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[00:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:06] <exec> 08└─In the short term, Meltdown and Spectre are PR disasters for Intel, AMD, ARM, Qualcomm, etc. However, in the long term, Spectre is a holiday gift for them all. The only real way to fix Spectre is via new hardware, which will see release in 2019 or 2020. That means new desktop computers for governmen...
[00:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:07] <exec> 08└─This is just getting started. Some bright spark last year decided to start fuzzing CPU instructions. This is something the chip manufactures should have been doing. They better get on it ASAFP. Security and tech through obscurity does not work. When everyone learns this lesson yet again. We all get...
[00:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 2060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─You can get a laptop as thin as a smartphone! Acer just unveiled the thinnest laptop in the world [bgr.com] Meanwhile in Chromebook land: Acer launches a new Chromebook 11 with USB-C [theverge.com] I can tolerate 1366x768 resolution (for the moment), but 2 GB RAM needs to be eliminated as an option....
[00:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─AMD is still a winner in this situation because Spectre has no huge slowdowns associated with it and can be fixed with a firmware update AFAIK
[00:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:15] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is: are other CPU architectures vulnerable to something like this? x86-64 (and i586 before it, as this goes back to the PPro days) and ARM are vastly different architectures. But I wonder if SPARC or the old DEC Alpha were vulnerable to this kind of thing, or if they were simply...
[00:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:18] <exec> 08└─Also, a more current architecture that I'm interested to know about is IBM's POWER chips. A bit of research found that POWER6 does not support out-of-order execution, but I don't know about 7-9.
[00:19:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:59] <exec> 08└─Your big mistake is labeling Trump am alpha male. He isn't. He's the spoiled, big mouthed son of a business man. He's that guy at the bar who constantly talks shit and acts like a dick because who's gonna fuck with me until he gets his clock cleaned by a real man. Putin otoh is actually alpha.
[00:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:10] <exec> 08└─Or to get other elements in NK government to overthrow Kim.
[00:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 2152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:12] <exec> 08└─Twitter, and social media in general, has a problem. Twitter in this case. But also the others like face***k and you*u** and many others. They all got their start, to some degree, as a platform for free(ish) speech. They took all comers and published anything as long as it wasn't actually illegal (i...
[00:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:34] <exec> 08└─Nope just the chinese helping with with missile development. Xichang 1996.
[00:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:47] <exec> 08└─When you make illegal employment more expensive than legal employment (to the employers) then you hurt business
[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:35] <exec> 08└─Has EF been replaced by a bot?
[00:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:49] <exec> 08└─"I don't know about plant growth permanently removing CO2. What I see where I live is trees grow, die, and generally rot. Some ends up in swamps and is taken out of the system and some is harvested, put into houses and such and taken out of the system, but most seems to rot and return the carbon to...
[00:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:50] <exec> 08└─But at what speed? The temperate rain forest I live in has been here for about 12000 years and produces a lot of growth and there still isn't much soil. Down in the valley bottoms there is a lot of soil but it is a small percentage of the land.
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[01:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:13] <exec> 08└─The Kind Rapist. A legend or reality? The answer to that is, as you may have guessed, unconfirmed. You decide. Rumor has it that there exists a rapist who is unbelievably kind to those he rapes. There are various stories that tell of his kindness. One story states that, after raping and murdering a...
[01:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:15] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is: are other CPU architectures vulnerable to something like this?
[01:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:17] <exec> 08└─The notion that "security by obscurity doesn't work" doesn't mean what you think it means. It means that if you try to keep your mechanisms secret, you'll probably be compromised. This is because your particular, individual ideas are probably not that smart; it's much better to use mechanisms that h...
[01:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:19] <exec> 08└─However, in the long term, Spectre is a holiday gift for them all. The only real way to fix Spectre is via new hardware,
[01:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, see, that tells me you don't have a clue what an alpha male actually is.
[01:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:17] <exec> 08└─A dictionary. Get one.
[01:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:53] <exec> 08└─Didn't you get the memo? Government has been bought and paid for by business; it now exists to protect business interests first and foremost - all other benefits to the electorate trickle down from a thriving, maximally profitable business sector. Illegal driving kills people, and frightens many mor...
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─As already pointed out by AC they undergo regular rebuilds (also - is this issue about age of explosives (affects both efficency and shape, either of which can cause a fizzle), rust on cabling and such (which also can cause fizzles) - the timings of implosion bombs are insane). Regarding testing eve...
[01:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oumuamua Likely Originated in the Local Association (Pleiades Moving Group) - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:31] <exec> 08└─Somewhat tangential question here, but has anyone thought of shipping Ouououmauoouuamiioouauaua to the Ukraine? The cities of Grzny, Krgznstnfl, Zgrnzftstln, and Nztlfrstsltfnz could desperately do with it.
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[02:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:04] <exec> 08└─In the early days, I can completely understand having a human pilot in charge of the aircraft, but with the simplicity of the electric motor the only major variable I see blocking autopilot take off and landing would be bad weather. Certainly would increase the carrying capacity of a 2 seater aircra...
[02:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:06] <exec> 08└─This is why all electric planes will never be seen in the skies. [soylentnews.org]
[02:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:24] <exec> 08└─These devices are the most complex thing mankind has ever built.
[02:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:26] <exec> 08└─Red Hat reports: These include IBM System Z, POWER8 (Big Endian and Little Endian), and POWER9 (Little Endian).
[02:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Mysterious Zuma Mission May Soon Take Flight [Update: Successful] - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:40] <exec> 08└─It probably has to launch first. Word is that SpaceX isn't going to launch the Falcon Heavy till Zuma is out of the way.
[02:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST "Quantum Radio" for Magnetic Communications - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:49] <exec> 08└─This isn't that kind of quantum....
[02:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST "Quantum Radio" for Magnetic Communications - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:52] <exec> 08└─the channel capacity is correspondingly 70 bits/s and 418 bits/s.... these channel capacities would be obtained at 320 m range.
[02:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST "Quantum Radio" for Magnetic Communications - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:54] <exec> 08└─My friend felt that we should ask the guards at the gate for permission. "Can I photograph that?" I asked. "No." I figured it would be best not to argue. "What is it?" I knew damn well it was for communicating with submarines. "A batting cage for elephants."
[02:19:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Security Flaw in AMD's Secure Chip-On-Chip Processor Disclosed Online - 1070 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:06] <exec> 08└─It isn't the exploit that is the problem here. It is the fact it exists in its current form. If you don't have the capability to control a thing you should not permit it into your life, or at minimum it should be walled off. Both the PSP and the ME fail that test. UEFI usually passes because you CAN...
[02:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03alincler [6447] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017: the 'Greenest Year Ever' for Electricity - 2024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:44] <exec> 08└─The market driving renewals is great but it's just a drop in the bucket. 80% of our energy consumption is NOT electricity. Think heating, industry, transportation. Nothing that matters is happening. After a few years of no growth in CO2 output it went up again in 2017. Despite all the recent coal pl...
[02:19:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:52] <exec> 08└─I dunno why I have always to defend politician Trump, but I don't see how his tweets can be likened to mr angryguy making threats to the ex. Kim likes to boast, silence would be worse. Now, I think NK is kept as an example of old school fascism, making fascism 2.0 look good in comparison, but if rea...
[02:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:32] <exec> 08└─I'll have to put in a second vote for Putin. He just has more sex appeal. Age has treated Putin a lot better than Trump. (Though when they were younger, Putin was kind of a goober, and Trump was not quite pretty boy.) One of these leaders also seems like he would know how to treat a lady, while the...
[02:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:55] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the hint. Eyewitness account here (is this the explosion you were thinking of?): https://www.airspacemag.com [airspacemag.com]
[02:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:34] <exec> 08└─There's a weasel word there, unreasonable. As long as they can argue reasonable, they're free to search and seize to their hearts content.
[02:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:35] <exec> 08└─Granting very limited powers to the government has been tried. I think the experiment was a country called the United States of America.
[02:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Will Displace Millions of People. Where Will They Go? - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:18] <exec> 08└─"But at what speed? The temperate rain forest I live in has been here for about 12000 years and produces a lot of growth and there still isn't much soil. Down in the valley bottoms there is a lot of soil but it is a small percentage of the land." Without knowing where you're talking about it's hard...
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[03:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:04] <exec> 08└─This is a toy. An hour of flying time? You can literally buy toys that can fly that long. One passenger? Good luck turning a profit with that. They will play with it off and on, you won't "see it in the skies" anywhere in commercial aviation service. I would say they were at least getting experienc...
[03:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:05] <exec> 08└─Filthy sow, get pregnant! Ah, too good! Cumming! Oh, I see... it wasn't your asshole that I was squirting my diseased tadpoles into, it was a hunk of your rancid feces! Regardless, it's pregnant now, and it's all mine. Duuuuuu, I found another pinworm!
[03:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:07] <exec> 08└─Is it that I have not been paying attention for a long time to the design of small aircraft? The doors on that thing are mostly windows. [netdna-ssl.com] (page) [cleantechnica.com] Is that unusual? I'm disappointed that the none of the top side is covered with solar cells. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylent...
[03:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:10] <exec> 08└─As someone who is earthbound, I wouldn't mind if they tightened noise regulations so all general aviation aircraft are electric. The kind of incessant droning that some small aircraft produce should not be allowed in a democracy.
[03:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:28] <exec> 08└─I would be money that if you asked a HW eng from intel a few years ago if it is possible they would have said 'nope too hard' 'is it doced?' 'nah doesnt matter its impossible'. It means exactly what I stated. You are being too narrow and pedantic.
[03:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:30] <exec> 08└─Not sure this broken window exercise is going to be all that good for anyone in either the long or the short run It is indeed the 'broken window fallacy' However, someone has already tossed a brick through the window. Remember in the story the glazier benefited from the broken window. I would say hi...
[03:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:32] <exec> 08└─Pretty much any CPU that does speculative execution it is possible for this to happen. Basically if they are trying to retire more than 1 instruction per cycle. So yes if they do that they are candidates for these types of attacks. The older SPARC and Dec Alpha probably not. Even the old intel 486 d...
[03:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Mysterious Zuma Mission May Soon Take Flight [Update: Successful] - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:47] <exec> 08└─Yuma? When TFS said partaking of a different kind of Zuma, my thoughts went to those folks back east whose cojones are about to freeze and how, right about now, they'd like to be somewhere near Malibu. [googleapis.com] (A smaller number zooms out.) Friday January 13 looks like it's going to be parti...
[03:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:38] <exec> 08└─Therefore, provided we exercise appropriate radiological precautions, my and my fellow physicists have the right under the Second Amendment to possess nuclear weapons.
[03:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:40] <exec> 08└─None of the above is relevant in any way to alpha status.
[03:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:42] <exec> 08└─So how would you compare a pudgy ex coke head party boy business man to a black belt ex high ranking KGB agent who is also an avid outdoorsman (basically the Russian James Bond)?
[03:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:44] <exec> 08└─More or less like that. It's plenty easy to do without redefining words.
[03:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:46] <exec> 08└─> If I were president, with respect to Twitter, I'd be saying the exact goddamn shit Trump is. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem. Donald Trump is saying the exact goddamn shit that Ethanol-fueled would if *he* was president.
[03:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's the one.
[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─Now, once the studies are all done, we come around full circle. Illegals are illegal because they have nothing but contempt for the law. They violated immigration laws, they violate labor laws, they violate tax laws routinely, all across the demographic. SOME OF THEM violate much more serious laws....
[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─This is happening at your work? And the owners of the business haven't been thrown in jail for knowingly employing people who change their identity regularly? I think your country has bigger problems then illegals.
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─It's simple, cheap stuff. Businesses want cheap labour and people want to buy cheap stuff built by that labour. You want to stop illegal immigration, bust the people hiring them. This won't happen because too many people want cheap stuff and it is easier to wring your hands about the illegals then a...
[03:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:17] <exec> 08└─They only help if you're far enough away from it that the blast doesn't harm you. Fallout is mostly dirt that has been thrown into the air. Some of its isotopes get radioactive when they are irradiated. Do you own an heirloom set of silver cutlery? My mom does, but silver emits gamma rays when it is...
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[04:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:16] <exec> 08└─http://www.rottnestisland.com/the-island/getting-here/By%20Air [rottnestisland.com] It is a twelve minute flight, so think of this as a fancy, exclusive, air-taxi. There isobviously demand for flights this short (and likely many places like this in the world) Quiet, sometimes silent, different. All...
[04:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:18] <exec> 08└─Another guy who's never been in a small plane. Every gust of wind. Every updraft off of hill or microburst over a runway. Ever reach to a piece of luggage. Every errant bird. Every other aircraft.
[04:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:20] <exec> 08└─> incessant droning... That's the prop you are hearing. Might be some IC engine noise mixed in there, but the prop is often close to supersonic speed at the tips and makes most of the noise (except for some larger planes where the props are driven by a gear reduction).
[04:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:22] <exec> 08└─An amazing amount of this noise comes from the propeller tips, which break the sound barrier. Its not only the piston engine exhaust you are hearing.
[04:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:24] <exec> 08└─Twelve minute flight. ... There is obviously demand for flights this short (and likely many places like this in the world) Quiet, sometimes silent, different.
[04:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:46] <exec> 08└─This individual has been repeatedly posting NOISE about body parts and sex with children and such. Yes, it is "Offtopic". If that is how you mod it, however, those posts won't get the attention they deserve from the site's staff and the serial abuser will continue to abuse the site. The correct mod...
[04:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:48] <exec> 08└─It appears that you are asking if it is accompanied by a guide. [google.com] If I was going to shorten the word "documented", I would have done it thusly: doc'd. You are being too narrow and pedantic. Heh, and you thought -he- was. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Mysterious Zuma Mission May Soon Take Flight [Update: Successful] - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:04] <exec> 08└─Yes! Weather War! You're my hero today!
[04:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX's Mysterious Zuma Mission May Soon Take Flight [Update: Successful] - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:06] <exec> 08└─Sweet!
[04:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Flaw in AMD's Secure Chip-On-Chip Processor Disclosed Online - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:45] <exec> 08└─>Now we know that almost every CPU ever made (if you take percentage of total) Nowhere near. The CPUs in cars, many phones, non-x86 routers, etc. are not x86 nor ARM. Just because they're slower and not in your desktop doesn't mean they aren't CPUs.
[04:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Flaw in AMD's Secure Chip-On-Chip Processor Disclosed Online - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:46] <exec> 08└─Manual static analysis includes ASM, reversed and decompiled code, FYI.
[04:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:04] <exec> 08└─They have different ideological roots in the Western canon. Socialism, of course, goes back to Karl Marx. Fascism, however, has its roots in Nietzsche. Go read Nietzsche. He's quite enjoyable to read, relative to Marx, and you'll instantly see the connections to fascism in his concepts like "ueberme...
[04:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:05] <exec> 08└─Twitter confirmed to Mashable that "this Tweet did not violate our terms of service," referencing the Twitter Rules against violent threats and glorification of violence.
[04:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:08] <exec> 08└─Oh look, it's this loser again. Let's play this out. He should not get a dictionary - he should get a boat. A job. Get one.
[04:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:49] <exec> 08└─Document everything (on the downlow of course) and call 1-866-DHS-2ICE from a burner. Report back with whether Trump's ICE is really enforcing the law. Do it for America!
[04:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:51] <exec> 08└─The high way system was built for the military to move vehicles around the country, so it would have to have been completely impossible not to have been done. The upgrades done in the '60s were largely about doing it faster and more conveniently. In short, if it had been impossible at the time, some...
[04:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:41] <exec> 08└─Storms seldom cross the equator. The equator is pretty dead regarding wind. It's effectively a barrier. Even the ocean currents mostly don't cross the equator. This isolates the southern hemisphere from radiation that is spewed all over the northern hemisphere. Nuclear winter is nothing compared to...
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[05:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:20] <exec> 08└─I tried to use it on Linux Mint to connect to ZyWall. Connects, works for 30-60 seconds, and then drops. A known problem [privateinternetaccess.com]. The same works on Windows first time, every time.
[05:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:39] <exec> 08└─The kind of incessant droning that some small aircraft produce should not be allowed in a democracy.
[05:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:40] <exec> 08└─I'm disappointed that the none of the top side is covered with solar cells.
[05:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:42] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24201&title=Hybrid+Octocopter+at+CES [soylentnews.org]
[05:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:44] <exec> 08└─Tell it to the Solar Impulse 2 folks. [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:47] <exec> 08└─Tell it to the Solar Impulse 2 folks.
[05:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:49] <exec> 08└─Somehow I doubt that an easier-to-manage throttle significantly simplifies taking off and landing, by far the most dangerous and unpredictable parts of any flight. Cruising maybe, but then autopilots have been able to mostly handle that since they were little more than a gyroscope and a brick on the...
[05:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:51] <exec> 08└─Now, if you can stick it in a sailplane, something with a huge surface area that doesn't actually need power to stay in the air, and you might have something really intriguing. A glider that can launch and land under it's own power, get a boost as needed to more easily navigate thermals, and spend t...
[05:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:15] <exec> 08└─this broken window exercise [...] new designs, built from the ground up with security in mind RISC-V There was an Ask The Green Site story [slashdot.org] the other day on the topic of an Open Hardware core in an effort to leave behind the proprietary vendors who won't even fuzz[1] their damned micro...
[05:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:17] <exec> 08└─Remember the fallacy is people talking about stimulating the economy through the use of destruction. In this case however the destruction is a done deal.
[05:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:19] <exec> 08└─Y2K, F00F, and FDIV were trivial next to Spectre and Meltdown. To think that while we were sweating over Y2K, this bug was quietly lurking. Went unnoticed for over 20 years, is in the hardware, and affects many different architectures-- is there any major architecture that isn't affected? Have to go...
[05:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Mysterious Zuma Mission May Soon Take Flight [Update: Successful] - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:37] <exec> 08└─Isn't it excessively hot in California, since the Liberals have stolen the Global warming from the Trumpers, New Yorkers, and Eastly Coasters in general, and now are about to lord it over them in ways they never could have possibly concieved, being Stable Genius and, like, really smart, but not smar...
[05:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST "Quantum Radio" for Magnetic Communications - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/an-flr-9.htm [globalsecurity.org] They weren't for submarine comms.
[05:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:03] <exec> 08└─All the images were of the crash site, immediately after the launch date. Nothing talked about damage at the launch site. And google earth historical imagery shows no buildings on that indicated plot, other than tube and plastic seasonal green houses, the kind that are put up each winter and taken d...
[05:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:23] <exec> 08└─Your understanding is correct. There is an unfortunate coincidence here, however. Those people who have jobs to offer, also have money. Money talks, and bullshit walks. A little bribe money here - errr, whooops, I meant "campaign contribution" and another "contribution" there, and the SOB's are all...
[05:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:15] <exec> 08└─Ohkay, Google Maps doesn't want to work for me, so I looked at it. Seems that my hardware doesn't support the newest version of the web-based Google maps, and I downloaded an old version, and installed it. We can drive a submarine into the northeast portion of Korea Bay, target Punggye-ri with a mis...
[05:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─I guess I like Spock's take on it...about the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few, or the one. In this case, it sure looks like he's the one. From what I see from my chair, everyone over there is afraid of him. Same as what happens over here when a gang takes over a neighborhood. I am...
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[06:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:09] <exec> 08└─Or, not. Please send your username and password, and bank account number and pin to this address: www.soylentnews/hacked/TMB/tonnes_of _money_to_be_made/signup.htm Notice the .htm, obvious sign of a Windows user. Well, this certainly will clear out a bunch of those, after the Migornty Bassastard h...
[06:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:10] <exec> 08└─In fact, I don't know anything that works on anything, first time every time. Technology is soul-sucking junk.
[06:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:13] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen any similar problems with CentOS, Gentoo, Debian derivative (on multiple RPi devices). In my experience, OpenVPN just works (except in China, behind the Great Firewall).
[06:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:15] <exec> 08└─Can we ditch last year's begging, and upgrade to this year's all new begging? It would seem that much more justified.
[06:18:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:24] <exec> 08└─This is why all electric planes will never be seen in the skies. [soylentnews.org]
[06:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:41] <exec> 08└─Wow. What a twisted and evil worldview. You have minor audio discomfort so our ENTIRE SOCIETY should pick a far less optimal use of resources? You know what, I wouldn't mind if we erected new regulations to send people like you to Somalia for a year each time they demanded new regulations for some i...
[06:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:09] <exec> 08└─Just to add more color to this, according to AMD, their chips are not susceptible to Meltdown and is only susceptible to 1 of the 2 variant of Spectre exploits. And as you said, they also claim that the fix to that causes negligible performance impact. I would think they'd be in a lot of trouble if...
[06:20:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06How To Hack Wi-Fi For Fun And Imprisonment With Crypto-Mining Injection - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:15] <exec> 08└─trying to halt... code... particularly in browsers.
[06:20:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06How To Hack Wi-Fi For Fun And Imprisonment With Crypto-Mining Injection - 693 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:17] <exec> 08└─A couple of weeks ago while trying to access an European daily that I fancy I got a message telling me how I was hurting its business by blocking ads and no content would be served unless ads are were allowed. I don’t have a problem with the ads, I understand it is how they make money, I have a pr...
[06:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:55] <exec> 08└─Because a thirty year old accident by a different country using a different sort of missile is relevant to our interests.
[06:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:16] <exec> 08└─Um, If there were no employers - would the 'illegals' be here? Has it not been the practice of U.S. businesses to seasonally employ these people? Because California? Texas? Washington state?
[06:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch is Fastest-Selling US Home Console - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:33] <exec> 08└─The numbers are about the first months after release, not the current picture. The Swotch was released out of season, and still trounces everything else over its first few months. I just held on and dragged my feet, so that Minecraft waited until we got the Switch for Christmas, avoiding the redunda...
[06:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Soft Muscled" Robots Could Perform Delicate Tasks - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:47] <exec> 08└─The mention of "soft muscles" and I got visions of... Well, never mind. I'm sure the robotics industry will be there as soon as they can so they can have my money.
[06:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Border Searches of Electronic Devices Rise 60% in 2017 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:48] <exec> 08└─That's where the voices of the masses help to define unreasonable vs reasonable. But from what I hear the US border + X area is considered a zone where the constitution doesn't even apply: https://www.aclu.org [aclu.org]
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[07:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:09] <exec> 08└─It is obvious how we get waste when people get to have stuff for free or get to control stuff that they don't own. Google can do this, and we can laugh because it is OK for them to waste a tiny portion of their huge budget. The problem comes when people try to extend this idea to a government entity...
[07:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:10] <exec> 08└─Yes! So sad! Megacorp lays out some miniscule amount of their profits from the rest of us, in the form of bicycles, and we appropriate them back? Oh, what stupid tech giants you are! Where is the free Ice Cream? Huh? And the underwriting of our roads, and the compensation for the insane inflation in...
[07:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:13] <exec> 08└─And the underwriting of our roads, and the compensation for the insane inflation in housing prices in your vicinity?
[07:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:25] <exec> 08└─Debian Derivative - which ones? I use OpenVPN in Debian Stable and Linux Mint and it is as broken as fuck, specifically has trouble updating routing tables with VPN route so everything goes in the clear (in Mint it may have just been the DNS queries). Have a script to fix it but is a PITA. Note this...
[07:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score: 1) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:27] <exec> 08└─If possible, look into wireguard. Much simpler and therefore easier to audit than OpenVPN. Try it if it covers your needs.
[07:20:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06How To Hack Wi-Fi For Fun And Imprisonment With Crypto-Mining Injection - 776 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:31] <exec> 08└─When a site is pulling in code (often not even over https!) from other domains you can bet they probably haven't audited it either*. In other words, they are handing off their -- and your -- data to strangers whose motives are unknown. That alone is a large enough mark of incompetence -- or they jus...
[07:20:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06How To Hack Wi-Fi For Fun And Imprisonment With Crypto-Mining Injection - 632 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:32] <exec> 08└─The Dictaphone was so easy. You talked into the machine, you said your message. And sent the belt -- or the tape -- to the typing pool. It wasn't Hi-Fi, it wasn't Wi-Fi, it didn't sound great. But your message got out. And there were always plenty of good looking girls in the typing pool. Let me tel...
[07:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How To Hack Wi-Fi For Fun And Imprisonment With Crypto-Mining Injection - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:35] <exec> 08└─Why is it always JavaScript?!
[07:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:43] <exec> 08└─Well, at that level, can't one argue that all weapons are nuclear?
[07:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:45] <exec> 08└─Well, at that level, can't one argue that all weapons are nuclear?
[07:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:47] <exec> 08└─Very aptly said. In your last paragraph, you so very well explain what is now called orientalism [wikipedia.org].
[07:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:14] <exec> 08└─Why did they have pictures of THIS same area days apart?
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[08:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:10] <exec> 08└─From the second link: http://www.siliconbeat.com [siliconbeat.com] Local resident Steven Chandler, who reportedly has been pressing Google to do more about the dumped-bikes eyesore, took a dim view of Google’s response...
[08:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:11] <exec> 08└─It's just hilarious, that's all.
[08:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:13] <exec> 08└─It's more obvious that too many people are badly brought up. Don't parents in the USA teach kids not to steal other people's stuff and especially not to throw that stuff into a creek?
[08:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:15] <exec> 08└─A better approach could be to partner with one of the companies trying to offer dockless bicycles around the U.S. Google can cut a deal where they pay in the seed money to get the business to infect that area, any of their employees can use a code from their phones to bypass the normal payment metho...
[08:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:17] <exec> 08└─New Electric Bikes, Scooters, and Dockless Bicycles Hitting U.S. Streets [soylentnews.org]
[08:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:20] <exec> 08└─Well, now that you've mentioned it, what about Google's underwriting of "our" roads and other things that they generously compensate for with the taxes that they and their employees pay?
[08:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:22] <exec> 08└─Not nearly fucking enough, khallow, and your frigging Austrian Circle Ass knows that damn well. This is just like Uber, or W-mart, using sunk public infrastructure to make a profit by not fucking covering the cost of their employee's use of the same! This is why we really need "Uber shotgun". Say w...
[08:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:24] <exec> 08└─What do you mean? The water just takes it and recycles it ... didn't you know? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[08:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:26] <exec> 08└─Google can do this, and we can laugh because it is OK for them to waste a tiny portion of their huge budget. The problem comes when people try to extend this idea to a government entity at any level, from home owner association or school council up to something like NATO, the EU, the USA, or the UN....
[08:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:41] <exec> 08└─I've had good luck with Tinc. Does anyone know how they compare?
[08:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:08] <exec> 08└─Well, it's true that a lot of the noise comes from the propeller, but the propeller tips do not break the sound barrier. Those that do produce noise on a whole other level. One example here: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] A better comparison would be a piston-powered l...
[08:19:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geezer [511] 02 - 06SpaceX's Mysterious Zuma Mission May Soon Take Flight [Update: Successful] - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:46] <exec> 08└─High-priority mission to provide global real-time golf course climate conditions to Officer's Clubs everywhere.
[08:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How To Hack Wi-Fi For Fun And Imprisonment With Crypto-Mining Injection - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:48] <exec> 08└─When WEP (wifi auth) was first cracked it did not get much attention. Only as more and more tools and guides were created showing how easy and quick it was did mainstream media accept that it was fundamentally broken. And only then did big manufactures start turning away from the easy to use WEP enc...
[08:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017: the 'Greenest Year Ever' for Electricity - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:01] <exec> 08└─Cutting consumption is key.
[08:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:50] <exec> 08└─Please see my reply to Dry, just above. People who are bribing officials to look the other way get away with it. I'm all for burning the employers. If I put bait out to attract any creature, I can't complain that the creatures are in my yard. Offer enough bait, and I could be persuaded to move into...
[08:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:44] <exec> 08└─Spot on! The people of North Korea are the same people that you find in South Korea. They are a lot of cousins, second cousins, third - etc, etc. One bunch are our friends, the other bunch are our enemies, because a self appointed demi-god says so. The government could remain a communist government,...
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[09:18:33] <exec> 08└─This. Let's put this on the simplest level, that anyone can understand. I have goodies in my pantry or refrigerator, that I plan on eating this evening. A kid comes along and eats my goodies. I'm disappointed, but hell, the kid was hungry, so my goodies weren't wasted. Let's change that scenario. Sa...
[09:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:49] <exec> 08└─It's an ultra-configurable open source VPN client which works with just about any VPN provider that supports the OpenVPN protocol
[09:19:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:30] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is: are other CPU architectures vulnerable to something like this?
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[09:19:44] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's too fickle to be a deliberate plant by them, and you need some kind of local access to at most read kernel memory. The three letter agencies want system level access via some reliable means, such as the _NSAKEY found in Windows 2000.
[09:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:10] <exec> 08└─Modded informative, because your previous post is already modded as high as it can go. Thank you for that post. In a half-assed defense of some of the ignorance spouted by our fellow Americans, the east is pretty damned complicated. We are brought up through a school system that drums Western cultur...
[09:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:55] <exec> 08└─Well, I've already addressed that, elsewhere in the discussion. Those Russian defense systems that might spot the missiles are most likely to assume that the missiles are coming from North Korea. Drive a submarine into the north eastern portion of Korea Bay, launch the cruise missiles, and most like...
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[10:18:16] <exec> 08└─Once the seeds get too heavy the stalk bends over and the plant and seed might not do so well... There are workarounds like dwarf versions with shorter stronger stalks, but even short stalks have limits. The weight limits are higher for stuff like potatoes than for grasses.
[10:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:19] <exec> 08└─What enviornmental benefits? Australia's grid is friggin 800g CO2/kWh, it is one of dirtiest grids in the world (seriously, they are competing with places like botswana in terms of being dirty). This plane probably will be retired long before the grid drops down to non-horrible levels. The less movi...
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[10:19:21] <exec> 08└─Sorry for even worse spelling than usual, didn't get any sleep - so today will feature extra-horrid spelling from me
[10:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:02] <exec> 08└─No, not fine at all. Humanity would likely survive, just how badly depends on how many nukes are let off. We could kill nearly all life in the planet with enough radioactive dust. How about we avoid nuclear war? Simple policy, best all around.
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[11:18:07] <exec> 08└─When the Sun explodes, it will obliterate ShitStainNews for all time! Invalid form key: FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOU
[11:18:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:29] <exec> 08└─Well, now that you've mentioned it, what about Google's underwriting of "our" roads and other things that they generously compensate for with the taxes that they and their employees pay?
[11:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:34] <exec> 08└─The disappearances often aren't the work of ordinary thieves, however. Many residents of Mountain View, a city of 80,000 that has effectively become Google's company town, see the employee perk as a community service
[11:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:36] <exec> 08└─A lot of the examples are closer to theft of service than conventional theft. The bikes are intended to be left all over the place by Google employees so that Google employees are able to find one wherever they are and take them to wherever they want to go. People are seeing them in places where the...
[11:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:53] <exec> 08└─tincd - uses RSA keys, much easier to setup, and has a degree of "mesh". If you share a network, it doesn't need to route the server.
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[11:22:18] <exec> 08└─Are you for real?
[11:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Hosting Nuclear War Preparedness Workshop - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:05] <exec> 08└─One city there should make you take caution, Vladivostok is the home to the russian pacific fleet, basically think their version of pearl harbour. It also is their main east coast harbour.
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[12:18:20] <exec> 08└─Solving the world's food, feed and bioenergy challenges requires integration of multiple approaches and diverse skills.
[12:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:42] <exec> 08└─A much smaller proportion are actually stolen (i.e. removed from the system).
[12:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How To Hack Wi-Fi For Fun And Imprisonment With Crypto-Mining Injection - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:12] <exec> 08└─Because Steve Jobs wouldn't allow Flash on iOS. It's been in decline ever since.
[12:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03alincler [6447] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017: the 'Greenest Year Ever' for Electricity - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:27] <exec> 08└─...the con that global warming is suddenly going to be a lot worse than it's been.
[12:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017: the 'Greenest Year Ever' for Electricity - 1570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:28] <exec> 08└─Fun part is that it would only take about 20-25 years to get rid of CO2 from electricity globally with nuclear, or as I tend to enjoy pointing out - if denmark had invested 20bn usd in a Barakah-style (UAE) Nuclear power plant back in 2009 they would have CO2-free electricity by 2020, and if germany...
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[13:18:13] <exec> 08└─The article is paywalled, but other sources have information about the money-quote concerning climate change [iowaclimate.org]: “Our precision is about 0.2 ºC (0.4 ºF) now, and the warming of the past 50 years is only about 0.1 ºC”. This is a small fraction of the warming claimed by the alarm...
[13:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not at all "dismissing the results," but isn't it logical that a "heat sink" would experience smaller changes and have significant lag? I have limited knowledge in this area, but I vaguely remember studying ocean temperature and CO2 dynamics nearly 20 years ago, and how they were predicted to la...
[13:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, you misunderstood, or I said it poorly. Search for ocean warming, and you will find all sorts of claims that the oceans have already warmed, by some amount up to a full degree centigrade. Which claim this paper would seem to disprove.
[13:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03alincler [6447] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:19] <exec> 08└─...the warming of the past 50 years is only about 0.1 ºC. small fraction... alarmists... touting figures anywhere from 0.5ºC to 1.0ºC. results.
[13:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.thenational.ae/world/africa/corruption-eats-into-somalia-s-food-aid-1.502144 [thenational.ae] Food aid problems would also fall under food distribution. Food gets redistributed from the first to third world, but ends up enriching corrupt officials or warlords along the way. https://www.c...
[13:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:35] <exec> 08└─NASA inspires speed-breeding program that cuts a decade off new grain varieties [abc.net.au]
[13:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:58] <exec> 08└─"This is an opportunity to find the uncivilized and antisocial people and fix/remove them. Repeat until you get a better populace." Start with the politicians and lawyers and I suspect it'll be a much faster process.
[13:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:00] <exec> 08└─"Piracy (or, as cutlass-wielding SN pedants will insist upon, copyright infringement of a work for immediate personal gain), and using a train without a ticket, are other such 'halfway sorta thefts'." Your analagy is flawed still. A person riding a train for free is taking up space a paying customer...
[13:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:19] <exec> 08└─I use it in Kubuntu, and it works quite nicely. Cow-orkers have run into problems with DNS stuff (since systemd), but on the last installs I did, everything was flawless.
[13:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:49] <exec> 08└─Now, if you can stick it in a sailplane, something with a huge surface area that doesn't actually need power to stay in the air, and you might have something really intriguing.
[13:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03alincler [6447] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017: the 'Greenest Year Ever' for Electricity - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:49] <exec> 08└─Fun part is that it would only take about 20-25 years to get rid of CO2 from electricity globally with nuclear...
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[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─Well, I looked briefly, and I see references to rise in ocean SURFACE temp on the scale you claim. The way TFA is worded, it sounds like this study may be measuring mean ocean temperature overall (not just surface temp) which is a very different metric. Unfortunately, as you note, the full study is...
[14:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:15] <exec> 08└─Actually, the report from Nature [nature.com] confirms this study is definitely about mean ocean temps overall, not ocean surface temp. So that may be a significant difference. Do you have studies that claim a full degree rise in the deep oceans in recent years? Because I don't think I've seen predi...
[14:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:17] <exec> 08└─How much as the temperature risen or fallen from non-manmade global warming/cooling?
[14:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:19] <exec> 08└─In other news, scientists again have no clue what is really happening with pretty much anything.
[14:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:22] <exec> 08└─"This means that the average sea temperature can tell us a lot about the state of our climate, both today and in the past." It's neat that they found a way to measure the overall average ocean temp thru this method. This may give an idea of the overall state of the system. The sort of ocean state we...
[14:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:03] <exec> 08└─I can't be terribly pissed off at him. It's the idiot who destroys stuff without reason that I really hate.
[14:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:04] <exec> 08└─Lets make really colorful visible symbols to show the difference between haves and have nots. What could possibly go wrong?
[14:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:54] <exec> 08└─𝅘𝅥𝅯 I'll be watching you. 𝅘𝅥𝅯
[14:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017: the 'Greenest Year Ever' for Electricity - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:53] <exec> 08└─it's not?! Really?! It's 100% natural, straight from mother earth. Just like oil and coal. I recycle old oil by dumping it on the ground, giving it back to mother earth who so graciously gave it to me. It's the circle of life!
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[15:18:10] <exec> 08└─Implying 75 employee companies are small is disingenuous. I actually would bet there is a "big giant" behind or some very established company. 75 employees have cash burn in the >$1 million range per year.
[15:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:26] <exec> 08└─Looks like someone forgot to turn off their lame topic-starter bots.
[15:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:28] <exec> 08└─When did they let you out? I think Algernon's treatments made him a little loopy.
[15:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:46] <exec> 08└─We're growing more crops, but to what end? My parents grew some potatoes last year in a bucket and the density difference between them and the ones that they bought was staggering. They were literally the same potatoes, just grown in a nutrient rich soil and they were significantly denser than what...
[15:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:14] <exec> 08└─"It's still a failure to honour ownership rights," I disagree. IF there's any failure at all here, it's a failure of google to assert said rights. But it sounds like that was done deliberately, and is not a 'failure' either. Google introduced these things all smiles and sunshine, 'our contribution'...
[15:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:15] <exec> 08└─"Theft of service" vs. "conventional theft"? Really!? How were you raised? Stealing is stealing. If it's not yours or you're not supposed to have access to it/use it, it's stealing. Plain and simple.
[15:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanisae [1908] (Score: 1) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:35] <exec> 08└─I have implemented OpenConnect at work and at home. Its Cisco AnyConnect compatible and easy to setup with PAM integration or by certificates.
[15:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:07] <exec> 08└─I've only had about 20 hours in light aircraft (2 and 4 seat), hands on stick for maybe 1 hour total, no formal pilot training. I did, however, develop an autopilot for a tiny unmanned fixed wing drone... lurches happen and autopilots are pretty good at recovery. Birds get out of the way or die (eva...
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[15:20:08] <exec> 08└─It's not about the easier throttle management, it is about the reduction in variables of power production, there are so many more (and more common) failure modes of internal combustion, and you manage lots of them differently based on feel and experience and things that sensors don't communicate. El...
[15:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:10] <exec> 08└─The near-silent aspect is one worth mentioning - this could extend viable operation hours, get access to airfields otherwise closed to commercial traffic, etc.
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[15:20:39] <exec> 08└─Got it.
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[15:22:13] <exec> 08└─1) Note I never touched energy but only touched electricity. 2) 435 nuclear powerstations is _WRONG_ is it 435 reactors (a powerstation is so far between 1 and 8 reactors), but yeah, about 200 stations since lots are single unit (which btw is the least good way to do it) 3) Let's check his math just...
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[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─You'd never know the US is full of ignorant people with they way they talk online. VLM's writing and even your is often from a stance of absolute authority, but the percentages fail to back it up. The best part of reading this site is getting to see the warped rationales being used. You runaway are...
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─Well the whole alpha concept is pretty flawed from what I hear, modern research found a lot more info on canine social structures. Please enlighten us as to what variation you are referring to.
[15:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─I'll take clickbait news of trump over the butthurt trump supporters that still can't go a day without mentioning Clinton or emails. We get it, this place is a breeding nest for RWNJs and assorted libertarians who take too much joy in their freedom to keep their heads way up in their butts. Perhaps...
[15:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─Small groups have been known to seize power, riding on the waves of ignorance. Saying people get the government they deserve is just a new catch phrase that allows the blue to be placed on the group rather than the bad actors whoade the choices. Scapegoatism,and we've had more than enough of that!!
[15:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:49] <exec> 08└─You do know that Google doesn't own the satellites right? They just take the pictures from NASA (no copyright for government works) and use them.
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[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─... of the inalienable right, endowed by the "Creator" (read: universe), to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Fuck off, authoritarians.
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stellar Dynamo of Nearly Identical Star to the Sun Affected by its Metal Content - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─Seems like if we ever get interstellar travel / commerce going, this would be a likely place to go hunt mineral resources (assuming we can't fuse them up ourselves with our ever-20-years-in-the-future fusion reactors.) Or nanoassmble them. Or something. Lotta ifs. :)
[16:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:49] <exec> 08└─Great, just what we needed: more rocket fuel for the race to the bottom of crop prices. With the talk lately of opening up more markets for US farm production (read: more free trade, more globalization, and probably more jobs leaving America to pay for market access, just like always), all I can thi...
[16:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:19] <exec> 08└─As if on cue... In your best David Attenborough whisper, if you please: Note how the pedant is careful to imply that there is no analogy whatsoever to be drawn between copyright infringement, and conventional theft. To concede any such, would be the end of the pedant. That analogies are by definitio...
[16:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:21] <exec> 08└─Apparently not. Where do you live so I can come live in your perfect country where the kids behave perfectly all the time?
[16:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:23] <exec> 08└─It's not stealing if you don't keep it.
[16:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:25] <exec> 08└─If they really did tell the community that the bikes may be used by anyone, then I agree that Google don't get complain when people take them up on it making legitimate use of the bikes. I'm not convinced Google ever said any such thing, though.
[16:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:27] <exec> 08└─If it's not yours or you're not supposed to have access to it/use it, it's stealing.
[16:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:30] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, our University Campus has a bike sharing program, and we're on the small side for a University.
[16:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─"some people just like to see the world burn" its just that simple. a lot of sick fucks get off by destroying other peoples' property. many of those people share a lot of the same traits as the CEOs and world leaders. the position that attracts that kind of person (authority and control) - those peo...
[16:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:34] <exec> 08└─I used to work at SGI, who was the first (in that area) to have bikes like that. SGI had all those buildings at shoreline and we often had meetings at diff sites, so we'd hop onto a bike, ride to the meeting and ride back when done. SGI was a cool company with an honest product. I was proud to work...
[16:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:36] <exec> 08└─Ah, I had a feeling gentrification was the root cause.
[16:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:38] <exec> 08└─Company transportation executive Jeral Poskey told the paper he once took action when he saw what appeared to be a homeless woman on a commandeered Google bike. "If I could describe her, you would agree with me," Poskey said. "She looked all panicked, and then she showed me her Google badge."
[16:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:59] <exec> 08└─I use Eddie, which is actually the client of AirVPN. It's open source and uses openVPN (you can point it to a local installation). Pretty good.
[16:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:34] <exec> 08└─The other thing to consider is that, even on a bright sunny day, solar panels on every available surface wouldn't even provide 2% of the power used for level cruise - as you say, most of the power they would provide would be going toward keeping their excess weight aloft, and on rainy days or at nig...
[16:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, but if they cover the entire tarmac on both sides in solar cells, then _this_ plane can be clean and green, while the rest of OZ proceeds to kill the GBR directly with increased acidity and AGW.
[16:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:38] <exec> 08└─A prop is never quiet if it is pulling any power. And the article sucked! "has begun test flights." - Pix or vids! or GTFO! And when they do finally make that video, I want to hear the natural sound, not some lame background promotional music.
[16:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:40] <exec> 08└─> Birds get out of the way or die Sure, they die, but a bad hit can take you with 'em. I'm speaking from personal experience; I've been in a mid-sized plane (100 seats or so) that was hit by a bird right in one of the engines. That engine died. Luckily, the planes can keep flying without an engine o...
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How To Hack Wi-Fi For Fun And Imprisonment With Crypto-Mining Injection - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─That is unsecured access points, still in 2018 when people should know better. Sure, even people who are on the same WPA2 secured AP do pose a threat to each others but at least there are barriers in place. I mean would it kill you if your wifi had a password? You could even include it in the name o...
[16:23:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:37] <exec> 08└─> If I were president, with respect to Twitter, I'd be saying the exact goddamn shit Trump is. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem. Donald Trump is saying the exact goddamn shit that Ethanol-fueled would if *he* was president.
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:51] <exec> 08└─Politicians have opponents, and this one's opponents are roughly 55% of the population [fivethirtyeight.com]. We live in a litigious society, as the HMFIC's business career attests to, so it's hardly surprising that his political opponents would try to use contract law to limit his power.
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─And the ones before him, kept all of their promises?
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─Why are you defending this wall idea??
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the popular vote was in her favor, so again another popular vote "stolen" by the Republicans.
[16:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─You know about those special helmets people wear? Might help reduce the frequency of your seizures.
[16:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:51] <exec> 08└─I love this new you, the person no longer guarding what they say. You just let everyone know how brainwashed you are all the time. I don't much need to respond anymore, people swayed by your walls of garbage are unlikely to listen to "librul proper-ganderz".
[16:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─Give me a solid REASON for importing the third world that makes sense for existing Americans.
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[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─What's new here?
[17:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─I get the liberty part but happiness, in gambling?
[17:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:14] <exec> 08└─You don't get it, but a gambler does. Now, go away, and play with your own inscrutable toys.
[17:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:16] <exec> 08└─Some people need mommy and daddy (government) to step in and tell them they need to stop or protect them. Then some guys just can’t stand others paying to get an advantage on Battlefront II, they wind up smashing their mom’s salt shaker collection she keeps stored in their basement bedroom. Don...
[17:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:19] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. I could make a case that your gambling is predatory and robs others of their happiness (like children of gambling addicts), and leads to general disarray in a society. Legislating against things that lead to breakdown of society is not only in society's best interest, but also is an ethi...
[17:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:21] <exec> 08└─You cannot protect a person from himself without constructing a Tyranny. At most, without a Tyranny, you can protect one person from another person (but, of course, only in a way that does not try to protect a person from himself). If you want a Civilized Society, you must allow a person to destroy...
[17:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:23] <exec> 08└─SOMER Blink [engadget.com] comes to mind. Google "eve lottery" and you will find others. Have in mind Eve Online is a game where scam is the norm.
[17:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:25] <exec> 08└─I prefer to read rather than watching. People who are hard of hearing, non-native speakers, in enforced quiet environments, behind a slow or capped Internet connection, or just short on time may agree. Apparently YouTube supports transcripts now [ccm.net], but this video's transcript is hard to read...
[17:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:28] <exec> 08└─Somalia is a failed state; there was a single-party, socialist (indeed, "scientific communist") government. The inevitable implosion of this kind of regime left a power vacuum; a culture that is based around authoritarianism will naturally fill such a vacuum with more authoritarians, one of the simp...
[17:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:30] <exec> 08└─Adrenaline, and dopamine - yeah, they make you "happy" for a short time.
[17:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:32] <exec> 08└─So let me rephrase what nanny-staters appear to really want: What should a civilized society do to protect dependents from the harmful effects of the self-destruction of their caregivers?
[17:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:35] <exec> 08└─That's a fine dance, AC, but you're rather missing the point. In the absence of a strong, competent, non-corrupt government, you reliably get a chaotic hellhole. Libertopia doesn't exist, and never will. It's a few centuries too late to pretend that we don't know this by now.
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:37] <exec> 08└─I do not get it, but as you stated that there is happiness in gambling I honestly assumed you are a gambler and you could lighten my world view. I am not debating your argument, I even said I do understand the liberty part, I just wanted your deeper insight into the issue. Sad. The snark and self-ri...
[17:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:39] <exec> 08└─This was the point I was going to get. That "gambling" is like a drug in the sense that it rushes, takes the effect and it's excreted by the system, living the being in a statistically worse off situation.
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you're trying to convey other than "I don't like your tone". If you're truly interested in the flow of ideas, then you wouldn't be so easily butthurt.
[17:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─You can look it up here (Milankovitch cycles) [wikipedia.org]; the fastest cycle seems to have a period of 25 000 years, and the one with the largest amplitude, 400 000 years, if I understand it correctly. So nothing that can cause a bump within 100 years.
[17:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─I have read that the atmosphere's temperature is not rising as fast as originally predicted. I expect this is due to absorption of heat by the oceans. If water has ice in it and then you add heat to it, the ice will melt while the water's temperature remains constant. It is only after all the ice me...
[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─Volcanoes could cause an effect over that period, but I think they have been of roughly normal activity lately.
[17:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stellar Dynamo of Nearly Identical Star to the Sun Affected by its Metal Content - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:20] <exec> 08└─We can't even get off our lazy monkey asses to go to the moon again. Face it, we're a species of basement dwellers living in mother earth's gravity well.
[17:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:32] <exec> 08└─OK, so you got your supergrain. No, wait, that's old hat, now you have your superdupergrain, and this one comes with twice the seeds! That means more nutrients per acreage to support the growth of these seed heads. We're already pretty much strip-mining our soil and then manually replenishing it eve...
[17:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:34] <exec> 08└─there aren't enough markets in the world to make US agriculture sustainably profitable unless a lot of the players simply drop out. Which is exactly what has been happening for the last 40 years or so.
[17:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:14] <exec> 08└─Ok, when someone empties out your bank account and spends every cent - they didn't keep it. What's that?
[17:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:36] <exec> 08└─A hammer works on a thumb, reliably, every time.
[17:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:38] <exec> 08└─For some reason, OpenVPN for me (using a commercial VPN provider) has been seriously slow under Linux as well as implemented directly on my dd-wrt router. Running OpenVPN under Windows appears to get me about 158 Mbps of my 200 Mbps connection. Under Linux or on my dd-wrt router it's a fraction of t...
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[17:21:17] <exec> 08└─Solar Airship.
[17:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:18] <exec> 08└─Of course as passenger I'm not interested in passenger miles per fatality, but in the probability that this specific flight I'm on will not have a fatality. That probability will generally be the same whether there's a second passenger on board or not. It may not be the same whether there's a pilot...
[17:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:49] <exec> 08└─SPARC wasn't. They had separate buffers for kernel and user space, so the privilege escalation wouldn't have been possible in the same way.
[17:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─Various SJW's, liberals, political opponents, and assorted nut cases band together, in an attempt to silence or censor the HMFIC*. And, they are surprised that it doesn't work? Correct, random nutjobs complaining about Twitter on the internet is not newsworthy or a violation of the first amendment....
[17:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:30] <exec> 08└─Because scofflaws are routinely breaking the law, and I'd like to see the law enforced. The wall won't stop ALL of the scofflaws, but it will cut the flood to a trickle. That, and it's an engineering feat that I'd like to see. Build the wall. America needs the jobs. Everybody wins. We create more jo...
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[18:18:04] <exec> 08└─I checked the paper to see how it performed and found nothing. Without looking closely, I bet this is like how it was mathematically proven that a single layered neural network was all you ever needed because it could approximate any function. Then this proof turned out to be irrelevant to any real...
[18:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:06] <exec> 08└─That second paragraph ignores the boundary effects. If you cut 1299 into 12 and 99, and then your input regularly produces numbers around 1300, you're going to miss that as one part registers 12 and 13, not necessarily high enough to get tagged as significant, and the other algo cannot see that 95-t...
[18:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:28] <exec> 08└─Clearly, there is a lot more going on for people who enjoy gambling; not every gambler is some simpleton cranking on the slot machine like a mindless, drugged-out automaton. There are loads of statistics, and game theory, involved in calculating odds—there are oodles of rules to learn, and social...
[18:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:30] <exec> 08└─This surprises me because I see stores sell "grab bags" of items all the time. Common examples are action figures & Lego minifigs & toy pets, card games (Pokemon, Magic the Ggathering, ...) t-shirts, etc. I don't want to watch a video so maybe someone can post why video game loot boxes are fundament...
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─...and if you'd actually done that, you'd remember that some people's reality is disconnected from it.
[18:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:34] <exec> 08└─From what I understand when this first came out with the EA game, loot boxes have a chance of giving the playing nothing at all. So it's like handing over money for a grab bag and receiving nothing in return.
[18:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:36] <exec> 08└─There is happiness in gambling in the same way there is happiness in alcohol. Or drugs I suppose. It makes you feel great for a short time. Then the alcoholic wakes up in vomit, and the gambler wakes up in debt -- possibly to some bad people. My advice to the alcoholic: Alcohol won't solve your prob...
[18:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:39] <exec> 08└─You can't protect someone from himself. But you can and probably should protect him from being taken advantage of. Now where to draw the line is not easy. If someone messes up their life and becomes unemployable by, let's just say, gaming, is that worse than if they used drugs instead to destroy the...
[18:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:41] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with defending a Dependent from an Abuser, or finding a Dependent new guardianship; society already does that. The problems occur when you try to help the Dependent by controlling the Abuser, including by forcing the Abuser to support the Dependent; if you want a civilized worl...
[18:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:43] <exec> 08└─I suspect there are close to zero people who think they can get rich from grab bags. Probably zero who will ruin their lives buying grab bags in the hope of winning big.
[18:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:45] <exec> 08└─If loot boxes break the rules, then a whole bunch of related things are on shaky legal ground. To address this "problem", first have to clarify just what exactly is legal, then have to change a lot of games. To be especially thorough, better check every computer game ever made, back into the 1970s,...
[18:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 2180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:48] <exec> 08└─Libertopia does exist; it's just so sophisticated that it doesn't fit into your naive notion of a particular geographic border with a particular national hymn and celebrated with particular sacred set symbols; libertopia is the voluntary exchange amongst individuals, which comprises the very phenome...
[18:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─"When I'm a condescending ass, it's an honest exchange of ideas, when you're a condescending ass back to me, it's getting 'butthurt'"
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─You are such a tool, aiwarrior had the most mild reasonable reaction that was not "butthurt" in any way. You have an attitude problem.
[18:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─The only condescension is coming from the AC who is looking down upon people he doesn't understand.
[18:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:57] <exec> 08└─Rambling rant, inherent selfishness perspective, lack of awareness about reality and human nature, yup I'll call that PAR! Next up "FORE! Incoming libertarian screeeeed!!"
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─You can look it up here (Milankovitch cycles) [wikipedia.org]; the fastest cycle seems to have a period of 25 000 years, and the one with the largest amplitude, 400 000 years, if I understand it correctly. So nothing that can cause a bump within 100 years.
[18:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:26] <exec> 08└─Woah now, don't want to pop all the pinheads at once!
[18:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:51] <exec> 08└─And here I thought the best way to demonize free trade around here was outsourcing because nobody cares about what happens to non-USians. Glad to be proven wrong with such force.
[18:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:52] <exec> 08└─supergrain
[18:20:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 754 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:06] <exec> 08└─A better approach could be to partner with one of the companies trying to offer dockless bicycles around the U.S. Google can cut a deal where they pay in the seed money to get the business to infect that area, any of their employees can use a code from their phones to bypass the normal payment metho...
[18:20:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 586 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:14] <exec> 08└─A lot of the examples are closer to theft of service than conventional theft. The bikes are intended to be left all over the place by Google employees so that Google employees are able to find one wherever they are and take them to wherever they want to go. People are seeing them in places where the...
[18:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:34] <exec> 08└─Not nearly fucking enough
[18:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:35] <exec> 08└─Because it is only appropriate all the small fry to break from their mouth for pay the services ion the area they work and additionally the "inwastement" in useless walls and "defense", but the big fishes must be immune to this for some obscure reason which defies the rational.
[18:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:37] <exec> 08└─"Mountain View is a company town" And G-Employees treat it that way. Private property and sidewalks are littered with their toy bikes because they think it's OK to just leave them everywhere. This isn't limited to Mountain View, and it they aren't being stolen, they are being left everywhere by GOOG...
[18:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:40] <exec> 08└─If the winds cooperate, then, sure, blimp away. But, they're slow and have well known limits.
[18:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:55] <exec> 08└─I would like to point out that Nietzsche was not a fascist himself and thought the people who were were misinterpreting his works (sometimes deliberately). He even foresaw fascism and argued against it, e.g. Ecce Homo's "Why I write such Good Books," The Case of Wagner and The Joyful Science. An ove...
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[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:04] <exec> 08└─Already mentioned here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] . This all stems from court cases. Assuming the right to search the remote home of a returning citizen or the foreign home of a visitor simply because you arrived at a border with a f...
[19:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:06] <exec> 08└─Your bits can travel at the speed of light. Why carry them with you? Sure, you need a device you can boot and get online, but that software can all be open source. Not yours, not secret, nothing to be disclosed if they copy it all, nothing to lose if they take it (except the cost of hardware). Get t...
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:08] <exec> 08└─Your bits can travel at the speed of light. Why carry them with you?
[19:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:19] <exec> 08└─Should this be titled "Another Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data" instead of "best ever" being that time will continue for a while, and they may find something better tonight?
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:21] <exec> 08└─Isn't this exactly how any full text indexing system works, with numbers instead of words? Wiki even explains some of the problems [wikipedia.org] in retrieval from such systems, as mentioned in other comments above.
[19:18:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:39] <exec> 08└─That's a fine dance, AC, but you're rather missing the point. In the absence of a strong, competent, non-corrupt government, you reliably get a chaotic hellhole. Libertopia doesn't exist, and never will. It's a few centuries too late to pretend that we don't know this by now.
[19:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:58] <exec> 08└─It was just more "I don't understand you" nonsense, with a hint of "therefore you're probably wrongheaded" garbage.
[19:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:59] <exec> 08└─... but you can't make him drink. I'll leave it to the Dear Reader to decide who the horse is.
[19:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, which was the point of the comment you responded to.
[19:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:03] <exec> 08└─So using confirmation bias that is dependent on the reader's personal opinions? Quality stuff, you must be the same libertard AC who never has valid support just rambling ideas about freedom and small to non-existent government.
[19:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:06] <exec> 08└─As someone who had to deal with the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, yes, these can be classified as a game of chance. If the game's only means of progression is through some random process, it's a game of chance. Being dealt cards, rolling dice, spinning a Big Six or a roulette wheel, or t...
[19:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:08] <exec> 08└─I suppose it all depends on how many barrow loads of disposable income one has.
[19:19:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 1125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─Well, I looked briefly, and I see references to rise in ocean SURFACE temp on the scale you claim. The way TFA is worded, it sounds like this study may be measuring mean ocean temperature overall (not just surface temp) which is a very different metric. Unfortunately, as you note, the full study is...
[19:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:38] <exec> 08└─Is the 2017 NOAA data even out yet? I wasn't able to locate it....
[19:20:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 1821 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:22] <exec> 08└─This. Let's put this on the simplest level, that anyone can understand. I have goodies in my pantry or refrigerator, that I plan on eating this evening. A kid comes along and eats my goodies. I'm disappointed, but hell, the kid was hungry, so my goodies weren't wasted. Let's change that scenario. Sa...
[19:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:47] <exec> 08└─Kids in Japan behave extremely well, and street crime like this (theft, vandalism) is very rare. But they're not really big on immigration unless you have valuable job skills and are ready to learn Japanese.
[19:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:48] <exec> 08└─this is why I hate the concept of CEO in the west. it allows the bullies to have their way without much interference. it makes people kings and I don't like the notion of kings. I really, really hate to defend CEOs here or at any time, as I definitely have my criticisms of them, but CEOs really aren...
[19:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:51] <exec> 08└─> here's one Google bike use case that's got to burn a little ...commute: to the offices of Google's arch foe, Oracle No, doesn't make me burn in the least. > I can't understand how they get a thrill from doing stupid shit, like dumping a bicycle in the creek. This. This is what burns me up. Steal s...
[19:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:53] <exec> 08└─The other thing I'll say about CEOs is that many times, they don't even do all that much aside from OKing the decisions of the VPs. They're frequently just there as the public "face" of the corporation. Steve Jobs was infamous for being much more hands-on and micromanaging than typical CEOs, so don'...
[19:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:55] <exec> 08└─You don't get to interpret your way out of being a thief.
[19:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:57] <exec> 08└─That's a stupid analogy because the money is now in the hands of other people, and hard to retrieve. A better analogy is someone coming into your unlocked garage, getting in your car that you left the keys in, and driving away, and then parking it three blocks away and leaving it there. Technically,...
[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:00] <exec> 08└─We've become multicultural. Some cultures reject common decency. There is a cost to bringing in people who have shitted up their own countries. Consider the following subpopulations of the USA: 1. religious 2. conservative 3. white 4. suburban or rural 5. middle class The more of those a person fits...
[19:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:02] <exec> 08└─SGI was a cool company with an honest product. I was proud to work for them. google - not so much. never worked for them, but their whole purpose is ADVERTISING Let this be a lesson to you. Cool companies with honest products don't last. I think a relevant bit of wisdom is the sage words, "Evil will...
[19:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:04] <exec> 08└─It's almost like littering then. The entire town is not Google's, so I too disagree that they are entitled to litter the place with their toys. Clean up after yourself or someone else will.
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:06] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying this result is good. It's funny though, because anybody with two brain cells could have predicted it. It's like predicting the failure of communism. When somebody assures you that this time, it really will be a worker's paradise, do you believe them? I hope not. It's sort of funny whe...
[19:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─There were stories a while back about people protesting the Google buses, too. It's probably just easier to throw a bike into a creek than it is a bus and I'm guessing this is some kind of protest.
[19:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:32] <exec> 08└─Your link seems to be broken. I've also had similar problems since I upgraded to the latest Linux Mint; with 17.3 it worked great.
[19:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:34] <exec> 08└─I use it in Kubuntu, and it works quite nicely. Cow-orkers have run into problems with DNS stuff (since systemd), but on the last installs I did, everything was flawless.
[19:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:16] <exec> 08└─Aye, so - how will the human pilot be better? Like "Sully" demonstrated, the computer can decide go/nogo for available airfields and whether a water-landing is preferable much faster than a human, and apparently humans aren't too good at evading birds - arguably, autopilots could be more diligent at...
[19:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:18] <exec> 08└─But, if you're two passengers, traveling on two planes instead of one, you've now doubled your odds of one of you dying... do you care about that? It's too early to make this argument, but, long term - we will eventually show that autopilots have less chance of killing the passengers than a human ca...
[19:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia's First Electric Passenger Plane Takes To The Skies - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:20] <exec> 08└─Somehow I doubt that an easier-to-manage throttle significantly simplifies taking off and landing,
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 062017: the 'Greenest Year Ever' for Electricity - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:25] <exec> 08└─> Still it's a good idea to start treating cancer at stage I Will the cancer reach stage II before I die? I am 31. I don't care otherwise. It is someone else's problem.
[19:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Accidentally Hit One of its Own Cities With a Missile, Says Report - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:05] <exec> 08└─They just take the pictures from NASA (no copyright for government works) and use them.
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[20:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─The East Coast company stated: "Please be advised that this may affect other services which you may have connected to your internet service, such as the ability to control your thermostat remotely or video monitoring services."
[20:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:19] <exec> 08└─And anyway, I heard that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the plac...
[20:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:20] <exec> 08└─the right of the people to be secure...
[20:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:22] <exec> 08└─except for the Sacred Second
[20:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:25] <exec> 08└─toulet paper... You can either trust them to do the right thing, or remove the opportunity for them to do wrong against you.
[20:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:27] <exec> 08└─Just don't have brown skin or be an unemployed single male under the age of 30.
[20:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:29] <exec> 08└─Our Australian middle-aged white overweight sales/support guy just spent 6 hours with DHS, and left his laptop and work USB sticks with them, because they didn't seem able to copy the data quickly (linux/Apple somehow confuses them). Unless he's got something in his past he's not telling us, I quest...
[20:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:42] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same: this approach loses any and all correlation between these arbitrarily-chosen buckets. To keep in the spirit of IP addresses, if your hits are coming uniformly from all RFC1918 private ip addresses, this algorithm will probably identify 10.168.0.0/16 as the most prevalent sou...
[20:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:25] <exec> 08└─My advice to the alcoholic: Alcohol won't solve your problems. Neither will water or diet coke. Similar advice for the gambler.
[20:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:26] <exec> 08└─you can and probably should protect him from being taken advantage of. Now where to draw the line is not easy.
[20:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:28] <exec> 08└─I get the liberty part but happiness, in gambling?
[20:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:30] <exec> 08└─So let me rephrase what nanny-staters appear to really want: What should a civilized society do to protect dependents from the harmful effects of the self-destruction of their caregivers?
[20:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:33] <exec> 08└─So using confirmation bias that is dependent on the reader's personal opinions?
[20:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:03] <exec> 08└─No, I don't think volcanoes could alter the mean ocean temperature that rapidly. A giant meteor impact could, however. Or. speaking of volcanoes, something like the Deccan Traps happening underwater could cause a fairly rapid change. Mean ocean temperature changes extremely slowly.
[20:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:05] <exec> 08└─They're talking about mean ocean temperature. I really doubt the solar sun spot cycle would have even a measurable effect. Mean ocean temperature changes extremely slowly.
[20:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stellar Dynamo of Nearly Identical Star to the Sun Affected by its Metal Content - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:15] <exec> 08└─NASA and Roscosmos Sign Joint Statement on the Development of a Lunar Space Station [soylentnews.org] President Trump Signs Space Policy Directive 1 [soylentnews.org]
[20:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:27] <exec> 08└─Cool companies with honest products don't last.
[20:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:28] <exec> 08└─Google doesn't really want non-Googlers using the bikes, "but it's OK if you do," Veach explained.
[20:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:30] <exec> 08└─1. religious 2. conservative 3. white 4. suburban or rural 5. middle class The more of those a person fits into, the more likely they are to behave well.
[20:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:33] <exec> 08└─But hundreds of these bicycles go missing every week, and some have been found tossed in a local creek...
[20:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:35] <exec> 08└─So, let me get this straight. Religious, conservative, white, suburban/rural, middle class values are so fragile that all it takes is a handful of bad influences for these values to disintegrate?
[20:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062017: the 'Greenest Year Ever' for Electricity - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:49] <exec> 08└─Apart from the doomsayers noone's saying it's going to be suddenly worse.
[20:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:00] <exec> 08└─Let's just go with their defining aspect for simplicity's sake: alphas are dominant. And before some whiny bitch of a beta who doesn't own a dictionary or a vocabulary starts crying, dominant is not the same as domineering.
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[21:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:11] <exec> 08└─Corporate amerika and those who support them. Copyright needs reform, stop the parasites! No no, not the pirates, they are sucking invisible blood. Get the ones sucking the red stuff.
[21:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:12] <exec> 08└─Pirates freeze to death on the high seas! No, wait... they are inside an IoT house.
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─The headline is wrong and laughably bad but what do you expect from a low common denominator "tech" site like engadget. The ISP isn't fucking with your dumb IoT devices. They are simply a casualty of having your service throttled. This is a double warning to anyone looking to do stupid shit like con...
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─VPN
[21:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:19] <exec> 08└─You mean they make an exception for those who only pirate excellent stuff? :-)
[21:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:21] <exec> 08└─Slow downloads, bro.
[21:18:23] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:23] <exec> 08└─Like the OpenOffice installer?
[21:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:26] <exec> 08└─Another Reason Not to Buy IOT Crap.
[21:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:28] <exec> 08└─How do they know if someone is file sharing? Or infringing copyright? What if a group of friends are sharing perfectly legal files among themselves? If the protocol you use is encrypted, they can't really know. Even better, suppose the protocol is standard. What if all file sharing happened over an...
[21:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:30] <exec> 08└─This is nothing new since early dialup days. I had one ISP who started getting overwhelmed with customers, unable to provide acceptable service. I habitually downloaded newsgroups overnight, in large part because their bandwidth was so laughably inadequate that it took 8 hours to get what should hav...
[21:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:32] <exec> 08└─There's a profile, if you move more than X bytes a month, particularly in such and such size chunks, there's a higher probability that you're "one of those people," and they will treat you accordingly. If you have a choice in ISPs, this isn't such a problem. Unfortunately, with private monopolies th...
[21:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:35] <exec> 08└─Having both seems like it could result in some regulatory weirdness. My thought is a compromise; neutrality regulations for monopolies (or hell, include duopolies if you like, but draw the line somewhere), while leaving vibrant markets with competition free of such regulation. Perhaps most important...
[21:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:37] <exec> 08└─An interesting case would be to have actual damages. Prove them. And set a precedent. In such a case, the ISP cannot know what is in your traffic and they have no right to know. That is a core argument of the action, that they are unfairly discriminating. Maybe there would be a lawyer that would tak...
[21:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:39] <exec> 08└─> How do they know if someone is file sharing? Or infringing copyright? They don't *know*, but they get complaints from rights-holders and copyright trolls -- they often participate in torrent swarms and try to nail a few IP addresses. Those complaints have a pretty low chance of actually being accu...
[21:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:41] <exec> 08└─Another Reason Not to Buy IOT Crap.
[21:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:57] <exec> 08└─Loves me some land o' the free. I feel so free I might just jump off a bridge! /sarc for anyone who would legitimately worry
[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:59] <exec> 08└─Your bits can travel at the speed of light. Why carry them with you?
[21:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:01] <exec> 08└─Unless he's got something in his past he's not telling us, I question the idea that some random Melbourne guy coming to his startup's headquarters is that suspicious ...
[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:03] <exec> 08└─A few years back I tried to take a photograph in a post office - the counter worker wasn't comfortable with that and informed her supervisor, her supervisor proceeded to feed me BS and a half about how photographing in a federal building is illegal (this, in front of their own video monitoring camer...
[21:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:05] <exec> 08└─I suspect he's a member of the communist party who committed genocide and is now a terrorist coming to the country to overthrow the US government after escaping a conviction by fleeing the country, leaving his children's alimony unpaid ... I used to have that stupid form taped on my cube wall. Peopl...
[21:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:19] <exec> 08└─Well, assuming this algorithm is really better than anything that existed before it, then "best so far" would be appropriate. "Another" is certainly too weak, as it says nothing at all about its quality. For example, if someone finds an unknown sort algorithm that is worse than bubble sort, that als...
[21:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─Apache's Xerces-C (really C++) provides APIs for DOM and SAX. Some cluebot posted to its user list that Xerces-C was very slow because it required an hour to read a 20 MB XML file. Xereces-C's DOM implementation creates an object for each individual item in the input. SAX calls event handlers when a...
[21:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─Agreed. "Best Ever" makes it sound like they proved P = NP, in such that there is mathematically no better algorithm to be found.
[21:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:25] <exec> 08└─Each guy on the assembly line only knows about the part he is making. He doesn't see the final product. But he knows every detail of that bracket he just made down to the millimeter. Maybe the word is specialization. Delegation? But where context matters, you can't lose sight of the peripheral outsi...
[21:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:13] <exec> 08└─In the absence of a strong, competent, non-corrupt government, you reliably get a chaotic hellhole.
[21:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:14] <exec> 08└─I am looking down! And apparently from a very great height! What are the odds?
[21:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:16] <exec> 08└─Then the alcoholic wakes up in vomit, and the gambler wakes up in debt -- possibly to some bad people.
[21:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not confused about the difference. However I should have qualified what I meant more clearly.
[21:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:21] <exec> 08└─Here is a game I like to play at the casino: Walk around the slots and try to find a person smiling.
[21:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:23] <exec> 08└─Laws might not be primarily to protect the person you think is being protected -- but rather to protect the rest of us from the consequences of their life failure. This might be true whether we are talking about (A) a law to protect from one's own stupidity or (B) a law to protect from being conned...
[21:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:25] <exec> 08└─That was players scamming players, (which is part of the metagame of Eve.) Lootboxes are gaming companies scamming players. If they wanted, they could make items and directly sell them to players. People pay and get what they want. Instead its a gambling mechanic, you pay and get some random unknown...
[21:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 1669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:27] <exec> 08└─> As someone who had to deal with the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, yes, these can be classified as a game of chance. So, if it is not _necessary_ to get a particular item to progress (if you get e bigger gun, it may help, but so would more skill), then the _game_ is not chance? If the i...
[21:20:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:46] <exec> 08└─Actually, the report from Nature [nature.com] confirms this study is definitely about mean ocean temps overall, not ocean surface temp. So that may be a significant difference. Do you have studies that claim a full degree rise in the deep oceans in recent years? Because I don't think I've seen predi...
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─You SAY that, but when I aim my hammer at my thumb, I almost always miss and hit some annoying nail that's sticking up in a nearby board.
[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─Private Internet Access seems to have a good (and cheap!) VPN service in general, but PIA is a bit of a PITA if you want to use a specific port for a tunnel and don't want to use their custom client. IIRC, it had to do with needing a keep-alive sent every 10 minutes, even if you were using both the...
[21:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 2545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:54] <exec> 08└─It's partly the legacy of post-WWII education and priorities. We had invested so much time and energy in liberating and then rebuilding Europe that it dominated American perception of the Rest of the World. Japan was too far away to think about beyond superficial stereotypes like samurai and geishas...
[21:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Yes, that's it. Edward Said, the guy who coined that term, was onto something, because his concept stuck. On the other hand, at the same time he was criticizing the West for reducing the Orient to simple archetypes and forms, he was doing the same thing to the West. It's a little understanda...
[21:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:58] <exec> 08└─Saying your gun is bigger is not a specific threat.
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[22:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:06] <exec> 08└─So is Alzheimer's a prion disease, like CJD?
[22:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:08] <exec> 08└─Alzheimer's research is totally fucked. [soylentnews.org] Nobody is really sure what causes it or how to stop it.
[22:18:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:24] <exec> 08└─Another Reason Not to Buy IOT Crap.
[22:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:32] <exec> 08└─> This is a double warning to anyone looking to do stupid shit like control/monitor your home over the INTERNET or pirate awful television shows and films. Also a warning to those who have kids or open wifi networks, those who let their friends and family use a closed wifi network, and grandmas who...
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:34] <exec> 08└─We need an Open Source, Citizen's alternative to corporate-controlled networks. Mesh networks are one, but laggy. Would it make more sense to launch a whole bunch of cubesats that sidestep the AT&Ts of the world?
[22:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:36] <exec> 08└─I always laugh at the thought of trying to explain the Internet and Piracy to a real pirate from a couple hundred years ago. We are basically telling them that people that copy a book, or a play, are considered pirates in the future, and only do so on communications mediums more associated with witc...
[22:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:39] <exec> 08└─I have already read about sick strikes. If you're genuinely not pirating, and the torrent is between you and a closed group of friends, then how would a rights owner complain? Yes, sadfully, accusations are enough to get you shot and killed these days.
[22:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:41] <exec> 08└─> You mean they make an exception for those who only pirate excellent stuff? :-) Yeah, but they get to decide whose opinion defines excellent, and you have to guess. [for example: excellent may be "stuff where rights holders are little guys with no lawyers who are not members of rights holders lawye...
[22:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:43] <exec> 08└─That is where I could keep calling them over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. "Umm, hey my VPN connection to the datacenter is slow as fuck again. Can you issue a ticket please and find out what is wrong? I think that's kind of a little secret almost. Purchase a business class connecti...
[22:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:45] <exec> 08└─while leaving vibrant markets with competition free of such regulation
[22:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, why don't you get right on that?
[22:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe there would be a lawyer that would take such a case
[22:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:52] <exec> 08└─Again, it's profiling... like if you loiter in certain neighborhoods at certain times, odds are you are buying/selling drugs. It's not proof, but it is probable. They scattershot and have a higher than 0 correlation between who they accuse and who is actually "guilty" (itself a laughable state...) s...
[22:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:54] <exec> 08└─It turns out these "modern" air conditioners actually REQUIRE a retarded "smart thermostat" to operate 100% properly
[22:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:56] <exec> 08└─No. They have not enough power. Ground tracking of a low orbit sat is possible, but pretty hard for a non-ham. There is also the issue of the RF bandwidth (not enough for the high bit rate) and varying latency. A modern citizen can easily consume 20-50 Mbps, peaking higher. Routing this on a mesh wi...
[22:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:59] <exec> 08└─Or more importantly, to insist on non-IOT.
[22:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:01] <exec> 08└─We need an Open Source, Citizen's alternative to corporate-controlled networks.
[22:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:22] <exec> 08└─Though I acknowledge that seeming normal in many areas is kind of a lubricant. Yes, it is less painful... and I really don't think I need to do it every year
[22:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:23] <exec> 08└─Do you keep all your money in the bank, or in your wallet? The point is that you should travel "light", especially when crossing borders, doesn't make any difference which ones. You forfeit all your rights when you want to reach your destination in a reasonable amount of time.
[22:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:25] <exec> 08└─Your bits can travel at the speed of light. Why carry them with you?
[22:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:28] <exec> 08└─Ideally, you should not travel to places where you're afraid to have money in your wallet. Basically the same for data devices.
[22:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:30] <exec> 08└─I do travel with a somewhat larger than normal, but not excessive amount of cash in my wallet. Certainly not enough to draw any attention. At the same time, when in a foreign country, you are at the mercy of the ISPs (eg, "banks", "atms") to get more cash. However, these days, some good credit cards...
[22:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:32] <exec> 08└─Not terrified. A fishing expedition to contrive some kind of crime against you. The less information they have the less likely they can plausibly make up something because they don't like you or they wish they had some excitement in their boring minimum wage dead end long shifts.
[22:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:49] <exec> 08└─Scientist discovers Computer Science?
[22:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:51] <exec> 08└─then "best so far" would be appropriate. Agreed. "Best Ever" makes it sound like they proved P = NP,
[22:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:53] <exec> 08└─No, they've repurposed bloom filters. There's no tree here, at least from what's described in TFS. They've collapsed ("projected" to be more mathematical, but I guess you could also say "hashed", for some embarassingly trivial hash functions) a large index into 4 smaller flat indexes. No root, no in...
[22:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:55] <exec> 08└─Single *hidden* layer.
[22:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:51] <exec> 08└─> At least Vegas has to publish odds and be tested by the state. Also Vegas is not allowed to push gaming on children. However, Panini doesn't, isn't and does. Question is, are lootboxes Panini or Vegas? They appear to be more like the former from where I'm sitting as a parent.
[22:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is true. I love gambling. I mean I really get off on it, there's probably some chemical feedback thing going on in my brain. Luckily I married a woman who has no interest in gambling, and has dissuaded me from gambling in the past. I have got to the stage where I understand I could have...
[22:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:55] <exec> 08└─Laws might not be primarily to protect the person you think is being protected -- but rather to protect the rest of us from the consequences of their life failure.
[22:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 1730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─Our Founding Fathers said they were entitled to life, liberty, and PROPERTY. Let me tell you, our great gaming industry is all about the property. As you know, I had two beautiful casinos in Atlantic City. So I know all there is to know about gaming. And let me tell you, our Founding Fathers would b...
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─They are well-behaved. That doesn't make them friendly. That doesn't mean they like you, particularly if you are not a similar person. In other news, you won't ever really fit in in Japan if you are not native ethnic Japanese and 100% aligned with the culture. It's no different.
[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─So by your definition being a member of the KKK is "well-behaved." Got it.
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─I see you have contempt for the people who make America great. We'd be 3rd-world without them. Essentially none of those people are in the KKK. (the chance being about 1-in-a-million for a random American) Even if they were KKK though, they wouldn't have to participate in violence. There is a KKK ch...
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:41] <exec> 08└─The 6502 had enough flaws (jsr when operand is on a page boundary) that you don't want to use it. Luckily there is the 65C02.
[22:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:32] <exec> 08└─He is a sociologist. I have done a side degree in sociologist. They are not STEM people, and that gives me a lot of context to deal with them. How much power they actually wield and how much they should, that probably can be debated.
[22:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:34] <exec> 08└─Korea historically has been smacked around by its more powerful neighbors China and Japan.
[22:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter is OK with Threatening Thermo-Nuclear War - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:36] <exec> 08└─China indeed had been the 800lb gorilla since the ancient time
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[23:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:14] <exec> 08└─From what little I know about it, it sounds like the amyloid conformation is a more stable one than the healthy structure, so while this probably isn't *transmissible* like vCJD or similar, once spontaneously established, it may have a similar progression...Christ, this is scary.
[23:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence That Alzheimer's Protein Spreads Like an Infection - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:16] <exec> 08└─Or: the infectious agent which makes tau spreads, wait for it.... like an infection. It it so farfetched to imagine that a virus, or any other self-replicating microbial entity, could manufacture tau as part of their normal life processes? Could this also mean that a tau-eating microbe might potenti...
[23:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:54] <exec> 08└─Again, it's profiling... like if you loiter in certain neighborhoods at certain times, odds are you are buying/selling drugs. It's not proof, but it is probable.
[23:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:55] <exec> 08└─Huh? I just had a new heat pump installed and they put in the cheapest, most feature-less Honeywell thermostat you could possibly find. There's 2 buttons on it: up and down.
[23:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:57] <exec> 08└─Because it's so much easier to say than to do.
[23:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Pirate or We'll Mess With Your Nest, Warns East Coast ISP - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:59] <exec> 08└─When it's warm outside, I will often stand out in the street next to an elementary school. By your logic, odds are that I'm a pedophile right?
[23:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:47] <exec> 08└─Where have they been for over 40+years?? Sorting algorithm handlung tree structured processing God! Break work up to get more done in less space.
[23:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:48] <exec> 08└─The absence of "strong, competent, non-corrupt government" is why the libertarians are so high profile these days.
[23:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:50] <exec> 08└─Another thing here is that I'm tired of having to relinquish freedom simply because someone else is foolish or worse merely because someone thinks up an imaginary danger that I allegedly need protecting from. One doesn't need to be libertarian to be insulted by the nanny laws that have sprung up.
[23:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:52] <exec> 08└─Are lootboxes sandwiches? A shit sandwich, perhaps.
[23:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:54] <exec> 08└─"but its only cosmetic" (read in Jim Sterling's voice) Go fuck yourself. You know for damn well it isn't.
[23:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:56] <exec> 08└─I wasn't thinking about civil asset forfeiture in anything I was writing. But that is a great example of a law having very unintended consequences. (Or were they perhaps intended?) I had mentioned prisons and threw padded cells in at no additional charge. We seem to do it today. We decide that someo...
[23:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Loot Boxes in Games a Violation of Gambling Laws? - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:59] <exec> 08└─There are examples where I feel likewise. TSA is a great example. And here is another example. I am willing to give up freedom to take certain drugs (eg, meth, heroin) when they seem to be related to large harms to other people that follow. Now . . . we seem to have a large problem with prescription...
[23:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Thermometer for the Oceans - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:31] <exec> 08└─And how do they measure mean ocean temperature?
[23:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Danforth Center Uncovers A Genetic Mechanism That Could Enhance Yield In Cereal Crops - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:59] <exec> 08└─Now twice as much grain with half as much nutrients per spikelet ...
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employs Contractors to Recover Company Bicycles in Mountain View - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:03] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing you're pissed because you are part of a culture that trashes things, or you don't want to admit that a culture you despise is the one doing the most to make things nice.
[23:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:32] <exec> 08└─OpenVPN on Ubuntu with NordVPN is rock solid. Price was good at $3 a month. Had to add a couple of lines to the ovpn file to fix a dns issue. Some systemd issues which were just frustrating.
[23:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068 Reasons to Replace Your VPN Client with OpenVPN - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:33] <exec> 08└─I would give my left tit for that level of throughput
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:50] <exec> 08└─Spectre still only affects out of order processors. Meaning that all the In-Order processors are unaffected by it. If you can stand the performance loss associated with in-order processors, then not only can you save a huge amount of real estate per core, but you also get chips with consistently rep...
[23:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Joins Others in Confirming its CPUs Suffer From Spectre, and Other Meltdown News - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:52] <exec> 08└─SPARC, Power, and a few other architectures were definitely not affected due to different handling of cache for kernel/userspace. Furthermore unless I have heard wrong, it DOESN'T affect IN-ORDER variants of x86/x86_64 processors either, meaning that Intel Atom, via C3 and maybe C7, and some later c...
[23:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Mysterious Zuma Mission May Soon Take Flight [Update: Successful] - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─someone should update it also seems to be on ars site as well so it should be easy to copy and paste that to the revised summary
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