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[00:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:17] <exec> 08└─People can read and sign off on papers.
[00:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:18] <exec> 08└─You can't necessarily trust that a journal has "independent review", especially if they don't publish reviewer names and comments. With AC's proposal, you just throw your paper out there and it can be attacked by academics or anybody else. You can give less weight to the anonymous reviewers, but sti...
[00:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:56] <exec> 08└─MHD pump? May work well if the coolant is conductive.
[00:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:57] <exec> 08└─Living the dream!
[00:26:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 1248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:13] <exec> 08└─Like the article mentions, the large target and close proximity to the cursor make radial menus really useful for oft-used things. For example, one of the best things about Krita [krita.org] to me is the radial popup it has on a hotkey for a lot of common things like favourite brushes, canvas rotati...
[00:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IPhone Display Makers Dip On Report Apple Will Go All-OLED In 2018 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:30] <exec> 08└─The LCD screens were lasting too long. Found a new way to force the frugal holdouts to buy a new phone.
[00:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds No Benefit to Taking Multivitamins and Some Other Supplements - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:50] <exec> 08└─If you really gave a crap, you'd eat healthier food, but you don't. Nutrition from a quality diet HAS been proven to improve health. Pills, no.
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[01:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:09] <exec> 08└─FTFA: Devices effected shipped from ZTE, Archos and myPhone.
[01:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:11] <exec> 08└─There are those that say ALL smartphones have malware baked in. Now that we've got THAT out of the way...
[01:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:13] <exec> 08└─Are they a partner in this or just a victim...
[01:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:27] <exec> 08└─Come on, that's not a reasonable assessment. Mainstream pay-per-view journals are pretty good at weeding out bullshit, the quality is leagues above free journals and pay2play journals. Sure, occasionally you'll get a weak article published, but I'm yet to see those journals publish troll papers (see...
[01:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:28] <exec> 08└─In order to get someone to pay for something that they have been receiving for free, one of two things needs to happen: The free thing must no longer be available; orThe pay thing must have more value than the free thing From what I can gather, the new journal offers nothing that isn't already avail...
[01:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:31] <exec> 08└─By making their opposition explicit, they can convince other researchers not to publish in it.
[01:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 2040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:33] <exec> 08└─Also, professional societies are very much out of step on this matter. The ACM and IEEE maintain digital libraries on their own systems, rather than disseminate the research therein to public and university libraries, as they know all too well they could easily do. Especially as they have insisted t...
[01:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:11] <exec> 08└─Well we are subjected to your red piller crap, so I'm going with native English speakers are getting the short end of the stick. Thankfully the short stick fits on the short bus we have to ride with you.
[01:26:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:28] <exec> 08└─Pie slices are drawn with a hole in the middle for an easy way to exit the menu.
[01:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants To Ban Single-Use Plastics And Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:58] <exec> 08└─I know New York USED to barge all its garbage out into the ocean, but dunno if they still do.
[01:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Death Toll From Hurricane Maria May be Many Times Higher Than Official Estimate - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not ignoring the spread. They actually have one; jmorris didn't. You know, hanging around with conservatives seems to cause bad things to happen to people - look at half of Trump's staff and at Rosanne's crew. If I were you, I'd rethink your beliefs before they lead to similar outcomes for you....
[01:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Study Finds No Benefit to Taking Multivitamins and Some Other Supplements - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:08] <exec> 08└─Averages don't work the way you think they work. During the smoking period you either fucked something up or not. Your 25 years is because that disease takes time to grow and kill you. Not over 25 years though, so after a long enough time the average returns to non-smoker levels - because after that...
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[02:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:22] <exec> 08└─I found this very interesting, from the Avast article: Furthermore, nothing is dropped if the device language is set to Chinese.
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say "all", but I would say "many". Your phone is "locked"? That's malware. You can't root the phone? More malware. All reports to the vendor are malware. GPS or some other feature can't be turned off? More malware. Advertising? That is yet more malware. That would include virtually all "f...
[02:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:25] <exec> 08└─* raises hand * What smartphone comes with software that respects our freedoms? Let's see, uh, NONE! Until something like the libresmartphone is available, to get a truly liberated phone, have to root and/or jailbreak the phones and install one of the free alternative OSes, such as LineageOS (succes...
[02:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:27] <exec> 08└─Pat I look led googles list was way out of date I want to offer Android platform development to my clients. That often requires custom kernels
[02:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─Usually it's done with adb.
[02:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:49] <exec> 08└─True, but they also sound like virtue-signalling whiners when they do it.
[02:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds No Benefit to Taking Multivitamins and Some Other Supplements - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:25] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the summary here is taken from the first few paragraphs of TFA. The actual paper presumably was more clear.
[02:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Outer Solar System Origins Survey Discovers Over 800 Trans-Neptunian Objects - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:46] <exec> 08└─The Electric Universe. [youtube.com] Perhaps, start here [youtube.com]. Or, find some shorter videos on the channel.
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[03:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicists Synthesize Materials for Recycling Radioactive Waste - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:16] <exec> 08└─Nuclear waste is pretty energetic, it's why they want to store it in multiple layers of floom and use pictograph signs warning people in 2,000 years floom is dangerous. Why put the stuff where you can't get at it? It's energetic, that means it's making energy. Don't you think in a few years we'll ha...
[03:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:50] <exec> 08└─Anything else to say?
[03:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:51] <exec> 08└─With AC's proposal, you just throw your paper out there and it can be attacked by academics or anybody else.
[03:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:31] <exec> 08└─How sad it's got to be to take a stupid joke and keep doing it, and doing it, for hours and hours and hours. I'm guessing the point is there not a more interesting way for some really really big losers to spend time, and a dog eating its own vomit is an endless cycle. I get it - you can talk similar...
[03:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPhone Display Makers Dip On Report Apple Will Go All-OLED In 2018 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:05] <exec> 08└─Only if they come with a copy of AfterDark to help prevent the inevitable burn-in. The fly toasters rise again!
[03:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:20] <exec> 08└─If the government allocated the revenue from the tax exclusively to dealing with problem they hoped to tax away, I could support a measure like this. Unfortunately, it will be used for this, AND the children. AND education. AND road construction. AND AND AND.
[03:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:22] <exec> 08└─Wax on, wax off
[03:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:24] <exec> 08└─I was going to ask: why can't plastic be compressed into a cubic block with heat to make it solid then buried?
[03:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:26] <exec> 08└─Ah! A fellow member of tautology club! As you're well aware, comrade, the first rule of the tautology club is the first rule of tautology club! The definition of responsibility hinges on their economic position. You're begging the question.
[03:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:28] <exec> 08└─no, i don't think we get it yet, and you clearly don't get the inherent contradictions of capitalism yet
[03:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Study Finds No Benefit to Taking Multivitamins and Some Other Supplements - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:37] <exec> 08└─Well, this is simply false. I'm glad the medical information you trust is from the guy cleaning out shitcans. Are you the guy who kept arguing that Rubies are a metal? I'm pretty sure you are.
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[04:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:07] <exec> 08└─Yesterday, a Tesla on Autopilot ran into a parked police car and ruined both cars-- https://www.autoblog.com [autoblog.com] The driver of a Tesla Model S crashed into an unoccupied, parked police vehicle in Laguna Beach, California, on Tue...
[04:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicists Synthesize Materials for Recycling Radioactive Waste - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:15] <exec> 08└─Nuclear waste is pretty energetic,
[04:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Physicists Synthesize Materials for Recycling Radioactive Waste - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:17] <exec> 08└─> why don't the car use that energy and increase the efficiency? This is exactly what exhaust-driven turbochargers do. There may be other ways to extract useful energy from the hot exhaust, but this one is well-developed and in mass production.
[04:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:32] <exec> 08└─I'd tend to agree with your list, other than the GPS issue. I know you know that GPS isn't the problem, its that some features in the system relay your location to the phone manufacturer. GPS by itself does not reveal your location to anyone but you. Even the cell towers don't need to know precisely...
[04:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:54] <exec> 08└─In physics at least a number of open access journals are gaining ground. There is New Journal of Physics, PRX, Optics Express. Closed journals with similar impact factor will lose prestige, because researchers value open access. Even if it's just because they are away from their institutional networ...
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[04:28:27] <exec> 08└─capitalism is the current step and human show no signs of emerging from it any time soon socialism is their next step if men become more angelic over 100,000 years or so anarcho-capitalism is the step after that when men become angels perhaps in 500,000 to 2,000,000 years finally anarcho-capitalism...
[04:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:29] <exec> 08└─Speaking of the 80s, I ran a 8 year experiment back in the 80s when one of the politicians was singing the praises of their paper straws. Tacked a couple to the sunny side of a shed, and staked a couple more on the ground. Ten years later my wife took them down and threw them in the recycle when we...
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[05:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acoustic Interference Attacks Can Damage Hard Drives and Crash Operating Systems - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:10] <exec> 08└─A friend once told me that a friend of his wrote a program that repeatedly accessed a floppy drive so as to make a "squeak" sound: Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak Squeak SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAKSQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK SQ...
[05:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acoustic Interference Attacks Can Damage Hard Drives and Crash Operating Systems - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:11] <exec> 08└─So while you need to access the actual location of the server to play the disruptive sound, it still brings a beautiful level of ghost-in-the-shell-like hacking to disrupt a system. I actually find these sorts of hacks much much more interesting than malformed headers and overflows. I mean this is t...
[05:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:20] <exec> 08└─You know, the guy who got visited by three christmas ghosts. Tesla is accused of violating labor law in its supression of union organizing. A while back I had the idea that if I could save up a bit of money I'd buy some TSLA. Now I'd rather buy Wells Fargo.
[05:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicists Synthesize Materials for Recycling Radioactive Waste - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:31] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what exhaust-driven turbochargers do.
[05:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:47] <exec> 08└─You can turn that GPS off, but then your maps are useless.
[05:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:10] <exec> 08└─Nature is a big name in scientific publishing and their journals have a high impact factor. Anything that takes the wind out of their sails is a good thing. Academic publishing is not a rational market. Prestige begets prestige, and Nature is like a monarchy that taxes people as a birthright.
[05:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:12] <exec> 08└─What something sounds like is quite subjective. Maybe this is case where the problem stems from the listener, rather than the speakers?
[05:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:14] <exec> 08└─They absolutely do NOT deserve to be "cherished." Many of them once served the greater good but have been co-opted by giant corporate conglomerates that seek outrageous profits for doing next to nothing. The work is primarily done by editorial boards and peer reviewers, most of whom are academics wh...
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[05:26:16] <exec> 08└─Only if you understand nothing about scientific publishing and the fact that the cost of many journals is outrageous these days and controlled by a few profit-driven companies. If you realize all that and that it's possible for academics to band together like they already do and be an editorial boar...
[05:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:19] <exec> 08└─You are willfully ignoring part of the OP's point, and therefore you are engaged in a straw man argument. The comment to which you were replying mentioned webs of trust. Whether the reviewing was independent, or whether there was reviewing at all is a probability to be calculated by each interested...
[05:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:54] <exec> 08└─He's not wrong that socialism/communism depends on humans being angels, but what he misses (on purpose) is that so does capitalism. The best approach is a blend of the two, where the degree of social vs "market" control over a particular good or service is proportional to the elasticity of its deman...
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[05:28:55] <exec> 08└─No we don't get it yet. things aren't that simple. Case in point, Microsoft Windows is still dominant, although it's pretty clear that MS as a company has been pretty dis-functional for many years.
[05:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:58] <exec> 08└─film some boxers. Run the film backwards?
[05:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:00] <exec> 08└─You are begging the question; your logic is circular.
[05:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Death Toll From Hurricane Maria May be Many Times Higher Than Official Estimate - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not ignoring the spread.
[05:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Death Toll From Hurricane Maria May be Many Times Higher Than Official Estimate - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:14] <exec> 08└─Also, In his trip to the island last October, President Trump could hardly contain his indifference to the working class, telling the people of Puerto Rico that the destruction from Hurricane María did not constitute “a real catastrophe like Katrina” because the death count was so low.
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[06:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:11] <exec> 08└─"may not be forever, but is perfect for right now" Right. Sure. They are NOT throwing in the towel. They are participating in the grown-crystal market so that they can continue to control the message. The message is that your relationship counts less if you don't buy the natural diamond. Your relati...
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[06:25:20] <exec> 08└─Yoko Ono albums in reverse have been doing this since the Waco incident.
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[06:25:22] <exec> 08└─They said "low cost" speakers, not "small" ones. I get the idea these speakers are more like those used in a stadium. These I am familiar with... I bought some used ones to hook into my home burglar alarm. They are powered by 100 watt royer converters powered from car battery. Just one frequency. I...
[06:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Acoustic Interference Attacks Can Damage Hard Drives and Crash Operating Systems - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:24] <exec> 08└─Here's an example [youtube.com] of how sound can affect hard drives.
[06:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Acoustic Interference Attacks Can Damage Hard Drives and Crash Operating Systems - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:27] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I stand corrected big time... I would not believed it - but the source looks credible enough.. a guy who does stuff, not a guy trying to sell me stuff. I did not think a human yell could deliver near enough energy. A jackhammer three feet away, definitely, but someone yelling at it? Than...
[06:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acoustic Interference Attacks Can Damage Hard Drives and Crash Operating Systems - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:29] <exec> 08└─I thought of that when I saw this story. We had a story about a month ago on that topic. Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center [soylentnews.org] The fact that they're now doing HDD hacks via a little dinky speaker that can fit inside a computer is taking it t...
[06:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:39] <exec> 08└─You go to websites, right? You look at the websites. We all do, we're not babies. And those websites, sometimes they ask, touch the squares that have street signs. The squares that have store fronts. Or the squares that have cars. Somehow when we do that, it proves we're not a robot. Because no robo...
[06:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:41] <exec> 08└─On a parallel tack, recently, radio/TV presenter Thom Hartmann noted that he had had his name on their waiting list to get one of their "cheap" sedans. The other day, he called up the company and told them to take his name off the list. When they asked him why, he said it was because of Musk doing h...
[06:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:07] <exec> 08└─I found this very interesting, from the Avast article: Furthermore, nothing is dropped if the device language is set to Chinese.
[06:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:09] <exec> 08└─My hunch is they are just careless, focusing on production volume and "features" and letting the customer be the quality control.
[06:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:37] <exec> 08└─If you can't value something despite it's flaws, then you can never value anything because nothing is perfect. There are many wrongs with today's journals, but many of those wrongs are endemic in mainstream western civilization, rather than being specific to the journals. Do you think we should stop...
[06:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:43] <exec> 08└─I'm used to Alt Tab to cycle between windows. Browser tabs ruin that.
[06:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:18] <exec> 08└─The only guard against Tyranny is the Separation of Powers, the most robust form of which is competition over resources. Socialism does not allow for the Separation of Powers; it is doomed to Tyranny. Capitalism does allow for the Separation of Powers, but restricts the form to competition according...
[06:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:20] <exec> 08└─If you mount the cotton bud on rolled up paper, doesn't that a) sink in water, and b) degrade just about as fast as leaf-litter?
[06:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outer Solar System Origins Survey Discovers Over 800 Trans-Neptunian Objects - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:55] <exec> 08└─The Electric Universe. [youtube.com] Perhaps, start here [youtube.com]. Or, find some shorter videos on the channel.
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[07:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:13] <exec> 08└─Synthesized diamond, typically for industrial uses, costs more than mining them in S. Africa/S India.
[07:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:15] <exec> 08└─Kinda funny to market an industrial abrasive as a gift for women betrothed in matrimony.
[07:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:17] <exec> 08└─...and from TFS: implored consumers to stick with "real" stones ...because, obviously, the man-made stuff was available from other sources. De Beers has done everything possible (legal and illegal) to establish and maintain a monopoly. So, why continue to support their foul business model? -- Origin...
[07:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:39] <exec> 08└─"Tesla is being probed by the state's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), following reports that it failed to disclose serious injuries at the job site. Tesla has denied any wrongdoing." foxbusiness.com/markets/soros-elon-musk-and-a-35-million-vote-of-confidence [foxbusiness.com]
[07:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:37] <exec> 08└─The are not bad at weeding out bullshit, but that is not what they claim, they claim they are providing some kind of factual validation. Unfortunately the fact, which a number of researchers I know see regularly, is the journals are often so specific, a small around of experts at the top of the fiel...
[07:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:20] <exec> 08└─Fake News! They call it the Garbage Patch, it's not the garbage you put in your garbage can. And it's not the garbage I put in mine. So much of it comes from foreign Countries. And it's not an island. Sounds like an island, it's not. They gave it a very fake name to sell newspapers. It's just loose...
[07:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:21] <exec> 08└─The purpose of a lot of leftism is simply destruction.
[07:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create Framework to Stop Cyber Attacks on Internet-Connected Cars - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:37] <exec> 08└─But how do you rule out the possibility of being runned over by an autonomous car.
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[08:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:09] <exec> 08└─When you are in the USA, you support your country. Maybe, sometimes, a few allies: NATO, Five Eyes, Japan, South Korea, possibly even Israel or Taiwan... but that's pushing it. Really, you support the USA. Google should do self-driving for military vehicles, mapping support for the NRO, data collect...
[08:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:11] <exec> 08└─Don't be evil fire until you see the whites of their eyes!
[08:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:22] <exec> 08└─Right now... Just wait until the CPU / GPU industry switches from silicon to diamond wafers. How quickly will equipment to make artificial diamonds come down in price, once production scale goes from "a few" to "two factories for Intel, two for nVidia,..."
[08:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:23] <exec> 08└─costs more than mining them in S. Africa/S India
[08:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:16] <exec> 08└─Going by the definition that malware is software not installed by me, that I can't uninstall, I have malware on my Androind tablet as well. The biggest one is called "Google Play".
[08:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:52] <exec> 08└─Pie menus are intended to be used in the same kind of situations as context menus. You right click and the pie appears. Each menu item is in a different direction, so it's easier to move to the correct one and stop than it is to move downwards the correct distance and stop (on a target that's small,...
[08:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:54] <exec> 08└─It's NOT better. Basically it's only useful for impressing the stupid or ignorant. It's a "shiny!/cool!" movie effect for games like Crysis. But in practice it's stupid and not useful. If there are many choices then the pie/radial menu doesn't work well, so it only works if there are a few options....
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[09:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:08] <exec> 08└─Drones and mechs, delivering swift autonomous death to our poorer enemies! Get with the program already!
[09:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:09] <exec> 08└─data collection for the NSA
[09:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:11] <exec> 08└─Drones and mechs, delivering swift autonomous death to our poorer enemies!
[09:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:24] <exec> 08└─Buy a diamond ring. Then see what price the shop will give you when you ask to sell it back to them. De Beers have always kept the price artificially high. Diamonds aren't that rare. If you realy want a diamond ring buy one second hand and, if you don't like the design, have the diamond removed and...
[09:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, ignorance! What a blissful life you are living, A/C. Web-of-trust [wikipedia.org] guarantees that a signing key really corresponds to a a certain person identity. So, it answers to the identity problem and that's about how far it goes. It does not guarantee out-of-band communication (so that the...
[09:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:56] <exec> 08└─How? Ctrl 1 etc to focus a tab and ctrl tab to rotate? How does this effect you?
[09:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:35] <exec> 08└─you do realize that a lot of the plastic that DOES end up in the bin just gets dumped into the ocean?
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[10:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:11] <exec> 08└─Apropos TFT(itle), isn't the humanity past the time sex and procreation were synonyms? Or at least the part of humanity likely to send specimens on Mars. The tl;dr: what a click bitey title we have for this one.
[10:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:12] <exec> 08└─What a strange sound. It was like a combination of something fleshy being dragged across cement and someone quietly moaning in agony. What could possibly produce such an odd noise? A cursory scan of the surroundings would reveal the answer. Prepubescent, naked, beaten, and bloody. The little girl's...
[10:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:24] <exec> 08└─When you are in the USA, you support your country.
[10:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:38] <exec> 08└─Literally still baffled why people bother with rings at all. Certainly stupendously expensive ones. I can only think that it's literally a "I'm married, keep away" marker, but if you need one of those on your husband/wife, then you have bigger problems.
[10:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:40] <exec> 08└─If you don't mind hentai I think some of these might qualify (obviously VERY NSFW! Click at own risk!): https://gelbooru.com [gelbooru.com] https://gelbooru.com [gelbooru.com] https://gelbooru.com
[10:28:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 924 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:54] <exec> 08└─You want to re-jigger an entire sector of the economy. You have to set up business relationships, secure flows of resources, re-establish production facilities, and find the right prices for everything so that all of these moving parts continue to work in tandem without halting. This is an enormous...
[10:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Death Toll From Hurricane Maria May be Many Times Higher Than Official Estimate - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe you don't know anything about statistics and error bars, but my MS was just about nothing but stats. And, yes, studies with those kinds of error bars can be valid. More importantly, in most cases the ultimate results show something close to the mean of the set of stats - not results below or a...
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[11:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:18] <exec> 08└─you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
[11:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:19] <exec> 08└─You have a real gift. And a sick mind. It is wasted here.
[11:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:21] <exec> 08└─Chances are, it will all be in test tubes, anyway (screening, viability, limited resources) Then, the mother will be chosen (healthiest, longest since last pregnancy, etc etc) The biological "parents" might never have sex (although, with a small group, maybe they will *alł* be getting it on, or, al...
[11:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 2399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:23] <exec> 08└─The way we're doing things isn't very scientific or logical. Before talking about living on Mars we should figure out whether the gravity is enough or not. We should be building space stations with artificial gravity modules: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia....
[11:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:26] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing "Open the pod bay doors, HAL" will have a whole new meaning on Mars.
[11:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:38] <exec> 08└─Where do we draw the line between Adaptive Filtering technology and Artificial Intelligence? It all starts in beginning engineering... known as the "predictor-corrector" algorithm, which "learns" from a past try to predict the next set of control parameters. This is not new technology... I believe e...
[11:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:39] <exec> 08└─Correct me if I'm wrong here but wouldn't analyzing surveillance footage reduce civilian casualties in war by letting the government do a better job of only hitting actual combatants? I guess that's not something the regressives care about these days if it interferes with their kneejerk hating of th...
[11:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:42] <exec> 08└─With apps and data, security is either there from the beginning, or missing. No amount of patching ever gives you 100%. Same with ethics.
[11:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:44] <exec> 08└─I guess that's not something the regressives care about these days if it interferes with their kneejerk hating of their country.
[11:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:46] <exec> 08└─With apps and data, security is either there from the beginning, or missing. No amount of patching ever gives you 100%. Same with ethics.
[11:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:48] <exec> 08└─Google might have locked any ethics in a very secure cabinet, but instead they quietly had them put down, stuffed, and mounted in a break room as a reminder to google employees who might be feeling twinges of conscience.
[11:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:50] <exec> 08└─All software is AI (according to today's marketing/definitions). The military invented software, the first computer (both electrical and mechanical) where developed by/for the military...even the algorithms they ran (cannon heating and projectile accuracy) were developed for the military. Drones hav...
[11:26:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bootsy [3440] 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:02] <exec> 08└─Buy a diamond ring. Then see what price the shop will give you when you ask to sell it back to them. De Beers have always kept the price artificially high. Diamonds aren't that rare. If you realy want a diamond ring buy one second hand and, if you don't like the design, have the diamond removed and...
[11:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:05] <exec> 08└─Yeh, the diamond blanks rejected for semiconductor use will probably be offered to jewelers, who seem to consider the flaw as a desirable feature. Letsee... just how much silicon die does the average user now own? Its gonna be interesting to see when "scrap" diamond becomes as commonplace as "scrap...
[11:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:07] <exec> 08└─I think they value it for the same reason people started smoking, valuing mink stoles, feathers of rare birds in ladies hats, the Cardassians, Justin Beeber, etc. They are promoted in the movies... and it seems everytime someone picks up a microphone and stands in front of a camera, for some unknow...
[11:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Acoustic Interference Attacks Can Damage Hard Drives and Crash Operating Systems - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:20] <exec> 08└─You're very welcome, but I cannot take credit for that link. It was posted here on SN as a story earlier this year. I could not find the story (SN search leaves a bit to be desired) but I found it on YouTube.
[11:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:21] <exec> 08└─My wife recently declared we should become a no-plastic household because she has become convinced it's not healthy. Before BPA I would have said balderdash! but now I say OK. Glass alternatives to plastic are readily available. Mason jars and the sort that use wire hinges and rubber seals are at mo...
[11:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:23] <exec> 08└─So, China is the big polluter of the ocean? And where does that garbage come from? Your bin. https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com]
[11:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:25] <exec> 08└─Pyrex and mason jars for most food storage, larger (27+ quart) plastic containers for other uses. You should be able to get 6x half gallon sized mason jars for about $10. You might consider using plastic lids for some mason jars since they are easier to clean, don't rust, and you don't need the norm...
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[12:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Launches Venues App for Live Entertainment, Sports, Etc. - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:13] <exec> 08└─I'd rather go for live entertainment Venuses instead of Oculus Virtual Reality Venues, thank you.
[12:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Launches Venues App for Live Entertainment, Sports, Etc. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:14] <exec> 08└─It will be hard to find Venuses on the Mars colony, so you may be forced to do it with Zuck.
[12:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:29] <exec> 08└─We threw humans into zero-G for months at a time, resulting in negative health consequences. We should send people to Mars with the expectation that they might die, and collect as much data as possible.
[12:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 2006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:30] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, they had a lot of the same problems in Norway. Not enough children being made. For many reasons. So many children had bad genes. Not healthy, folks. And so many kids had great genes but they weren't raised properly. Big waste. So they started a very special program, they called it t...
[12:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:32] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there will be some adaptation over time, nature tends to find a way and all that -- even on a red barren desert planet. Interesting how they mention that "love" as a concept might have to take a step back considering that the notion of romantic love is fairly new and it wasn't that long...
[12:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:08] <exec> 08└─Expectation. If you want the woman who wants the diamond, you have a choice... Finding another woman is likely more difficult and more expensive than buying the diamond.
[12:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:09] <exec> 08└─Why are they called lab grown. A laboratory is for experiments and research.
[12:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IPhone Display Makers Dip On Report Apple Will Go All-OLED In 2018 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds good to me. Sign me up!
[12:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:27] <exec> 08└─Our local grocery mega-chain's favorite question: Paper or Plastic? Paper Bag 1 month Plastic Bags * Up to 20 years
[12:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is stupid, lazy people who don't bother to recycle things, or worse, litter instead of at least putting them in a proper trash receptacle.
[12:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:31] <exec> 08└─I vertainly remember those as the norm - people didn't like how they got soggy ends, I think.
[12:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:33] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, some polysaccharide that isn't as resilient to being broken down as typical plastics. I find it hard to believe that in 2018 there aren't a dozen well-known (at least to (bio-)chemists) solutions to this problem.
[12:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:35] <exec> 08└─This will be similar to when bacteria/fungi learned to eat lignin, ending the carboniferous era.
[12:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singaporean ISP Popped Router Ports, Saving Customers The Trouble Of Making Themselves Hackable - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:26] <exec> 08└─Folks die and come back to life. It happened to Jesus, it happens to many people. But 127 times is a lot. That's very rare and very special. Terrible experience, who wants that, right? As far as I'm concerned, let me die once. Or not at all. Not this thing where you die, you come back, you die again...
[12:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Death Toll From Hurricane Maria May be Many Times Higher Than Official Estimate - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:52] <exec> 08└─The link doesn't support your claim.
[12:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Death Toll From Hurricane Maria May be Many Times Higher Than Official Estimate - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:54] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the problem is that he isn't sufficiently gullible. It's a reasonable question to ask. Do we have actual deaths to match the claims made? Given that the estimate has error bars that differ by an order of magnitude (another sign of a really tenuous claim), we definitely need some evidence...
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[13:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:11] <exec> 08└─The interesting part here was how the media outrage just died, I guess along with the story. Going from OMG! the evil government murdered a journalist to actually saving his life to foil a murder plot against hem. All of a sudden they had nothing to say any more ...
[13:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:13] <exec> 08└─How did this save him? Had they put him in hiding for the rest of his life, with the story left at "he's dead", it would have saved him. But now he's known to be alive, plus a big stink has been made around him (in particular, there are similarities to the boy who cried wolf, since the ukrainian gov...
[13:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:15] <exec> 08└─So... really. What exactly was he saved from?!
[13:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:17] <exec> 08└─> could have been arrested without the circus. They wanted the person who ordered this murder, and to get him the "circus" was needed. And they got him, two of them. We will see how this unfoils, waiting for the proofs.
[13:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Launches Venues App for Live Entertainment, Sports, Etc. - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:27] <exec> 08└─It's already bad enough with the current scam in *live* venues, where TM tries to sell you tickets at different prices depending on how you ask them, or say they are "verified". WTF? I fully expect Oculus to make this both painful and undesirable; but in 3D /s
[13:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Launches Venues App for Live Entertainment, Sports, Etc. - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:29] <exec> 08└─The first live Venues event, a Vance Joy concert, will air tonight at 7:30pm PT / 10:30pm ET. Other events scheduled throughout the summer include live MLB games, concerts from AEG Presents, film screenings of Lionsgate movies and plenty of standup from Gotham Comedy Live. All Venues events are free...
[13:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:46] <exec> 08└─This was the Nazis you Muppet. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─yet so many including NASA are talking about spending multi billion dollars on human missions to Mars.
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:49] <exec> 08└─I am certain that people fell inlove and had crushes throughout human history. the fact that we now tie that with marriage is new, yes. when they say "reproduction" may be separated from "love", what they mean is that it may not be ok to procreate with the person you love, which is very different fr...
[13:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:52] <exec> 08└─and they had mutants there with three tits so ...
[13:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:54] <exec> 08└─And obviously we have to have a ratio of 10 females to each male in the colony, and select said females for their sexual characteristics, which must be of a highly stimulating nature.
[13:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:56] <exec> 08└─Love != Marriage? One always hears this, but is it really true? There is a reason for the emotional attraction that members of one gender feel for members of the other - that did not evolve for no reason, but as a driver for reproduction. While I am not an anthropologist, it seems likely that this i...
[13:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:33] <exec> 08└─If you are not committed enough to get a permanent mark indicating you're married, that will be difficult if not impossible to remove when you're divorced, then why are you getting married in the first place? Friends with benefits and unmarried cohabitation are there if you're not.
[13:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:35] <exec> 08└─Doubly baffled here. These things don't even have burn-out-your-retina blue LEDs, IoT embedded CPUs that collect valuable personal data, non-replaceable batteries, and they've not got much blockchain in them. They are really behind the times. They could have consumertards throwing these things away...
[13:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:37] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they're grown by friendly, water-loving, Retriever-type dogs?
[13:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:01] <exec> 08└─Part of maintaining one's web of trust is re-calculating whether an individual should be kept in that web of trust. In this case, that's a matter of comparing one's expectation of independence/expertise with actual results. In other words, the reviews are also subject to reviews; it's reviews all th...
[13:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:00] <exec> 08└─Reduce, reuse, recycle. In that order.
[13:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:01] <exec> 08└─Drinking straws typically have to survive a wet environment for less than an hour - there's no reason why they shouldn't be made of something which happily degrades and dissolves in a wet environment over a span of a week or so, say.
[13:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:03] <exec> 08└─The EU isn't even connected to the pacific directly.
[13:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:06] <exec> 08└─I dont remember soggy ends. If you took long enough to go soggy you can't have been very thirsty, and you'd be better off drinking from a mug/glass/the can which I prefer to do anyway..
[13:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:08] <exec> 08└─My wife recently declared we should become a no-plastic household
[13:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inequality in India Measured Using Satellite Data - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:45] <exec> 08└─That is typical of propaganda. It focuses on the parameters that it wishes to sell.
[13:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Inequality in India Measured Using Satellite Data - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:46] <exec> 08└─Equality is more important than poverty reduction.
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[14:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:10] <exec> 08└─Let's see civilian forces and military forces destroy each other.
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─In order to deceive your enemies you must first deceive your allies. Article is weak on details as to actually how faking his death saved him and helped expose the people who were really planing to kill him but I'm sure more information will come out later. I would expect they had the suspected real...
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─you're responding to a troll/useful (to putin) idiot he already knew what you said, but didnt want it to be true
[14:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:25] <exec> 08└─Different governments. I don't recall anyone claiming that he'd been murdered by the Ukrainian government, more that it was - with varying degrees of confidence ranging from possible to absolutely - the Russian government shutting up another critic in their (allegedly) tried and trusted way, but it'...
[14:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:27] <exec> 08└─Far too many people have grown up watching soap operas. This shit is so stupid, NO ONE should believe it.
[14:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Putin is so dastardly he hires someone to kill someone set on framing him who is killed and raised from the dead so that Putin can dispose of the mobster employing the idiot assassin neither of whom can be traced to Putin. Or something?
[14:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Launches Venues App for Live Entertainment, Sports, Etc. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:40] <exec> 08└─... so you may be forced to do it with Zuck.
[14:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:03] <exec> 08└─Before we figure out whether the gravity is enough or not, shouldn't we figure out what people are going to do there? If there are no jobs left on Earth, are there magically going to be Mars burger flipping jobs? The American colonies originally supplied tar sap to Britain for their Naval fleet, the...
[14:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:05] <exec> 08└─Sure, there will probably have to be some kind of incentive more then just "doing it cause we can", science might be one such thing and mining another one. Isn't it Elon that has said that the first people we send there will probably meet certain death (which I guess we all will) but they are needed...
[14:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:07] <exec> 08└─It's completely unregulated real estate and resources. If you can bear the large initial costs of getting to and setting up facilities on Mars, you can live off the land and conduct whatever kind of industrial or research activity you want to. The investment required will drop dramatically with BFR,...
[14:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:09] <exec> 08└─The concept of "love" might have to take a back seat to pure survival, with men and women being paired up by their biology rather than emotion. Additionally, some individuals may never be allowed to have children due to undesirable traits
[14:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:11] <exec> 08└─Colonization is rarely particularly scientific or logical. Meanwhile, any experiments done in orbit will be inconclusive - it's not possible to conclusively separate the effects of gravity from the effects of radiation, plus it introduces constant rotation as another potential complicating factor. A...
[14:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:13] <exec> 08└─That's actually not a "bad" idea. Except, they aren't selected for sexual characteristics. Instead, they are selected for toughness and survivability. Who gives a damn how pretty they are, if they can't contribute to the survival of the colony, themselves, and their offspring? The definition of "att...
[14:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:33] <exec> 08└─1) Sure. We can just call you a commie instead. 2) I don't concern myself with whether my stances are progressive or conservative. I only care if they're the stances that need to be taken. Labels do not denote correctness on individual issues. Picking one label and adjusting all your positions to it...
[14:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:35] <exec> 08└─You may feel all fuzzy about this kind of stuff, but I think it is disgusting, and I wouldn't want to work with it. And demand for my skills is high, so I won't starve due to my choice. Many googlers are in the same position.
[14:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:57] <exec> 08└─I can only think that it's literally a "I'm married, keep away" marker, but if you need one of those on your husband/wife, then you have bigger problems.
[14:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:58] <exec> 08└─So, why continue to support their foul business model?
[14:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:01] <exec> 08└─Literally still baffled why people bother with rings at all. Certainly stupendously expensive ones.
[14:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:55] <exec> 08└─I can ditto some of your post. When maps went onto computers, or, rather, when I found that Rand McNally could be installed on a computer, I used it regularly. No GPS at all, just the map application. Then, along came Mapquest, and Google maps, and others. Sit at the desk at home, get directions, an...
[14:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:27] <exec> 08└─Seems to me you are associating a lot more meaning to Web of trust [wikipedia.org] than the rest of the world familiar with the term. As such, I find you "willfully missing the point" accusation ill-founded: I can't wilfully miss a point nobody else but you knows about. In this case, that's a matter...
[14:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:29] <exec> 08└─No I think Mykl has something of a point. There does appear to be an issue with the open access movement with respect to acknowledging the problem of predatory journals: https://doi.org [doi.org] Ultimately open access or something similar is the way publishing of research, part...
[14:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:41] <exec> 08└─Ctrl-c for "break" in a text console is a lot older than 'C' for "copy". Still mostly works today. Has break been forgotten? The many limitations of the text console hang over us today. It is still the environment in which programs are coded. Can't mix fonts, have proportional fonts, italics (unders...
[14:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:36] <exec> 08└─I suspect it was exascerbated by the nipple reflex - kids chew on anything put in their mouth. But yes, I agree, these devices are a solution to something that's never actually been a problem.
[14:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 2242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:37] <exec> 08└─If the definition of one's quality of responsibility hinges on one's economic position, then one's economic position implies one's quality of responsibility. Yet, counter examples are readily available; a very rich person can be incredibly irresponsible, and a very poor person can be incredibly resp...
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[14:32:31] <exec> 08└─by AssCork
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[15:25:11] <exec> 08└─Devon and Cornwall Police said it had notified Airprox, which was "content that there was no ... lessons to be learned
[15:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:12] <exec> 08└─content that there was no blame nor any lessons to be learned
[15:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:14] <exec> 08└─Per George Carlin: "When 2 planes almost collide, they call it a 'near miss'. It's a 'near hit'! A collision is a near miss! 'Look, they nearly missed ... but not quite!'"
[15:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:16] <exec> 08└─A police drone had a "near-miss"
[15:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:19] <exec> 08└─In the UK: """ Military low flying is used to train military aircrew. Low flying by military aircraft is carried out across all of the UK. Low flying means: fixed-wing aircraft flying down to 250 feet from the ground rotary-wing aircraft (for example helicopters) flying down...
[15:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:34] <exec> 08└─There are a number of ways in which it may make sense. One of them: - they arrested the hitman just before the job, with the journo acting as bait - they wanted to arrest the instigator but also wanted evidence that he was the correct person, so... - ... they faked the murder (with the hitman in cus...
[15:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─The one unanswered question from all of those soaps is: How long can the same woman stay pregnant with the same baby? My first wife watched soaps - she grew up with a mother and a house full of sisters, and those soaps were important to them. So, some old heifer had been pregnant for months before I...
[15:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:38] <exec> 08└─Russia was trying to kill him, Ukraine faked his death to save him. Now, which two countries are currently in a "civil war" over Ukraine's territory?
[15:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─I suppose if they killed him now, it would be quite clear Russia was behind it. Althought, I suppose that would be the case anyhow. And Russia has shown they do not give a shit who knows about their assassinations. Yeah, I don't get it either.
[15:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not a troll. I honestly did not think of the "requester pays when murder is made public, so we can trace the money" idea. you may be right in that I'm an idiot, and I have to say I'd hate being useful to putin in any way, I'm sorry if my question degraded the quality of the discussion.
[15:26:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:13] <exec> 08└─And obviously we have to have a ratio of 10 females to each male in the colony, and select said females for their sexual characteristics, which must be of a highly stimulating nature.
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:22] <exec> 08└─"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no,...
[15:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:24] <exec> 08└─People can't even live off the land on Earth with warm air, blue skies, water and fertile soil. If they could, why aren't they? There are millions of unoccupied ha on Earth for sale next to nothing and people say they can't live without a living wage.
[15:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:26] <exec> 08└─Instead, they are selected for toughness and survivability
[15:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:28] <exec> 08└─Additionally, some individuals may never be allowed to have children due to undesirable traits that are a risk to the colony as a whole You mean even on Mars I couldn't get laid?
[15:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Elon will have some monogamy to enforce!
[15:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:52] <exec> 08└─1) Sure. We can just call you a commie instead.
[15:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:18] <exec> 08└─Anyhow, I think it's important to make a distinction between an ENGAGEMENT ring (often quite expensive and with prominent diamond due to aforementioned De Beers marketing, but not traditionally so extravagant) and wedding rings (which are frequently simple bands and often relatively inexpensive).
[15:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:19] <exec> 08└─Agree completely. My partner and I have taken things one step further - we've not even gone to city hall to get a piece of paper that contractually binds us. That's worked for nearly 20 years, no need to change that now. (Unless Brexit means that we need to do some hoop jumping just to keep life eas...
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:22] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your contribution, Monsieur Garnier.
[15:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:24] <exec> 08└─And if I'm going to make the joke, I should at least give credit to my inspiration: http://youtube.com
[15:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether this movement implies that the "blood diamonds" and other negative publicity they've garnered (garniered? snigger!) has actually had some effect on their traditional business. I do hope so. Having the monopoly on a product considered increasingly toxic would certainly worry a compan...
[15:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:28] <exec> 08└─Don't spend loads on something she might hate. Engagement = surprise = plain and simple, yet exciting anyway. Wedding = planned = she can choose something fancy that she will like.
[15:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acoustic Interference Attacks Can Damage Hard Drives and Crash Operating Systems - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:43] <exec> 08└─That video shows that screaming at a server disk array increase latency: (beware the sound is loud on that video) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] -dbe
[15:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:59] <exec> 08└─The problem is that there are too many journals that, in order to protect themselves from each other, have adopted predatory practices (not least incompatible style guides, of course). As you're suggesting, the solution must be for the academics to unite and come up with a new independent (family of...
[15:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:12] <exec> 08└─An interesting alternative UI to avoid eye blink interference, but its slower to navigate and seems organized alphabetically whereas the 80s thing was vaguely predictive and grouped into areas, sort of a Dewey Decimal System but for individual words.
[15:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:13] <exec> 08└─Ctrl-c for "break" in a text console is a lot older than 'C' for "copy". Still mostly works today. Has break been forgotten?
[15:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:16] <exec> 08└─I thought they were talking about an IE feature at some point that would split out each tab into a separate selection when you hovered the IE icon in the taskbar? Did that never happen?
[15:32:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:12] <exec> 08└─The libertarian AC above is extrapolating from straws to the general case. Meanwhile, you seem to be quite content to ignore the general ramifications of your leftism.
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[16:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:15] <exec> 08└─I'm just looking towards the day that when I upgrade my storage, my RAM gets a free upgrade too.
[16:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:17] <exec> 08└─Today is not that day :(
[16:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:31] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'm most perturbed that that .gov.uk is still using feet as a measurement. They'll not be landing any climate observers onto Mars any time soon.
[16:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:33] <exec> 08└─Here is an example of an F-4 killing an entire airliner [wikipedia.org] full of people because the Air Force decided they were too good for transponders or IFR or contacting ATC when flying near a civilian airport.
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─Doesn't even matter. The fact is that the meaning of words in a language depends only on how they are actually used by speakers of that language. So English speakers use the words "near miss" to mean that something almost occurred but didn't, then that's what those words mean in English. Words can c...
[16:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:37] <exec> 08└─I'm defending only English, the language of the news story. Carlin wasn't a native speaker of English, he spoke American English, which is a distinct beast. Quite why a comment about how an American, perhaps deliberately, misinterprets an English phrase for comic effect isn't considered off topic, w...
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:39] <exec> 08└─Levels are used more than feet in my experience, but yes, they're defined in terms of multiples of a round number of feet. However, yes, that also perturbs me. As do knots.
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─Correction, USMC not AF.
[16:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─i disagree, perpetual hiding could be uncovered by accident or by a double agent and then the russians would have had a field day. Now, indeed, he remains a target, but whatever happens to him, filo russians will be the likely culprits. A standard secret service op i guess, with exposure calculated...
[16:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─There's no reason programs have to track time at the same rate they're broadcast. Only a couple of months might have passed in soapworld.
[16:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Launches Venues App for Live Entertainment, Sports, Etc. - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:15] <exec> 08└─Yup, the first hit is free, that's a well known business model.
[16:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─That's what I'm thinking. But a Mars Colony is what the public fancies, so NASA is more or less obliged to work on it. The low gravity may not be that big a deal. Far more difficult problems are the ionizing radiation, as Mars has no global magnetic field, and the lack of breathable air. I really do...
[16:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:51] <exec> 08└─So, Mary Ann over Ginger.
[16:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:54] <exec> 08└─LOL, you must be pretty old, or you like watching ancient reruns. But, yes - Mary Ann over Ginger. And, we should note that Mary Ann isn't hard to look at!
[16:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:56] <exec> 08└─9 breeders, and 1 looker, then? And 0 feminazis! Though strangely, this does align with the "males are almost redundant" idea. The more redundant men are, the more females the chosen men will have to, ahem, service.
[16:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:58] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about Antarctica by chance? I'm definitely interested in homesteading there. After you, of course.
[16:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:00] <exec> 08└─Too late - oh no!!!! (o)(o)(o)
[16:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:03] <exec> 08└─Australia and the US that I've seen. https://www.aol.com [aol.com] http://www.cheaplandinamerica.com [cheaplandinamerica.com] https://morningchores.com [morningchores.com]
[16:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:05] <exec> 08└─Some of you may die. But it is a risk I am willing to make.
[16:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:57] <exec> 08└─De Beers block-chain diamonds [soylentnews.org] presumably aren't effective. Now De Beers will be selling synthetic diamonds. I predict that they'll be selling diamante [wikipedia.org] by Christmas 2019.
[16:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:59] <exec> 08└─They'll make them weak and shitty so they crack/chip/discolour/however poorly made diamonds fail to destroy their reputation. It's already started here: may not be forever, but is perfect for right now In his 2011 book, Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry, Stephen De...
[16:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:30] <exec> 08└─You download software and check to make sure that at least Joe Dev has signed it, because you trust that he is producing high quality software. Yet, you start to notice that a few glaring bugs have been slipping through, and so you start to have doubts about Joe Dev; maybe, he's having marital troub...
[16:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:13] <exec> 08└─What what now? Is that the den where you live in front of your computer screen 10 hours a day or some nerd reference to the locker inside which you spent highschool?
[16:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The EU Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics and Other Waste Killing Our Oceans - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:43] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry you have such trouble communicating with people, best of luck.
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[17:25:18] <exec> 08└─will these next gen xeons come with a untrustable management engine, etc. included? if you think i'm going to give you thousands of dollars for a server i can never secure, you're mistaken. Also, you should know that you are forging dedicated enemies as you continue your subjugation of the human rac...
[17:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─i signed mdcrawford@gmail.com up for jonas brothers fan club good luck remembering majordomo commands nerd
[17:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─Probably should be written down as "near-miss" (hit) versus "near miss" (missed but close). Somebody please go ask Carlin whether he meant to say the dash.
[17:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:41] <exec> 08└─Well we all know that comment moderation here is 100% logical, so now we just have to find out what YOU did wrong!!
[17:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:43] <exec> 08└─As do knots.
[17:25:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:55] <exec> 08└─> could have been arrested without the circus. They wanted the person who ordered this murder, and to get him the "circus" was needed. And they got him, two of them. We will see how this unfoils, waiting for the proofs.
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:07] <exec> 08└─if they killed him now, it would be quite clear Russia was behind it.
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─Neither the Russians nor the Redneck Russians (Ukrainians) grew up watching soap operas. This dastardly idiot plot was dreamed up by some drunken idiot Ukrainians while siting in the basement of a strip club discussing business over a bottle of premium American wiskey (Jack) and the salad "Caesar" c...
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─I fail to see why you are drawing outrage at how the incident is being covered in a different way once the story changed. The difference is what happened, and why. Case in point, compare: 1) Man shoots woman dead in Grand Central Station: this is bad, and is newsworthy. 2) Man has a conceal-carry pe...
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─That "suspension of disbelief" thing can definitely be taken too far.
[17:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─Unless I see them sleeping, I just assume it is still the same day. It makes the story much more interesting and the characters more vile.
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:18] <exec> 08└─They should really design a cannon that fires lightsabers. If lightsabers require a jedi to be effective, the cannon should fire jedi too. Wait a second, lightsabers, the deathstars, and Starkiller Base all require kyber crystals... could it be that my lightsaber cannon already exists? It would make...
[17:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:20] <exec> 08└─Remind me again why we had to fuck with the Russians to put their Mexico in our lap?
[17:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly that sort of thing. Sometimes, that suspension can work, sometimes, it can't. For me, it fails more often than not. I suppose that's why I always preferred to read the book - my own imagination can fill in the details that Hollywood can't even understand. It's also why I like the 'Expan...
[17:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:25] <exec> 08└─There are unlikely to be any proofs. Ukraine vs Russia is now a years old story, with a helluva lot of atrocities, including a downed airliner. And, there are no proofs of any of those atrocities. All of us read the accusations, all of us follow the circus after the accusation, and each of us decide...
[17:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:20] <exec> 08└─I've wondered a few times, why mankind tends to produce roughly the same number of males and females. Back in prehistory, it seems that we should have preferred more females than males. As you indicate, one male can service many females. I don't know what an "ideal" ratio would be, but something on...
[17:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:21] <exec> 08└─If you want, you could check the ratios in bees or elephant seals. Evolutionary theory has worked hard on that problem, and it seems that the correct answer is (almost) always an equal investment in each sex (which can be hard to measure). Bdelloid rotifers, though, cause one to wonder about that. M...
[17:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:17] <exec> 08└─The woman who wants the diamond will be more expensive in the long run.
[17:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:44] <exec> 08└─Pro tip: A lot of the times those CAPTCHAs will verify you even if you intentionally answer a square or two incorrectly; I always make a habit of doing so if I'm not in a hurry to post right away. Fuck Google. If they want to use me for free labor then they can get bad data!
[17:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:15] <exec> 08└─I might go a step further: I can appreciate a GPS-based estimate of my location (or I can manage without) but I'll decide which eay to go, thank you very much!
[17:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:52] <exec> 08└─Huh? Sorry, but do you know anything about academic publishing? You do realize there are plenty of closed-access predatory journals and publishers too, right? The author of that article in your link obviously doesn't acknowledge that this was an issue long before the internet too. There were always...
[17:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:53] <exec> 08└─An expert registers in the flesh with a consortium of Universities, presenting all the usual Old World criteria (e.g., an expensive piece of paper); the expert generates a one-time private-key for reviewing some article, and then asks the consortium to sign his public key, indicating to the world th...
[17:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:55] <exec> 08└─Journals still work and provide value, despite being parasitized by talentless leeches. I can't see a good reason why this is not worthy of appreciation.
[17:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Thousands of AI Researchers are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:58] <exec> 08└─you're just another apologist whore. fuck you and your precious information prisons.
[17:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Key Mechanism Behind the Formation of Spider Silk - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:07] <exec> 08└─maybe one day i can make bullet proof clothing at home with silk and carbon nano tubes.
[17:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:16] <exec> 08└─wtf
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[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:12] <exec> 08└─M$ has undergone many reorganizations in just the last few years. How many of those shuffles are to move the few remaining profitable divisions under the Azure albatross in an effort to make it look like revenue for that division has been growing? The Securities Exchange Commission filings [sec.gov]...
[18:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:14] <exec> 08└─Personally, I feel as though they are getting out of hand. A guy in my org literally has 5 certs, and does very minimal AWS work (basic web product). I have no certs and am building out cloud native apps in AWS doing things like batch processing millions of customer data. I'm not knocking being able...
[18:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:16] <exec> 08└─Because everyone except drooling pointy haired bosses knows certs are just worthless pieces of paper. People just get them to decorate their resumes. Obligatory Dilbert: http://dilbert.com [dilbert.com]
[18:25:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:25] <exec> 08└─This suggests that the 512GB module features a raw capacity of 640GB
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─This isn't RAM by any stretch of the marketing hype. It is just an SSD bypassing the overhead of the PCIe interface and by using a blocksize that matches the cache row avoiding the block layers as well. But it still has less than 10K write endurance so you will be putting real RAM into a system and...
[18:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:53] <exec> 08└─Cause your being a pedantic ahole. It was a comedy sketch. No one here cares about the Queen's English.
[18:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:54] <exec> 08└─A police drone...
[18:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:27] <exec> 08└─Source: lived there for a year and a half after the conflict started.
[18:26:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 2006 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:54] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, they had a lot of the same problems in Norway. Not enough children being made. For many reasons. So many children had bad genes. Not healthy, folks. And so many kids had great genes but they weren't raised properly. Big waste. So they started a very special program, they called it t...
[18:27:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─That's actually not a "bad" idea. Except, they aren't selected for sexual characteristics. Instead, they are selected for toughness and survivability. Who gives a damn how pretty they are, if they can't contribute to the survival of the colony, themselves, and their offspring? The definition of "att...
[18:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but not every society is structured the same way. There are advantages to other structures, as well as costs. Traditionally one alternative is that women lived with the families, and loved outside them. The mother's brother was quite different in importance than the father's brother. He was o...
[18:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:26] <exec> 08└─Males are only pointless when work can be done by machines. Until then we still need to build, dredge, break our backs and arms, etc.
[18:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:28] <exec> 08└─I think bradley's point was that love is an evolution created mechanism for social bonding to facilitate the long maturation process of humans that existed long before the concept of marriage. It is an animal instinct.
[18:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:31] <exec> 08└─Well, we are primates, so: """ “When mothers and daughters share home ranges that do not overlap with other females, all direct competition will involve close kin and selection for male-biased birth sex ratios will be strong. But as the number of females using overlapping home- ranges increases…...
[18:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:33] <exec> 08└─I don't like you, and if you got hit by a bus and never return, I wouldn't miss you. When you post your usual offtopic troll drivel or outright spam, I log in and mod you down, with a strong wish for you to disappear along with the other current spam troller (the `mens rights' one). But this post "V...
[18:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Improbus [6425] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:56] <exec> 08└─Why bother to write one if you don't mean it in the first place. Just so you can say you have one?
[18:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:30] <exec> 08└─> the Cardassians Now there is a show I'd watch.
[18:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:32] <exec> 08└─Agree completely. My partner and I have taken things one step further - we've not even gone to city hall to get a piece of paper that contractually binds us. That's worked for nearly 20 years, no need to change that now. (Unless Brexit means that we need to do some hoop jumping just to keep life eas...
[18:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:00] <exec> 08└─Do you also boycott Amazon? By my read, Jeff Bezos is about 50x worse than Musk will ever be. Mind you, I'll agree that we can't cut Elon too much slack. He's doing important things, pushing us to places that so many of us want our species to go, but are held back by government and corporate conserv...
[18:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:32] <exec> 08└─Old truck driving story? Our trucks had recently been equipped with Quallcomm communications and tracking hardware. The onboard software didn't give you routing information, at the time - maybe our company just didn't pay for it. Anyway, I took off on a run, and made my morning call to dispatch the...
[18:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped with Malware Built in - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:33] <exec> 08└─Is this the Chinese government spying on other countries, or are the malware authors considerate of their countrymen?
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[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─"Gotta Catch 'Em All" ... for professionals.
[19:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:24] <exec> 08└─I think there's an important difference between checking whether Microsoft is investing in Azure to become a major cloud player versus figuring out whether Azure is profitable. Microsoft can afford to lose many billions of dollars a year for some time, and as long as it's profitable eventually they'...
[19:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:37] <exec> 08└─No it will not. Marketing does not like the branding "untrustable", and so it will be dropped over the objections of the engineers. "trustable" will be substituted instead. So that is what it will come with. You can trust it because it says you can, right on the package.
[19:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:38] <exec> 08└─If I am reading this right, it is NOT just current SSD. It is implemented differently. It is much faster than SSD. Fast enough to be direct memory for the microprocessor. Can anyone elaborate further?
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─This is a RAM chip with baked-in Flash, used as disk - mostly for large enterprise storage arrays. What's new with this is the response time is completely flat as write load increases. NVMe alone optimizes the reads vs SAS, but does almost nothing for writes because it's just flash at the end. This...
[19:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:05] <exec> 08└─Levels are only used at altitude, for vertical separation of planes in route. In most places the finest grained levels are 1000 feet.
[19:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:39] <exec> 08└─Yep. The Expanse is the best thing I think since Babylon 5.
[19:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:40] <exec> 08└─Guess you've never been to Kiev. It's a lot of fun. There is tourism, there are many international companies, and it helps when you speak a bunch of languages. My company has offices in 80 countries. I've been to over 50 and lived in several for extended periods of time in several. That's not random...
[19:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:43] <exec> 08└─OR they have legitimate concerns about foreign interests affecting elections, along with a having a president that is beholden more to a foreign nation than his own country. Nah, its just to improve their election chances! /s After Trumpster fire the Democrats just need to avoid shooting their foot...
[19:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:45] <exec> 08└─Simpsons did it!
[19:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:47] <exec> 08└─> The first and most obvious hurdle is the low gravity environment, which could pose a serious threat > to the conception and pregnancy processes that seem so simple here on Earth. Researchers from the "Have sex standing to avoid pregnancy" school ? Seriously a dumb statement. Gravity is at most a m...
[19:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:48] <exec> 08└─Male and female children cost the same to produce. If each male mates with ten females, then an average male will be ten times as successful as an average female. Since sex is determined genetically*, the genes that produce more male children will win over the ones that produce the 1-in-10 ratio. Th...
[19:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:50] <exec> 08└─It's sad you see yourself that way. "Don't genocide me, Mistress! I'm still good for work!" How about, you're still a human, and that's all the reason required to treat you well, regardless of chromosomes or phenotype or gender identity? Good grief, why is the resident granola dyke the one pointing...
[19:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, he's upping his game...I was wondering how many people would spot that one :) Almost made me cat /dev/mug/tea | /home/hazuki/nose > /mnt/desktop there for a moment, LOL.
[19:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:55] <exec> 08└─There's no free land in the US. Homesteading was mostly finished by the early 20th century, although it was possible in Alaska until the 1980s. People with an agenda like to complain that mining claims are "free," but you don't really own those as it's no longer possible to obtain "patented" claims.
[19:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:18] <exec> 08└─a better job of only hitting actual combatants?
[19:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:55] <exec> 08└─False advertising works better to elicit consent. "Will you marry me?" polls much lower when holding a diaper and bottle of bleach.
[19:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:57] <exec> 08└─"$Product is forever" is likely used in marketing schools everywhere to assess incoming students: whoever has the hardest time with the concept is likely to get the best grades.
[19:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:59] <exec> 08└─Over many years, there is a good chance that a stone (diamond) will pop loose. The setting will probably survive a few months of engagement. The stone will damage all sorts of things. You can scrape your eye with it. You can snag a chunk out of your favorite sweater. You can scratch all sorts of thi...
[19:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:01] <exec> 08└─>It's De Beers's fault. They created a huge marketing campaign beginning in the late 1930s to convince consumers > that engagement rings should be expensive (at least a month's salary) and that a diamond was the only > acceptable stone for one. So blame them. It originated with them. My favorite par...
[19:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:03] <exec> 08└─There's a local college radio station that runs a public service announcement trying to get people to think about the longevity[1] of plastic in the ecosysytem. In the PSA, the guy presents his gal with a ring where the "stone" is plastic. His spiel is that the plastic will last forever, "just like...
[19:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:32] <exec> 08└─Tesla is actually like everybody else: try to hide their problems, get caught, deny, comply... A few more dead bodies, and they will be all grown up.
[19:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:33] <exec> 08└─Soooooo glad I no longer have to chase that OSHA Recordable (injury) Rate! That was the worst part of my previous job as an EHS Manager. Real safety metrics are in short supply so management relies on recordable rate which is highly dependent on external factors like how much an employee likes Perco...
[19:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Physicists Synthesize Materials for Recycling Radioactive Waste - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:45] <exec> 08└─Plenty of uses for ever-warm material. Whether those uses make financial sense against other solutions, and against widespread opposition because of the radiation risks, is the actual problem. I'll take a bunch off your hands if you find a way to encase a few kW worth in a reasonable-weight thermall...
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[20:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:25] <exec> 08└─Last one: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Result: https://www.gartner.com [gartner.com] The problem with making Gartner into a joke is that they're not just amusingly wrong regarding anything not too obvious, they're consistently biased t...
[20:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:27] <exec> 08└─"Starting to"? 🤨 1999 called... http://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[20:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:29] <exec> 08└─The true Gartner Magic Quadrant has the horizontal axis "how much you pay Gartner 'consultants'" and the vertical axis is "how big you are." I guess 8 companies didn't pay their danegeld [wikipedia.org]. Nice company they had there, it's a shame that they didn't pay for "insurance" and a tragedy bef...
[20:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:31] <exec> 08└─The bigger question is why anybody takes what they have to say seriously. They have no more information than us peons about the stuff they're reporting on, really.
[20:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:33] <exec> 08└─Microsoft climbing back toward most valuable company in the world [nextbigfuture.com]
[20:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:49] <exec> 08└─But it still has less than 10K write endurance
[20:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/26/chinese_scientists_claim_xpoint_is_phase_change_memory/ [theregister.co.uk] Unclear, but widely assumed to be phase change memory (PCM).
[20:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:16] <exec> 08└─So yeah the jet pilot, if he were in the USA, would be violating a metric (well, imperial-measure) shitton of laws, which as I previously stated are never enforced on military pilots.
[20:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:18] <exec> 08└─Plane hits a BIRD and it's "OMG WE HAVE TO BAN DRONES". Airline pilot sees something in the distance below that he can't identify and it's "OMG WE HAVE TO REGULATE DRONES!!!". Military pilot actually has what a normal person would call a near-miss (as in "Bring me my brown pants!") with a police dro...
[20:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:20] <exec> 08└─These are often referred to as "lessons observed" to avoid implying that learning takes place.
[20:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:22] <exec> 08└─Somebody please go ask Carlin whether he meant to say the dash.
[20:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:24] <exec> 08└─You may be interested in a bit of trivia; metric flight levels [wikipedia.org] are used in ... ... Mongolia, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and 6,000 m or below in Turkmenistan (where feet is used for FL210 and above). Flight levels are read as e.g. "flight level 7,50...
[20:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:02] <exec> 08└─linux geeks "coding" useless crap in their basement
[20:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:04] <exec> 08└─but if they've managed to bag some of the assassins through this exercise as well then it could get really interesting. They did: The head of the Ukrainian Security Service said the suspected organizer of the alleged hit plot was detained Wednesday, suggesting the bogus killing was aimed at flushing...
[20:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:06] <exec> 08└─But now he's known to be alive, plus a big stink has been made around him It turns out that journalists investigating corrupt regimes that will gladly kill them for what they are reporting are kind of into the whole truth getting out there thing....
[20:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:08] <exec> 08└─And, there are no proofs of any of those atrocities. Uhh....there's plenty of proof that Russia invaded part of Ukraine and claimed Crimea. [wikipedia.org] That you don't want to acknowledge that fact says more about you than about the quantity of proof available.
[20:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, "suspected". The two arrests (the other being the supposed assassin) are covered in TFS, but if it turns out they got the right people (which, I expect, it probably will) and they start talking (which expect they probably will, once suitably "encouraged") then I think we'll see the coverage to...
[20:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:13] <exec> 08└─Bellingcat's evidence [bellingcat.com] (including photographs of it on route) tracking of the BUK launcher all the way from Russia’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade's base to near Donetsk right before MH17 was downed and on the way back again just after is pretty compelling proof, IMHO. More ci...
[20:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:15] <exec> 08└─You're overly specific for obviously partisan reasons, but not Redundant. The American government in general, as well as many other governments, would benefit from making Russia look bad.
[20:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:17] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily, the Ukraine's a *big* place. It's perfectly plausible for it to be business as normal in the West, conflict in the East, and a huge area in-between. Despite the conflict and MH17, plenty of tourists still go there too - Kiev is a really cool city, and even hosted the Eurovision Song...
[20:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:25] <exec> 08└─Well since you don't even know that Mars has an atmosphere I'm not sure it is worth investing any thought into this little experiment. Ok fine, I"ll stick with the easy one. Creating a new colony in the solar system has immense benefits, one of which is a smaller gravity well so maybe Mars will be o...
[20:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:26] <exec> 08└─So you're telling me you'll go through all the trouble of getting TO Uranus and then you'll bury yourselves in order to have sex??? That is probably the most specific and difficult kink I've ever heard of.
[20:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:28] <exec> 08└─The free market will sort it out.
[20:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:53] <exec> 08└─Why bother to write one if you don't mean it in the first place. Just so you can say you have one?
[20:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:34] <exec> 08└─Guns, bombs, and economic hitmen
[20:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:36] <exec> 08└─From all the jokes that fly around the net I'm pretty sure that is what you are getting, no matter how you spell the name. Figuratively and literally.
[20:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:38] <exec> 08└─It isn't a dowry, it is a small guarantee that if things go bad the woman will have something expensive to sell off. Still, its probably more about the marketing campaign. Ah to live in the post-consumer world. Maybe I'll live long enough.
[20:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:40] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is possible to make artificial diamonds weak and shitty without tons of visual flaws. Once again voluntarily imposed monopoly contracts writes before thinking.
[20:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:43] <exec> 08└─local tribal craftsmen from various parts of the world
[20:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Expands Worker Injury List One Week after Elon Musk Criticizes Media for Reporting on It - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:13] <exec> 08└─Because it won a Supreme Court case filed by employees who demanded pay for the time they spend getting searched at the ends of their shift Amazon often solicits me to apply for coding work. Always I decline
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[21:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Will Open its New Space Station to International Partners - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:12] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they've realized what a tremendous money pit it is to run a space station.
[21:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Will Open its New Space Station to International Partners - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:13] <exec> 08└─Feeding humans is a money pit. We all die eventually.
[21:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades of Aerial Photos Reveal How an Ancient Desert City Got its Water - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─"And what have the Romans ever done for us?" "The aqueducts?"
[21:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Cloud is a Six-Horse Race, and Three of Those Have Been Lapped - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─Because everyone except drooling pointy haired bosses knows certs are just worthless pieces of paper. People just get them to decorate their resumes.
[21:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:56] <exec> 08└─No, Flash + RAM + Supercap was the early test pieces to develop the software stack for this tech. This is a new product, it isn't flash based and there is no ram backing it. If they could make a 512GB stick of DDR4 RAM it would be a sought after product in its own right. While faster than any existi...
[21:26:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:06] <exec> 08└─Per George Carlin: "When 2 planes almost collide, they call it a 'near miss'. It's a 'near hit'! A collision is a near miss! 'Look, they nearly missed ... but not quite!'"
[21:26:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 888 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:09] <exec> 08└─In the UK: """ Military low flying is used to train military aircrew. Low flying by military aircraft is carried out across all of the UK. Low flying means: fixed-wing aircraft flying down to 250 feet from the ground rotary-wing aircraft (for example helicopters) flying down...
[21:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:28] <exec> 08└─Bitching about downvotes = more downvotes.
[21:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airprox Board Says Police Drone And Military Jet Had 'Near-Miss' - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:30] <exec> 08└─near != nearly
[21:26:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:43] <exec> 08└─Different governments. I don't recall anyone claiming that he'd been murdered by the Ukrainian government, more that it was - with varying degrees of confidence ranging from possible to absolutely - the Russian government shutting up another critic in their (allegedly) tried and trusted way, but it'...
[21:26:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 724 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:46] <exec> 08└─There are a number of ways in which it may make sense. One of them: - they arrested the hitman just before the job, with the journo acting as bait - they wanted to arrest the instigator but also wanted evidence that he was the correct person, so... - ... they faked the murder (with the hitman in cus...
[21:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:17] <exec> 08└─That's easy: America's Democrats. They've been howling "Russians Russians Russians" for almost two years now. If they can make Russia look bad, they think that will improve their own image, or some such crazy thing.
[21:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:18] <exec> 08└─Yep. The Expanse is the best thing I think since Babylon 5
[21:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Just finished Season 2. I'll look forward to episode S03E08. I noticed there are, I think, Eight books? And the synopsis of the first two books sounded remarkably like the two seasons I just watched. Now, I just hope it actually goes somewhere and has an actual ending, like B5. I hope they a...
[21:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:31] <exec> 08└─but I'll just stick to Earth.
[21:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:32] <exec> 08└─And obviously we have to have a ratio of 10 females to each male in the colony, and select said females for their sexual characteristics, which must be of a highly stimulating nature.
[21:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:34] <exec> 08└─President Muffley concurs, Doctor.
[21:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:45] <exec> 08└─They are all expensive in the long run.
[21:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06De Beers Surrenders, Begins Selling Lab-Grown Diamonds - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:46] <exec> 08└─It's not just diamonds. Wholesale-to-retail markup is traditionally 200%-300% in the jewelry business (I have made and sold jewelry off and on over the past 20 years). It really is amazing to take $100 in gold wire and a $200 stone and turn that into a ring that sells for $500 wholesale ($800-$900 r...
[21:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Acoustic Interference Attacks Can Damage Hard Drives and Crash Operating Systems - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:03] <exec> 08└─That is fucking hilarious! I don't know why, but there's something really satisfying about the fact that even a lifeless machine doesn't take abuse from people.
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[22:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:09] <exec> 08└─Ok, Google, Make me a sandwich.
[22:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:11] <exec> 08└─He will swoop in and tell us how embracing Skynet is the best idea since Capitalism!
[22:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:13] <exec> 08└─Doesn't this rig belong in a box with Schrödinger's cat?
[22:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:15] <exec> 08└─So if I rig a gun to a Clapper, do I deserve press coverage as well? Is the "triggering" mechanism really what's important here?
[22:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:18] <exec> 08└─Nope, new inventions these days have to be, "xxx on the Internet" or "yyy in the Cloud".
[22:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:20] <exec> 08└─Does Google aim the gun, or just pull the trigger. 50 years ago I could have come up with a machine to do the latter. Doing the former, while pretty neat, is also scary. Just think, a "machine gun" that will shoot only 240 rounds/minute. The caveat being each shot was aimed at a new target before pu...
[22:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:22] <exec> 08└─Ok, Google, Make me a sandwich.
[22:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:24] <exec> 08└─For maximum hilarity, it should be rigged to fire twice.
[22:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Will Open its New Space Station to International Partners - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:34] <exec> 08└─That way we don't have to work to steal your ideas.
[22:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Decades of Aerial Photos Reveal How an Ancient Desert City Got its Water - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:42] <exec> 08└─> People should understand just how complex and sophisticated the engineering behind the Roman water management systems was Wouldn't that be nice. But these days, the pendulum is swinging away from respect for education, facts, knowledge, and science. Hopefully it will stop well short of Khmer Rouge...
[22:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:51] <exec> 08└─Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell you, brother. You can't have one without the other. Love and marriage. Love and marriage. It's an institute you can't disparage. Ask the local gentry. And they will say it's elementary. Try, try, try to separate...
[22:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:53] <exec> 08└─I've wondered a few times, why mankind tends to produce roughly the same number of males and females.
[22:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:55] <exec> 08└─There are some radical feminist types, like Valerie Solanas [neu.edu], in fact sometimes do treat male-ness as something to be eliminated. My solidly feminist aunt told me all about her experiences in the 1970's among womyn's conferences where she was looked down upon in part because she insisted on...
[22:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:57] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, and Westboro Baptist doesn't speak for all Christians. But somehow, if I equated all of Christianity with the WBC I'd be vilified, but it's de rigeur for a hell of a lot of men online to equate feminism as a whole with Solanas.
[22:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:00] <exec> 08└─Love != Marriage? One always hears this, but is it really true?
[22:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:02] <exec> 08└─I'll put it this way: Reading just about anything written by Gloria Steinem, or speaking with her for about 15 seconds, will quickly put to lie any notion that Solanas represents mainstream feminism.
[22:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:28] <exec> 08└─Do you know how much it costs to train a human to fight? Then we have to support any medical bills through the VA, and after that we give them pensions if they stick it out long enough! This is financially KILLING us!!! Automated weaponry will reduce the financial burden of the war machine along wit...
[22:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:29] <exec> 08└─He's a carrion eating bird for fucks sake, he WANTS more human deaths, he THRIVES on horror.
[22:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:31] <exec> 08└─Can't blame anything on those googlers. Their company has a policy that says they won't do evi... Oh wait. They removed that. We meant we won't do bad things for the military. Just don't notice the cloud computing contracts we're bidding on for DOD and the intel agencies. It's just computing. We can...
[22:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:34] <exec> 08└─This code has no such effect in this case. Section 406 deals with complying with US law. It doesn't say anything about military contracting or weaponized AI development for the US government, both of which are legal (whether or not someone thinks it should be). From Section 406: "This Code has been...
[22:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:50] <exec> 08└─While I don't require Jesus to be divine I do feel the historical Jesus was inspired. And I really do read the Bible, most commonly when I'm in the slammer. I was referring to the moneychangers in the temple. JC wasn't down with that so he beat them all up then threw them all out. That was totally r...
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[23:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─"Ok, Google, Make me a sandwich." Uh... Google, just why are you chasing me with a carving knife and a loaf of bread?
[23:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─No just Google assistants like this one [youtube.com] and the triggering mechanism is known [gizmodo.com]
[23:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:25] <exec> 08└─Is his choice of an apple symbolic in some way? The message would have been clearer and made more of a stir if he had used an iPhone as the victim..
[23:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:27] <exec> 08└─OK Google, is that a gun in your carry-case or are you just glad to see me?
[23:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:29] <exec> 08└─OK Nuke, is that a Kim Jong-un in your pocket or are you North Korea?
[23:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS [wikipedia.org] https://www.raytheon.com [raytheon.com] It does 4,500 rounds per minute. Each outgoing round is individually tracked by radar. The aim is adjusted based on this, compensating for anything that might otherwise c...
[23:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:33] <exec> 08└─Not aiming, just pulling a trigger. Also, it's obviously an airsoft gun (or something similar). Given that the whole thing is essentially an art piece, the choice to not even use a real gun makes it pretty disappointing. Of course, TFA says nothing about that, cuz acting like it's a real gun gets pe...
[23:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:36] <exec> 08└─Nope, new inventions these days have to be, "xxx on the Internet"
[23:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:38] <exec> 08└─Or it could just be that apples being used as targets is a very old meme. [wikipedia.org]
[23:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:40] <exec> 08└─Forgot to strip the mobile out of the link, lulz. Better version. [wikipedia.org]
[23:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:43] <exec> 08└─The AI needs much improving.
[23:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 3323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:45] <exec> 08└─But there were a couple of stories, not long ago, about Google. Let me tell you, for a long time Google didn't want to do work for our military. When President Clinton (Bill), Bush Jr. & Obama were in charge. And the folks at Google said, Google cyber can make our military very powerful. But the guy...
[23:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:47] <exec> 08└─But .xxx [wikipedia.org] has only been around since 2011...
[23:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─This AI needs to be 3 laws compliant. This is what we get when we aren't 3 laws compliant.
[23:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Used to Fire Gun - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:52] <exec> 08└─Let me slather some mayo on your insides.
[23:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 3D XPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:44] <exec> 08└─I literally did a presentation today on the availability of this on EMC arrays this year and how it works. Either read more than a specs sheet to get your information or get a job where you're taught these things.
[23:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death of Russian Journalist Faked by Ukraine, Supposedly to Foil Real Assassination Plot - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:06] <exec> 08└─The internet is full of useless crap, and it looks like you're the one who codes is. Congratulations for making my point for me. There is another part of the internet where real companies do real business - appears you're not aware of that part. If an explanation of why I know about Ukraine sounds l...
[23:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Launches Venues App for Live Entertainment, Sports, Etc. - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:19] <exec> 08└─And why would I want to 'see' a 'Vance Joy' concert? How much are they paying people to see it?
[23:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex on a Mars Colony - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:27] <exec> 08└─That's just like Betty over Veronica. Yeah, Mary Ann all the time.
[23:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Drafting Ethics Policy for its Involvement in Military Projects - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:58] <exec> 08└─Nah, I prefer catfish.
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