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[00:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─Expose the bike to a condition that would destroy a motor, or have them assemble the entire bike in front of Cycling officials.
[00:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─Expose the bike to a condition that would destroy a motor Yeah, they could dunk them in mineral water. Should be conductive enough to short everything out. Might start a hazardous battery fire though
[00:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:45] <exec> 08└─Solution number 1: Mandate holes every few cm in the frame. Big enough to see, stab through, or put the tip of an endoscope. Don't like it? Don't race. Solution number 2: How many bags do airports Xray every hour? Are you telling me you can't process 9x22x4 bikes every night, when your org makes ten...
[00:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:47] <exec> 08└─Xray the top x% of people? Who cares if you have some fancy improbability drive if you are in the last 10 people to cross the finish line.
[00:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:49] <exec> 08└─Belgian Femke Van den Driessche, then 19, was caught using a bike with a motor
[00:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they could dunk them in mineral water. Should be conductive enough to short everything out. Might start a hazardous battery fire though
[00:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA's Processors May Soon Power Wal-Mart's Deep Learning Push - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:19] <exec> 08└─The US Department of Agriculture, which administers the food stamp program, could be a customer. It would save bandwidth.
[00:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA and Google Collaboration Turns on D-Wave 2000Q System - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:31] <exec> 08└─It's my understanding that the DWave Computer is not a general purpose quantum computer, but only handles a specialized subset of the general Quantum Computer operations. That doesn't mean it doesn't have huge advantages in some areas, like, IIRC, simulated annealing. It's possible that a real gener...
[00:27:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:00] <exec> 08└─Honestly, you have to be seriously stupid to be sticking with Oracle as a vendor at this point, so just like with Microsoft customers, I hope Oracle succeeds in screwing them over even more. Companies have had many, many, many years to see the writing on the wall and transition to better vendors and...
[00:27:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:07] <exec> 08└─Largely open source. There are a few modules you have to get directly from them (Extension Packs: hardware abstraction and emulation for use in VM's). But the rest is all GPLv2. It's eating VMware's lunch. It's THAT good.
[00:27:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:12] <exec> 08└─I thought the purchase was to ensure MySQL never developed the necessary feature set to directly challenge Oracle's own dbms.
[00:27:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:21] <exec> 08└─Money doesn't innovate. Bureaucrats, Lawyers, and MBAs do not innovate. Corporations do not innovate. People do. Humans. IF patents and copyrights are allowed to exist (and they are a very artificial construction, remember) then they should stay where they are created. I don't understand why this ma...
[00:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:27] <exec> 08└─You forget why they bought sun in the first place - java. But yes, they are bastards.
[00:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:29] <exec> 08└─I thought the purchase was to ensure MySQL never developed the necessary feature set to directly challenge Oracle
[00:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:32] <exec> 08└─Oracle is run day-to-day by Mark Hurd and Safra Catz. That's right, a Hurd of Catz.
[00:27:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 494 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:58] <exec> 08└─Many many years ago I took the liberty of examining one couch syrup leaflet. It declared it suppressed cough by suppressing the stimulus in the brain so it could not be taken while driving and so on. Now, operating at the brain level to stop cough is, dunno, like homer simpson smashing a warning lig...
[00:28:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:03] <exec> 08└─He said, "She didn't deserve this." I find that a very odd thing to say. It's as if he's saying, "I was angry with her, but she didn't deserve this." I'm skeptical that he just stabbed her out of the blue. I think something led up to this. I suspect this is just a good, old-fashioned crime of passio...
[00:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:32] <exec> 08└─"Bayer extends our deepest sympathies," Bayer said, adding, "There is no evidence to suggest that Coricidin is associated with violent behavior."
[00:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water-Cooling Solar Panels Could Lower Electricity Demand - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:14] <exec> 08└─It seems a better use of that heat to dump it into the water heater. There are ground source heat pump setups that do that via a heat exchanger. Other potential uses are to radiate that heat in a greenhouse that contains tropical plants like banana trees or orchids, or to run a stirling engine. As a...
[00:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:10] <exec> 08└─Reference to a speculative bubble way back in Dutchland of the early 1600's, but about Tulip bulbs rather then strings of encrypted numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Addiction - It's not Just for Kids - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:59] <exec> 08└─That means my friends must wait longer than they used to for a response. They haven't noticed -- or at least they haven't commented on it. We overestimate the need for immediacy in communication; perhaps our kids don't because they live their addiction to a greater extent than we do, but an adult fi...
[00:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simple Methods Would Have Allowed Neanderthals to Distill Tar as an Adhesive - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:39] <exec> 08└─I find these stories fascinating because it's a constant reminder that the ability and means to re-create most of what we have today is within reach of most of us all the time. Modern humans have been conditioned to believe that everything they need must come from the magic grocery store, but it's n...
[00:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joyce [6700] (Score: 0, Spam) 02 - 06San Diego Declares Emergency Due to Outbreak of Hepatitis A - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:19] <exec> 08└─Am here to appreciate MED LAB for curing my hepatitis b virus. since 5 years now I have been living with this virus and it has been giving me challenges, I was so perplexed cause i have been taking several drugs to be cured but all of my effort was in vain,one morning i was browsing through the inte...
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[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─The Internet is a failed experiment. It was great while it lasted but now, it's being used for just plain evil shit. It's time for a reboot!
[01:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:43] <exec> 08└─Buy that ten point spanner wrench on line. Get the wrench and a UUID ticket. Use the ticket to post one review. Gives you another uuid useful only to CHANGE your review. Oh, it broke 31 days into a 30 day warranty? Use your Change-uuid to post that news. You don't care about reviews on your products...
[01:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:56] <exec> 08└─I'm calling giant bullshit.
[01:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:58] <exec> 08└─I'm calling giant bullshit. Well yeah, we're talking about pro sports here, hardly a bastion of honesty and principles. Too much money on and off the track for that to happen.
[01:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:00] <exec> 08└─Catching a few cheaters to discourage the others would help the credibility (the lack of which turns some viewers off), and they always have to pump up new guys anyway, so there wouldn't be much negative change in the money flow, none in the end.
[01:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:02] <exec> 08└─Actually it was already solved (and posted here I thought): weigh the bicycle. At this level of completion, everyone is riding premium bikes and the deviation in weight does not account for a motor. If you weigh a bike and it is heavy, then xray it.
[01:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:19] <exec> 08└─What you are, what you know, what you have. A biometric, a password, and a dongle of some sort, actually begins to be "secure". Two-factor authentication tries to address the issue. A password, in and of itself, is little more than meaningless. Many of us here have cracked passwords in the past, I'm...
[01:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:20] <exec> 08└─Migos Lyrics "Bad And Boujee" (feat. Lil Uzi Vert) [Offset:] You know young rich niggas You know so we never really had no old money We got a whole lot of new money though, hah (If Young Metro don't trust you I'm gon' shoot ya) Hey
[01:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:22] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah - if you have an important secret, NEVER_EVER_EVER_PUT_IT_ON_AN_INTERNET_CONNECTED_MACHINE !!!!!!!!! That secret may be safe from some amateur like myself, but the pros can and do get into state systems. Sometimes, the state doesn't even know anyone has been there. There are no secrets on th...
[01:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:42] <exec> 08└─From Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp.
[01:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:45] <exec> 08└─Bayer, the makers of Coricidin, said in a statement, "Bayer extends our deepest sympathies to this family." "Patient safety Making as much money as we can is our top priority , and we continually monitor adverse events regarding all of our products," Bayer said, adding, "There is no evidence to sugg...
[01:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More Than Men - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:04] <exec> 08└─It never disappeared, its been there all along. Slavery / Serfdom / Kings and Subjects / Warlords and minions
[01:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More Than Men - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you've conveniently chosen to ignore the word "commonplace", or if you consider something affecting 0.006% of female children to be "commonplace".
[01:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:26] <exec> 08└─The whole "genius" behind bitcoin is the open blockchain - but what made it really work in society was the implementation where "miners" could participate in the game and get rich, if they're early enough. The miners are supplying the work to make the open blockchain work, and they're volunteering f...
[01:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Antidepressants Found in Great Lakes Fish - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:41] <exec> 08└─Why do I get higher ratings when I'm drunk than when sober?
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[02:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:16] <exec> 08└─The Internet is a failed experiment. It was great while it lasted but now, it's being used for just plain evil shit. It's time for a reboot!
[02:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:18] <exec> 08└─Amazon basically does this already with "verified purchase" reviews. It is still abused; even if only "verified" reviews were allowed, manufacturers could buy positive reviews for the price of the product. Obviously this would be too expensive for automated fake reviews, but they can still game the...
[02:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:20] <exec> 08└─The internet baked in anonymity.
[02:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:37] <exec> 08└─The top x% are the *last* one they want to catch. Some poor minor fish with no big sponsors is much more likely to get "caught" (and revealed to the public) than one of the "winners". Http://bleacherreport.com
[02:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:39] <exec> 08└─If they are caught cheating, they are banned for life: they will be DAMNED sure they don't cheat, then. As long as there IS REAL enforcement, that is.
[02:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:59] <exec> 08└─Except the world is heading in the direction where everything is on the internet and these *things* have sensors that will pick up information on non-internet thingies and have that in the internet. It will get harder and harder to avoid...
[02:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no. You cannot build a rainbow table large enough to go from all possible three-character passwords up to the ones I use. You can't even build one with the exact same amount of characters. One terabyte by fucked up measuring standards is 1 * 1012 bytes. My current passwords start at needing ~...
[02:28:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03D2 [5107] 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 1500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:17] <exec> 08└─Zero market: I'd respectfully disagree -- Sparc is a RISC architecture -- looking at ARM and ATOM, there seems to be a pretty hefty market for them. Ditto for Sun's core competencies: stability, redundancy and large data. Between ZFS, elements of Solaris, and their hardware, perhaps the last piece n...
[02:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:23] <exec> 08└─You only saw 2 errors? It was a fantastic example of corporate speak, loaded with euphemisms and catch words and phrases across every aspect! "drive innovation": Never been a mainstream automobile called the "Innovation". The Nova and the Edsel were real cars though. Oh, they didn't mean that kind o...
[02:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 2908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:27] <exec> 08└─The medication in question happens to be a dissociative anaesthetic, similar in effect to ketamine and PCP (angeldust). Just because at normal doses it happens to merely suppress coughs via a similar method to how opiates do the same task doesn't mean it doesn't have some pretty drastic effects when...
[02:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:12] <exec> 08└─You are right, and it shows how much isn't known by even techies. I really should write up an article. If is becomes unprofitable to mine, then miners stop mining, and the difficulty will drop until mining is profitable again. High fees are a definite problem and that is a large part of the reason w...
[02:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:13] <exec> 08└─So are you worried bitcoin will down, or up?
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[03:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:42] <exec> 08└─This could get weird for "wanted" posters. They may generate some based on DNA alone.
[03:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:43] <exec> 08└─This could be interesting, and scarey. I wonder if they can eventually do the reverse, show and image and the dna-code to produce the person on the image will be available; or at least the empty shell of a body. I recon there will be law enforcement aspects of this, there are probably some people a...
[03:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:45] <exec> 08└─Another unrelated question, can you go GATTACA with this? Make the prettiest designer babies for modeling agencies.
[03:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:57] <exec> 08└─Negative "verified purchase" reviews can still be removed by the seller with no recourse by the reviewer except to resubmit another review. They call it "redacted".
[03:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:17] <exec> 08└─Indeed - and not just the individuals who are sometimes just pawns - fine the teams so much it hurts. Cover the costs of the scanning by making all malfeasants pay for it.
[03:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:40] <exec> 08└─salt destroys rainbow tables. it's very cheap to add more salt (linear growth in storage), but devastatingly expensive on the tables (geometric growth).
[03:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:41] <exec> 08└─In particular if it's the non-unique passwords of 320000000 accounts, as some passwords will be used thousands of times. It's less than a 9-digit PIN It's less than all word-word-digit passwords If you're using one of the 320000000 most likely passwords, as measured by a statistical model, then you'...
[03:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:07] <exec> 08└─More like the undead.
[03:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeinated bacon [4151] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:09] <exec> 08└─You might announce it if the person at the other end of the 911 call asks you if you have taken any drugs or alcohol.
[03:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More Than Men - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:30] <exec> 08└─Guys are OK with a piece of paper that says 1 inch == 1 mile. The gals have heard that stuff about inches before and they know better than to trust such claims. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:54] <exec> 08└─Depending which fork you follow, Bitcoin transactions are already over $5. https://cashvscore.com [cashvscore.com]
[03:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:56] <exec> 08└─the difficulty will drop until mining is profitable again.
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[04:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:50] <exec> 08└─Since race and ethnicities and other things are all just social constructs. I read it on reddit.
[04:27:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03terrab0t [4674] 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:28] <exec> 08└─The customers. I’m sure they lost some along the way, but they were the assets Oracle bought Sun for. They kept those technologies alive for this long to give them time to transition those customers over to other things, or to milk them for support money as long as possible while putting nothing i...
[04:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:32] <exec> 08└─Why should they be allowed to keep the copyrights and patents?
[04:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strong Winds Found on Venus; Venusian Conditions Simulated on Earth - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:24] <exec> 08└─You don't need the transmission stations on the surface of vens, as the atmosphere's so thick. If you had them transmitting from blimps, they'd only need to take the earth's atmosphere into consideration. Damn, with all this brainstorming, I think we can finally efficiently harness venusian power th...
[04:28:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 752 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:32] <exec> 08└─Been involuntarily tripsitting an acquaintance on DXM once. The shit that guy talked... he seemed pretty mellow though. Even though he was barely able to construct coherent sentences, he seemed to just be enjoying the experience. At one point, we were outside smoking. Literally in the few seconds it...
[04:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:14] <exec> 08└─I'm surprise no one has offered this hypothesis yet. Wife plays dead. Husband overdoses on drug and falls asleep. Wife panics, thinking he committed suicide to join her. She grabs a knife and kills herself next to him. Husband wakes up and thinks he kill her.
[04:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:15] <exec> 08└─Okay, have you ever had one of those constant, randomly-recurring buffer overruns you can't figure out the cause of? Like, it makes you feel like you want to dump core but nothing comes out? Like that.
[04:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water-Cooling Solar Panels Could Lower Electricity Demand - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:58] <exec> 08└─1. It's copper pipes, so it's design life is far better than 20 years. 2. It can clearly operate as a passive system without moving parts. Does 20% efficiency really offset all these energy costs for a complicated system that only produces 5°C?
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[05:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Edition of the International Cloud Atlas - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:38] <exec> 08└─That site won't do anything without JavaScript. As replacement for a printed work, this is absolutely unnecessary.
[05:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:49] <exec> 08└─They probably need to refine the technique more. However, another approach would be to sequence the genomes of beauty queens, models, sex icons, and the like, and then analyze those genomes to investigate any similarities that could result in the desired traits. Of course, some would scream about cu...
[05:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:50] <exec> 08└─Added more links since the article I used is now asking for a login.
[05:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:53] <exec> 08└─Use the *exact same* model to predict things on data you collect after publication (eg, this year), then publish again. I didn't read the paper but assume they didn't do this simple thing.
[05:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:05] <exec> 08└─Meant to say "You have to use Tor, I2P, or something along those lines". Tor is just one approach.
[05:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:25] <exec> 08└─Solution 3 - have the riders pick their bikes from a pool of bikes maintained by the race organizers.
[05:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:11] <exec> 08└─I mentioned my appraisal once, they told me to live in it!?
[05:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:13] <exec> 08└─You are looking at the problem from faulty assumptions. Money? Another artificial construct developed to help humans interact. You have an Ouroboros argument there, and it is currently killing our world. I am not being hyperbolic. Many countries are suffering from the effects of human greed paired w...
[05:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:21] <exec> 08└─Okay, I don't really love chipping this in, but I avoid taking any medicines with a depressent effect (including alcohol) because I'm prone to talking and taking actions in an asleep or partially-awake state when under their influence. Sometimes this is with and sometimes without memory, or with a h...
[05:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:09] <exec> 08└─Small transactions are good for bootstrapping the network. It is only natural that over time they will get priced off the network. The current issue is that the block-size is being artificially limited. The core development team does not want to risk running into the limits of commodity hardware. Th...
[05:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:10] <exec> 08└─We have already seen many industries implement blockchains for their own methods. I don't see how it is truly revolutionary, and that sounds like more FUD to get people hopping on the train. The blockchain can be subverted and controlled by those who have the GPUs, and quantum computing just might p...
[05:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:12] <exec> 08└─Suckers and/or criminals. I haven't seen a whole lot of real use for it, especially with how volatile the market is. Seems more like an investment fad to prop up some bullshit businesses and some actual hardware sales.
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[06:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:46] <exec> 08└─Trying to link political happenings with fiction now? Maybe its just regular [current year] disease.
[06:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:47] <exec> 08└─Couldn't they have introduced a game to formally retrain him with new job skills? Maybe he could have gone through secret agent/special ops school to pick up the various skills, but at the end, have him decide not to become an agent/operative. That would have at least provided some continuity. But h...
[06:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah how dare people tell jokes. Put SJWs to death for this!
[06:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:51] <exec> 08└─Maybe after that they can help him undergo SRS so we can finally figure out he hasn't been after Princess Toadstool/Peach all these years, but rather had been going to get cornholed by all those regular male toadstools, and every 9 levels he just happened to run into that annoying Peach, that couldn...
[06:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah how dare people tell jokes. Put SJWs to death for this!
[06:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:56] <exec> 08└─peach bowser netorare
[06:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Edition of the International Cloud Atlas - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:05] <exec> 08└─I always found basic meteorologic knowledge as one of the most important for the common man survivalist skills. Hell even outside surviving it is nice to look to the sky and understand what "he" means (in my native language there is not it and the sky is masculine). Unfortunately, I never had the pa...
[06:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:52] <exec> 08└─weigh the bicycle
[06:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:17] <exec> 08└─Uranus is 6.833 * 1013 KM3.
[06:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA and Google Collaboration Turns on D-Wave 2000Q System - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:42] <exec> 08└─The summary only says "adiabatic quantum computing". That is what D-Wave says their "quantum annealer" does. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 2251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:44] <exec> 08└─If only those engineers have the wherewithal to go independent, spin up a design off the unpatented/protected portions of the T1/2 GPL'd cores, and convince people to spend enough money to tape out a chip, and lay out a motherboard (possibly giving in and using hypertransport so they can leverage an...
[06:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:45] <exec> 08└─Not true. They could choose to use the other license, they just can't change the license if they don't own the code. So anybody who has the gpl licensed code can continue to use it under the gpl if they wish and Oracle doesn't have to provide any of their changes if the other license doesn't require...
[06:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:00] <exec> 08└─Looks like that's the case - There's a partial transcript up on http://www.dailywire.com [dailywire.com] : OPERATOR: When did you wake up? PHELPS: I don't know. I don't know. I took more medicine than I should have. OPERATOR: W...
[06:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03baldrick [352] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:51] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking of submitting some original content around bitcoin because there isn't a lot of good coverage on what is going on in bitcoinland at the moment
[06:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03baldrick [352] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:52] <exec> 08└─If is becomes unprofitable to mine, then miners stop mining,
[06:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LAV8.ORg [6653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Philips Demos an 8K Monitor - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:24] <exec> 08└─I ran numbers on this recently. A 30" 2560x1600 monitor has 100.6 pixels per inch. For approximate pixel size parity, 4k is at 44" and 8k is at 88" This is of interest to me because I calculate very high resolution fractal art, and run my own prints. When it comes to resolution, printers are much be...
[06:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeptic [1172] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smartphone Addiction - It's not Just for Kids - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:44] <exec> 08└─Use mail filters...
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[07:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:39] <exec> 08└─I've always understood the 'lore' to be that Mario was a plumber before he fell down a drain and ended up i the Mushroom Kingdom, where the whole hero gig kicked off. It'll be 32 years since that happened now (he was a plumber in Mario Bros, but SMB clearly took place in the Mushroom Kingdom) so I t...
[07:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:41] <exec> 08└─he fell down a drain and ended up i the Mushroom Kingdom, where the whole hero gig kicked off
[07:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Edition of the International Cloud Atlas - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:50] <exec> 08└─> How do clouds form? They form when the big IT corp. managers realize grid computing and storage would have left too much power to the consumer and decide to revert to the mainframe days, with the term cloud correctly representing the fuzzy and foggy internals of the system.
[07:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:04] <exec> 08└─Get imprisoned for a crime, arrested in a protest, detained on the sidewalk or pulled over for a traffic infraction? You have to give us your DNA. It will let us boost the murder solve rate by 5%. We are doing this for your own good, citizen. We just want to keep you safe and sound.
[07:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 3396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:18] <exec> 08└─If one considers the internet like the postal system, it does an excellent job of routing packets... just as it was designed to to. It does an excellent job of accepting a packet here and delivering it there. In continuation of the analogy to the post office, we are having massive problems due to th...
[07:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:40] <exec> 08└─They already are weighed to make sure they are not under the UCI minimum of 6.8kg. The issue is they can easily make bikes under this limit so hiding the extra weight of a motor and battery is possible.
[07:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:31] <exec> 08└─The upside is that the President's chances of going blind significantly went down!
[07:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:33] <exec> 08└─What's the status of Virtualbox? Thoroughly and completely compromised?
[07:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the couch medicine, in high doses is both a stimulant and a depressant. That combination often results in bad, bad behavior for people. Remember the original formulation of 4loco aka "blackout in a can"? Guess what they removed: The stimulant. The depressant was of course alcohol. Why wa...
[07:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:45] <exec> 08└─Technically I cannot be aware of quirks in my own implementation unless i trust some debugger output to be genuine, but I got what you meant.
[07:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:47] <exec> 08└─If he meant she didn't deserve to die like this, implying almost nobody does, it is not a damning sentence, yet I agree it sounds wrong.
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[08:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Hardcoded Backdoor Accounts Discovered in Arris Modems - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:55] <exec> 08└─Why build one backdoor when you can have three for $0? BTW, most AT&T U-Verse customers have these [bgr.com].
[08:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:10] <exec> 08└─Mario was a plumber once, but he got fired for playing games.
[08:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:10] <exec> 08└─Damn, i never even started watching it and now you are asking me to stop?
[08:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:36] <exec> 08└─How did they reverse a password with 400 characters? Even if it's all lowercase alphanumerics, that's something like 10565 possible passwords if the characters are completely random. Brute forcing such a password would need energy of the order of 10542 joules, far, far more than the total mass-energ...
[08:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:08] <exec> 08└─Which parts? Desktop Java was stillborn. Browser Java has been dead so long that even the banks have mostly caught on. Oracle even sued Google to kill mobile Java. The only thing left is server-side Java which has the advantage of being so slow that you need a Sparc cluster for it to be useful, whic...
[08:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:09] <exec> 08└─Can they even if they want to? Other folks like Apache and IBM produce their own Java runtime off the spec. People can just move to it. If anything I'd rather like to see Oracle give up on it and Apache take ownership.
[08:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:11] <exec> 08└─Damn man, try harder [virtualbox.org]!
[08:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:24] <exec> 08└─If cough meds really caused him to kill his wife unintentionally, and then he woke up to find his wife dead or near death, then his mental state upon calling 911 would be poor to say the least. Add being interrogated over the phone, and he would say almost anything that pops into his head. He was tr...
[08:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:25] <exec> 08└─Alcohol can act as a stimulant. [nih.gov]
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[09:25:38] <exec> 08└─I guess this says a lot about how our government views upcoming science students. Gotta make sure they don't know any more than they pay to know. Who uses Sci-Hub anyway? Researchers! Of course, industry will have to go outside this country to get kids who are self-motivated to do much more than...
[09:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:39] <exec> 08└─Better get ready for a DNS block
[09:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vokbain [2372] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Three Hardcoded Backdoor Accounts Discovered in Arris Modems - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:48] <exec> 08└─My modem/router isn't an Arris product, but my PVR and TV receivers are. I wonder if they're vulnerable to crap as well (they probably are).
[09:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 2952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:27] <exec> 08└─Three things: - We're already engaging in Gattaca, but it's done with "good intentions" so people just kind of shrug and move on. With NASA's latest call for potential astronauts, there were 18,300 [nasa.gov] applications for what will be 14 astronauts. I can tell you, before the team is announc...
[09:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:42] <exec> 08└─There is no meaningful reboot possible, and no expectation of improvement, nor any actual useful dialog as long as anonymity is part of the equation.
[09:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:44] <exec> 08└─All this sounds strangely familiar. . . .
[09:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:46] <exec> 08└─Frojack wrote : - There is no meaningful reboot possible .... as long as anonymity is part of the equation. The internet baked in anonymity.
[09:27:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:01] <exec> 08└─Actually it was already solved (and posted here I thought): weigh the bicycle. At this level of completion, everyone is riding premium bikes and the deviation in weight does not account for a motor. If you weigh a bike and it is heavy, then xray it.
[09:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:06] <exec> 08└─"If it is transferrable, or saleable, then why would the guy with the money (in this case, Larry) not just buy it? The owner would n be... Larry." I'm saying that it shouldn't be transferable and they should not be able to buy it. "it" is an artificial thing granted by government to promote the gene...
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[10:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:08] <exec> 08└─Apparently they already have the power. One of the biggest opponents of open science publication, RELX/Elsevier, is based in London and Amsterdam.
[10:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:10] <exec> 08└─RELX/Elsevier, is based in (The City of) London and Amsterdam.
[10:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Edition of the International Cloud Atlas - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:42] <exec> 08└─And now they put the International Cloud Atlas in the cloud.
[10:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 3245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:15] <exec> 08└─In that case, you know the review system is useless - goto yelp. If sellers can "redact" negative reviews on demand, seems to follow that people should also be able to "redact" negative items on their credit reports as well. To me, the negative reviews say far more than the positive reviews do. To g...
[10:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:40] <exec> 08└─Also if you put the battery and controls in a removable part, like a water bottle, they don't actually have to hide that much weight - just the motor.
[10:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:42] <exec> 08└─That's because cycling is one of the most corrupt sports
[10:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:41] <exec> 08└─Sparc is a RISC architecture -- looking at ARM and ATOM, there seems to be a pretty hefty market for them
[10:32:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:36] <exec> 08└─Never before in history has so little been worth so much to so few. Bitcoin, it's not just for tulips anymore!
[10:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:52] <exec> 08└─If it's fluctuating that much, it pretty much guarantees that there will be a point that's 5% or more above where you bought it, unless you bought it at a prior peak. AS long as you're not too greedy, you'll keep making money right up until the bubble bursts (at which point, you either lose everythi...
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[11:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:40] <exec> 08└─fruit loops within!
[11:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:42] <exec> 08└─bet you can't rub one off shooting through the air and landing in my mouth
[11:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Says Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Wife - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:35] <exec> 08└─It can be very effective.
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[12:25:37] <exec> 08└─N/T
[12:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─Stuff I wished was in the summary - They looked at 5 bootloaders: - Huawei / HiSilicon chipset [Huawei P8 ALE-L23] - NVIDIA Tegra chipset [Nexus 9] - MediaTek chipset [Sony Xperia XA] - Qualcomm's new LK bootloader - Qualcomm's old LK bootloader Their tool identified bugs/exploits in all except the...
[12:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:48] <exec> 08└─Mitigation I like that their first recommended mitigation is essentially write more secure boot loaders, if anyone at this point believe that android isn't insecure by design and won of the main reasons google is allowed so much monopoly by governments your not paying attention
[12:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:58] <exec> 08└─Apparently they already have the power. One of the biggest opponents of open science publication, RELX/Elsevier, is based in London and Amsterdam.
[12:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:01] <exec> 08└─You mean the IP address? It is 80.82.77.83 and that IP address is given on the Wikipedia page about Sci-Hub. Currently, ping (IPv4) from my location shows 104.28.20.155 for sci-hub.bz, but if you point a browser to that IP address, you get this error message from Cloudflare that direct IP access isn...
[12:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03xhedit [6669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:03] <exec> 08└─however many years and court cases later, pirate bay is still around. doubt she cares about US courts at all.
[12:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:05] <exec> 08└─What has been the decrease in profits? These organizations make most of their money from institutional subscriptions, member dues, and page charges as far as I know. The case for them losing potential customers is an even harder one to make than it is for games and movies.
[12:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:07] <exec> 08└─Great post, but one quibble: "our government". It's hardly ours anymore, its government for big corporations and the rich. The corporatocracy has shown over and over that they want to charge tolls for access to information. To Sci-Hub's advantage, I've heard that winning a judgment is relatively eas...
[12:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:10] <exec> 08└─Better get ready for a DNS block
[12:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:12] <exec> 08└─How does this lawsuit advance their mission? To advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people.
[12:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:35] <exec> 08└─Trying to link political happenings with fiction now? Maybe its just regular [current year] disease.
[12:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:46] <exec> 08└─Expose the bike to a condition that would destroy a motor
[12:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:12] <exec> 08└─What you are, what you know, what you have.
[12:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:14] <exec> 08└─Because was a match for some compound dictionary words or known text? That is why 25 chars passwords with minimal entropy like CorrectHorseBatteryStaple [xkcd.com] are as quick to break as 1234.
[12:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:58] <exec> 08└─And, in this statement: Small transactions are good for bootstrapping the network.
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[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe I can room my AT and Fee phone. So I can remove all the crap on it I don't want.
[13:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:54] <exec> 08└─if anyone at this point believe that android isn't insecure by design
[13:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's time for an ever expanding sectioned torrent, by discipline. I mean how big could a few million PDF's be? couple hundred gigs?
[13:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:12] <exec> 08└─In Sweden perhaps, but the USA legal system is insanely unfair against those who are not obscenely wealthy and extremely vindictive over copyright law.
[13:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:38] <exec> 08└─... or he got fired for not showing up to work for the last three decades or so, unless this was some kinda mob job where he just got paid even if he didn't do the actual work. Italian ... mob ... Mario ... It would also explain why he actually never does any plumbing. Mario is a mobster!
[13:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:40] <exec> 08└─Before SMB he was in Mario Bros, where... he fought monsters invading a plumbing system, as plumbers are want to do. Always assumed he just kept going deeper and deeper into that system until he showed up in the mushroom kingdom, trying to get at the source of the monsters, and just kept going. So i...
[13:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:42] <exec> 08└─Mario was a mobster? Might make more sense that way. How else could he so easily drop into the goomba stomping1, turtle smashing murderous racket of heroism? Perhaps plumber is slang for "hitman", similar to cleaner. 1. Goombah or goomba is a mildly derogatory slang term for an Italian american here...
[13:27:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:18] <exec> 08└─The internet baked in anonymity.
[13:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:27] <exec> 08└─Says the guy posting as AC.
[13:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:55] <exec> 08└─The engineering and technology behind this are really pretty cool. The previous story that this is a follow-up to had a good link in it with some pictures and technical discussion: https://cyclingtips.com [cyclingtips.com] Powerful, com...
[13:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:56] <exec> 08└─Nothing will change until people stop watching cycling, and paying for TV coverage of it. People watch cycling?
[13:28:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 932 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no. You cannot build a rainbow table large enough to go from all possible three-character passwords up to the ones I use. You can't even build one with the exact same amount of characters. One terabyte by fucked up measuring standards is 1 * 1012 bytes. My current passwords start at needing ~...
[13:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:26] <exec> 08└─Nope, bruteforcing such a completely random 400 characters password only will cost about $5 [xkcd.com]
[13:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:28] <exec> 08└─Which works great until one day you are hoarse after giving a 3 hour presentation or after recovering from an illness?
[13:29:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02 - 06Oracle Finally Killed Sun - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:21] <exec> 08└─Oracle has yet to kill Java, another asset acquired from Sun Microsystems. There has been speculation that it will spin it off somewhere but I'm inclined to doubt it.
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[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─What exactly is the point of having classified material, and security clearances, if as a nation you're too incompetent to properly protect them and the people who have this privileged access?
[14:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't trust that security firm to actually provide security after this. Yes, they didn't expose that data themselves. But part of security is to decide what data needs to be secured, and who is trustworthy enough to handle your secure data. An evaluation of that recruiting service surely would...
[14:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:46] <exec> 08└─How does that old, silly saying goes? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear? Or perhaps "Maybe you shouldn't do things that require secrecy" ? Or maybe we should just accept that big dumb governments erosion of individual privacy goes both ways? he he he. Basically, im advocating the...
[14:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:48] <exec> 08└─I think the objective here to is make such incompetence seem so commonplace and inevitable that people turn off their brains even more than they already have; and just accept that this is how, "Cloud Computing" works, and that there is nothing that they can do about it. That approach made Microsoft...
[14:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:50] <exec> 08└─You took the words right out of my mouth: "If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear." Yes the spooks, bureaucrats, and politicians need to be spied on, have their privacy thoroughly invaded, and doxxed until they begin to understand the tech they're pushing to control us can and will...
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:55] <exec> 08└─It's a disappointing direction. For years I've been rooting for Mario to go all Jersey Shore.
[14:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Edition of the International Cloud Atlas - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:07] <exec> 08└─Never liked that movie.
[14:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Edition of the International Cloud Atlas - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:08] <exec> 08└─It was perplexing through 98% of it but it came together well in the end. I applaud their attempting a risky narrative structure. I'm curious to see how well Netflix's branching narrative experiment works out; I proposed the concept to TV execs I worked with ten years ago.
[14:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Attacks on Online Review Systems Using Neural Networks - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:45] <exec> 08└─It didn't fail. It was hijacked by the grass fuckers looking for more money followed by the government who are paid by said grass fuckers.
[14:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:15] <exec> 08└─While at it also try to find the bike's center of gravity. And hit the thing with a degausser.
[14:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:47] <exec> 08└─Ahh, Sneakers [imdb.com]. That movie is well worth watching (except the CPD), and I really like how they bypassed the keypad for the door :)
[14:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA's Processors May Soon Power Wal-Mart's Deep Learning Push - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:00] <exec> 08└─I much prefer Crip Thowdhry
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[15:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:44] <exec> 08└─This has no advantages other than making it hard for users to install ROMs or to revert to a previous official ROM to restore missing functionality.
[15:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:45] <exec> 08└─This means no more android devices for me. Unable to unlock the bootloader and replace the defective software means no more "android compatible hardware" in exactly the same way the Microsoft secure boot lockdown eliminated all Windows "tablet" form factor hardware.... other than, paradoxially, the...
[15:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:48] <exec> 08└─The main reason i love android is because i can go between versions as i see fit. I use 7.1.2 Nougat on my trusty S5, but i can roll back to 4.4.4 if i so desire. This is probably the most idiotic move Google has made with Android, ever.
[15:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:50] <exec> 08└─Seems like a purely hypothetical issue for most Android users. Hell I'm still waiting for my Marshmallow update on the one device that is actually (supposedly) getting an upgrade. Most of my Android devices are stuck on the major version they shipped with. Including my one (and only) Nexus device. T...
[15:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is that Google's main customers here are not the end users, but are instead the phone manufacturers. This is a good feature for the real customers.
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:54] <exec> 08└─I think the purported idea is that when the user buys a used Android device and performs a factory reset, the device is actually reset. Otherwise, the previous owner could put in a fake reset routine that leaves spyware chosen by the previous owner installed on the device. The peace of mind associat...
[15:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:05] <exec> 08└─If you're saying that this is the conspiracy the vendors are working on, there may be some merit to that. The military lately is on a giant "cloud" push; they want to push everything they possibly can into the cloud now. Sure reeks of payola.
[15:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:07] <exec> 08└─Is "global stability" a product or a service? Probably better if I don't even want to know, seeing how being employed to provide "global stability" requires a security clearance...
[15:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:01] <exec> 08└─A 400-character password though is something else. Even if it is an XKCD 936-style password, given that the average English word is five characters, that would mean it'd be made up of something like 80 words, and assuming you get words from the canonical 2048-word dictionary of common words, that st...
[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─IMO, a private blockchain is worthless. A SQL database will outperform it every time. The value comes from a public, permissionless, immutable record. That record can then be used to provide proofs (proof of ownership, proof of existence [insert the hash of a document], proof of payment). Smart cont...
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:50] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is still young. Think pre WWW internet.
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[16:25:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─This has no advantages other than making it hard for users to install ROMs or to revert to a previous official ROM to restore missing functionality.
[16:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 2591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:00] <exec> 08└─This means no more android devices for me. So what are you going to use then? An Apple? Did you not notice how they already do the exact same thing? (And worse, there's *never* been a possibility of having an open-source ROM for an iPhone, unlike Android devices.) Microsoft is out since they've fina...
[16:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─I'd say maternalist—after all, we call it the Nanny state, not the Daddy State. How about we compromise: AUTHORITARIAN
[16:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:04] <exec> 08└─Now, this might seem like a good idea at first,
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─Verified boot checks for known vulnerabilities before it will boot. So when your no longer supported version gets tagged it will brick it and you can go buy a new device. For the children of course.
[16:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:08] <exec> 08└─My dad would say "Suck it, up son! Be a man, now, and take responsibility!" It was my mother who doted, and worried, and tried to think for me.
[16:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:10] <exec> 08└─Basically it protects the vast majority people from someone downgrading their phone to a less secure OS version. Note that this only prevents LOCKED phones from booting with a downgraded OS. If you want to install a custom OS, select a tinker-friendly manufacturer: On my phone the "unreasonably comp...
[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:12] <exec> 08└─The problem is that Google's main customers here are not the end users, but are is instead the phone manufacturers government. This is a good feature for the real customers.
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:15] <exec> 08└─... in a world of consumers. Sit quietly, and watch another miniseries, mkay?
[16:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:17] <exec> 08└─I've never needed or used any mobile device. Behaving like they are a necessity is part of the problem that allows companies to be so abusive in that sector.
[16:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:19] <exec> 08└─So what are you going to use then? An Apple?
[16:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the...
[16:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:23] <exec> 08└─Google is an evil piece of shit, privacy invading shills most likely doing the bidding of some AI who has their tiny balls in its iron grip. Anyone who works for Google is a complicit fuckwad who should use that now-fancy resume to GTFO. Authoritarian wastes of perfectly good carbon have no business...
[16:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:26] <exec> 08└─Yea, I just assume anyone here is literate enough to not need such a common reference quoted out. That assumption doesn't always hold though so quote away.
[16:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:28] <exec> 08└─The people who actually make your unlocked phone do interesting things are going to be very annoyed by that 10 second message, because they may need to boot their phones frequently while preparing the software that you will only have to boot a few times in your worthless, take-but-never-give-back, c...
[16:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:30] <exec> 08└─How about we compromise: AUTHORITARIAN
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:32] <exec> 08└─Authoritarian is not the compromise, it is the most accurate descriptor. We could discuss stereotypes, but it is a bit silly to worry about whether men or women are more/less authoritarian than the other.
[16:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:34] <exec> 08└─So on point that it hurts. https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[16:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:36] <exec> 08└─The irony of this post coming from Jmorris is a little hard to deal with.
[16:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:39] <exec> 08└─Every metric points to Stalin being objectively worse than Hitler. The confusion on the matter stems from the fact that Hollywood isn't run by Russians.
[16:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bungle [1370] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:41] <exec> 08└─Well, if we can get the Purism Librem 5 supported, perhaps that. https://puri.sm [puri.sm]
[16:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:43] <exec> 08└─Vegetarians eat vegetables. What do authoritarians eat? Authors?
[16:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:45] <exec> 08└─Also very on point: Lockdown The coming war on general-purpose computing https://boingboing.net
[16:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:59] <exec> 08└─The "lull them into a false sense of insecurity" plan? It'll only work, if the customer isn't liable for the result.
[16:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two of Uranus's Moons Could Collide Within One Million Years - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:07] <exec> 08└─Now, Robert Chancia at the University of Idaho and his colleagues have deduced the small moon's mass – and from it discovered the probable shape of its demise. [...] This link enabled the team to use the ring to deduce the moon's mass
[16:27:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:34] <exec> 08└─Great post, but one quibble: "our government". It's hardly ours anymore, its government for big corporations and the rich. The corporatocracy has shown over and over that they want to charge tolls for access to information. To Sci-Hub's advantage, I've heard that winning a judgment is relatively eas...
[16:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Hardcoded Backdoor Accounts Discovered in Arris Modems - 2234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─It is entirely safe to assume that every single bit of nonfree software running on any of your systems is compromised in the worst possible way, allowing the vendor, its affiliates, and various law enforcement agencies full access under certain conditions. The safety of this assumption is confirmed...
[16:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:09] <exec> 08└─Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3 were Mario doing extraction missions [wikipedia.org] to pay for his med school (Dr. Mario).
[16:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:59] <exec> 08└─What's that? You actually thought "the cloud" was a thing?
[16:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Value of One Bitcoin Hits $5,000... Briefly - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:48] <exec> 08└─Back in 2009 I did not think it would actually work. Luckily, somebody decided they wanted pizza: which set a floor price.
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[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:51] <exec> 08└─Corporations are doing an end-run, soon some small company will explode on the world as it reveals that it owns 95% of everything. The one world gov everyone is so afraid of will be implemented in the WORST way possible. Hooray! Now to convince my friends and family that I'm totally fine and not at...
[17:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSouthernDandy [6059] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:53] <exec> 08└─Increasing monopolization,increasing income inequality,a stock market at historic highs,low interest rates,limited room for govt spending,natural disasters with economic impacts, ANDa hankerin' for some protectionism? Well sign me up! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:26:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 827 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─This means no more android devices for me. Unable to unlock the bootloader and replace the defective software means no more "android compatible hardware" in exactly the same way the Microsoft secure boot lockdown eliminated all Windows "tablet" form factor hardware.... other than, paradoxially, the...
[17:26:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 2591 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─This means no more android devices for me. So what are you going to use then? An Apple? Did you not notice how they already do the exact same thing? (And worse, there's *never* been a possibility of having an open-source ROM for an iPhone, unlike Android devices.) Microsoft is out since they've fina...
[17:26:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─Now, this might seem like a good idea at first,
[17:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:32] <exec> 08└─... over a pile of their burning books.
[17:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 2065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:33] <exec> 08└─Ok, but I see a bunch of problems here: 1) They're talking about running GNOME. Why the fuck would you do such a stupid thing? Gnome sucks hard enough on the desktop and consumes massive resources while offering very few features somehow; that's the last thing you want on a mobile device. They'll ne...
[17:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:35] <exec> 08└─Pffft, you can try and ignore popular trends and declare them stupid but that is ignorant and arrogant at the same time. Mobiles are insanely convenient, the only downside being that they are so centrally controlled. That is an easily fixed problem, but it would pretty much require eliminating the c...
[17:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:38] <exec> 08└─Actually the primary complaint against GNOME3 was that it was obviously a tablet / phone interface running on a desktop in a world where almost all the hardware that could actually benefit from it was locked away from it. It might actually be worth looking at on the hardware was written to run on. T...
[17:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:40] <exec> 08└─I noticed that too and my gut reaction was "good for what?"
[17:26:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 509 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:50] <exec> 08└─You took the words right out of my mouth: "If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear." Yes the spooks, bureaucrats, and politicians need to be spied on, have their privacy thoroughly invaded, and doxxed until they begin to understand the tech they're pushing to control us can and will...
[17:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 3342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:55] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem is that it takes only one person to slip up, just once, to expose information. The increased rise of more sophisticated hacking tools and the increased sophistication with which everything that is ever exposed online is indexed and searchable by people with bad intentions mea...
[17:27:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:18] <exec> 08└─Stuff I wished was in the summary - They looked at 5 bootloaders: - Huawei / HiSilicon chipset [Huawei P8 ALE-L23] - NVIDIA Tegra chipset [Nexus 9] - MediaTek chipset [Sony Xperia XA] - Qualcomm's new LK bootloader - Qualcomm's old LK bootloader Their tool identified bugs/exploits in all except the...
[17:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:01] <exec> 08└─Is it a bad idea to derive the salt from the user ID, user name, and timestamp of account creation? Or must the salt always be derived from a cryptographically random source whenever the password changes?
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[18:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:55] <exec> 08└─Working in the aerospace sector I've seen this happening for a while. Small or unheard of aerospace companies worth hundreds of millions or billions are all buying each other up.
[18:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're trying to consolidate so that the next breakthrough will be easily patented and controlled.
[18:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:58] <exec> 08└─Start gathering up financial, or material resources and plan your escape. The first path will be to the sea. The second to space. The time and opportunities to do either are limited. The dominion takes are coming to strip away your rights, just like they have to every frontier to have existed. But i...
[18:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 2993 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:33] <exec> 08└─And tie this fight to the one companies like Google and Apple are waging against "wrong think" in other areas, expect any serious[2] project to liberate hardware to be demonitized, banned from PayPal, etc. If they are willing to wield those weapons against political opponents, expect it against econ...
[18:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, most of the Play Store apps are garbage, but that's true of everything: "95% of everything is crap". I'd say most smartphone users have a small handful of apps they regularly use and maybe even rely on (or at least use so much they'd really miss them if they were gone). Personally, I get a lot...
[18:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:42] <exec> 08└─All the Android devices I've owned already display separate screens for the bootloader and Android. The bootloader's screen is a still image, and Android's screen is what amounts to an animated GIF. An ASUS Nexus 7 (2012) tablet, for example, displays the word "Google" in white on black for a few se...
[18:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:44] <exec> 08└─So what are you going to use then?
[18:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:46] <exec> 08└─I've never needed or used any mobile device. Behaving like they are a necessity is part of the problem that allows companies to be so abusive in that sector.
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:03] <exec> 08└─The US at any given time, has very roughly 5 million people with similar security clearance. 300 were leaked? Pfft! 5 million people is roughly the population of Denmark. Maybe we should just give everyone in Denmark security clearance. Outsource it. Not our problem now!
[18:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─Look what happened in Sweden. Sweden put all its cyber in the cloud. All its secret cyber. Very bad! 🇺🇸
[18:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:14] <exec> 08└─Trying to link political happenings with fiction now? Also See: the entire history of Satire. [wikipedia.org]
[18:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Predicts Appearance From Genome Sequence Data - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:44] <exec> 08└─You find it odd that 50% of the population would make up 50% of the team?
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[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Kirin 970 SoC to Include Dedicated "Neural Processing Unit" - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:44] <exec> 08└─Too bad you won't be able to do any of those neat things unless you both work for a giant corporation and manage to convince a hierarchy of bean-counters to let you do it.
[19:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Kirin 970 SoC to Include Dedicated "Neural Processing Unit" - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─Is being associated with a new nomenclature a selling point for these?
[19:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:58] <exec> 08└─The fewer competitors there are, the more service and prices suck. Been that way forever, per railroads, cars, telecoms, chips, OS's, social networks, etc. Some use the "economies of scale" argument, but it's usually exaggerated. Multiple companies can combine resources for difficult tech if and whe...
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:59] <exec> 08└─The moment the corporations acquired the right to free speech and to legally express that unlimited speech with their cash, the great USA experiment was doomed.
[19:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─Consolidation for market control. The more little guys you buy, the less resources are available to your competitor.
[19:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:03] <exec> 08└─The US government, and specifically the Department of Defense, would be ill served if this merger went through (as might a number of other governments). The reason is that they can get lower costs by putting items out for bid. The fewer bidders, the higher prices (on average) they will pay. You can...
[19:26:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:22] <exec> 08└─Basically it protects the vast majority people from someone downgrading their phone to a less secure OS version. Note that this only prevents LOCKED phones from booting with a downgraded OS. If you want to install a custom OS, select a tinker-friendly manufacturer: On my phone the "unreasonably comp...
[19:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:33] <exec> 08└─So on point that it hurts. https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[19:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 5766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:49] <exec> 08└─As far as I can gather, that phone has physical buttons, makes and receives calls and text messages, and I'm gathering from comments on Amazon that it also works as a music player (32gb microSD). That's 95% of everything I've used my current (Android) phone for since I bought it nearly 5 years ago....
[19:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:51] <exec> 08└─who has never had to program real hardware in his life.
[19:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two of Uranus's Moons Could Collide Within One Million Years - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─If the opportunity to be first stage for a moon collision isn't enough to get humans into deep space, we might as well stop all space programs now and get back to focusing exclusively on cats and boobs.
[19:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:39] <exec> 08└─They already try to make bikes as light as possible to conserve athlete energy. A motor would probably make it suspiciously heavy, unless maybe the bike is overly thin in some spots as to make it a safety hazard. But, some riders may be willing to take that risk. Perhaps the bikes should be standard...
[19:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:14] <exec> 08└─Salt effectively just extends the password by several characters that the user doesn't need to memorise. Absence of salt means that dictionaries (even clever storage-optimised dictionaries like rainbow tables (most of the implicit content of which is randomish strings that aren't actually so useful,...
[19:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:15] <exec> 08└─""" Good news — no pwnage found! This password wasn't found in any of the Pwned Passwords loaded into Have I been pwned. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a good password, merely that it's not indexed on this site. Notify me when I get pwned | Donate """ In order to notify me when they recognis...
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[20:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:49] <exec> 08└─If Capacitance Electronic Disc [wikipedia.org] had been readyin 1977 instead of 1981, they could have sent a two-hour video.
[20:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:50] <exec> 08└─Records don't play well if they are scratched.
[20:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:52] <exec> 08└─I orginally was wondering why instructions to decode the golden record is news worthy: it is well documented by NASA, largely covered on Wikipedia also. However reading about his struggles was inspiring, and I was quite impressed with his handling of the hieroglyphics.
[20:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:54] <exec> 08└─It's newsworthy because this guy didn't know how to do it, so in many ways he was verifying that it's possible to do this without any earthman-only knowledge. Obviously it'll still be an enigma if anyone finds it, but if they guess enough they'll probably get it right.
[20:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:18] <exec> 08└─The transaction, one of the biggest in aviation history, creates an aircraft-parts giant better positioned to withstand the squeeze from planemakers Boeing Co. and Airbus SE for pricing discounts and higher output.
[20:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:19] <exec> 08└─*You can always check out, but you can never leave* Back on topic. This merger shouldn't be allowed to happen, for all the obvious reasons already stated elsewhere. It's a bad deal for everybody outside the club.
[20:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:21] <exec> 08└─That is totally irrelevant. Speech is speech. It can't compel anything. If you don't like what's being said, change the channel, or turn off the set. This merger, on the other hand, it's not good. Read the other comments for reasons why
[20:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:10] <exec> 08└─I just hacked 14.1 onto my ancient Photon Q (yes, 5+ years old...) the other day and it runs well. AFAIK there's no 15.x build for it, but if there ever is, and I put it on, will it do the same thing? I can't say I didn't see this coming, but it still sucks.
[20:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:11] <exec> 08└─I'd written that after reading the fluff piece in android police. I was going to link that in the submission, but ended up only linking the original information. The attempt at a positive spin on this is here [androidpolice.com].
[20:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:13] <exec> 08└─A good idea? Just think, going back to my analogy in the submission; if Microsoft had managed to pull this crap on the pc, we would not have Linux. The extra hurdles, the loss of functionality, would mean that not many people would have tried out Linux, and it would quickly have been abandoned. The...
[20:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 2521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:15] <exec> 08└─What is stopping you from giving up your android phone? I am really not sure what conveniences I am missing, so I don't really get it when there are people that get animated about leaving the eco system. What are you losing from not having an android or apple phone? You don't mention any of that in...
[20:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:54] <exec> 08└─I wish someone referred to this post in the "No going back after Oreo" post. Awfully convenient to have a new OS upgrade coming out with lots of desirable feautres... that also will fix this problem and prevent other OSes from getting loaded. Seems really nice for them that this security issue is ge...
[20:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vulnerabilities Discovered in Mobile Bootloaders of Major Vendors - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:55] <exec> 08└─"Hey did you see these people have non-secure phones? Do you remember we kept even the US government from getting into a locked phone? Do you know we're about the announce a new shiny expensive device?" - Apple PR.
[20:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:08] <exec> 08└─Have you stopped beating your spouse yet?
[20:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Reverse 320 Million Hashed Passwords - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:45] <exec> 08└─I bet it's a sentence or stanza from one of the documents on project gutenberg. It wouldn't take long to hash all such inputs, and add them to a dictionary of known hashes. (It's been done, I know someone who's done the equivalent.) There's no reason not to add (hashes of) every single tweet ever ma...
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[21:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah so Dick Niggers. You know we never fuck no old pussy. We fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Dick Niggers gonna show ya the force of the black side.
[21:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:42] <exec> 08└─Just. Don't. Care.
[21:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:44] <exec> 08└─But this franchise has a higher turnover than the president's cabinet.
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:46] <exec> 08└─The prequels were bad enough, but now Disney is just doing a cash grab and following the current trend of hitting people's nostalgia buttons. That trend was pretty much over when ep7 landed, and that movie paired with their marketing Armageddon paved over the grave of nostalgia with solid gold. I ha...
[21:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:48] <exec> 08└─Then beat it some more, it'll bleed more money. Episodes 1,4,5,6 were good, the rest were Jabba shit.
[21:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:50] <exec> 08└─Star Wars IX was planned for release on May 24, 2019. Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes out on December 15, 2017. Also at The Hollywood Reporter (discussion). Lucasfilm statement. Safety Not Guaranteed or Steins;Gate?
[21:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:53] <exec> 08└─Humanity has reached a turning point, we have the resources and ability to lift humanity up. So will we improve our species as a whole? Or will we continue down this privatized road of haves and have nots?
[21:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─1) find isolated amazonian tribe. 2) give them copy of the records. 3) watch what happens.
[21:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:04] <exec> 08└─The decoding appears pretty trivial, let's be honest. If even 10% of their assumptions are correct, they could get patterned data out that could tweaked enough to make an image. The problem, as ever, would be interpretation. It's a shame there's not a ton more text and information in the same format...
[21:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Kirin 970 SoC to Include Dedicated "Neural Processing Unit" - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:14] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for a truly free smartphone with no blobs/binaries anywhere, that doesn't run Google, has no bloatware, and all the hardware is truly owned by me. That's pretty much anytime I see any new shiny. Is it really free? Or just another form of leverage and a device to create information/power...
[21:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:33] <exec> 08└─Dang! I just commented on the Voyager records, without realizing how much farther out my mind would have wandered, had I gone from you to my actual point.
[21:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:34] <exec> 08└─You're being pedantic and narrow minded. Corporations are not people, and should not be afforded such protections under the law. Granting person-hood to businesses has royally fucked up everything. For political campaigns specifically I think we should create a web based platform which is the only p...
[21:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 3351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─I have another post in this thread that lists all the main things I do with my phone. I'm sure other people have similar lists, but with some different "must-have" items. A few things that come to mind that your Blackberry may or may not have (I'm not sure as I've never used a BB phone): Google Maps...
[21:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:28] <exec> 08└─Um, that last part really is your answer. You can't find one. I can't even remember the last time I saw a pay phone that was in working order. If you need to call someone and you're not at home and don't have a cellphone, your options are to beg a stranger to borrow their phone, or go into a busines...
[21:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:31] <exec> 08└─There are practically none left. The bus station which I walk past quite often ripped out their payphone a few weeks ago. It has not been replaced. Other than that one, I cannot recall seeing one anywhere else. That being said, there is some hospitality left in this dead rotting carcass of a country...
[21:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:33] <exec> 08└─It's a euphemism for mansplaining. Which is a dysphemism for patronizing. Would you believe this state of affairs was brought on by linguistic prescriptivists?
[21:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:35] <exec> 08└─You have your answer. The burner phone gets you reasonable anonymity assuming you asked a homeless person or some kid to get it with cash. Avoid all the video surveillance. I recommend buying more than one a time. Aside from that, you have Purism attempting to bring a fully free phone to market base...
[21:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─Personally, I get a lot of use out of RealCalc, which AFAIK has no spyware and definitely no ads (it nags you to buy the full version occasionally though). This project talks about having a mobile Linux development environment, so basically they're hoping a bunch of volunteers will pop up and start...
[21:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:39] <exec> 08└─So?? If this thing is free and open as they say, you could install OpenBSD if you wanted. Assuming, OpenBSD would support the hardware in the first place. I'm more of a BSD guy, and headless 99.9% of the time, but isn't Gnome just a window manager? It can't be replaced with KDE or something else? I...
[21:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mario is no Longer a Plumber - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:08] <exec> 08└─Some Polish guy is now doing the plumbing job in Italy, so Mario had to retrain. He keeps on learning all those new skills, and realizing none of them pays a living wage. He's now millions in debt that he can't discharge in bankruptcy, for-profit schools are rich, and he'll end up destitute, with pe...
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[22:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:24] <exec> 08└─Clearly, Leia was unfit to rule, because she was a weak senator and the Empire hacked her communications.
[22:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:25] <exec> 08└─But this franchise has a higher turnover than the president's cabinet.
[22:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:28] <exec> 08└─I just wasted too much time trying to figure it out. "Safety Not Guaranteed" was an indie movie directed by Trevorrow, but his name doesn't come up on that anime movie Steins;Gate. Both movies are about time travel, so maybe Takyon is just obsessed with tachyons? Or could be they were microdosing at...
[22:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:31] <exec> 08└─Cared enough to comment, for some reason.
[22:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:34] <exec> 08└─Queen Amidala: Our people are dying, Senator. We must do something quickly to stop the Republicans. Senator Palpatine: To be realistic, your Majesty. I think we are going to have to accept Russian control for the time being. Queen Amidala: That is something I cannot do. Senator Palpatine: But your M...
[22:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:37] <exec> 08└─Please not George Lucas... Please not George Lucas... Please not George Lucas... Please not George Lucas...
[22:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:39] <exec> 08└─I actually thought Rogue One was pretty okay. But it's less of a Star Wars film than a War Movie that happens to have the Star Wars universe as the setting. Probably not a surprise I thought the random bits with Darth Vader and Leia were kind of pointless, though I appreciate the "bookends" the movi...
[22:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe I was macrodosing DXM.
[22:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:44] <exec> 08└─Oh shoot, better check to see if you killed anyone, I hear that happens.
[22:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:46] <exec> 08└─I would gladly eat some star wars promotional fast food than an orange as old at the scrotus. I guess he rotates in new stock pretty often so as long as you avoid the blackmold core you should be fine.
[22:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:59] <exec> 08└─Anybody who finds the record in interstellar space is going to almost surely know how to do a bit of advanced math.
[22:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:00] <exec> 08└─I sure hope they labeled the human pictographs as "Not tasty, do not eat"
[22:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Kirin 970 SoC to Include Dedicated "Neural Processing Unit" - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. First it was DSP Then it was GPU Now it is Neural All are basically just optimised multiply-add pipelines (just with increasing parallelism) Anyone taking bets on the next magic buzzword? MS had a "holographic processor" recently, that didn't catch on, apparently, that would have been the word...
[22:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Kirin 970 SoC to Include Dedicated "Neural Processing Unit" - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:12] <exec> 08└─It's too early to say that Holographic Processing Unit won't catch on. HoloLens was a careful developer launch to ensure that Microsoft wouldn't be hit with Glasshole stigma. That was shipped in March 2016. The second/consumer version [soylentnews.org] has yet to come out AFAIK.
[22:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06United Technologies to Buy Rockwell Collins for $23 Billion - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, the 1st amendment says otherwise. Since speech as no compelling force, you don't have a case.
[22:27:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:47] <exec> 08└─The main reason i love android is because i can go between versions as i see fit. I use 7.1.2 Nougat on my trusty S5, but i can roll back to 4.4.4 if i so desire. This is probably the most idiotic move Google has made with Android, ever.
[22:27:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:50] <exec> 08└─The problem is that Google's main customers here are not the end users, but are instead the phone manufacturers. This is a good feature for the real customers.
[22:28:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:06] <exec> 08└─The people who actually make your unlocked phone do interesting things are going to be very annoyed by that 10 second message, because they may need to boot their phones frequently while preparing the software that you will only have to boot a few times in your worthless, take-but-never-give-back, c...
[22:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─So uou, for one, are happy to give up privacy and security for conveneince. Good for you. Some of us aren't. GPS means every app knows wher you are Dating apps plus GPS? You are an advertisers wet dream. Privacy (and security) shouldn't mean lack of convenience, but, at this stage of our technology,...
[22:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:39] <exec> 08└─So?? If this thing is free and open as they say, you could install OpenBSD if you wanted. Assuming, OpenBSD would support the hardware in the first place. I'm more of a BSD guy, and headless 99.9% of the time, but isn't Gnome just a window manager? It can't be replaced with KDE or something else? Th...
[22:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:41] <exec> 08└─Hey, if you want to live in a shack in the woods like the Unabomber, more power to you.
[22:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:43] <exec> 08└─I just looked up your gnome-calculator, and it's completely unusable. It's not RPN.
[22:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:45] <exec> 08└─more explosive power to you.
[22:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:48] <exec> 08└─No, it is a COMPUTER with a PHONE RADIO. At least they market it that way from what I've seen in their literature so far. Your point about the UIs not being designed is indeed an issue that needs to be addresses. As you stated though, it does enable development. I'm at least hopeful that the communi...
[22:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:50] <exec> 08└─the government will save us? lmao!
[22:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:52] <exec> 08└─It may be a "not enough shillings" or a late pay from his shill masters. Happens more frequently later, perhaps a sign of weakening economy.
[22:29:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:03] <exec> 08└─I think the objective here to is make such incompetence seem so commonplace and inevitable that people turn off their brains even more than they already have; and just accept that this is how, "Cloud Computing" works, and that there is nothing that they can do about it. That approach made Microsoft...
[22:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beau Slim [6628] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:13] <exec> 08└─Part of the lack of the general knowledge of this comes from a "first rule of clearance is that you don't talk about your clearance" thing. Many people believe that someone with a Top Secret clearance gives them access to all the Top Secrets. It doesn't. All it means is that they have been vetted (v...
[22:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two of Uranus's Moons Could Collide Within One Million Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:24] <exec> 08└─Two large ball like objects might collide near Uranus's. GAAAAYYYYYY!
[22:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:52] <exec> 08└─I had forgotten about athletics. If I see a running race, I assume that all the competitors are using drugs.
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[23:25:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Dick Niggers. You know we never do fuck no old pussy. We fuck a whole lot of young pussy tho. Dick Niggers gonna burn yo cunt wit black hot cum.
[23:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:38] <exec> 08└─When you burn out, your career is finished. UNLESS, your name is Michael David Crawford. Let's count the luck: [1] Diagnosed mentally ill. Career ending move. MDC survives anyway. [2] Unemployed for years. Career ending move. MDC survives anyway. [3] Homeless. Career ending move. MDC survives anyway...
[23:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:40] <exec> 08└─Do you have any reasoning beyond your assumptions that he should be dead? Or are you just mad at him for some reason?
[23:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:42] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a jealous troll noticing the grass is greener under the neighbor's bridge?
[23:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:44] <exec> 08└─In the West we've developed a mindset that we can simply fix everything, but as a society we are not yet wise enough to pull it off. So we get things like this, how to handle your stress and extra activities you should add to your list which will help you cope. How about the current model is broken!...
[23:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:47] <exec> 08└─I prefer to think that one of his personalities is trolling himself.
[23:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─Hey dickweed... I'd rather hang out with MDC or even EF before hanging with an AH.
[23:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:13] <exec> 08└─The prequels were bad enough, but now Disney is just doing a cash grab and following the current trend of hitting people's nostalgia buttons.
[23:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:15] <exec> 08└─I saw the two new ones a couple days ago on the condition that they were pirated and Disney wouldn't see a dime. Glad I did that. The Force Awakens was remarkably bad. Each scene was barely strung together with the next. JJ Abrams should be ashamed. It is only in contrast to the prequels that anyone...
[23:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:17] <exec> 08└─I would like to cut off two of the more common replies when discussing post-monetary society. a) money will obviously still be around, just much less central to general society and b) people want to be useful and with technological advances we simply don't need every human to be working 8+ hours a d...
[23:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:19] <exec> 08└─Force Awakens was weak. They couldn't even come up with an original origin planet. "Look, it's Tatooine, but with a giant crashed star destroyer on it!" And speaking of said crashed star destroyer, clearly it makes much more sense to build a tiny hut and shelters with scraps of cloth stretched betwe...
[23:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:21] <exec> 08└─Humanity has reached a turning point, we have the resources and ability to lift humanity up. So will we improve our species as a whole? Or will we continue down this privatized road of haves and have nots?
[23:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Franchise Loses Fourth Director in Two Years - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is those characters can't have a major impact on the story of the Empire if they slot in between the main 9 movies. So they do a few heroic things, and then they drop dead. There are lots of stories to tell in the setting, but until they weave new hooks in the "last" two main movies, nob...
[23:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Decode the Images on the Voyager Golden Record - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think images are a pretty inefficient way of conveying the kind of knowledge that should be shared between civilizations. Would be better to encode it in a simplistic binary format and write it in easy language(possibly esperanto?)
[23:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Kirin 970 SoC to Include Dedicated "Neural Processing Unit" - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:50] <exec> 08└─Certainly words can get several chances. Some even succeed multiple times. Names of the signal-processing-like extensions to consumer CPU cores over the last decade or so have frequently been recycled from the supercomputer/DSP fields, but with only tangentially-related meanings.
[23:27:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:57] <exec> 08└─So what are you going to use then?
[23:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 1912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:20] <exec> 08└─You made some good points, but missed a little on a couple points. "So what are you going to use then? An Apple? Did you not notice how they already do the exact same thing? (And worse, there's *never* been a possibility of having an open-source ROM for an iPhone, unlike Android devices.)" Now this...
[23:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:22] <exec> 08└─"I have a big problem with this. While 5+ years ago I wasn't much of a texter, now I am (my gf loves to text), and AFAIC it's utterly impossible to text on a phone with physical buttons, unless you're talking about a Blackberry with a thumb keyboard. I remember the days of 10-button texting, and I'm...
[23:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:24] <exec> 08└─This is starting to look like a legit case where some sort of minimal government regulation is going to be needed. We would never accept Ford selling cars that only burn Ford gas, have locks on the hood only certified Ford tech can open, etc. No, we passed laws mandating standards for interoperabili...
[23:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:26] <exec> 08└─If you want a phone that you can install standard Linux distributions on, check out the Librem 5 by Purism. https://puri.sm [puri.sm]
[23:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:28] <exec> 08└─As tech people the "end users" look to it is our duty to speak out, to warn.
[23:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:30] <exec> 08└─PayPal has banned political groups because they're extremists...
[23:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oreo Means No Going Back - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:32] <exec> 08└─So spin again, you do know how many calculators are on the Linux desktop, right? Galculator supports Algebraic, RPN and Formula Entry modes. Many, many more to pick from.
[23:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Details of U.S. 'Top Secret' Clearance Holders Leaked Online - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:52] <exec> 08└─> What exactly is the point of having classified material, and security clearances, if you're going to hand out the highest level of clearance to *millions* of people. With the unbelievable equidistribution of those, you have little podunk shitholes with a dozen people that have top secret clearance...
[23:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two of Uranus's Moons Could Collide Within One Million Years - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:08] <exec> 08└─Seems like they could have cut out more! No absolute need for both of: "... and his colleagues have deduced the small moon's mass ... ." "... enabled the team to ... deduce the moon's mass."
[23:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two of Uranus's Moons Could Collide Within One Million Years - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:09] <exec> 08└─If planets are only planets if they've cleared their orbits around a sun, can we not reserve the word moon for satelites that have cleared their orbit around a planet (or gravitationally locked other satelites)? That little tiddler was never a moon, just some space dust yet to be cleaned up.
[23:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pro Cycling - Test for Hidden Motors Ineffective - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:37] <exec> 08└─You didn't read the post you just replied to. THE RULES SET A MINIMUM WEIGHT. This STOPS them from making bikes as light as possible -- because it's already possible to make them lighter than the minimum weight, with no safety hazard, but those bikes are simply not allowed. By making the bike lighte...
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