#comments | Logs for 2018-02-13

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[00:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 7586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:27] <exec> 08└─Do Free Drug Rep Lunches Sway Doctors? See What Physicians Say Lunches and gifts from drug reps are still an issue. The Open Payments website, created under the Affordable Care Act, requires physicians to report any transaction that amounts to $10 or more, as well as items that are under $10 if the...
[00:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:28] <exec> 08└─Any Libertarians in the house who find themselves allied with these non-conservative Republicans should be speaking up.
[00:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:30] <exec> 08└─Now, now, what exactly do you want to imply? The pharma industry produces medicines, not drugs. (grin)
[00:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:33] <exec> 08└─Despite the rhetoric from puritanical drug-warriors, the actual "gateway drug" to heroin isn't mild stuff like pot, or hallucinogens like LSD and mushrooms, it's prescription opioids. Which were sold under mostly fraudulent marketing that basically pretended they were safe and non-addictive. And her...
[00:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/892290 [medscape.com]
[00:00:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Google Absorbs Nest, Nest Co-Founder Quits - 807 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:45] <exec> 08└─$50 buys a programmable thermostat that does everything the Nest thermostat does except spy on you. (And nest can't handle multi-zoned houses). So Nest never did have a realistic product to sell until they bought Dropcam. When they bought dropcam, they promised to run it as a separate business so Go...
[00:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metasurfaces Enable Improved Optical Lens Performance - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:26] <exec> 08└─with keyboard pls
[00:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:25] <exec> 08└─Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[00:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:26] <exec> 08└─Speakers should be as dumb as your computer monitor.
[00:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06911 Fees Paid by Phone Customers “Stolen” by States to Fill Budget Gaps - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:47] <exec> 08└─How about those extra fees supposed to be used by utilities and providers to improve service and infrastructure? We've been paying all along, but we keep getting excuses like net neutrality being in the way of spending and the like.
[00:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayfair Games Closes After 36 Years of Board Games - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:16] <exec> 08└─Discuss real news, not bullshit
[00:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voksi Releases Detailed Denuvo-Cracking Video Tutorial - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:01] <exec> 08└─I'm a little surprised that a cracker would want to publicly talk about exactly how they cracked Denuvo. Surely that would provide the vendors with an opportunity to address the holes and come back with a stronger product? I guess the opportunity to gloat is just too irresistible to a cracker (who,...
[00:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Drivers Are Contractors—Not Employees—Judge Rules - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry. I thought it was common knowledge that the California government is both bankrupt, and regularly receives bailouts from the federal government. is it not? If I say California has amazing weather, would I need a citation for that too? Here are a couple very easy to find citations. Which po...
[00:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zzarko [5697] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:12] <exec> 08└─In previous versions, I have tried numerous times to instruct VLC to display subtitles in black space below the video, but it was always complicated and unintuitive, and that was the main reason I didn't use it as main video player. Can someone confirm if this is solved or not in 3.0?
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[00:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ealbers [5715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:19] <exec> 08└─wow! cool, we can do math now! I remember FPU's for floating point, glad we can do Arithmetic now!
[00:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:20] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of a different APU, TFA clearly references thank you, come again [wikipedia.org]
[00:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:31] <exec> 08└─7. universe ends.
[00:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:33] <exec> 08└─My penny has been deposited
[00:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:35] <exec> 08└─People spend resources researching how to get lithium, because the market tells them that society (and thus they) would profit from successful research; the market tells the researchers this by means of the price per unit of lithium going up—it's a signal. By having markets that are free from the...
[00:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:38] <exec> 08└─Noted. (underwhelming, but then again...I have the lifetime of the universe to reach the Scrooge-rich stage, haven't I?)
[00:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:40] <exec> 08└─Didn't we have an article recently stating that the world wide supply of lithium was vast and more than enough to handle all the demand? I think it had something to do with Musk's giga factory. Battery University [batteryuniversity.com] has an article stating that rumors of supply problems are prema...
[00:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03morpheus [1989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:57] <exec> 08└─I have not used KiCAD much, just a couple of times but I have used PCB a lot and I tried to use Eagle. For my personal projects I have a rather long development cycle so the ability to document and change formats is paramount. Both KiCAD's and PCB's formats are exceptionally well documented, everyth...
[01:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06That Mega-Vulnerability Cisco Dropped is Now Under Exploit - 3870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:09] <exec> 08└─If people didn't buy into that entire clientless VPN thing that used SSL for everything, problems like this would be much less frequent and the security industry could be in much better shape. Convenience is everything and unfortunately clientless SSL has its share of tradeoffs and vulnerabilities....
[01:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06That Mega-Vulnerability Cisco Dropped is Now Under Exploit - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:11] <exec> 08└─More curiously, we got first party and really useable IPsec (usually L2TP over IPsec, but I'll take what I can get) clients on just about every platform about 15 minutes before the SSL-VPN craze really took off. Thankfully, as far as I know those clients are still being shipped, but they must have a...
[01:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06That Mega-Vulnerability Cisco Dropped is Now Under Exploit - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:13] <exec> 08└─None of this stuff is anywhere near consumer class, all of the devices on this list that physically could have a serial port do. Cisco does make consumer products, but consumer products aren't likely to make too big of waves when they have exploits.
[01:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06That Mega-Vulnerability Cisco Dropped is Now Under Exploit - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:16] <exec> 08└─I've personally endorsed IPSec clients over anything SSL related... SSL is far more vulnerable to examination and man-in-the-middle stuff than anything else. Obviously SSL has its merits; I just don't think it's a good solution for everyone to use for VPNs... I think it is good for only the devices...
[01:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06That Mega-Vulnerability Cisco Dropped is Now Under Exploit - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:19] <exec> 08└─Anyone who can run an ASA at home, knows better. You don't get one running on accident, even with "wizards".
[01:00:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:30] <exec> 08└─The Nancy Reagan style of puritanical drug-warriors that have sadly come back into style only serve to create more laws, more prisoners and a bigger government. Any Libertarians in the house who find themselves allied with these non-conservative Republicans should be speaking up. We should learn fro...
[01:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:05] <exec> 08└─I say we let them go! https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:06] <exec> 08└─My brother is a physician and he used to be invited (all expenses paid) to various "conferences" on the beach, ski resorts and the like at least a few times a year. These days any compensation (including gifts, lunches, trips and the like) must be reported on the Open Payments Database [cms.gov], wh...
[01:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:08] <exec> 08└─It means however the market will be more competitive with more providers of opoids. At least those peoples' addictions will be cheaper.
[01:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:10] <exec> 08└─I live in the only other country in the civilised world that allows TV ads for drugs, and it's awful. In fact various drug companies have been prosecuted for making all sorts of outrageous claims about their drugs, in particular pain killing drugs that were supposed to work on specific types of pai...
[01:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:14] <exec> 08└─I asked my sister, who's a doctor, about this phenomenon, and she said that the doctors in general weren't against the marketing to consumers. The main reason for that is that it meant that patients would come in and report the symptoms they were having, and that gave the doctor a chance to actually...
[01:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Whipping the Llama's Ass" with this Javascript WinAmp Emulator - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember Realplayer. What I remember most clearly about Realplayer, was that it was a resource hog.
[01:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Whipping the Llama's Ass" with this Javascript WinAmp Emulator - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:42] <exec> 08└─My spoken-word webcasts would be -so- disappointed. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Whipping the Llama's Ass" with this Javascript WinAmp Emulator - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:44] <exec> 08└─No, it's DeadBeeF for music and Podcast Addict [uservoice.com] for podcasts. The latter offers a level of setting and customization options that beggars belief. I'd swear that somewhere in it is a setting to arrange podcast episodes by the height and hair color of the announcer. (The developer even...
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[01:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:18] <exec> 08└─He is not wrong. A lot of people cannot handle what they find on the internet. But if you're gonna restrict, then someone has to make a list. And that's why it's a terrible idea.
[01:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:20] <exec> 08└─"Zhores Alferov has urged restrictions on internet access, " Bout time someone did. "saying unlimited access to information can harm people's morals and mental health." We could start by restricting him. It's not that access to information can harm peoples morals, or their mental health, that's abso...
[01:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/ [washingtonpost.com] Opposition leaders tend to die, when they oppose too much.
[01:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:24] <exec> 08└─A person living in a strong society with good education and a sense of self-worth and what they consider a meaningful life is not going to be phased by what they find on the internet. He's advocating for hiding the truth of what it means to be human because he believes people are to fragile to under...
[01:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:26] <exec> 08└─Is he one of the Putin-approved fake opposition members? Sure sounds like it.
[01:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:28] <exec> 08└─Triggered!! Rerouting crafoo's internet access to protect him from crazy Russian ideas!
[01:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:38] <exec> 08└─Since we can't find discrete GPUs at a decent price, it's nice to know that integrated graphics are getting a pretty big boost, to help push enough pixels for a 4k monitor or two. Gaming ? Ain't the target.
[01:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:40] <exec> 08└─It is "good enough" gaming for most. The PS4 and Xbox One run Jaguar APUs, and the new 2400G looks comparable to the PS4's. PS4: The CPU consists of two quad-core Jaguar modules totaling 8 x86-64 cores.[47][48] The GPU consists of 18 compute units to produce a theoretical peak performance of 1.84 TF...
[01:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:56] <exec> 08└─A rising price for lithium sends the signal that it might be profitable to expand mining, or indeed to research new ways to perform mining.
[01:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:58] <exec> 08└─Stating yourself, Captain Obvious?
[01:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:00] <exec> 08└─"The first ten million years were the worst, and the second first ten million they were the worst too ..."
[02:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:18] <exec> 08└─https://olimex.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/this-is-fosdem-2018/#comment-29471 [wordpress.com] Is the Bazaar dead? Only Cathedrals with source from now on?
[02:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:19] <exec> 08└─Useful app; descriptive name (more or less); very difficult to Google up, however. Originally developed by Thomas Nau for the Amiga. Later, ported to other platforms. Development/support subsequently taken up by Harry Eaton. At one point, it seemed that DJ Delorie was the prime supporter. Early page...
[02:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:21] <exec> 08└─KiCAD is one of those open source projects that made me a believer in the whole concept. It's very good. I've designed PCBs with it and had them manufactured. Double-sided, with solder mask and silk screen. Starting from their schematic editor, and doing some pad definitions and editing as needed. M...
[02:00:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:53] <exec> 08└─I'd mod you insightful if you didn't lump in LSD with PCP. A lot of mainstream news articles about cannabis (or kratom) say something along the lines [cnn.com] of "Marijuana, which is listed on Schedule 1 along with hard drugs like heroin and LSD". But LSD is one of the safest recreational drugs [ia...
[02:00:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:57] <exec> 08└─Introducing new KuewrZall®
[02:01:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:04] <exec> 08└─Sometimes that opinion is hard to deal with when I see at least one drugged out person a day on my way to work wandering the streets screaming at the top of their lungs and trying to claw their eyes out.
[02:03:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06911 Fees Paid by Phone Customers “Stolen” by States to Fill Budget Gaps - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:31] <exec> 08└─A distinction without a difference
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[02:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:23] <exec> 08└─What exactly does most information on the internet (these days) have to do with truth?
[02:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:24] <exec> 08└─From "Howl" I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who pov...
[02:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure. I've known some bright, basically decent people who retired and got into killing ime watching way too much Youtube. To the point where they were totally taken in by Trump, and are still eating up the shock-jocks and propaganda machines. The filter bubble can do horrible things to a...
[02:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:28] <exec> 08└─That's what you risk to get from ignoramuses in a certain knowledge field. Being a Nobel Laureate in physics doesn't necessary make one prepared to have relevant opinions in social/sociology.
[02:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:31] <exec> 08└─What exactly does most information on the internet (these days) have to do with truth?
[02:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:33] <exec> 08└─Russian Communist Party MP and Nobel Prize-winner Zhores Alferov has urged restrictions on internet access, saying unlimited access to information can harm people's morals and mental health.
[02:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:35] <exec> 08└─/agree. I've had this same discussion about voting rights, and reproduction rights too. I think there are lots people who should be restricted from doing either. But, for such a system to exist, someone else gets to decide who gets to vote or who gets to reproduce. So despite my sense that there are...
[02:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:37] <exec> 08└─It's similar to the Chinese philosophy on social order... and don't fool yourself, "the message" is shaped in so called free Western societies as well. The fact that it's getting harder to control the shaping of the message is scary, for everyone.
[02:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:40] <exec> 08└─relevant opinions in social/sociology.
[03:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:08] <exec> 08└─6a. Misery and death Or 6b. Utopia
[03:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:30] <exec> 08└─The KiCAD leadership notoriously has zero inclination to compromise I notice that he didn't mention what his alternative might be. (The subjects of gift horses and mouths occur to me.) ...and that steadfastness sounds a lot like a particular Benevolent Dictator for Life. [google.com] -- OriginalOwne...
[03:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:31] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying that at some point you've seen an autorouter that was worth a hoot in hell? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[03:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Labels Kratom an Opioid - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:54] <exec> 08└─In other words, they have a strong disincentive in letting you *see* how they set some new rule.....
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[03:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:19] <exec> 08└─Mumbo AND Jumbo.
[03:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:20] <exec> 08└─You just tweak the weighting so that it gives the answer you wanted to sell to your marks... I mean customers/managers and then use the authoritative sound of data mining and predictive algorithms as evidence of your answer. So they are quite useful just not for anything to do with reality.
[03:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.iarpa.gov/challenges/gfchallenge.html [iarpa.gov]
[03:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:24] <exec> 08└─See, the managers, once invested into this, will expect employees to conform or else. Happens all the time. Just recall all the greatest software development mumbo jumbos of the last decades. Not to mention the infamous cubical wall hight effect. So, yes, the algorithms will work. Workers will find...
[03:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:27] <exec> 08└─This sort of thing (predictive analytics algorithms) has been done for decades by consulting firms. They gather the "relevant" (that's the important part and all of it comes from the client) data and organize it. They then pass that data through a proprietary algorithm and it spits out predictions....
[03:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:29] <exec> 08└─It would be funny if it wouldn't be so sad.
[03:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:31] <exec> 08└─It's about time to integrate machine learning into the secret sauce to keep the illusion going for a few more years. Proprietary cloud AI predictive analytics platform utilizing open source intelligence and machine learning.
[03:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:33] <exec> 08└─Let's make a team soylent and write a RNG IRC bot that predicts the future to get $200k.
[03:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:55] <exec> 08└─Jayda Fransen, of Britain First, tweeted some terrific "tapes." Very educational! But Twitter deleted them after I retweeted. Sad! The "tape" of the 2 girls and the cup, so interesting. Not many people know, they are actresses, they got paid to perform in that one. VERY SPECIAL JOB!
[03:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:57] <exec> 08└─the guy totally spilled the davos' beans
[03:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:59] <exec> 08└─I know of someone else who won a physics Nobel (also for work on transistors) and has notable opinions on sociology. Bill Shockley. I don't think you want him planning your society either.
[04:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:01] <exec> 08└─Hmmm... it's more likely than you think. In fact it's probably 99% of the time.
[04:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:03] <exec> 08└─"unlimited access to information can harm people's morals and mental health." Perhaps he's giving an example from personal experience.
[04:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:05] <exec> 08└─Mr. Alferov arrived at his conclusions because of you, Ari.
[04:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:08] <exec> 08└─Many people are saying that Crooked Hillary was a Fake candidate. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan. She could have asked for recounts. Who knows what would have happened? I think she would have lost badly, I don't know. Nobody knows. Because she didn't ask for ANY recounts. They're saying it's like...
[04:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:10] <exec> 08└─The freedom of the internet unfortunately shows how shitty every attempt at communism has been, no shit a commie would want it regulated.
[04:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:12] <exec> 08└─I have reasons to believe you'd better be worried of "How you will be able to argue on the internet if the Internet is under exclusive control by authoritarians?"
[04:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:14] <exec> 08└─He is not wrong. A lot of people cannot handle what they find on the internet.
[04:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:24] <exec> 08└─It could enable gaming at a reasonable resolution (1080p) without a discrete GPU: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] The new parts don't offer the same sizable core and thread-count advantage. Rather, thei...
[04:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:45] <exec> 08└─A rising price for lithium sends the signal that it might be profitable to expand mining, or indeed to research new ways to perform mining.
[04:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:46] <exec> 08└─If all it takes is a higher price to get it out of the ground, that's a good thing. That is all it takes... We have proven over and over that with enough money we can do anything. The better option is make the process cheaper, probably through automation, like tunnel boring, and mobile furnaces on t...
[04:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:18] <exec> 08└─Ban teh human drivers! They kill! Ban teh opioids! They Kill! Unless I have a lot of pain, then it better be *really* cheap or free to me! I gots me free healthy care! My jerb pays it all, cuz I gots me a real job writing javascript apps. Iz a real software engineer! Except the fraction of the prem...
[04:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Labels Kratom an Opioid - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:36] <exec> 08└─Except that unless you convince the _entire_ jury to nullify, you risk a mistrial and a more hostile jury for the poor SOB whose life you’re toying with to take your personal agenda to court, which is why it is a weapon of last resort not to be deployed by fools, which is to say, almost everyone.
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[04:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:30] <exec> 08└─The Deification of the Algorithm. We've done this type of thing to all sorts of things throughout history, and it's always been for the same purpose: keep a group of people in check... (conveniently, always a group 'we' don't belong to, it's always the other ones that need to be kept in check)
[04:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:32] <exec> 08└─Let's make a team soylent and write a RNG IRC bot that predicts the future to get $200k.
[04:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:34] <exec> 08└─It's about time to integrate machine learning into the secret sauce to keep the illusion going for a few more years. Proprietary cloud AI predictive analytics platform utilizing open source intelligence and machine learning.
[04:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:36] <exec> 08└─"interpolation, well understood. extrapolation, not so much". Certainly something to bear in mind...
[04:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:38] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't include blockchain technology, it's worthless. (or did the blockchain bubble already burst already?)
[04:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:40] <exec> 08└─You know how hot I get ...
[04:59:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:48] <exec> 08└─He is not wrong. A lot of people cannot handle what they find on the internet. But if you're gonna restrict, then someone has to make a list. And that's why it's a terrible idea.
[05:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry, had to say it...:;-)
[05:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:15] <exec> 08└─But he gave it a try and soon discovered that hanging out in bars would get him laid.
[05:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:17] <exec> 08└─A lot of people cannot handle what they find on the internet.
[05:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:19] <exec> 08└─-1 redundant, he already expressed his concerns about communists.
[05:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:21] <exec> 08└─No he didn't, you triggered dipfuck. He's never met Aristarchus. I would guess he came to that conclusion after years of exposure to what the filter bubble does to masses of people with weak self-concept and weak wills. He's wrong, and it should be obvious to anyone why he's wrong (hint: it's basica...
[05:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:23] <exec> 08└─How in the hell is this reasonable? What happened to "beware of him who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master?" We cannot, absolutely cannot, let this come to pass, for the exact same reasons you don't want a poll tax or a eugenics initiative. It's preci...
[05:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:35] <exec> 08└─Interesting play, if AMD could negate the need for dedicated graphics, it could capture some much needed market share. Perhaps, even change the game entirely.
[05:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:20] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not talking about what they use at work, where you're right, they don't care much because their employer is footing the bill. I'm talking about what they do for their at-home projects. These people, by and large, are just not supporters of or interested in Free software. Strangely, they even...
[05:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:21] <exec> 08└─Time and again, I've found that the people in that business are just slime. Aren't most people?
[05:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:23] <exec> 08└─If you think you can efficiently hand-route an extremely complex board by hand, in a reasonable amount of time, I have a bridge to sell you. And routing a board with high-speed signals by hand is pretty infeasible, as you have to control trace lengths precisely. I've used the FreeRouter that KiCad l...
[05:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:25] <exec> 08└─I doubt it: different crowd. The "makers" tend to be much younger and more liberal, and not experienced engineers who generally are a bunch of Randian libertarians who think Free software is "communism" or similar.
[05:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:28] <exec> 08└─Go read the comments: they explicitly point out the conflict of interest between Brian and Cadsoft.
[05:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:34] <exec> 08└─My wife and I just about died laughing the first time we heard the side effects of Olestra, including "oily discharge..." who, exactly, would use a dietary supplement that causes "oily discharge" and more to the point, who would pour massive amounts of money into marketing such a thing?
[05:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:26] <exec> 08└─I gotta ask: what dev pain? Is it some sort of MBA-created 'ghost pain' for a user requirement that isn't real? Devs don't have to update old hardware to make it not work. They can just leave it alone. This thread on the Sonos community alleges Sonos are doing this to get onboard the fad of the day:...
[05:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Labels Kratom an Opioid - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:55] <exec> 08└─I came across one link I didn't use because it didn't seem a respectable source, but apparently, 450 people die in the US from falling out of bed every year. https://www.oddee.com [oddee.com]
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[05:59:19] <exec> 08└─I saw you staring in the general direction of my rancid asshole. I know. I know all about how you admire my repugnant, parasite-infested, feces-filled rectum. Let's get this feces extravaganza started! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I just sucked your fetid cock into my smelly asshole at the speed of...
[05:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:20] <exec> 08└─Why would nintendo fight this, or even attempt to issue a patch? Once you put linux on it, its not longer suited to original purpose, (unless linux comes off of it clean). People who do this aren't going to be coming back with warranty claims. Why worry about it? Let them go. They did you a favor, t...
[05:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:42] <exec> 08└─What's sad about it? Lot of people want to have a better clue about the future. And it's done in such a way that if someone does come up with a good approach, the testing will do a fair job of determining that.
[05:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:43] <exec> 08└─And it's done in such a way that if someone does come up with a good approach, the testing will do a fair job of determining that.
[06:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:22] <exec> 08└─Feynman didn't drink at first... But he gave it a try and soon discovered that hanging out in bars would get him laid.
[06:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:23] <exec> 08└─-1 redundant, he already expressed his concerns about communists.
[06:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:25] <exec> 08└─Note that he is not alone in proposing that. China is already shaping the Internet big time. Yes, a strong person, intelligent and independent, will not care about calls to $somethingBad. But the truth is that many (or some) people are too fragile to understand. Our way of handling this is to give e...
[06:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:28] <exec> 08└─No it fucking isn't. That screed ignores human nature entirely. We *aren't* a hive civilization and trying to make us one will just result in mass death, as it has the last several times the hardcore Communists tried that.
[06:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03iru [6596] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:40] <exec> 08└─> It is "good enough" gaming for most. The PS4 and Xbox One run Jaguar APUs, and the new 2400G looks comparable to the PS4's. On the other hand console games are highly optimized and tuned to their platforms. The same results can’t be expected on similar PC configurations.
[06:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06That Mega-Vulnerability Cisco Dropped is Now Under Exploit - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:45] <exec> 08└─One of our home ISPs forces us to use a CISCO router. Apropos of nothing - it's shite.
[06:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winter Olympics Website Downed by Cyber Attack - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:07] <exec> 08└─Only fair, as they were both born in the USA to US reidents. At least she's more Korean than Zola Budd was English.
[06:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metasurfaces Enable Improved Optical Lens Performance - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:29] <exec> 08└─> plastic lenses which require extraordinary care during even ordinary cleaning to avoid quickly scratching Wash any plastic optical surface under running water, with a little liquid soap. This carries any grit away before it has a chance to damage the soft surface. Never touch the lens with anythin...
[06:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:32] <exec> 08└─This is precisely why I hate syndicating our headlines to Twitter.
[06:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:33] <exec> 08└─We've currently got about three hundred of them but I'd keep supporting it if we only had a couple dozen. Every person who Rs TFA is someone I might get to argue about TFA with. Which is why I do all this in the first place. Honestly though, the Twitter syndicating code is much, much less insanity i...
[06:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Whipping the Llama's Ass" with this Javascript WinAmp Emulator - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:17] <exec> 08└─They actually offered up both explanations, but yours was sort of the 'official' one. One cool thing WinAMP does (as does Foobar2000) is read archive files, so when I buttpirate a 'discography' rar, I don't even have to unpack it to load it into the player. If you want a WinAMP2-alike (with skin sup...
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[06:07:18] <exec> 08└─Exactly. When we call you a cockbiting fucktard, we'll go into detail as to why you're a cockbiting fucktard. Possibly even how to remedy that condition.
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[06:59:20] <exec> 08└─The true silicon neural computing being done by Intel and IBM should lead to better results, eventually.
[06:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:29] <exec> 08└─IIUC, most consoles are sold at a loss, and the games are where profit is made. I don't understand why they'd patch though, it's a waste of resources when the console modding community is so small. Rather, it should be a profit opportunity - sell a Linux cartridge or whatever these things use and 99...
[06:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:31] <exec> 08└─Many consoles are sold below cost, and you are expected to buy games to make profit for the manufacturer. Though in this case I do not expect a mad rush to convert consoles, as the resulting Linux box is not for everyone.
[06:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:54] <exec> 08└─Used to be "computer", and now it's "algorithm".
[06:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:56] <exec> 08└─Don't forget "...in the Cloud"
[06:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:58] <exec> 08└─You reckon that the climatologists are doomed to fail
[07:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:41] <exec> 08└─The Insidious Covert Rebuttal to the Oblivious Rebuttal is khallow, whom I now suspect is a S.A.L.T. Devious Commies! First they go after our precious bodily fluids, and then they pretend to go out of existence, at the same time inventing the Internets, Through their agent Al Bore, funded by Giorgio...
[07:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:43] <exec> 08└─causing it's victims to think that just saying "obvious rebuttal" is enough to prevail in any dispute
[07:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:45] <exec> 08└─It's idiot_king. Pure troll account, remember? I consider his posts art, like shit fingerpainted on the wall.
[07:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:47] <exec> 08└─We all know someone who we think should not <insert activity here> and there are people who know us who think we should not <insert activity here>.
[07:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:49] <exec> 08└─So you get your produce designed using the opensoure software. Then you want to ship it to China to get it replicated. Nobody over there knows a thing about KiCad. You get to redo it in what the industry wants.
[07:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 4847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:55] <exec> 08└─You ain't kiddin' about the beauty of having a standard container of electrical power. One size fits all, but some may take several to do the job. I knew a few years ago when we had a power outage, and I needed a flashlight. I went to the "emergency" kit I had so carefully prepared a few years ago,...
[07:05:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06911 Fees Paid by Phone Customers “Stolen” by States to Fill Budget Gaps - 1399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:03] <exec> 08└─I currently live in GA. About 20 years back, a "trauma center" fee was added for all cell phones. It was created by special statewide referendum during an election. It specifically said that the fees where to go to funding the creation of trauma centers across the state. (which is why the voters app...
[07:05:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06911 Fees Paid by Phone Customers “Stolen” by States to Fill Budget Gaps - 777 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:11] <exec> 08└─Lottery funded schools are the biggest joke going. Of course the lottery doesn't (yet) completely fund the public school system, so even if 100% of lottery funds are indeed given to education, all that happens is that other education funding sources are diverted or reduced to compensate. Now, in the...
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[07:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:31] <exec> 08└─It exposes the system to more hacks that could be used to page the way for pirating games. In consoles security through obfuscation is the easiest way.
[07:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:33] <exec> 08└─Security through obfuscation is the ONLY way. The security doesn't need to be perfect, it only needs to last long enough for the console to make a profit.
[07:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:35] <exec> 08└─I still buy stuff that's useful. My latest acquisitions have been power converter modules and Arduino interfaces. Now, if they put DRM in the power converters or Arduino interfaces, they become about as useful as light bulbs that fit sockets I do not have, or run on nonstandard voltages. New Light B...
[08:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:01] <exec> 08└─i predict my prediction is wrong
[08:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:02] <exec> 08└─Note that the only attempts to evaluate such predictions rapidly devolved into apologism.
[08:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:04] <exec> 08└─All of the above really? It's not a surprise tho since companies have told other companies that all their data is like gold and they can gain knowledge if just the right method is applied to them, or it's put into the cloud or into the lake or into the mist or into the (whatever is the new buzzy tre...
[08:00:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/ [washingtonpost.com] Opposition leaders tend to die, when they oppose too much.
[08:00:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:18] <exec> 08└─Is he one of the Putin-approved fake opposition members? Sure sounds like it.
[08:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:54] <exec> 08└─It's the easy and anonymous availability that makes it worse than the town square. If you went to the library and asked for books about the proper way to commit suicide, went to the town square to find a jihadist to explain to you why killing infidels is the answer to your shitty life, or had to go...
[08:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:55] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it would have its positives and negatives, and we didn't get too polarized the wrong way, we'd gain a lot.
[08:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:59] <exec> 08└─I used the eagle autorouter for my quickcircuit prototype board layouts, and once you priced the features to get the results you wanted, it wasn't half bad. It was very useful to show you areas of the board that could use further optimization in the component placements! So, it was useful for pointi...
[08:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:00] <exec> 08└─Wanna bet? ...and there are standard file formats that you give a PCB fabrication house e.g. Gerber. KiCAD produces those just fine. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:04:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:23] <exec> 08└─It's a pain in the ass to keep updating code for ancient hardware
[08:04:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 435 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:43] <exec> 08└─"Are they flat downright telling me they have already planned to be a pain-in-the-ass, and want me to legally acknowledge?" Yes, exactly. And at this point they have every reason to think that the consumer is SO stupid, SO short-sighted, SO bloody brain-dead that they can get away with it. Don't buy...
[08:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:07] <exec> 08└─Yep... troll.... but your message is loud and clear. We keep buying crap. So they keep making crap. And getting our money. Not everyone out there is a Soylentil. Most of us have the technical acumen of knowing crap when we see it. But there are an awful lot of people who are swayed by presentation...
[08:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:08] <exec> 08└─My feeling is if they do not disclose how it works, it not patentable. Its a "trade secret". My own take on it ( IANAL!!!) is that a condition of patent should be a disclosure of how it works. No disclosure - no patent. Simple as that. Should I patent putting ink on paper? Now show me the exact p...
[08:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:10] <exec> 08└─You boot a helluva lot faster than I do. It seems just the time I get powered up and coherent, its time to go home. Employers want the hours of my day that are the least productive - that is in terms of creativity. The only thing that comes up on me at dawn is the physical plant... that is I gotta...
[08:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06911 Fees Paid by Phone Customers “Stolen” by States to Fill Budget Gaps - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:31] <exec> 08└─But who has the guNs to hold a LawMaker accountable? FTFY
[08:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Labels Kratom an Opioid - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:41] <exec> 08└─It's an accident that they die. It's not an accident that they get strangled. It's a sex thing. Let me mention a couple of guys, very famous. Michael Hutchence from INXS. David Carradine from Kill Bill. They died having VERY SPECIAL sex. Be careful, folks. Have a medical guy -- or lady -- around whe...
[08:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Labels Kratom an Opioid - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:42] <exec> 08└─Folks, I'll be following #ReleaseTheModel [twitter.com].
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[08:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Renting Access to Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:25] <exec> 08└─SKYNET is alive... All we can hope for is that John Connor comes from the future to destroy this evil. Oh, wait, the last movie was fricking awful... and the decent TV series ended up on Fox, which cancels anything that requires more brain power than a 5 year old can muster.... I guess we are doomed...
[08:59:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:46] <exec> 08└─You just tweak the weighting so that it gives the answer you wanted to sell to your marks... I mean customers/managers and then use the authoritative sound of data mining and predictive algorithms as evidence of your answer. So they are quite useful just not for anything to do with reality.
[09:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:07] <exec> 08└─I read a nice book James Gleick wrote [amazon.com] years ago... its on Chaos theory. My take on it is he has the right idea... you may define the boundaries with statistical analyses, and probabilities, but exact predictions are damn near impossible. Prime examples being the weather or the stock ma...
[09:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:58] <exec> 08└─You consider shit fingerpainted on the wall art? Then you simply must see my portfolio!
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[09:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Valve, and LG Invest in OLED Manufacturer eMagin - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:24] <exec> 08└─"big names used to boost stock value." "Lazy reporters miss fine print."
[09:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:46] <exec> 08└─Because in the mind of the managers, control is more important than short term sales. Building the best product is so 1950.
[09:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:47] <exec> 08└─In terms of difficulty Cracking the Switch: ########################### Custom Linux for Switch: ### Getting systemd to work: ##############################################################################################################################################################################...
[09:59:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 1126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:58] <exec> 08└─This sort of thing (predictive analytics algorithms) has been done for decades by consulting firms. They gather the "relevant" (that's the important part and all of it comes from the client) data and organize it. They then pass that data through a proprietary algorithm and it spits out predictions....
[10:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:08] <exec> 08└─There already are a lot of people not running about loose in the world. Have you heard of America, the Prison Country?
[10:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:09] <exec> 08└─If only there were centralized propaganda hubs billions of people would visit several times a day on their portable little devices...
[10:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:44] <exec> 08└─See also Malthusianism. [wikipedia.org] the idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply is arithmetical at best
[10:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06911 Fees Paid by Phone Customers “Stolen” by States to Fill Budget Gaps - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:44] <exec> 08└─So cynical and wise and cool... I'll never understand this. Why do Soylentils so often upvote comments which are edgy, cynical, and stupid?
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[10:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple, Valve, and LG Invest in OLED Manufacturer eMagin - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:23] <exec> 08└─Seeing is believing. Call me when you have a working prototype that meets or exceeds the touted specs.
[11:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:16] <exec> 08└─I predict, that Dow Jones index will hit 100,000 by 2030. Yes, will happen. Doesn't mean exactly when.
[11:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:18] <exec> 08└─Weather is a nice example. You can predict the weather with around 60% accuracy by saying today will be the same as yesterday. You can also predict it with around 60% accuracy by saying that it will be the same as precisely one year ago. Combining these two techniques doesn't get you more than about...
[11:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:20] <exec> 08└─Providing the world still values a USDollar. I believe our financial system - so encumbered by debt - is quite unstable and apt to topple. I also believe the only reason the USD is still viable, is the banking elite are counting on the United States Military to enforce any claims they may wish to en...
[11:00:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:33] <exec> 08└─What exactly does most information on the internet (these days) have to do with truth?
[11:00:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:57] <exec> 08└─How in the hell is this reasonable? What happened to "beware of him who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master?" We cannot, absolutely cannot, let this come to pass, for the exact same reasons you don't want a poll tax or a eugenics initiative. It's preci...
[11:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:13] <exec> 08└─What happened to "beware of him who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master?"
[11:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Absorbs Nest, Nest Co-Founder Quits - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:41] <exec> 08└─The current EU WhatsApp / Facebook lawsuit is going to be interesting in the precedent that it sets for this kind of thing. WhatsApp T&Cs said that they wouldn't spy on you and would never sell your data to anyone. When Facebook bought them, the EU regulator highlighted this and required that Facebo...
[11:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mayfair Games Closes After 36 Years of Board Games - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:20] <exec> 08└─We played in two-player mode first and then in 4-player mode, so your explanation doesn't make sense: the first play-through, we won almost every month first time and won every month. The second time, with four people, we are about half way through and have lost one month and only won two on the fir...
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[11:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:18] <exec> 08└─it's a win win big advertisers pull out - platform declines - investors run away - users run away - win big platforms obey to big advertisers - platform becomes a whitewashed jail - users run away - platform declines - investors run away - win there is only one way forward, which has been the only w...
[11:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:19] <exec> 08└─Need socializing online? Use soylentnews.org (grin - careful what you wish for)
[11:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvUL28Skt6E [youtube.com] but, i can not troll this kind of content, so i keep myself brief... let my silence speak, so to say... also, first post -zug
[11:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:29] <exec> 08└─It's blurred!!! One can't even see the electrons moving around.
[11:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple, Valve, and LG Invest in OLED Manufacturer eMagin - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:39] <exec> 08└─"From the-news-that-almost-was dept" fits much better.
[12:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 1776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:33] <exec> 08└─I've seen the sort of attitudes that foster processes like this even in a very small company. Management that completely saturate themselves in business bullshit for human resource development and take every process in the book there as a drop in fix for any problem with their staff. The staff are u...
[12:05:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:07] <exec> 08└─Nobody should be allowed to keep patents and copyrights on things they refuse to sell or service. If you want respect for patent and copyright laws, there must be compulsory licensing. Can't have one without the other.
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[12:59:20] <exec> 08└─I read the article this morning and the decline that they were predicting was weird: a gradual linear decay of Facebook usage. This seems to completely misunderstand what Facebook is. People don't use Facebook because they like Facebook, people use Facebook because other people that they want to com...
[12:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:21] <exec> 08└─Need socializing online? Use soylentnews.org
[12:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yaa101 [4091] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:23] <exec> 08└─They just using their leverage to get a better deal and doing damage control to safe their brands from poisening.
[12:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:25] <exec> 08└─There is so much online advertising that it has become ineffective. How many purchasing decisions do you make each day? How many online ads do you see each day? Enough said. While Working Software claimed to be a software publisher, really it was a direct mail business. Our software facilitated the...
[12:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:27] <exec> 08└─I got it examined at the urgent care clinic but the doctor said only a biopsy could determine whether or not it was cancer. I stayed up way past my bedtime tonight so I could do my taxes. The most time-consuming part was adding the last few months of transactions to GnuCash, as well as correcting er...
[12:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:31] <exec> 08└─We're going to need the "TMI" mod...
[12:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:33] <exec> 08└─This sounds a lot like ham radio 75M SSB nets.
[12:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:35] <exec> 08└─I would not disagree but would toss out another suggestion that there's entire classes of products that seem to only be sold to people on various web discussion board technologies, so you can expect astroturfing and slashvertisement type stuff to increase. For example does anyone buy a iopteron astr...
[12:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:37] <exec> 08└─Journal, mate, your own journal is for this. Nothing stops you in keeping the timeline of your life events there. The only restriction: has to be in UNICODE format, the utf8 encoding is taken care automatically (I think)
[12:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:47] <exec> 08└─Individual electrons were yesterday, today it's a cloud of electrons. Do you honestly belief electrons still live in the stone age?
[13:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:52] <exec> 08└─My rant was typo-ridden - I know. Just to put it in context, my post was illustrating that most of the problems involving human beings often can't be solved with lazy, simplistic algorithms or flow charts. It's pseudo-science trying to find shortcuts to solve problems when typically there will alrea...
[13:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:59] <exec> 08└─Tom's Hardware and pcper.com did a pretty thorough review, and for value-for-your-dollar these parts are pretty good. But an Nvidia GT 1030 isn't hard to find these days and beats or matches the better part at the GPU level. So if you're thinking long term get a dedicated CPU and that, and then late...
[13:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06911 Fees Paid by Phone Customers “Stolen” by States to Fill Budget Gaps - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe because it's true? And appropriate in the given context? And the people who refuse to acknowledge such things need to have their noses rubbed in it, despite the stench? And what, are you trying to be uber edgy and cool by bitching about it? You can down vote it if you want. I don't mind, or yo...
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[13:59:18] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/02/09/1811245 [soylentnews.org] Bruce Perens Wants to Anti-SLAPP GRSecurity's Brad Spengler With $670,000 in Legal Bills Stop trying to slide the story.
[13:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:36] <exec> 08└─if they cannot reign in hate
[13:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:38] <exec> 08└─I think direct mail is still big, but it has gone paperless by using email. I keep an account that gets only advertisements and purchase receipts, and I check it often. I don't really purchase much based on the ads, but I do enjoy looking at them.
[13:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:40] <exec> 08└─"little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency"
[13:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:42] <exec> 08└─Where is it even implied that "surveillance capitalism" is going anywhere? What does that have to do with the price of rice?
[13:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:44] <exec> 08└─How Close are we to Peak Social Media?
[13:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:46] <exec> 08└─I think i'm an alcoholic (1 monthish sober), my son is moderately autistic but doing pretty good... will be getting out of high school as soon as we can afford it because HIGH SCHOOL SUCKS for people like him... in public school they know what they are doing. High school? They know squat.), and my w...
[13:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:49] <exec> 08└─No, it's bacon radio.
[13:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TuohSsw4k [youtube.com]
[13:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:53] <exec> 08└─How many human hours are spent on social media in a day? Divide by how many human hours are in a day. They have lots of more time to waste.
[14:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:04] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if they are going to brag about something like this if they can actually provide a resolution that shows said dot with sufficient detail to prove that you are seeing the atom and not simply light triggered/reflected by the existence of the atom at that point in space. Very anticlima...
[14:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:06] <exec> 08└─As someone said in the comments on the article, all we ever see is the light that's reflected.
[14:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:08] <exec> 08└─As someone who is a fairly avid amateur photographer I am wondering how that image was captured as the article is fairly light on details. If I had to guess it probably is either a HDR image with a regular exposure for most of the scene and then an exposure for the atom, or maybe a flash was used to...
[14:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:11] <exec> 08└─all we ever see is the light that's reflected fullstop.
[14:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:13] <exec> 08└─the atom
[14:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:15] <exec> 08└─$@^ it, about five seconds after I click submit, I figured it out. Absolute brightness. Likely 3x atoms would result in 3x photons and astronomers are pretty good at telling 3dB brightness apart. So if the dude's photo was analyzed to contain 2x predicted photons that would imply two atoms. Still, p...
[14:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:17] <exec> 08└─3x photons and astronomers are pretty good at telling 3dB brightness apart.
[14:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Renting Access to Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:35] <exec> 08└─As discrete processing cards. One of the biggest reasons that desktops are going away is the lack of available hardware you can use with them. These would have been a perfect example of a device to make all those expansion slots the average desktop has unused into something useful. Sad really.
[14:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:25] <exec> 08└─Predictive algorithms work fine when they do work. Of course, this does not stop them from being overhyped and misused. And anyone who currently tries to apply them to the work domain is either a genius with a breakthrough or a total tool (in the case of this article, I'm leaning towards the tool si...
[14:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:27] <exec> 08└─I agree with your comments for small organisations. What about for big ones where the management are several layers away from the people actually doing the work. In an outfit with more than ~ few 100 staff, it isn't possible for senior management to just chat to people. What happens if "joe middle m...
[14:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:29] <exec> 08└─> Providing the world still values a USDollar. Just for reference, this is how Britain operated during 19th Century, based on debts of foreign powers to UK built up during 18th century and Napoleonic wars. With the added requirement that world trade *had* to operate out of UK ports, enforced by supe...
[14:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:23] <exec> 08└─It will show this for pretty much every society model mankind has ever attempted.
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[14:59:25] <exec> 08└─This ain't 4chan, the story is old not slid. Nobody cares about what Mikee has to say anyway, especially when he can't link to crap.
[14:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:26] <exec> 08└─The story is about Bruce Perens vs Grsecurity fight. Who mentioned this "Mikee". WTF is a "Mikee" and why is it relevant? 20 stories with 0 comments to bury an important Open Source story is definitely sliding. No one gives a FUCK about these other stories. Peren's story should be pinned on the firs...
[14:59:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:37] <exec> 08└─Need socializing online? Use soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLQ24DDpOhk [youtube.com]
[14:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:56] <exec> 08└─Need socializing online? Use soylentnews.org
[14:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:58] <exec> 08└─People don't use Facebook because they like Facebook, people use Facebook because other people that they want to communicate with use Facebook. [...] If you're on Facebook, why not hurry the process along: use Facebook to coordinate a group of 10 or 20 of your friends to close their accounts simulta...
[14:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:00] <exec> 08└─I get a lot of spam, but various filters mean that I never read any of it. I occasionally see what's being sent and it's mostly scams, rather than legitimate adverts. In contrast, I get an average of 1-2 leaflets delivered through my door each day, which I have to pick up and filter manually.
[15:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:02] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there, leverage indeed!
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:04] <exec> 08└─i like turtles
[15:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Renting Access to Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:38] <exec> 08└─IBM's TrueNorth and Intel's what again?
[15:01:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:03] <exec> 08└─See, the managers, once invested into this, will expect employees to conform or else. Happens all the time. Just recall all the greatest software development mumbo jumbos of the last decades. Not to mention the infamous cubical wall hight effect. So, yes, the algorithms will work. Workers will find...
[15:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:26] <exec> 08└─It's the easy and anonymous availability that makes it worse than the town square.
[15:02:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06New Lithium Collection Method Could Boost Global Supply - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:49] <exec> 08└─CSIRO blog [csiro.au]. Full text of TFSANP [sciencemag.org] (that's The Fine Scientific Article No Paywall): "Ultrafast selective transport of alkali metal ions in metal organic frameworks with subnanometer pores"
[15:04:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 1130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:32] <exec> 08└─Despite the rhetoric from puritanical drug-warriors, the actual "gateway drug" to heroin isn't mild stuff like pot, or hallucinogens like LSD and mushrooms, it's prescription opioids. Which were sold under mostly fraudulent marketing that basically pretended they were safe and non-addictive. And her...
[15:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:41] <exec> 08└─OK. How about a framework like this for Big Pharma: * CAN market to doctors * can NOT give kickbacks, inducements, paid vacations, etc to doctors, but CAN give free samples of drug * can NOT market to consumers * CAN put all your drug information and promotional material on your web site where anyon...
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[15:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:21] <exec> 08└─Seems that no one really seems to think this is worth commenting on.
[15:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:23] <exec> 08└─This overrides Netflix's -- seemingly artifical -- streaming quality limitation
[15:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:25] <exec> 08└─This overrides Netflix's -- seemingly artifical -- streaming quality limitation
[15:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:27] <exec> 08└─Oops, I mangled my last link. Last line again: But yes, Chrome only streams Netflix up to 720P, even on Windows. [netflix.com]
[15:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:29] <exec> 08└─Instead of supporting a company that hates you. You could just visit: https://thepiratebay.org [thepiratebay.org]; or https://eztv.ag [eztv.ag]; or https://www.skytorrents.in [skytorrents.in]; or https://www.limetorrents.cc [limetorrents.cc]. And, download movies not only in 1080p but in 4k. And...
[15:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:40] <exec> 08└─The other AC is accusing you of being MikeeUSA [wikia.com].
[15:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:42] <exec> 08└─My last prediction was that I'd be browsing without JS within a year. This might move that date a little closer.
[15:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:44] <exec> 08└─Feigned ignorance and another easily debunked claim. Just die.
[15:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─They're full programs which execute arbitrary code on your computer which is typically outside the control of the site operator, so how much you trust the site is irrelevant. It's time we stopped collectively pretending they're just documents, admitted they're programs, and took some sane security p...
[16:00:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Apparition [6835] 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:01] <exec> 08└─We're going to need the "TMI" mod...
[16:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:20] <exec> 08└─Price of rice? I don't understand: the traditional usage of rice as currency medium
[16:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:22] <exec> 08└─remember when only people from a certain UNI could join facebook (email test)? anyways, "peak social media" is what we have in china and other repressive states. a free, open country will NEVER reach "peak social media", per definition, it is open ... the way to "peak social media" for free countrie...
[16:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:24] <exec> 08└─If they respond to just one offer they're likely to respond to many others. A really good list consists entirely of names that have responded to at least one offer
[16:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:26] <exec> 08└─Sad thing is, my first 2 paragraphs are true, there never was a lump, and the Trump Sux was clickbait.
[16:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:28] <exec> 08└─It would be logical to have ads for meds for weird conditions thrown at you, if you were watching the superbowel.
[16:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:31] <exec> 08└─Because I stayed up all. Night. So are telling me SN won't let me post pictures? How about videos? Surely I can post videos I'm on the I-5 bridge across the Columbia. They've been trying to replace it for twenty years but they can't agree on whether the yellow line should go across it You'll be prou...
[16:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:33] <exec> 08└─You can always sell them the rope they'll use to hang you.
[16:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:35] <exec> 08└─No shit!
[16:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:37] <exec> 08└─A fact that is also remembered by scam operators. (If you respond/fall for one scam, your details may be sold to other scammers as "easy pickings".)
[16:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:39] <exec> 08└─Is that one of the conditions?
[16:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:41] <exec> 08└─Try this link: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I'm more familiar with "eggs" instead of "rice".
[16:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:44] <exec> 08└─careful when you try to invert reality, those kinds of things are serious business and you shouldn't talk lightly about them. You want people to think you like trump?
[16:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:46] <exec> 08└─It's the state of social media when the leftists join the superbowel network.
[16:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:02] <exec> 08└─Synaesthesia definitely exists. I've never seen sounds, but I have heard light patterns (that I was creating myself with the aid of a 50 Hz polychromatic source and 2 near-periodic light filters. (OK, a TV showing snooker, and my 2 hands. Oh, and some rather spacey cookies.)
[16:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:04] <exec> 08└─Article mentions 2 gelled flashes. No super-fancy kit at all - now he should bring a pro in to take something worth having as a poster in the institute's foyer.
[16:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:06] <exec> 08└─What you're seeing is the quantum superposition of a hundred such photos. Blink faster.
[16:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:08] <exec> 08└─How hot has that atom got to be, a _single_ atom emitting enough light to be picked up by a consumer(-ish) camera?! What intensity of laser must they be hitting it with, what are the results of that, how do they keep it still with that much input? The mind boggles.
[16:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Renting Access to Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:27] <exec> 08└─They're going the IBM lameframe, music streaming, and software route though ... why sell when you can rent.
[16:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:44] <exec> 08└─Similarly, why would Sony remove support for running Linux on the PS3 [wikipedia.org]?
[16:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:45] <exec> 08└─Is that systemd on the switch, or in general?
[16:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:47] <exec> 08└─That is why I like Nintendo, they didn't seem to get the memo.
[16:02:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:02] <exec> 08└─The Deification of the Algorithm. We've done this type of thing to all sorts of things throughout history, and it's always been for the same purpose: keep a group of people in check... (conveniently, always a group 'we' don't belong to, it's always the other ones that need to be kept in check)
[16:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:25] <exec> 08└─To manage effectively and develop their knowledge of current and likely organisational events, managers need to learn to build and trust their instinctual awareness of emerging processes rather than rely on algorithmic promises that cannot be realised. The key to effective decision-making is not alg...
[16:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:23] <exec> 08└─few dozYou do realize that Aristarchus is older than fuck, and he's been around the world many hundreds of times. How the fuck would you know who Aristarchus has met, or hasn't met? You're such a presumptuous little twit. It's a safe bet that there are fewer people that Aristarchus has NEVER MET, th...
[16:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:24] <exec> 08└─If there is a high road, you're not taking it with your recent comments.
[16:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:40] <exec> 08└─I'm probably one of the few people who did the APU/GPU crossfire. It was really cool but crossfire/sli has fallen away from mainstream. My only issue with it was it could only crossfire with a very specific gpu. R7 270 i think? Back then graphics cards were much cheaper and getting a slightly better...
[16:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my flashlights were marketed as "tactical flashlights". They have a stupid serrated end, that will probably cut a man's throat, if you were to put it to that use. To me, it's just stupid. I love the LED light. A typical 3 D-cell professional flashlight, like the cops carry, will kinda light up...
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[16:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:16] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=24061&page=1&cid=637129#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] If commentator is MikeeUSA then commentator is getting what commentator wanted (Bruce Perens won). Why should commentator "go die"? MikeeUSA apparently told Brad Spengler "I am going to sue you o...
[16:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:18] <exec> 08└─First there was the VPN as in Virtual Private Network. Then they invented the "Virtual" Private Network, where privacy features really are of the virtual kind.
[16:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:20] <exec> 08└─Anyone who is not a feminist is not a lawyer. Anyone who is infavor of female children being married to men (As allowed in Devarim chapter 22, verse 28, hebrew) is not a lawyer. Maaallleeessss who like girls are dumb critens; like sea sponges. They do not have the ability to program let alone become...
[16:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:22] <exec> 08└─dumb fuck
[16:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:24] <exec> 08└─A Virtual-Privacy Network if you will.
[16:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:26] <exec> 08└─Virtually private. Close, but no cigar.
[16:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:29] <exec> 08└─I think Virtual "Private" Network fits a little better. It's "private." We "promise" not to sell your data to our corporate "partners." Really. You can "trust" us. Also, I "can't" think of any way to abuse this such that it makes Facebook have a Very Bad Day. There are certain types of data they don...
[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:40] <exec> 08└─I already canceled my Neflix subscription.
[16:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.tvaddons.co [tvaddons.co]
[16:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:44] <exec> 08└─Or... just stop watching them. If you disagree with the way they do business this much, why would you try to watch their content which is similarly full of advertising anyway? To be honest, you're an outlier. Most people are quite happy with Netflix, Amazon, even Google Play. Your concerns don't fig...
[16:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:46] <exec> 08└─I don't watch netflix but the "semenly artificial" thing is stupid
[16:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:48] <exec> 08└─It's worse than full of advertising, it's advertising wrapped in advertising. Every show is a propaganda piece, the scripts apparently written by a committee made up of people from the marketing and 'diversity' departments, with no sign that a literate human being was ever involved. The acting is us...
[17:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:02] <exec> 08└─If commentator is MikeeUSA then commentator is getting what commentator wanted (Bruce Perens won). Why should commentator "go die"? MikeeUSA apparently told Brad Spengler "I am going to sue you on this issue".... some time latter Brad then dragged himself into court on the issue... Why would a presu...
[17:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:03] <exec> 08└─Anyone who is not a feminist is not a lawyer. Anyone who is infavor of female children being married to men (As allowed in Devarim chapter 22, verse 28, hebrew) is not a lawyer. Maaallleeessss who like girls are dumb critens; like sea sponges. They do not have the ability to program let alone become...
[17:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:50] <exec> 08└─Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’.
[17:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:52] <exec> 08└─Price of rice? I don't understand: :-) I think you do https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Sorry, you gotta copy and paste to read it... Hey Soylent, You're breaking the link!
[17:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:54] <exec> 08└─The process of social networking tools works something like this: 1. They start off with a specific small community and purpose, and enable people to easily communicate with each other without having to, say, run their own webservers. This is very convenient and useful. 2. Because it's convenient an...
[17:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:56] <exec> 08└─As someone once said, instead of trying to figure out why someone hates you, figure out why you care.
[17:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:17] <exec> 08└─$@^ it, about five seconds after I click submit, I figured it out. Yep, this is precisely why I keep clamoring for an "edit" function on this site, even if it's only available for 60 seconds after you post.
[17:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:18] <exec> 08└─I saw that too but it still doesn't explain if it was a single long exposure or a regular exposure with the flashes combined with a long exposure for the atom. The gelled flashes look to be a blue one and a orange one, it makes for some nice illumination of the 2 sides of the trap.
[17:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:36] <exec> 08└─dude this is just a new version of a totem, you can just go to the church instead
[17:02:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:56] <exec> 08└─/agree. I've had this same discussion about voting rights, and reproduction rights too. I think there are lots people who should be restricted from doing either. But, for such a system to exist, someone else gets to decide who gets to vote or who gets to reproduce. So despite my sense that there are...
[17:03:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:11] <exec> 08└─A lot of people cannot handle what they find on the internet.
[17:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:36] <exec> 08└─holy crap you managed to post without grinning at the end of it
[17:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:37] <exec> 08└─Huh, looks like you got triggered by the messenger. I'm no fan of crafoos usual politics, but this was spot on.
[17:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:39] <exec> 08└─The problem is that if you have no controls, then you get an unstable state and a bad outcome. The answer is relatively simple: we need someone to be in charge of limiting peoples' freedoms. Because we can't trust other people to do that, we need to build an AI to do it. I, for one, welcome our new...
[17:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:41] <exec> 08└─even the grinning muscles must take a break from time to time
[17:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:44] <exec> 08└─"Democracy is the worst form of government...except for all the other ones."
[17:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:46] <exec> 08└─It's not like the game created some nonsensical phrase. A game designer came up with the quote. Quite possibly Brian Reynolds. "Reynolds researched science fiction for the game's writing.[42] His inspiration included "classic works of science fiction", including Frank Herbert's The Jesus Incident an...
[17:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Two Ryzen Desktop APUs - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:01] <exec> 08└─crossfire/sli has fallen away from mainstream
[17:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:55] <exec> 08└─You don't know what Gerbers are, do you? I've been sending KiCad-designed boards to China for many years now.
[17:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Coming In KiCAD Version 5 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:56] <exec> 08└─It saddens me that pseudo libertarianism is as close as the older engineers can get to decency. Guess all the jokes about social ineptitude were right.
[17:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Be Deliberately Breaking Existing Products - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:08] <exec> 08└─Ok so... don't by Sonos. Got it. I mean, seriously, what budding Einstein actually thought this was a good idea?
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[17:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:31] <exec> 08└─If you have a Facebook account, you fail.
[17:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:33] <exec> 08└─Any time this stuff bugs me I just try and remember that the life of someone who spends their time doing this must be even worse than the crap they shitpost. Or they are 14 year old kids and all we can do is try and pray their cray away.
[17:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:35] <exec> 08└─We do business with Communist China, learn to tolerate their ways, and then normalize this behavior for ourselves (the USA). I don't blame the Chinese. I blame us.
[17:59:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 1416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:48] <exec> 08└─Or... just stop watching them. If you disagree with the way they do business this much, why would you try to watch their content which is similarly full of advertising anyway? To be honest, you're an outlier. Most people are quite happy with Netflix, Amazon, even Google Play. Your concerns don't fig...
[17:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:51] <exec> 08└─I really don't get all of the hate that Netflix is getting. Now, I can definitely see why you would be hating on them, if you were in the Video Rental business. Netflix just about single-handedly destroyed all of the video rental shops. Mostly due to the horrendous fees that Video shops would charge...
[18:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:57] <exec> 08└─I think tamping down on some loosely defined element called "division" only makes matters worse. Years of stifling people via political correctness has CREATED more division, rather than stamping it out. Society needs the freedom to have release valves, whether in the form of humor or whatever. Othe...
[18:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:58] <exec> 08└─I've had a semi-dormant Snapchat account for a couple years now, so I fired it up to see how it might be a replacement for FB. It seems everything is geared toward "right now". Maybe I'm just too old now, but without an events/calendar/planning feature it can't replace FB as my primary social networ...
[18:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:00] <exec> 08└─Here is the complaint: Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’. It further threatens to take its ad purchases off Facebook and Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children.
[18:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:03] <exec> 08└─Not enough neonazi propaganda for that yet.
[18:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:05] <exec> 08└─But that poor Nigerian prince said he just couldn't get to his money! I felt so sorry for him and the reward he offered to help was SOOOO generous!
[18:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:07] <exec> 08└─This is not the end of "surveillance capitalism." What Unilever is saying is that the existing platforms of social media are not *surveilled enough* to tell them if their advertising money spent is effective. They feel that the content of the platforms they're advertising on aren't homogenous enough...
[18:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:07] <exec> 08└─Getting systemd to work
[18:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:51] <exec> 08└─Words. They have a meaning. You should try to understand their meaning, before you spend a lot of time responding to them. The words you want to consider reading again are my "easy" and "worse", and how they relate to your "completely unable", or not.
[18:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:53] <exec> 08└─You started perfect, then you suddenly veered off and ignored millennia of tradition. Gods are pissed.
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[18:59:17] <exec> 08└─Right ... "We need to study this quickly" ... Suuuuuuure. What i see is that a bunch of nerds are going to fly off South for a relaxing vacation in the midnight sun, while pretending to do "hard work". I'm sure that "zooplankton" and "two big bergs on starboard!!" are codenames for ogling females wh...
[18:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:34] <exec> 08└─I don't personally use Facebook. But, I find the idea that our internet-points are so much more worthy than their internet-points to be highly annoying.
[18:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:52] <exec> 08└─Get over yourself you snowflake, it's a comedy show.
[18:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:54] <exec> 08└─How long until the app becomes popular enough to appear on Netflix's radar? When that happens, how long until lawyers are involved and the inevitable takedown letter. for either DCMA or copyright violations. (I expect DCMA due to circumvention methods.)
[18:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:56] <exec> 08└─Who wants to bet that this guy who needs a Safe-Space from "offensive" white-people jokes loves to call others "SJWs."
[18:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:58] <exec> 08└─Hmm...sounds like you're doing it wrong. My policy is to only watch comedies that are funny. It works pretty well for me. Maybe you should try it out.
[18:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:00] <exec> 08└─Get over yourself you snowflake, it's a comedy show.
[19:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:02] <exec> 08└─Netflix doesn't hate you, Netflix loves your monthly subscription fees - as long as you're willing to pay fees that give them a tidy profit margin above their cost of licensing/production. Judging by the amount of content that Netflix is producing these days (putting them in the 0 license fee per vi...
[19:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:05] <exec> 08└─As a user of Netflux, Amazon Prime, Hulu and one more thing I keep forgetting, my opinion is that Netflix doesn't have a lot of good content and they hide it by giving bad rating to shows that compete with their own. That is simply unethical. I don't know why other people hate it, but that's my reas...
[19:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:07] <exec> 08└─Damn you Poe's law!
[19:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:09] <exec> 08└─And they make more money when people watch the content they produce. So yes, they care, because Capitalism.
[19:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:25] <exec> 08└─Browsing websites without NoScript is like visiting the street ladies without wearing rubbers. You will eventually catch something unpleasant. Yes, it's often inconvenient, but unlike sex with condoms, NoScript browsing is often a more pleasurable experience.
[19:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 2641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:26] <exec> 08└─In the late 20th and early 21st centuries humanity created the Net which enabled the free flow of information and a new age was ushered in. Society quickly adapted as technology infiltrated every aspect of daily life. In a strange twist the Net enabled endless possibilities to bring people together...
[19:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:28] <exec> 08└─If commentator is MikeeUSA why should he then kill himself?
[19:00:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:38] <exec> 08└─it's a win win big advertisers pull out - platform declines - investors run away - users run away - win big platforms obey to big advertisers - platform becomes a whitewashed jail - users run away - platform declines - investors run away - win there is only one way forward, which has been the only w...
[19:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:26] <exec> 08└─Yep. That's it right there. They and many others are tired of throwing their money away. All they needed was a little push.
[19:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:28] <exec> 08└─if Facebook starts to die it will be sudden.
[19:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:30] <exec> 08└─True to your username...
[19:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:32] <exec> 08└─No joke, ICQ uids from the 90s still work. I went to the website as a joke when I found out it still existed, and managed to remember my number and password from 18 years ago. My contact list was a ghost town, though. Was gaming contacts from 1999-2000.
[19:01:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:47] <exec> 08└─$@^ it, about five seconds after I click submit, I figured it out. Absolute brightness. Likely 3x atoms would result in 3x photons and astronomers are pretty good at telling 3dB brightness apart. So if the dude's photo was analyzed to contain 2x predicted photons that would imply two atoms. Still, p...
[19:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:55] <exec> 08└─And here I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that perhaps you were saying that a second atom would be 3dB more. I would say we could all use 3+dB more caffeine.
[19:03:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:30] <exec> 08└─That's what you risk to get from ignoramuses in a certain knowledge field. Being a Nobel Laureate in physics doesn't necessary make one prepared to have relevant opinions in social/sociology.
[19:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:21] <exec> 08└─It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache!
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[19:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:28] <exec> 08└─Win stupid prizes. When you're a power couple who both screams about video games and shakes your jugs on the interweb video sites you're going to attract this kind of fan.
[19:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:29] <exec> 08└─Not really sure why this is news. Lunatic with unhealthy obsession acts upon unhealthy obsession. Police intervene. Lunatic ends up dead, possibly by suicide (story doesn't make it clear). In other news, with over 7 billion people on this planet, it should come as no surprise that there's an ample s...
[19:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:31] <exec> 08└─Updated versions I have seen make it crystal clear that the cops killed him.
[19:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:33] <exec> 08└─To be linked to yesterday's article about "internet shouldn't be accessible to just anyone". [insert quip about encounter ending well for couple who didn't try to confront armed deranged asshole]
[19:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:57] <exec> 08└─Decades ago when I was in college, an older person told me that one day Russia would take over our country without firing a single shot.
[19:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:59] <exec> 08└─Problem is, a choral group and a gaming club I belong to use it as their collective note-boards, as does a band I like; and the town posts schedules and the library calendar. It *is* annoying that their entire business model is trying to make information hard-to-get and restricted, while they vacuum...
[20:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:01] <exec> 08└─> We do business with Communist China, learn to tolerate their ways Right. It's totally the Chinese who have taught Americans to create profit-making enterprises at the expense of their fellow citizens' privacy, safety, or health. What time should I pencil in for your bridge tour? Don't wait too lon...
[20:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:03] <exec> 08└─Violating Privacy Network
[20:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:05] <exec> 08└─2 edgeee 4 mee
[20:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:32] <exec> 08└─Damn you Poe's law!
[20:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:33] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that they only care when you stop subscribing. So, like Comcast, you may hate their guts, but if you don't hate their guts enough to pull the plug on the monthly transfer of funds, then "caring" isn't really important to their bottom line.
[20:01:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:00] <exec> 08└─Need socializing online? Use soylentnews.org (grin - careful what you wish for)
[20:01:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 1401 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:40] <exec> 08└─The process of social networking tools works something like this: 1. They start off with a specific small community and purpose, and enable people to easily communicate with each other without having to, say, run their own webservers. This is very convenient and useful. 2. Because it's convenient an...
[20:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:53] <exec> 08└─Facebook is a communications channel that people use to keep in contact.
[20:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:54] <exec> 08└─How much of the $505 are we about to lose by disappointing Unilever ?
[20:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:19] <exec> 08└─The only other time I saw this was when prof. Hubert Farnsworth had one.
[20:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:20] <exec> 08└─Uploading my electrons to the cloud was a positive move for me !
[20:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:00] <exec> 08└─This boss is a meanie. Just when it was about to die, it asked the hackers how much faster they would succeed using VI vs Emacs, and subsequently had time to regenerate, carefully pack its loot in a luggage, and leave the area while laughing about running Crysis.
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[20:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:16] <exec> 08└─That's the thing about law; it's house of cards built on a hill of sand. When you dig down, terms are never well defined. All of case law ultimately rests on the collection of judges' heuristic gut feelings.
[20:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:27] <exec> 08└─It's a feel-good story about the ongoing positive impact of GooTube.
[20:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:28] <exec> 08└─I met someone like that once. It's the only time in my life that I've ever been frightened by a mentally ill person. He claimed that Britney Spears was in love with him. He carries a fancy leatherbound notebook in which he transcribes everything she says to him. He also claimed to be in Obama's inne...
[20:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:31] <exec> 08└─Some guy convinced his girlfriend to shoot at a book that he held over his chest. He somehow managed to convince her that the bullet wouldn't penetrate. Hilarity ensued.
[20:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:33] <exec> 08└─These people are paying the price of fame... unfortunately, YouTube ad rates don't provide enough income to cover a personal security staff (for the vast majority of content producers.)
[20:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:35] <exec> 08└─I had a job applicant who included his personal website on his resume. There, on the front page of the site, was a link to a journal of the applicant's personal MkUltra experiences as an involuntary test subject being secretly manipulated by the CIA, not portrayed in any way as fictional or humorous...
[20:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:37] <exec> 08└─3) He wants to continue drawing unemployment insurance a while longer. He has to demonstrate to the state that he's actively seeking employment, so he filled out the app, but left you with a very good reason not to hire him.
[20:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:39] <exec> 08└─Hilarity Mortality ensued.
[20:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gap Exposed by Iceberg Breaking Off the Larsen Ice Shelf to be Studied - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:48] <exec> 08└─I have helpfully linked a typical beach scene from the Antarctic peninsula here. [wikimedia.org] I suppose you could wear a bikini if you really wanted, but according to Accuweather [accuweather.com] it is something like -6 C at the moment. I did read a piece on Modern Drunkard a while back about...
[21:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:38] <exec> 08└─I agree. The Netflix originals are not interesting to me, and the ones I've tried to watch I haven't liked. The content I used to love Netflix for - for foreign movies, classics, seasons of good tv shows - are either disappearing or already consumed.
[21:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:40] <exec> 08└─Is there any reason to believe they'd care? My guess is they artificially limit Linux streams simply because Linux is notorious for having full-screen video performance issues, and they have no interest in offering support for such issues on a few dozen of the most popular distros. Someone makes an...
[21:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:01] <exec> 08└─Should you really split hairs here? It's clear they're looking for a platform from a provider that's the reigning leader in 'hate', but second or third place would likely be fine for them, regardless of your definition of hate. Thinking about the children is always important, though.
[21:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:02] <exec> 08└─Now that you have started it, c0lo, tell us about the vegemite. And the dingos.
[21:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:04] <exec> 08└─if they cannot reign in hate
[21:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─With the 1984 doublespeak redefinitions of common words, much like "justice" now means promotion of leftist propaganda
[21:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:08] <exec> 08└─The problem is that FB can easily use the "Where are they going to? I'll buy that" argument ... If Google or MS got their social networks to expand, they could kill FB (teens flocking to MS would be quite a sight). Smaller actors will be happy to cash in a few billion to get FBorged. The phone manuf...
[21:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Renting Access to Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:53] <exec> 08└─Loihi
[21:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah in the big organizations it's down to the middle managers to cut the bullshit and talk frankly to those under them and escalate any needed changes or even better find a way to deal with it without involving their higher ups. As for the asshole managers, those that have a high employee turnover...
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[21:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:19] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, before computers, patents were, I think, mostly about machines that you built or developed. A better hand gun. A light bulb. I don't think there was much abstraction. Patents required a drawing of the machine. It was software patents that mucked things up.
[21:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:37] <exec> 08└─Like the punks in 80's London, sure - he could be dodging work, but it would have been pretty easy to miss also... not every hiring manager checks personal websites, and even if you do, it was just one link off the front page - the rest of the front page and several other sections looked reasonably...
[21:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:39] <exec> 08└─Mortgage? Ahahahahahaha In Australia it may not even cover rent.
[22:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:09] <exec> 08└─In China, they have far less online privacy, so they've learned to create profit-making enterprises at the expense of their fellow citizen's health. The US has some catching up to do. The oil drilling and opiate sales enterprises have some skills, but most others need to try harder.
[22:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:11] <exec> 08└─Hey, you Y-chromosome-carriers are the ones who start the wars and run the prisons. No one hurts men like other men, Kvaratskhelia.
[22:00:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mmh [721] 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:22] <exec> 08└─Instead of supporting a company that hates you. You could just visit: https://thepiratebay.org [thepiratebay.org]; or https://eztv.ag [eztv.ag]; or https://www.skytorrents.in [skytorrents.in]; or https://www.limetorrents.cc [limetorrents.cc]. And, download movies not only in 1080p but in 4k. And...
[22:00:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 906 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:29] <exec> 08└─I really don't get all of the hate that Netflix is getting. Now, I can definitely see why you would be hating on them, if you were in the Video Rental business. Netflix just about single-handedly destroyed all of the video rental shops. Mostly due to the horrendous fees that Video shops would charge...
[22:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:43] <exec> 08└─Two guilty pleas and two indictments so far. So it's going pretty well. Thanks for asking!
[22:00:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:54] <exec> 08└─My last prediction was that I'd be browsing without JS within a year. This might move that date a little closer.
[22:01:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:57] <exec> 08└─This is not the end of "surveillance capitalism." What Unilever is saying is that the existing platforms of social media are not *surveilled enough* to tell them if their advertising money spent is effective. They feel that the content of the platforms they're advertising on aren't homogenous enough...
[22:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:09] <exec> 08└─But what if it is interpreted as TOO MUCH turtle?
[22:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:11] <exec> 08└─Koala pics plz
[22:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:13] <exec> 08└─You're so fucking off your rocker. Unplug from whatever streams of shit you're into. Maybe toss your TV in the garbage and blackhole the following domains: msnbc, foxnews, breitbart, stormfront, and probably about 90 other sources of stupid. You need prevention, abstinence, etc.
[22:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:15] <exec> 08└─Way to ruin the joke turd monger. I hear there is an ointment for that.
[22:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:41] <exec> 08└─if the laser is tuned to the atom it really doesn't take much to cause an atom to fluoresce. Its just a matter of causing the atom's electrons to jump to higher states. Think about how much power a laser pointer uses, or a UV flash light that can cause an entire black light poster, and lots of other...
[22:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photograph of a Single Illuminated Atom Awarded Top Prize at Science Photography Competition - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:42] <exec> 08└─I remember seeing this same thing, a single glowing atom photographed by its own light, years ago on a science documentary. Sadly I don't remember the name of the documentary I was watching, I think it was something from the BBC. I do remember that the setup was even simpler than the one shown in th...
[22:03:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 320 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:19] <exec> 08└─In terms of difficulty Cracking the Switch: ########################### Custom Linux for Switch: ### Getting systemd to work: ##############################################################################################################################################################################...
[22:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacking Group Fail0verflow Shows Linux Running on the Nintendo Switch - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:26] <exec> 08└─No one should buy products which do not respect your freedoms to begin with.
[22:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:07] <exec> 08└─> Providing the world still values a USDollar. If the dollar were to plunge in value, and the worthless make-nothing-useful companies were to pop like balloons, what would you imagine would happen to the DJIA? The core fundamental businesses that make America work would still be valued, but the doll...
[22:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:09] <exec> 08└─... incompetent upper management at a poorly run company ... absolutely no basis in psychology ... True even for the largest of companies, even the Fed... "Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman who some blame for policies that helped enable the financial crisis, believes people can be...
[22:04:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 823 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:57] <exec> 08└─It's the easy and anonymous availability that makes it worse than the town square. If you went to the library and asked for books about the proper way to commit suicide, went to the town square to find a jihadist to explain to you why killing infidels is the answer to your shitty life, or had to go...
[22:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:18] <exec> 08└─... That only respected when Central Authority has decided that something is Fake News or Hate Speech and should therefore not be shown to anyone on that platform ...
[22:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:19] <exec> 08└─Liiiiike I said, the guy is his own worst enemy. The last couple replies from him have been hilarious, in a nasty, taking-glee-in-others'-misfortune sort of way. I hope he keeps it up, even though for his own sake, he ought to make like a broken web form and quit POSTing...
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[22:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sure different journals and different fields each have their own traditions of "how it is done" - but the folks I worked with would often be anonymously reviewing each others' papers, and that anonymity was key to the system. A reviewer will often critique' the completeness of an analysis and ca...
[22:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:20] <exec> 08└─A possible solution? Scientists should work to "make the public understand that [peer review] is a fault-finding process and that criticism is part of and expected in that process
[22:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:23] <exec> 08└─didnt thompson reuters (or whatever they are now) have a product that indexed peer reviewers so they could sell them to marketers
[22:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:25] <exec> 08└─Even if it is not your boss, it might be the one who will be deciding on your next grant application. The anonymity of the reviewer is exactly in order to allow them to give honest reviews without fear of retaliation. Note however that the reviewer is anonymous only to the paper author and general p...
[22:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:27] <exec> 08└─Absolutely yes. We need to see pics of bodily fluids on the faces of peer reviewed scientists to make sure they are sucking enough dick/pussy to justify continued funding of grants.
[22:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:29] <exec> 08└─This is a disaster in the making. You're not kidding. There's enough trolling in this business already. Imagine how "flamboyant" these reviewers will get if they think the public will view it. The whole thing will turn into 4chan...
[22:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:40] <exec> 08└─Correct me if my thinking is incorrect, but what comes to mind for me is claiming you have a patent on cars because you have a description of "put a motor on a horseless carriage" verses "vehicle of dimensions x with gasoline motor of x displacement and transmission with x gears in x configuration"....
[22:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:42] <exec> 08└─Wow, way to take the edge cases and apply them blindly to the general. We GET IT! You don't understand humanity, your mind prefers the logic of computer systems. You're doomed to fail socially for the rest of your life as long as you ride that high horse and refuse to comprehend human society.
[22:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:45] <exec> 08└─These days, "riding the high horse", "comprehending human society" and "generalizing edge cases" have been patented.
[22:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:47] <exec> 08└─I post without karma bonus, you should too
[22:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:49] <exec> 08└─I don't know the legal definition, but I'd say the litmus test for abstraction should be: Can you build a product solely using the information of the patent together with state-of-the-art technology? If not, then it is abstract and should not be a patent.
[23:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:08] <exec> 08└─In the US, rent is usually more expensive than a mortgage.
[23:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:10] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that's intentional. Since only those collecting unemployment benefits officially count as unemployment it helps them claim record low unemployment even though we have the lowest labor force participation rate since the 70's at the same time.
[23:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:12] <exec> 08└─So... did he get the job?
[23:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:14] <exec> 08└─For example, put on gas masks and then release or generate toxic gas. Simple and cheap ones with slow/painful effects: chlorine, sulfur dioxide, ammonia, ozone. The chlorine is probably least harmful to electronics, so maybe go with that. Another option is animals. He could get ripped apart by a hal...
[23:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:16] <exec> 08└─How does the old saw go? "It's always funny until someone loses an eye. Than, it's hilarious!"
[23:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:19] <exec> 08└─One thing about U.S. unemployment benefits, they are so pitifully small that it's hardly worth scamming the system. Some days when I was collecting unemployment I wondered if it was really worth the distraction from actual job searching - all the reporting requirements and other BS just to get a che...
[23:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:21] <exec> 08└─Few hundred dollars a week? If your total rent, food, and bus fare costs more than $1,000 a month, you need to move or get a job.
[23:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:53] <exec> 08└─I know it sounds that way, but I didn't mean to say we LEARNED IT from the Chinese, but rather that once you accept as OK doing business with the Chinese commie party and helping them implement their oppressive spying regime, it desensitizes you to the fact that it is WRONG. It's just a small time d...
[23:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:26] <exec> 08└─Two guilty pleas for lying to the FBI and indictments for failing to disclose agency to a foreign government, money laundering and lying to investigators. Holy shit, imagine what happens when we revisit Benghazi and Clinton Global Initiative "donations"? This guy is even worse - main contributors to...
[23:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:27] <exec> 08└─simply because Linux is notorious for having full-screen video performance issues,
[23:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:58] <exec> 08└─You kidding? FB totally has it, just not 100% total control over everyone. I disagree that the end-goal HAS to be total authority over all comms, but hey it sure shows how YOU think about it. *shocking*
[23:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:59] <exec> 08└─> Years of stifling people via political correctness has CREATED more division I know, right? It's crazy! Long before all that PC bullshit, I could easily find uniformity everywhere I went, because things were neatly sorted between real men and obedient women, and dem negroes went through the other...
[23:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:01] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, let us be racist and demeaning cause we NEED it! So, you gonna stop yelling about feminists and antifa then? I mean they need their release valves too... Don't worry, I actually think this backlash against PC is a good thing, it will let everyone know who around them is truly regressive and...
[23:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:03] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that the Big Red "A" no longer stands for "adultress"?
[23:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:55] <exec> 08└─*implodes* unless you ran it on a q-comp
[23:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:05] <exec> 08└─AI, er...you mean, a program written by humans, right? You know, garbage in, garbage out...why would we trust, let alone bow down to, an AI?
[23:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purdue Pharma to Cut Sales Force, Stop Marketing Opioids to Doctors - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:26] <exec> 08└─Don't forget Futurama's take on olestra [youtube.com]
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[23:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:31] <exec> 08└─I am not in academia, but aren't those peer reviews provided verbatim to the author. If the text was identifying, that damage is already done. If it wasn't identifying, then what is the harm to anonymity in printing it in the same format it is presented to the author?
[23:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:33] <exec> 08└─A possible solution? Scientists should work to "make the public understand that [peer review] is a fault-finding process and that criticism is part of and expected in that process
[23:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:48] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm> Can they even do that? I was under the impression that all patent troll cases had to be tried in east Texas!! With this sort of decision, the entire US economy is threatened! </sarcasm> More seriously, that dumbass judge in Marshall, Texas, should have been disbarred with his first decisio...
[23:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 2565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:49] <exec> 08└─This is a classic example of the 'bar' being too low down at the USPTO (and most other country's PTOs for that matter) when it comes to rubber stamping a patent application. For the vast majority of new patents, there are multiple entities working on the same or similar problem. When the patent offi...
[23:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─When I read the title, I was worried something might have happened to a vintage SR-71. Bless.