#comments | Logs for 2018-03-22
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[00:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Acquires Lytro, Which Made Refocusable Light Field Cameras - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:23] <exec> 08└─While some camera companies are still around and selling consumer-oriented digital cameras
[00:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Acquires Lytro, Which Made Refocusable Light Field Cameras - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:24] <exec> 08└─Context is key: Being a relatively new entrant into the camera market is apparently worse than being yet another smartphone brand.
[00:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Acquires Lytro, Which Made Refocusable Light Field Cameras - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:26] <exec> 08└─I really hope Google doesn't just screw this thing and abandon it like they have done with pretty much everything. This is just one more reason to make patents and copyrights non-transferable. They should be allowed a perpetual license, not the patents themselves. As long as intellectual property la...
[00:01:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 2138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:02] <exec> 08└─I used to do research in exactly this type of machine learning. FWIW, the field has not advanced very much in the past 25 years or so. There are two keys to success: 1. Defining the features that can be used for the learning. This is done manually, although subsequently identifying those features in...
[00:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:08] <exec> 08└─TFS says "machine learning". In other words, no-one really knows how, but it looks for some kind of identifying patterns.
[00:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:10] <exec> 08└─The spoiler tag never works for me, can you spoil the spoiler?
[00:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's Final Work and Interment at Westminster Abbey - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:21] <exec> 08└─Hey that's my password!
[00:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stephen Hawking's Final Work and Interment at Westminster Abbey - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:23] <exec> 08└─BTFO = Blown The Fuck Out
[00:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austin Bombing Suspect Killed Himself in Explosion as SWAT Approached - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:40] <exec> 08└─+1 informative -- I'm out sadly
[00:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Bans Venezuela's Cryptocurrency - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:26] <exec> 08└─Well, I have read the book. It has many more plan points that are really controversial nowadays, but they fit very well with what say China, Korea and Russia are doing. Another example... the US had the highest tariffs in the world while in developing stage (and France had the lowest, which ended ba...
[00:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Bans Venezuela's Cryptocurrency - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:27] <exec> 08└─"That's not Law!" Why do you always take this dumb position? When people say that an EO is "not" law, that is just shorthand for saying than EO can be overturned by any President and does not require the much more complicated deliberative process of Congress. Yet, an EO is written within the framewo...
[00:07:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] 02 - 06#DeleteFacebook Trending in Response to Cambridge Analytica Accusations - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:35] <exec> 08└─Why do you people keep electing mentally unstable people as your community stars?
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[00:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:46] <exec> 08└─Hey, Ruble, how about fixing your fucking search first before you shell out your pocket change into another Snopes-tier appeal-to-authority excused censorship. Considering what happened to Adam Lanza's "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" memo, you're getting awfully close to setting off a chain reac...
[00:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:47] <exec> 08└─The intern in the bloomberg video, not those harpie hags in thescourge video.
[00:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:49] <exec> 08└─Look at the recent banning of firearm videos by YouTube. That is a policy which supports an agenda.You may agree with the agenda, but that does not remove the fact that it IS an agenda. If you read Google News, you will notice that the news which appears on the main page is very much biased in favor...
[01:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:01] <exec> 08└─I am smelling BS on that 400k number https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] They are saying 1 in 8 is lead related.
[01:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─Researchers at four North American universities, led by Bruce Lanphear, of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, studied the fate of 14,289 people whose blood had been tested in an official US survey between 1988 and 1994. Four fifths of them had harboured levels of the toxic metal below what has, h...
[01:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:04] <exec> 08└─Seriously, people. A human being in a perfect environment would still die. All money and all effort wasted on researching minor, minuscule, and infinitesimal dangers, is another delay on our road to fixing that one REAL problem.
[01:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:17] <exec> 08└─Tar is very much more useful than curl. Curl is distributed in a tar file. Any fool can hack together an HTTP client. HTTP is trivial. Curl is fucking unnecessary. Fuck Curl.
[01:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:18] <exec> 08└─Sure, run this in bash: sed 's:m..........................:m:;s:......$:de:;s:...::;s:....$:&:;s:..:n:;s:.........$::' <<< 'Re:Look at me, I know how to bullshit a paper'
[01:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Bans Venezuela's Cryptocurrency - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:35] <exec> 08└─Part of the fun with posting AC is seeing other people take up the argument, I was not "still typing".
[01:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Bans Venezuela's Cryptocurrency - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:37] <exec> 08└─I use cash for both. No need to allow companies to track me.
[01:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Bans Venezuela's Cryptocurrency - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:39] <exec> 08└─Tell me how does it really matter.
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[01:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:50] <exec> 08└─On a second look through, it looks like she's actually neurotic as hell and will break down into cutting the first time her friends tell her they're busy. My point still stands and I think I'm more aroused now. Just thinking about how much more leeway there is during the S in SM with these types is...
[01:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:52] <exec> 08└─My post was NOT redundant. . . . Fuck you faggots, I hope you all die of AIDS.
[01:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:54] <exec> 08└─I sure hope that money shines when they're finished!
[01:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:56] <exec> 08└─After doing some more research into mental disorders and sexual congruity, I came across a certain article about "17 things to never say to a girl with Borderline Personality Disorder" [cosmopolitan.com] written a Charlotte Dingle." [cosmopolitan.com] The fourth thing to pop into my head was "this i...
[01:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:59] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Couriers are the only posters left that speak the truth.
[02:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:01] <exec> 08└─Google is pretty much a fake company at this point itself, it claims to be a search engine but, outside purely tech topics, is increasingly a highly curated and mostly useless index more akin to the Yahoo! of old. YouTube is banning users at ever increasing frequency and more erratic by the day, wha...
[02:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:03] <exec> 08└─People who believe that Google is unbiased are complete and utter fools. I've stated several times that all news sources are biased. Some sources are more biased than others, we can almost all agree on that. Some biases, I agree with, some biases, you agree with, other biases, TMB agrees with, while...
[02:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:18] <exec> 08└─This epic has no end because No matter how you fight ’em, Those HENS will show up EVERY TIME — And so ad infinitum!
[02:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:19] <exec> 08└─I was wondering if they included everyone who has ever experienced the injection of an ounce of lead at supersonic velocities.
[02:00:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Google Reportedly Acquires Lytro, Which Made Refocusable Light Field Cameras - 585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:41] <exec> 08└─As a photographer, I so wanted this. It would be one more tool in the bag for getting shots that couldn't be had any other way. Being able to take a moment and change the focus to anywhere in the shot is groundbreaking. Unfortunately, the resolution was what killed it for me. It was just too low a r...
[02:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Acquires Lytro, Which Made Refocusable Light Field Cameras - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:51] <exec> 08└─Check your groupon premium dashboard, they're doing a half off deal for Lytro atm.
[02:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PlayStation 3 "OtherOS" Class Action Settlement Claims End on April 15 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:03] <exec> 08└─This is one of the cases that proved to me that it's possible to buy the court decision you want.
[02:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austin Bombing Suspect Killed Himself in Explosion as SWAT Approached - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:08] <exec> 08└─If I choke you with my dick, does that mean you'll stop bitching
[02:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austin Bombing Suspect Killed Himself in Explosion as SWAT Approached - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:09] <exec> 08└─Un buh leaf a ble. Did he really think he could go up and start bombing people? Despicable. Absolutely DISCHPLICABLE. What say ye, fellow arm-chair moralizers and men of no achievement, do we agree this bomber was a scum bag? What say ye, fellows of no ambition or greater purpose, does thou agree he...
[02:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Bans Venezuela's Cryptocurrency - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:00] <exec> 08└─I used to think so as well, then it hit me that comments should stand on their own. Account names just enable the standard human social categorization, and any troll can create fake accounts.
[02:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Bans Venezuela's Cryptocurrency - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:02] <exec> 08└─There is almost no cash in the banks to draw. http://money.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[02:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xilinx 7nm FPGA SoC - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:19] <exec> 08└─Crypto-currency "mining" too I would assume? How about GPUs for all the stuff you mentioned?
[02:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xilinx 7nm FPGA SoC - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:21] <exec> 08└─GPUs almost always talk to a host via PCIe. FPGAs typically get their data straight from the pipe (Video, Ethernet, fibre channel...), saving the whole CPU loop, helping tremendously in real-time applications. Also, GPUs are fundamentally an array of little processors specialized in crunching parall...
[02:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:08] <exec> 08└─LMAO
[02:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:10] <exec> 08└─Doubtful, dear Runaway. You'd need to laugh longer than your own projected remaining lifespan. Care to share with the class what your original intention was?
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[02:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:49] <exec> 08└─Silly exoplanets, they felt Gods wrath and there was no Noah around to build an ark for them so all life drowned. Praise divinity!
[02:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:51] <exec> 08└─does not have the important geochemical or elemental cycles that are absolutely necessary for life."
[02:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:53] <exec> 08└─It could be life Jim, just not life as we know it.
[02:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)/ [wikipedia.org]
[03:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:12] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Couriers New (or whatever Monospace translate into) are even better. Now, mod me informative (and waste one of your mod points)
[03:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:14] <exec> 08└─No can do, buckaroo. I'm in a chastity belt until another week or so. Otherwise I'd be dumping all my points into ACs.
[03:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:32] <exec> 08└─Another reason why the EU is a bad place to be.
[03:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:34] <exec> 08└─Petrol isn't exactly winning trophies either: http://www.mdpi.com [mdpi.com] Though admittedly, I don't trust the data to form an opinion either way.
[03:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:48] <exec> 08└─curl is not just for http , it talk DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP too
[03:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:50] <exec> 08└─Curl makes more sense in scripts usually, otherwise no. They're similar tools with slightly different end use-cases, like apt vs. apt-get. That said, I've mostly abandoned wget in favour of Aria2 [github.io] for manual downloading. I switched years ago because it had support for some features that w...
[03:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:54] <exec> 08└─From the same source: We emphasize that research challenges remain before programmer de-anonymization from executable binaries is fully ready for practical use. For example, programs may be authored by multiple programmers and may have gone through encryption.
[03:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:56] <exec> 08└─Hipster! I bet you're a dirty JS coder too.
[03:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Bans Venezuela's Cryptocurrency - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:19] <exec> 08└─Come now, obviously the folks advocating for cash only are also, mobile phone free, doesn't use the internet, live in a mobile home with make shift tin-foil hat they put on upon entering their humble abode.
[03:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:26] <exec> 08└─Did you really look at the image in the link? Maybe you need to look back at our exchanges, wherein I outright informed you that I was trolling you, but you continued to take things seriously. At least two of our peers "got it" and modded that link "funny".
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[03:59:52] <exec> 08└─Their claim isn't even restricted to intelligent life which makes the reasoning even more laughable. Why should land surfaces even be required? We still don't have 100% proof of how and where life started on Earth. It may take a few billion years longer without land surfaces (e.g. just the right seq...
[03:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:53] <exec> 08└─You can grab an octopus by the octopussy there when you're a star
[04:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:31] <exec> 08└─Now, you'll excuse me, please, while I go shovel some more coal on the fire. What? Oh, no, it's not cold. I just need to dump some more pollutants into the air in my campaign to ensure your generation doesn't outlive my own.
[04:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:33] <exec> 08└─Lead does more than send you to your grave early. It also makes a person prone to more violence more often, and it lowers intelligence. Of course those effects could get a person killed at a much younger age than lead enhanced heart disease would. A little road rage, a foolish attempt to use thousan...
[04:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:49] <exec> 08└─I don't know if it is still true, but libcurl's ABI/API are constantly changing, leading to breakage in any binary apps you have that use them if your operating system isn't smart enough to keep old copies of the libraries around. Furthermore there have been a LOT of CVEs on libcurl over the years a...
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[04:00:51] <exec> 08└─You're not wrong. The recent CVEs seem more like "C being C" rather than curl being insecure.
[04:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Acquires Lytro, Which Made Refocusable Light Field Cameras - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not a photo guru, but those all sound like software improvements not hardware. Just two cameras with software to mix the photos in different ways. CAT has an IR camera on their phone and can mix the IR and visible light pictures together.
[04:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:58] <exec> 08└─The answer is yes. You'd use a genetic algorithm (GA) to mess with the binary. Or you can decompile the binary, run a GA on the code, recompile, then retest. It'll be really slow without optimizing the GA, but there are many ways to optimize it. The current possibilities are zero because no one curr...
[04:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:00] <exec> 08└─That's also how I code in C. After a run through their ML algorithm, they might come up with proof that you are me.
[04:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japanese Basket-Weaving Inspires "Kagome Metal" Material - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:44] <exec> 08└─I'm imagining E-f's head exploding as he sees the pattern. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[04:59:48] <exec> 08└─A great deal of teeth gnashing accompanied my work to configure my own mail server. It worked well for a few months then the smtp server stopped working After a great deal of carefyc consideration I decided I just didn't want to deal with it so now I pay Google five dollars per mailbox per month
[04:59:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:55] <exec> 08└─does not have the important geochemical or elemental cycles that are absolutely necessary for life."
[05:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:02] <exec> 08└─They're thinking that the water-land interface is critical to "life as we know it" and I'm not sure I even agree with that. Certainly, life would be different without a terrestrial space for evolution to take place in, but with an ocean a few hundred miles deep you could get some very interesting ch...
[05:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:04] <exec> 08└─There's a little more to the story than "Wow, it's covered with water": https://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] And from the arXiv for this paper: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] With no exposed land, key geochemical cycles including the...
[05:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:23] <exec> 08└─127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
[05:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Basket-Weaving Inspires "Kagome Metal" Material - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:55] <exec> 08└─Because, while a degree may be worthless, education is invaluable. Relax, don't feel guilty, I don't expect you to understand the difference between the two; you'd need an unbleached brain for this, it's not your fault you don't have one.
[05:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volcanic Eruption May Have Sped Up Iceland's Conversion to Christianity - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:18] <exec> 08└─It also depends on the volcano. I mean look at that woosy name, "Eldgja", no wonder they all became Christians. It'd take an eruption from, at least, SkaftafellaÞingeyjarstrandahrafnarfjörðaneskaupstaðahúnavatnasnæfellsjokull to convert them to the worship of almighty Cthulhu. "Eldgja" is just...
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[05:05:19] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, the last part of that name is pronounced something close to "yokult", just in case it's causing any non-Icelandic speakers difficulty.
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[05:59:50] <exec> 08└─What a depressing disease. I just finished watching a nice girl deteriorate into death for years with MS. Her parents and brother had to invest a lot of emotional, mental, and capital resources into taking care of her, and then she's just gone. There's not much more to say, except it looked like it...
[05:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Cloud Climbs to Top 5 - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:58] <exec> 08└─Dear Jack Ma, I want my ten fucking dollars back, Alibozo. I had 0.03 cents billed for an unlimited plan I already paid 1 year in advance, so you took out $10 from my PayMafioso. $10 that was part of monetary compensation for services rendered to a kind old lady. You stole $10 from an old granny, Al...
[06:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:13] <exec> 08└─Agree, I've spent enough time on the ocean to know there is abundant life in the water. Also there many ocean mammals that are very intelligent. They may not be building weapons, rocket ships or generally making a big mess of their planet, but dumb they are not.
[06:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:15] <exec> 08└─Here on Earth we have many forms of life that live and go down into depths like the Marinas Trench where pressures are huge compared to the surface pressures. High pressure is a bogus argument.
[06:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:17] <exec> 08└─High pressure is a bogus argument.
[06:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:14] <exec> 08└─curl and tar coming to Windows 10 soon
[06:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Reportedly Acquires Lytro, Which Made Refocusable Light Field Cameras - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:34] <exec> 08└─That was my feeling as well, I'm surprised Lytro is valued at anything above $0. It solves no identifiable problem beyond "what should I write my PhD thesis on?".
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[06:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:55] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know where they get off charging ones entire family assets to become a human guinea pig? Its experimental medicine. The unfortunate soul finding themselves in the grip of these "uncurable" maladies - of no fault of their own - are even expected to foot the bill? All this time, I was t...
[06:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:56] <exec> 08└─Anytime you hear "breakthrough," it's definitely a scam, there's no "maybe."
[07:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Cloud Climbs to Top 5 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:07] <exec> 08└─Where's the money, Lebowski?
[07:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:25] <exec> 08└─If/when we meet intelligent life, I wonder if that intelligent life will even recognize us as intelligent.
[07:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:26] <exec> 08└─it does not matter really. life is about behavior not chemical composition, the good old grow multiply populate, it may happen at vastly different time scales/conditions. It is not even a theological problem as somebody liked to reduce it to. Adam and Eve are the pinnacle of creation as physical ent...
[07:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:47] <exec> 08└─while other biases, Aristarchus agrees with
[07:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Basket-Weaving Inspires "Kagome Metal" Material - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:21] <exec> 08└─That a seemingly valid explanation for the Why don't you fuck the hell off with your bullshit claims that an education is worth more than $zero, you lying piece of shit.
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[07:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:50] <exec> 08└─Or the login page could have had 2 to 3 fields: Name, Country of Origin, Have you completed this form before? and they would have gotten the same information the summary claims they wanted without having to deal with 3rd parties. I don't trust them, especially since they're limiting speeds of the ot...
[07:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:51] <exec> 08└─Government offers free wifi User gets free wifi for facebook data Data from facebook goes to Cambridge Analytica, and/or others Cambridge Analytica and/or others sell data to governments/political parties Round and round the internet, like a data bear..
[07:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:53] <exec> 08└─I guess giving up yet more of your privacy is part of the price of admission. They can state whatever businesstalk they want. You have the option of saying NO and just avoiding the place. If significant people did the latter, businesses would think twice about putting in these kind of requirements,...
[07:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:56] <exec> 08└─The Gold Coast City Council has already backtracked on this nefarious plan [brisbanetimes.com.au]. Their stated reason for doing so: "Only today, the Facebook CEO has confirmed that he is investigating privacy issues to do with Facebook and how it manages people's privacy. So if Facebook cannot guar...
[07:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:58] <exec> 08└─I don't trust them
[07:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:00] <exec> 08└─On ABC [abc.net.au]
[08:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:02] <exec> 08└─This time it behaved like a dump bear [abc.net.au]: Gold Coast council dumps plan to mine Facebook data from Commonwealth Games visitors using free wi-fi
[08:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:05] <exec> 08└─I like how the motivation blames Facebook, when the guys planned to suck in then mine the data themselves.
[08:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:16] <exec> 08└─All this time, I was thinking this is why we have publicly underfunded research
[08:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:18] <exec> 08└─Even the multibillionaire will benefit from the skills learned by treating a homeless person who had the same problem.
[08:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Cloud Climbs to Top 5 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:29] <exec> 08└─Pricing [alibabacloud.com] Note how the prices grow from World->Hong Kong->Mainland China. One would think the closer to home, the lower the prices.
[08:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:08] <exec> 08└─>Using New York Times to dispute Fox News Your mistake is assuming sources you agree on have the monopoly on truth, why don't you try using RT to dispute western media next time and see how it goes.
[08:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:10] <exec> 08└─You are sorely missing the point: it is not who reports it, it is whether the thing itself, the re ipsa, is true or not. Are you seriously suggesting that this is fake news because you disagree with the New York Times? You can discard facts because of who conveys them? Oh, ye of little discriminatio...
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[09:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, but blaming facebook might make some people hink they *weren't* going to slurp up all the data. Also, now they have to write all sorts of sniffers and IP trace programs to put on their wifi boxes - the data just got alot more expensive, especially as they only have a few weeks to get the new st...
[09:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:18] <exec> 08└─<snark> Hmmm... that's a turnaround! Experiment on the rich guy, learn from his demise, then use what was learned to save the poor guy! Because the rich guy was the only one who could afford to be the lab rat! </snark>
[09:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Cloud Climbs to Top 5 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:29] <exec> 08└─The price of real time censorship and firewalls?
[09:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:50] <exec> 08└─You are getting very close to an old creationist argument: Earth is so perfect for life that it must have been created by an intelligent designer to have exactly the properties that life needs. No. This life evolved on Earth, and thus the properties of Earth are the properties that life evolved to l...
[09:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:51] <exec> 08└─Unless they are too primitive to know that space probes which broadcast at them via directional antennae aren't a natural occurrence then they will notice. >inb4 what if they don't know about electromagnetism Then they're idiots or underdeveloped.
[09:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PlayStation 3 "OtherOS" Class Action Settlement Claims End on April 15 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:25] <exec> 08└─Wait, you guys don't get your money back, when it turns out that the product doesn't work as advertised? You really need to do something about the lack of consumer protection over there.
[09:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:04] <exec> 08└─So, what have you been doing since we fired you?
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[09:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Horned Dinosaurs May Have Had Horns and Frills to Attract Mates - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:55] <exec> 08└─Horny Dinosaurs.
[09:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Horned Dinosaurs May Have Had Horns and Frills to Attract Mates - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:57] <exec> 08└─Peacock: Look at this sign of excess resources! I am a good mate! Ceratopsian: Look! I'm horny!
[10:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, but blaming facebook might make some people hink they *weren't* going to slurp up all the data.
[10:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:15] <exec> 08└─so, is he value the facebook-limked marketing/personality insights, and/or the location/marketing opportunities to be fed into the feeds, or something else? If the first two, facebook is essential. If the "something else", then maybe they can still extract data (value) from "free" wifi.
[10:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:17] <exec> 08└─Some info on behaviour can be inferred from the location and the WiFI point can offer a vague idea about the location (less capability for triangulation than mobile protocols, I believe). Yes, the MAC address is useful as an ID, but capturing it doesn't require a special packet sniffer;even a consum...
[10:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:20] <exec> 08└─So, just like shopping centres and anywhere else offering "free" wifi, there is no value without the facebook login for promoted "likes" in your friends' feeds, and ads in the post-login screen, with some datamining about behaviour from facebook. I suspect the games organisers will offer free wifi a...
[10:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:33] <exec> 08└─Experiment on the rich guy, learn from his demise, then use what was learned to save the poor guy!
[10:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:34] <exec> 08└─The BBC noted it cost patients £30,000 ($42,000) to receive the experimental treatment
[10:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Cloud Climbs to Top 5 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:46] <exec> 08└─Quantified in USD, yes.
[10:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:09] <exec> 08└─I'm well aware of the curl and wget aliases; there was a SoylentNews story about them in August of 2016: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Notice that it says nothing about tar. Your Github links are both dated August 2016; nothing was said there about tar. Wh...
[10:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:11] <exec> 08└─This is what Microsoft say on their corporate blog [microsoft.com]: Tar and curl are staples in a developer’s toolbox; beginning today, you’ll find these tools are available from the command-line for all SKUs of Windows. And yes, they’re the same tools you’ve come to know and love! If you’...
[10:03:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:08] <exec> 08└─"After running the analyzer, we found out that 80% of the world's code was written by some guy named Dennis Ritchie."
[10:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:24] <exec> 08└─Given the principially unverifiable nature of this kind of "proof"
[10:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:25] <exec> 08└─How can I be called a "hipster" if my cosplay name is Lambda Closure (spoken with a French accent).
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[10:59:49] <exec> 08└─Once again, alcohol "connoisseurs" reveal themselves to be one step up from video "gamers." Atleast, the 30 y/o manchildren don't (most) wrap up their dumb, time-wasting hobbies in ego-stroking. "Why yes, Reggie, this is a 2525 Mt. Musk. It was formulated on Mars and its dust was used to give it tha...
[10:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:50] <exec> 08└─Why aren't the designer drug groups buying into this tech, when they could be producing follistatin as cheap as piss-drink.
[10:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:53] <exec> 08└─Oy, Takyon, I'll have you know I'm not like other shitposters. I'm a shitpost cognoscente. I take the raw material of human impotent rage and add artisanal circumlocution to infuse my magnum condii with inebriated overtones, and subtle, pedantic highlights. I'm not like the rest, me me me, I I I.
[11:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:20] <exec> 08└─Write? Just get a few off the shelf or from open source
[11:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Cloud Climbs to Top 5 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:47] <exec> 08└─Runbox. $20 / year. Dedicated to privacy
[11:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:10] <exec> 08└─So there is life and intelligent life, not exactly the same. This is about life. We know from here on Earth that life can develop various strategies (e.g. chemotropism) to complement geochemical and elemental cycles. Even stronger stated, life is often an important component of elemental cycles on E...
[11:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:27] <exec> 08└─"unmask the creators of anti-censorship tools and other outlawed programs" This is clearly written by people in a country where freedom of speech is illegal.
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[11:59:48] <exec> 08└─All your movies and music will sound funny
[11:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:50] <exec> 08└─... only dogs will be able to hear Mickey Mouse "talk".
[12:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:00] <exec> 08└─Why yes, Reggie, this is a 2525 Mt. Musk.
[12:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Horned Dinosaurs May Have Had Horns and Frills to Attract Mates - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:10] <exec> 08└─Frilly things. They make me feel beautiful! I have to say, however, they haven't really helped me find a mate. Maybe i'm not as much of a dinosaur as people keep telling me?
[12:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:31] <exec> 08└─One click, two click, fuck you under there!
[12:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:46] <exec> 08└─Its already being done that way... except for the poor guy part.
[12:02:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 798 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:00] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. Fifty years ago, teachers brought mercury into classes for the children to play with. More, many children happened to be present to recover the mercury from broken thermometers, thus acquiring their own personal supplies of shiny play pretty. Mercury isn't the "best" thing to play with - but...
[12:02:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:22] <exec> 08└─curl and tar coming to Windows 10 soon
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[12:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:51] <exec> 08└─with cameras, I wouldn't be surprised if actual visibility was better than what the video shows.
[13:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:00] <exec> 08└─?!?... can you imagine how the moaning in all porn stashes in this world will sound like? The agencies tasked with tracking pedos will require a yuge uptick of the "door busters" column of their budget.
[13:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:11] <exec> 08└─+ Funteresting Why aren't the designer drug groups buying into this tech, when they could be producing follistatin as cheap as piss-drink ... ...yet you choose to use it for dumb shit like making more beery beer.
[13:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Horned Dinosaurs May Have Had Horns and Frills to Attract Mates - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:21] <exec> 08└─The submitter missed the science news blurb over at Science, who tongue-in-cheek titled it "Why was Triceratops so horny?"
[13:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:44] <exec> 08└─Rule #1: DO NOT CONNECT with mobile data or wifi TO UNKNOWN and/or untrusted SOURCES ! ! Rule #2: see Rule #1 People that do not understand technology do not deserve using technology.
[13:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:00] <exec> 08└─Your idea is that people are getting scammed because the gov isnt giving the scammers enough money?
[13:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:02] <exec> 08└─What a wonderful idea.
[13:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:38] <exec> 08└─There's a story by Stanislav Lem (I think it was in the Star Diaries) where the protagonist visits a school on another planet, where the final exam is going on. One of the questions of that exam is: "Explain why there cannot be any life on Earth."
[13:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:40] <exec> 08└─You surely meant: "when you're a sea star".
[13:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:42] <exec> 08└─Given this, how can scientists expect to find life on Jupiter's moons then? NASA has spent a lot of time discussing that possibility, and this would seem to totally discredit that notion.
[13:01:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 1185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:58] <exec> 08└─People who believe that Google is unbiased are complete and utter fools. I've stated several times that all news sources are biased. Some sources are more biased than others, we can almost all agree on that. Some biases, I agree with, some biases, you agree with, other biases, TMB agrees with, while...
[13:02:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:02] <exec> 08└─while other biases, Aristarchus agrees with
[13:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:01] <exec> 08└─Note that if such programmer identification are used in forensics, such a code transformation program could also be used to create false evidence against someone: Analyze code written by the target, then take some malware and optimize it to be "recognized" as the target's work by the algorithm. Spre...
[13:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:02] <exec> 08└─I'd also expect that the better optimizers get, the harder it will become to analyze coding patterns from the compiled source. Did the author write a large function, or did he write many small functions that got inlined? Did the author write a loop, or did he write a tail-recursive function and the...
[13:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Macular Degeneration - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:46] <exec> 08└─No all macular degeneration can be safely lasered - mine is too close to the optic nerve and risks blinding me.
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[13:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:49] <exec> 08└─Of course it isn't. That would be anthropomorphizing the car.
[13:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:51] <exec> 08└─By comparison, cameras, LIDAR, and other obstacle detecting tech are relatively near sighted.
[13:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:53] <exec> 08└─Correct. Programmers and managers are at fault.
[13:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:55] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one who feels that the public release of this video is -at the minimum- in bad taste? (I've watched it to be sure of the content) If you were from the family, would you like to see the death of a family member all over the news? In the video comment, it is written that the footage was...
[13:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:58] <exec> 08└─The video looks exceptionally dark and I am skeptical that it hasn't been altered. For instance, you can barely see the buildings in the background. Also, where is the video of the LiDAR?
[13:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:00] <exec> 08└─Wouln't hurt some years behind bars for manslaughter, the fellow convicts would love to have an SUV to drive. Oh, wait...
[14:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:03] <exec> 08└─Indeed - and that video *was* the camera's view. It got jump-scared. A human would have been at a lower eye level, would have seen less of the headlight-illuminated road, would therefore have been less saturated, and probably have been able to see further ahead. However, as a pedestrian and cyclist,...
[14:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:05] <exec> 08└─They released the part of the sensor system that makes their system look least at fault. Duh? Seems like the local police fell for it, too. They are being manipulated.
[14:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:07] <exec> 08└─I can only hope the death was swift and painless.
[14:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:09] <exec> 08└─It serves the public good because it removes a large amount of speculation about what actually happened. Your average driver now thinks: "I could see how that could happen", rather than "self-driving cars are mowing people down left-and-right". And no, I haven't seen the footage - perhaps I would fe...
[14:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:12] <exec> 08└─I have been in a very similar situation to that. I was driving at 60mph on an unlit road with low headlight beams (just having left town, I should have turned them up) and managed to emergency stop in time for an unlit person stood in the middle of the road. It was close but I did not hit the person...
[14:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:14] <exec> 08└─- A self-driving car that apparently didn't even try to slam the brakes at the last moment - indicating that it didn't even register the pedestrian at the last moment when it came into the headlights and was plain to see in the video, - A fat sack of shit behind the wheel who wasn't looking ahead an...
[14:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:16] <exec> 08└─That's the thing though, isn't it? If that camera view was the car's view, then the car was grossly over-driving it's headlights - it's the responsibility of a driver to drive within the limits of available visibility for exactly such a reason - hitting something stationary in the road is ALWAYS you...
[14:00:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:24] <exec> 08└─All your movies and music will sound funny
[14:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:28] <exec> 08└─Just ban helium. Why would you ever need to own helium, citizen? Or children, why would you ever need children? :)
[14:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:40] <exec> 08└─First off, IBU isn't a measurement of quality. There are lots of great microbrews that are not hoppy at all, and other styles where the hops are there but not ridiculous. Secondly, as someone who has done some brewing in my time, choosing the variety and quantity of hops is a significant part of the...
[14:01:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sarasani [3283] 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 463 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:00] <exec> 08└─The Gold Coast City Council has already backtracked on this nefarious plan [brisbanetimes.com.au]. Their stated reason for doing so: "Only today, the Facebook CEO has confirmed that he is investigating privacy issues to do with Facebook and how it manages people's privacy. So if Facebook cannot guar...
[14:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:14] <exec> 08└─No, no. Connecting is fine. Just be sure to use fake info. Sure, that violates Facebook's terms and rules, and doubtless most of the terms in the wall of text they throw up in your face when you're connecting to the "free" wifi, but so what? I especially love that by connecting, you agree to obey al...
[14:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:10] <exec> 08└─Waterborn life is, generally speaking, neutrally buoyant - life evolved for a particular depth range generally remains there without trouble. Sure, it may occasionally get caught in a down-current and crushed by the pressure, but so long as that doesn't happen to the entire population, it's not real...
[14:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:34] <exec> 08└─Were you an extremely dull child? Mommy can be EXTREMELY pissed that something happened, and you KNOW that she's pissed. So, without actually lying, you mislead her into believing that someone else did the evil deed which she is so pissed off about. Her heirloom vase is lying in pieces, and she scre...
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[15:00:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 793 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:03] <exec> 08└─It serves the public good because it removes a large amount of speculation about what actually happened. Your average driver now thinks: "I could see how that could happen", rather than "self-driving cars are mowing people down left-and-right". And no, I haven't seen the footage - perhaps I would fe...
[15:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:08] <exec> 08└─I always took that for euphemism for "died at the scene but we really wanted to make sure".
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:10] <exec> 08└─Yes they do...but they hit a lot of pedestrians going that fast. Lots being relative.
[15:00:11] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:12] <exec> 08└─Similarly, ADAS makes it possible for drivers to rely on automation in situations beyond its capabilities. Adaptive cruise control, for example, works well when a car directly follows another car but often fails to detect stationary objects. Unfortunately, real-life situations, as well as controlled...
[15:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:15] <exec> 08└─In all fairness, your nick disqualifies you from commenting on this story. :)
[15:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:17] <exec> 08└─If I were driving that car, I think I'd have had time to hit brakes (but not stop in time). I also think that that if the camera view is an accurate representation of what was really visible, then the car was overdriving its headlights. Although given my experience with cameras, I wouldn't be surpri...
[15:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:19] <exec> 08└─When the first car(s) hit the road, they made someone walk in front of it carrying a flag. First pedestrian death was due to a woman walking in front of a car (coincidence? Ironic coincidence? The word I can't think of?) https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] They...
[15:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:22] <exec> 08└─There's some precise question about how accurate the footage is in that respect, however, it does appear that the headlights weren't properly aimed, for whatever reason. If you watch the video, only a handful of strips are actually visible in the video, which indicates that the headlights aren't sho...
[15:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'd like to see the speedometer: was the car 'driving' too fast?...did it apply the brakes? (At no point t do I perceive a flash of red light indicating rear brakes coming on). Yeah...let's see AAALLL the data, not just the 'not Uber's fault' data. If I was the family, I'd sue to see it all. I...
[15:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─The early regulations on cars were a lot smarter than most folks living now give them credit for. They didn't really know how cars would interact because they didn't have cars to interact with horses and mules. They were also smart enough to realize that cars were likely to go faster as time went by...
[15:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:29] <exec> 08└─The car was driving too fast. Too fast isn't a matter of what the speedometer tells you, it's too fast for the conditions. And yes, this car was driving too fast for the conditions, the headlights weren't showing enough of the road ahead in order to respond to stationary objects in the road, let alo...
[15:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 1687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:31] <exec> 08└─We need the video because it's the only way for the public to really understand how reckless these companies are being with these tests. If the car braked at all, it was so close to the point where the woman was hit as to make negligible difference. They sell these cars as having better than human s...
[15:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:33] <exec> 08└─Really, I think we ought to put Uber in prison for a few years for manslaughter so that these companies realize that there are consequences to recklessness.
[15:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:36] <exec> 08└─Yup, and not just an 'engineer': make it the CEO (Kirk is responsible for the actions of his crew). Put him in REAL prison (not the fancy executive prison), charged with manslaughter. You'd see some changes then, boyo.
[15:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 2037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:38] <exec> 08└─The car does not dip forward at any point - no significant braking or it literally has no suspension whatsoever (equally dangerous). The car also (alternatively) does not swerve or try to manoeuvre at any point - no significant hazard detection or avoidance. The car takes NO corrective action whatso...
[15:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:40] <exec> 08└─I hit a deer in these circumstances. Dark and windy road, I was travelling well under the posted speed limit; but still not safe for the conditions. I did not have the high beams on because most of the road has streetlights and houses, this is a brief wooded section. Fortunately the car had excellen...
[15:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:43] <exec> 08└─However, as a pedestrian and cyclist, never a car driver, my conclusion just from the vid is that the distribution of blame is mostly upon the pedestrian:
[15:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:45] <exec> 08└─I think this proves that the human "driver" that doesn't need to be an active part of the trip in 99.99% of cases, will not be paying attention when that .01% situation comes up.
[15:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:47] <exec> 08└─That video has been tampered with to make it darker. I also doubt that video is used by the car in the processing of information. Release the LIDAR. There is NO reason LIDAR should not have picked this up.
[15:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:58] <exec> 08└─Ownership of children does not require a license or a collar tag, unlike dogs. Ownership of children is something that has been wanted for all of human history. Just get them vaccinated. And don't allow them to run in the streets in packs. Or become ferel. United Airlines is proud to offer customers...
[15:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:59] <exec> 08└─Why would they bother filling a hard drive with helium? I don't understand? What I want is a helium filled SSD! And a helium filled Twinkie!
[15:01:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:09] <exec> 08└─Oy, Takyon, I'll have you know I'm not like other shitposters. I'm a shitpost cognoscente. I take the raw material of human impotent rage and add artisanal circumlocution to infuse my magnum condii with inebriated overtones, and subtle, pedantic highlights. I'm not like the rest, me me me, I I I.
[15:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:14] <exec> 08└─So I'm really not sure why this effort exists.
[15:01:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 859 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:33] <exec> 08└─I guess giving up yet more of your privacy is part of the price of admission. They can state whatever businesstalk they want. You have the option of saying NO and just avoiding the place. If significant people did the latter, businesses would think twice about putting in these kind of requirements,...
[15:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 1732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:48] <exec> 08└─A somewhat relevant quote (albeit about facial recognition) from the book "The Aisles Have Eyes" by Joseph Turow: Finally, Schuman advanced the possibility that the facial recognition process might be installed outside the physical store as well as inside: “What if [a retail] chain pushes some att...
[15:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Cloud Climbs to Top 5 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:20] <exec> 08└─I didn't know IBM had a public cloud.
[15:02:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 776 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:35] <exec> 08└─There's a little more to the story than "Wow, it's covered with water": https://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] And from the arXiv for this paper: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] With no exposed land, key geochemical cycles including the...
[15:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:33] <exec> 08└─Great. More people throwing out perfectly useful CRTs, and older electronics because of the "all those dangerous toxic chemicals" including lead. Never mind not a molecule leaves the boxes while they are in use. Yes, lead could be stupidly long term dangerous when it was used in things like pipes, g...
[15:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:11] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I had in mind when I said: Imagine the possibilities!
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[15:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:51] <exec> 08└─That's kinda funny, actually. Of course it's aimed at GAFA, Microsoft, and a number of other international companies that are taking advantage of tax loopholes. But, that's cool. Make 'em pay. Apple, for instance, has been floating on more liquid funds than most nations can even dream about. Make th...
[15:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:53] <exec> 08└─9.5 vs 23.3? This decision for raising this tax seems late already. But better late than never.
[15:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:55] <exec> 08└─If it were aimed at FAFA, I would have been even happier.
[15:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:57] <exec> 08└─"Why do you rob banks?" "Because that's where the money is."
[16:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deeper Insight Into Viral Infections - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:06] <exec> 08└─...such understanding could be extended to the viral nature of phenomena such as Kim Kardashian.
[16:00:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:26] <exec> 08└─That's the thing though, isn't it? If that camera view was the car's view, then the car was grossly over-driving it's headlights - it's the responsibility of a driver to drive within the limits of available visibility for exactly such a reason - hitting something stationary in the road is ALWAYS you...
[16:00:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:31] <exec> 08└─If I were driving that car, I think I'd have had time to hit brakes (but not stop in time). I also think that that if the camera view is an accurate representation of what was really visible, then the car was overdriving its headlights. Although given my experience with cameras, I wouldn't be surpri...
[16:00:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 2037 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:41] <exec> 08└─The car does not dip forward at any point - no significant braking or it literally has no suspension whatsoever (equally dangerous). The car also (alternatively) does not swerve or try to manoeuvre at any point - no significant hazard detection or avoidance. The car takes NO corrective action whatso...
[16:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:47] <exec> 08└─It didn't even try to brake. (And stop driving at 60mph on unlit roads without main beams on).
[16:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:50] <exec> 08└─Supporting evidence for this assertion: The pedestrian is crossing 5~10 metres away from a pair of street lights (a sensible place to cross and be seen) but is not visible in the video until she's covered by the (low) beam of the headlights.
[16:00:51] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 639 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:52] <exec> 08└─I think we are going to find out a couple things as the investigation goes on: 1) The sensor data shows that the woman was detectable and for quite a while before the impact though possibly on a reduced set of sensors 2) An attempt to limit false-positives in object recognition caused the system to...
[16:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:54] <exec> 08└─When an AI car messes up, it's unclear who precisely is accountable.
[16:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:57] <exec> 08└─(3) not crossing at a crossing
[16:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:59] <exec> 08└─She's NOT darting out into traffic, she's just wheeling a bike across a road having already crossed one lane and that car comes out of nowhere and strikes her.
[16:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:01] <exec> 08└─Note: the street is lit: the video shows a pair of lit streetlights just before the woman is hit.
[16:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:04] <exec> 08└─- A self-driving car that apparently didn't even try to slam the brakes at the last moment - indicating that it didn't even register the pedestrian at the last moment when it came into the headlights and was plain to see in the video,
[16:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, let's see how you do stuck in a seat and told to watch the road at all times
[16:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:08] <exec> 08└─It looks like video from a cheap dashcam.
[16:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:11] <exec> 08└─Ya know - I had to read your post twice to get your meaning. The human sitting at a lower level? Yeah. What you're saying is, light striking the road is reflected back at the camera. The human is getting less of that direct reflection from the road surface, and the painted lines, so he retains some...
[16:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:13] <exec> 08└─Despite your sarcasm - there is truth in what you say. A pedestrian who exercises zero caution is at fault. A pedestrian who exercises insufficient caution may well be at fault. I speak as a man who once struck a pedestrian. There were no charges filed. A claim was made against my insurance. Insuran...
[16:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:15] <exec> 08└─On the highway, slamming the brakes for no reason can be as dangerous as not stopping when you need to.
[16:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, let's see how you do stuck in a seat and told to watch the road at all times. You aren't driving, probably don't even have music, yet you have to maintain constant alertness when nothing is happening and you aren't doing anything.
[16:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:20] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, we've got billions of people with decades of expectations (explicit and implicit) about how cars should behave, and they're going to behave differently when driven by machines.
[16:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:22] <exec> 08└─All you have to do is pick someone. The most obvious choice is the vehicle's owner.
[16:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:35] <exec> 08└─Wanted != require/need, again, explain why do you need to children. Were you born with a child? If you've lived all these while without having your own child, surely you can live without one. :)
[16:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Horned Dinosaurs May Have Had Horns and Frills to Attract Mates - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:59] <exec> 08└─On this rare occasion I actually did read the article, hoping to find more scientific content than was indicated by the summary. Happy to report that it does and it even provides enough context for general readers. They are trying to measure distinctions among fine-grained evolutionary drivers in th...
[16:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:41] <exec> 08└─It seems that installing Linux would be a quicker fix.
[16:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:46] <exec> 08└─I quit Google News some months ago -- it has basically become the Washington Post/NYT RSS feed.
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[16:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:54] <exec> 08└─Make the bastards pay their way. What do they owe for infrastructure?
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─A turnover tax is seriously stupid, They cannot possibly say "this tax only applies to companies X, Y and Z". That will fail in the courts. So they will have to apply this to all companies. Now, which companies have the biggest profit margins, i.e., which ones can best afford to pay a turnover tax?...
[16:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─> parasitic state WTF? Political and military stability -> military; welfare state Worker's health -> health services (in EU at least) R&D funding -> many technologies GAFA use had origins in a government lab or university
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:00] <exec> 08└─I can easily make the argument that Apple is the parasite here. Let us remember that businesses require licenses to operate. Theoretically, a business provides good to the community, or the business is denied a license. Apple is entitled to pay for expenses, and to make some profit. But - the billio...
[17:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:03] <exec> 08└─The alternative is the US system? I would rather pay thank you.
[17:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:05] <exec> 08└─If want something done in society, you should convince people to hand over their money voluntarily, not force them to pay for your stupid ideas at the point of a gun. That's the alternative. It's the alternative that has made modern society so comparatively wealthy; one day, we'll expand that philos...
[17:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:07] <exec> 08└─You may want to familiarise yourself with the concept of the "social contract" [wikipedia.org]
[17:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what your point is. Also, from what I can tell, that's a misnomer; it looks nothing like a contract. Nothing at all.
[17:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:12] <exec> 08└─Kudos to EU for not playing along in this stupid funny money charade.
[17:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:14] <exec> 08└─Also, you can't get funnier funding than extracting resources from people at the point of a gun.
[17:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:17] <exec> 08└─welfare state
[17:00:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:33] <exec> 08└─By comparison, cameras, LIDAR, and other obstacle detecting tech are relatively near sighted.
[17:00:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 1035 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:53] <exec> 08└─The early regulations on cars were a lot smarter than most folks living now give them credit for. They didn't really know how cars would interact because they didn't have cars to interact with horses and mules. They were also smart enough to realize that cars were likely to go faster as time went by...
[17:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:20] <exec> 08└─The video conclusively proves that the car was driving too fast for the conditions. Remember the 2 second rule: your speed must allow for the car to be able to stop within the distance covered in a period of 2 seconds + the average interval when the safety driver looks up from the cell phone.
[17:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:21] <exec> 08└─The message is, pedestrians need to learn to look for farking cars before walking into the road.
[17:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:23] <exec> 08└─The only thing I would change: 3) This was well known inside of Uber prior to the event and was ignored.
[17:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:26] <exec> 08└─Why was the driver not watching the road? And why is that okay? Even if there was no accident, this driver was driving distracted. In most states there is a fine for that and the driver should be prosecuted accordingly. In addition, if Uber told the driver to monitor some console or something like t...
[17:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:28] <exec> 08└─Well, about that inattentive driver . . . ultimately, completely autonomous vehicles are the goal. No one will need a driver's license. You can "drive" at any age. You can "drive" drunk. You can "drive" from one city to the next, while catching up on your sleep. DMV will be there to license vehicles...
[17:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:30] <exec> 08└─Yup, and not just an 'engineer': make it the CEO (Kirk is responsible for the actions of his crew). Put him in REAL prison (not the fancy executive prison), charged with manslaughter.
[17:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:33] <exec> 08└─Don't even get me started about how BMWs always have the right of way. Even other BMW drivers (and emergency vehicles) must yield to a BMW driver.
[17:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:35] <exec> 08└─This. Look at any review of dashcams. Cam sensors are not very good in low-light settings, they don't have the ability to image both the highlights (in this case, street and building lights) and shadows. The human eye is far better at this task. I am sure that the driver (and maybe other non-optical...
[17:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:37] <exec> 08└─If she looked at her phone with the frequency she was watching the road I would call that distracted babysitting She was looking at her phone so much babysitting the car was distracting her from what ever she was doing.
[17:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:40] <exec> 08└─She's fucking *paid* to do that because it's her fucking job. If she found it so boring she couldn't help playing with her cellphone or whatever, she should've changed job.
[17:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:42] <exec> 08└─It is illegal in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts to scare a pigeon.1 [boston.com] But judge! I can't help how my face looks!
[17:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:44] <exec> 08└─Cars hate it when you anthropomorphize them. Really, they do.
[17:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:47] <exec> 08└─However, as a pedestrian and cyclist, never a car driver
[17:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:49] <exec> 08└─Exactly. We're told that a human needs x seconds to react to threats whereas a microprocessor operates at GHz, i.e. billion ticks per second. Turns out it's meaningless marketing BS. Who would've thunk. But robo cars are the destiny of the mankind and must never be questioned. Too-big-to-fail, once...
[17:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:03] <exec> 08└─I can answer that. There are pros and cons. And I know because mine moved out. No kids left in big empty house. Pros of child: take out the trash! I probably don't have to go into the cons. Sometimes they make you proud. Other times, you stand behind them and support them anyway. Nothing like knowin...
[17:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─The density is steadily advancing and yet the price per GB has been flat for many years now.
[17:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:18] <exec> 08└─I don't have mod capes, amigo.
[17:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Horned Dinosaurs May Have Had Horns and Frills to Attract Mates - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:30] <exec> 08└─Porcupines are prickly. Consider porcupine mating. Very carefully. Male: Don't worry dear, you might get poked, but it's just a small prick. Mating partner: Yes, I know dear.
[17:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:56] <exec> 08└─What if I've never had and never will have a Facebook account? What if my only use of their WiFi is to SSH to a "droplet" or "linode" establishing a SOCKS proxy, and then web surfing through that encrypted connection?
[17:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:16] <exec> 08└─You are confused sir. Microsoft is not the only MS. There are TWO kinds of MS. Please try not to get them confused. 1. An affliction suffered by millions, which makes it difficult to do even the simplest tasks. 2. A medical condition. Please try to remember which is which.
[17:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Cloud Climbs to Top 5 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:31] <exec> 08└─Probably pricing increases toward target audience. Also, power is a major factor, and while China is not expensive for electricity, there are cheaper places on the planet.
[17:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:59] <exec> 08└─High pressure is a bogus argument.
[17:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:00] <exec> 08└─Imagine a conversation on some planet, discussing whether the life on some other planet is intelligent. Since we are a winged species with flight, it is clear, and all experts agree, that the development of flight is a prerequisite to the development of intelligence. Therefore none of the life on th...
[17:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:02] <exec> 08└─Use that as an analogy for whether you would recognize life or not.
[17:04:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 1076 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:17] <exec> 08└─Google is pretty much a fake company at this point itself, it claims to be a search engine but, outside purely tech topics, is increasingly a highly curated and mostly useless index more akin to the Yahoo! of old. YouTube is banning users at ever increasing frequency and more erratic by the day, wha...
[17:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:28] <exec> 08└─Look at the recent banning of firearm videos by YouTube. That is a policy which supports an agenda. Yes, and that agenda is to preserver $$ from advertisers who are increasingly nervous about being associated with guns. Google News also has an agenda. It's bad for the brand to put complete falsehood...
[17:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:51] <exec> 08└─1 in 5 deaths is infinitesimal? Did you eat lead paint chips or something?
[17:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:53] <exec> 08└─1 in 5 deaths is infinitesimal?
[17:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:55] <exec> 08└─Let us not forget that bullets are made out of lead. I'm sure they contribute to some deaths too.
[17:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:34] <exec> 08└─goes away
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[17:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:49] <exec> 08└─Watson will not have that problem. Watson will see what can be seen, and diagnose better than humans diagnose. As long as nobody programs Watson to discriminate or terminate, the future is bright. Who wants puny humans to have jobs, when you can rake in more cash by not having them ?
[17:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:50] <exec> 08└─Have you heard the one about the interrupting sheep?
[17:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:52] <exec> 08└─Are Radiologists the only ones affected by interruptions? With patients having bad outcomes. How about Software Developers affected by interruptions when they are not on SN? This has bad outcomes on unit tasting. Interruptions don't do anyone any good. They can be somewhat controlled. Have an office...
[17:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:55] <exec> 08└─An AI also creates jobs. For every 1000 jobs an AI eliminates, it will create 10 jobs for security people who protect the AI from those other 990 marching with torches and pitchforks.
[17:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:57] <exec> 08└─Only until the Terminator assembly lines are operational...
[17:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:00] <exec> 08└─I think we can fix the radiologists' problem with interruptions by putting them in open office plans. We should make them be more social. That's their problem. They're a bunch of anti-social dorks! Probably can't get laid either! They'll be more productive being packed in with other radiologists so...
[18:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:02] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, but conducting a study — or a series of studies — on a single specialisation who all do nearly identical tasks allows avoiding most biases that would cloud the results of a study on a more diverse group. Software developers for example perform different tasks even within the same tea...
[18:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:24] <exec> 08└─Let us remember that businesses require licenses to operate.
[18:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:25] <exec> 08└─Show me where I signed this alleged "social contract". Funny how so much changes for the worse when you insert the word, "social" as a prefix.
[18:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:28] <exec> 08└─Infrastructure only makes up a small part of these countries' spending.
[18:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:30] <exec> 08└─You're talking as if Apple didn't have lots of physical stores, or thousands of EU employees in the stores and in their Irish Tax-saving and engineering headquarters.
[18:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:32] <exec> 08└─Let us all shed a tear for the GAFA, forced at the point of a gun to conduct unprofitable business in countries with oppressive taxation...
[18:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:35] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I'm not a capitalist. I don't trust many companies. I owe no loyalty to any corporation. I only know what I see and hear. Apple is sitting on billions in liquid assets, that could be put to work, somehow. Even capitalists hate to see money sitting - they generally want to invest that money in...
[18:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:37] <exec> 08└─Firstly, it's not a very solid argument to say "Show me my signature" simply because people think that your heritage and your benefit from the existing system implies consent; when in Rome, you consent to doing as the Romans do. The real point remains: It's a fragile system of social organization wh...
[18:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:39] <exec> 08└─"Why do you rob banks?" "Because there's money in it."
[18:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:42] <exec> 08└─You really think that it makes sense to organization society around black-box, lump-sum, ad-hoc, largely arbitrary and capricious percentages? Why should Apple's success be a government's success? Why should this one particular organization in society (the one that calls itself "government") get a c...
[18:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:44] <exec> 08└─In any common law country, the requirement for a contract to be valid is evidence that will convince a court that a 'meeting of minds' has taken place. A signature has a lot of precedent that it should be interpreted as implying this, but it is certainly not the only way. For example, if you are pre...
[18:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:46] <exec> 08└─It appears you have little understanding of the "social contract" concept (despite the fact that much of our western society is based upon it). And yes, "social" seems to be a dirty word for many Americans. No "social" media for you then. Fine by me. Let's get rid of that pestilence called "Facebook...
[18:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:49] <exec> 08└─Why leave Microsoft out of this? MAGAF = Microsoft Apple Google Amazon Facebook use google as a verb. Are there other Big Tech companies that don't pay enough tacks? Somehow I doubt this is limited to GAFA or MAGAF.
[18:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:51] <exec> 08└─If that money actually exists, it's there because of dumb tax law. As to capitalism, the beauty of the system is that one doesn't have to pay lipservice to some sort of imaginary social morality or order in order to contribute to society.
[18:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:53] <exec> 08└─So right there, 60% of Apple's taxes would go to stuff that Apple doesn't use or make more expensive. 40% of 23.5% would be very close to 9.5%.
[18:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:56] <exec> 08└─simply because people think that your heritage and your benefit from the existing system implies consent
[18:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deeper Insight Into Viral Infections - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:04] <exec> 08└─I guess in this case, autism causes viral videos.
[18:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:15] <exec> 08└─LIDAR has nothing to do with 'visible'. The vehicle is clearly lacking if it can't see in the 'dark'. Airliners have TCAS. There is no reason not to supply other vehicles with the same type of technology. Every cel phone can have a transmitter. Ahhh, but the money shot was the driver's face. Worth a...
[18:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:16] <exec> 08└─And even if the woman was 100% at fault, that does not give a driver (computer or human) permission to run them down. I am willing to bet everyone that has ever driven a vehicle in a area of population more than 1 has had someone illegally cross or pull out in front of them. If the machine had react...
[18:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:18] <exec> 08└─*Thunk* 100 Points! Artistic Impression Bonus! "Whuuups, Sorrrey! What a Mess!" (Plays Carmageddon music) But using a computerized auto-driver? That's cheating. :P
[18:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:21] <exec> 08└─Please! I wish you people would just stop with all this mamby-pamby 'thoughts and prayers' 'respect for the family' bullshit. Fucking whiny SJW democrat snowflakes! The video is evidence. We have a right to see it.
[18:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:23] <exec> 08└─I don't see any reflectors or lights on the bike. See how well the retroreflective traffic sign lights up? Without reflectors you are practically invisible after dark.
[18:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:25] <exec> 08└─Most people looking for money would pick whoever has the deepest pockets. Probably the company who manufactured the car. Whoever sold it. Whoever owns the death machine. And whoever was in the car at the time. In that order.
[18:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:28] <exec> 08└─That's why they keep logs: 0100 All secure 0130 All secure 0200 All secure 0300 All secure *0310 Late entry: 0230 All secure 0330 All secure 0400 Properly relieved by SN Shmuckatelli. 0400 I, SN Shmuckatelli, have assumed the watch. 0410 Russian submarine sighted in Lake Baldwin. CDO notified.
[18:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:30] <exec> 08└─Regular headlights are aimed low. This is required by law. You are not allowed to blind the oncoming drivers. Vehicles are also required to have bright headlights. These are required to be aimed higher, for greater reach. These are to be used when there isn't oncoming traffic. Does the self-driving...
[18:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:32] <exec> 08└─I agree the video looks tampered with. But even if it isn't if the car is using cameras that are that bad it shouldn't be driving so fast much less speeding (going over the speed limit like it was). e.g. if your eyesight at night isn't that good you shouldn't be driving that fast. Another thing, the...
[18:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:35] <exec> 08└─If the vehicle behind is too close that's their problem. Or you slow down until they either pass or the stopping time becomes reasonable. Not really a hard problem to solve.
[18:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:37] <exec> 08└─Even if you have a 12 megapixel 15 degree FOV camera focused ahead, how much compute power does it take to process those images well enough
[18:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:39] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that retroreflective paint would be cheap if applied in bulk to all bicycles, but it isn't. An aftermarket treatment is absurdly expensive. It ought to be on the rims and spokes even. It ought to be on helmets and shoes. Cars also need it. Why can't I but a retroreflective car? None are sol...
[18:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:42] <exec> 08└─In California the pedestrian always has the right of way. They are however forbidden on freeways.
[18:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:44] <exec> 08└─The car is supposed to be using auxiliary sensors for object detection. This happened to be a woman wearing dark clothing, but what if it had been a dark piece of debris, or perhaps a tree branch? This don't typically have reflectors either. The car wasn't safe for road and now somebody's dead. The...
[18:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:46] <exec> 08└─in Boston even if you step off the curb and into the crosswalk, do not expect traffic to stop unless there is a red light. Maybe not even then.
[18:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:49] <exec> 08└─Where I am, pedestrians always have the right of way, whether it's at a marked crosswalk or not. It may be stupid of them to depend on that (as in this case), but they do have the right of way.
[18:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:51] <exec> 08└─3) Some sexist coder made the AI more likely to hit women. Hey it's Uber. Just sayin'
[18:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:53] <exec> 08└─You're an IDIOT, and a serious asshole. I'm not religious, so I don't have any prayers, but I think about others' feelings, unlike you obviously. And I sure would NOT like to see plastered over the news the death of a relative! Also, you have ZERO "right" to see this video, this is total B.S.
[18:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:56] <exec> 08└─Is it a corporate initiative? Cost will be minimized, corners will be cut, "good enough" will be a common phrase.
[18:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:12] <exec> 08└─The density is steadily advancing and yet the price per GB has been flat for many years now.
[18:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:23] <exec> 08└─What about the other way around?
[18:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:34] <exec> 08└─I don't like bias at all
[18:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:35] <exec> 08└─Speaking of personality disorders.....
[18:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twenty Years of cURL on March 20, 2018 - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:22] <exec> 08└─Go to the github links shown above today and notice that there has been no action from M$ part to fix the problem even now in 2018. Press refresh on your browser [imgur.com] and notice that the information still stands: no action has been taken from M$ to resolve the problem. It is your tactics whic...
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[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:47] <exec> 08└─My name is Bradley Manning and welcome to "Who wants to be the next kefir-prop for Al Qaeda's new beheading video?" Kapersky's on over drive ever since Eugene Kaspersky's family was taken hostage in Moscow.
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─It's good until it's used against Americans. Then it's bad?
[18:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:51] <exec> 08└─It's good until it's used against Americans. Then it's bad?
[18:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:53] <exec> 08└─It's good until it's used against Americans. Then it's bad?
[18:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:55] <exec> 08└─The officials apparently failed to realize that using malware might be detected by security researchers? Color me surprised...Military Intelligence just might be an oxymoron in this case. The part I find most objectionable is playing the 'our troops/assets in danger' card when caught red-handed.
[19:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:09] <exec> 08└─A first of its kind study shows... that as radiologists contend with an increasing number of workplace interruptions, they must either process fewer cases or work longer hours -- both of which have adverse effects... In radiology, there is a growing recognition that interruptions are bad
[19:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:11] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sounds silly, it sounds obvious. But some managers really like the open office plan. Perhaps a few studies would help.
[19:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:13] <exec> 08└─How about Software Developers affected by interruptions when they are not on SN? This has bad outcomes on unit tasting. Or, conversely, allowing work to interrupt you Soylenting!
[19:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:15] <exec> 08└─While it may sound silly to us here, the stated facts are still waaayyy above the heads of most corporate executives. Hey, peon! Stop blabbering about "impossible" ! Nothing, you hear, nothing, is impossible as long as other people have to do it! I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't be easy,...
[19:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:53] <exec> 08└─You talk as if that stuff were relevant. We already have income tax and VATs which pay for the respective activities.
[19:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:55] <exec> 08└─One: You didn't address the point. Two: Not everyone views their governments as an oppressive almost-foreign force. People regularly demonstrating in the European streets tend to demand that the government act in their (often narrow-minded) interest. European laws force companies to treat workers as...
[19:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:57] <exec> 08└─Musk has goals - Apple really has none.
[19:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:59] <exec> 08└─You talk as if some companies operating in a country should be exempted from paying the taxes that others do pay, just because ... ? Abolish the business tax, sure. You now need to raise the equivalent amount money: do you raise the sales tax, or the income tax ? First hits the poor, second is seen...
[19:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:01] <exec> 08└─Apple doesn't benefit from healthcare? They don't care if their employees are too sick to work? They don't care if their customers are too poor to buy fruitbadged-blinkenbobs because they've been bankrupted by illness? How much extra would they have to pay their staff for private pensions if the sta...
[19:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:04] <exec> 08└─I think a huge sign of the problem with the alleged social contract is that if people had the power to dispute the contract, they would do so in part or in total.
[19:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:06] <exec> 08└─All the EU need to do is make cross border, high interest, intra-company loans for the purposes of tax avoidance illegal. They could easily do this by making it unlawful to charge interest above commercial rates. Turnover taxes are retarded and will ultimately hinder the process of continual investm...
[19:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:08] <exec> 08└─"social contract" concept
[19:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:11] <exec> 08└─Apple doesn't benefit from healthcare?
[19:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:13] <exec> 08└─You talk as if some companies operating in a country should be exempted from paying the taxes that others do pay, just because ... ?
[19:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:15] <exec> 08└─Helps when you are able to help write that rule book (Tax Law). Here's a game: (easy rules) I win and you lose. See how easy it is to say that they are playing by the same rules as everyone else? If everyone could use the same rules they are or pay off a government (Ireland we are looking at you) to...
[19:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:17] <exec> 08└─And aside from the highways, costs the state very little. What does the enforcement of all those imaginary property laws they enjoy cost?
[19:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:20] <exec> 08└─"Fair share". Bleed the successful dry.
[19:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:22] <exec> 08└─Dang, it's almost as if I addressed the 0% in the next paragraph, and you ignored it in your response...
[19:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:24] <exec> 08└─Somehow I wonder if you were educated in public schools (even private schools use public money is some ways) or grew up on the streets with no education. I think perhaps you belong to the IGM group (I Got Mine). People who took from this social contract but then when it became time for them to share...
[19:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:27] <exec> 08└─Well it is khallow, he does not let facts interrupt his ideological narrative.
[19:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:29] <exec> 08└─when in Rome, you consent to are forced into doing as the Romans do.
[19:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:31] <exec> 08└─I guess you pumped your fist after writing that drivel.
[19:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:33] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot who benefits from social contracts every day. You can wish for utopia all you want but since you are incapable of comprehending basic human society you're gonna have a tough time of it.
[19:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:36] <exec> 08└─Point of interest, in your metaphor YOU are the tapeworm trying to feed off the larger body.
[19:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:13] <exec> 08└─If the vehicle behind is too close that's their problem.
[19:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:15] <exec> 08└─Also why was this car not programmed to obey the posted speed limit?
[19:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:17] <exec> 08└─Well screw you! I have every right see it, for whatever reason I want! You simply have NO right to deny me! You're just another snowflake who thinks you have a right to tell others what they can see and hear. Well you don't! You're just one of those weirdo 'concern' trolls. The B.S. is coming from y...
[19:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:19] <exec> 08└─How this got promoted up in in question. But im sorry being visible to the camera means nothing to being visible to LIDAR. The car either saw her, and disregarded it, or did not see her. Either way the car's hardware or software is at fault. There is NO FREAKING WAY that that video is representative...
[19:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:21] <exec> 08└─Diagonal crosswalks actually make sense. All cars get red lights, all pedestrians cross in desired direction. Then cars get their respective lights. It seems to me that this could be faster for both pedestrians and car drivers all around.
[19:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:24] <exec> 08└─You obviously haven't driven in the right kind of commuter traffic. There are times where it's impossible to keep everybody off your ass.
[19:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:26] <exec> 08└─Or if the sensors really were unable to detect further than a handful of feet, such as the video suggests, then why did the machine allow itself to out drive it's detection and stopping distance?
[19:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:28] <exec> 08└─That's probably why most people buy the kind that clip, stick or glue on and only cost a few dollars.
[19:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:59] <exec> 08└─This is the real reason for this research. It's a way to cut costs. That's all.
[19:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Horned Dinosaurs May Have Had Horns and Frills to Attract Mates - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:12] <exec> 08└─OTOH, unlike the peacock tails there is evidence that the ceratopsian horns were actually useful other than for sexual display purposes. Various parts of the armor have been found with sufficient healed scars to denote it's use as valid protection.
[19:04:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:51] <exec> 08└─The BBC noted it cost patients £30,000 ($42,000) to receive the experimental treatment
[19:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:44] <exec> 08└─From the summary it looked to me as if he was really arguing that they wouldn't be able to detect life via spectroscopic analysis of the atmosphere. And that seems plausible.
[19:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:38] <exec> 08└─+1 Cringe-sightful!
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[19:59:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:52] <exec> 08└─It's good until it's used against Americans. Then it's bad?
[19:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:56] <exec> 08└─The military thinks there is a thing called "cyber warfare" which is bullshit for "lets make viruses". Fucking scumbags in the US military and intelligence community. They ought to be hanged.
[19:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:58] <exec> 08└─Backdoors found - "bad", and quickly swept under the rug: compare with the brouhaha around Meltdown/Spectre. The parts providing them - still "good", even if for nothing apparent but more backdoors.
[19:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:00] <exec> 08└─... likely caused JSOC to abandon the operation and may have put the lives of soldiers fighting ISIS and Al Qaeda in danger.
[20:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:03] <exec> 08└─1) why do they admit that it was theirs, and describe the way they were using the virus? 2) was that program actually working? If you're gonna tell us, and tell the bad guys to be paranoid, should you be bragging that the thing was helping? 3) who's getting extradited for computer breaches inside a...
[20:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:05] <exec> 08└─1) why do they admit that it was theirs, and describe the way they were using the virus?
[20:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:07] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing it boils down to the code was blown,and now being detected by anti-virus signatures, Kaspersky Labs was responsible for that, and since there's an on-going smear campaign against Kaspersky Labs (for which the US has *still* to provide any real evidence), so they thought they might as we...
[20:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:09] <exec> 08└─APT malware is usually a different breed. Imagine that someone recreated all the functionality of metasploit from scratch and then wrote a modern Remote Access Tool but with the sort of care and attention to detail you'd see in the more advanced DOS viruses. Every string is encrypted and most of the...
[20:00:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 1388 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:19] <exec> 08└─Are Radiologists the only ones affected by interruptions? With patients having bad outcomes. How about Software Developers affected by interruptions when they are not on SN? This has bad outcomes on unit tasting. Interruptions don't do anyone any good. They can be somewhat controlled. Have an office...
[20:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:29] <exec> 08└─Baaah!!! No one believes in interrupting sheep anymore!
[20:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Is The Cost Of Interrupting A Radiologist? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:32] <exec> 08└─Pfft, if Watson is so good at that, why don't they just set *it* up to be interrupted and let the radiologist keep working?
[20:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:29] <exec> 08└─Also, the other AC's reply works just as well here, meaning you've not made any point.
[20:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:31] <exec> 08└─I was pretty sure he was a right of center American, so hearing him espouse an anti-capitalist view seems sort of... odd. Are the bodysnatchers here? Did gewg steal Runaway's password as a prank? Inquiring minds want to know!
[20:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:33] <exec> 08└─I think a huge sign of the problem with the alleged social contract is that if people had the power to dispute the contract, they would do so in part or in total.
[20:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that poor starving Apple …</sarcasm>
[20:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:38] <exec> 08└─For some mysterious reason, the "social contract" brings out the sanctimonious ad hominems. Your argument is crap. Come up with a better argument or GTFO.
[20:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:40] <exec> 08└─See here [soylentnews.org].
[20:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:42] <exec> 08└─See here [soylentnews.org].
[20:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:45] <exec> 08└─Ok, I disagree with that second paragraph. Abolish the business tax, sure. You now need to raise the equivalent amount money: do you raise the sales tax, or the income tax ? First hits the poor, second is seen as unfair and causes the rich to flee. Come on, it's so easy, you must have the answer tha...
[20:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:47] <exec> 08└─> > > > Let us all shed a tear for the GAFA, forced at the point of a gun to conduct unprofitable business in countries with oppressive taxation... > Also, the other AC's reply works just as well here, meaning you've not made any point. I'll translate for the dim-witted: Those companies want the pro...
[20:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:49] <exec> 08└─So somehow it is an ad hominem attack when you said you never signed a contract? I was pointing out the fallacy of your statement by showing that yes you did sign by accepting the "social contract" for your benefit. But you can always deflect instead of answer the statements. Your argument is crap a...
[20:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:51] <exec> 08└─Clearly, there is a dispute over who owes whom what. It's not enough just to say "Yeah, but you've got plenty!" Fuck you. That's not for you to decide unilaterally; if you want peace, you have to come to an agreement in advance of interaction.
[20:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:54] <exec> 08└─Why is there a dispute at all? It's because the reasoning behind the interaction between Apple and the State makes no sense; it's arbitrary and capricious, because the system is inherently arbitrary and capricious. Also, the "government" is making those arguments on behalf of millions of other peopl...
[20:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:56] <exec> 08└─I was pretty sure he was a right of center American, so hearing him espouse an anti-capitalist view seems sort of... odd.
[20:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:58] <exec> 08└─So somehow it is an ad hominem attack when you said you never signed a contract?
[20:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:43] <exec> 08└─You obviously haven't driven in the right kind of commuter traffic. There are times where it's impossible to keep everybody off your ass.
[20:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:45] <exec> 08└─When the first car(s) hit the road, they made someone walk in front of it carrying a flag.
[20:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:47] <exec> 08└─your speed must allow for the car to be able to stop within the distance covered in a period of 2 seconds + the average interval when the safety driver looks up from the cell phone.
[20:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:50] <exec> 08└─I watched the video and thought -- don't they have some form of radar? Night makes no difference. The woman was calmly crossing the road, not darting out suddenly. The car should have "seen" her immediately and from distance -- unless it war relying on the visible light video to make decisions. If t...
[20:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:52] <exec> 08└─The notion of crossing at a "crossing" is incredibly urban. There are millions of miles of rural roads for which no crossings exist.
[20:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:54] <exec> 08└─It leapt out in front of a big commercial truck in the oncoming traffic lane on a windy 2 lane highway (section where it was straight, thankfully), while I was doing 55mph. Couldn't swerve since there wasn't a shoulder and oncoming traffic, so I hit the brakes as much as I safely could without skidd...
[20:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:57] <exec> 08└─I lived in Vermont for a short time. Heard this: What do you call a MA driver? Masshole.
[20:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:59] <exec> 08└─It looks like video from a cheap dashcam.
[20:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:01] <exec> 08└─Imagine some [insert racial caricature of your choice] kid hopped up on [insert drug you despise] ran the lady over because he didn't see her. The CEO should get the same treatment under the law.
[20:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:04] <exec> 08└─That's probably why it's not illegal to cross when not at a crossing in so many countries. Imagine having to walk all those millions of miles. Just to obey the law!
[20:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Released of Fatal Uber - Pedestrian Accident, and More - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:06] <exec> 08└─Bull shit Runaway, I know you like to spout plenty of that, but this one is indefensible. Do you simply not realise that a driver is required by law to be able to stop vehicle in the safe road ahead of them AT ALL TIMES? If they do not have the visibility ahead, then they must slow down to the point...
[20:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:23] <exec> 08└─PMR appears to have hit a limit at ~1.5T/platter.
[20:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03memememe [3483] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:40] <exec> 08└─I'm not like the rest, me me me, I I I.
[20:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stem Cell Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (Results Disputed) - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:39] <exec> 08└─She's in her late 50s having had it since her teens or twenties. She still walks every day, even though she shuffles like an old lady and has for at least 20+ years. Sad part is only one of her kids really spends any time with her anymore and her husband spends a lot of time gone, leaving her unatte...
[20:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:53] <exec> 08└─> If you read Google News, you will notice that the news which appears on the main page is very much biased in favor of the liberal view. Are there many reputable "non-liberal" newspapers and can you recommend some? Most of the larger newspapers I know (NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, several E...
[20:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:55] <exec> 08└─As a lefty, I don't trust those because they aren't what you'd call "liberal" in any colloquial sense (perhaps classical) -- not when the use lies to get us into wars in recent and distant history. They're just tools of the oligarchy and by design, actively harm the interests of the populace in favo...
[20:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─Runaway, Runaway! What do you think philosophers do? Heraclitus says: οὐκ ἐμοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ λόγου ἀκούσαντας ὁμολογεῖν σοφόν ἐστιν ἓν πάντα εἶναι. So do not listen to me, listen to Parmenides of Elea. II Εἰ δ' ἄγ' ἐγ...
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[20:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Soft Robotic Fish (SoFi) Robot - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:50] <exec> 08└─I go fishing, I catch one of these..the only important question is how it tastes!
[20:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Soft Robotic Fish (SoFi) Robot - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:51] <exec> 08└─Like my shiny, plastic ass.
[20:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Soft Robotic Fish (SoFi) Robot - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:53] <exec> 08└─> a handler can steer it left or right, up and down, using a modified SNES controller. 2000 years from now, researchers will propose absurdly complex theories to elucidate the evolutionary benefit that drove schools of fish going up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-fast-jump-stop.
[20:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Soft Robotic Fish (SoFi) Robot - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:56] <exec> 08└─Needs more salt.
[21:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:15] <exec> 08└─Do we have to clear bug fixes with the government? Perhaps, only foreigners have because we are protected by the Constitution but they are not? We probably need licensed developers. The days of guerrilla programming are probably over.
[21:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:17] <exec> 08└─3) who's getting extradited for computer breaches inside a foreign sovereign state ?
[21:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:48] <exec> 08└─So you are confused? You brought yourself into the discussion by saying you never signed a contract. (not an ad hominem if you are the subject of the discussion) 1) I never said you were uneducated. Try reading it again. I was pointing out that "I suppose" as the only out for not feeling the contrac...
[21:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:50] <exec> 08└─Every multi-million-people human society has a government, and every government needs funding to operate. What's your proposition ? Peer-to-peer contracts enforced by the guy with the most henchmen?
[21:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:52] <exec> 08└─So you are confused?
[21:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:54] <exec> 08└─Every multi-million-people human society has a government, and every government needs funding to operate.
[21:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:56] <exec> 08└─And your posts almost never have a point, just screeching about taxes == theft and other capitalist apologia.
[21:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:59] <exec> 08└─We all have feelz. If health care really is impacting Apple, and I don't think it is, they can always pay for it themselves. Still going to be cheaper than having the EU or worse, the US pay for it.
[21:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:01] <exec> 08└─Why would I bother to follow a link to more of your stupidity? Your stance is inherently flawed, that you are unable to comprehend that only illustrates your ignorance and selfishness. To quote your role model, you "fail bigly."
[21:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:03] <exec> 08└─I respect Musk for SpaceX, Tesla is overvalued and underperforming while the hyperloop is crazy town.
[21:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─I think people pity what's left of Microsoft.
[21:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Making Hop Flavor Without Using Hops - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:34] <exec> 08└─Since you state "as someone who has done some brewing in my time" -- by saying "So I'm really not sure why this effort exists" you obviously have never been involved in the brewing industry. Maybe you should investigate the brewing process and the raw materials used with greater depth. If you did ,...
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[21:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT's Soft Robotic Fish (SoFi) Robot - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:58] <exec> 08└─So then the fish becomes a cat?
[21:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT's Soft Robotic Fish (SoFi) Robot - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:59] <exec> 08└─Almost, it becomes a catfish.
[22:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:21] <exec> 08└─...so, Kaspersky did its job, and the US Govt. is pissed about it? because getting hit by an AV is always going to be a risk if you're using malware as part of an espionage toolkit The real question is, what does it gain the govt to openly disclose the fact that they made Slingshot in the first plac...
[22:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kaspersky Lab Exposed U.S. Military "Slingshot" Malware - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:23] <exec> 08└─And sites expect us to stop using ad blockers??? Seriously though, I hadn't realized the MicroTik was Latvian based. Previously, I had just considered it a generic white-box router solution.
[22:00:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 920 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:50] <exec> 08└─That's kinda funny, actually. Of course it's aimed at GAFA, Microsoft, and a number of other international companies that are taking advantage of tax loopholes. But, that's cool. Make 'em pay. Apple, for instance, has been floating on more liquid funds than most nations can even dream about. Make th...
[22:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:03] <exec> 08└─>>Do I think it is OK to get benefits from society without compensating those providing those benefits appropriately to the value I think I receive from the benefits? "And I would answer, no, I don't think it would be ok." (I will discuss the rest of the statement later) So then by that reasoning, A...
[22:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:05] <exec> 08└─Right of center does not always equate for every issue. I met an old conservative who thought we should save the trees and got called a goddamn communist for telling his friend to not cut down some big old trees that weren't a problem. I don't recall runaway ever going full capitard and often he dec...
[22:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:07] <exec> 08└─Nope, all the facts show that socialized healthcare is superior in every way. Only if private doctors are outlawed would be there be a downside: the rich couldn't pay for higher priority, a situation that has me crying big old salty tears. You sir are a disingenuous hack with nothing better to do th...
[22:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:10] <exec> 08└─Wow, you're a bigger moron than anyone realized.
[22:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:12] <exec> 08└─Actually yes, humanity will only thrive once we get past this point of stupid competition mindset. You are no better than an animal who would hunt its food supply to extinction and then go belly up yourself. Society is the veneer that covers our animal nature but you would like that removed because...
[22:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:14] <exec> 08└─Competition within a Free Market is how people cooperate to find a sustainable way to organize society. No one knows what the shape of society should be at any given time; it's a shape that must be found continuously; it must emerge through evolution by variation and selection. In contrast, a govern...
[22:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:18] <exec> 08└─Do I think it is OK to get benefits from society without compensating those providing those benefits appropriately to the value I think I receive from the benefits?
[22:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:20] <exec> 08└─Why would I bother to follow a link to more of your stupidity?
[22:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Announces a 14 TB Helium-Filled PMR Hard Drive - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:34] <exec> 08└─Beyond that we will probably see MAMR or HAMR.
[22:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:31] <exec> 08└─...However, I won't discount the possibility they actually believe what they said (as dumb as it may be) - don't forget they are political creatures and the political games aren't conducive to a deep understanding of what "data mining" and "big data" and "artificial intelligence" actually mean...
[22:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Too Much Water to Support Life - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:39] <exec> 08└─more like, we don't know for sure that life can exist in this environment, and previous experiences with e.g. the Moon and Mars indicate that most environments do not support life.
[22:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Kills Over 400,000 People Per Year in the U.S. - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:37] <exec> 08└─It can lower one's IQ. We have no idea if it lowers intelligence because we currently have no provable way to measure it.
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[22:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Apple Building its Own MicroLED Displays for Eventual Use in Apple Watch and Other Products - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:50] <exec> 08└─Clearly, this is a waste of society's resources. The world would benefit more if Apple took the resources that are being squandered on this research, and instead gave those resources to the EU to spend on welfare for imported 3rd-world genital-cutting refugees and indebted states like Greece. Apple...
[22:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Building its Own MicroLED Displays for Eventual Use in Apple Watch and Other Products - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:51] <exec> 08└─has anybody seen a microLED in the wild? does handle ghosting/persistent pixels better than OLED does?
[22:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Building its Own MicroLED Displays for Eventual Use in Apple Watch and Other Products - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:54] <exec> 08└─They are holding out for the best patents, something that can be extended indefinitely through small modifications...
[23:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:17] <exec> 08└─If health care really is impacting Apple, and I don't think it is, they can always pay for it themselves. Still going to be cheaper than having the EU or worse, the US pay for it.
[23:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:19] <exec> 08└─Actually yes, humanity will only thrive once we get past this point of stupid competition mindset.
[23:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Prepares Additional Taxes for Tech Giants - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:22] <exec> 08└─Notice the use of the phrase "or worse".
[23:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commonwealth Games Wifi Service Will Mine Visitors' Facebook Data - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:33] <exec> 08└─If significant people did the latter
[23:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges $300 Million for "Google News Initiative" to Fight Fake News - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:11] <exec> 08└─The agenda is $$, why do you hate capitalism?
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[23:59:49] <exec> 08└─Who needs tariffs, when you've got fearmongering ?
[23:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Best Buy to Stop Selling Huawei Products - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:50] <exec> 08└─Who needs tariffs, when you've got fearmongering ?