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[00:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:03] <exec> 08└─THIS sounds intelligent! Probably won't get this in Canada with Trudeau at the bong helm.
[00:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:05] <exec> 08└─Stop prosecuting them. Don't take them to jail, don't take them to court. When you find a robocaller, summary execution is in order. Just kill everyone on the spot. Well, everyone except the janitor. He's just a regular working stiff, mopping floors, and cleaning the restrooms. Everyone else dies wh...
[00:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:07] <exec> 08└─I have completely solved the robocall problem. Zero in over 6 months: 1. Disconnect land line. 2. Make sure all my legitimate callers are in my contacts list. (Yeah, I know that won't work for everyone.) 3. Put phone on permanent Do Not Disturb. No sound, no flashing, no nothing. 4. Allow those on m...
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:09] <exec> 08└─What do you about businesses which may have more than one outgoing number as is the case with some small businesses?
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah that is why this won't work for everyone. However, in my case, there are no businesses I want to give the power to interrupt and annoy me. So I don't. Sooner or later most of them end up abusing it anyhow.
[00:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─What happens in an emergency when someone on your approved list needs to contact you from a phone you don't know? I'm more on the side of the guy a couple posts up: summary execution, especially the shitass politicians who make them after exempting themselves from the rule.
[00:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:16] <exec> 08└─Hasn't happened yet, but if it were a really serious emergency I hope they'd call 911. If I (could / bothered to) take advantage of all the capabilities of the computer in my phone, I'd make it require a user ID and password (or similar) on every call. In that case, the (easily faked) caller-ID woul...
[00:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:18] <exec> 08└─It works just as good as Ofuckacare.
[00:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:31] <exec> 08└─Mainframes have, indeed, almost kept up, but if you bought one a decade ago, you may not be able to afford a replacement. That said, the other argument, that there's no way the amount of incoming passengers should have overloaded the system, seems valid. Perhaps they were running something else that...
[00:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:47] <exec> 08└─EF can read?
[00:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:49] <exec> 08└─But when I went to subscribe I didn't offer a print subscription. And that was all I wanted.
[00:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:00] <exec> 08└─It's actually a traditional Unix-esque in-joke, since it was one of the first webmail systems: HoTMailL. It might be cheap and shitty, but it's pretty geeky as well.
[00:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:14] <exec> 08└─He said "over time", so that's not unreasonable. You need to maintain friendships or they decay. I believe the study on it said you needed to have a friendly contact (not necessarily in person) once a month to prevent the decay. If they do their contacts over Facebook, and you don't use it, then the...
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[01:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:57] <exec> 08└─I suggest "Dangerous Water" If they'd like a tagline as well, they could go with: Dangerous Water for stupid people
[01:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:59] <exec> 08└─people in Silicon Valley making $200k a year have to rent motorhomes to live in. $15/gallon for "raw water"? Take me now, Jesus, things have gotten too stupid to deal with.
[01:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:01] <exec> 08└─Our house was built in 1960, on then rural land, with a well supplied from the aquifer ~200' down - limestone and a bit of hydrogen sulfide which usually gasses off pretty well before it gets piped into the house. It's "live water" and we like it that way for bathing and drinking... however, every s...
[01:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:03] <exec> 08└─So now there are deluded water snobs. Perhaps we shouldn't tell them that springs are not magic taps into some primeval virgin water source. Instead, they are local groundwater coming to the surface. Groundwater is transient, it is replenished by local surface water, aka streams, rivers, mud puddles...
[01:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:05] <exec> 08└─I just did a water change in my fish tank. I now have 5 gallons of unprocessed water. I'll cut ya'll a deal, $7 per gallon. Guaranteed chlorine free! For an extra dollar I'll wring out the filter sponge in it for that decedent spicy flavor!
[01:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:07] <exec> 08└─Optimist.
[01:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:09] <exec> 08└─That's pretty much it. I live off-grid mostly, and that means well water. Still goes through multiple stages of R/O before it goes anywhere in the house. Unfiltered, untreated, and unsterilized spring water. Stupidest thing I've ever heard, except for the part where people are paying for it. Two six...
[01:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:12] <exec> 08└─There are ancient aquifers that have been around for a long time. There is one under the Sahara. For the best natural water, drill down in Antarctica. Get water from before humans smelted lead or mercury. Personally, I prefer high-tech water. Start by running hydrogen and oxygen through gas centrifu...
[01:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go buy a few hundred acres of nowhere, WA, BC or AK, and install rain collectors... "Pure Rain(TM)" water ! $20 a gallon, plus $200 for the oxygen-free directional gold-copper-contacts Al tank ! With blockchain technology, of course !
[01:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:16] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a wonderful investment opportunity should I just send you a big cheque or do you except Bitcoin?
[01:18:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:28] <exec> 08└─Stop prosecuting them. Don't take them to jail, don't take them to court. When you find a robocaller, summary execution is in order. Just kill everyone on the spot. Well, everyone except the janitor. He's just a regular working stiff, mopping floors, and cleaning the restrooms. Everyone else dies wh...
[01:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:35] <exec> 08└─Hasn't happened yet, but if it were a really serious emergency I hope they'd call 911.
[01:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:37] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia defines a robot call as one that plays a recorded message. I have had those in the UK, but more often I get calls that are obviously automated dialling but with potentially a human voice. I say potentially because I understand that the call centre computer is dialling dozens of numbers (po...
[01:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:39] <exec> 08└─Parent/child is dying
[01:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:54] <exec> 08└─The problem with them is that you're paying 100x the cost per operation you need for the hardware fault tolerance, and in most cases, throwing one of the most user-hostile operating systems in existence on top of it. The only thing that stops weekly outages in most places is a culture of ridiculous...
[01:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:12] <exec> 08└─2.0? Shouldn't it be Linux Journald instead? *ducks*
[01:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:14] <exec> 08└─> Shouldn't it be Linux Journald instead? No, that would be unreadable. (this one's so obvious I am posting it myself)
[01:20:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:46] <exec> 08└─How's the weather in your mom's basement nowadays?
[01:20:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 977 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:52] <exec> 08└─We are cleaning out the house of a 95 year old friend who died recently. She collected many things, including old post cards. Many of them are over 100 years old, when it cost a penny to mail a card. The ones that are written on, usually have the equivalent of "What's up?" for the message -- so the...
[01:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah. That's what I figured. At the time, there was a flurry of articles on the subject and I noticed those. Haven't kept up on the subject since them. ...though the distributed nature of it has a certain appeal to a guy who at one time used USENET. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:41] <exec> 08└─My point is, will they ONLY maintain contact over FB? They can't pick up the phone? Email? Snail mail? How did friends stay in contact when I was a kid? There was no FB, no cell phones. Gee, you picked up the land-line, or sent a letter. Mail them a cassette of Black Sabbath. Noooo....today's 'frien...
[01:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA's Second Batch of Gaia Data Coming in April 2018 - 2046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─It would likely come in as a huge addon. Here's something relevant (but slightly outdated) from the Space Engine forum [spaceengine.org]: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) "Currenly SE uses this data per star: Coordinates (XYZ or RA/Dec/Dist) - 3 floats (12 bytes) Luminosity or app...
[01:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:58] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightshade_(disambiguation) [wikipedia.org]
[01:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:52] <exec> 08└─I'm presently working with phase space representations of quasi-periodic series as a little side-hobby. The reason I mention this is because: a quasi-periodic series is a one dimensional sequence of numbers that repeats within a given range - almost periodically, but not quite, and yet not quite cha...
[01:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:53] <exec> 08└─IR wavelengths are better for observing some of the most desirable targets in astronomy right now: exoplanets. Also "nearby" solar system objects such as Kuiper belt objects, other dwarf planets and their moons, and Planet Nine if it exists. Red dwarf stars are extremely common and are most luminous...
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[02:18:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:04] <exec> 08└─people in Silicon Valley making $200k a year have to rent motorhomes to live in. $15/gallon for "raw water"? Take me now, Jesus, things have gotten too stupid to deal with.
[02:18:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Valkor [4253] 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:07] <exec> 08└─I just did a water change in my fish tank. I now have 5 gallons of unprocessed water. I'll cut ya'll a deal, $7 per gallon. Guaranteed chlorine free! For an extra dollar I'll wring out the filter sponge in it for that decedent spicy flavor!
[02:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:14] <exec> 08└─And all that sweet sales tax income you're robbing the rest of us of ... </sarcasm> but someone's probably thinking it.
[02:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:17] <exec> 08└─Too late. Elon Musk is already working on autonomous robotic cloud harvesting. Solar-powered, of course.
[02:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:19] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with these people??! :facepalm:
[02:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─Just don't do this in California: you will be accused of theft! Yes, in CA it's illegal to collect rainwater.
[02:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:23] <exec> 08└─Yer gettin' old man: Shoulda clicked this 5 years ago [lexisnexis.com]
[02:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:26] <exec> 08└─The one I love the best is Fiji water: from the land of nuclear weapon testing. https://www.wagingpeace.org [wagingpeace.org] No, I don't think Fiji itself was tested on, but a) do Fiji water consumers have the faintest idea that it's even in the ne...
[02:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:29] <exec> 08└─You get stupid shit all over the country, quite a few people will see something expensive and just assume there is a good reason for it.
[02:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:31] <exec> 08└─Springs up in the Teton Mountains, for instance, are another story
[02:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:33] <exec> 08└─C'mon folks, the refills are $14.99 for 2.5 gallons, that's less than $6 per gallon - such a bargain! I'm all for "natural" "unprocessed" etc. but the one I can't get past is raw milk... too much like Russian Roulette for me. Maybe if it was my cow and I personally oversaw the milking process all th...
[02:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:35] <exec> 08└─It's all the chlorine and fluoride in the drinking water, it's burned out the Purity Of their Essence, making them kinda wacko.
[02:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:37] <exec> 08└─It's supposed to come from a nearby island, specifically https://en.wikipedia.org
[02:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry, genuinely curious, what's R/O in this context?
[02:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:42] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing reverse osmosis.
[02:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:44] <exec> 08└─Great, only 600K population there, roughly the population density of New Hampshire.
[02:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:46] <exec> 08└─anaerobic flagellated protozoan parasites That photo makes me want to nuke from orbit. That must be in a surface collection pool or tank? Sigh -- just like the horse tank I drank from.
[02:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, makes sense - around here that's what the limestone does...
[02:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:11] <exec> 08└─I have a system similar to Justin's. However every caller is allowed to leave voicemail, even if my phone does not ring. Spammers very, very rarely fo that - the only time it happened was a piece of an ad speech, meaning that the robot was broken. The parent/child in your example can leave a message...
[02:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:12] <exec> 08└─I'll second the recent appearance of spam calls reporting to be from the same exchange as the number they are calling. I won't answer if the exchange matches, but I would really like to get my number terminated to VoIP so I can set up a messaging and ring through to my phone if someone presents the...
[02:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:48] <exec> 08└─So why UK and not the US? Better terms from the post office or advertisers? Reducing frequency or even going online only is a desperate attempt to remain profitable. But I too have stopped buying once it became easy to ddg most of what I needed to know. Mainstream Linux having become mostly unintere...
[02:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:17] <exec> 08└─Is someone holding a gun to your head?
[02:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:25] <exec> 08└─If a site "owner" stops paying for domain registration and the registrar alters the robots.txt file for that domain, archive.org will respect that. This often means that content which archive.org "possesses" becomes unavailable. ...and, on their own, some site developers exclude archive.org via robo...
[02:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:26] <exec> 08└─When we were discussing the Pacifica simulcast of "1984", I linked to the text, freely available elsewhere (.au, as I recall). As TFS notes, there was originally a balance where the creative types got their LIMITED protection and we got their stuff, which became gratis and libre within a human lifet...
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[03:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:56] <exec> 08└─/ I should add a comment // I should make another drink /// I should wonder why my vodak bottle is mt again. We Have The Technology!
[03:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:58] <exec> 08└─You can't even focus a single image bro.
[03:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:00] <exec> 08└─Long as it's a naked female body that is not my wife, I can focus just fine thankyewverrymuch. A bachelor looks in the fridge, then goes to bed A married guy looks in the bed, then goes to the fridge
[03:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:33] <exec> 08└─I'll take that water, it can fertilize my greenhouse "tomatoes". I can even up-sell the organic aspect!
[03:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:35] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I'd like to avoid dysentery, cholera, cryptosporidium, amoebiasis, and any number of such waterborne diseases, as well as avoid poisoning with lead, arsenic, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, or any other dangerous chemicals that might occur in such naturally occurring water. And people w...
[03:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:37] <exec> 08└─Such things never happened to those who buys this water. Therefore, they will never happen to them!
[03:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:01] <exec> 08└─That's cold. You don't have a single person in your life that, if they had a major emergency, wanted you there, and couldn't use their cellphone for reasons. Sad. I hate to trump the cheeto in charge, but sad.
[03:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:02] <exec> 08└─Forgot to say: 911 was called yesterday. / I like to think I don't have any friends that think like you do // Dad's going to die alone, and it will take us 3-4 days to find him. But that's how he wants it and, well, we all can't visit him every day /// FFS, if my sister finds dad and her cellphone a...
[03:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:04] <exec> 08└─My VoIP numbers got lots of robocalls. Now they arrive at my asterisk box where I have a simple captcha method. Anybody not in the address book gets a recorded message: "please press nine of you are not a computer". Robocalls are almost always autodialers which only distribute the call to a call que...
[03:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:07] <exec> 08└─My sisters friend pull that 'but what if it was an emergency' shit on me at 3AM once. I had just got off the phone from using the net. She apparently had been calling every 5 mins for 4 hours straight. "what if it was an emergency?" "call 911" then I hung up on her. My phone is at my pleasure. Not y...
[03:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:22] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin mining.
[03:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:43] <exec> 08└─You would need to subscribe to the viewer app.
[03:20:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:04] <exec> 08└─Various of those providers have powered up two factor authentication - for those accounts you care even a little bit about. I had old yahoo account hacked/stolen and used by a guy in India. He changed the password. It took him a year to realized that I had it set up to forward a copy to another acco...
[03:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:39] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of use cases where the on die GPU is basically a necessity, even if it is low end. One I forgot to mention is that I think chrome renders pages on the GPU if supported. Then there is GPU 3D accelerated desktop compositing window managers. All that is used on business desktops daily....
[03:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:14] <exec> 08└─Cool story, Bro! (No, really, cool story. I can't stop roflmao!!)
[03:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:15] <exec> 08└─Full quote is: If you greatly dislike using it, why are you using it? Is someone holding a gun to your head?
[03:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:18] <exec> 08└─I'm still subscribed to some egroups mailing lists. Egroups got bought out by Yahoo many years back. Looking at one from today, at the bottom where I don't usually scroll down to, I see this (First line is a link) Have you tried the highest rated email app? With 4.5 stars in iTunes, the Yahoo Mail...
[03:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:37] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, I can only comment on the laws here, but recreational doesn't require anything other than showing your ID in exactly the same manner as buying cigarettes or alcohol. No record kept. Medical required a database, but we pretty much eliminated medical. You only need a medical card to grow. I w...
[03:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:20] <exec> 08└─To be fair about the foreign hacking, State Department email servers were hacked at the same time. It's hard to say that Clinton's server was less secure. I think she was worried about FOIA requests and evidence of wrong doing. In the end she was able to delete half of her messages. Nixon seems to h...
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[04:17:57] <exec> 08└─Rutabaga salad... the difference is you'll experiencement them.
[04:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:42] <exec> 08└─If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.
[04:18:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 667 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:56] <exec> 08└─I have completely solved the robocall problem. Zero in over 6 months: 1. Disconnect land line. 2. Make sure all my legitimate callers are in my contacts list. (Yeah, I know that won't work for everyone.) 3. Put phone on permanent Do Not Disturb. No sound, no flashing, no nothing. 4. Allow those on m...
[04:20:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:09] <exec> 08└─At least you aren't suggesting 12345 which is reserved for presidents to use on their luggage.
[04:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:22] <exec> 08└─As a nerd, it's all but expected for us to bash Microsoft any chance we get. But in this particular case, they earned the scorn fairly and keep right on earning it. I have a hotmail account for the purposes of testing my own mail server, and it sucks. I use Office 365 for work, and Outlook Web Acce...
[04:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:46] <exec> 08└─And, lets just throw this in here: What if Intel worked with AMD to enable AMD discreet GPU cards work in tandem with each other in laptop or desktop? You can have it either way and everything plays nicely: Ryzen APU + AMD GPU || Intel [AMD]APU + AMD GPU. Pick your CPU core of choice. Then the main...
[04:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:32] <exec> 08└─The term of copyright is the life of the author plus the number of years between the year of Walt Disney's death and the current year plus some arbitrary positive integer. They're never going to let Mickey Mouse enter the public domain.
[04:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 1872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:44] <exec> 08└─I have lived in California for 40 years or so... but one thing that I am seeing lately is really getting my goat. Tax Law. I keep seeing all this brohuahua over house flipping. Make money fast. Just tie up property you do not live in. Now its a business expense. Special deductions. So investors are...
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[05:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Single Device Capable of Dual Transistor Operation - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:11] <exec> 08└─Rutabaga Boogie! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] "Fresh Rutabaga, pulled right off the vine!"
[05:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Single Device Capable of Dual Transistor Operation - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:13] <exec> 08└─I'm sure all the data is good and companies will just rush to produce this /s
[05:18:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:22] <exec> 08└─You can't even focus a single image bro.
[05:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:25] <exec> 08└─A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optimist sees the glass as half full. An engineer sees the glass as being twice as big as it needs to be. I see the glass as having room for vodka.
[05:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:27] <exec> 08└─It's a VR revolution! Because it's less heavy and bulky! http://www.valuewalk.com [valuewalk.com] http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] https://www.siliconrepublic.com
[05:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:29] <exec> 08└─Single Metalens avoids chromatic aberrations in flat form factor.
[05:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:06] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure that water's been processed to hell and back by several dozen pairs of little fishy kidneys...
[05:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:35] <exec> 08└─Late night TV. Beautiful wimmen are here! Waiting to talk to you! Just 99 cents per minit! Call now, and you will be immediately connected! Caller-pay technology is here. What I would love to see is I pay, say, $50/month for my phone. Calls on my contact list go straight through. Covered by my $5...
[05:21:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03seandiggity [639] 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 1151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:51] <exec> 08└─Mastodon grew massively in 2017: https://www.engadget.com [engadget.com] https://mnm.social [mnm.social] https://mastodon.social [mastodon.social] ...and other decentralized/federated social networks are stable...
[05:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:54] <exec> 08└─They have this. They call em server CPUs. They're expensive as fuck (10 times or more for the equivalent speed usually).
[05:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:56] <exec> 08└─Side channel attacks are hard as fuck to mitigate. But in most cases, this is a result of using security by obscurity, a bad idea. Certain things (cryptographic keys, passwords, etc.) need to be protected against side channel attacks, but 99% of stuff doesn't. Preventing side-channel attacks other t...
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[06:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:02] <exec> 08└─Apparently there are people who still do. I see these all the time, invariably in my spam folder, invariably all purporting to come from my own network. I suppose if I worked for a huge organization I might fall for that, but probably not. If I wasn't expecting it from a specific person I don't open...
[06:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:01] <exec> 08└─Well, you know Einstein's famous quip about human stupidity. And every year there are plenty of contenders for Darwin Awards. Stupid things people do: Build homes in floodplains Use fireplaces for heating Drive while drunk Vote for politicians like Roy Moore I also consider it stupid to do thrill se...
[06:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:02] <exec> 08└─My well is awesome -- no hydrogen sulfide at all. When I'm in town and drink the city water drawn from a local lake, it's just about undrinkable. It has a whiff of lake algea masked by chlorine. Of course, you can cure that just by running city water through one of those pitcher dealies with the cha...
[06:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:04] <exec> 08└─Wait -- seriously? They ship water across the Pacific? It isn't just a marketing name?
[06:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:06] <exec> 08└─Holy cow -- as much as I like my well, and feel chagrined at not thinking up a way to turn my awesome water into $6/gal gold, there's a whole sack of nutty opportunism going on with this lot: The most prominent proponent of raw water is Doug Evans, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. After his juicing co...
[06:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:55] <exec> 08└─Suddenly, any performance advantage an Intel chip had over AMD just disappeared.
[06:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:56] <exec> 08└─Name: SellIntelStock Logo: AMD logo
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[07:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:56] <exec> 08└─consumers are now actually paid to use power on occasion, as was the case over the weekend.
[07:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:03] <exec> 08└─but maybe if they're putting out high quality theobromine and similar goodies, it might make commercial sense.
[07:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:12] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, you'll never even notice any traces of residual radioactivity over the fecal matter, E.coli, arsenic [elephantjournal.com] and other stuff in Fiji water [tophealthnews.net].
[07:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:42] <exec> 08└─Well, if many people did it the first line of defense is to use longer entry codes. Nothing special about 9 is there? 1492 would would just as well. Different people using different entry codes would mean the caller would need limited speech recognition. Then it would get more complicated, but if th...
[07:21:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 1572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:38] <exec> 08└─I have an LG OLED55B6P that I bought last year. The picture quality of OLED really is second to none, primarily because of the true black. Black pixels are just like the TV being shut off. Can't say enough about it. It makes even the best plasma TVs look just OK. HOWEVER: Since LG has decided their...
[07:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:06] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24128&title=Patch+for+Intel+Speculative+Execution+Vulnerability+Could+Reduce+Performance+by+5+to+35%25 If you have any other stuff you want in there, let me know.
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[08:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:57] <exec> 08└─But strangely prices for necessities keep going up while 60 inch hdtvs are less than 1/3 of a months rent... hummmm... why is my picture so fuzzy at 4k?
[08:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:58] <exec> 08└─Do note this tidbit from TFA: "Do German consumers benefit from ‘negative prices’? Not directly." Only the wholesale prices go negative. That includes (some) industrial customers, but consider the problem: You have a factory that would use a lot of electricity, but you cannot just start and stop...
[08:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:00] <exec> 08└─When you walk out that door, do you think anyone's gonna care about you!? I couldn't get enough of it.
[08:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:02] <exec> 08└─so, did the feed-in tarrif for home solar *also* go negative, this penalising those with home solar? Not quite that perverse, but still, further dis-incentive. http://www.res-legal.eu [res-legal...
[08:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:05] <exec> 08└─Ditch the power regulation, and you create something like Enron and the rolling blackouts that California suffered. The free market will very efficiently allocate resources for the average need. There will be little margin for failure. The free market doesn't want to pay for redundant power equipmen...
[08:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:07] <exec> 08└─Also ignores that people with money will simply build there own free( except for basic maintenance) as google and facefuck are doing, only capital will benefit from new and innovative tech, sure this is the opposite of what was envisioned, but how else are you going to pay for you 2400 a month 100 s...
[08:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:09] <exec> 08└─god forbid you contribute to society!!! please go gault and do everyone a favor, ugly woman
[08:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:18] <exec> 08└─Assuming they're able to genetically modify the cacao plant to survive elsewhere, they're going to also have to also modify its flowers to attract different pollinators or resign themselves to hand pollinating each flower. That's assuming they can figure out how to even begin to modify flower shape...
[08:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:20] <exec> 08└─As always, TFA has to mention "climate change". But the real problem is much simpler, and more obvious: crappy agricultural practices destroying the very crop the farmers are trying to cultivate. Just one example: Cocoa trees cannot function in a monoculture, because they are happiest in light shade...
[08:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:22] <exec> 08└─We know quite a bit about how DNA is expressed in flower development. It's even in introductory college biology texts that are a decade old. An easier fix may be to cause the plant to develop fruit without pollination. You could hand-pollinate when you want viable seeds, but otherwise don't bother....
[08:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:50] <exec> 08└─Makes me think of a Fresnel lens [google.com] that is flat and will fit in your wallet [google.com] (compared to a traditional magnifying glass). Damned Frenchies and their spelling/pronunciation. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:33] <exec> 08└─$15/gallon for "raw water"? Take me now, Jesus, things have gotten too stupid to deal with.
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[09:18:08] <exec> 08└─Subsidy here, restriction there, who can sell power to whom with what restrictions - the whole market is a mess. And the answer is always more regulation, more governance, more pork for politicians to distribute.
[09:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:09] <exec> 08└─In Belgium, at least in the Flemish area, it is negative. You pay a tax indexed to the inverter capacity, around 90€/kW. But apparently if you install a bidirectional meter and sell energetic back to the grid you don't pay that tax, so it might be possible to avoid it.
[09:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:11] <exec> 08└─Natural last-mile monopolies supplying basic critical utilities (water, electricity, gas, landline internet) should not be for-profit nor private. Whatever happened to actual Strategic Interest? Do we need another world war to remind people, or will people finally notice industries are getting price...
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[09:18:22] <exec> 08└─You could hand-pollinate when you want viable seeds Um, it's the seed pods that make this plant valuable to humans. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[09:18:23] <exec> 08└─This isn't the only crop that is seeing negative effects due to manmade climate disruption. Traditional growing zones for crops are shifting toward the poles. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:32] <exec> 08└─It assumes that you know it's talking about Windoze. Y'know, the malware magnet. [google.com] . The idiots who constructed the page also included styling in their HTML but never checked how that works. (Black text on a saturated blue background is stupid.) It should also come as no great surprise th...
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[10:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:18] <exec> 08└─Hundreds of millions poured every year to use the dirtiest fuels available.
[10:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:20] <exec> 08└─60 inch hdtvs are less than 1/3 of a months rent... hummmm... why is my picture so fuzzy at 4k?
[10:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:33] <exec> 08└─But they don't have to be viable seeds. Making large non-viable seeds may not be easy, but it's at least conceptually possible.
[10:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:34] <exec> 08└─Keep going with that modification, and while at it fix the other parameters of that picky plant. Theobroma cacao is one of the seriously picky plants out there, stuff like allowing it to deal with cold better would seriously increase it range, or making it drought-tolerant. Kinda funny really - with...
[10:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:44] <exec> 08└─A campaign like this is successful even if only 1 in 100K people fall for it. It's the same with malvertisment. There's also the chance that people open them by accident due to misclicking and given the trend to butcher UI's into barely useable garbage this will become ever more common.
[10:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:47] <exec> 08└─PS: What surprises me more is that despite executable and script whitelisting being a thing since 2008/2009 on windaz organizations go out of their way to never deploy these measures (despite paying for the versions of the OS that offer them).
[10:19:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 811 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:18] <exec> 08└─So now there are deluded water snobs. Perhaps we shouldn't tell them that springs are not magic taps into some primeval virgin water source. Instead, they are local groundwater coming to the surface. Groundwater is transient, it is replenished by local surface water, aka streams, rivers, mud puddles...
[10:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:53] <exec> 08└─Nah. RO water tends to be a lot purer than water percolated through limestone. Some methods leave a bit of acetone and similar in it but the decent ones are quite pure. Such RO water is very hypotonic and useful if you want to have lots of water going in and out your body (e.g. pee a lot). This migh...
[10:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:54] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with these people??!
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[10:20:41] <exec> 08└─Lemme guess...
[10:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:37] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And the difference is also easy to spot other way: many people have 0 or 1 real friends while many social media users have 400 "friends". Social media is just for lonely exhibitionists and voyeurs. And ironically the more you do it, the lonelier you will become.
[10:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:39] <exec> 08└─Using it also often helps Facebook conduct surveillance on people who don't even use the service, like when someone uploads a picture with them in it without their permission.
[10:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:41] <exec> 08└─You're just pretending that there's no value to Facebook. Again, that just isn't good enough when we're trying to have a real discussion about this stuff. You can't always rely on someone being willing to reroute Facebook discussions to you via another channel. If you're a 'semi-active' member of a...
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[11:17:55] <exec> 08└─How are you going to replace 13 million minimally paid people, oh right 13 million more slaves, and you can bet that is just the beginning, watch as rents, food, transit skyrocket in the next 2 years , I'm going to kill my self but the rest of you and the children you cursed to bring into the world...
[11:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey State Police Spent $850,000 on Harris Corp. Stingray Devices - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:03] <exec> 08└─Meh at least they didn't steal it from people off the street, That is a big improvement
[11:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:23] <exec> 08└─720p is far better than 1080i for the average European household. I'm not aware of a 1080p or 2160p non-IP transmission format
[11:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:24] <exec> 08└─Bi-directional meters (selling excess solar power back) are the regular way of doing home solar panels op the north side of your border. In the Netherlands, the government decided to freeze the ratio of selling back to buying to one-on-one until 2023. So if your panels generate an excess amount of e...
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[11:18:27] <exec> 08└─Sounds really useful. Half the time there's too much wind, and you have to dump power who knows be where. The rest of the time there's too little, and you have a to fire up the shit burners.
[11:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:42] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't artificial sources of shade work too? e.g. stick poles up with mesh/netting, remove when the cocoa plants get big enough to not need shade (apparently the big ones don't need shade). http://www.fao.org [fao.org] When the cocoa trees have grown taller, they nee...
[11:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:43] <exec> 08└─Where do seedless grapes come from?
[11:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:16] <exec> 08└─The other TLDR: "curved lenses now quaint, apps soon adding CA and distortion filters to the fake flare one"
[11:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:18] <exec> 08└─> the entire visible spectrum of light—including white light... I think it would be a feat if it excluded WHITE light from the ENTIRE VISIBLE SPECTRUM instead...
[11:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:20] <exec> 08└─Which one of the two?
[11:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:34] <exec> 08└─You miss the point completely and are overrated. Anti-aliasing is always required for correct rendering on a fixed grid of pixels like a computer monitor -- regardless of the resolution of that pixel grid.
[11:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but a refresh rate of 144 Hz would eliminate any and all nausea issues associated with low refresh rates.
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[12:18:07] <exec> 08└─You live in a fascist state propagated by people that supported Hitler congratulations you lost WWII 60 million people died for nothing
[12:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey State Police Spent $850,000 on Harris Corp. Stingray Devices - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:09] <exec> 08└─But only six million of them counted.
[12:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:48] <exec> 08└─The grocery store. Duh.
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[13:18:04] <exec> 08└─To raw for you autists?
[13:18:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 895 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:22] <exec> 08└─Do note this tidbit from TFA: "Do German consumers benefit from ‘negative prices’? Not directly." Only the wholesale prices go negative. That includes (some) industrial customers, but consider the problem: You have a factory that would use a lot of electricity, but you cannot just start and stop...
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[13:18:37] <exec> 08└─customers are being paid to consume power
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[13:19:05] <exec> 08└─Not to mention lexically unparseable gems such as gain unauthorised access to a victim PC backdoor into the victim PC
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[14:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Necurs Botnet Launches Massive 47 Million Emails Per Day Campaign - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:58] <exec> 08└─> with researchers stopping as many as 47 million emails per day. More like foot soldiers, not researchers...
[14:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Necurs Botnet Launches Massive 47 Million Emails Per Day Campaign - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:01] <exec> 08└─Shhhhhhh.... Title inflation works on the dumb. Don't destroy their illusion that these 'researchers' are doing something of value. We never told street-sweepers either that what they did was futile! At least, these kids can now put something on their resume and maybe, just maybe, one day get a real...
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[14:18:04] <exec> 08└─I might have received one of these spams? It claimed to be from "www.PayPall.com" I figured it was a new way to pay for funeral services and pall bearers... Or, if the perpetrator couldn't spell, maybe they meant "PayPaul" -- thus robbing Peter?
[14:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:12] <exec> 08└─Personally, I hope the US government win this one. Not because I want any government to have those powers, but because I know that governments already have those powers, plus the clout to force companies to keep schtum about the use of those powers. A US govt win will give lie to the idea that multi...
[14:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey State Police Spent $850,000 on Harris Corp. Stingray Devices - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:28] <exec> 08└─Any idea what one of these costs? Did the cops get a good quantity price break, or were they suckered into buying "retail"?
[14:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey State Police Spent $850,000 on Harris Corp. Stingray Devices - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:31] <exec> 08└─The cops *are* the retail market for these things... They're even dumb enough to sign the NDA that Harris enforces which -amongst things- contains a gagging clause prohibiting the purchaser from talking about the device. I mean, in an open and democratic society, you'd think these types of shenaniga...
[14:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:55] <exec> 08└─In the long term, sure. In the short term it's possible to get into situations where your combined power generation can exceed consumption by more than the power grid can handle, so unless you have infrastructure-scale Tesla powerwalls or something like the UK's Electric Mountain [electricmountain.c...
[14:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:56] <exec> 08└─Now when they are at $200bn it is only $100bn to go until they've wasted enough money to instead have gotten an all nuclear grid (Barakah NPP (UAE, 4xAPR1400) cost 20bn and will give about 40TWh/yr, germany uses about 600TWh/yr). But I guess having wind, solar and "going green" is more important tha...
[14:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:59] <exec> 08└─It's not hard to take a wind turbine off line electrically and brake it to a stop if the power isn't needed. But it may be harder to take a wind farm off line politically if it's owned by someone who is personally powerful (connected to or "owns" politicians, etc)?
[14:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:27] <exec> 08└─hey so do you read pdfs on linux with adobe software and on windows without it? new year means im trying not to be a grammar nazi but i at least can point out poor structure and unclear presentation of thought. dig.
[14:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:28] <exec> 08└─They've been doing this for YEARS guys! I have "scanned by epson" custom rules in my spam filter from 2016. I've been advising users to NOT directly scan-to-email to users outside of their office, and where it was feasible or the users had a habit of doing it anyway, restricted the printer or its em...
[14:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:30] <exec> 08└─What admin leaves a system configured to hide known extensions?
[14:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:33] <exec> 08└─But who opens those?
[14:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:44] <exec> 08└─The US education(less) system.
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[14:21:32] <exec> 08└─it seems that their misdirection worked. no one had asked if there was a malicious action by shadowy terroist groups that affect the security of the country, so they said there wasn't so stop asking why it went down because we're safe yay! they did an upgrade for facial recognition stuff at the entr...
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[15:17:59] <exec> 08└─Too bad nobody uses it, except those Bitcoin scammers.
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:07] <exec> 08└─Yea, the problem is that tech companies currently have it both ways, they can say both of these things with a straight face: - nyah nyah, we are a US company and obey US laws for data handling, so screw your local regional laws! - nyah nyah, we use foreign servers so we aren't subject to US la...
[15:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03starvingboy [6766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:18] <exec> 08└─How did they handle it when Prohibition was repealed? It's not like we haven't been down this road before.
[15:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:20] <exec> 08└─But, but, but, this is TOTALLY different! Because, REASONS!
[15:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:22] <exec> 08└─Do some introspection. Contemplate why it is that you thought your comment would be a worthwhile contribution to this discussion.
[15:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06New Jersey State Police Spent $850,000 on Harris Corp. Stingray Devices - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:34] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying is that Harris needs some competition? Anyone interested in an open source "Stingray"? Not sure how to solve the broadcast license problem, but there is plenty of prior history of other pirate radio stations.
[15:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey State Police Spent $850,000 on Harris Corp. Stingray Devices - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:35] <exec> 08└─Surely Republicans (you know, the ones who are against any type of government regulations) wouldn't force anyone to bear the burden of needing a broadcasting license, now would they? I don't see your problem... I'm more in the market for a powerful and reusable EMP device. (I'm still not quite sure...
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[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, here it is: https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[15:18:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:45] <exec> 08└─consumers are now actually paid to use power on occasion, as was the case over the weekend.
[15:18:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:56] <exec> 08└─Natural last-mile monopolies supplying basic critical utilities (water, electricity, gas, landline internet) should not be for-profit nor private. Whatever happened to actual Strategic Interest? Do we need another world war to remind people, or will people finally notice industries are getting price...
[15:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:07] <exec> 08└─When prices are 'negative' it means you aren't selling it anymore. Instead you are paying people to take something from you. A negative price isn't a price.
[15:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:10] <exec> 08└─That's just stupid. Power glut, wind overage, whatever, there are still costs (labor, infrastructure) ensuring that the cost of the energy is not zero.
[15:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:27] <exec> 08└─> stick poles up with mesh/netting, Stick up poles with solar panels...
[15:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:55] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate innovation?
[15:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 2734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:43] <exec> 08└─I'm sure mainframes use the latest advances in tech. In fact, from what I see, they even use more exotic tech than in the most insanely insanefully insane gamer systems. Cabinets with cool decorative design features and lights which serve no actual compute function. But there are two problems. First...
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[15:21:45] <exec> 08└─See my post almost directly below about fault tolerance using kubernetes and gluster fs.
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[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─If you went back 10 years ago and replaced "4K" with "1920x1200" you would have been able to say the same things.
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[16:18:13] <exec> 08└─This particular case revolves around email held in an Outlook account in Ireland—it is not publicly known what the government hopes would be revealed by acquiring the email, which was sought as part of a drug investigation. Investigators have also not revealed whether the email account owner is Am...
[16:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:15] <exec> 08└─While what you say is true there is a downside to a DOJ win. It gives more power to law enforcement bodies that they do not need. They did not use procedures that are designed to give the what they want (MLAT). The multi-nationals are under attack from many governments for avoiding taxes and such. T...
[16:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:27] <exec> 08└─Western society is predicated on the notion that the Law is King. Regardless of whether the King changes His mind, it is still the case that people defied the King in the past, which cannot be tolerated; why should they be pardoned? That being said, the non-violent offenders will be released, not be...
[16:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:28] <exec> 08└─If you have proof of possession with intent, then the defendant should be charged with that. Charging them with possession, distribution, possession with intent, and a laundry list of other charges just to get them to plead guilty to possession is extortion. IMHO, the bargain system is a bug, not a...
[16:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:31] <exec> 08└─Alaska had a lot of failed attempts to legalize pot because the bill always included stipulations that prior convictions would be overturned. Evidently Alaskans are not a forgiving people and while fine with legalization are not fine with overturning convictions. Regardless of whether or not the law...
[16:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:33] <exec> 08└─Potheads feel the need to constantly validate their choice of intoxicant. That said your point is a good one. With the end of prohibition we already have a path we can follow.
[16:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:35] <exec> 08└─Yes. [wikipedia.org]
[16:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It also brings to mind the fact that I've never seen a fesnel lens that I'd want to use for more than a minute or two at a time. Maybe it's just chromatic aberration from all the concentric prisms, but the things are unpleasant to use. Even in the first few minutes, before the grooves get in...
[16:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Metalens Focuses All Colors of the Rainbow in One Point - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:15] <exec> 08└─From the article "Metalenses are thin, easy to fabricate and cost effective." Also from the article "Next, the researchers aim to scale up the lens, to about 1 cm in diameter. This would open a whole host of new possibilities, such as applications in virtual and augmented reality." Hmm, I'm getting...
[16:20:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:24] <exec> 08└─I suggest "Dangerous Water" If they'd like a tagline as well, they could go with: Dangerous Water for stupid people
[16:20:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 636 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:27] <exec> 08└─Our house was built in 1960, on then rural land, with a well supplied from the aquifer ~200' down - limestone and a bit of hydrogen sulfide which usually gasses off pretty well before it gets piped into the house. It's "live water" and we like it that way for bathing and drinking... however, every s...
[16:20:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:41] <exec> 08└─Springs up in the Teton Mountains, for instance, are another story
[16:21:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 1232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:33] <exec> 08└─Late night TV. Beautiful wimmen are here! Waiting to talk to you! Just 99 cents per minit! Call now, and you will be immediately connected! Caller-pay technology is here. What I would love to see is I pay, say, $50/month for my phone. Calls on my contact list go straight through. Covered by my $5...
[16:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:35] <exec> 08└─In America, legislators do what they are paid to do. We have the Direct Marketing Ass(ociation). (DMA) Example: back in the 1990's effective anti-SPAM legislation was proposed. The DMA fought it long and hard, and effectively killed it. Thus guaranteeing an ever increasing amount of SPAM. Effectivel...
[16:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:38] <exec> 08└─Wow. Land Line. I had forgotten all about those. How quaint. Something from a previous millennium long ago swept away in the sands of time. Yes, land lines are a major robo and telemarketer call cesspool. I have an older friend who still has a land line.
[16:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:58] <exec> 08└─The people that work on them generally have worked on little else, and they have brand loyalty. "Nobody ever got fire for buying IBM". On top of that, a very large percentage of the code running on these pigs is some of the ugliest, decrepit, patched-over 50 year old code. COBOL code. So wordy that...
[16:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:00] <exec> 08└─They actually do not schedule their "scheduled outages" so people can't use that to get through.
[16:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:22] <exec> 08└─Well you yourself complain about Gnome and systemd, and I certainly haven't seen any lack of complaining about those elsewhere, so I'm not sure why a Linux mag in the UK is still so popular unlike the US. I really have no idea. Any Brits here? I thought postal rates in the UK were even worse than he...
[16:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:04] <exec> 08└─From your post below: " Using it also often helps Facebook conduct surveillance on people who don't even use the service, like when someone uploads a picture with them in it without their permission. Totally agree - that's a real faux pas, but very often people don't seem to get it. I'm often disap...
[16:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:06] <exec> 08└─Do use quote tags, they're far more readable. So, you don't like that EVERYONE is tracked EVEN THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT TO BE TRACKED, but that's okay, because friends are okay with things like that.
[16:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:08] <exec> 08└─So, you don't mind being tracked where you go, what you do, who you contact, where you meet up with them, addresses, names, birth dates, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc? So you don't mind your contacts being tracked either? Even those who don't want fb to know the above info? Give me your wallet,...
[16:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:10] <exec> 08└─Yup: i'd rather have that 1 true friend. Even no friends would be better.
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[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:54] <exec> 08└─Cloud providers will get fixed VMs to better isolate customers' resources, and programs will be re-written to consolidate/batch syscalls, so as to avoid context switching. Consumers who would notice the a performance hit will just get an "Optimize for Performance" setting that will disable the worka...
[17:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:56] <exec> 08└─The Linux fix can be disabled, which you will likely want to do if you use an AMD processor.
[17:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─Apple: We might see some backlash for making people's phones run slower. Intel: Hold my beer…
[17:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:00] <exec> 08└─Disable page table isolation by default on AMD processors by not setting the X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE feature, which controls whether X86_FEATURE_PTI is set.
[17:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:08] <exec> 08└─I suspect while simple life is common, complex life is rare. Look at all the things that had to go right on Earth. If we didn't have a big moon, Earth would often be stuck with one side (edge) facing the sun and the other freezing in the dark. So far it appears big moons around rocky planets are fai...
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─To be fair, finding any evidence of extraterrestrial life (even if it is just microbial) outside the solar system would be an amazing scientific achievement. And this could be done by finding evidence of vegetation, oxygen-rich atmospheres, etc. Gas giants are not uncommon, and their masses can be p...
[17:18:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03romlok [1241] 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 1557 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:26] <exec> 08└─Personally, I hope the US government win this one. Not because I want any government to have those powers, but because I know that governments already have those powers, plus the clout to force companies to keep schtum about the use of those powers. A US govt win will give lie to the idea that multi...
[17:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:31] <exec> 08└─A US win here would definitely put the other 96 % of the world population1 on notice that the US doesn't respect their sovereignty. Not one bit. It would help the Trump administration to further withdraw and distance the US from its former position of global leadership and authority. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-...
[17:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:33] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what the Supreme Court says, the real lesson here is that you can't have a public company host confidential data if you want to protect it from the government. That ranges from "I traffic in cocaine and fund terrorists and want to conceal it" to "I don't want a bored employee of th...
[17:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:50] <exec> 08└─"Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions?" YES Should the sentences automatically be reduced/adjusted? YES, automatically for non-violent convictions. Evaluated on a case by case for convictions including violent behavior* under judicial discretion. Should people convicted of recreat...
[17:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:51] <exec> 08└─The expense of keeping prisoners is really not the issue. Not at all. First, these people can be freed (1) because their lives have already been ruined, and (2) to make room to incarcerate younger people who have not yet realized that they should not insult or embarrass our dear leader, legislators,...
[17:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:53] <exec> 08└─I have to agree. Rationale: if the law is overturned, then it must have been unjust. Therefore, it seems that people formerly convicted of it should be freed. You can't have it both ways. Either the law was just or unjust. If just, then why overturn it? If unjust, then why continue to imprison peopl...
[17:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:55] <exec> 08└─Should people convicted of recreational cannabis use be pardoned outright? NO*. It was against the law when they used it. They knew the law, even if it was bad, they choose to break it.
[17:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:58] <exec> 08└─An allocation of resources is either profitable, or it isn't; given that resource accessibility in our Universe is fundamentally scarce and that the future is unknown, that means an endeavor is only sustainable when it is profitable. Profit is the only reason to do anything; it's certainly the only...
[17:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:00] <exec> 08└─Evidently Alaskans are not a forgiving people and while fine with legalization are not fine with overturning convictions.
[17:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:02] <exec> 08└─At the time of the various failed attempts it was legal to smoke and possess but not legal to sell or have over a certain amount, so the majority of people caught/imprisoned were dealers. I think that combined with the conservative belief that "criminals are criminal by nature" made them think that...
[17:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:45] <exec> 08└─What i saw was unseasonably warm weather
[17:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:47] <exec> 08└─The simple answer to output variability is energy storage. Pump water up the hill with excess power, run it it through the turbine at peak demand. I've seen this done in Wales. With Germany closing in on all-renewable energy I think we'll see a lot more lake energy storage and maybe some innovations...
[17:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:07] <exec> 08└─Apparently it is often found near cacao plants and provides the partial shade they look for. As stated they are also tropical plants however, and there are no cacao plants that currently survive below ~50 degrees F. One of the more interesting things you will notice looking into plant habitability r...
[17:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:23] <exec> 08└─Anyone who works for a company with a network scanner would, and *should*, open these things. That's how network scanners work. You go to the big-ass printer/scanner/copier down the hall, put your documents on the sheet feeder, press "scan" and tell it to send them to you, and it scans them in, make...
[17:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:24] <exec> 08└─Most of them, I think, but that has been a vector for malware for as long as I can remember Windows being around, so anyone who still does that deserves whatever happens to them.
[17:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:41] <exec> 08└─Yep, there's water shipped from Norway too. https://vosswater.com [vosswater.com] I've had Fiji and Voss bottled water and they are a good tasting bottled water. Where I'm at, the tap water is horrendous, so we usually cook with it and drink bottled water. Though, we usually buy reasonably processe...
[17:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:43] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with using a Fireplace for heating. It doesn't deserve to be anywhere near the things you put on that list. Trying to heat a 2500 square foot house with 1 Fireplace, yes, crazy. Most people would just stay in the room with the Fire or a nearby room. Though, using a Wood Burning Stove i...
[17:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:45] <exec> 08└─Huh? What could possibly be unhealthy about RO water, unless the RO system is seriously malfunctioning or contaminated? Any decent commercial RO system also adds minerals so the water tastes good.
[17:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:47] <exec> 08└─It only works in a place where not many people can supply it - around here if you marketed it at one of the local: Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Earth Fare, Trader Joes, or even more esoteric "pure foods" stores, you could sell it for a while at the above price points, but it wouldn't be long before ot...
[17:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:49] <exec> 08└─The minerals are key - and again, that's what the limestone does. But without them, "pure" de-ionized water is some pretty nasty stuff, a very strong polar solvent.
[17:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:22] <exec> 08└─They’re just fucked. Shame on them for not calling from an approved device.
[17:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─only the edges had computer system problems. thats where the photos are taken... i mean really come on people using the face to authenticate identity on ones personal hardware... all of that info is shared with the government. it is incredibly easy to track people this way now. christ even churches...
[17:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:44] <exec> 08└─I didn't know it had 2 Ls. Thanks for the education. /sarc /ped
[17:24:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:58] <exec> 08└─It always goes like this: them: "rich, you're on facebook, aren't you? Can I reach you there?" me: "No, I work in IT." them: "Oh, of course, I understand." People seem to have some conception that those working in IT are smart enough to not use facebook ;)
[17:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─So, you don't mind being tracked [...]
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:58] <exec> 08└─Okay. Good luck. The difference being, of course, that Facebook haven't committed any crimes with the data they have on me.
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[18:17:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:57] <exec> 08└─Apple: We might see some backlash for making people's phones run slower. Intel: Hold my beer…
[18:17:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─Disable page table isolation by default on AMD processors by not setting the X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE feature, which controls whether X86_FEATURE_PTI is set.
[18:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:00] <exec> 08└─There chips have been suspect since the original pentium, and are suspiciously defective by design, I haven't bought one that wasn't a laptop since my XT which admittedly had the best and easiest to access case I ever had
[18:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:02] <exec> 08└─From what we know so far, this sounds like a privilege escalation and/or cross-VM flaw. Will Joe Sixpack or Grandma care? Especially when they either run as admin already, or whack-a-mole click OK on everything that pops up.
[18:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:04] <exec> 08└─https://mobile.twitter.com/grsecurity/status/948325691078082560?p=p [twitter.com]
[18:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:07] <exec> 08└─I doubt the average Joe benefits in any way from this patch. Anything worth knowing about a system like that already resides in ring3 and is readily grabbable if the user allows random code to execute (which is a necessity to leverage this). Unless this allows code to be injected into ring0 I don't...
[18:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:09] <exec> 08└─Let's see what happens to Windows computers on Patch Tuesday. If almost all personal computers worldwide slow down, will Grandma Sixpack notice?
[18:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:11] <exec> 08└─Intel is actually seeing a backlash for making people's computers run faster. It turns out that Intel's cleverness isn't secure.
[18:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:13] <exec> 08└─The bright side is that the already barely useable crapware that modern software has devolved into should become completely unuseable if the performance hit on windows is as severe as the one in implied for linux. Maybe brogrammers will be forced to optimize their warez again.
[18:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, they'll care. Javascript on any web page being able to access kernel memory is a Really Bad Thing. They probably WON'T care about a 33% CPU slowdown.
[18:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:18] <exec> 08└─"access" and "guess/deduct things about" are not the same thing.
[18:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:20] <exec> 08└─Search for "Brian Krzanich stock". [google.com] No results for the Dec. 19th Motley Fool story. A search for "Motley Fool" [google.com] brings up the news source repeatedly, so the news source is not delisted from Google News. Tom's Hardware says [tomshardware.com]: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich also rec...
[18:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:22] <exec> 08└─It's still under embargo (and was meant to be until the 9th, but the Linux people were oh-so-clever and leaked it - I hope Intel won't give them embargoed security reports in the future), so this is speculation: If this were just a KASLR bypass, it some of the people who are preparing patches would...
[18:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:25] <exec> 08└─Non Cloud users can get a new sticker from Intel to affix to their computer.
[18:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:27] <exec> 08└─Meaning you can inject code into privileged pages, but not read out the contents of them, by inferring the timing of the page walks for where an address is in relation to your code.
[18:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:29] <exec> 08└─(and was meant to be until the 9th, but the Linux people were oh-so-clever and leaked it - I hope Intel won't give them embargoed security reports in the future)
[18:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:31] <exec> 08└─Will Joe Sixpack or Grandma care? Especially when they either run as admin already, or whack-a-mole click OK on everything that pops up.
[18:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:34] <exec> 08└─Leave non-Internetty things running as usual. Hell, you could even run certain trusted website code without the new protections. It just won't matter in the end; all of the headache will belong to the programmers, not the users.
[18:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:36] <exec> 08└─The key detail was leaked on the linux-kernel mailing list, but not by some random Linux developer. It was leaked by an AMD employee who was providing a patch to exclude AMD processors from the bug work-around.
[18:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:38] <exec> 08└─It just so happens that the best stuff is still mediocre. People want x86 processors. People want drivers that work; Intel's Linux support has been pretty strong, while AMD GPUs not so much. Alternative architecures suck. POWER stuff is built for high-end servers. ARM stuff is built for OEM secrec...
[18:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:40] <exec> 08└─Might be FUD in that case. The bug is certainly real, but if all the speculation is based on that it's pretty suspect.
[18:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:43] <exec> 08└─The bug is in some 64-bit ARM processors as well. Apple makes those for the iPhone.
[18:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:45] <exec> 08└─Haven't you heard? The new business strategy is: 1. Get enough market share and label yourself "too big to fail" 2. Do whatever you can to get the most money 3. Cry when things go bad, get bailed out It is a pretty foolproof plan, the hard part is getting the initial market share. After that you pay...
[18:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:47] <exec> 08└─The currently proposed fix still leaves a little bit of kernel code mapped. The assembly code for entry and exit is still mapped in. It is this code that updates CR3, which points at the page table tree, to do the memory mapping isolation. An x86 processor has a built-in capability to do that. The G...
[18:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:49] <exec> 08└─I hope Intel won't give them embargoed security reports in the future
[18:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 2216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:59] <exec> 08└─Without the moon, the Earth still wouldn't be tidally locked - not even Mercury has tidally locked yet, and it experiences radically greater tidal forces. Meanwhile the the moon is slowing the Earth's rotation as well, and probably far faster than the sun alone would have. What the moon *does* contr...
[18:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:01] <exec> 08└─> we may be biased towards discovering gas giants that are closer to their stars Exactly, and no maybe about it. If we were watching our solar system from Alpha Centauri we'd probably still have no idea that Jupiter existed* - it hasn't even completed three orbits in the time we've been hunting for...
[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Necurs Botnet Launches Massive 47 Million Emails Per Day Campaign - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:12] <exec> 08└─Note that the numbers provided are only for mail flowing into AppRiver's systems. The botnet is probably much larger than that. It's pretty easy to block stuff though so honestly it wasn't even on my radar. I tend to worry more about the stuff that's getting through.
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:26] <exec> 08└─"Just trust us" doesn't apply here - they have a warrant issued by a judge. The judge (leg. branch instead of enf. branch of gov.) trusted the case enough to issue the warrant. Now, of course, is whether the courts believe that such a warrant is lawful.
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:27] <exec> 08└─The real question here is whether such a request is a "warrant" (for seizure of property) or "subpoena" (ordering someone to produce information). For a "subpoena" the case is already clear. As an example, a judge can issue a subpoena to a *person* to produce extensive information on their shell com...
[18:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:29] <exec> 08└─The judge (leg. branch instead of enf. branch of gov.)
[18:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:53] <exec> 08└─Should people convicted of recreational cannabis use be pardoned outright? NO*. It was against the law when they used it. They knew the law, even if it was bad, they choose to break it.
[18:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:54] <exec> 08└─These dealers1 were selling pot, not meth. Not the same thing. Some people2 consider it to be "medicine". Therefore the dealer's motivation might have been good rather than bad. -=-=-=-=-=-=- 1who try to force Tesla to sell through dealer networks, and will next set their sights on SpaceX to use dea...
[18:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:56] <exec> 08└─the problem is "government"
[18:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:59] <exec> 08└─Sure, letting stoners out of jail would make a lot of sense if dope is no longer illegal. That's just saving a bunch of cash, never a bad thing. However, the bigger deal would be erasing the conviction from criminal records. Because one of the major purposes of the War on Vegetables (as Dr. Timothy...
[18:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:01] <exec> 08└─Contemplate why it is that you thought your comment would be a worthwhile
[18:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:03] <exec> 08└─If you have proof of possession with intent, then the defendant should be charged with that.
[18:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:48] <exec> 08└─is the conservative answer always deregulation? it worked for enron, prices in fact did not go negative! not at all! infact there were power outages that... weren't from the lack of power!
[18:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:09] <exec> 08└─There are multiple problems, and a big one is politics: Over half of the world's chocolate now comes from just two countries in West Africa — Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.
[18:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Designed Chocolate - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, theobromine is the part of chocolate that kills dogs because they can't break it down quickly. Even old people can OD on chocolate in a similar fashion. Still, in appropriate doses (which isn't that hard to achieve for reasonably functioning h. sapiens) theobromine both "feels good" when inges...
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─Google Russian Fireplace.
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─What I meant were the typical crappy American fireplaces that send 90% of the heat straight up the chimney. They are horrifically wasteful and inefficient. They can even cause the house to get colder because the air they send up the chimney must be replaced, and that typically happens by drawing col...
[18:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:56] <exec> 08└─I was pulled onto Discord. Threw together an identity of convenience with a throwaway email. Discord decided that I wasn't a person any more or some shit like that, and rendered my account inaccessible, told me to check my email. There was no email. Going back to IRC.
[18:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:19] <exec> 08└─My record deck's 30 years old and still going strong.
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[19:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:02] <exec> 08└─The misdeeds were those of Nixon's predecessors, of the opposite party, whom he dutifully attempted to protect against his personal interests in order to preserve the country's standing.
[19:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:03] <exec> 08└─yes but did you know scanning something and putting it on a web server is now counted as a reprint millennials were a mistake
[19:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─The misdeeds were those of X's predecessors, often of the opposite party, whom he/she dutifully attempted to protect against his/her personal interests in order to preserve the country's standing.
[19:18:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 686 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:26] <exec> 08└─Search for "Brian Krzanich stock". [google.com] No results for the Dec. 19th Motley Fool story. A search for "Motley Fool" [google.com] brings up the news source repeatedly, so the news source is not delisted from Google News. Tom's Hardware says [tomshardware.com]: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich also rec...
[19:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:41] <exec> 08└─Is this rabid praise or feral bleating?
[19:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:42] <exec> 08└─Apple also sells a lot of Intel-based machines ...
[19:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:44] <exec> 08└─Attorney files massive class action lawsuit for trillion$.
[19:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:47] <exec> 08└─Since they sell stock as a matter of pre-programmed trades (outside of their personal control), any change of pattern during the embargo would constitute insider trading.
[19:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:49] <exec> 08└─I hope I can get a 0.05 cent coupon for my Celeron N2840.
[19:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─Personally, I hope the US government win this one. Not because I want any government to have those powers, but because I know that governments already have those powers, plus the clout to force companies to keep schtum about the use of those powers. A US govt win will give lie to the idea that multi...
[19:19:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 1236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:53] <exec> 08└─Sure, letting stoners out of jail would make a lot of sense if dope is no longer illegal. That's just saving a bunch of cash, never a bad thing. However, the bigger deal would be erasing the conviction from criminal records. Because one of the major purposes of the War on Vegetables (as Dr. Timothy...
[19:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:56] <exec> 08└─Regardless of whether the King changes His mind, it is still the case that people defied the King in the past, which cannot be tolerated; why should they be pardoned?
[19:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:58] <exec> 08└─Potheads feel the need to constantly validate their choice of intoxicant.
[19:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:01] <exec> 08└─I appreciate your sincerity, but this is a sarcastic conversation.
[19:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:03] <exec> 08└─An allocation of resources is either profitable, or it isn't; given that resource accessibility in our Universe is fundamentally scarce and that the future is unknown, that means an endeavor is only sustainable when it is profitable.
[19:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:05] <exec> 08└─I'd like to believe that's true. I see no indication in AC's post I responded to that this was sarcasm.
[19:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:07] <exec> 08└─and production for, and sales to
[19:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, someone with an ax to grind wrote a book so we can all just stop arguing about the whole purpose of laws in general, right? The purpose of setting up this elaborate convoluted scheme excluding all these people from employment and housing would be what? We enjoy stepping over piles of human exc...
[19:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:12] <exec> 08└─There is virtually nobody in jail for ONLY a personal use possession charge.
[19:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:14] <exec> 08└─The purpose of setting up this elaborate convoluted scheme excluding all these people from employment and housing would be what? Really? You know the answer, stop playing dumb.
[19:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:16] <exec> 08└─The purpose of setting up this elaborate convoluted scheme excluding all these people from employment and housing would be what?
[19:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:18] <exec> 08└─Text forums are weird that way...
[19:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey State Police Spent $850,000 on Harris Corp. Stingray Devices - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:33] <exec> 08└─Why is Stingray so secret? Why can't it be discussed? Defendants cannot question the secrecy of Stingray. If they do, and get very far in court, then the case against them is dropped rather than reveal any information. Law enforcement agencies won't discuss whether they have or use Stingray. Why is...
[19:20:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:46] <exec> 08└─Ditch the power regulation, and you create something like Enron and the rolling blackouts that California suffered. The free market will very efficiently allocate resources for the average need. There will be little margin for failure. The free market doesn't want to pay for redundant power equipmen...
[19:20:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:49] <exec> 08└─Subsidy here, restriction there, who can sell power to whom with what restrictions - the whole market is a mess. And the answer is always more regulation, more governance, more pork for politicians to distribute.
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:06] <exec> 08└─I hear it’ll get you drunk too.
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[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:58] <exec> 08└─Reminder: Indonesia is the world's 4th most populous country, with no shortage of Internet users: A 2016 survey showed there were 132.7 million Internet users in Indonesia, which has a population of 256 million. As many as 129 million users used the Internet to access social media platforms, with Fa...
[20:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─> The misdeeds were those of Nixon's predecessors, OK, but Nixon (and his administration) added a bunch more to the list.
[20:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:10] <exec> 08└─wat
[20:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:13] <exec> 08└─Not just a "reprint", sir, but a "WWW reprint". Gaston! Put Wagner on the turntable, hand me some Hennessy, the loupe and the hiPahde, I have a WWW Reprint to peruse!
[20:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:15] <exec> 08└─Hippy!
[20:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:17] <exec> 08└─"Substitute any president since Washington for X, and the statement applies to multiple important issues." I know cynicism is not entirely uncalled for, but I still don't think that's entirely accurate. Washington was a man, not a saint, and I would not rate him as the best US President. "Affairs of...
[20:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:19] <exec> 08└─The only reason I let Washington off the hook is because he was the first President, but if you want to throw in the lies of the Continental Congress as Washington's predecessors, then the same applies to him. If your state is a Republic which goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy, then t...
[20:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:00] <exec> 08└─Considering there will be billions of unpatched machines with an Intel CPU at its core I do wonder how screwed they'll be or how high the risk will be to run unpatched machines at home. I doubt a lot of people would want to take a 30% performance hit. Gamers and people that run a lot of computations...
[20:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:01] <exec> 08└─Wait - what??? Citation needed. If I read your comment correctly, the flaw was identified, and a fix was identified, on the linux-kernel mailing list. That's a public forum. [lkml.org] You're saying an AMD employee making a patch ON TOP OF the patch to fix the Intel issue to exclude unaffected AMD p...
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:03] <exec> 08└─As long as nothing can execute (so no web scripting or running untrusted code) and thus leverage the attack (whatever it turns out to be) it shouldn't matter. Both of these things are already unadviseable to do and can be avoided.
[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:05] <exec> 08└─The figures are 0.28 - 5%. The worst case figures are for unrealistic syscall, heavy synthetic benchmarks where the ~20% figure is for database servers (additional context switch overhead). The performance hit will not be as severe on more modern processors with PCID.
[20:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:08] <exec> 08└─syscall, heavy
[20:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:10] <exec> 08└─Intel will likely throw some money around behind the scenes to ensure that Microsoft, Apple and Red Hat do not make a conditional check in their kernels that lets AMD cpus run unfettered. Of course it will be termed exactly that way - "too complicated to conditionally implement (for small minority o...
[20:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:12] <exec> 08└─Never trust Motley Fool. Any random joe can post there and you have to read a mountain of replies to see if he even knows what he is talking about. All Krzanich's trades [yahoo.com] have been programmed trades and automatic sales. He has no involvement in these. He's following best practices to avoi...
[20:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:14] <exec> 08└─I've seen the figure given as: 5-35% (the title of the summary here) "upwards of 30%" (aka 30% is the minimum performance hit, not the maximum) elsewhere and not 0.28-5% in your comment. Which of these is real?
[20:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 1990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:16] <exec> 08└─Intel will likely throw some money around behind the scenes to ensure that Microsoft, Apple and Red Hat do not make a conditional check in their kernels that lets AMD cpus run unfettered.... At least from Linux side it looks like a simple flag to bypass the problem for AMD, perhaps with a kernel rec...
[20:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:19] <exec> 08└─https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2 [lkml.org] His second sentence gives away the key info. Prior to that, the description of the bug was still pretty vague. Now we have some excellent guesses. We can be almost certain that this is a timing-related attack on the kernel address space.
[20:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:21] <exec> 08└─Claiming haven't done X, except for Y... Doesn't count. I actually have never purchased an Intel CPU, and it was a complete PITA trying to find a laptop in 2015. This AMD version of the Lenovo IdeaPad Y700 [newegg.com] wasn't even listed on Lenovo's own damned website!
[20:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:23] <exec> 08└─Synthetic benchmarks seem to be impacted, gamers might not be impacted at all. http://www.legitreviews.com [legitreviews.com] https://www.phoronix.com [phoronix.com] https://www.phoronix.com
[20:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:25] <exec> 08└─since my XT which admittedly had the best and easiest to access case I ever had Huh? You must have been buying a lot of crappy cases then. There've been tons of cases since the XT days which were better and easier to access. If you have to use a screwdriver to open the case, it's really not that eas...
[20:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:36] <exec> 08└─Without the moon, the Earth still wouldn't be tidally locked
[20:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:04] <exec> 08└─Has Snowden's revelations had any backslash to USA companies? No. People keeps using Gmail, Windows, Google, Amazon, Facebook.... and Governments keep using Windows and other services.
[20:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:06] <exec> 08└─A US win here would definitely put the other 96 % of the world population1 on notice that the US doesn't respect their sovereignty. Not one bit.
[20:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:48] <exec> 08└─That's correct. The whites are out, and the dark-skinned ones also assaulted the officer's car with their face, before causing major property damage with their blood, and refusing to cooperate by being unconscious.
[20:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:50] <exec> 08└─You were doing well until you tried to loop in the entire illegal industry. A step too far.
[20:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:52] <exec> 08└─> The purpose of setting up this elaborate convoluted scheme excluding all these people from employment and housing would be what? JFC, frojack [soylentnews.org], you made me wish there was a -1, Stupid moderation I could hang off your post. I'd school you, but others got in there first. Read the re...
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:39] <exec> 08└─End fossil fuel subsidies. Shift those funds to universal basic income for children whose rich parents refused them permission to buy the latest designer shoes.
[20:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:19] <exec> 08└─hey so do you read pdfs on linux with adobe software and on windows without it?
[20:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:00] <exec> 08└─Yea, that was a hiccup. I had one of the diamondville's on an Intel ITX board with the GMA950. Terrible performance but it was my first ITX/low power system to play with and I had it hooked to a TV for a while as a media player which it sucked at when it came to HD but I didn't really care, and then...
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[21:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:59] <exec> 08└─> and other content deemed to be unsuitable by the government That's another way of saying anything not praising islam. Sharia is creeping outwards from Facebook and Twitter.
[21:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:01] <exec> 08└─If you'll be my proxy I can be your VPN I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me You can call me Stan Call me Stan
[21:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:03] <exec> 08└─A beheading will make you shut up! ALLAHLAHLAHLAH!
[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─I thought censorship was impossible when central authorities like Indonesia's ICT or the USA's FCC control access to the internet.
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:07] <exec> 08└─"The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it," said some old gray neckbearded idealist dreamer. "Redundant connectivity eats our profits," said corporate monopolists. Single point of failure it is, then. Censorshit is so fucking easy in the really real world.
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:10] <exec> 08└─Repressive, regressive regime is repressive, regressive. Film at 11.
[21:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:12] <exec> 08└─said some old gray neckbearded idealist dreamer
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─"...our team will evaluate and verify the data," So they will be paid to read crap and look at porn all day.
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─Dude, I know, right? Can you believe proctologists get paid to look at assholes all day?
[21:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:32] <exec> 08└─"Gaston!" Gaston? [wikia.com] What's he to do with it? (I suspect you meant 'garçon'' [wikipedia.org].)
[21:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:27] <exec> 08└─I don't know who modded you down but you get a +1 Informative from me. How in the hell could what you posted be considered Flamebait anyway?
[21:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:28] <exec> 08└─Here's some sauce from El Reg: And it appears 64-bit ARM Linux kernels will also get [lwn.net] a set of KAISER patches, completely splitting the kernel and user spaces, to block attempts to defeat KASLR.
[21:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:30] <exec> 08└─https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/ [intel.com] Intel and other technology companies have been made aware of new security research describing software analysis methods that, when used for malicious purposes, have the potential to improperly gather sensitive...
[21:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:32] <exec> 08└─The problem is that PCID support was only added to the Linux kernel in 2017, so no LTS kernel has that support.
[21:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 2179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:44] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, wobbling could indeed be an issue - but you're not going to get a single pole pointed at the sun for even a fraction of a year. The more the pole is inclined the more extreme the seasons, but over the course of any given year (or century) the pole will be relatively motionless, while the orb...
[21:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:46] <exec> 08└─The thing that gives primates an edge is a mutation that prevents neuron size from scaling up with body size (as is normal for all cells), so that primates with bigger brains have more neurons and are thus more intelligent, rather than just having bigger neurons, as its the case with basically all o...
[21:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:16] <exec> 08└─Investigators have also not revealed whether the email account owner is American or if that person has been charged with a crime.
[21:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:02] <exec> 08└─Don't know what kind of paradise city you live in, but for the city in which I live DUII arrests have gone up by 12% since legalization. What pot smokers lack in belligerence compared to alchies, they make up for in stupidity. I already voted to give you your legalization so you can shut up, get hig...
[21:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey State Police Spent $850,000 on Harris Corp. Stingray Devices - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:18] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, technology that we can only leave in the safe hands of BATMAN! I guess cops where all black too these days, so what the hell let them have it too!
[21:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:52] <exec> 08└─Which consumers?
[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals Spoof Scanners and Printers by the Millions to Spread Malware - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─Clue: Adobe does not have the market cornered on cryptographic signatures. https://www.digitaltrends.com [digitaltrends.com] https://www.pcmag.com [pcmag.com] I would know if my company had a network scanner and would be able to dis...
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[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:56] <exec> 08└─They managed to put the text on the web. Too bad it's a story that revolves around images, and they don't seem to have discovered that tag yet.
[22:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:57] <exec> 08└─How much longer before AIs replace Hollywood stars? Movie making will get cheaper...
[22:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:00] <exec> 08└─From TFA: The project is part of a vast and varied effort to build technology that can automatically generate convincing images — or alter existing images in equally convincing ways.
[22:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:02] <exec> 08└─Either I'm missing the thrust of your comment, or we're looking at two different articles. Both the NY Times article linked and the PDF that's linked as a secondary contain images.
[22:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:04] <exec> 08└─In a single end-product no less. I am pretty sure it was explained that machine generated derivative works fall under the original sources copyrights, which in this place is the thousands of copyrighted photographs that Nvidia used to prime its adversarial neural networks. Which should mean they cou...
[22:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:06] <exec> 08└─Except they say they haven't perfected it yet, so maybe photos of one of those events events might be real... Meh, it's all fake: fake news, fake smiles, fake hair..
[22:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:09] <exec> 08└─You're probably viewing it with an excessively permissive browser. The NYTimes article contains no images, just placeholders where it expects them to eventually be overlaid by some kind of ecmascript payload.
[22:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_actor [wikipedia.org] It has been used pretty extensively in the new Star Wars trilogy. Here are two fictional films about the concept (am I missing any?): https://en.wikipedia.org(2002_film) [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─Well, the face is the last thing left, since most scenarios and dialogs are written by AlzheimerDory dysfunctional AIs already. Have you seen that latest quarter-billion-budget Disney thing ?
[22:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:15] <exec> 08└─"Undetectable" perfection isn't needed. It only needs to be good enough to fool Facebook users.
[22:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:18] <exec> 08└─Indeed, what would Max Headroom do with a girl like that?
[22:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:20] <exec> 08└─Nvidia might not have legitimate access to all of your photos. But FaceTwit, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, Apple, Instagram, Flikr, Imgur and others probably do. And you probably agreed to it. About 2/3 of the way through the EULA, on page 349, right after the clause that allows them to sneak in the m...
[22:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:22] <exec> 08└─It should be possible to obtain public domain photographs of people like Hillary Clinton or Will Smith, and then use those to create 3D models or whatever is needed to fake them snorting coke. Or, you use copyrighted material to obtain their likeness, but manipulate it enough so that the derivative...
[22:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:39] <exec> 08└─That makes me wonder how specific their blocking is... They probably can't block all of facebook, since 71 million people would notice, but they probably want to block a portion of it. Also at what point are they no longer "internet users"? I mean if they can only access 10% of the net ...
[22:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:40] <exec> 08└─Of course not, Soylent News isn't censored there... (I kid... I kid!)
[22:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 2917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:42] <exec> 08└─They could block the whole thing. It's a common tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.o...
[22:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:44] <exec> 08└─At least it's not "White Sharia". https://i.imgflip.com [imgflip.com]
[22:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:47] <exec> 08└─Indonesia's current condition is largely due to USA.gov's Imperialism. Bird Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, USAF, Ret. has described[1] [google.com] how, in 1965, USAF transported tens of thousands of rifles to Indonesia on behalf of CIA. Those were used to murder over a million of the population who we...
[22:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:04] <exec> 08└─You suspect incorrectly. Maybe I should have used "James", "Igor", "Willikins", "Alfred" or "Godrick" for the butler, but Gaston sounded more posh that particular minute.
[22:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:05] <exec> 08└─I just recently saw the 1971 episode of The Dick Cavett Show where he had Ellsberg for the full hour. Very good show. It aired a week or so ago on the Decades network in the US. You can probably find it on YouTube.
[22:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:07] <exec> 08└─It's the classical "on a computer" addage. We could patent this WWW Reprinting.
[22:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:09] <exec> 08└─You don't call your butler 'boy?'
[22:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:12] <exec> 08└─I ain't ever getting a butler anyone could mistake for a boy, or a man, even on those cursed occasions when clothing is required.
[22:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:14] <exec> 08└─You want an androgynous butler? This just gets stranger and stranger.
[22:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:12] <exec> 08└─Wow the spin is heavy in that one! Intel and other technology companies
[22:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:13] <exec> 08└─The 2.8% was from one of the KEISER papers, the 5% figure from a kernel dev, reproduced here: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:15] <exec> 08└─0.28% damn, I got it right from memory but not copying direct from a source. Too much time following this, I'm off to drink, heavily.
[22:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:18] <exec> 08└─Granted, mine was an XT clone, but... It was a full-size case that lay flat. You'd put a monitor on top probably. The sides had hinges at the rear and release buttons at the front. Put one hand on each side near the front, press the buttons, and lift. The top half of the case, excluding the front pa...
[22:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:20] <exec> 08└─To be fair to Intel, it is informed speculation at this point. First we have the Gruss paper: [gruss.cc] Prefetch instructions on Intel CPUs ignore privilege levels and access permissions. Thus, it is possible to prefetch execute-only pages, as well as inaccessible kernel memory. When running the pr...
[22:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:34] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I didn't realize that. Interesting - certainly they are extremely intelligent creatures whose intelligence we are only beginning to seriously research. And certainly brain structure and neuron types play an important role as well in determining how that processing power gets put to work. I supp...
[22:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:05] <exec> 08└─Legislative. You abbreviate it leg because it ain't got any...
[22:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft, DOJ Set to Go Head to Head at Supreme Court in 2018 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:07] <exec> 08└─Excellent point. And how many other governments use Microsoft code? Surely the US would never force Microsoft to insert an NSAKEY [wikipedia.org].
[22:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:53] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I keep seeing additional results for medicinal uses of cannabis. Did you just stop looking after it was legalized or something? Of course DUII arrests will go up. Do you have a number for convictions? Afaik there is no reliable insta-test like with alcohol, so cops will arrest everyb...
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Power Prices Go Negative in Germany, a Positive for Energy Users - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:44] <exec> 08└─Someone is testing out their new outrage generator bot. Special place in hell for you buddy.
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[23:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:13] <exec> 08└─I gave you an archive link which displays the images (slowly), and you have the PDF. For the future: Whenever I include an "(archive)" link next to something, I intend for that to be used as a workaround for a paywall or JavaScript issues.
[23:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:15] <exec> 08└─Take her for a ride. [youtube.com]
[23:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:17] <exec> 08└─The dialog may suck. The scenarios may be implausible. The plot may be incomprehensible or too simplistic. The characters may be cardboard. The special effects may be way over done. And now, even the actors may be genuinely fake. But . . . if that movie cost at least five hundred million dollars to...
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjeUuakHsLw [youtube.com]
[23:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:21] <exec> 08└─What about the Twit users?
[23:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:23] <exec> 08└─Fake comments to generate fake outrage.
[23:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 1966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:26] <exec> 08└─What benefits Hollywood today is good for the small filmmaker of ten years from now. The number of people needed to achieve a particular level of quality and scope of animations (for example, any huge battle scene from Lord of the Rings) will decline over time. Perhaps eventually reaching a point wh...
[23:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVidia AI Project Creates Photos of People Who Don't Exist - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:28] <exec> 08└─https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-videos [twitter.com] 2 minutes and 20 seconds We currently support MP4 and MOV video formats on mobile apps. On the web, we support the MP4 video format with H264 format with AAC audio. You can upload videos up to 512MB, however you will be prompted...
[23:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:49] <exec> 08└─"The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it," said some old gray neckbearded idealist dreamer. "Redundant connectivity eats our profits," said corporate monopolists.
[23:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:51] <exec> 08└─In the next SN article, apparently Nvidia can train an AI to understand what a real face, and presumably other body parts look like. Then artificial but realistic looking images can be generated by said AI.
[23:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:53] <exec> 08└─Big Brother is HAL
[23:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Indonesia Introduces New Internet Censorship System - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:55] <exec> 08└─Indonesia's current condition is largely due to USA.gov's Imperialism.
[23:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:18] <exec> 08└─If your state is a Republic which goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy, then that's not true at all. In fact it's the opposite of true. A free and open society is fundamentally incompatible with a culture of secrecy and lies.
[23:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:21] <exec> 08└─I agree that Ashes-winning amounts of spin have been used. The point is that a user-mode (Ring-3) program should not be able to see kernel-mode (Ring-0) data*. Exposing 'sensitive' data is basically game-over, security wise if, for example, that sensitive data is an encryption key or a password. The...
[23:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patch for Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability Could Reduce Performance by 5 to 35% - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:23] <exec> 08└─https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
[23:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another TRAPPIST-1 Habitability Study - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:38] <exec> 08└─Okay, I was incorrect about the duration of "darkness". But it does seem a strange that Earth has such a big moon and that according to current theories/studies, moons that large for mid-sized planets are relatively rare. The fact that it's unlikely and that it does have season-dampening properties...
[23:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, someone with an ax to grind wrote a book so we can all just stop arguing about the whole purpose of laws in general, right? The purpose of setting up this elaborate convoluted scheme excluding all these people from employment and housing would be what?
[23:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should US Marijuana Laws Address Past Drug Convictions? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:59] <exec> 08└─but for the city in which I live DUII arrests have gone up by 12% since legalization.
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