sure?
[16:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─the USS Enterprise ended up being a one-off. Unique reactor. Unique radar system. Unique, iconic superstructure (ultimately refactored though to one similar to Nimitz class). Yet it served for 50 years... The US Navy occasionally builds what end up being one-off ships...
[16:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:45] <exec> 08└─There are landing problems too. Every time the pilots step out of their aircraft they fall down the stairs.
[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─The USS Ford is the first in its class of ships, one with loads of new technologies.
[16:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:13] <exec> 08└─There's an ethernet chip on the motherboard, and the UEFI BIOS has a driver for it. So: use the BIOS to disable the online ethernet port, and buy a separate ethernet card that doesn't use the same chip. So how would AMT talk to the separate card? Where's the hole in this plan?
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[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:36] <exec> 08└─More innovation stifling patent wars. So they going to sue everyone else too? ( like QEMU? ) I haven't been fond of Intel since they killed the ix432. Growing to hate them over the years, much like microsoft and oracle.
[17:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─I haven't been fond of Intel since they put in backdoors into their products so that they could make sure that mmmaaallleeesss don't have wrongthought about cute young girls vs THICCCC ADULT PROUD WOMYN
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:39] <exec> 08└─I suppose it depends on which patents, and what is being emulated, but: Don't patents expire after 17 years? 17 years ago was already the first Xeons. Anything up to that point ought to be out of patent protection. That certainly covers the general architecture; the only thing not covered would be i...
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:41] <exec> 08└─Patents are done, and the "innovation" is obvious to anyone in the field as simple obvious extensions. They are threatening having to force the other Co's to pay legal fees over a non existent frivolous claim. This is extortion. An illegal method. Perhaps their targets should use some other methods...
[17:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 1719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:52] <exec> 08└─So, they have one tiny step towards being less locked down. But they're still not listening to the needs of serious creative professionals who are supposedly their utter core market. They need to get rid of those chiclet keyboards. Those things are terrible, and lack durability. I write for a living...
[17:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:54] <exec> 08└─Or finding an older 90s era Mac Keyboard? I am pretty sure the windows key can emulate the celtic knot key on a Mac, and if not there is definitely a hackintosh keyboard driver for doing so (I used it years ago just to see what all the hype about OSX was.) The older mac keyboards had regular style k...
[17:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center - 1946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:04] <exec> 08└─I don't know. The other day I finally gave in and wielded the flame of Udûn, told an http-equiv meta tag that was causing a major problem with some proprietary crap software that's unfortunately our mission-critical package to go back to the Shadow, and finally proclaimed that it could not pass. Fo...
[17:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:07] <exec> 08└─And Creative Commons licensing of the resulting digital duplicates of the original books? It obviously might need more involvement than that if the pages were bleached and rewritten, or had hidden text in the margins or what have you (all possibilities if they are genuine (stage?) magic books dating...
[17:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:21] <exec> 08└─You should have built your doghouse like Google does. Less stability, more big data. I almost modded this "Offtopic", but then I saw who it was, and asked myself, "What would Google do?"
[17:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─I think he misstated the problem. TFA argues we should analyze to arrive at the correct fit instead of chasing trends. I think in fact the right argument is that we spend too much time chasing trends and analyzing instead of just picking something that meets our known needs and can get done quickly...
[17:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:38] <exec> 08└─It would be a shame if Anonymous Coward were to frame someone for framing Mitch Carmichael for hacking Frontier Internet.
[17:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:50] <exec> 08└─Where and how can I check this?
[17:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:19] <exec> 08└─True, but luckily the Big E used the (proven) cats and traps as the Forrestals. Nuclear propulsion was also a proven technology. The only break-through tech, her fancy new radars, the AN/SPS-32/33 SCANFAR (which was a precursor of today's phased arrays) were always buggy and eventually scrapped. The...
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:47] <exec> 08└─Apparently some SN admin let his toe cross the line: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─Sure that wasn't Hunter Thompson? Just seems like something he'd be more likely to say.
[17:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─I was reading your sig and thought "yup, only a 55+ community would find that story interesting" :D :D
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[18:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:29] <exec> 08└─It's all well and good for PDF software to eliminate any little yellow dots, but that doesn't prevent the printer from putting them on paper - that has nothing at all to do with the source document. And what would be the point of printing a document, only to scan it in as PDF? No, we should be upset...
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 2121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─They don't fall under 10+10 patents? If so you're looking at 2020 before 2000 era patents qualify, which is pre Pentium 4. That means no SSE2+, NX, AVX, VMX, x86_64, no 180nm process tech, no IPC improvements from the past 20 years, etc. Obviously *SOME* of them might actually be unpatentable/overtu...
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─Not to mention most of Intel's x86 code is actually licensed from AMD and their amd64 instruction set. Every intel chip running 64 and 32 bit code is using this instruction set because it was better than their in house version called IA64. It's saber rattling with no real threat imho. If they do tak...
[18:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 1514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:44] <exec> 08└─As an employee of Boston Dynamics who was working there throughout the selloff to SoftBank, I can state that there was a good reason why Google sold off Boston Dynamics -- because nobody in their right mind would buy any of Boston Dynamics' inefficient rube-Goldberg contraptions and all the worth is...
[18:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─Any idea how fast the emulation will be? If it's sort of like a 386, than my old MS-DOS software should run just fine? Remember, this is MS, with a long history of bloat and terrible performance. Just say'n...
[18:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:57] <exec> 08└─Technically, you can build your own iPhone from parts [youtube.com] (sort of).
[18:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:58] <exec> 08└─But they're still not listening to the needs of serious creative professionals who are supposedly their utter core market.
[18:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:01] <exec> 08└─If you're a musician who can afford to drop 5K on an iMac, then you should be a musician who can set something up to sufficiently isolate your mics and instruments from ambient noises. With music it's garbage-in, garbage-out, it doesn't matter how fast your desktop can run if you have shitty instrum...
[18:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:11] <exec> 08└─Perhaps here we should review a certain episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, wherein we follow Johannes Kepler from his attempts to combine mysticism with early astronomical sciences, to his unease in the court of Tycho Brahe, to his even greater unease in considering a shape that was not a circle for th...
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:28] <exec> 08└─I ended up scrapping it for a more traditional rdbms
[18:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:29] <exec> 08└─I had a PHB that had Hadoop on the brain. Insisted that we use Hadoop because he thought it would help the marketing. I tried to explain that having 1 TB of data split across thousands of files wasn't nearly enough to justify the Hadoop overhead and got shouted down. Fortunately we never started imp...
[18:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html [chrisstucchio.com] They handed me a flash drive with all 600MB of their data on it (not a sample, everything). For reasons I can't understand, they were unhappy when my solution involved pandas.read_csv rather than Hadoop.
[18:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:33] <exec> 08└─I have found basing things on a fundamentally scalable architecture then KISS-Inc the hell out of it usually works well.
[18:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:49] <exec> 08└─also somewhat silly and petty.. considering he voted in -favor- of broadband competition..? o.O
[18:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:51] <exec> 08└─The lowest is New Hampshire, which pays $100/year (no -- not $100k: one hundred DOLLARS) and no per diem.
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─I came here to ask the same thing. Give them a well-funded R&D team and a decade to make the thing reliable on a land-based platform and only then integrate it into your newest ship. The same should apply for any other subsystem. How is this not standard practice?
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─Runaway1956 and a small group of people know exactly what he meant by oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm.
[18:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:44] <exec> 08└─True enough. Which is why GOG is better. I'm not 100% RMS Pure though, I don't mind closed in things like games nearly as much as I do on the more important bits. But no, I don't like DRM and I don't like that Steam must be running to play a one player game. So I don't take this story as anything bu...
[18:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life on Mars, in Hawaii - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:04] <exec> 08└─The obvious solution is for The Onion to purchase the .onion top-level domain.
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[19:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:25] <exec> 08└─So I'll be able to print money again soon?
[19:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:26] <exec> 08└─>>>And what would be the point of printing a document, only to scan it in as PDF? Well, it's a great way to definitively strip any identifying metadata from the document. Were I ever to leak a document, it's certainly one of the steps I'd take.
[19:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:28] <exec> 08└─Why not scan the print with OCR and release it as a text file?
[19:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:43] <exec> 08└─Didn't hear about the sale so I'm submitting it now. I'm expecting big things on that one.
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/85365/thinking-x86-emulation-arm [thurrott.com] https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] Speed/efficiency is unknown AFAICT. The emulation isn't for Win16,...
[19:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:59] <exec> 08└─Right? How feasible is it, for the *average* consumer that would be interested in doing so, to perform upgrades? Therein lies the question and I suspect it's not all that realistic. Can it be done? Absolutely. I can also build a rocket that's capable of going to the moon - maybe even while supportin...
[19:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:00] <exec> 08└─Link to your work?
[19:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:02] <exec> 08└─Two things... I'm pretty sure their core market is iPhone buyers. Musicians will, if given the chance, isolate the recording instrumentation from the source of sound. Fancier places will do this with a booth, or similar. In smaller places, and in homes, you can do this (well enough) with directional...
[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that Ishtar can be held responsible for USAs foreign policy? Even if we take for granted that there are razor-sharp talons behind the veil, and lots of tentacles and ever-changing machine parts, that whisper in that terrible voice, of a love worse then hate... On the inside, i belie...
[19:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─Servers are the network? Do you have a microsoft background prior to programming? this is a serious question -- only server people generally think the server is the network. it's like truck drivers claiming trucks are the highway system.
[19:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─There is design for expansion, there's prudent over-engineering, and then there's shooting a gnat with an elephant gun.
[19:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:38] <exec> 08└─2) It's also fine if you're not basing it on really crappy stuff. e.g. MySQL and/or PHP. Yes I know Facebook managed despite that but I'm sure it was quite painful.
[19:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:40] <exec> 08└─Hey, look everyone, the next JavaScript "Framework" of the day. Let's chase it!
[19:36:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 549 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:54] <exec> 08└─I'm impressed with and totally respect Carmichael. He put his economic life on the line to do something good. If he has a gofundme page, I'll donate, even though I'm certainly way to the left of him on probably everything else. We need more politicians like that rather than those who talk sweet and...
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:58] <exec> 08└─So are the politicians in non-fulltime parliaments mostly representatives of the companies they depend on for a living?
[19:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:00] <exec> 08└─It would increase competition for their positions.
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 1526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:02] <exec> 08└─Wow... I love how the immediate reaction to such things is conspiratorial. In many states (particularly those with part-time and low salaries), serving in the legislature is viewed not as a "career" but as a sort of act of being a civic volunteer, sort of like serving as a volunteer for a small-town...
[19:37:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 1098 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─Isn't it amazing that such findings seem to always come from the anglo-saxon space? Might have something with puritansm. I mean, look, the french people have their daily glass of wine and heaps of other tasty spirits, sie Germans have their Oktoberfest, the Russians have their vodka chilled at low t...
[19:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Citing Costs, US Air Force Turns to SpaceX for its Next Spy Plane Launch - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:29] <exec> 08└─LOL, yeah - but not sure their track record on pre-used falcons will be good enough for the air force. Yet.
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[19:39:57] <exec> 08└─It was cut because there's a massive and easily-exploitable vulnerability; just stand *right in front* of the kernel when the CPU utilization is above 50% and all messages will be dropped.
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[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─Once again, this sort of stuff seems to fall under the "just because your business is on the 'internet' doesn't mean you should have different rules." Here's the actual concern from TFA: Candy Lab's complaint takes issue with its interpretation of the permitting requirements. These include: ...
[20:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:25] <exec> 08└─Oh, to be clear -- I'm not saying that I agree all such restrictions are necessarily a good idea, even for physical businesses operating partly in the park. But I do think the starting place should be equivalence of regulation between online and offline. Uber and Airbnb, etc. have sometimes correctl...
[20:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:27] <exec> 08└─Isn't this what the park has rangers for? Fine people for when they break the rules.
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:29] <exec> 08└─Your response seems perfectly reasonable. Let me add another thought. If the city is "hosting" your "business model" - that is, you are generating revenue through the use of the city's resources, then the city should be reimbursed for the use of those resources. The city should probably be entitled...
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─But there is no commercial use of the parks in these circumstances. The difference between a person walking through the park sending texts on their phone and looking for Pokémon on their phone is which app is currently the active/front-most app on their phone.
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[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─It was originally to catch counterfeiters. That is what it was sold as anyway. This is a perfect example of feature creep for the benefit of Government. You would expect a government spy agency to have this installed. You would expect someone working at a spy agency to know this. And you would expec...
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[20:35:44] <exec> 08└─Proof that a document is official often requires the letterhead, signatures and other markings.
[20:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:46] <exec> 08└─First you'd have to print it. (That leaves a digital record of who printed what, from what station, at what time). Sending it out of the NSA across any network is going to get you caught quickly. So you have to get it out of the NSA in printed form, and do your scanning and PDFing outside. So you sm...
[20:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Senator Loses ISP Sales Manager Job After Voting in Favor of Broadband Competition - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, this can be a problem. There's a lot of debate around the value of full-time vs. part-time legislatures and how they impact stuff [publicintegrity.org] like conflicts of interest, lobbying, etc. But just because one isn't a full-time employee of a company doesn't mean you can't receive compensa...
[20:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:29] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fuelled's hypocampus might be smaller
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[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─Mrs. Fenty: You should read the Bible, Mr. Rumson. Ben Rumson: I have read the Bible, Mrs. Fenty. Mrs. Fenty: Didn't that discourage you about drinking? Ben Rumson: No, but it sure killed my appetite for readin'!
[20:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:33] <exec> 08└─I cannot believe how incompetent these people remain. If you say x is related to y (not even talking about cause here), make a plot of x vs y so we can see the relationship. No one should take any paper seriously that doesn't do this.
[20:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denuvo License Generator is Latest Circumvention Method - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:31] <exec> 08└─It's actually worse than that, there's industrial control software that has to be permanently hooked up to the internet because of always-online DRM which is the unspoken reason as to why those things are "on the internet" in the first place.
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[20:39:47] <exec> 08└─This means if you give a damn about Free Software you must buy ATI now. (Or if performance isn't an issue, Intel integrated video is acceptable too.) No more whining and excuse making about NVIDIA not being so bad because ATI also has a closed driver and gamers would have to use that so it is closed...
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[21:35:28] <exec> 08└─But there is no commercial use of the parks in these circumstances.
[21:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─The city is entitled to SOMETHING - the questions is, just what are they entitled to?
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, to be clear --
[21:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:34] <exec> 08└─I can tell you from personal experience that the people behind Pokemon Go will not remove locations even if they are repeatedly told that the location is both private property and dangerous (construction site). Expecting them to pay you? Good luck with that.
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[21:35:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly. People don't drive vary far to Play Pokémon Go. They are all locals. I doubt Niantic made any incremental money because someone visited a park. I suspect the City is entitled to the extra sales tax revenue generated by the run on the concession stands or near by businesses, or the sales ta...
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[21:35:38] <exec> 08└─Its a construction site, and it doesn't already have Fences? It was probably parkland before construction started.
[21:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:40] <exec> 08└─I agree that this list looks a bit draconian at first glance.
[21:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:43] <exec> 08└─Some texts still result in a charge per text. If someone sends text from a park bench does the city get a piece of that charge? What about someone sitting under a tree in a park who donates money to a charity because the concert they are watching on their phone prompted them with a short code? Since...
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[21:35:45] <exec> 08└─Does the company earn revenue from your actions happening in a specific location?
[21:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:47] <exec> 08└─It was always private property (although it will soon be a public park), it was fenced off, but one could still get in. I sent photos showing the fencing, the no entry signs, the private property signs, yet still they would not remove the locations.
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─You've nailed the distinction. Profit. There will be some sort of "Fair Use" augmentation to prevent 1st Amendment issues from arising, but any commercial augmentation provider would need to cover the usage fees that their customers cause. No different than parks hosting county fairs and whatnot, or...
[21:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:51] <exec> 08└─Let me rephrase: did the company make choices about where to require key events to take place in order to make its product perform better? Did such design choices cause the product to perform better? I think so. If product performance was improved, did revenues increase? Yes. Anyhow, let's take a st...
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[21:35:54] <exec> 08└─I've thought it through a lot. Here's the thing: did this company deliberate decide to locate certain "objectives" or whatever at a higher concentration in public parks compared to the distribution across the earth in general? Did it benefit from doing so, directly or indirectly? They CAN control wh...
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[21:36:08] <exec> 08└─Often the letterhead, headers, and footers help to authenticate that the document is "real", even though they're easily faked.
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[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─It was originally to catch counterfeiters.
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[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─The land of the free is not to blame here. Its the Printer/scanner Manufacturers (mostly in Asia) satisfying the customers (world wide) who pay extra for that feature.
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[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─Yes. We do, because we keep losing it [nocookie.net], and our sessions tend to last days over the holiday breaks. Especially the green and the blue.
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─Intel already licensed this tech and its instruction set to AMD, and IBM So it hasn't been exclusive for a long time, and the instruction set is pretty much in the public domain, except for recent additions. But even those could emulated in RISK environments for a slight speed loss. Every compiler i...
[21:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:00] <exec> 08└─I find it extremely unsettling for anyone to compare the creations of Terry Pratchett with those of JK Rowling. I love them both, but they are fundamentally different in my head. For instance there's something that's stuck in my head: JK Rowling is the best sold author in the UK, T Pratchett is the...
[21:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:25] <exec> 08└─That's pretty funny, I was going to pick FaceBook as a bad example as well. They overcame it, but it took quite a lot of effort. As someone else mentioned, imagine if they used proprietary tech. I think StackOverflow did for software (and I'm not sure how much they get boned on licences), but they w...
[21:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:26] <exec> 08└─It's good that you blew that comment out of proportion. I was starting to think that maybe TMB was smart enough to actually manage a network. That way lies madness. I'd be jumping off bridges in a chicken costume next. But you pointed out the grievous flaw in TMB's post, that servers aren't networks...
[21:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:32] <exec> 08└─Based in the prev answers, seems like is no longer a matter of getting a product done well, but rather "how can we grab more money from the suckers?". USA is on the way down.
[21:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Moderate Drinking Linked to a Decline in Brain Health - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─Like most the other studies; it conflicts with future studies... not corrupt ones which do get put out there; but legit work shows the complexity involved. For example, what one EATS with the alcohol will impact how it acts on the body. Somebody doing a similar study may have different results by st...
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[22:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:46] <exec> 08└─a company encouraging people to go certain places without adequate planning could definitely create a public nuisance
[22:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─its like when google honors just one request to remove some distasteful content. Suddenly they are responsible for all of it. But I agree, there is stuff included in these programs and services that shouldn't be there anyway. Just because I live on the planet doesn't mean I want people's foot traffi...
[22:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:49] <exec> 08└─IF the designers of Pokemon Go spread their objectives evenly across the face of the Earth,
[22:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:51] <exec> 08└─Fine people for when they break the rules.
[22:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:54] <exec> 08└─And none of their revenue depends on you visiting any specific spot.
[22:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:56] <exec> 08└─The city is entitled to nothing because the people using the streets, sidewalks, parks, etc already pay taxes.
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─I hear Samsung is one of the ones that doesn't bother adding the spy dots.
[22:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:15] <exec> 08└─Following Winner's arrest and subsequent charging
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:34] <exec> 08└─Why is MS working with Qualcomm, a hardware company, to make use of software emulation? I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being some sort of weird hybrid.
[22:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:30] <exec> 08└─PHB: We have to use this latest technology, our competitors are using it. Dilbert: Let's just say we do and then don't. PHB: Does that work? Dilbert: It almost did on us.
[22:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Google - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:32] <exec> 08└─Only cable jockeys think the network does not include the hardware attached to it.
[22:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malware uses Intel AMT feature to steal data, avoid firewalls - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:14] <exec> 08└─I can tell you it is possible to find modded bioses. People have disabled undesirable features and of course have introduced ones more to their liking. I have done this on much of my personal inventory of older computers, and some of the new ones. If you don't want the ME engine, you are going to be...
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[23:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LowRISC Announces its 0.4 Milestone Release - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:25] <exec> 08└─And not even an openly documented/open development tools FPGA at that. When are we going to see a board based on iCE40 FPGAs offering a chip like this? The PicoRV32 will almost fit into the 4k model chips, and will definitely fit into the 8k chips, allowing either qfp or bga packages to be used. Wit...
[23:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trial Will Decide Whether Milwaukee Can Require Permits for Using Locations in Augmented Reality - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─You seem to be unfamiliar with the notion of the tragedy of the commons [wikipedia.org]. As it was once explained by a philosophy professor, let's say you REALLY love to walk around on grass in your bare feet. So you do down to the public park every night, and take off your shoes, and walk around on...
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:19] <exec> 08└─The Epson Stylus Photo R200 doesn't add them, I've heard.
[23:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of people with clearances. They don't seem to mean too much. And in fact her boss(es) may not be that smart or just squeezed by budget or profit demands. It was a subcontractor after all.
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─There are 4 Samsung units listed at the EFF link from frojack. All of those are no-dots. There are 14 OkiDATA units listed. All of those are no-dots. Xerox/Tektronix/Fuji is a mixed bag. Another EFF page that has a decoder at the bottom. DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide [eff.org] There's some o...
[23:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Printer Dot Sanitisation" Software Seeks to Cleanse Yellow-Dot Watermarks - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:24] <exec> 08└─Seconded. If I hadn't spotted the headlines in the MSM recently, I'd have no idea what's going on here.
[23:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Hints at Patent Fight With Microsoft and Qualcomm Over x86 Emulation - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─The military has no use for those robotic burros? Nor Fukushima Daiichi as a tool to get into contaminated areas? Seems Sergei Brin and Eric Schmidt forgot the ask-first-do-later thing. Especially in hi-tech where health dangers and economic loss lies present in unexpected ways. Doing such things in...
[23:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Releases Upgradable iMacs - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:01] <exec> 08└─Upgradeability is something Apple should be doing with all its computers. I am irritated that my 21" iMac from 2013 is not upgradeable one iota. It really needs 16 GB of RAM but it's condemned for all eternity to be stuck with 8. This is something Apple used to always allow, but now it seems to be m...
[23:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Not to Build a Ship: the USS Ford - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:49] <exec> 08└─Marked as Spam!
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