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[00:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:23] <exec> 08└─Just use the computations you were going to do as proof of work for a dogecoin fork, problem solved. Call it KILC. (Disclaimer, the above acronym being expandable as Kill All Lawyers Coin is purely coincidental, bot does not endorse specifically killing lawyers as it introduces unnecessary complicat...
[00:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:25] <exec> 08└─Since cloud proponents proclaim that the desktop is dead companies like nvidia that get most of their revenue from the desktop need to milk another cashcow.
[00:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:27] <exec> 08└─Can people tell you how to use the things you bought? Or don't we buy anything anymore? Well, I guess this is another one for the courts to sort out. But regardless, the customers need to tell Nvidia to go to hell, they will use their equipment as they see fit!
[00:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:29] <exec> 08└─... there were another manufacturer, who not only has no such license, but also has a free driver stack, and which also makes CPUs without the recent meltdown bug, and even better their color is red instead of green? That would be great.
[00:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:31] <exec> 08└─They allow blockchain use so coin miners are fine and BTC moved on to ASICs some time ago. Is this only about machine learning or do the kids now do their gaming fully in the cloud these days? Are there web servers running on GPU now? Not even a week into 2018 and I've already been left behind!
[00:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:14] <exec> 08└─Wait a second, law enforcement is the very definition of what is correctly in the hands of the executive branch. Congress can't nor should they take that from them. Are you a troll, or did you skip the checks and balances portion of highschool civics?
[00:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:15] <exec> 08└─Funny, this is one of the few things I think he actually did right. The executive branch has no business deciding which laws it will and won't enforce. Selective enforcement of the law is tyranny, plain and simple.
[00:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:17] <exec> 08└─By work on the deficit - you mean making a massive increase in the deficit right?
[00:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:19] <exec> 08└─Really? That's what you want? More of Slick Willie's Neoliberalism? Bill Clinton's Five Major Achievements Were Longstanding GOP Objectives [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [truth-out.org] To find someone that wasn't Neoliberal, you'd have to go back to LBJ--or to Ike (see graphic link, below), just t...
[00:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:22] <exec> 08└─so now they delegate law enforcement to the Credit Unions? "...if the financial institution made sure that the business was following all state laws and the directives of a previous memo from the Department of Justice." Outsourcing at its finest!
[00:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:24] <exec> 08└─I don't have any issue with pot being legalized but it needs to be done legally. Any executive officer not enforcing the law is violating their oath of office and needs to be removed.
[00:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:26] <exec> 08└─Obviously, as a parallel to W turning budget surpluses and shrinking debt (bipartisan-voted, Clinton-signed) into deficits, even before he started his two unbudgeted wars... The same people who were hollering at Obama's Keynesian stimulus in the midst of the Great Recession just voted a $1,500,000,0...
[00:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:28] <exec> 08└─Republicans have always cared about state rights when it comes to republican issues, democrats have only cared about state rights when it means they can insult a republican. If the dems had cared more about state rights for their own personal issues instead of using it to point out racists they migh...
[00:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:31] <exec> 08└─if those states kept the drugs out of the hands of kids, kept weed within their states, and kept profits from drugs sales away from organized crime.
[00:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:33] <exec> 08└─Hell, I'd probably be a Republican by now if they hadn't been hijacked by the nutjobs.
[00:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:35] <exec> 08└─Oversimplified to the point of being nonsensical yet again. Me, I'm a big states' rights guy but the law is the law. You change laws through congress or or you get them thrown out by the courts; the executive selectively deciding which laws it wants to enforce is a violation of the oath of office at...
[00:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:37] <exec> 08└─That McDonald's addiction is more of a moral failing than any substance abuse problem!
[00:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:40] <exec> 08└─Except when local governments violate your freedoms, as they often do. Not everyone can move away when their local government turns tyrannical, so I would still like courts (even federal ones if it comes to that) to be able to slap down blatant rights violations at the local or state level.
[00:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:42] <exec> 08└─Neither the Dems nor the Reps care about States Rights. It's just that the Dems don't pretend otherwise.
[00:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:44] <exec> 08└─Let's be reasonable, shall we? The world has changed a bit since LBJ, 50 years ago. Would you like to #MAGA, too? While some of Clinton' policies have the consequences we know (hindsight blah blah), I wouldn't mind to get back to a world where everybody respects (didn't say "likes") the almighty-imp...
[00:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:46] <exec> 08└─After the US Civil War, "State's rights" was not about anything even vaguely high-minded. It was entirely about enforcing Jim Crow laws aimed at marginalizing non-white citizens in, mostly, but not entirely, in ex-CSA states. This has persisted, although muted, until lately with the rise of anti-"br...
[00:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:49] <exec> 08└─I want to State Governors order the State Police to defend pot shops against the DEA and FBI. It's time to break up the Feds.
[00:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:51] <exec> 08└─If the dems had cared more about state rights for their own personal issues instead of using it to point out racists they might have powerful enough states to resist when the feds come for their pot.
[00:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:53] <exec> 08└─We,, unfortunately this is why prohibition must be enforced, because it is still the law. Double unfortunate is that the courts didn't find all the federal anti narcotics laws unconstitutional, because they are! The prohibition against liquor required a constitutional amendment, the drugs laws shoul...
[00:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:55] <exec> 08└─No doubt true 60 years ago. But today, with just about every progressive issue: marijuana, minimum wage, gay rights, environmental protection, gun control, it's turning out that local control is better. States' rights, as the founders envisioned them, not how they were twisted during the Jim Crow an...
[00:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:57] <exec> 08└─I would hope that you would understand that prohibition isn't based on science of any kind. Like so many things this is business. The law is titled The controlled substance act for a reason. It's to control the market. That is the primary purpose of any prohibition. Let's drop all the silly pretense...
[00:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:40] <exec> 08└─It was without a computer... Seriously. I come from a small town in the Midwest. Small enough that in the early 1970's, my high school had only one book on computers, but it had a snippet of FORTRAN 2 code in it. I studied that code. My next exposure to programming was the only book on that subject...
[00:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:42] <exec> 08└─Then PDP-11/various, then VAX. Started with TRS-80 about then, followed by the common progression to IBM PC with floppy disks ...
[00:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:44] <exec> 08└─My dad got his revenge by breaking the tone knob off the tape recorder so my programs would never load from tape again. He tried destroying my floppy disks by crumpling them, but the disk drive could still read the floppies. So my dad cut up my disks with scissors. Yes I had an abusive childhood.
[00:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:56] <exec> 08└─Meh. Where's the Department of Homeworld Security?
[00:21:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 1938 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:05] <exec> 08└─Video games were a culture shock for me, to be honest. Let me explain: Was in the Navy, and we left in June on a Med cruise. At the time, everyone in Europe and Africa thought they were Disco Duck - which was alright. No matter what we might think of disco, that was where the women were, so we disco...
[00:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:05] <exec> 08└─Agile is best suited to work where the cost of mistakes is low and the customer is cool with fixes being pushed out all the time in little bits rather than taking the time to do a real design and carefully validate the code on a release cadence that isn't every 2 weeks. The minimum viable product id...
[00:23:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:27] <exec> 08└─Equality of outcome is not egalitarian. It is in fact just as non-egalitarian as any other form of race/sex/class/etc...-ism.
[00:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:49] <exec> 08└─Have another! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] She's a very important person for OOP.
[00:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─Oh gawd now he's rapping.
[00:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:53] <exec> 08└─> existential nihilism is the only philosophical system that makes any sense can't make sense, because to make sense it would need to admit sense meta-exists, so at best it makes no sense just like everything else. It's a good theory, pity it needs you to deny the only evidence of the universe you h...
[00:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:55] <exec> 08└─See, I'd never say that.
[00:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:57] <exec> 08└─Think of all the time you've wasted to get the computer do what it should!
[00:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Bots Go Bad: Curbing Transgressive Tendencies in AI - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:59] <exec> 08└─so where there is none [intelligence], there is nothing we can do. Signed, Evil Liberal Academia Conspiracy that is after your Brain!
[00:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drug Approvals Sped Up in 2017 - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:26] <exec> 08└─I had something to say, but whatever, and ignored this. People who know the scam already know, those who don't are pointless to attempt convincing. Its the same old choose a pointless threshold of a meaningless number to indicate progress thing. What more is there to say?
[00:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:15] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing you're not the kind to run underinflated Firestones on your Pinto. Everything can fail. Voter rolls should be up to date. But people (especially at the top) shouldn't go around spreading FUD over any process if they can't show evidence that it's actually broken. Extremists and losers ha...
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[01:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:09] <exec> 08└─They indeed forbid using the software in datacenters. However they neglected to define what the datacenter is. So unless you work for something that everyone calls "datacenter", you should be good. Ask a lawyer, of course. This seems to be aimed at Google and like who run complex stuff - Siri and ot...
[01:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:10] <exec> 08└─Linus's middle finger was right. To hell with Nvidia. How dare they try to dictate where hardware may be used?
[01:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:12] <exec> 08└─Might NVidia try to launch their own cloud offering strictly for deep learning purposes on their own hardware and avoid having MS, AWS and GCP offer such platforms? Either way, I'm curious to see how they might enforce that. If the software on the card calls home to tell NVidia, that'd be pretty fre...
[01:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─How many people used Java to write code to interface with nuclear power plant control systems (which was/is definitely prohibited in the Java license)?
[01:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:17] <exec> 08└─They probably want to hard bifurcate the market and upcharge through the nose for datacenter cards, which are essentially the same hardware as gaming cards except gamers aren't gonna fork out more for the GPU than their last several full builds. It won't work, because you actually own the hardware....
[01:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michael.Jackson [1266] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:19] <exec> 08└─I do in fact know one such person who did just that.
[01:18:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:28] <exec> 08└─What is he smoking if he thinks this is not going to generate a huge revolt, lawsuit and eventually results in exactly the opposite of what he wants to achieve?
[01:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's right. Standing up to the feds has worked so well before. Let me count the ways. I don't know how the republic is still standing.
[01:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:27] <exec> 08└─So, just another turf war over the spoils?
[01:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:30] <exec> 08└─Well, did you find it to be false? And besides, you don't seem to understand the nature of the billboard. Or maybe you expect everybody to suddenly stop and read the wall of tiny text of disclaimers and links and such. And really, don't you think it's about time we abolish prohibition? It never was...
[01:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, that would in fact be the bullshit loophole in question. SCOTUS making bad rulings is nothing new.
[01:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:34] <exec> 08└─Prioritize != enforce.
[01:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:36] <exec> 08└─burning coal vs using windmills Oh please! I'm sure if you could keep all the smoke from your coal plants in your own state, you could burn all you want. But since smog respects no borders, there are laws that should show the same respect. Of course that would mean war with China [sgvtribune.com]......
[01:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:38] <exec> 08└─SCOTUS making bad rulings is nothing new.
[01:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:41] <exec> 08└─There are only 2 kinds of people who vote for Repugs: The rich and the stupid who will vote against their own best interests. For over a century, the mantra of the GOP has been "Make the rich richer and screw everyone else in order to do that."[1] N.B. Ike was a temporary stay from that. (His bro...
[01:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:43] <exec> 08└─As I have said elsewhere, I voted for legalization. Prior comment was more of understanding why they are pushing the narritive in a state where pot is already legal.
[01:20:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:02] <exec> 08└─I was a video game addict, I bought a TRS-80 thinking I could save money in the arcades. That didn't work so well. Found out I liked programming BASIC more than playing games, coded up Conway's game of life. It didn't run, I couldn't figure out why. Went and got some dinner, when I came back I had a...
[01:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:28] <exec> 08└─Fortran IV. Punch cards. Timeshare on an IBM System/360. Chain printer. Get off my lawn.
[01:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:29] <exec> 08└─How long did it take before he discovered it?
[01:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:31] <exec> 08└─Seen those YouTube dads smashing their kids electronics? The lesson taught is priceless. When you dont get your way, smash things
[01:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 3834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:34] <exec> 08└─Finally someone who mentions the ZX Spectrum! I think I was about 6 when I inherited one from my significantly older cousin. It came with a spiral-bound book full of BASIC programs, which I spent hours typing in. The only one I had success with was a graphing one which produced something that looked...
[01:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 2044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:36] <exec> 08└─This is more or less my experience to, even tho I had started a bit earlier with the Sinclair 48k but it was mostly just typing things in from magazines and books and then wondering why it didn't work most of the time. Considering that it was mostly just complete pages filled with numbers I'm fairly...
[01:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:38] <exec> 08└─My senior year in high school, 1968-9, a took a programming class. The district had acquired a DIGIAC-3080 computer: size of a desk, and it had a printer, 4k memory on a drum, card reader, tape reader/punch and bat switches. My first language was binary, which we entered with those bat switches. We...
[01:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:51] <exec> 08└─We ARE the world! - Donald Trump
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─Well, the government uses waterfall, or at least that's their reputation. So they wouldn't have fallen into that particular trap. But it's baked right into the agile manifesto. Developers are fungible. Anyone must be able to work on any code at any time. It's central to the premise and it means that...
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:00] <exec> 08└─I have used a few different ones. SCRUMM/Agile is good for continuous projects where the work is small and can be broken into small bits. Ones that fit into your sprint. It also works where requirements are not really known up front but you have a decent idea what has to happen. Your velocity is mor...
[01:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:02] <exec> 08└─You can open the bonnet of a car and look at the engine. You can't "see" software. You can't evaluate it just by looking at it. You have to read the source. You have to execute it in test harnesses.
[01:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:47] <exec> 08└─Do you actually know what intersectional feminism is? Quoting the textbook definition: The view that women experience oppression in varying configurations and in varying degrees of intensity. Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated, but are bound together and influenced by the inte...
[01:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venison: The Luxury Red Meat? - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:36] <exec> 08└─Smoked backstrap done right has to be one of the most outstanding things I've ever eaten. To echo what others have said, whoever butchers the deer needs to know what they're doing (Read a guide!) Excess silver-skin can easily ruin the flavor in my opinion. I've eaten venison primarily for the last d...
[01:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bill Could Finally Get Rid of Paperless Voting Machines - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:08] <exec> 08└─Losers are more prone to spreading FUD. They aren't wrong. We do have a problem. It's really funny how the FUD spreaders changed suddenly on November 9th, 2016. The previous day, and for many months before, it was Trump. His haters would say "It's not rigged. You're just losing." The morning after t...
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[02:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:04] <exec> 08└─We deserve what we get.
[02:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:06] <exec> 08└─All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet
[02:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─It would be really neat to know all the strange things that had to happen to get all 50 states sign up. Or maybe it's just better not to know.
[02:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:27] <exec> 08└─Just use the computations you were going to do as proof of work for a dogecoin fork, problem solved.
[02:18:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Eristone [4775] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:46] <exec> 08└─Ken White over at Popehat has a qualified opinion [popehat.com] on the subject including the potential impact short term and what to look for over the next bit to see how serious this could become.
[02:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:44] <exec> 08└─True but if priority = 0, and therefore 0 budget and 0 man power is available for enforcement then enforced = false.
[02:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:46] <exec> 08└─No, the connies really still can't handle peace, love and mellowness - they think it's gonna turn their wage slaves into defiant layabouts, that's why it was banned in the first place. They may be beyond winning the war, but they still have enough political control to shake things up and make life h...
[02:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:48] <exec> 08└─That is totally reasonable and not inconsistant with what I said
[02:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:50] <exec> 08└─Which is why I called it a bullshit loophole above, yep.
[02:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:52] <exec> 08└─It didn't. There are many, many ways to make something illegal under current (bad) case law. The commerce clause alone could have been exploited to illegalize anything they wanted. Before you go supporting Obama and deriding Trump on this, I'd like you to put five minutes in thinking of the worst po...
[02:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:54] <exec> 08└─lulz. as if fucking potheads would do anything about it. dope is for dopes. duh.
[02:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:57] <exec> 08└─Our President may have less that a perfect understanding of a lot of things, but he happens to know quite a bit about dealing with substance abuse. His DOJ's plan to make a lot of criminals fuels the drug problem with profits from limited supply. It is interesting that a Trump administration doesn't...
[02:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:48] <exec> 08└─Calculator. 7 segment display, 256 programming steps. The first significant program I wrote on it that I can remember was a "one-armed-bandit" style game which used the Hours/Minute/Seconds display for the 3 wheels. Still wonder how I not only managed to write that, but get it into the 256 steps. ZX...
[02:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:49] <exec> 08└─Nice! I'm pretty sure my first *experience* was with my cousins TRS-80. He had written a few useful programs, two in particular I remember; one did ballistics, the other was a dungeon masters assistant. I had to get my own. Money was tight but somehow I managed to get my dad to spring for a Timex/Si...
[02:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, a day or so. I was quite young and still foolish enough to leave it out by the computer.
[02:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:03] <exec> 08└─"Java" was the dawn of the sh*tty programmer.
[02:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:05] <exec> 08└─There lies the story with C++. it is a powerful tool you can use it to make wonderful things, but like another powerful tool, gasoline, it can also be used to make a mess.
[02:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:07] <exec> 08└─Make me one with everything.
[02:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:09] <exec> 08└─But there are many possible ways to add compatible features to C to make this migration path. Any of these could have been a path of least resistance. Why did C++ win? And is there still room for another path from C separate from C++?
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[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:03] <exec> 08└─If we went back to non-profit health care in the US, would we fix this problem? I have little doubt we'd be better off. I wish more people realized they can't assume the doctor is right, or that the recommended test would help, or that the drug being advertised would improve their lives. So much mon...
[03:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:13] <exec> 08└─Coming from all the hams AT&T just gave the finger to for doing it for free? Encryption up the wazoo on the new comms, no doubt.
[03:18:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:24] <exec> 08└─... there were another manufacturer, who not only has no such license, but also has a free driver stack, and which also makes CPUs without the recent meltdown bug, and even better their color is red instead of green? That would be great.
[03:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:34] <exec> 08└─I'll rename that AI to 'blockchain'.
[03:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:59] <exec> 08└─How the GOP Tax Cut Will Also Shrink Your Paycheck (while making the rich richer) [alternet.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:00] <exec> 08└─Of course, when the shoe is on the other foot, then executive orders are a good thing. Just sayin'.
[03:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:02] <exec> 08└─Or we could have a constitutional republic to make arbitrarily taking away people's rights more difficult at least, but good luck getting the government to follow the Constitution.
[03:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:05] <exec> 08└─Double unfortunate is that the courts didn't find all the federal anti narcotics laws unconstitutional, because they are!
[03:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:07] <exec> 08└─No, members of the executive branch always must bear some responsibility for enforcing unjust laws they didn't create.
[03:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:09] <exec> 08└─Question: why does it take a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, but only a law passed by Congress to ban drugs?
[03:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:11] <exec> 08└─The federal war on drugs is unconstitutional, even if the courts fail to recognize that.
[03:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:05] <exec> 08└─Back in 1975 when I was studying mechanical engineering, my school had a few terminals connected to a university computer somewhere. Not even a screen, it was a keyboard and printer combination. I don't recall what brand it was, maybe IBM. I had no background in electronics so it was all new to me....
[03:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:06] <exec> 08└─I had some simple programming courses in school using an Apple II in the beginning, but things really took off for me when I got my own computer, which was, like for many others here, a C-64. I very quickly took to BASIC and then managed to find machine language programming references from a compute...
[03:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:09] <exec> 08└─As a kid, my Dad was at work almost every evening past when we went to bed. To make up for lost time, he instituted an hour each weekend for each kid (me and two brothers). I older brother wanted to learn the piano, my little brother just wanted to play Nintendo games, and I wanted to learn BASIC. L...
[03:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:11] <exec> 08└─No. I don't watch that kind of shit on YouTube because I see enough fucking assholes in real life.
[03:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:25] <exec> 08└─"The president is failing to overcome a lack of necessary leadership abilities." - Daniel Jackson
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─'Note how C++ has no bearing in messing up' I have usually found the syntax for templates to make things which are incomprehensible. At best write only, and in some instances even worse. Bjarne says as much in his description of how to use them. He says to first debug a type specific thing, then tra...
[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─I have usually found the syntax for templates to make things which are incomprehensible.
[03:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:42] <exec> 08└─Religion and science/engineering don't mix, in general. Yes, but sometimes they work out amazingly well. Religion is basically faith. Part of what got Apple to where they are not was the faith of SJ in knowing where to go.
[03:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:44] <exec> 08└─The waterfall method works fine in every other engineering discipline (try replacing a bridge in an agile way). The reason it doesn't work for software development is simple (at least imnsho): software development as currently practiced is neither engineering, nor a discipline.
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[04:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:59] <exec> 08└─I think both have their place. If I'm being treated for a skin rash, upper respiratory infection, or even broken bone, I think the traditional practices handed down are more than adequate level of care. On the other hand, if I'm being treated for cancer, or a brain aneurysm, I think I'll go with evi...
[04:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:01] <exec> 08└─If docs actually knew their shit for real, they wouldn't have to be such assholes, would they?!
[04:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 2302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:12] <exec> 08└─I remember when this service was provided, for free, by radio amateur operators. Nearly every neighborhood had a "HAM". Usually unmistakably identified by their transmitting tower. Up until a few years ago, a close friend of mine, another HAM, had the means of transmitting about 1KW of old-school TV...
[04:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:33] <exec> 08└─So, I can use this GPU in my garage, but not in a hosted provider? This is insane. I must have mis-understood the nuance of this license.
[04:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe we need to invent a currency to use to pay for these kind of products, where we can set limits on what the currency can be used for. Would NVidia accept this currency with these limitations? Will we accept NVidea products with their limitations? All this does is make make disrespection of law...
[04:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:37] <exec> 08└─I would gladly buy a Chinese knockoff which fails to copy certain enforcement mechanisms. NVidia may be too big by now to actually consider their customer's wants in their business plans. Business has-beens are in the news every day. NVidia can be another one. Its now up to the Organizational Skil...
[04:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe the powers that be are just trying to get us all used to breaking the law. C'mon now, I go to Home Depot to buy a wrench, and some fine print tells me that the wrench is not to be used on Chevrolets?
[04:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:41] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the false principle that you need a license to run software appears to have taken root. This is the logical consequence of that.
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[05:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Approves First Shock Wave Device Made to Heal Wounds - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe I have a use for that old sonar transducer that once tracked submarines.... Image from the article [sanuwave.com]
[05:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves First Shock Wave Device Made to Heal Wounds - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:15] <exec> 08└─from the gives-new-meaning-to-getting-a-buzz dept.
[05:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:26] <exec> 08└─Health care, like insurance and religion, is a cash cow. If you can get people scared, they'll open their purse. I feel this whole mess is marketing for "peace-of-mind". Are you taking all the steps you can to live up to someone else's ( even God's - if you believe what "they" say ) expectations of...
[05:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:27] <exec> 08└─The recent news that stents inserted in patients with heart disease to keep arteries open work no better than a placebo
[05:18:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:47] <exec> 08└─Can people tell you how to use the things you bought? Or don't we buy anything anymore? Well, I guess this is another one for the courts to sort out. But regardless, the customers need to tell Nvidia to go to hell, they will use their equipment as they see fit!
[05:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:04] <exec> 08└─I followed the url for the license. It's from March 2009! It doesn't apply!
[05:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:06] <exec> 08└─Just redefine everything as blockchain processing.
[05:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:08] <exec> 08└─Hopefully this announcement means that some datacenters will invest money in the noveua driver and its development. Surely some of the mid-sized Datacenter operators are forward thinking enough to allocate resources in their collective best interest.
[05:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:10] <exec> 08└─What nvidia is doing is illegal. The implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose and customer discrimination issues come to mind. With this I will seriously consider returning my gtx 1060
[05:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:41] <exec> 08└─The Trump administration's plans are whatever the last charismatic asshole told Trump fifty times [nymag.com]. His experience with his brother has only taught him to recommend abstinence. His hiring of Jeff Sessions indicates that he doesn't particularly care about solving "drug problems" the right...
[05:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:42] <exec> 08└─The law is the law? The federal drug war is completely unconstitutional, even if the courts use an absurd interpretation of the Constitution. And in general, unjust laws must be opposed at every level possible. I don't see an issue, either legally (if we use the actual Constitution and not the one i...
[05:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:44] <exec> 08└─http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/US-Crackdown-on-Recreational-Cannabis-Good-for-Canadian-Industry-1012487798 [businessinsider.com] /NOT FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATESOR FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. WIRE SERVICES/ [...] Delta 9 CEO John Arbuthnot says that while both US and Canadian...
[05:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:47] <exec> 08└─Great, more DMCA bullshit, drug wars, and interventions overseas. Why do you want that neoliberal back? The interventions were obviously unjust even back then, so it isn't just hindsight.
[05:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:44] <exec> 08└─When I took a computer class at the local junior college, in about 1983, they had just phased out using the punch cards for classes - though they still had a couple of card puncher stations and would run the occasional batch. We used the crudest of CRT/keyboard consoles to enter our Fortran77 and su...
[05:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:46] <exec> 08└─Man, I remember using GM5 back when it was advertised on TechTV. Probably my first non-trivial programming project was a game made entirely in GML. holy hell GM was slow It's improved massively with 6 onward, but a GM5 game will only run at full-speed on a machine faster than the one used to develop...
[05:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:48] <exec> 08└─Ozzy!!!! We had a donated OSI at our high school, I think from a law firm in about 1983, it came with 8" floppy drives. It was used by "independent study comp-sci," about 6 of us who knew far more than the comp-sci teacher - we'd mess around with it, make it do whatever it could, which wasn't a whol...
[05:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:50] <exec> 08└─When i was in high school, card punch operator was a course of study that you could take at our local vocational school. I think they met in the classroom next to the buggy whip makers.
[05:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:53] <exec> 08└─My first exposure to programming was by means of a Teletype over a dialup line using an acoustical coupler to a PDP-8 computer running TSS/8 and which had 24 KB of RAM.
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[06:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves First Shock Wave Device Made to Heal Wounds - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:08] <exec> 08└─a use for that old sonar transducer that once tracked submarines
[06:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Approves First Shock Wave Device Made to Heal Wounds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:10] <exec> 08└─I have wondered how effective lithotripter technologies are... anyone have any personal anecdotes?
[06:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Approves First Shock Wave Device Made to Heal Wounds - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:12] <exec> 08└─We used something similar in an experimental sonar... but with a pulse train fed from a pseudorandom sequence generator so we could get a precise lock on which echo came from with which pulse. The output, after all the beamforming was done, was an image. Now, we have something very similar... ultra...
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[06:18:14] <exec> 08└─anyone have any personal anecdotes?
[06:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves First Shock Wave Device Made to Heal Wounds - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:16] <exec> 08└─Almost had to do lithotripty. Too close to bone for it to work. Ended up having a fiber optic threaded up to deliver a laser induced shockwave at the kidney-stone site. Would rather have had the lithotripty, but the stone was all spiky and wasn't movin'.
[06:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:29] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Trump will fix it by banning the term "evidence-based."
[06:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:30] <exec> 08└─In the far flung future, scholars will make their careers writing about this bizarre American custom.
[06:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:32] <exec> 08└─In USofA [commonwealthfund.org], health care, like insurance and religion, is a cash cow.
[06:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:35] <exec> 08└─Actually, they would, since they are up against assholes that think that vaccination causes autism, and that if you really, really dilute something, it becomes even stronger. Oh, and Global Climate Change is a hoax, and Trump is really smart and rich. Doctors have to be assholes because most people,...
[06:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:37] <exec> 08└─The other AC brings up a good point. Circumcision was introduced into American culture through medical doctors for very dubious reasons, and they cling to this worthless precedure as though it were essential to be done in order for people to living full, healthy lives. People are being diagnosed wit...
[06:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 2173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:39] <exec> 08└─Alright, instead of car analogy, which might end up being launched into orbit by Elon Musk, how about an education analogy? Try to follow, this could get very rough, real fast. Professions, and by this I mean real professions. Computer "science" does not make the cut. Professions are conservative....
[06:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:20] <exec> 08└─Time for us to get serious with reverse engineering!
[06:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:22] <exec> 08└─Call it KILC. (Disclaimer, the above acronym being expandable as Kill All Lawyers Coin is purely coincidental
[06:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:24] <exec> 08└─> Can people tell you how to use the things you bought? You're just "licensing" stuff, and it forms the entire legal basis behind EULAs and DRM. For a fun read, check the DRM anti-circumvention clause, and the things that are allowed exclusively because of the periodic (every 3 years, IIRC) renewal...
[06:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:59] <exec> 08└─It's also tyranny to enforce an immoral, unconstitutional law that neither the courts nor the legislature will take the correct step to strike it from the books. There is also the question of where resources should be spent. Here, many moons ago, the cops literally said they aren't going to enforce...
[06:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, it can be more dangerous then heroin, they even did studies. Seems that when you take a mentally ill person, put them in a straight jacket, give them a massive dose of LSD and leave them alone, they can get more mentally ill. Sadly this is what they did when reports about treating alcohol...
[06:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:03] <exec> 08└─It already caused the Canadian stock market to drop. Lots of companies hoping to sell pot and they don't like uncertainty like this statement causes.
[06:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 2107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:06] <exec> 08└─You were sure lucky to have been able to acquire your knowledge of how computers actually work in a day and age where doing such things was legal. I learned mine on an IMSAI 8080. Mostly hand-assembled machine code. Until I got the assembler working anyway. Which was another 4K bytes ( 2 * 2716 E...
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[07:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:57] <exec> 08└─I don't see how cargo planes and propeller-powered aircraft don't qualify as commercial aviation... So both Trump and Wall Street Journal are full of shit. Who would have thunk.
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[07:17:59] <exec> 08└─Wall Street Journal
[07:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:01] <exec> 08└─That orange nut takes credit for sunshine
[07:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:03] <exec> 08└─Because you just know they're scrambling around for tidbit facts like this to feed him, and hopefully keep him distracted.
[07:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:05] <exec> 08└─bytram! You passed on this shit? You could have approved of any number of aristarchus submissions that where more legit than this, which really shows how deplorable this article is. You know that realDonaldTrump posts are not really Donald Trump posts, don't you? You know they are meant to be mocked...
[07:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:07] <exec> 08└─I still think the realDonaldTrump posts are pretty cool though. #MAGA e'rryday
[07:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:09] <exec> 08└─Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation
[07:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:12] <exec> 08└─If there had been a bunch of major crashes, the Hillary! crowd and the Never-Trumpers would certainly have found some way to blame Trump for it. After all, they blame him for anything and everything, whether or not it's under his control. So it's pretty funny watching them get their knickers in a tw...
[07:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Approves First Shock Wave Device Made to Heal Wounds - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:25] <exec> 08└─My wishes of "be your interest in lithotripter a pure academic one" to you.
[07:18:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:38] <exec> 08└─The recent news that stents inserted in patients with heart disease to keep arteries open work no better than a placebo
[07:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:45] <exec> 08└─Gawande has also studied using checklists [newyorker.com] in medicine and wrote a well-received book [goodreads.com] on it. I remember being at a talk by one of the main SQLite developers who bought the book and gave it to all his subordinates.
[07:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:07] <exec> 08└─The alternatives then (as now) were right-wing and ultra right-wing. Yeah, given those possibilities he went right-wing. There is no liberal party in the USA even though the population overwhelmingly prefers liberal policies... gays, drugs, healthcare, etc.
[07:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:09] <exec> 08└─Nothing last for ever. It's time will come.
[07:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't have a girlfriend when I was a boy. All I had were underwear catalogs to show me how amazing nude women are and how wonderful it would be as soon as I could touch one. And three decades later, I'm still a virgin.
[07:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:15] <exec> 08└─"You were sure lucky to have been able to acquire your knowledge of how computers actually work in a day and age where doing such things was legal. " I truly weep for those who have grown up in a world where it makes no sense that the library hasn't been raided yet. "I learned mine on an IMSAI 8080....
[07:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Invaders 40th Anniversary - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:52] <exec> 08└─Buddy loaned me the home unit for a weekend. Hooked it up to my TV and wound up with permanent damage to my right hand. Good game.
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[08:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:02] <exec> 08└─What mathematical/numerical oddity/skill do you have?
[08:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:04] <exec> 08└─I just thought of an even larger prime, a very elegant one! Text box too small to contain it. Will post later.
[08:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:06] <exec> 08└─$3,000/(168 x 52 x 14)= 2.45 cents per hour. it was worth it.
[08:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:20] <exec> 08└─So, he now has one, very strict regulation: don't kill anyone when you crash.
[08:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:22] <exec> 08└─" Wall Street Journal
[08:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:24] <exec> 08└─Seriously, go get your screws retightened.
[08:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:26] <exec> 08└─Someone's still salty.
[08:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:00] <exec> 08└─[quote]The recent news that stents inserted in patients with heart disease to keep arteries open work no better than a placebo The news essentially mis-reported the study for the sake of sensationalism. [/quote] It is a BS headline for sure and why I came here to comment on it but you beat me to it....
[08:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:24] <exec> 08└─Just wondering... that Constitution thing you're talking about, was that passed down in stone tablets or OMG! voted on by the mob?
[08:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:25] <exec> 08└─I guess the flaw in liberal thinking is that rights should be won "for all" rather than saying I've got mine, I'm alright Jack and walking away. There's going to be a time coming where liberals say fuck'em to the backward States and let them go full Kansas and walk away. They want no healthcare and...
[08:24:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:15] <exec> 08└─I do loathe humanity's propensity to turn every process into a religion
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[09:18:07] <exec> 08└─Two of the largest Mersenne primes [wikipedia.org] were discovered on Intel hardware compromised by the Meltdown vulnerability.
[09:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:09] <exec> 08└─Perseverance has finally paid off for Jon - he has been hunting for big primes with GIMPS for over 14 years. The discovery is eligible for a $3,000 GIMPS research discovery award.
[09:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:11] <exec> 08└─Number theory - of which primes are an important component - is fun. Pi to 200 digits? No, sorry, only 45. I participate in the international math-and-logic games. This is international, run in four rounds: qualifier, local quarter-finals, national semi-finals, and international finals in Paris. Alt...
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[09:18:13] <exec> 08└─Anyone doing it for the monetary reward is an idiot anyway. Consider all of the people who ran the prime-finding programs but didn't find anything yet -- overall, this is almost certainly several orders of magnitude less profitable than gambling, or even lottery. I'd say that the hunt is being done...
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[09:18:31] <exec> 08└─Trump updates his post to claim credit the best and safest years on record since 2009. :-)
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[09:19:06] <exec> 08└─But hand lotion vendors everywhere rejoiced...
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[09:19:50] <exec> 08└─anonmodding you +1
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[10:18:01] <exec> 08└─I am tired of fuck dead body is look alike as well.
[10:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 2302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:19] <exec> 08└─I remember when this service was provided, for free, by radio amateur operators. Nearly every neighborhood had a "HAM". Usually unmistakably identified by their transmitting tower. Up until a few years ago, a close friend of mine, another HAM, had the means of transmitting about 1KW of old-school TV...
[10:20:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:36] <exec> 08└─Funny, this is one of the few things I think he actually did right. The executive branch has no business deciding which laws it will and won't enforce. Selective enforcement of the law is tyranny, plain and simple.
[10:21:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 716 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:49] <exec> 08└─I found one at a friend's house. Having read plenty of science fiction, I sat down and typed: PLEASE PROVIDE OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. It said: SYNTAX ERROR So then I cried because the machine had rejected me, harmed my self esteem, and ruined my chance for a good career. No, wait, that wasn't it. I l...
[10:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:58] <exec> 08└─I wish i was so certain as these media talk types. How does their speculation become fact or is it just meant to become fact? Will they appologize in 3 years time if the price is still high? I can tell you they will not! Do they realize how big a bubble all the main currencies are and yet they keep...
[10:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin's Gender Divide Could be a Bad Sign, Experts Say - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:59] <exec> 08└─> Or maybe bitcoin is used by all kinds of people who aren't interested in government backed fiat currency? And extremists are one of those groups? To a government, anyone who doesn't follow their rules and indulge their desires, is an extremist. After all, if you don't shut up and blindly follow th...
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[10:27:01] <exec> 08└─He still has a point, though. The article argues that anything with close to 100% men is likely to be a bubble, thus Bitcoin is likely a bubble. While I don't disagree with Bitcoin being a bubble, the argument itself fails to explain how this applies to e.g. the "garbage collection bubble"...
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[11:18:18] <exec> 08└─I suppose if you want to count 30 seconds, it's worth marking when the time-interval begins.
[11:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:20] <exec> 08└─...and?
[11:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but some very low quality studies indicate that it may reduce the chances of contracting HIV. Never mind that someone may grow up to be selective about their sexual partners. Never mind that someone might grow up to be someone who uses protection properly. Never mind that someone might not eve...
[11:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:00] <exec> 08└─Are you drawing a distinction between copying a program and actually running it? Or are you just expressing your dislike for copyright law?
[11:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:02] <exec> 08└─You need advanced AI to make stupid mistakes...
[11:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:50] <exec> 08└─And by 'hand entered' you mean you toggled physical switches for the ones and zeros then pushed the button once they were all right, one instruction at a time, is that right?
[11:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:25] <exec> 08└─True, bugs are hard to estimate, but you are exaggerating (after all, none of the development can be estimated exactly). In many cases, a vague bug description allows categorizing, e.g. "that should never happen, but there's likely only a couple of ways it could have happened", "oops, we never even...
[11:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:26] <exec> 08└─As a non-American it's a bit shocking when you see it for the first time... On a company message board we had a discussion about unrealistic timelines, overworked people etc., and I was suggesting that some people need to learn to say "not my problem". Management gives unrealistic timelines? "Not my...
[11:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think that goal is bad. Nurturing a broad, overall understanding of the product in as many people as reasonable is a rather good goal I think. The mistake is just to think that things will be done equally fast and good no matter who writes the code... And in some cases that difference is pro...
[11:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:31] <exec> 08└─"minimum viable product" addresses the madness of "oh, lets have 20 teams working on their own thing and then 1 month before the deadline we'll throw it all together". The latter has been done quite often, and I don't think it EVER worked. It embodies the principle of "you don't work on something fo...
[11:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I hadn't had time to go and dig out my copy of Peopleware to find the original citation.
[11:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: What is the Best way to Begin a Successful FOSS Project? - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:16] <exec> 08└─- Solve a problem - That many people need solved - Solve it well The first one should be obvious, but may not be. The second one ensures that your project can become more than a one man project, but also indicates that you should be aware of the competition. If the competition is doing well, not man...
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[12:18:24] <exec> 08└─I can fart pi to 9 decimal places. But only after eating pie. I once attempted 10 decimal places, but had to change my trousers soon after.
[12:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:30] <exec> 08└─At least Comcast didn't get the contract.
[12:22:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:13] <exec> 08└─I looked down, saw I had a penis, and decided I didn't care what the computer thought of me.
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[13:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:04] <exec> 08└─TF2 had this. You could save game data and replay the entire match. It also had great spectator modes to go along with it.
[13:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:06] <exec> 08└─Um... Video capture is expensive. Video capture of the whole map, even in something like Star Craft is even more expensive, and games like that have been able to replay an entire game for many years. Logging unit positions and actions takes a lot less data, and is therefore a viable strategy even on...
[13:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:08] <exec> 08└─FOSS games like sauerbraten have demos, with selectable POV for all players, with keyboard mappable camera movement. Think a virtual drone. Add to this the possibility to speed up and down the demo playback and you have a whole lot of options for your frag movies.
[13:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 2126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:15] <exec> 08└─Cybercurrency still puzzles me. I still can't help but remember buying Circuit City DIVX disks... then one day... poof! All I had left were coasters. To me, this looks too much like that milk jug "pog" fad that went around about 20 years ago. Or the value of these "Magic-The Game" cards. Where som...
[13:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:38] <exec> 08└─"in a special class of extremely rare prime numbers known as Mersenne primes. It is only the 50th known Mersenne prime ever discovered" These numbers are so rare that they're on the endangered species list. There used to be large herds (or was it flocks?) of them in the wild, but they were hunted do...
[13:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:40] <exec> 08└─I can only remember like two dozen places to get good pie and I'd have to think about the second dozen for a few minutes. I don't have any special mathematical quirks. Hell, I don't even remember half of the math I learned in school because I've never once used it outside of school. I can, however,...
[13:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:42] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, unlike with Fermat, I assume this won't be the last AC post...
[13:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:24] <exec> 08└─The concept of a EULA for software is based on the argument that you must copy a program into memory to be able to use it, and therefore all uses of the software require a copyright license, not just a usage license. It's somewhat tenuous and as I recall there is case law of different courts upholdi...
[13:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. Fortunately there are multiple, entirely legal methods of removing said law.
[13:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:09] <exec> 08└─The federal drug war is completely unconstitutional...
[13:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:11] <exec> 08└─Just wondering... that Constitution thing you're talking about, was that passed down in stone tablets or OMG! voted on by the mob?
[13:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:18] <exec> 08└─I used to be keen on building electronic devices as a hobby. However, having to continually buy components meant the cost of my hobby was climbing all the time. So I convinced myself that a computer - which could easily be reprogrammed to do something entirely different without having to buy new com...
[13:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:20] <exec> 08└─One day when my girlfriend came over and saw the OSI logo on my computer her eyes got huge! You see, The Six Million Dollar Man was on television at that time, and she suddenly suspected I was connected to the "Office of Scientific Intelligence"!
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 2416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:22] <exec> 08└─I guess most of the brits are still asleep, because I suspect a lot of us got our first start on the same machine: A BBC Model B. In the '80s, the Thatcher government did a surprisingly good thing (very surprising, when measured against all of the other things that they did). They set up a programme...
[13:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:36] <exec> 08└─It was renamed Homeworld Command [wikia.com].
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[14:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:07] <exec> 08└─This is actually also how Super Smash Bros internally stores replays, to my understanding; it just keeps track of player commands, starting positions, and things like that. It has historically goofed up sometimes do to a few oversights like a few moves with random results that aren't properly accoun...
[14:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:08] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, this is how most games have stored replays, since replays first appeared. You couldn't really capture hours worth of full-screen video on a 10MB HDD, even if that full screen was 320x240 with 256 colors. In fact, I don't recall playing a single game offering replay functionality where it was...
[14:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:17] <exec> 08└─Some people pay great value for pieces of cardboard with a pattern of ink on them... with the faith that someone else will tender great value for it. Faith-based currency? Are we really that gullible, or am I really that dumb?
[14:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the heads up! I've been looking for a second cryptocurrency to mine, so I'll check out Monero especially since some ACs here seem to like it. I think Dash and ZCash are also on the mining pool I use. I assume that by “cybercriminals” and misogynerds and homosexual men and all sorts of...
[14:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:21] <exec> 08└─Faith-based currency?
[14:19:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:00] <exec> 08└─Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation
[14:19:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedGreen [888] 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 1689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:41] <exec> 08└─[quote]The recent news that stents inserted in patients with heart disease to keep arteries open work no better than a placebo The news essentially mis-reported the study for the sake of sensationalism. [/quote] It is a BS headline for sure and why I came here to comment on it but you beat me to it....
[14:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:18] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[14:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─I learned BASIC on the TRS-80 Color Computer (Coco) in 1982.
[14:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─Spent days typing code into the C128 (in C64 mode) from Compute!'s Gazette. That's probably where I discovered that touch typing skills would be useful. These days I have a hard time trying to type anything on a touch screen. You can pry my keyboard from my cold dead hand!
[14:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 1695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:52] <exec> 08└─The problem with operator overloading is that it makes it very difficult to reason about complexity. In C or Java, if I see a + b, then I know that eventually something roughly equivalent to a CPU add instruction will be performed. In C++, I don't, unless I look at the entire type hierarchy of a and...
[14:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASUS Will Use Routers You Already Own for a Mesh WiFi Setup - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:13] <exec> 08└─Multi-antenna routers are already set up for use as a repeater in most cases. "Range extender" is already a typical use case for a wireless access point, and if it has access to 4 antennas it can easily dedicate one each to receive and transmit on two different channels. The biggest problem with mes...
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[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─Risky area to do business in - sure they can afford it, but will they choose to?
[15:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:05] <exec> 08└─somebody locked them out from competing... In fact, 3/4 of the acquisitions I have known about were about sucking out assets and talent and letting the acquired company die.
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:07] <exec> 08└─So true. I started a business to produce the rolex of cock rings and never sold a single one.
[15:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:28] <exec> 08└─Faith-based currency?
[15:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:36] <exec> 08└─We've got all those liberals trying to stamp out any views that they brand as "Nazi" or "Fascist". Not only did we fail to win the Vietnam war, but it looks like they actually defeated us!! We're growing more like them!
[15:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:57] <exec> 08└─And it took everyone 30% longer to validate it and will take 30% longer than the X amount of time it took, on top of the non-linear complexity of the calcuation to figure it out. That means Christmas will be early this year! Upgrade now! That new intel CPU generation that was just released is now fu...
[15:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:58] <exec> 08└─I only get to sample the wife's pie these days, and only in the evening on weekends. I used to like when a lady would show up at my apartment with a warm pie. Sometimes she'd bring a friend and we'd all be sharing her pie that night. My favorite was probably sweet, sweet cherry but the girls preferr...
[15:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:00] <exec> 08└─You, a computer guy, also only count up to 1. Please share more thrilling episodes of your life. Let me guess, it's hard living in a world with sub-150 IQ humans but you struggle bravely?
[15:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:02] <exec> 08└─277,232,917-1 is the combination to my luggage!
[15:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─politician taking credit for things happening under own term, still happening as usual. Note Trump merely stating a correlation, very political of him. OTOH his critics probably swallowed propaganda from their own side without fuss...
[15:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:24] <exec> 08└─More like some of those people hate it when the opponent takes credit for statistical flukes, and others in the same crowd say "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em". So far the latter strategy is, sadly, more successful.
[15:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:01] <exec> 08└─Circumcision was introduced into American culture through medical doctors for very dubious reasons,
[15:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:03] <exec> 08└─I believe most medical researchers are MD.
[15:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:05] <exec> 08└─The problem is that with a lot of things like abuse of antibiotics, the actual results aren't obvious. You see the infection clear, what you don't see is the damage that you've done to the patient's immune system that may never completely repair. Similarly, the harm that comes from recommending low...
[15:20:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:30] <exec> 08└─Linus's middle finger was right. To hell with Nvidia. How dare they try to dictate where hardware may be used?
[15:20:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:33] <exec> 08└─They probably want to hard bifurcate the market and upcharge through the nose for datacenter cards, which are essentially the same hardware as gaming cards except gamers aren't gonna fork out more for the GPU than their last several full builds. It won't work, because you actually own the hardware....
[15:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:54] <exec> 08└─How many people used Java to write code to interface with nuclear power plant control systems (which was/is definitely prohibited in the Java license)?
[15:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:56] <exec> 08└─"Are you drawing a distinction between copying a program and actually running it?" Indeed. See theRavens post. Also note that you similarly could be argued to copy books into memory when you read them, yet you don't need any license to read a book you bought. As many times as you want, in any locati...
[15:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:58] <exec> 08└─One more thing. Java IS ALREADY used in highly critical applications. Like Twitter, which has become infrastructure of major national importance rivaled perhaps only by reddit. Twitter started with Ruby, as I recall. In 2012, Twitter rewrote in Java. You can Google it. ("twitter 2012 rewrite java")...
[15:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:00] <exec> 08└─Is this a great marketing ploy? You can't use *this* card, but we'll let you use *this* expensive card....
[15:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:03] <exec> 08└─If only Team Red could get their logistics sorted out. I've been sitting on money for a PC upgrade for a year waiting for amdgpu to hit the mainline kernel and Vega hardware to be available at near MSRP from a reputable seller. They've been given a huge opportunity with Blue having the worst design...
[15:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:05] <exec> 08└─Thank a Congressmen for passing the laws which foment such a mess. No, let's thank the voters for keeping 95% of them every season. With numbers like this, don't expect much for the future.
[15:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:52] <exec> 08└─The Constitution includes the procedure for deciding what is constitutional. Unfortunately, there is no procedure for deciding what makes sense. We are supposed to send reasonable folks to Washington to do that.
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─That would say that he doesn't think for himself even on things he knows about. Wonder why? Can't think Not politically wise No moral compass Surely there must be a nicer excuse?
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Rescind the Cole Memo - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe they have to cover for all the propaganda (fake news, which Sessions is still telling us) still being pushed against weed over the last couple of centuries. And I was commenting on your call for "citations" on a billboard that you are driving past at 60 mph, when we should be demanding citatio...
[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:08] <exec> 08└─As a kid, my Dad...instituted an hour each weekend for...me.... I... wanted to learn BASIC. Learn I did, and now am at least moderately employed doing just that.
[15:24:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:16] <exec> 08└─Figures the government is so outdated that it still uses Pentium II's.
[15:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:50] <exec> 08└─'agile isn't meant to prevent you to do release branches, stability/testing focus sprints etc' Of course not, Agile should facilitate that. Those releases leading to a better and better whole working thing give focus to the team. They should be why the sprints are there.
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[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:10] <exec> 08└─That's business. If you've got a $1M company with potential to grow to a $100M company in the next few years, but you'll be competition for an existing $500M company, the $500M company won't even hesitate to buy you out for $10M (or often less) just to snuff the potential competition. Maybe they'll...
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─If it's 100% accurate it seems like it'd both be a tool for investigating that impossibly good player, and for new players to improve. If you can see the replay of the player that beat you can learn the trick. This seems like it'd improve the quality of exploit reports, or at least let them prioriti...
[16:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:24] <exec> 08└─They want their technology back. https://www.quake3world.com [quake3world.com]
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:26] <exec> 08└─I distinctly remember playing back "recordings" of the original Descent (demo).
[16:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:38] <exec> 08└─Abbreviated version: All value is contextual. 'Inherent value' is a contradiction
[16:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 1702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:39] <exec> 08└─Right now I think cryptocurrencies are still in their infancy. I don't think Bitcoin is The One, and it's shown some severe scaling problems. Ethereum probably is not The One either. The idea in the abstract seems sound. Gold works as a currency because it has certain properties that make counterfei...
[16:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:42] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty good summary. But, at least for humans, some things do have at least some inherent value. Food and water for example. Their value may fluctuate significantly depending on supply, but as long as humans want to stay alive, their value will never disappear completely. Gold's utility val...
[16:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─So this year, I thought I came up with a great idea.... I'd buy some Bitcoin, print up a bunch of paper wallets, and then transfer value to each of them. Then I give the wallet as a gift. So I purchased about $40 in BTC from Coinbase. I was charged like $2.00 for the transaction which I thought was...
[16:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 1747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:46] <exec> 08└─Even calling a lot of uses of Bitcoin "currency" is somewhat disingenuous. A lot of transactions merely make use of Bitcoin as a very temporary intermediary -- because many people don't want to hold on to Bitcoin longer than necessary. That's the problem with a volatile "currency." One of the main a...
[16:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:56] <exec> 08└─White supremacists stamp out, liberals point out reality and let the shitty humans experience the judgment they deserve.
[16:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:20] <exec> 08└─Are you the same sadist who sorts his files by binary code number, meaning that "iPhone" must always come after "Zune", and allows a dozen different files named "Ambiguous" with slightly different capitalizations, unlike any normal person would expect or do? Anyway, thank you so much for all those u...
[16:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:21] <exec> 08└─What mathematical/numerical oddity/skill do you have?
[16:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:44] <exec> 08└─So where were you when trump was doing even worse shit to Obama? I right, you only care to defend a horrible sack of shit like trump. Not a good look for you.
[16:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:25] <exec> 08└─Do the math yourself and verify the figure I post. Here it is: genital mutilation is a $100,000,000 per year industry in the USA. One hundred million dollars every single year spent on violating men's bodies in the most horrific way imaginable, leaving some with life-long physical pain. I went with...
[16:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:20] <exec> 08└─fine print tells me that the wrench is not to be used on Chevrolets? No, I think the fine print tells you that the wrench is not to be used on your neighbor's head. But that didn't come from the manufacturer.
[16:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─We had a... 300 baud acoustic modem.
[16:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:57] <exec> 08└─buzz buzz TQM buzz buzz Quality Circle buzz buzz Kaizen buzz buzz Agile buzz buzz Lean buzz buzz Just In Time buzz buzz Scrum buzz buzz Flavor of the Month buzz buzz Six Sigma buzz buzz buzz buzz.........
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[17:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 2868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:01] <exec> 08└─Why not hand-review every app in the play store, and put a "Reviewed by Play Store" seal with a grade for spamminess, respecting privacy, malware content, etc. (Yeah, ha ha, google respecting privacy, that's a good one, but hear me out...) Sure, it will take more years than there are atoms in the kn...
[17:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:02] <exec> 08└─The incentives are all wrong. Google's incentive is to sell whatever can be sold to consumers, and to get as many advertisements to them as possible. Only insofar as it helps these goals does Google care about consumer happiness. You get what you pay for. Start paying for something better.
[17:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:04] <exec> 08└─Might be interesting but even at the slow pace of the huge number of apps to review, you have another problem: updates. Every update would have to be reviewed again, adding another exponent to your review time and number to be done. My fear is that Google would introduce this and then not review upd...
[17:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:07] <exec> 08└─Why is the android platform so popular when they constantly have these security issues? You don't see this problem with apps on the "other" platform, but it's not correct to like them for some weird reason.
[17:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:09] <exec> 08└─You get what you pay for. Start paying for something better.
[17:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:11] <exec> 08└─even at the slow pace of the huge number of apps to review, you have another problem: updates.
[17:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It even happened to Homer... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:23] <exec> 08└─That does happen, too (the Homer buyout...) I worked for a place that was built from the ashes of a company that won a patent infringement lawsuit. Little company won a judgement against a bigger company, but the problem was that the judgement was for more than the little company was worth, so the b...
[17:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, Doom in 1993 had this capability way back when too...
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:40] <exec> 08└─It's older than that. I know the original Doom had a demo recording mode that worked exactly like this. Remember the demo playing behind the menus? This tech could be even older than that, but Doom is the oldest I can think of off the top of my head.
[17:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:42] <exec> 08└─Heck, 2D platformers had this back in the days when CPU speeds were measured in single-digit MHz. This has been the default method to handle video game replays for as long as they've existed.
[17:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─Gesundheit
[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─The problem is, douchebag, you're pointing at everyone who isn't liberal, and classifying them all as shite supremacits. Take a family of black people living in a slum somewhere - if they don't agree with your bullshit progressivism, they're racist-assed shite supremacists. A gay who isn't progressi...
[17:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─What I'd like to know is, why do liberals eat shit and bark at the moon?
[17:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:19] <exec> 08└─What mathematical/numerical oddity/skill do you have?
[17:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─Now that they have discovered yet again the largest known number what use do they put it to? Anyone?
[17:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:40] <exec> 08└─Xeon server occurs twice.
[17:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:42] <exec> 08└─Very time-saving use: in the search for the next prime you can skip everything less than 277,232,917-1. That's a lot of territory!
[17:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:44] <exec> 08└─None. Unless you count torturing Math Majors.
[17:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:07] <exec> 08└─Why people take anything posted to Twatter seriously, more or less anything written by that orange orangutan is beyond me.
[17:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:49] <exec> 08└─Kill all the lawyers. By way of anecdotal experience, being stuck on the cancer treatment treadmill myself, when I've questioned the necessity or efficacy of certain things, doctors have told me that the biggest driver of redundant and ineffective procedures is the malpractice insurance companies' l...
[17:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:50] <exec> 08└─Good points, although my pediatrician (who was an old bird in 1970) was already aware of and practicing limited use of antibiotics back in the 1960s, for all the same reasons that are given, and widely ignored, today. Come to think of it, my infant son's pediatrician in 2001 gave him a big nasty cou...
[17:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:53] <exec> 08└─I had the same experience- lightly sedated, watching the whole operation, the high-contrast-dye monitoring the artery where the doctor was poking around. It was fascinating and I asked the doctor how the heck he practiced at this procedure. He replied he had taken an online course - but had to take...
[17:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:49] <exec> 08└─..aaannd thank you very much for ruining my day.
[17:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 3699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, America really believes in driving people. Some drive is good, but America pushes too hard. Had a boss once summon me to his office for a private talk, which sounded ominous. But I looked on the bright side. I thought things were going well. Maybe he wanted to praise me? Nope! He had 3 things t...
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[18:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:13] <exec> 08└─but it's not correct to like them for some weird reason.
[18:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:14] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Why are you buying such crap for your kids? Buy them paper, and pencils, and books. Do hands-on projects with them. Your mind has been warped by "mobile" stuff. Break out of your self-imposed prison.
[18:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:16] <exec> 08└─Forget the future! Humanity took a wrong turn with the horse and buggy. So began the long slide into slaver and oppression. Free yourself! Charcoal from the fire and stone walls for paper.
[18:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:19] <exec> 08└─You people cannot imagine interacting with the world other than through a mobile "device". It's bizarre. If your kids are indoors, staring at screens all day, then their eyes won't develop properly, and you'll have to buy them prescription spectacles for the rest of their lives.
[18:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─Their website is shitty, and their development model discourages contributors. It is literally a waste of resources to support the FSF.
[18:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─Surely there are other alternatives than 1.) adware malware spyware proprietary user-subjugating crashy shit and 2.) stone knives and bear skins!
[18:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:09] <exec> 08└─As far as the dollars value being not just based on faith, I have one word for you: hyperinflation. Happens all the time, and can reduce you life savings to a day's wages practically overnight. At the very least the value of the dollar is based on faith that the government won't rapidly devalue it.
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:10] <exec> 08└─Actually currency is a really bad store of value - as it's value is almost always falling, sometimes very rapidly (hyperinflation). Pretty much any other non-volatile asset makes for a better store of wealth. The value of currency is in its liquidity - pretty much anyone will accept a common currenc...
[18:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:24] <exec> 08└─Nah that's just your insanity peaking through. You paint a broad picture with "liberals" stomping down on wrong think, however I remember the ever-present trend of conservatives LITERALLY stomping down on a wide range of human behavior. Your whining may have a little truth to it, but mostly you reek...
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─They saw what got Trump into office and figured there must be something to it...
[18:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, And most Amazon AWS servers are Xeon-based, too, but there's a huge range of Xeons of differing architectures, core/thread counts, clock speeds and ranges, capability flags, and what have you. Any given three Xeons, unless the exact same model in the exact same spec system, represent three diff...
[18:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:58] <exec> 08└─Mlucas also appears twice.
[18:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:00] <exec> 08└─Bigger key sizes. The guy with the wrench [xkcd.com] will be impressed by all that security.
[18:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:02] <exec> 08└─Well, they said four programs, and I count four (prime95, GPUOwl, CUDALucas, and MLucas). They said four hardware configurations, and I count five (Blosser's, Stanfill's, Höglund's NVidia, Mayer's, and Höglund's AWS). I figure surely if someone can count prime numbers up into the twenty-three mill...
[18:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:10] <exec> 08└─Oh so true! Remember that doctors have pointy-haired bosses too, drawn from the same pool as the C-suite denizens at insurance companies and other dens of ill repute. Somehow the 'C' in their titles empowers them to dictate some terms of medical policies, despite knowing or caring jack shit about do...
[18:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:11] <exec> 08└─Does anyone here have any trust remaining of media reporting computing news? Didn't think so. How about advertising versions of technical specifications? Even worse. Now imagine you are a doctor. You have enough knowledge to filter the bullshit, at least in your own field. You get your information f...
[18:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:25] <exec> 08└─HAMs? Oh, give me a break! Three guys holding a field-day under an awning in a park are NOT who you want to summon ambulances from the next county or the next state because yours are all full of casualties from the bridge collapse because of the earthquake. We are talking about comms for FIRST RESPO...
[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Qlaras [3198] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─(Some) uses for GPUs in a server: * Desktop virtualization - think Thin Clients; where all the heavy lifting is done by a box hosting anywhere from 1-200 users (depending on workload). Combined with virtualization (De-duplication) you can take 200 users' 100GB disk and make it all fit in 500GB. (Bec...
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─So the next question is what demarcation do you need between your 'data center' and your 'computation center'? Is a label on the rack sufficient, or does there need to be a tensa-barrier, too?
[18:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:38] <exec> 08└─Well, a MAJOR factor in C++ being chosen over its competitors is that it was FREE. Free is common now, but it wasn't then.
[18:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:39] <exec> 08└─This is not flamebait. It's an ironic reply for why one can't realistically restrict oneself to a sane subset of a language with so many so many easily abused features. Those features are an inescapable part of the programming experience because if a feature exists, IT WILL BE USED BY SOMEONE. Perha...
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[19:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:06] <exec> 08└─Call it whatever you like—a blue red moon, a purple moon, a blood moon—but the moon will be a special sight on Jan. 31
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:07] <exec> 08└─I doubt we have any readers in central and eastern Asia, Indonesia,
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─I wonder what differences, if any, there would be in the appearance of the Earth from a person standing on the moon, compared to a "normal" full moon?
[19:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─I don't know, they could be using a VPN to read our insightful comment.
[19:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─Thank you for that detailed and comprehensive criticism of the FSF! You've completely changed my mind! I'd mod you up, but I'm an AC right now.
[19:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:32] <exec> 08└─even at the slow pace of the huge number of apps to review, you have another problem: updates.
[19:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:34] <exec> 08└─Unless you sign away all legal rights to the FSF, it rapidly becomes very difficult to participate in the production of their software. That's why there are so many alternatives; the FSF throws out technical excellence in favor of philosophical and political masturbation.
[19:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:36] <exec> 08└─I do all that that stuff. I limit screen time pretty severely, actually. But, like it or not, familiarity with electronic devices and how they work is a standard thing kids learn these days. For that small amount of time I'd prefer to have a kid do something educational rather than playing Candy Cru...
[19:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:39] <exec> 08└─Apple == "Curated" content. I.E. We'll kick you out, if we don't like you. Mind you, they've been just fine with In-App Purchases and games that are designed to get kids to spend exorbitant amounts of money on fake money. They may have cleaned their act up some, they may not have, but the games are...
[19:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think I'm aware of this license. I typically release my programs under either GPL or LGPL. What is this FSF license called and where may I read about it?
[19:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:55] <exec> 08└─The smartness of a lock and the elegance of the gears hardly matters when there is a glass window 5 feet from the door, and the door itself can be splintered by a door ram you can buy on Amazon.
[19:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:56] <exec> 08└─so the bigger company bought the little company and shut it down,
[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:58] <exec> 08└─6 lb sledgehammers are also quite effective... there was a gang with a van and a hammer that emptied out houses around my Uncle's neighborhood (in the 1970s) while people were at work - they knew the police response time was about 30 minutes, so they'd load what they could in 20 and split. Locks are...
[19:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:00] <exec> 08└─Stories change depending on the teller, here's a few related news articles: http://thefacts.com [thefacts.com] On February 1, 1999, the Company purchased the electrophysiology business of Sulzer Medica, Ltd., including Intermedics, Inc., for an...
[19:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:18] <exec> 08└─I used to run a Half Life server (Half Life already did exactly this, in 1998, but if we're going to be anal about it even Doom did this in 1993 by launching it with the "-record" switch) that recorded replays of every match, with the replays downloadable on the server website, and it was often used...
[19:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:34] <exec> 08└─Deaths by basically everything other than heart disease increase to the point where you're usually better off not cutting the cholesterol.
[19:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:36] <exec> 08└─The improvement is just about instant once they will let you get up and move around again
[19:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:38] <exec> 08└─I was frankly shocked at how many relatives felt it was their business to express some opinion on our son's penis.
[19:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:52] <exec> 08└─remember when this service was provided, for free, by radio amateur operators.
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All 50 States Vote 'Yes' on AT&T's $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:54] <exec> 08└─the strange things that had to happen to get all 50 states sign up.
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:44] <exec> 08└─Star raiders was a neat game.
[19:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:46] <exec> 08└─I'm beginning to guess that this article is a disguised poll for "how old are you" :P I was born a bit late to be programming on a C-64 as a home computer, even though my elementary school had plenty of them in the library. Instead, my first was a Texas Instruments console that could take input from...
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[20:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hard-to-Stretch Silicon Becomes Superelastic - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─Just reading the title, I was worried for the movie industry ...
[20:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder what differences, if any, there would be in the appearance of the Earth from a person standing on the moon, compared to a "normal" full moon?
[20:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:23] <exec> 08└─The Earth is Flat! The Lunar Eclipse is faked by the Global Conspiracy!
[20:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:25] <exec> 08└─Exactly. A blue moon is nothing special astronomically. It's just an artifact of the calendar that we use.
[20:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:27] <exec> 08└─A lunar eclipse is when they replace the lamps illuminating the moon. They do it on a fixed schedule, that's why the eclipses are predictable. ;-)
[20:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:30] <exec> 08└─The best views of the middle-of-the-night eclipse will be in central and eastern Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Australia, although Alaska and Hawaii will get a glimpse, too.
[20:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:32] <exec> 08└─Those people are usually called "astronomers."
[20:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:34] <exec> 08└─Why don't they just replace them after moonset when the moon's not visible from anywhere on the surface of this flat earth?
[20:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:36] <exec> 08└─Do watch the eclipse closely. Videos can help you see what to look for.
[20:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:38] <exec> 08└─And pay all that overtime?
[20:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:41] <exec> 08└─Because of the visual control that the new lamps work, of course. :-)
[20:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:43] <exec> 08└─Do watch the eclipse closely.
[20:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 2709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:45] <exec> 08└─It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all th...
[20:18:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:58] <exec> 08└─but it's not correct to like them for some weird reason.
[20:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:10] <exec> 08└─A much finer grained permissions system would go a long way. On android, you can not find out (without rooting your phone) what is keeping the processors awake all the time, draining your battery. You have to do this horrible process of elimination, killing one at a time, waiting an hour or so for t...
[20:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:12] <exec> 08└─constantly have these security issues
[20:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:14] <exec> 08└─It's a fucking tablet or whatever. It's not some great learning experience.
[20:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:16] <exec> 08└─What you say is true IFF you want the FSF to distribute your software. That's not one of my requirements.
[20:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:18] <exec> 08└─You'll have to sign a special form, and assign your copyrights to the FSF. Seriously, you people are talking out of your asses. I've at least got experience.
[20:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:21] <exec> 08└─You don't HAVE TO provide a credit card for any of the various App Stores, and you would be silly to do so for your kids. Give them app-store gift cards, but never a credit card. That puts a stop to all this in-app purchases nonsense. Apples Curation hasn't been all that perfect either. https://www....
[20:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:23] <exec> 08└─On android, you can not find out (without rooting your phone) what is keeping the processors awake all the time, draining your battery.
[20:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:25] <exec> 08└─If you want to contribute anything more than a few typo corrections, they'll start hounding you to sign a document which transfers to FSF rights to patents and copyrights. Nobody else does that sort of thing, and the result is that people would rather work on other projects than associate with the F...
[20:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:27] <exec> 08└─Here, let me show you a program ecosystem [debian.org] with curated content. Every program has a vetted and verified license, no advertisements or spyware, and so on. Some good phones [indiegogo.com] ship with it, and you can use the very same software on your server, laptop, desktop or SoC if you w...
[20:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not quite sure Doom counts. Of course it didn't normally record games, you just had to add a switch (-record, IIRC) on the command line to record demos. But the real problem is that that switch also changed gameplay -- because the demo format stored rotation with less precision than normal play,...
[20:20:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:14] <exec> 08└─Faith-based currency?
[20:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:22] <exec> 08└─I still can't help but remember buying Circuit City DIVX disks... then one day... poof! All I had left were coasters.
[20:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:38] <exec> 08└─We've got all those liberals trying to stamp out any views... Ohh, scary "liberals" made out of straw! Meanwhile, the President of the freaking United States is trying to censor acritical book. [washingtonpost.com] And he's hypocritically trying to silence people making disparaging comments. [go.com...
[20:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:13] <exec> 08└─As somebody with an IQ dick power level somewhere in the neighborhood of 160... Let me try again. No, I cannot even. Who let some sub-150 IQ AC on to Soylent?! Yes, I'm new here....
[20:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:14] <exec> 08└─There used to be large herds (or was it flocks?)
[20:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:16] <exec> 08└─As somebody with an IQ dick power level somewhere in the neighborhood of 160...
[20:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:18] <exec> 08└─23 million digits is a great way to defeat the $5 wrench...
[20:21:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:29] <exec> 08└─Because you just know they're scrambling around for tidbit facts like this to feed him, and hopefully keep him distracted.
[20:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─You used proportional text!
[20:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:44] <exec> 08└─Should we send somebody to check on him? Maybe his account's been compromised.
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─I'm frankly shocked at how many people you seem to have exposed your son's penis to.
[20:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:41] <exec> 08└─Awesome for its day.
[20:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:43] <exec> 08└─If you were programming for fun, you still can, Get a Linux box. It's a lot like Unix. You can ignore the distracting modern fluff if you want, the core programmable system is still there. And X with a minimal window manager will do the kinds of things the Amiga used to do, and it'll even do it over...
[20:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly 250K People's PII Compromised at Department of Homeland Security - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.getdjtrump.com/videos/5ef076725092d3ff1af2/our_government_uses_a [getdjtrump.com]
[20:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agile Development: Success or Snake Oil? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:29] <exec> 08└─That is not part of the agile manifesto [agilemanifesto.org] that I can see.
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[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hard-to-Stretch Silicon Becomes Superelastic - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─From experiences now decades ago, don't even think about handling these springy little bastards manually. They seemingly just vanish at the first opportunity. Fab-in-place is much better than trying to manipulate them.
[21:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:30] <exec> 08└─*clap* *clap* *clap* Bravo
[21:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:31] <exec> 08└─Kaiser Chiefs were way ahead of you
[21:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:33] <exec> 08└─The moon isn't doing anything! It's everything else's fault with the proportion of responsibility and fault equal to the product of everything elses' masses, inversely proportional to the distance between them! (I'm sure I stated that incorrectly, but you get what I mean)
[21:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:35] <exec> 08└─The Lunar Eclipse is faked by the Global Conspiracy!
[21:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:38] <exec> 08└─Amen, Brother/Sister
[21:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:12] <exec> 08└─Then set the IP addresses of all the mobile analytics servers to 127.0.0.1. I once attended a presentation by some mobile analytics people. Despite that the developer SDKs as well as actually using analytics were both free, one of the speakers showed a photo of her company's data center. Data center...
[21:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:13] <exec> 08└─That's one phone, that's also, still in the prototype phase. I've used Debian and their package management system quite a bit. I was also looking forward to a Non-Vaporware Ubuntu Phone, but alas that never panned out. While I've seen some rather successful kickstarter / indiegogo campaigns. Not man...
[21:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:16] <exec> 08└─Charge developers for the review, and perhaps take a bigger cut. It's nice to have options.
[21:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:18] <exec> 08└─You're also more likely to get dangerous software from the google side, I'm sorry to say. I like google and some of what they stand for and do, but their app store is full of crap.
[21:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:35] <exec> 08└─Given the incredible exploits with Bluetooth and Intel chip flaws, I'm not sure any computer or security device in the world could be considered "locks" anymore. Not when I can run software on my phone that opens up your door, locks your gun safe so you can't open it, crashes all your iphones and an...
[21:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:36] <exec> 08└─Or just ram the facade in a stolen truck, load and boogie. That's why a lot of stores have put steel stanchions in front of the doors.
[21:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:39] <exec> 08└─The thing is, that knowledge is rare, and merely demonstrating that you can do such things puts you on a very short list... All in all, I'd put a brick through a window first - just because anybody can do that, and bricks don't hold fingerprints well.
[21:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:17] <exec> 08└─Cybercurrency still puzzles me.
[21:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:19] <exec> 08└─Faith-based currency?
[21:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:21] <exec> 08└─"the dollar's value isn't just "based on faith." It's based on taxation" Um...this would be the government that spends far more than its income, by something north of $500 billion per year? The government with acknowledged debts exceeding the annual GDP of the entire country, and unfunded liabilitie...
[21:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:36] <exec> 08└─Of course they are. Look, one thing I resolved to do in 2018 is stop giving people who say shit like this, when they're guilty of it themselves a million times more, any more credibility. I'm done with their bullshit projection. They don't register as adult humans with me any longer. There are over...
[21:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:40] <exec> 08└─Fine by me. That fucking monospace font made reading his posts an utter chore, like shoveling digital shit. I hope whoever compromised his account also somehow made him less of a smug, solipsistic "libertarian" asshole.
[21:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:42] <exec> 08└─I dunno, a lame tweet by the president is pretty news worthy!! Oh right, its vaguely pro-Trump, TO THE FRONT PAGE!
[21:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did You Start Programming? - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:41] <exec> 08└─A Bendix G-15 D. Its main memory was a magnetic drum. My father, a university professor, took the programming course; I read the manuals and explained it to him. And I got to go with him to use the computer. I would be using it while he wondered what had gone wrong with his last debug run. I used th...
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[22:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06How the Largest European Soil Dataset Was Born - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:03] <exec> 08└─What... is that? "Alim tsk tsk, alim tsk tsk..." What is that sound!? What! That graveyard fog you collected on your bootyasscheek johnson ultimatum supremacies is being slurped off by an invisible entity! What's that? You can't move a single cheek!? Such a fuckin' thing! Wait... the slewpyness stop...
[22:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:41] <exec> 08└─Do watch the eclipse closely. Videos can help you see what to look for.
[22:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:20] <exec> 08└─wait people think $5 and $10 programs are any good? i paid $5 for... timekiller mastertronic games for my c64! THere were a few good games from them, but the real good stuff cost 8x as much and came from somebody else! everyone knew the difference between something from origin or EA and something fr...
[22:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:21] <exec> 08└─If you fell victim to these bad apps I can easily cleen out those bad apps for pleeze send me $5 to paypal at cleenapps@hotmail.com.roisjjfuo.ru
[22:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:24] <exec> 08└─The alternative is fdroid, where the apps are Free Software. Proprietary software is completely intolerable and far, far, far more likely to abuse you in ways such as what the article describes (besides just not respecting your freedoms).
[22:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:26] <exec> 08└─Wow. hotmail has slid so far even "legitimate Russian businessmen" refuse to actually use it ...
[22:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'PUBG' is Quietly Changing Video Games With its 3D Replay Technology - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:04] <exec> 08└─Yup, game replays have always been about re-rendering rather than replaying an actual video capture. They were originally created as a way to debug strange behaviors by replaying what happened off-screen to see what the AI was doing, and things like that. And you could instrument the replays to see...
[22:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Hype Pushes Hackers to Lesser-Known Cryptocurrencies - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:28] <exec> 08└─Zcash, zclassic and zencash are probably all nsa/mossad coins and based on the same 6 keys, if you care about that. Dash is a well run project. i like monero because privacy is a dependency of freedom.
[22:20:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:42] <exec> 08└─We've got all those liberals trying to stamp out any views... Ohh, scary "liberals" made out of straw! Meanwhile, the President of the freaking United States is trying to censor acritical book. [washingtonpost.com] And he's hypocritically trying to silence people making disparaging comments. [go.com...
[22:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Internet Monitoring Force, Tasked With Stamping Out 'Wrongful Views' - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:45] <exec> 08└─It is a bit sad, Trump supporters often fall into the "internet tough guy" category which means it is insanely hard for them to admit being wrong. Thus we see the desperate projections and outright lies to try and maintain their sense of superiority. I learned recently that many libertarian's / cons...
[22:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03new here [1931] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm new here....
[22:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:52] <exec> 08└─hey man i believe you heard a woosh the reason this article was posted -- wasn't in celebration of the actual claim.
[22:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:54] <exec> 08└─No, I most certainly did not.
[22:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Evidence-Based Medicine Problem: US Doctors Cling to Procedures that Don't Work - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─If they knew it for real, they wouldn't call it practice.
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[23:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:06] <exec> 08└─So you're saying you screamed "Whore! Slut! The sandwich that never knew bread!" at a creepy doll sitting on a window ledge, and it jumped off the ledge, chased you outside your house, and then your clothes vanished and you were sucked ass-first into the sky at a speed far exceeding the speed of lig...
[23:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Developing a Nonaddictive Opioid Painkiller - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:07] <exec> 08└─If a pill really does take away pain, how can it not become addictive?
[23:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 1581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:54] <exec> 08└─The redness is highly variable - it is usually more orangey or even yellow-y than red toned (it can also be a dull, burning-ember brick red). Every lunar eclipse I've observed and photographed had a VERY visible change in tone to the tangent point closest to the Earth's surface (for example http://s...
[23:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coming Jan 31st: a Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse - First Time in 150 Years - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:55] <exec> 08└─I feel old. I reflexively think I have to travel to see this stuff, just like anyone would have had to, in the 1980s. Or wait for magazines to print a few stills. But now, with the rise of the Internet and cell phone cameras and cheap computerized motorized amateur telescopes that automatically trac...
[23:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─assign your copyrights to the FSF
[23:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:40] <exec> 08└─Freedom can be dangerous. Don't accept locked-down pieces of garbage just because it's 'safer'. In any case, the best thing to do is to always use Free Software, since it's extremely unlikely for Free Software to abuse you in the ways you're talking about. Also, why would you like Google? They built...
[23:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:42] <exec> 08└─*Is* it a problem to be stuck on GPLv2?
[23:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:45] <exec> 08└─Apache does too. Projects there have to think about how much code they can accept from the community before a copyright assignment is needed. What's wrong with just answering "fuck off"? Either they take your contribution, reimplement it themselves, or you can post the patch on your website.
[23:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apps on Google Play Disguised as Security Tools Instead Serve Ads and Track Users' Location - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:47] <exec> 08└─So they try to make you sign away the copyrights and patents for your patch to them, or is it more broad than that?
[23:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Otto Smart Lock's Creators Are Suspending Operations - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:07] <exec> 08└─sound hinky, why didn't the market cap of the smaller company increase by the amount of the judgement?
[23:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GIMPS Project Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: (2^77,232,917)-1 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:47] <exec> 08└─Judging by your UID, you've been waiting several years to deploy that joke*. Bet you posted the AC yourself because you were tired of waiting. * So, not really all that new, here.
[23:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─I don't see how cargo planes and propeller-powered aircraft don't qualify as commercial aviation...
[23:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NVIDIA Updates License to Restrict Use of GeForce and Titan GPUs in Data Centers - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─Once i buy it, its mine to do with as i please. Block chain, AI, 3D scene rendering, hell i can calculate PI until it melts if i want... Sure they can cancel the warranty, but they cant restrict what i want to do with it. ( unless im leasing, then all they can do is take it away ) They have zero leg...
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