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[00:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:25] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, its good enough (and getting better) for what people actually want to do with it. The drooling retarded ones are those that can not see the other person is clearly using google translate, and make allowances for that fact, or those that, some how miss the fact they live on a multi...
[00:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:26] <exec> 08└─You probably won't get out what you put in.
[00:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:28] <exec> 08└─Προτιμώ να γράφω στη μητρική μου γλώσσα. Απλώς αισθάνεται καλύτερα.
[00:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:30] <exec> 08└─You can neutralise your language by passing it through google translate, consider: The left are censorious imbeciles
[00:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:33] <exec> 08└─My kids and I discovered this years ago
[00:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:35] <exec> 08└─nuq Qu' Huj mu' naDev?
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:37] <exec> 08└─Lets say I want you to water a plant and I mime pouring water out of a glass; if you misunderstand that to mean I want you empty a glass, and you pour some water into a plant because the the only glass in the test room had room temperature water in it, and the only reasonable place to get rid of the...
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:39] <exec> 08└─The curious thing was that such misunderstanding was so common in "successful" communication sessions. In the end, you have to ask what the point of communication is. Is it for particular goal/actions to be realized, or is it for some kinda of abstract "understanding"?
[00:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03whathappenedtomonday [4292] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:42] <exec> 08└─We are certainly far away from computers "understanding language", but Google translate is not the best example, as there are other approaches yielding better results (neural networks): “DeepL’s ambitions are not limited to translation,” says Frahling. “Our neural networks have developed a l...
[00:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:44] <exec> 08└─I'm betting DeepL has seen all those literary texts before, and been tweaked till it gets them almost right. That's hardly the measure of a instant translation tool. Any tool that can suss out shades of meaning in a literary work will insert those into translations of everyday writing, where no suc...
[00:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:46] <exec> 08└─"But conversational text is good enough." Its occasionally good enough. And some of the time you get incomprehsible word salad... but at least you can recognize word salad for what it is. For every time you get word salad, there is another time you get a perfectly cogent paragraph that says the exac...
[00:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:48] <exec> 08└─An English to Russian and back to English translation I heard about a long time ago. The original sentence was "The flesh is weak but the spirit is strong." But let's not talk as if humans never make bad translations. I also heard of a Russian diplomat proposing a toast upon concluding some negotiat...
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─If a supposedly autonomous vehicle can't drive safely and sanely without GPS info, I'm just going to go ahead and say it can't drive at all. It might be put in the position of having to ask the passenger what to do, but that's the most I would accept. Yes, it should be able to navigate to a GPS loca...
[00:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:12] <exec> 08└─Reading the whole article makes it clear that there are some clear distinction between those companies that started from scratch and those that jumped in late with a pirated copy of someone else's alpha code. Most of the big euro names are hopeless. Probably still measuring results against gassed mo...
[00:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:14] <exec> 08└─Part of the difference in our thinking, I'm guessing, is that you're under the delusion that wetware is even close to perfect for solving these kinds of problems. Furthermore, there are computers that we do bet lives on, in airplanes, spacecraft, hospitals, and many other places.
[00:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:16] <exec> 08└─You can't even get a bug-free CPU.
[00:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:19] <exec> 08└─Because I've seen how software gets made. It is much worse than sausages.
[00:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia to Allow ISS Tourists to Go on Spacewalks - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:33] <exec> 08└─Even with the best intentions most projects will fail to get of the ground.
[00:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:40] <exec> 08└─Blame the CIA for no apparent reason? Hmm, ok Mr. Headendasand. Africans can't feed themselves? More deranged nonsense. Street shitting? Go wander around a majoYou are literally pointing to the bread and circuses r city, go near where the homeless hang out. The US has millions of people with no toil...
[00:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:41] <exec> 08└─They're using medication. Animal or human, OTC or not, one should have half a brain before buying and using medications. That's one of the reasons that physicians, veterinarians, and the like are licensed. That's why medications have approved uses, and at least in the U.S. if you're not a physician...
[00:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:43] <exec> 08└─Heh, "one SHOULD have half a brain..." Yeah no kidding, but the reality is that most people don't learn squat about the products they use. Find the basic daily recommended dose or whatever and then never read about it again. I'll let you do a little research on why farmers pump their livestock with...
[00:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:46] <exec> 08└─Where is this "the rest of the world" to which you refer? I might want to move there!
[00:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Missile Missile Misses Again, US Military Keeping Quiet Regarding Test - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:42] <exec> 08└─It looks like you dropped a missile there, behind the second "anti-missile missile". Oops, there goes North Korea.
[00:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:03] <exec> 08└─That's like saying, don't hard code the value of pi, what if it changes? The Unix Epoch is CONSTANT, otherwise timestamps fail to be, you know, unique.
[00:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:04] <exec> 08└─The "proper" fix is to use a 64 bit signed int, which gives you more resolution than you can even measure on a quartz clocked CPU (nanoseconds or picoseconds) and more bits than needed to represent the entire lifetime of the universe, from Big Bang to heat death.
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[01:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:13] <exec> 08└─Widely regarded as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, the mainly Muslim Rohingya people, are denied citizenship by the Burmese government, which claims they are not native to Myanmar.
[01:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:14] <exec> 08└─They're not so innocent [atimes.com]. And they are not citizens. They came from Bangladesh. And where there's smoke, there's fire [reuters.com]...
[01:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah really. If Burma had a government with a Western mentality, then this headline would have read "Mass-grave of non-Muslim minorities Uncovered in Myanmar." Don't be France or Germany and let the largest scumbag contingent in the world take root in your country. China, for all it's faults, also h...
[01:17:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 589 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:39] <exec> 08└─"But conversational text is good enough." Its occasionally good enough. And some of the time you get incomprehsible word salad... but at least you can recognize word salad for what it is. For every time you get word salad, there is another time you get a perfectly cogent paragraph that says the exac...
[01:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03whathappenedtomonday [4292] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:41] <exec> 08└─> I'm betting DeepL has seen all those literary texts before, and been tweaked till it gets them almost right. Not sure what you mean ... Google has all those text indexed (in several languages) and still its translations often lack the most basic coherence. See the Google book search -- Google has...
[01:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:44] <exec> 08└─Already in the Russian translation you can see that Google lost the meaning of "the left". Their chain-ganged robots just don't understand the context and throw away everything that they don't understand.
[01:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:46] <exec> 08└─Speaking of adding experiences, Google Translate used to have an option that said something like "add your correction" or some shit. Now they just have a link which says, "join the community," probably to cut down on nihilist pranksters or perhaps because its algos became good enough. Anyway, some c...
[01:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:48] <exec> 08└─I hear Chinese is complicated in the same way because the same syllables could mean either "the valiant horsemen" or "fuck your mother" depending on the tonality of the phrase. As for Russians, they have no word for "security." What they say instead is, "lack of insecurity."
[01:18:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 1276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:02] <exec> 08└─Believe me, you can't just go to your local Car Store to buy these robot cars. Because they haven't perfected them yet. That's why they're testing them out in California. There's so much empty space in California. We use it to test our missiles, our ICBMs. An ICBM can go a long way, but California i...
[01:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:16] <exec> 08└─LIDAR, RADAR, and infra-red cameras, as well as ability to read signs are already a thing. GPS is just.. part of the equation. The quality of the *maps* is the problem. https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[01:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:41] <exec> 08└─[blank] ... [blank] ... Bhutan [wikipedia.org], maybe ?
[01:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:43] <exec> 08└─I remember reading somewhere that the odds of a 'second rise of civilization' on Earth are astronomically low, due to the first rise (us) having already consumed all the easy to access resources. Think shallow ore and coal deposits and the like. What's left, for the most part, just wouldn't be acces...
[01:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 1997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:45] <exec> 08└─This is exactly my argument. People with half a brain realize that the prescribing or administering of an antibiotic of last resort should be restricted to people who are trained in the risks and licensed to do so. The problem is people without half a brain have access to such a drug and thus use it...
[01:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:47] <exec> 08└─That's why I saw so many pictures of Asians wearing masks to protect from bird flu. Americans never wear masks. I guess they don't give a s*** about spreading germs.
[01:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Missile Missile Misses Again, US Military Keeping Quiet Regarding Test - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:43] <exec> 08└─Of course it's a cost-plus contract. It's not a question of money-grubbing, it's the nature of this being R&D type work. This is a huge unknown project, to the point that people in chat are even questioning if it is technically possible. If they were to make this a fixed-cost contract, nobody would...
[01:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Missile Missile Misses Again, US Military Keeping Quiet Regarding Test - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:45] <exec> 08└─And we have trouble hitting things during rigged demos with no counter-measures.
[01:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Missile Missile Misses Again, US Military Keeping Quiet Regarding Test - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:47] <exec> 08└─Magnetic detection of mostly aluminum rockets?
[01:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Missile Missile Misses Again, US Military Keeping Quiet Regarding Test - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:49] <exec> 08└─The Euro countries are testing too. Their record is here [missiledefenseadvocacy.org] . However, they are concentrated almost solely on point defense (similar to THAAD) of a city or a ship rather than a mid-course destruction.
[01:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] 02 - 06Amazon Patents A Wristband That Can Track Workers' Movement  - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:03] <exec> 08└─1984 was a story conceived with the technology available in Orwell's time. A new magnum opus is waiting to be written.
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[02:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:08] <exec> 08└─Only SF aliens I can think of offhand with 3 sexes. Guess the SF I read wasn't the really juicy, radical stuff. And they weren't 3 sexes, they were whitewashing the fact that they were really 2 sexes who parasitically reproduce on a different species similar to the way digger wasps do.
[02:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:10] <exec> 08└─I assume our friend Snow will be moving to UK ASAP???
[02:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:20] <exec> 08└─In glorious future I will dance on mass grave in where will be every Soylentil. Create account now to insure own death. All you die.
[02:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:22] <exec> 08└─I'm all for forbidding all religions and nuking all holy sites, but who would we get to blame next time we're angry ?
[02:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:24] <exec> 08└─Blame the millennials.
[02:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:26] <exec> 08└─treaty (Maori) Independent Nations (American Indian) Mistreat, kill (disease, machetes, guns) possible genocide (almost all: Kurds, Australian Aborigines, South American tribes,, African groups..) It seems the secret is to make sure your genocide doesn't stop, until there is no one left, and all you...
[02:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:29] <exec> 08└─Obvious troll is obvious. In this case, it's Buddhists persecuting Muslims [wikipedia.org] if anyone's wondering about that whole "reality" thing.
[02:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:31] <exec> 08└─My god, fucking France is a shithole right now. The"refugees" are rioting! How can people let this happen? Ah, never mind, Europe, whaddya expect? People with balls?
[02:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:33] <exec> 08└─Of all people, when you piss off BUDDHISTS enough to make them violent, you deserve what's coming to you.
[02:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:35] <exec> 08└─I would say Christians should be harder to piss off than Buddhists, ya know turn the other cheek and all. We've seen how that works out in reality. How about murder and persecution are just not OK? Woops, responded to the bigot, wonder what shite will come out now.
[02:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:38] <exec> 08└─The end result of "political correctness" -- being powerless to object to your society's planned and painful demise, and being labeled a pariah if you do.
[02:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:06] <exec> 08└─Even for an english speaker, reading english, "Your entire group will wipe out on that boss." is ambiguous at best.
[02:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe. But the author makes a fair argument that accurately translating even reasonably simple phrases requires contextual comprehension, rather than just semantic decoding. In which case all the TPUs in the world won't help unless they fundamentally change their algorithm. And even then they may ha...
[02:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─Really? Can you offer even a single credible alternative interpretation, because I'm honestly not seeing one. Also, an extremely large percentage of English, written or spoken, is at least moderately ambiguous from a strictly syntactic perspective. Most of it though is relatively unambiguous once yo...
[02:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:38] <exec> 08└─I have GREAT news for you! It's not going to take 40 years to reach 3.1. We're adopting Mozilla's rapid release version numbering. We should hit 3.1 in less than three quarters.
[02:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:39] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that it's not until version 3.11 that it "get's good enough", and then we'll be stuck with that version on the roads for decades...
[02:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:41] <exec> 08└─Yet there are idiots here (especially here on SN) that would mandate autonomous cars and ban human drivers tomorrow if they were made king. Bullshit. I don't remember anyone arguing that autonomous cars are already street-ready. It's usually "we should use them when they're statistically safer than...
[02:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:10] <exec> 08└─So how long ago did you stop eating eggs and cheese?
[02:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:11] <exec> 08└─Do they make gluten enriched bacon now? I'm trying to think of how you'd get wheat into bacon so that "gluten free" is anything but a pandering market-imp noise.
[02:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Missile Missile Misses Again, US Military Keeping Quiet Regarding Test - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:13] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, in the only successful test of this system, the target actually sent out continuous active telemetry: "here I am, I'm travelling X m/s, in direction Y, at altitude Z, please shoot me".
[02:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Missile Missile Misses Again, US Military Keeping Quiet Regarding Test - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:14] <exec> 08└─No, its not. Its almost impossible to catch it from behind.
[02:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reducing Year 2038 Problems in curl - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─But for some systems that's using an extra 32 bits every time you invoke the time. Which is why I used two standards. The 64 bit int of nanoseconds would be a reasonable replacement for the 64 bit float I suggested as the second form, and you can argue quite reasonably that it shouldn't have a flexi...
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[02:22:39] <exec> 08└─The thing is we've been (slowly) working on the problem ever since before the 64 bit chips became common. Places where it is critical should already have been patched. And for places where it's not critical....up until last year I still had a MSWindows95 system running. It was annoying that I couldn...
[02:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Brain Stimulation Could Treat Alzheimer's Disease - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:54] <exec> 08└─Hello. My name is Nancy Pelosi. How can I learn more about this treatment?
[02:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JEDEC Publishes UFS 3.0 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:25] <exec> 08└─UFS, in this context means Universal Flash Storage
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[03:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:14] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there a reference in Star Trek: Enterprise in which Dr. Phlox introduced the concept of a 3-gender civilization and the question of its reproduction was a point of humor?
[03:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:15] <exec> 08└─Every nation needs a fertility regulator. If the birthrate falls to low, the regulator turns a couple valves, thereby increasing birthrate. If population grows to quickly, he turns those valves the other way. Sounds like a cool job. Just browse the birth and death rates, and watch for any spikes, ma...
[03:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:18] <exec> 08└─I want to have sex for once. Plesse turn the promiscuity valve to "xxxtra slutty".
[03:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:36] <exec> 08└─Muslims cause problems wherever they go, there is no persecution of Hindus or Sheiks. -1 Ignorant. "Sheiks" are muslim rulers in the middle east. You're thinking of "Sikhs", a religious minority in India, who are famous for always wearing turbans. And Sikhs have indeed been persecuted by their neigh...
[03:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:38] <exec> 08└─When you have an infestation of cockroaches in your house, see how far the peace and brotherhood argument lasts.
[03:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:40] <exec> 08└─When does a grave become a "mass grave"? The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Other definitions offer "multiple bodies", "large numbers of corpses", "multiple numbe...
[03:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:42] <exec> 08└─Here 400 people were dumped in a mass grave, and 50% of comments condone it because they were Muslim. I guess next time someone shoots a cop in your town, it's ok if they round up everyone and put a bullet in their heads.
[03:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:44] <exec> 08└─Dude - I read the article. I visited the Rohingya .org site. I read some of their stuff. I'm not very sympathetic to Muslims - but - just maybe - it's not *ALL* their fault? When you find a blame-free population of people whose ancestors have never wronged any other people, from the beginning of tim...
[03:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:47] <exec> 08└─Dear darling Runaway, Have you picked your plot yet for when you die soon? I want to know where it is so I can shit on your grave. I plan to eat a full Mexican dinner that night. Your worst admirer, AC
[03:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:49] <exec> 08└─You take things so seriously, you'll probably stroke out before I do.
[03:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:51] <exec> 08└─Bite me. Ima live forever, bitch.
[03:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:23] <exec> 08└─It's well established that I'm no linguist
[03:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:25] <exec> 08└─And there is no word in Russian for "Ethanol_fueled", they just say, "Russian".
[03:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:27] <exec> 08└─"Your entire group will wipe out on that boss."
[03:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:58] <exec> 08└─This guy is truly a treasure on SN. And it's amazing that he's kept up both the frequency and quality for a full year now. Seriously, this site's admins need to find a way of publicizing this guy's posts to draw more readers here. Then they could add some advertising to the site (but disable it for...
[03:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:00] <exec> 08└─Nobody's died as a result of any of this.
[03:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:02] <exec> 08└─Honestly, this tech could be deployed early and save a lot of lives, and trouble (from driver fatigue mostly) if they do a Phase I where it's only deployed on Interstate highways. Interstate highway driving is far, far simpler than regular roads, since there's no residential roads, no intersections...
[03:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:04] <exec> 08└─Thexalon didn't say that no one's ever died from a software bug, he said that no one's died from autonomous car testing, which is correct.
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[04:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:09] <exec> 08└─This affects me not at all. I don't care. I wish it would only run on Windows "All the Way to" Eleven. Ever wonder why there is no Word for Linux? Wordperfect make an attempt, was bought out by a Microsoft owned corp, and the Linux port was taken to an undisclosed location and tortured to death. S...
[04:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:10] <exec> 08└─Agree, I hope they restrict it with various pain in the ass requirements that force people to scratch their heads why it won't install on machine X after they paid hundreds of dollars for it, and then they can make it expire on certain machines after a while... they can also force corporate customer...
[04:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:12] <exec> 08└─I've got a lot invested in music software, hardware and in between. I love window's games. But you know what, I'm fucking out of here. I'll take a big hit time wise, and I'll have to replace some hardware I have. Probably most of the software. But I'm done. Screw you MS, may you live in interesting...
[04:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:15] <exec> 08└─The users should have dumped Microsoft decades ago. I really don't understand why they put up with M$ abuse. Oh, heck, let's Godwin this. The users are like Hitler's followers, in love with being harshly disciplined for their own and everyone's good, scared of those freedom loving, hippie Linux foll...
[04:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:17] <exec> 08└─Apparently it has "greatly enhanced interoperability with MS Office formats." By this I hope it means it can be used as a replacement for MS Office for most people. Eat my entire ass, Microsoft. Both cheeks. And then I'll pick up my legs and bludgeon you to death with them as I hop around on my uppe...
[04:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:19] <exec> 08└─> ...Both cheeks.... Wow, what are you smoking/drinking tonight? Somehow self mutilation doesn't make for a coherent insult...
[04:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:31] <exec> 08└─Seems like the USA fertility regulator fell asleep at the valves: the the total fertility rate for American women was 1,818 births per 1,000 women [latimes.com]. Also, the age of birth keeps skewing to older ages. Also, without immigration, the US working population will shrink by 18millions by 2035...
[04:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:58] <exec> 08└─Basically it is this: don't start a genocide you can't finish. Rohingya invaded Burma (Myanmar), moved in, got comfortable, and then decided to genocide those infidel Buddhists. That didn't work out so well. It's hard to do a genocide when you are severely outnumbered. Look, to get the Buddhists pis...
[04:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:00] <exec> 08└─You're like a mouse announcing that not all cats are bad, and that cats should be tolerated or even welcomed. It's cattophobic to flee from cats. You think that mice should try to help save harmless newborn kittens.
[04:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:02] <exec> 08└─From what I understand, there is a group within the Rohingya people that are militant, but the Myanmar government is engaged in mass attacks against all of them. For example, Reuters journalists trying to investigate in Myanmar were arrested last month ( https://www.reuters.com
[04:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:37] <exec> 08└─The problem with that phrase is it doesn't make sense. The phrase "wipe out" is of course slang, but in this context it really doesn't make sense, and neither are the choice of words around it, especially the word "on". In many ways, it looks like a bad translation, and I'm left wondering what the o...
[04:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:42] <exec> 08└─People believe what they do and no amount of research seems to change peoples believes, at least if they have emotional investment in those believes.
[04:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:44] <exec> 08└─Same with when my dog cut her paw when young. Vet automatically prescribed antibiotics and at the time I went along with it. Truth was that without any signs of infection, it was a stupid thing to do. Even not considering antibiotic resistance, giving unneeded antibiotics is stupid, fucks with the b...
[04:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:47] <exec> 08└─They probably lightly coat it in flour to stop it from sticking, much like some brands of frozen french fries and a lot of other stuff. That wax they put on apples, gluten based. I was put on tetracycline for a year or so as a teenager to treat my acne. Ever since I've had weird guts and gluten (or...
[04:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:49] <exec> 08└─A lot of people don't seem to realize that cows do just fine on a grass diet. Used to argue with a girl who believed she had to drink milk for calcium and eat meat for iron when lots of greens will supply them.
[04:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:51] <exec> 08└─Tried flirting with veganism a couple of years ago. It...did not go well. You know those old Looney Tunes cartoons where Wile E. Coyote or someone else looks at another character and they phase out and reappear as some kind of meat item? I swear that was beginning to happen to me. I was having night...
[04:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:53] <exec> 08└─What's this "ours?" I'm not Jewish. If anything I'm some kind of weird Deist or Spiritualist.
[04:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Missile Missile Misses Again, US Military Keeping Quiet Regarding Test - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─On the bright side, I earned a decent salary (in engineering terms) for over 20 years working on various anti-missile "star wars" bullshit that never worked. Nice life while it lasted. (yes I'm being sarcastic. And yes, Star Wars paid my salary)
[04:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06eBay Drops PayPal As First Choice For Payments - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:20] <exec> 08└─A million crypto nerds worldwide... are producing garbage. Let 'em froth! A long time ago there was an electronic card of sorts that could transfer real dollars (in bits) directly to each other. Everything stayed on the cards, no network, no exchanges, no names, nothing, just the money, real P2P (ca...
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[05:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:14] <exec> 08└─Pardon me, sir, but I believe you mean to use "inregardless" [smbc-comics.com] here.
[05:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:15] <exec> 08└─No, wait - if MS made a "Word" for Linux, it would be an invasive disaster. Why would you even think to purposefully install malware and spyware in your system? We have LibreOffice, now in 6.0 edition (though most distros will lag in deploying it). Word is irrelevant, if MS want to lock it down to W...
[05:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:17] <exec> 08└─Word whatever on my corporate issued Windows 98SE was choking on digital photographs - more than 3 in a document and it would roll over and die, while OO accepted the dozen+ that I wanted to include with the report.
[05:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:19] <exec> 08└─<Eddard Stark voice> The Micro$oft Linux is coming.
[05:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:22] <exec> 08└─Did I mention Microsoft reeeeallly wants you to upgrade to Windows 10? Yea, Linux users can spit and sputter until they are blue in the face, but a LOT of people depend on Microsoft Office. And now, no Windows 7 for them. Nope. Time to buy all new stuff for Windows 10, keep those enslaved Chinese ch...
[05:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:24] <exec> 08└─Is that the support period for Office 2016 and 2019 roughly ends around the same time. If you are one of those poor bastards that needs Microsoft Office, unless Microsoft adds some fantastic new features in Office 2019 there is no real reason to upgrade. I think the author of the linked article may...
[05:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:26] <exec> 08└─I don't see much, or anything, about any new features. It all seems about support deals and attempts to force OS upgrades on their user-base. But very little about Word; the word processing program in question. What exactly does Office 2019 offer that I just can't live without? I'm fairly sure that...
[05:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:28] <exec> 08└─No, regardless of what I meant to use, I used "irregardless", out of an abundance of caution or a severe lack of regard for the double negation thereby implied. Perhaps, forsooth, mayn't we better ought to start using "urregardless", and get to the original source of the confusion. A sort of "urquel...
[05:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:30] <exec> 08└─Wait, Linux users haven't already hacked it to run under Wine? I wonder what is so special that it must have Windows 10 only? A call to KernelRequireWindows10Now() that does northing? Or how about AnimateAnnoyingMobileishIconsEx()? Perhaps InitEvenMoreDRMandTelemtry()? Microsoft: You Will Go Where W...
[05:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:33] <exec> 08└─If they do move it entirely to "Teh Cloudz" then Office is dead, and anyone who wants to use Microsoft's 1970's mainframe timeshare, I mean happyfunccloud, version is a fucking idiot.
[05:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:50] <exec> 08└─"Wipe out" is a mediopassive verb [wikipedia.org], like "bake". In "He baked cookies", the subject is the agent, and the object is the patient. In "The cookies baked", the subject is the patient. Likewise with "wipe out": When used transitively ("he wiped somebody out"), it implies that the subject...
[05:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:51] <exec> 08└─Two parties are separate across sound-proof window, and they have to communicate with gesture to achieve various actions/goals.
[05:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:54] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I can't get any of those meanings without adding punctuation to the original - basically, without ", boss" none of those interpretations are reasonable, (hmm, unless #2 is using "boss" as an intensifier I suppose...) And I think asking AI, or even humans, to to translate through punctuation err...
[05:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:05] <exec> 08└─You could even have used antibiotics but presumably less (not sure) if you simply put on antibiotic ointment on it for 3 days once a day and kept it wrapped in some bandage.
[05:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:06] <exec> 08└─Jesus, I hope you aren't serious. Cows have extra stomachs and spit up their partially digested food (cud) to give it another chewing before the second and final pass though their digestive system. It takes a specialized digestive system to thrive on such a poor food. I must have been trolled...
[05:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:08] <exec> 08└─I doubt that it even needed that. She was young and healthy and it was a clean cut. Just needed to keep a close eye on it and if needed, then apply the antibiotics.
[05:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Brain Stimulation Could Treat Alzheimer's Disease - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:49] <exec> 08└─The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was debunked as a fake years ago. There is, however, an actual book about a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It's called The New Testament. Try reading it sometime.
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[06:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:08] <exec> 08└─Three women were sitting on a park bench when a man screamed at them from quite some distance away. "Raise your hand if you want to be raped!" None of the women raised their hands. "All of you!? What luck!" The man then charged in and beat and raped all the women. There were many eyewitnesses to thi...
[06:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:09] <exec> 08└─Good way to lose website visitors. Nice.
[06:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:12] <exec> 08└─Tractors as a Service (TaaS). No shit, it exists. You don't own 'em like you used to.
[06:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:14] <exec> 08└─Back in early nineties I processed all the repair manuals for Deer tractors. The manuals were amazing. I am pretty sure anybody with basic skills could fix anything. Yes, in all major languages. There was (or perhaps still is) a company on Long Island that tested all the tractors and wrote the manua...
[06:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:37] <exec> 08└─Peoples is dumb. "Fuck my ass AGAIN, MS! Harder!" Glad I dropped that loser looong ago.
[06:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:38] <exec> 08└─but a LOT of people depend on Microsoft Office.
[06:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:41] <exec> 08└─I used LibreOffice 5.x on an Excel spreadsheet for a leaked AAA MMO that used it across multiple files for generating rate progression per hour and then regenerated into the binary server files. While the actual conversion app required Office, the spreadsheets themselves worked perfectly under Libre...
[06:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:43] <exec> 08└─Didn't you hear? It has electrolytes! It is what plants crave! :P If they were to bring back normal drop down menus, I might actually have to consider buying a copy. Until then it is Office 97 for me! (But, but, but, but, new stuff is NEW! Old stuff is OOOOLLLLD!)
[06:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:45] <exec> 08└─Adding 5 more clicks to save a file in MS Office 2017 was the only "feature" I really noticed with that release. I can't imagine how they could make it much worse, but that's probably just my lack of imagination. It wouldn't be so bad if Linux hadn't taken such a turn for the worse. All the new wind...
[06:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:47] <exec> 08└─Don't let them break you, crapfoo, if that is your real name! Going Mac is going to the dark side! If you don't like current linux, change it? Create your own distro! Code some shit! This is something you will not have the opportunity to do with any of the proprietary Slaver Corps. Free software,...
[06:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:49] <exec> 08└─At work, I'm forced to use Microsoft Office every day all day. At home, LibreOffice is my preference. I'm especially excited that 6.0 can now export ePub 3 books [the-digital-reader.com]. There's Sigil [sigil-ebook.com] of course, but the more open source software that can push out ePub 3 books, the...
[06:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:52] <exec> 08└─Come to Devuan, we haven't lost our spine yet.
[06:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:04] <exec> 08└─Ah good, there will still be one man to saddle with the child support payments if the relationship breaks up.
[06:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 2931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:35] <exec> 08└─Being familiar with that part of the world, the problem is slightly more complicated than "Mooslems" and "Buddhists". *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) So basically all over the world wherever Islam went it's domination was complete. Just like Christianity, Islam helped establish a...
[06:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:36] <exec> 08└─You piss off nobel peace prize winner lead Buddhists to the point of genocide. Myanmar is far from a freedom loving country but they had to have done something worse than shoot a few cops.
[06:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:16] <exec> 08└─Yep, and that same robot is supposed to censor so called fake news. I guess reporters got to lower their standards even more. Not that it's too difficult to achieve.
[06:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:18] <exec> 08└─Actually Russians say "lack of danger". There is no security in the world so the word "security" has no meaning after all.
[06:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:33] <exec> 08└─The point is that plants can supply calcium and iron amongst other things. Obviously people need to eat different plants then a cow, I just took it for granted people would understand the point that green stuff can supply most dietary requirements.
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[07:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:14] <exec> 08└─Obvious fake. Deer tractors
[07:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:15] <exec> 08└─Someone should mod this up, so it can be Spam modded. And why oh why is not the Minty Broussard hunting down these serial rapist murders and blocking them and turning their IP over to the FBI? Or at least to Devin Nunes, so he can release a memo on this!
[07:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:18] <exec> 08└─I think he meant deer tractor... https://i.ytimg.com [ytimg.com]
[07:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:01] <exec> 08└─This may be for a different disease, but IIRC Britain had approved a 3-person baby process around a year ago to treat some sort of mitochondria disease.
[07:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 1767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:33] <exec> 08└─Two bugbears driving this problem that neither mainstream media nor social media are willing to touch are overpopulation and climate change. Climate change is not a big deal -- yet. However, Bangladesh will be washed away under water withing a few decades and everyone there will swarm into neighbori...
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[08:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:12] <exec> 08└─If it was a self driving truck, we could lynch Elon Musk. Aw fuckit, let's lynch Elon Musk anyway! Kill that fucker Elon Musk!
[08:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:13] <exec> 08└─Apparently, no one in Peru has heard of a Jersey barrier. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:27] <exec> 08└─being women, they were all secretly hiding their engorged clits behind wet labia, and that therefore no rape actually occurred.
[08:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:29] <exec> 08└─I would offer our moderation system allow us to issue a spam mod to anything, instantly dropping it to -2... even if it was at -1. One would have to have 40+ karma to do it though, and be willing to put it all on the line. I think its gonna be a lot easier on everyone if we empower our most active u...
[08:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 3945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:31] <exec> 08└─The monster in my cock jumped to even greater attention as I realized I wanted to kill her, that I was going to kill her. Yes. Yes. Kill the bitch. She fought as best she could as I ripped the dress from her totally. The fabric of her panties tore easily. Look at the fucking teen whore's cunt. She's...
[08:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:33] <exec> 08└─Their pride was that a tractor could be in an obscure place and still should be fixable by the farmer who bought it himself.. If you want that now, buy Indian made product. Someone is heavily involved in Making America Crap Again
[08:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:04] <exec> 08└─Atlantis word processor has produced epubs for over 4 years. Of course I haven't found a single use for this yet other than a trial run with a user's manual which we provide in LibreOffice format.
[08:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:05] <exec> 08└─If you're upgrading hardware anyway, you could look into making your system viable for GPU passthrough. Get a second GPU, run Windows 10 in a VM, and don't use it for anything else, just the couple pieces of software that hold you to Windows now. It's more work, but you won't have to give anything u...
[08:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:21] <exec> 08└─Species 8472 has something like 13 sexes. Of course it is not necessary for all the sexes to mate with all the other ones.
[08:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:54] <exec> 08└─You are guilty if you: a. fail to take action against a militant group b. let that militant group blend in with other people c. tacitly approve of the actions of the militant group d. provide the militant group with food, shelter, and medical care If the government just ignores the Rohingya, the pro...
[08:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:55] <exec> 08└─Climate change is not a big deal -- yet. However, Bangladesh will be washed away under water withing a few decades...
[08:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:58] <exec> 08└─Funny that you should ciritcise the European Nations as being cowards. The countries that you have quoted have fought and died alongside the US military in Iraq, Syria, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait and elsewhere. I suppose that using your logic you would claim that the US forces involved must also be cowa...
[08:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:39] <exec> 08└─Well I hate all things googley. Stay away from their privacy invading products. If you must use them perhaps you can use tor to shield yourself. Of course tor only blocks some hazards and does absolutely nothing to others.
[08:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:14] <exec> 08└─The quality of the *maps* is the problem.
[08:20:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:55] <exec> 08└─To finally solve those math problems that start with "First, assume a spherical chicken."
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[09:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:14] <exec> 08└─I hadn't realized that there was a highway basically right through the midst of the figures. Given the cultural importance of the figures, it's really odd that there are no barriers to prevent people driving off the road. Anyway, this guy's an idiot. If he had a mechanical problem, he could have pul...
[09:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 1690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:32] <exec> 08└─This has got to be a major frustration for farmers. Something go amiss with their machinery - No fun at all. On a farm. things HAVE to happen On Time... or the harvest you worked so hard for is in jeopardy of being lost. Oh how a farmer must cry to see the rain falling on a harvest being rained on,...
[09:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:34] <exec> 08└─Had this been dropped to -2, neither me nor the rest of us here would have seen this after the first moderator to mark it as spam did so. But it would have showed up on one of TMB's logs so he could verify none of us was abusing the privilege. ( Same AC as lengthy suggestion above. )
[09:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:36] <exec> 08└─Constituting America Crap Again?
[09:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:38] <exec> 08└─This would be quite an interesting concept. If you invested part of your own Karma to just instantly drop these idiot posts down to the depths they came from. If you get the people in the 40+ range (or just unlock the roof so it doesn't stop at 50) and then if you want to just drop a post to -5 at o...
[09:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:40] <exec> 08└─One wonders if there shouldn't be a market soon for items that are actually repairable by the common user, such as tractors or cars or whatnot without having to swap out entire blackboxes or having to take the machine to a special dealer just so they can hook it up to their magical diagnostics unit...
[09:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:13] <exec> 08└─a LOT of people depend on Microsoft Office   A lot of people depend on cqrack Cocaine: that does not make it a good thing, or anything to be proud of. They should check into a clinic and get treated ASAP.
[09:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:15] <exec> 08└─for years i believed "intelligible" means "cannot be told from gibberish". inconceivable, right?
[09:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:17] <exec> 08└─trying a bunch of the rabies that Trump's "right to try" FTFY
[09:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:19] <exec> 08└─In Munich[1], they created a FOSS tool years ago. WollMux [google.com] They used it to convert 100 percent of their users' M$ Orifice macros to work with LibreOffice. [1] Before a new batch of politicians decided they wanted to piss away 100 million to go backwards from a system that was 96 percent...
[09:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, and I was reading at gHacks that LibreOffice 6 is out. In the comments there, a guy who had previously had a problem with a CVS file created in M$ Orifice found that it works fine with the new release. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:23] <exec> 08└─This guy [google.com] lost his arms early in his process. Make sure that doesn't happen to you. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[09:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:26] <exec> 08└─The question becomes: Is that an actual requirement? ...or just an ages-old illusion? The Document Foundation keeps an updated chart about what features are supported. [documentfoundation.org] M$ has an old table from 2016. [office.com] ...and let's remember that M$ Orifice isn't even compatible wit...
[09:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:42] <exec> 08└─That wasn't a blanket approval - each case has still to be argued on its own merit, if I understand things correctly. In this case, 2 additional treatments have been approved.
[09:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Fertility Regulator Approves Creation of First "Three-Parent" Babies - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:43] <exec> 08└─I think that you are missing the point. This is a normal married couple, but the wife carries a inheritable disease which could be passed to her unborn child. The three-person baby procedure involves the donation of healthy mitochondria from a third person. But mitochondria have their own DNA, which...
[09:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:20] <exec> 08└─That billion tons is only about 0.3 cubic kilometres, and only 2 mm per year per the entirety of Bangladesh. Still, enough to raise the coastal areas faster than the ocean level rises.
[09:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not certain what post you're replying to, but if the claim was "Europeans are cowardly," I'd hope you can come up with a better rebuttal than "we even tagged along as US sidekicks during some of its imperial misadventures!"
[09:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe. But the author makes a fair argument that accurately translating even reasonably simple phrases requires contextual comprehension, rather than just semantic decoding.
[09:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and 3M Join the Universal Stylus Initiative - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:40] <exec> 08└─Because Wacom and Microsoft have teamed up to make a stupid closed standard that pretty much only works on the surface pro. I know this because I tried to buy an active stylus for a laptop that has all of the hardware necessary, resistive touch screen and Bluetooth, but can't get them to work becaus...
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[10:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:11] <exec> 08└─What scares me is mixing AI and GREED.
[10:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:22] <exec> 08└─Those Goddamn Niggas fucked it up Again!!!
[10:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:23] <exec> 08└─The article says the other journalists are speculating that the driver just wanted to avoid the toll on pan american highway.
[10:17:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 970 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:39] <exec> 08└─I would offer our moderation system allow us to issue a spam mod to anything, instantly dropping it to -2... even if it was at -1. One would have to have 40+ karma to do it though, and be willing to put it all on the line. I think its gonna be a lot easier on everyone if we empower our most active u...
[10:17:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 1690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:42] <exec> 08└─This has got to be a major frustration for farmers. Something go amiss with their machinery - No fun at all. On a farm. things HAVE to happen On Time... or the harvest you worked so hard for is in jeopardy of being lost. Oh how a farmer must cry to see the rain falling on a harvest being rained on,...
[10:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:48] <exec> 08└─We don't record your IP and so have nothing to give to the FBI. We do store a hash of it but we cannot convert that back into an IP. When the site was first established this was discussed at some length. You own your comments, you are responsible for them, and we do not have the information identify...
[10:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:50] <exec> 08└─Just wait for the final step: Living as a Service (LaaS). Your body's functions get DRMed, and you'll have to pay a monthly fee in order to be allowed to use the life processes. If you fail to pay, your body gets shut down.
[10:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:52] <exec> 08└─I hear Santa has made good experience with Reindeer tractors, though.
[10:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:55] <exec> 08└─You have to be logged in to moderate. Imagine the fun to be had if any AC could just kill a point of view on a whim. Nope, we demand people with at least the guts to be accountable to make such actions.
[10:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:57] <exec> 08└─What I always wondered: If you are logged in and use the "Post Anonymously" option, is it stored internally who posted it?
[10:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:59] <exec> 08└─Of course you can be logged in yet still post anonymously using the corresponding option. Or you can post while not logged in, but moderate while logged in. You could even use proxies to have your moderation and anonymous comments come from different IPs.
[10:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:01] <exec> 08└─You'd have to rewrite the firmware from scratch like Compaq|Phoenix did with the IBM PC's BIOS. [google.com] (You can't just rewrite -parts- of the code; you aren't allowed to reuse ANY of the original code.) A great many have noted that the law is a hindrance. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylen...
[10:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:42] <exec> 08└─I really don't care to relearn a buggy, half-baked init system Linux is like duck tape: it has a sticky side and a bright shine side. [without-systemd.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[10:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:43] <exec> 08└─Do you think Apple will love you any more than Microsoft did?
[10:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:45] <exec> 08└─Linux is like duck tape:
[10:19:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 1543 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:21] <exec> 08└─Muslims cause problems wherever they go, there is no persecution of Hindus or Sheiks. -1 Ignorant. "Sheiks" are muslim rulers in the middle east. You're thinking of "Sikhs", a religious minority in India, who are famous for always wearing turbans. And Sikhs have indeed been persecuted by their neigh...
[10:19:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 1513 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:32] <exec> 08└─From what I understand, there is a group within the Rohingya people that are militant, but the Myanmar government is engaged in mass attacks against all of them. For example, Reuters journalists trying to investigate in Myanmar were arrested last month ( https://www.reuters.com
[10:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 1576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:41] <exec> 08└─Overpopulation is a well studied problem. Government has got nothing to do with it. Of course, tyranny can achieve anything, but Bangladesh is not China, neither are India or Burma - all three are suffering from population control. There is this problem people keep overlooking. Humans in all overpop...
[10:20:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 667 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:06] <exec> 08└─An English to Russian and back to English translation I heard about a long time ago. The original sentence was "The flesh is weak but the spirit is strong." But let's not talk as if humans never make bad translations. I also heard of a Russian diplomat proposing a toast upon concluding some negotiat...
[10:20:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, could the programmers please stumble, fumble, and get it wrong in the test environment -- not on the roads where real people are presumably wanting to stay alive? Testing in prod is criminally stupid, professionally incompetent, and should get everyone involved barred from their software relat...
[10:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First IllustrisTNG Universe Simulation Results Published - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:33] <exec> 08└─No. We know quite well that black holes exist because we can observe them, through the (often dramatic) effect they have on their surroundings. An active black hole is the exact opposite of dark. And dark matter is also necessary to explain our observations. As far as I know, there's no alternative...
[10:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First IllustrisTNG Universe Simulation Results Published - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:35] <exec> 08└─For things far enough away that we can't go there, yes, light (in the wider sense, that is, electromagnetic radiation) has for a long time been the only way to check that something exists (and yes, that includes dark matter; just because it doesn't interact with light does not mean it does not affec...
[10:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and 3M Join the Universal Stylus Initiative - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:03] <exec> 08└─A laptop is still my default option for my laptop replacement. I'm just wondering about touchscreen/stylus interfaces on laptops...
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[11:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:14] <exec> 08└─When asked about Fire, Grog responded, "Fire? Fire good, well kill people too". On Wheel, Grog continued, "Wheel is important, but we have to be concerned about it"
[11:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:16] <exec> 08└─don't be afraid to mix upper and lower case, though.
[11:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:18] <exec> 08└─It is more profound than, I dunno, electricity
[11:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:20] <exec> 08└─I've worked in the field of AI off and on since, gawd, 1985. As part of my studies in 1985, we looked at the history of AI, which actually goes all the way back to the 1950s. Perceptrons were first discussed in 1957. Rule-based systems weren't formalized until the 1970s, but only because people took...
[11:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:22] <exec> 08└─You are thinking too small, we could just use sla-I mean hire bureaucrats to process results.
[11:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:25] <exec> 08└─sure i could do that... For Money
[11:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:27] <exec> 08└─The development of AI seems to go along this path: Some problem is identified that needs to be solved if one wants AI.After some time, that problem indeed gets solved.As soon as the solution is found, it is quickly asserted that the solution is no true AI. Of course if you continuously move the goal...
[11:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:29] <exec> 08└─The only reason that AI is more successful today than it was in the 1950s is the sheer amount of computing power that we can now throw at it. Somewhere, we are still missing a fundamental clue.
[11:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:31] <exec> 08└─Just wait for them to unearth the giant Chinese AI abacus. It took an army of minions to run ... OK all silliness aside it's indeed a bit odd that AI is somehow more important then electricity (or fire). Whatever happened to standing on the shoulders of giants and all that? I guess electricity or f...
[11:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:34] <exec> 08└─The only reason that AI is more successful today than it was in the 1950s is the sheer amount of computing power that we can now throw at it. Somewhere, we are still missing a fundamental clue.
[11:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:36] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, no, Strong AI [wikipedia.org] is defined for quite some time. And we aren't much closer to it. Bu I can see why CEO with a finger in massive NNs today are very happy to claim AI - works wonders for the stock value.
[11:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:38] <exec> 08└─Artificial intelligence seems at least moderately well defined. We built it, and it's capable of assessing a situation, and coming to a decision on a course of action, on it's own, without any input from humans being necessary. An AI can and will disagree with it's creators sometimes, and make argum...
[11:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:49] <exec> 08└─I hadn't realized that there was a highway basically right through the midst of the figures. Given the cultural importance of the figures, it's really odd that there are no barriers to prevent people driving off the road.
[11:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:51] <exec> 08└─How will the alien overlords from space know where to land now or what the giant ants (ok it's apparently supposed to be a spider -- I always thought it was an ant) look like from the way up there in space. If it is such an important place why have they not put up a little fence around them? Yes th...
[11:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:21] <exec> 08└─...and domestic producers would likely try to get a massive tariff put on any foreign manufacturer who would compete on that level--if one was even interested. Seems like a good time to be in the used|dumb tractor overhaul|resale business. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[11:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:23] <exec> 08└─That is an option. I was thinking more about suggesting that they try actually build engines again that are not dependent on computers at all. Yes in several ways they have made things better farming wise, you can hook up tons of senors to the tractor and it can pretty much drive itself in perfect l...
[11:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:25] <exec> 08└─An alternative would be a tractor that has all those computers and sensors, bu can be used without it. That is, have a core engine that works without it, and a driving mechanism that can operate the core engine, but can be bypassed if necessary. If the core engine fails, the farmer can repair it. If...
[11:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 1887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:27] <exec> 08└─Exactly, jan... post obliteration is serious business, and one prankster could nail the entire site. Anyone with that kind of power needs to have his dog in the fight. In my mind, that means anyone who has contributed enough to this site to have accumulated that much karma, which does not come overn...
[11:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:30] <exec> 08└─Yes. That would be the best solution probably.
[11:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:32] <exec> 08└─iirc slashcode sets anonymous_coward_uid to 1.
[11:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:34] <exec> 08└─then check them to make sure it's just not some jackass that decided so try and sink some post they just didn't agree with for whatever reason.
[11:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:36] <exec> 08└─It is stored, at least temporarily. I did an AC post, read more articles, came back to the article in which I posted AC, read new comments, and moderated a couple. Out of curiosity, I checked to see if I could moderate my own AC comment. Unpossible. I don't know if it's done on my own machine, or on...
[11:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:39] <exec> 08└─Then how does this site know not to give me moderation options for the AC posts I made while logged in?
[11:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:41] <exec> 08└─-- somewhat less efficient but it worked.
[11:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:24] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, Windows 10 will be to Office 2019 is what shit is to flies. More expensive bloatware that most people really don't need if they would only learn to use the open source alternatives, combined with a hideous operating system I can't stand to use. I use LibreOffice and it's excellent. I...
[11:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:20] <exec> 08└─What is it with liberals and Muslims lately? That idea that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is mostly not true. Sure, there is conflict between liberals and conservatives, and there is conflict between Muslims and conservatives, but you're nuts if you think that you'll get along great with Musl...
[11:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:22] <exec> 08└─Wow flashback to old AD&D "True Neutral Arguments" over funyuns and mountain dew that devolved into fistfights. n.b. playing "Risk" didn't turn out much better
[11:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:24] <exec> 08└─If they exist, clearly there was no genocide, not until the proper UN inspectors and party functionaries have passed a new resolution on it. If they no longer exist, well, no one would mourn over people who don't exist. Either way, you're still screwed.
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[12:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:31] <exec> 08└─Electricity was also mixed with greed, and probably was fire too. It still turned out pretty good for humanity.
[12:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:33] <exec> 08└─"Maybe thats your clue? Along with training the AI for 10-20 years, I dont see why that couldnt be the solution." "Couldn't be the solution?" There's so much packed into that phrasing, and so inappropriate. Can we absolutely rule out, a priori, the notion that simply throwing resources at tasks we d...
[12:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:35] <exec> 08└─When you build a ludicrously complex system you don't understand, feed it a bunch of numbers and then obey its output, that's not artificial intelligence, it's just modern superstition.
[12:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:28] <exec> 08└─This is just another example of how much we need free hardware. First step is to stop giving money to the proprietary peddlers.
[12:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:30] <exec> 08└─I don't believe current logic allows for a post's karma value to be treated as anything outside the range of -1 to +5. I'll look into it after tonight's update but it'll take a significant amount of hunting down, fixing, and debugging to make sure we don't bugger things up changing that logic.
[12:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:32] <exec> 08└─Scroll up a bit for my reply about that.
[12:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:34] <exec> 08└─No, but the IPID (one-way hashed IP address) will be the same for your logged in self and the AC post. It's one click for an admin to pull up that IPID's page and see who's been using it.
[12:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:36] <exec> 08└─The guys who did the writing before we got our hands on the code get credit for that. One-way hashs of your IP address and subnet are compared to those of every comment. If either matches, you don't get to moderate it. It can make debugging moderation a pain but I'm happy with how it works for a liv...
[12:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:38] <exec> 08└─Leasing, many people do that these days.
[12:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 3146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:40] <exec> 08└─That was one of my prime reasons for wanting an old diesel van instead of the new stuff. Reliability. Maintainability. Total costs of Ownership. While looking around for something to replace my aging small rice-burner, I spoke with many buyers of new stuff, only to be told tales of remorse and the...
[12:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:43] <exec> 08└─See, this is what we call a Money-Making Idea. Make quality equipment that farmers can work on and I guarantee they'll buy it over something with a million bells and whistles that they can't. Now you've got a choice though. You can either go out and try your ass off to get this goal funded and reali...
[12:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:45] <exec> 08└─See film: In Time
[12:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:47] <exec> 08└─See, I would have gone with either a VW Bug or a new Toyota. The former is hands down the easiest car on the planet to work on (one stout guy or two average guys can pull the engine by hand), while the latter won't need any significant work for several hundred thousand miles if you take care of it.
[12:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:30] <exec> 08└─Here 400 people were dumped in a mass grave, and 50% of comments condone it because they were Muslim. I guess next time someone shoots a cop in your town, it's ok if they round up everyone and put a bullet in their heads.
[12:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:32] <exec> 08└─You're like a mouse announcing that not all cats are bad, and that cats should be tolerated or even welcomed.
[12:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:15] <exec> 08└─But as with so many other things, while there might be no meaning, there sure is a massive industry.
[12:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03therainingmonkey [6839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:31] <exec> 08└─That might be true, but all the junk from our civilisation will likely be lying around on the surface ready to be used/reused/recycled.
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[13:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:37] <exec> 08└─Humans don't function well on their own. Total isolation is considered torture for a good reason.
[13:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, AI needs to be open sourced, not captured and tortured to do corporates bidding. (Tongue in cheek, but serious: take it out of the hands of the 1% and give it to everyone.)
[13:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:42] <exec> 08└─If someone being a jackass once or twice a day on average is going to butthurt a visitor enough that they don't come back, they wouldn't have enjoyed their experience here anyway. We're not a cute and cuddly bunch.
[13:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:43] <exec> 08└─You certainly did not tell him what he could do with the money! It was his to use as he sees fit. Just how asinine would it be to even think you could place that kind of limit on the trade? Legislation gone amuck...
[13:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:46] <exec> 08└─Those who are logged in can already mark a post down to below the normal viewing threshold such that it should not become a problem for normal discussion to take place. Nervertheless, I'll point your post out to others on the staff and hopefully create a discussion on your suggestion, but I suspect...
[13:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:48] <exec> 08└─Both are nice cars! I really wanted something bigger. And compatible with California law. I have a Toyota... been with me for 40 years. If it wasn't for California smog laws as far as modifying the engine, I would pull the 2TC head ( carburetor ) and go to fuel injection ( Megasquirt ). These n...
[13:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 1799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:50] <exec> 08└─I tried to ferret out just posts moderated "Spam" in my preferences, and nail them with a strong negative number, so I would no longer see them, but I still wanted to see the other negatively moderated posts. There is probably a way for me to do it by giving the other negatively moderated posts posi...
[13:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe we are not so cute and cuddly, but most of us here have absolutely great bullshit detectors, and don't filter the output very much!
[13:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:36] <exec> 08└─Did you mean CSV file? https://fileinfo.com [fileinfo.com] What is a CVS file? Proprietary image format used by early versions of Canvas, a drawing program designed for creating technical illustrations; may contain both vector images and raster images.
[13:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:38] <exec> 08└─Just because Bangladesh is completely unwilling to control its population growth does not give it any right whatsoever to annex Myanmar.
[13:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:23] <exec> 08└─Understanding is not required, only obedience.
[13:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:24] <exec> 08└─#1. Punctuation only exists in written communication #2. Punctuation is frequently ignored in casual written communication #3. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling are subject to frequent mistakes, intentional, unintentional, or unknowing #4. Automated translation isn't useful if it requires linguisti...
[13:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:01] <exec> 08└─Interesting article, thanks, although I think your timeline is a bit optimistic.
[13:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:44] <exec> 08└─What's this "ours?"
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[14:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:14] <exec> 08└─If the Mayan population is much larger than expected, then it makes the collapse of their civilization that much more serious.
[14:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:40] <exec> 08└─I prefer to call it Strong Blockchain: seems to do better for IPO's. ;)
[14:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:41] <exec> 08└─Shit, give me a good computer and the internet and I'm fine! Ooooo, yeah. Sex. Never mind....
[14:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:43] <exec> 08└─> ... and then obey its output, ... Well, my mother (88) certainly fed me a bunch of numbers, letters, and a lot of good food. But she's not ready to obey my output yet (except in a few specialized domains like figuring the tip at a restaurant).
[14:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─The only reason that AI is more successful today than it was in the 1950s is the sheer amount of computing power that we can now throw at it.
[14:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:59] <exec> 08└─We'll put up a wall... It'll be a great wall. And we'll make those pesky green aliens pay for it.
[14:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver Damages Nazca Lines UNESCO Site - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:00] <exec> 08└─They've been glitched! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:58] <exec> 08└─Some people like to fart in public. Is that such a big thing? This place is pretty clean the way it is. Let's not ruin it just because some special snowflake takes offense every time they see "penis" and "pussy". If people can moderate posts that result in deletions, that system will definitely be a...
[14:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:44] <exec> 08└─> Office 97 for me! Me too. I managed to get in installed on Win7, but still use it on XP as well. Nice and fast on newish hardware.
[14:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:45] <exec> 08└─> Microsoft: You Will Go Where We Want You Today! Microsoft: You Will Not Go Anywhere Today! (Installing update 3 of 41...)
[14:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:47] <exec> 08└─"What exactly does Office 2019 offer that I just can't live without?" Compatibility with Office 2019 files that your $CUSTOMER sent you.
[14:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:50] <exec> 08└─Uhh anyone can be a slave, not just blacks.
[14:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:51] <exec> 08└─The Rohingya are illegal aliens just like the ones in the states. If Burma had the guts and didn't care about stupid public relations, they would send these people back to their home country. This "migration" is really invasion. The same is happening in Europe right now. If people from shithole coun...
[14:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:38] <exec> 08└─For a non-native speaker, is that even English?!? I would have been pretty convinced "wipe out on" in no way can be a gramatically correct form, not even in English...
[14:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:40] <exec> 08└─All that example shows is that you were operating in such a constrained environment there essentially was no way to do something wrong. That's like saying "look how good that dog obeys, he walks right next to me". While you're dragging it alongside you on its leash... Utterly absurd. Hey, all those...
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[15:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:16] <exec> 08└─Sorry to say, Karen, but security though obscurity is a thing, and it's a big part of what's keeping pranksters from slipping up behind you with a little programmer wand and stopping your heart with a cell-phone app. If you are able to obtain a copy of the (incredibly simple) source code in your imp...
[15:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:24] <exec> 08└─I find it kind of amazing how quickly (in the hundreds of years range sure, but still quickly) evidence of these cities was swallowed up by nature. Even very large structures [wikimedia.org] were almost completely enveloped by the time archeologists started investigating [wikipedia.org] the lost civ...
[15:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 2090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:54] <exec> 08└─We don't have a stellar track record ourselves. Near constant warfare, because we're so competitive and we keep getting into avoidable situations that are too tempting to solve with war. We could afford this behavior when we lacked the power and numbers to really trash the environment. No longer. So...
[15:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:55] <exec> 08└─Doesn't really matter if it is open sourced. Ai creates its own paths to solve a problem. These paths generally are so abstract they defy explanation. The creates a problem for systems where lives are at stake because we cannot explain how the AI came to the decision.
[15:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:57] <exec> 08└─We all stand on the shoulders of giants that came before. AI is no exception.
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:00] <exec> 08└─10% have self awareness and 95% think they do.
[15:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:02] <exec> 08└─OK all silliness aside it's indeed a bit odd that AI is somehow more important then electricity (or fire). Whatever happened to standing on the shoulders of giants and all that?
[15:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─We all stand on the shoulders of giants. AI is no exception.
[15:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:06] <exec> 08└─What scares me is that the prime mover of AI is GREED, a little mixing is healthy, when 99+% of all AI applications (by investment dollar) are driven by GREED, we're going to have a GREED driven outcome that serves the largest investors disproportionately. Starting in the 1980s, the photolithography...
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:08] <exec> 08└─You know what else was "more revolutionary than the wheel?" Ginger, aka the Segway.
[15:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:20] <exec> 08└─It's not just leasing. There are several layers involved. John Deere leases to farmer A.Farmer A rents to farmer B.Farmer B manages and maintains a single block of farms owned by farmers C-ZFarmers C-Z are the ones who own the land
[15:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─There are 2 parts to this problem. The first is - "there is no such thing as a small software change" - particularly when it comes to moderation! This is beyond my area of expertise so I will leave it to the 'coding team' to let us know the what is actually possible (TMB at the moment!). Secondly, w...
[15:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:11] <exec> 08└─I'm a fan of subsentient's (haven't seen him lately but he used to post here) epoch init myself. S6 is very fast and unixy too.
[15:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:12] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that Bezos is a tool? Because if that's what you're saying, it's alright to come out and say it. The compatibility thing has been a thing since Word first came out. Before Word was even passable as a word processor, we used AmiPro, it kicked Word's ass back in the day, but then: the i...
[15:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:14] <exec> 08└─Before a new batch of politicians decided they wanted to piss away 100 million
[15:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:18] <exec> 08└─Khallow, you're always the liar. Bangladesh's population is still growing [worldometers.info] and has been since record keeping started. Only the excessive birthrate has reduced. How far are you going to bend reality to advance the cause of illegal squatters, armed insurgents, and violent militants...
[15:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:20] <exec> 08└─Rohingya Brand (tm) moslem squatters, insurgents, and militants have very large families sometimes up to 20 [aljazeera.com]. No matter how you slice it, that is part of the problem.
[15:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:08] <exec> 08└─It used to be really bad that it couldn't even translate a single common word correctly: http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] http://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] Context: https://arstechnica.com
[15:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:28] <exec> 08└─We are already long past that. For the Western world we are in our second at least, but depending on how you count that number could be a lot higher.
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[16:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:12] <exec> 08└─Every single piece of source code I've ever seen has made me question what the coders have done. If I saw the source code to an implanted medical device, I'd have more to worry about. The additional stress would probably be detrimental to my health. No thanks.
[16:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:13] <exec> 08└─That thing attached to my heart, my aorta? Got billions of copies of the source, but I'll need $$$ in machinery to read it, and even more to submit a patch.
[16:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:15] <exec> 08└─Most people don't have as many targets painted on them as Dick Cheney
[16:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry to say, Karen, but security though obscurity is a thing
[16:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 1636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:27] <exec> 08└─Modern brain shape (to say nothing of function) goes back at least 40k years, and anatomically modern bodies go back at least 300k years. That's a long time! Our modern civilization could have developed 8-to-60 times in a row. In only 150 years, the Titanic won't exist at the bottom of the ocean. I...
[16:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:30] <exec> 08└─It seems likely to me that Atlantis was a global civilization that lived on the coasts of the world (just as our modern civilization does), and thus got inundated in what became known throughout the world's myths as "The Great Flood"; Atlantis was a civilization of megalithic architecture and religi...
[16:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:32] <exec> 08└─Others of us have consumed many resources on the subject, which bring forth very interesting questions; I invite you to look into the matter, if only for your own entertainment. Atlantis need not have been a civilization of glass coke bottles to have been a civilization of global influence and organ...
[16:17:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─I've worked in the field of AI off and on since, gawd, 1985. As part of my studies in 1985, we looked at the history of AI, which actually goes all the way back to the 1950s. Perceptrons were first discussed in 1957. Rule-based systems weren't formalized until the 1970s, but only because people took...
[16:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 1680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:23] <exec> 08└─I am not really understanding why they don't collectively form some sort of trade group of farmers and tell the companies to fuck off so bad that it'll hurt when we only buy used equipment until this shit stops. And then do it of course we already know the indians in india are using our last ditch e...
[16:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:25] <exec> 08└─If your Toyota is 40 years old, you can put any mod you want under the hood. "Currently, smog inspections are required for all vehicles except diesel powered vehicles 1997 year model and older or with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVWR) of more than 14,000 lbs, electric, natural gas powered vehicles over...
[16:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:27] <exec> 08└─Another thing that would help is to not allow AC to make the first post. That would make it harder for AC trolls to get noticed and also reduce the problem with "first" posts. The downside is that if an AC had a valuable insight then he would have to wait until someone non-AC had made the first post...
[16:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 1935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:29] <exec> 08└─Many of us DO buy, and only buy, used farm equipment. So much so, that the price of more sought-after tractors from the 1980's (meaning those that have the horsepower to pull the modern, wider implements) gets pretty crazy. Here in Canada, you can pick up one model of Steiger or Versatile 4WD tracto...
[16:19:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 401 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:49] <exec> 08└─No, regardless of what I meant to use, I used "irregardless", out of an abundance of caution or a severe lack of regard for the double negation thereby implied. Perhaps, forsooth, mayn't we better ought to start using "urregardless", and get to the original source of the confusion. A sort of "urquel...
[16:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:21] <exec> 08└─Slackware plus WindowMaker FTW.
[16:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─The version I heard was: The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.[Matthew Ch. 26 v 41]
[16:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:18] <exec> 08└─underpants qul. cha' wa'vatlh pounds HInob.
[16:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─Translating single words is far harder than translating simple sentences. Take a look at common words in the dictionary and they'll sometimes have a dozen or more definitions attached. And those definitions are just the ones that are common enough to appear in the dictionary. There's usually ones th...
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:22] <exec> 08└─All of those other interpretations require willfully ignoring the text and making random substitutions that aren't going to make sense. Most likely that sentence would be from a gaming site and it's pretty fucking clear that the intention is to wipe out the boss as none of those other possibilities...
[16:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:24] <exec> 08└─Google translate works best for folks that have a basic understanding of the language they're wanting to translate to, but lack the vocabulary to say what they want to say in that other language. I generally get good results using English words with Mandarin grammar when I need to communicate someth...
[16:24:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter *what* you do with the chickens - they serve as incubators for antibiotic resistant bacteria, which then spread through the environment potentially sharing their newfound antibiotic resistance with other species of bacteria as they go, since bacteria sex is more like an inter-speci...
[16:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:45] <exec> 08└─The country with the largest vegetarian population on earth decides to fuck up modern medicine, and we blame meat eaters?
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[17:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:16] <exec> 08└─Or we'll end up with Alt-Prez [enca.com]. Do not put it past this man.
[17:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:18] <exec> 08└─Go figure. VIMs are for 2 kinds of person: The power elite.Religious sycophants, who are infatuated with pledges of allegiance [cbsnews.com], collectivist hymns, pageants, sacred symbols, pomp, and circumstance.
[17:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:20] <exec> 08└─The dems have picked up on their dirty game since their wimpy sniveling after the 2000 election. The reps made it so easy. Just had to replace Obama with Trump and "Kenyan Muslim" with "racist, climate killing Nazi". Resist!
[17:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:22] <exec> 08└─The woman's face was flat and covered in blood, as if her nose had been smashed in. She had been thoroughly utilized. Despite this, all the nearby men walking down the sidewalk would simply look at her, smile, and nod, as though they were witnessing something right and proper. Yes, this was part of...
[17:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:25] <exec> 08└─1 old grandma smacks a disobedient kid and Liberals declare it the 4th reich. It HAS to be, because otherwise they wouldn't satisfy their own gigantic egos via imagining themselves as noble freedom fighters. So therefore Trump must equal Hitler, Bush is Hitler, Reagan is Hitler, Nixon is Hitler, Rut...
[17:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:36] <exec> 08└─WTF? First Joe Merchant says maybe security through obscurity isn't so bad, and then you say you want to bury your head in the sand? What's wrong with you?!? Did you get a brain implant with closed source code, and it's affecting your thinking?
[17:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:37] <exec> 08└─Pacemaker security is that weak. Good luck holding them liable, where are the damages? It is a disaster waiting to happen, luckily most (not all) pacemakers, defibrillators and similar devices are not network connected - though most are wirelessly programmable via near-field devices. If only 2% of...
[17:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:40] <exec> 08└─Joe Merchant says maybe security through obscurity isn't so bad
[17:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:42] <exec> 08└─If I had the source code to a device keeping me personally alive, I'd be obsessed by it. I wouldn't stop thinking about it night and day. I've worked in safety critical industries before (nuclear power) and safety never relied on a single point of failure. I've seen the machinery, I've read the oper...
[17:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:44] <exec> 08└─It is a disaster waiting to happen, luckily most (not all) pacemakers, defibrillators and similar devices are not network connected - though most are wirelessly programmable via near-field devices.
[17:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─Fly by wire aircraft worry me.
[17:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:50] <exec> 08└─Sounds similar to the infamous Therac-25. Security through obscurity may be the current state of affairs, but it's definitely not the current state of the art! We know better than that. Sounds like a lot of executives are being bean counters, taking shortcuts the recklessness of which they don't und...
[17:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:52] <exec> 08└─Is it that having the software would drive you crazy, or the mere fact that you could obtain the software? You are free to ignore it. But the rest of us would feel better if we could review and improve the code. There is a way to get peace of mind that it really is flawless, if the code base is smal...
[17:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:55] <exec> 08└─You're right, if it's a few hundred lines of embedded code, it can be formally verified. The way things are going these days, the people doing the "verification" might not be up to it though. Peer review and independent scrutiny of these things is essential. The point I was trying to make through us...
[17:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─Did you mention the Titanic? Do you realize that the swimming pool aboard that ship is still filled after all these years? Amazing technology, eh?
[17:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:07] <exec> 08└─The Mayans knew all about them.
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:09] <exec> 08└─So - Atlantis never discovered the coca plant? Or they didn't discover carbonated beverages? Obvious is obvious - any civilization is going to make and distribute beverages. Beer is the first stop for any civilization, immediately after fire and cooked foods. As soon as parents get tired of drunken...
[17:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─Apparently it is very useful to be able to look through the jungle canopy. https://angkorlidar.org [angkorlidar.org]
[17:18:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:30] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, no, Strong AI [wikipedia.org] is defined for quite some time. And we aren't much closer to it. Bu I can see why CEO with a finger in massive NNs today are very happy to claim AI - works wonders for the stock value.
[17:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:50] <exec> 08└─So you entered the field just when the irrational exuberance of that time had worn off, and mentioning AI would get you a laugh and a kick in the ass out the door. I predict we'll have another bust, and we'll go back and call this work machine learning and pattern recognition again, because the term...
[17:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:52] <exec> 08└─Are the egos of those making such claims and the effort (now much less than even before) required for such obvious and ridiculous self-promotion. At the current level of the technology, the idea that "AI" is somehow more transformative than fire or electricity is just self-promotion and ego masturba...
[17:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:54] <exec> 08└─Dystopian Sci-fi (and what you describe is pure fiction and will be for generations, if not centuries or even ever) fantasies like yours where uncaring, inscrutable computer intelligences decide the fate of humanity just feed the egos and raise the profiles of those whose power bases are linked to c...
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:56] <exec> 08└─You are comparing apples with office hours: Those are not even in the same category. Here's a hint for you: The approval isn't necessary for the launch, it is necessary for the company not to get into deep trouble because of the launch. The Falcon Heavy would take off even without a permit.
[17:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:58] <exec> 08└─Artificial Blockchain Intelligence? :-)
[17:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:01] <exec> 08└─We don't have a stellar track record ourselves. Near constant warfare, because we're so competitive and we keep getting into avoidable situations that are too tempting to solve with war. We could afford this behavior when we lacked the power and numbers to really trash the environment. No longer.
[17:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─I hope you hash a random string into that at least.
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:23] <exec> 08└─All I'm currently thinking about is allowing people to assign a per-user adjustment to Spam moderated comments that'll take them below -1 and collapse them even if they're browsing at -1. Some of the recent Spam has been overly verbose and I'd rather spend a week coding and debugging than the time i...
[17:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:25] <exec> 08└─Random? No. Whatever salt we use, we'd need to reuse it for that address quite a lot of times most likely. So, it either has to be saved next to an actual copy of their IP address which would not be good or it has to be programmatically created in such a way as to get the same salt every time for a...
[17:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:27] <exec> 08└─There won't be such a market, because the existing companies will make sure that there are regulations that require the lock-in. Whether it be pollution controls ("can't let the user touch those or they might turn them off"), safety regulations ("can't let the user touch those or they might turn the...
[17:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:19] <exec> 08└─It already exists [microsoft.com]
[17:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:26] <exec> 08└─is unfortunately all that is needed.
[17:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:28] <exec> 08└─He just said the growth rate is 1.1%.
[17:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─As identified perpetrators of islam they're hardly that innocent. You know that even if you choose to ignore it. A second factor is that islam or not they don't have a right to invade Myanmar.
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─Translation software is, so far as I'm aware, only working on written communication. All voice-translation is done by first transcribing the speech, and then translating the resulting text. Punctuation can dramatically change the meaning of text - and even humans will generally read what's written,...
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:26] <exec> 08└─It is. "Wipe out" is a slang verb meaning to crash, fall, or otherwise end badly. For example: "Did you see that skier wipe out when he landed off-balance?"
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California had 2,304 Self-Driving Car "Disengagements" Last Year - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─If a supposedly autonomous vehicle can't drive safely and sanely without GPS info, I'm just going to go ahead and say it can't drive at all.
[17:25:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone can convince me I'm wrong?
[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:51] <exec> 08└─this exchange was hilarious other includes everything not listed, and offense was taken that one of the residents clearly different from the conformists presently in the lead -- somehow thinks you called them a Jew and was quick to point out in several ways that whatever they believe in, it's not th...
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[18:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:13] <exec> 08└─You made the ridiculous comparison to the 4th Reich and then began dismantling that comparison. It's easy to win arguments when you make them up yourself, eh?
[18:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:14] <exec> 08└─Are they sure about not being the alt-Evil Empire to an Evil Empire instead?
[18:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:17] <exec> 08└─Is that you Adolph?
[18:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:19] <exec> 08└─This is pure Chicongo Politics. Only a nigger would mod me SPAM.
[18:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 2502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:40] <exec> 08└─Agreed on the semantics: it is the state of commercial affairs, not the state of the academic art. It's not so much bean counting as it is the slippery slope. Some guys in a garage slap a thing together and get their buddies in the research lab to let them try it on some dogs - EUREKA! it works like...
[18:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:57] <exec> 08└─There is ancient stonework that defies even our modern technology; we would not only struggle to lift many of these stones, but we find the exceptional craftsmanship difficult to reproduce even with computer-controlled diamond-based cutters. We have no idea how they did it, or who did it. This inclu...
[18:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─Yet, even our modern Civilization's engineers (with their modern tools) become confused by what the ancient people achieved with massive, precision-cut stones. So, your argument doesn't really work, now does it? In some things we are more knowledgeable, while in others, they were more knowledgeable.
[18:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:06] <exec> 08└─Don't we allow -6 to +6 to be applied to mod reasons including spam? That's the point (the custom prefs for anons, new users, mod reasons, comment length, etc.) at which it would be good to blow the -1 and +5 caps. Before customizations, keep -1 to +5 range as usual. But we could have comments with...
[18:20:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:16] <exec> 08└─I've got a lot invested in music software, hardware and in between. I love window's games. But you know what, I'm fucking out of here. I'll take a big hit time wise, and I'll have to replace some hardware I have. Probably most of the software. But I'm done. Screw you MS, may you live in interesting...
[18:20:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 924 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:39] <exec> 08└─If you're upgrading hardware anyway, you could look into making your system viable for GPU passthrough. Get a second GPU, run Windows 10 in a VM, and don't use it for anything else, just the couple pieces of software that hold you to Windows now. It's more work, but you won't have to give anything u...
[18:20:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:40] <exec> 08└─a LOT of people depend on Microsoft Office   A lot of people depend on cqrack Cocaine: that does not make it a good thing, or anything to be proud of. They should check into a clinic and get treated ASAP.
[18:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:01] <exec> 08└─WindowMaker doesn't really suit *my* needs, but Mate works well. So did lxde, and a couple of others the last time I used them. KDE has gotten too noisy. I want my window manager to be unobtrusive, but easily available. I really liked the KDE3 desktop, but the respin didn't work well with lots of th...
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:07] <exec> 08└─Actually, to me it's not so much ambiguous, as without *any* clear meaning. There's the impression that something alarming is being communicated, and that lots of (people?) are involved. But beyond that it becomes an exercise in creative interpretation.
[18:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:31] <exec> 08└─Their vegans will die just as quickly as the people there that eat the chickens, though. sometimes doing the right thing still leaves you defenseless against stupid people.
[18:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:33] <exec> 08└─He also seems to be missing the whole hepatitus issue out on the west coast, when plastic bags were banned and public bathrooms were not accessible to homeless people, causing them to shit in the streets. many of them were drug users and have liver infections and ended up spreading illness due to th...
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[19:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:13] <exec> 08└─From here [soylentnews.org]: Modern brain shape (to say nothing of function) goes back at least 40k years, and anatomically modern bodies go back at least 300k years. That's a long time! Our modern civilization could have developed 8-to-60 times in a row. In only 150 years, the Titanic won't exist...
[19:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:14] <exec> 08└─People have noticed that certain stone structures have incredibly precise alignments to astronomical phenomena (such as as stars, constellations, solstices, equinoxes, etc.), but that such alignments only become obvious if they were built many thousands of years before civilization is officially sup...
[19:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:16] <exec> 08└─250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India
[19:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:32] <exec> 08└─Another stupid post by fuckwit ET. Not surprising at all, best she can come up with.
[19:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:33] <exec> 08└─We already have Bizarro Prez and Bizarro Congrezz. We don't need any Alt Gov. http://superman.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[19:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:35] <exec> 08└─Being Twitter, some of these seem to have difficulty
[19:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:37] <exec> 08└─VIMs are for 2 kinds of person
[19:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:40] <exec> 08└─Don't they fall into the first group?
[19:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:01] <exec> 08└─There's a real problem here though. The devices *MUST* be accessible and modifiable by EMTs in uncontrolled conditions without depending on the cooperation of the implantee...who may be unconscious. You *CAN'T* depend on passwords, etc. What's totally stupid is allowing them to be reprogrammed by an...
[19:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:03] <exec> 08└─The devices *MUST* be accessible and modifiable by EMTs
[19:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:06] <exec> 08└─Tell me more about this 'penetration', big momma........
[19:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:07] <exec> 08└─It sounds like the problem is we haven't created a pooping AI yet.
[19:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:32] <exec> 08└─All is too severe. Perhaps no more than 15 points. There can be honest disagreements.
[19:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:33] <exec> 08└─Bootstraps, booootstraaaps! Please look up the origin of that phrase, then try and understand that with megacorps around the available markets become smaller and smaller. The efficiency of scale has taken over markets and made it near impossible to compete. This idea? It is decent, but manufacturing...
[19:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:35] <exec> 08└─I look in the Northern Tool catalog and see smaller non-computerized tractors (and a bulldozer) at good prices, mostly from China. I know, this is no good for corporate mega-farms, they & Deere are IMHO made for each other. Or search 'tractor sale', lots of options. This looks to me to be a problem...
[19:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:38] <exec> 08└─The family farms that *I* know are on the edge or even losing money. I doubt that any "family farm" makes huge profits from anything legal. no matter how much land they have. Not unless you're talking about a place where the "family farm" is really owned by someone who's a manager rather than a farm...
[19:25:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 1631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:00] <exec> 08└─Nationa and Li (2009) stated, “Colistin is a 50 year-old antibiotic that is being used increasingly as a ‘last-line’ therapy to treat infections caused by MDR Gram-negative bacteria, when essentially no other options are available” (Para 1). Biswas, Brunel, Dubas, Reynaud-Gaubert, and Rolain...
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[20:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─Why all these DOI and DX links in articles which point to the same paywalled articles as the main citation? I'd rather see the link to the Russian sources for non-paywalled articles.
[20:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:14] <exec> 08└─Is that racism I smell? Why are these old tools found in India, and not Africa? It's probably just white people trying to prove their superiority again. Damn those Indians! They probably stole their tools from a bunch of Africans, which is why the Africans don't appear to have any tools!
[20:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:16] <exec> 08└─We are finding tiny artifacts from 200-300 thousand years ago. However we find nothing at all about the supposed civilization that lived, say, 50,000 years ago. That civilization, being able to construct megastructures, had to have a bit more tools than a cave-dwelling tribe that uses flint tools. W...
[20:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─I guess the 3rd party here is the Nano folks :)
[20:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:38] <exec> 08└─Today, you can have your fake news flavored in any way you like. You can custom order your fake news with left or right hand threads, so that you can screw it into any skull. You can have it large or small, to fit any skull. Technology is simply amazing. We couldn't have done any of this stuff when...
[20:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart?
[20:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:22] <exec> 08└─There is ancient stonework that defies even our modern technology
[20:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:24] <exec> 08└─Speaking of fallacies: Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled.
[20:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:26] <exec> 08└─Masters hording knowledge for competitive advantage and then dying before passing the secrets on (disease and conquest are killers) caused the same things to be discovered and lost over and over. The lack of sharing limited the scope of knowledge. The social structures that allowed sharing and prese...
[20:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:28] <exec> 08└─I find it kind of amazing how quickly (in the hundreds of years range sure, but still quickly) evidence of these cities was swallowed up by nature.
[20:20:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isj [5249] 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:31] <exec> 08└─Another thing that would help is to not allow AC to make the first post. That would make it harder for AC trolls to get noticed and also reduce the problem with "first" posts. The downside is that if an AC had a valuable insight then he would have to wait until someone non-AC had made the first post...
[20:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:42] <exec> 08└─The "Open Source Ecology" project has developed an open source tractor: LifeTrac [opensourceecology.org] Apparently they built prototype #4; I have no idea how far they have gotten in the last couple of years. It was an interesting project, though. From the wiki it looks like they are still around,...
[20:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─I've tentatively dipped my toes into running Windows in a VM to accomodate specific hardware (specifically XP, but then who's counting), but I came away with the impression that graphics in particular are "basically impossible" to fully use properly in a VM. My unhealthy virtual-crack addiction to W...
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─I traveled in Europe several times when Bosnia and Kosovo were building up and when they were hot. The European position even among the peaceniks was to whine with increasing urgency about the need for the US to step in. Perhaps it was my ignorance of European geopolitics but it seems that while the...
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[21:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Provocateur [6855] (Score: 1) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:25] <exec> 08└─Africa hadn't set up its Nigerian prince scam yet. While India figures out Can't we make money doing this?? Outsourcing isn't an ancient thing -- it's a prehistoric thing.
[21:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:26] <exec> 08└─Different AC. Doesn't stone last longer? If you built something like the pyramids in Egypt and South/Central America out of steel and concrete how long would they last?
[21:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:28] <exec> 08└─They are always the unique, incredibly high-precision foundations of other structures, or they are buried (sometimes deliberately) or sit as ruins. Go look up Göbekli Tepe [wikipedia.org] for an example of the first archaeological find that really made the "mainstream" historians start to re-think...
[21:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─YouTube it.
[21:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:35] <exec> 08└─In Russia, the source codes YOU. Or something like that. :^)
[21:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:58] <exec> 08└─How do you pronounce that, anyway? I use it because https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Alright, JK - I only watched it because the chick was nice looking - who was she again? :^)
[21:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:46] <exec> 08└─What an ass. "I don't believe that". Good for you. *pat* *pat* *pat*
[21:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:47] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm not sure about your appraisal of the OP, but your own comment doesn't fair well in my appraisal.
[21:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:49] <exec> 08└─For instance, Amazon groups are linked with indigenous Australians [smithsonianmag.com] Perhaps you're also not aware that we don't even know exactly who the ancient Egyptians were; it has been a topic of debate. [wikipedia.org] Recent tests of mummies indicate connections with Middle Easterners and...
[21:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:37] <exec> 08└─I WILL DAMN WELL DECIDE MYSELF WHETHER TO MIX CAPITALS AND LOWERCASE OR NOT. I WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
[21:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:38] <exec> 08└─I could build a perfectly good AI system without electricity - using fluidic logic. Sure it would be slower than the electronic version, and use more energy, but I could do it - and so could others. Yes, I would need a BIG budget. However, I am more than 100% confident that the current set of projec...
[21:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:07] <exec> 08└─If someone being a jackass once or twice a day on average is going to butthurt a visitor ...
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah. (Brain fart.) Comma-Separated Values (not the pharmacy chain originally Consumer Value Store). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:05] <exec> 08└─Be sure to add a surcharge for those. ...as a separate line item on the bill. Let them know that is costing them extra. Be sure to also include a line called OpenDocument Format Communications (with $0.00 permanently in the cost column on the bill form). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:16] <exec> 08└─As identified perpetrators of islam they're hardly that innocent.
[21:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:17] <exec> 08└─Khallow, you're always the liar. Bangladesh's population is still growing and has been since record keeping started.
[21:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─Rohingya Brand (tm) moslem squatters, insurgents, and militants have very large families sometimes up to 20. No matter how you slice it, that is part of the problem.
[21:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:17] <exec> 08└─Context always matters. There was enough in my post to make it crystal clear to anyone who played multiplayer online games for any length of time to recognize that as the context; and they would easily understand the slang/jargon. And it sees use in other contexts as well. To 'wipe' or 'wipe out' in...
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[22:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017 - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:12] <exec> 08└─The presentation of the charts is ripe for misinterpretation by those who won't read the caveats and I predict this, like so many other drive studies will be quoted far and wide and WRONG for years. So I'll start first: ;-) I'm surprised that even ONE drive failed after only 1255 drive days. Just sa...
[22:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:53] <exec> 08└─from the we-can't-be-silenced dept.
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:54] <exec> 08└─Every one of these is off-topic and rambling. Most are commie nonsense, and the rest are darn close.
[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Had Enough Alt-Right? Try Alt-Gov!  - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:57] <exec> 08└─Commie nonsense? What do you think the "Deep State" is? The State Department is full of covert devotees of Mithra! And the attempt by the Idiot God-Emperor to silence the voices of science and reason, and the reality-based community is always on topic, and now you have got me rambling. Nice AC! V...
[22:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:22] <exec> 08└─The fun thing about an implantable defib is that it does nothing, hopefully for years at a time, until you need it - and then it saves your life. I worked with a guy that got an implantable defib, he basically died one night in the auto parts store - EMTs arrived just in time to revive him, then pum...
[22:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:23] <exec> 08└─You WANT that. Devices haven't been put-it-in-and-forget-it for ages. At my last device check, they found 11 irregular events recorded (none of any consequence[1]). Wireless also allows them to check the condition of the device (e.g. ability to react to demand; battery condition) and to tweak the de...
[22:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:26] <exec> 08└─What a load of bullshit. Pacemaker software is not very complicated. well it might be, but it's not very complicated to secure. The current gen is a closed source mess. You don't need the source code to break them, just fuzz them with random wifi/bluetooth/zigbee and you *will* crash it. Everybody w...
[22:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hey, Did You Ever Get the Source Code to that Thing Attached to Your Heart? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:28] <exec> 08└─There is no industry standard; each device maker has proprietary protocols/hardware. In order to access all brands, the EMTs would need a communication/control device from each manufacturer. So, no. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:54] <exec> 08└─The OP is correct. There is a decree of precision that is hard to explain. For one, it's not just a matter of decoration; it's a matter of serious engineering, though even some of the decorative work (particularly in very hard stones) is difficult to accept on the basis of what archaeologists tell u...
[22:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LIDAR Reveals Huge Number of Previously Unknown Mayan Structures - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:55] <exec> 08└─Yet we still don't know what was Soma [wikipedia.org]
[22:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:45] <exec> 08└─Current AI has the common sense of a cricket.
[22:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:47] <exec> 08└─Neither electricity nor fire had the ability or the potential to control mankind. While each could run wild for short durations, both run out of resources by themselves, and are easily starved of resources by humans. We've been scaring ourselves with stories about run-away AI for decades, so we clea...
[22:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:49] <exec> 08└─Explaining HOW might not be necessary. Preventing certain decision outcomes may be all that is needed. AI, like the internet, would route around any attempts to control its process. But if End Points are prevented, regardless of how they were arrived at, that alone may be enough to prevent AI from g...
[22:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:19] <exec> 08└─I think that's unnecessarily restrictive, for a very small problem. There are very few articles with a spammy first post.
[22:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:21] <exec> 08└─That's the idea, yep. Only for Spam at this point though. Someone annoying us by being right when we're wrong or vice versa doesn't warrant the ability to hide their posts when you're browsing at the floor IMO. On the other hand, it'd probably be easier to just set anything with a Spam moderation it...
[22:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds like setting anything moderated Spam to an initial collapsed state regardless of its score would solve that. I'm really leaning towards that as a solution at the moment.
[22:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:25] <exec> 08└─Every idea you talk yourself out of before you even attempt it, that's you failing America not the other way around.
[22:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:27] <exec> 08└─I think it's not so much actual tractors as specialized equipment that looks like a tractor to a city boy. I've yet to see an actual tractor with even a single microchip on it first hand.
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:25] <exec> 08└─I've never done this myself, but as I understand it, a CPU with Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU is required. This allows you to specify, at the Linux commandline, which PCIe slots are to be populated with a "PCI Stub" driver, and then the VM hypervisor of your choice can be directed to dedicate these slots...
[22:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─Devuan? Slackware? Gentoo? Artix? Void? Maybe even a BSD rather than Linux? There's options, don't despair.
[22:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Shallowness of Google Translate - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─Try this: http://www.translationparty.com [translationparty.com]
[22:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia to Allow ISS Tourists to Go on Spacewalks - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:33] <exec> 08└─In other news, americans cancel even what they already have and rely on russian liars to send their heroic astronauts in space.
[22:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Behindmyscreen [6856] (Score: 1) 02 - 06India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:07] <exec> 08└─Um.....Infection can take hold and spread in a matter of hours in infants and death can follow before you get a chance to get them to the hospital. It was prudent of your doctor who knows a fuck lot more than you do.
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[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017 - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:16] <exec> 08└─Dancing. I'm feces dancing. Pinworm-infested liquid fecal matter dribbling out of my rotten rectum as I dance with my naked bootysnap. They're looking at me. All of them are looking at me. Eyes full of disgust. Disgust? They're disgusted because they know they're inferior to me. That's right: Your t...
[23:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─The HGST/Hitachi 4 TB models delivered sub 1.0% failure rates for each of the three years. Amazing.
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017 - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:20] <exec> 08└─I see. So you're jealous of my feces-covered existenceness. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I just dumped in that silverware drawer containing your hopes & dreams. Wow... there's a single spot with no dump on it, so there's still hope for you! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:37] <exec> 08└─... and yet, they haven't discovered the toilet yet.
[23:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06250,000 to 385,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in India - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe some of the editors want to avoid DMCA notices? IIUC, you could use those DOIs in a certain way to do certain things... Just sayin'.
[23:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:52] <exec> 08└─prime mover of AI is GREED
[23:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:54] <exec> 08└─I'll bite: GREED: we have more than we need, so we're going to invest our surplus to get more, and we're going to direct that investment with the primary (usually sole) aim of maximizing ROI. Not GREED: we're doing this to improve some situation, resolve some problem, help people. We're going to see...
[23:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:57] <exec> 08└─Until every human has the exact same daily rations, clothing, housing, beautiful partners, there is GREED. You couldn't possibly be more wrong. a word everyone likes to toss around, but nobody understands Well, you certainly don't. First, greed is a character defect. It is one of The Seven Deadly Si...
[23:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:59] <exec> 08└─Starting in the 1980s, the photolithography (microchips) put the power of computers in the hands of common people Interesting date to choose. The 8080 came out in 1974 and the kit microcomputer was on the cover of Radio-Electronics for January 1975. So, for nerds it was earlier. For Joe Average, I'd...
[23:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New Prometheus: Google CEO Says AI is More Profound than Electricity or Fire - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:01] <exec> 08└─Current AI has the common sense of a cricket.
[23:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─I still remember when they were fighting that from mainframes and billed them as the alternative.. I guess they finally figured out that leasing software is a cash cow, and customer ownership of anything is bad.. ( even tho MOLPs have been keeping their pockets lined for decades ) f-em.
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 2019 Will be Exclusive to Windows 10 - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─While true, 'most people' will just use what comes on their PC from the store, and will think of the monthly fee to keep it alive like their phone or internet bill. People have been conditioned enough to accept full-cloud hardware. ( os, apps, connectivity ) I see all the major ISPs leasing full mac...
[23:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:51] <exec> 08└─jeez whatever they did to make Buddhists angry, it should be mentioned...
[23:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:52] <exec> 08└─>When does a grave become a "mass grave" i swear there must be a your mom joke here somewhere...
[23:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia to Allow ISS Tourists to Go on Spacewalks - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:45] <exec> 08└─To be honest the thing the americans already had was the result of 'Lets build a space-minivan' combined with 'What could go wrong if we strap it to the side of a rocket instead of on top'
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