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[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Cosmic Methyl Chloride Detection Complicates the Search for Life on Exoplanets - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─I guess that the search for extraterrestrial life will get harder now... But is will ultimately be more successful than searching for intelligence in Drumpf's head!
[00:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Methyl Chloride Detection Complicates the Search for Life on Exoplanets - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─I actually love it when a perfectly accepted statement is proven wrong. For example, for so long there was consensus among all the chemists in the world that Fluorine gas was never going to be found in nature. I mean it reacts with ANYTHING this stuff. Never going to be found. Can't find it. And the...
[00:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:50] <exec> 08└─You're right. It's quantum key distribution [wikipedia.org].
[00:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:02] <exec> 08└─Still, it is a much better key distribution mechanism and can lead toward secure communications.
[00:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:03] <exec> 08└─The only thing quantum about the video was the tiny little key
[00:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:06] <exec> 08└─It's better than a one-time pad because it should also be unbreakable if done right [wikipedia.org], but doesn't have the practical issues [wikipedia.org] of the one-time pad.
[00:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:08] <exec> 08└─Why, after poking holes in the distribution method, do you suddenly change your tune?
[00:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:10] <exec> 08└─no, i think you got it. sat bridges the distance and sends entangled photons to each party. they gather and test (that was explained in an article when that sat first went up) (sat does not know which of the thousands of pairs it sent wound up in the final key!) and off they go to the races, having...
[00:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:12] <exec> 08└─I would still be suspicious as fuck because it is China and they just LOVE VPNs and encryption they can't see through.
[00:11:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fishybell [3156] 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:00] <exec> 08└─Not trolling, advertising. This is America, and the only thing more important than guns is money.
[00:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:54] <exec> 08└─they're untraceable (or at least, harder to trace). For better or worse, that's value added for many people.
[00:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:56] <exec> 08└─> Try to get a modern printer without yellow-dot serialization built in. I know one, she's a monochrome laser printer. If I spot a yellow dot i'll get suspicious. but seriously, what if you suck the yellow ink out the cartridge and replace it with water, or maybe nitroglycerine for the lulz?
[00:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:58] <exec> 08└─I've read that too (several places), but so far I've been unable to track down where those figures originated -- whether that's an ATF letter, a court ruling, or just some guy at the gun shop making up bullshit to avoid admitting there's something he doesn't know. I haven't looked hard enough to be...
[00:12:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:40] <exec> 08└─You're so right, police violence wasn't an issue at all under Obama.
[00:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 1664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:55] <exec> 08└─How can you take them seriously when they ask for independence but then start adding "but this we keep united"? Monetary and ego reasons, mostly, seem to create a lot of fake independentists. Futbol Club Barcelona is talking about selecting which league they would play, even when the organizers, law...
[00:13:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03goodie [1877] 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 2061 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:17] <exec> 08└─After sales support is by definition something that costs you money without bringing any money. It's a future loss avoidance process. so when you reward current profit, well people go "fuck future loss avoidance". It's the same when you buy a dishwasher, a car, or anything really. There are very few...
[00:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Counting Raindrops Using Mobile-Phone Towers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:05] <exec> 08└─The point where you stop is when you realize that The technique is not as accurate as rooftop rain gauges.
[00:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:57] <exec> 08└─I for one actually like Apple's bold approach to phase out cables. Progress comes with a price/cost of course. Hopefully at some point in the future we'll have phones that are totally cable free - I really detest cables.. and all the fun that ensues from wireless signal hacking. Now as for this devi...
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[01:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:34] <exec> 08└─Betteridge law says "No, the AI pony can't get smarter". Which doesn't mean that unicorns can't get smarter (since nobody asked the "Can unicorns get smarter?" in a title, the possibility of unicorns getting smarter is still theoretically opened). (grin)
[01:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Methyl Chloride Detection Complicates the Search for Life on Exoplanets - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:43] <exec> 08└─Hey..hey...let's keep politics out out this discussion. Maybe we should talk about sex instead. So...FUCK TRUMP!!
[01:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Methyl Chloride Detection Complicates the Search for Life on Exoplanets - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:45] <exec> 08└─When I read things like the original article and the one you linked to (thank you) or hear/read about how "such and such, once thought to be impossible etc., etc." I always remember the two quotes that sum it up beautifully. Shakespear's "Hamlet" "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio,...
[01:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 2954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:13] <exec> 08└─You need to slow down there a little :) QKD is not quantum encryption, of which I know of no at-rest quantum encryption anywhere for that matter. So only the key distribution method is quantum, of which they say as much in the article and state that it isn't unbreakable. Furthermore, even in fully q...
[01:10:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1045 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:50] <exec> 08└─Banning things is on a fast path to being impossible. The ability to manufacture 'on demand' is growing and will only improve. This is a CNC milling machine, others have made guns with 3d printing of metals. As things become software fed into universal 'printers' that more and more people will own i...
[01:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:53] <exec> 08└─mhajicek's comment [soylentnews.org] is right on. Moreover, for pistols, gundrilling isn't even necessary -- a 4-5" .45 barrel is only ~10 diameters. That's annoying, but well within reach of any competent machinist using an engine lathe and non-specialized tools (drills and reamers). Gundrilling wi...
[01:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wandercraft's Exoskeleton was Made to Help Paraplegics Walk - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:04] <exec> 08└─That name was already taken, see this example of a 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante Coupe, http://autoweek.com [autoweek.com] Arguably one of the first supercar GTs.
[01:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:52] <exec> 08└─In California (Nor Cal, So Cal, Central, Cascade, and Sierras. Possibly Western variants as well via port cities) We need transportation infrastructure with relatively tolerant laws for traveling between regions, but each region needs more flexibility in its laws than region specific laws would allo...
[01:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:54] <exec> 08└─Republic of Bosnia as a hole is recognised by the UN.
[01:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:24] <exec> 08└─^^^ This guy urban plans.
[01:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM Says Twenty New Electric Vehicles are on the Way - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:39] <exec> 08└─Filling stations can't operate when the grid is down.
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[02:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:29] <exec> 08└─As long as the unicorns [wikipedia.org] sell, they can be as dumb as a rock.
[02:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:51] <exec> 08└─Who cares where you can carry your pistol? If you own it and know how to use it, you are prepared for the revolution. Gang banging the streets of LA won't help. Outside of city limits, though, I am sympathetic. But as far as I know there are no carry restrictions statewide. Just permitting requireme...
[02:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:52] <exec> 08└─I... I don't exactly know what you're going for here. Technically true, software is anything not hardware including data such as text, video or images. My gripe is the article makes it sound more complex and difficult to implement than it really is.
[02:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:55] <exec> 08└─Well said.
[02:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 6402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:57] <exec> 08└─(continued...) The only time a referendum is "official" is when the parent country is sure of success for what they want, or they don't really care (or they rig it) This isn't what happened in Canada (Quebec) or UK (Scotland). I agree, but that rule is not applied in this modern world of nation stat...
[02:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 4823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:59] <exec> 08└─The constitution stated that any referendum on secession would have to be given to the whole of Spain, not just the Catalonians. I suspect the majority of the rest of Spain would vote "No". The total population of Catalonia is 7.5 million, for Spain: 30.5 million. Why should other territories get a...
[02:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 1580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:25] <exec> 08└─The earths crust is made of oceanic crust, which is mainly basalt, which contains a lot of metals and is heavier, as dense as the Magma. It is bouyant and easily subducted. The continental crust contains lighter rocks, with fewer metals, like granite. It is bouyant enough to not be subducted. Contin...
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[03:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:06] <exec> 08└─wait a minute, is the summary claiming that Verizon was able to teach Yahoo something about security (or at least about lack of security)? Seems really unlikely...
[03:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:13] <exec> 08└─Dylan was kind of embarrassing. Tom and the Heartbreakers were godlike. His music helped millions - and he never backed down. Made it with Stevie Nicks too! A true legend - I will miss him.
[03:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:15] <exec> 08└─"died peacefully" at 8:40pm CBS "News" had declared him dead in the early afternoon. The family and the hospital and LAPD said that the Fake News outlet didn't get that from any of them. Other, more responsible, media outlets raked CBS over the coals for their miserable attempt at reporting. In fact...
[03:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:18] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go out on a limb and stuff, but being 59 myself IMHO when you can't find any brain activity just turn everything off, cuz I be gone. / might try turning it all on again, can't tell you how often that has worked for me // But really, don't do me like that /// No brain, no me, it was fun whi...
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[03:10:20] <exec> 08└─His music had a very genuine quality to it; you could hear, feel, and smell a couple arguing in a Roadkill Cafe in almost every tune.
[03:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:22] <exec> 08└─100 percent right! They caught #FakeNews @CBS cold! Just like @CNN. 🇺🇸
[03:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:32] <exec> 08└─The two year old is rewarded for his recognition of a hot dog by having his hunger decreased, and his pleasure increased. That hot dog tastes GOOD! Give your AI some comparable reward, and maybe it will perform better? How can you make an AI experience either hunger, or taste?
[03:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 1807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:58] <exec> 08└─Flamebait? Come on mods - it isn't flamebait, despite the fact that I disagree with AC. The second amendment guarantees our right to own and to bear arms. One phrase, "well regulated militia" stands out. Obviously, if I can build and keep three guns per year WITHOUT any regulation, then in a few yea...
[03:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:59] <exec> 08└─A real machinist might have a little fun with the thing, testing it's limits, and seeing what he can get it to do. Hell, a Daytona race car driver can have a little fun with some old beater converted into a dune buggy, right? Or, experienced bikers might spend the day riding scooters with his relati...
[03:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:02] <exec> 08└─That IS a question in my mind: Just how durable IS an aluminum framed 1911? Initially, it kinda scared me. But, when you think about it, it's a lot less scary. It's going to work, until the machining starts to wear, then it going to start jamming, and the jamming will get progressively worse. But, w...
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[03:13:38] <exec> 08└─The latter is particularly important given that Catalonia hopes to join the EU, which would clearly be impossible without both the EU recognising them as a sovereign state and Spain not using their EU membership veto to bar Catalonia's entry.
[03:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:37] <exec> 08└─I would recommend buying an unlocked phone, which you can do from reputable major retailers like B&H, and then never get cellular service for it. On Android at least, everything works as you would expect for the phone part - which would still work if you needed to call 911 on your MP3 player in a pi...
[03:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:08] <exec> 08└─Ya, go ahead UAE. I dare you. I double-dare you to make Mars bloom! (or desserts on earth, I suppose, if you must)
[03:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lost Continent of Zealandia Surveyed - 1702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:35] <exec> 08└─Whoops, i meant to say the oceanic crust is not very bouyant, the continental crust is. Because the melting of subducting crust, happens in a way that only the lighter elements manage to float upward and into the overthrusting plate, the magma ends up poor in metals and is light, rocks such as grani...
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[04:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:35] <exec> 08└─I had an old Yahoo account. It was long disused, mostly for mailing lists and stuff previously. I was notified that mine was probably compromised in the first go around. Or was it the second. I changed the password and forget it about it. Then they came out with their version of two factor authentic...
[04:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:37] <exec> 08└─Should I be worried? If memory serves I had 3 yahoo email accounts that I never accessed once I got the account I was after. Is this a problem? Is it worse considering I no longer know the login, nor the password for any of them? Although I'm pretty sure what the password is, but I have no clue what...
[04:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:39] <exec> 08└─Ask the hackers to help you regain access to your account.
[04:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:50] <exec> 08└─Last night [youtube.com] Tom Petty reached the end of the line [youtube.com]. Mr. Petty wont be waiting [youtube.com] around, in fact he don't come around here no more [youtube.com] as he's headed off into the great wide open [youtube.com]. In a career spanning at least four decades, Petty got lucky...
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─The guy had a heart attack.
[04:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:54] <exec> 08└─The last time saw him was with Stevie Winwood in the 2000s (11 June 2008, IIRC). Winwood came out and played a set. After he did Can't Find My Way Home [youtube.com], I could have gone home happy right then. But I didn't, and TP & the HBs came out and put on a fabulous show [setlist.fm].
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[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─Lesson: you don't know where the next big breakthrough is coming from, so keep experimenting on and gradually improving half-promising techniques. Try different things and different angles on existing tools, such as tablized AI. [github.com]
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[04:12:29] <exec> 08└─I think the motivations there are crystal clear. It's like comparing these attacks to Israel/Palestine. They are in no way comparable. In one the motivation and purpose is generally very clear. In this, people seem increasingly happy to just kill other people mostly at random.
[04:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 2745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:32] <exec> 08└─How pressed are Catalans to keep on with it while companies move out, study plans to do so, or at least raise concerns? (Similar to Brexit, BTW. Let's do a drama, and once it passes, start looking for a plan because there was none before, at least none thinking about the consequences.) Factories are...
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[05:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:28] <exec> 08└─I can see the purpose of mini replica console with non-working keys, but for a mini home computer - sorry, but no...
[05:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:29] <exec> 08└─I'd just get out the old C64 system I still have around somewhere and see if it's still working. (Yes, I still have the old style analog TV to hook it to.)
[05:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:31] <exec> 08└─Does the disk drive still work? Do you still have the floppies? Funny enough, where would you get a cassette tape player (or some old walkman) to hook it up with?
[05:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:33] <exec> 08└─Worth it? Nooope. Does not even have a real or actual SID chip. It's at best a replica emulator so you might as well just run the c64 emulator of your choice on whatever hardware you already have. Also if it's half the size using the keyboard is probably gonna suck.
[05:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:58] <exec> 08└─In fact, Petty was taken off the ventilator but his body refused to give up for several hours more.
[05:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─No, Hinton didn't invent backprop (as the summary suggests), nor is he the father of deep learning. Backprop was invented by Werbos (1974) and Parker (1985). Hinton's role was secondary. He has made contributions to the field, but calling him the father of deep learning (as the article refers to him...
[05:12:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:12] <exec> 08└─And yet even those without 100% faith in their government have an interest in keeping guns out of the hands of the incompetent, the deranged, the criminal, and the irresponsible.
[05:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:35] <exec> 08└─Again, I don't think you are seeing the point. This was not a conflict between Indians and Settlers, Abolitionists and Slavers, or anything of the sort. Things like that would be comparable to, for instance, the current Israel-Palestine situation. This is civilians killing other civilians mostly at...
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[05:13:39] <exec> 08└─Whether this effort succeeds or fails, looking at the big picture it is clear the old trend of ever larger unions heading toward the One World Government dreamed of by Progressives, Socialists and Banksters has reversed. Now it is all about larger entities coming under increasing pressure to maintai...
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[06:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:04] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of nostalgia surrounding the C64, but is it worth reviving?
[06:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:05] <exec> 08└─Actually...on that note ... does anyone have a good recommendation for adapters to attach some of these old devices to newer HDMI devices? I've got a couple old consoles and systems that use various old interfaces that I'd like to attach to a new TV via HDMI. I looked for some RCA to HDMI adapters f...
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[06:10:07] <exec> 08└─Sounds good, as long as its floppy drive emulation is NOT faithful to the original's slowness. What about an Apple II in a smartphone sized package? I know there's an Apple II emulator that runs on Android, as that was used to run a classic game (Karateka) I picked up cheap in a Humble Bundle. The e...
[06:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:10] <exec> 08└─This is just another Linux settop box with a custom case, that isn't even functional so is cheap enough, preloaded with an emulator. Put a real C64 in it with an emulated C1541 drive loading from flash. Put a real keyboard with correct layout so games that depended on that goofball layout don't brea...
[06:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:12] <exec> 08└─The classic C64 didnt come with a built in disk drive, it was an external behemoth (1541). I still have some floppies and tapes around -- not sure if they actually work. Connecting a cassette player seems problematic since they removed all the ports -- you would have to find one that would work over...
[06:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:14] <exec> 08└─The keyboard is as real as the cartridge slot on the Nintendo mini units, i.e. it is completely non-functional. They expect you to plug in a standard USB keyboard to be able to type in stuff, such as the LOAD "*",8,1 that was the usual way to start C-64 games. I can't find any information about what...
[06:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Methyl Chloride Detection Complicates the Search for Life on Exoplanets - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:02] <exec> 08└─There is life in interstellar clouds. It's a long shot, but we don't know what extraterrestrial life is like.
[06:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:28] <exec> 08└─>> The person you are replying to said it was a US style approach. Indeed, but you left out the part implying that it was not as frequent (i.e. "in vogue") prior to late November. Here is the full quote of the GGP again, with emphasis placed on the section that you had conveniently omitted any menti...
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[07:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stroz Friedberg Report Investigating Uber and Anthony Levandowski Released - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:59] <exec> 08└─Google should keep track of its own goddamn property. The judge should throw this out of court, stating in summary "If you leave your house unlocked with the door wide open, then you shouldn't be surprised that you get burgled." Then companies like Google would spend their own damn resources securin...
[07:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:18] <exec> 08└─As it happens, I recently discovered that suitable cassette recorders are still sold new [argos.co.uk] on the UK high street, for £25. Cables are readily available on eBay, etc.
[07:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 1911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:19] <exec> 08└─The keyboard isn't even functional? So it's just there for aesthetic reasons? Making the project even more worthless. I'm not sure how they intend for it to work, for all I know they have turned the joystick (they couldn't seriously cough up a few bucks for a TAC-2 clone?) into a mouse and have a po...
[07:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:31] <exec> 08└─"Gee, you must be paranoid, want to don a tinfoil hat? ... "
[07:11:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 207 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:18] <exec> 08└─Or, with the quantum video, when the spin of one physicist changed, the spin of the second physicist would change as well, with no verbal or textual communication, across vast distance! Entangement, proved!
[07:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Arab Emirates Unveils Project to Build a "Mars Science City" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:31] <exec> 08└─Given 9 Raspberry Pi's to run it on, and it can be programmed in just 1 month!
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[08:10:05] <exec> 08└─That should work for the Spectrum and others, but not the C64. The C64 casette interface was not a regular audio interface, it had control lines to start and stop the tape, among other things.
[08:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:07] <exec> 08└─Remember those times when we still remembered those times? Those were the times!
[08:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:34] <exec> 08└─Just the time he's eligible for Social Security, too. Entertainment superstars like Tom Petty live a hard life. Constantly living up to the image of the superstar they are. Always on the move, trying to get things right, trying to keep up with whose using and entrapping you in contracts. Trying to...
[08:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:46] <exec> 08└─As a biologist I'm also somewhat interested in the AI software that's available. But to me all AI researchers try to perform is learning a program a trick, where the input and output is more or less fixed. Even the "layers" in NN are artificial and IMHO the most limiting step. If you look in nature...
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[09:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:08] <exec> 08└─Data is a commodity. They have lots of (user) data, so they have lots of value (although the data is possibly corrupted, now). Apparently, this is how it works; not convinced there shouldn't be a sarcasm tag, after my last paragraph, though.
[09:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:10] <exec> 08└─no - just let the hackers read all the spam for you.
[09:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:39] <exec> 08└─There are in fact many AI techniques built around emergent behaviour from simple building blocks. Agent based learning is just one example and the more obvious genetic algorithms and genetic programming. There are critiques of all these approaches and how much better they are than a purely random br...
[09:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how or if you can get around the possibility that the satellite could transmit photons it has already measured
[09:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:06] <exec> 08└─Not really executed (no pun intended) by one individual, are they? Next on the list of moving goal posts: Buchenwald & Auschwitz ?
[09:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:13] <exec> 08└─Those who did not recognise it as a referendum had no reason to vote. And given that it wasn't an official referendum, they didn't. This result is therefore barely more truthy than an internet poll. Last I saw, a low-40s% turnout was registered, which means only high-30s% of the population made a de...
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[09:14:14] <exec> 08└─Mmmm... maybe. I think the part of the picture that is missing there is that globalisation (the neo-capitalist banksters wet dream) is still happening and isn't obviously failing. I think it is actually a driver behind the nation-state fragmentation. As the free trade, free movement of whatever area...
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[10:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:31] <exec> 08└─The material world is all that reality requires. Mental activity is the outcome of material processes, such as electrical impulses and biochemical interactions.
[10:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:05] <exec> 08└─back in 2004... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:29] <exec> 08└─And entanglement-based quantum key distribution is non-local OTP generation (well, OK, whether you actually use your shared non-locally generated random data as OTP or as key for other classical cryptographic algorithms is up to you; I suspect the key generation rate of the satellite photons is not...
[10:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:31] <exec> 08└─of which I know of no at-rest quantum encryption anywhere for that matter.
[10:11:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06North Korea Gains Second Route to the Internet -- Temporarily? - 430 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:51] <exec> 08└─Russia does not like the US. North Korea does not like the US. North Korea has a long history of cyber attacks targeting the US. China is currently the portal to all of North Korea's internet traffic. China is starting to crack down [reuters.com] on North Korean interests. Why wouldn't Russia want t...
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[10:14:27] <exec> 08└─As the free trade, free movement of whatever areas/blocs increase in size, there is less and less reason for culturally distinct areas to stay together as part of a nation-state.
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[11:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:37] <exec> 08└─I think you'd rather have to brush up your philosophy. I certainly know a lot about quantum mechanics, but I can only guess at what this is intended to mean. Basically it sounds to me that they just want to redefine the term "real" to include events that didn't yet happen, but might happen in the fu...
[11:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:44] <exec> 08└─This is the gift of western civilization that keeps on giving and that they could probably have done without. KFC/McD etc come to the third world and offer a smell and taste of "freedom" and it's inevitable that it also brings with it the porky cousin Obesity as a side show. I can't think of a singl...
[11:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:46] <exec> 08└─This is a bit silly. A poor country with widespread medical and nutritional problems manages to heave itself out of poverty and put an actual government in place that doesn't suffer from massive corruption. Companies can exist and grow, international investment is attractive. Living standards rise d...
[11:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:14] <exec> 08└─You can easily just buy a Raspberry Pi Zero for $5 and load a C64 emulator on that. Not to mention you'll also have a full Linux PC for the money. I don't get the appeal of this.
[11:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:44] <exec> 08└─Indeed. For all practical purposes he died early in the morning at his home. I understand that the family wanted to control the announcement and the narrative but their version bends the truth a little.
[11:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chrontius [5246] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:29] <exec> 08└─Alloy-framed 1911s are not hard to find. Handled one by Kimber a few months ago.
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[12:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─Now, if my internet bandwidth would just keep up with the demands of my streaming, I could be a happy camper (in that regard)...
[12:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:45] <exec> 08└─I did fuck the prom queen! \o/
[12:10:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:34] <exec> 08└─Ask the hackers to help you regain access to your account.
[12:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't know about Schmidhuber, thanks for the tip -- here's one popular article, https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[12:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:11] <exec> 08└─Let us keep in mind that learning a trick is good enough, if it is a really good trick.
[12:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:43] <exec> 08└─This is civilians killing other civilians mostly at random with no apparent goal or purpose.
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[13:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:29] <exec> 08└─Who knew that news organizations like Google and Facebook would not have automated algorithms with perfect knowledge of the world? Who knew?
[13:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 1462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:31] <exec> 08└─More important than a "top news" / "popular story" ending up as such on Google/Facebook without fact-checking (okay, not ideal, but it does what it says on the tin - promotes popular stories without any guarantee they're actually true), is that random people think that they can just go hunting peopl...
[13:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:33] <exec> 08└─People wonder how fake news spreads? THIS is how! We need stronger algorithms, or better yet, just omit those crazy nut websites from Google altogether. The only people that need to know about them are the ones that ALREADY know about them (InfoWars, Zerohedge, other far-right fake news moron sites)...
[13:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:35] <exec> 08└─If you have information, feed it to the police. Crowd-funded vigilantism is only a short step from anarchy.
[13:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─with all three companies pushing further into the home with things like 4K, voice control, and improved search functionality.
[13:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:56] <exec> 08└─This interpretation is not that great. Interpretation of QM are suppose to help understand some deeper meaning in the theory. Ideally, to figure out how> this thing works. Having a list of possibilities as some additional parameter doesn't really help things. You may as well have it part of the matt...
[13:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03vistic [4958] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:58] <exec> 08└─Max Tegmark (tenured physics professor at MIT) covers this in his book Our Mathematical Universe with some great thought experiments. I highly recommend it.
[13:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:00] <exec> 08└─because philosophers like Chalmers do not believe that first person consciousness can be reduced solely to mental activity.
[13:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03vistic [4958] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:02] <exec> 08└─Only if it ever had a >0 probability of happening at all.
[13:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:05] <exec> 08└─could everyone please stop saying that the laws of the universe are perfectly time reversible? take any system of moderately realistic interacting particles. count the amount of trajectories that lead you to more probable states, call it N. count the amount of trajectories that lead you to less prob...
[13:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:07] <exec> 08└─In particular, "real" should not be restricted to "actual" objects or events in spacetime.
[13:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but (as above) only when probability >0, which means in the year they elected an absolute minger. Or, just possibly, the year they elected a telekinetic firestarter with serious menstrual issues - might want to avoid that one, not sure how long you'd last...
[13:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:19] <exec> 08└─It's piling sugar carbs on top of fat which is the problem. Before that people ate bread and fats together all day long. The worst offending carbohydrates are sugars that your body loves to use as fuel and even worse when consumed with fats and other carbs (like grains.) Your body will take the lazy...
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[13:10:49] <exec> 08└─PCI NTSC capture cards. Doesn't help with direct TV output if you want it, but the older ones at least had no input lag if you didn't mind wasting most of your PCI bus bandwidth. I had one years ago planning for video editing, but I ended up using it for gaming off my consoles and such instead. Turn...
[13:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:51] <exec> 08└─I'd be more tempted by an emulator. I have a couple of C64s and a big box of games, but most of the games take so long to load that it's only really any use when I want to waste a few hours (with 10-minute breaks for loading). Good for learning patience as a child, but these days I'd rather just emu...
[13:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 1698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:38] <exec> 08└─I actually am an AI scientist. It has been mathematically proven that a 3-layer network (input, output, hidden) can learn any non-linear function. The science behind a 3-layer backprop-trained, non-recursive network is more-or-less known and proven. Naturally, modern networks are 100+ layers, recurs...
[13:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:21] <exec> 08└─So He read his own lips facing a mirror and the opossite of the read message was the message but not.
[13:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:23] <exec> 08└─Gonna love to make it a crime, imagine all those quantum terrorists. The sole fact of searching quantum key will make you into an instantaneous Terrorist. Also the shrodinger cat will make into the most wanted criminals.
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[14:09:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 1462 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─More important than a "top news" / "popular story" ending up as such on Google/Facebook without fact-checking (okay, not ideal, but it does what it says on the tin - promotes popular stories without any guarantee they're actually true), is that random people think that they can just go hunting peopl...
[14:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:38] <exec> 08└─Which is EXACTLY my problem with the people trying to trap child abusers, etc. outside of the police. You get the wrong person and you literally fuck up their life, possibly permanently if some idiot takes it too far.
[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─Both your and Ledow's posts are on target. Both Google and Facebook are clickbait pushers. They could care less about the accuracy of anything, so long as you click shit, and make them rich.
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─'hoping to an idiot-free future'... So... who are you going to be king of then? :-)
[14:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:45] <exec> 08└─We need a free internet. Free from filtering. Free from DMCA. Free from politically-motivated "curation". Everyone needs to see the raw internet from time to time so that they understand the sea of piss that google, microsoft, yahoo, etc. are indexing and pulling their information from. We would hav...
[14:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:47] <exec> 08└─In all fairness 4chan has accused the same man of committing every crime in the past couple years.
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─They could care less about the accuracy of anything
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:00] <exec> 08└─The newer versions are faster, which directly addresses freezing and stability... The basic Roku streaming stick, which at $49.99 is priced the same as last year's model, is getting a processor update that Roku claims is 50 percent faster.
[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─Voice Control - because we really, REALLY want to put microphones in every internet-connected device possible. Of course the voice processing and recognition software are located "in the cloud" inquisitive consumer! Why does this bother you? Are you a terrorist? Streaming 4k. Yeah alright. So many p...
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─How much newer? Mine are only a year old at most.
[14:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:22] <exec> 08└─Well, lately I haven't seen any Takuro Spirits on the road. That was my first car. There are some other things that have been really strange, too.
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─If the theory can't tell possibility from reality, then the theory is BS.
[14:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:26] <exec> 08└─Along those lines, the thing that really grinds my gears about the "reality is a simulation!" thing is that, well, how does knowing the universe is a simulation running on a supercomputer somewhere, er, help us? I get the sense that people who gravitate to that bullshit (everybody knows the universe...
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:28] <exec> 08└─just say'n th mystics of old, you know those whose graves science usually vandalizes? those consistent voices of esoteric and magical schools? those realms you might sneak a peek into? been there all along. and how funny that this would have a mention of the pineal/midbrain in the article. cause com...
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─not everyone wants to live in that small a box
[14:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:32] <exec> 08└─Chalmers doesn't know what first person consciousness is (I looked to make sure), so he surely wouldn't be able to determine a priori that a phenomenon, which let us note is sufficient to explain said consciousness, doesn't actually explain it.
[14:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:35] <exec> 08└─I suppose, if time runs backwards: could everyone please stop saying that the laws of the universe are not perfectly time reversible? take any system of moderately realistic interacting particles. count the amount of trajectories that lead you to more probable states, call it N. count the amount of...
[14:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:37] <exec> 08└─Damn HTML! That was supposed to be: generally N < M
[14:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:48] <exec> 08└─It's not just fast food or carbs & fat. We also eat more, eat more often, and don't wait as long between meals. It's no coincidence that the increased obesity rate coincided with the availability of consumer microwave oven in the late 70's/early 80's. No one knows anymore that feeling hungry for sho...
[14:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:50] <exec> 08└─Intake amount is certainly a factor, no doubt. But in my opinion, regardless of intake, putting sugar in of any meal or beverage makes it bad for you.
[14:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:23] <exec> 08└─I think a Pi is actually about $35. With a reasonable USB jokstick, and HDMI cable, and a small SD card you'll probably need about $65 or so. I would also get a USB keyboard and mouse for it. The draw of this little device is really just the case. So about $3-$6 in plastic depending on the volume th...
[14:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 3885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:24] <exec> 08└─While I can't answer his questions, I had dug out my C64 and did the following to it: Added an "SD2IEC" flash based SD card reader that looks like an itty bitty 1541 drive -- and fits in the same port. It is device ID #8 Tested my original 1541 drive; it works but to change it to a different device...
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[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:27] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of that time that Skeletor and Albert Einstein won the Battle of Britain by dropping a nuke on Dresden.
[15:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─Just as well it wasn't the Holy Prophet (Peace be Upon Him) or he'd be in serious trouble.
[15:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─In the photo, Yoda can be seen sitting next to Saudi Arabia's King Faisal at the 1945 ceremony that created the United Nations.
[15:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:33] <exec> 08└─You say Yoda wasn't the Holy Prophet? Heretic!
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─Curation could be useful. If you do it on the dark web, you make it easier to navigate, like the early days of search engines. But when Google does it like in this case, there's liability issues and bad feelings. What's important is the ability to get away with it and answer to no one. That doesn't...
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─True. I've heard the difference between "jail" and "prison" is that the first is for suspects, and the second is for the convicted. You can be jailed without any conviction, just suspicion. They're not supposed to hold you for long. Seems there should be a standard on that, 3 days maximum? Yet there...
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─His Grammar is probably dead, you insensitive clod!!
[15:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia page lists (Roku) models from October 2016. New gen hasn't been added to that page yet. Amazon Fire TV 3rd gen is a small box, not stick. The latest stick from Amazon was Oct. 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:31] <exec> 08└─One could take issue with your phrase in bold which I think is an assumption. Chalmers made a compelling argument that first person consciousness cannot be reductively explained (I'd have to get back to you with the exact specifics); whereas all currently modeled physical phenomena can be.
[15:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:32] <exec> 08└─If time was running backwards, you wouldn't be surprised to see a broken vase reassembling itself into an unbroken one, because all your memories of witnessing the breakage would be unwriting themselves as the event took place (In reverse time, should that be gave place? I was going to say "event un...
[15:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:35] <exec> 08└─What makes you think M != N?
[15:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:37] <exec> 08└─Given how little we understand consciousness, said mental activity is in the right places at the right times which is good enough.
[15:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:39] <exec> 08└─I wondered about that. Really, in both directions equality should be an option. I was just reversing AC's rules.
[15:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Woosh [6715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:41] <exec> 08└─Bravo for this insight! Quantum News, I like the name.
[15:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:44] <exec> 08└─The scientists are inherently limited because they're fundamentally honest people for the most part. All those other professions are full of people who are liars. When you can make up any bullshit you want and get rubes to believe it, your profit potential is far, far higher.
[15:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─I'm the one who made the original NM comment. I studied nonlinear dynamics for my PhD and I am still working actively within the field. I don't have the time to find the references now, but you could, for instance, start from having a look at this book: http://www.worldscientific.com
[15:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:48] <exec> 08└─It's only possible to describe what what happens, hopefully in a way that allows for prediction of outputs based on inputs in any particular situation. Physics equations do not make a universe; they describe what can be observed.
[15:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:50] <exec> 08└─Given that this "philosophical framework" isn't falsifiable, it isn't science. At best, it's metaphysics. It's a nice bedtime story to read to your kids, but not much more than that.
[15:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─I stopped reading your comment, because I find its lack of capital letters loathsome.
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. Whilst it's certainly possible that it's some kind of simulation, what was being asked for was an explanation of reality. Saying "It's a simulation" is just wrong. Reality would then be whatever the simulation is running within (or the top level if they are nested - unless the nest...
[15:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:57] <exec> 08└─Pages 1 and 2: Many researchers have explored, and continue to explore, various ways of retaining some form of pseudo-classical locality in the face of these features of quantum theory. Among these are: … Many Worlds (Everettian) Interpretations …
[15:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 5074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:09] <exec> 08└─I've seen the science to the sugar problem, and it checks out. Additionally, fats are something the body requires. I've yet to see a skinny person who drinks diet soda and chows down on fat-free whatever. My natural preferences don't include a lot of carbs, anyway. I've also been becoming a skinny p...
[15:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HighOrbit [3320] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:10] <exec> 08└─You've hit the nail on the head. It's not caused by fast food per se, it is the drastic economic and societal changes in the lifestyle. Before development and modernity, in every society in the world people lived subsistence lifestyles where the challenge was to get enough calories to survive while...
[15:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:59] <exec> 08└─They did not teach them anything about privacy, so I can believe that they added a few words to their policy saying that any compliants go to arbitration in the event every single account was stolen repeatedly time and again and they are not at fault so too bad. Isn't that what their security is abo...
[15:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:01] <exec> 08└─Similar here, used the Yahoo account for "reference" and also for access to one of their special interest groups. Don't care if anyone else uses it. I suppose the worst that would happen is that someone uses my login to spam the group, but there isn't going to be much money in that!
[15:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:36] <exec> 08└─Thread starter here. Thank you for the extensive reply, it gave me some food for thought (a mathematician and biologist have clearly a different view on the subject).
[15:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:37] <exec> 08└─The quote (on the bottom of the page just now) seems fitting: To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison
[15:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is that Call Worth? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:53] <exec> 08└─Man I read that wrong: what alternative reality is there?
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[16:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:28] <exec> 08└─People think they are more productive with a dynamically typed language, but they're just being lazy: They are refusing to codify their abstractions in a way that a computer can check them, and then just waiting for catastrophe to occur at runtime. Folks, what are computers for if not to do these ki...
[16:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─Some programming jobs are small enough that convenience of quick iteration and simple syntax beat the added reliability of type-checking.
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[16:09:41] <exec> 08└─Does this have any connection to the glowing orb that Darth Orange touched on his visit?
[16:09:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─If you have information, feed it to the police. Crowd-funded vigilantism is only a short step from anarchy.
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─In fact they should be called openbsd prisons. I have fellows who lived there all the time.
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:04] <exec> 08└─and favored "fresh" content there above more authoritative sources.
[16:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─I have no reason to distrust 4chan, they are pretty consistent. OTOH other news outlets leave me confused. Before: Terrorists don't hide among asylum seekers After: Asylum seeker stabs people shouting Allah ACK bar (I guess that's the correct spelling) Before: Trump will not be the republican candid...
[16:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─Pretty impressive the deciet within news agencies, one of my favorite is CNN on maturnity leave. They had an article about the importance of maturnity leave, Trump said he wanted to provide more paid leave, then CNN ran an article about how paid maturnity leave hurts women.
[16:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─On top of that you can be held in prison for two years while awaiting trial.
[16:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:01] <exec> 08└─Scratch that, the point was clear. They're talking about more probable states being arrived at with a greater frequency than less probable, as a general trend, so as I understand it N=M would be less likely to occur.
[16:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:02] <exec> 08└─Physics equations do not make a universe
[16:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:04] <exec> 08└─Given that this "philosophical framework" isn't falsifiable, it isn't science. At best, it's metaphysics.
[16:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:07] <exec> 08└─Dementias and other brain conditions present a pretty harsh reality that this philosophichal wanking wants us to believe in. people have been trying to philosophize away from quantum mechanics since its beginnings.
[16:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:21] <exec> 08└─This is the gift of western civilization that keeps on giving and that they could probably have done without.
[16:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lemming [1053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:56] <exec> 08└─This is a dual core ARM with open source emulator VICE [sourceforge.net] running on it, in a fancy case with a fake keyboard. An important point of criticism is that it seems you can not load any other software outside of the 64 games provided. There are no indications that you can read disk images...
[16:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:58] <exec> 08└─This is just another Linux settop box with a custom case, that isn't even functional so is cheap enough, preloaded with an emulator.
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[17:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:35] <exec> 08└─More of than not, the slapdash prototype becomes the working production code. The more code I read, the more I realize that the entire planet runs on the cyber equivalent of chewing gum and duct tape. Your little shell script will become a fundamental component of your system. It WILL. The only way...
[17:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:37] <exec> 08└─See http://www.math.columbia.edu [columbia.edu] and especially read the comments and interview links.
[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:39] <exec> 08└─If this system can take a proof and verify it - could it then be used to genetically create new proofs and verify them as a measure of "fitness", and would this likely lead to useful new mathematical understandings, or just random factoids thrown out? And could this be applied to the mathematics use...
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─When it rains it pours.
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─Surely with the computers, we can categorise any paper based on what technique and proofs it really on and - if it relies on a proof later proven incorrect, or clarified to have exceptions - we could just trawl the database. Almost like a chain-of-trust. Your paper cites / uses Proof X? We'll tag it...
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─I find it interesting that the various comments at the other end of your link point out how he seemed like a "modest" person; given that such a quality is worth pointing out multiple times, I suspect higher-level mathematics is stuffed with some pretty big egos.
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─The more code I read, the more I realize that the entire planet runs on the cyber equivalent of chewing gum and duct tape.
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─I suspect higher-level mathematics is stuffed with some pretty big egos.
[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─If it were uncommon for his peers to have imposing egos, then his modesty wouldn't have stuck out so much. You don't even need a Coq proof to realize this.
[17:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─Computer Generated Math Proof is Largest Ever at 200 Terabytes [soylentnews.org]
[17:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─If your code has a lot of calculation, you can use MATLAB/Octave and easily build on well-established built-in functions. Or you can use GSL with C/C++, which has a much steeper learning curve, and will never read as cleanly. As the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good.
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:59] <exec> 08└─That was actually the original impetus for developing automated theorem proving. It just turned out that proving theorems is actually fairly difficult, so generating theorems isn't really possible Maybe it will be in the future with better theorem proving technology / more computing power.
[17:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, what's really difficult is generating interesting proofs. Proofs are easy to generate if you don't care what is being proven. Because of this you probably aren't going to get a automated theorem prover before you get a full scale AI.
[17:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not even a coder, but that hurts to even think about. Almost the equivalent of listening to an engine run without any oil, for awhile . . .
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─Considering that King Faisal has been dead for about 40 years I would find it hard to be all that upset. He is probably in "paradise" now ... He just didn't expect to have to hook up with Yoda. But it might also explain why Yoda is alone on his planet and there are no females around ... Yoda belongs...
[17:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:16] <exec> 08└─So thanks to master Yoda they got the idea for the Mars science city
[17:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:18] <exec> 08└─the United Arab Emirates isn't Saudi Arabia.
[17:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:43] <exec> 08└─Before 4chan, reddit and Facebook, it was the Drudge report and DIGG, and next year there will be a new one. Quality of information varies constantly. All the algorithms know is what the chatter says - they have little, if any, ability to discern the quality of that chatter. Maybe in the future that...
[17:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:45] <exec> 08└─The interesting question of balance is: when everybody has the option to view the free or curated internet, if the masses opt for the curated side - will the free side effectively lose its voice and influence? People who only trust the New York Times weren't misled by the misinformation, this time (...
[17:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:47] <exec> 08└─I think this makes a good analogy to the Flash Crash(es) on the stock market... algorithms blow up and do unintended things, maybe we improve the algorithms, maybe we just promote awareness that temporary insanity is to be expected from time to time.
[17:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─I was in a restaurant yesterday and happened to see Fox news on the TV reporting on the Vegas shooting, and near the end of their segment they cut over to "Vegas shooting - opinions from China" where they interviewed a black basketball player. It just seemed so odd, a young black man shooting hoops...
[17:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:51] <exec> 08└─We are in the middle of the information age where information, including blatant lies, can be created and disseminated in the blink of an eye. That means no single news source can be considered trustworthy because everyone has their own biases. And this is ignoring sources that actually go out of th...
[17:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:46] <exec> 08└─Sorry you're stuck in that time loop, any chance you can open a bank account in my name during your next life?
[17:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:47] <exec> 08└─Given how little we understand consciousness, said mental activity is in the right places at the right times which is good enough.
[17:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03vistic [4958] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:49] <exec> 08└─The wavefunction never collapses.
[17:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:04] <exec> 08└─It's curious how you think nutrition is so simple and most people are dummies. I've had a low BMI forever, and used to eat a lot of carbs, but switched to more fat lately. And I mix plenty of whole milk into my coffee, because I prefer the taste. As someone who doesn't have particularly good self-di...
[17:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:06] <exec> 08└─"But in my opinion, regardless of intake, putting sugar in of any meal or beverage makes it bad for you." Ah. So dropping one crystal of sugar into a glass of water makes it bad for you. This is the philosophical basis for contagion theory based magic and homeopathy.
[17:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:08] <exec> 08└─It's curious how you think nutrition is so simple and most people are dummies.
[17:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stroz Friedberg Report Investigating Uber and Anthony Levandowski Released - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:17] <exec> 08└─So if you accidently left your door unlocked and I robbed your house, you'd be cool with that? Where do you live and what times are you not at home?
[17:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:46] <exec> 08└─Last I checked it (5 years or so) the 1541 drive still worked and the couple of floppies I fed it were readable. Oh, and I've got multiple working cassette decks/players still, and if I can't manage to get one of them wired up to a C64, I shouldn't have my job. :)
[17:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:48] <exec> 08└─I think some of the C64 emulators can take wave file recordings of C64 tapes and turn them into loadable images - I might try doing that at some point.
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:21] <exec> 08└─Social security is irrelevant at Tom Petty's level - it would only come into play if he pulled a Willie Daniels, I think Tom was a little more fiscally responsible than that.
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:16] <exec> 08└─Easy to fix. get money out of politics. Can't bribe for exceptions and market cornering if you can't bribe at all. As it is now we have legalized political bribery. That, our militarized and out of control police forces, and our pay-to-play medical system baffles the civilized world as to how we are...
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[18:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank Catalogs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Violations - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:33] <exec> 08└─Very shocking. I may even be astounded.
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:56] <exec> 08└─What I've seen is, mathameticians tend to be perfectionists. Given any task, they'll worry it down to the finest details, and not stop until it's shined and buffed. They'll drive a normal person nucking phutts. Hell, they'll even drive ME phutts, and I'm not even normal!! They don't have big egos, s...
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─A Field's medal laureate sets out to realize one of my biggest dreams about mathematics. That's so great that I am going to check the source code and see if I can use this and improve this!
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─math-get upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: fermats-third-theorem whether-the-light-stays-on-in-the-fridge-after-you-close-it 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 987654321 not upgraded.
[18:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:17] <exec> 08└─Correct, one is a corrupt shithole in the middle of the desert, filled with ignorant and uneducated savages that rape anything that moves.
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:48] <exec> 08└─You said "news organizations" when I know you meant "'news organizations'".
[18:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:49] <exec> 08└─Clips or it didn't happen!
[18:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─^ this right here is the seed of communism. Users rejecting state media and seizing the means of production! Building your own chairs? Damn communists don't even respect the hard work of American craters. I'd like to see some paperwork on those tulips pal.
[18:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─If you're already fed up with your old POS.
[18:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:51] <exec> 08└─What is there to fall apart? The mechanics of the transporter beam would decide where the mental activity is at a given time.
[18:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:10] <exec> 08└─Well, Japan is also very rich, and they are not fat.. so there might be more to it than that..
[18:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:12] <exec> 08└─It doesn't help, you are right. But neither does "stamping out hunger." Humans evolved to be fucking hungry. If you are never really hungry because food is everywhere and you can eat within 2 minutes of not being full, let alone being actually hungry, then that fucks things up big time. I'm starting...
[18:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yahoo! Breach Affected 3 Billion Accounts - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:06] <exec> 08└─I still don't understand how they make any money.
[18:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:44] <exec> 08└─Performance on problems which appear complicated increases with the addition of hidden layers (it is not clear why).
[18:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:23] <exec> 08└─There are carry restrictions, which are relatively complicated, dependant on gun type and location and the subjective interpretation of local law enforcement. See here for a decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─For all you math aficionados: I'm not entirely sure how relevant this is, but it talks about automated proof exploring: Norman Megill 's "metamath" website [metamath.org] They talk a lot about Zermelo-Fränkel set theory, but I don't know what that means.
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:01] <exec> 08└─(reply to self) find the file set.mm in the archive metamath.tar.bz2, it contains the 19000 proofs in a special notation. I check it every few years but I haven't gotten any the wiser yet.
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─This is not only true, but it explains the absurd state of security of the web. You can actually name the root of nearly every web exploit, hack, bug, and everything with one word: javascript. It was built decades ago and never meant to be used in anything like the way it is today. As a random examp...
[19:10:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 584 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:33] <exec> 08└─We need a free internet. Free from filtering. Free from DMCA. Free from politically-motivated "curation". Everyone needs to see the raw internet from time to time so that they understand the sea of piss that google, microsoft, yahoo, etc. are indexing and pulling their information from. We would hav...
[19:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:51] <exec> 08└─What is inconsistent is your state of mind. When did "they" ever say terrorists don't hide behind asylum seekers? NEVER. And one guy stabbing someone proves the point? I think you're missing the point. You clearly missed the argument. It wasn't the plane collisions that brought down the WTC. They ha...
[19:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:51] <exec> 08└─This project seems to be by one part of the team that was involved in the Vega and at the beginning in the Vega+. Their split was all but friendly, and both the "the 64" project and the Vega+ have yet to send anything to the crowdfunders. The " the 64" is the "ancestor" to this mini. I'd stay well a...
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─You got ahead of yourself there, the hard part is making the AI capable of desire. After that I'm sure things like increased processing power and data storage would do the trick.
[19:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:25] <exec> 08└─Getting money out of politics: impossible by definition because they are two pillars of power in society. (The third is ideological support, in general political economic analysis.) I agree with you about the police forces needing reining in. Pay-to-play medical system - uh, not so much. The USA has...
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[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Insights Into How Sleep Helps the Brain to Reorganize Itself - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:36] <exec> 08└─Summary: The study, published in Nature Communications, found that activity in dendrites increases when we sleep, and that this increase is linked to specific brain waves that are seen to be key to how we form memories.
[20:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank Catalogs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Violations - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─https://theintercept.com/2017/09/29/trump-administration-lobbying-hard-for-sweeping-surveillance-law/ [theintercept.com] "To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, the Trump administration is holding classified, members-only briefings for the entire House and Senate next Wednesday, with h...
[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:15] <exec> 08└─Come on, SoylentNews. Come on.
[20:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:16] <exec> 08└─They talk a lot about Zermelo-Fränkel set theory, but I don't know what that means.
[20:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:06] <exec> 08└─Bill Clinton is a Rapist!
[20:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks for reminding us that everyone who watches fox is racist. It really makes your comments more valid.
[20:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LT218 [5345] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:22] <exec> 08└─I pre-ordered two of the first gen Amazon Fire Sticks. They were terrible. Amazon's UI was (is?) slow and very laggy. Amazon essentially puked ads hyping their own services all over the first section of the home screen instead of letting you put what you use most frequently up front, like Hulu, Ne...
[20:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Roku, Amazon, and Apple Release New TV Streaming Products - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:24] <exec> 08└─I used Kodi on one of the Amazon Fire sticks (probably gen 1). It was usable, but definitely had weird crash/freeze/caching issues. I'm sure a newer version with double the RAM would be better, although the processor of the gen 3 box seems to be worse than gen 2, from just looking at the specs.
[20:11:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:40] <exec> 08└─In particular, "real" should not be restricted to "actual" objects or events in spacetime.
[20:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:11] <exec> 08└─It simply propagates.
[20:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:32] <exec> 08└─The portions are much smaller, and the cuisine is far less fatty. Obesity is rising in Japan, too, though, and there it too is linked to Western chains like Mr Donuts and MakuDonarudozu (McDonald's).
[20:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:34] <exec> 08└─When you have an over-simplified world view, everyone is an idiot for not seeing it as clearly as you. Five or ten years from now he'll be proselytizing on the latest "obvious" dietary fix for the plain, stupid folk, which will turn out to be different than the "obvious" issues today, which are diff...
[20:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Obesity Surges to 13.6% in Ghana - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:36] <exec> 08└─Are the corporations actively trying to poison everyone? I wonder. It's a little too convenient that everywhere they touch food, people sicken and die. Makes me think perhaps "They Live" was right.
[20:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66 - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:51] <exec> 08└─...and, in the process, told some truths that others wouldn't. "The Last DJ" was about L.A. radio personality Jim Ladd who was still doing Free-Form radio. Jim's most recent transition was getting fired from KLOS (for being Jim Ladd) where he not being allowed to say goodbye to the folks who had lis...
[20:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:57] <exec> 08└─On the if: Yes, definitely. That's the whole point of quantum key distribution.
[20:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:58] <exec> 08└─(sat does not know which of the thousands of pairs it sent wound up in the final key!)
[20:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:54] <exec> 08└─Folks, this is not the time to be talking about gun control. I am in Las Vegas to pay my respects with @FLOTUS Melania. Everyone remains in our thoughts and prayers. 🇺🇸
[20:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:55] <exec> 08└─are you actually defending the pieces of shit at the at fucking f? are you such a bootlicker that you can't see that that agency has no business even existing, never mind it's blatant crimes against america? disgusting.
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[21:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:33] <exec> 08└─Google just pulled the standard audio jack from their new line of phones. They're off my list of smart hardware manufacturers. Because to me, buying such a phone would not be smart. I'm sure they plan to monetize this one way or another, but one thing is for sure, they won't be doing it out of my po...
[21:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. I already have the newspaper from tomorrow. The Google news says "Google abandons smart devices and will discontinue all support next week. They will continue with ads, Gmail, Chrome and Android."
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Insights Into How Sleep Helps the Brain to Reorganize Itself - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─Cortical dendritic activity correlates with spindle-rich oscillations
[21:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank Catalogs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Violations - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─This will continue as long as the house and senate are a majority Democrat or Republican and either a Democrat or Republican is president.
[21:10:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:04] <exec> 08└─More of than not, the slapdash prototype becomes the working production code. The more code I read, the more I realize that the entire planet runs on the cyber equivalent of chewing gum and duct tape. Your little shell script will become a fundamental component of your system. It WILL. The only way...
[21:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:27] <exec> 08└─But if you get full scale Artificial Intelligence, wouldn't you wind up with artificial theorem and artificial proofs?
[21:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:28] <exec> 08└─outside the nutshell, i once went to a seminar because the abstract talked about set theory and formal logic. I have a PhD in physics, and I consider myself a smart person, plus I really like mathematical logic, but that presentation... I think there were 5 people in total present, and I personally...
[21:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:31] <exec> 08└─Darn those changed dependencies. Now you have to dist-upgrade to the new math and hope the universe reboots correctly.
[21:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:33] <exec> 08└─javascript was a mistake. running code in the browser was, and continues to be a mistake.
[21:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:35] <exec> 08└─When you wget or curl into bash, you're no more vulnerable than (say) when you install a package from a repository listed in your OS distribution's package manager. Or is the problem that there is no https: scheme on that wget command?
[21:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:37] <exec> 08└─What means of deploying an application to multiple operating systems isn't a mistake?
[21:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah...but, at large search and/or social sites like Google and Facebook any link to sites such as Gateway Pundit or 4chan should through up some big flags.
[21:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:33] <exec> 08└─Aristotelians! Aristotle, Metaphysics [tufts.edu] ἐπεὶ δὲ λέγεταi τὸ ὂν τὸ μὲν τὸ τὶ ἢ ποiὸν ἢ ποσόν, τὸ δὲ κατὰ δύναμiν καὶ ἐντελέχεiαν καὶ κατὰ τὸ ἔργον, δiορίσωμεν καὶ περὶ δυν...
[21:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stroz Friedberg Report Investigating Uber and Anthony Levandowski Released - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:05] <exec> 08└─If a Google employee leaves a yellow Google bike unsecured on the sidewalk (but away from Google/Alphabet's locations/properties) in Mountain View, is it OK for me (not a Google employee) to hop on and ride it somewhere?
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:34] <exec> 08└─So perhaps more scientists should investigate how these single celled creatures actually think.
[21:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:21] <exec> 08└─I think the point of the quantum channel is that if anyone MITMs the conventional channel
[21:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:23] <exec> 08└─It (QKD) is really more like cooperative key generation than distribution. I mean, it's effectively the same, but calling it "distribution" does imply an insecurity (that the key already exists, and could be copied, en route) which it doesn't have.
[21:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:25] <exec> 08└─Well, I thought that after I posted, but then let it stand because interference on either channel should corrupt the outcome into gibberish. The "selling point" of quantum is that if they MITM the quantum channel they've destroyed the information, so the receiving party will know that tampering has...
[21:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:27] <exec> 08└─Further to my previous reply: I wasn't sure about it at first, but the satellite can't MITM the entangled photons it sends out (the ground stations would discover it as a rate of failed correlations) so that concern is dealt with. Really, since this was just key distribution, you can mimic it on Ear...
[21:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:29] <exec> 08└─The bits that make up the key are made up of the measured states of individual photons. You can't slice a bit off.
[21:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:32] <exec> 08└─According to other posters the satellite is just "relaying" photons
[21:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─There's one loophole: AFAICT you cannot use the very same pairs you checked entanglement on to also generate the key (because the check requires communication of measurement results, while those results you use for the key should of course not be transmitted). But exploiting that would require the e...
[21:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Video Chat Links Scientists on Two Different Continents - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:36] <exec> 08└─So every single photon has to be received? Any time I've seen entanglement experiment details, it's been a statistical thing involving hundreds of photons, or more...
[21:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Nobel Physics Prize Has Been Awarded to 3 Scientists for Discoveries in Gravitational Waves - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:47] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? What definite observation?
[21:16:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Ghost Gunner Software Update Allows the Milling of an M1911 Handgun - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:30] <exec> 08└─The Ghost Gunner isn't a general-purpose CNC mill.
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[22:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:32] <exec> 08└─It's almost like security by obscurity becomes a complete liability once the obscurity is removed.
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:34] <exec> 08└─That only true if their bug finders are less good than our bug finders... "I run a straight encryption with a 4096-bit key, good luck" works better if they can't see the casting typo.
[22:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:43] <exec> 08└─Put your money and effort behind projects like RISC-V, and help build an ecosystem around open hardware and software. That is the only way that future generations won't have to beg for technological crumbs under the table of the powers-that-be.
[22:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─And when no telecom will allow your open hardware to work on their network?? That is how I foresee open computers getting shut down, "what no secure ident chip(tm)?? sorry no data for you!"
[22:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─Only until the tech is ready to reliably project their ads directly on your walls, and track your reactions.
[22:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16405200/google-clips-camera-ai-photos-video-hands-on-wi-fi-direct [theverge.com]
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─People need to come up with alternative strategies to passing data around. There's got to be an alternative network that can established, based on different or existing technology, possibly routable via mesh-networking, etc. Unless you put your minds to solving such issues, they won't ever get solve...
[22:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:54] <exec> 08└─Google Clip looks like some sort of sleazy spycam to me. No thanks.
[22:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:57] <exec> 08└─As long as there is tethering, you can use the official phone just as mobile router (with a VPN or TOR to hide the actual traffic). With that being its only function, frequent phone swapping can be used to obscure identities.
[22:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:51] <exec> 08└─That's not a rebuttal; that's just more proof that all of the computing world is built on a very poor foundation. However, at least such repositories are increasingly using security concepts such as cryptographic webs of trust. We can do so much better. We have the technology.
[22:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:53] <exec> 08└─The whole point of that saying is to highlight that there is a real dichotomy between the perfect and the good. While the set of perfect things may be included in the set of good things, in many situations the perfect set is the empty set, and to insist on perfection is to discount everything in the...
[22:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:55] <exec> 08└─I like to use the right tool (typed or dynamic) for the task. That's why there are numerous languages that have different type systems. Saying 'All dynamically typed stuff is sh*t' is not quite fair. Code that will be consumed in a library that is itself consumed for an API? Strong typing might be i...
[22:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─Tragic. Reading up on him now, thanks for the link.
[22:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:59] <exec> 08└─In your world, the set of perfect things is often empty because you've bungled the foundations on which your solutions are built. Start over, and take perfection a little more seriously this time.
[22:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:01] <exec> 08└─Here, I'll do it for you: The right tool is the one that allows the computer to analyze the correctness of the code as much as possible before run-time.
[22:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Minister Fired After Textbook Shows Yoda at UN Signing Ceremony - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:17] <exec> 08└─"In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he?" I have serious doubts about page fortune's randomness.
[22:11:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 722 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:41] <exec> 08└─I have no reason to distrust 4chan, they are pretty consistent. OTOH other news outlets leave me confused. Before: Terrorists don't hide among asylum seekers After: Asylum seeker stabs people shouting Allah ACK bar (I guess that's the correct spelling) Before: Trump will not be the republican candid...
[22:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:55] <exec> 08└─"A lie can travel around the world while truth is still lacing it's shoes".
[22:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:56] <exec> 08└─Or Google could just start acting like a search engine and stop trying to hide results and keep people in their bubbles. Facebook should just vanish from existence. Everyone should refuse to use monstrous surveillance engines like Google and Facebook. In any case, the problem is hardly that people c...
[22:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:59] <exec> 08└─Yup. "...and by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white." (Megyn Kelly on Fox News Channel) [youtube.com]
[22:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Mysteries Dissolve if Possibilities are Realities - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:04] <exec> 08└─I thought this bit about LME might also inform as to how we use Boolean logic in tech. Moreover, we will see (in more detail below) that quantum potentiae (QP, represented by the usual quantum state or ray in Hilbert Space), like res potentiae in general, satisfy neither the Principle of Non-contrad...
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stroz Friedberg Report Investigating Uber and Anthony Levandowski Released - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─That's not at all what OP is saying. How can you not comprehend this fact?
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[22:18:00] <exec> 08└─That is the sole purpose of the 2nd Amendment; it never had anything to do with hunting or sport shooting.
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[23:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:34] <exec> 08└─Potentially a bigger deal than Snowden leakage? Will anyone go to jail? Hahahahahahahahhahahaha. Yeah right.
[23:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:35] <exec> 08└─When they wanted software to map out the US command structure, they outsourced the job to al-Qaeda. [wikia.com] And then there was the job for storing the background reports of everyone with a security clearance, outsourced to a shop in Taiwan, that outsourced it to China...
[23:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize Cyberdefense System Used by Pentagon - 1636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:37] <exec> 08└─But it's not as big a deal as it's being hyped. It's just as risky to allow potential adversaries to view the source for any complex application suite, like the LAMP [wikipedia.org] stack for example. Which is why no one is ever allowed to see the sources for any part of the LAMP stack, right? ARCS...
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Gets Closer to Launching Its Own Line of Smart Devices - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─I think you're right. How do we set up an open network for connectivity, though, citizen-launched satellites? Ad hoc mesh networks are one idea, but the latency is an issue.
[23:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Insights Into How Sleep Helps the Brain to Reorganize Itself - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─This scientist just rodent to town; why should we pay any attention to such squeaks? That stuff just makes me angora anyway, and usually fur quite lengthy. And hair I sit, pushing a mouse around my desktop...
[23:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:56] <exec> 08└─Agree. Seems like you could use the method you described with ontology servers and https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] as well. I think that the fact-checking services would be very interested.
[23:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:57] <exec> 08└─For everyone else, there's this thread. ... heh, heh... he said "Coq."
[23:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Offtopic) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Algorithms Promote 4chan Threads Identifying Wrong Man as Vegas Shooter - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:54] <exec> 08└─NBC news is #FakeNews and more dishonest than even @CNN. They are a disgrace to good reporting. No wonder their news ratings are way down! The @NBCNews story has just been totally refuted by Sec. Tillerson and @VP Pence. It is #FakeNews. They should issue an apology to AMERICA! 🇺🇸
[23:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Nobel Physics Prize Has Been Awarded to 3 Scientists for Discoveries in Gravitational Waves - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:06] <exec> 08└─The one they made after the LIGO announcement that was initially retracted. The space aliens told me to tell you.
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