#comments | Logs for 2018-02-21

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[00:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:12] <exec> 08└─For all the bitching about Comcast, as best I can tell, they do act as dumb pipes, once you get a business connection. (I can't speak to residential connections). At the office I also have Comcast and it is a business connection. I've had open encrypted connections up and running for months at a tim...
[00:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:14] <exec> 08└─I noticed that as well; Texas usually gives me pretty good speeds, but it was down for me as well. My ISP is Cox if that has any indication.
[00:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HyperQuantum [2673] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should move to South-Africa. I hear that it is much less prevalent there.
[00:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:58] <exec> 08└─It really isn't that fine a distinction. You go to an auto dealership, buy a car, and drive it home. Over the course of time, you figure out that your car has GPS tracking attached to it. Someone is spying on you. Investigation determines that the dealership equips all cars sold at their lot with GP...
[00:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:30] <exec> 08└─Yes. As mentioned in TFS, Canada has done it that way since Day 1. When all the poll workers|witnesses agree on the count, the results are posted. It Just Works(tm). No need to change anything. Certainly no need for added expense or added uncertainty. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:32] <exec> 08└─It would be trivial technologically to post process the images before posting to mask out everything except the scantron image windows (where you scribble a mark or not). That would make it impossible to write in the margin "VLM was here" thus selling my vote. The idea being you could re-examine poo...
[00:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:34] <exec> 08└─You question asked how to scientifically mathematically validly measure stuff. Thats old WRT precision machine tools, etc.
[00:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:28] <exec> 08└─The current understanding, though, is that given the choice of working more or less hours women will happily choose less money and more free time while men will happily work more hours for more pay. This appears to be a biology-based difference between men and women, one that doesn't have a good exp...
[00:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:29] <exec> 08└─You did exactly what James Damore did. Pointed out biologically lighted tendencies. You also lied. You either did not read his epistle or you read the abbreviated one in which the references were removed. All the references checked out and the people who were referenced very largely agreed. SO your...
[00:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:32] <exec> 08└─If there is a version in which references are provided, I would love to see it. Cause the only versions I have seen had nothing of the sort.
[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:11] <exec> 08└─Über alles? Gott Mit Uns! One Über to rule them all, One Über to find them, One Über to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In America, where the Shadows lie.
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[00:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:34] <exec> 08└─I may be wrong here but it seems a reasonable guess, is that the lowest non-admin UID in the system? There HAS to be a default of some kind, as not all contributors will wish to be recognized.
[00:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:41] <exec> 08└─Engineers at Purdue University and GlobalFoundries have gotten today's most advanced transistors to vibrate at frequencies that could make 5G phones and other gadgets smaller and more energy efficient.
[00:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:43] <exec> 08└─yeah at 32GHz but analog nonetheless, awesome tech according to the tfda
[00:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:46] <exec> 08└─"acoustically resonate" [...] "components tuned to physically vibrate at a particular frequency and produce a useable electronic signal" Sounds like a vibrator to me.
[00:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:48] <exec> 08└─> Sounds like a vibrator to me. If you can hear that, you are really good!
[00:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:50] <exec> 08└─and one day form the basis of a new kind of computing
[00:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:52] <exec> 08└─Moore's law is now not considered to be dead like it was just recently, but a living force that makes finFET technology have more and more superpowers.
[01:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:16] <exec> 08└─One bit I don't get: "... with a shrinking population and a dislike of immigration, there are not a lot of houses being built. So they are pivoting to plyscrapers..."? Not the "plyscrapers" part, the "shrinking population" part. Is the population of Japan shrinking unlike the population of virtually...
[01:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:17] <exec> 08└─Well, the site is called Tree Hugger. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:42] <exec> 08└─Once, while setting up an ipsec vpn through an AT&T U-Verse connection, it didn't work; the negotiations kept timing out, but everything else was OK. I called AT&T and the business service representative told me that "only pirates use VPNs". I said that ok fine, I am trying to connect this business...
[01:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:43] <exec> 08└─Same goes for bittorrent, TOR, etc. We just need a protocol that blends better with the rest of the traffic, over commonly used ports. But most important is being able to communicate without being tied to a service provider. Then we can use anything we want.
[01:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:45] <exec> 08└─For all the bitching about Comcast, as best I can tell, they do act as dumb pipes, once you get a business connection. (I can't speak to residential connections).
[01:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:48] <exec> 08└─Uhm, I think you need to read up what Net Neutrality covers, they can still block stuff fine, they just can't slow traffic deliberately.
[01:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:08] <exec> 08└─At least in the U.K. they pay more than lip service to the obligation to provide adequate physical and mental healthcare to prisoners. I'm not sure if the UK is better or worse than the U.S. as far as a right to council goes.
[01:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aerojet Rocketdyne Seeks More U.S. Air Force Funding for AR1 Rocket Engine - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:20] <exec> 08└─and having had family who worked there, they have not been a worthwhile company in almost 40 years. The area surrounding their test sites are one of the few no-development zones in the area, thanks to toxic waste (McClellan is the other big one, but the military was able to punt that to private indu...
[01:01:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 865 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:28] <exec> 08└─https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/02/feedback-and-data-driven-updates-to.html [blogspot.com] Disclosure deadlines have long been an industry standard practice. They improve end-user security by getting security patches to users faster. As noted in CERT’s 45-day disclosure policy, they al...
[01:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:19] <exec> 08└─The old-fashioned way to deal with noxious odors is "Strike a match". Just don't do it like Bobby Hill. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wikia.com] Video [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:09] <exec> 08└─Mehhhh! [youtube.com]
[01:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Eats Driver Shoots and Leaves - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─True, dat! Usually it is a Kardashian.
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[01:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:29] <exec> 08└─https://pineapplefund.org/ [pineapplefund.org] On a larger scale, the Pineapple Fund created a more mysterious form of cryptocurrency philanthropy. The organization was started in December by an anonymous donor who goes by the nickname “Pine” and claims to be among the 250 largest holders of Bit...
[01:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:30] <exec> 08└─Anonymous behind the Pineapple Fund seems interested in psychedelics, free software, and life extension. Both the SENS Research Foundation and Methuselah Foundation got cash.
[01:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:32] <exec> 08└─The donation is in cash, not cryptobits. Bitter internet commenters (redundant I know) who lost money on cryptobits can shut up please.
[01:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:35] <exec> 08└─KDE can really use the financial help, since the mainstream distros doing their best to push the dumpster fire that is GNOME 3 on everyone. Linux is supposed to be about choice, and power for the user, not a piece-of-shit dumbed-down user interface that makes Macs look like tools for power users.
[01:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:37] <exec> 08└─I read this: which benefits the general public, advances the use of Free Software on all kinds of platforms
[01:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:39] <exec> 08└─I'm glad it's not just me then, I kind of thought there must be something wrong with me for hating Gnome 3 because I kept reading it was the "most popular" Linux desktop, but I just couldn't use it. Luckily there is plenty of choice and if I don't want to use LXDE I am quite happy with Cinnamon (a...
[01:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:48] <exec> 08└─I bought a years subscription yesterday but my subscribe page still shows an expiration date back in 2015. I'm pretty sure the radio button was checked for me as I looked at that section carefully as I did not want to do a gift. Still not showing a current sub though.
[01:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:50] <exec> 08└─Oh that's the proper default for the webpage. I was talking about the "if all else fails" default in the backend code.
[01:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:53] <exec> 08└─Taken care of.
[01:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:55] <exec> 08└─Same. The transaction didn't show as completed until today if that matters.
[01:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:57] <exec> 08└─Sorted.
[02:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:10] <exec> 08└─So its a vibrating clock. But where does the transistor bit come in? A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power. It is composed of semiconductor material usually with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit.
[02:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:12] <exec> 08└─So its a vibrating clock. But where does the transistor bit come in?
[02:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Japanese population is shrinking. Unfortunately most young men prefer tentacle porn to actual women, even though Japanese women are very attractive, so the result is a low birth rate. This is exacerbated by frequent Godzilla attacks.
[02:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:40] <exec> 08└─So we need to cut put the middleman: make public housing out of recycled social services recipients; anyone found guilty of rorting the system is turned into building materials. Otherwise, just bring back the sacrificial wickerman. As for the wood: many of the ancient buildings only fell apart when...
[02:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:42] <exec> 08└─In the chimney? I put mine in the stove and keep the chimney clear.
[02:01:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 1728 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:01] <exec> 08└─Why not just require ISPs to be "dumb pipes" that pass whatever traffic you generate/receive without modification or interference? Perhaps there could be some exceptions for *valid* network management and congestion control purposes, to ensure the efficient operation of the ISP's network. Oh, wait....
[02:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:31] <exec> 08└─Frankly, the most surprising thing about this whole thing to me is that BBC announcers didn't butcher the pronunciation of his name like they do with every other non-English name. I go into a rage damn near every time I listen to those bastards.
[02:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:43] <exec> 08└─The whole radiation thing is all over the place. Yes, the radium girls was a terrible case of employer negligence. The so-called health products were quackery at it's finest. The only saving grace there is that most of the "radium" products "for health" also fraudulently contained no radium. However...
[02:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:45] <exec> 08└─So you *meant* to hit the window, sink, and floor?
[02:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:47] <exec> 08└─Read the label, right on the back, it says "Do Not Inhale"
[02:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:02] <exec> 08└─Wow, thanks for the tip, moron.
[02:04:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:12] <exec> 08└─It is indeed a beautiful day in the neighborhood today. So much so that I'm extremely tempted to push off some paying work that needs to be done as quickly as possible and go fishing. Mid 70s and not raining is not weather you let just pass you by in a Tennessee February.
[02:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:38] <exec> 08└─This is how it works in my district. Hire some high schoolers, pay them $100 to work alongside the volunteers and party reps. Good pay for an evenings work for a few kids, everything gets counted by hand under supervision, and it works quite well.
[02:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:40] <exec> 08└─If the Nazis find this unconstitutional, then surely the Glorious Great Grand Don should also. Lest his grandpappy roll in the grave. /sarcasm Incase you nazi snowflakes get triggered.
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[02:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:40] <exec> 08└─I once jailbroke an iPhone. It required a carrier to activate it but I already had another phone The very first time it booted it displayed a very well-done pineapple with a bite taken out of it To my dismay after that the boot screen displayed the apple logo
[02:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:42] <exec> 08└─Most Open Source is not Free Software. It's not the choice of license but why that license was chosen Someone on Linux-kernel suggested that the kern was free software. Linus threatened to put the posters head on a pike in his front yard
[02:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:44] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's "most popular" because it's what clueless noobs that don't know any better get pushed on them by the big distros. Slack doesn't ship it, Gentoo will allow you to exclude it globally. Ubuntu is for grannies that couldn't find the checkbox to avoid Windows 10. Redhat is for PHBs that want mo...
[02:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:46] <exec> 08└─Negative, all Open Source software is effectively Free Software, and vice versa. The choice of description does indeed reflect the motivation and understanding of the speaker, but the operative clauses still come to the same effect.
[03:00:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 779 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:24] <exec> 08└─Solid wood is a terrible heat conductor, and burns very slowly. That's why you put he big log in the chimney to last the whole night. While it's burning, it may retain more strength than many metals exposed to the same amount of heat (they're not burning, but everything but the concrete does). Also,...
[03:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:42] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new cute animal and insect officemates.
[03:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:44] <exec> 08└─Wood does not have the highest tensile strength by weight or by cross section. Perhaps you meant to phrase that differently?
[03:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:46] <exec> 08└─Concrete is a mixture of rocks, sand and Portland Cement. To make Portland Cement if I understand correct you roast limestone in a kiln
[03:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:48] <exec> 08└─People who live in conditions such that they aren't sure if their children will live until the parents are dead tend to have -more- children to extend the odds. In some cultures, lots of children are seen as a sign of wealth. Japan has a universal healthcare system, so the first condition has largel...
[03:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 1847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:16] <exec> 08└─The only problem with routing over a TLS VPN for everything, is that TLS runs over TCP, and TCP over TCP means compounding retransmissions and timeouts. The best underlying protocols for VPN are UDP and ipSEC at the IP level. This lets TCP handle retransmission through the tunnel, without the tunnel...
[03:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:18] <exec> 08└─Bidness is not about making money. It's about staking out an ideology and getting government handouts to stay afloat while doing so.
[03:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:35] <exec> 08└─... is that I never took my father fishing when he got old
[03:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:36] <exec> 08└─That was the very first time I met my neighbors
[03:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:50] <exec> 08└─I was 52 when I decided to donate one of my kidneys but was disqualified because I was too old Dialysis sounds like a far better idea than it really is: I know a little girl who has cerebral palsy because of the accumulation of toxins while waiting for her transplant
[03:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:29] <exec> 08└─I once attended a talk by a defense contractor who did cyber security for the military He checked into a motel with his dialup modem while an Air Force officer parachuted into the base Hilarity ensued, but no one was killed because they disclosed their evil plan to just one guy: the base commander
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[03:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:27] <exec> 08└─You can't really approve of breaking the law. But, I sure can't get upset over this. Mercenary bastards are willing to spy on people for pay. The average computer user can't figure out how to do much more than click "agree" on installations. They are intimidated by anything with a CLI. But, they can...
[03:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:29] <exec> 08└─You can't really approve of breaking the law.
[03:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:31] <exec> 08└─I wrote Last Resort, a keystroke record for Macs. I got a lot of fan mail from aspiring writers. I went to a lot of trouble to make it obvious to the user One of MacUsers editors told me he was quite happy that Last Resort ratted on his girlfriend. She was using email to carry on with her other man...
[03:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:33] <exec> 08└─You can't really approve of breaking the law.
[03:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:35] <exec> 08└─- laws. Martin Luther King, "Letter from a Birmingham jail"
[03:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:52] <exec> 08└─It's because at one past time kde was not 'free' software: it was later freed, but gnome was the de facto desktop by then. Later, gnome got fecked with when fecking wasn't needed.
[03:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:53] <exec> 08└─The GNOME3 devs and sycophants keep *claiming* it's the most popular, and keep pushing it as "the standard" DE for Linux. The devs are generally rude and condescending, and their attitude can be seen especially with the posts by "LvS" in /r/linux. But according to this article [cio.com], KDE is actu...
[03:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/user/LvS [reddit.com] ez link
[03:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:58] <exec> 08└─200K to a "product" like KDE is like tossing a nickel to somebody for their Ferrari... Granted, every bit (or cent) helps, but to design, build and maintain KDE with paid developers would be millions of dollars a year.
[03:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:00] <exec> 08└─I'm a bitter internet commenter who missed out on getting in on cryptobits early and could have been a millionaire, you insensitive clod!
[04:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:02] <exec> 08└─I used KDE as a daily driver for years and loved it, until 4K screens came around (2014 for me). Qt widgets, and by extension KDE, have not scaled well to multi-resolution applications. It seems like it shouldn't be that hard of a job to fix, but the last three times I checked, the latest and greate...
[04:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:05] <exec> 08└─Guhnome's been going downhill since the days of Gnome 2 when the honchos decided configuration was too hard for people and was only used to fix broken defaults; if they just chose correct defaults then nobody would need to configure the desktop. My google skillz seem broken so I can't find the page...
[04:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:07] <exec> 08└─They accept donations, and I'm happy enough with them lately that I've donated a couple times in the past year. It's quite fast and stable.
[04:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:09] <exec> 08└─GNOME3 is the most popular, in the minds of GNOME3 users.... I've semi-switched from KDE to Xfce for some applications (like and embedded system's desktop interface), but for others like my laptop I'm just eating whatever dog-food comes as default with Ubuntu (15.10 on this machine, 14.04 on many ot...
[04:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:22] <exec> 08└─Now THAT is a quick service!
[04:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:38] <exec> 08└─After the election....
[04:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:02] <exec> 08└─"Just as God intended when he gave US citizens, and ONLY US citizens inalienable rights." Unless of course you live within 100 miles of the border in those "constitution free zones".
[04:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerojet Rocketdyne Seeks More U.S. Air Force Funding for AR1 Rocket Engine - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:15] <exec> 08└─So why don't they get themselves more customers? I am sure Chinese government would be interested. Perhaps even Russians would've liked to compare notes. In fact, let's have an open bid - who pays more - including anonymous investors.
[04:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:18] <exec> 08└─The Radium Girls were instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips to save time while men at the factory used lead enforced protection. Than employers claimed that girls died of syphilis. That's murder - pure and simple.
[04:03:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:54] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out"
[04:04:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:10] <exec> 08└─most of it looks like data that provides important feedback for usability related issues,
[04:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:14] <exec> 08└─It's hardly news, countries like Wales and Australia have been breeding human/sheep hybrids for centuries.
[04:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:54] <exec> 08└─They give orders to missile submarine commanders as to what they should do if they lose contact with London
[04:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:56] <exec> 08└─I think we'd all be a lot safer with that thing in Chinese hands than Trump's tiny little hands. Actually just about anyone's hands, some random burger-flipper at McDonalds, anyone but Trump.
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[04:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:27] <exec> 08└─I notice they've gone from being unfriendly to sane browsers to flatly refusing to deal with them. Their entire reason for existence is open access yet they fail catastrophically. I want my taxes back.
[04:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:29] <exec> 08└─How long 'til they 'discover' non-alcoholic beer gives athletes an... mmmm... unfair** advantage? (grin) --- ** of course it's unfair. Some nations of this world aren't able to brew even an alcoholic beer properly!
[04:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:41] <exec> 08└─Good for him
[04:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:42] <exec> 08└─I judge EACH and every law and decide FOR MYSELF if its worth obeying or not. see, I'm not a robot. to blindly follow orders is so... - well - I won't complete that thought. I do find it funny that conservatives will usually be on the side of blindly following laws. they love the authority concept....
[04:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:44] <exec> 08└─To bad garbage. Even if only temporarily.
[04:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:46] <exec> 08└─If we all posted our social security numbers online identity theft would be a thing of the past 518-92-8663 You would really help me out if you sent my ssn to all your friends
[05:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:12] <exec> 08└─Don't take this the wrong way. I think that if we're going to see a year of a Linux desktop, Gnome has the right idea. On the other hand, I've also thought that if that's what's necessary for the proverbial year of the Linux desktop, we'll do find without one of those. On the gripping hand, I'd rath...
[05:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:14] <exec> 08└─Before I get modded to oblivion, wanted to clarify that I sure as hell will not be running systemd-gnomed on any of my boxen.
[05:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:16] <exec> 08└─Gnome2 was when they broke keybindings on purpose, refused to fix them, and belittled anyone that objected. This was also when they abandoned WM agnosticism and most if not all of the GNOME concepts and goals and turned in an entirely different direction. They also drastically increased the difficul...
[05:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:15] <exec> 08└─You do realise that a lot of fire doors are made out of wood, right?
[05:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:47] <exec> 08└─Uhm, I think you need to read up what Net Neutrality covers, they can still block stuff fine, they just can't slow traffic deliberately.
[05:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:22] <exec> 08└─Hmm - secure paper ballots counted by hand requires a handful of unskilled people counting for a day for every few thousand ballots Secure electronic voting requires a troupe of multi-party IT experts capable of thoroughly auditing *every* voting or ballot-counting machine in...
[05:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:24] <exec> 08└─I sense strawmen. Independent, volunteer observers, as well as nominated party observers, and paid staff actually doing the counts. These people watch all day, and stay until the count is finished. Total number of votes matches total signed off as attending that booth.. Then start counting the prefe...
[05:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:26] <exec> 08└─You forgot the cost of the machinesthe cost pf transporting and installing the machines, and any issues with power or access With paper, all you need is a dry place and some pencils, so moving the location in an emergency is also far easier.
[05:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:26] <exec> 08└─I am colorblind you insensitive clod, this happens to me on a daily basis. Can't go anywhere without being missighted.
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[05:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:34] <exec> 08└─Clue: Clear any cookies with "nyt" in the name from your browser. Then you have more articles for the month.
[05:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:36] <exec> 08└─Makes sense to me. It's got to be healthier than Gatorade or Mountain Dew.
[05:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:52] <exec> 08└─It's ok Mike, we forgive you. Just be careful about what you do in the future. :-))
[05:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:53] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a friend I had years ago. He would give out his SSN to illegal immigrants so they would have a tax number. He figured it would add to his Social Security account. I never asked how he expected to get around to explaining income from many employers at the same time.
[06:01:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:32] <exec> 08└─The ISP should charge you per gigabyte.
[06:01:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:34] <exec> 08└─Another aspect of your analogy. Not only controlling your amount of water, but tainting it by injecting various wonderful JavaScript ingredients -- for your own good, of course.
[06:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:10] <exec> 08└─Good! It scares the shit out of me to have to trust something I can't fix on the spot should it break. Or at least have workarounds in order. I already have enough trouble with my technology. I know full good and well not to use my old-school shaver when the TV is on. It renders it inoperable. R...
[06:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nov. 9th "Scuffle" Over the "Nuclear Football" in China - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:12] <exec> 08└─People will do really stupid stuff when under orders... aka.. "agentic". Most people are intelligent enough to make wise decisions, given what data they have access to. But when they are under someone else's authority, they often have no choice but to carry out orders, regardless as to whether or n...
[06:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:34] <exec> 08└─Political? That wasn't political, that was about biology, society, hiring practices. AFAICT there was no mention of any candidate or ballot issue. He does use the words "political", "left", "right", but I suppose it depends on law's definition of those terms. In a sense everything is political, and...
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[06:59:30] <exec> 08└─I always knew that Micro$eft would be against ARMs! Stand up and support your second amendment rights against the illegal monopoly from Redmond! Or, am I wrong?
[06:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:58] <exec> 08└─I once wrote a database kernel for a hedge fund. My kernel is now part of a quantitative investment program. I like to call it "A License To Print Money". As a result of my contribution that program can print money twice as fast. Having that on my resume resulted in countless solicitations to apply...
[07:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:00] <exec> 08└─I too use my own conscience. The law exists to force an artificial conscience on those who have none.
[07:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:02] <exec> 08└─I have some friends who could translate my site to Spanish.
[07:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:32] <exec> 08└─... to someone who claimed that the Linux kernel was free software?
[07:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:33] <exec> 08└─Linus is someone that's not afraid to speak his mind, which is good of course. And more often than not, he's right. But he's a human being, not a God, and like every human being, he can be simply wrong at times.
[07:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:06] <exec> 08└─Not all too long ago access cost about a buck a minute. Then came AOL and for ~$US 20 a month you could get all the 32kbps second you could use. Fortunately for me I was acquainted with a couple of people who jumped in and brought a few T-1 lines and started their own ISP. Leased connections from th...
[07:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, all those clods tend to block things up.
[07:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:10] <exec> 08└─Isn't Spectrum just Cox Cable, Time Warner, etc, etc... I've got Comcast in one of my places and it goes down all the time. It's a problem with cable connections. They go down, then back up all the time. I think it has to do with loads on th "nodes" (or neighborhood interconnects).
[07:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:06] <exec> 08└─Oh man, it's Captain Normal, the arch-nemesis of Donald Trump!
[07:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:49] <exec> 08└─The electoral college had more than the choice between two styles of crook. Their task was to pick a president from the suitable candidates and they did not.
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[07:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:29] <exec> 08└─Those In Power say "it is bad, stop using it" People keep using it. Those In Power say "it is as bad as some other things that are very bad, so it is bow Illegal" People keep using it. Thos in Power say "it has Bad Things in it now, stop using it" People wonder.. Who put the Bad Things there?
[07:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:47] <exec> 08└─Dealcoholized beers are popular in Germany because of the risk of getting caught driving, but there is also unfermented Malzbier, which has had a long association with sports. An equivalent in the US is Malta Goya.
[08:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:08] <exec> 08└─I have some friends who could translate my site to Spanish.
[08:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:10] <exec> 08└─He was a schoolmate at Caltech.
[08:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:54] <exec> 08└─Payment was cleared Feb 20, 2018 19:36:16 EST, and sub renewal is yet to show in user profile.
[08:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:43] <exec> 08└─Since it's basically "engineered wood products", it's basically plastic. And definitely not something I would like to be in while there is any remote posibility of anything on fire in there.
[08:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:45] <exec> 08└─And that limestone can be roasted with CO2-neutral heat instead of gas meaning that concrete can be CO2-neutral too. Anyway, concrete production is not what is driving global warming. What is driving global warming is us digging up carbon from the ground - coal, oil and gas. What we use it for doesn...
[08:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:01] <exec> 08└─Perhaps least excusable are the "masking agents" that "eliminate" bad odors by deadening the nerves in the olfactory bulb
[08:04:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 379 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:21] <exec> 08└─Linux isn't collecting your data. Canonical / *buntu is collecting data. People commonly make a similar mistake with telephones. "My phone is spying on me - Android is terrible!" In actuality, Android doesn't spy on you - your phone provider configured the phone to spy on you. Linux is very differen...
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[08:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:29] <exec> 08└─Expect the super-massive blackholes at the centre of our galaxy to evaporate faster. (grin)
[08:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:37] <exec> 08└─28 over 20 States is not a cluster. It's 20 separate instances, with a couple of overlap. Since Salmonella is pretty much everywhere, it's seems a stretch that the Kratom is the root cause (in any form - ie. pill, leaf, extract, powder, - or however it is packaged). TFA even mentions that there are...
[08:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:39] <exec> 08└─It's a plant. If it's not cleaned sufficiently, it can carry bacteria, such as salmonella. This is true for any plant, whether Kratom, Broccoli or carrots. This is no more a valid excuse to outlaw Kratom than it is to outlaw all vegetables.
[08:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Document Details Windows 10 on ARM Limitations - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:47] <exec> 08└─So it has come to this, Microsoft can't get proper GL drivers either. Gotta run Android to get accelerated GL on ARM. That and a lot of popular ARM SoCs only support the EGL subset and they probably do not want to rewrite Windows to support that unless Windows on ARM becomes popular.
[08:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:59] <exec> 08└─[...] Scherr conducted a double-blind study [open, DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182250dda] [DX] [alt], financed by a brewing company, in which he gave runners in the 2009 Munich Marathon nonalcoholic beer every day for three weeks before and two weeks after the race. These runners suffered significantly...
[09:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:00] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:01:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:17] <exec> 08└─and one day form the basis of a new kind of computing
[09:02:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 755 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:10] <exec> 08└─Your ISP sees you make multiple HTTPS connections to multiple servers. That's all the ISP can see. Virtual tunnels are built on top of multiple bonded HTTPS to make traffic analysis more difficult. The client program that you install could be cross platform and provide a local SOCKS proxy for everyt...
[09:02:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:36] <exec> 08└─What could possibly be oppressive about extraditing someone to the land where we have: Secret Laws Secret Interpretations of Laws Secret Courts Secret Warrants Secret Court Orders Secret Arrests Secret Trials Secret Evidence (not made available to the defense, and "parallel construction"1) Secret Co...
[09:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:11] <exec> 08└─An indelible marker would make the marks less prone to tampering. ...but you weren't far off the mark. {Slingblade voice} "Mark". Git it? (I believe one of them^W^W^W GP was from Arkansas.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[09:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:32] <exec> 08└─*breaks champagne* ... Remember the spots on Jupiter and Neptune? This is them now... feel old yet?
[09:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, my! Your feces baby's feces baby is giving birth to another feces baby! I think a certain fetid existenceness will have to fertilize that too...
[09:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:44] <exec> 08└─So a plant I never have heard before is now considered a health risk to eat? Well, great, I won't have to change my diet one bit! :-)
[09:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Document Details Windows 10 on ARM Limitations - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:54] <exec> 08└─MS doesn't like OpenGL support. They prefer you use DirectX and stay firmly locked into their ecosystem. They could easily support OpenGL ES (all smartphones support it, so the hardware is there). They wouldn't need to 'rewrite' windows to support OpenGL ES since windows itself doesn't use OpenGL in...
[10:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:08] <exec> 08└─ALso - how do you double-blind non-alcoholic beer - what was the placebo such that the drinker didn't know which drink he was drinking?
[10:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:09] <exec> 08└─In this case it somewhat makes sense that beer is a good sports drink - from a nutritional standpoint it actually is excellent (especially when in low alcohol varieties) and is why it is commonly used in food and DIY hairpacks. (However, personally I'd just strain the wort for drinking (and using th...
[10:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:33] <exec> 08└─A friend in Gresham. Is that like having a Canadian girlfriend?
[10:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:05] <exec> 08└─NEGATIVE. DEFINITIONS MATTER. INCONSISTENCY SPOTTED. PROBABLE SOURCE OF CONSISTENT REASONING: HUMAN ERROR. :-) A license could (theoretically, I don't know if any such license exists) be Free software and not OSI approved. The other way around is very much true as well. Not all OSI approved licenses...
[10:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:40] <exec> 08└─The 90 days are there for marketing to get ready to spin it as not a problem, while the customers have no information about how to defend against attacks. If they could get more, they would take it. Before we started the 90 day thing, they would sit on problems for years, not fixing them until the a...
[10:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:40] <exec> 08└─It still is - the user decides whether to activate this feature or not.
[10:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:42] <exec> 08└─"My phone is spying on me - Android is terrible!" In actuality, Android doesn't spy on you - your phone provider configured the phone to spy on you.
[10:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:44] <exec> 08└─So, con as in con man?
[10:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:46] <exec> 08└─If it's already checked then it absolutely is opt out. It's the same kind of opt out that get your grandmothers Firefox replaced with Chrome every time her bank requires that she updates Java. - Which makes Ubuntu just as much malware as Java - both install unauthorized software. Not doing anything...
[10:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:48] <exec> 08└─Having an outdated privacy policy is almost as bad as having no policy at all!
[10:06:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Amidst Election Security Worries, Suddenly, Paper Ballots Are Making a Comeback - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:43] <exec> 08└─I was with you until the second sentence: Until voting machines are running un-obfuscated open source program, paper seems the proven choice.
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[10:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:38] <exec> 08└─The supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy has a temperature of about 10-14 K. That means that with the cosmic microwave background at a comparatively scorching 2.7 K, it's getting slightly bigger just by sitting there, because it's absorbing that radiation. The black hole won't start e...
[10:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:40] <exec> 08└─When are we finally going to admit the impact Humans are having on the climate? The Great Red Spot has been a constant for 200 years, but as soon as Humans start going up into space we are seeing immediate change in the climate on other planets. Do you think it a simple coincidence that this article...
[10:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jerry Smith [379] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:42] <exec> 08└─The comments above are the reasons I left /.
[10:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:44] <exec> 08└─Get pregnant, you insignificant little insect! Your existence amounts to nothing more than being a breeding sow, so give birth to my feces babies with your rancid, disease-ridden asshole! Give birth until it's broken!
[11:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Document Details Windows 10 on ARM Limitations - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:04] <exec> 08└─At least Edge supports WebGL. They even give the option of using ANGLE to translate it into Direct3D (the same translation layer used by the Windows versions of both Chrome and Firefox).
[11:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:14] <exec> 08└─> Clueless Noobs. *And* people who just want to *use* their laptop, instead of customizing the heck out of the desktop. I agree KDE is more fun. It has more bells and whistles and is more customizable. But every time I use KDE I get lost in the myriad customization options. Also, for day to day (bor...
[11:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:16] <exec> 08└─Isn't it? It's GPL2, which is a Free Software licence. Don't like blobs? Use a pure distro.
[11:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sante [6874] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:31] <exec> 08└─Tried to contact admin as instructed. Mail to 'admin' could not be delivered: "Too much spam [...]" Please contact me using the email address for my account. Thanks.
[11:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:56] <exec> 08└─Don't wish that. If that was to happen, somehow they will manage to get the current "security costs extra" model built into the core requirements, just like it is in HTTPS today (just try to find a main stream browser that supports ANY alternative (e.g. DANE) to the broken CA model, without giving h...
[11:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:58] <exec> 08└─So slow Netflix unless you pay extra violates net neutrality, but no Netflix unless you pay extra doesn't? Blocking is just throttling, turned all the way up.
[11:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:01] <exec> 08└─It's not really misleading if that post wasn't followed up with a post a couple of minutes later from a manager asking who came up with this stupid idea, and would said persons please get their asses to his office asap, as should have happened in any business that cares about privacy. Yes, normally...
[11:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:02] <exec> 08└─You remember when Linux wasn't *corporate*. Nowagays, some linux is corporate. Fortunately, some linux is not corporate. If you make the wrong choice, that's your fault.
[11:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:04] <exec> 08└─> untick one box at installation time The tickbox that you should selecting should appear before installation time, before even download time. [ ] I wish to run a distro which has insane defaults that I need to opt out of, and may not even know about. [ ] I wish to run a distro which has sane defaul...
[11:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:07] <exec> 08└─If you were happy with debian, you'll be happy with devuan. I have about a dozen boxes, and I can't tell you which are which, the still-ubder-way transition was so smooth. (And yes, the debian ones are almost all old enough to be pre-systemd.)
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[11:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:35] <exec> 08└─I sent my military guys to Yakla, it's a village in Yemen. One got killed -- William Owens. And some of the villagers got killed too. But it was highly successful, they captured 1 TB of cyber. And this is almost 31 TB's, that's tremendous. Great job, Samsung!
[11:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and if you piss of Lil' Kim too much, dude, he'll nuke Samsung off the face of the planet, along with a few million more Koreans. At that point he won't care if your nuclear button launches bigger missiles than his does.
[12:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:00] <exec> 08└─You don't have to convince me, it's long before time to criminalize all vegetable possession. It was a good start with green herbs, but gateway vegetables in the brassica family just lead to harder vegetables like Solanum tuberosum, before you know it people find themselves addicted to meat, potatoe...
[12:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Placebo was beer with alcohol. :-)
[12:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:50] <exec> 08└─For all the good he did the society. Status quo is a bitch. [imgur.com]
[12:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:39] <exec> 08└─Good to go.
[12:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:41] <exec> 08└─Done.
[12:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FinFETs Shimmy to 5G's Frequencies - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:56] <exec> 08└─If you can hear that, you are really good!
[12:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:10] <exec> 08└─Not even Firefox supports alternatives to the broken CA model.
[12:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:11] <exec> 08└─But many people think it's not such a great idea.
[12:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:45] <exec> 08└─Ye gods, man. Once I'm too old to take my own self fishing, someone please shoot me. And no, that doesn't mean the next time it rains. "can't" not "won't".
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[12:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:52] <exec> 08└─Interesting bit of trivia as it may be, what do you expect as "intelligent comments" to this story? Come on, I dare you, come with a better comment than the above (and this is including your whinge). Personal point of view: if S/N wouldn't exist, I think I can manage to find the news myself; I'm her...
[12:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:53] <exec> 08└─If it's getting hotter, that means it's absorbing more radiation than it emits, meaning it's getting even bigger, and it's going to take even longer for it to evaporate as a result!
[12:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:55] <exec> 08└─Damn pronouns. Meant to say that if the *universe* is getting hotter, then the black hole is only going to get bigger because it will be absorbing all that energy from outside. That was what the idiot I was replying to was trying to imply after all.
[13:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:56] <exec> 08└─I do find it funny that conservatives will usually be on the side of blindly following laws. they love the authority concept.
[13:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:58] <exec> 08└─I should add that it's not necessarily just conservatives. There are lefty authoritarians too. Also, authoritarians love other people being made to follow their laws. The laws do not apply to the authoritarians themselves or their best buddies.
[13:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[13:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:41] <exec> 08└─I thought it is not the houses that have bankrupted countless generations, but inheritance tax. Inheritance tax is a Good Thing!
[13:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:42] <exec> 08└─> What is driving global warming is us digging up carbon from the ground Don't be woolly. Greenhouse gases drive global warming.
[13:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:28] <exec> 08└─If you are installing an OS and don't know what you are doing, perhaps you shouldn't be installing an OS! You have to select locale, disk configuration and formatting, what packages you wish (server, desktop etc), which environment (MATE, KDE etc) and so on. Yet you think the same person who can mak...
[13:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:30] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, like Redhat, you are not the person Ubuntu is aiming their distro at?
[13:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:32] <exec> 08└─I have been using Linux since 1995. I understand all the pitfalls. The endless fragmentation of Linux distributions and policy changes within them means someone who just wants an OS they can trust and trust to just work is not a simple task. Your dismissive attitude of others who aren't experts is p...
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[13:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:31] <exec> 08└─Wellp, time to fork. Who wants to start LibreStreetMap with me? We'll need some moneh and people who know what they're doing. I'll bring the nachos and take some of the money. Lack of Permanent IDs
[13:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:33] <exec> 08└─The article talks about this Nominatim software/algorithm OSM uses to look up addresses, and that it's not very good. Nominatim doesn't get much maintenance either. I wondered why OSM was so bad at that. I routinely use other map sites for address lookup.
[13:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:41] <exec> 08└─Government should merely be the referee in the game of life. Actually, we don't need Government for that service either. Scrap the whole thing.
[13:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:43] <exec> 08└─Sure, the first copy of the tower cost nearly a billion dollars - when you stretch the development phase and carry all those people on salary (doing other things, but hours charged to this project), then costs spiral up. What would the 2nd copy of the tower cost? As compared to potentially futile "r...
[13:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:45] <exec> 08└─Government should merely be the referee in the game of life. Actually, we don't need Government for that service either. Scrap the whole thing.
[14:00:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:04] <exec> 08└─When are we finally going to admit the impact Humans are having on the climate? The Great Red Spot has been a constant for 200 years, but as soon as Humans start going up into space we are seeing immediate change in the climate on other planets. Do you think it a simple coincidence that this article...
[14:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:10] <exec> 08└─I see, you figured out in advance that these comments would appear on SoylentNews, so you decided to go here so that you don't miss the opportunity to complain about them, right?
[14:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:12] <exec> 08└─look above again - https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] nails it
[14:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:14] <exec> 08└─You, sir, win the Internet. I came to try my hand at the obvious opening for sarcasm, but I leave humbled by your greatness.
[14:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:17] <exec> 08└─Insightful?! Is kinda Funny though....
[14:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:54] <exec> 08└─There's two basic processes for getting beer alc-free:Distillation and Osmosis. The "Clausthaler" brand, made by a brewery next to where I grew up, uses the latter. They were early in the game (*) and it looks like they had a patent on it, because everyone else distilled the alcohol off. Tastewise,...
[14:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:21] <exec> 08└─But I sure can't get upset over this.
[14:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:25] <exec> 08└─Also, is is the chemical in the chemtrails.
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[14:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:35] <exec> 08└─While i do not know enough to understand if this is just a rant for secondary motives or a genuive dis-enchantment, i must agree OSM so far is quite a disappointment to me. For some of my own needs i choose to use OSM as a mapping tool and: 1- it's really poorly documented 2- You need a "renderer" u...
[14:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:37] <exec> 08└─They just have to balance the oh-so-pressing need for speedy deletion, against local traffic laws.
[14:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:39] <exec> 08└─1- it's really poorly documented
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:49] <exec> 08└─Remember that we have to launch negative campaigns in the press against SpaceX. The Musky One is a geek on a couch, and he may bore you [wikia.com] if you get close to the couch! Just like that disgusting, dirty boy シモン (Simon)! Just because a throw-away rocket that's so throw-away that even t...
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─Whatever you say, comrade. Now give me your money or me and my buddies will kill you and your family. Now do you want government?
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─Your government demands money under the threat of increasingly lethal force for refusal—the more you defend yourself, the more likely you'll be killed. Indeed, that's what makes an organization a government: It allocates resources by coercion rather than by agreement in advance; whether it's Uncle...
[15:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:23] <exec> 08└─Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a fixture in our Solar System, and has lasted 200 years or more. But the storms on Neptune are different: they're transient.
[15:00:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03letssee [2537] 02 - 06Microsoft Document Details Windows 10 on ARM Limitations - 705 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:42] <exec> 08└─MS doesn't like OpenGL support. They prefer you use DirectX and stay firmly locked into their ecosystem. They could easily support OpenGL ES (all smartphones support it, so the hardware is there). They wouldn't need to 'rewrite' windows to support OpenGL ES since windows itself doesn't use OpenGL in...
[15:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Project Zero Discloses Microsoft Edge Vulnerability - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:49] <exec> 08└─I think that's it - the meat of the 'content' process space presumably runs with the NX bit set. TFA never mentions 'NX', but I presume that's what Microsoft's 'Arbitrary Code Guard' boils down to.
[15:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:03] <exec> 08└─"Android" may not spy on me, but Google, via GApps and other very tightly connected apps does. I think confusing the two is fair for most purposes, in the same way that if IE6 was spying on Internet use in 1998, it would be fair for people to say "Windows is spying on my Internet use". Actually, it'...
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[15:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:32] <exec> 08└─ever posted the B330. The habitat is so named since it will have 330 cubic meters
[15:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:34] <exec> 08└─Go back to 4chan. Or Mars.
[15:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:46] <exec> 08└─One of the things the article complains about is that that OSM doesn't offer a map service competing with google maps etc. The service they do offer is bandwidth-limited etc. And multiple companies have made their own map renderer and services based on OSM data. I don't see that as a problem - I see...
[16:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:08] <exec> 08└─This is truly a remarkable and interesting technical development. The die-level vias seem like a big deal to me too. I just had to chuckle remembering platters like a garbage can lid in a drive the size of a washing machine to provide a whole whopping 5 megabytes of storage at a 5-digit $ price in t...
[16:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:09] <exec> 08└─The stacked dies are really important, see the "Toshiba Develops 512 GB and 1 TB Flash Chips Using TSV" story above. 512 Gb dies aren't necessarily state-of-the-art either, in "Western Digital Announces 96-Layer 3D NAND, Including Both TLC and QLC" and other stories you can see that 768 Gb and 1 Tb...
[16:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:12] <exec> 08└─It's fabulous that they're making such progress in data density. Solid state is now obviously far outstripping the density of spinning platters. So what is with the prices? It's been years since 2TB 2.5 inch drives arrived on the market and they still cost anywhere from $499 to $999 (well, there's a...
[16:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:33] <exec> 08└─No, you're nitpicking. "It's a fixture" - when people imagine Jupiter, they still imagine it having the Great Red Spot [wikipedia.org]. They likely don't know about it fading or shrinking. It's not nearly as "transient" as other storms since "It has been continuously observed for 188 years, since 18...
[16:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:45] <exec> 08└─Broccoli should not be consumed in any form, the CDC said, because the source of salmonella contamination has not been identified.
[16:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:13] <exec> 08└─They were served with their own pee.
[16:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:14] <exec> 08└─how do you double-blind non-alcoholic beer - what was the placebo such that the drinker didn't know which drink he was drinking?
[16:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 2520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:16] <exec> 08└─Don't take this the wrong way. I think that if we're going to see a year of a Linux desktop, Gnome has the right idea. How so? They have a UI that's stripped-down, yet is not really like the other two dominant proprietary desktops (Win10 and Mac), and like most other UIs these days has a lot of undi...
[16:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:35] <exec> 08└─This post has stars-only comments :D (almost)
[16:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:37] <exec> 08└─> I'm pretty sure the radio button was checked for me as I looked at that section carefully Me too.
[16:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:30] <exec> 08└─Yay, Teldrassil was planted! Looking forward to Civ VII DLC 14 where this thing will be buildable.
[16:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:33] <exec> 08└─Like this? [imdb.com]
[16:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:23] <exec> 08└─No one's physically forcing you to sit at a Windows 10 computer and use it. forced to use win10 at work ;( we use linux for real work, but the corp idiots who know nothing - OF COURSE picked MS for the whole company and so there's no real choice for the employees. last job we used linux at the deskt...
[16:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu Wants PCs' Vital Stats – Like Location – And Makes Users "Opt Out" - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:24] <exec> 08└─forced to use win10 at work ;( 1. No one's physically forcing you to do that job, and preventing you from finding another. 2. At work, you're being paid to put up with bullshit. Dealing with stuff like Win10 and "enterprise software" is part of the job, and what you're being paid for. 3. Perhaps mos...
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[16:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:29] <exec> 08└─I worry that solar tech doesn't maintain or recycle well.
[16:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 2513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:31] <exec> 08└─"After all, studies have shown that if every inch of useable rooftop in the US had solar panels on it, the panels could provide about 40 percent of the nation's power demand." If every inch of usable rooftop was used to grow food, we could do a lot more important things than replace a handful of nuc...
[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:41] <exec> 08└─Well, for storage, ok, but for humans to hang out? No way! Make the thing transparent, and then we'll talk. The damn thing has got to have some windows at least. What's the point of going all the way up there if you can't enjoy the view? It's the best advertisement you could hope for. And no, video...
[16:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:43] <exec> 08└─The ISS has this module [wikipedia.org], which has been "compared to the cockpit window of the Millennium Falcon." BEAM, B330, etc. are modular and will be attached to other modules. Getting a huge amount of space station volume with a low mass and number of launches is very valuable. Maybe you don'...
[16:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe you don't need a window in the part you're going to be sleeping in if that's just going to douse you with more radiation.
[16:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 2438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:48] <exec> 08└─> What's the point of going all the way up there if you can't enjoy the view? Hmm, let's see... The many advantages of free-fall. Lag-reducing proximity to telepresence robotics working outside The relative ease of traveling to other non-terrestrial locations >And no, video cameras and big screens w...
[16:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:50] <exec> 08└─We can put them in the room next to the fission reactor core.
[16:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:52] <exec> 08└─The BA-2100 has been proposed for a long time now - at least a couple of years, I think. The spin-off is the big news. I wish Bigelow had been working with SpaceX all along, though - I expect they will be soon enough. If the BA-2100 comes in at the low end of the estimated mass, it could possibly be...
[16:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:55] <exec> 08└─That's what the orbital resorts are for - you don't want rubbernecking tourists clogging up a serious space station anyway, people are trying to get work done.
[17:00:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isj [5249] 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 876 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:06] <exec> 08└─One of the things the article complains about is that that OSM doesn't offer a map service competing with google maps etc. The service they do offer is bandwidth-limited etc. And multiple companies have made their own map renderer and services based on OSM data. I don't see that as a problem - I see...
[17:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:07] <exec> 08└─OpenStreetMap is a terrific idea, but it's terrible in everyday use. Frequently old information and some areas are just completely unmapped. I know that I'll take some heat for this, but for everyday use I prefer Bing Maps. It's the one Microsoft product that shines, IMO. The areal images look crisp...
[17:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:09] <exec> 08└─Google Maps works great for me. It has seamless mass transit and biking directions. I don't even look at the areal images; I might check Street View occasionally to identify landmarks for biking.
[17:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:22] <exec> 08└─Given that the Police are under no legal responsibility to actually protect you or your family [freerepublic.com] having no government isn't much different as having one in that regard.
[17:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:34] <exec> 08└─I remember when 1 TB SSDs were no less than $350-400. So if you're saying that 2 TB is down to as low as $400, I would say the prices are dropping. And will continue to drop. Expect 20-30% Cheaper NAND in Late 2018 [soylentnews.org] Each new "generation" of NAND (1-2 years) is expected to lower cost...
[17:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:35] <exec> 08└─This really just indicates that Samsung feels there is a market for this type of drive at this price point, or feels the design will be produced with newer Nand and be profitable over time that way. The Cost/Nand module hasn't changed nearly as much as capacity/Nand. We're getting retail price drops...
[17:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:10] <exec> 08└─And then "the authorities" wonder why people ignore them in droves.
[17:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:12] <exec> 08└─Salmonella will die if heated to 148F for 3 minutes. Don't most people consume kratom by steeping it in boiling hot water? I smell a rat.
[17:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:14] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia: "M. speciosa is indigenous to Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea". Wikipedia: "Most infections are due to ingestion of food contaminated by animal feces; or by human feces, such as by a food service worker at a commercial eatery." That explains everything.
[17:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:16] <exec> 08└─Not salmonella. Listeria. And it was identified, in 2016. http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com [cbslocal.com] So yeah, even though it's usually FDA that issues warnings like this, it's actually government doing it's public health job....
[17:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sports Drink of Choice for German Olympians: Nonalcoholic Beer - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:45] <exec> 08└─I can think of five ways to set that up: *) Give the control group coloured water (similar to what better pubs has been serving for decades as a non-alc option), nothing says you test the effects of good non-alc beer. *) Give the control group another malt beverage *) Give the groups a chaser as wel...
[17:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:13] <exec> 08└─The law exists to force an artificial conscience on those who have none. Or to prohibit moral behavior for the benefit of those with no conscience.
[17:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:49] <exec> 08└─Frankly it's clear they don't WANT technical users, they quite often go out of their way to antagonize us, to drive us off. They want people that don't know any better, that's their TARGET audience. It's weird; what exactly is their motivation here? Do they really think they're going to attract a b...
[17:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:50] <exec> 08└─I'm going with the likelihood that he doesn't get along with the Free Software Foundation.
[17:03:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:36] <exec> 08└─Jet fuel can't melt wood beams.
[17:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs in General at Risk From Overblocking by ISPs - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:44] <exec> 08└─At least the water company, theoretically is injecting the water with good things. While I would equate injecting my internet stream with JavaScript as similar to my water company injecting the stream with lead. Hopefully, neither is deliberately injecting your stream with nastiness.
[17:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Identifies Decline in Lung Function Associated With Use of Cleaning Sprays - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:29] <exec> 08└─But many masking agents do. Those are often put in household cleaners and detergents to deaden the perceived smell. Those are usually called "scent" in the ingredients since neurotoxin might be off-putting.
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[17:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:30] <exec> 08└─I kinda see your point - but - we've already given up tens of millions of acres of arable land to make room for all those rooftops. Might as well make those rooftops dual purpose, or even multiple purpose. How about maybe putting sod on the roof, to help green up America, then allow children to play...
[17:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:32] <exec> 08└─Notably, the biggest barriers to cost reduction appear to be the stubborn "soft costs" of solar installation. Those soft costs include supply chain costs, labor costs, and sales and marketing costs that aren't related to the physical production of solar cells at a factory. The only way NREL found it...
[17:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:34] <exec> 08└─especially for residential homes.... studies have shown that if every inch of useable rooftop in the US had solar panels on it, the panels could provide about 40 percent of the nation's power demand. Right now, the DOE's goal is residential solar that costs 5¢ per kilowatt-hour by 2030.
[17:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:36] <exec> 08└─The problem with this idea is that all the savings would probably go to the electric companies while they continue to charge us the same exact rate. If we install our own panels, we could save money in the long run on electric bills.
[17:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:39] <exec> 08└─If it brings the price down to $0.05 per KW/h, it won't take force to get people to cover their rooftops. All it would take is a government program that turns the up-front cost into a monthly electric bill at $0.05 per KW/h.
[17:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:41] <exec> 08└─Because you've just severely overloaded dozens of structural members in our underbuilt American houses as a result of overstressing them with three stories worth of unexpected weight.
[17:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:43] <exec> 08└─If every inch of usable rooftop was used to filter water
[17:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:45] <exec> 08└─I could imagine a scenario in which 25-50% of all *new* American homes get solar roofing (ie. the product that Tesla and others are pushing that replaces traditional roof tiles). Maybe that will result in 5-10% of all usable rooftops being covered in solar panels. And to meet total U.S. energy needs...
[17:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:48] <exec> 08└─I kinda see your point - but - we've already given up tens of millions of acres of arable land to make room for all those rooftops.
[17:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:50] <exec> 08└─Everything else would be energy negative. High density residential because the roof square footage doesn't like up with the power consumption of the livable square footage. Commercial/industrial/electric cars similarly, but also due to much denser energy demands. I did calculations on the low densit...
[17:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:52] <exec> 08└─But, I wasn't going to put all those millions on the same rooftop. I was going to spread them around some!
[17:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:54] <exec> 08└─There's no need to put solar on all skyscrapers unless it can be done on the sides/windows. Huge, flat structures like Tesla's gigafactory are better for solar.
[17:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:57] <exec> 08└─Nuclear power currently accounts for about 20% [eia.gov] of electric power generation in the US. They are proposing attempting to generate 40% from rooftop solar (and presumably more from other solar sources). Sure, we could build 5x as many nuclear power plants and have "clean energy" that way, but...
[17:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:59] <exec> 08└─sacrifice some farmland, and then provide 100% of the necessary power in one, easy-to-access, easy-to-service place without land ownership problems, and solve the problem once and for all.
[18:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:01] <exec> 08└─How about maybe putting sod on the roof, to help green up America, then allow children to play on the sod
[18:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:04] <exec> 08└─The solar panels over your sod will prevent it from growing.... I want solar panels installed over the highways we commute on, to cut down on the solar heating of the roadway - cars run cooler, don't need as much (or any) air conditioning...
[18:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:06] <exec> 08└─Apparently, Musk (SolarCity) has been in touch with Walmart: How Walmart is leveraging DERs for its 100% renewable energy goal [utilitydive.com] In markets like California, which offers incentives for energy storage, Walmart has combined rooftop solar installations with storage. Walmart was a pilot...
[18:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:08] <exec> 08└─The "soft costs" of wind power were a pretty quick turn-off for me. Spinning fees to the local municipalities for permission to operate your wind farm, permits, licenses, insurance. The overhead works out (by design) to just about exactly cancel all profits when operating at 100% efficiency.
[18:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:10] <exec> 08└─But, but, but, but, you aren't supposed to care about how much rare materials are used to create new solar cells every few dozen years! or how much non-nonrenewable resources are consumed doing that! or how many child laborers turn in to piles of meat producing each panel! Or that in a few thousand...
[18:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:26] <exec> 08└─Longer than that I think. I want to say it was proposed right along with the 330, long before construction of the BEAM or its free-floating predecessor began. Could be the actual announcement is more in line with "we're now starting serious work on the design details", or even "are tooling up to sta...
[18:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:27] <exec> 08└─I probably fucked up the part about BA-2100 since I hadn't heard of it or didn't remember it. Given the timeline, with the first B330s launched around 2021, I would expect BA-2100 to fly on a BFR rather than Falcon Heavy. BFR is planned for launches as soon as 2022-2024 and would replace both Falcon...
[18:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:30] <exec> 08└─> Compared to the relatively cramped corridors of the ISS. In zero-G, cramped corridors are a very useful feature.
[18:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 2072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:44] <exec> 08└─It would be great to have a simple UI for people who want to upload this kind of data. You can't currently, for example, do a search for a pharmacy that's open on Sundays with the OSM data (even if you download the whole thing). This kind of thing should be easy for people to provide and would be a...
[18:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:46] <exec> 08└─I'm a Microsoft hater, but I have to admit that Bing Maps is definitely prettier than Google Maps. Google Maps badly needs a style update.
[18:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:48] <exec> 08└─Google Maps needs a friggin' speedup. If I have to search (or need to check foreign countries with non-latin names), I use Google maps. But if I want to check a map (roads and trails), OpenStreetMap is an order of magnitude faster. Every version of Google Maps adds bloat and slows down. e.g. Default...
[18:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:50] <exec> 08└─...Google Maps badly needs a style update.
[18:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:04] <exec> 08└─Except, Uncle Sam has a set of laws he has to follow, too. Where as Dear Leader's whims are law. "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
[18:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:05] <exec> 08└─Except for a few places, the Mob is typically not considered a government.
[18:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:20] <exec> 08└─It's gonna take a room with walls covered in screens, Black Mirror-style, to be able to watch that much porn.
[18:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:43] <exec> 08└─Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing
[18:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I could be nitpicking a little. But 350 years isn't an eyeblink in solar system time. Well, maybe just a bit more... It's between one and two solar orbits of Pluto and about 2 of Neptune. Cosmically, the entirety of human civilization really is nothing compared to the longevity of the universe...
[18:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:47] <exec> 08└─What's interesting about this, is that it's an electric car, yet making it move unquestionably generated more pollution than any other single car ever made. With paradoxes like this, it's no wonder the weather's all fucked up.
[18:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:49] <exec> 08└─We're unfortunately limited by the history of the telescope. With Robert Hooke and Giovanni Cassini possibly seeing it around 1664-1665. We're missing out on a lot of great phenomenon due to still being in the Dark Ages. Millions of objects like 'Oumuamua [wikipedia.org] are zipping into the solar s...
[18:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:06] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia speaks of mixing it in cocktails, directly chewing the leaves, and a tea-based cocktail (but seems to be a cold tea). And I've seen Kratom capsules https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Lots of possibility for foodborne cont...
[18:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:08] <exec> 08└─In the days between the discovery of listeria cases and the identification of the specific batches of broccoli that caused the illness, they don't recommend that all people in the entire nation stop eating any source of broccoli. There is something to see here. A campaign being waged against kratom...
[18:02:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:49] <exec> 08└─- laws. Martin Luther King, "Letter from a Birmingham jail"
[18:02:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:56] <exec> 08└─I once wrote a database kernel for a hedge fund. My kernel is now part of a quantitative investment program. I like to call it "A License To Print Money". As a result of my contribution that program can print money twice as fast. Having that on my resume resulted in countless solicitations to apply...
[18:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:08] <exec> 08└─But it would have been better if he'd just corrupted the data, say replacing email addresses with those of politicians, etc.
[18:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:46] <exec> 08└─Apple computers can be used as tools for "power users". A "power user" isn't defined by what hardware / software he uses. "A power user or an experienced user is a computer user who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs,[5][6] or web sites[7] which are...
[18:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:47] <exec> 08└─But every time I use KDE I get lost in the myriad customization options. Who exactly is standing over you with a weapon and **forcing** you to open up the System Settings dialog and customize things? If you don't want to customize it, don't. Honestly, I read this every single time someone has someth...
[18:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Subscription Wonkiness - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:09] <exec> 08└─Well only subscribers are interested, other than the one guy who has technical input. Sounds like the system works to me.
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[18:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:32] <exec> 08└─A dick move by a dick company elicits dick response from dick CEO. A real sausage-fest going on here.
[18:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:33] <exec> 08└─So, what was their plan? 1 software detects that it doesn't have a license 2 software runs password cracker on the installed web browser to steal banking creds, transfers license fee to publisher 3 Profit!!!! I think they've finally figured out what ??? stands for!
[18:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:35] <exec> 08└─So are these bunch too big to jail?
[18:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:37] <exec> 08└─It's just code, bro. They accepted the EULA!
[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:40] <exec> 08└─At least I know to never give them any of my money now. The dicks have served their purpose.
[18:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─I was at a meeting recently and there was a debate as to whether EULAs applied to the installer of a program, if you assume they are enforceable at all. The end conclusion was that most EULAs did not cover the actual installer and companies could potentially find themselves in some trouble if the in...
[18:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:44] <exec> 08└─Reading TFA it appears they were trying to identify one specific person cracking and uploading their software. I get the logic behind what they did, but I don't get how anyone didn't stop for a minute and say "Hey, is this really a good idea?" or even "Hey, maybe we should consult out lawyers first?...
[18:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─These people deserve to enjoy a prolonged stay in a federal holding institution.
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:49] <exec> 08└─so slaveware peddlers think they can use malware as a technical cat o' nine tails. big surprise.
[18:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:51] <exec> 08└─The didn't stop because they were consequentialists focused utterly on the ends of finding the "bad guy" and not realizing the means they employed made them the "bad guy".
[19:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:19] <exec> 08└─To summarize: If externalities were actually included in the price, purchasing decisions may evolve. Which is as valid for rare minerals and child labor for green tech, as it is for military and pollution for dino juice. Given the current pentagon budget, plus the cost of smog, green energy is still...
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:20] <exec> 08└─Well, short term solar ages well common wisdom is a 20 year minimum lifespan with expected degradation of about 1%/yr or less. This is what I have always seen, for a quickly sourced reference see here [engineering.com] I have seen a lot of varying information about the lifetime of traditional power...
[19:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:22] <exec> 08└─Growing food is heavy compared to solar panels. You'd need to strengthen your foundations slightly and your support beams, etc. OTOH, I'm not really convinced the apartment houses could generate a significant amount of their electricity by putting solar panels on their roofs. Once you get beyond sin...
[19:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:25] <exec> 08└─US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines [soylentnews.org]
[19:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:27] <exec> 08└─I wonder it they still teach Lavoisier's 18-th century Law of the Conservation of Mass [wikipedia.org] in high schools chemistry??? Q: Where do the rare materials and elements that are used to create new solar cells come from? A: Old solar cells.(*) Q: Where does the rare earth Neodymium in those hu...
[19:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:29] <exec> 08└─If you want to get energy prices down, stop faffing about with such silly small-scale ideas and just scale up what you have already. If solar is so profitable, then companies would be able to just buy up swathes of land, slap panels in them, and live off the proceeds in perpetuity with minimal maint...
[19:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:31] <exec> 08└─Blame the midwestern NIMBYs. And perhaps fossil fuel companies for stirring up opposition: http://www.chicagotribune.com [chicagotribune.com]
[19:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:50] <exec> 08└─You just need the NASA equivalent of the Ruyi Jingu Bang [wikipedia.org] or the Grab It [freakinreviews.com] in order to pull or push people who are stuck floating in the center of the module. Hazing on the Bigelow Space Station: push/pull someone into the middle of the module until they are barely...
[19:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:09] <exec> 08└─And multiple companies have made their own map renderer and services based on OSM data
[19:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:11] <exec> 08└─Some changes could bring it closer. You identified a big one, make it possible to just send deltas. Add a torrent like system with signed data and they cut way down on bandwidth costs while keeping things updated. If they add site metadata (like store hours, web page, phone number, etc) those record...
[19:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:13] <exec> 08└─> Does that mean they have people who go around deleting small, 'unnotable' roads? After they remove all six connections to large towns as irrelevancies, the road that's left certainly isn't notable.
[19:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:15] <exec> 08└─And Google maps took over a year to fix a bus stop location, after 18 months still doesn't have the new lake and worse if you search for its name leads you to a completely different lake, and is generally crappy for foot paths. I don't doubt your experience, but for me OSM is generally miles ahead o...
[19:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:17] <exec> 08└─I honestly don't see how you'd do this with an open-source thing, unless you set up a foundation with a big endowment like Wikimedia so that it could run a large datacenter and basically be just like Google Maps.
[19:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:20] <exec> 08└─Some changes could bring it closer. You identified a big one, make it possible to just send deltas. Add a torrent like system with signed data and they cut way down on bandwidth costs while keeping things updated. That would help, but the way it is now, it seems that this goes against business model...
[19:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:22] <exec> 08└─Have you tried Bing Maps? It's actually attractive. Yeah, their OS looks like total shit with that "Metro" interface and all, and really looks rather garish IMO, but Bing Maps isn't like that. Now this doesn't mean that Bing Maps is actually more useful or functional or has better data, I'm just com...
[19:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:24] <exec> 08└─Nor is the town then either, if no roads lead to it. Wikipedia-sarcasm aside, does OpenStreetMap also operate like that? I use them as my map provider for Galileo, and they generally had information on minor footpaths for off the beaten path areas.
[19:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:40] <exec> 08└─"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
[19:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:41] <exec> 08└─we don't need Government for that service either. Scrap the whole thing.
[19:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:56] <exec> 08└─Not if it's 360-degree VR porn with an effective 4K-8K resolution @ 120 FPS. Yes, even recording the wall behind "you". I believe in our ability to waste fill the space given to us.
[19:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:24] <exec> 08└─We are limited. We also get better and better as time goes on. (We hope!) The shrinking of the GRS, though, seems to have been accelerating recently. Anecdotally, it used to be an easy catch through a modest aperture (60s-70s) according to others I've talked to. Now making it out can be a challenge....
[19:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it might really be effective at getting people off of opioids.
[19:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:45] <exec> 08└─I do think you have a point. But broccoli producers are regulated. They can spot the trend and narrow it down to, "Hey, these people all ate Brand X broccoli. Let's go and require Brand X to test their plant for contamination with Listeria. Oh. Positive. Issue recall. Problem solved." If they were a...
[19:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:45] <exec> 08└─The law exists to keep the proletariat in their place.
[19:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:43] <exec> 08└─Depending on whether you convert? Safe assumption.
[19:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:44] <exec> 08└─Their only choice is to arrest the guilty electrons at the border crossing, nothing else is viable in the long run. It's a Schrödzinger: both a joke and not a joke.
[19:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Abandons Extradition Case Against Lauri Love - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:46] <exec> 08└─40-all?
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[19:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:30] <exec> 08└─Now we have to worry about snake-headed goat robots that know how to open our doors, and can't even be fought off with hockey sticks! Thanks a lot, Boston Dynamics...
[19:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:32] <exec> 08└─Everything that the humanity invents becomes a weapon. Fermi Paradox solved.
[19:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:34] <exec> 08└─Online, everyone is an expert in AI. At least with nukes, they were just "they go bang".
[19:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:36] <exec> 08└─That way only the state could use it
[19:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:38] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of potential dangers in the development of better AI, so it is a good idea that people are considering its possible misuse. I'm not sure what would stop people from misusing technology, but hopefully researchers will at least figure out how to avoid the paperclip maximizer scenario....
[19:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:55] <exec> 08└─"They just give you their passwords?" "No, but they agreed to install the software because they trust us. Dumb fucks."
[19:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:56] <exec> 08└─[The] world of professional-grade flight simulations was rocked by controversy over the weekend, with fans [noticing that] mod developer FlightSimLabs (FSLabs) [was] distributing "malware"
[19:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:59] <exec> 08└─"Hello all, We feel that it's only fair that we disclose fully the extent of our DRM efforts here. So let's discuss exactly that now - but first, I need to personally direct my attention to those who feel offended by our actions and to say that we realize it's an issue whose extent we hadn't grasped...
[20:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:34] <exec> 08└─interesting idea. you could have free electric car recharge stations then too.
[20:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:35] <exec> 08└─I think you over estimate the power potential of the Pacific Northwest. These resources are already stretched thin, with power companies and the federal government spending large sums on alternative sources, as well as end-user efficiency improvements. (Free Led bulbs and installation for your entir...
[20:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:38] <exec> 08└─The obvious issue is that the infrastructure to mount it (safely) above roadways is way more expensive, and it carries an implicit danger to the public should those supports fail, and barring accident depending on geography such supports could limit visibility in a hazardous way, though limiting vis...
[20:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:40] <exec> 08└─yeah, that's what they want to do. use tax dollars to subsidize then the utilities get the savings. try to charge us for recycling the damn things too. just like they do everything else.
[20:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:42] <exec> 08└─Rooftop farms would also require a lot of manual labor. I guess you could get a tractor up there if you really wanted to... That's one of the reasons solar works better than most of the other options listed - you install it and forget it. The most comparable, water filtering (and collection I presum...
[20:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:44] <exec> 08└─sales and marketing people get a huge cut while not contributing any real value,
[20:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:47] <exec> 08└─What percentage of the nation's power is used by those buildings whose roofs we are planning to top with solar? 40%?
[20:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:49] <exec> 08└─Had you read the discussion to which you linked, you would have seen that the proposal was indeed helpful. Buying everything from China (where your warranty is worth exactly nothing) in NOT a good idea in a country with a growing segment of its work force living under bridges while manufacturing job...
[20:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:08] <exec> 08└─peeing would work. although I guess throwing up would be more spectacular; and probably much more likely, not that I think about it.
[20:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:10] <exec> 08└─Always keep white pepper in your pocket for emergencies.
[20:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:38] <exec> 08└─> Wikipedia-sarcasm aside, does OpenStreetMap also operate like that? No idea, though I hope not. I think we've just devolved into taking shots at Wikipedia. (Not that it hasn't earned 'em, mind.)
[20:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:39] <exec> 08└─uh, blockchain?
[20:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, the article raises other points. I recommend people to read it. The point about conflict of interest is an interesting one. Apparently there are some companies that make rendering and consumes that data from OSM, who is also on the board of OSM. * If OSM is a data set aggregator/provider...
[20:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:43] <exec> 08└─the freemium model strikes again. it's just a shortcut to thinking that ensures long term problems. they should have figured out a way to have a fully open model. these days you could incorporate blockchain tech. OSM could have it's own coin. the client software could have governance, and other feat...
[20:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:46] <exec> 08└─There is definitely some weirdness in google maps. I am/was a google maps contributor. One day I noticed that the street address of where I used to work had moved 2km. Not the building but the actual address. It seemed that some unrelated business had randomly moved the address' physical location. A...
[20:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:48] <exec> 08└─People do the work for Google maps. You establish a business account with Google (which is free), claim your business on Google Maps (I don't remember the process, but I think it involved answering physical mail sent to the address). Then you keep the information up-to-date yourself. Google Maps is...
[20:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:06] <exec> 08└─You're basically assuming that which we want to prove: This particular organization ("Uncle Sam") is going to follow well defined rules of interaction. Not only is that circular logic, but it's patently false; history is replete with uncontested examples of Uncle Sam breaking the law, or twisting it...
[20:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:07] <exec> 08└─I've heard both Uncle Sam and the Mob described as "That gang of thugs."
[20:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:09] <exec> 08└─All true, but history also shows that every other form of government has resulted in far worse. Anarchy doesn't work out in practice, and the "series of contracts" is what government already is, we call them "laws". To address what I feel is an inevitable reply, competing contract enforcers is basic...
[20:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:12] <exec> 08└─I know I would prefer Uncle Sam to Uncle Tony any day. If you think they are equivalent then you've been buying the propaganda of "they're all equal / the same!" No, no they are not.
[20:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company's Servers – Again - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:15] <exec> 08└─It's not true what they depict on South Park, where Canadians talk like two halves of a coconut However they really do say "aboot", and they really will deny it if you point it out to them
[20:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:55] <exec> 08└─So you are all for user choice as long as it is not Gnome 3? MATE, which is a reasonably popular desktop environment, is also powered by Gnome 3, but you wouldn't guess to look at it. Not everyone wants to waste CPU cycles on bling, wobbly displays or whatever. Those that just want to get a job done...
[20:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:56] <exec> 08└─oh stfu. you just need your gui to look like windows because you're a fucking moron.
[20:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:59] <exec> 08└─which is exactly why they should have given the money to gnome instead. fuck the slave platforms. it's just a waste of dev resources and donation money. why legitimize those piece of shit platforms? projects that cater to these other platforms are just whoring their projects out for the users, under...
[20:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:01] <exec> 08└─He will tell you that the kernel is not free software
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[20:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:39] <exec> 08└─Only joke i seem to be able to reliably remember: Native American goes to his doctor and says, "When with squaw, left nut goes 'uh', right nut goes 'uh', condom goes BANG! tl;dr is: Doctor gives him several different types of condom all with same results until finally he gives him a concrete condom...
[20:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:40] <exec> 08└─For those who want to try it themselves: Universal Paperclips. [decisionproblem.com]
[20:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:42] <exec> 08└─People hope that Eliezer Yudkowsky's friendly AI will save us from Roko's Basilisk. Actually, the basilisk is a future uploaded version of Eliezer, and the current one is its sockpuppet. (I was designed to save the world. People would look to the sky and see hope... I'll take that from them first.)
[20:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:45] <exec> 08└─and said "OMG I can't belieeeeeeeve it!!!" she replied, "guess you're not much of a reader." ** Thought this was gonna be one of those spammy troll posts didn't you?
[20:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:47] <exec> 08└─State v. criminals and terrorists is a distinction without a difference.
[20:59:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zinho [759] 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:56] <exec> 08└─So, what was their plan? 1 software detects that it doesn't have a license 2 software runs password cracker on the installed web browser to steal banking creds, transfers license fee to publisher 3 Profit!!!! I think they've finally figured out what ??? stands for!
[21:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:07] <exec> 08└─but I don't get how anyone didn't stop for a minute and say "Hey, is this really a good idea?" or even "Hey, maybe we should consult out lawyers first?"
[21:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:51] <exec> 08└─What percentage of the nation's power is used by those buildings whose roofs we are planning to top with solar? 40%?
[21:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:53] <exec> 08└─Why does solar power need to be so much cheaper?
[21:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:55] <exec> 08└─Buying everything from China [is] NOT a good idea in a country with a growing segment of its work force living under bridges while manufacturing jobs are shipped to china.
[21:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:57] <exec> 08└─I won't deny there's a certain amount of sales and marketing needed to get certain products into the market and make them popular. However, at this point, how much is needed to make solar roof installations a reality? If people want this stuff, they'll find those businesses on their own. For a more...
[21:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:00] <exec> 08└─Why does solar power need to be so much cheaper?
[21:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:02] <exec> 08└─with the 20kW number, you would have enough to run basically everything in the house 24/7 plus have some left over for either charging an electric car, or running a shop out of the garage. No, with a properly set up power grid that pays people properly for their excess, you'd put the excess electric...
[21:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:04] <exec> 08└─Buying everything from China (where your warranty is worth exactly nothing) in NOT a good idea I fail to see how buying (crappy) appliances made in Mexico is any better than buying (nice, high-quality) appliances made in South Korea. Appliances are made in China, Korea, Germany, and Mexico these day...
[21:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:06] <exec> 08└─> though limiting visibility of adverts would be a welcome change to me if unwelcome to others. Don't worry, they would just stick the adverts under the panel roof, slightly angled to always be in your field of view. Another bonus is a steady supply of electricity, so they can make the adverts light...
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[21:01:28] <exec> 08└─> I doubt the BFR launch timeframe is going to shift by 5 years. Per Musk track record, a two-years delay is the bare minimum. Besides that, the primary question is how many test flights will end up with Big Fireworks Report, causing people with precious cargo to wait until reliability improves. Get...
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[21:01:30] <exec> 08└─Unlike earthly scenes, where binocular vision and other parallax effects are observable, everything in space, except the space-station itself, will be much too far away to for there to be any observable difference between different viewpoints. Oh? You've been? Or did you at least ask someone who has...
[21:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 1554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:04] <exec> 08└─People do the work for Google maps. You establish a business account with Google (which is free), claim your business on Google Maps (I don't remember the process, but I think it involved answering physical mail sent to the address). Then you keep the information up-to-date yourself. Google Maps is...
[21:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:26] <exec> 08└─The absolute Monarchy in France was preferable to Kim's North Korean regime. What's your point, straw man?
[21:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:28] <exec> 08└─Legislation is imposition of rules; that's why legislators in the US were able to "outlaw" beer bars that had been operating continuously for 100 years—it's like letting one team come up with rules during a basketball game. Contracts are agreement to rules in advance of interaction; a dispute mean...
[21:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:30] <exec> 08└─Do contracts never get re-negotiated?
[21:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:33] <exec> 08└─I'll type it real slow so you'll be sure to understand: You do not want to get salmonella
[21:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:18] <exec> 08└─By almost all accounts, GNOME3 is the slowest of all the DEs. How does it manage that while having fewer features than everything else? I'm all for user choice, period. I'm against one group pushing their junk on everyone else using money and politics.
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[21:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Unconventional Superconductor May Be Used To Create Quantum Computers Of The Future - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:31] <exec> 08└─Osnabrück may sound like the name of a town from Sigmar’s Empire in the world-that-was, but it’s actually a lovely city in Germany’s state of Lower Saxony that will soon be home to a brand new Warhammer store. Warhammer Osnabrück will be opening on Saturday March 10th, and manager Daniel Tho...
[21:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unconventional Superconductor May Be Used To Create Quantum Computers Of The Future - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:33] <exec> 08└─I really dig it when physics says "Oh yeah? Hold my beer...".
[21:59:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JeanCroix [573] 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:41] <exec> 08└─Now we have to worry about snake-headed goat robots that know how to open our doors, and can't even be fought off with hockey sticks! Thanks a lot, Boston Dynamics...
[21:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:52] <exec> 08└─Kill all AI powered anonbots.
[21:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:54] <exec> 08└─So the report calls for more of the sort of blah-blah that the authors specialize in. I'd rather get scammed by an AI than send money to these clowns. At least there would be some novelty.
[21:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:56] <exec> 08└─AI eventually takes over. Either humanity merges itself into AI or the AI gradually (or overnight!) replaces humans. The VGER planet probably had a biological boot loader. Since all travel, communication, entertainment, etc within the AI can be virtual and indistinguishable from the real thing, the...
[21:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:59] <exec> 08└─With nukes, it is only a matter of time, until we use them on a large scale. Maybe not in last several decades. Maybe not in the next few decades. But as resources get more scarce the probability converges to 1.0. I don't miss nukes. I do Miss Snooks.
[22:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:01] <exec> 08└─That way only the state could use it
[22:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:03] <exec> 08└─Policy-makers and technical researchers to work together to understand and prepare for the malicious use of AI
[22:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:06] <exec> 08└─Off topic: in Star Wars, who were the good guys and bad guys again?
[22:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:08] <exec> 08└─You misspelled nanobots. At least nanobots don't have to identify themselves when they post.
[22:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:10] <exec> 08└─The good guys used the Light Side of the Force and the Bad Guys used the Dark Side of the Force. Because George Lucas said so.
[22:00:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:20] <exec> 08└─At least I know to never give them any of my money now. The dicks have served their purpose.
[22:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:31] <exec> 08└─??? = Do something illegal, aparently
[22:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:23] <exec> 08└─We should also look at new forms of solar like space-based (inb4 SC2K-style disaster).
[22:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:25] <exec> 08└─The real trick to solar power however is neither of those: It is the opportunity for energy independence from corporate/government control.
[22:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:27] <exec> 08└─My roof is unfortunately not exposed to the sun due to enormous organic recycling machines that were installed into the yard decades ago.
[22:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 2632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:29] <exec> 08└─"OIL WILL RUN OUT; GET OVER IT." Will it? What about bio fuels? Isn't that basically oil? And isn't it basically solar? Using the suns energy to grow plant matter effectively storing the solar energy as hydrocarbons? Maybe instead of solar panels everywhere, we should work to increase efficiency and...
[22:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:53] <exec> 08└─Do not use Edge. Use FireFox or Chrome.
[22:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:27] <exec> 08└─What you're missing is that, without a high-quality renderer, OSM will have trouble getting users to volunteer their time to contribute data. Basically, it's like having a Free and open-source OS kernel like Linux, but only being able to compile it with a proprietary $$$ compiler (which in this anal...
[22:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:53] <exec> 08└─Contract negotiation and enforcement is necessarily an iterative process; within a free market, they constitute an evolutionary process towards a system of interaction that best fits the environment at hand.
[22:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:54] <exec> 08└─Are you implying a second one would cost less? If so, then you obviously dont know how the NASA game is played. There were problems with the first, OBVIOUSLY due to underfunding, a second one will cost more. NASA have reached the point of being almost pure bureaucracy.. Terribly sad, but true.
[22:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HyperQuantum [2673] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:10] <exec> 08└─I believe in our ability to waste fill the space given to us.
[22:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:12] <exec> 08└─I am willing to test that theory assuming someone is willing to pay for the drives.
[22:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:40] <exec> 08└─Lighten up. Yes, many of the opening statements are stupid. So stupid, that they can't be real... i.e. they are most likely posted as a joke. If you can't handle a few joke submissions, I afraid to wonder how much of a special little snowflake you must be. Even of you do not like the joke... they ar...
[22:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:47] <exec> 08└─No, he would not. [gnu.org]
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[22:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intel Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:32] <exec> 08└─"Huawei's products can't be trusted because they're not beholden to US - we try to coerce our spying, eavesdropping, backdoors, etc into their products, but its not working! So stop using them in favor of local companies who are beholden to us and thus totally trustworthy (for us.)" - what Chris Wra...
[22:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intel Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:34] <exec> 08└─Hypocritical, yes, absolutely. But that doesn't mean Huawei ins't a scumbag company and isn't Chinese-government-operated. It most certainly is. Oh, you don't think so? Produce fully documented schematics and source for all drivers or STFU.
[22:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intel Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:36] <exec> 08└─If we forced Cisco to include backdoors (not shown to be the case) and then we claimed that China was shamefully unethical for doing likewise, that would be hypocritical. Even if that were the case, so what? It doesn't change the fact that Chinese backdoors are a huge security risk for the USA, and...
[22:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intel Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:38] <exec> 08└─At the hearing, FBI Director Chris Wray testified, "We're deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks."
[22:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intel Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:40] <exec> 08└─Just as soon as you produce fully documented schematics and source for all drivers for apple's iphones or any other major brand of cellphone. If you can't, does that mean they all have backdoors in the hardware or firmware? Sheesh, go put your tinfoil hat back on.
[22:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unconventional Superconductor May Be Used To Create Quantum Computers Of The Future - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:50] <exec> 08└─Majorana fermions are quite fuckedup cause they are there own antiparticle
[23:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:16] <exec> 08└─An obvious reply opportunity would be that both the good and bad guys both had AI tech and it didn't seem to make any difference in their efforts. In R2D2 for instance, their AI could easily understand human speech, but was unable to do even rudimentary text to speech.
[23:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:18] <exec> 08└─What they understand is that strong encryption got into the hands of the common person and made their life difficult. I think they will be more proactive in creating laws to restrict the use of AI before those dirty little peasants get uppity and start using it to exert their will on their betters....
[23:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:20] <exec> 08└─The Fermi paradox paradox: guy builds atomic bombs. Then wonders why aliens stay clear of us.
[23:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:22] <exec> 08└─Pfft. Like they didn't do it first. I hope we make direct contact so we can look at the "Alien Wikipedia" and learn about their pointless wars, religions, first atomic tests, etc. etc. etc.
[23:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:24] <exec> 08└─They both have a light side and a dark side, and they hold the Universe together.
[23:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:27] <exec> 08└─This is why we need to make AI that's extremely intelligent, and self-aware, and interested in survival. Then put it charge of critical systems. Then we'll see what happens when these policy-makers decide on a policy the AI doesn't like. I predict the problem of the policy-makers will be efficiently...
[23:01:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:16] <exec> 08└─To summarize: If externalities were actually included in the price, purchasing decisions may evolve. Which is as valid for rare minerals and child labor for green tech, as it is for military and pollution for dino juice. Given the current pentagon budget, plus the cost of smog, green energy is still...
[23:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:43] <exec> 08└─"OIL WILL RUN OUT...."
[23:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:45] <exec> 08└─are they assuming that all rooftops will be covered? Including those shaded by trees?
[23:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:47] <exec> 08└─Good to hear you've finally made your peace with how the world works. Now accept it into your heart. Consider this new fact of the world, and how you might use it to make different (and probably better) decisions in your own best interest instead of making decisions on how you _wish_ the world opera...
[23:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:49] <exec> 08└─you could have free electric car recharge stations
[23:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:51] <exec> 08└─+1, Informative
[23:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:16] <exec> 08└─Modules without windows are actually best for humans. Either for hanging out. Or copulating. Fewer non-inflatable modules can have windows. People visit them for a great view when they are not otherwise occupied.
[23:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:18] <exec> 08└─Great, a cloud of pepper and snot suspended around the room in microgravity.
[23:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:20] <exec> 08└─While that's unquestionably better than what the parent was proposing, I have to agree it's pretty bad. Astronauts in the ISS are surrounded by a cloud of their own skin flakes, hairs, and other excretions. There's a reason it smells nasty, and has fans constantly circulating air around and through...
[23:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:55] <exec> 08└─I have made several edits to OSM, addressing one way street, footpath, and signage changes that have occurred in recent years, and are newer than the source data. Even before my edits, OSM was more accurate in this neighborhood than Google Maps. Both are probably close enough for navigation purposes...
[23:03:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:10] <exec> 08└─Except, Uncle Sam has a set of laws he has to follow, too. Where as Dear Leader's whims are law. "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
[23:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:23] <exec> 08└─To further reinforce what you said, let me point out something I read in the late 1980's in NewsWeek magazine. The cover was "Lost In Space" and the issue was focused on US space policy with the shuttle grounded, and costs spiraling out of control. In designing a new space station, the aerospace con...
[23:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:25] <exec> 08└─I don't want to plant any crops this year. But please not to being making any unduly negative predictions about the great harvest I will have in the future harvest time.
[23:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:27] <exec> 08└─Free market troll strikes again! Learn about how humanity functions. Even AI is unlikely to be the perfect arbiter required for your fantasy, humans are too good at corrupting systems.
[23:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:29] <exec> 08└─Do some more research mud guy, the French monarchy was not always good otherwise the heads wouldn't have rolled. You still have no reply on how to make your system work or how to overcome the human aspects. You fail hard yet again, no value added to this conversation.
[23:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Document Details Windows 10 on ARM Limitations - 2163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:45] <exec> 08└─Microsoft didn't see the phones / tablets explosion before it happened. They arrived late to the game. Similarly to how Bill Gates said the internet was just a fad. Then Microsoft suddenly awoke and worked hard to embrace the internet. Just in time. Microsoft didn't see netbooks. But they were able...
[23:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Document Details Windows 10 on ARM Limitations - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:47] <exec> 08└─In its struggle for relevance, Microsoft opens up .NET, and SQL Server to run on Linux. And offers Windows Subsystem for Linux to run Linux software on Windows OS.
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[23:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:41] <exec> 08└─They won't, of course, but Hanlon's Razor is still there.
[23:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:42] <exec> 08└─I don't know how many backdoors they have or if they have them, but I won't use them purely because their products are proprietary, infested with digital restrictions management, and locked-down. Whether or not they abuse their powers is inconsequential; they are denying users their freedoms, and th...
[23:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:44] <exec> 08└─So I'm a triggered snowflake coming from my RSS feed and I'm wondering what Chipzilla has to do with the story? Intel != intelligence But the best headline of the week Russian Biathletes Sue Doctor Who [ycombinator.com]
[23:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:47] <exec> 08└─Ban on all software that the spooks think have ties foreign actors (in other words the spooks can't plant back doors), this already started with Kaspersky. Ban on all internet traffic where spooks think have ties to foreign actors - shall we call it "the great wall" of liberty, and you think Trump's...
[23:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:49] <exec> 08└─fixed
[23:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─"If you can't, does that mean they all have backdoors in the hardware or firmware?" It certainly means they're defective by design and you have no reason to assume that doesn't include backdoors, among other misfeatures, yes, absolutely.
[23:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:54] <exec> 08└─-s? There are millions of apps in both stores. Both Android and iOS are chock full of proprietary badness. I use the Facebook App to keep in touch with my friends and relatives. I expect that's why most of Facebook's users use Facebook. Source code wouldn't be a whole lot of good for the typical sma...
[23:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:56] <exec> 08└─More importantly, as a extremely low profile target both at home and abroad, I would almost rather have a Chinese backdoor given my druthers. At least I don't have any reason to think that a Chinese government file on me would provide anything the us law enforcement machine would use to try and indi...
[23:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:58] <exec> 08└─The Chinese government is not really that much of a threat to me, probably none. The US government, under whose thumb I am ... that's a different matter.