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[00:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:28] <exec> 08└─Mr Koch likes the ice in his drinks to be certified at a million years old. We gotta melt a lot of more recent snow to get down to those layers, boy.
[00:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:30] <exec> 08└─He deserves it too, what with all the work he is doing to Make America Great Again™.
[00:35:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:39] <exec> 08└─striving towards a competitive and open gaming platform
[00:35:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, Civ VI has been released on Linux. As well as the recent expansion and all DLC. If you own it on steam, you have access to it. In the case of Civilization, a 3rd party company, Aspyr, has done all the porting. Admittedly, the Linux versions did not come out the same day as the windows vers...
[00:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:46] <exec> 08└─Having said that, by its very nature, their efforts are striving towards delivering proprietary products
[00:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:49] <exec> 08└─Patreon, Kickstarter? Probably wouldn't really work for a huge budget AAA game, but those usually suck anyway. The main problem is, the development would have to be fairly in the open, and that tends to do Bad Things to the development process. Any change, however minor, would have enormous backlash...
[00:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Thermodynamics and Chloroform - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:01] <exec> 08└─I am a physicist, but I'm also a zillion years separated from my grad school days, so take this for what it's worth. My impression from the summaries is that the magnetic field just sets up a stable system. Energy aka "heat" flows from the hot to the cold quantum thingamabob because a "lot" of quant...
[00:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Thermodynamics and Chloroform - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why this was marked as funny, because it was effectively the same argument I was going to say. I am not a physicists, and I don't know the details of the experiment. However, on the surface, this sounds as silly as saying: "I know the perfect way to rig the stock market. I can buy any s...
[00:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Thermodynamics and Chloroform - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe Maxwell's Demon [soylentnews.org] would be kind enough to stop by this thread and help us out?
[00:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:59] <exec> 08└─CRISPR appears to be a powerful tool, and when used with care for caution for good purposes it can be helpful. It is not essential.
[00:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hamsterdan [2829] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Finds Unauthorized Use of "Stingrays" (IMSI Catchers) in Washington, D.C. - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:49] <exec> 08└─They find that stuff they used against every citizen funding for their toys is now used against them? my pity meter is probably broken, it doesn't measure anything. I know about the ones they found in Ottawa, serves them right too. I can't wait for that stuff to get affordable for us :)
[00:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:57] <exec> 08└─32 lawsuits filed [arstechnica.com]. I hope the content is made public, it will be fun seeing how Intel tries to squirm out of it.
[00:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:58] <exec> 08└─That is not a bad idea. Most of that series of CPU line and computers were fairly bad in power usage. You are talking the end of XP and VISTA style computers here. The OS on them is probably wildly out of date already except for anyone who converted them to linux.
[00:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:07] <exec> 08└─It wasn't for China, but then it was. It was for the US, but then it wasn't.
[00:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:09] <exec> 08└─There are offpeak tariffs on gas? I know electrical power in Australia used to cost next to nothing if it was drawn from the offpeak circuit, though its not as cheap these days due to solar taking over peak demand and reducing surplus generation.
[00:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:11] <exec> 08└─After the Civil War, southern states passed a bunch of laws to restrict black people. Sometimes the laws explicitly targeted them, while other times the targeting was less accurate, based instead on things like property ownership and reading tests. For example, there was a law passed that prohibited...
[00:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:13] <exec> 08└─There is no real reason why any crop needs to be pollinated in order to bear fruit. It's just a genetic problem that our crops inherited from undomesticated ancestors. You could even say the same of cows, which currently won't produce milk without giving birth first. We could fix that too. We could...
[00:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:15] <exec> 08└─Lead pipes are a local issue, not a state issue. Flint has been run by democrats for decades. Neighboring cities replaced lead pipes at their own expense; why should Flint get this for free while those neighboring cities don't get reimbursed? The fact that a state-level republican was forced to appo...
[00:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, Calif., Victims Taken to Hospital - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:07] <exec> 08└─Same here.
[00:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, Calif., Victims Taken to Hospital - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:08] <exec> 08└─Shooting shit up in public space/schools is "everyday bullshit" in America. That's the fucking problem, you numbnut.
[00:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, Calif., Victims Taken to Hospital - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:10] <exec> 08└─You forgot the time honored tradition of fireworks and blowing shit up. Everything covered so far, still doesn't cover half of the events in the Redneck Olympics (which is the only Olympics I follow).
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[01:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adaptive Infrared-Reflecting Systems Inspired by Squid Skin - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:20] <exec> 08└─When reading the summary I first thought of home heating / cooling. It would be nice if the material could be transparent also; then in summer my windows could reflect heat and in winter let it through. But jjst applying to the roof of my house would make a big difference.
[01:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:30] <exec> 08└─So 22 % are faster than 25 m per year. How many are slower? I guess they don't say, because it would be less alarming.
[01:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:46] <exec> 08└─by its very nature, their efforts are striving towards delivering proprietary products
[01:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:48] <exec> 08└─I backed Underworld Ascendant [wikipedia.org] on Kickstarter. Looks like they are making a decent game for no more than a million dollars in crowdfunding. Kingdom Come: Deliverance [wikipedia.org] initially raised over £1 million, about 30% of their game's budget, but they were only asking for £30...
[01:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:50] <exec> 08└─Steam does not require DRM for games, however most opt for DRM. Below is a list of DRM-free games available through Steam. It is the developers who decide to include DRM. http://steam.wikia.com [wikia.com] I consider Steam's DRM/distribution platform reasonable. Consideri...
[01:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03magamo [3037] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:59] <exec> 08└─The results have been validated by several labs across the world already. Toss a search for CRISPR in PubMed. In fact, I'll do it for ya! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] I wonder how many of the 8,785 results effectively debunk this one erroneous study?
[01:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:58] <exec> 08└─While a noble idea in practice no one will care. Most people do not have a fab. Unlike open source code anyone with a computer can look and build it. CPUs not so much. Do you really think you can noodle out billions of traces and figure out what they do? You may be able to work out some bits here an...
[01:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:00] <exec> 08└─it will be fun seeing how Intel tries to squirm out of it Yeah it is so 'fun' to watch people squirm over something that pretty much affects everyone in the world. Making them squirm will fix everything! Lets put itching powder in their shorts too that way they can squirm MORE!!!!
[01:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, Calif., Victims Taken to Hospital - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:07] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. Whether a gun is involved in a murder is irrelevant. The key word there is murder, dipshit, and we're nowhere near the top of the list in murder rates.
[01:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, Calif., Victims Taken to Hospital - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:08] <exec> 08└─Name another country where random shoot-up/carve-up/bomb-out what-have-you killing buncha people happen on weekly base. "Nowhere near the top of the list?" Let's give ourselves a medal then. Dumbass.
[01:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, Calif., Victims Taken to Hospital - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you and a team of shrinks have ruled out any possible influence of this broad's religion on her actions. Derp-a-derp!
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[02:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:19] <exec> 08└─I think it would be richly deserved. Anyone who wonders why many people in the world dislike Jews need only look at how Zuckerberg behaves.
[02:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:20] <exec> 08└─In other countries that value the privacy more, FB needs to adjust its data protection at least to the level of the minimum compliance. What more privacy protection? Asks for better laws.
[02:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:22] <exec> 08└─> So perhaps Facebook isn't comfortable about giving North American users that kind of autonomy to revoke specific consents at will. Yeah, Facebook isn't comfortable about giving any users that kind of autonomy. That's why we need a fucking LAW to force them to do it. > There’s no way to sugarcoat...
[02:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:25] <exec> 08└─I deleted my facebook account over 10 years ago. As soon as they implemented algorithms to profile you based on your friends even if you never posted anything. (Right before they started sharing data back and forth with apps like Spotify.) My router blocks anything with the keyword facbook, or fcbkc...
[02:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:27] <exec> 08└─Modded troll. And, probably deserved. We can't deny that some of our users - anon or otherwise - have an unreasonable fear/hatred of Jews. On the other hand, AC makes a valid point. We all represent some group or another. Most of us are representatives of multiple groups. If you served in the milita...
[02:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:29] <exec> 08└─I forgot about FB likes on other sites. Do they still have those? I certainly never see them, but all I do is block third party scripts. I can visit FB, and view friend's and relative's pages. I can view videos, photos, and whatever else, if I choose to do so. But I don't see FB on other sites. No "...
[02:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:32] <exec> 08└─Asks for better laws. While this is true, it would be nice if we didn't have to put a gun to a guy's head to get him to show some respect. It only shows that we really aren't more advanced than the animals if this is what it takes to get people to behave
[02:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:34] <exec> 08└─Bad news: if your friends and family use Facebook, they have all that data anyway -- the real data, not the fake one. Those saboteurs will still keep tagging you in photos, talking about you, mentioning that it's your birthday, discussing your cat, reminiscing how great that party you held at your o...
[02:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:51] <exec> 08└─88% - x, where x is the percentage that are exactly 25m/yr, within appropriate tolerances for their measurement methods, which we can conventionally generalize to 0 (as it surely would be were the measurements sufficiently precise.) So ~88%, give or take a few fractions. Actually sounds reassuring,...
[02:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:52] <exec> 08└─sorry, 78%, obviously.
[02:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:54] <exec> 08└─Good point. I still count this story as evidence that climate researchers try to spin every story for maximum fear factor. The data itself seems rather blah.
[02:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:56] <exec> 08└─NOAA pulling license for this satellite in 3...2... oh, it's an ESA satellite? sad! so sad!
[02:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:25] <exec> 08└─it is being observed that humans' variance with regard to intelligence is almost entirely a matter of nature (not nurture)
[02:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:27] <exec> 08└─You can't make a person taller by putting him on a basketball team.
[02:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Hack a Voting Machine? Hack the Voting Machine Vendor First - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:39] <exec> 08└─You might want to read https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[02:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:42] <exec> 08└─This is a laughable retelling of the facts.
[02:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:43] <exec> 08└─Citation needed
[02:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:45] <exec> 08└─The companies get to hide behind “nothing is wrong” and that is cheap compared to the independent attempts to show that there is something going wrong in the environment.
[02:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Active Shooter at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, Calif., Victims Taken to Hospital - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:44] <exec> 08└─Most all of them of any significant size. When your nation isn't even as big as most of our states, you kind of expect that it's going to have less gross crimes of any variety.
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[03:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:32] <exec> 08└─Only minorities get picked on like that. A*holes like Kalanick or Shkreli get to be a*holes without becoming representatives of their tribe.
[03:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:34] <exec> 08└─Because I am a snake. And you lot are idiots.
[03:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:36] <exec> 08└─Its a melting pot for most white people, not so much everyone else. That is changing I might add.
[03:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:38] <exec> 08└─I disagree. If I go somewhere, and target a black person to treat like shit, that black person may or may not put up with my shit for awhile. But, eventually, he'll respond with comments that include words like cracker, honkey, lily-white, etc. No matter whether you are minority or majority, you rep...
[03:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:40] <exec> 08└─It appears that all the info from most of the users is stolen by "malicious actors" (no doubt by the President Putin himself) using their search tools https://www.washingtonpost.com
[03:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:42] <exec> 08└─I don't use friendface, but I know that Canadian privacy laws forced them to allow complete deletion of accounts. They only comply because they don't want fines or the cushy executive prison: if not for that, they'd fuck you even harder.
[03:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:45] <exec> 08└─While this is true, it would be nice if we didn't have to put a gun to a guy's head to get him to show some respect. It only shows that we really aren't more advanced than the animals if this is what it takes to get people to behave
[03:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:23] <exec> 08└─Debating whether to shelve Star Citizen as vaporware at this point.
[03:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broad Dynamic Range for "Atomically Thin" Vibrating Transducers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:51] <exec> 08└─Unless you are a bot, that is, in which case it may
[03:37:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06FDA Orders Mandatory Recall of Triangle Pharmanaturals Kratom Products - 4503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:04] <exec> 08└─And look what the lack of cooperation has lead us to. It may very well be that the product had samonella in it. Ground flour can, eggs can, bagged spinach, raw milk... many more products have sickened people and even killed them as a result of improper storage of a perishable food or non-existant sa...
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:38] <exec> 08└─Now now, be charitable. The study said that the errors are often overlooked, and how many of those 8785 studies were looking for specific effects instead of errors? Not saying that the outlier is right, I am saying that the specific criticisms they raised should be checked by some labs that have not...
[03:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:56] <exec> 08└─Government isn’t for profit. It has faults. But this is where regulations keep the powerful in check. And companies need oversight. Or we get issues like Facebook is an example of currently
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[03:40:58] <exec> 08└─Citation needed
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[03:41:00] <exec> 08└─So why is this supposed to be a winning strategy? Keeps shareholders at bay. Nothing like a non-voter. “It didn't work for them and the cost of proving so was pretty cheap (basically a few thousand dollars for water testing and talking with local papers).” Pretty cheap? We will see after the mid...
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[03:41:02] <exec> 08└─There is no real reason why any crop needs to be pollinated in order to bear fruit. It's just a genetic problem that our crops inherited from undomesticated ancestors.
[03:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:04] <exec> 08└─Keeps shareholders at bay. Nothing like a non-voter.
[03:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:07] <exec> 08└─“They don't similarly keep governments in check. Government accounting is a notorious example. Private businesses have to report long term liabilities. Governments don't.” You want to avoid short-term. Private business reports quarterly. Government agents report every 2-6 yrs. You lost.
[03:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:09] <exec> 08└─“Shareholders have nothing to do with with environmental regulation or climate change research, for example.” So when I invest in your company I shouldn’t look at any flaws. Especially not those you can’t address via fud.
[03:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:11] <exec> 08└─Neighboring cities replaced lead pipes at their own expense; why should Flint get this for free while those neighboring cities don't get reimbursed?
[03:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:13] <exec> 08└─So when I invest in your company I shouldn’t look at any flaws. Especially not those you can’t address via fud.
[03:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:16] <exec> 08└─Long term liabilities are longer term than the next quarter. They can be decades in the future such as pension fund liabilities. You want to avoid short-term.
[03:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:18] <exec> 08└─What is "it"? Certainly isn't global trade.
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[04:35:40] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is simple 'talking chimps economics'. While it's perfectly natural, it's not particularly human. The concept deserves no special attention or explanation. Everything about it is totally self evident. All I know is that we will make no further progress until we can show respect without bei...
[04:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:41] <exec> 08└─:-) Yeah, well, Protestants are probably the biggest cause of global conflict right now. Catholics and Jews are really the only ones that have their shit together. Public Relations is the only thing that keeps them from doing the right thing and finishing the job to gain independence from England. F...
[04:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:44] <exec> 08└─Because I am a snake. And you lot are idiots dumb fucks.
[04:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adaptive Infrared-Reflecting Systems Inspired by Squid Skin - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:52] <exec> 08└─“Potential uses include better camouflage for troops and insulation for spacecraft, storage containers, emergency shelters, clinical care, and building heating and cooling systems.” Of course the military use came first in the list.
[04:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Thermodynamics and Chloroform - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:40] <exec> 08└─If the total entropy suddenly decreased in a regular, uncorrelated system, it would violate the second law. But here, the researchers take the correlation into account.
[04:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Broad Dynamic Range for "Atomically Thin" Vibrating Transducers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:54] <exec> 08└─99% of people who aren't dorks don't know that.
[04:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:10] <exec> 08└─Humorous since I never claimed that. The downfall of a fascist society is failure to monitor shareholders. They MUST be the only monitors. But Eventually you get one of thereddest states in the union seeing grassroots movements for better pay. Wait. Thought all boats were lifted. I will leave it to...
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[04:41:12] <exec> 08└─The earlier post was The companies get to hide behind “nothing is wrong” and that is cheap compared to the independent attempts to show that there is something going wrong in the environment.
[04:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:14] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah. I forgot. In your world view scams are brought out only via government employees. Not corporate shareholders (never ever). We can trust one subset of humans entirely and we can never trust the latter.
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[05:35:21] <exec> 08└─Good ideas, non-starter unless we are willing to pay. First Law of the Internet, if you aren't paying for the service it is because you are the product. If Facebook and the others can't monitize the users and ads are becoming outright hostile and unprofitable, we would have to be willing to pay for...
[05:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:23] <exec> 08└─Put this in your hosts file: 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com If you don't know what a hosts file is, ask someone who's really into computers.
[05:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:25] <exec> 08└─For me it would be sufficient if I could use bitcoin and a one-time-use email address.
[05:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:27] <exec> 08└─New business model? Not at all. We already cripple technology to protect special interests... This is just another example. And it is absurd. Besides, what could be better than drowning the opposition in endless paperwork? Let's not just record all the data. Let's bury 'em in it. Clog the pipes!
[05:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:29] <exec> 08└─Good ideas, non-starter unless we are willing to pay.
[05:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:00] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is simple 'talking chimps economics'. While it's perfectly natural, it's not particularly human. The concept deserves no special attention or explanation. Everything about it is totally self evident.
[05:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:02] <exec> 08└─If I were to start dumping on Catholics, I could expect responses about how stupid Protestants are.
[05:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:04] <exec> 08└─perhaps North American users should get off their fat asses and push for them.
[05:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Orders Mandatory Recall of Triangle Pharmanaturals Kratom Products - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:30] <exec> 08└─Wow, quite some skin in this game havnt you.. Let me give you a little perspective perhaps. Of course, the FACT that people are taking Kratom WITH opiates (often illegally sourced..) as a 'lifestyle'm thinking this makes them immune to addiction couldnt be the reason. The FACT that sellers are claim...
[05:39:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 632 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:35] <exec> 08└─In 2008 the thought of using a CPU from 1997-2001 for anything other than nostalgia's sake was absurd. But the rate of performance improvements from 2007 to now are entirely different - you could probably get another five years out of that Core 2 Quad as your main desktop CPU. I have a desktop colle...
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[05:40:04] <exec> 08└─It used to be that Intel and AMD would have to wait for Microsoft to break things and slow things down before users would consider "upgrading". Well, now they have got their hardware aboard the security upgrade train. This is what we will be looking forward to in the future. Throw out old hardware b...
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[06:35:31] <exec> 08└─The robust way to do that, the way that can't be set aside at the whim of a government, is to require systems to be built so as not to collect data about a person. The basic principle is that a system must be designed not to collect certain data, if its basic function can be carried out without that...
[06:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:32] <exec> 08└─Compare the revenue streams per user. Big tech wants to waste Sagans on huge server farms to make up for the inefficiency of the code produced by their overpaid, incompetent but oh so "diverse" freak show workforce in some of the most expensive zip codes outside of Capital City itself. Then all the...
[06:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:34] <exec> 08└─The basic principle is that a system must be designed not to collect certain data, if its basic function can be carried out without that data.
[06:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:37] <exec> 08└─Compare the revenue streams per user. Big tech wants to waste Sagans...
[06:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:39] <exec> 08└─Really? Soviet Union? Soviet Union had very little surveillance in comparison to what Facebook is doing, or what lots of police-backed governments are doing in places like London and others. The comparison between the two is like comparing logistics systems today to that of the Roman Empire. I propo...
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[06:35:41] <exec> 08└─Really? Soviet Union? Soviet Union had very little surveillance in comparison to what Facebook is doing, or what lots of police-backed governments are doing in places like London and others.
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[06:35:43] <exec> 08└─/etc/hosts file is too inefficient and does not scale to the size needed in these cases. You have a Macintosh, presumably with OS X and not GNU/Linux. If it is OS X, then you have PF and can set up a table to block packets to and from Faecebook's networks. Look it up in the WHOIS database and then c...
[06:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe that is because it is not actually a service, much like jmorris posts. What corporations are doing is shorting their customer base, speculating on future purchases and future profits, which they then bundle as sell as derivatives. Of course, at some point, someone, not jumorris, will realize t...
[06:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:19] <exec> 08└─Many (conservative and libertarian USians) will totally disagree with you. Gee, ya think? (Sorry) They don't want to be compared to monkeys. But despite their claim of eminent brilliance, that's all the system is. Nothing has changed over the millions of years except the complexity of growing to sca...
[06:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:20] <exec> 08└─This is true. I want to make sure there is a powerful rich ruling class that has all the capital and thus all the power. I identify with this class, because all those low life poor people are just scum. I don't want to be around them. One day I'll be part of that upper class. They'll let me in and I...
[06:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:23] <exec> 08└─they don't want fines or the cushy executive prison: if not for that, they'd fuck you even harder.
[06:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:25] <exec> 08└─You can only block them by blocking facebook with things like NoScript. As long as that script executes, you are fucked. They and Google trojaned the Internet.
[06:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:27] <exec> 08└─It's a simple consequence of not treating people as individuals.
[06:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:49] <exec> 08└─Who the hell gets a fuck on what you count? You're an AC
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[06:36:50] <exec> 08└─People who get my point? Obviously, your neural circuits don't have that capability yet.
[06:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:59] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah. I forgot. In your world view scams are brought out only via government employees. Not corporate shareholders (never ever). We can trust one subset of humans entirely and we can never trust the latter.
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[07:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Says Scraping Websites and Creating Fake Profiles Can be Protected by the First Amendment - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:21] <exec> 08└─Ambulance chasers are now supplemented by computer chasers, so the actual legislation is buried by the search engines. However, some jurisdictions also add an additional felony for having used a computer to commit another crime. Places like Colorado or Michigan, to name two, have very broad laws in...
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[07:35:23] <exec> 08└─So, hacking a victim using an IoT-enabled-axe will increase the penalty? Daaam!... and this company was offering such a big discount for the tool and services, and now I need to drop my plans to upgrade my old axe. (grin)
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[07:35:43] <exec> 08└─No, they said: "You don't know how lucky you are, boy, BACK in the USSR!" British Blokes, IIRC.
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[07:35:45] <exec> 08└─Good ideas, non-starter unless we are willing to pay.
[07:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:47] <exec> 08└─But the basic function of Facebook is to collect such data to facilitate ads! Any website that has AdWords is collecting such data by-proxy.
[07:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:49] <exec> 08└─Federated services already exist as replacements for Facebook (eg. Diaspora), Twitter (eg. Mastodon) etc... All that is really needed is political will. If/when there's political will, then ISPs can can charge extra for Facebook-equivalent, Twitter-equivalent etc... and without destroying net neutra...
[07:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Search for Debris Disks Around Stars - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:57] <exec> 08└─for now, it's too expensive to use AI and robots to clean the litter on the streets.
[07:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used to Search for Debris Disks Around Stars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:59] <exec> 08└─How about searching for SD card debris amongst the stars? (Hard disks are unlikely to survive well in outer space).
[07:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:15] <exec> 08└─Steam DRM and being open does not have to be opposites. Games are entertainment. They are an alternative to going to the opera (not the browser). Having access to use your tools for whatever purpose you need is important. Those making the tools should not get to tell you what purpose you can use the...
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[07:42:04] <exec> 08└─Sorry to break it to you [tradingeconomics.com]...
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[08:35:15] <exec> 08└─So, is there actually new science behind it, or is it some optics trick they applied? This fires my "too good to be true" senses, especially when I see the targetted advertisement application for this (although it would be very beneficial for the tech to be applied at large). The traffic example is...
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[08:35:17] <exec> 08└─So 17 year olds will walk around in public seeing pretty pictures and cartoon ads. The minute they turn 18 all the displays will turn to porn-based ads. The latest iPhone being held between a pair of breasts. Afterall, ads would no longer be public so public decency laws will no longer apply. I can'...
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[08:35:19] <exec> 08└─I was thinking along the lines of office pranks... the boss thinks he's seeing a spreadsheet, everyone else in the room sees porn on his screen. Now, after the cat is let out of the bag, everyone in the room now has a plausible excuse for viewing porn on company machines.
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[08:35:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, this offends liberals, guess we gotta abolish this amendment too!
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[08:35:31] <exec> 08└─Probably. I expect to see the laws abused in that way, based on how other laws like the CFAA have been abused. But you don't need a new axe anyway. I still have my great grandfather's axe and it works fine. It's been through a bunch of handles and two heads but is still working like new.
[08:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:55] <exec> 08└─then ISPs can can charge extra for Facebook-equivalent, Twitter-equivalent etc... and without destroying net neutrality.
[08:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:37] <exec> 08└─You can add the EFF's Privacy Badger [eff.org] extension to your browser. It will zap the Faecebook buttons and prevent them and their scripts from calling home. You can also block Faecebook at the firewall on your own computer as an extra precaution. You just need the ASN. host www.facebook.com w...
[08:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Finds Unauthorized Use of "Stingrays" (IMSI Catchers) in Washington, D.C. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:28] <exec> 08└─That would be beautiful.
[08:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FirstEnergy Solutions' Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, & Public Officials - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:14] <exec> 08└─In the context of people, decisions in politics are usually made by feelings, modified by science, which creates the "reality" we live in. In this case, I'm pointing out two ends of the spectrum, feelings and science. By definition they aren't equal, and in this case can be looked at as opposite s...
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[09:35:25] <exec> 08└─Its gonna be fun designing the drivers for this... both electronic and software. The bandwidth, especially if motion is involved, is going to be through the roof. I do wonder though if they can make it bidirectional, or use as a camera, to make the proverbial all seeing eye.
[09:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:27] <exec> 08└─Could this be used to make 3D displays that are flat in form factor? This might only work for a few sweet spots/angles but could be good enough if there are enough angles.
[09:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:29] <exec> 08└─And now, we have fake reality, what an age we live in! Roll your Will Save to disbelieve reality!
[09:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:31] <exec> 08└─On one hand, this tech would enable perfect invisibility cloaks. On another hand, i would have to see it to believe it, so...
[09:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:33] <exec> 08└─So it's a hologrammic display instead of holographic.
[09:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:11] <exec> 08└─I am aiming to troll a bit here, but... If RMS were a good fighter he would know that you break the enemy not by opposition with a weaker force, but by making it crash in the direction he is going. The system uses surveillance? MAKE EVERYTHING FUCKING PUBLIC. NO PRIVACY, STARTING FROM THE MOST POWER...
[09:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:54] <exec> 08└─The Shadow Profile will hunt you until the day you die.
[09:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:56] <exec> 08└─Papers don't get retracted for disagreeing with established science, but when it turns out they shouldn't have been published, such as for issues with methodology or integrity, or in this case, unfounded assumptions. From the retraction announcement: Since publication of the work, however, it has be...
[09:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a good time to not buy new computers.
[09:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:02] <exec> 08└─They knew perfectly well what they did. And they did not care. This is fraud. Thus they should suffer.
[09:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:04] <exec> 08└─Technologically there's a long way to go. We don't have an AI as smart as a crow with a brain the size of walnut and a relatively low power consumption. Even some insects may still be smarter than our AIs in many ways: https://www.pbs.org
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[10:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:19] <exec> 08└─What a prettily dressed-up world view. Here's what's really happening. "People don't actually talk that way," Zhou said. Instead, he notes, when most people are on the phone or chatting in person, they are both talking and not listening at the same time – often finishing the other person's sentenc...
[10:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:21] <exec> 08└─Anything to pass the dumb Turing "test".
[10:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:36] <exec> 08└─Judges 16:21?
[10:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:37] <exec> 08└─Juries 4:20!
[10:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:13] <exec> 08└─RMS talks about the GDPR. His complaint is that it relates to processing of information, not collection. He would like to prevent companies from collecting information in the first place. For once, I agree with him. The easiest way to prevent power from being abused is to prevent power from being co...
[10:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:15] <exec> 08└─I think what's really needed is a well-funded non-profit to offer hosted services using a well-documented protocol that supports federation. As with email, I want to be able to run my own server, but I also want people that don't want to run their own server to be able to just pay someone else to do...
[10:36:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:31] <exec> 08└─In other countries that value the privacy more, FB needs to adjust its data protection at least to the level of the minimum compliance. What more privacy protection? Asks for better laws.
[10:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:59] <exec> 08└─Or find another product, or opt-out. If you are looking to buy a car and you find that one card is missing some key safety features you think you need, you have the choice not to buy it, perhaps find another brand, or find another mode of transport altogether.
[10:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Thermodynamics and Chloroform - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:59] <exec> 08└─Time is spatial dimension in the axis of your light-speed movement. See relativity. Our notion of "passage of time" is actually a memory, a history if you will. For systems which can't collect history, time is not a thing. And regarding increase of entropy as definition of time arrow, unless there i...
[10:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Broad Dynamic Range for "Atomically Thin" Vibrating Transducers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:14] <exec> 08└─Very high resolution medical ultrasound imagery.
[10:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Orders Mandatory Recall of Triangle Pharmanaturals Kratom Products - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:30] <exec> 08└─Of course, the FACT that people are taking Kratom WITH opiates (often illegally sourced..) as a 'lifestyle'm thinking this makes them immune to addiction couldnt be the reason. The FACT that sellers are claiming medical effects without the required evidence couldnt be the reason.
[10:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Orders Mandatory Recall of Triangle Pharmanaturals Kratom Products - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:32] <exec> 08└─Face it, Kratom is NOT a good thing for society as a whole
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[11:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:22] <exec> 08└─When people hear "Appalachia," stereotypes and even slurs often immediately jump to mind, words like "backwards," "ignorant," "hillbilly" or "yokel."
[11:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they targeted the wrong group. The Amish already has a system for all of this. They take a new piece of tech and let a few people explore how it works and how it fits into their life. Then they explore the pros and cons of the tech and how it changes those people's daily lives. Finally t...
[11:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:25] <exec> 08└─More is not always better.
[11:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it doesn't speak to national reality so much as to the extremely urban, largely west coast prejudices of the people doing the study. They genuinely do not understand that most people in the nation do not live either in major cities or on the west coast. For that matter, people who do live in m...
[11:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:30] <exec> 08└─That would have given a much shorter study, with fewer "the stereotypes* are wrong, maybe we can learn from the hicks!" statements. *the author of the summary is likely a well-meaning, academic, and we all know how lost, and out-of-touch *they* are!
[11:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the rant, but you obviously don't know what I was talking about nor did you click the link. I thought that the link going to "political dictionary" is hint enough that the phrase shouldn't be taken literally, but since I was wrong, I'll quote it here: hiking the Appalachian Trail Euphemis...
[11:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:35] <exec> 08└─Agreed. A Common Misconception of the Amish is that they disdain technology. Not so! Some years ago I was stunned to see an Amish carpenter, getting out of a pickup truck (passenger) talking on a cell phone. That's not right! I also saw PV panels on poles around their farms, on barn roofs, etc. What...
[11:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:44] <exec> 08└─meta: learn2quote, i.e. you should've removed "People don't actually talk that way," Zhou said. Instead, he notes,
[11:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:46] <exec> 08└─Instead, he notes, when most people are on the phone or chatting in person, they are both talking and listening at the same time – often predicting how the other person might finish a sentence, and maybe interrupting someone when appropriate or breaking an awkward silence to offer a new thought ba...
[11:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:03] <exec> 08└─So you're saying my work monitor could theoretically display pr0n or whatever shenanigans from my angle, but show my nearby boss or coworkers wholesome work-related content? How soon can this get to market then? I'm asking on behalf of someone else of course. :P
[11:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:04] <exec> 08└─If you need to cover a large number of angles to trick your boss no matter his position, it could require a powerful GPU to push many versions of the pixels. However, it could push the fake office work at a much lower Hz to compensate. Will it work if your boss is almost directly behind you? Could i...
[11:36:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:39] <exec> 08└─I am aiming to troll a bit here, but... If RMS were a good fighter he would know that you break the enemy not by opposition with a weaker force, but by making it crash in the direction he is going. The system uses surveillance? MAKE EVERYTHING FUCKING PUBLIC. NO PRIVACY, STARTING FROM THE MOST POWER...
[11:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:42] <exec> 08└─Poison the well.
[11:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:27] <exec> 08└─While I totally agree that he's the scum of the earth and I hope we've reserved the nastiest of cancers for him, but can we please leave the religion bashing out of this please? I come here for civilized conversation. Question: What if I already lit my torch? https://www.youtube.com
[11:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:28] <exec> 08└─Nice. Pity this is needed just to keep the scum out. Don't worry; you are not alone; not many others know about IP6ish either
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[12:35:29] <exec> 08└─and only an 80% minority lives in urban areas, with the 20% majority being in rural areas.
[12:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 1699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:30] <exec> 08└─The teacher walked up in front of the classroom. "Alright, class, let's begin today's lesson." he said jubilantly. The young children were all nervous, given that it was the first day of school after a long summer break. The teacher planned to show each student a close, hands-on demonstration of the...
[12:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:32] <exec> 08└─They don't avoid all technology. For instance, some groups allow cell phones if they are recharged by generator rather than the grid. The Old Beachy Amish allow more, including the use of cars. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:35] <exec> 08└─True. But even if we limit the definition of "urban" to cities with 50,000+ people, that still covers ~70% of US population.
[12:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:37] <exec> 08└─people's doubts about the concept that more technology is always better. They also carefully considered whether the potential usefulness of new technologies was worth the privacy sacrifices inherently required to use them. People also described their intentional choices about how much technology to...
[12:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:47] <exec> 08└─Once you've noticed this, it might bug you forever. Almost invariably on TV shows and movies you'll not hear the main characters speak over one another. Even when they're having a heated argument, most of the time each will politely wait for the other to say their piece and then pause for the first...
[12:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:06] <exec> 08└─The first thing that came into my mind was coupling this with eye tracking technology. That really opens up a whole new level of use-cases. Imaging having a single big screen in a shopping-mall. The moment you come under the camera's view, your eye start to get tracked, and you are delivered persona...
[12:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:08] <exec> 08└─I haven't had the chance to use VR with eye tracking, but I'm interested to see how much that can help with foveated rendering. For desktop monitors or a laptop though, the eyes would be further away than a sensor used in a VR headset, and would have to handle multiple pairs of eyes (maybe up to 3 p...
[12:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:47] <exec> 08└─Poison? No... more like 'flooding the well'... No more finding the needle in the haystack, but simply being avalanched by a gazillion needles.
[12:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:49] <exec> 08└─For ISP hosted services... people already get email. Just bundle social media equivalents, either in the base fee, or as extras. It gives the ISPs some extras to sell without the net neutrality BS.
[12:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:41] <exec> 08└─Rather, intelligence allows for higher education.
[12:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:42] <exec> 08└─The only reason you'd say "[Citation needed]" is because you're a lazy fucking louse who never bothered to look into the matter.
[12:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:44] <exec> 08└─Papers aren't supposed to get retracted for disagreeing with established science, but when it turns out they shouldn't have been published, such as for issues with methodology or integrity, or as purported in this case, unfounded assumptions. Papers aren't supposed to get published in the first plac...
[12:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Admits a Load of its CPUs Have Spectre V2 Flaw That Can't be Fixed - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:51] <exec> 08└─Tell me about it. I had been waiting to upgrade my 2 old circa 2007 desktop systems. Decided to stop waiting last summer. Also, the power supply on one of them was failing and making the system unreliable, prone to spontaneous reboots and freezes. I wanted the Ryzen, but it would have been another h...
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[13:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nimbius [6088] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:19] <exec> 08└─Many rodents and nuisance animals can become exposed to waste chemicals through illegal dumping or indirectly through other pest control vectors. For example, epileptic opossums may not have come into direct contact with pesticides, however after gorging on dead cabbage palm caterpillars from a trea...
[13:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:21] <exec> 08└─Would need to be kind of a lot of heavy gas and a severe lack of wind, no?
[13:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:23] <exec> 08└─I hate every idiots these days who think they need to write "disclosure" on every frickin' post. Disclosures are meant to point to a possible conflict of interest, not "hey guys, I have some experience in this area."
[13:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atatsu [4251] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:25] <exec> 08└─Summary eventually mentioned it but distemper immediately sprang to mind while reading the first bit. Growing up we'd always shoot racoons that behaved in such an odd fashion (and dispose of the body to hopefully prevent others from catching it)
[13:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:28] <exec> 08└─Considering your grammar is sub-par, you are not in a position to complain.
[13:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:46] <exec> 08└─Very much this. They seem to have found only sane people left. Instead of just believing that everything new in inherently better and more useful then something old and that we apparently need to jump on every new technology fad that comes around and that it will somehow bring meaning to our lives t...
[13:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:48] <exec> 08└─There's a world of difference between a city with 50K people and one with several million. You should get out more.
[13:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:00] <exec> 08└─Lots of accounts,lots of browsers, lots of actions, and it's all bs to fill up their database with crud? Good idea
[13:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:01] <exec> 08└─Methinks you need to read up on what net neutrality means. If an isp needs to differentiate traffic to facebook from other traffic it's no longer neutral. Don't get me wrong, please tax Facebook out of existence. But the ISP's are exactly the wrong party to handle that.
[13:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:03] <exec> 08└─Not Facebook... We were talking about a federated Facebook equivalent (like Diaspora etc...).
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[14:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:22] <exec> 08└─Special snowflakes think they can tell the boss how to run his business. Tell those snowflakes to take it up with the labor board. That should be worth a few belly laughs!
[14:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:23] <exec> 08└─So how's that working out for ya? I'd be shocked if the CEO actually acted on this petition in more than a token manner.
[14:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:25] <exec> 08└─Depends how much power those special snowflakes have. If they have enough, of course they can. Good engineers in silicon valley are high coveted and I'm sure they are aware of their value. Threatening to leave en masse can be a powerful threat.
[14:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:27] <exec> 08└─Is it a threatening to leave situation or just a we're trying to tell you what to do situation though? I wouldn't think most of their staff would be willing to give up a Google job unless they had something better lined up already.
[14:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:30] <exec> 08└─A google employee should be one of the bright minds who solve puzzles and stuff and get hired. It is funny that such competent minds do not see the obvious. The modern wars are fought with money, demographics and bombs are just accessories. Territorial acquisition irrelevant. On one side, the system...
[14:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:32] <exec> 08└─It's only evil if you are killing Good Guys. Good Guys only kill Bad Guys. It's important to control the post-war narrative to ensure that the winners are the Good Guys.
[14:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:34] <exec> 08└─From owning (in past) robots built for the army. “Weponizing” demographics like Facebook Stealing information from users machines to increase the weapons. They are the D’evil. So where is the money??? The war machine and our childrens’ childrens Future income.
[14:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:36] <exec> 08└─Sounds better than the alternative.... Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department" say Wernher von Braun
[14:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:39] <exec> 08└─those that walked into google, took the job and stayed there - I blame all of you 100% for the state of google, today. very evil and very powerful - TOO powerful. did they fool themselves about where their efforts are really going? not only does it sicken me that google is an ADVERTISING company (re...
[14:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:50] <exec> 08└─bearing their teeth and staggering around
[14:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:51] <exec> 08└─Man, there's no need to go talking bad about someone's grammar. I mean ad hom's one thing but stick to the feller posting not little old ladies who ain't here to defend themselves.
[14:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:54] <exec> 08└─The "-ass" part in "weird-ass" is overly colloquial and should have been omitted.
[14:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:56] <exec> 08└─Ya ya little old ladies are YOU turf we GET IT already.
[14:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:16] <exec> 08└─They seem to have found only sane people left.
[14:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:18] <exec> 08└─All of my knowledge comes filtered through some relatives who were doctors in the area. They've since moved away, but they definitely have some interesting stories. Most of them reinforce the backwards, hick, inbred statements. While none of those are "nice words", it doesn't mean it's not accurate....
[14:37:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 311 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─RMS talks about the GDPR. His complaint is that it relates to processing of information, not collection. He would like to prevent companies from collecting information in the first place. For once, I agree with him. The easiest way to prevent power from being abused is to prevent power from being co...
[14:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:34] <exec> 08└─It's the free market, jmorris. "Big tech" is not going to become competent and efficient until and unless the market requires it. Right now, the market is basically a gamble. 1% of software products or some other stupidly small number reach millions of users. The rest don't. Nobody really understand...
[14:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:36] <exec> 08└─The real surveillance state of the Iron Curtain was East Germany. The Stasi basically had half their population spying on the other half and they even had sealed jars with people's scents in them for dogs to sniff. They made the Soviets look like amateurs. Facebook though beats them all when it come...
[14:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:38] <exec> 08└─That's what they said when Mainframes were around
[14:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:40] <exec> 08└─What? Whenever someone tells you We should make things worse so that they eventually get better, you can be pretty sure their ideas aren't worth taking seriously.
[14:37:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 1045 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:57] <exec> 08└─> So perhaps Facebook isn't comfortable about giving North American users that kind of autonomy to revoke specific consents at will. Yeah, Facebook isn't comfortable about giving any users that kind of autonomy. That's why we need a fucking LAW to force them to do it. > There’s no way to sugarcoat...
[14:38:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 1158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:17] <exec> 08└─This is true. I want to make sure there is a powerful rich ruling class that has all the capital and thus all the power. I identify with this class, because all those low life poor people are just scum. I don't want to be around them. One day I'll be part of that upper class. They'll let me in and I...
[14:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:26] <exec> 08└─That's just sour grapes. You wish you were white.
[14:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:29] <exec> 08└─And where is that script pulled from? Execution != Downloading And downloading gives them a huge amount of data as well, that's what that stupid like-button is for: a GET that contains a bunch of identifying & referrer information as well
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[15:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:26] <exec> 08└─Indispensable, huh? What a concept. An employee whose termination would destroy the company. I suppose that could happen in a situation where all of management is utterly incompetent. Oh - wait - maybe some of the employees really are indispensable! We have many examples of incompetent management to...
[15:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:28] <exec> 08└─Advertising is a blight on societal productivity worse than lawyers. I'd much rather have a society without advertising, with all the effort that goes into advertising converted to paid vacation / UBI.
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 1753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:30] <exec> 08└─The teacher walked up in front of the classroom. "Alright, class, let's begin today's lesson." he said jubilantly. The young children were all nervous, given that it was the first day of school after a long summer break. As such, the teacher planned to show each student a close, hands-on demonstrati...
[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:32] <exec> 08└─Google is developing pattern-matching algorithms to help al-Qaeda censor the Internet. [archive.is]
[15:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 1781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─I'm left wondering what the owners will think, employees that don't want to make them money. Alphabet/Google has how many employees these days? The numbers on the web seem to change a bit but it seems to have been around 50-60k in 2015 and I can't remember any news about any massive layoffs. So 3100...
[15:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:37] <exec> 08└─Individuals no ("cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn’t get along without them.") On the other hand even a few tens of engineers going out the door, if they're key people, can take enough institutional knowledge to be a problem for any company, and having them going out a...
[15:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:39] <exec> 08└─+1 "shoulders upon which we can stand" giant
[15:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:41] <exec> 08└─How many of those 3100 people are actually involved in Project Maven? Because for those not involved, their opinion on the project is largely irrelevant.
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─It's only evil if you are killing Good Guys.
[15:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:46] <exec> 08└─Google made its own bed when it publicly announced that GOOG is a liberal company and since then confirmed their position by many signals. The recent attack on shooting videos (which is a perfectly legal pastime in many countries, including the USA) is just the latest example. And now... drumroll......
[15:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:02] <exec> 08└─Fuckin' bigot - you don't like colloquials? What did they ever do to you? What, you're better than all the rest of us?
[15:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:03] <exec> 08└─Damned right. They know cakes and pies and cookies and biscuits and shit like nobody's business. Plus they know all of the tricks that ever been tried in the sack.
[15:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:06] <exec> 08└─Methanol, Formaldehyde, or perhaps ethenylbenzene
[15:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:08] <exec> 08└─This should work better [xkcd.com]: No one is certain exactly what is causing the weird ass-behavior
[15:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:10] <exec> 08└─I know there is a TON of fracking on the east side of Ohio. I wonder if there is a bunch up there in Youngstown and the groundwater is contaminated?
[15:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:33] <exec> 08└─As far as I know the people that live in the Appalachian mountains are not Amish, but I guess I could be wrong on that. I don't really keep track of them or anything like that.
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:34] <exec> 08└─If an apocalypse happens, the "hillbillies" will have the best survival skills and have an edge over the "city slickers". I don't know if that's part of their conscience plan, though, except for explicit survivalists ("preppers").
[15:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─You say innovation, I say Dystopian.
[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Says Scraping Websites and Creating Fake Profiles Can be Protected by the First Amendment - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:18] <exec> 08└─How stupid are you really? It's OK, you can trust us, we won't put you in a cattle car I swear!
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Says Scraping Websites and Creating Fake Profiles Can be Protected by the First Amendment - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is, it's not your great grandfather's axe, then.
[15:37:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─Compare the revenue streams per user. Big tech wants to waste Sagans on huge server farms to make up for the inefficiency of the code produced by their overpaid, incompetent but oh so "diverse" freak show workforce in some of the most expensive zip codes outside of Capital City itself. Then all the...
[15:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:58] <exec> 08└─It's just the enforcement aspect of privacy laws that have been neutered through regulatory capture and general lack of interest. Change the enforcement mechanism - simply create statutory damages for each incident of a privacy breach that a citizen can file for through Small Claims Court (e.g., $5,...
[15:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:00] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Plenty of people would pay and it would be pretty damn cheap. No one wants to pay these days because there simply are so many "free" services.
[15:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:02] <exec> 08└─Blah, blah, blah. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
[15:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:04] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to block the rest of them too! This may help: https://api.hackertarget.com [hackertarget.com]
[15:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:06] <exec> 08└─I think you underestimate the ability of computers to handle large amounts of data and sift through it. So called "big data" is just afternoon lunch for big computers. Even rudimentary AI of today can pattern-match its way around whatever you think you can do to befuddle it.
[15:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:54] <exec> 08└─how about we just agree that no matter what kind of physical human he is and forget whats in a name, can we agree that someone has to slap a sense of humanity into him instead of his outrageous disregard for the common person in his efforts to monetize peoples lives as if they were products? anyone...
[15:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:19] <exec> 08└─That sounds to me like this old joke: 18% of all traffic accidents are caused by drunken people. That means 82% of all traffic accidents are caused by sober people. We should forbid sober driving!
[15:39:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 732 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:38] <exec> 08└─Steam does not require DRM for games, however most opt for DRM. Below is a list of DRM-free games available through Steam. It is the developers who decide to include DRM. http://steam.wikia.com [wikia.com] I consider Steam's DRM/distribution platform reasonable. Consideri...
[15:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:41] <exec> 08└─Steam is great, because of the sales and ease of use. GOG is great, because they're awesome. Awesome in this case meaning, generally DRM Free, Single Installers that can be backed up off site, and content that you more legitimately "own". GOG is also developing a Steam like Overlay called GOG Galaxy...
[15:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Found CRISPR "Off-Target Effects" Retracted - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:08] <exec> 08└─Theres not even a reason to retract this paper. The say the data is ok but just maybe got interpreted wrong, so just add a correction acknowledging the alternatives. Im really laughing at this when the same thing is the case for nearly 100% of bio papers. Its so fake.
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[16:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of 12 Black Holes Points to Population of Thousands in the Center of the Milky Way - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:17] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that these thousands of black holes are sucking up the missing dark matter?
[16:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of 12 Black Holes Points to Population of Thousands in the Center of the Milky Way - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:19] <exec> 08└─It's "holes of color" you insensitive clod!
[16:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of 12 Black Holes Points to Population of Thousands in the Center of the Milky Way - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:21] <exec> 08└─So much gravity that they just can't avoid attracting all the nearby high-speed projectiles. Matches.
[16:35:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:32] <exec> 08└─Is it a threatening to leave situation or just a we're trying to tell you what to do situation though? I wouldn't think most of their staff would be willing to give up a Google job unless they had something better lined up already.
[16:35:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 971 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:38] <exec> 08└─those that walked into google, took the job and stayed there - I blame all of you 100% for the state of google, today. very evil and very powerful - TOO powerful. did they fool themselves about where their efforts are really going? not only does it sicken me that google is an ADVERTISING company (re...
[16:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─We've all heard of greenwashing where people caught up in the western tech based economy lull their guilt by buying free range chicken and contracting with "green" power sources. (I still would like to know how they tell that a particular photon carrying an electromagnetic potential they're buying c...
[16:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:50] <exec> 08└─The same way that lawyers can be a good thing when they defend the innocent, advertising has one use: actually informing people that a product/service exists. But the moment the mind tricks start, they should all be lined up against the Trump wall, on the shooting side.
[16:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:53] <exec> 08└─Typical older generation. Thinks that you deserve your position of authority when the fact is that you're only where you are because the previous generation retired. Because you are thusly entitled, you believe your decisions are not just the law. You believe they are moral and just. A corporation i...
[16:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:13] <exec> 08└─I hate every idiots these days who think they need to write "disclosure" on every frickin' post. Disclosures are meant to point to a possible conflict of interest, not "hey guys, I have some experience in this area."
[16:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:15] <exec> 08└─Watch out, you might make more than Racoons' brains explode, if you go on explaining that weapons can be used to kill animals, but it's really for the good of the other pests around.
[16:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:41] <exec> 08└─The Amish also have some things forced upon them. In particular, if they are in the dairy business, they are required to have things like refrigeration if they are going to sell it to the public, so it isn't unusual to see an Amish farm with electricity out in the barn.
[16:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it doesn't speak to national reality so much as to the extremely urban, largely west coast prejudices of the people doing the study. They genuinely do not understand that most people in the nation do not live either in major cities or on the west coast. For that matter, people who do live in m...
[16:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:45] <exec> 08└─I've met many such people. I tell them that they could learn at the library but no they don't want computers to be part of their lives One is a sheriffs deputy. He uses computers at work but doesn't want them in his home It is for these people that I plan to self publish a dead tree edition of my es...
[16:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:47] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff on the directing. Again, there's a world of difference between a city of 50K and a city of millions. The lifestyle isn't remotely similar, so they have no business being lumped together.
[16:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─Why bother to "upgrade", when a computer from five years ago is perfectly capable at playing all the porn ?
[16:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─There is a world of difference between a town of 50k and a rural area. You should be more precise in your argument, and avoid using ad hominems, as they are a logical fallacy. The defined terminology supports the argument against you. Perhaps you should rephrase your argument.
[16:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:03] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of MGONZ, which is famous as some judges in the chatbot contest identified it as human. The secret was being rude. https://www.popsci.com [popsci.com]
[16:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Says Scraping Websites and Creating Fake Profiles Can be Protected by the First Amendment - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:38] <exec> 08└─His great-grandfather had to give up the axe, just because he kept on breaking it and replacing parts?
[16:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:22] <exec> 08└─Have you truly considered this alternative before saying total transparency would be worse? When internet came out I thought: "impossible. Some people will never let the internet take hold, because the amount of info shared would destroy the incumbents". Then, blatant privacy abuse of peons happened...
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:23] <exec> 08└─Enough said.
[16:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─While the current flap is about FB and personal data, if you read through the RMS article, he uses transit for an example. We are already paying to use the London Tube and there is no good reason that the electronic payment system has to know personal ID for all the users. RMS proposes rules that on...
[16:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:39] <exec> 08└─I still count this story as evidence that climate researchers try to spin every story for maximum fear factor."
[16:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 2465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:02] <exec> 08└─There isn't much "big-name" software nowadays of value that doesn't have DRM. Things like CAD and Office are among the worst, in fact. If you're hedging your business bets on software, you need to avoid DRM. But most people are more than happy with their games console's DRM, Netflix/Amazon/GooglePla...
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[17:35:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds better than the alternative.... Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department" say Wernher von Braun
[17:35:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 1028 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:52] <exec> 08└─We've all heard of greenwashing where people caught up in the western tech based economy lull their guilt by buying free range chicken and contracting with "green" power sources. (I still would like to know how they tell that a particular photon carrying an electromagnetic potential they're buying c...
[17:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─After this protest either protesters go (physically or ideologically), or Sundar goes, because who needs a CEO that cannot execute?
[17:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:58] <exec> 08└─I find it strange that you go straight for the anti-liberal/leftist stance when this isn't about that at all. I'm more worried about the military industrial complex angle. A huge public facing corporation which has collected data on everyone, has steered the development of the internet and how we co...
[17:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:00] <exec> 08└─That old battle cry was dead and buried long ago.
[17:36:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nimbius [6088] 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 783 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:08] <exec> 08└─Many rodents and nuisance animals can become exposed to waste chemicals through illegal dumping or indirectly through other pest control vectors. For example, epileptic opossums may not have come into direct contact with pesticides, however after gorging on dead cabbage palm caterpillars from a trea...
[17:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNR63VZ42Eo [youtube.com]
[17:36:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 1389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:49] <exec> 08└─I certainly don't have the latest phone or computer. Though I live in a rural Midwest town, I work at a top tier research university. With having been a financial company sysadmin, DBA, a physics grad student and lab instrument repair tech for a long time, I'd qualify as being as much a techie as mo...
[17:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:56] <exec> 08└─Again, there's a world of difference between a city of 50K and a city of millions. The lifestyle isn't remotely similar, so they have no business being lumped together.
[17:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:58] <exec> 08└─They don't avoid all technology.
[17:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:01] <exec> 08└─"Why woulds i not use teh technology: i can be doin' my one sister over teh internets with them internets connected vibrator while doin' my tother sister for real!"
[17:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─That said how is wifi and cellservice in RURAL Appalachia, or just anywhere rural for that matter?
[17:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:36] <exec> 08└─There is going to be a limit to the angular resolution, or how small an area the image can be restricted to. This sounds similar to phased array radar, where interference between array elements can sharpen the far-field beamwidth, but only to a point. Array size limits the beam angle, and having eac...
[17:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Says Scraping Websites and Creating Fake Profiles Can be Protected by the First Amendment - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─No, as in it's not the same axe his great-grandfather used. Since, both pieces of the axe have been replaced at some point in time. Presumably by someone other than the great-grandfather.
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Says Scraping Websites and Creating Fake Profiles Can be Protected by the First Amendment - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─"Presumably" is what I was highlighting. You're assuming, when maybe canopic's family has been carefully using the axe within tolerances, in a way the ancestor didn't.
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:38] <exec> 08└─That post describes exactly what happened to musicians and music since the Internet got going. ie. a couple of dozen "stars" now command and dominate what would have been spread out over tens of thousands of artists only 25 years ago, everyone is at a loss for how to manage the situation; fast-forwa...
[17:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:39] <exec> 08└─But, there might be terrorists! How will we find them if we don't keep track of every person? Because, statistically, only people become terrorists; we should track them all, just in case. (Except for you and me, of course; we're fine. But definitely other people...)
[17:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:42] <exec> 08└─For reference, here are some acronyms to dispel possible confusion among those of us who had trouble making it all the way through TFS: GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
[17:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:18] <exec> 08└─Are you asking whether there is one and only one way to produce "AA" or "AAA" games, that being producing them as proprietary software?
[17:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:20] <exec> 08└─Tools include hammers, screw drivers, operating systems, compilers, editors, spread sheets, etc. Entertainment is different.
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[18:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phosphorus-Poor Stellar Remnants Could Affect the Distribution of Extraterrestrial Life - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:16] <exec> 08└─"It is not life as we know or understand it. Yet it is obviously alive, it exists."
[18:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phosphorus-Poor Stellar Remnants Could Affect the Distribution of Extraterrestrial Life - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:18] <exec> 08└─"Life, uh... finds a way."
[18:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence of 12 Black Holes Points to Population of Thousands in the Center of the Milky Way - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:28] <exec> 08└─From ten thousand X-Ray emitting bugs... meh, it loses something
[18:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evidence of 12 Black Holes Points to Population of Thousands in the Center of the Milky Way - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe not? http://curious.astro.cornell.edu [cornell.edu]
[18:35:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─Depends how much power those special snowflakes have. If they have enough, of course they can. Good engineers in silicon valley are high coveted and I'm sure they are aware of their value. Threatening to leave en masse can be a powerful threat.
[18:36:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:01] <exec> 08└─I find it strange that you go straight for the anti-liberal/leftist stance when this isn't about that at all. I'm more worried about the military industrial complex angle. A huge public facing corporation which has collected data on everyone, has steered the development of the internet and how we co...
[18:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:04] <exec> 08└─Dunno why they didn't see it coming. Didn't they realize that being "liberal" in the USA means being a reactionary right-wing puppet of the CIA? Don't really care if it's black folks or white folks they hate. They're pushing segregation and identity politics as distractions from the declining condit...
[18:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─You are just to funny. You believe your own words. Have you read no history at all? The "oligarchs" you talk about have existed from pre-history, and they will exist long after all of us here are forgotten. The oligarch changes form, from time to time. But the basics always remain the same. No, the...
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─Objecting that Facefook joined the MIC? Why, exactly? I've not objected to Google joining. No one listened to complaints about Kellog, Brown & Root joining. Or Haliburton. Or, Sikorsky. It's what corporations do. They exploit, they grow large, then they join the MIC. At some point, they become "to b...
[18:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─"who needs a chief executive that can't be executed?" FTFY, I think. The British admiralty maintained a tradition of exeuting admirals for quite a long while. It kept the rest on their toes. Let me find some kind of citation for that . . . “In this country it is considered wise to kill an admiral...
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─But, let me remind you that these engineers are just employees. They have no influence. As I pointed out in my original post, the labor board would quickly side with Google in any showdown. Employees aren't quite powerless - but their power is very unimpressive.
[18:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:15] <exec> 08└─Special snowflakes think they can tell the boss how to run his business. These snowflakes did: West Virginia Raises Teachers’ Pay to End Statewide Strike [nytimes.com]
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:17] <exec> 08└─not have to worry that our work is supporting evil.
[18:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:19] <exec> 08└─BTW - I don't expect to retire. I fully expect to die like I've lived - in harness, and working my ass off. WTF do I want to spend a year, a decade, or more, lying around the house, with nothing to do? An empty, meaningless existence? Screw that.
[18:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:43] <exec> 08└─That got ahold of the wrong stuff
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:45] <exec> 08└─Now I need to see an amateur sketch of raccoon zombies.
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:47] <exec> 08└─It's quoted from the article. We normally only alter spelling and grammar errors in blockquotes, or insert information that is missing because it was in previous paragraphs, etc.
[18:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:57] <exec> 08└─Very little technical detail. It sounds to me like they are using DMDs and calculating at which angle they need to set the mirrors.
[18:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Says Scraping Websites and Creating Fake Profiles Can be Protected by the First Amendment - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:13] <exec> 08└─Possibly, but the likelihood is that both heads and multiple handles weren't replaced by the one user. Though, perhaps it's a relic and no-one, but the great-grandfather actually made much use of it. Then again, you could be an AI that trolls the internet for all I know. Likelihood, you're not.
[18:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:03] <exec> 08└─Back in þe olden times, some ISPs used to run web servers for customers to put up their own sites. But also, they usually host customer email and maybe usenet servers. He probably meant something like that.
[18:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:53] <exec> 08└─It's always been harsh on "the new guy". There were lots of "no dogs or Irish" signs if you go back a bit. OTOH, people have a strong tendency to pick small visible groups to malign. (You've got to be a large enough group to be interesting, or you just get ignored.) Groups that are small and intenti...
[18:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:54] <exec> 08└─You can only treat people as individuals if you know them as individuals. But you don't need to consider each person the synecdoche of the group.
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[19:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:17] <exec> 08└─Another 10^58 years? I was hoping I wouldn't need to do my 2017 taxes.
[19:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:18] <exec> 08└─Instead of signing your taxes, just sign the exponent.
[19:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:20] <exec> 08└─We desperately need an "Ugh!" mod right now.
[19:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:23] <exec> 08└─So when they split the atom they were afraid they might destroy everything. Maybe this is the actual universe bomb? Forget about civilizations wiping themselves out, what about rebooting the entire universe?
[19:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:25] <exec> 08└─The Higgs Boson is actually comprised of three smaller particles, for want of better names: The Father, The Son, and the Holy Ghost. Much like Schrödinger's cat, the mere act of observing them will take them from their present indeterminate state to one of certainty - zero or one, if you will - put...
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evidence of 12 Black Holes Points to Population of Thousands in the Center of the Milky Way - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:44] <exec> 08└─But you gained so much cancer!
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evidence of 12 Black Holes Points to Population of Thousands in the Center of the Milky Way - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─our galaxy is 100,000 light-years across. (For reference, one light-year is just under 5.88 trillion miles.)
[19:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─we can walk down the street to the next company,
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─War is not evil in and of itself. Neither is killing. Unfortunate but sometimes the most moral choice you can make.
[19:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:29] <exec> 08└─Volunteer work would not count as "in harness". A physically and mentally active volunteer gig could lead to you living longer [oregonstate.edu], meaning more expenses out of your retirement funds. But it would at least fulfill Runaway's desire to not live an empty, meaningless existence, perhaps mo...
[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/05/killer-robots-south-korea-university-boycott-artifical-intelligence-hanwha [theguardian.com] I'm glad that some people despite are pushing back against the Skynet.
[19:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─Lawyers and advertisers both have their place, but they both seem to have grown like cancer far beyond anything beneficial to the host.
[19:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. I've seen a fair number of people retire. Precious few of them retain any real drive in life. Not for more than five years, anyway. Most of them just grow old, and wither away.
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. Do Google employees have a union to back them? Maybe the "International IT Engineer's Union"?
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Or are the people threatening to leave the gender-studies employees that do little actual work?
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Sorry, had to be said.
[19:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:45] <exec> 08└─That is because you were trained like rats in a lab. Want your money pellets? Run that wheel bitch! So when you are no longer needed you have no clue what to do with your life because you spent all your time and energy doing the corporate bidding.
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:48] <exec> 08└─The recent attack on shooting videos (which is a perfectly legal pastime in many countries, including the USA) is just the latest example.
[19:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:50] <exec> 08└─Gay midget porn from 2007 is just a stimulating as gay midget porn from today. ;)
[19:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:52] <exec> 08└─Depends on how open to cannibalism one is...
[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─Sorry. The post followed a thread which was Amish-centric, and I was still thinking about that. Apparently a little too hard. :) Mea culpa.
[19:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06XiaoIce, Microsoft's Social Chatbot in China, Makes Breakthrough in Natural Conversation - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:06] <exec> 08└─Once you've noticed this, it might bug you forever.
[19:38:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kalas [4247] 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:23] <exec> 08└─So you're saying my work monitor could theoretically display pr0n or whatever shenanigans from my angle, but show my nearby boss or coworkers wholesome work-related content? How soon can this get to market then? I'm asking on behalf of someone else of course. :P
[19:39:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:20] <exec> 08└─It's the free market, jmorris. "Big tech" is not going to become competent and efficient until and unless the market requires it. Right now, the market is basically a gamble. 1% of software products or some other stupidly small number reach millions of users. The rest don't. Nobody really understand...
[19:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:27] <exec> 08└─Hm. By that logic, isn't the fact that Jews have been ostracized by many cultures throughout history suggest that there is a statistically significantly higher proportion of Jewish assholes than assholes of other colors/races/sexes/cultures? Of course, that still doesn't mean all Jews are assholes,...
[19:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Exclude US Users From Some Privacy Enhancements - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:28] <exec> 08└─Cool. I can follow your reasoning. But, let's take that a little further, or at least on a slight tangent. Which of us (us, being human beings) have not been persecuted on multiple occassions, throughout history? The Jews are at the same disadvantage that the Romany are. They are a people who were d...
[19:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryosat Used to Measure Retreat of Antarctic Glaciers - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:55] <exec> 08└─So 22 % are faster than 25 m per year. How many are slower? I guess they don't say, because it would be less alarming. Not enough to make up the difference: Net retreat of Antarctic glacier grounding lines
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[20:35:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─Instead of signing your taxes, just sign the exponent.
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:28] <exec> 08└─The real Fermi paradox: Why hasn't someone obliterated the universe yet?
[20:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:30] <exec> 08└─They forgot to put the "Danger! Do not touch!" sign on the big red button.
[20:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─Trump's only a year in. Give it another few weeks.
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─It came to me in a vision. http://www.warplife.com [warplife.com]
[20:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:37] <exec> 08└─They did, but it's red text on the red button because the joker engineer had just read Hitchhiker's Guide.
[20:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:39] <exec> 08└─So, what you are saying is there is a non-zero chance everything will end tomorrow? :)
[20:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:42] <exec> 08└─Almost non-zero.
[20:36:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 1535 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:30] <exec> 08└─Typical older generation. Thinks that you deserve your position of authority when the fact is that you're only where you are because the previous generation retired. Because you are thusly entitled, you believe your decisions are not just the law. You believe they are moral and just. A corporation i...
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─I don't see lack of black and white as the main risk here. Once you've decided you are going to go to war with ISIS, that decision is already made. From then on the idea is to kill only the ISIS and not the people they were going to shovel into mass graves. If the AI can do that, great. The problem...
[20:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:56] <exec> 08└─Seriously, a link too an internet archive with thousands of posts by random people on various subjects is what you base your entire post on? And that gets modded insightful?
[20:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:58] <exec> 08└─Sundar will have a hard time putting this to rest and spinning it in some positive light.
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─I told myself something similar while working for the UAV company: "we're just doing recon over the next hill in the Middle East, so grunts don't have to go look in person." Then we started supporting SWAT raids domestically, but that was O.K. because they were just busting bad guys, or Meth labs, o...
[20:37:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:12] <exec> 08└─bearing their teeth and staggering around
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─I always knew the End Times would start in Ohio.
[20:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:29] <exec> 08└─Distemper explains the behavior as well. Need more than that.
[20:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─Don't have much experience with that. But if you are into straight, little people / average height people porn... I highly recommend Bridget the Midget. Sexy.
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─Making nasty jokes about poor people is so classy. Do you do that with poor people of other races and places too?
[20:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:53] <exec> 08└─His complaint is that it relates to processing of information, not collection
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[21:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:18] <exec> 08└─I tried using the webpage https://umpox.github.io [github.io] and it did not show my username. When I pasted it into Diff Checker, there were no zero width characters. I tried using Firefox and Chrome under Linux.
[21:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:19] <exec> 08└─Screen capture and paste. But does this give away what processor you are using?
[21:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:21] <exec> 08└─Good grief, these links...first Medium.com, ew, and then this Zach Aysan guy has huge white stripes on the sides and like 22-point font. What the heck is the deal with blogs these days? P.S: posting the example sentences into emacs works like a charm
[21:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─You need to be wearing your captain crunch secret decoder ring.
[21:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:26] <exec> 08└─at BleepingComputers [bleepingcomputer.com]*, the article focused more on the potential to use this to identify whistle blowers. The way this could work: there are at least two zero-width Unicode characters. So one zero-width character represents a 1, the other a 0. Hence, it's easy to encode any st...
[21:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:28] <exec> 08└─Not all leaks are whistleblowers, though.
[21:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─A person may take offense at perfectly legal behavior, leak, and think himself a whistleblower. Suppose you are in the Marines, and you find out that you're about to attack an enemy camp. Oh, that is killing! So you reveal the plans to the world and call yourself a whistleblower. Um, no. Another per...
[21:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─Easy: Use monospace font like Arik Problem: people know it's Arik (no, nobody wants that much work, just to frame Arik)
[21:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:51] <exec> 08└─The first Big Bang series has jumped the shark. Sure hope these scientists make the second Big Bang series better (less Bill Gates love) and long after I am dead. P.S. So over Penny.
[21:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:52] <exec> 08└─there is a non-zero chance everything will end tomorrow? :)
[21:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─Come on people, tread lightly or the universe might go off. And whatever you do, don't cross the beams.
[21:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:58] <exec> 08└─I mean, if this ends up being the big suck shouldn't it be called something appropriate?
[21:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:00] <exec> 08└─This isn't even fiction, it's complete fucking nonsense.
[21:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─I've seen both sorts. Those who have no drive post-retirement do generally wither away. Those able to manufacture their own purposes in a satisfying way thrive. Everyone has the choice, though, regardless of their life circumstances - you can [almost] always find something useful to do with your lif...
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe once, or a few times. Then you quickly get the reputation as a trouble maker, unreliable, and become un-hire-able.
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─It's not about any "particular photon carrying an electromagnetic potential". If 20% of the electricity supplied comes from 'green tech' then 20% can be sold as 'green energy'.
[21:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:49] <exec> 08└─I see. I thought it was an excerpt from DeathMonkey's submission.
[21:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:31] <exec> 08└─My argument is that the defined terminology is poorly defined. The defined terminology cannot logically be used to refute that argument. Logical support of its methodology could but that's not what you've attempted because you know it can't be done.
[21:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Thermodynamics and Chloroform - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:16] <exec> 08└─yes, quite. 'Isolated' except for the massive external magnetic fields being used to create this effect.. Not to mention the external changing of the quantum state. And of course we then have the rather 'interpretive' definition linking quantum states of entropy.. creative to say the least.
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[22:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:18] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine and one of my roommates at the time came in in the wee hours of the morning without his genes. When we asked "WTF, yo?!" he laughed and refused to answer. That's been around twenty years ago and still nobody knows what happened to his genes.
[22:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:33] <exec> 08└─Worked for me pasting into hexdump -C both in MSYS2/Windows and GNU/Linux.
[22:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:35] <exec> 08└─I browse with Javascript disabled (UNIX laptop) and those zero-width characters show up just like any other font set I don't have loaded, as empty white squares where the letters would go. ~childo
[22:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:37] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's the case. I copied this string below into this very reply box, and the characters are hidden: Confidential Announcement: ‌‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍‌‌‌...
[22:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:39] <exec> 08└─P.S: posting the example sentences into emacs works like a charm
[22:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─Arik uses the TT tag. Let's see if that makes a difference: Confidential Announcement: ‌‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍...
[22:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─I figure it could give away OS and/or browser based on text handling (differences in aliasing, spacing). Why would it reveal your processor, did I miss a memo?
[22:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:46] <exec> 08└─For example, suppose the NSA is misbehaving, and so you indiscriminately leak out all the NSA documents you can get your hands on. To then claim to be a whistleblower is pretty damn dishonest.
[22:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:48] <exec> 08└─Using zero width spaces seems like a really unreliable watermark, though. It is trivial to remove, and does not survive basic transformations like, say, printing. And if you are trying to hide the fact that the document has tracking information it fails at that too because the presence of zero-width...
[22:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:50] <exec> 08└─Well, there are also full-width characters that take up two columns. Ｓｕｃｈ　ａｓ　ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ　ｒｏｍａｎ　ｃｈａｒａｃｔｅｒｓ which, if rendered properly, makes these three lines the same width. Although it appears that my Firefox does not actually do mo...
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:52] <exec> 08└─Back before unicode we'd watermark text in all sorts of ways. When there's lots of text, it's much easier to hide the watermark. We started doing things like add an extra space or two before EOL, combinations of spaces and tabs, extra spaces after punctuation, and occasionally subbing in 1 of l and...
[22:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:55] <exec> 08└─That is completely unrelated to JavaScript; it just means that you don't have fonts installed that define those zero-width characters. I've run xxd in the terminal and copy/pasted the text there. The terminal certainly doesn't have any JavaScript, and yet it didn't show the zero-width characters; xx...
[22:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─Modern physics is indistinguishable from complete fucking nonsense... even before millennial physicists started assigning variable genders to the subatomic particles.
[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:20] <exec> 08└─.... Zaphod Beeblebrox. Well, that's what Eccentrica Gallumbits said, anyway....
[22:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:22] <exec> 08└─"And they're at least 95% sure — a statistical measure of certainty" that gives me the statistically certain feeling of warm and fuzzy with wee pee value of e/pi.
[22:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Big Bang Could End the Universe - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:25] <exec> 08└─Because they so rarely have existed so as to not have destroyed it. Duh!
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Phosphorus-Poor Stellar Remnants Could Affect the Distribution of Extraterrestrial Life - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─Phosphorus is needed only to reproduce our particular brand of life. It used whatever was available 4B years on Earth, it'd use a different metabolic pathway otherwise. The only required thing for life is inexact self-replication. Different versions of organisms will then compete with each other, an...
[22:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm wrong but as I have lived through the internet age, Goodle didn't 'steer' the internet. The issue isn't that Google will be building weapons, rather that it play a part in improving their accuracy. I keep hearing about innocents being killed in US attacks in the ME, maybe Google employees...
[22:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, I understand the idea. It's financial measure about directing your money in such a way as to promote one type of energy source with better environmental impacts over another that has more impact. But when I here someone saying they get all of their power from green sources, it's just too much a...
[22:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:00] <exec> 08└─Bridget the Midget. Never run into that one. In truth, I have a fondness for Asian ladies. (My first girlfriend was one and so I think I'm imprinted. ;) )
[22:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:01] <exec> 08└─I don't see any references to their economic status. Are you projecting?
[22:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough ‘Parallel Reality’ Display Technology Promises to Personalize the World Without Goggles - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what tech they're using here, but I've seen people using micro-lens grids in front of an LCD screen to make it show different views at different angles, which was used as a 3D display demo. The tech is simple... the catch is that the pixel density you need is multiplied by the number of...
[22:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Clears the Air on its Removal of the Steam Machine Section From its Store - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:31] <exec> 08└─Let's say a publisher distributes a game as an engine that is free software from day one alongside paywalled assets.* Making the engine free would make it harder to technically deter prohibited copying of the assets during the first month, when prohibited copying has the greatest potential to reduce...
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[23:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:20] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there is a biological or evolutionary burden of carrying around too many genes, left over stuff that got a species through the ice age, or what ever. We are way more efficient at turning food into fat, which probably had a huge advantage in the past. But we no longer have seasonal starva...
[23:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:21] <exec> 08└─Given that there is no quoted material in TFS, one might imagine that it was written by the submitter. Which would mean that one certain Arthur Knackerbracket has opinions on the fascination of animal diversity....
[23:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─Fixed and added paper.
[23:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─That's mostly a problem for viruses. They can't evolve more genes than will fit in their capsoid. A friend argued that triple-protein genes are evidence for the existence of G-d: there are start and stop codons that indicate where transcription into RNA and then into protein are supposed to... wait...
[23:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Less is More: Gene Loss in Evolution - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:28] <exec> 08└─While this exemplifies the "less", it offers no support for the "less is more" - did the loss of genes result in a pregnancy, or what?
[23:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─They do, in fact, show up just fine in vi. (well, vim.) It's always an especially good idea to paste into a plain-text environment before pasting at a command prompt, if you do that sort of thing.
[23:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:56] <exec> 08└─Of course you can combine several ways. For example, one user may be aware of the trailing space method and simply strip all trailing spaces away, but may be unaware of zero-width spaces. While another user might strip zero-width spaces away, but leave trailing spaces intact. If the information is e...
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:58] <exec> 08└─Cut and paste into the SN reply window with spell checking turned on and they immediately become visible as misspelled words. I always run with spellchecker engaged. (Because my spelling is crap). Paste into a text editor and you see a lot of h'3F' insertions.
[23:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─I guess the character set used by default for monospace characters doesn't contain the double-width characters, and the character set used as fallback has a different character width.
[23:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:04] <exec> 08└─If the information is encoded in both ways, then it will survive for both users.
[23:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:08] <exec> 08└─A forum could use this by secretly inserting "This text was copied by $USERNAME" into every post. Which could lead to hilarity.
[23:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:10] <exec> 08└─Much like how governments want to compromise encryption and hence everyone for the sake of the "children" and because "terrorists"? Yea, pretty damn dishonest, but its the fucking status quo.
[23:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:13] <exec> 08└─>Confidential Announcement: ‌‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍‌‌‌‌‍...
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─OFF WITH HIS HEAD! Oh wait, mighta been too late... did they cut off yer head before dumping you in the ocean oh brother from another mother?
[23:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:17] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it might catch a few people early on, but this is the sort of thing that's trivially defeated using find and replace. Also, have we learned nothing about sanitizing our outputs? Nothing should appear in text that isn't visible to the reader for various reasons.
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─Screen capture and paste. But does this give away what processor you are using?
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03speederaser [4049] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─In Firefox and PaleMoon you can see them by right-clicking -> view page source. The inserted string shows as: "& # 8 2 0 3 ;" without the double quotes or the actual spaces inserted.
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:24] <exec> 08└─"uniname -p" (from uniutils by Bill Poser) and select & paste the paragraph in X11. They appear as "00200B E2 80 8B ZERO WIDTH SPACE". They probably would not appear in the spellchecker if they were not placed in the middle of words, only around them. Also one was obvious because the browser...
[23:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Be Careful What You Copy: Invisibly Inserting Usernames Into Text - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─Okay, so we all know that Unicode went off the deep end quite some time ago, but I'm left scratching my head as to why any script would need a zero-width character for *anything*? I could've understood it if these were the left-overs of ascii control characters, but the zero-width space used here is...
[23:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:16] <exec> 08└─Google made its own bed when it publicly announced that GOOG is a liberal company and since then confirmed their position by many signals. The recent attack on shooting videos (which is a perfectly legal pastime in many countries, including the USA) is just the latest example. And now... drumroll......
[23:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:18] <exec> 08└─For some reason, helping China arrest, imprison and torture political dissidents didn't seem to bother these employees at all. Probably because they're both Communists so it's OK.
[23:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Employees on Pentagon AI Algorithms: "Google Should Not be in the Business of War" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:20] <exec> 08└─"Evil" apparently only meant Microsoft and not what they do.
[23:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:50] <exec> 08└─This isn't reddit you Philistine!
[23:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:51] <exec> 08└─15+8+9+15 = 47 47 is short for 1947, the year the aliens landed. Raccoons are intelligent and cute, what better animal to mimic? The aliens are finally executing order 66 as foretold in the Bible, except some uppity priest wanted it to be more ominous with an extra 6. Who knew they'd use a shitty al...
[23:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:36] <exec> 08└─I have been around many of the same people. I have found they actually DO want the things around. But they are embarrassed that they do not know how to use them. Rarely will they admit it. Once I put it in terms they understand they become quite comfortable with the things. Usually begging for advic...
[23:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RMS on a Radical Proposal to Keep Your Personal Data Safe - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:21] <exec> 08└─The idea that you pay and are not tracked will not happen. Remember cable TV was sold to us originally because it had no advertisements. Yet many still pay for it. You are literally paying to be advertised to.
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