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[00:06:04] <exec> 08└─Dogs and ISIS. [theguardian.com]
[00:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:05] <exec> 08└─I think the waveform of those pringles have the wrong frequency. Your signal might crumble.
[00:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:40] <exec> 08└─Really disappointed with everyone here. No difficult technical and scientific achievement looks easy from the start. You're looking up at a mountain. No person can possibly climb that! But we can. If we were not a nation of lazy pussies.
[00:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:41] <exec> 08└─Pace never said a thing about what the SLS would be used for. This is a typical argument from capability. We'll get this awesome tool with all these capabilities, but not mention a single real world use for that tool. The reason why is that there isn't a goal of the US that requires the SLS in any...
[00:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:43] <exec> 08└─Congress doesn't flinch at creating another trillion dollars in debt. NASA doesn't do a thing to defend itself from SLS. We won't get policies that make sense for at least a few more years and probably a lot longer than that.
[00:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sheep Can Recognize Human Faces - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:05] <exec> 08└─After training, the sheep chose photos of familiar faces over unfamiliar ones significantly more often than not.
[00:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sheep Can Recognize Human Faces - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:06] <exec> 08└─They got a food reward for picking the correct face.
[00:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:05] <exec> 08└─Were they obliged to specify where the software was installed? if they merely put the license at the end of the manual with the preamble "this device works thanks to a modified version of software covered by the following license"? One might think it's some networking code used to boot. A corporatio...
[00:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:07] <exec> 08└─I think he referred to users of the license itself, that is devs modifying the software under the terms of the license. End users or any downstream tinkerer are SOL. That is considered a freedom by Tanenbaum. You have the freedom to close up your modifications. Which is BS, because then an even free...
[00:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:09] <exec> 08└─It is possibly Intel violated the license, yes. Although the link listed here http://wiki.minix3.org [minix3.org] goes to a 404 page, there's a license in here http://git.minix3.org [minix3.org] which se...
[00:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:11] <exec> 08└─> being Torvalds' OS-design teacher is kind of like being Einstein's math teacher No, that's not a great analogy. Einstein came up with something wonderfully simple. Linux isn't simple, it's a monolithic kernel with millions of lines of code. If someone is Einstein in this analogy, it's Tanenbaum, b...
[00:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:13] <exec> 08└─So, the future will hail Tanenbaum as the most successful OS author and Torvalds as the guy who wrote git because he did not follow a bearded guy advice who, after falling in trance, had told him to avoid bitkeeper. William gates III will be probably known as the guy whose foundation starts wwIII by...
[00:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broadcom Offers $105 Billion for Qualcomm; Moves HQ Back to the USA - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs [youtube.com]
[00:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:57] <exec> 08└─Don't let the real point hit you in the ass on your way out.
[00:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:58] <exec> 08└─There's no danger of that. But I think you need to learn how to make a point. I couldn't tell from the initial post what in the world you were trying to say and your snooty reply shed no light on that matter. I get you're whiny about something having to do with libertarians and well, I don't care....
[00:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:01] <exec> 08└─> play Trump on my car stereo my? That freedom fighter guy did not own the twitter account, nor any twitter infrastructure.
[00:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:03] <exec> 08└─To further explain. Trump was on the car stereo, and some pedestrians would have been listening, and a parking valet uses the car keys to get into the car and shut the stereo down. This is censorship.
[00:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:05] <exec> 08└─The amount of bitching and moaning about a downtime of 11 minutes is just staggering.
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[01:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06AMD's Radeon Technologies Group Boss Raja Koduri Leaves, Rumored to be Defecting to Intel - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:50] <exec> 08└─I have a bunch of trivia to care about first, but I could do this ... probably after Trump's last POTUS tweet. How's 2020 looking for you? Ooh, it's just possible it might be 2024 ... well, either way. Touch base with me then.
[01:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Radeon Technologies Group Boss Raja Koduri Leaves, Rumored to be Defecting to Intel - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:52] <exec> 08└─...Zero Defects.
[01:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:09] <exec> 08└─.....the more they stay the same.
[01:06:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 1301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:18] <exec> 08└─Mars is too ambitious? It will always be too ambitious if you never make a start. The "start" should be learning how to get to Mars and back reliably using (initially) un-crewed vehicles. The first few should deliver parts for a space station to orbit Mars, and some vehicles to go from the Mars spac...
[01:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:46] <exec> 08└─A Musky sex cult colony would be a great way to populate Mars.
[01:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:48] <exec> 08└─I'd like the Human Race's first visit to Mars be a peaceful, dignified, safe, scientific exploration mission, not a crazy one-way suicide "colonisation" mission as envisaged by the Great Profit Musk.
[01:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:50] <exec> 08└─Well I'd be happy with either. Too bad we're gonna get neither.
[01:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:52] <exec> 08└─Wish I could mod the parent up as insightful.
[01:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:54] <exec> 08└─Congress doesn't flinch at creating another trillion dollars in debt. 1.7 so far and that's before NASA even enters into it! [thehill.com]
[01:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:20] <exec> 08└─E=mc^2 is not Einstein's, nice parallel anyway. Honestly, between Tanenbaum and Torvalds it seems to be going like this: - so, we use a microkernel to split stuff between userland processes - that's slow, let's make a simple and fast monolithic kernel instead... the monolith is becoming complex, let...
[01:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:22] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that sums it up :)
[01:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor's Next Generation of Onion Services - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:34] <exec> 08└─I had the same thought as Thexalon at the beginning of that post, but by the end of it I had decided that DannyB is a different author than realDonaldTrump. The write very different, considering that they're parodying the same speaker. There is a specific user that I suspect may be realDonaldTrump,...
[01:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tor's Next Generation of Onion Services - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:36] <exec> 08└─At 16 characters (not counting the ".onion" part), the current onion addresses can easily be written down and passed from one person to another or written on a wall. With these new addresses, that becomes a much less attractive avenue. How will people share addresses after this goes live?
[01:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:21] <exec> 08└─Last i heard they are on Tor. Let them try to block that. All this does is drive more people under ground, making the next round harder to stop.
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[02:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:50] <exec> 08└─Shoot people who don't give them up?
[02:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─This [wordpress.com] is the one I've used before. It can make quite a difference. This has been around for years.
[02:06:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:27] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with kicking the can on Mars. SLS is a pile of crap though. It was crap a year ago, and today, after SpaceX has made reusable rocket landings routine and boring, it is ultra crap. Falcon Heavy will pretty much fulfill what SLS Block 1 can do, and SpaceX may even pump out a Falcon H...
[02:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 2494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:59] <exec> 08└─Some points: Drugs and exercise can mitigate some of the effects of microgravity. Sure, staying 1 year or more in microgravity sucks, but the individual isn't crippled for life on return to Earth. As for the radiation risks, IIRC NASA is looking to not exceed something like +3% cancer risk for a jou...
[02:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:00] <exec> 08└─Register for a user account. Or is your wish not that strong?
[02:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:03] <exec> 08└─This stupidity isn't unique to Trump. Obama had a lot of stupidity too; /i Yes. You can't change a space agency's mission every 8 (or 4) years and expect anything to actually get done. All presidents seem to do it.
[02:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:31] <exec> 08└─MINIX is like a bowl of rice. Linux is like a station wagon full of spaghetti. Never underestimate the popularity of a station wagon full of spaghetti hurtling down the highway.
[02:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:32] <exec> 08└─OPSEC trumps copyright concerns.
[02:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor's Next Generation of Onion Services - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:46] <exec> 08└─Legacy addresses will be supported for years. Your willingness to write down super long v3 addresses will be proportional to your desire for anonymous services. You could also use less secure methods of sharing them, such as passing around a USB drive or taking a picture of a poster with the address...
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[03:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:53] <exec> 08└─Double Secret Probation?
[03:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:54] <exec> 08└─You make them illegal, of course. Worked wonderfully for drugs.
[03:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:57] <exec> 08└─Democracy won't function well with uninformed voters. There's already a good amount of chance to take decision when fully and accurately informed; when uninformed or misinformed, it's a matter of pure luck ("do you feel lucky, punk?") So, the way I see, this boils down to 'Profit over democracy'.
[03:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:59] <exec> 08└─Suppose that some studies reveal that gun control has benefits greater than the drawbacks. Suppose you make public those studies. Suppose that you actually believe in democracy and trigger a referendum on the matter of gun control. Suppose that the referendum turns a majority in favor some form of g...
[03:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:01] <exec> 08└─Ask Australia.
[03:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:03] <exec> 08└─Suppose those gun owners don't agree to give up their guns despite what the media says.
[03:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:06] <exec> 08└─Shoot people who don't give them up?
[03:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:08] <exec> 08└─Read the Constitution first, look closely at the section on Amendments. That is why we aren't a Democracy and the majority do not rule. If a big enough supermajority are stupid for long enough it could be done but it was intentionally made difficult. And large numbers of those of us with all those g...
[03:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:10] <exec> 08└─The traitorous NRA (the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry) is terrified that scientific research will finally expose the lie they have been selling for the past 40 years that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun ..." Well you know the lie.
[03:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:12] <exec> 08└─So, the way I see, this boils down to 'Profit over democracy'.
[03:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:15] <exec> 08└─While you are looking things up, ask Google what "inalienable" means. Please keep that detail in mind.
[03:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:17] <exec> 08└─Chicago has some fine gun control laws . . . At what point do we just admit that gun control laws are failures? As pointed out already, every instance of prohibition (by whatever name) that this country has tried to enforce has failed. Failed, utterly, and dismally. Alcohol, drugs, alcohol, more dru...
[03:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:19] <exec> 08└─So why aren't you doing it if it's justified?
[03:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:21] <exec> 08└─No, we got Congress to drop the hammer on the CDC misusing the funds given to it for one purpose and redirecting it to political activism by a the SJWs who infest the CDC. Guns are not a disease to be researched by the Centers for Disease Control. The FBI maintains crime statistics. The CDC should b...
[03:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:23] <exec> 08└─OK, while we are living in make-believe happy-time land let's also suppose that we do an honest study of racial diversity with respect to social stability and crime rates. Take away weapons and you guarantee tyranny. If not in 5 years, then in 10 or 20. The 2nd amendment is there to make it difficul...
[03:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:26] <exec> 08└─OK, how else are you going to stop a bad guy if that is a lie? How? Pray tell, oh enlightened one. Live 30 minutes from town and the nearest patrol car. Get broken into, tied up, raped, and murdered by sadistic meth heads. Oh golly Beaver, sure glad we were so safe and unarmed! 100% certainty that w...
[03:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:28] <exec> 08└─Read the Constitution first, look closely at the section on Amendments.
[03:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:30] <exec> 08└─I've stated it before that firearms have absolutely no use in modern society. Humans are tool-using hominids. Guns are tools. Tools for killing. Killing is barbaric. Therefore guns are not needed in a peaceful society. I'm honestly ashamed to be American because of this type of thing: If 75 people b...
[03:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:32] <exec> 08└─Take away weapons and you guarantee tyranny.
[03:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:35] <exec> 08└─Well, unless I missed the memo guns have not been outlawed.
[03:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:37] <exec> 08└─I've got gun control. And a collection of awards to prove it.
[03:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:39] <exec> 08└─Gun control. Mandate that every citizen of voting age owns a weapon, and is trained in it's proper use. That is proper gun control.
[03:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:41] <exec> 08└─The best gun control is a tight asspussy.
[03:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:43] <exec> 08└─Local Idiot Murdered In Home Invasion
[03:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:46] <exec> 08└─If that's a proper one, what stops you (all) from adopting it?
[03:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:48] <exec> 08└─You think NRA and hardcore gun-riight people will be persuaded by some statistical technicality? This is about a religion, fool. It's like trying to reason with ISIS.
[03:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:50] <exec> 08└─People like you are too stupid to see that there must be some sort of connection between allowing any idiot to own a gun and the number of killings by people with guns per week that occur in america. Probably a case of "muh freedoms". There is a mass shooting in america VERY DAY OF THE YEAR. But tha...
[03:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:52] <exec> 08└─Suppose the referendum turns out in favor in gun control. Would you dare to be a representative that goes against the will of your electorate? And large numbers of those of us with all those guns believe we would be entirely morally justified to kill every motherfucking one of you for trying.
[03:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:55] <exec> 08└─How would you do that once it is outlawed?
[03:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:57] <exec> 08└─Quite honestly when I look at Europe, yes I do think of Tyranny. Do you believe the EU will dissolve peacefully, even if the majority of the peoples in Europe want it? The EU is collapsing slowly, it is inevitable, but it's going to be violent in little more than a decade. You can already lightly se...
[03:07:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:55] <exec> 08└─I am quite sure that SLS is very effective at its primary mission. The problem is that its primary mission is distributing pork to the states of various politicians.
[03:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sheep Can Recognize Human Faces - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:31] <exec> 08└─And continues:     https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:38] <exec> 08└─I would bet a dime that the author of the above comment is a pastafarian.
[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─“Ego-driven” Yeah, right. Ever compared his statements with Linus’s statements? Obliviously not.
[03:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:42] <exec> 08└─I went through the whole flamewar between tanaenbaum and linus way back when. Linus was a young asshole, but tanenbaum was, and apparently still remains, an entitled jackass.
[03:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phase Change Memory Acts as an Analog Computer  - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:11] <exec> 08└─Spaghetti code: http://www.computerhistory.org [computerhistory.org] I remember seeing a patch panel very similar to this at the aircraft research center where my father worked, it was running a simplified set of aircraft equations of motion (flight simulator).....
[03:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Solves Rubik's Cube in 4.591 Seconds - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:42] <exec> 08└─Meh! I can do this cube [theboobcube.com] in under a second, and I never had to look at the solution manual.
[03:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Solves Rubik's Cube in 4.591 Seconds - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:43] <exec> 08└─Argh, forgot about this one [youtube.com], which is even more fiendish (the creator claims it took him several years to figure out).
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[04:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:48] <exec> 08└─It's a contradiction in terms. The only workable solution is one that is inherently decentralized; authority must be established either through a web of trust, or through compounded proof of work on validation (e.g., a blockchain). Invalid form key: cP23bAptlj
[04:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:27] <exec> 08└─Guns will always be around and the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Cops can't be everywhere and gun zones are ineffective. OH yeah... criminals don't follow the law and will get them anyway, who knew? Sack up and be men. We do not live in a safe oven mitten world...
[04:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:29] <exec> 08└─Isn't ISIS a religion?
[04:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:31] <exec> 08└─Op's username relevant. Hah, so much crazy lib talk in one post it can't be real.
[04:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:33] <exec> 08└─Live 30 minutes from town and the nearest patrol car. Get broken into, tied up, raped, and murdered by sadistic meth heads.
[04:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:35] <exec> 08└─As the revolutionaries noted, rights predated the government; rights are endowed by the Creator (e.g., they are a natural aspect of being a sentient being), and many of those rights are not even listed explicitly by the Constitution (which is why the Constitution talks about unenumerated rights). Th...
[04:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:37] <exec> 08└─Do you believe the EU will dissolve peacefully, even if the majority of the peoples in Europe want it?
[04:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:40] <exec> 08└─The CDC should be trying to stop the next plague that lands here from the third world.
[04:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:42] <exec> 08└─Yup, I'm just too stupid to realize how many NRA members go out and mass murder. Hint: zero. Nada. Zip. I'm too goddamned stupid I believe mental patients who somehow aren't put in the database to be barred from buying guns isn't the result of incompetence, but a deliberate plan to create mayhem for...
[04:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:44] <exec> 08└─So the solution is to kill those who disagree.
[04:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:46] <exec> 08└─That's fine to quote the "good guy with a gun" crap, but the reality is that households that have guns are more likely to suffer injuries and deaths.
[04:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:49] <exec> 08└─DING!! DING!! DING!! The AC nails it! Repeal the 2nd Amendment and blood will flow. The theory of government we operate under says we have "certain inalienable rights" and any attempt to infringe them is automatically WRONG. Progressives of course disagree with the American theory. Which is why I ha...
[04:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:51] <exec> 08└─Actually, I agree. America, do you speak it? Do you believe? For those who do not, what DO you believe?
[04:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:53] <exec> 08└─What stops us? A well funded lobby that works against us. Every time an incident with a gun happens, there are influential fools crying for more stringent laws. "Oh, if we just had a law, things wouldn't be like this!" But, the obvious lesson is missed. A lawbreaker doesn't give a damn about one law...
[04:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:55] <exec> 08└─Reason Justice Democracy Welfare State (see "justice") Love Freedom (from fear, from opression, from idiots* with guns) *only Americans seem to believe Guns Are The Only Way Not a complete list, just a few higlights.
[04:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:57] <exec> 08└─The tyranny would be the restriction itself of the right to bear arms.
[04:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:00] <exec> 08└─guns allow people to murder at incredible rates
[04:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:02] <exec> 08└─Local Idiot Killed by His Underage Kids. Local Idiot Killed by Police. Overseas Blonde Idiot Killed by Police.
[04:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:04] <exec> 08└─Now ask the better question. Look up how many people got mass murdered before and after the politicians violated the human rights of every Australian. Hmm. Well that isn't what was promised.
[04:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:06] <exec> 08└─And, if we did manage to get a law passed that every citizen of voting age maintain a weapon, and proficiency in it's use, many of you would just break it.
[04:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:09] <exec> 08└─Indeed, such a right would be self-contradictory. Try again. Also, tyranny implies restriction; a lack of restriction cannot be an example of tyranny. Try again. Try again.
[04:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:11] <exec> 08└─In other words you aren't an American. You are a NewSpeaking Progressive.
[04:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:13] <exec> 08└─Many of "you" who see no value in gun ownership.
[04:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:15] <exec> 08└─> how many NRA members go out and mass murder. Hint: zero. Nada. Zip. We know this because Chris Cox, the executive director of the NRA’s lobbying arm [cnsnews.com] said it on Fox News.
[04:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:17] <exec> 08└─> Repeal the 2nd Amendment and blood will flow. But not one drop will be spilled by members of the NRA. Nada. Zero. Zip.
[04:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:20] <exec> 08└─One way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to wait for him to suicide. It worked in Las Vegas. It worked in Sutherland Springs. It happens "in 40 percent of active shooter situations, according to FBI data." (source [cbsnews.com])
[04:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:22] <exec> 08└─How can you be so sure? What are your arguments of "many who do not see the value of owning/using guns will refuse to have or be proficient in using one"? (mind you, if you want me to keep a gun, you have the responsibility of issuing one to me or reimburse the cost for it. Fair enough?) Case at poi...
[04:07:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 654 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:55] <exec> 08└─I've been saying for a long time that going straight to Mars was a dumb idea, and that we should focus on building some infrastructure on the Moon first and start figuring out how to build stuff in space, to mine asteroids and the Moon, etc. Now we've found what looks like a giant lava tube on the M...
[04:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:58] <exec> 08└─E=mc^2 is not Einstein's, nice parallel anyway. Honestly, between Tanenbaum and Torvalds it seems to be going like this: - so, we use a microkernel to split stuff between userland processes - that's slow, let's make a simple and fast monolithic kernel instead... the monolith is becoming complex, let...
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[05:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:00] <exec> 08└─I think web of trust is the long-term answer. Blockchain has yet to prove an economic ability to scale - I don't want to spend $5 every time I want to verify a transaction, and when Bitcoin et. al. lose their speculative glamour and start paying their own bills, that's what transactions are currentl...
[05:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:02] <exec> 08└─Read up on Namecoin. Transaction costs aren't a huge issue when you're just recording who owns what namespace, and what their signature looks like. End-users only read data.
[05:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:04] <exec> 08└─The security of a [public] blockchain comes from the fact that new blocks are being produced regularly according to a sliding scale of difficulty. What's the incentive to find new valid blocks?
[05:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:06] <exec> 08└─Block rewards and transaction fees, eventually only the latter (on deflationary chains such as Namecoin). So currently Namecoin incentivizes mining even without taxable transactions in a given block, but eventually miners will need to be taxing transactions enough to pay the bills. This only affects...
[05:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:08] <exec> 08└─What if your life depended on trusting another computer, as in vehicle-vehicle communications? Additionally, trust with multiple computers (many cars near your car) has to be established in milliseconds to be useful, given the speeds and passing distances involved.
[05:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:11] <exec> 08└─Seriously. What point do you think you're making?
[05:07:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:02] <exec> 08└─Reason Justice Democracy Welfare State (see "justice") Love Freedom (from fear, from opression, from idiots* with guns) *only Americans seem to believe Guns Are The Only Way Not a complete list, just a few higlights.
[05:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, the idiot libertarian again. I'll better stop here.
[05:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:17] <exec> 08└─No moron, we know it is true because if ONE member of the NRA were to ever do a mass murder the media would make damned sure every person on the planet knew. They media have not done so therefore it hasn't happened. q.e.d.
[05:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:19] <exec> 08└─Suppose those gun owners don't agree to give up their guns despite what the media says.
[05:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:22] <exec> 08└─Most people who own guns don't see any reason to waste their money sending it to the NRA. I have no idea if any NRA members have become mass murderers (I suspect the NRA would erase any record of their membership as fast as possible), but I suspect it shouldn't be hard to find some have become indiv...
[05:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:24] <exec> 08└─We have a recent report by the US government that climate change is almost certainly caused by humans. However, we don't have the same rigor in gun death statistics;
[05:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:26] <exec> 08└─There is no need to stop a bad guy with a gun with a good guy with a gun if there are no guns. The truth lies in between, but just look at how the US compares with Canada. Your position is about gun sales justified by fear and insecurity, not protection. For one thing, the so called 'bad guy' wou...
[05:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:28] <exec> 08└─The increased gun control and gun take backs in Australia have been extremely successful since you ask jmorris. Note the downward trend. http://www.abc.net.au [abc.net.au]
[05:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:31] <exec> 08└─The NRA is ultimately responsible. Those bumpstocks and assault weapons will never be illegal because if we did something effective about gun violence it would make it hard for them to fund-raise and they'd have to actually make a valid argument about why people need guns in the first place. The kin...
[05:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:33] <exec> 08└─I am not sure I agree with you in any way but I don't think you intended to troll, so I modded you back up. I like this about soylentnews. Wouldn't it be a surprise if the place you call "here" was to be the origin pf the next plague. Indirectly it is likely to be, because the current US administra...
[05:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:35] <exec> 08└─And yet China never has any mass murders using firearms. Australia hasn't had any where more than 5 did since the Port Arthur attack which left 35 dead. You people keep making these unsubstantiated claims that gun regulations don't work and yet literally all the evidence we have says that it does. Y...
[05:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:37] <exec> 08└─Again with the obsession about guns, it really is a mental problem with you folks. Look at MASS MURDER [wikipedia.org] in the twenty years before (107 including the 35 in the incident the Progs used to get a gun ban) and the twenty after (76) and tell me that isn't pretty similar, considering that 3...
[05:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:39] <exec> 08└─Indeed, such a right would be self-contradictory. Try again.
[05:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:42] <exec> 08└─Indeed, in most cases you'd be better off with reinforced doors to key rooms and the ability to call for help. In the country, it can be a bit dicey, but in town, it's significantly more effective and significantly less likely to end in suicide or murder. Guns have only one purpose, to destroy whate...
[05:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:44] <exec> 08└─F/O
[05:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:46] <exec> 08└─That's not what those studies were for. They were using epidemiology to demonstrate the effect that guns have on society. It's a perfectly sensible approach to take which is why the NRA was so angry about it. We know that there's tens of thousands of gun deaths every hear in the US from suicide alon...
[05:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:48] <exec> 08└─What do you do when criminals flaunt their violation of the law?
[05:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Radeon Technologies Group Boss Raja Koduri Leaves, Rumored to be Defecting to Intel - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:58] <exec> 08└─Which I have been reading about recently: Differences in the self-reporting temperatures Vega GPUs report vs. what are measured, physically varying GPU package sizes depending on the model, making non-reference mass production of cards very difficult (Gigabyte, for instance, had said a month or two...
[05:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03weregeek [6505] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:17] <exec> 08└─I suspect that this design predates the oldest copy that I could find, but here's what lot's of folks knew over 14 years ago: https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[05:09:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:00] <exec> 08└─Register for a user account. Or is your wish not that strong?
[05:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:03] <exec> 08└─When the infrastructure looks reasonably reliable, some people should go, land on Mars, explore for a bit and come home to Earth.
[05:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:05] <exec> 08└─It can be made to happen, but you better not be anywhere near it if it does, because being the first to suggest it makes you the first suspect. Still for just brute strength lifting capability, SLS is salvageable even if it can't return to the pad. (And who says it can't be modified to do so)? Musk...
[05:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:07] <exec> 08└─If heavy-lift rockets are such strategic national assets, then how have we been doing without them for decades?
[05:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:09] <exec> 08└─If we were not a nation of lazy pussies.
[05:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:35] <exec> 08└─No, you idiot MindEscape! If I turn off my radio to keep the fucking idiot from being heard by other idiots, that is patriotism. I will keep turning off my comments to keep you from being heard, because, god-damn it!! They are my comments and you have no right to respond to them, you person who shou...
[05:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teenager Solves Rubik's Cube in 4.591 Seconds - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:46] <exec> 08└─I got a Rubik's cube in the '80s, and still haven't solved it.
[05:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teenager Solves Rubik's Cube in 4.591 Seconds - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:47] <exec> 08└─This is the same conflation that people run into when thinking that software development speed is a direct function of how fast you can type.
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[06:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:55] <exec> 08└─Much as I like B5 and would like to give it a little love, a puny rock is a poor choice to waste Z'ha'dum on. Gotta be Kibo, all old timers understand, been too long since anyone paid tribute to He Who Greps. A fitting name for a smallish worldlet.
[06:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:56] <exec> 08└─Larry, Curly, and Moe
[06:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:58] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Potato.
[06:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:33] <exec> 08└─I'm an Australian, a fully licensed gun owner, and I agree with the Australian gun control laws. Australian shooters do see value in gun ownership, but for different reasons to the US. My experience is that the vast majority of gun owners here are hunters or farmers. I've never heard an Australian a...
[06:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:34] <exec> 08└─We are the children of Revolutionaries. The fire of Revolution lives on in us, we owe them the duty to uphold and defend what was given to us, that which was purchased so dearly in Patriot blood. Do not infringe our Rights. Do not confuse madmen and criminals with Patriots. If you were an American y...
[06:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:37] <exec> 08└─What is with this sick obsession with guns instead of MASS MURDER [wikipedia.org]. Throw out the Port Arthur incident since it is such an outlier. Now look at that table and tell me you see a trend other than FEWER guns used to commit mass murder after that spike provided Prog politicians an excuse...
[06:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:39] <exec> 08└─No, not American. Progressive, yes. "NewSpeak".. no, I'm not a Winnie the Pooh; I don't want to have words changed to mean other things. I do however think "different" does not automatically make someone "enemy"; us-or-them, red-v-blue, America-vs-the-world does make it hard to find compromise (is t...
[06:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:41] <exec> 08└─The US is ALREADY in a state of tyrrany in case you have not noticed ... How about looking at history. In Nazi Germany days, there were laws passed to prevent Jews from owning guns. Look how that worked out ... From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]...
[06:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:43] <exec> 08└─Don't even have to look as far as Canada. Check the gun deaths/100000 population by US state, then compare with the handful of states that have some limited gun regulations beyond the national rules. All those states are at the low end of the ranking (safer). Wikipedia has the data.
[06:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:45] <exec> 08└─Try again.
[06:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:48] <exec> 08└─They left for a America long ago; those in Europe are the descendants of sycophantic, servile bootlickers.
[06:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:50] <exec> 08└─There is a conflict of interest in studies done by the government about civilian gun ownership. The (US/shadow/elites) government has a vested interest in disarming its citizens. How can any study done with this conflict of interest be taken seriously?
[06:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:52] <exec> 08└─We're talking about guns you dumb fuck. I've show you a chart. It's shown the decline. Now if you are rational you'll change your mind. But you're not rational. Like any Trumpster, you think your opinions are worth more than facts.
[06:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:21] <exec> 08└─Wow, what an invention. Who knew you could improve the directionality of an antenna? Antenna design [arrl.org] isn't exactly an undocumented black art. Of course if you play around with WiFi antennas you might be breaking a few laws, depending on your jurisdiction, just how much improvement you mana...
[06:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:11] <exec> 08└─A couple of points, If we want to live on Mars or the Moon, we should aim for colonies with no need for resupply. That will involve digging, processing icy rock into water, growing plants, and beginning simple manufacturing of useful stuff like plastics, or at least building materials like lunar/Ma...
[06:10:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:23] <exec> 08└─If nothing else, this bit of news reaffirms my view that the Berkeley license provides the maximum amount of freedom to potential users.
[06:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:39] <exec> 08└─There is that. But it is not an official mouthpiece of the US Government.
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[07:05:53] <exec> 08└─When I backup my computer I simply rsync all its files. I keep meaning to organize all my backups, de-duplicate them, etc,,, Instead when the drive fills up I buy a new one, copy everything over, and then keep syncing. Sounds like I'll never be pressured to clean up my digital hoards.
[07:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:06] <exec> 08└─My gut feeling is it's a "Sally"
[07:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:52] <exec> 08└─And the next moment every other freedom will be gone too. Learn a little history, and watch the debacle that was England. You can't even carry a butter knife, and people are being arrested for owning books.
[07:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:53] <exec> 08└─The top three nation's for murder rate in the world ban civilians from owning guns. It's sure helping them, isn't it?
[07:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:55] <exec> 08└─Where it currently is, is at almost the lowest it's been in decades. We do not have a violent crime epidemic, no matter what your favorite talk show host might say.
[07:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:58] <exec> 08└─If you were rational you would value a life equally regardless of how it was taken. If gun deaths went from 10 to 1, but machete deaths went from 1 to 100 you would call it a win.
[07:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:00] <exec> 08└─You are correct, nothing will convince me that guns are a problem. I have never seen a gun get up and go kill someone, have you? On the other hand, I do know people who have used their guns to scare off people who were attempting to break into their home.
[07:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:02] <exec> 08└─Are you saying there is a strict causality relationship and the gun control is a sufficient condition to end with a ban of butter knifes and owning books? If indeed it's this what you are saying, do you care to demonstrate it gets the same result in all the other countries that implemented gun contr...
[07:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:04] <exec> 08└─It's just the gun lobby cherry picking statistics. It gun crime has gone up, then that's what they would be quoting. It hasn't so they look for something else. But In this case even when jmorris counted all mass murders, they'd still gone down. And that still wasn't good enough for him.
[07:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:06] <exec> 08└─Myriads of other countries that completely ban civilians gun ownership have higher murder rates. If you control for poverty levels violent crime tracks inversely with gun ownership.
[07:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:09] <exec> 08└─Then we should start by banning bathtubs. Those things are lethal.
[07:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:11] <exec> 08└─What would it take for there to be no guns? Besides going door to door and taking them by force, murdering anyone who won't comply, you'd also have to kill anyone and everyone with any machining or manufacturing ability. In every foreign nation with strict gun control there is a booming black market...
[07:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:13] <exec> 08└─Now look at "violent crime" and "homicide" rather than fixating on guns.
[07:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:15] <exec> 08└─Are you stupid or trolling? I really can't tell. Have you studied history at all? Quick quiz: what does a tyrannical government always do before it starts ethnic cleansing? I'll give you a hint: they disarm the people.
[07:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:18] <exec> 08└─The statistics I've seen have shown that violent crime has dropped significantly as gun ownership has increased. In addition, states which have enacted legal carry have seen significant drops in violent crime. Violent crime rates are at almost the lowest they've been in decades, and gun ownership is...
[07:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:36] <exec> 08└─To keep on the metaphor, it is silly to decide to try climbing Mount Everest next year if all you've done yet is to walk up the local hills. Aim for the north face of the Eiger first.
[07:11:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Tor's Next Generation of Onion Services - 379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:20] <exec> 08└─Believe me, you don't want to be using my name without my permission. The Chinese did that, they were making Trump toilets and everything. Terrible toilets, not even gold. Although in China, they were the best. That's the best they had in China. But they used my name without asking. Without paying....
[07:11:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:36] <exec> 08└─Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
[07:11:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:40] <exec> 08└─Instead, ISPs should blackhole all traffic to and from the district court of Virginia and search engines should remove references as well.
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[08:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:54] <exec> 08└─Tom's Hardware massaged some weird numbers out of Seagate's blog post, like 20+ TB in 2019 and 40+ TB by 2023. I have gone with what you see in the headline instead.
[08:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:55] <exec> 08└─Write speeds are not scaling to capacity at all, so it's going to take longer and longer to move the growing pile of files, unless your hoard isn't growing that much each time and is filling a smaller % of each new drive. Top SSD capacity has already blown past what HDDs can achieve in the next ten...
[08:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:57] <exec> 08└─one day i'm leaving midget porn on an unencrypted isolinear chip so i can troll my grandchildren when they're looting my treasures - Surprise, Motherfuckers!
[08:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:00] <exec> 08└─Chief Queef [soylentnews.org] on a holographic crystal [pcworld.com].
[08:06:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:51] <exec> 08└─Read the Constitution first, look closely at the section on Amendments.
[08:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 1745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:10] <exec> 08└─Given recent events, and not so recent events, and lots of events going back decades, just in the gun-lover's paradise that is America: you just wait for the crazed ammosexual to consumate his love of firearms. The ultimate expression of one man's (why is it always a guy?) love for his "Piece", his...
[08:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:12] <exec> 08└─That's NRA propaganda.
[08:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:14] <exec> 08└─You define a necessary condition (render them to be killed defenseless). To say "controlling my guns means it automatically results in you killing me", defines a sufficient condition. If you can't tell the difference, think some more. Further more, "gun control" does not mean "population has no guns...
[08:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:16] <exec> 08└─Quick quiz: what does a tyrannical government always do before it starts ethnic cleansing? I'll give you a hint: they disarm the people.
[08:10:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06Injection Attacks: The Least Glamorous Attack is One of the Most Threatening - 6 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:24] <exec> 08└─+++ATH
[08:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor's Next Generation of Onion Services - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:25] <exec> 08└─I know. We need a DNS for .onion addresses! ;-)
[08:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:11] <exec> 08└─How about over USB 2.1? =P
[08:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:07] <exec> 08└─A better question would be, if you have an employee with that kind of access, a reason to fire him, and go through with firing him- Why did you even give him an opportunity to do something like this?
[08:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Vulnerability Puts NTLM Password Hashes at Risk - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:26] <exec> 08└─They mean anyone on the local network with access to it can trigger the .scf vulnerability.
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[09:06:03] <exec> 08└─Cool. You do that Seagate. It's where you belong. Meanwhile, the first company to produce a decent-size, decent-price, SSD will get LOTS of my custom (doesn't even need to be a hugely fast NVMe thing... just SATA speed SSDs are more than capable of doubling the speed of a machine). I honestly don't...
[09:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:04] <exec> 08└─When I was in school, somewhere between 1992 and 1995, I was "stalking" our sysadmin, and at one point a technician from the schools IT supplier were upgrading the Unix system. He talked that the next generation of hard drives would not have a moving read/write head, but one head per track. That wou...
[09:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:06] <exec> 08└─If you use "the cloud", you'll be indirectly using these hard drives. Because the $/TB for SSDs is not projected to match HDDs anytime soon.
[09:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:09] <exec> 08└─People have been saying that for years, but every time I upgrade my system, SSD sizes seem to be several generations behind. I recently upgraded from a 1TB drive to a 4 TB drive, and while I was comparing prices, I checked SSDs also. I could get 250GB, maybe even 500, but anything above that I would...
[09:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:11] <exec> 08└─The products in the summary will almost certainly be sold to datacenters first, like today's top-of-the-line helium-filled 14 TB hard drives. A 15 TB SSD [computerworld.com] has been shipping for over a year and a half now. It was originally priced at $10,000. 32 TB [zdnet.com] and 60 TB [arstechnic...
[09:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:25] <exec> 08└─It was a long time ago now that I watched B5 but wasn't Z'ha'dum destroyed? So it might not be an entirely suitable name. Plus it wasn't really tiny, but then perhaps as far as astronomical things go it might all be relative.
[09:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:26] <exec> 08└─Z'ha'dum is the name that stood out from the rest for me. You are right, though. In addition to the name being inappropriate for a Kuiper Belt Object, it is also unpronounceable, if you are not a Babylon 5 fan. (It's unpronounceable even if you are, as it was pronounced Za-ha-dum in the show.) Being...
[09:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:40] <exec> 08└─This is written as to pretend that code signing was "invented" by malware authors, when in reality, the blame for signed malware should be put on the OS that gives preferential treatment to signed malware (e.g. when the malware wants to act as a driver). Give preferential treatment to a specific cla...
[09:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:59] <exec> 08└─I know the hacker community in general (using hacker in the original sense) doesn't care much for restrictive rules, but just in case anybody cares, there are FCC rules (and equivalents in other countries not covered by FCC regulations) about EIRP [wikipedia.org] (Effective/Equivalent Isotropic Radi...
[09:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:01] <exec> 08└─Summary of the summary: Researchers discover that directional antennas have greater range.
[09:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injection Attacks: The Least Glamorous Attack is One of the Most Threatening - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:40] <exec> 08└─I'd go as far as to say that if trusting or not trusting something anything entered by the user is even relevant, you are doing it wrong. Thus your first and second point become moot. The rule should be "never mix code and data". Your third point is a less general form of this.
[09:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:27] <exec> 08└─But those are developers. Users are the ones that get shafted by this - and everyone else closing up open code. Calling developers "users" is an insult to developers, and pretending that the "freedom to make software closed source" gives freedom to users is an insult to users. To pretend that the BS...
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[10:05:53] <exec> 08└─Anything that gets the judicial off their lazy asses in regards to scrutinizing and limiting 'too big to fail' mergers is good in my book!
[10:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:18] <exec> 08└─have you considered the possibility that the technician was making fun of you?
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[10:06:20] <exec> 08└─That's been proposed on and off since winchester disks were first created. The problem with it is that the read head is a lot wider than the track, so you end up having to stagger them in a spiral to pack them in tightly. You then end up with a hard disk that's almost completely covered in read head...
[10:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:22] <exec> 08└─Lest I forget: Seagate Demonstrates a 60 TB 3.5" SSD [soylentnews.org]
[10:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:38] <exec> 08└─Nah, Sheridan dropped a White Star loaded with a pair of fusion bombs right on top of himself and the Shadow capital but that wouldn't destroy a planet, not one that appeared to have close to 1G gravity. And from the ruined look of the surface I doubt he was even the first one to nuke those guys.
[10:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Radeon Technologies Group Boss Raja Koduri Leaves, Rumored to be Defecting to Intel - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:51] <exec> 08└─Delays in posting the story mean that it comes after the announcement that he's definitely gone to Intel.
[10:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Radeon Technologies Group Boss Raja Koduri Leaves, Rumored to be Defecting to Intel - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:52] <exec> 08└─Not sure about that. Check the timestamps? At least it's no longer a rumor.
[10:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 1666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:07] <exec> 08└─This. Basically, you need to get something back. We need to see some plan for profit in value of substance, capability, or knowledge which would be attained as consequence of lifting more mass in one go up from the bottom of our gravity well. First, we have to know the answers to these questions: Ar...
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[11:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Random Space News - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:02] <exec> 08└─Even stranger, while the southern aurora pulsed rhythmically every nine to 12 minutes (it had previously been seen to pulse regularly every 40 to 45 minutes), the northern aurora was more erratic.
[11:07:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:04] <exec> 08└─Democracy won't function well with uninformed voters. There's already a good amount of chance to take decision when fully and accurately informed; when uninformed or misinformed, it's a matter of pure luck ("do you feel lucky, punk?") So, the way I see, this boils down to 'Profit over democracy'.
[11:07:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:10] <exec> 08└─The traitorous NRA (the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry) is terrified that scientific research will finally expose the lie they have been selling for the past 40 years that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun ..." Well you know the lie.
[11:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:15] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing about this is that it's adding intentional dead spots. They defined areas they wanted the signal to be weak, and managed it. Reducing interference for multiple APs is a neat thing, as is reducing power in areas where snoops might eavesdrop (or freeloaders try and get access).
[11:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injection Attacks: The Least Glamorous Attack is One of the Most Threatening - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:57] <exec> 08└─I'd have thought someone would have referenced the oblig. XKCD [xkcd.com] by now.
[11:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:47] <exec> 08└─Completely agree. Every other site is javascript-laden with search boxes that don't work and tons of redirects to other pages, trying to sell subscriptions, etc. Scihub has one search box that works and it just gives you what you want fast and shuts the fuck up. And the site's written in Russian whi...
[11:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:48] <exec> 08└─Have you considered that you might be superman and all the weak people are holding you back? Fly, little bird.
[11:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:45] <exec> 08└─The twitter track record appears to show AUP enforcement zealousness based on the perceived politics of the user. Additional action against a prominent figure that appears to be more of the same will invite invective every time. News a 9.
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[12:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Random Space News - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:09] <exec> 08└─How can there be an article about space without mentioning Elon Musk?
[12:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Random Space News - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:11] <exec> 08└─He's hidden in his secret lair, busy planning a sabotage scheme to kill SLS/Orion.
[12:12:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:20] <exec> 08└─Lib Gen: http://93.174.95.27 [93.174.95.27] Good. Sci-Hub: sci-hub.cc: http://104.18.58.63 [104.18.58.63] sci-hub.ac: http://104.31.75.12 [104.31.75.12] sci-hub.bz: http://104.28.20.155 [104.28.20.155] sci-hub.io: http://104.31.86.37 [104.31.86.37] You've requested an IP address that is part of...
[12:12:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:49] <exec> 08└─Please note that the "United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia" is a FEDERAL court not a state court. This story makes it sound like a STATE court is making this demand.
[12:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:57] <exec> 08└─It's not hard, yo. All it takes is the words "thank you just the same but I'm worth more than that" and moving on to the next place. Well, no, you have to be honest enough with yourself to know your own worth to an employer as well. That's a good deal more difficult.
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[13:06:32] <exec> 08└─He was not talking to me, he was talking to our sysadmin.
[13:07:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 1138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:27] <exec> 08└─OK, while we are living in make-believe happy-time land let's also suppose that we do an honest study of racial diversity with respect to social stability and crime rates. Take away weapons and you guarantee tyranny. If not in 5 years, then in 10 or 20. The 2nd amendment is there to make it difficul...
[13:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Vulnerability Puts NTLM Password Hashes at Risk - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:13] <exec> 08└─Will changing SCF files to be associated as a text file instead of a command file break Windows badly? In theory, this would stop the file from being executed. But are there large parts of Windows depending on this functionality to be productive?
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[14:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:49] <exec> 08└─They just want warrantless unrestricted access to anything they want for any purpose they can dream up all the time without accountability so encryption available to peons must be done away with. Also logging comments by IP and then suggesting previous subject lines inline while typing is kind of sk...
[14:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:50] <exec> 08└─suggesting previous subject lines inline while typing is kind of skievey
[14:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:58] <exec> 08└─Could be some kind of pressure waves?
[14:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:00] <exec> 08└─It's a new regulation mandating the use of LED supernovas. They yield more light with the same amount of energy.
[14:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Random Space News - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:17] <exec> 08└─He finished digging his tunnels and now busy decorating them. Big problem, he doesn't want the echo cancel or distort his evil laugh.
[14:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:55] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly the shadows booby trapped the planet, they go back after the defeat and see a fleet of shadow allies fleeing the planet which then explodes
[14:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:56] <exec> 08└─I think it would be a nice tribute to name them after Lawrence Welk's daughters that he mentions at the beginning of every song: Anna-1, Anna-2, Anna-3.
[14:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:12] <exec> 08└─What I'm not convinced of is the need of a blockchain at all... I totally get the "gold rush" incentive that is continuing to work so well to blow up blockchain schemes via speculative support, but when that part fades into obscurity - does a transaction verification system really need a blockchain...
[14:08:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:24] <exec> 08└─The increased gun control and gun take backs in Australia have been extremely successful since you ask jmorris. Note the downward trend. http://www.abc.net.au [abc.net.au]
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[15:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:55] <exec> 08└─You have the gun, you have the dirt bag in a bag, so why do you need to get into the fucking phone? CASE CLOSED ASSHOLES.
[15:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:57] <exec> 08└─the problem is they have too many guns. The way things are going, I doubt they are competent and/or willing enough to make a thorough investigation.
[15:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:59] <exec> 08└─It's great that they track the cyber. I think it's great. How else can you stop the bad guys? The cyber, by the way, here in China they have terrific control over their cyber. They know exactly, exactly what's going on. And soon we will too. The sex trafficking bill is amazing, it's going to cut dow...
[15:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:01] <exec> 08└─Not only do they have the gun(s), not only do they have the dirt bag, in a bag. But they also have his past history. Domestic violence. Escaping from a mental institution. Bad behavior in the military. The military's failure to notify law enforcement of his bad past. And other signs this guy would b...
[15:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:03] <exec> 08└─They are looking for a connection to groups such as ISIS, Sovereign Citizens, and ZoylentViews.
[15:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:06] <exec> 08└─The contents of his phone are of no benefit at this time. He's not suspected of being a terrorist (in the organized sense.) The danger has passed. There are no further crimes to punish. And there is no need to amass evidence against him. This is fucking theater. If they some day do get their backdoo...
[15:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:08] <exec> 08└─How much was your sex trafficking bill? Too high or too low?
[15:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:10] <exec> 08└─But what if Jack Bauer Jr. beats the ISIS terrorist a little too hard in the face and he can't reveal the password to his uncrackable iPhone 11 and many buildings go up in flames because the FBI CTU couldn't access all the text descriptions of the targets that the terrorist texted to the other terro...
[15:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03doc_doofus [6746] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:20] <exec> 08└─I told them not to use more than one Nova Bomb.
[15:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Random Space News - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:38] <exec> 08└─o fug
[15:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:59] <exec> 08└─I'd imagine that copying data from one place of the drive to another would always be a lot faster when having at least 2 heads. I'm actually suprised we haven't seen the multiheaded disks very much.
[15:10:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Sheep Can Recognize Human Faces - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:56] <exec> 08└─OK so they can recognize someone they've seen before, but will their testimony be admitted at the rape trial?
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[16:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:58] <exec> 08└─Was that green-site style editorializing paragraph at the bottom necessary? Don't pretend that "since national currencies are fiat, they are no better than cryptocurrencies where a moron can wipe them out with a few keystrokes."
[16:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:00] <exec> 08└─Thank God those weren't Whoopercoins
[16:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:02] <exec> 08└─... just stay away from it. It isn't the first time it has been the source of f*ck ups.
[16:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:04] <exec> 08└─Green site editorializing would be anti-crypto. Their owner, BizX, runs a digital currency which is directly threatened by decentralized digital currency. They print half a dozen anti-crypto articles a day. This one is at the top of their feed. https://news.slashdot.org
[16:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:06] <exec> 08└─I expect they'll fix this with another hard-fork, the same as they did when the DAO was hacked. The "smart contracts" are a clever idea, but Ethereum has prominently screwed up too many times - clearly it just is not ready for prime time. It makes for a great test-bed for the idea, buy what people s...
[16:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:09] <exec> 08└─It was to provide both context and scale. Some people might think that 300M is a lot of Etherium, which it is to those who've lost it, but it isn't more than a tiny portion of the whole. Some people might not know that most fiat currency is created in equal quantities as debt of that currency (which...
[16:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:11] <exec> 08└─nothing of Value was lost.
[16:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:13] <exec> 08└─I'm now curious. From my commentary above alone (takyon didn't add that, he's not guilty, he merely did the necessary cosmetics/link-checking/etc.), do you perceive me as being pro- or anti- crypto-currencies?
[16:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:15] <exec> 08└─Because (currently) this isn't a failure of the Ethereum platform, any more than the existence of ransomware is a failure of C++. A smart contract was developed with poor oversight and quality control, a bunch of overzealous investors didn't do their due diligence and lost their money as a result. A...
[16:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:18] <exec> 08└─But was something of positive marginal utility lost?
[16:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:20] <exec> 08└─I'm curious why you put the bit in quotes in quotes - you are not quoting anyone, apart from some straw-man producer that lives inside your own head.
[16:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:22] <exec> 08└─The editorializing leads me to believe you're more anti-fiat than pro-crypto, but you're still attracted to crypto as a result. If so, I fall into the same boat.
[16:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:24] <exec> 08└─User mistakenly takes control of hundreds of wallets
[16:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:27] <exec> 08└─Humans are hardware. They run unreliable software on their brains. They can't be trusted not to sell drugs or shoot up the pastor's daughter.
[16:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:44] <exec> 08└─Apple doesn't need any help in discouraging people from buying their shit phones.
[16:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:45] <exec> 08└─You're the one person I look up to when it comes to the cyber! It usually takes me an hour or so before I'm ready to cyber depending on what server I'm logged in to and which persona, but you just grab them by the cyber!
[16:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:47] <exec> 08└─Cynical me thinks the FBI actually knew they could probably access the phone with the dead man's finger but they didn't want to try (and preferred to wait till it wasn't possible) because they want access to everyone else's phone, not just the dead man's.
[16:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:50] <exec> 08└─So, after putting a big face on about not cooperating in the San Bernardino incident, why are they offering to help extra hard now? Did Tim Cook get a visit from the MIB's? Did Hollywood celebrities threaten to boycott the phone company that doesn't "do something" about gun violence? Is iPhone use b...
[16:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 1881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:52] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I have bad experience with groups like Sovereign Citizens. I don't have experience with that group specifically, but my experience was directly with Southern Christian Identity, which also throws in some extra nonsense about Aryans being the master race, and proximately with various state mi...
[16:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:54] <exec> 08└─You know, the part where your own web browser contacts the search provider to get suggestions
[16:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:56] <exec> 08└─About your conspiracy theories and the Jews, you are right to believe that it is utter hogwash. Some other misguide folks actually believe that Black people dominate the NBA! Such fools, and racists, too. It should be illegal to suggest that Blacks dominate the NBA. Fortunately, regarding the Jews a...
[16:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:58] <exec> 08└─That's right, we need to protect our people. So we need to know, is ISIS colluding with atheists like Devin? Is the alt-left getting into our military and making our military people violent? So many of our military people are doing violence, who's telling them to do that? We need to get into Devin's...
[16:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:01] <exec> 08└─No. https://developer.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] https://developer.mozilla.org [mozilla.org]
[16:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:03] <exec> 08└─" It usually takes me an hour or so before I'm ready to cyber "
[16:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:14] <exec> 08└─Wash the lenses, dirty hippies.
[16:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:16] <exec> 08└─The article said that the bright peaks are usually from the first radioactive half life of elements created in the supernova blast but there's no trace of those elements detected.
[16:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:19] <exec> 08└─This is what they did.
[16:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:17] <exec> 08└─LiAngelo, Cody, and Jalen. [cnn.com]
[16:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:18] <exec> 08└─... and it's Rocky McRockface
[16:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:20] <exec> 08└─Old Horizons
[16:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 2544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:22] <exec> 08└─> Año Nuevo ("New Year" in Spanish) The Spanish are dictatorial fascists (as recently as the mid-70s) and can't even keep their country together now, and they've done precisely zero in space exploration. Also, "new year" is a stupid name for any space object. > Camalor (fictional city in the Kuiper...
[16:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:52] <exec> 08└─What's next? Would Trump build his own cement factories and ports for the wall and aircraft carriers too since the production chain of "strategic national assets" should be owned by the government? Going to Mars is a waste of time and resources so I'll give him that much. But sticking to that SLS ab...
[16:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:54] <exec> 08└─We choose to go to the Moon! ... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are easier than getting to Mars
[16:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sheep Can Recognize Human Faces - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:20] <exec> 08└─So can crows despite having much tinier brains. And crows can even learn from other crows: http://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Wearing the dangerous mask on one recent walk through campus, Dr. Marzluff said, he was scolded by 47 of the 53 crows he encountered, many mo...
[16:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injection Attacks: The Least Glamorous Attack is One of the Most Threatening - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:46] <exec> 08└─On an unrelated note: http://www.latimes.com [latimes.com]
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─The BSD license's purpose is to maximize freedom for the developers; the GPL's purpose is to maximize freedom for the users, although it also makes it easier for users to develop with it in the process.
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[17:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:54] <exec> 08└─People used to say, "Oh, the computer screwed up, so sorry!" But now they blame the guy, they say the guy screwed up. I say screwed up, you know what I mean. I think you know what I mean.
[17:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:16] <exec> 08└─But this latest screw-up hasn't affected the ETH value at all, and that's just weird.
[17:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:17] <exec> 08└─How does anyone think comparing "losing" money of any stripe with national debt makes the first bit of sense? Are we trying to wipe out debt with crypto currencies now, is that the idea I missed? National debt isn't a bug, it is a feature.
[17:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:19] <exec> 08└─The Big Short is government propaganda that places all the blame of the subprime mortgage crisis on Wall Street and completely glosses over the perverse incentives the US government created in mortgage lending via the Community Reinvestment Act.
[17:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:22] <exec> 08└─So because humans aren't perfect we should trust machines? That makes about as much sense as "because $YOUR_POLITICIAN is bad you should vote for $MY_POLITICIAN". The difference is: a crazy human can hurt 100 people. A crazy web site can hurt 140 million people (Equifux). You can incentivize most hu...
[17:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:24] <exec> 08└─The Big Short is government propaganda that places all the blame of the subprime mortgage crisis on Wall Street and completely glosses over the perverse incentives the US government created in mortgage lending via the Community Reinvestment Act.
[17:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:26] <exec> 08└─The basic problem with them is that there's no regulation of them. And that's the goal of the people who've created them: Avoid all government regulation. Well, congrats, you're doing that, and as a result there are all the problems that have occurred back when commerce and banking was largely unreg...
[17:06:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 999 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:38] <exec> 08└─Not only do they have the gun(s), not only do they have the dirt bag, in a bag. But they also have his past history. Domestic violence. Escaping from a mental institution. Bad behavior in the military. The military's failure to notify law enforcement of his bad past. And other signs this guy would b...
[17:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:54] <exec> 08└─I know CERTAIN people (Dems) don't like the "offtopic" tweets. So I wrote in my journal. Thank you for your support!
[17:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:55] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there will be a stunning plot twist revealed half way through episode 23 that's been subtly foreshadowed throughout the previous episodes, where we find out who the true mastermind is. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) The terrorists are Russian sleeper agents hypnotically...
[17:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:58] <exec> 08└─This time they gave Apple the finger, but next time they'll certainly use that 48 hour window. Also nice to know that, if you want access to someone's iphone, you just have to drug them for a few minutes or so.
[17:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:00] <exec> 08└─The FBI publicly blamed [theverge.com] Apple's encryption. At a press conference, Christopher Combs, the FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, said the phone had been transported back to the FBI in Quantico, Virginia for examination. Investigators have identified Devin Patrick Kelley as...
[17:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:02] <exec> 08└─Finger now, facial next [theatlantic.com]. Maybe it won't work if the suspect is dead and their eyeballs aren't moving.
[17:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:04] <exec> 08└─You should never, ever use any kind of biometric ID for a password! Not only does it lead to the "Just chop his finger off and bring it to me to open the vault door... Mwaaaa Haaa Haaaa!!" but it is something you cannot change once it is compromised somehow. Once some de-hashed version of your fing...
[17:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:06] <exec> 08└─I think the Donald's sex trafficking bill in China is not quite as high as it was in Russia, since golden shower type sports cost extra. Especially if you want to record the pee-pee tapes. And especially if it can only be done in a particular hotel room that Obama once stayed in.
[17:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Calls on AT&T-Time Warner to Ditch Turner Broadcasting or DirecTV - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:26] <exec> 08└─How about you can be in EITHER the business of providing CONTENT, or the business of DUMB PIPES that ROUTE PACKETS, but not both. Being both a content provider and the connection provider invites abuses. Temptation to favor your own content and interfere with accessibility of competing content. If y...
[17:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:00] <exec> 08└─When Seagate's CEO Stephen Luczo announced the intention to sell HAMR drives in 2018, he also recognized that competing with SSDs are a losing battle: “By this time next year, we anticipate less than 10% of our HDD technology portfolio will be exposed to competing flash devices,” said Mr. Luczo.
[17:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:02] <exec> 08└─Since hard drives are getting so big, it seems the time has come to start putting Intel-like "management engines" within hard drives. hard drives could have a secondary network connector that bypasses the primary interface to the computer. Such large drives beg for an industrial strength filesystem....
[17:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:26] <exec> 08└─You're right. All those names are bad. Frankly I can't figure out how anyone could miss the opportunity to name it Rupert [wikia.com].
[17:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:27] <exec> 08└─Why can't they just use more names out of the Greek and Roman pantheons like before? There's no shortage of names from those
[17:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:29] <exec> 08└─How about Tremorlor [wikia.com]?
[17:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:32] <exec> 08└─It'll be hard to type though because of the umlauts; most English speakers have no idea how to type that.
[17:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:34] <exec> 08└─Dude, you've got issues.
[17:11:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:06] <exec> 08└─This [wordpress.com] is the one I've used before. It can make quite a difference. This has been around for years.
[17:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:13] <exec> 08└─If you're using WPA2 PSK or weaker and you want security you're doing it wrong.
[17:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:15] <exec> 08└─Actually, directional antennas have greater gain in certain directions, not range. Range depends upon what is between the antenna and receiver. There are scenarios where an omni antenna would give you better range (a highly-directional antenna with a direct line of sight obstacle, for instance).
[17:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:09] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. However, there is a very good reason our politicians are all of a sudden interested in going back to the moon. Even though we lost interest decades ago. Other nations are going there even if we are not. We need to get there and stake our claim! America First. All you other non-whit...
[17:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Andrew Tanenbaum's Open Letter to Intel About MINIX 3 - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:50] <exec> 08└─But are are those using MINIX? If not then Android is the most widely used OS and Andy is wrong about "MINIX the most widely used computer operating system in the world". There are two billion ACTIVE android devices. There maybe about 2 billion PCs+servers but not all are Intel. And I'm not sure how...
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[18:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─Aren't you going to yell "You're Fired!" at the guy, or have you retired that particular juvenile catchphrase already.
[18:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:59] <exec> 08└─In any collision, there are fine drivers, on many sides. On many sides.
[18:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:01] <exec> 08└─From the picture in TFA, and the text, I am making some assumptions about how the accident happened. “The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that it’s (sic) sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident,” “Unfortunately the delivery truck did not stop and...
[18:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:04] <exec> 08└─...or maybe the shuttle could do what a human driver does? Lay on the horn and shout obscenities until the truck driver notices and stops...
[18:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:06] <exec> 08└─It's enough to make one think that there are certain interests who may be arranging these "accidents."
[18:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:08] <exec> 08└─Well, from what I read this morning, the shuttle doesn't have reverse. Now that is monumentally stupid, certain groups who may be interested in arranging such accidents notwithstanding.
[18:06:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─Was that green-site style editorializing paragraph at the bottom necessary? Don't pretend that "since national currencies are fiat, they are no better than cryptocurrencies where a moron can wipe them out with a few keystrokes."
[18:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─Just check this: https://github.com [github.com] Vitalik saw that some people might make a mistake when programming their contracts and made a proposal to fix it.
[18:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:38] <exec> 08└─Partial corroboration of the parent post can be found at https://www.sdbj.com [sdbj.com] and https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org].
[18:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:40] <exec> 08└─Three hundred millidollars is thirty cents.
[18:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:43] <exec> 08└─sometimes government regulation saves everyone's butts
[18:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:45] <exec> 08└─But, that should be written as 300 m$, which I agree should not be valued above 30 cents. $ 300m is 300 meters of dollars, which, depending on the way the banknotes are aligned and their denomination, could mean a sizable amount of them.
[18:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:47] <exec> 08└─You are telling me investors put money in contract they did not understand? that sounds like finance and, like finance, will result in much money lost, indeed.
[18:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:49] <exec> 08└─Because (currently) this isn't a failure of the Ethereum platform, any more than the existence of ransomware is a failure of C++.
[18:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:52] <exec> 08└─Lots of kWh used to mine those coins, and lots of discounts on video cards which didn't happen
[18:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:54] <exec> 08└─The difference is: a crazy human can hurt 100 people.
[18:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:56] <exec> 08└─If you don't want to pay taxes (which is what you are referring to with the "toll bridges on the One True Path" metaphor), you're welcome to try living someplace where government either doesn't exist, or is totally unable to control the territory you're living in. There are quite a few places to cho...
[18:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, software reliability is still an unsolved problem. Nevertheless, there is high integrity software methodologies for avionics, nuclear plants, NASA, ESA etc. https://www.nist.gov [nist.gov] Nothing guarantees 100% safety (Pathfinder,...
[18:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:33] <exec> 08└─If they have a proper warrant, they can ask his cellular carrier. If not, they shouldn't be looking.
[18:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Random Space News - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:05] <exec> 08└─He's hidden in his secret lair, busy planning a sabotage scheme to kill SLS/Orion.
[18:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:30] <exec> 08└─The models I've seen with two heads had them at fixed offsets, so moving one moved the other by the same amount (otherwise you need an extra arm, which adds a lot of complexity and needs a lot of space). Having two independent heads, one for reads and one for rights, and ensuring that they didn't in...
[18:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:58] <exec> 08└─You're old.
[18:11:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:33] <exec> 08└─Wow, what an invention. Who knew you could improve the directionality of an antenna? Antenna design [arrl.org] isn't exactly an undocumented black art. Of course if you play around with WiFi antennas you might be breaking a few laws, depending on your jurisdiction, just how much improvement you mana...
[18:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:40] <exec> 08└─Well, in fairness, the 3D printed version is a bit more flexible than the Pringles can - and, the complex designs can be shared via internet to anywhere in the planet that has enough infrastructure to run a 3D printer... so, that's a little sorta cool - just like every other thing shared on https://...
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[18:11:42] <exec> 08└─Which is all another way of saying: "this is why there aren't commercial solutions on the market for this already."
[18:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Injection Attacks: The Least Glamorous Attack is One of the Most Threatening - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:28] <exec> 08└─"Where's my money, bitches?" Apple's got it. BTW, Apple patented the business model of selling empty, shiny cardboard boxes.
[18:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:22] <exec> 08└─Why did you title your alt-right image directory 'Books'?
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[19:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:56] <exec> 08└─Such belief is just a way of tying conviction to identity, so that it's easier to motivate oneself to act in a certain way. That's why it's religious people who tend to blow themselves up, or to cut up the sexual organs of completely healthy boys and girls.
[19:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:58] <exec> 08└─do you believe that there is something else that influences people's religious beliefs ? My theory is that magical thinking (of which religion is a strand) is the human brain's innate ability to detect patterns gone into overdrive. A very long time ago, humanity needed the ability to detect patterns...
[19:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 2181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:00] <exec> 08└─When an analytical critical thinker starts from the conclusion that Yahweh exists solely to make him rich, he's likely to conclude early on that Lucifer is the reason why he is not rich. Perhaps he did or didn't do something that made Yahweh angry with him, which is why he is not rich. From there he...
[19:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:02] <exec> 08└─It's a tool for central control and group unity. States and empires could not have risen without it. Ones that used it more effectively conquered those less adept. Jared Diamond made a good argument in his popular book.
[19:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:04] <exec> 08└─Anybody approaching the subject from a rational perspective will realize that gods are a man-made load of hooey. Religious "belief" is entirely a result of indoctrination. Some of the underlying teaching may be rational ("treat others the way you'd like to be treated") but everything else is either...
[19:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:07] <exec> 08└─For some, it's because God has revealed himself to that person in some way and He becomes very real to that person. Romans 10:17 - Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. and Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is confidence in what we hope fo...
[19:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:09] <exec> 08└─Humans think they are so special that they are "the chosen ones". This is why those who are religious believe they were created by a god, and are in their god's image. Add that to their fear that "death is the end" and you have fairy tales of gods creating humans and the humans living in an afterlif...
[19:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of a car alarm that instead of making annoying siren sounds, instead played the sound of a scary-sounding man yelling "BACK OFF, BUSTER!" It would be interesting to learn if that was any more effective.
[19:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:24] <exec> 08└─Although it seems to be the human drivers fault, I do have to wonder if an accident would have been avoided if it were another human behind the wheel. There's many incidents on the road that I see everyday that I honestly don't think modern AI or computers can deal with yet. For example, will a self...
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─Every driver in a similar situation asks themselves : "does the other guy see me?" This is a very obvious question to ask when you are stopped behind a large trailer, in the blind zone of the driver. You watch him like a hawk, and if he does something dangerous you immediately take action. If the co...
[19:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:05] <exec> 08└─The correct way to proceed is to first build the tolls, then pay the right people to undermine the other paths.
[19:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:07] <exec> 08└─Actually I was referring to a lot of other things besides taxes. Like health insurance, which government made mandatory, and which (for me) will see an 18% increase next year, to over $1000 a month even though they rarely pay a dime, along with bigger copays for me and less choice of doctors. "But T...
[19:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:09] <exec> 08└─We're not talking fake metric prefix bullshit here. The mill is a real unit of currency. 300₥ = 30¢
[19:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:11] <exec> 08└─You mean like the two Miami real estate dealers who sold mortgages to some of the very people that the Community Reinvestment Act targeted (here, immigrants and people with terrible or non-existent credit) and bragged about the shit borrowers they were able to cram into mortgage securities without a...
[19:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:46] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, that's how I identify. There! I've disproven that I could possibly be a woman by identifying! Bwahahaha!
[19:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:48] <exec> 08└─They likely knew about the touchID and tried it. Who knows, it might have even succeeded, but they aren't going to let that get in the way of trying to hit Apple's PR. Anything they can do to stop companies from protecting citizen's safety is well worth it.
[19:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:50] <exec> 08└─Apple had to know they were going to get that kind of pressure the first time around, and this is the outcome I would have expected that time to be honest. I still figure there had to be something specific like engineers anonymously threatening to add their own backdoors.
[19:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:52] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, being California and all, they were tipped off by the mandatory trigger warning and the bomb went off as planned. On the plus side, 24 has finally been cancelled.
[19:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:05] <exec> 08└─Astronomers rejoice at the opportunity to come up with new model matching the extra data. Science 101, bitches!
[19:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justice Department Calls on AT&T-Time Warner to Ditch Turner Broadcasting or DirecTV - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:14] <exec> 08└─That makes too much sense to actually pass. Too many people benefit and those in control don't get their cut.
[19:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Justice Department Calls on AT&T-Time Warner to Ditch Turner Broadcasting or DirecTV - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:16] <exec> 08└─The OCP has chosen you as a targ^W volunteer for their latest prototype. Any other commies complaining about the new perfect business plan which will put more money in my pockets?
[19:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Random Space News - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:29] <exec> 08└─Is that why he doesn't want to develop his pod system by himself? The vacuum is a killer for Evil Laugh acoustics.
[19:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:55] <exec> 08└─You can use a small Bash script and the --delete and --link-dest switches in rsync to do incremental backups. I use a ~10 line script to do this over SSH for some commercial clients on their LANs, after having the machines exchange SSH keys. Basically, the script makes a temp directory, copies every...
[19:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:56] <exec> 08└─I hope to sweet baby Cthulhu you are. The security and civil rights implications are horrifying...
[19:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:59] <exec> 08└─It would make sense to have two to four sets of heads per platter side, but that would make the drives a lot more expensive (closer to SSD prices) and drop the MTBF significantly (for full operation). I'm not sure how the mechanical aspects of moving three heads while one is writing would work. Some...
[19:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─Let's call it Steve [youtube.com].
[19:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pr [5942] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I see your point: surely imperfect security is better than less security. At least it makes it harder to write this kind of malware, no? To you object to the user losing the freedom to install unsigned code? Or to the false sense of security? Are you suggesting we're better off without...
[19:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:13] <exec> 08└─Summary of the summary: Researchers discover that directional antennas have greater range. Actually, no. There are no changes in the antenna. This is about putting an appropriately shaped reflector in the vicinity of an antenna. To use a car analogy, it's like having a mirror behind a car headlamp:...
[19:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:09] <exec> 08└─Consider the Virginia governor. That's a blue state. It already had a democrat for the governor. There is no gain to be had from a successful defense. It wasn't even a big win. The win was smaller than Hillary's win, suggesting that the state is now less blue that it was before. The only thing of no...
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[20:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:57] <exec> 08└─or the result of some idiot's agenda ("kill anyone who doesn't believe what I've told you to be the truth", "give my church all your money", "kneel before Zod"). This is entirely wrong. When someone tells you "give my church all your money", and you comply, it's not the asker who's the idiot. Charla...
[20:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:59] <exec> 08└─One thing that religion does provide better than Science is the "spiritual" experience. It's much harder to achieve awe through intellectual investigation than it is through manipulation of the senses (incense, meditation, choral music, large imposing cathedrals, rituals, mantras, social engagement,...
[20:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:01] <exec> 08└─It's become even harder since the War on Drugs: materialist society has decided to do its best to eradicate utterly any deviation in consciousness from the supposedly "good and proper" rational problem-solving state. Notice it's the religious leaders and people who are most strongly against drug use...
[20:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:03] <exec> 08└─There was an interesting piece on NPR last weekend which talked about this. It talked about achieving "Flow", which involves a loss of reflective self-consciousness, perhaps due to overwhelming the brain's processing capability. https://en.wikipedia.org(psychology) [wikipedia.org]
[20:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:05] <exec> 08└─I believe that the reason religious people fight wars or blow themselves up is that they believe in an afterlife. If dying is not the end, then why fear death? That is, IMHO, the most dangerous aspect of most religions.
[20:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:07] <exec> 08└─"What is life after death? The same as life before birth. Nothing." —Atheists. If anything, only the religious fear death; they fear hell. Buddhists fear having to live again, don't they? Nirvana is the escape of the virtually endless cycle of reincarnation, especially reincarnation as a lower for...
[20:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:10] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the Parable of the Talents is more about making sure you don't squander life out of fear. Anyway, Capitalism is supported by the desire to create a society with 2 characteristics: Interaction between individuals should be voluntary; there must be agreement in advance about the rules of such...
[20:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:12] <exec> 08└─I question the methodology used. The researchers investigated some specific posited mechanisms for what gives rise to supernatural beliefs - being generally more intuitive, being generally less rational. Their research rejected those specific mechanisms (i.e. "people who are more intuitive are more...
[20:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:14] <exec> 08└─You ignore that most people have genetic programming to avoid death (there are some people who are without fear). Religion weakens this programming. Almost everyone believes they personally are righteous, and religion teaches that the righteous have nothing to fear from death. It's the other people...
[20:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:16] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager [wikipedia.org] -- From what I remember of the article on female genital mutilation, it's more of a cultural thing than religious (the creepiest part is that it's actually the *women* who are doing it to their daughters). Presumably you're also referrin...
[20:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:19] <exec> 08└─Religion is a way of making sense of the world. Instead of everything in life being a random chaotic clusterfuck, it's nice to be able to think there's a grander purpose, justice, compassion, etc., etc. "The world would be better if we were just in charge; it's nonbelievers mucking it up and ruining...
[20:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:21] <exec> 08└─Wander into Las Vegas (my favorite lab for irrational thinking in a fundamentally rational world) and you'll see otherwise-reasonably-rational people convinced that a particular table is "hot" or "cold." People convinced that breaking out a fresh deck of cards will somehow stop a losing streak. Peop...
[20:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:23] <exec> 08└─That's why it's religious people who tend to blow themselves up, or to cut up the sexual organs of completely healthy boys and girls.
[20:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:25] <exec> 08└─What more needs to be said? If you want to take advantage of someone, tell them the shadowy invisible creatures will punish them for stealing money from the temple or the Pharoah. That's the real reason it's illegal to go after the 1%. They're the priests that hold up the corrupt establishment and o...
[20:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:28] <exec> 08└─the creepiest part is that it's actually the *women* who are doing it to their daughters That just reinforces my personal theory that "every group of people is its own worst enemy".
[20:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:30] <exec> 08└─I think there are various reasons why someone would believe: 1) As part of education. Religion provides a set of generally accepted rules that describe how one should live properly and provides guidance when problems arise. 2) For (philosophical) scientists it is the answer to the end question. We w...
[20:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:32] <exec> 08└─> My theory is that magical thinking I pick your comment at random out of all the stuff here. The fact that supernatural, by definition, cannot be reached any more than a character in a videogame can reach the computer running the game itself even if it completely depends on it, does not imply anyth...
[20:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:35] <exec> 08└─At first glance, you might suppose that people would pick non-demanding religion, but this isn't the case. The more you are doing, the more you have committed yourself. Spending time and money, or proclaiming a nonsensical belief, are forms of commitment. Public display, and a punishment for leaving...
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[20:06:51] <exec> 08└─> from what I read this morning, the shuttle doesn't have reverse. Just turn it around and teach the computer to only drive in reverse. Problem solved!
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[20:07:18] <exec> 08└─The basic problem with them is that there's no regulation of them. And that's the goal of the people who've created them: Avoid all government regulation. Well, congrats, you're doing that, and as a result there are all the problems that have occurred back when commerce and banking was largely unreg...
[20:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:34] <exec> 08└─Some of those places are claimed by a government, but if you go off on your own and don't let slip where you're going or do anything to call attention to yourself, you can probably hide out on your own for quite some time.
[20:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:36] <exec> 08└─It doesn't, but every article about cryptocurrency needs to include a sneer at fiat money and the big bad gubmint.
[20:08:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03drussell [2678] 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:08] <exec> 08└─You should never, ever use any kind of biometric ID for a password! Not only does it lead to the "Just chop his finger off and bring it to me to open the vault door... Mwaaaa Haaa Haaaa!!" but it is something you cannot change once it is compromised somehow. Once some de-hashed version of your fing...
[20:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:16] <exec> 08└─Passwords are covered by the 5th, biometrics are not. That's all you need to know.
[20:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:18] <exec> 08└─> and/or willing enough to make a thorough investigation A thorough investigation includes checking out what could be hidden in his phone. Which is what they are doing, even if they probably know that no new information is in there. They are doing their jobs, under intense scrutiny of lawyers and jo...
[20:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:20] <exec> 08└─Go out in public an anybody can snap pics of your face. Genital recognition is the way to go.
[20:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:23] <exec> 08└─If it's a work phone, its contents could be deemed corporate records. Corporations, AFAIK, don't have 5th Amendment rights, so someone could be compelled to reveal the password.
[20:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:25] <exec> 08└─A thorough investigation includes checking out what could be hidden in his phone.
[20:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:27] <exec> 08└─Genital recognition is the way to go.
[20:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:29] <exec> 08└─I've been fingerprinted for security clearances multiple times over the years. The modern scanners never work on me. The dinky little scanner in the Apple home button is absolutely useless.
[20:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:31] <exec> 08└─There is a point at which the case does not require the effort. That's for someone with access to all the other evidence to decide. Until that point, their job is to collect the evidence, which could include pictures or documents on a phone found at the scene of the crime. In the first hours after t...
[20:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:34] <exec> 08└─I recently switched to an android phone with a fingerprint scanner for the first time and was highly annoyed that you cannot set it to require both the finger print and password to unlock. Or at least I could not find an option in Android 7. Biometrics make horrendous passwords, but they can be reas...
[20:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD's Radeon Technologies Group Boss Raja Koduri Leaves, Confirmed to be Defecting to Intel - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:22] <exec> 08└─Got a Vega 56 right at launch. I'm quite pleased with it since it's nowhere near as loud as the reviews seemed to be making out, and it's about 4x as powerful as my previous card. Can't say I'd want to pay the 85-100% premium for 50% more performance from a 1080 TI.
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[21:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wounds Sustained During the Daytime Heal More Quickly - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:51] <exec> 08└─As someone who has work nights for years, I always wonder if things like this are sun-cycle or sleep-cycle related. While few night works are able to keep a consistent 12-hour-out-of-phase cycle, I wonder how much that would effect the results.
[21:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:58] <exec> 08└─Asteroid mining on a regular basis,... could start anywhere from 20 to 50 years is my personal opinion.
[21:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:01] <exec> 08└─What's the problem you're trying to solve, again? What are the odds of success, the odds of catastrophic failure, and the ROI? Outside of a few people with extra disposable cash buying space diamonds for their mistress, how does asteroid mining compete with the thousands to millions of tons or ore e...
[21:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:03] <exec> 08└─How can you be an expert in something that doesn't exist yet? It's like saying I'm an expert in warp engine design. Because I say so.
[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:05] <exec> 08└─1. Great source of material for building in space, probably much less fuel needed to mine compared to launching off Earth's surface 2. Might find some rare materials. 3. Reduce the environmental impact. 4. Humanity needs a new goal before we tear ourselves apart. 5. It is coooool
[21:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:07] <exec> 08└─I am definitely an expert in asteroid mines: I finished Descent 1, 2, 3 and Underground!
[21:06:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1025 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:17] <exec> 08└─do you believe that there is something else that influences people's religious beliefs ? My theory is that magical thinking (of which religion is a strand) is the human brain's innate ability to detect patterns gone into overdrive. A very long time ago, humanity needed the ability to detect patterns...
[21:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:40] <exec> 08└─And people who conduct "research" to say that religious people are wrong, stupid, and irrational are its ministers. No no, you're right. You're all free-thinkers who start with absolutely zero assumptions--except the ones given to you by people who say there is no god. You came to your own, absolut...
[21:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:42] <exec> 08└─Creflo Dollar still needs that jet, people. Keep those donations coming in. http://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[21:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:44] <exec> 08└─Communism != religion Every major religion has sponsored extreme violence. There are cases where gender reassignment would be a good thing. Given that your rabid ranting is so easily undermined with some pretty basic knowledge I'm just gonna file you away as "wacko with an axe to grind" along with "...
[21:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:46] <exec> 08└─anti-religious ultra-liberal LEFT that pushes SEX CHANGE TO CHILDREN.
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:49] <exec> 08└─So I have easy game discarding the mental masturbations of all atheists and of most theists/agnostics.
[21:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:51] <exec> 08└─Nice try. I will agree that belief in Science (capital S) causes problems since people don't do the hard work of understanding. However, if you're not on board with scientific facts then prepare to be mocked and ignored. There is no scientific proof about the existence of God and plenty of scientist...
[21:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:53] <exec> 08└─How many atheists actually assert that they know for a fact that god does not exist? Even Richard Dawkins does not do that. GP's entire post seems like one huge straw man.
[21:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:55] <exec> 08└─Can't stop to note that all your examples are drawn from Abrahamic religions. It may or may not be the same for all religions.
[21:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those fucking Luterans!!! Especially the Missouri Synod. And is is the ultra-reactionary right that is afraid of paying for sex, and getting something other than what they expected, so they try to force people to stay their birth-gender, against their wills, so they can just check id cards bef...
[21:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:00] <exec> 08└─My position is there are two broad groups of factors that have an intersection but are substantially different. One is "spirituality" and the other is "religion". Spirituality is a feeling that arises from wanting to know beyond the currently known combined with a childish belief in self-importance....
[21:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:02] <exec> 08└─How many atheists actually assert that they know for a fact that god does not exist?
[21:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:04] <exec> 08└─Educated people have the tools to recognize the symptoms and are better able to fight the urge.
[21:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:06] <exec> 08└─You know that those two things aren't mutually exclusive, right? You can be an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist.
[21:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:09] <exec> 08└─Come now, that is impossible and beyond belief! How could you make a man out of just one huge straw?
[21:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:11] <exec> 08└─As "Rummy" Rumsfeld said about the WMDs in the Holely Land: "Absence of God is not a God of Absence". Careful what you worship, puny human! Oh, and avoid Republican Presidencies, they never turn out well.
[21:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:29] <exec> 08└─It's not illegal to do what is reasonably necessary in an emergency situation to save lives. The problem is, that is based on a "reasonable man" standard, and a computer by definition cannot make such an evaluation. So, the computer is forced to be conservative. Also keep in mind that the company th...
[21:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:05] <exec> 08└─Security? Civil Rights? You use such antiquated and unfamiliar terms my friend.
[21:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:52] <exec> 08└─I'm curious what method you would put forth to have a network of untrusted actors produce a trusted ledger? I can agree that BTC mining is an expensive method to validate a ledger, but I don't see an obvious solution that is better.
[21:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:54] <exec> 08└─Seriously. What point do you think you're making?
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[22:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:48] <exec> 08└─Nothing in this article says that they actually FOUND a mantle plume and that it IS releasing that much heat. They generated models based off of the data they currently have and determined that IF there was a mantle plume that is how much heat it would need to produce to match the ice melt. Is there...
[22:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:00] <exec> 08└─I remember a time, long, long ago when it was thought to be impossible to land a rocket booster and re-use it. We'll never mine asteroids. Just ask the NASA and Congress people who said (1) impossible to re-land a rocket booster, and (2) impossible to re-use it. Conclusion: because the odds of faili...
[22:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:02] <exec> 08└─3. Reduce the environmental impact.
[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:04] <exec> 08└─When Elon Musk started SpaceX he was not expecting any ROI. He thought it might completely fail. I just watched a video about this, and heard it from his own mouth. Now it is funny that SpaceX is in an enviable position. It has 16 launches (so far) [wikipedia.org] this year. Commercial launches line...
[22:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:06] <exec> 08└─Let's read the article to see what it takes: “The first step is always the hardest, but once it is taken and a concept is proven, investment will follow. That is why my partners and I have founded Aten Engineering now, because we want to be there when the industry takes off, with a ready product f...
[22:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:08] <exec> 08└─It's like saying I'm an expert in warp engine design. Because I say so. You're probably not, but I'd argue that Harold White [wikipedia.org] qualifies as an expert in warp engine design.
[22:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:10] <exec> 08└─When we use the word "environment" in this context, we're not using it as a synonym for "vicinity", we're really talking about the ecological impact of something. There is no ecology of any kind on an asteroid, so there is no "environmental impact" to asteroid mining (unless you have a big accident...
[22:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:13] <exec> 08└─You're just not distributing the funding correctly. Such a problem will clearly succeed, if it touches at least 218 House districts and 30 states.
[22:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:15] <exec> 08└─Similarly that's how I know all about courage--I played Dungeons & Dragons [youtube.com].
[22:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:17] <exec> 08└─In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks suc...
[22:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, you should send the same equipment to each asteroid. It lands on the asteroid and begins printing worker drones, and everything needed for this specific mining operation. Eventually creating processing facilities, and even launch vehicles to send payloads back to earth. If you are going to mine...
[22:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wounds Sustained During the Daytime Heal More Quickly - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:28] <exec> 08└─I've heard that light affects the cycle as it provides a signal to the cells to sync to. But I also think there is individual variation in there, some people are more active in the evening, while others are more active in the morning. I'm a morning person, darkness can easily put my body into sleep...
[22:06:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:45] <exec> 08└─It's become even harder since the War on Drugs: materialist society has decided to do its best to eradicate utterly any deviation in consciousness from the supposedly "good and proper" rational problem-solving state. Notice it's the religious leaders and people who are most strongly against drug use...
[22:06:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 916 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:54] <exec> 08└─Wander into Las Vegas (my favorite lab for irrational thinking in a fundamentally rational world) and you'll see otherwise-reasonably-rational people convinced that a particular table is "hot" or "cold." People convinced that breaking out a fresh deck of cards will somehow stop a losing streak. Peop...
[22:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:16] <exec> 08└─"That is *literally* what atheism is." No, actually, that is not even close enough for the special olympics, sorry. "Otherwise it's agnosticism." Nope, wrong again. You don't have the slightest clue what you're even talking about.
[22:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:18] <exec> 08└─Patterns. We're surrounded by patterns. Easily perceived ordered ones like crystals, and now with more insight, molecules and atoms and fields. Moderately ordered / disordered ones like clouds, and weather, and even climate. Our minds like patterns. Observe your own feelings when you observe order;...
[22:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:20] <exec> 08└─"The vast majority of atheists simply lack a belief in a god or gods rather than claim that they know there are no gods." People who wear the "atheists" label seem to have redefined it to be more inclusive lately. An alternative definition is that an atheist is one who believes that no gods exist. I...
[22:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 2027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:22] <exec> 08└─Yet another reprise in a timeless debate that hasn't grown any less futile. You either believe in God, or you don't. "Believe" is the operative word in that statement. You can't scientifically proved there is a God, but you also can't scientifically prove there isn't. Plenty of atheists and anti-the...
[22:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:24] <exec> 08└─As an atheist I don't feel the need to prove anything, as I am making no claims. As far as I am concerned it's the religious who should be offering proof, and as some of their claims are pretty extraordinary, so should their proof be.
[22:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:26] <exec> 08└─That is *literally* what atheism is. Otherwise it's agnosticism.
[22:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:29] <exec> 08└─http://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx [beliefnet.com]
[22:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:31] <exec> 08└─You either believe in God, or you don't. "Believe" is the operative word in that statement. [...] I know God is real.
[22:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:33] <exec> 08└─kneel before Zod
[22:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation [wikipedia.org] The practice is rooted in gender inequality, attempts to control women's sexuality, and ideas about purity, modesty and beauty. It is usually initiated and carried out by women, who see it as a source of honour, and who fear tha...
[22:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:37] <exec> 08└─You can't scientifically proved[sic] there is a God, but you also can't scientifically prove there isn't.
[22:07:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:48] <exec> 08└─From the picture in TFA, and the text, I am making some assumptions about how the accident happened. “The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that it’s (sic) sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident,” “Unfortunately the delivery truck did not stop and...
[22:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:41] <exec> 08└─a perverse incentive
[22:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate to Stay the Course With HAMR HDDs, Plans 20 TB by 2020, ~50 TB Before 2025 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:34] <exec> 08└─they have to adapt to the market
[22:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:23] <exec> 08└─totally get the "gold rush" incentive that is continuing to work so well to blow up blockchain schemes via speculative support,
[22:13:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Aluminum Foil Can Improve Wi-Fi Performance and Security - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:30] <exec> 08└─My can of pringles would love a chat with your "researchers"
[22:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:48] <exec> 08└─If we are going to get anywhere with space exploration, people are going to die. A lot of people.
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[22:16:31] <exec> 08└─Andy argued for microkernels in favor of monolithic kernels. Not for Minix in favor of Linux. And another thing, most, if not all, micro-controllers (and DSPs big enough to run an OS as opposed to a simple loop) are running microkernels. That's harddrives, network controllers, north\south bridges, a...
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[23:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:49] <exec> 08└─Heh, I was coming here to say exactly that. "We made models that would explain this" is very much not the same as "we took measurements that agree with the hypothetical model we had."
[23:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:51] <exec> 08└─. Is there an alternate news source that says otherwise?
[23:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:53] <exec> 08└─Admittedly I don't know much about the JPL. But why would a "Jet Propulsion Laboratory" be involved in this kind of work? Seems geological science is kinda out of their scope.
[23:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:55] <exec> 08└─Some people are going to get coal under the tree, if they keep talking about the heat released by Santa's Southern Sweatshop ... (turns out the elves are more productive with daylight)
[23:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:57] <exec> 08└─Heat plume mumble mumble mumble ancient alien rocket thruster mumble mumble repurposable as a weapon mumble have Congress redirect portion of military budget to NASA to investigate further.
[23:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:59] <exec> 08└─Admittedly I don't know much about the JPL
[23:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:01] <exec> 08└─including the dome and the giant subsurface rivers and lakes we know are present on Antarctica's bedrock.
[23:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:04] <exec> 08└─Heat plume mumble mumble mumble ancient alien rocket thruster mumble mumble repurposable as a weapon mumble have Congress redirect portion of military budget to NASA to investigate further.
[23:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:06] <exec> 08└─They have a history of working with NASA and they have experience with flow calculations? Either that or it's their expertise in harnessing fire elementals. After all the JPL was founded by a practicing magician [wikipedia.org], who at one time hung out with L.Ron Hubbard. Compared to characters lik...
[23:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:08] <exec> 08└─Don't let Charles Bishop Weyland look too closely at it or he might find the pyramid.
[23:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:30] <exec> 08└─In response to my own comment :) It's more akin to terraforming an asteroid... Yes -- I am an expert!
[23:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:32] <exec> 08└─Lol, you're doing it wrong. Or, by the seething anger you seem to hold probably every interviewer sees the psychotic break ready to happen in your eyes and thinks "No thanks, I don't wanna be murdered by a disgruntled dev." Or perhaps you're such a special fucking snowflake that you won't take a job...
[23:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:34] <exec> 08└─Bringing chunks of asteroid to the Earth's surface requires propellant and will probably be more expensive than conventional mining for a long time. Using the materials such as ice in space, to refuel spacecraft for example, could be a more reasonable goal.
[23:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:36] <exec> 08└─I've never seen a realistic accounting model that produces profits. Even if one found an asteroid made of pure gold, it would be more expensive to collect and return from the asteroid belt than it would to mine it on Earth. And of course, no asteroid is going to be so easy to mine. (Nickle and iron...
[23:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wounds Sustained During the Daytime Heal More Quickly - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:46] <exec> 08└─...no night fights.
[23:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:45] <exec> 08└─The conclusion they make doesn't really make any sense. Considering that we use rational thinking to disprove god or gods as a reasonable possibility, I fail to see how there can be no link between rational thinking and a belief in invisible sky fairies. It's difficult to believe that somebody can b...
[23:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:46] <exec> 08└─SN is becoming a treasure trove for Poe's Law.
[23:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:48] <exec> 08└─None of those are particularly valid though, they work on people that aren't fully rational. 1. Secular ethics is a thing and while there's a certain amount of disagreement about where the exact lines are, they provide more than enough guidance for typical social interactions and choices. 2. We won'...
[23:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:51] <exec> 08└─I didn't see anyone mention marketing. There's a lot of money to be made in convincing people that you have an "In" with an all-seeing, all-powerful deity and you need their "support" to a) get the word out about the deity an b) move them ahead in the line of supplicants wanting a special favor. And...
[23:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:53] <exec> 08└─You're clearly thinking about this more clearly and more deeply than most, but let me suggest a slight adjustment. Religion, proper religion, is the pursuit of what you call spirituality, and the attempt to preserve and understand the records of those that went before in that pursuit. It's how we at...
[23:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:55] <exec> 08└─Correction. Most people believe in some kind of *spirituality*. In other words, they feel a sense of connection with the environment around them, people, the universe, what have you. IMO Religion is a method of brainwashing people into doing whatever the controllers of that particular religion want....
[23:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe the shuttle could be a bit smarter and back up a few more feet if it realizes OMG, that stupid puny ignorant small-brained human descended from ape is still backing up!
[23:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:15] <exec> 08└─Big Yellow? Taxi drivers evrawhere: "they terk er jerbs!" Remember the old adage "if cars were made like computers…"?
[23:08:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 735 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:40] <exec> 08└─So because humans aren't perfect we should trust machines? That makes about as much sense as "because $YOUR_POLITICIAN is bad you should vote for $MY_POLITICIAN". The difference is: a crazy human can hurt 100 people. A crazy web site can hurt 140 million people (Equifux). You can incentivize most hu...
[23:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:02] <exec> 08└─If you're out in the middle of nowhere without a functioning government that even knows you're there, I'm fairly certain you don't have to worry about paying for health insurance and medical copays. Because you won't be getting a doctor anywhere near you anytime soon. As for the ACA, the only thing...
[23:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─Apple suggesting that you can put the dead man's finger on the phone is not them bowing to pressure. And your last sentence is just ridiculous.
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:52] <exec> 08└─Terrorists could add tiny explosive pads to their fingertips, triggered by their heartbeat stopping, to prevent Touch ID from working upon death!
[23:11:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 5 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:06] <exec> 08└─MeU69
[23:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:29] <exec> 08└─From Ghostbusters: Gozer (The Traveller) Look at the image and tell me that doesn't make a lot more sense.
[23:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:49] <exec> 08└─>there needs to be something that makes it difficult to create whatever we're using as digital assets. Paper $100 bills don't seem to be very difficult to make at all, the only thing that keeps them from being readily copied is the action of the treasury department (a whole other kettle of fish...)...
[23:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:16] <exec> 08└─Agreed, just because you work on a pork project does not make you a bad person, it's economic reality: pork is all that's on the menu for lots of NASA contractors.
[23:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:18] <exec> 08└─SLS managers rally the troops to avoid EM-1 slip into 2020 [nasaspaceflight.com] Waste that money!
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