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[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:49] <exec> 08└─From what little I could see, all these kits do is make live audio and video feeds to Google. Any AI is at Google, done as a side effect of harvesting even more of the user's lives.
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:51] <exec> 08└─It's ok, kids don't have a right to privacy.
[00:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:53] <exec> 08└─Really?
[00:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:55] <exec> 08└─RLY.
[00:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:20] <exec> 08└─guys who don't have a standing army Why would they when they can just use ours, at our expense?
[00:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:22] <exec> 08└─And the reason for that is idiots who either: 1. Don't vote (and tell others not to vote) or 2. Vote for the dogmatic strong-man who promises to fix everything if they could just get rid of those pesky limits on his power.
[00:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:24] <exec> 08└─while read -r line do echo "$line" | /dev/null done < "${1:-/dev/stdin}"
[00:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:27] <exec> 08└─most Europeans would probably prefer a government-sponsored not-perfectly-private local messaging with strong privacy rules, over some Californian guys with no ethics
[00:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. It looks like TOX is the way to go, being serverless and all. I wish more people would do things this way. Then maybe we can give the tyrants something to really cry about. Still even with this, the service provider can snip you out.
[00:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:07] <exec> 08└─Colluding and rewriting transaction history is much harder (and more expensive) with proof of work.
[00:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:08] <exec> 08└─This is pretty bothersome to me -- yes it is hydro but hydro does not come without costs, particularly salmon. Secondly, as far as energy generation goes, hydro is still pretty good compared to alternatives -- especially coal -- and if the electricity gets used for doing bitcoin mining, that means c...
[00:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:10] <exec> 08└─The problem is how can you prove that I am not 50% of the web of trust (using a bot farm). That's why Proof of Work is so valuable -- it can't be faked.
[00:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, the degradation of marksmanship among Americans! If only there was some national organization which could promote shooting skills, firearms safety, and data eradication.
[00:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:36] <exec> 08└─The frontier is always "nearly limitless" to those who pillage them and leave behind ruin and damnation for future generations who get to visit the tree museum of the redwoods and suffer the cancers of industrialization and mining.
[00:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:48] <exec> 08└─Thread is a fail, time to hit the dank ketamine.
[00:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:49] <exec> 08└─where to get ketamine
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[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─Behind the Thermostat.
[01:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:50] <exec> 08└─Push Button Receive Bacon
[01:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:01] <exec> 08└─Who's going to fix our cars? Build our homes? I like music. I expect you like music too. But who's going to play it? Write cyberpunk novels?
[01:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:03] <exec> 08└─Michael David Crawford doesn't want coding competition.
[01:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, I
[01:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:07] <exec> 08└─K TX BY
[01:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 1661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:39] <exec> 08└─Voting is pointless. TMB just pointed out reality. It DOES NOT MATTER who you elect! It never does. You can take the cleanest, most honest, most ethical, most empathetic man or woman, and 10 minutes after being in office, they will deeply fuck and screw you. Obama was supposed to be the greatest hop...
[01:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:40] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is, I can see you in a room with people wanting to give you lots of money for all that impressive word salad.
[01:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Will Attempt to Recover Falcon 9 Upper Stage With a "Giant Party Balloon" - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:50] <exec> 08└─The trouble here is that the fairings open the same way as all the old disposable fairings, splitting right down the middle. This leaves asymmetric halves. They won't fly well at all. The fairings need to instead split the other way, into a top and bottom. These then self-orient due to inherent stab...
[01:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:23] <exec> 08└─I've got a LiteCoin mining rig. Just one. At the present exchange rate I profit about a hundred dollars per month I'm going to buy a second rig but it will cost far less - Bitmain's rig prices go up and down with the crypto exchange rates. They also gave me a $500 gift certificate Because must must...
[01:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:24] <exec> 08└─Ugh... we're usually pretty clear of them here...but 2 in a row got my attention. "This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town" "Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive?" Maybe its just me but the "This is what happens when.... " pattern is obnox...
[01:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:20] <exec> 08└─I got some shit I really need deleted!
[01:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:22] <exec> 08└─Funny how we're exhorted to back up data regularly because hard drives are fragile and can corrupt data at any moment, or in a span of a few seconds, crash and lose everything. Better run a RAID, too. But, when we want to lose the data, then hard drives are amazingly difficult to clean. If it was so...
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[02:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:49] <exec> 08└─Make kids eat dirt. Make them invincible to common bacteria.
[02:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:50] <exec> 08└─Interesting that this story would come up. The other day I was at a new antiques mall and somewhat surprisingly their restroom had a brand new new-fangled kind of hand dryer. It had a motion sensor, that was nice, and sort of an odd designer shape with a wide narrow vent opening, but - and not kiddi...
[02:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:52] <exec> 08└─Finally, the shit has literally hit the fan.
[02:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:55] <exec> 08└─Going back thirty or forty years ago, when Dyson was still in knee pants, there was a great rivalry between companies selling paper towels for washrooms, and the ones selling cloth roller towels - the ones with a big U loop below the cabinet. And of course, hot air blower companies. The cloth towel...
[02:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:57] <exec> 08└─Typical blower is just too damned noisy, for starters. I have no desire to advertise to everyone in the building that I'm in the bathroom, or that I'm washing my hands after having used the bathroom. Some few of those damned noisy boxes actually hurt the ears. Fek 'em - my hands can drip dry if all...
[02:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─Is that you George Carlin?
[02:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, I forgot to mention those times when the bathroom REALLY takes a dislike to me. The water faucet may deign to see me, and award me with some running water. It stays on for about ten seconds, and cuts off. THEN it refuses to acknowledge my presence. I have one wet hand, I've reached for the soap,...
[02:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:04] <exec> 08└─The blow driers are like a slow youtube video explanation when you want the text you can go through at your own (much faster) speed.
[02:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:18] <exec> 08└─For creative works, it will be generated as necessary, since it takes very little resources to start one. A degree does not help with shitty writing. For fixing cars, obviously people with vocational studies, certainly not STEM graduates.
[02:39:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:31] <exec> 08└─I mean who wouldn't trust the same guys who are saying backdoors can be perfectly secure to handle their private messages?
[02:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:53] <exec> 08└─... and Android phones in their pockets? You know, those ones with Siri and OK Google listening to everything they say. Once upon a time the NSA had to go to a lot of trouble to bug those foreign cabinet meeting rooms.
[02:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:54] <exec> 08└─uTox might be the better option. Let's see how the idea catches on. Getting rid of central servers is a good way to go.
[02:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:39] <exec> 08└─All the rest all simple shell games...
[02:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:40] <exec> 08└─What's needed is a web of trust - a critical mass of validators to sign up and say: yes, this is a valid transaction.
[02:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:42] <exec> 08└─The dream died ...
[02:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:45] <exec> 08└─This mining really won't bring in that many new jobs, will they bring in taxes to cover the costs?
[02:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:47] <exec> 08└─So basically, bitcoin seems to be the worst of everything environmentally and socially, all rolled up into a massive bubble that will hurt a lot of people if (when?) it implodes.
[02:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:45] <exec> 08└─The FBI?
[02:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:46] <exec> 08└─I also seem to recall some harebrained indexing software which stored the indices on a *different* drive, so even if you properly wiped the drive where you'd stored the original files, there was plenty of things left on the drive with the indices. The name/OS of the software escapes me at the moment...
[02:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:48] <exec> 08└─And how do you securely delete the encryption key? What if the disk controller rotates in a different block as you're overwriting the one containing the key?
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:50] <exec> 08└─shred -z /dev/sdb
[02:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 2109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:52] <exec> 08└─It doesn't much matter what data you are using to fill a hard drive. Cat videos, porn, random numbers - data is data. But, it isn't just the data, either. You've got to get the boot sector and the file tables. Everything that logs what the data was has got to go. I'm partial to *nix's dd command. It...
[02:45:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 905 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:16] <exec> 08└─Any factory-like environment which hasn't taken the basic requirements of comfort and hygiene into consideration when designing their business processes is frankly unfit to be doing business. I've worked in several factories, and I can state categorically that none of them tracked nor cared about st...
[02:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:20] <exec> 08└─I wonder why all those atrocities are not reported in the US... Perhaps because the US workers have guns?
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[03:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:05] <exec> 08└─Just Soylent's collective unconscious.
[03:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:06] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't have sold your soul. Didn't you ever watch the Simpsons? They had an episode all about that.
[03:39:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:14] <exec> 08└─From what little I could see, all these kits do is make live audio and video feeds to Google. Any AI is at Google, done as a side effect of harvesting even more of the user's lives.
[03:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:24] <exec> 08└─Soooooo.... Mycroft, but without the whole open source thingy. Wrong! Support open source!
[03:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:26] <exec> 08└─Who's going to fix our cars? Build our homes? I like music. I expect you like music too. But who's going to play it? Write cyberpunk novels?
[03:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:50] <exec> 08└─I notice a lot of people complaining about cryptocurrency mining, but what is the big deal? It's not that harmful to the environment, economy, or local community. It's just heavy electricity usage on cheap land. If they're costing the power utility too much, which probably isn't the case, then charg...
[03:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 3169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:53] <exec> 08└─Yes you could recover data in the before times. Tracks were wide, the world was young, etc. But today on a modern drive reading the data normally is right on the edge of impossible, they are already so unreliable they expect errors and depend on first layer of the error correction stack to make it "...
[03:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:25] <exec> 08└─Rare earth elements are actually not rare. they're more common than iron! The main difference is that they tend to occur spread out and not in concentrated veins that are easy to mine.
[03:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:47] <exec> 08└─Hives normally overproduce queens, so that's not the real problem. The problem is keeping the workers alive. This probably means keeping them away from persistent insecticides. These may or may not directly kill off the bees, but they weaken them and make the hives subject to infection by mites. So...
[03:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:49] <exec> 08└─I'm rather certain that insecticides are a major part of the problem, but do remember that different insecticides affect different insects differently. This one *apparently* affects mites but not bees. Perhaps. The problem comes with multi-drug interactions...which it's really difficult to avoid, si...
[03:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:51] <exec> 08└─I believe that's the neocorticoid pesticide. A part of the problem with that one is that it's persistent. Another part is that it's a slow contact poison...so it can get carried back to the hive. For an analogy, consider the way ants are killed with a syrup based on sweetened arsenic. But I really t...
[03:44:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:18] <exec> 08└─You seem to have missed something. The parts being put into those phones were indeed "genuine" Apple parts. Parts that had failed at some point in time, and were sent back to the factory to be refurbished. Mr. Huseby would have been perfectly justified in uncovering the Apple brand, before installin...
[03:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Bans Sale of Bulk Caffeine to Consumers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:11] <exec> 08└─> Mine handles around 1000mg every single morning; 1500 if I didn't sleep well and need a bit more of a kick to get going. > Don't put on airs. 'nuff said.
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[04:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:15] <exec> 08└─In my local cinema, a modern one, all fancy with a "Scape" screen, they have cheap-arse dyson blade clones that, when the person next to you puts his wet hands in, splash his run-off into your face. Most places in this part of the Baltics are starting to favour returning to good old fashioned paper...
[04:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:16] <exec> 08└─Those various no-touch things work by sensing infrared. Body heat. Yeah, that. So, a few questions: do you see yourself in mirrors? Do you cast a shadow? Does light bother you so much you wouldn't try to cast a shadow? How about some nice garlic bread? Any aversion to a cross or crucifix? Just wond...
[04:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 1445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:35] <exec> 08└─Thanks... saved me the time of fishing through it. I was sure hoping all the AI was done ON THE RASPBERRY. I would sure like to play around with some gesture-sensing stuff I could train for taking cues from me for various things... like calling the police ( and putting ambient room audio on the lin...
[04:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:36] <exec> 08└─Do they? (sorry, real question, I would like to know). In some of the descriptions it includes things like 'download different recognition routines from google', which is rather open ended but does imply somethings. So, does anyone know, does the machine learning routines (not the training of course...
[04:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:12] <exec> 08└─You can take the cleanest, most honest, most ethical, most empathetic man or woman, and 10 minutes after being in office, they will deeply fuck and screw you.
[04:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:13] <exec> 08└─Yet, you call us idiots.
[04:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:16] <exec> 08└─The US should start with a secure private encrypted version of Twitter which the president can use.
[04:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:18] <exec> 08└─now, translate that to proper DCL, my DECbot ;)
[04:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:20] <exec> 08└─Seems that people could just use Signal and be done with it; rather then spend millions of Euros on this. A lot of other applications use the Signal Protocol to achieve end-to-end encryption. I just started using it again after a year or so; it has gotten better and the desktop integration is much b...
[04:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Will Attempt to Recover Falcon 9 Upper Stage With a "Giant Party Balloon" - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:31] <exec> 08└─BFR won't have a disposable fairing AFAIK. Any success in recovering fairings or second stage of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy is icing on the cake for the company, assuming recovering and refurbishing it doesn't cost more than the money spent on the component.
[04:41:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:36] <exec> 08└─Our secure shredding company has a couple of trucks that have a drive/tape shredding portal to their grinder. One of the most wicked things I ever saw was to hand them a box of drives (20+ - a couple of them old IDE's), watch them feed them one by one into the slot whole, hear the grinder crunch, an...
[04:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:15] <exec> 08└─No. Lots and lots and lots of copies of he same humorous cat video, each frame with a few random bits changed so that they won't be deduped. Perhaps 4 or 5 different "humorous cat videos" in a random mix, except that you don't use the same one twice in a row. That way you can reasonably plead stupid...
[04:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if you zero it out and then fill it with cat videos not only will they not be able to recover the data, they'll also get sick of looking at cat videos.
[04:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:19] <exec> 08└─Absolutely correct. With the older drives of the 1990 and bellow it was *kinda* possible.
[04:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:21] <exec> 08└─It does matter. Cat videos are less suspicious.
[04:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:23] <exec> 08└─I have found thermite [wikipedia.org] to be an effective way of rendering hard drives unrecoverable. Exothermic reactions FTW!
[04:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:25] <exec> 08└─With SSDs and their dirty voodoo this advice makes much more sense but the problem still is what if you actually do forget the pass? I wonder whether encrypting SSD with some lame short easy to remember password would do any good. Would it make it harder to recover pieces from the hidden areas?
[04:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 3129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:28] <exec> 08└─I guess what I find so puzzling is why somebody will take so much precaution with a piece of trash, but when it was alive and well, had it ONLINE in a system known to be insecure, and not be raising much of a ruckus about that. I would posit that the drive is much more likely to be hacked, when it w...
[04:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:30] <exec> 08└─Streaming video of some Internet preacher? Just record till the disk is full.
[04:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:32] <exec> 08└─The last I messed with it, Western Digital was working with a technology, PRML I think, (Partial-Response-Maximum_Likihood) where mathematical derivatives were very critical, so much so that the disk stream had to be run through reed-solomon lattice filters to recover the data. Everything depended o...
[04:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:34] <exec> 08└─If I ever saw a +1 Touché post! :)
[04:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Workers Allegedly Pee Into Bottles Out of Fear of Being Punished for Taking Bathroom Breaks - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:06] <exec> 08└─to never order Sprite on Amazon.
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[05:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:14] <exec> 08└─Myth Busters covered this 5 years ago. Paper towels won. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:16] <exec> 08└─That link didn't carry through. https://mythresults.com [mythresults.com]
[05:40:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 703 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:48] <exec> 08└─The dream died because it was a stupid idea all along. Currency is by its very nature a social construction. It's something that has value primarily because everybody says it can be exchanged for other things. If you take out any kind of central authority, then fraud and abuse happen almost immediat...
[05:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:07] <exec> 08└─That's why Proof of Work is so valuable -- it can't be faked.
[05:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:09] <exec> 08└─The cases and power supplies may be more valuable than the miners themselves. If they are not general purpose programmable machines, they will be about as useful as all the old car parts you collected for a car you no longer own. A sunk cost if there ever was one.
[05:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:11] <exec> 08└─Hemocynan above stated it perfectly. and if the electricity gets used for doing bitcoin mining, that means coal will be burned elsewhere for useful work.
[05:42:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:00] <exec> 08└─Like always, it depends. Simply deleting the files doesn't (typically) remove the data. The guy at the computer repair place might undelete them. Overwriting the files once will eliminate them from all real, practical, attacks. This makes you safe from that computer repairman. There are theoreticall...
[05:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:25] <exec> 08└─About the TLA capability.... the most important Top Secret is what's bullshit and what's not. They seem to leak a lot of bullshit - which the uncleared accept as Gospel, and that way are controllable through fear and ignorance.
[05:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:26] <exec> 08└─Trying to cover kiddy porn with kitty porn?
[05:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:28] <exec> 08└─Because everyone and their dog have terabytes of cat videos on their disks and nothing else.
[05:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:31] <exec> 08└─It can take a long time to do it magnetically. If I had a stack of these, I would be tempted to open 'em all up, remove the disks, hand the drives to some high school kid who likes to play with magnets, take the disks to the sidewalk and scuff away as I do a little dance on them. Or hire some teena...
[05:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:33] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether encrypting SSD with some lame short easy to remember password would do any good. Would it make it harder to recover pieces from the hidden areas?
[05:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:22] <exec> 08└─dream market
[05:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ketamine Shows Promise as a Fast-Acting Treatment for Depression - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:23] <exec> 08└─Soylentdeepdarkmarket is better as they provide drugs and all relevent research papers.
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[06:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:47] <exec> 08└─Trying to run a factory in California is nuts. The taxes and regulation are brutal. Lots of places are easier: Texas, Florida, Nevada...
[06:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:49] <exec> 08└─It is why rural areas should float their infrastructure demands themselves. Self sufficient my ass. Read the tax bill to see our hidden welfare queens. They aren’t black and don’t drive Cadillacs.
[06:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:57] <exec> 08└─To prevent this https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Even today people are mostly categorized as a renewable resource, something I find pretty disturbing.
[06:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:05] <exec> 08└─Better, I guess, to get micro, or nano, particles all over your self, than to be the victim of a bathroom Blowdryer. Some, however, could not tell the difference. Ah, The Smell of SoylentNews in the Morning!!! Smells like, . . . smells like napalm and death, actually.
[06:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:28] <exec> 08└─You would think that an antiques place like might actually be able to dig up a vintage hand dryer that actually *works*. They don't make 'em like they used to.
[06:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:30] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think that Dyson are the clones. I think similar dryers were in widespread use in Japan first.
[06:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:50] <exec> 08└─As humans help build AI to the singularity when SkyNet becomes self aware we will find there is no more use for meatbags. Then there will be peace...as soon as the AI can remove the human vermin.
[06:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:52] <exec> 08└─It's ok, kids don't have a right to privacy.
[06:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:54] <exec> 08└─Or CMU Sphinx [github.io]
[06:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Superconducting DARKNESS Integral Field Spectrograph Camera Could Directly Image Exoplanets - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:02] <exec> 08└─By contrast ratio of "10-8" they mean 10⁸ to 1. Welcome to the unicode era. It works.
[06:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:37] <exec> 08└─You are one fucking idiot. You are one of the reasons we have fucked up Trump in the Whitehouse or BREXIT. And if you believe that Syria is better outcome than voting, then you are even more stupid than a fucking idiot. Rising up in revolution, surprisingly, actually does make a substantive differen...
[06:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:32] <exec> 08└─I hope it does not end in Government bailouts. Lately, the Government seems to be the Jonny-On-The-Spot every time a one-percenter needs a bailout.
[06:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:34] <exec> 08└─Nowadays, a transaction may cost 20 dollar. For small amounts, it is less expensive paypal or even a wire transfer.
[06:42:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 1683 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:26] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as magnetic history on a hard drive. Zero it, and you're done. It won't capture things like reallocated sectors, but then neither would a 26-pass random wipe either. Nobody has ever demonstrated being able to tell what was on a hard drive before being zeroed. There was a data...
[06:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:54] <exec> 08└─And how do you securely delete the encryption key? What if the disk controller rotates in a different block as you're overwriting the one containing the key?
[06:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:55] <exec> 08└─Various ways, depending on your needs. 1. Forget the password (of course you used a strong password). 1b. Use raw dm-crypt and forget where you put the key/encrypted partition. 2. Delete the key, which is much smaller than all of the encrypted data so there's a much lower chance of that specific blo...
[06:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Stardaemon [4294] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:36] <exec> 08└─The verdict, the actual legal document, is linked to from the summary. If you click " but Huseby won [documentcloud.org]" in the summary (or here), you'll get one link to a text version and one to a pdf. That's about as much of the "whole story", as you can reasonably expect.
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[07:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:10] <exec> 08└─This is the key issue with exploring the Universe – it is very, very large.
[07:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:12] <exec> 08└─Yet, most of it is empty... and nothing.... lots of nothing.
[07:39:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 1555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:25] <exec> 08└─Typical blower is just too damned noisy, for starters. I have no desire to advertise to everyone in the building that I'm in the bathroom, or that I'm washing my hands after having used the bathroom. Some few of those damned noisy boxes actually hurt the ears. Fek 'em - my hands can drip dry if all...
[07:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:38] <exec> 08└─Actually they are water spot and hand crud stained glasses. Ew. :P I do recall some hand driers that did a good enough job drying. They used a lower fan speed and lots of heat. Although the ones I am thinking of did use push-buttons, making them far from ideal. That was a long time ago back when peo...
[07:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:01] <exec> 08└─I watched their video. It says it works without a cloud and without a net connection, so the processing is local. However all the voice kit does is STT and the Vision kit sounded like it comes with a pre-trained NN which knows a 1000 common objects. It sort of sounded like you could train a new NN,...
[07:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Superconducting DARKNESS Integral Field Spectrograph Camera Could Directly Image Exoplanets - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:09] <exec> 08└─April 1 is over.
[07:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:46] <exec> 08└─versus someone you can sue?
[07:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:47] <exec> 08└─They are not creating something new from scratch. It's based on matrix [matrix.org] and riot.im [about.riot.im]. The french fork can be found on github [github.com] Matrix and Riot are pretty cool. Open, federated, e2e encryption, good support for bridging and more. Check it out! You can take a look...
[07:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:49] <exec> 08└─That's good, because you know, they are probably going to use Riot (https://about.riot.im/) which is an open source implementation of the Matrix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(communication_protocol) )protocol. Translated quote from french and paywalled source https://www.nextinpact.com
[07:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:52] <exec> 08└─I can see you in a room with people wanting to give you lots of money for all that impressive word salad.
[07:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:07] <exec> 08└─Find one documented example of this being done and data being recovered by people who didn't already know what was on the drive. I look high and low. It hadn't been done as of 2008, and drives have gotten more sense since. Does not happen.
[07:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:09] <exec> 08└─You don't want cat videos for that. You want goatse, lemon party, two girls one cup, tubgirl...
[07:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:11] <exec> 08└─Plus, if someone wants to recover your data they'll say "ooh, look, cute cat videos" and forget what they're really there for.
[07:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:13] <exec> 08└─Nobody has ever demonstrated being able to tell what was on a hard drive before being zeroed.
[07:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:16] <exec> 08└─That's a reference which originally goes back nearly 25 years, it's from something like 1995, not 2003. Read the supplementary notes to that for what the story is with current technology.
[07:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:18] <exec> 08└─Oh a laptop, that makes sense. On a server, locking the door to the server root and placing a couple of armed security guards outside is better than any encryption. The servers will be running when the intruders break in, so the decryption key is available in memory, and as long as you don't shut do...
[07:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:20] <exec> 08└─That was true 30 years ago, when a hard drive held a megabyte and was the size of a washing machine. Nowadays, the data is packet so closely that nearby bits overlap unless you read in exactly the right spot, and even then the drive needs error correction to ensure that it actually got the right bit...
[07:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Social Media Site Sina Weibo Reverses Ban on Gay Content Following Backlash - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:40] <exec> 08└─Homosexuality is theorized to be nature's attempt at population control anyway
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[08:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:01] <exec> 08└─Avast! He blows! After him, Starbuck! T'is the White Whale! If only this could have been an Ismael submission! Peter the Thielon, swimming in the oceans of cash the sprunged from the anus of the Paypal. Well to be that it lay to windward. The stench was unbearable, like unto a Sperm Whale dead the...
[08:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:38] <exec> 08└─I'm actually surprised with these low numbers that they found. 60 colonies on a plate in the worst case. If you would just press your hands on a plate you would easily get more colonies. These are the kinds of experiments that you perform during your microbiology laboratory education.
[08:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:40] <exec> 08└─As an experiment some time, shake the water off your hands into the sink 10-12 times. Then use ONE sheet of paper to dry your hands. Throw that sheet away and get another. After using the second sheet, examine it to see just how wet it got. A lot of people instinctively grab a whole bunch of sheets,...
[08:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:04] <exec> 08└─In the video it states that all processing is done locally on the device without an internet connection and not in the Cloud. So No, not just another Google spy feed.
[08:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:52] <exec> 08└─There's an old saying attributed to someone regarded as an exemplar of good judgement that applies here: אַל־תַּ֣עַן כְּ֭סִיל כְּאִוַּלְתֹּ֑ו פֶּֽן־תִּשְׁוֶה־לֹּ֥ו גַם־אָֽתָּה׃ It has been loosely translated into English and re-attri...
[08:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:49] <exec> 08└─It's an experiment unique in the world. Let's see how it plays out.
[08:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:51] <exec> 08└─Sure, it'll end in tears. Just don't let pension funds dump into it and we'll be fine.
[08:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 2503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:20] <exec> 08└─How can you tell? well the reality is that the head will not be exactly aligned on each pass over the track. When designing the servo system, you have got there when it aligns well enough to work reliably for the use case of reading and writing the users's data. If the head was a bit too far in when...
[08:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:21] <exec> 08└─You have been watching Youtube, haven't you?
[08:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 3150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:24] <exec> 08└─The problem is not so much using a STEM to read the data (I've seen that done in the lab, but it was so laborious and had such high error rates that I doubt that you'd be able to do it usefully at a commercial scale), it's the remapped sectors. Old hard disks would report failed sectors to the OS an...
[08:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:26] <exec> 08└─Not true for SSDs. They often do block-level deduplication to extend the life time of individual cells (if you can avoid doing a write, then it doesn't wear out any of the flash). A specific repeated bit pattern is far worse than random data, because you may end up with the drive reporting writes th...
[08:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:28] <exec> 08└─"demonstrated being able to tell what was on a hard drive" I stand by my words. As ever, people posit theoretical attacks, but nobody has ever recovered - with any certainty - data out of the junk. Because you have no way to tell whether that was fresh data, overwritten data, or random magnetic fluc...
[08:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:30] <exec> 08└─Typically, the password is used to protect the key, not as the encryption key (which is probably a 256-bit AES key). A weak password may make it possible to find the key, though if you erase the block containing the weakly encrypted key then the attacker needs to find a copy of that block in a hidde...
[08:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Built its Own Custom Linux Kernel for its New IoT Service - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:41] <exec> 08└─How do we avoid the forced upgrades to Windows 10 and the telemetry updates, including the dreaded kb2952664 if we install the full updates rather than the security only updates?
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[09:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:48] <exec> 08└─I guess the worst part of her job is keeping her mouth shut when her friends ask her "so how are things at work"? (no, I am not sexist, I just collect factoids over the internet. One of them is: Jesus announced his resurrection to a woman, first. So that the news spread more quickly.)
[09:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:49] <exec> 08└─You should be aware that many things you find on the internet are not, in fact, factoids. And even where they are, they are not the result of unbiased sampling, even if you do an unbiased sampling of the internet (which you are unlikely to do, even if you are not actively trying to bias your samplin...
[09:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:51] <exec> 08└─Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I am the keeper of secrets in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the privacy of the users. I pledge my life and honour to the NightWatch, for this night and all the nights to come.
[09:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:54] <exec> 08└─ACK, I will put your un-factual biased-both-ways assertion in my database.
[09:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:37] <exec> 08└─Thermite is what you want. And when in doubt: C4. Shout-out to Mythbusters, of course ;)
[09:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:11] <exec> 08└─Yup. I could ramble at length about constructing correspondences, but I'll just quote Wolfram (emphasis mine): [wolfram.com] Any set which can be put in a one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers (or integers) so that a prescription can be given for identifying its members one at a time is...
[09:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, I don't know. I think a simple +1 Depressing would fit this site well enough.
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[10:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/Long-Night-Watch-Ivan-Southall/dp/0416446108 [amazon.com] End-of-the-world religious cult goes off to an island during world war two. Similarities?
[10:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 2087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:11] <exec> 08└─What should be regulated is experiments with humans (and animals), not research of specific topics. For example, imagine someone develops a great computer model that completely explains how Herpes works, and uses that computer model to develop Herpes vaccines in silico, however without first getting...
[10:40:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:34] <exec> 08└─Considering that their governments are already omnipresent, and that nobody is allowed to forget what happened in WW2 (oversight of databases is in the law), most Europeans would probably prefer a government-sponsored not-perfectly-private local messaging with strong privacy rules, over some Califor...
[10:40:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 412 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:37] <exec> 08└─> And there's fuck all you can do about it. Funny that, I'm pretty sure the French just kicked their two incumbent biggest parties to the curb, and are already busy demonstrating and striking against the changes the newly installed guys are trying to vote in. The Italians, the Greek and the Brits ha...
[10:41:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 833 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:33] <exec> 08└─I really liked this article, 15 pages isn't that long. Either way it was well worth the read I think. It doesn't really focus on the bitcoins etc but on what happens with the community. It really does open up a lot of other questions, such as the one highlighted in the summary. This mining really wo...
[10:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:34] <exec> 08└─I think you mean neonicotinoids not neocorticoids. They are a group of pesticides based on nicotine.
[10:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:35] <exec> 08└─Mate, we're more careful with poisons than you yanks. If you can order it online from here you could probably drink the stuff. My guess would be something in the pyrethrum line. It was originally isolated from some african flower, so bees are possibly resistant to it.
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[11:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:44] <exec> 08└─Non-USA here, who? What was his contribution to the world, instead of being a local(?) radio host? Hell, even NPR doesn't ring a bell for me. It seems to be a radio station.
[11:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:10] <exec> 08└─Due to the size of BFR they require a coastal area/port for now.
[11:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:11] <exec> 08└─Sue a corporation and you'll be bankrupt your whole life.
[11:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:10] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the fuck with the science and R&D, those are a penny-a-dozen, let them fuckers pay through their nose for quadruple GPU prices cause increased demand for cryptocoin mining. After all, those fuckers can contribute now with some tears.
[11:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:11] <exec> 08└─With a limited supply of coins and the requirement that a block value is values of transaction plus the miner's fee, I think you already feel how it will go.
[11:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:13] <exec> 08└─and if the electricity gets used for doing bitcoin mining, that means coal will be burned elsewhere for useful work.
[11:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:16] <exec> 08└─So I can prove I wasted so many joules of energy...and that is valuable?
[11:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:18] <exec> 08└─God knows how much precious time and resources I spent making spooge. Why isn't that valuable too?
[11:42:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:53] <exec> 08└─Nah, the NSA has quantum computers which they can use to work backwards from the sound waves and air currents produced when shooting a hard drive to recreate the patterns of zeros and ones on the platters to 98% accuracy. I have friend who told me. He held the ladder for Neil Armstrong too.
[11:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:54] <exec> 08└─I've already got the TLAs paying too much attention to me just for being a veteran, thanks. I'll stick with less flashy methods.
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[12:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:48] <exec> 08└─People have plans, you know. Someone couldn't submit his taxes, and now he's flown off on a safari trip that has been planned for years. Asshole government. Fucking thieves of life.
[12:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:56] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Kasell [wikipedia.org] You most likely have to be a fan of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! [wikipedia.org], a nationally syndicated radio program, to know who he is.
[12:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:58] <exec> 08└─NPR is the United States' 'National Public Radio'. It's mostly funded by government grants but independent of government control (unless you talk to some conservatives, which call it a propaganda arm of the liberal media). NPR news covers global topics. I listened to Carl Kasell as part of daily ne...
[12:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:00] <exec> 08└─It's kind of interesting to me that we get a sub and story about someone pretty much nobody in the rest of the world would recognize and none about a former first lady dying [cnn.com].
[12:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:03] <exec> 08└─s/some conservatives/anyone not extremely left of center/ It's a fairly polite bias over at NPR by comparison to the majority of US media but it's most assuredly there. The choice of topics, questions, and guests is where you'll see it if you're not inclined to blind yourself to avoid doing so.
[12:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:05] <exec> 08└─In the last two weeks they interviewed a member of the Republican Freedom Caucus and several other Republicans in state and federal governments across the country on things like the tax cuts, the growth of the oil industry and thus state economy of Texas, and the Republican primaries. So specifical...
[12:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:07] <exec> 08└─Barbara was famous for having her ass grabbed by George H.W. within the context of marriage.
[12:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:19] <exec> 08└─I was wondering that to, except that I thought that it was either from that series of Russian fantasy books (1) or I guess they could have taken it from Pratchett (2) or from Babylon 5 (3). I guess they could have just picked it cause it sounded "cool" and not like some creepy Orwellian wet dream. (...
[12:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:20] <exec> 08└─Except in Game of Thrones it's "Night's Watch" and not NightWatch.
[12:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:22] <exec> 08└─Googles privacy team? I'm sure her team is just as busy as Amazons sales prevention team, the Goldman Sachs team for promoting Universal Basic Income and Donald Trumps "Hillary for president" team...
[12:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:46] <exec> 08└─No need to prevent truly informed consent, though.
[12:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:26] <exec> 08└─Often the sheet dispensers are so overfilled, that when you try to pull one you: 1) shred it in many pieces, or 2) pull a shitload of those towels in one go.
[12:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, now you've gone and triggered me... :) So, I go to the bathroom, touchless faucet, soap dispenser, and blower -- awesome, green, save mother nature, touchy feely tree-huggy virtue-signalling goodnes. Great, now after all that I have to GRAB. ON. TO. THE. FUCKING. DOOR HANDLE with BOTH HANDS and...
[12:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superconducting DARKNESS Integral Field Spectrograph Camera Could Directly Image Exoplanets - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:00] <exec> 08└─It's never over for ignorant Anonymous Cowards: https://en.wikipedia.org(physics) [wikipedia.org]
[12:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 2359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:46] <exec> 08└─Actually from the information in the article they don't even seem to be paying that. I even highlighted it in the quote, what they pay for the electricity is below the cost of production. Something the municipality made back when it resold power to Seattle and California -- they still do that at the...
[12:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:47] <exec> 08└─Why only a couple of years? For instance, climate science can be shut down forever. (grin)
[12:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:49] <exec> 08└─For instance, climate science can be shut down forever.
[12:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:26] <exec> 08└─For perspective, I'm talking about the platter drives like on our VAX from the 1970s - measured in kilobytes of capacity and pounds per spool. Also - that's ~20 years before the sum of all knowledge was captured by Google.
[12:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:01] <exec> 08└─Sad thing is, as with most resources, if supply goes up so will the willingness to use more of those resources. No one needs more than 640kb of memory, after all.
[12:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:29] <exec> 08└─I suspect that by itself and in isolation it wouldn't cause the perceived effects at the typically encountered dosage.
[12:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:31] <exec> 08└─Whatever it was, it wasn't licensed for use in the USA - now, I believe you're right that it's probably safer than anything Bayer puts out, but the point is: regulations are a farce, and it could just as easily be a lead-mercury-arsenic combo mixed with DDT. Anecdote: back as recently as the 1970s,...
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[12:47:19] <exec> 08└─I don't read that language, so ...
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[13:38:47] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the historic TRUMP TAX CUTS, today marks the last time the American people will file taxes under a complicated & outdated tax system. Our Tax Cuts– the largest in American history– will save YOU money, increase opportunity & create more JOBS for American workers #TaxDay [twitter.com]
[13:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:48] <exec> 08└─I think it's interesting that H&R block was marketing your new tax cuts to me while I was filing. I'm supposed to get a refund of $900 next year, according to their propaganda. I'm going to prepare to feel an extreme level of not surprise when the actual amount I've been taxed stays about the same....
[13:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, they're fairly good about at least letting people they disagree with have a say. However they usually pull in several times as many voices to oppose them, though not necessarily in the same segment. The questions they ask and how they steer the discussion when they do have an opposition voice i...
[13:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:04] <exec> 08└─NPR is too right-wing for me. They support imperialist wars and male genital mutilation. They can go to hell.
[13:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:06] <exec> 08└─RIP Carl Kasell!! Great showman, taken from us much too soon. But, the show goes on. My favorite segment is called The Trump Dump. Brand new segment that's all about me!
[13:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:20] <exec> 08└─Just a PR stunt. Maybe she thinks she has an important position as a woman in technology, and a privacy team in a company dedicated to violating privacy is a great place to put diversity hires.
[13:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:22] <exec> 08└─Like Nazis having a "Jewish Relations Committee"
[13:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03danaris [3853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:28] <exec> 08└─I've seen some advice that says shake off 12 times, then take 1 sheet and fold it in quarters. That seems like it's probably better than the standard way, but still always leaves my hands damp. I have, for years, taken 2 sheets together, dried, then taken a third sheet, and finished drying. The thir...
[13:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 1676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:29] <exec> 08└─There are bacteria in the air. And there is no guarantee even when people wash their hands that they are washing them properly. Starting a fan doesn't kill the bacteria, it moves them around. It is doubtful that the heating element of the hand dryer warms the air enough for long enough even as it pa...
[13:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:45] <exec> 08└─The best feature of this is the open-source nature of it, while having the code completely under reasonable intellectual property control measures such that it is proprietary. Also, by default the lines that are read are immediately translated to The Cloud. When processed the electrons tunneling thr...
[13:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:46] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware Signal supported Reasonable Encryption [theinquirer.net] - probably a prerequisite for France, see above.
[13:42:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ese002 [5306] 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:21] <exec> 08└─The region’s five huge hydroelectric dams, all owned by public utility districts, generate nearly six times as much power as the region’s residents and businesses can use. Most of the surplus is exported, at high prices, to markets like Seattle or Los Angeles, which allows the utilities to sell...
[13:42:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 743 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:28] <exec> 08└─This is pretty bothersome to me -- yes it is hydro but hydro does not come without costs, particularly salmon. Secondly, as far as energy generation goes, hydro is still pretty good compared to alternatives -- especially coal -- and if the electricity gets used for doing bitcoin mining, that means c...
[13:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:30] <exec> 08└─NYC Subway preachers are better.
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[14:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:46] <exec> 08└─He can take over for Psycho Joe Scarborough. Perfect match to Low I.Q. Crazy Mika. This guy's on his 3rd face, she's on her 2nd. Good Luck Jerome!
[14:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:48] <exec> 08└─That's all.
[14:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:50] <exec> 08└─> The 43 year old remained in a hospital in Paris without a face for two months while a compatible donor was sought. OK, something to add to the list of things I never want to experience. > "The first [face] I accepted immediately. This time it's the same." Having a hard time imagining a guy who'd b...
[14:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:52] <exec> 08└─What idiot doctor gave antibiotics for a cold virus?
[14:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:03] <exec> 08└─So millions of users filing at the last minute caused the site to buckle-under and freak-out, so the solution is to give them one extra day? So the same thing happens tomorrow? Oh, but we threw more hardware at it this time! Because THAT fixes everything. /endRant
[14:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:05] <exec> 08└─Someone couldn't submit his taxes, and now he's flown off on a safari trip that has been planned for years.
[14:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:07] <exec> 08└─The capitalists think they own a portion of my paycheck so they can start World War 3.
[14:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─They probably just had to clear the log files.
[14:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:12] <exec> 08└─Anyone know what kind of hardware is involved? My guess is legacy IBM mainframe(s) but I really have no idea.
[14:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:14] <exec> 08└─> We should only have property tax and sales tax. I take it you don't own property? You probably make a good salary, but rent a small place to live?? I'd be OK with paying a sales tax once, when I buy a house, this might even cut down on real estate speculation & flippers. But, why do I have to keep...
[14:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:16] <exec> 08└─Trust me, this is going to happen less and less. I inherited a mess. Like the $5 billion website for Obamacare, which never worked. Still doesn't work. But we're erasing A LOT of Obama stuff from our websites. Simplifying so they work much better & faster. It's what we do.
[14:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:33] <exec> 08└─For a guy who knows more about the workings of this site than most anyone else, you tell us how a story on Bush dying is supposed to get posted here when she had the temerity to die after Kasell? The newswire yesterday afternoon had the Kasell story (because he was so rude to die earlier in the day)...
[14:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:34] <exec> 08└─He made some great voicemail recordings [npr.org] too.
[14:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─In your opinion.
[14:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:53] <exec> 08└─It's a strike force. Wherever there is privacy, they will strike mecilessly until there is none left.
[14:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:54] <exec> 08└─Someone has to stop Google's competitors from accessing their datasets without paying.
[14:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:56] <exec> 08└─Not a very good name to choose. Very ominous name for any B5 fan. The Psi Corps Is Your Friend. Trust The Corps!
[14:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:59] <exec> 08└─I think not as busy as Trump's Fact Checker team.
[14:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:01] <exec> 08└─The corp is mother; the corp is father.
[14:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:03] <exec> 08└─Nice. Makes me think of Robert Frost, and "miles to go before I sleep". Of course, I don't need much of an excuse to think of Robert, LOL. If Rudyard Kipling or Robert Frost didn't write something about it, then it's probably irrelevant. :^)
[14:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Insulator to Conductor in a Flash - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:11] <exec> 08└─Photonics or some novel material increases clock speeds to THz levels. The new thermal properties from the above allow cores to be stacked and operating without melting the chip. Thousands or tens of thousands of cores appear where there were 4-18 before. Such a scenario would be good for both singl...
[14:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:22] <exec> 08└─My understanding is the external requirements make this location, within the port of LA, good in this instance. It's got... * Deepwater port access - It's only a matter of time before you see open ocean launches of this kit. * Lots of warehouse space available - They almost ran out of storage...
[14:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:41] <exec> 08└─Woosh! (You illiterate boob)
[14:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah? Are we insulting people for not responding affirmatively to Douglas Adams references? We could also talk about the science instead of referencing old sci-fi.
[14:40:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:54] <exec> 08└─Finally, the shit has literally hit the fan.
[14:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:17] <exec> 08└─No, none of the above. I have no idea why the sensors can sometimes see me, and other times not. My body temperature isn't below normal. No, I'm not a vampire. I'm not a lizard person. Beats hell out of me. I think the tech is faulty. The blower guy will tell you that I'm faulty. All I know for sure...
[14:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:43] <exec> 08└─I thought the customary response was NO U. Though I also would have accepted a "I don't believe it!" for the follow-on "Habeeb it!" K TX BY seems like a c-c-combo breaker, but you also didn't declare a c-c-combo breaker.
[14:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:37] <exec> 08└─The Russians would be displeased with the phone being taken away. I mean the unsecured personal Android phone.
[14:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:39] <exec> 08└─Follow up Q&A: How are the messages transmitted? Just like how you would normally share cat videos across the internet. How do you retrieve the message from the video? And what? Break the encryption?
[14:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─I even highlighted it in the quote, what they pay for the electricity is below the cost of production.
[14:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:47] <exec> 08└─This is related to what I came to say. I'm patiently waiting for the mining bubble to burst so I can finally pick up some good graphics cards. It probably won't be pretty for the stock price of NVIDIA, though.
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[15:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:45] <exec> 08└─Does Facebook even offer a way to "opt-out" of facial recognition so you cannot get auto-tagged at all?
[15:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:46] <exec> 08└─no. but i want in on the lawsuit
[15:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:58] <exec> 08└─Saw the same thing. Im sure it turns out antibiotics actually do help in peventing sequele like pnemonia and all the "dont give antibiotics for a cold" is just another layer of bs.
[15:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:17] <exec> 08└─I take it you don't own property?
[15:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:18] <exec> 08└─Hahahahaha, what a load of buuulllshit! Maybe some people get that much with unemployment for a short while, but no one gets $40k a year in assistance outside some very extreme cases. It 100% helps people, don't lie. You are truthful about it trapping people though, but that is a problem created by...
[15:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:20] <exec> 08└─Let's see, who was president on April 15, 2017? Trump, yes. And there was no problem with the IRS's Internet presence then. Or the year before, or the one before that. But this year, it breaks? Seems to me that the current administration, not the previous one, is showing their incompetence and carel...
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─I don't want "accountability." I've seen how "accountability" causes more problems than it solves. That's why I want UBI. It's the very opposite of accountability: no strings attached. You must not know a lot of people in the situation I described. Their housing is paid for from my tax dollars. Thei...
[15:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:42] <exec> 08└─No shit, Sherlock. It's a fairly disinterested opinion though as I only listen to NPR when The Roomie forces it upon me during road trips. I prefer music.
[15:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:43] <exec> 08└─For a guy who knows more about the workings of this site than most anyone else, you tell us how a story on Bush dying is supposed to get posted here when she had the temerity to die after Kasell?
[15:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:46] <exec> 08└─One is interesting while the other is not.
[15:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:48] <exec> 08└─Angry shitbird complains stupidly, annoyed reply calls bird names, angry bird is confused. And apparently still stupid.
[15:40:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:01] <exec> 08└─Googles privacy team? I'm sure her team is just as busy as Amazons sales prevention team, the Goldman Sachs team for promoting Universal Basic Income and Donald Trumps "Hillary for president" team...
[15:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:11] <exec> 08└─And, the Legion is the fatherland? "Although it is part of the French military, it is the only unit of the military that does not swear allegiance to France, but to the Foreign Legion itself." https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:13] <exec> 08└─They do via contract. You can not be a French citizen though. This allows France to have low protests due to military conflicts. No citizens were hurt in the making of this intervention. After your seven years you are given the option of a new identity as a French citizen and even a not so bad retir...
[15:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Insulator to Conductor in a Flash - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:22] <exec> 08└─We truly live in the age of computer. The age of cyber. It's replaced our security guards (not my terrific Secret Service). It's about to replace our drivers (great job, Uber!). The guys in the warehouse can't stop for a piss, because they're competing with cyber. The cyber porn is starting -- no ac...
[15:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Insulator to Conductor in a Flash - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:24] <exec> 08└─We can't make computers much faster; we simply can't make the vacuum tubes much smaller!
[15:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:45] <exec> 08└─Pentatic Hexameter
[15:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:46] <exec> 08└─Just don't let them create Biotics.
[15:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:33] <exec> 08└─Well, the winner would depend on who is funding the study. I tried to find a CDC study on this, but the best I can find is a bunch of articles saying any drying is better than nothing, wet hands spread bacteria more than dry ones. But that is kind of obvious. https://www.cleanlink.com
[15:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:34] <exec> 08└─Quick question: Can Vampires use the touchless faucets and dryers?
[15:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces Two Updated "AIY" (DIY AI) Kits - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, I am trying to find more about the "Vision Bonnet". Will probably just go buy one to to see.
[15:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superconducting DARKNESS Integral Field Spectrograph Camera Could Directly Image Exoplanets - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─The ultimate location is Mauna Kea, and the Canaries? Except for being limited to half the sky, the interior of Antarctica is an excellent location for telescopes-- high and very dry, and while not all that accessible, an order of magnitude more accessible than space. But I suppose that if this is p...
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[16:38:47] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:47] <exec> 08└─The class of people in question is Facebook users ... any person in that group could be entitled to compensation.
[16:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:49] <exec> 08└─You: I want to opt out. FB: OK, who is it that wants to opt out? You: (provides some identifying information) Seriously cannot see the problem here? It must be opt-IN! Default deny. Here's a photo of my left big toe. Please do not hit it with a hammer. Also, here's a photo of my right big toe....
[16:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:51] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how these things work, but I imagine you could start your own class-action lawsuit for "non-Facebook users for whom Facebook created and stored a face template"? Possibly with better chances of winning and/or more damages, as you didn't agree to have anything to do with Facebook in the...
[16:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:53] <exec> 08└─Me too. Never had FaceTwit. No doubt have been tagged in photos uploaded by others. I have no option to get Facebook to stop tagging me and following me around the web. (Well: uMatrix) But alas, I'm in the wrong state.
[16:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:55] <exec> 08└─Millions of fb users willingly became Judas' Iscariots.
[16:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:28] <exec> 08└─You can always mail the check on 17th. Tax calculations of people that go on safaris are handled by their CPAs.
[16:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:30] <exec> 08└─As soon as everyone gets extra money, prices will rise to eat that difference. You have to fix the prices first.
[16:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:54] <exec> 08└─Not really. Neither were especially interesting to most of the world. Babs was unarguably more interesting to $world than Carl though, since most of $world had never heard of him.
[16:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:56] <exec> 08└─Was that supposed to rile me up or something? You might want to go practice up on /. or one of the chans before you try trolling here. You'll only end up mocked if you don't.
[16:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:58] <exec> 08└─Oh noes not mockery! Guess you troll so much you just assume others are doing the same. I was observing and offering commentary about the reality of the situation.
[16:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Insulator to Conductor in a Flash - 1922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:31] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention that. Nanoscale "vacuum tubes" have been proposed as a successor to silicon transistors: https://spectrum.ieee.org [ieee.org] We’ve been working to develop yet another candidate to replace th...
[16:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:42] <exec> 08└─What's opposite (34, 242)? Madagascar? Maybe point it to a more populated region, say Oman or UAE? Launching a ballistic BFR at Bandar Abbas or the Khyber Pass might be .. misinterpreted ..
[16:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:42] <exec> 08└─Someone will say "those stainless steel door handles are self-sanitizing!" Yeah, except that only works if every single person washes their hands thoroughly before grabbing it with their filthy shit-hooks. As I learned from homebrewing, sanitization is only effective if the surface is completely cle...
[16:42:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:27] <exec> 08└─Backup just in case someone doesn't believe you: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Encryption under fire in Europe as France and Germany call for decrypt law [techcrunch.com]
[16:44:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03draconx [4649] 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:50] <exec> 08└─Or just give the platters to a pre-teen relative who will think they're nifty and ensure the unrecoverability of your data within a few minutes.
[16:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:52] <exec> 08└─Funny how we're exhorted to back up data regularly because hard drives are fragile and can corrupt data at any moment, or in a span of a few seconds, crash and lose everything.
[16:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:54] <exec> 08└─I'm much more concerned about user error where *I* accidentally all my data, than my filesystem suddenly deciding to eat itself. But that's why I'm on ext4, not btrfs, after btrfs ate itself twice in the space of a month or two when I tried it years ago.
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[17:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:44] <exec> 08└─Music can intensify the effects of adrenaline. Try it yourself. If you don't have a really fast car, or a crotch rocket, then beg, borrow, or steal one for a joyride. (On second thought, stay away from the crotch rockets, unless you have experience with them.) Light that fire, right after you plug i...
[17:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:45] <exec> 08└─and swallows your ass whole
[17:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:48] <exec> 08└─self-medicated https://www.erowid.org [erowid.org]
[17:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it seems a bit odd that it only includes Facebook users in Illinois.
[17:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:02] <exec> 08└─Found it on El Reg: http://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] Seems Illinois passed a Biometric Information Privacy Act in 2008. Now the big question is, why haven't other states or the U.S. congress also passed such a law? In...
[17:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:05] <exec> 08└─Only because Illinois passed a law which is what the lawsuit is based on.
[17:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─It's about secondary bacterial infection which takes over a few days after the virus spreads.
[17:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:19] <exec> 08└─Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant"
[17:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:21] <exec> 08└─Man, the lengths some people will go to to avoid Facebook photo tagging. (Joking aside, that condition sounds terrible, hope the second transplant holds.)
[17:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:11] <exec> 08└─Being known to the world != interesting. There are a load of pop musicians I am aware of through no fault of my own and I find them thoroughly uninteresting. I didn't know of Carl either yet just knowing what he did I am 99.9% sure I would find his life more interesting than Barbara's. She did promo...
[17:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:12] <exec> 08└─Honestly, most people will go "Meh!" about both of them. But one of the two had a hilarious and informative show.
[17:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:15] <exec> 08└─> s/some conservatives/anyone not extremely left of center/ I just wish people with affinities to the Republicans acknowledged how far to the right their party has drifted, dragging "the center" with them. Trump fits perfectly with the European extreme-right, Hillary would be too right-wing for many...
[17:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 2636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:40] <exec> 08└─Google, and privacy. Several posts have mocked the idea that Google respects privacy. I chuckled, some of them are funny. And, Google gets further and further away from their old "Don't be evil" motto. They aren't squeaky clean, that's for sure. But - overall, Google is a helluva lot more privacy co...
[17:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:41] <exec> 08└─How can you not trust an organization set up by the Ministry of Peace? Aren't you loyal to President Clark? ;)
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:04] <exec> 08└─Let's start with Florida. Most of the SpaceX rockets launch from there anyway. The area right around Cape Canaveral is great. Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, and Miami all work too. Then there is Texas. SpaceX is building a launch pad there. Houston is an obvious place, but the coast is long. Then th...
[17:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:06] <exec> 08└─Urban leftists vote for welfare. If they want it, they should pay for it. Rural areas shouldn't have to pay for stuff they vote against.
[17:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:19] <exec> 08└─I would love a herpes vaccine. Although herpes it self is a very minor inconvenience, the social stigma is huge. STD tests (or STI tests) do not typically look for herpes because it's so common and minor. So you could be about to sleep with someone, they say they were tested last month, but they cou...
[17:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:09] <exec> 08└─one bathroom on the entire campus where I work has one of these: http://www.stepnpull.com [stepnpull.com] which is absolutely awesome: no need to touch the door handle after cleaning one's hands, at all, no matter whether there are paper towels available or not. Trying to convince people to install...
[17:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:33] <exec> 08└─Nobody is gonna mention that pipe with /dev/null on the other side? Wrong redirector man
[17:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Will Attempt to Recover Falcon 9 Upper Stage With a "Giant Party Balloon" - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:45] <exec> 08└─Helium is, indeed, a limited resource on Earth. Most of the Helium we get (I believe essentially all) is a side effect of natural gas production. When that stops, no more Helium. I'm not sure that it's recovered during fracking, but it ought to be. IIUC, essentially all the Helium on Earth is the re...
[17:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:44] <exec> 08└─We looked at this story when it came out, but some don't think Bitcoin is not harmful to the environment [cbsnews.com]. "If you can pay for it then it's OK," doesn't necessarily make it ethically fine. I'm not sure I buy into it or not - I've felt both ways about it (if it is measurable as a fractio...
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that looks better. I couldn't remember the exact term, and for some reason when I looked in Google it didn't show up.
[17:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plight of the Bees Hits Unaware Businesses - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:31] <exec> 08└─I forget the exact name, but there's one insecticide in particular that has been linked to CCD, banned in Europe, etc.
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[18:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:55] <exec> 08└─The mechanism they describe seems to indicate that the music just has an independent effect on the blood pressure, that adds to the one of the medication. This is something very different to intensifying the effect of the medication. The latter means that you don't get the effect if you only listen...
[18:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:57] <exec> 08└─Radar love? Ok, I had to re-listen to it and it does have a good beat to it, but still not what I'd consider speed demon music. Then you have Enya as "drug music"??? The point of the article is that our auditory nerves have an impact on other aspects of our physiology beyond the ear. Even if you've...
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:59] <exec> 08└─I don't what that crap kids nowdays call "music" is, but it does the exact opposite of lowering my blood pressure.
[18:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─I guess your parents said the same about the stuff you listened to in your youth.
[18:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:18] <exec> 08└─That explains the "only in Illinois" part, but not the "only Facebook users" part. It should have been "anyone in Illinois whose facial data was stored and analyzed by Facebook".
[18:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:19] <exec> 08└─This may be due to specifics of the law. Hypothesis: the law doesn't anticipate that Evil Corp would also track and abuse the personal info of NON-USERS of its platform.
[18:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─Remember this one folks! While we're all sitting around patting each other on the back for seeing FB for what it was and never signing up remember one thing: They have a profile on all of us anyway! And they sold that profile, illegally, and without any form of consent from you, to political campaig...
[18:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:37] <exec> 08└─1. To avoid any confusion about it being his second or third face. 2. To trigger one particular pedant.
[18:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:01] <exec> 08└─@realDonaldTrump Forgive the off-topic comment, but quick question about the whole bump-stock thing; Since you have a history of striking down (at least) two regulations for every new one put in-place, how about chopping-out a few of those restrictions from the Hughes Amendment? There's a line in th...
[18:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:02] <exec> 08└─I don't necessarily love your President, but I somehow don't think running the infrastructure of the IRS computer systems is anywhere on his radar screen, or influenced by any of his policies. Most likely this falls under the general category of "shit happens".
[18:40:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:15] <exec> 08└─In the last two weeks they interviewed a member of the Republican Freedom Caucus and several other Republicans in state and federal governments across the country on things like the tax cuts, the growth of the oil industry and thus state economy of Texas, and the Republican primaries. So specifical...
[18:40:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:49] <exec> 08└─It's a strike force. Wherever there is privacy, they will strike mecilessly until there is none left.
[18:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:59] <exec> 08└─First thing that I thought of... Pretty ironic to use the name of an organization in Babylon 5 that was created to spy on everyone. And one wonders how many geeks there are at google that would recognize the significance. But they had nothing to do with Psi Corps. As mentioned earlier they were part...
[18:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe it depends on how much longer a transpacific flight is than a transatlantic flight. Los Angeles - (rocket) - Dubai - (plane) - Frankfurt, for example. If you'd divide the world into four orange slices, starting from the meridian of Los Angeles, then: - slice 1 (Americas) is cheapest/quickest t...
[18:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:37] <exec> 08└─Herpes is also implicated in the development of at least *some* cancers. So it *can* have quite harmful results. But, yes, it's usually trivial.
[18:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:52] <exec> 08└─macron? are you fucking serious?
[18:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Building Whatsapp-Like Service to Avoid Privacy Breaches - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:53] <exec> 08└─"Who knew that hype wasn't reality? Who knew?" anyone with half a brain? they pick some no name politician from one of the most politically corrupt places in the country and promote the ever loving shit out of him and retarded ass slaves take him seriously. you people are beyond help.
[18:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Will Attempt to Recover Falcon 9 Upper Stage With a "Giant Party Balloon" - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:06] <exec> 08└─I'm confused by the balloon idea, they need to fill the balloon with something, some gas, right? Anything that they have to take up with them is heavy, so the obvious choice is to just use atmospheric air. But then, why not just use a parachute? Then you only need to pack the top half of the balloon...
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[19:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meteorite Diamonds Point to Destruction of an Early Solar System Proto-Planet - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:46] <exec> 08└─http://thiaoouba.com/phaeton.html [thiaoouba.com] There are other variants on the idea: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net [bibliotecapleyades.net]
[19:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteorite Diamonds Point to Destruction of an Early Solar System Proto-Planet - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is pseudoscience out there. Protoplanets are nothing special.
[19:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteorite Diamonds Point to Destruction of an Early Solar System Proto-Planet - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:49] <exec> 08└─Named "Lucy"?
[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteorite Diamonds Point to Destruction of an Early Solar System Proto-Planet - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─No, "Megarockhard".
[19:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:05] <exec> 08└─The rushing noise was the sound of my point flying over your head :)
[19:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:06] <exec> 08└─Get pumped, old man Raise that heart rate
[19:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:27] <exec> 08└─Me too. Never had FaceTwit. No doubt have been tagged in photos uploaded by others.
[19:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:28] <exec> 08└─If I see you on the sidewalk I'm going to sue you for gathering biometric information about my ugly face with your brain. How dare you not first ask me whether I want you to recognize me facially. If you store my face template in your wetware I'm gonna get financial recompense! And if you tell your...
[19:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:10] <exec> 08└─Welfare that doesn't really help anybody. The welfare from my income taxes goes into programs that trap people on government assistance. I've spoken to a number of people who don't bother looking for work, because they'll lose their benefits. They're getting paid from my taxes roughly the equivalent...
[19:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:11] <exec> 08└─redundancy soo hard
[19:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:14] <exec> 08└─there's nothing ok about property tax. it means you never own your property. you fail to bring in enough new money in your old age, but you paid off you house and land and grow your own food, etc? tough shit. some piece of shit pig comes to take it all from you. the whole idea is completely ridiculo...
[19:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Gives Taxpayers One-Day Extension After Payment Site Crashes - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:16] <exec> 08└─oh yeah, welfare and government housing has done wonders for the black community. just ask any roadside memorial.
[19:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:46] <exec> 08└─It's his voice, of course, that i remember fondly from the days when i listened to NPR nonstop because i was too poor for any other entertainment. Alas, when NPR (!) Jumped on the bandwagon to sell the invasion of Iraq, they slipped away and became dead to me. But those last days of real news, deliv...
[19:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:14] <exec> 08└─Oh thanks Captain Anal!
[19:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:16] <exec> 08└─Who could criticize Google for privacy violations when they have a whole division that is dedicated to protecting privacy? You are probably a sexist if you do. Once they replace her with a black tranny you'll really be screwed.
[19:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:18] <exec> 08└─That is what makes it so creepy, the fact -everyone- at Google would know where the name came from because someone in every working group would be a B5 fan. Everyone would instantly understand the meaning of the codename and thus correctly infer the actual mission of the group without it ever needin...
[19:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Launches Criminal Probe Into Unauthorized Herpes Vaccine Research - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:56] <exec> 08└─i don't need some useless, authoritarian sack of shit trying to protect me from my own decisions. I am not a client or a slave of the state, even though the state says otherwise. you either have a right or you don't. you are either free or you are not. you are either committing fraud or using force...
[19:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:46] <exec> 08└─Nope. They can't cross running water. Makes me wonder what happens when they go to take a leak...
[19:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:48] <exec> 08└─Wait, so I'm the only one who uses her foot to open the door? Either with a sort of slow-motion crescent kick or simply wedging the toes of one shoe in the handle and pulling back? Huh...
[19:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the correction... Here's one of the links you mentioned: https://www.vidarholen.net [vidarholen.net] - which again reasserts OP with data. Cite: Wright, C.; Kleiman, D, & Sundhar S. R. S.: (2008) "Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controv...
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[20:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:46] <exec> 08└─The Professor adds [newsweek.com]: Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. Fuck outta here with your nice words.
[20:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─When Bush Sr. took office the joke was something like, "After taking office, one of President Bush's first executive orders was to have his wife's face put on the $1 bill." Came back when Bush Jr. took office, s/wife/mother/;
[20:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:14] <exec> 08└─Speed demon music? [youtube.com] Personally, I had to pull this one off of my car's playlist as it caused me to hit those windy mountain passes [too] hard.
[20:39:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:24] <exec> 08└─You: I want to opt out. FB: OK, who is it that wants to opt out? You: (provides some identifying information) Seriously cannot see the problem here? It must be opt-IN! Default deny. Here's a photo of my left big toe. Please do not hit it with a hammer. Also, here's a photo of my right big toe....
[20:39:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how these things work, but I imagine you could start your own class-action lawsuit for "non-Facebook users for whom Facebook created and stored a face template"? Possibly with better chances of winning and/or more damages, as you didn't agree to have anything to do with Facebook in the...
[20:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:37] <exec> 08└─You don't understand the difference between using technology to conduct mass surveillance on the populace and someone seeing you in public? You don't see how that data could be used to abuse people in a myriad of ways that couldn't be done if someone merely spotted you in a public place? Ugh...
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:38] <exec> 08└─You never heard of East Germany and the Stasi? Ugh...
[20:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:40] <exec> 08└─East Germany and the Stasi tried all sorts of abuses. But they didn't have the tech to scale up to billions, almost effortlessly. When the next Stasi takes power, we are all pwned. And, well, you know the only way to get unpwned, right? Nuke and pave. You can't dig your way out of it.
[20:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's those damn facts...the "right wing" in the US has gone so completely fucking nutbar that even daring to state perfectly innocuous facts gets all the little nutbars (like you...) frothing at the mouth. Or beak in your case.
[20:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:58] <exec> 08└─Uzzard is the little-known, secret, brown Angry Bird. When you launch him out of the slingshot, he tells all the other birds to go fuck themselves and just flies off the screen without actually hitting anything you aimed him at, though the more or less random shower of birdshit can occasionally demo...
[20:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:00] <exec> 08└─I just wish people with affinities to the Republicans acknowledged how far to the right their party has drifted, dragging "the center" with them.
[20:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:03] <exec> 08└─There are no wings anymore. We have neither liberals nor conservatives as a majority of either party. We have insane shitheads who vote D and idiotic shitheads who vote R.
[20:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:05] <exec> 08└─At the time that was posted I was simply amused. I am a bit cranky now though. I got distracted by code and missed my nap.
[20:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:07] <exec> 08└─Being known to the world != interesting.
[20:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:09] <exec> 08└─If you say so. I prefer tunes to talking heads. I've yet to listen to one who managed more than one interesting, new idea every third or fourth show. Mostly they're dim-witted, over-complicating the issue, or just plain wrong.
[20:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:11] <exec> 08└─Fine, then let's compare to the US of only 50 years ago. #zerograspofreality
[20:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:14] <exec> 08└─You do know hashtags used unironically around here are going to get whatever you said ignored, yes?
[20:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:44] <exec> 08└─Google is a helluva lot more privacy conscious than say - Facebook. THAT company puts your ass on the auction block, routinely.
[20:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:46] <exec> 08└─There's another fictional NightWatch, though, which said something very different [youtube.com]: As the name implies, you must also be watchful. Peace can be made or broken with a gun, a word, an idea, even a thought. Now, those who work against peace sow the seeds of discontent. They plant false st...
[20:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:48] <exec> 08└─As a business, its common sense to actively diversify the companies you depend on as much as you can. A business should take care to avoid too much reliance on a single vendor or supplier; and so too should individuals -- even if they are a great vendor right now. It will go to 'hell in a handbasket...
[20:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─I think he mentioned this but that your data set is anonymous. Lacks a name to refer.
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[20:42:15] <exec> 08└─You make zero sense here.
[20:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Will Attempt to Recover Falcon 9 Upper Stage With a "Giant Party Balloon" - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:59] <exec> 08└─Giant Cryonic containers for it. The larger the container and the smaller the surface area it can heat through the cheaper you can store it over time thanks to economy of scale. If we started doing that we could have enough helium to provide for any major industrial use until we are in a position to...
[20:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Using Cat Videos Effective for Overwriting Sensitive Data on a Hard Drive? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:41] <exec> 08└─People Don't Get Computers. I think we're all a little solipsistic here about this, kind of implicitly assuming everyone has at least some bare basic knowledge of their computers and how the parts inside work. Nope. It's seriously worse than cars with these people, which is weird since a computer is...
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[21:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:57] <exec> 08└─"She was over-privileged, so this is working out well for her."
[21:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─You can't be a "war criminal" unless you lose a war to a democracy. If you win, obviously you get to decide who is a war criminal. Of course you aren't a war criminal! If you lose to a non-democracy, you may get killed but you won't be a war criminal. The non-democracy has no need to bother with the...
[21:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:01] <exec> 08└─Many of her remarks suggested dog-whistle racism.
[21:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:03] <exec> 08└─It wasn't racism if the dog-whistle was used on everybody, now was it? :)
[21:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:05] <exec> 08└─That's offensive to former President Washington.
[21:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─Politically, I have little if anything to agree with any of the Bushes about anything. I think they're the sort of people that could and did kill thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of people outside of the US for personal financial gain, and that doesn't make you my friend. Barbara Bus...
[21:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meteorite Diamonds Point to Destruction of an Early Solar System Proto-Planet - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─Protoplanets are nothing special.
[21:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:35] <exec> 08└─Led Zeppelin vs Any band of today. Joan Jett vs Katie Perry. Pink Floyd? The Who? Janis? The Doors? Bowie? Eagles? Could keep going. And it is worse with many country singers. Patsy? Merle? Cash? George? Vs Kenny chesney(sp?) Hell Wham blows away most new shit.
[21:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Facial Recognition Faces Class-Action Suit - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:01] <exec> 08└─Sort of like with a "friend" sends you an email greeting card through some sketchy web site. Gee, thanks!
[21:40:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:11] <exec> 08└─Having a hard time imagining a guy who'd be picky in this situation.
[21:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:18] <exec> 08└─The Joker in the Gotham TV series is named Jerome Valesquez(sp?), he also had his face cut off, before reclaiming it from the guy who stole it and stapling it back on. I wonder if that is just a quirk of fate or if someone on the story staff was a nerd and upon hearing about this guy got the naming/...
[21:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:28] <exec> 08└─"Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!" is a weekly publicly taped show, with guests and comedians, about the funny news of that week, so it's not your average ramblings of a madman, and it only repeats a topic if the news do.
[21:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:29] <exec> 08└─Ahh. The only one I ever found remotely tolerable was Paul Harvey. We didn't always see eye to eye but he had good manners and was not remotely an elitist of any stripe.
[21:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:05] <exec> 08└─*dons oven proof hat* OR they got access to enough data that 99.9% of users are easily identified anyway. Ok ok, seems more likely that they don't really care about real identity as they can still send ads to your account. Better to have a larger herd than to know every detail about each animal.
[21:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:31] <exec> 08└─$0.01 - Hurricanes $0.01 - Space kit like the second stages are usually deorbited into the Pacific because of its high concentration of nothing. Houston and the Gulf are shallower, smaller targets, with a much lower concentration of nothing.
[21:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Begin BFR Production at the Port of Los Angeles - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:33] <exec> 08└─34 south, 62 east is the middle of the Indian Ocean. [goo.gl] Yeah, Madagascar is about the closest land to there. PS - I haven't figured out how to share the antipodes map [antipodesmap.com] with a specific search, but it's a great tool for finding the other side of the world when you need it.
[21:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:23] <exec> 08└─It has never been a currency. What has died is the dream, the fantasy. It hasn't been wrongly supposed dead 278 times. They have said it is not a currency 278 times. Have you ever bought anything using bitcoins?
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[22:39:04] <exec> 08└─Politicians, especially the modern GOP, are masters of compartmentalization. They see nothing incongruous about doting over their pets but dropping white phosphorous on (the wrong set of...) little brown kids overseas. I think most people are like this to some extent, but especially politicians. It'...
[22:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:06] <exec> 08└─Psychology Today's take [psychologytoday.com]. If you hurt an innocent person but consider yourself to be a good person your mind will have to find some way to resolve the conflict between your evil act and your heavenly self-image. The way that's commonly resolve is to conclude that the innocent yo...
[22:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:08] <exec> 08└─An awful lot of nonsense seems to be written about these sorts of people when they die. Especially someone like Barbara Bush, a child of wealth, who married into a family of wealth and political influence, and whose only real achievement over her life seem to have been to give birth to the next gen...
[22:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Music Intensifies Effects Of Anti-Hypertensive Medication - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:36] <exec> 08└─"Thank you for partaking in our study. Today you will listen to music for on hour after taking your blood pressure medicine, and our staff will measure your blood pressure every 5 minutes. Groups are broken up into a control group with no music, and others who will listen to various artists and genr...
[22:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant" - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:19] <exec> 08└─Quotes like those usually mean it's a verbatim quote from a source. Perhaps those were the precise words used by Mr Hamon or one of his physicians.
[22:41:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 811 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:18] <exec> 08└─> s/some conservatives/anyone not extremely left of center/ I just wish people with affinities to the Republicans acknowledged how far to the right their party has drifted, dragging "the center" with them. Trump fits perfectly with the European extreme-right, Hillary would be too right-wing for many...
[22:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:31] <exec> 08└─As much as I hate to agree with the troll, Mr. Buzzard has a kernel of truth -- just a kernel -- in what he says. I'm far more liberal on some issues than NPR hosts, and more conservative than them on others. (Because I don't buy into the standard "spectrum" analogy, which resolves around a lot of l...
[22:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:32] <exec> 08└─We have plenty of idiocy on both sides. Support for attacks on privacy rights, insane extensions of intellectual property law, buddy-buddy relationships with big banks, incoherent foreign policy, inadequate treatment of veterans, pork barrel politics, and plenty more. But if you think both sides ar...
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[22:43:00] <exec> 08└─Napalm Death? I had Mentally Murdered on CD. I let my granny hear it. She said, "That man sounds like he's had too much to drink."
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─Shaddup Juan
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[23:38:45] <exec> 08└─I have been quite disappointed with new startups these days who all seem to be more than happy to adopt the concept of "Be evil now, ask forgiveness later when you are big enough to have good lawyers" but seriously, when was that an open invitation to all the other companies to follow suit and copyc...
[23:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blasts Nvidia Over GeForce Partner Program, G-Sync - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:47] <exec> 08└─ensure that gamers have full transparency into the GPU platform and software they're being sold,
[23:39:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:12] <exec> 08└─Psychology Today's take [psychologytoday.com]. If you hurt an innocent person but consider yourself to be a good person your mind will have to find some way to resolve the conflict between your evil act and your heavenly self-image. The way that's commonly resolve is to conclude that the innocent yo...
[23:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:14] <exec> 08└─An awful lot of nonsense seems to be written about people when they die. FTFY.
[23:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:16] <exec> 08└─I do have Palestinian in-laws, and one of them did say that George Snr. was one of the better US presidents for vaguely calming that particular small patch of the middle east briefly. Of course, other bits of the greater middle east have been shat on from a great height repeatedly, so nett it's not...
[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barbara Bush Remembered by Politicians and Lawmakers Around the World - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:18] <exec> 08└─George Washington's experience as he traveled to his inauguration made quite clear that the American people wanted him to be King.
[23:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteorite Diamonds Point to Destruction of an Early Solar System Proto-Planet - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:30] <exec> 08└─Any one of those protoplanets could have harbored literally quadrillions of lifeforms.
[23:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:45] <exec> 08└─Yet, it's pretty clear if you actually pay attention that it tends to slant a bit liberal.
[23:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Famed NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies at 84 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:47] <exec> 08└─Oh they're not equally bad. Voting D is currently significantly more evil. Fifty years ago the opposite was the case. Things change.
[23:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:59] <exec> 08└─I'm with you. I have about a 25% success rate on those automatics. I've literally been in bathrooms going from faucet to faucet waving my hands around like a fucking lunatic, unless you knew of course, that there was technology allegedly designed to help me operate a fucking valve. I've said fuck it...
[23:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers Can Deposit Pathogens - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:01] <exec> 08└─Yep, me too. The perfect bathroom has no door. It's an open entry, possibly with a privacy screening turn, hallway that brings you to all the sinks, soap dispensers, and hand dryers. Beyond that, is a series of not-bathroom-stalls, but actual personal bathrooms with a fucking lock, and floor to ceil...
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