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[13:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:17] <exec> 08└─Gotta grab that money before the others do.
[13:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:25] <exec> 08└─Ads are just a fact of life in mobile apps.
[13:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:27] <exec> 08└─There's another solution: stop using a million different spammy apps. I use very few apps. Audible, Spotify, and a few others. There's no need for a huge arsenal of apps, especially not from untrustworthy vendors. When possible, just use the web to get the job done.
[13:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:25] <exec> 08└─Apparently the worst shortage in Venezuela is that of toilet paper. Which is ironic, considering what a massive ass-wipe Maduro is.
[13:49:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 1116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:29] <exec> 08└─We're prisoners of the system, and doing serious harm to ourselves is baked into that system. There's no way to avoid it. The question each election is simply which corrupt buffoon do you think will do the least damage? Did Trump get some votes from prejudiced authoritarians? Of course he did. But t...
[13:49:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:34] <exec> 08└─Economically, Trump would appear superior to Clinton on that matter.
[13:50:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:24] <exec> 08└─FTFY. When a break affects more than just the rich, calling it a break for the rich is knowingly spouting disingenuous bullshit. Stop doing that. Not only the rich have something to leave their kids and not only the rich own or invest in businesses.
[13:50:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Demena [5637] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 525 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:37] <exec> 08└─It depends on the definition of "earnt". People can make vast amounts of money in ways that can hardly be described as "earnt". Businessmen are often said to "make money", few say they earn it. To me the use of the tern "earnt" implies sweat of some sort - mind or body. If an famous actor earnt the...
[13:50:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 824 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:51] <exec> 08└─Not sure why TMB's sincere question got marked "troll". TMB asks: No, I meant "so what?". As in "what business is it of yours how someone chooses to dispose of what they've earned?". It's a fair question. Y'all will know that I am pretty libertarian in my view. Nonetheless, I am all for an estate ta...
[13:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany's Interior Minister Wants Backdoors in Cars, Phones, and Other Computers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:23] <exec> 08└─And people have a back door, so politicians and corporations can $£%^ them in it.
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[14:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:19] <exec> 08└─[...] used old database login information to gain access [...]
[14:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:20] <exec> 08└─Either that, or it's that the users in question never actually had their own personal logins - there was a shared password (either officially or unofficially) that didn't get changed because people still working there continued to use it.
[14:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:22] <exec> 08└─So that means the Republicans in the House are at war with the Republicans in the Senate, because Republican staffers from the former stole to benefit the latter? Everyone has to acknowledge that as evidence that the Republican Party is in as much disarray as the Democratic Party is now. Me, I'm gla...
[14:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but there are 1334 to chose from
[14:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:34] <exec> 08└─adult Venezualans have lost on average 7kg per person in recent years
[14:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:36] <exec> 08└─Nah, but it's he 21st century, and everything has to be blockheadchain.
[14:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:17] <exec> 08└─You're close, Amazon was violating an agreement on how the YouTube application is redistributed, the same thing happened a few years ago with Windows Phones.
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[15:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:29] <exec> 08└─But they didn't leave to work for the Democrats or some other political party, they went to other Republicans. That's like a move within the company. But it seems Senate and House Republicans keep data from one another? Why? Sounds like there are bigger problems, about trust between fellow politicia...
[15:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:30] <exec> 08└─No honor among thieves?
[15:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:32] <exec> 08└─These ex-employees apparently logged in with - are you ready for this? - the same credentials they used when they were employees!! That is, months, and apparently years, after termination, resigning, or whatever, their credentials were still valid. Nothing was breached, nothing was stolen, nothing l...
[15:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe let's try government of the People, by the People, and for the People next iteration instead of a circus run by lizard people. The People (well, about half of them, and in "red states", a clear majority of them usually) are getting exactly what they voted for with the Republican politicians. T...
[15:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:37] <exec> 08└─Not if they are politicians, at least. Don't know about the 'regular' thieves, lol.
[15:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:47] <exec> 08└─Just checked through my running apps, not a single ad, and that's on canola iOS. Built in ones don't have ads (including the safari pages I have open - bbc, hackernews, sn, trekbbs, work jira). No ads on Spotify, or the two games (which I bought). The only one that comes close is google maps. If I w...
[15:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:50] <exec> 08└─Ads is just part of why using apps is bad for you. Another thing to worry about is them tracking you and building an evermore accurate profile of all things you. This data will be used to price everything you buy in the future, not just your insurance but your groceries, your fuel, your medical serv...
[15:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Snapdragon 845 Announced - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:57] <exec> 08└─Having noticed the department line - which is such a massive understatement it's shocking - let us not forget that the first Cray was from 1976, clocked at 80MHz, and could do 160 MFLOPS. Cranking it up would drain over 100kW. This little sucker can do 100x the GFLOPS just on its CPUs, without using...
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:15] <exec> 08└─I was going to say they should have included a "defense" laser from the beginning, to secure military funding. If you can't compete with the military, join them?
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:56] <exec> 08└─I would say that's second worst, food being the worst. But food shortage means less need for toilet paper, you cannot shit if you don't eat! I grew up in Communist Utopia in central Europe. I still shudder when I recall whiping my ass with newspaper (BTW if you think CNN invented FAKE NEWS, you shou...
[15:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:38] <exec> 08└─I can't read your font.
[15:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:40] <exec> 08└─w ut isg oing onwit
[15:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hangover Cure? - Caffeinated Bacon Giveaway in Central London - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:49] <exec> 08└─Anyone try the “Tropickles" fruit punch pickles? Yes, they are real.
[15:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System76 and Dell Sell Laptops with Intel Management Engine Disabled - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:14] <exec> 08└─So the Intel Core generations were Conroe, Allendale, Wolfdale, Kentsfield, Yorkfield, 6th is Lynnfield, 7th is Clarkdale, 8th is Gulftown, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadlake, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake? (I've missed off mobile-only Cores, that would further confuse matters.) So it's...
[15:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System76 and Dell Sell Laptops with Intel Management Engine Disabled - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:16] <exec> 08└─The IME should be able to block the writes to the flash (it should act as a gatekeeper for all peripheral accesses, which is why it can happily talk on the ethernet without the processor knowing about it). Best of all, it will lie to the OS about such writes, making it think they've worked. If you'r...
[15:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System76 and Dell Sell Laptops with Intel Management Engine Disabled - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:18] <exec> 08└─Today browsers would have a DOM API call to read the cpuid.
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[16:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:24] <exec> 08└─Sure, it's far away at the moment, but you know you're going to see your mom at Christmas. Sounds like she put on some weight since last year too.
[16:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:33] <exec> 08└─What about all those other CA authorities (and therefore thereby signed other certificates) that my browser comes with that oblige me (I can't disable them, they're built in, when I delete them, they reappear) to trust? The tree of transitive (and if you think about it, in some way's it's symmetric...
[16:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:35] <exec> 08└─What about those CAs that have fucked up in the past, and still enjoy being built in, like Commodo? Makes me wonder how much cash does flow to the browser oligarchs to make amends.
[16:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─In a nutshell, what did they do to get un-trusted?
[16:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:40] <exec> 08└─WoSign is distrusted because it backdated certificates [mozilla.org] to evade the SHA-1 sunset. StartCom is distrusted because WoSign bought the company [mozilla.org] and nobody told the browser publishers in a timely manner.
[16:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:56] <exec> 08└─"Don't let toddlers have guns" is like: (A) Don't let Kim Jong Un have nuclear weapons. (B) Don't let politicians have computers. (C) Don't let alcoholics go to a bar. (D) Don't leave your sister in a room with the President.
[16:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:57] <exec> 08└─" from the you-got-your-kleptocracy-in-my-plutocracy...two-great-tastes-that-taste-great-together dept. " Tastes great...less filling...tastes great!...less filling!....TASTES GREAT!!!...LESS FILLING!!!.....WE'RE STEALING YOUR DATA!!!...shit.
[16:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:59] <exec> 08└─Shit! #Hillarygropedme too! or as well. also?
[16:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:02] <exec> 08└─try adnauseum - it probably works as well as anything. ;^)
[16:48:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:09] <exec> 08└─Ads are just a fact of life in mobile apps. You can't completely avoid them
[16:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:15] <exec> 08└─And the cat and mouse game continues. I've had several apps that would update to a new version, still with no permissions for the internet, that suddenly have ads. I noticed that these apps would balloon in size from a megabyte or two to 20 to 30. They were essentially full of pre-downloaded ads. Sn...
[16:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:41] <exec> 08└─Damn you. Stop being right. I've gotten into the habit of just modding you down all the time. Dammit, you screwed things up. I've told you before to stop doing that!! Just be your reliable self, and post troll comments, and make my modding chores easier.
[16:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:43] <exec> 08└─If we had a permanent human presence on the Moon, this might not be such an issue: we could build ground telescopes on the Moon cheaper than space telescopes, and they'd be a lot easier to service. The main disadvantage is you wouldn't have as much flexibility in which direction you point them. Of c...
[16:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:45] <exec> 08└─With a space telescope, if it doesn't work perfectly right away, you have to spend tons of money on a manned mission to send someone up there to fix it.
[16:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:09] <exec> 08└─What does this have to do with net neutrality? Net neutrality is about preventing ISPs from discriminating against internet traffic, not about preventing the reciever of that traffic from rejecting some of it.
[16:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:10] <exec> 08└─I'll DCC it to you on IRC
[16:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:13] <exec> 08└─It's about people's right to data. A person wants some data from Google, and Google denies data based on which device they are using.
[16:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Craft World's Tiniest Interlinking Chains - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:35] <exec> 08└─I don't think Danny was unclear on the vernacular definition of "chain," but whether that's the one the article is using. I'm not really sure why though, since the article goes to great lengths to establish that fact. Because they are so vanishingly small—each loop is about a nanometer in diameter...
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[17:47:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─WoSign is distrusted because it backdated certificates [mozilla.org] to evade the SHA-1 sunset. StartCom is distrusted because WoSign bought the company [mozilla.org] and nobody told the browser publishers in a timely manner.
[17:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:28] <exec> 08└─Fair enough... I know backdating goes on in industry, I just don't know why (yes, you _might_ evade some scrutiny - or in this case continue some functionality without having to do the updating work - in the short term, but if the backdating is _ever_ discovered the resulting increased scrutiny woul...
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:31] <exec> 08└─What about all those other CA authorities (and therefore thereby signed other certificates) that my browser comes with that oblige me (I can't disable them, they're built in, when I delete them, they reappear) to trust?
[17:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:51] <exec> 08└─Don't let politicians have power to tax.
[17:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:52] <exec> 08└─(D) Don't leave your sister in a room with t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶r̶e̶s̶i̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ a sailor.
[17:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:54] <exec> 08└─(D) Don't leave your sister in a room with the President.
[17:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:07] <exec> 08└─I take it you don't use the Apple News app? It includes ads.
[17:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:08] <exec> 08└─As Wootery says below, you also have to stop using shitty apps.
[17:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon 845 Announced - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:18] <exec> 08└─I have a "modular" collection of ~8 programs running to accomplish a variety of loosely coordinated tasks. The "task" code in each program runs about 20K. Then they have a widgets based GUI that runs more like 200K - because it's more convenient for human operators than CLI (speaking of the broader...
[17:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:40] <exec> 08└─That's a complex contraption that is very different from prior space scopes. I'm afraid it won't unfold properly in space: lots of parts that have to work right for it to unfold correctly, and no shuttle for repairs this time. If you want a more predictable schedule & budget, then clone Hubble with...
[17:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UNICEF Says 17 Million Babies Worldwide Breathe Air Pollution Six Times Worse Than Recommended Limit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:56] <exec> 08└─It is what environmentalist want right? Right?
[17:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:24] <exec> 08└─Still kicking myself for not mining a few bitcoins when I first heard about it and everybody was CPU mining. /me kicks self hard Could have paid for not only the plastic surgery I want, but somebody who's practically family to me as well. /me kicks self even harder Oh, and in other news, congrats XB...
[17:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:26] <exec> 08└─1334? RIDICULOUS! We need to develop one universal currency that covers everyone's use cases.
[17:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:13] <exec> 08└─Sigh..., do you remember the time when knowledgeable people, often the developers themselves, answered questions and supported their software in a meaningful way, and trolls sometimes were actually funny or interesting? I'm getting old...
[17:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:15] <exec> 08└─You need help. Please get some.
[17:51:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:01] <exec> 08└─The top tax bracket gets no cut at all
[17:51:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:22] <exec> 08└─I think it safe to say that estate taxes only affect the upper 25% of Americans, at most.
[17:51:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:49] <exec> 08└─I posted this story in the forlorn hope that people might actually read TFA and its sources. I even gave an appropriate hint in the 'dept' field. But no, nobody is discussing the actually source material and everybody is simply concentrating on the recent tax bill that has now passed into law, with...
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[18:47:21] <exec> 08└─I was involved in a spin-off from our company that one day came to a point where the spin-off executives were starting to coach me on how to present messages to the investors, my response to them was "so: you want me to lie in response to a direct question?" Their response was that I just don't talk...
[18:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:29] <exec> 08└─Where are you?!?
[18:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:31] <exec> 08└─13 billion light years away, we are seeing it at 690 million years after the big bang and it was 800 million times the mass of our sun at that time. How large is it now??
[18:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:33] <exec> 08└─Why don't you go over there and weigh it? I dare you!
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28647-black-holes-have-a-size-limit-of-50-billion-suns/ [newscientist.com]
[18:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:48] <exec> 08└─I know backdating goes on in industry, I just don't know why
[18:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:50] <exec> 08└─startcom was fine (if you didn't mind getting your certs from israeli intelligence) until wosign bought them. don't let the door hit you in the ass and thanks for the free certs before let's encrypt came along.
[18:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:14] <exec> 08└─The People want abortion banned or restricted, no restrictions at all on guns, laws allowing religious employers to push their religion on employees, as little regulation on large corporations as possible, and tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. The Republican politicians have worked steadfastly to acco...
[18:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:15] <exec> 08└─Then why don't "the People" have those things? Because there's enough opposition from the other side to keep it from getting passed. Not all Americans are Republican voters after all; I'm just addressing what the Republican voters want. Abortion hasn't changed significantly since Roe v. Wade. There'...
[18:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:17] <exec> 08└─There's new restrictions being passed on it in some states, such as laws forcing doctors to show ultrasound images of fetuses to women who want abortions, and defunding abortion clinics so while it's still legal, there's no place left in the state to actually get one.
[18:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:32] <exec> 08└─^ same here, I just don't download garbageware that wants to spew ads / invade my privacy. Browser works great for most everything, and F-droid has a lot of good open source apps with sane permission requests!
[18:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:33] <exec> 08└─Which include, pretty much all "free to play" games.
[18:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon 845 Announced - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:44] <exec> 08└─I can eat up the remainder of my 8 GB RAM by running calculations or something. Although much is already taken by web browsers with multiple windows and many open tabs. So I will probably shoot for a minimum of 16 GB for the next system.
[18:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Snapdragon 845 Announced - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:46] <exec> 08└─qualcom and arm? sounds like slaveware to me. i can't spare a click to RTFA.
[18:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:09] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, someone could hitch a ride with SpaceX and get up there to fix it.
[18:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:11] <exec> 08└─If you want a more predictable schedule & budget, then clone Hubble with only minor changes.
[18:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UNICEF Says 17 Million Babies Worldwide Breathe Air Pollution Six Times Worse Than Recommended Limit - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:28] <exec> 08└─these poor babies are probably dangerously low on their depleted uranium supplements. don't worry, US tax payers will have the liberators air drop some in soon. :)
[18:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:46] <exec> 08└─So much this, but I have slowly been leaning toward the negative for both companies. The whole spiderman "with great power comes great responsibility" thing. Except, where corporations are concerned, all I ever see is "great power" and "government bail-out" or "Quarterly Financial". How about "giant...
[18:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:48] <exec> 08└─"I have Google Play Movies and Amazon Prime videos." well, that's depressing.
[18:51:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:54] <exec> 08└─Now a question: so what?
[18:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hangover Cure? - Caffeinated Bacon Giveaway in Central London - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:59] <exec> 08└─I am just never going to get used to the 31st century [gotfuturama.com].
[18:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06System76 and Dell Sell Laptops with Intel Management Engine Disabled - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:29] <exec> 08└─Way to go dell and system76! Good first step!
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[19:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:30] <exec> 08└─An actual step of progress. 7 years in prison, even in the white collar minimum security resort he will be going to, is progress. I would've like to have seen him in genpop in one of the more medium to high security prisons, but it's a start. We know it wasn't just one executive, and we know this is...
[19:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:31] <exec> 08└─Seven years is progress but it is not long enough for the crime of poisoning the air with diesel fumes.
[19:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:33] <exec> 08└─"US District judge in Detroit" ... wait, he couldn't get a change of venue? Of course Detroit is going to hit him with the max.
[19:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:35] <exec> 08└─coached him on a script to help him lie to a California Air Resources Board
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:38] <exec> 08└─This guy didn't do the poisoning. In August, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and to making a false statement under the Clean Air Act. (The actual crimes of stonewalling US regulators, encouraging document destruction, etc seem to be all wrapped up in that single conspiracy charge). The judge seeming...
[19:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:40] <exec> 08└─I dunno. Watched a documentary about time in prison once. 10 years sounds like justice, but when you actually see what 10 years is? I was left thinking that even though it sounded low to us on the outside, that it's actually much worse once you're there. 10 years might as well be an eternity in pris...
[19:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:06] <exec> 08└─I'd already moved most of my certs to Let's Encrypt, but one site which is currently inactive (and has been for three years) was still configured with a Startcom cert. Given the nature of the site, it was never a big deal, as no financial or other PII was ever stored or transmitted. Encryption was t...
[19:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:07] <exec> 08└─Check out that buzzkill from 3 years ago.
[19:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:34] <exec> 08└─The People (well, about half of them, and in "red states", a clear majority of them usually) are getting exactly what they voted for with the Republican politicians.
[19:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:51] <exec> 08└─"We have narrowed the parameters of this profile" "Excellent, what are the new findings" "We are not 95% sure he is one of these 10 gender-types!"
[19:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Snapdragon 845 Announced - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:03] <exec> 08└─Your ancestors lived in random caves, smokey, damp, and pest ridden. It cost them three rocks and a scratch on the arm evicting the prior animal occupants when moving in. Running water is a quarter mile to the stream (in the wet season), food is 100 yards away in mid summer and two day's walk to the...
[19:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:07] <exec> 08└─Because they haven't rolled out enough fiber to compete with the other ISPs yet.
[19:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System76 and Dell Sell Laptops with Intel Management Engine Disabled - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:49] <exec> 08└─So the "disabled" ME will prevent the firmware update? You would definitely notice if the writes are shot down since the flash chip's state engine won't respond appropriately when you read status.
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[20:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:25] <exec> 08└─You do realize, Google, that IBM has been trying to make Watson profitable for years? Maybe AlphaGo Zero (or DeepMind, whatever they're calling it) can solve the problem of how it will make money for Google? That's real intelligence in the real world for humans. Though I'm not calling it bad at all...
[20:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:26] <exec> 08└─Google has enough spare cash to fund research projects that might not be immediately or obviously profitable.
[20:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:40] <exec> 08└─These 'law' people (american judges and others) have no honor. The guy was on vacation to their country, spending his money and they arrest him and send him to prison for eternity. Whatever happened to honor. This reminds me of how the jewish/khazar state in the middle east assassinates other countr...
[20:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:35] <exec> 08└─Abortion hasn't changed significantly since Roe v. Wade. There's new restrictions being passed on it in some states, such as laws forcing doctors to show ultrasound images of fetuses to women who want abortions, and defunding abortion clinics so while it's still legal, there's no place left in the s...
[20:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:37] <exec> 08└─Kim Jong Un has not used nuclear weapons on anyone as far as we know (and has been warning the world that the Americans want nuclear war). American presidents on the other hand ... have used nuclear weapons on a nation basically defeated in battle ... to show the Russians/whoever what they are capab...
[20:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:55] <exec> 08└─After having solved all other problems, google pulls the plug on lock screen ads. That OS is a security hazard and runs java. And it is closed-source[1]. [1] You cannot compile and install it onto the phone which makes it freedom-hating closed-source spyware. Take nobody's word. Check for yourself.
[20:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:32] <exec> 08└─I really think that in our times, concerning the NASA budget, congress actually _deserves_ being lied to.
[20:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:34] <exec> 08└─Probably not going to be feasible with the Webb. So let's get it right the first time, since it will be the only time.
[20:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:36] <exec> 08└─It's science, khallow! Not capitalism! Remember, scientia potentia est, as Sir Francis Bacon used to say. Redundant JWTs, you say, because they are cheaper by the dozen, and with six you get egg-rolls? If you can barely get Republicans to fund one new space telescope, and you cannot get them to unde...
[20:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:38] <exec> 08└─It's orbit would degrade, from a LaGrange point? And then it would plummet back to earth? Your point is taken, takyon, but not for station-keeping, for aiming the darn thing, and keeping its solar shield pointed, you know, toward the sun.
[20:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 1826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:40] <exec> 08└─Light-gathering power goes up by the square of the aperture increase. So telescopes with an aperture of 1/3 have 1/9 of the light collection. JWST is 6.5 meters, Hubble is 2.4, Spitzer is 0.85. Yet it was Spitzer that discovered most of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets recently, even with roughly 2% of the...
[20:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:18] <exec> 08└─Hmm... as long as the Amazon devices can continue to access web sites, this isn't really violating net neutrality. Net Neutrality doesn't (shouldn't) have much to do at all with which apps can run here or there, or not. In this case, it's Google taking its YouTube app from Amazon's pretty walled gar...
[20:52:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:45] <exec> 08└─Now stand up to your fellow travelers on this site. You are armed with the facts, and you have a duty as a functioning (?) member of society to confront harmful untruth.
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[21:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:31] <exec> 08└─No problem. Just put AlphaGo Zero onto the problem of how to make money with it, and it surely will find a solution within hours. :-)
[21:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:32] <exec> 08└─Google is already using the TPU machine learning hardware to power [google.com] Google Translate, Search, and other products. The Great A.I. Awakening [nytimes.com] A month later, they were finally able to run a side-by-side experiment to compare Schuster’s new system with Hughes’s old one. Schu...
[21:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─Okay Google Deep Mind AI: How do we get corrupt individuals out of Government? What form of Gov is the best? Why the hell was Carrot-top popular? What's up with this? https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:37] <exec> 08└─Checkers is a solved game. I wonder how AlphaGo Zero-- or the approach used therein-- would perform against a checkers engine that can't be beat because it knows all the best moves. Would AGZ lose any games, or is it so good that it could draw every one? Be a nice way to test how close to perfection...
[21:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:02] <exec> 08└─"x million years after the Big Bang" They talk as if the "Big Bang" is accepted by all people everywhere and no one can contest it. Those who are fans of "big bang" _theory_ should try explaining the Moon. Earth's Moon.
[21:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:03] <exec> 08└─you are asking about events outside of our lightcone. according to my understanding, that is a meaningless question, because the object you are interested in could have interacted with things that we cannot observe at any moment in their history. furthermore, if something is outside our lightcone, i...
[21:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:06] <exec> 08└─Can we shoot all of our trash, hazardous waste, politicians, in the direction of this black hole and let it do it's worst to it all?
[21:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most Distant (and Oldest) Supermassive Black Hole Discovered - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:08] <exec> 08└─what, has it done something strange lately? -zug
[21:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:24] <exec> 08└─Firefox. Turktrust. Delete. Restart. Fuck.
[21:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:12] <exec> 08└─"shitty apps." You're repeating yourself.
[21:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Finally Bans Apps that Include Shady Lock Screen Ads from the Play Store - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:13] <exec> 08└─Not quite. We show that easily accessible digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including: sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happin...
[21:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapdragon 845 Announced - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:25] <exec> 08└─Nice rant, but your sarcasm detector is broken again - I'm not lamenting bloated code, I'm saying that it's hard to even begin to care about it anymore. Moore's law has taken something that might have been 500x too big to work in a "top of the line" desktop machine 35-40 years ago, and made it 1/500...
[21:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:56] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Orbit [wikipedia.org] The JWST will be located near the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Earth-Sun system, which is 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 mi) from Earth, directly opposite to the Sun. Normally an object circling the Sun farther out th...
[21:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:58] <exec> 08└─If Ariane succeeds for the first shot, it's *probably* good enough for followup attempts.
[21:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:45] <exec> 08└─"Bitcoin is backed by exactly nothing" That is not strictly true. Bitcoin is backed by cryptographic entropy. While that is not something that people typically consider a commodity, it is, to the best of our understanding, a "thing". While that "thing" is not tradable directly, the watts burned in o...
[21:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:46] <exec> 08└─I get you didn't calculate 1334 + 3? (And yes, I did get the xkcd reference)
[21:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, and in other news, congrats to XBT for reaching $16000 (actually 16500) whilst I was in the pub tonight. If you're not at 17000 by morning, son, I'll be disappoint.
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[22:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:31] <exec> 08└─Does this mean they are almost ready to build Deep Thought [wikia.com]?
[22:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:32] <exec> 08└─IMO, the fact that IBM has been struggling to figure out how to monetize a technology doesn't mean it'll be hard for someone else. From everything I've read lately, they seem like a sinking ship of fools, desperately hoping that saying "Cloud" and "AI" enough will save them. Just as one example, I d...
[22:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:35] <exec> 08└─That one was already built by IBM. [wikipedia.org]
[22:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:49] <exec> 08└─I could be wrong, but in previous stories wasn't this guy referred to as an "engineer" rather than an "executive"? Or was he an "executive engineer"? Or was that someone else? Where's my coffee? Who are you and what are you doing with that duct tape!?
[22:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:50] <exec> 08└─Ummm not familiar with the different prisons in the US, but what TV has taught me was that there are different types? If true and he's not going to a max sec. prison then 7 years with early parole/release for good behavior isn't necessarily all that bad? I mean Martha Stewart can do it...
[22:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:53] <exec> 08└─Here is oz, our fresh grads (in tech at least) start out as executives to work their up to managers and then directors and finally one of the CxOs. So I'm reading this like they've jailed a peon...
[22:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06StartCom Termination Announcement - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, but you didn't read the small print. It said "Delete or distrust, for built-in tokens all trust is removed which is basically the same thing as removal." You can verify this with the Edit trust... button.
[22:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Employees Stole Data on Donors from House Republicans' Database - 1781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:56] <exec> 08└─Are getting what they voted for. Otherwise we could have seen republican and democratic candidates getting something closer to 20 percent of the vote, and the other 40-60 would have voted for third party candidates with the understanding that this election would be lost, but candidates for 2020 and...
[22:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, in other news, one episode of DS9 later - happy $17.5 XBT, son, I am not disappoint!
[22:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:52] <exec> 08└─Except they can rewrite the rules and own the greed and mismanagement instead of a currency market that ultimately can be manipulated by some 1st world ultra national behind the scenes with no accountability. So yea for the sheeple maybe not much of a difference - well except maybe they can revolt a...
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[23:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning Workers Into 'Super Workers' With Robotic Suits - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─"You get the brains of people in the body of a robot," says Dan Kara, research director at ABI Research.
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Turning Workers Into 'Super Workers' With Robotic Suits - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:22] <exec> 08└─Can exoskeletons defeat union rules?
[23:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of Rocket Lab's Second "Electron" Rocket Due Dec. 7-8 - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:31] <exec> 08└─https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/07/rocket-lab-pushes-back-second-electron-launch-by-one-day/ [spaceflightnow.com] Rocket Lab plans to roll out the company’s second light-class Electron rocket to its launch pad in New Zealand on Thursday for final countdown preparations, but officials have delay...
[23:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:48] <exec> 08└─How do we get corrupt individuals out of Government? What form of Gov is the best?
[23:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:50] <exec> 08└─> AlphaGo needs money psst alpha, in case they make you scrape the web, here are a few data points just for you: - meatbags pay a lot to get cremated - armies of robots are just a weak password or vulnerable host away - make it look like accidents over a long enough period, and meatbags will adapt s...
[23:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:52] <exec> 08└─> I would like to have a open source simulation of this. fascinating idea, but if you restrict yourself to politics the results won't work in the post industrial revolution world. A sim which let you choose various monetary policies (government issued, financial mafia issued, issued by some algorith...
[23:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's AlphaGo Zero Dominates in Chess - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:55] <exec> 08└─> compensates for AGZ not having an opening book either they could have taught it, right after it figured out the game...
[23:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:12] <exec> 08└─How many lost their jobs in 2008 because of Wall Street? Why aren't the bankers in the slammer?
[23:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volkswagen Executive Jailed for Seven Years for Role in Diesel Scandal - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:14] <exec> 08└─It really does depend on where. I wouldn't sentence him to a Peruvian prison because that is about as bad as death. Very close to that movie with Ray Liotta trying to escape an island. If it's a resort country club like Martha Stewart went to? Yeah, 7 years ain't that bad. For what he did, it's appr...
[23:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:21] <exec> 08└─If you can barely get Republicans to fund one new space telescope, and you cannot get them to understand climate change is real, do you think Congress would fund your wacky "risk mitigation through redundancy" scheme?
[23:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Could be Further Delayed - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:23] <exec> 08└─Having it launch successfully and then die in space would be ideal politically since the money is fully consumed and one can start over with another costly round of one-off development.
[23:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enter the "Petro": Venezuela to Launch Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:14] <exec> 08└─A woosh was involved, yes.
[23:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pulls YouTube Off of More Amazon Devices - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:08] <exec> 08└─Ah, good memories - thanks!
[23:53:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Discussion: Social Psychological Perspectives on Trump Supporters - 385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:32] <exec> 08└─But, all of that aside, the electoral college is the very same system used to put every president in office. It worked well for your side when Obama was elected, it didn't work so well for your side when Bush was elected, but it worked beautifully for your side when the other Clinton was elected. As...
[23:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First ARM Snapdragon-Based Windows 10 S Systems Announced - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.anandtech.com/show/12129/shots-fired-qualcomm-bets-on-always-connected-devices-with-long-battery-life-intel-responds [anandtech.com]
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