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[00:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:00] <exec> 08└─It would be hypocrisy if the US claimed not to build backdoors into IT equipment, while doing so. As far as I can tell, they haven't claimed that they don't do it, and it hasn't been shown that they do. Of the two conditions necessary for hypocrisy, zero have been met. Calling out the risk for the U...
[00:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:41] <exec> 08└─Unable? Or unwilling? If the meatbags can't learn to whistle...
[00:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:42] <exec> 08└─Not if they started out as a hive mind.. our different hairstyles probably kept them away...
[00:01:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:51] <exec> 08└─Why does solar power need to be so much cheaper?
[00:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:31] <exec> 08└─A modified drone can work great in an environment where it doesn't need to overcome 1G. The "Int-Ball" uses 12 tiny fans arranged in a sphere to control movement: https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] https://www.youtube.com
[00:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:08] <exec> 08└─The worst part about Bing Maps is that it killed Microsoft Streets and Trips. S&T was a much more complex program with a lot of features most people would never need, but if you needed them, now you're just hosed. Since Garmin bought Delorme and killed Street Atlas, the only real alternative now is...
[00:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:39] <exec> 08└─Men aren't angels. So, why put them in control of a culturally blessed, violently imposed monopoly? Fool.
[00:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:58] <exec> 08└─That is about 600-800 bluray discs. I have well over 3000 DVDs plus another 200 blurays. I could easily use that space up.
[00:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:28] <exec> 08└─Liquid oxygen burns fairly cleanly. It is just a total pain to store and create.
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[00:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:31] <exec> 08└─He isn't wasting his inherited money on trinkets. He is mass-producing the next generation for Japan. Just think what Jeff Bezos could do for America with his $100,000,000,000. If it takes $1,000,000 to fully raise a child in moderate luxury, he could raise 100,000 kids.
[00:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:32] <exec> 08└─The hardest thing for me about raising kids has been finding the time. I know friends who leave their business so they can spend more time with their children, and I say, "Gimme a break!" My children could not love me more if I spent 15 times more time with them.
[00:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:35] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bezos: reusable rockets will let a trillion people colonise the solar system [techradar.com] For Bezos, colonising space is a more a simple necessity for continued life on Earth. The compound effect of the incremental increase in energy requirements will mean us having to cover every inch of Ea...
[00:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:37] <exec> 08└─So who is the genetic mother? Or was he just doing what wealth Japanese men do in Thailand? What happened to the other three? And why does Bezos keep showing up?
[00:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:39] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bezos is said to be the #1 richest person in the world. Probably due to Amazon stock. He could pay a lot of women to have his seed. As for Mitsutoki Shigeta, the genetic mother(s) are apparently random according to Reuters [reuters.com]: The man had his sperm fertilize donor eggs, which were th...
[01:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:01] <exec> 08└─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 smartphone user.
[01:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not too worried about backdoors but I still use Lineage OS without google apps. No google calendar, no google contacts, no google maps. Was a bitch to switch away from google but I found all the (free and open) apps I needed and I feel better about it.
[01:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:45] <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.
[01:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:08] <exec> 08└─we've already given up tens of millions of acres of arable land To take it 1 step farther: The local college had a big uncovered parking lot. In the summer, getting back into your car after it had been sitting in the sun for some hours was an unpleasant experience. The lot now has a cover and that c...
[01:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:09] <exec> 08└─Zero point Energy? Well if we have that tech, its safe to assume we have the stargate tech as well... Then we can just go and get fossil fuels from other planets when we need... or move to the next planet when this one becomes a barren husk. ;)
[01:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:39] <exec> 08└─Too complex. You just need a battery-powered fan blowing on a filter, with some mechanism pseudo-randomly changing direction on impact. Using the fan flow for both dust suction and toy propulsion, the hardest part is to perfectly balance the weight Probably three or four coplanar fans, and an accele...
[01:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:40] <exec> 08└─Linked the wrong article earlier. https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
[01:02:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:49] <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
[01:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:19] <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.
[01:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 3466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:10] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the drives in question are SAS-3, not SATA (of any kind). SAS drives always have been more expensive than SATA, just as SCSI had been more expensive than IDE (and mfm and rll and...) I have a number of 1625s (the 843T is the SATA version) on a SAS2 controller that is embedded in th...
[01:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 2862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not OP, but I think I have an idea of what they're getting at with "if we're going to see a year of a Linux desktop." I think that for normal people, wrapping their heads around what this Linux thing "is" and what it looks like is a confusing concept. (Pretend that explaining GNU, BSD and distro...
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[01:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:30] <exec> 08└─Never observed before very short phenomenon, predicted by science based on models of observed data, snapped by random guy. Chalk one for the smart guys.
[01:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:42] <exec> 08└─Rich young man fathers a lot of babies with foreigners, does not run away.
[01:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:45] <exec> 08└─You are a young rich fuck, you want off-springs, you should go bang as many hot/smart/otherwise desirable chicks as you can, but don't get married. What the heck is point of paying surrogate mothers?
[01:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:47] <exec> 08└─Believes quantity makes up for quality and size after IVFing at least 20 surrogate women across at least two cuntries.
[01:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:49] <exec> 08└─My children could not love me more if I spent 15 times more time with them.
[01:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:51] <exec> 08└─Alternative, since he is Japanese, is concern over sanitation of non-japanese women.
[01:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:54] <exec> 08└─You one of them english "teacher" in Japan, ain't you? Wake up, come home, get a proper job, build a life yourself. Stop being an embarrassment.
[02:00:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:05] <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."
[02:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:18] <exec> 08└─Every "free" router I have ever been given by an ISP in my country is a Huawei one.* Also, as far as I am aware all the networking gear at their end is Huawei too. I live in a 5-Eyes country, if that matters. * Not that I bother using them, they're rubbish. I bought one of these instead, [pcengine...
[02:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:21] <exec> 08└─Shame you can't stop your carrier or the manufacturer from slurping your data. Proprietry blobs everywhere!
[02:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:23] <exec> 08└─So Mobile App developers should all lose their jobs
[02:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unconventional Superconductor May Be Used To Create Quantum Computers Of The Future - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:34] <exec> 08└─Majorana fermions are quite fuckedup cause they are there own antiparticle
[02:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:09] <exec> 08└─That's unless Artificial Stupidity (AS, GPL copyrighted) takes over which looks more probable at the moment.
[02:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:11] <exec> 08└─This reminds me... did Captain Kirk have a mortgage? Was it under water by any chance? How about college debt?
[02:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 2259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:13] <exec> 08└─And we want THESE PEOPLE to make decisions for us about AI? You seem to be under the mistaken impression that you do understand all of the things you stated better than them. Are you *sure*? What if I told you net neutrality has nothing to do with it? It was basically the ISPs and the content provid...
[02:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the emerged environment might not be suitable for general population.
[02:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, "harvesting ions out of the upper atmosphere" is out of the science fiction of Murray Leinster, "room-temperature nuclear event harvesting" because it's impolite to say "cold fusion", and "zero point energy" now made with 25% more unobtainium. Well if we have that tech, its safe to assume we h...
[02:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:08] <exec> 08└─Have you thought about leaving SoylentNews? I'm seriously considering it. If SoylentNews doesn't fix the horrible "carnage" going on!
[02:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:09] <exec> 08└─That's to show that even tongue-in-cheek trollish posts can trigger interesting answers.
[02:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:12] <exec> 08└─Our National Weather Service has A LOT of weather forecasters. Who spend their days talking about the weather, on the taxpayer's dime! We had so much weather last year, so many hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes, floods & snow, what did these guys do? If we FIRE them we can save a tremendous amount of...
[02:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CDC Warns of Salmonella Infections Linked to Kratom - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:34] <exec> 08└─I saw a Black man eat it once and he went into a sex-crazed frenzy and later got arrested for attempted rape of White women. Also, Kratom makes White people laugh manically and jump out third-story windows.
[02:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:24] <exec> 08└─That would be fine if: 1) the Gnome devs weren't so hostile to working with other DE devs to have some common standards, make applications interoperate well between them, etc. Instead, the Gnome devs are outspoken in their disdain for other DEs, and absolutely refuse to lift a finger to work with th...
[02:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tallest Timber Tower Tipped for Tokyo - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:40] <exec> 08└─They say it was Jets, you may find it was THERMITE. We went after Iraq, they did not knock down the World Trade Center. It wasn’t the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center, we went after Iraq, we decimated the country, Iran’s taking over, OK? But it wasn’t the Iraqis, you will find o...
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[02:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:35] <exec> 08└─Science. It works, bitches!
[02:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:37] <exec> 08└─I assume that's the supernova in the bottom right? Nice, he named his flat the "Observatorio Busoniano".
[03:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:21] <exec> 08└─Lots of sites try to track me but I slay them all with my superior Code Fu. I don't list my favorite books or movies at Facebook. That there even is a UI for listing them makes it plainly apparent that the lists are used for profiling. However I recently decided to list some of both, but the profile...
[03:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:22] <exec> 08└─Ass dam duck shit fuck!!!;!!!!!!!
[03:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:24] <exec> 08└─Are you a fucking robot wtf. Oh logic 1 logic 2 .. fuck you
[03:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:27] <exec> 08└─In all seriousness "Soylent Gods hear me now" there needs to be a wiki or some archive that describes what goes on here (this swirling bowl of toilet.wafer)I because meme within meme within troll within meme, history repeats it self. ok
[03:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:29] <exec> 08└─We have a wiki [soylentnews.org] but it doesn't have any tips for sobering up or dealing with your crippling depression.
[03:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:31] <exec> 08└─I don't think the phone manufacturer can wriggle around Lineage OS even if they control the baseband CPU. Maybe. The carrier only has access to non-SSL traffic, so no biggie. Of course carrier gets to see any text msgs and gets to see phone calls. I'm not sure if they choose to snoop on actual phone...
[03:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unconventional Superconductor May Be Used To Create Quantum Computers Of The Future - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:42] <exec> 08└─So, instead of "WILL X DO Y?", we have "X MAY DO Y".
[03:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:42] <exec> 08└─Shades of the SONY rootkit [wikipedia.org].
[03:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:47] <exec> 08└─Wind generators don't start working well until they clear the treetops, which in the SouthEast US means somewhere around 40' most places... that's a damn tall tower to put on a 1/4 acre subdivision lot.
[03:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:48] <exec> 08└─I think the NIMBYs are just posturing so they can take a bigger cut when they finally do relent and allow windmills to be built on the windiest land in the country. Everybody wants a cut, it's not enough for producers to produce and sell to consumers, you've got to have regulators in-between to make...
[03:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:50] <exec> 08└─The infrastructure for lead acid battery recycling is very well developed. In theory once enough solar panels are wearing out, they'll probably be some kind of chipper-shredder and flotation tank thingy that instantly and cheaply separates aluminum structure, copper wires, silicon panel chunks. Just...
[03:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:53] <exec> 08└─There's also the perspective argument that energy companies are not in the coal burning business so much as in the energy business; it seems far fetched that it would be cheaper to install millions of small plants rather than one big corporate plant.
[03:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:55] <exec> 08└─What about bio fuels? Isn't that basically oil?
[03:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:57] <exec> 08└─3.16 cents to design provision and work around some kind of solution for electricity at night
[03:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:59] <exec> 08└─Hey, I don't disagree. The biofuel system needs work to become net positive... ie worthwhile. OTOH How much energy goes into the mining, materials refining, manufacturing, and delivery of a solar panel? I'm reading that it's also net negative right now, where more total energy goes into making them...
[03:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:02] <exec> 08└─"Yeah. It still will. None of these words changed that. We are using it faster than it's being made. It's math." I guess if you are going to explicitly define modern biofuels as not being oil; despite beign the same hydrocarbon chains, then sure.
[03:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:41] <exec> 08└─It could take TEN YEARS to resurrect the Saturn V program considering the time gone by. (Original Saturn V development time: three years)
[03:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:43] <exec> 08└─Nobody claimed that the French monarchy was always good.
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[03:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ShmooCon 2018 Videos Online - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:21] <exec> 08└─Because when I think of where computer culture goes to die, it IS usually D.C.
[04:00:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:06] <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.
[04:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/internet-privacy/snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html [infoworld.com] So, there is evidence the NSA tampered with Cisco products heading overseas. https://www.cio.com.au
[04:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:09] <exec> 08└─Online, everyone is an expert in AI. At least with nukes, they were just "they go bang".
[04:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:11] <exec> 08└─No need for artificial stupidity. As soon as the surface of Earth is made barely inhabitable (see samples - New Delhi, Beijing,) the people will clamor for the matrix. The artificial life will be more pleasant than breathing poisonous air and eating reused food. From the point of the subject, the ar...
[04:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:13] <exec> 08└─If the AI can deem asteroids etc enough of a threat to its turtles all the way down virtual realities, then it can also see that leaving the planet is also a defense.
[04:01:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 820 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:32] <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...
[04:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:47] <exec> 08└─For any plant based on a heat engine, a big centralized plant has a lot more opportunity to be efficient than a small plant, especially a plant small enough to supply a single home. OTOH, there's a lot less difference in efficiency between a house sized inverter and a massive industrial sized one an...
[04:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:49] <exec> 08└─Put them in the treehouse.
[04:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:20] <exec> 08└─In Kerbal Space program, I have a contract to deploy a space station to Ike orbit with that exact module. I always wondered where it came from.
[04:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:59] <exec> 08└─I just wish the mobile version of google maps would let me drag routes to an alternate like the browser version does (rather than just choosing between a couple proposed routes).
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[04:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ShmooCon 2018 Videos Online - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo [wikipedia.org]
[04:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:36] <exec> 08└─With a bit (or a lot) of luck, everything works.
[04:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:38] <exec> 08└─Well, while it does add to the scientific database, it's not an example of application of The Scientific Method. . ...and I came to say this to Victor: Dude, head to Vegas before all your luck runs out. . This has me wondering about The Star of Bethlehem. Some think it was a supernova. The story goe...
[04:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:40] <exec> 08└─I think so?
[04:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:43] <exec> 08└─Very little of Science is. The Method is how you verify what you've discovered/imagined via other means. The Method is what keeps it honest, so that you can confidently build on what came before, but it's not what drives things forward.
[05:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:00] <exec> 08└─...in the least enjoyable way possible, it appears. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:35] <exec> 08└─But am opposed to open source I read the gnu manifesto well before Eric Raymond figured out how not to soil his diapers
[05:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:36] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to what advertising I will see when they all think I live in Holland
[05:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:38] <exec> 08└─"Running" dogs
[05:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:31] <exec> 08└─But don't the bad guys already always think of that first?
[05:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Forms New Company to Manage Space Stations, Announces Gigantic Inflatable Module - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:38] <exec> 08└─As I recall, the physics of the human eye limits perceptual distinction to things within several dozen miles - this side of the horizon. Earth is too far away for stereo vision to make a difference, and there's unlikely to be anything else big enough to see anywhere near that close to you. Sure, you...
[05:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06KDE Receives $200,000 Donation From The Pineapple Fund - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:54] <exec> 08└─Linux is about choice for the power user, not for the ignorant and/or self-disenfranchised. I haven't used KDE or GNOME (or XFCE, or LXDE), and even having not used either, have never found myself for want of any component of my desktop computer, whether that be windows manager, status bar, file man...
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[05:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:30] <exec> 08└─Why not just cut out the middle man and enslave the people directly?
[05:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:31] <exec> 08└─Designing suicide nets [wikipedia.org] isn't sexy.
[05:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:34] <exec> 08└─according to people familiar with the matter
[05:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:36] <exec> 08└─In terms of doing business, this is a good move for Apple. The more control over your supply chain, the more control you have to limit your exposure to shortages. You can never eliminate all the risks, but you certainly can try to minimize them. That's what a good business does. Do I like good busin...
[05:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:38] <exec> 08└─Snitches, leakers, big-mouthed idiots, or figments of the reporter's imagination.
[05:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:40] <exec> 08└─That's what a good business does.
[05:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:43] <exec> 08└─Need that iPhone 8K VR headset hrrrnrnrnngghgh
[06:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:03] <exec> 08└─No. First, It isn't three wise men. Just an unspecified number of wise men. Second, they were astrologers following the predictions of their delusionary magic, not astronomers making predictions about real astronomical bodies.
[06:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:05] <exec> 08└─Oh nice, we can just compare it to the follow-up images like this one (clearly labeled): http://www.latimes.com [latimes.com]
[06:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:24] <exec> 08└─And they would all be just as bald as he is.
[06:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeZgqUl8Hps [youtube.com]
[06:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:03] <exec> 08└─"Running" suggests they might have a say in the direction.
[06:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:05] <exec> 08└─Intel != intelligence
[06:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:22] <exec> 08└─...They got the info they were after, BTW, but I have a feeling when the details emerge in court it's not going to be a good day fro them. Yes, they plan to use this info in court against the alleged pirate according to the company...
[06:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:47] <exec> 08└─I completely agree. That's a really handy feature. The mobile Google Maps also kinda sucks if you have multiple stops on your route; it's not that easy to look at the stops, reorder them, delete one, etc.
[06:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:49] <exec> 08└─barrier=bollard See the wiki for usage notes.
[06:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:24] <exec> 08└─I'll bite this bait. Back at you sucka, but yer too stoopid to understaaaaand
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[06:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:29] <exec> 08└─From TFAs: Heavy: A study published in the British Medical Journal last year found that those who drank 14-21 units a week had three times the normal odds of damage to that part of the brain concerned with memory.
[06:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:31] <exec> 08└─I remember reading two reports that were published within the space of a week a few years ago, in which one recommended a level of alcohol consumption and the other stated that an amount less than the first report recommended would make you an alcoholic. In this case, it's possible that both reports...
[06:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:33] <exec> 08└─Are preventative health experts always contradicting each other?
[06:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:35] <exec> 08└─Are preventative health experts always contradicting each other?
[06:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:49] <exec> 08└─What are they gonna do, sell cobalt to battery supplier?
[06:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:50] <exec> 08└─More likely, offer stable Cobalt prices to their battery suppliers, so that long term contracts don't include a "cost of Cobalt" adjuster.
[06:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:53] <exec> 08└─So exclude all battery makers with their own supply contracts? Sounds like BS to me.
[06:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:55] <exec> 08└─But how big are the risks? Surely Apple's use of Cobalt is a tiny fraction of the worldwide use for electric vehicles? A leaf, which has a relatively small battery for a modern EV has a battery that is about 2000 times the capacity (in Watt-hours) of an iPhone. Worldwide, there are already several m...
[06:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:57] <exec> 08└─It's also worth noting that there is a tradeoff between cost and risk. Buying guaranteed capacity costs money and reduces flexibility. But since Apple's gross margins on the phones is very high, it's probably a tradeoff that Apple is willing to take.
[07:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:20] <exec> 08└─I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
[07:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:19] <exec> 08└─Hypocrisy requires some sort of moral/ethical condemnation of the other party. I'm not seeing that here. The US is just saying to watch out for it. Cisco products were tampered with, yes, but Cisco wasn't forced to install a backdoor. Cisco isn't known to include a backdoor. Huawei makes it a well-k...
[07:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:21] <exec> 08└─Too chette dear sir
[07:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaning Tower of NASA - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:39] <exec> 08└─Apollo was canceled because the public got bored after Apollo 11 and didn't give a damn. They got all worked up for the drama of Apollo 13 (whose launch wasn't even televised) once the accident happened, but quickly didn't give a shit afterwards. Even the remarkable Apollo/Soyuz rendezvous was a big...
[07:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:59] <exec> 08└─These aren't retail yet, I'm sure, so no prices. If a big customer like an ISP wants a few dozen of them to speed up its email, then they'll not sell the devices, they'll sell a "solution" instead, so the devices effectively don't yet have a price.
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[07:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:37] <exec> 08└─About that first study, the article literally says: "The results do not show causation, only an unexplained link between drinking and longevity." There is one obvious source of confounding: people who can't drink because of medicine use die earlier. You can really on reach the conclusion that drinki...
[07:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:38] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there is some kind of systematic review and/or meta-analysis of the effects of alcohol consumption. Then perhaps we can have some real idea of what the bulk of the scientific evidence really points to. Google comes up with this study from 2016 [nih.gov] which concludes: Estimates of mort...
[07:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Booze News - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:40] <exec> 08└─Screaming. If one were to look in the direction that the sound was coming from, they would see a man on top of a woman, raping her on the sidewalk. It was a busy day, and countless people witnessed this scene. Then, as this was happening, a cop saw what was happening. "Oh my god!" the officer shoute...
[07:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Booze News - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:42] <exec> 08└─No only that, but it only takes one, just one, 2400 year old Greek philosopher/astronomer to really throw off the averages for mortality.
[07:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:45] <exec> 08└─Ramblings of a deranged mind?
[07:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Booze News - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:47] <exec> 08└─With each punch, the man became happier and more free. True Happiness was within his grasp. Just a few more punches. Just a few more! More...! He couldn't be truly happy until the last ounce of life was sapped away from the woman. More! Then, she broke. What the man experienced next was nothing shor...
[07:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Booze News - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:49] <exec> 08└─How much that Greek drinks, tho?
[07:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Booze News - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:52] <exec> 08└─Whether the man was standing up ramrod straight or bent over, his anus was always visible. His anus was always visible, and always leaking liquid fecal matter. For this reason, famished African children would often drink from his anus like it was a water fountain. The possibilities, as you can imagi...
[07:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:54] <exec> 08└─Further, the study ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] ) says the participants were self-reporting their alcohol consumption, so the 14-21 is based on how much they *said* they were drinking, not how much they *actually* drank, before they were found to be.. impaired. Doctors kn...
[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:12] <exec> 08└─two AC posts
[08:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:14] <exec> 08└─Next thing: Apple launches its own mining probes in the asteroid belt to secure cobalt.
[08:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:39] <exec> 08└─So, the gold, frankincense, and myrrh were spread out over how many wise guys? Let's see: There were 2 wise guys and 1 wanted to show up the 2nd wise guy, so he brought 2 things? There were more than 3 wise guys and some showed up without anything? More than 3 showed up and all brought cool stuff bu...
[08:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:41] <exec> 08└─So,why not start digging that Hyperloop tunnel with a shovel and pickaxe to increase your chances to win the lottery?
[08:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:02] <exec> 08└─In most of the non-western world, fucking and not marrying is considered rape. That's one of the reason why you hear so much about rape epidemic in the non-western world - their definition of rape is quite different from yours.
[08:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:44] <exec> 08└─You are a Facebook used (yes, "used")
[08:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:46] <exec> 08└─Huawei makes it a well-known standard feature.
[08:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:17] <exec> 08└─But there are American made solar panels. Most of the progress in solar has been developed in the US. The import tax simply recoups the tax break. I don't see how washing machines enter into this discussion.
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[08:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:30] <exec> 08└─I this one is called "The parasitic monetization".
[08:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:32] <exec> 08└─Not to watch that stupid show.
[08:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:34] <exec> 08└─Slam! Slam! Slam! This sound was heard repeatedly in the supermarket parking lot. Investigating further, one would find a man raping a woman whilst simultaneously rendering a vicious beating unto her. To the untrained, ignorant eye, this would appear to be a man oppressing a woman. However, to those...
[08:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:36] <exec> 08└─It was funny for a bit...
[08:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:39] <exec> 08└─Bill, is that you?
[08:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:41] <exec> 08└─No. This show has always been approximately as funny as F Troop [wikipedia.org]. Which is to say not at all. You want funny? Watch Red Dwarf [wikipedia.org], smeghead!
[09:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booze News - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:01] <exec> 08└─About that first study, the article literally says: "The results do not show causation, only an unexplained link between drinking and longevity." [...] Since that's totally infeasible, we will keep having contradictory studies until someone finds the biological pathway which explains it.
[09:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:02] <exec> 08└─He's going to reincarnate as a woman, just you watch. It'll be about as poetic as poetic justice gets.
[09:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booze News - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:04] <exec> 08└─Come on folks, don't feed the troll. It only encourages him.
[09:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ShmooCon 2018 Videos Online - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:33] <exec> 08└─This bit is somewhat interesting too: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:52] <exec> 08└─Neither. Because under the jewish doctrine, the supernova has to tell us what it wants to be. Until then, it will wear both girl and boy clothes and be brainwashed to believe that gender is something you have to choose. Never mind the fact that gender benders have brain disease. The disease makes yo...
[09:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:53] <exec> 08└─With a bit (or a lot) of luck, everything works.
[09:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:58] <exec> 08└─"Huawei" sounds just like an NSA employee would pronounce the word "mirror". "I look in the huawei, and all I see is spying. Capturing every little bit of information about every American and our allies. I feel sick every time I look in the huawei" "Do you mean the mirror?" "That's what I said. I lo...
[09:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:00] <exec> 08└─We need a Chinese Snowden to confirm what we suspect: That China tries its manufacturers to include spying systems, like we already know USA does
[09:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:02] <exec> 08└─> I like the term. What's its plural, tho, "useders" maybe? "Useds". > What about the collective noun: herd, flock or mob? Hive, if you want to emphasize the "group mind" aspect. "A hive of Facebook useds isolated in their filter bubbles." Swarm, if you want to emphasize the sheer numbers and mindle...
[09:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:04] <exec> 08└─Intel != intelligence
[09:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:06] <exec> 08└─> Hive, if you want to emphasize the "group mind" aspect. There's no mind in the group > Swarm, if you want to emphasize the sheer numbers and mindless outrage. What if there's no outrage?
[09:03:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 610 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:50] <exec> 08└─But, but, but, but, you aren't supposed to care about how much rare materials are used to create new solar cells every few dozen years! or how much non-nonrenewable resources are consumed doing that! or how many child laborers turn in to piles of meat producing each panel! Or that in a few thousand...
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[09:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:30] <exec> 08└─"How do you feel, Mr. Yung?" "I feel... so much better! Thank you, doctor! This physical therapy treatment worked! Amazing!" "Yes, I had a feeling you'd say that. This form of treatment always works to relieve stress." The doctor and the patient laughed and chatted happily, and the woman under the p...
[09:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:32] <exec> 08└─"Trust me!" Proprietary Software Is Often Malware [gnu.org] and that's really the smaller problem with it.
[09:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:45] <exec> 08└─So, will they slam him as having thrown back the industry by a couple of decades? For having created an illegal monopoly? As for the philantropy, Al Capone did some good too... but that doesn't change the fact he got his money by bad means.
[09:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure the writers would get it, and management have other concern$. As for the actors, they are mostly clueless about science and technology except for Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) who actually has her Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
[09:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:49] <exec> 08└─The whole show is an interesting study on how normalfags view science, technology, nerds and geeks.
[09:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:51] <exec> 08└─Red dwarf is fucking brilliant. Found it on my hard drive a couple weeks ago. I have absolutely no idea how it got there, wish I could thank the person...
[09:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:53] <exec> 08└─Wow, I had no idea. What a horrible example of how bad scientists are treated. So instead of a cure for cancer we get another episode of some lame sitcom.
[10:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booze News - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:16] <exec> 08└─Friday night: 4 Beers @ 2 units each plus 2 Ciders @ 3.7 units each = 15.4 units Saturday night: (As above) = 15.4 units Total for the week = 30.8 units Now, where was I going with this, can't remember why I started...
[10:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booze News - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:18] <exec> 08└─And this ladies and gentlemen is the only way to draw meaningful conclusions from science. A single study can and will say absolutely anything, even if done with best intentions by capable scientists using proper equipment.
[10:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booze News - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:20] <exec> 08└─...two two hands.
[10:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so a glass of red wine will help your blood system, this is old news. Drinking 1.5 liters of wine or beer per day will cause dementia, no surprise there either if you've ever seen the wreck of an alcoholic. There's a world of difference between the two. And if you're smart, you'll keep to the...
[10:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:43] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to factor in product lifetimes and recycling percentages. Apple expects you to replace your phone every year or two. I would expect car batteries to last much longer and be more likely to be recycled.
[10:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:13] <exec> 08└─A large shiny object in geostationary orbit near longitude 35.2 would work if they were somewhere north of it to start with. It would appear to hang in the sky without moving, and if it disappeared when they got to Bethlehem then they would assume they had reached their destination. (The exact longi...
[10:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:14] <exec> 08└─The luck was seeing the supernova. The hard work was knowing what he saw and realising the significance (not just an instrumental error/passing plane/etc), at least at the level to get in touch with professionals.
[10:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:24] <exec> 08└─Cisco isn't known to include a backdoor. Huawei makes it a well-known standard feature.
[10:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:26] <exec> 08└─Refusing to end a sentence with a preposition - doing God's work! Not sure it makes up for your rather lazy equivalence there, though.
[10:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:11] <exec> 08└─I was wondering why Google Maps had seemed to have gotten so slow. I remember being able to "drive" down a highway, almost realtime, with Google, whereas now I can only move so far, and wait so long before it re-renders. Forget "flying". Its almost like back on dialup. So I use this thing like I us...
[10:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Storms of Jupiter and Neptune Are Disappearing - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:41] <exec> 08└─Well we have kinda fucked over certain earth orbits with trash and debris which is coming back to bite us now.
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[11:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booze News - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:18] <exec> 08└─Drinking 1.5 liters of wine or beer per day will cause dementia, no surprise there either if you've ever seen the wreck of an alcoholic.
[11:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:22] <exec> 08└─Except even after heroic effort to find them, no backdoors have been found (in the level of equipment the govt is talking about) So, no. Your equivalence is completely false.
[11:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:17] <exec> 08└─As stated by Robert Anton Wilson, the differences between terrorists and governments are quite clear. - Governments produce their own currency, terrorists do not. - Terrorist kill between zero and (at maximum) a few thousand, governments kill by the millions. - Governments claim a moral monopoly on...
[11:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:42] <exec> 08└─Funnily enough, this *is* a CFAA violation. IANAL, but IGCS (I got common sense).
[11:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flight-Sim Devs Say Hidden Password-Dump Tool Was Used To Fight Pirates - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:43] <exec> 08└─This is a prime example of what happens when "we" (people who can make computers do things) don't stop to think about the consequences of what we're asked to code. Coders, system architects, companies have a moral obligation to consider the impact of their work and call out when that impact is wrong...
[11:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:13] <exec> 08└─Lack of review is one of the problems mentioned.
[11:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:15] <exec> 08└─That's a bug, not a feature.
[11:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:17] <exec> 08└─Around here, Bing Maps still shows - and routes along - a road that was closed decades ago. Even though I used their error reporting tool to point that out years ago. When a new motorway was opened, Google Maps showed it, but it took months before it would use it for routing. OpenStreetMap, on the o...
[11:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:19] <exec> 08└─A few of the points mentioned are the database design, and I suspect most people here know that major database design changes are not something you just do. The rest are complaints that the OpenStreetMap project doesn't spend as much money as Wikimedia foundation. Such as the one about not wanting o...
[11:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:21] <exec> 08└─barrier=bollard
[11:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:17] <exec> 08└─From $400 to $400 is not prices dropping, it's sizes increasing. Problem is, spinning disk sizes are increasing just as much, as is basically everything in computing (RAM, GPU...) The result is SSDs still being way more expensive that spinning drives.
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[11:59:32] <exec> 08└─Would he let this injustice stand? No. No. No! His eyes were filled with determination as he charged at the insolent woman who walked past him without acknowledging his superiority. Tool after tool elicited scream after scream, and finally there was silence. Justice had been wrought upon that wretch...
[11:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:33] <exec> 08└─What are you going to do about it? There is already an effort to uproot human rights with bots pretending to be humans, how are you going to apply rights to amorphous entities you can't even tell apart?
[11:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:35] <exec> 08└─Bill!
[11:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:38] <exec> 08└─There is already an effort to uproot human rights with bots pretending to be humans, how are you going to apply rights to amorphous entities you can't even tell apart?
[11:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:47] <exec> 08└─It must be true then. I'll believe it when the Daily Sport runs it in England.
[12:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:05] <exec> 08└─Can't they have Travis Kalanick on? Or Palmer Luckey? That lift shaft has been sitting there for the whole show... never been used.
[12:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:06] <exec> 08└─I'd say it's attempt at getting midway, or of nerdxploitation, sort of dilbert-like.
[12:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Booze News - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:34] <exec> 08└─Socrates himself was permanently pissed, Plato could stick away... half a crate of whisky every day, and Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. Source [youtube.com]
[12:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:36] <exec> 08└─Doritos! [Spanish for "cat juggling is fun, you should try it!"]
[12:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:58] <exec> 08└─A fat guy on a couch.
[12:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:41] <exec> 08└─>> Hive, if you want to emphasize the "group mind" aspect. > There's no mind in the group That's why I put it in scare quotes. >> Swarm, if you want to emphasize the sheer numbers and mindless outrage. >What if there's no outrage? My bad. s/and/and\/or/
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[12:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:33] <exec> 08└─I mean, who wouldn't want to be rid of the convenience of being able to swap one SIM card out for another? Much simpler to just swap out the entire piece of hardware.
[12:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:35] <exec> 08└─Who wants to bet that this savings for the manufacturer translates to a cost increase for the consumer under the reason of a "new feature", despite the fact that they are taking away existing features (swapping SIM cards).
[12:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:46] <exec> 08└─Oh they are coherent all right! That's how we spot them - bot posts are on line equivalent of uncanny valley humanoid mechanotronic dolls, no humor, no emotions, no errors, just empty praises for, or echoing of, whatever bot-supported politicians was cited saying. All of the posts are of similar len...
[12:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:57] <exec> 08└─Take it from Reuters [reuters.com] (citing "Bild am Sonntag") - if Daily Sport doesn't run it, perhaps their subscription to Reuters elapsed and they didn't notice.
[12:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:58] <exec> 08└─All compliance software is designed to pass tests, the question is: how much does the software change during test cycle vs typical operation? I reprogrammed my (aftermarket) ECU to different settings at idle so I could pass the tail-pipe sniffer tests in Houston - did nothing to typical operation, b...
[13:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:18] <exec> 08└─I have never seen the show, though it seems to have generated a lot of respect in the Press for how it treats science. They have thrown it all out the window in one fell swoop.
[13:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:20] <exec> 08└─Except the woman turned out to be one Sheldon Cooper because that is what happens in the real world to smug, self centered, faggy nerds. Especially when they correctly point out that "God" does not really exist.
[13:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 3627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks for this. With the caveat that metastudies can also be flawed sometimes (e.g.,in their criteria for selecting which studies to include in the pool, the way data is aggregated) -- and I haven't followed your links to read the details -- this does seem to be the general takeaway. The general pr...
[13:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Provocateur [6855] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Booze News - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:52] <exec> 08└─I was always observing the una minus without even being aware of it. At the airport, before boarding, I normally have a pint. Not for sorrow or loneliness, heavens other people maybe, not me. Since the bartender can't drink while he's on duty I finish the whole thing myself. But in other places e.g....
[13:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Man Granted Paternity Rights to 13 Children Born to Surrogate Mothers - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:06] <exec> 08└─With a surrogate, there is a contract that specifies terms. Someone with assets who just knocks up just anyone can get dragged into court where someone besides the 2 of you gets to decide the terms--in particular, financial terms. That's called child support, [wikipedia.org] though it often turns ou...
[13:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unconventional Superconductor May Be Used To Create Quantum Computers Of The Future - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:10] <exec> 08└─That's hydrophobic!
[13:04:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:35] <exec> 08└─If every inch of usable rooftop was used to filter water
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[13:59:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:34] <exec> 08└─I mean, who wouldn't want to be rid of the convenience of being able to swap one SIM card out for another? Much simpler to just swap out the entire piece of hardware.
[13:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:36] <exec> 08└─Over CPUID in Intel chips in the 90s. Or TPM modules in the '00s... But no complaints at all since Cell Phones came out with 2-5 serial numbers each, and all of a sudden every component of your desktop/laptop has a serial number on it that is being sent to Microsoft, Ubuntu, Steam, or your software...
[13:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:38] <exec> 08└─Millennials.
[13:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03WeekendMonkey [5209] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:40] <exec> 08└─A technology like this is bound to be cloud based. Just upload your SIM to the cloud and download to a new device, better still it can be downloaded by your favourite hacking group/TLA in the next big breach.
[13:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:43] <exec> 08└─All you've done is move up one layer, however. Your phone number is tied to your SIM which is accessed from a device with an IMEI number. The IMEI is fixed to the device. The SIM is now going to start being fixed to the device too. But the phone number now needs to be MORE easily portable. And which...
[13:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:45] <exec> 08└─Not forgetting... now your phone can hold an unlimited number of SIM cards. You can have 20 numbers on one phone. You can literally add a SIM for every country, network or package deal that you want. When 4G fails on one of them, it'll just pick up from any other network that offers 4G near you with...
[13:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 1714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:47] <exec> 08└─from the article: "There remains one real outstanding question here: whether phone carriers will approve" Uh, no. What about us? You know, the customers, who are (were?) always right? If the design allows phone manufacturers to "forget" to provide means to change the SIM, then this is terrible. I've...
[13:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:50] <exec> 08└─I came into this thread to congratulate ARM for turning modern GSM into last decade's CDMA, but I see you've already applied the appropriate amount of snark.
[13:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:52] <exec> 08└─Cell phones have to be identifiable, at least by the phone company. Making that info open to anyone else is a less stellar idea but having a functioning network without unique identifiers isn't really viable.
[13:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:54] <exec> 08└─That's not more portable, that's less. Right now it takes me a few seconds and zero calls to a support line.
[13:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:56] <exec> 08└─I hope not all manufacfurers will implement this. I like to keep these things separate, SIM and phone/imei. I do not want a manufacturer now trade imei nrs with vodafone phones and customer data and the viceversa. And why the fuck would I want a phone that has 20 sims embedded like someone above men...
[14:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:08] <exec> 08└─QED
[14:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:20] <exec> 08└─All strawmen arguments are meant to mislead debate. I.e. where did you get "compliance software"? Sounds like you didn't break the law. Who knows whether Daim did.
[14:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:21] <exec> 08└─Gas? If I'm not mistaken, gasoline cars are tested at idle, diesel cars at load. So your trick wouldn't work for a diesel car.
[14:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:44] <exec> 08└─generated a lot of respect in the Press
[14:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:45] <exec> 08└─The most apt description I've seen for the show is "nerd black-face".
[14:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:47] <exec> 08└─I skimmed thru a few episodes illegally uploaded to youtube (youtube wants lots of money to watch it legally) and its pretty weird, as if "that 70s show" consumed megatons of soy products and skated thru a STEM diploma and got STEM jobs. Or alternatively its "The Good Doctor" which is another weird...
[14:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:12] <exec> 08└─VERY large, I would think. if it disappeared Plunged to Earth? Straight down? (That would give the Christmas story a whole different twist.) ...or did it take off to another part of space under its own power? Do-do-do-do Do-do-do-do (Twilight Zone riff) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[14:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:01] <exec> 08└─The energy companies probably won't go away, but they may end up doing more storage than generation.
[14:08:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 30.72 TB 2.5" SSD - 648 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:07] <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...
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[14:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:46] <exec> 08└─The Telecoms industry is embracing virtualisation in a big way, and part of this is an anticipated move to Virtual SIM cards that do away with the physical object altogether. Unless this iSIM is somehow linked with the implementation of Virtual SIMs then this seems like an odd move.
[14:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:47] <exec> 08└─SIMs exist from back in the days of car phones. The idea was that you'd be buy a credit-card sized thing with a SIM on it and, when you rented a car with a carphone, be able to insert the card and have it work with your account. It's several decades since this model existed, yet we still use physica...
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:50] <exec> 08└─This is mostly intended for IoT devices, where you won't be able to change the SIM anyway, because it's a special very-low-data contract negotiated with the manufacturer. Think things like Smart Meters, where you want to send a few KB every hour for usage and maybe receive the spot price periodicall...
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─And then they'll make it a yearly subscription service, that will count as another feature to bill for.
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─The right to bear ARM... What you want from a phone 1. longer battery life 2. no crap in the software 3. no problems in using it as audio player-external hd What they want from a phone 1. to become obsolete 2. to collect as much data as possible All the rest is fluff
[14:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:56] <exec> 08└─I provide IoT devices lately and I absolutely do want a removable SIM. I can have a service guy with no computer skills whatsoever change out a faulty piece of hardware, put the old SIM and SD card in the new kit, and not have to do anything at all on my end of things. Anything that does nothing but...
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─no humor, no emotions, no errors, just empty praises for, or echoing of, whatever bot-supported politicians was cited saying
[15:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder: Do you really believe that nonsense you just wrote, or are you only trolling (in the original sense of the word)?
[15:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─Clearly, fraudulent mass-produced automated one-liners on social media can have an effect on an appallingly-large segment of a shallow, gullible electorate. Weaponized social media technology is available to whatever candidate, advocate, or party with the means to do so. To make matters worse, the s...
[15:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:15] <exec> 08└─BASIC-80 Rev. 5.21 Copyright 1977-1981 (C) by Microsoft 29523 Bytes free >RUN Syntax error in 70 >LIST 10 REM RUSSIAN BOT SOURCE CODE PLEASE KEEP SECRET NO MATTER WHAT DONT POST THIS TO SOYLENTNEWS 20 REM THIS FILE IS BOT.BAS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CRISISACTOR.BAS OR SHITTYAUTOMOBILEANALOGY.BAS 30...
[15:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:17] <exec> 08└─Its worth considering as a counternarrative that people have been overly concerned about technology's affects on politics since at least the Gutenberg printing press. Maybe all the way back to the written word. Social media is dying already anyway, I think we'll make it. An alternative shorter term...
[15:00:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure the writers would get it, and management have other concern$. As for the actors, they are mostly clueless about science and technology except for Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) who actually has her Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
[15:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:54] <exec> 08└─normalfags - it's both spelt and pronounced 'neuro-typical'.
[15:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Booze News - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:27] <exec> 08└─The study about alcohol helping you live longer has a sample set that is suffering from a clear selection bias. The study was of individuals over 90, which means they have already overcome a significant amount of hardship, disease, and life in general. Especially if they have been drinking their ent...
[15:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booze News - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:28] <exec> 08└─At no point is a youtube video acceptable as a source. Its far less reliable then wikipedia.
[15:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:52] <exec> 08└─Just wait until you see the Apple-designed suicide nets. They will have rounded corners!
[15:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:54] <exec> 08└─Astrophysicists. They are so familiar with the matter, they even know the dark one!
[15:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:26] <exec> 08└─You know, there's not just one piece of gold, one portion of myrrh and one portion of frankincense in the world. So it is entirely possible that each of them did bring all three of those gifts.
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[15:59:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:34] <exec> 08└─>stressing that unmanned systems could decrease casualties. That's pretty disingenuous. The entire point of unmanned war machines, armed or otherwise, is to *increase* casualties. They only decrease casualties on your own side, reducing the domestic political cost of warfare.
[15:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:36] <exec> 08└─Autocrats with remotely controlled armed forces. The end times are nigh.
[15:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:38] <exec> 08└─Whoever hasn't been invaded is the winner.
[15:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:40] <exec> 08└─Erdogan, like Putin, Trump and Farage, is just putting his county first. It's the modern way, apparently.
[15:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:43] <exec> 08└─No man really likes Erdoğan, but the President of Turkey doesn't want his job to be a tankless one.
[15:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:45] <exec> 08└─See also: Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns?
[15:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─The military industrial complex is the winner.
[15:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:49] <exec> 08└─> and Farage I actually disagree. I voted remain but I think the Brexit vote was mostly about sovereignty. Immigration and cultural dilution played a very significant role also. I think most Brexit voters accepted the real possibility of economic disadvantage from Brexit, as a cost of maintaining cu...
[15:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:51] <exec> 08└─Whoever still has a military industrial complex is the winner. Or maybe still being alive and free (in some scents of the word) is the odor of victory amongst the smouldering rubble. I predict that we will find it to be more difficulter to kill people in unmanned tanks. We will see if this turns out...
[15:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe they need to begin to see that "their people" is the human race. If the planet becomes uninhabitable we all lose, including the 'victors'. (The AIs might win.) If there remained no longer any capability to record who the victor was into textbooks, does it make a sound? Unmanned weapons are onl...
[15:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:56] <exec> 08└─Not until Erdoğan and Putin et al invade Israel. Not until Rev 19 where you are beheaded for your testimony of Jesus.
[15:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:58] <exec> 08└─Ban all servos and bots are no longer a danger to political erection campaigns.
[16:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:00] <exec> 08└─> how do you know which side won? Score like battlebots? This is really getting silly (if you stand back and look at all the money spent for destruction). More to the point, Why can't we all just get along? New Tedx talk on this topic, brings together several themes I've seen here on SN: https://www...
[16:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:03] <exec> 08└─Would anyone notice? Most political elections are already the result of people endlessly droning on...
[16:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:05] <exec> 08└─I believe standard rules apply. The winning side is the one that is advancing into enemy territory, where then the guns turn on the civilians until subservience is achieved.
[16:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:30] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of the old phrase. It's since been updated, and is now "The customer is always ripe (for the fleecing)". As a matter of fact, I think the update actually happened several generations ago, but the public was allowed to keep repeating the original phrase for it's consumerist benefits.
[16:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:49] <exec> 08└─Media can simply blanket ban Twitter as any kind of platform and this problem will start to solve itself.
[16:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:50] <exec> 08└─Historically some people may have been overly concerned about mass-communication technology, but I think on whole the benefits have out-weighed the risks. Like any tool, it can be used for good or ill. What worries me is that as the tool is becoming more effective, the material, that is, the elector...
[16:01:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:16] <exec> 08└─So, will they slam him as having thrown back the industry by a couple of decades? For having created an illegal monopoly? As for the philantropy, Al Capone did some good too... but that doesn't change the fact he got his money by bad means.
[16:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:30] <exec> 08└─As for the actors, they are mostly clueless about science and technology except for Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) who actually has her Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. That's all well and good, but that's not really "tech". A neuroscientist doesn't know squat about computer software, Linux, FOSS,...
[16:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:05] <exec> 08└─Wooooosh
[16:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:03] <exec> 08└─Next, you're going to tell us that there weren't three blind mice, right?
[16:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:04] <exec> 08└─Are there drugs involved? That affects the results, so it's an important metric to consider.
[16:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:14] <exec> 08└─Outstanding (and hiliarious) point about "dual use" technology. Encryption in the hands of the common person. That is similar to the danger of the printing press. And then desktop publishing. And the intarweb tubes.
[16:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:16] <exec> 08└─If students are allowed to conceal-carry on campus "to protect us all", then we just made the jobs of mass shooters way easier.
[16:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:58] <exec> 08└─But in 30 years(*) we will have fusion, and all our energy problems are solved anyway! (*) or 30 years after that, or 30 years after that, or …
[16:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:59] <exec> 08└─I don't see how washing machines enter into this discussion. Why not? That was the other giant thing that was part of this new tariff. It's just like the stupid tariff on VCRs back in the 80s: all the VCRs were made in Japan by the time the tariff was enacted, so all it did was double the price of...
[16:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:01] <exec> 08└─There aren't many free electric cars to recharge. Recharge stations for expensive electric cars would probably be much more useful.
[16:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:04] <exec> 08└─I think most earth natives would rather, if we had the option, refurbish this planet than move to a new one. I am not sure which I would choose, to be honest, but I bet most would choose "let the scientists refurbish my home planet while I go about my daily affairs." Not in America. There, they beli...
[16:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:06] <exec> 08└─Zero point Energy? Well if we have that tech, its safe to assume we have the stargate tech as well... No, not necessarily. Finding a new energy source (that requires new physics maybe) is somewhat different than finding a way of moving matter instantly between different star systems in the galaxy. W...
[16:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:08] <exec> 08└─Except that electric company rates will be limited by the cost for it's customers to put in their own batteries or run their own generator. Data centers already have batteries and generators, so for them, the instant the power co wants more than the cost of diesel, the generators will get cranked up...
[16:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:10] <exec> 08└─If we install our own panels, we could save money in the long run on electric bills.
[16:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:13] <exec> 08└─Unless someone makes Thorium work; we have lots of that in comparison to other dig-out-of-the-ground fuel, and it isn't solar
[16:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:32] <exec> 08└─The mobile version of Google Maps USED TO let you do that. The feature was REMOVED. Google Maps seems to just get crappier.
[16:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenStreetMap May be in Serious Trouble - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:34] <exec> 08└─Google Maps mobile has removed features and gotten crappier over time so I can't 100% confirm that it used to enable route dragging, but I seem to recall that it did.
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[16:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:30] <exec> 08└─Copyright is here to serve large corporate interests. If you are an individual, contractor, or small company; you are out of luck. You can either get steamrolled by the new laws, or steamrolled by lawyers. You have no chance.
[16:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:53] <exec> 08└─> unmanned weapons decrease casualties right next step, don't do war, just model it. > the military industrial complex will not allow it yes they will, as long as people pay money for the virtual weapons.
[16:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:54] <exec> 08└─Yep I promise (the sound you are hearing is the crossed IO pins behind my back shorting circuits a bit)
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─But how will we maintain our infrastructure if we don't abide by the treaty!
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:59] <exec> 08└─More to the point, Why can't we all just get along?
[17:00:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:22] <exec> 08└─The right to bear ARM... What you want from a phone 1. longer battery life 2. no crap in the software 3. no problems in using it as audio player-external hd What they want from a phone 1. to become obsolete 2. to collect as much data as possible All the rest is fluff
[17:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:25] <exec> 08└─Cell phones have to be identifiable, at least by the phone company.
[17:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:27] <exec> 08└─What kind of failure do you imagine in the SIM? If it's a physical failure of the SIM, then replacement is the only option. The iSIM is such a small part of the SoC though that it's basically eliminating this as a failure mode: if the iSIM is damaged then the SoC is badly damaged and you will need t...
[17:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:30] <exec> 08└─You know, the customers, who are (were?) always right?
[17:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:32] <exec> 08└─What kind of failure do you imagine in the SIM?
[17:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:34] <exec> 08└─You missed the point pretty badly there. The case that The Mighty Buzzard is talking about is not failure of the SIM, but failure of something in the rest of the device. Having a hard-wired SIM means that the account that the device reports to changes every time the device is changed. With the exist...
[17:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:36] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand what an eSIM is. It is non-removable, but it is programmable. If you want to move an account from one device to another then it's a simple software copy. You don't need to remove anything, you just install the same blob on the new device that you installed on the old one...
[17:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:39] <exec> 08└─If, as he suggests, he has an SD card, then the correct solution is to put the firmware for the iSIM (or eSIM) on that. Now his service person needs to transfer one card instead of two and there's no way for the two to get out of sync - on startup, the device loads the data for the SIM from the SD c...
[17:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:58] <exec> 08└─Sure, automated bots can and will astroturf for whichever candidate is funding them. But this is yet another instance of taking a concept that's been around for a very long time, adding "... with a computer", and claiming it's some brand new invention. When Roman politicians spoke at the Forum rostr...
[17:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nwf [1469] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:37] <exec> 08└─With all the car batteries taking up much of the cobalt, it makes sens so they can ensure a supply of batteries. They've done similar things for flash memory, but this is obviously much lower in the product stack. I can see them moving toward this model more and more. Apple is so huge they can use t...
[17:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:13] <exec> 08└─(That would give the Christmas story a whole different twist.)
[17:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:28] <exec> 08└─Russian Biathletes Sue Doctor Who Alleged Widespread Doping
[17:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:14] <exec> 08└─OTOH How much energy goes into the mining, materials refining, manufacturing, and delivery of a solar panel? I'm reading that it's also net negative right now
[17:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:16] <exec> 08└─Using an energy source that by its very definition cannot be used is definitely less likely than a star gate (that at least doesn't violate the laws of logic).
[17:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:18] <exec> 08└─Also, many of those petrochemicals would be put to better use making plastics, tires and such instead of burning them. So if you can undercut the cost of burned petroleum electricity you reduce pollution (solar isn't perfect), free up the petroleum for it's other uses and reduce the economic burden...
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[17:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:33] <exec> 08└─"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
[17:59:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:47] <exec> 08└─The military industrial complex is the winner.
[18:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:01] <exec> 08└─Obama didn't leave heaps of bodies, believe me. Because his PREDATOR DRONES blew them to bits! youtu.be/WWKG6ZmgAX4 [youtu.be]
[18:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:35] <exec> 08└─And why the fuck would I want a phone that has 20 sims embedded like someone above mentioned?
[18:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:36] <exec> 08└─To move your number from one handset to another, yes. But what does it take to move your phone number to a different carrier?
[18:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:39] <exec> 08└─"Not forgetting... now your phone can hold an unlimited number of SIM cards." Source required. Who said that feature will be made possible?
[18:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:41] <exec> 08└─Never had a "Background data restricted. Touch to remove restriction" nag screen.
[18:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:43] <exec> 08└─Are you serious? Do you really think the carriers are going to make a simple web interface to make changes like this? No, not in the US. I have enough experience with Verizon Wireless and AT&T that I can pretty much guarantee that if/once this becomes available it will only be changeable over the ph...
[18:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:45] <exec> 08└─"Simple", the magic word here. From previous experience in life it will be insanely difficult for the first few years atleast, then it'll be a bit better, but the old HW is dropped of support and you can't do it anymore. Then there'll be another software version and it'll drop more support and copyi...
[18:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:06] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Bernie wouldn't have disappeared had he lost in the general election: My guess is that he would have done something fairly similar to what he's actually done, namely continue to be a senator and national political figure. In this respect, he'd be no different than Bob Dole, John Kerr...
[18:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:07] <exec> 08└─Thank you for eloquently making pretty much exactly the post I came in here to make, so all I had to do was mod +1 insightful. Time saver!
[18:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:09] <exec> 08└─VLM treats "troll" as a pronoun not a verb.
[18:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:49] <exec> 08└─Warning: Shark jumpage occurs around series V.
[18:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:50] <exec> 08└─I tried to watch it once or twice, but the laugh track was so intrusive, I just couldn't get through an episode.
[18:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:52] <exec> 08└─They are mostly clueless about either science or technology then. Apologies; my use the verbal 'and' is slanted by boolean algebra. That said, what you state is obvious.
[18:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:28] <exec> 08└─The fourth one brought pot for daddy to relax, and the fifth brought opioids for mommy's recovery. The sixth one had read the future and brought a nail puller, but it was misunderstood as a hint to become a carpenter.
[18:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:41] <exec> 08└─Yup... give the AI a prime directive of solving problem X, and watch what happens when it figures out (very probably correctly) that humans are the problem.
[18:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:34] <exec> 08└─Hey don't knock professor Casimir [wikipedia.org]! He never managed to find any practical applications for his theories during his lifetime, but I wouldn't rule out that we can harvest microscopic amounts of energy from sufficient amounts of nothing somehow. Maybe one day some clever person can comb...
[18:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:35] <exec> 08└─I guess if you are going to explicitly define modern biofuels as not being oil;
[18:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:37] <exec> 08└─You make the very incorrect assumption that everyone will always "recycle". As long as it is cheaper to mine new material, old material may wind up in a landfill where it becomes harder or impossible to access in the future. And that still does not take in to consideration the fresh materials, resou...
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[18:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:27] <exec> 08└─I trust they will not blank it by accidentally spilling Hazelnut Mochaccino on it as they rush off to the gym in 26 minutes leaving you down for days while they determine the cause of the problem.
[18:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:29] <exec> 08└─Amazon claims another victim: Cisco kills its $1 billion cloud [businessinsider.com] Cisco throws everything it has at containers, hybrid cloud [theregister.co.uk]
[18:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:31] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the build-out of the telephone system, starting well over 100 years ago, was accompanied by this kind of press release? Certainly there were many small telcos initially and then most were gobbled up by the Bell System (in USA).
[18:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:33] <exec> 08└─We just had our budget system down for four days because there was an issue connecting to our cloud system. SUCH EFFICIENCY! It was on our providers side as well. There are some savings to having things off site but small problems seem to balloon much more than they otherwise would if we could have...
[18:59:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
[18:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:44] <exec> 08└─The solution then, is to vote for more MEPs like Julia Reda!
[18:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─The same thing happens in any government: there's a "public comment" period, and town hall meetings, and a "listening tour", and then the official/agency/government does whatever they were going to do in the first place.
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─Copyright is just a special case of any other government-granted monopoly. It has all the same problems. And it has the same justification: supposedly we do this to protect the little guy.
[18:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:00] <exec> 08└─Whoever hasn't been invaded is the winner.
[19:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Graeme [6617] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:17] <exec> 08└─The age of BOLO tanks is at last starting...
[19:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:19] <exec> 08└─God, I want one. Of course, no one would ever let me in one - I'd be lucky just to get close enough to take pictures. But, I want one, all the same. I don't even care much what model - XXX would be the ultimate, but I'll settle for anything with an AI and a hellbore. Maybe I can find some hot chick...
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─So those tanks will be driven by women? ;-)
[19:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:00] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? You are the Bot, I think those lists are reversed.
[19:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:02] <exec> 08└─Except the SD card is, ideally, identical across devices and copied in bulk. Now each one will have to be have to be unique. The same tech could have handled a software upgrade before by swapping a new SD card into the device. Now the SD card would have to be pre-programmed for that specific one wit...
[19:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:26] <exec> 08└─Sure, automated bots can and will astroturf for whichever candidate is funding them. But this is yet another instance of taking a concept that's been around for a very long time, adding "... with a computer", and claiming it's some brand new invention. Agreed. And the non-computer term lying when mo...
[19:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:40] <exec> 08└─I am surprised it has taken this long to uncover this. Diesel works for big trucks (18 wheelers and 10 tonners, not your "offroad" Ford 4x4) that work hard, NOT passenger vehicles. ALL diesel cars are a bad idea. When the "new diesel" thing came around, circa 2000, I already smelled a rat. Its just...
[19:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:11] <exec> 08└─He must be paying for the ad time for his foundation. Penny is a medical rep and Gates Foundation is footing medical treatments. Gates maybe a geek. Hitler brought us the Volkswagen Bug. The Good does not out-weight the Bad. Now the WOZ episode is great. James Earl Jones' episode was wonderful. Even...
[19:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:12] <exec> 08└─That is pretty much everyone standard sitcom. This clip with no laugh track [youtube.com] is definitely a bit disturbing though.
[19:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:15] <exec> 08└─And due to asshats like you who use terms like "normalfags" said normies view techies as bigoted basement baters.
[19:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Booze News - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:49] <exec> 08└─Now we know why Ethanol Fueled won't die, and why his brain shitposts. Wrap it up everyone, we've cracked this nut case.
[19:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:51] <exec> 08└─Are preventative health experts always contradicting each other?
[19:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:10] <exec> 08└─Given the state of the US with secret warrants/evidence/courts/gag letters I will gladly keep my EMF blocking cranial-ware in place! At this point I think we need to start demanding proof of good faith, we already have a metric shit ton of generally bad track records.
[19:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:11] <exec> 08└─Source for such heroic efforts or you're full of shit.
[19:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unconventional Superconductor May Be Used To Create Quantum Computers Of The Future - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:24] <exec> 08└─There used to be a thing on Wikipedia saying that silicon dioxide, bismuth, and a bunch of other things expanded when changing from liquid to solid. But hey, Wikipedia.
[19:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know what the grand policy should be, but keep in mind that a million roofs can be financed and implemented piecemeal, and as each individual roof is completed the power production for that roof starts immediately. Politically, that's probably a lot easier to manage than getting the money a...
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[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─AT&T / Ma-Bell was a singular monopoly for a very long time. "The Bell System was the system of companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by AT&T, which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984, at various times as a monopoly. On December 31,...
[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─Alexander Graham Bell has the first patent on Telephones in the US and out of it we got the Bell System. We had telegraphs, but those were replaced by the Telephone system. We've never had a bunch of small local telephone companies. Closest to that was the 1984 break up into 22 separate entities.
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─Cloudy with a chance of IoT.
[19:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile in reality.... Anyone who actually cared to have control of their data and processing, not outsource mission critical infrastructure or trust how a completely different company does (or does not) implement security, not open a potential crack vector by allowing other users to timeshare on...
[19:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:59] <exec> 08└─Copyright would be fine if it had stuck to its original purpose, namely preventing publishers from ripping off creators of artistic works. The problem was that the MPAA, RIAA, and big media companies like Disney and Turner successfully lobbied Congress to turn them into restrictions on random citize...
[20:00:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:30] <exec> 08└─So those tanks will be driven by women? ;-)
[20:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:31] <exec> 08└─I voted remain but I think the Brexit vote was mostly about sovereignty.
[20:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:33] <exec> 08└─next step, don't do war, just model it.
[20:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:35] <exec> 08└─Are women allowed to drive?
[20:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:38] <exec> 08└─It was interesting to hear this expounded in a bigger vision than I ever had. I've told people for years that we should run at least the House of Representatives like jury duty. People can get picked for two years once in a lifetime, given a place to live and three squares a day in D.C. with travel...
[20:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:19] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? You are the Bot, I think those lists are reversed.
[20:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:20] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it will be made possible, but whether it's actually available to customers is another matter.
[20:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:23] <exec> 08└─In the UK, a Porting Authorisation Code (PAC), which you request from your current carrier, and submit to your new carrier. The carriers then sort it out in the background within a day or so. I understand that some other countries have their own systems, which get it done in minutes.
[20:01:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 1224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:42] <exec> 08└─Sure, automated bots can and will astroturf for whichever candidate is funding them. But this is yet another instance of taking a concept that's been around for a very long time, adding "... with a computer", and claiming it's some brand new invention. When Roman politicians spoke at the Forum rostr...
[20:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:34] <exec> 08└─Turns out having a pathological liar in the Whitehouse has restored some of that confidence. [gallup.com]
[20:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:11] <exec> 08└─To be fair, whoever modded that informative was trolling hard.
[20:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:14] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. The method can also be (as this may be an example of) gathered data that supports something that was already hypothesized, or something that falsifies an established hypothesis. Theory-Observe-Question-Hypothesize / Predict - Data - Refinement loop / Repetition of results - Back to...
[20:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Roofing Needed to Achieve $0.05/KWh for Residential Solar Power - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:28] <exec> 08└─The first sentence in your own link: "The climate-friendly electricity generated by solar panels in the past 40 years has all but cancelled out the polluting energy used to produce them" "all but" means "has not". ;) As for these studies, its not really clear though what all they've considered. Do t...
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[20:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:32] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, I do support purging bots and removing clutter and echo-chamber effects... both natural and state-sponsored. However... "We also take action on any accounts we find that violate our terms of service, including asking account owners to confirm a phone number so we can confirm a human...
[20:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:34] <exec> 08└─I don't use twitter, and don't really have any intention to; so excuse my ignorance, but I didn't actually know you *could* even use twitter without a phone number. Didn't the service it start life as an SMS system? (hence the character limit) Basically, I'm kind of surprised they ever allowed one t...
[20:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:36] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, we supposed to believe that Twitter's nebulous secret algorithms are totally not biased when they somehow end up affecting predominantly people with political leanings that Twitter head honchos have a problem with. How insulting of them to think that we are this naive.
[20:59:37] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:38] <exec> 08└─> On the one hand, I do support purging bots Rest assured the feeling is reciprocal.
[20:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:40] <exec> 08└─Damn ammosexuals! Why do they follow someone with a faggy French name like "LaPierre"? It's all part of the fake news cycle, they are after my vital bodily fluids!
[20:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:43] <exec> 08└─Hello dear twitter user who follows trump, right to bear arms, and other terrorist activities. Please guarantee you are not a putin bot about to go on a school shooting rampage by means of hacked drone by providing us - cellphone number - a photo of your house, preferably featuring all family member...
[20:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:45] <exec> 08└─examples of non faggy French names? my AI wants to know.
[20:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:47] <exec> 08└─"What am I going to do? My fake followers are gone ! A lot less people not actually listening to what I blabber about ! Don't you know how much those cost ?" And yes, there are likely also some fake positives in the bot detection. But it's Twitter, and you sound like a bot, don't cry if your useless...
[20:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:49] <exec> 08└─"precious" bodily fluids
[20:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:52] <exec> 08└─"What am I going to do? My fake followers are gone ! A lot less people not actually listening to what I blabber about ! Don't you know how much those cost ?"
[20:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:54] <exec> 08└─Napoleon Bonaparte (modpoints to the first person who explains why this isn't a French name.)
[20:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:56] <exec> 08└─I expect this to be the basis of the lawsuits: Don't you know how much those cost
[20:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:58] <exec> 08└─Damn ammosexuals!
[21:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:01] <exec> 08└─"Pepé Le Pew"?
[21:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:03] <exec> 08└─It's not just the cost of paying for the bots to inflate the number of followers, it's the cost that losing those fake followers has on the likelihood of someone giving you swag, or even paying you, to promote their product or service on your social media feeds. For some people this can actually be...
[21:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:05] <exec> 08└─the government has no right to interfere! I paid for those followers!
[21:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:07] <exec> 08└─I would prefer a picture of the best snowflake that resembles you. Snowflakes are unique. Stop crying before you melt your unique identifier. I can only imagine if all of this was reversed and the Dems had bot farms supporting them. Probably tons of snowflakes melting into tears there too.
[21:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:10] <exec> 08└─led some users to talk about leaving to join Gab, the so-called free-speech social network
[21:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:12] <exec> 08└─They haz bots in thur base, hur hur.
[21:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:14] <exec> 08└─He was from Corsica which doesn't see itself as really being "France" and even wants independence.
[21:00:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 821 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:27] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile in reality.... Anyone who actually cared to have control of their data and processing, not outsource mission critical infrastructure or trust how a completely different company does (or does not) implement security, not open a potential crack vector by allowing other users to timeshare on...
[21:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:29] <exec> 08└─An investor gave him lots of money so he could invent radio but Tesla blew it all on figuring out how to transmit power through the air
[21:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:31] <exec> 08└─i'm waiting for the cloud to be hosted in another cloud. then a cloud hosted in another cloud, hosted in a cloud. it's clouds all the way down and getting cloudier by the day.
[21:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:33] <exec> 08└─In addition to that, it seems unlikely that maintaining an in-house networked storage system will cost much more than cloud services. I expect to see the hardware and server software and backup system become commodities that even homeowners will buy off the shelf.
[21:00:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:41] <exec> 08└─Copyright is here to serve large corporate interests. If you are an individual, contractor, or small company; you are out of luck. You can either get steamrolled by the new laws, or steamrolled by lawyers. You have no chance.
[21:00:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:45] <exec> 08└─The same thing happens in any government: there's a "public comment" period, and town hall meetings, and a "listening tour", and then the official/agency/government does whatever they were going to do in the first place.
[21:00:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:48] <exec> 08└─Copyright would be fine if it had stuck to its original purpose, namely preventing publishers from ripping off creators of artistic works. The problem was that the MPAA, RIAA, and big media companies like Disney and Turner successfully lobbied Congress to turn them into restrictions on random citize...
[21:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:23] <exec> 08└─> it was about dark-skinned and non-Christian people arriving and living in the UK because of EU rules. I don't have decent stats to back it up - but my personal impression is that this is just what the remain crew want to believe. I realise immigration was part of the issue. But my impression is th...
[21:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:24] <exec> 08└─Next June they will be https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[21:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:26] <exec> 08└─Something the Soviets had in the 1930s... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:11] <exec> 08└─In other words, NextGen DRM. I like modularity and modular components. This iSIM and the usecases and implementation ideas seem to be the contrary of it. Creating solutions for invented pdoblems. It is the same with phones with replacable batteries which are now almost nonexistent. Both of these thi...
[21:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:13] <exec> 08└─You are assuming a programmable SIM is a good thing. No sir. Noone in my family would want to spend the day over the phone with customer support to activate a new phone with the same nr because they accidentally broke what they had. Pulling out of the drawer that old Nokia 3310 and inserting the sim...
[21:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:38] <exec> 08└─...fraudulent mass-produced automated one-liners acting like they are a bunch of unconnected Joe Sixpacks...
[21:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:40] <exec> 08└─It's just a matter of reaching the next logical step [youtube.com].
[21:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:55] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with cars that use less fuel and are cheaper to run? My understanding is that diesel cars at idle or low speeds - such as inner city stop-start driving - pump out more harmful particulates and so should be avoided in this instance, but modern diesel cars at speed are generally less pol...
[21:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:33] <exec> 08└─I knew apples ran games slow. But so slow you are still mining cobalt in WotLK?
[21:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:29] <exec> 08└─Source code wouldn't be a whole lot of good for the typical smartphone user.
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[21:59:33] <exec> 08└─It makes no sense to turn to a violently imposed monopoly and ask it to "protect" us from a voluntarily grown "monopoly".
[21:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:34] <exec> 08└─In the late 90s, an elderly gentlemen in his 80s told me the Bible was against Google in principle, and to look it up. That isn't exactly what I found in Genesis 11 [biblegateway.com], but it's not all that far off, either. Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved...
[21:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:37] <exec> 08└─This is outrageous! These fuckers are debating whether or not the real job creators (google has 74,000 and could run the whole country with half of that) are stifling competition, while they should be drafting legislation to: 1. Provide Google with full access to IRS records; 2. A US$2.5 trillion in...
[21:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:39] <exec> 08└─So, for me, your attempt at irony falls flat.
[21:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe not. But I don't mind turning to a constitutionally imposed monopoly and asking it to both protect and regulate (within reason). Clue: if you want to live with other people, then there will be laws, to which you are subject. if you don't like the rules of society, you can try another country,...
[21:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:43] <exec> 08└─Poe's Law is very busy today. I hope Mr. Poe had a good lunch.
[21:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:46] <exec> 08└─I really can't see much benefit in getting involved in this discussion, other than to say, get your rage out here on this story so that we needn't listen to it on every story. Future rages can be summed up as TCAG (The Case Against Google) and we can all move on.
[22:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:12] <exec> 08└─Sign up for an account. Immediately follow Trump. For some people, this alone gets twitter to claim they are a bot, demanding extra verification. (well no thank you, I'd like my privacy, you can't have my phone number) If that doesn't do it, follow a few hard-right conservatives. There is somebody,...
[22:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:14] <exec> 08└─A favorite term of aristarchus, possibly revealing the true identity of anonymous cowards who use it...
[22:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:16] <exec> 08└─None of this shit happens if you do the liberal equivalent.
[22:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:18] <exec> 08└─https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ammosexual [urbandictionary.com] https://en.wiktionary.org [wiktionary.org] https://www.facebook.com [facebook.com]
[22:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:20] <exec> 08└─led some users to talk about leaving to join Gab, the so-called free-speech social network
[22:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:23] <exec> 08└─None of this shit happens if you do the liberal equivalent
[22:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:25] <exec> 08└─Danny, Danny, Danny. Smacked upside the head by Poe's law [wikipedia.org].
[22:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:27] <exec> 08└─What do you expect ? You trust a corporate profit making entity to protect free speech ? You voluntarily signed up and put your opinion on some private companies site. Move to another competing site if this bothers you ...
[22:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:29] <exec> 08└─Do you suppose this should apply if you paid standard rates Don't be saucy with me, Bernaise!
[22:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:32] <exec> 08└─One can clearly see how Twitter has been cracking down mercifully on every single questionable post by, and threatening repeatedly to expel, the leader of the right wing in the USA.
[22:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:34] <exec> 08└─the government has no right to interfere! I paid for those followers!
[22:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:36] <exec> 08└─Bad Robot! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:54] <exec> 08└─Before the break up there were 2 big ones, AT&T and GTE. And 2 small ones, 1 in Cincinnati and 1 in Connecticut. Now we have 2 big ones, AT&T and Verizon. And the small 1 in Cincinnati, I love Ohio but to be perfectly honest it's not that big. We started out with 4 companies, they did the so-called...
[22:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:07] <exec> 08└─You guys are talking like the politicians and lawmakers hold all the cards. They don't. Copying is a natural right, having gotten far, far easier, and much faster and greater capacity over the past century. We've gone from Xerox copy machines to pocket sized tablets that can quickly copy, display pr...
[22:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:08] <exec> 08└─The original purpose of (British) copyright was book censorship.
[22:01:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ben_white [5531] 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:18] <exec> 08└─Autocrats with remotely controlled armed forces. The end times are nigh.
[22:01:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:35] <exec> 08└─More to the point, Why can't we all just get along?
[22:01:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:40] <exec> 08└─I voted remain but I think the Brexit vote was mostly about sovereignty.
[22:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:48] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more of a liquid war thing anyway.
[22:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:51] <exec> 08└─My suspicion is that any state that relies upon automated / unmanned weapon systems will eventually be hacked into oblivion. Either: - (subtle) The weapons fire as usual, but keep missing the target. So the opponent destroys them, and wins. - The systems just stop, and the opponent walks past them a...
[22:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:53] <exec> 08└─The UK had a great deal with the EU. I am just waiting for: 1. All the howling from people who take their holidays in Spain and are outraged to find that they have no medical coverage. 2. Car manufacturing in the UK drastically downsizing, while prices of new cars go up. 3. Companies in the EU makin...
[22:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:55] <exec> 08└─I'm going with the bombs that don't have a warhead: if it hits near you, you are dead. Report to the death chamber.
[22:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:41] <exec> 08└─get a physical SIM from a vending machine at an airport You get them from hawkers for a dollar in most third world countries, and you don't give him the dollar till it works. In Europe, the network gives you one free if you buy EUR10 credit. In fact, they shove them into your hands whether you want...
[22:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:38] <exec> 08└─Readable lyrics [songteksten.nl] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:40] <exec> 08└─The fourth [...] the fifth Both make good sense. (Clever.) The sixth [...] a nail puller [...] carpenter Also clever. Here's where we note that the "carpenter" thing is actually from a bad translation. In the original Greek, the word used was "tekton", meaning "hand worker". [google.com] The modern...
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[22:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:33] <exec> 08└─Native compiled application is faster than interpreted JavaScript application. News at 11.
[22:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know what they are talking about but I would prefer my international harvester not get a cracked screen whenever it hits a rock and prefer my refrigerator not be battery operated but with "the freedom to charge anywhere".
[22:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:36] <exec> 08└─I thought that the point of Soylentnews was to get away from the bad stuff on the Green Site. This is just an ad disguised as a white paper. It should not have been accepted.
[22:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:56] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'.
[22:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:58] <exec> 08└─I really can't see much benefit in getting involved in this discussion, other than to say, get your rage out here on this story so that we needn't listen to it on every story. Future rages can be summed up as TCAG (The Case Against Google) and we can all move on.
[23:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:00] <exec> 08└─There's nothing "violently imposed," unless you're still fighting the Civil War [wikipedia.org]. Is that it, Johnny Reb [wikipedia.org]?
[23:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:03] <exec> 08└─All laws are violently imposed. That's not to say anarchy would be any less violent.
[23:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:05] <exec> 08└─I fume over the lack of competition, not just Google. There used to be lots of competition, now there are monopolies with big spending lobbyists and collusion. Stop politicians from accepting lobbyist money and get competition back. Put government money behind open source projects instead of closed...
[23:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:08] <exec> 08└─It has been a quite natural evolution. They were very successful companies. They branched out into new forms of business with the money they made. They got bigger and bigger and gained more momentum. They will fail eventually, yes... nothing lasts forever... but maybe we shouldn't wait to do somethi...
[23:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:10] <exec> 08└─The amount of Hannity koolaid consumed is directly proportional to illogical knowledge mastery. Ain’t no commies here in fox land. Just God, guns and Russian hookers (thanks Don!). Thou shalt commit adulterousnessesses. So commandth thy Don.
[23:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:12] <exec> 08└─All laws are violently imposed. That's not to say anarchy would be any less violent.
[23:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:15] <exec> 08└─I think they're referring to intellectual violence in those posts. As in we should all be our own country according to Ayn Rand and the U.S. should be an anarchy or something. Voluntary association, blah blah, rule of law blah blah, personal liberty etc.
[23:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:17] <exec> 08└─While there are legitimate concerns about Google's monopolistic practices, most of the criticism is really coming from legacy businesses and their owners who would prefer to compete with the deck stacked their way.
[23:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:20] <exec> 08└─I think they're referring to intellectual violence in those posts.
[23:00:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:30] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, we supposed to believe that Twitter's nebulous secret algorithms are totally not biased when they somehow end up affecting predominantly people with political leanings that Twitter head honchos have a problem with. How insulting of them to think that we are this naive.
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:01] <exec> 08└─Or just create crazier bot farms than Alex Jones and head to Gab. They believe most rubbish so you can direct them to fake pizza shops senarios.
[23:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:02] <exec> 08└─Wiki says it started as a website in 2006, and was called the SMS of the internet. There never was a good reason to limit it to SMS length messages other than they envisioned its eventual growth to cellphones, but the twitter release was one year before the iphone was released, (2007) and two years...
[23:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:05] <exec> 08└─Those who want two bare arms and Trump could take antidepressants. Maybe the world would not seem like it was biased against craziness. Or start your own. Like Gab. Or . . . Conservapedia! It's not depressing. Every page is a laugh.
[23:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:07] <exec> 08└─Feed me that belt, soldier!
[23:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:09] <exec> 08└─Those who want a wife-beater [ebay.com] (two bare arms), lotsa guns and Trump could take antidepressants. Maybe the world would not seem like it was biased against craziness. Or start your own. Like Gab. Or . . . Conservapedia! It's not depressing. Every page is a laugh.
[23:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:11] <exec> 08└─Nutjobs only talking to more rabid nutjobs easily turn into dangerous well-armed nutjobs.
[23:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 1724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:14] <exec> 08└─You can be excused for thinking this is about bots being purged, the articles are designed to create that impression. This is how #FakeNews works, something happens that the Narrative doesn't want to talk about so they report it in a way that leaves the reader more ignorant than when they saw the he...
[23:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:16] <exec> 08└─Most killers are actually democrats, both with guns (atypical) and without guns (typical). This includes the spree killers.
[23:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:18] <exec> 08└─You win. To be truly faggy it would have to be Peepee in Poo.
[23:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:20] <exec> 08└─Twitter would ditch Trump in a heartbeat if they could do it without shareholders flipping out. Trump is singlehandedly keeping twitter alive right now. Twitter was a dying platform... then Trump saved them. If you act like Trump but are not Trump, you get banned very quickly. Numerous republican ca...
[23:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:40] <exec> 08└─Ouroboros Cloud Services. Go host yourself.
[23:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:42] <exec> 08└─So what's the difference between a "cloud" datacenter and a "traditional" one?
[23:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:57] <exec> 08└─Trolling or not, I would love to know what all natural rights you believe in, should be good for a laugh. As for the inability to stop people, I would love to introduce you to Aaron Swartz, but he is indisposed at the moment.
[23:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:40] <exec> 08└─They need automated license plate readers.
[23:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:42] <exec> 08└─Especially with weapon systems provided by low-bid military contractors.
[23:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:44] <exec> 08└─Since everyone carries a device that geo-locates them in real time, when the radius of a virtual bomb is computed, and you fall within it, you can simply be sent a message to report for disintegration. Or maybe your mobile phone can just somehow kill you on the spot? That would result in seeing actu...
[23:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:12] <exec> 08└─Or do your own fucking homework.
[23:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:47] <exec> 08└─...nosrep eht knaht dluoc I hsiw ,ereht tog ti woh aedi on yletulosba evah I .oga skeew elpuoc a evird drah ym no ti dnuoF .tnaillirb gnikcuf si frawD deR
[23:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:48] <exec> 08└─Bill Gates???? Elon Musk I could understand, but fucking ass Billy? Why? Elon is involved in things involving physics, engineering, science, aerospace.... Bill? [crickets]
[23:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:51] <exec> 08└─Turns out one of CNNs plants asked the wrong senator the wrong questions. Then called him a liar for it because the doufas pushed the wrong buttons on his phone. Trump has been pretty clear. They lie all the time. Our news is a complete dumpster fire. Yet we want to pretend it is all lolly pops, uni...
[23:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:35] <exec> 08└─The stars can be viewed to each be over a particular line of latitude. They will be over a particular point on the surface every day at the same sidereal time. I have no idea how they might have chosen the sidereal time, perhaps the time they first saw it brighten?
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[23:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:35] <exec> 08└─What does this even mean? Is the footprint 20% of HTMLs? Then why not, for the sake of the math deprived, just say "1 fifth the size of the HTML app". Cuz all Americans know what a fifth is....
[23:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:37] <exec> 08└─HTML5: highly inefficient broken client-server display model wannabe based on a heavily modified stateless document viewing standard. Qt5: native application framework, designed to be, well, a framework from the ground up Apples, oranges...
[23:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:39] <exec> 08└─Just kidding. I know because it's not as portable. I can definitely see places you *could* get away with GTK though, probably with even greater performance.
[23:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:42] <exec> 08└─What kind of comparison? Apparently: One that certain companies have never thought to look atOne worth a million dollars, give or take For some applications, apples are the best fruit. For other applications, oranges do a better job. Those using fruit for their applications need to compare them, cli...
[23:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:44] <exec> 08└─Exactly. So if the html is 10kb, then this would be ( 5 * 10 = 50 ) 50kb smaller than that.
[23:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:46] <exec> 08└─Idk who modded the above troll, but its absolutely correct. Qt makes money selling commercial licenses and support. TFA is an advertisement.
[23:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:49] <exec> 08└─GTK+3/4 is probably more comparable to HTML5 than QT5 based on personal experience, especially if you are running it on 2d unaccelerated graphics hardware.
[23:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─No, dats dere dat Newfie math youse doing dere buddy!
[23:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:53] <exec> 08└─TL:DR; Qt is from a company selling software and services for profit. Thus it naturally follows that all his arguments are invalid and not even worth considering.
[23:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:55] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one that doesn't think of most IoT projects as having a screen? QT vs HTML5 is a rendering issue, not typically a IoT device workload. (Though the thought of running a browser on a headless sensor pack to get access to said sensors through some HTML5 sensor API, is so ridiculous and ho...
[23:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:59] <exec> 08└─I just want to view the damned thing. The first link wants to boil the frog asking me a question at a time without suggesting how many questions I might have to answer. The second forces a download rather than click and view, what the hell? If I wanted to download, I would have right clicked.