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[00:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:47] <exec> 08└─>this mandate would threaten New Yorkers' privacy How exactly would exposing the algorithms threaten anyone's privacy, unless they were tuned to specific individuals? I'd go so far as to say the only "privacy" threatened is that of the people trying to hide their abuses behind "the algorithm said .....
[00:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:48] <exec> 08└─Pattern p = Pattern.compile("berg$");
[00:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:50] <exec> 08└─Just out of curiosity how do you make decisions (algorithmically or not) without "discriminating" against someone or some group? It's all about making choices and selections. So someone is going to be left out for failing one or missing one variable or another. Invented by Caragine and Adele Mitche...
[00:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:52] <exec> 08└─That's the "nice" thing about drug dogs - easy to train them to "point" on subtle commands,
[00:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:55] <exec> 08└─People really want to outlaw mathematics?
[00:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:57] <exec> 08└─I hope Mr. di Blasio signs the bill, it is very easy to bias an algorithm and then blame “the computer” for any negative results. Without transparency it becomes a powerful weapon, wielded by unknown persons. Most would think the Mayor would wield this weapon, I’m more afraid of an obscure pro...
[00:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:59] <exec> 08└─Quick test of Soylentil's critical thinking: Is Runaway1956's comment a hyperbolic exaggeration?
[00:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:01] <exec> 08└─> it is very easy to bias an algorithm and then blame “the computer” for any negative results. Without transparency it becomes a powerful weapon, wielded by unknown persons. But but but Diebold told me the voting machines are the future...
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:03] <exec> 08└─Nope, just the anti-science crowd at it again.
[00:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─Insurance discriminates against gender, age, and education. Those are valid statistical decisions. They are allowed to do it because it's true.
[00:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:08] <exec> 08└─Just out of curiosity how do you make decisions (algorithmically or not) without "discriminating" against someone or some group? It's all about making choices and selections. So someone is going to be left out for failing one or missing one variable or another.
[00:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─People want mathematics to be applied properly. Math is just a tool. A Hammer swung by a guy with a grudge is nothing but a mace.
[00:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:12] <exec> 08└─Even Diebold's machines had no agenda, and held no malice.
[00:14:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─I know you omitted sarcasm tags. But that is the fallacy. We should not be concerned with whether information is negative or positive, but rather whether it is true or is false. I would rather have the truth, even if it is 'negative'.
[00:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:55] <exec> 08└─Its a classic neocon vs alt right argument. Also there's usually a distinction between criminal fraud and being really good at making business deals, standards of corporate contract law like having a meeting of the minds, also there's some subtle distinction between monopolies (ISPs?) and commoditie...
[00:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:51] <exec> 08└─Why plan at all? We still have to fight WW3.
[00:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:53] <exec> 08└─There's a mach number in the rocket nozzle, especially if you're burning something with oxygen. The only way this has a hope of working is with plasma-ion, or EM drive, or preferably something better than either of those has even begun to promise. Aero-braking on the other end down from 0.1C would b...
[00:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:55] <exec> 08└─I think conventional YUGE rockets hit an asymptote of diminishing returns long before they get to 0.1C. Voyager is only doing Mach 50, and a lot of that is due to gravity assist. Chemical energy release makes hot gas, so there are mach concerns even if you can increase the density and decrease your...
[00:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:57] <exec> 08└─I know, we'll use Einstein brakes - just break something Einstein said and dissipate momentum into the fabric of space-time.
[00:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:59] <exec> 08└─That's the Jehovah's Witness philosophy... especially for financial planning: we're all gonna die tomorrow.
[00:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:02] <exec> 08└─Sadly, most articles like this are short on the underlying science, engineering and state of development of the various promising technologies.
[00:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First Look at RPG: Turns Out It's Not Only Role-Playing Games - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:37] <exec> 08└─When I first tried a TRS-80 I was shocked at how primitive it's BASIC was. Wang BASIC was so advanced. Even Level II basic.
[00:19:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:13] <exec> 08└─Why not all ads? Some ads are more equal than others :)
[00:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:37] <exec> 08└─Unless those rules of theirs also include a distinct vetting process *before* each and every ad is allowed on the network, I won't be disabling my ad-blockers anytime soon. These poorly managed ad networks are a major malware vector.
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[01:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:41] <exec> 08└─Wiki has a time line of solar https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Its nice to see some of the 10 and 20 years away stuff starting to finally come to market. 40% solar efficiency was claimed back in 2006.
[01:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:42] <exec> 08└─How much more efficient would solar panels be if they were mounted on a device that would keep them pointed at the Sun?
[01:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:44] <exec> 08└─I would bet most solar efficiency is quoted at mid-day sun with a perfectly aligned panel.
[01:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:47] <exec> 08└─Solar panels are sufficiently cheap that it is more cost effective to just install more panels rather than installing them on a solar-tracking mount. To answer your question directly, efficiency is unaffected by their alignment with respect to the sun (mostly, there are probably second-order effects...
[01:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:49] <exec> 08└─No, a perfectly-aligned panel receives more sunlight, hence its output is higher. If the panel is not optimally aligned, or the time of day means less sunlight, then the input energy is reduced, as is the output electricity. Efficiency doesn't change (much).
[01:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:10] <exec> 08└─They are allowed to do it because it's
[01:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:11] <exec> 08└─It is necessary because 20/80 rule applies to almost everything that is statistically determinate. Meaning 20% of the pool will always cause 80% of the cost. I find it to be staggeringly inefficient to just let it slide.
[01:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Improve Background Noise Filtering for Quantum Sensors - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:21] <exec> 08└─Nearly all such announcements by quantum scientists trigger my Bullshit! alarm. Anyone else? In this case, why would one human voice among several be distinguishable by any quantum metric? Increasingly better microphones and DSP code, sure. Quantum shenanigans making improvements "100 million times...
[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─Most minicab firms round where I live are owner operators. They pay a "radio" fee, and get to keep most of the fares. They don't want to drive, not a problem (although they may have to give their radio back). Uber is no different
[01:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:24] <exec> 08└─Really, taxis should still count as a positive since one taxi can take the place of numerous personal vehicles. And they have the advantage that they are point to point.
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:26] <exec> 08└─If Greta got all the street intersections of customers and got them all a ride, or if Marvin was completely incompetent and people cancelled in droves, causing the company to lose even more billions than they currently do ... the income would still be 100% coming from customers paying for custom tra...
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─No, the fact that the drivers make us of internal combustion engines makes it a tech company. Actually, the fact that they use round wheels on their vehicles makes it a tech company. No, no - speech. The ability to communicate makes it a tech company. You say, "Argumentum absurdium" or something lik...
[01:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:30] <exec> 08└─Yup, they'd be a dead transportation company, with a useless an irrelevant app. Sadly, the assets would still be worth billions, because of all the personal data they've been siphoning off their user's phones and usage patterns.
[01:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:07] <exec> 08└─The legislation you're talking about was created by Orrin Hatch, the conservative Republican from Utah. Utah is home to a lot of homeopathic "cures" and Hatch is personally invested in them. It actually completely removed many of the FDA regulations on homeopathic "medicines".
[01:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:09] <exec> 08└─From the opioid saga, the FDA has little credibility as interested in protecting patients over drug profits. From the cost of new drugs versus their benefit over generics, same answer. So what to do? Do our job, fix the problem? No, of course not, that might be career affecting. Instead, let's make...
[01:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:06] <exec> 08└─Jobs exist that don't require skills in the MS Office suite. More jobs exist that do require these skills. I don't like using MS products, but it's preferable to being poor. I know that there will be a few replies saying something to the effect of "well, I don't use them and I'm doing fine!". Good f...
[01:16:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:48] <exec> 08└─the three-star Alpha Centauri system
[01:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:11] <exec> 08└─In the end it wasn't that expensive. We managed to carry out an expensive war in a distant land all through the moon race and beyond. In the end we lost the war, but had already one the race.
[01:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:12] <exec> 08└─Which locals? And which aero target? Sounds like there are a lot to choose from, Do you choose some big gas ball planet, or the first planet that radiates a non natural radio wave? Or do you program it to calculate a grand tour and aero-brake a little here and a little there. All your calculations a...
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[02:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:41] <exec> 08└─How low can the voltages go before there's too high a chance of interference from noise and typical radio transmissions?
[02:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:53] <exec> 08└─I have been promised by high-level government sources that North Korea will soon move from having the sun set when the Dear Leader decides, to witnessing many sun-like sources, potentially even at night. The solar future is in Pyongyang, don't miss your opportunity! Low-risk 50% annular returns on y...
[02:13:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:15] <exec> 08└─They are allowed to do it because it's
[02:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:17] <exec> 08└─But aging will eventually move us all from the 80% of the pool to the 80% of the cost side, so it still balances.
[02:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:19] <exec> 08└─I'm perfectly fine with insurance discrimination based on choices people make, rather than things that just happened to them. It's real simple. Your car insurance goes up because you're a bad driver, not because hail damaged your car. Your health insurance goes up because you're a smoker, not becaus...
[02:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:21] <exec> 08└─Those powers are meant for Him and Him only! Tell your local christian religious extremist today! Help bad the teaching or utilization of Math in America today! Paid for by the Council for a more Pious America (And a safer everywhere else.)
[02:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─No retard, that is called "adverse selection" and it killed Obamacare. If all insurance costs the same, those on the losing end simply do not buy it, those at higher risk do and the insurance company goes kaput. So then you morons double down on the idiocy and mandate everyone buy it and that too fa...
[02:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:52] <exec> 08└─Don't say I never did nothin' for ya.
[02:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:53] <exec> 08└─S3 is a data storage service provided by Amazon. It has a medium-sized list of recommended security best-practices, then an almost infinite list of security options for users and services. It is easy to misconfigure.
[02:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:56] <exec> 08└─I think 123 million [statista.com] is the number of households. Saying all makes it more clear, but doesn't invalidate the 123 million figure.
[02:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:43] <exec> 08└─I know this because most coders write In-House apps. For example a friend of mine once wrote COBOL for Chase Manhattan. His department employed a great many coders.
[02:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:44] <exec> 08└─Really, taxis should still count as a positive since one taxi can take the place of numerous personal vehicles.
[02:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:46] <exec> 08└─62/743=8.3% Nope, not enough to impose on the rest of 90+% the (lack of passenger safety) rules the rest of 8.3% are Ok with.
[02:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:48] <exec> 08└─and find new ways to use technology
[02:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:51] <exec> 08└─Not very much of an advantage in Europe, believe me. You'd be hardly pressed to find "middle of nowhere" places there.
[02:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:29] <exec> 08└─Stuff like wormwood capsules. Real wormwood has shown that it's effective for depression but not all of the "wormwood" supplements actually contain wormwood.
[02:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:30] <exec> 08└─Take it up with...
[02:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:33] <exec> 08└─I was once prescribed Latuda as an antidepressant. It set the American taxpayer back thousands of dollars per month. But it did nothing for me. Back in the day I took the SSRI Paxil but it only "benefited" me in one way: I had infinite lasting power, because Paxil made me Anorgasmic. My witch doctor...
[02:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:35] <exec> 08└─.. that might actually kill you. You're lucky if you only get sick. At least with homeopathic "drugs" they have the benefit of not poisoning you.
[02:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:39] <exec> 08└─You can also turn a lot of that incredible tensile strength into rigidity by spin-stabilizing it
[02:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:40] <exec> 08└─I disagree about the need. A "resource rich" asteroid won't be resource rich very long if you don't close your eco-system, and supplying things from outside gets quite expensive, even if they're close by. In the case of a planet things are a bit less clear, because most of the waste hangs around for...
[02:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:42] <exec> 08└─Well, at least we'll get the Bell Riots out of the way next year, ahead of schedule.
[02:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:42] <exec> 08└─> "Rod-welding" is kind of the "duct-tape" of metalwork. Duct tape was invented for ducts (which may be metal, but aren't welded) -- and (in part because of duct tape) we have near-universal central heating, at least in most of the cold parts of the world. Your Greek masters may have had central hea...
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[03:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:39] <exec> 08└─I don't know. But if there is an interference problem, maybe that limit could be extended by shielding (where you really want low power and don't care about adding some more mass). This could compete against the tunnel field-effect transistor [wikipedia.org] (TFET): TFETs are not limited by the ther...
[03:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:52] <exec> 08└─Actually solar panels tend to get less efficient the hotter they get. So when the weather is hot they might be more efficient in non-optimal alignments since they receive less sunlight and don't get as hot ;).
[03:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:54] <exec> 08└─I've done some PV installs but I forget the details- easy enough to look up. Peak power output spec. is with sun overhead, cool, clear day. Yes, you get a bit more output with tracking systems, but there's one huge factor: when the sun is not directly overhead, there is more atmosphere between the s...
[03:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:21] <exec> 08└─Keeping the code secret in a process that will be introduced in court should never be permitted. How can you challenge a black box you aren't allowed to see the workings of? This one should be a no-brainer and in fact everyone in the government taking the opposite position should be thanked for thei...
[03:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:23] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it is impossible to find out why a neural network made a certain decision. It is very similar in case of a human, but a human could be put in prison for a bad decision. He simply outlaws AI's until AI's penitentiary concept can be resolved.
[03:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Improve Background Noise Filtering for Quantum Sensors - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:33] <exec> 08└─Well, the guy's name does make an unfortunate rhyme.
[03:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:48] <exec> 08└─when it is obvious to everyone that their profit does not come from the technology itself but from those paying for transport,
[03:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:50] <exec> 08└─I can see a hypothetical taxi service that fulfills the dream of Uber. It would be the app sold as a service in a competitive marketplace. Independent operators, who would contend with local regulation on their own, would buy into the app as a way to get customers.
[03:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:33] <exec> 08└─Wow, Trump's administration is doing something good for once -- though for the wrong reasons (helping big pharma) I suffered for four excruciating years of concentrated hell with cripplingly severe OCD, as a direct result of my mother's beliefs in "natural" medicine. We tried every crackpot BS remed...
[03:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:32] <exec> 08└─If a company issues a Windows 10 PC to their employees without making them a local admin, the Windows Store enables them to install applications instead of being stuck in a locked down image. ... unless they disable the Windows Store too, which is really annoying.
[03:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:44] <exec> 08└─Get x-million signatures, and Congress must officially and publicly debate the issue.
[03:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:46] <exec> 08└─Deport Justin Bieber and Revoke His Green Card... I'd sign that petition AND buy the one-way airline ticket to fairyland.
[03:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:46] <exec> 08└─You mistake my point! It is not that recent tech is somehow inferior in general, but just that it tends to promote a forgetting of the technology of the past. Not suggesting that current tech should be forgotten! And besides, sheet metal is way too labor intensive without massive roller mills. In a...
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[04:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Brain-on-a-Chip' to Test Effects of Biological and Chemical Agents, Develop Countermeasures - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:39] <exec> 08└─A physicist named jerry pine made them so he could tinker in his own lab and thereby get awAy from huge collaborations
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[05:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06'Brain-on-a-Chip' to Test Effects of Biological and Chemical Agents, Develop Countermeasures - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:44] <exec> 08└─Brazing on a chip? That's a really tiny welder! Laughing with you, not at you ;-)
[05:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:53] <exec> 08└─Not sure, but if a negative bank balance is any indication, they'll chase you for years!
[05:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:09] <exec> 08└─Not all panels just use UV. But your point remains the same.
[05:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:38] <exec> 08└─Nope, just the anti-science crowd at it again.
[05:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:55] <exec> 08└─It's a fun problem, if you have a Billion $+ budget.
[05:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03careysub [6028] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:56] <exec> 08└─This was very fishy, since the notion of doing this any time in this century is ridiculous, and NASA is really not in the habit of floating wildly improbable ideas half a century out. Tracing the story back to the original in the New Scientist confirms this is not the real story at all. Here is the...
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[06:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:12] <exec> 08└─A basic (if not a bit dated) graph of efficiency is here https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org] but there were 24% efficient solar cells (same efficiency as these) available in 1987. The problem is that making them was too expensive, just like th...
[06:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alteryx S3 Leak Leaves 123m American Households Exposed - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:15] <exec> 08└─did you know you look a lot like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org(by_Allan_Ramsay).jpg [wikipedia.org] See: http://cdn.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[06:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:09] <exec> 08└─New York isn't in Europe.
[06:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:10] <exec> 08└─No. Circumventing existing laws does not grant them immunity. Quit trying to apply your american point of view to european point of view.
[06:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:13] <exec> 08└─thats nice. and americentric. this is europe. next.
[06:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:15] <exec> 08└─Ford's model wouldn't be viable without extensive automation. Just look at their factories. They can have many thousands of cars on the assembly line at the same time. Their technology allows a computer to match robotic arms to nearby car parts in real time without requiring a huge human-based syste...
[06:16:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:10] <exec> 08└─unmentioned in the summary
[06:16:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 838 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:17] <exec> 08└─The real reason Microsoft got a wrist slap is George W. Bush. At the end of 2000, the U.S. elected a Republican President. The Republican Party has long favored a trickle-down approach [wikipedia.org], arguing that supply-side policies that reduce tax and compliance costs for business owners will ev...
[06:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:57] <exec> 08└─Why the FUCK is there a .ninja TLD?
[06:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:59] <exec> 08└─"Sucks". It stands for "Sucks".
[06:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:01] <exec> 08└─Why the FUCK is there a .ninja TLD?
[06:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:16] <exec> 08└─Is there a difference?
[06:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:53] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. I had never updated Chrome from some very early version. One day a fresh bright orange Chrome icon appears on my desktop -- how'd this happen? Turns out the updater for some other Google service did it, behind my back and without my permission, AND it hid the damn thing clear down in F:...
[06:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome to Begin Blocking "Non-Compliant Ads" on Feb. 15 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:54] <exec> 08└─One of the big advertisers (Proctor & Gamble? someone on that scale, anyway) lately experimented with halting internet ads, and discovered.... no difference in sales. I wonder how long before everyone realises the only ones benefiting from these ads are the marketing agencies??
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[07:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:41] <exec> 08└─Rub this stuff into my gums whilst doing my daily dental routine, wife says she's preggers, and BOOM! proof she's cheating.
[07:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:42] <exec> 08└─And then... [mauryshow.com]
[07:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Microsoft Ends the Use of Forced Arbitration in Sexual Harassment Cases - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:50] <exec> 08└─I mean, this is not Apple/Foxconn, shared dormitories and no unexcused pregnancies one child per iPhone policy? Microsoft? If it is micro, and soft, what need for an abortion, forced or otherwise? Though, does describe WinCE. And Win95. And Win98. And NT, and XP and 7, and 8, and 8.1, and Windows...
[07:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:08] <exec> 08└─Capacitance lets 2 plates charge up and hold the charge. Anti capacitance lets 2 plates, what, say "not in my neighborhood man, take your game banging ass out of here." It forms a hole into which charge will rush given the opportunity?
[07:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:09] <exec> 08└─2008: It is well-known that conventional field effect transistors (FETs) require a change in the channel potential of at least 60 mV at 300 K to effect a change in the current by a factor of 10, and this minimum subthreshold slope S puts a fundamental lower limit on the operating voltage and hence t...
[07:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:11] <exec> 08└─60 mV/decade? That's an awfully slow transistor.
[07:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I read that 8 lines of gobblygook, didn't understand what they were saying outside of "crank up the voltage and current on a dinky circuit and bad things happen. This magic lets bad things happen later". So, uh, how do you get negative capacitance unless you're, I dunno, a battery?
[07:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:01] <exec> 08└─New York - this is the place that insists that women can be firefighters, even when those women cannot lift the hoses [nypost.com]. And in order to reach arbitrary quotas, exams have to eliminate hard questions about...firefighting, so that blacks can pass them [nypost.com]. When objective measures...
[07:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:16] <exec> 08└─You're so close. Soooooo close. Keep following this line of thought.
[07:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:18] <exec> 08└─Be careful with imipramine and its ilk; those are tricyclics and have some nasty effects, I'm told. In particular they can cause serotonin syndrome, which is no fun at all.
[07:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:21] <exec> 08└─It's dark web, duh. You can't see it unless you know it's there :D
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[08:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:44] <exec> 08└─No problem, you still get ordered to pay child support.
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[08:13:13] <exec> 08└─Very low, because the size of the structures inside CPUs and such is so small that any radio signal you will encounter will have a wavelength of many times the feature size, which makes the feature a very bad antenna for that signal. A 1/4 lambda for a 1 THz signal is 75um, which is pretty huge for...
[08:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:31] <exec> 08└─That makes it a technology company.
[08:16:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:37] <exec> 08└─If a school issues a Windows 10 S computer to each student, is each student an idiot? If a company issues a Windows 10 S computer to each employee, is each employee an idiot? If a relative buys a Windows 10 S computer as a gift for someone, is the recipient an idiot? Is every owner of an Xbox One co...
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[09:13:14] <exec> 08└─The "decade" in that context doesn't mean the usual decade of ten years, but a decade [wikipedia.org] in a logarithmic frequency response scale (such as in a Bode plot). Thus 60 mV/decade means that every factor of 10 change in frequency produces a change of 60 mV in the response.
[09:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:35] <exec> 08└─New York City is not in Europe, I quite agree. It's also not in a lot of other places.
[09:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe in the US. Over here in Denmark, taxis are for the rich, the rest of us get to buy our own cars (with 180% taxes). When Uber arrived, we finally had an alternative to drunk driving, but that didn't last long, everyone - taxi companies, politicians, etc - were fighting to have them prosecuted b...
[09:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:25] <exec> 08└─i've already been told by AT&T uverse support people that 'only pirates use vpns'
[09:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:27] <exec> 08└─Should it also be illegal to force students in a literature class to read post-1922* novels, short stories, or poems? Those are typically just as non-free, proprietary, and reader-subjugating.
[09:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:29] <exec> 08└─Such inertial abuse of the unwashed masses makes me sick. I wish we would collectively stop enabling these insulting techno-oligarchs. Think for yourself instead and take charge of your life.
[09:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:31] <exec> 08└─If a company issues a Windows 10 PC to their employees without making them a local admin, the Windows Store enables them to install applications instead of being stuck in a locked down image.
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[09:19:01] <exec> 08└─>fail pretty gracefully unless there's a head crash
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[10:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know well how negative capacitance works inside MOSFETs, but I do recall that a positive inductance acts as a negative capacitance. At least in AC.
[10:13:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 422 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:32] <exec> 08└─Solar panels are sufficiently cheap that it is more cost effective to just install more panels rather than installing them on a solar-tracking mount. To answer your question directly, efficiency is unaffected by their alignment with respect to the sun (mostly, there are probably second-order effects...
[10:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:44] <exec> 08└─At 3% / 5 year grow rate, to get to the 42mils now to 350mils required for parity, it will be something like 80+ years. I promise you I'll worry then, if I still can. Until then, not much to fuss about.
[10:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:38] <exec> 08└─Jobs exist that don't require skills in the MS Office suite. More jobs exist that do require these skills. I don't like using MS products, but it's preferable to being poor.
[10:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06White House to Temporarily Shut Down Petition Website, Put New One Up in January - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:23] <exec> 08└─To comply with incoming transparacy rules the new URL will be fuckthepeople.gov
[10:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:56] <exec> 08└─No, duct tape wasn't invented for ducts, it was invented to seal ammunition boxes. It just is that the family of duck tapes (older product - used to protect shoes and cabling) is insanely useful, but in the modern sense of tearable waterproof sealing with a masking tape adhesive was to seal ammuniti...
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[11:12:33] <exec> 08└─So still no AMD GPUs can be used in freedom. Sigh.
[11:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:35] <exec> 08└─I was wondering if the Linux driver was less sophisticated than the Windows driver (Linux has long been a second-class citizen for graphics drivers, of course), but apparently not. From TFA: It's also the shared code-base to their Vulkan Windows driver. Basically, it's their full-featured Vulkan dri...
[11:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:37] <exec> 08└─It will depend on the code quality and commitment from AMD Just dumping some code on the internet rarely works out as planned. Especially since this is from a source base that runs both on Windows and Linux. That means it is probably filled with all kinds of NIH abstractions and will not look like a...
[11:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:39] <exec> 08└─There's no reason for FOSS advocates to always bite the hand that feeds, you know.
[11:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:41] <exec> 08└─Will AMD be willing to keep this driver up to date?
[11:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:43] <exec> 08└─A working driver with no commitment is a problem: I don't want to be pinned to a specific release or version. Will it work with next months kernel? I might need it for a different reason. To often I have been burned by some guys trowing stuff on the internet and then just disappear. It will work nic...
[11:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:59] <exec> 08└─Teenaged boys throughout the world have known for quite a while that liberal application of ordinary hand lotion works quite effectively as a contraceptive. Above and beyond that, it also saves you money and keeps you from having to ever watch a romantic comedy.
[11:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Ends the Use of Forced Arbitration in Sexual Harassment Cases - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:06] <exec> 08└─Now only if there is a law that prohibits arbitration in judicial process and we might start getting rid of the false cases.
[11:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:47] <exec> 08└─Solar panels are sufficiently cheap that it is more cost effective to just install more panels rather than installing them on a solar-tracking mount.
[11:15:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:17] <exec> 08└─Nope. They get paid by the people they custom-carry around. The fact that robot Marvin is better at getting you matched to a ride than human Greta is not relevant. They don't sell that algorithm to other companies, they sell transportation to people. Taxi companies didn't become tech companies when...
[11:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:53] <exec> 08└─1. Uber has merely improved on an ages old dispatching system 2. Limo of taxi company, either way, they are performing an ages old service - moving customers from point A to point B, for a fee. Also, the concept of casual labor is as old as the hills - Uber's drivers are doing nothing new, or differ...
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[12:12:48] <exec> 08└─ok, so ignore it and don't use it. AMD will then respond to your attitude as they see fit, etc. but stop whining about it, because there are other people who would prefer that AMD does this sort of thing in the future as well (which they may not do if the response they get is your response).
[12:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:05] <exec> 08└─"Men in the trial will take home a pump bottle of the gel and rub about half a teaspoon of it on their upper arms and shoulders every day. The gel dries within a minute."
[12:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:06] <exec> 08└─I have long believed that a male contraceptive would be a fundamental milestone in gender equality - book-ending the journey that began in the 1960's with the [female] "pill". I can only wish this breakthrough results in a safe and effective product. It would be a very great boon to society and a le...
[12:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:08] <exec> 08└─Is there some study that suggest that men are more forgetful then women? Is it that women are just trained to take the pill every day so they become better at it?
[12:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:11] <exec> 08└─Read your subject as "bullshit" for a brief moment. Hormones must be killing my mood. Like the ones in this pill gel. I think the reversible injectable polymer gel [bloomberg.com] is a saner approach, assuming it is *repeatably* proven to be safe and effective. TFA describes this topical gel as more...
[12:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:42] <exec> 08└─So, uh, how do you get negative capacitance unless you're, I dunno, a battery?
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[13:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Sets Up at Cape Canaveral Ahead of Launch - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:40] <exec> 08└─Is it going to sit at the location it is intended to launch from for a whole 10-15 days? Is Musky really going to get his Tesla Roadster into Mars orbit? If that does succeed, should it be considered a nuisance/space junk? Musk has said that the launch might have a 50% chance of success and that he...
[13:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:55] <exec> 08└─They get off on it, it's their thing. That way there's always an excuse for crappy hardware support.
[13:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:15] <exec> 08└─sure babe I rubbed in the the gel everyday ... but didn't. All about Trust.
[13:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SixGunMojo [509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:05] <exec> 08└─Here you go. http://smartflowersolar.com [smartflowersolar.com]
[13:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:38] <exec> 08└─Fucking flood insurance. I can walk out my back door and look down at the rooves of houses half a block away. By the time my place flooded half the city would be under 20 metres of water. Yet because of banks mandating home insurance because I still have a mortgage, and the shitty state government m...
[13:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:39] <exec> 08└─There are two sources of "algorithmic discrimination" that have nothing to do with math: 1. The people who collect the data fed into the computer. 2. The people who write the software used by the computer. As an old adage goes, for every computer problem there are at least 2 human problems, includin...
[13:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:16] <exec> 08└─Following up on that, in the UK, there are two legal categories for "taxis". Cars that can park in taxi ranks to wait for passing custom, or be flagged down by anyone on the street, are officially known as Taxicabs or Hackney Carriages. Another variety is the Minicab or Private Hire Vehicle, which h...
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[14:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:43] <exec> 08└─If you know about it, are they really hiding anything? The American folks don't really care about anything unless it directly affects them, so they're just not paying attention, as usual.
[14:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:44] <exec> 08└─The American folks don't really care about anything unless it directly affects them, so they're just not paying attention, as usual.
[14:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:46] <exec> 08└─If communication crosses national border, it is a fair game for signal intelligence, because there could be a covert endpoint in foreign nation to which the communication is really addressed. NSA may be listening, but so might unknown others. However, if communication within nation was deliberately...
[14:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 1977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:48] <exec> 08└─It's at times like this that one really has to marvel at the US Congress. It is just too remote, too removed from the concerns of the voters. Do any - any - of the people in Congress ever stop to think that they are supposed to be representing the interests of Joe Sixpack and Millie the Hairdresser?...
[14:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Sets Up at Cape Canaveral Ahead of Launch - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:57] <exec> 08└─I'm genuinely excited about this launch. I've had so many spectacular Kerbal rocket failures, either on the launch pad or shortly after lift off, that I really want SpaceX to just nail this the first time. Common sense though says retreat to the safety of the bunker and watch via remote link for thi...
[14:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─It's their form of virtue signaling.
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─Why can't you slaves quit complaining and show a little gratitude? Didn't I give you extra slop yesterday? I didn't have to do that! Ungrateful wretches.
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─Will it work with next months kernel?
[14:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:18] <exec> 08└─Does Linux promise API compatibility between minor releases?
[14:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:20] <exec> 08└─There are only two alternatives: Starve to death or kill the master.
[14:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Watch Only A Ham Can Use - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─First, the "summary" here isn't a summary - it's essentially reproducing the article (which is only 2 short paragraphs and a sentence long). I understand sometimes we take the summary from the intro paragraph of TFA verbatim, but this is MOST of the linked article. Second, TFA isn't actually TFA. Wh...
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Watch Only A Ham Can Use - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:30] <exec> 08└─I went straight to the Goodwatch link and was suitably amazed. I've been using this model Casio for many years. The major bonus for me is that setting time, changing time zones, setting the alarm is all done directly by punching in the digits. None of this "hold down the button while the time advanc...
[14:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:46] <exec> 08└─“Men would also like to be able to regulate their own fertility
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:39] <exec> 08└─That's a rare case. When you're looking at TCO, the cost of purchasing, installing and maintaining a tracking mount is going to (usually) be higher than just slapping in the necessary extra fixed panels. Though, if you do put in the tracking mount, then you can optimize for temperature as well as su...
[14:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:13] <exec> 08└─This is actually why the military has resisted using fully autonomous weapons systems. The complexities of the AIs involved is such that it is hard to explain why it did what it did when used in the field.
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[15:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, bullshit. Or did you forget the /sarc tag? Federal law enforcement wants to be allowed to tap into domestic communications without a warrant, because warrants require some degree of actual proof. They make it impossible to just go fishing. And it's damned easy. All you have to do is take some ra...
[15:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:48] <exec> 08└─This was how it was supposed to work in the USA as well. States and counties were to have the majority of power. Any power not explicitly granted to the local governments by the people was necessarily reserved to individual people. Federal government existed solely to deal with treaties and broader...
[15:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:50] <exec> 08└─It'd be a horrific, bloody mess, probably even worse than the last time someone tried to pull out of the union. I sometimes think we need to split it up too, but the existing processes are unimaginably terrible. It'd be nice if we could tone it down more gently, but it's hard to imagine anyone going...
[15:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:52] <exec> 08└─Close, but not quite. 10% of Americans will see this as an unconscionable invasion of privacy and have a chilling effect on the universe. 10% of Americans will see this as a way to strengthen the security of America by allowing to scan content. 1% of Americans will get the logical connection that al...
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[15:12:54] <exec> 08└─Possibly. You make striking points. I think you're right that the vast majority of Congresspeople really don't have any idea of the way Joe and Millie actually live their lives - not in the sense that they've experienced what it really means to be that, anyway. (They have LOTS and LOTS of experts to...
[15:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Sets Up at Cape Canaveral Ahead of Launch - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:04] <exec> 08└─My impression is that it is to get into the orbit that Mars occupies, but nowhere near the planet Mars. The launch window to hit this particular orbit WHEN Mars is actually going to be there occurs only about every 2 years.
[15:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Sets Up at Cape Canaveral Ahead of Launch - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:06] <exec> 08└─Is it going to sit at the location it is intended to launch from for a whole 10-15 days?
[15:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:26] <exec> 08└─If you're a full-bore Stallmanite who thinks proprietary software is nothing short of evil - the sort willing even to cheapen the horror of slavery in the name of berating corporations they don't like - there's not much I can say. To the less extreme FOSS fans among us, this is clearly step in the r...
[15:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03djh2400 [725] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 1698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that AMD feels they must maintain their own driver in order to support enterprise/business customers. They can't just leave a complex video driver for a flagship line of products up to the whims of the Mesa team, which may or may not break things at new versions or perhaps may or...
[15:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03djh2400 [725] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─(Although, why would they be picky about control on the graphics side while happily letting the Linux team control the built-in Vega drivers?)
[15:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:32] <exec> 08└─For OpenGL, we'll still need Mesa. AMD have only Freed their Vulkan driver.
[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:57] <exec> 08└─It seems like a DNA paternity test would be in odor.
[15:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:58] <exec> 08└─Is there some study that suggest that men are more forgetful then women? Is it that women are just trained to take the pill every day so they become better at it?
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Ippy [3973] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:32] <exec> 08└─No. Negative capacitance is not the same as inductance! Capacitance is governed by the equation i = C dv/dt, and for a negative capacitance C has a minus sign. This means that, as voltage v across the capacitor increases, current i flows out of the capacitance (it would normally flow in). Or, put th...
[15:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Council Passes Bill Addressing Algorithmic Discrimination - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:27] <exec> 08└─Would that not cover your nice hilltop home in case of a mudslide?
[15:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:05] <exec> 08└─It'll take much less to get in parity with people who use taxis.
[15:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:07] <exec> 08└─1. Uber has merely improved on an ages old dispatching system
[15:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:09] <exec> 08└─So, you're hung on that term, "novel". Tell me - if Uber's dipatch system is so novel, then how does the competition compete? Oh - maybe it's not so very novel, ehhh?
[15:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:11] <exec> 08└─They are competitors, a common dispatch is undesirable.
[15:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA to More Strictly Regulate Homeopathic Drugs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:57] <exec> 08└─FDA to More Strictly Regulate water and other excipients with no trace active ingredient
[15:18:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pino P [4721] 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:48] <exec> 08└─Because I haven't seen GNU/Linux laptops in showrooms for a long time.
[15:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Trolls Microsoft With Chrome "Installer" for the Windows Store - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:06] <exec> 08└─Yes. If I remember right it was a case that was brought by Netscape. By the time the litigation was over so was Netscape. However it is worth noting that this move by MS probably violates a previous court order, and in so doing could land MS in contempt of court.
[15:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:19] <exec> 08└─I agree - terraforming is a completely different problem. But if you're making a mostly-closed ecosystem on (or under) the surface of Mars then you'll have essentially unlimited resources with which to grow and replace incidental losses for a *very* long time. And obviously waste is one of the first...
[15:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069 - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, a single layer of graphene blocks ~2.5% of light, pretty much across the spectrum, and the effect stacks - so at 10nm (30 layers) you're blocking ~53%. Working out something more opaque (and reflective rather than absorbent) will no doubt be a challenge. We'll have to see see what material...
[15:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate to Double HDD Speeds With Multi-Actuator Technology - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:42] <exec> 08└─I always assumed the arms/heads laid down the tracks and that's why you can't have different heads on different arms serving the same track. Their opinions on where track #12 is would be different enough to not work well...
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[16:12:46] <exec> 08└─It's at times like this that one really has to marvel at the US Congress. It is just too remote, too removed from the concerns of the voters. Do any - any - of the people in Congress ever stop to think that they are supposed to be representing the interests of Joe Sixpack and Millie the Hairdresser?...
[16:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:53] <exec> 08└─It'd be a horrific, bloody mess, probably even worse than the last time someone tried to pull out of the union.
[16:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:55] <exec> 08└─Don't confuse "don't care" with "don't know". Apathy can look a lot like ignorance.
[16:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not the first to say this, but I'll repeat it: If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?
[16:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:31] <exec> 08└─I think that they work really really hard toward that goal - but it's not exactly a "promise". When you upgrade, you may expect problems now and then. If you're using the latest and greatest, you may expect problems more often than people who restrict themselves to stable. Since I'm on the testing b...
[16:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─The "stable kernel API/ABI" argument has been an issue for a while. Proponents say it will solve all of our hardware problems while opponents say it will allow hardware manufactured to slip in more binary blobs. Both arguments are valid but the latter means drivers can be neglected and left to rot w...
[16:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:34] <exec> 08└─Surely it's less evil for a blob to be left to rot, than for it to be periodically unearthed and lazily hacked into just about coping with the API changes, no?
[16:13:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:52] <exec> 08└─Teenaged boys throughout the world have known for quite a while that liberal application of ordinary hand lotion works quite effectively as a contraceptive. Above and beyond that, it also saves you money and keeps you from having to ever watch a romantic comedy.
[16:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─It seems like a DNA paternity test would be in odor.
[16:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:04] <exec> 08└─If we want gender equity, the place to start would be to stop forcing men to pay for babies they don't want. We don't make women have children they don't want, so why on Earth should men be forced to pay even when the baby was over their objections? This stuff is a good thing, but I wouldn't trust i...
[16:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03trytoguess [3276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:57] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, solar panels are fairly popular in North Korea due to their chronic electricity shortages.
[16:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:15] <exec> 08└─if Uber's dipatch system is so novel, then how does the competition compete?
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[17:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: A Quick December Update - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:34] <exec> 08└─that didn't give up and go all dead inside merry xmas to you too
[17:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: A Quick December Update - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:36] <exec> 08└─You had some interesting (to me, at least) stories last week that you didn't run. I kept waiting for them to go into the queue, but they were passed over. Perhaps that's something you could mine in leaner times. Or, you know, you could just stop ignoring interesting stories...
[17:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: A Quick December Update - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:38] <exec> 08└─Add an admin-configurable minimum karma requirement for a journal entry to show up in the Most Recent Journal Entries slashbox. Should eliminate having to see journal spam by folks who don't otherwise contribute anything to the site.
[17:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: A Quick December Update - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:40] <exec> 08└─If you find it interesting, and it's not in the submission list, you can put it there [soylentnews.org]. You don't even have to do any real work. Just come up with any headline, and slap 1 or more URLs into the main body. It's not substantially different than a bot submission since we would have to...
[17:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: A Quick December Update - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:43] <exec> 08└─Errr, did I miss something? Pretty sure they meant the story was submitted but wasn't approved for publication. I too have seen this happen quite often, perhaps there should be a B-list article page with articles have an up/down mod for themselves. Get more than X upmods and the story hits the front...
[17:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA New Frontiers Finalists: Comet 67P Sample Return and a Titan Drone - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:51] <exec> 08└─They should pick the Titan drone, right?!
[17:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA New Frontiers Finalists: Comet 67P Sample Return and a Titan Drone - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:53] <exec> 08└─Why stop at one? I don't see any reason (except the current budget) to not go through with all of them. The problem seems very solvable; just give them more money. The DoD has a bunch they didn't ask for, so just funnel it over.
[17:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:12] <exec> 08└─Ha, your post reminded me of that song about "I'm an asshole, and i'm proud of it". Joe and Millie Sixpack "I'm an asshole, yo-yo, yo-yo, yo-yo....We're assholes, and we're proud of it" :)
[17:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:13] <exec> 08└─Justin Trudeau, the Waffle King!
[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/momentary-victory-against-nsa-surveillance [eff.org] Other bills could be considered, or this one might creep back in.
[17:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:18] <exec> 08└─An exception like that does not exist in the fourth amendment. Given the nature of the Internet, it is nearly impossible and not even remotely desirable to ensure that your communications never cross your national border. This is why mass surveillance on all kinds should not be allowed: Because, giv...
[17:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:20] <exec> 08└─everyone I know that I've spoken to about this and other congressional grabs like this... are very against it but feel powerless to stop it. and it is that powerless feeling that discourages any acting upon it. many really really REALLY thought that the democrats were to blame, and draining the swam...
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:22] <exec> 08└─That was back in the days when there wasn't really a standing army. Even by World War I it still took countries like 2-3 weeks to mobilize in event of surprise invasion. And you might recall the Union had a lot of trouble with finding competent commanders for like the first half of the war, too.
[17:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:24] <exec> 08└─When I went to look up this "Nunes" that they don't even give us the first name of, I expected it to be a Democrat they're skating over. But no: Devin Gerald Nunes GOIH (/ˈnuːˌnɛs/;[1] born October 1, 1973) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 22nd congre...
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─At best, 1% of Americans will see it at all. It doesn't matter what percentages they like it hate it, because no one will notice.
[17:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:29] <exec> 08└─if the end-goal of expanding surveillance is to ultimately get rid of having to eavesdrop on each and everybody then one could accept it. however, it might also lead to a "information gap" that creates a cast of people that "know" and a cast of people that "don't know". if this cast system requires...
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Sets Up at Cape Canaveral Ahead of Launch - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─Why not? They can't launch through bad weather yet or equipment problems like fuel leaks.
[17:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/11/06/0127241 [soylentnews.org] https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com] => 2 men could have a child *This hurts my brain* Ethical/Not Ethical? Weird? What if it's safer? Could we have Surrogate robots? Would tha...
[17:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:10] <exec> 08└─I was being facetious.
[17:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:32] <exec> 08└─Too bad you can't actually buy any of the cheap solar cells announced. Either because they are for power companies only, or are in the future. Solar cells have had a breakeven(for the investment) of about 15-20 years for quite a long time now which is pretty crappy.
[17:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─My own take on Uber is that is not as much a transportation service though I agree fully with the ECJ assesment of it being one. I see it instead as a rather brazen attempt to knock the bottom out of a market, one chosen not quite at random. Uber's riders only pay 41 percent of the full cost of each...
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