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[00:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sound Waves Direct Particles to Self-Assemble, Self-Heal - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:43] <exec> 08└─It's like we're all part of one big spiritual consciousness that's just the natural vibration of the universe... man. I always wondered what'd happen to living cells with prolonged exposure to different resonances? [youtube.com] Anyone hook an AC up with a published paper?
[00:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Schedules 3 Launches Within 8 Days; 2 Launches Within 48 Hours - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:53] <exec> 08└─EM: We should really colonize Mars and the Moon. Really really. NEWS: Multiple rocket launches, official missions vague. EM: We really need to get on this guys! (seeking forgiveness rather than permission)
[00:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:02] <exec> 08└─Looks like billion dollar investment by Exxon in Synthetic Genomics was wise. This company has so much knowledge in the field of genetic engineering and environmental sequences that it is the one to keep an eye on.
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:04] <exec> 08└─Seems like several points of inefficiency in that plan. Too many lossy conversions. Why not put the oil in the fuel tank, tune the engine, and call it a day. If you're going to burn it all anyway, aren't we just arguing about which source of pollution we are going to manage?
[00:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:07] <exec> 08└─I want the goddamn products of combustion out of my face and in some controlled environment. Plus, I don't trust Joe Lunchpale to keep his personal engines tuned.
[00:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe something other than oil will become a better store for energy (Nuclear?); well, that other thing can also be processed centrally in order to pump electrons through the existing electrical grid. So, it's better to make the last mile compatible with electricity, and not some other mode of power...
[00:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─But you do trust Reginald Von Smokestack to keep his generator plant from polluting, and not to pay bribes to those responsible to verify that?
[00:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Heat Grounds Airplanes in Phoenix - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:43] <exec> 08└─Freezing and boiling water are nothing you really need to measure in day to day life, so use SI for them. Outside of chemists, HVAC techs, and chefs, who regularly measures temps of water near boiling/freezing? Those don't need to be intuitive because they don't matter much for everyday life. 100F a...
[00:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Grounds Airplanes in Phoenix - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:44] <exec> 08└─It could be said that climate is the integral of weather. ...or, perhaps, weather is the derivative of climate. One thing's for sure: Weather is deviations from a baseline. ...and the baseline has hasn't been this radical EVER. Earth Temperature Timeline [xkcd.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org...
[00:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Grounds Airplanes in Phoenix - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:46] <exec> 08└─It happened. Haven't you heard about "Senator Snowball"? [google.com] Dumbass James Inhofe (R-OK) actually brought a snowball onto the Senate floor as "proof" that Global Warming is a fraud. The 2 of you should start a club. I'm sure that some Soylentils have suggestions for the name for that. -- Or...
[00:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Grounds Airplanes in Phoenix - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:49] <exec> 08└─"High and hot" airports (more accurately, high and/or hot airports) were mentioned in a recent discussion. The low density of the air hinders flight. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:45] <exec> 08└─Nobody actually passes legislation anymore, that's why all we get in the news is talk about talk about possibly thinking about passing some legislation. Plus bills hammered out in secret committee and rushed through on a party-bloc vote.
[00:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:47] <exec> 08└─Isn't China already kinda like a)? Behind the Great (fire)Wall of China the government owns all traffic as the US and UK government (and sadly for me probably their lapdog the Aussies) looks on in envy and schemes to build their own.
[00:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:49] <exec> 08└─They'll just ban encryption or mandate the use of a broken one. You don't need a backdoor key on ROT13.
[00:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Taking New Steps to Fight Terror Online - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:55] <exec> 08└─Censoring political content will be pretty futile
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[12:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:41] <exec> 08└─A: a good President would make sure that Snowden gets punished for the actual damage he did and praised for the actual good he did. Let's see if Trump is another puppet.
[12:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─The only way Corbyn is going to become PM
[12:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:57] <exec> 08└─Where's the leadership challenge from within the Conservatives themselves?
[12:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:07] <exec> 08└─Games are going to be slow to adapt to beyond quad-core, but the major consoles now have 8 cores (~6-8 usable threads), AMD has made the (true) octo-core cheap, and Intel will introduce a mainstream 6-core chip in 2018 (Coffee Lake). If you need highly threaded software that will tax your 10, 12, 14...
[12:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:09] <exec> 08└─The new security features [amd.com] on these chips are really interesting too. In particular, the secure memory encryption (making physical attacks on a machine much harder) and secure encrypted virtualization (allowing memory access for virtual machines without the hypervisor being able to read it)...
[12:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:12] <exec> 08└─Right but half the fun of server chips existing was imagining what a badass gaming rig you could build with one. AMD screwed us on that.
[12:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:14] <exec> 08└─About as much as I trust Intel. Which is to say I'm fairly certain they've long since handed the NSA the keys to the kingdom and if not they will be doing so soon.
[12:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:16] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The new Intel lineup is a proper clusterfuck by comparison. No, not even by comparison. It's just a proper clusterfuck.
[12:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:18] <exec> 08└─Well, technically the Ryzen "enthusiast" chips stop at 16 cores, and Intel at 18. I'm not sure what a game could do with 24 or 32 cores (with lower clocks), but maybe there is some crazy procedurally generated game that will scale to 128+ cores. Maybe AMD didn't ruin the fun but moved the goalposts,...
[12:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:35] <exec> 08└─Not really :-) Basically Windows broke so many times, for so many reasons and with so many casualties in my experience that a complete list is not practical. Actually, a shorter list should have been sufficient to make my point, or a link to some external summary. I don't have the time to search for...
[12:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─After a lot if "Windows 10 broke my PC" links, in the "related searches for Windows broke my", there this pearl: "tenant broke window". Yeah, right, related indeed.
[12:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03danaris [3853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:11] <exec> 08└─Any D and D open source project will get shut down with legal letter from the lawyers.
[12:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sound Waves Direct Particles to Self-Assemble, Self-Heal - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:11] <exec> 08└─http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/06/19/sound-waves-direct-particles-self-assemble-self-heal/ [lbl.gov]
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sound Waves Direct Particles to Self-Assemble, Self-Heal - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:13] <exec> 08└─OK but the phononic bandgap thingie, if I understood it correctly, seems more like an instance of the force/reaction duality we are used to witness elsewhere a lot. As I understood it, scream at 4000hz loud enough and the particles will arrange in a complex manner to DAMPEN the 4khz frequency itself...
[12:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Grounds Airplanes in Phoenix - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:52] <exec> 08└─It's a LOT more complicated than that. Safe takeoff is a matter of air temperature, weight of the plane, length of the runway, etc. Note that they also have to consider safe landing in the equations since an abort back the the airport may become necessary. In such a case they need to know if they ca...
[12:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Urges Nations to Pursue Lunar Base and Mars Landing - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:30] <exec> 08└─Plus there's the question of where the economic benefit of this is, or governmental.
[12:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:35] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the rich white demographic (the people who mostly have their own chargers now) are quite generous and giving among themselves, but aren't so good at sharing with other demographics. The rich white fop who just took off in the A.M. assuming the battery would hold because he has mo...
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[13:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:39] <exec> 08└─Blowing the whistle on the government's unconstitutional, illegal, and/or unethical activities is justifiable, even if it causes damage, and should never result in punishment. We need to encourage whistleblowers, not discourage them. But there is no evidence that Snowden caused actual damage anyway.
[13:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:55] <exec> 08└─In order for there to be rights, there must be wrongs - if you want to get rid of wrongs, which great leaders do, you *must* get rid of rights.
[13:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:30] <exec> 08└─Ironically, the Memphis beta release was surprisingly solid, responsive and felt like a serious upgrade from Win95. Then they dropped Win98. As in, dropped it from a height and let it crater into unsuspecting people.
[13:35:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 7763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:01] <exec> 08└─Back when I could still see to do so I used to draw maps. Colored pencils (PrismaColor) on map sized vellum, depicting a land mass that might be as small as an individual island or as large as an entire continent if the user wished. Forests, grasslands, plains, steppes, mountain ranges, lakes, river...
[13:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:05] <exec> 08└─I don't want to seem like an Old Fogey, but when drawing my maps and things I still just use gridded engineering paper. I suppose I could use computer tools but I really enjoy the tactile feedback, and I personally get enjoyment out of it. (I guess I do use simple word processors for writing up my f...
[13:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Heat Grounds Airplanes in Phoenix - 2554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:47] <exec> 08└─Guess why it's called lift? because it's lifted up and not pushed. Air velocity is higher on top of lift surfaces such as wings, therefore pressure is less and the craft is *lifted* You are referring to the Bernoulli effect (or possibly Coandă effect). Neither of those explain how aeroplanes fly, e...
[13:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Heat Grounds Airplanes in Phoenix - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:49] <exec> 08└─By the way, the above is very much 'lies to children' - the explanation for lift generated by free-flying aerofoils (i.e. nowhere near the ground) is a little more complicated. I also didn't proofread properly - a block of air going over the top surface of an aerofoil arrives at the trailing edge BE...
[13:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Urges Nations to Pursue Lunar Base and Mars Landing - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:27] <exec> 08└─You forgot to put "Your Mom" at the top of the list, because everyone's landed her.
[13:39:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:58] <exec> 08└─You reckon it's the poor people that'll be the problem?! In my experience poor people are the generous ones, to a fault. I'd be worried about the self-centered suits with entitlement complexes being the ones to ruin it for the rest.
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[14:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─x86 SBCs you say? Aaaaahhhhhhh! [soylentnews.org]
[14:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:35] <exec> 08└─I did quite a bit of research on the sub $100 SBC about a year ago. For most applications the Raspberry Pi is the correct choice, purely because the level of community support is outstanding. This is particularly important for applications using the io pins or driving hardware. For my personal webse...
[14:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:37] <exec> 08└─For most applications the Raspberry Pi is the correct choice, purely because the level of community support is outstanding.
[14:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:40] <exec> 08└─Odroid for speed, Pine64 for doing the work done cheapest, yet still more powerful than RasPi... I see no reason to choose that.
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─You're shitting me. The primary objection to this had nothing to do with national security, it was to do with the thousands of Afghani informers who were publicly outed in the documents. That it also made it a cakewalk for anybody on earth to get a day-to-day view of our ongoing military operations...
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─"Hey, I should be allowed to smash up the town, or release parking brakes of parked convertibles at random, so long as I don't happen to cause too much damage.... Idiotic.
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03purple_cobra [1435] (Score: 1) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─Were he PM, they'd have two choices: work with him or resign/get sacked. No doubt the question of "leaks" would arise, e.g. showing what terrible people the Labour leadership are; that would be foolhardy in the extreme and would likely result in sacrificial head chopping from the very top of the sec...
[14:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─Well , I'm waiting for some benchmarks....hopefully good enough to keep Intel honest....:-/
[14:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:26] <exec> 08└─Intel's $1,000 10-core chip has been benchmarked against AMD's ~$330-440 8-core Ryzen 7s: Intel Core i9-7900X Reviewed: Hotter and More Expensive than AMD Ryzen 1800X for Small Gains [soylentnews.org] Considering that AMD's 16-core Threadripper is rumored to be $849 [wccftech.com], compared to the $...
[14:34:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:42] <exec> 08└─Security is - and always should have been - the job of the operating system. The fact that Microsoft Windows needed external help in the area for so long? That's just embarrassing, and something that they fixed starting with Windows Defender in Win7. While some anti-virus products did good work, too...
[14:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:47] <exec> 08└─Windows 95 OSR 2.1 was the least sucky version of Windows 95. Windows 95 OSR 2.1 + IE5 was the less-sucky equivalent of Windows 98. Windows NT 4 was actually pretty reasonable (I ran it at home).
[14:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 2365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:22] <exec> 08└─Our group really plays Pathfinder and mostly uses free resources... much less involved than the article above though. It is a big deal to use to use less computers and more paper and pens since we use computers 8+ hours a day the rest of the week. We have a standard character sheet one of the regula...
[14:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:24] <exec> 08└─The article mentions Roll20.net twice, and I use it myself. While it isn't open source it does make remote playing sessions much easier. Particularly if you play D&D 5e, Wizards of the Coast has put a lot of effort in supporting the platform and there is official content available. Without paying al...
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[14:35:26] <exec> 08└─Oh I forgot. For throw-away encounters or where the map isn't a big deal, we have puzzle-piece like items with terrain features that can be placed on the grid. Sometimes just toss a few of those on the grid and call it a day. It covers the case where we just fight a dragon in an open field and nobod...
[14:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─They only pretend to be domesticated because we give them tuna. As I tell my kids, the only reason cats don't eat you is because you're too big.
[14:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:11] <exec> 08└─"As I tell my kids, the only reason cats don't eat you is because you're too big." That's only partly true. Tell the kids to keep moving from time to time. http://www.nydailynews.com [nydailynews.com]
[14:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with oil and coal is that it's not a cycle (well, it is of course, on geological timescales, but that doesn help us much now)
[14:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Urges Nations to Pursue Lunar Base and Mars Landing - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:51] <exec> 08└─Nobody gets any say as to which country or place they are born in. So how is this any different? If the ship is so great, then stay on the ship. You bet you would be pleased your grandparents left on the ship and missed out on the complete destruction of the planet (insert nuclear war/comet impact/e...
[14:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:58] <exec> 08└─There's a big problem with your analysis: you're wrong about needing to take breaks. Drivers may need to take breaks, but vehicles do not, and in the US, long-haul trucks frequently do not, regardless of any laws about drivers needing breaks. Drivers frequently drive in 2-person teams, so that one p...
[14:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Developing a New Balance for the New Kilogram - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─...the kilogram is a Planck mass.
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[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:39] <exec> 08└─What size of radio/traditional telescope do we need to do rudimentary spectroscopy on the closest of these planets? I imagine the new thirty meter telescope might, but I'm not qualified to do the math. It'd be amazing to start seeing what the atmosphere/surface of these planets are made of.
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03rufty [381] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:50] <exec> 08└─Going the other way, the BeagleBone [beagleboard.org] is quite nicely designed, especially for hard realtime IO, eg, MachineKit [machinekit.io], but the community is much smaller than the Pi's, so sometimes you're just on your own.
[15:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:51] <exec> 08└─The biggest drawback in the lack of a decent amount of PWM and analog I/O. All of that requires yet another board and more protocol/library overhead. Plus the fact that USB is the only high speed I/O it has which is also shared with the USB Ethernet chip. The ODROID-C2 is an improvement with its har...
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:54] <exec> 08└─For me, it's all about the ESP8266 ESP-12S [adafruit.com]. It's got built-in wifi, it's (mostly) arduino compatible, its manufacturer [espressif.com] provides two different firmwares: one bare metal, and one running an RTOS.
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─Here is the non-thumbnail version. [linuxgizmos.com]
[15:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─But there is no evidence that Snowden caused actual damage anyway. Yeah, I think that was the OP's point. Notice his use of the qualifying word "actual" before "damage".
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─Idiotic
[15:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:43] <exec> 08└─DX12 and Vulkan are going to drive this as they get fully adopted. Both make it much easier to write games that can take advantage of all the available cores on a PC. So it's a really good time for AMD to step back up and starting driving a new core war with Intel.
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─This is what a clear and understandable product launch looks like
[15:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:06] <exec> 08└─Security is - and always should have been - the job of the operating system. Exactly. 3rd-party products have no place here. The fact that Microsoft Windows needed external help in the area for so long? That's just embarrassing, and something that they fixed starting with Windows Defender in Win7. E...
[15:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:07] <exec> 08└─Windows makes it hard to remove defender. The A/V that indexes your files and sends "samples" back to MS. It is possible though, I've removed it from 7, 8.1, and 10 and I'm much happier for it.
[15:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:10] <exec> 08└─I'm by no means trying to apologize for Microsoft's actions in this particular case, but would like to point out that adding anti-malware (AM) products to your system can make them more vulnerable. How does anti-malware work? As a gross-oversimplification, it intercepts access to potentially-infecte...
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:47] <exec> 08└─I've played a few games on roll20 and completely agree that it improves remote sessions. The DM has your sheet right there and everyone can see your dice rolls. I haven't DM'd but by watching other DMs it seems like they could use assistant tools to help them along. Like the party derails a carefull...
[15:36:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:06] <exec> 08└─OK, this intentional cat breading has to stop! Right now, peoples! The word is "breed", doing it, if you are not a cat, is "breeding". Past perfect tense is "bred", get that? No "a" in "bred". Yes, it sounds the same, but a single extra vowel changes everything. You can loose the hole point of you'...
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:34] <exec> 08└─No, they're not talking about lions, they're talking about wildcats, or Felis Silvestris [wikipedia.org], the wild animal that our housecats (Felis Catus) descend from. Lions are only very remotely related to housecats; they're not even the same genus or subfamily, they're in the panther genus along...
[15:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:35] <exec> 08└─Not really, most of those dog breeds were bred to do one job or another. You need a small dog for some things and a larger one for others. Trying to have a small dog pulling a sled isn't going to work out, but having a large one would work out much better. When it comes to cats though, most of it is...
[15:39:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:36] <exec> 08└─> Christians also practice infant MGM. That is not a Christian thing though, that is a US thing, done to all who are Christian, or something else (or nothing at all). Nothing to do with the Christian religion. AFAIK it isn't done anywhere else but the US for non-religious reasons.
[15:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:23] <exec> 08└─Seems inefficient to have two drivers per vehicle, rather than say two vehicles that have to stop regularly. That's what they do in Europe.
[15:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:24] <exec> 08└─Seems inefficient to have two drivers per vehicle, rather than say two vehicles that have to stop regularly. That's what they do in Europe. Drivers are cheap compared to the vehicle. Plus, a lot of teams are married couples. You want them to stay in separate vehicles from each other?
[15:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Self-driving Car Driver Ignored Multiple Warnings - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:59] <exec> 08└─Where did I say you did?
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[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:31] <exec> 08└─I vote for building a really huge telescope on the far side of the Moon.
[16:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:33] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether that should be: "outside our stellar/star system" rather than: "outside our solar system". Alternatively, I wonder whether that should be: "outside the solar system". Our star's name is "Sol"; hence, our stellar/star system is known as as the solar system.
[16:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:35] <exec> 08└─https://jwst.nasa.gov/origins.html [nasa.gov] One of the main uses of the James Webb Space Telescope will be to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, to search for the building blocks of life elsewhere in the universe. But JWST is an infrared telescope. How is this good for studying exoplanets? One m...
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─Grishnakh is a well known moon shill, disregard his posts about it.
[16:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─Webb will be much smaller than the TMT, but I guess has less interference which is better for spectroscopy, then?
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─Machine kit is really interesting. It's a fork of Linux EMC with a broader application than just CNC motion. They are moving the PLC/PAC tasks to the RT core as well as enabling cores to be dedicated to RT tasks. E.g. for a quad core system you can dedicate one core for motion, one core for RT IO (E...
[16:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:56] <exec> 08└─Haven't had one of my raspi's fail yet, but the sdcard interface was questionable, especially when I was still running r/w. Wishlist items are a real gigabit network interface, and a better interface to (external) storage.
[16:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:58] <exec> 08└─Let's get rid of the x86 encumbrance and go for MIPS and ARM as they are cheaper and performs more instructions per unit of energy. Besides the capital of trust for Intel is gone. The Raspberry-Pi product line however have some drawbacks: * Doesn't make use of a internal high speed bus for Ethern...
[16:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─My problem with the Chelsea Manning leaks vs. the Snowden leaks is that it appears she wasn't actively grabbing only documents that showed constitutional issues, but rather just grabbing documents in bulk. There is very much a reason to keep the documents secret, even if national security wouldn't b...
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:12] <exec> 08└─but also had a moral obligation to not report on how, where, or when the US spyed on foreign entities.
[16:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:31] <exec> 08└─Just asker her majesty and she replied "A year to the day after that nasty AC!"
[16:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─Buy and sell your political ideals for $MONEYS$ No wrong or right, just $MONEYS$
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─The second coming of Margaret Thatcher can go get stuffed sideways. Bloody regressive.
[16:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:17] <exec> 08└─Can you point to instructions on how to remove Defender? Instructions that you have used would be best... I'm currently still on Win7Pro where I can turn it off (at least it says it's off...). We are a tiny company with no dedicated IT staff, so I have to wing it, in conjunction with talking to peop...
[16:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. It involves a Linux hybrid-format ISO, a small USB stick, and some time :)
[16:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03microtodd [1866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─You're comments on plain text character sheets actually made me think. What would be cool would be a JS webapp, or a Google Sheets sheet, or a tablet app, that, if you set race and class and feats and stuff, type in your original attribute rolls, things are automatically calculated for you. What was...
[16:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:00] <exec> 08└─I've been using a program called VTable for networked gametable sessions for nearly a decade: https://sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net]
[16:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:48] <exec> 08└─Wild cats are mostly a problem for birds and rodents. And they can be a huge problem in some parts of the country. But, you're right about the dogs, we have a couple packs of them roaming around one of our parks and it's a minor miracle that nobody's been mauled. It's the strangest wolf pack you've...
[16:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sound Waves Direct Particles to Self-Assemble, Self-Heal - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:06] <exec> 08└─> DAMPEN Really? The particles throw water at the 4KHz scream? Damp & damping = remove energy from a system Dampen & dampening = make wet Sorry, it's a pet peeve.
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─That's my beef with the whole idea of somehow putting regulations in place to block hydrocarbon burning vehicles. If this pans-out, its the ultimate win: we can move to a nearly carbon neutral (there will almost certainly be some inefficiency/gain in the net CO2, but it gotta be a HUGE reduction com...
[16:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Urges Nations to Pursue Lunar Base and Mars Landing - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:31] <exec> 08└─The only case I can think of where that may apply would be if more computing power is needed than is currently available, in which case all you need to do is wait.
[16:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mojo chan [266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:40] <exec> 08└─The Panasonic cells Tesla uses are rated for 3000 cycles. At 300 miles per cycle that's 900,000 miles over their lifetime, which is defined at 80% capacity remaining. Tesla tested them up to 750,000 miles with 86% capacity remaining. There is a taxi firm in the UK that has some Leafs at 180k miles....
[16:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:42] <exec> 08└─but the human race is full of extremes
[16:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:44] <exec> 08└─Might help the relationship.
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[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─Link unusable because of ad that won't go away when I click its X.
[17:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:39] <exec> 08└─Maser cannon on the near side of the moon.
[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─Can't you have Pi / BeagleBone / etc that speaks I2C to a few slave Arduinos that have lots of PWM and analog I/O. That way you can have high level logic on the Pi, and low level control on the Arduinos.
[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:59] <exec> 08└─You need support, but why do you need 'millions and millions' of people to feel safe about a product being supported? Is this not simply cattle mentality? The better the product works as advertised, the less support you will require.
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─Task: To blink an LED. A blinking LED is required on a control panel to indicate a warning condition. Hardware engineer: Easy, I'll use a 555 chip, a few resistors and a capacitor. Done. Did I win a prize? DIY Maker: Easy. I'll use an Arduino with the blink sketch and a resistor. Done. I have more b...
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─no architecture-defined power button. stupid stupid stupid! after all these years, not even a tactile button on the board to act as a graceful shutdown trigger. elephant-in-the-room bug (usb ethernet) still sucks, by design. connector arrangement is still not embed-friendly (all over the place, on a...
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─Interesting journal entry... But now I am curious, what would be a good choice for an embedded project that needs more than a microcontroller?
[17:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─What is your review of the Raspberry-Pi SDcard interface? is it only R/W mode that screws up? and how? Any difference in reliability between models?
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─My solution: Buy a pre-made blinking LED. They do exist.
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─Does the ESP-12S have a built in filtering voltage regulator and resistors to keep the thing stable? I'm using a ESP-01 module (uses the same chip) in a project and I'm having a heck of a time getting it to run with any sort of stability. The majority of the information out there doesn't talk about...
[17:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:47] <exec> 08└─I think it's a hot potato scenario: nobody wants to step in and deal with Brexit. Once Brexit is done, so will Theresa May.
[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:33] <exec> 08└─Windows 2000 Professional was pretty danged good, IMO. Then it went all downhill from there.
[17:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Deep Sea Expedition Finds 300 New Species - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:52] <exec> 08└─I presume space is excludes when they write cliches about our planet. On a grander scale, entropy is the end boss.
[17:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─Cats on the other hand are not pack animals, nor have they ever frightened humans as a species.
[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:04] <exec> 08└─He said breed not bread.
[17:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:07] <exec> 08└─Ever notice how you don't see drop-off dogs wandering around? (No hyperbole -- I shoot maybe 3 or 4 cats a year, probably 2/3 feral, 1/3 drop-offs -- but I've never had to shoot a dog of any sort.) Maybe it's because dogs are actually domesticated, and just don't survive in the wild long enough to n...
[17:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:09] <exec> 08└─Them bastards should calling them cats, then.
[17:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:11] <exec> 08└─You could get the neighborhood strays fixed, e.g. TNR, http://fixnation.org [fixnation.org]. Then you wouldn't have to feel guilty about feeding them :)
[17:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:13] <exec> 08└─but I've never had to shoot a dog
[17:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sound Waves Direct Particles to Self-Assemble, Self-Heal - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─You say it as if they have a purpose for it. They don't. When you throw a ball, it takes the only path it can take.
[17:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sound Waves Direct Particles to Self-Assemble, Self-Heal - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:33] <exec> 08└─That subject line is a bit ironic.... Were the newagers right? Crystals and sound waves do heal? I wouldn't mind if they were right if only to screw with all the hard core know-it-alls. Take crystals and scientifically tuned flutes around just to mess with people. No maaaan, its sciieeeence!
[17:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Schedules 3 Launches Within 8 Days; 2 Launches Within 48 Hours - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─They still have to figure out how to handle long term zero-g exposure.
[17:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:19] <exec> 08└─Today we will sequester the carbon in plastics that last for millennia.
[17:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Grounds Airplanes in Phoenix - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:21] <exec> 08└─Yup. I spent a couple of years familiarizing myself with climate science. I modeled traffic. The similarities are kind of neat.
[17:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Urges Nations to Pursue Lunar Base and Mars Landing - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:02] <exec> 08└─If humanity is looking for an export to the universal market, I think our absurdity is potentially very entertaining.
[17:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Urges Nations to Pursue Lunar Base and Mars Landing - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe. Depends on which sci-fi you read. But is this a reason to not try?
[17:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking Urges Nations to Pursue Lunar Base and Mars Landing - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:06] <exec> 08└─Or try using other methods. Technology development is fast enough that people on their way to another star system might actually be run up by a later launch using advances in science and improved technology.
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:49] <exec> 08└─If I just look at "ARMs have TrustZone and a baseband processor", this comment might have merit. Unfortunately, the rest of the comment undermines any faith in the accuracy of the above and makes the writer appear to have either incredibly bad judgement, be having an incredibly bad day, or both.
[17:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:51] <exec> 08└─The best argument for Trustzone is the fact that the US doesn't prevent ARM chips from being in its weapons systems. If they convinced the foundry or the English designers to add a backdoor, they clearly trust their ability to safeguard that hack or key better than they protect their own NSA/CIA hac...
[17:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:20] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing this is something that will filter out in time. Look at cell phones.
[17:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Taking New Steps to Fight Terror Online - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:17] <exec> 08└─In fact, considering that Christianity started in the middle east (not exactly whitey central), and that one of the first Christians were the Ethiopians (not exactly known for their fair skin), I don't see how you could be a white supremacist and/or neo-nazi and a Christian at the same time.
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[18:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:28] <exec> 08└─Click on the link to their store and then use the back button to read the article.
[18:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:30] <exec> 08└─Use this direct link to the English version of the original artist/mathematician page: http://araiweb.matrix.jp [matrix.jp] This link is just as good as the magazine article, better if you count many more pictures. I got that popup advert to go away by re-loadin...
[18:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:32] <exec> 08└─Link unusable because of ad that won't go away when I click its X.
[18:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:34] <exec> 08└─I was about to complain about the spelling of his name, until I wiki'd him just to be sure with the intent of integrating himself within the Parisian avant-garde removed an 'a' from the Dutch spelling of his name (Mondriaan).
[18:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─It was called the solar system way before people realized that the Sun is also a star. The english "sun" translates to the italian "sole", so I assume the romans called it "sole" as well, or something very similar --- this is in fact why the solar system is called "solar". With that in mind, whether...
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what's going on with the ESPs these days is amazing! However, they aren't single-board-computers so I don't think they're included in the survey.
[18:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─But that's a policy decision. Snowden's job was working for guys whose official duty is to spy on other countries. It's like complaining about Microsoft releasing Windows in the first place instead of being anticompetitive. They're a for-profit company; they just need to abide by the rules.
[18:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:12] <exec> 08└─I write multi-threaded software. My SDR (Software Defined Radio) is currently using 33 threads during SSB (Single SideBand) reception and can use more if certain signal processing options are selected or when receiving wideband FM; my image processing software, on the other hand, determines how many...
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:40] <exec> 08└─It might be easier if we list the things Win95 didn't break.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─[snip list of 3rd party fuckups] Of course, there is no way Microsoft itself would ever have a bug like that [chromium.org] in their anti-malware product.
[18:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Deep Sea Expedition Finds 300 New Species - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:03] <exec> 08└─Some bodies of water will have a dead zone but it isn't really dead. It just means that it doesn't support complex life. There is a name for it, but I forgot. Hypoxia [noaa.gov]
[18:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─Yep, you can't copyright the rules of a game. You can trademark the name and you can copyright the textual description but the rules themselves are open season.
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─Londo: I feel like I am being nibbled to death by, what are those Earth creatures, webbed feet go quack quack? Vir: Cats Londo: Yes, I am being nibbled to death by cats. RIP Stephen Furst
[18:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Schedules 3 Launches Within 8 Days; 2 Launches Within 48 Hours - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─I can't recall when NASA ever had three missions that close together
[18:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:00] <exec> 08└─The thing is, ARM don't sell chips. They sell chip designs. What you buy from ARM is a Hardware Description Language (HDL) description of an ARM processor, which you then get a foundry to build for you. The US military have access to trusted foundries*, so can get their supply of ARM chips from trus...
[18:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:02] <exec> 08└─I used to sell chips with ARM cores inside to military suppliers. I was not allowed to listen to the Classified discussions between our Cleared guys and theirs, but whatever was revealed in those briefings did not prevent the chips from being considered in the context of Classified programs.
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[19:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:27] <exec> 08└─Back on 2000 or so I worked on the Linux Firewire driver. Was sure the Isochronous feature would usher in a bright future delivering video.
[19:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:28] <exec> 08└─I liked the cables and connectors. angled keyed connector that made it obvious which way to insert it; cable had a STRONG 2 wires for power, and shielded pairs for clock/data. I reused the cables and connectors to 'export' i2c from arduino systems, box to box (i2s is usually inside a box but with go...
[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─Back then I wondered why USB was more popular, FireWire was only a few pennies more and much faster. I was not aware of the fact Apple pulled a dick move and decided they wanted a royalty on every port. Fark em, if I was Intel I'd tell Jobs where to put his cable as well.
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:32] <exec> 08└─There was another reason for FireWire's sudden demise. When somebody realized the downside of a multi-master system that can invoke DMA, every corporate and government entity banned any hardware with a firewire port from being considered for purchase. Now of course we have IOMMU tech that could safe...
[19:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:35] <exec> 08└─I hate to tell you this, but you didn't deliver. FireWire loved to corrupt my storage. The device didn't matter. I could use an IDE drive in a FireWire converter box, with either of two different chipsets, and data got mangled. I could use CompactFlash in either of two FireWire readers, and again my...
[19:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:46] <exec> 08└─It's biological hacking. These "illusions" belong to a class of optical images known to permanently cause neurological damage to those that view them for a protracted period of time. You have been warned!
[19:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─wemos d1 mini (and clones) for the win.
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─I got a lot of these: [14601686.810114] Transfer to device 4 endpoint 0x1 frame 2041 failed - FIQ reported NYET. Data may have been lost. and when the filesystem was mounted r/w eventually it would become corrupt. This particular machine still gets it in dmesg, but worst case I just reboot the machi...
[19:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─When you think of the flows of resources that are required for humanity to get through a day, it becomes rather frightening; there is definitely safety in numbers: If there is a humongous number of people engaged with a certain project, then it's a pretty good bet that said project won't evaporate i...
[19:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough in Algae Biofuel Research Reported - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:40] <exec> 08└─This week's science? My family didn't eat the fat on steaks long before FAT became a four letter word. My triglycerides are plenty high just getting the fat from the marbleized cuts, the straight-up oreo filling lard (minus the sugar) is not what people usually eat by choice - though it is economica...
[19:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:43] <exec> 08└─> And then, costs 1/3 the price of the car when new, to replace the battery pack? Unlike an ICE, an electric car with a new battery is almost a new car. Add a few thousands for a new motor, and if you don't live in rust-crazy areas, you have most of a new car.
[19:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Vehicle Drivers: Do You Lend Out Your Charging Stations? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:44] <exec> 08└─It took an EU directive for smartphone manufacturers to realize that charger lock-in was silly.
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[20:33:26] <exec> 08└─I'm musky baby, I'm musky I just want you to know, wanna let you know It aint where I been, it aint where I been But where I'm bout to go, top of the world!
[20:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─There was an article I read a while back from one of the original 1394 engineers. One thing that he talked about was the design of the connector. The retention tabs were on the cable plug, not in the socket like USB. Whereas the USB team bungled the design and put the tabs in the USB socket housing....
[20:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:39] <exec> 08└─Of course, that's also the reason it was the preferred debug connection for Windows kernel debugging until Microsoft finally killed it a few months ago. None of the other transports perform nearly as well, though I'm honestly surprised it was supported for as long as it was.
[20:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:42] <exec> 08└─firewire had the full size and the small connector. The second one was like current mini/micro usb ones, that is: look at it the wrong way and it disconnects. openfirmware macs, other than running powerpc linux port better than intel pcs, could also boot from external firewire with no issues. Intel...
[20:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─When somebody realized the downside of a multi-master system that can invoke DMA, every corporate and government entity banned any hardware with a firewire port from being considered for purchase.
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─Linux kernel had a similar setup.
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─Steve Jobs was at Apple's helm at the time. Assholes will be assholes.
[20:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─You certainly can. But that increases the part count and complicates things. I'd prefer that the I/O be part of the SoC to keep things simple. I'd like to see at least 6-8 ADC inputs @ 12 bits minimum along with 4+ 16 bit PWM outputs. Then give me a simple interface to them via /dev/gpio or somethin...
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:46] <exec> 08└─But now I am curious, what would be a good choice for an embedded project that needs more than a microcontroller?
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:48] <exec> 08└─It helps because you know the product is making money and less likely to be discontinued.
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─The Pi SoC sucks but everything you listed is addressed on other boards. The pi will never get any better unless there is a major change in the SoC design which I doubt will happen due to cost (PCIe, SATA, GbE MAC, etc). Besides, SATA is on its way out. Better to stick with PCIe. That has room to gr...
[20:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─You have senior software engineer confused with DIY maker.
[20:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:55] <exec> 08└─For my personal webserver, I am using an ODROID-C2.
[20:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:57] <exec> 08└─That blog entry is a year old, and for some reason they were trying to use Rasbian, and probably with a cheap SD card. I've been running Fedora 24 (custom: standard ARM image but with full hardware support added) with a Sandisk Extreme Pro SD card. It controls two (so far) of my lab instruments: fre...
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:34] <exec> 08└─She was put into the job of home secretary to do a job. It turned out that in that position she didn't have the pull to get the whole job done. Suddenly a anti-brexit figure becomes the leader of the brexit process in an attempt to use it as cover for the real job. The pull to do it would require a...
[20:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:55] <exec> 08└─I've said multiple times that my compiles will take at least 8 cores (come on guys, push those tools to 16 now!), and swallow all the DDR bandwidth I can throw at them. Reasonably-priced 8-channel DDR4? I need a mop before someone slips on the drool puddle.
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─The big "gamer thing" now is streaming + gaming. Encoding video and broadcasting it at the same resolution you're playing at is pretty CPU intensive. On top of that your social gamer stuff like discord (or mumble, teamspeak, ventrilo). A quad could probably do it. But a six (or eight) would be ideal...
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[20:35:59] <exec> 08└─RTFM [gnu.org] :-)
[20:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:01] <exec> 08└─If AMD is paying any attention they'll let big customers review the ARM µC's source code under NDA.
[20:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:03] <exec> 08└─Sadly, there's no open version for my tools. Compiling HW is very specific.
[20:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:32] <exec> 08└─It always goes that way, the same way Win2K was the reasonable alternative to ME and Server 2003 was the reasonable alternative to (pre SP2) XP (which then became Server 2003 with a different skin).
[20:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:34] <exec> 08└─It appears that Redmond traded repeated extensions of their consent decree [seattletimes.com] (with no actual enforcement/consequences) for revelations to USA.gov of every one of their backdoors. [techrights.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:36] <exec> 08└─You're right. Here they are: <this space intentionally left blank>
[20:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─Cats were worshipped as gods in ancient Egypt. They haven't forgotten.
[20:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Parliament Committee Considering End-to-End Encryption Mandate and Ban on Backdoors - 1931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:56] <exec> 08└─You don't say if you worked for ARM, a foundry, or someone else. I'll guess not ARM. If the foundry using ARM's intellectual property were a trusted foundry, then there's no problem. It doesn't mean ARM processor cores in general should be trusted, it just means that chips built in trusted foundries...
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[21:33:37] <exec> 08└─There was an article I read a while back from one of the original 1394 engineers. One thing that he talked about was the design of the connector. The retention tabs were on the cable plug, not in the socket like USB. Whereas the USB team bungled the design and put the tabs in the USB socket housing....
[21:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:43] <exec> 08└─I kind of liked Firewire, but it was a huge security risk that I don't think most people realized. Or at least non-technical people. The first time I used it for networking and had a device plugged into one computer pop up for use on the other, I realized just how dangerous the technology was. Which...
[21:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─With Apple demanding a royalty on every firewire port, there was no way I was ever going to use it. Ever. You can have a proprietary connector with royalties, or an industry standard connector with no royalties, or at least very reasonable royalties. Choose one.
[21:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:47] <exec> 08└─Sony's version was pretty much only the inferior 4 pin variety as I recall. I had a laptop back then that had a port included and it was just the 4 pin type. Which was kind of annoying. But yeah, having it named as Firewire and IEEE1394 as the most common names probably didn't help. But, it's kind o...
[21:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─...capitalist and libertarian jokers will still say "The free market will fix it!!!!!" They sure did! Fixed it right into oblivion.
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:52] <exec> 08└─Well that just seems like a driver update was needed.
[21:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:54] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point, if it needs an updated driver, that's still a security problem. It's just that the incident underlined what a security problem the bus was.
[21:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─Actually, no. From 1985 to 1997, Jobs was kicked out of the company and it was run by more typical corporate CEOs [wikipedia.org]. Those are the guys that didn't want to take risks on innovation and couldn't decide what direction to take the company. Not that Jobs gets a free pass for screwing up Fi...
[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:24] <exec> 08└─By "Earth Like" does that mean there are marketing droids, managers, power point presentations, and pointless content-free meetings?
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─Uhh, sol is Latin for sun, aka that's what the Romans called it
[21:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:08] <exec> 08└─Power problem is my bet. I couldn't even get my Pi 3 to mine to run until I got a proper power supply.
[21:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Elections Over: Fragmented Government - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:47] <exec> 08└─Jimmy Savile is dead, but I guess you're right... Until recently the preferred child rapists in the UK were loyal to the crown.
[21:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:44] <exec> 08└─On his blog, Robert Pogson has told the story a bunch of times about when he went to teach in the far north of Canada. This was an impoverished community that, during the winter, could only get supplies/outside service people via airplane, a very expensive proposition. What he found when he arrived...
[21:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 4236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:29] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately there are already plenty of third party, unofficial, unlicensed, & thus of dubious use, desktop programs & mobile apps for character generation, manipulation, & tracking. They all suffer from the fact that they can't legally include anything WotC has kept under copyright control, only...
[21:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:27] <exec> 08└─The correct question is: what exactly have they done to(/for) us?
[21:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:28] <exec> 08└─While I understand that there are times when wild animal populations must be culled you do come off as a sick motherfucker. Especially if they are domesticated cats you should trap them and take them to the local shelter. At the very least they won't die in as much agony and fear when you can't make...
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[22:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:21] <exec> 08└─"Help me Opie Taylor, you're my only hope!"
[22:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:23] <exec> 08└─"I know."
[22:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:25] <exec> 08└─"I have a bad feeling about this!"
[22:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─Darth Fife: "I am your mother, I mean uncle, I mean ... bahh, we're somehow friggen related! Now join us or get zapped with something nasty!"
[22:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:59] <exec> 08└─The cost is the reason FireWire wasn't used for more consumer devices, resulting in peripherals avoiding it because they wanted people to be able to just plug their stuff in without also buying an expansion card. Corporate/government environments are different; they probably wouldn't have cared one...
[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─The market interpreted Steve Jobs to be damage, and then routed around him.
[22:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─I vaguely remember it was called FireLog but I can't find it with Google. You need two Macs. One of them runs the hack, the other is a stock Macintosh with no special software installed. Connect them with a FireWrite cable and that stock Mac displays a fireplace with a log burning in it.
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─the client code is much simpler for FireWire. I also wrote an embedded driver for a TI Link Layer chip. That was nasty - the chip had forty 32-bit command and status registers, with some of the commands being just one bit. But once I got that driver written, it was very easy to make use of FireWire.
[22:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:45] <exec> 08└─You can virtualize the whole OS. That's fine. You cannot virutalize features of the software /separately/.
[22:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Admits to Disabling Third-Party Anti-Virus Code if Win 10 Doesn't Like It - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:47] <exec> 08└─C'mon now. The two most important applications worked fine - winmine.exe and sol.exe
[22:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cats Are an Extreme Outlier Among Domestic Animals - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:30] <exec> 08└─Fair enough; I support lion equality, they should be accepted for who they are.
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[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:30] <exec> 08└─So, for the movie about the early life of the guy who nuked the fridge, they'll use the guy who was front row for "jump the shark"? Sounds like a promising franchise move!
[23:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:32] <exec> 08└─At least Phil Lord and Chris Miller can console themselves with the fact that, unlike Han Solo post Special Edition, they definitely did get to shoot first.
[23:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:34] <exec> 08└─Boring conversation anyway.
[23:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:36] <exec> 08└─Lando will be in a relationship with a White woman. The acting will be wooden, everything will be CGI -- especially the most annoying character in the movie (that they will not only not kill off, but feature prominently in further sequels). The alien-language dialog will include words like "peepee"...
[23:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:38] <exec> 08└─@RealRonHoward is the founder of ISIS. In many respects he's the founder. He should get an award from them. The media must immediately stop calling Disney leaders "MASTERMINDS." Call them instead thugs and losers. Young people must not go into Disney movies! Sorry, @RealRonHoward is a mentally sick...
[23:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ron Howard Steps in to Direct Han Solo Movie - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:41] <exec> 08└─Help me, Obi Wan Clint Howard.... You know it's gonna happen!
[23:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Queen's Speech: Petrol Stations to Go Electric - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─Considering how often the UK gets it current from Them Frogs, and how EDF may not mind selling it at higher post-brexit prices, they'd better get That new EPR nuke plant up and running (also EDF) before they add too many electric cars on the road. Or they could just listen to the queen's hat [thegua...
[23:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative Tech Torpedoed by Corporations - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─It was pretty much an actual hardware bus. So like PCI, it could allow devices to bus master so to speak and initiate DMA transfers. That right there was the security problem. But That wasn't much of an issue at first. It was years after release. The big problem that never allowed it to pick up stea...
[23:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Japanese Floating Illusions Reverse-Engineer What We See - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:32] <exec> 08└─So when people have been looking at illusions for too long, their constant rocking backward and forward motion which looks like they're praying, really is neurological damage?
[23:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:49] <exec> 08└─It's in the summary. It means these worlds will be suspiciously scorched when we look at them.
[23:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kepler Finds 10 New Earth-Like Exoplanet Candidates - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:51] <exec> 08└─http://www.tmt.org/science-case [tmt.org] A 30-meter telescope, operating in wavelengths ranging from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared, is an essential tool to address questions in astronomy ranging from understanding star and planet formation to unraveling the history of galaxies and the develop...
[23:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Epyc 7000-Series Launched With Up to 32 Cores - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:32] <exec> 08└─AMD is rumored [wccftech.com] to be adding High Bandwidth Memory to certain CPU/APU models. Intel has added HBM to Xeon Phi which has over 70 cores. However, stacking memory onto the CPU can cause thermal problems and is expensive. It remains to be seen how widespread HBM will be with CPUs.
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know anyplace online that has automated the 1st Ed. dungeon and wilderness generators? I've found several other generators, but they don't seem to have the same feel--more later edition-y, maybe... That being said--one of the first programs I remember writing on the old TRS-80 that was m...
[23:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Open Source Tools to Play Dungeons and Dragons - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:54] <exec> 08└─I asked WotC for a plain text set of the material so I could be able to use all the books I've bought over the decades now that I'm blind. They told me to GFM. Since WotC isn't interested in providing official texts, I've had to go the pirate route to get text copies of stuff I already own. *Sigh* W...
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