#comments | Logs for 2017-06-28

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[00:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:18] <exec> 08└─Shape them like this [pinimg.com], and you won't hear a thing. At least it won't be a cacophony [youtube.com].
[00:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:20] <exec> 08└─Having lived in the path of Concorde (far from the airport itself), the noise problem isn't really the sonic boom. It's the engines which are capable of supercruising which are loud. A B-1B, with similar engine configuration, might be more familiar to Americans. You don't want that at low altitude n...
[00:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Space Tugs to Clean Up Space Junk - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:37] <exec> 08└─The other reason to use multiple lasers spaced far apart is to only have the energy on the target, not on everything that passes behind it in the direction the laser is pointing at. I'm pretty sure the NRO would still object.
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Space Tugs to Clean Up Space Junk - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─The problem with blasting stuff from Earth is that you need a really damn accurate laser in order to avoid accelerating the object along the radial axis, which could increase it's reentry speed substantially or possibly even blast it into solar orbit. In order to slow down the object, you need to he...
[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbex Scouting for Space Rocket Launch Site in Scotland - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─Are there any known details of Orbex's lift vehicle? All I can find is that they apparently use a "novel, sustainable fuel strategy", which is more a pile of buzzwords than an actual description. Based on that, and their claim of a low inert-mass fraction, I would guess they're burning metholox in e...
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbex Scouting for Space Rocket Launch Site in Scotland - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─the one that killed mary queen of scots. och.
[00:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:21] <exec> 08└─What?
[00:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:22] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't this also be a potential solution to feedback as well then? If a microphone picks up too much of the speaker, it deadens the sound, preventing the feedback loop from taking place. The mic itself would only be silenced briefly before resuming normal operations. Win-win?
[00:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:25] <exec> 08└─Cone of silence is deprecated. Besides, this sounds more like hover-cover.
[00:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:24] <exec> 08└─If you are sick, if you are tired, then I am doing a good job here. If we are very very very fortunate, the condition will prove to be contagious among progressives, and it will prove to be fatal.
[00:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:26] <exec> 08└─There are people who do argue for unfettered immigration.
[00:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─I am sorry for your loss.
[00:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:30] <exec> 08└─If you are sick, if you are tired, then I am doing a good job here.
[00:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:32] <exec> 08└─Original AC responding: "Favour"... I think that speaks volumes to to proposition that your allegiances lie elsewhere than U.S. national security.
[00:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Planet Nine's Existence Disfavoured by New Data - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:18] <exec> 08└─the word 'planet' essentially becomes meaningless.
[00:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine's Existence Disfavoured by New Data - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:20] <exec> 08└─My usage satisfies (a) and (c) but, non-paradoxically, not (b).
[00:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planet Nine's Existence Disfavoured by New Data - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─I too am a mathematician, and, *as I stated quite clearly above*, poor understanding can quite naturally lead to paradoxes.
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[01:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:25] <exec> 08└─https://betanews.com/2017/06/27/europe-guts-google-and-thats-just-wrong/ [betanews.com] https://www.geekwire.com [geekwire.com]
[01:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:27] <exec> 08└─"Temporarily embarrassed billionaires" rush to defend Google. When (when! not if) the hopeful peons strike it rich, they shurely don't want to pay no taxes no fines no fees.
[01:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─If they are not the opportunity for rigging the results is very high, not that this is going to do anything about this problem, but this sort of closed system is endemic in most digital markets
[01:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:40] <exec> 08└─It will be used for lunch in Europe but dinner in Thailand. Meetings, ha!
[01:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:46] <exec> 08└─They celebrated when the Twin Towers fell. Thousands of them got up on the rooftops and partied. Shameful!
[01:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:47] <exec> 08└─Aaaand your response is left empty, with the alt-right xenophobes desperately trying to rationalize your words away. I'm not for completely unregulated immigration, but people like Runaway are just scared people imagining the worst case scenarios. I wonder how much talk radio he listens to, hmmmm.
[01:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:50] <exec> 08└─Very happy with the 9-O decision from the S.C. Nine-love, we call it in golf. It means we can shutdown what I call terror tourism. All these tourists come from the bad countries -- Syria, Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen -- they come here and they start terrorizing. Let me tell you, those tour...
[01:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:04] <exec> 08└─http://tachyons.io/ [tachyons.io] "Don't let the cascade slow you down. When you apply a class to an element, there is nothing in the cascade to override its effects. You get rapid feedback on how your css is affecting your markup without wasting time debugging why your styles are being overridden."
[01:41:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:54] <exec> 08└─The Islamic Enlightenment threatened to become a thing back about 100 years ago. The 'western democracies' put an end to it and delivered the middle east to the wahab/saud barbarians. It will probably come, but not while the Saudis last.
[01:42:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Younger Republicans More Liberal on Immigration; Extreme Immigration Vetting Under Court Scrutiny - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are loads of Indian tech companies abusing this by arbitrage and that is only because there are AMERICAN partners willing to support this, but that is an implementation/enforcement problem.
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[02:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:21] <exec> 08└─... processing power will be the equivalent of 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses ...
[02:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:22] <exec> 08└─Version 1.0, North, lacked some important features.
[02:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:33] <exec> 08└─Coupons don't exist. Group discounts don't exist. Market segmentation doesn't exist. Price discrimination never happens. Extra cheese is two dollars.
[02:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:35] <exec> 08└─It's something like .06 of GOOG's market capitalization. They'll make that back in about a week. Basically the equivalent to a $500 fine for you or me.
[02:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:37] <exec> 08└─What is this fine costing them, vs what did they gain in market share? Google, er, Alphabet looks long term. This fine could just be a cost of growing your business.
[02:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:39] <exec> 08└─"Don't be evil" --> "Don't give a fuck"
[02:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:50] <exec> 08└─There's a reason airlines fly at about 550 MPH. As you approach the sound barrier fuel MPG drops, fast. Hit the boom, MPG starts to level out again. But if memory serves going -10% speed of sound has better MPG than +10% speed of sound. That said, as the booms were the biggest problems before, if t...
[02:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Space Tugs to Clean Up Space Junk - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:10] <exec> 08└─Put a satellite in orbit with generous solar panels and a proper laser. Then fire away. The problem is treaties to not militarize space. But considering it's a good for the commons in decreasing the likelihood of destroyed space equipment it's surely something that can be agreed on to have a excepti...
[02:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:55] <exec> 08└─To make a ear equivalent just manufacture a lot's of small tuning forks that can only sense one specific frequency and it's amplitude. This can be done using MEMS technique etc. All the signals from these will then be concatenated into one audio signal.
[02:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:56] <exec> 08└─While the new sound may insure privacy, an old sound I developed to a fine art guarantees privacy. It also peels paint, kills flies, and makes my eyes burn...but nothings perfect. ;-)
[02:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kernel Address Randomized Link in OpenBSD - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:11] <exec> 08└─Recalll that OpenBSD is regularly mocked for having no software available in the default install. Step zero of installing anything from ports involves rebuilding the kernel.
[02:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:07] <exec> 08└─It really is starting to look that way. I'm guessing he's far out on the ocd/aspergers/whatever spectrum and has a good handle on tech stuff, but social issues are such a mess that he just gets his worldview straight from conservative talking heads. Or maybe he just googles his favorite sites and co...
[02:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─Alt right Hitler saluting gunfucker, should have lost your virginity before you joined the Navy so you wouldn't fuck every willing sailor and dirty whore that crosses your path. Looks like you brought back a serious case of "the stupids" and after years of festering it has even evolved digital carri...
[02:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─That's what we need and that was my plan, an UGLY BAN. Not the watered down, politically correct version the Justice Dept. submitted to S.C. Going to seek much tougher version. And when the supermodels come in, I get first dibs!
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:13] <exec> 08└─Whorephobe.
[02:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:15] <exec> 08└─You've proven yourself PLENTY of times asshole. It is amazing how easily you ignore your own mental states, how so many conservatives try and sidestep their bigotry. Tired of being called a bigot? THEN STOP BEING ONE GENIUS!
[02:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:17] <exec> 08└─A) Not a conservative. B) Not a bigot. I think they're giving out free clues with each red pill next week. You might want to schedule an hour or two for that.
[02:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:32] <exec> 08└─Bingo. I just don't care to go into that much detail often.
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[03:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:23] <exec> 08└─So, this is why there are no mod points on SoylentNews today? Or is it just me?
[03:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:24] <exec> 08└─We stand on guard for thee.. Good to know IBM and the USAF are watching out for us.
[03:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:26] <exec> 08└─WOPR figured this out a long time ago: "the only winning move is not to play." Oh, and without HP 9845C what would we have done..
[03:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:40] <exec> 08└─Yes let us conflate at the things that will make things less clear
[03:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbv [6022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:41] <exec> 08└─to censor and filter information [seekingalpha.com] according to EU standards. Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo [softpedia.com] and others too. Germany is at the forefront [businessinsider.com] of that. I wonder whether this anti-trust action is related to tech industry generally avoiding their diktats.
[03:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:43] <exec> 08└─alphabets moto is "Do the right thing" whatever that mean in there context
[03:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:45] <exec> 08└─It's possible it is all related, the EU's internet and IP regulations are all over the map and problematic to say the least, but that does not mean that they are wrong on this.
[03:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:57] <exec> 08└─Recollection says the biggest reason they stopped the flights of the Concorde wasn't that one crashed, but that they weren't selling tickets like they needed. Fuel consumption and ticket prices were so high that continuing the flights was just not realistic after the perceived PR disaster that a sin...
[03:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:16] <exec> 08└─If your pillar is red, you're not doing it right. Cease and desist immediately.
[03:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poor Endpoint Security Can Cost You Millions in Detection, Response, and Wasted Time - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:31] <exec> 08└─Please! You are not saying we should simplify everything to the level the Donald could understand, are you?
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[04:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:22] <exec> 08└─Inconvenient to use with a TV and not functional for a laptop err so you plug it into your laptop next to your tv or start pulling cords from your main monitors and plug it into your tower??
[04:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:23] <exec> 08└─Or use the USB ports on the TV or get a wall-wart USB charger for a couple of dollars.
[04:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:25] <exec> 08└─"...output will be over HDMI..."
[04:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:27] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? It outputs over HDMI - you can't get much more more convenient than that for a TV. And then you plug it into a USB-charger for power, also very convenient. Do you not have enough USB chargers sitting in your redundant cables drawer that you want to pay them to include ano...
[04:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder if any laptop have "HDMI input" to use the screen as a monitor for external sources..
[04:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:32] <exec> 08└─Seems this is the reason for the stock fall: It is possible, albeit unlikely, that investors in Japan are simply expressing disappointment that the slate of titles announced for their local version [nintendo.co.jp] of the product – the Famicom Classic – includes Super Formation Soccer instead of...
[04:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry, someone had to say it :)
[04:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:17] <exec> 08└─Worked in an office one time and the mgmt installed ultrasonic light switches, if no motion detected, then the lights turned off. Everyone got headaches, an engineer got a good sound level meter and discovered that the ultrasonics were at 120dB, sorry I don't remember the frequency, probably not too...
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[04:38:33] <exec> 08└─If this isn't the most GENERIC response to open borders I don't know what is. *I* haven't been stabbed. *I* haven't been robbed. *I* haven't experienced anything bad, *I* don't know who these people are who have. *I'm* so progressive, read my social media, I'm a beacon of light and tolerance. And fo...
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[05:33:26] <exec> 08└─As much as I HATE HATE HATE capitalists for pulling these """shortage""" shenanigans, Star Fox 2 would have been an absolutely Earth-shattering, groundbreaking game had it been released in its day. I understand their hesitation to release such a low-poly game right before the launch of the N64, but...
[05:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:27] <exec> 08└─Shortage means more emulation (MESS) .. :-) And of course copy*.* :p
[05:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:29] <exec> 08└─Is there any better explanation for this counter intuitive chain of events?
[05:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:42] <exec> 08└─I am noticing that nothing is being modded up, or down. ACs staying at zero, trolls staying at +1, respectable users only at +2. Is SoylentNews broken again, or is this an emergency lock-down from the Huge pushback at the Breifbarf article?
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[05:36:36] <exec> 08└─To me it seems a casualty of slashing newsrooms for a couple decades. Nobody does original reporting anymore because it is expensive. They pull "stories" off the AP Wire, from corporate press releases tailored for and fed to them, and from their Twitter feeds. They repackage that "material" for an o...
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[05:38:34] <exec> 08└─This *isn't* the result, this is them agreeing to sit on the matter. Expect the result next year. jmorris is on crack.
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[06:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bringing High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:19] <exec> 08└─I keep hearing more and more about entangled quantum communications. Assuming this is not electromagnetic, does this work underwater as well?
[06:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:36] <exec> 08└─...powered by USB port.
[06:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:50] <exec> 08└─Quick! Somebody mod this -1 Offtopic, since it both is, and that would answer the question. Unless someone has modpoints left over from the day before. Oh noes!
[06:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:52] <exec> 08└─One tiny nitpick - the synapses in the True North architecture are binary. They're either 1 or 0. Human synapses are leaky analog+chemical devices, with a lot of dynamic range. So biological synapses and neurons have more computational capacity due to their complexity.
[06:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:54] <exec> 08└─So it is true! No one from the admin team actually reads the comments. Or perhaps they all sleep in the arms of Cthulu. But Soylent News is darn queer of late. Has Breitbart exercised its option to buy? Are we destined to go down to corporate insuckuation as did the green site before us? Soylent m...
[06:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:11] <exec> 08└─Google is deader than Radio Raheem.
[06:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:25] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping that instead of using all that energy disturbing the air and making all that noise, this new plane slips through the atmosphere like a watermelon seed slips through the fingers. The last thing we all need right now are new airplane designs that are all bark and no bite. ( Like some mo...
[06:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Space Tugs to Clean Up Space Junk - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reminder. Some episodes are now available on Youtube [youtube.com]. It seemed funnier back in 1977.
[06:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:50] <exec> 08└─The BBC journo, Anthony Zurcher, is a wackjob that would be more at home on Faux News.
[06:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:51] <exec> 08└─Oh no, I would bet the man is as sober as I am, the one who never takes anything stronger than coffee. It is possible to be so completely insane that the notional data type holding your SAN score suffers integer underflow, and it would not at all surprise me if this is what happened here.
[06:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:53] <exec> 08└─No, AC, J-Mo is an honest to goodness alt-reich goose-stepper. I've seen him drop "dindunuffin," for example, and he's outright said he wants to burn the nation down and start over. Peruse his search history to get an idea of what kind of person it is we're dealing with here. Please understand, ther...
[06:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:56] <exec> 08└─Lovely. Proving my point once again that when you degenerate motherfuckers slip and show a crack in your human-suits, you damn yourselves more thoroughly than anything any of your opponents could say or do to you would. Just die and go (back?) to Hell where you belong, will you? We don't have time f...
[06:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:58] <exec> 08└─LOL, you're a red-piller too? Uzzard, I have to give you credit, just when I think you cannot possibly sink any lower, you manage to surprise me yet again. Oh, Hell will welcome you with open arms, my boy...and not very long from now, unless I miss my guess.
[06:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:00] <exec> 08└─I think everyone arguing for unrestricted immigration should be forced to take a Muslim home. They would probably be in Sane pretty quickly!
[06:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:17] <exec> 08└─The mere existence of these assistive tools means that CSS is far too complex. It must be the fruit of a committee. I prefer things along the lines of the Python manifesto - keep it simple and elegant.
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[07:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Intel First to Market With 64-Layer 3D NAND SSDs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:16] <exec> 08└─Delicious layered nigger cake! How do they stay so moist and yet so crispy??
[07:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bringing High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:24] <exec> 08└─Yes entanglement works underwater, but there's a risk of tearing a hole in the fabric of spacetime and draining all of Earth's oceans into voidspace. The good news is the risk is zero except under certain circumstances. Don't tell the terrorist towelheads that all they would need to do to destroy th...
[07:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bringing High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:27] <exec> 08└─If you ask me, those "towelheads" have done a damned good job getting the whole world worked up over all sorts of fear and security theater - like a wasp in a school bus full of kids.
[07:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:59] <exec> 08└─Oh thank god! Parent post modded off-topic!@ So some of us still have mod points? Mine are still missing. Shadow-banned, or glitch? Or Petya? But this is a Linux system, immune from NSA Microsoft day-ones. Or so I thought. Hmm, cmn32480 did always seem to be a Redmond fanboi. . . So, alt-right dark...
[07:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:18] <exec> 08└─2016 revenues: $89.5B I figure 11 days. So, yeah, not even 2 weeks. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:02] <exec> 08└─What? How can you say this? A pattern that every single country, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, that has accepted the flood has had a rise in violent crime and "brutal" rapes.
[07:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:03] <exec> 08└─Once a Muslim saves your ass, you might realize they're people too.
[07:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Poor Endpoint Security Can Cost You Millions in Detection, Response, and Wasted Time - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:19] <exec> 08└─I would hate to consider computing illegal, but to me its kinda like having a machine shop full of power tools that can run at unimaginable speeds and power levels. If you do not know what you are doing, you are apt to make a helluva mess in a miniscule amount of time. If you do not know what your d...
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[07:39:20] <exec> 08└─Remember, The Donald is representative of the Corporate MBA. He sees the big picture. And has to make the big decisions. But they can be quite ignorant of the details/shortcomings of implementation. That is, don't ask The Donald things like the shear strength of number eight rebar. That is not his...
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[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─They do. Some Alienware machines (and I imagine other top shelf gaming laptops probably). Even seen one or two AIO machines with it, but they're probably just pass-through straight to the panel.
[08:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:23] <exec> 08└─As implied in NYT article, the bigger risk for Google is that EU will start looking at its search engine as more of a platform to sell other products and not a product in itself. If this gets established legally, through whatever and however convoluted logic, Google will be asked to ensure that ever...
[08:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:37] <exec> 08└─Like some motorcycles I know... loud noisy thing that seems to spend more energy making noise than moving the bike.
[08:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetic Space Tugs to Clean Up Space Junk - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RYp8tSwYD8 [youtube.com]
[08:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbex Scouting for Space Rocket Launch Site in Scotland - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:16] <exec> 08└─Biofuel? Maybe they're burning peat. Just cut, leave out to dry for a couple of months and away you go. My granny used to run her stove on the stuff.
[08:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:14] <exec> 08└─Butbutbut it doesn't have to be in(je[cs]t|hal)ed - it could be entirely natural! The evidence points squarely towards him having a gland that secretes crack into his endochrine system - it's either that or bath salts. Thanks for reminding me about my lack of morning coffee, though!
[08:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:35] <exec> 08└─JS will dwarf those numbers any day. While also blocking everything else.
[08:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:37] <exec> 08└─Variables? We already have them: https://www.w3.org [w3.org]
[08:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:39] <exec> 08└─It's the reverse. CSS is too simple. Which isn't that bad of a thing unless we want it to become full-fledged programming language.
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[09:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:16] <exec> 08└─at least in Australia, for failing to disclose any genetic test results. http://www.smh.com.au [smh.com.au] But this is not new... http://www.smh.com.au
[09:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:18] <exec> 08└─Politician tier stats knowledge + scary tabloid headlines about the [terrorist | paedo | criminal | psychopath | boogyman] 'gene' will make for a total shitshow of programs and maybe laws as well-considered as tech laws.
[09:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:20] <exec> 08└─Why would you need your DNA sequenced often?
[09:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:09] <exec> 08└─In case anyone gives a flying fuck, the above 5 comments were all by the same person, one who apparently really enjoys having a conversation with himself.
[09:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:10] <exec> 08└─Google spec here: https://drive.google.com Looking at the numbers on page 3, this sounds like it needs 256 (16G/64M) element wide convolutions, just like the TPU. Dividing everything by 64 (chips in array), you even end up with the same 256x4096 dimensions. M...
[09:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:45] <exec> 08└─Normal flight LA to NY: 1 hour commute 2-3 hours TSA, check-in etc. 5.5 hours flight 1 hour getting out of airport (getting bags etc) 1 hour commute total time: 9-11 hours? How much faster will supersonic be? 2.5 or 3 hour flight time? That just reduces the total trip time to 7-9 hours. How much mor...
[09:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:47] <exec> 08└─I heard explanation that it's a safety feature ... apparently, bikes have low visibility, so allegedly they need to be heard from inside car cabins, from a distance.
[09:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:56] <exec> 08└─Way to cherry pick one sentence, pull it out of context and use it as a straw man argument complete with buzzwords. I'll reiterate what I meant since it wasn't obvious. This technique will work on the microphones most often found in mobile and thus covert recording devices. you don't need ~120 db so...
[09:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:24] <exec> 08└─Why, yes, I do indeed prefer reality over fantasy. Even if it is uglier. I know that's not your thing though, so I won't pressure you.
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[10:33:20] <exec> 08└─that release less toxic fumes
[10:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:30] <exec> 08└─Because the open database that stored all the information was hacked and the data deleted. They need to make sure they have your DNA on file at all times, just in case.
[10:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:32] <exec> 08└─That is true in Europe true (the countries I know). You do not have to disclose elevated risk though (genetic diseases in the family). The compromise is therefore: once you become aware of elevated risks, get your insurance, then get testing. Genetic counseling has to explicitly mention this point....
[10:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bringing High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:48] <exec> 08└─That's just that one scaredy fat kid, the one who ran away in 1956? But he's back on the bus, towards the back, and it is a short bus, not because of placement or anything but just population density, but that does indicate a particular cultural isolation, and he's scared shitless of Mooselins. More...
[10:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bringing High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:50] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware Trump ran away in '56. ... You're surely speaking of Trump, aren't you? 'Cause he's the one person who's scare has the highest impact: extra congestion at the Supreme Court, terawatts-hours wasted on TV, half US population becoming hysteric and the other half angry, extra CO2 emitted...
[10:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:27] <exec> 08└─So answer the question, FatPhil: did you get your mod points for the day, or is it just this one person you allege? This one person could be feeling all alone and in need of some comradeship!
[10:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, and thank you for leaking even more about how much AC is not at all AC here on SoylentNews. Now I will have to go an wash my IP. But since you do know so much about this serial AC, and how things go on SoylentNews, what is the deal with mod points? Shadow banning? Alt-right Dark Enlightenment C...
[10:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:31] <exec> 08└─So, 1K TN is enough for most and 2 for everybody?
[10:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:33] <exec> 08└─I think it is very different. While the TPUs are massively parallel and are more energy efficient than competing solutions (GPUs), they use much more power than TrueNorth. TPUs are used for 8-bit math, while TrueNorth does... neuron-like things where very little of the chip is active at once, hence...
[10:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:54] <exec> 08└─So you're deliberately looking at revenue rather than profit, in order to make the fine look insignificant. Great work.
[10:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:55] <exec> 08└─The original complaints were from various "comparison shopping" sites. IIRC, the very first complaint was from Foundem [foundem.co.uk]. I am personally very happy that comparison-shopping sites do not appear at the top of the search results. There's nothing more annoying than searching for a product...
[10:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:22] <exec> 08└─Now all they need to deal with is the fact that blanketing a room with ultrasonics can do anything from giving people severe headaches to making them throw up by inducing intense nausea.
[10:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poor Endpoint Security Can Cost You Millions in Detection, Response, and Wasted Time - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:06] <exec> 08└─( This particular guy is still miffed because we are still using that toy-grade VonNeumann architecture for industrial systems, when he wanted Harvard architecture with its program memory guarded by a physical jumper that has to be installed in order to change the program. )
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[11:33:17] <exec> 08└─Is water vapor a fume?
[11:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:29] <exec> 08└─How far back do you have to go, so that blood pressure tests cost $1000?
[11:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:31] <exec> 08└─Because the open database that stored all the information was hacked and the data deleted. encrypted by ransomware; with our health budget, they couldn't afford to upgrade from WinXP (serves them well, whinging bitches) Yours, Jeremy Cu^H^HHunt
[11:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:33] <exec> 08└─How far back do you have to go, so that blood pressure tests cost $1000?
[11:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bringing High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:51] <exec> 08└─Better at deep sea then in the middle of nowhere on the land, at least you'll be able to tweet. (grin)
[11:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:54] <exec> 08└─Depends on whether they were warned already not to do that, and did it anyway.
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[11:35:55] <exec> 08└─Sing me a song of a lad that is gone Say could that lad be I? Merry of soul, he flew on a day Over the sea to sky. Earth was below, falling away, Voices of ground control Gravity's well, losing its grip Free floats body and soul. (maybe I'll write a few more verses later)
[11:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:28] <exec> 08└─I SAID, INTO THE CONE OF SILENCE!
[11:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:30] <exec> 08└─Reading between the lines they squeek out two ultrasonic tones and if they're loud enough (100 dB? 110 dB? 160 dB?), the mic can't handle it and instead of linear sampling two tones at 41KHz and 42KHz and the electronics tossing the noise out, the mechanic parts of the mic go nonlinear and you get s...
[11:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:32] <exec> 08└─Hearing aids will be a bigger problem, especially with boomers and their $500 ticket retro concerts. You tell a hippie to GTFO of a concert venue after he paid $5 in the 60s and he has a lifetime story about injustice from "the man". You tell him he can't enjoy his $500 or $1000 or whatever ticket f...
[11:38:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:58] <exec> 08└─Thank you for convincing me that zero immigration at all is the correct choice. I want zero additional people living in my home! Well, perhaps we should permit bikini supermodel immigration. Case by case basis of course.
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[12:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:20] <exec> 08└─UK energy industry cyber-attack fears are 'off the scale' [theguardian.com]: small, flexible gas power plants and solar panels on homes. /../ There were also a growing number of web-connected
[12:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeptic [1172] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:21] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what OS they use if they don't patch critical flaws.
[12:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:24] <exec> 08└─Correct. But Microsoft have a occurrence of serious bugs that is approximately 10 times worse than anything else. And the Unix security model is better than the Microsoft Windows one.
[12:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:26] <exec> 08└─And the Unix security model is better than the Microsoft Windows one.
[12:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:37] <exec> 08└─Probably not. A fume generally is considered to smell, and water has no smell.
[12:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:39] <exec> 08└─water-borne paints that release less toxic fumes
[12:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:54] <exec> 08└─At the rate gene sequencing costs are falling, they've been knocking a zero off that price every few years - one of the few things to radically outperform Moore's Law. It's not unreasonable to expect it to be not much more expensive than a more typical blood test within the decade.
[12:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:55] <exec> 08└─Yours - not a whole lot. But how about doing a full sequencing of *all* the DNA in your bloodstream? Every pathogen, parasite, and symbiote sequenced and categorized. No more trial-and-error about figuring out what's causing your symptoms, or at least far less - we know you're carrying pathogens A,...
[12:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:19] <exec> 08└─VW emissions are estimated to have killed people and they were fined 6x more. Can't say that the order of shopping results on Google seems one 6th as important as the extra smog caused by Diesel emissions.
[12:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Space Tugs to Clean Up Space Junk - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:57] <exec> 08└─Ooops... was that yours? Sorry, I didn't mean to shot your Tiangong-2 station down, but it had a speck of paint on it; 'twas for the good of commons, you see?
[12:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:51] <exec> 08└─severe headaches to making them throw up by inducing intense nausea
[12:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:53] <exec> 08└─Victim blaming combined with refer madness.
[12:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:55] <exec> 08└─In the 1970s/80s ultrasonic motion detectors for security systems were all the rage. Unfortunately, the designers apparently considered frequencies "above the perception threshold" of 99.9% of the human population to be adequately high - I could hear them, and they were painfully loud. I knew many p...
[12:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:24] <exec> 08└─*I* haven't been stabbed.
[12:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Poor Endpoint Security Can Cost You Millions in Detection, Response, and Wasted Time - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:43] <exec> 08└─I am thinking of things like medical devices, power plants, and critical infrastructure that is not updated frequently, and when it is, it is carefully done. Upgrading everyone's system so a new ad-server technology will work or to install new snoop technology is not my idea of anything critical.
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[13:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─What could go wrong? I realize that for some reason (cough *kickbacks* cough) they chose Windows, but couldn't they use something that was a little more current? Windows 7 was released eight years ago. Surely they had enough time during the years of planning and construction of this ship to figure o...
[13:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:22] <exec> 08└─Blah blah blah, Blue Screen of Death.
[13:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:24] <exec> 08└─The Chinese likely are still running their cyber on CP/M, so our cyber beats their cyber!
[13:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 3919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:26] <exec> 08└─Taken from Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/6js5ab/britains_largest_warship_uses_windows_xp_and_its/djgnkp5/) So … lots of opinions and absolutely no facts. While I cannot go into specific details in the HMS Queen Elizabeth, I can speak to the OS of choice and why something outda...
[13:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, and it doesn't matter what lock you use when you leave the door wide open. Therefore there's nothing wrong with using a weak lock, right?
[13:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:38] <exec> 08└─Actually Windows 1 was perfectly secure against network attacks, as it didn't have any network functionality. :-)
[13:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─This will get worse for companies in the Ukraine tomorrow. Today is a national holiday so most business and government agencies are closed. This ransomware does its dirty work on startup so the morning could be bleak.
[13:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:43] <exec> 08└─This ransomware apparently [theguardian.com] spreads through the EternalBlue exploit, which was patched by Microsoft several months ago. For some reason no-one seems to want to talk about this. There's no need for a 'vaccine' [bbc.co.uk], just patch your goddamn Windows machines, and verify [eset.co...
[13:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 2061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:45] <exec> 08└─Here in the Netherlands, we are cheapskates. People mostly use Windows based PCs at home, because it is cheaper than the ridiculously overpriced apple stuff, and is -despite its flaws- still easier to use than any Linux distribution. Also pretty much all commercial software runs on Windows, like Off...
[13:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:47] <exec> 08└─According to Kaspersky [securelist.com] this virus only needs to get a toehold in a single computer on the network. It can then spread to any computers that have the MS17-010 patch. So unless you've patched everything you're still vulnerable.
[13:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:49] <exec> 08└─It can then spread to any computers that have the MS17-010 patch.
[13:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:52] <exec> 08└─From the linked article: IMPORTANT: A single infected system on the network possessing administrative credentials is capable of spreading this infection to all the other computers through WMI or PSEXEC.
[13:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:54] <exec> 08└─...just patch your goddamn Windows machines, and verify [eset.com] you're not vulnerable to EternalBlue.
[13:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:05] <exec> 08└─I smell rain.
[13:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:23] <exec> 08└─I think the idea in your other comment makes a lot of sense. The DNA test will get rolled in as an optional extension of the blood test at almost $0 extra cost since the real costs will be shipping and handling, cold storage, labor, or automated robot labor. And you'll get a sense of the "population...
[13:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:24] <exec> 08└─It should be I think - viral DNA is still normal DNA, the only question would be whether the protein shell would need special consideration to rupture. Though, given the nature of viral replication, there may be plenty of "leftover" DNA free-floating through your bloodstream as well.
[13:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe if the SNES supresses their stock price and ends up not making that much money they will make more of them. Nintendo seems allergic to profit and everytime something sells like crazy they cancel it. Sometimes when it looks like it might sell like crazy they cancel it (pokemon go plus).
[13:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:03] <exec> 08└─Meh. I've three or so wall warts floating around my room alone. It seems like they're being a little cheap if they're not including a wall wart, but really it's no big deal. USB power is simple and convenient. Unless... you're a LUDDITE!
[13:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 3438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:27] <exec> 08└─http://www.healthpromoting.com/ [healthpromoting.com] "TrueNorth Health Center was founded in 1984 by Drs. Alan Goldhamer and Jennifer Marano. The integrative medicine approach they established offers participants the opportunity to obtain evaluation and treatment for a wide variety of problems. The...
[13:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbex Scouting for Space Rocket Launch Site in Scotland - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:50] <exec> 08└─How much of a boost do you really get though? Equatorial groundspeed is 1180km/hr or ~0.33km/s, versus a Low Earth Orbit speed of ~7.5km/s, so you're talking about a contribution of 0.33^2/7.5^2 = 0.2% of the total kinetic energy. Granted that translates into a larger percentage loss of payload due...
[13:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:30] <exec> 08└─Reading between the lines they squeek out two ultrasonic tones and if they're loud enough (100 dB? 110 dB? 160 dB?), the mic can't handle it and instead of linear sampling two tones at 41KHz and 42KHz and the electronics tossing the noise out, the mechanic parts of the mic go nonlinear and you get s...
[13:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:31] <exec> 08└─WHAT!?!
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[14:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:29] <exec> 08└─So why don't they get started with approving some BSD or Linux? and for database there is postgresql.
[14:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:30] <exec> 08└─They say that Windows XP makes this ship less susceptible to cyber. Smart move! I like ships that are less susceptible to cyber. Checking into getting Windows XP for #USA's Ford class of aircraft carriers. So the EMAILS system, the catapult, can't be hacked. Very important for when we fight China &...
[14:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─If we get really really antiquated with out technology, perhaps going backwards is the best defense against new age attacks. Ever seen a binary DOS attack? I think not!
[14:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure when WXP came out, MS said "this is the most secure version of Windows ever". *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) ...like they do for every version.
[14:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:37] <exec> 08└─This makes me think. What OS do the Russians, Chinese, Indians, Japanese etc use on their warships?
[14:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─Nobody's being paid off to approve free software.
[14:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:41] <exec> 08└─They aren't air-gapped you silly knobs, they are water-gapped so they are perfectly safe!
[14:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 3078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:43] <exec> 08└─I worked in military procurement, back in the Stone Age, and the parent comment is pretty sane and correct. That said, aside from sticking to the tried and true, military procurement faces two enormous, intertwined problems: bureaucracy and politics. When you are awarding $huuuge contracts, politici...
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─As much as I am loath to admit the fact, Microsoft is arguably more likely to deliver support for 20 yrs forward than any of the big three Redhat, Suse, or Canonical. IBM could certainly pull it off, but they do not seem to be interested.
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─Recently launched and not yet operational, the HMS Blue halt's computers are running Microsoft XP. The ship's apologists defend this, claiming out clue deficit that the ship is secure because it's protected by security that surrounds it that is properly protected. This enables us to assure you there...
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─So, if I'm following you correctly, we should probably trust governments to do what's best for the people because government people have none of the character flaws of those goddamn capitalists.
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─With a grain of salt. The perfect electrolyte. No wonder why they still need to learn to navigate with charts and sextant. No water-gapped computer ever survives the harsh mistress of the sea. ;-)
[14:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─I had a case of the cyber once. Couldn't sit for days. It was horrible.
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:57] <exec> 08└─"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." This is very good advice in many situations but not when dealing with software. Programmable computers have been about for seven decade now and we know that software, in general, is imperfect and although you can test, validate, verify etc. unexpected defects are s...
[14:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─Wait, you're not into cyber? You should try it some time. They let you just grab them by the private message.
[14:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─Your buisness machines should *really* be properly configured and not execute arbitrary shit. Windows can be set up to only execute code and scripts that are manually whitelisted, but nobody seems to do that.
[14:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:32] <exec> 08└─It's not the water you're smelling. You're smelling all the chemicals that are along for the ride with the water. I love the smell of rain in late spring or early summer that's come off Lake Michigan. A good thunderstorm will also add a slight smell of o_3.
[14:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:51] <exec> 08└─There likely was a time someone said "Is it needlessly scary being able to tell your heart rate and blood pressure so easily?" It was there a lot in Star Trek TNG, where Bartley with access to all the equipment and the computer library was able to scare himself with whatever random disease he though...
[14:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:30] <exec> 08└─Speaking of emulation, does this thing do Blargg's NTSC [slack.net]? If it doesn't, I'd rather stick to Snes9x (and Nestopia etc). Granted, it's not essential for SNES like it is for Atari games or whatnot that relied on sub-pixel CRT tricks, but it gives me a warm fuzzy nostalgic feeling like I'm a...
[14:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:31] <exec> 08└─Looks like they are doing it again. This mini console has several games for which are awesome but now it has pre order sold out and they are saying that Nintendo won't allow more orders for stock. Does this make any sense at all? Is this just a marketing gimick to try to get people to buy the Switch...
[14:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:21] <exec> 08└─Doubt he knows the difference tbqh. All money earned by a corporation is equally evil capitalist money.
[14:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:22] <exec> 08└─Such fines are handed down on a regular basis to all manenr of companies, just because all those don't get that much publicity doesn't mean they don't happen (all it means is that the tech media is biased toward tech companies). There's a list of such actions on the commission webpage.
[14:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:24] <exec> 08└─I don't trust for one bit that this is not politically motivated BS. Google should pay the fine in Series FU non-convertible stock. The EU is a corrupt, authoritarian, regime, that swings it's newly minted dick around to scare all the other tech companies into compliance for their thought-police sur...
[14:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:26] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but you should not go by what VW was fined, you need to look at what they will end up paying. HINT: it will be a fucking fraction!
[14:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:43] <exec> 08└─The sonic boom was a protectionist excuse from the US. You write that as if it were established fact. Having grown up in Germany under F-4 sonic booms, I remember them scaring the bjeezus out of people. You would be in the middle of some activity, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere and without warn...
[14:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:44] <exec> 08└─That's why I prefer high-speed train travel to all others, because it significantly cuts down all the other time costs you mentioned, even if the time to cover the distance is a little longer. Plus, it goes from city center to city center and always hooks into local mass transit, so getting the last...
[14:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Space Tugs to Clean Up Space Junk - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:08] <exec> 08└─Also, how much mass are we talking about? I have read there are thousands of bits of space debris, but don't know how big they are. If it's significant, perhaps it's worth re-collecting all of it and recycling it for use on space stations. If it's small, and only worth bothering about because it's s...
[14:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magnetic Space Tugs to Clean Up Space Junk - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:09] <exec> 08└─I think detecting the difference between a space station and a paint speck is not rocket science..
[14:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Orbex Scouting for Space Rocket Launch Site in Scotland - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:30] <exec> 08└─Equatorial groundspeed is 1180km/hr or ~0.33km/s, versus a Low Earth Orbit speed of ~7.5km/s, so you're talking about a contribution of 0.33^2/7.5^2 = 0.2% of the total kinetic energy.
[14:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Major Hassan saved a lot of people, didn't he? http://www.nbcnews.com [nbcnews.com] I'm glad you understand about serving with fellow Americans. I learned to respect a lot of different people. Puerto Ricans, Phillipinos,...
[14:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:43] <exec> 08└─Degenerate. I don't think that word means what you think it means. http://progressivedisorder.com [progressivedisorder.com]
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[15:33:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 3919 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:41] <exec> 08└─Taken from Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/6js5ab/britains_largest_warship_uses_windows_xp_and_its/djgnkp5/) So … lots of opinions and absolutely no facts. While I cannot go into specific details in the HMS Queen Elizabeth, I can speak to the OS of choice and why something outda...
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─That's my rational when I use my old powerpc macs on the internet.
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─They would approve not BSD or Linux, but a particular version of BSD or Linux. So, in the end, If they were using Linux they would be using 5 years ago kernel and versions, packages and all that stuff. And probably that approved version should be used for any new project for the next ten years. New...
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's what I said, no... Capitalism didn't enter into my comment anywhere. We're talking about military procurement, which is the government handing out money. More specifically, about really big projects, like the HMS Queen Elizabeth. The problem that needs addressed is this: How doe...
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Security is a process, not an application. XP can be kept in a secure(ish) condition, like any other OS. No OS is completely secure. No computer is completely secure - assuming it can be powered on. I have minimal skills but, if allowed physical access - for example, I own your system, unless you've...
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─You should always use protection when cybering. When somebody asks you a/s/l, think of the character you want to play and give an answer based on that. One day you can be 19/m/Iowa, and the next day you can be 17/f/Portland.
[15:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, software is imperfect and to solve it, they fix bugs. What they don't do is upgrade to new version each year because new versions come with a gift of a lot of new bugs. I would love Gnome and Linux guys stop releasing new versions. Instead they should sit down for two years just ticking off th...
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─Hey baby, let's cyber.
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:15] <exec> 08└─It's especially bad advice here considering that Windows XP *is* broke, and it's broke in ways all of the Royal Navy's potential adversaries (and anyone else who can google "XP 0-days") know about.
[15:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:36] <exec> 08└─Most of the time, this is due to some idiot CEO who insisted they have absolute access to the networks and, of course, clicked on the link in their e-mail to get discount erection pills along with a low-interest business loan to help pay off the lasik surgery. Once they get infected, the attackers h...
[15:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:37] <exec> 08└─Your argument is bullshit, and you're a liar. still easier to use than any Linux distribution. Companies do not want to train people. Period. They definitely do not want to train idiots ... to work with some strange operating system where the buttons are located in slightly different places. These a...
[15:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:52] <exec> 08└─Your chemical explanation is correct. What the layman needs to know is: which paint solvent would you rather breathe -- paint thinner or water drying up? The former can cause serious and permanent health problems in workers: neurological, pulmonary, etc. The latter is harmless. The more non-water so...
[15:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:12] <exec> 08└─$1,000 is cheap if you do it once and use the genomic data in future visits. It doesn't make sense to sequence your genome multiple times unless you are measuring the degradation of random cells or something. Or sequencing DNA from tumors. There's also talk of getting $1,000 down to $100.
[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:18] <exec> 08└─Or as close as we're gonna get.
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─burp
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:08] <exec> 08└─Where did you live? I lived close to JFK in Ozone Park and you could hear it. My grandparents lived in Howard Beach and I remember that deafening roar. It was so loud that you had to cover your ears as it was painful. I don't know how people lived right under that runway path. After they retired the...
[15:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─Recollection says the biggest reason they stopped the flights of the Concorde wasn't that one crashed, but that they weren't selling tickets like they needed.
[15:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of flying. But that's more of an anxiety problem. But I do agree that train travel is quite nice. Smooth quiet ride that feels like you're on a plane but with beautiful scenery (after you get out of north NJ). I take an Amtrak train to visit a friend outside of Baltimore. Less stressfu...
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[16:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:22] <exec> 08└─Just legalize cannabis and let the free market take care of it. Simple, easy, and effective. Yeah, yeah, you'll have to forego the billion dollar contracts with the criminal injustice system to sell millions of batches of this "vaccine" made at great profit to a number of stakeholders, even though a...
[16:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─Or you could stop waging pointless wars around the globe and putting Our Troops into dangerous situations where they get badly wounded enough to need morphine to deal with the pain. Give peace a change.
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Is this counter-'cyber'. Show a picture with winxp in background, then see who is trying to break into a winxp system? You know, set up a few CCTV's around the computer with winxp honeypot... thats security, isn't it? Check the logs once in a while... MEANWHILE, the Russians/Chinese/N.Koreans/some f...
[16:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─I mean, let's be honest, the computer systems are probably all hard airgapped, from basically any attack vector that doesn't have direct physical access to the hardware. Military contractors might be corrupt shitbags, but they probably still have engineers somewhere in their orgs.
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─When I worked for a major navy, we had Redhat for scientific work and Windows for the paper pushers.
[16:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:12] <exec> 08└─Or, put picolisp on a unikernel. You have got all you need, lisp, prolog, db, coroutines, ways to obfuscate the hell out of it...
[16:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:14] <exec> 08└─This a long argument in defense of a statement that uses "our cyber". You can safely assume that everyone involved in this project is a fucking moron. The cooler someone feels about the word "cyber" the more of a fraud and outsider they are. It's a good quick and effective rule of thumb.
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─Broken by design, just to add to the injury..
[16:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─The military-industrial complex obtuseniks slinging that term around have beaucoup bucks, even people that know better will adapt to their lingo.
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:41] <exec> 08└─I think it's unfair to call the GP a lier. I fully agree that training is roughly equivalent between upgrading to WIN8/10 and linux. But companies do not. It would also likely mean more changes in the network infrastructure to switch from win->linux to win->win. Admittedly, it would almost certainly...
[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:15] <exec> 08└─I agree coast to coast is no fun if you're trying to get somewhere and if you don't have a cabin. But the model i had in mind is train travel in europe on the TGV or japan on the shinkansen. The engineering on those is phenomenal--even at those speeds a glass of water won't even jiggle a little.
[16:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately you've completely missed the point of their research. This has *nothing* to do with the mechanical, and even acoustic, properties of the microphone, and everything to do with the electrical properties. (namely the preamp and the LPF). They're squirting out inaudible ultrasonics which d...
[16:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:15] <exec> 08└─"Muslims aren't American" Saving that quote for when you need a reminder that you can be a total idiot. At such times you should drop the macho bullshit act as if you're the paragon everyone aspires to be, stop throwing tantrums and listen to what people are telling you. Denial isn't just a river in...
[16:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:17] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure he was a cryogenically frozen Hitler Youth.
[16:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:19] <exec> 08└─Whores have STDs and are generally a pretty sad way to get laid. But I'm not surprised you think that is an insult. You probably don't trust people who don't drink or swear either.
[16:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:21] <exec> 08└─You don't understand, its cute in an adult baby shitting its pants kinda way. Red pill is just a catchphrase you rely on and it has troubling overtones. You are a bigot, it is just tied up with your fiscal economics so you're able to delude yourself. Red pill indeed, see a therapist then.
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[17:33:28] <exec> 08└─They've been changing peace for thousands of years, why stop now ;)
[17:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:29] <exec> 08└─How does this work when you need legit surgery or have a legit orthopedic failure? My guess is rather poorly. You know for a fact this will start being injected voluntarily into addicts with a history of relapse and will end with it being mandatory for all participants in high school sports, everyon...
[17:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:31] <exec> 08└─someone who's been vaccinated against heroin would almost certainly still respond to morphine, and most definitely would to compounds like fentanyl or oxycodone
[17:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:34] <exec> 08└─There's an effective antidote for heroin, which is off-patent but is subject to the Epipen effect in the U.S.: Naloxone, sold under the brandname Narcan among others, is a medication used to block the effects of opioids, especially in overdose. [...] Naloxone was patented in 1961 and approved for op...
[17:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Launches the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─Anyone know what sort of hashrate this thing gets with the popular cryptocurrencies?
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─The first link says AMD had a false start. If a 3rd party distributor picks a random price and says its in stock that has little to do with AMD's official launch. They also say the liquid cooled version will be available in Q3? It is available for pre-order on newegg right now with release in 7 days...
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─What's the actual difference between a "false start" and the usual paper launches?
[17:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─It should simply be illegal for the government to use proprietary software. It's extremely bad for the government to be dependent upon a particular entity to develop a piece of software that they rely on; they should be able to hire anyone to develop it, and only free software gives them that option...
[17:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─Not quite Trumpy enough. Take 2: "Bigly sources tell me XP has the best cyber. I like ships who don't hacked. Let's make America's cyber great again so we don't get #FakeEmail and fake carrier catapults. Hate those! Very very important when taking on looosers like Iran and that Kim Junk Uug fellow,...
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─The put it on the install screen: image [jimguckin.com]
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─Except for those organisations still running ancient software. Because YOLO! Who cares about software updates or security patches...right? At least until they get hacked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[17:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Coat of Paint Is Rocking the Global Shipping Industry - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:13] <exec> 08└─In summary, the Chinese container makers will be exposed to less fumes, and anyone licking container in dockyards may get more toxins... Until those containers get repurposed for housing units (for trendy and/or poor humans, or for fish after a storm), it sounds like a win for everyone.
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:35] <exec> 08└─I would like to fully sequence my genome as long as I could be sure I'd be the only one who'd have that information, and I'd be the only one who'd know about any red flags. I don't see how that would be possible under any existing corporate or government regime. If somebody wanted to sequence my gen...
[17:36:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─... processing power will be the equivalent of 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses ...
[17:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know if you know that or are merely surmising it, but it would fit the profile of JTRIG revealed by Snowden [theintercept.com]. But I do have mod points, so there's no editorial/site conspiracy I can see.
[17:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:44] <exec> 08└─We just can't keep ourselves from building Skynet piece by piece. This isn't going to be used as R2D2 to support a live pilot. I'll bet you its going into the next Drones.
[17:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:46] <exec> 08└─So, this is why there are no mod points on SoylentNews today?
[17:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:48] <exec> 08└─And who signs in as AC and wonders where his mod points are. dumb.
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[18:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:33] <exec> 08└─Although "offensive cyber" seems to have a different definition to my re-collection... Whatever are you going on about, AC? Also....A/S/L?
[18:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:34] <exec> 08└─DeathMonkey puts on his robe and wizard hat.
[18:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:36] <exec> 08└─Compare to the Original Submission if you want to know more.
[18:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:38] <exec> 08└─The Fifth of November is only 130 days away.
[18:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─It will be extra fun to celebrate a failed "terrorist" plot this year.
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─Everything makes perfect sense.
[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:45] <exec> 08└─will North Korea get bombed due to NHS failure?
[18:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:47] <exec> 08└─Before they send an F-35 to blow it up.
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:49] <exec> 08└─After the first Persian Gulf war, arms inspectors found underground calutrons that were powered by buried cables from power stations hundreds of miles away. HiRez [fas.org] - scroll down about halfway. The calutron is a large mass spectrometer. They're not very efficient but they are easier to build...
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:52] <exec> 08└─... if the intelligence agencies would tell the software vendors about the exploits they find. But no they want to attack the enemy rather than preventing the enemy from attacking us.
[18:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:05] <exec> 08└─If I'm reading this right, the vaccine would prevent heroin from affecting and/or killing you. It's the first responders or people/family on the scene that are administering Narcan, not the person who has had their mind blown. It can also take multiple doses of Narcan to bring the person out of the...
[18:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─Don't you think that illegal industry wouldn't just employ chemists to invent another opioid derivative of opium, and then continue business as usual?
[18:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─Prevention. The vaccine would induce antibody production, which would prevent heroin from being processed into its active form; thereby, increasing the threshold level of heroin required to reach a "high". The antibodies may or may not have sustained production without further "boosting". This is no...
[18:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:10] <exec> 08└─I know an EMT. She says they won't administer narcan unless the cops are there to hold the addict down. The first thing the addict does after the shot is get so mad at the EMT for taking away their high that they generally attack them.
[18:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:13] <exec> 08└─I haven't found the answer to my question: does it prevent withdrawal symptoms? From the description, it doesn't look like it. So the addicts will just go looking for another high which still works. Recent market offerings (listed as not affected by the "vaccine") are more dangerous. I'm failing to...
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:23] <exec> 08└─AMD is all but going out of their way to dissuade their usual consumer base from buying
[18:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:10] <exec> 08└─And it was! You couldn't just click "cancel" on the login prompt and get a desktop anymore.
[18:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:11] <exec> 08└─As an engineer, I've learned to stay away from oscilloscopes that run Windows. This boat has got to be orders of magnitude worse. I can just imagine them sitting dead in the water, waiting for the systems to reboot. OK for practice drills, but not if there's a real enemy.
[18:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:13] <exec> 08└─I really really hate the word "cyber" in any of its forms. "So we had to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a huge problem. I have a son—he’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers. It’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very to...
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─Windows 1.0 is often regarded as a "front-end to the MS-DOS operating system", a description which has also been applied to subsequent versions of Windows. Windows 1.0 is an MS-DOS program.
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, lets blame the victims. They're all idiots who shouldn't bet let near a computer. Microsoft and the Windows team have done an awesome job.
[18:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 1641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─I think it's unfair to call the GP a lier. I don't think so. I've been hearing that argument for years, but when the Metro UI came out and they kept repeating it, it was obvious that it was just lies. Metro is far more different from what came before (the old NT/XP/7 UI) than any of the typical Linu...
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:19] <exec> 08└─Best case to sequence your own genome now without being spied on would be to have a buddy in a university lab with access to one who'd run it for you in exchange for a case of beer or something.
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel First to Market With 64-Layer 3D NAND SSDs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:28] <exec> 08└─I could stack up well over 64 of them 8 inch floppies long before those guys came around, and each of them could contain more than one picture of a NAND gate.
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bringing High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:41] <exec> 08└─If you start tweeting while we're diving, I will have to tell the coast guard that the Great White who took you went swimming that way sir, yes sir, that way for sure, not where the corals that were bleached yesterday have recovered a nice crimson color and someone disturbed the rocks and the sand,...
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─Mine are missing today. I'm going with the benefit of the doubt and assuming it's a glitch. (although if there was a conspiracy I like to think I'd definitely be one of the targets!)
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:27] <exec> 08└─But coast-to-coast is a large part of the US market. I'm always mystified how seemingly-rational people can claim that the US needs more high-speed rail. Meanwhile, railways in the USA are profitable, while european ones require massive subsidies.
[18:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:30] <exec> 08└─You know, there's a fan theory about The Matrix that Morpheus, the Red Pill, Zion, and the whole lot of it are actually a secondary containment mechanism for any human batteries that figure out the first layer is a delusion. Under this hypothesis, Neo never actually made it out. And if we're really...
[18:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Travel Ban Victory for Trump - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:31] <exec> 08└─Ever notice how many of the people I'm calling degenerates, like Milo Yiawhatthefuck, are also sexual degenerates? He's a pedarast, for fuck's sake! Now you know very well that "degenerate" has other and if anything more common meanings, such as "degenerate case," "degenerate matter," and so forth....
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[19:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:25] <exec> 08└─I don't know if they'll sell many, but at least they have displaced the "exploding" results from basic searches about the galaxy note.
[19:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:42] <exec> 08└─Best to send it as a UAV [defensenews.com]
[19:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:44] <exec> 08└─No need to confuse them. Let them go ahead with an airstrike on the source of the next Cyber Attack, identified as an extremely powerful Quad-Core processor housed in a Samsung (the Bad Koreans? can't remember) hidden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:46] <exec> 08└─Please migrate immediately to government approved online forums where your thoughts can be monitored by professional corporate moderators. Noncompliance may be taken as deviant intent and used against you in future.
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:04] <exec> 08└─I believe you. From the videos I've seen, a person can get up in as little as 30 seconds after the Narcan is administered. I don't see any Narcan attack videos on LiveLeak, but YouTube has this news report [youtube.com] (2:12).
[19:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─No, it would only prevent heroin from being converted into its active form. The vaccine could be used to help willing patients break their addition. This specific vaccine is not meant to be a perfect solution for drug abuse, so it failing to meet that standard would not mean that there are no positi...
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─Genuine question: What's the worst part of breaking the addiction? Wanting the highs, or living with the withdrawal?
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─Withdrawal is usually temporary, while the desire to get high and the addiction to the drug lasts much longer. People can get past withdrawal, but many often fail to remain "clean" despite wanting to break the addiction.
[19:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:10] <exec> 08└─"They told me they'd run faster with all them being water-cooled!"
[19:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:11] <exec> 08└─What would be cool would be if the ReactOS guys got the attention they deserved. People that have a good case for sticking to XP (and yes, good cases can be made for certain applications) may find there's an even better use case for ReactOS.
[19:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:13] <exec> 08└─How many more years before that carrier actually has working planes? Until then, it's pretty much dead in the water, regardless of XP. Aptly named, it's about as useful as the Queen: parade around, make an impression ... but without planes it's just a giant target needing protection, with less actua...
[19:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:16] <exec> 08└─That's actually a less facepalmy statement than most of the quotes in TFS...
[19:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:18] <exec> 08└─but it isn't impossible to make XP as secure as any other OS.
[19:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─According to one Web analytics company, Windows 7 accounts for 49% of Web page views: Market Share of Windows 7 [...] 49.46% Market Share of Windows 10 [...] 26.78% Market Share of Windows 8.1 [...] 6.74% Market Share of Windows XP [...] 5.66%
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:48] <exec> 08└─The linked article says: It’s crucial to apply the MS17-010 bulletin immediately.
[19:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─No. We all know that Windows "security" is lacking (to put it in the mildest of terms). So if you have to run Windows, you should go through every possible extra step to protect yourself from the known issues and the likely but unknown ones. Oblig car analogy: It's like wearing a fireproof suit in a...
[19:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bringing High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:49] <exec> 08└─Or is it one of those "who the fuck cares?" things.
[19:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─The marketing reminds me of Disney's: Each Disney film is available for purchase for a limited time, after which it is put "in the vault" and not made available in stores for several years until it is once again released.
[19:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:44] <exec> 08└─Not so, just posting as AC, so that no one will know that my user name could be "frojack". And it seems I am not alone. Curious.
[19:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─Google's mistake was placing their own comparison-shopping results on the search page.
[19:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:15] <exec> 08└─commerce with least restriction (i.e. capitalist) That's not Capitalism (the opposite of which is Socialism); both of those are methods of PRODUCTION with different ownership models. What you are attempting to describe are MARKETS and regulation of those markets. Markets are a part of -any- economic...
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[20:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure using the first letter of the word "exploding" in the suffix was a clever idea.
[20:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:29] <exec> 08└─But it also includes the first letter of "fixed"!
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:31] <exec> 08└─Galaxy Note 7 F(ire)E(xploding) edition pick one up today :)
[20:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:33] <exec> 08└─Flammable & Explosive \ Flammable Edition \ Fiery Edition \ Flammability Enhanced \ Fully Explosive \ Functionally Explosive... And those are just the straightforwards ones off the top of one's head.
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─We located the source of the hack at 11 Downing street. Don't worry, bombers are on the way to take out the whole block just to be sure.
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─There is a printer in 10 Downing St that seems to be the source for a lot of "cyber" best just blow up the building to be sure.
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:00] <exec> 08└─Two stories in a day, like a shot in the arm.
[20:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, wow! So, it's enough a single hacker to take a holiday trip in a distant country and start a cyberattack just for the lulz to cause the Brits to move a significant army at a significant cost? How many such attacks until GB can no longer afford to support, say, their health system? Those military...
[20:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:04] <exec> 08└─This includes malware which makes it look like it was planted by a foreign government or hacker. This includes Russia, essentially proving the CIA has the ability to plant evidence to make it look like Russian hackers were the culprits.
[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─It's almost as if our Great British Politicians go out of their way to be ignorant. By the way, I didn't get any mod points today. I usually get 5.
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:09] <exec> 08└─Also found were copies of declassified Manhattan Project patents. "declassified" because, in its infinite wisdom,
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─Why don't they send the HMS Queen Elizabeth to protect Parliament? Its computers are running Windows XP, to protect it from foreign cyber. Very smart! And how do I shut down the Clinton Intelligence Agency? CIA agents are completely out of touch with everyday people worried about rising crime, faili...
[20:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe instead invest in curing the social and mental problems that lead to addictions.
[20:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─Good idea, but it would probably be best to approach the problem from multiple angles.
[20:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─In case I'm not the only one who had trouble opening the abstract: https://www.webcitation.org [webcitation.org]
[20:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─Agreed, treating the vast majority of addiction cases as diseases rather than as a symptom of various societal ills is just as misguided as the approach the legal system takes. Address the social and economic forces that trap people in drug lifestyles, reform the legal system that brands offenders a...
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:41] <exec> 08└─The levels of stupid in your post. Legalizing a way for stupid people to get dumber is definitely not what I would want. Most of addicts are already marginal use to society. How they got that way was not my doing and should not be my fucking problem, yet that's where my tax money goes. If there were...
[20:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah but it sounds like the person would just try to take much more, leading to overdose. Not saying that's not a good outcome, for us, but probably shitty outcome for the druggie. >In before "He wuz a gud boi"
[20:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:46] <exec> 08└─Not just cannabis, everything. The most harmful aspect of drugs is the black market. It leads to more violence, higher costs, and this more crime. Putting people in jail prevents them from adding to the labor market, etc. Legalize all the things, use taxes to help deal with remaining problems.
[20:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:56] <exec> 08└─If AMD said they officially launched the card except there was only a couple thousand available then that would be paper. I don't think anyone has said how much stock they have and what the demand is yet. So we don't know what availability will be. The crypto mining madness has snapped up all the mi...
[20:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:52] <exec> 08└─Are you mocking me? Malcolm Turnbull mocked me. He's looking for trouble. I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is, but we are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, that I can tell you. To totally obliterate Canberra. We will work with our allies,...
[20:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:54] <exec> 08└─Not an issue so long as you control it. The same methods apply to all of them. One exception, user access control. Pre-XP Windows will be less secure by default, as everyone is an administrator. It all boils down to access, physical and networked.
[20:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:56] <exec> 08└─Parent post describes the situation exactly. Unfortunately, que the drooling security blanket hugging consumertards who only believe what Twitter tells them to believe. "Oh noes, Windoze XP is insecure because an advertisement told me so! And it's oooooollld, and anything old must die! Because they...
[20:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think that's right.
[20:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder if any laptop have "HDMI input" to use the screen as a monitor for external sources. The EOMA68 project's 15" laptop has the actual computer in a pop-out card, and will have an available "pass-through" card that will turn the 15" laptop into a USB keyboard with a USB touchpad and an HDMI di...
[20:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─I'd go with glitch. A sanctimonious jerk like me would surely be targeted.
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[21:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:24] <exec> 08└─This is a clever technology and I can see the advantage on something like a space telescope but puh-lease who cares about phones getting any thinner? Don't tell me - I already know who cares about that, but I think it's idiotic. They're already making them so thin that they're uncomfortable to hold...
[21:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:26] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer the military applications route? Cause a red dot sight + scope combo will sell like hotcakes.
[21:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─> Everything's too thin. Give me some curves any day Be careful what you wish for [cdc.gov]. I have to run to the patent office to submit my "Phased Array Optical System for Flattering Selfies" patent.
[21:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─This is a patent I could file but in my infinite free time I'll never get around to it. You can use the same technique to make computer generated holograms. Back when I was a dope smoking hippie, I did some literature research at the library of the Naval Postgraduate School. All the officers wore ci...
[21:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:32] <exec> 08└─Even in today's smartphones, the camera is the component that limits how thin your phone can get
[21:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─It is actually called the Fandom Edition. I strongly prefer something along the lines of Fiery Explosion. It sounds less stupid.
[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:46] <exec> 08└─Fire Element / Final Embers / Friction Event... I'm reading an LN right now.
[21:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─Finally Extinguished, maybe?
[21:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─They should've dropped the "7". Try explaining to the airlines/security/customs that the "7 FE" should be allowed and that it was only the "7" that should be excluded from flights. I'm sure that they will act in a perfectly reasonable way and not cause you any problems.
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:52] <exec> 08└─need some litrpg and wuxia experts to keep this one going...
[21:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:54] <exec> 08└─You know, Fe, one of the primary ingredients in thermite!
[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─The FE stands for Fractically never Explodes. There was a typo somewhere along the line.
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:59] <exec> 08└─"Fire Engine"?
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─SILEX?
[21:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:30] <exec> 08└─For want of a proper operating system, we bombed EVERYONE! Even our allies, because.... well because they hate us for spying on them, so yeah- bomb EVERYONE!
[21:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:32] <exec> 08└─Whew...I took an Ambien last night and was starting to worry I sleep-modded! No points here either.
[21:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:34] <exec> 08└─Cron job failed to run? I don't mod much but I just logged in to see. Have 4 points, but I don't remember if I spent 1 before 0:00 UTC last evening or after.
[21:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:36] <exec> 08└─Are you nuts? This is the work of the lizard people from outer space!!!
[21:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:38] <exec> 08└─For when SWATing just isn't enough: get them smartbombed by spoofing some proxies.
[21:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:07] <exec> 08└─the person would just try to take much more, leading to overdose
[21:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:17] <exec> 08└─step 1 put XP on a warship. step 2 warship inevitably fails, gets captured step 3 enemy examines the systems to get info step 4 enemy finds XP step 5 enemy dies of laughter you win.
[21:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:19] <exec> 08└─ElReg TFA, bottom *Updated at 1437 UTC 27/06/17 to add: While this would appear to be at odds with what we were told back in 2015, the Royal Navy has been in touch to say: "For clarification, the MOD line from 2015 stated 'The MoD can confirm that Windows XP will not be used by any onboard system wh...
[21:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:21] <exec> 08└─I can just imagine them sitting dead in the water, waiting for the systems to reboot.
[21:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─Not an issue so long as you control it. The same methods apply to all of them.
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:25] <exec> 08└─E.g., the most secure system I know of in current use runs a copy of MSWindows 95A without the extensions. Of course, it has no network access...
[21:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:35] <exec> 08└─1. Getting free software paired with data sources capable of telling you something useful about your genome (or other DNA sample).
[21:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Routine Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Scary? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:36] <exec> 08└─Some viral genes are RNA rather than DNA. Some of the worst ones. (Still, that shouldn't be a big problem, except that RNA is less stable than DNA.)
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[22:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:22] <exec> 08└─Another use for your AR-15 [youtube.com]
[22:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:34] <exec> 08└─Not sure how this made it to the front page of SN, this is some very preliminary work which has not even achieved parity with other groups working on phase array techniques. It was not even the among the more interesting talks presented at CLEO 2017, of which there were hundreds. If you want somethi...
[22:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:36] <exec> 08└─If the relentless focus on slightly better smartphones results in something that could create a telescope with say, 1,000x better resolving capability, then so be it. The James Webb Space Telescope [wikipedia.org] has 2.7x the aperture of the Hubble Space Telescope and about 5.6x the collecting area...
[22:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:56] <exec> 08└─Fiery Explosion
[22:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:58] <exec> 08└─Flammeus Excito!
[22:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:00] <exec> 08└─I'd say that's a Futile Expectation.
[22:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Signals That It Could Launch Air Strikes After Hackers Target Parliament - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─I never had Moderator Points but now I do. Much appreciated. #WINNING
[22:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:06] <exec> 08└─But, but, but... if it's illegal, if it's banned, then there would be no reason to have any problems with it, it just goes away. Like teen pregnancy, and STDs, and every crime on the books. Yeah, seriously, any "banned" substance should be legalized, regulated, taxed, and studied to determine what p...
[22:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Development of a Heroin Vaccine - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:07] <exec> 08└─Morphine is widely used in civilian hospitals for things that have nothing to do with traumatic injuries (unless you count surgery as a traumatic injury...)
[22:35:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:59] <exec> 08└─This a long argument in defense of a statement that uses "our cyber". You can safely assume that everyone involved in this project is a fucking moron. The cooler someone feels about the word "cyber" the more of a fraud and outsider they are. It's a good quick and effective rule of thumb.
[22:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:22] <exec> 08└─I've heard of one called Steam OS. I hope they don't have that.
[22:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:23] <exec> 08└─OS2/Warp [ducks and covers]
[22:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine, and Europe - 1565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:56] <exec> 08└─...have tended to remain with Windows 7. I would assume that most of them would rather not have radical changes to Windows. What users want is completely irrelevant. They're going to use Windows 10 with the Metro UI whether they like it or not, it's just a question of when. MS doesn't sell 7 any mor...
[22:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sound May Ensure Privacy - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:16] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately you've completely missed the point of their research. This has *nothing* to do with the mechanical, and even acoustic, properties of the microphone, and everything to do with the electrical properties. (namely the preamp and the LPF). They're squirting out inaudible ultrasonics which d...
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[23:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:21] <exec> 08└─You'd think they'd get a chuckle and pat on the back for their cheap stunt. Lame spy employer! Sad!
[23:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:22] <exec> 08└─While I agree it is stupidity to steal $0.50 snacks, firing these people just makes a mockery of the $T gone missing from military budgets since 2001 with no-one to blame and nothing to report. Is there no sane person that can see a path to redemption for these idiots? I can even see them going to p...
[23:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contractors Lose Jobs After Hacking CIA's in-House Vending Machines - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:24] <exec> 08└─Or your M1 carbine. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:38] <exec> 08└─The selection process is "does it sound cool" or "is this a partisan piece of garbage"? If your story matches one or more of those criteria it goes in the queue. End of story. Fact checking, let alone researching alternative journals / articles is so far beyond the max level of effort.
[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:39] <exec> 08└─Is this star trek? Cause it sounds like star trek. I'll take one warp capable vessel please, along with coordinates to the nearest stable and friendly civilization.
[23:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:41] <exec> 08└─I've already submitted my patent for "Phased Array Optical System for Flattening People Trying to Take Flattering Selfies" ;-)
[23:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─I've got prior art, courtesy of my "Anvil, 10-ton weight, Grand Piano, Bank Safe, Steamroller Delivery System for Flattening People Trying to Take Selfies". You wouldn't believe the over-broad clauses I got away with. They even cover "with a computer".
[23:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:07] <exec> 08└─Fearlesum Exothermia !
[23:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:08] <exec> 08└─Fuego Enorme!
[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─Fusion Experiment.
[23:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Galaxy Note 7 FE - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─I forgot or never knew that <del>Text</del> would work in the dept. line. Neato. As for the phone, I was a little surprised at first, then I realized that Samsung must have millions of relevant parts and built phones just laying around. We don't know the extent of what they've done to make it "safe"...
[23:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The UK's Newest Warship is Running Windows XP - 2141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:34] <exec> 08└─Me. You're overlooking the basics. You can make XP as secure as any other OS. It even has the built in mechanisms. This means controlling who has physical access and ensuring the data in and out are controlled. You may think that a more modern OS is somehow more secure but it really isn't. The bigge...
[23:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel First to Market With 64-Layer 3D NAND SSDs - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:55] <exec> 08└─3-D SSD ≠ SS/DD FD
[23:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Announces Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:33] <exec> 08└─Not your standard laptop from any big name vendor ;) How much does it cost? and what are the specs? (cpu, ram, freq, storage)
[23:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Create TrueNorth Neuromorphic Supercomputer for the U.S. Air Force - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:07] <exec> 08└─Everyone's bad-boy self-image is certainly coming out. Original AC here. Mod points back. I suspect someone reset the UTC again. We will see what happens at 00:10 today. I'm telling you, it's Fake Time! If only we had a neural net computing platform, glitches like these would be a thing of the pas...
[23:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion EU Fine - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:39] <exec> 08└─In b4 not if it's an employee owned co-op.
[23:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Concorde Without the Cacophony: NASA Thinks It's Cracked Quiet Supersonic Flight - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:04] <exec> 08└─If the pipes pointed forward I'd believe it. Have a friend that rides a Harley, he told me that at times when he's out riding in a group there are some that are asked to ride in rear of the pack.
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