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[00:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 2179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:37] <exec> 08└─Why film over digital? For much the same reasons that some people prefer vinyl albums [thirdmanrecords.com] over CDs and MP3s, and why there still a LOT of recording studios [facebook.com] offering analog and tape instead of direct to a computer. Obviously there are qualitative differences between a...
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[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─film enthusiasts [...] That might be the future for Kodak or Fujifilm.
[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─Take a look, and tell me if anyone is matching that kind of work on their iPhone.
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:42] <exec> 08└─Hipsters gotta hipst.
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─I like the ability to manage my calendar, contacts, notes, etc, but I don't want it networked. I want it firewalled from my cellphone, not integrated. Instead of networking, add a USB port. Make backups and restores easy. Support deltas. Make everything flat files with ASCII, I can encrypt and decry...
[00:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:31] <exec> 08└─What software are you using to re-encode/convert to a single video file? I haven't done it in a very long time and the landscape has completely changed.
[00:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:03] <exec> 08└─You mean... dumb things like emojis?
[00:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:23] <exec> 08└─Do you usually say antiflu or antimeasles vaccine?
[00:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:57] <exec> 08└─I don't like assertions that are supposed to be true no matter the circumstances, even more when they are supported by a single anecdote. I would have said nothing if your claim sounded like At my age, I don't need to eat meat products to be healthy.
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[01:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GW170817/GRB Neutron Star Collision may have Created the Smallest Known Black Hole - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:21] <exec> 08└─In August of 2017 [open, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101] [DX], another major breakthrough occurred when the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected waves that were believed to be caused by a neutron star merger. Shortly thereafter, scientists at LIGO, Advanced Virgo,...
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[01:33:22] <exec> 08└─On 2017 August 17 12:41:06 UTC the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM; Meegan et al. 2009) onboard flight software triggered on, classified, and localized a GRB. A Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN) Notice (Fermi-GBM 2017) was issued at 12:41:20 UTC announcing the detection of the GRB, which was la...
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[01:33:46] <exec> 08└─Why film over digital? For much the same reasons that some people prefer vinyl albums [thirdmanrecords.com] over CDs and MP3s, and why there still a LOT of recording studios [facebook.com] offering analog and tape instead of direct to a computer. Obviously there are qualitative differences between a...
[01:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 1513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─Film. Hollywood still burns through miles of the stuff everyday, though that is slowing changing as digital continues to improve. Serious landscape photography is still a realm of film, largely 4x6 or 810 view cameras. Though again, the new large sensors are going to be giving those film formats a...
[01:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:54] <exec> 08└─Hell yes! I made a lot of money, as a kid many years ago, sticking my finger in every change return slot I passed by. Even found one, one time, and this pay phone didn't have the old style of return that you pulled down but rather the door you pushed in, that apparently threw up as much change as it...
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─I'd also vote for public/pay phones, although these days they would be more of an emergency service. Not everybody owns a cell phone, not everyone takes a cell phone with them, not everybody has charged or good batteries. It seems perfectly reasonable although they would not see loads of use. The on...
[01:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:14] <exec> 08└─For the right-winger, just tell them the stuff is using true American electrons, never touched by an H1B hand or imported from China.
[01:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─Every person on the planet could get their own /64 subnet. That leaves 64 bits of information for each address, which is enough to encode any two emoji [wikipedia.org]. There are roughly 1,212 emoji [wikipedia.org] in version 11 of Unicode. So 1,468,944 combinations could be made with two emoji alon...
[01:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:18] <exec> 08└─The fact that everybody can use emojis in their IP address doesn't make emojis a smart thing, does it?
[01:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:38] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think China just figured out how to turn the gong around backwards so it creates a narrow beam, rather than a wide one, when that grinning midget with the big grin and bigger spectacles bangs it. " BHHHHWWWWANNNNNNGGGGG! "
[01:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:14] <exec> 08└─My mother, over 75 yo, an observant orthodox christian, used to fast until recently on Wed and Fri - nothing of animal origin. This needed to stop, though - her body started to eat its own muscles - shown by the physiological and pathology analyses (ketonic compounds through the roof in her blood wi...
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[02:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:13] <exec> 08└─Just what have you got against Welsh, you insensitive clod.
[02:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:14] <exec> 08└─Mae'n iaith farw.
[02:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:16] <exec> 08└─Rumors of it's death are premature, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales,[14] making it the only language that is de jure official in any part of the United Kingdom, with English be...
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:55] <exec> 08└─I'd also suggest a replaceable non-proprietary battery. Having a seperate PDA/Phone also has the advantage that one does not look like a freaking fool talking in to something large enough that that it really could be called a tablet. But if you turn off communications, then how do they track everyth...
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you're right. Kodak or Fuji are going to have huge overheads. The suggestion was that some enerprising person might buy the equipment and rights to the name and set up somewhere lower cost (like Croatia). That might be profitable.
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─Tried a Palm Pilot, didn't really like it (various reasons). Before that I had a Casio organizer with a big 64K memory for addresses & calendar--it flipped open and had a chiclet keyboard with some key travel--that was OK to type on. Instead I went back to a small sized 2-year paper calendar, just e...
[02:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:15] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the same here - count the seconds. What is almost always neglected when discussing CPR, is how exhausting the work is. As a strong, healthy 25 year old man, my time was limited. 15 minutes of CPR wears a man out. A team of two extends that time quite nicely - one does compressions, the o...
[02:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:55] <exec> 08└─I heard they were only 419 miles away.
[02:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:56] <exec> 08└─Yes. They are at fault for fixing a problem well within their reach. Screw those guys and their turkeys, I'm going home.
[02:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:58] <exec> 08└─Don't feed the sarcasm
[02:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:01] <exec> 08└─Denied! I walked into the cafe today for my usual. The lady looked at me but did not stop7 taking to a customer at the counter. The barista guy made myusual and put it in front of me. He took my cash and gave me change. The Cafe llady said to me that they guessed my coffee so no need to ask. Patent...
[02:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:19] <exec> 08└─We don't know what's likely or not, because we have only one example to go on which is us of course. It could be that the 10,000 years or so that it has taken for us to go from inventing agriculture to the industrialised world we have now marks us out as particularly stupid and slow, and other inte...
[02:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:21] <exec> 08└─I can think of two ways a planet might have multple suns: 1: Sun A & sun B orbit each other. Planet C orbits both. 2: Sun A at the centre, Planet C and Sun B both orbit. The second example seems to have the posiblity of stability over quite long periods, especially if Sun B is quite far out (say...
[02:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03paranoid1 [2904] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:52] <exec> 08└─No. I think of Hawkwind.
[02:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:28] <exec> 08└─When you say "fasting", is that all she cut out? Did she cut out other food that normally goes with meat too? What did she replace that with? I can tell you that I eat a *lot*. I'd never use the word "fasting" to describe my diet because that (to me anyway) implies just skipping some or all food, as...
[02:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reboot Your Router for Security - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, people can be self taught, but if someone aspires to be a professional, why not get the certs?/quote. Because maybe they don't aspire to be a professional, even if they have enough knowledge and experience to be one? Plenty of software developers were self-taught, especially in the past. As a...
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[03:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Could Have Years of its Users' Browsing Histories - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:16] <exec> 08└─Browsers have been offering to sync stuff for a long time. Facebook already does that for you - mostly without your knowledge or understanding. What's hard to figure out here? Some other entity, that probably doesn't share your own ideas of propriety, has access to all of your browsing. You can't te...
[03:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:26] <exec> 08└─The experts are still debating whether Welsh is really a language, you overly sensitive clod!
[03:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:28] <exec> 08└─Just what have you got against Welsh
[03:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:25] <exec> 08└─Apple *is* a patent troll. A good company would take a troll to court.
[03:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:59] <exec> 08└─Not if it makes my keyboard auto repeat 28x faster, the way it seems to be programmed if I'm in a low runlevel.
[03:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:36] <exec> 08└─Have you had *anything* to do with public service organisms?
[03:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:37] <exec> 08└─We rarely see ip4 urls these days. Except for spammers. Why would ip6 change this? More obfuscation? We have this lovely system called dns to resolve a human readable text address to an unfriendly number behind the scenes so we don't have to think about it
[03:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:39] <exec> 08└─Have you had *anything* to do with public service organisms?
[03:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe? Have you considered that in future access to "the Internet" may be limited to only people who have registered? Provide your drivers license, passport, birth certificate and only then can you get a connection to an isp with your own personal ip6 address. Then make it illegal to connect to the...
[03:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:44] <exec> 08└─Help me out here. How can I tell the difference between (real) americans and (fake) americans? Do the (real) ones support the purity of IPv4 and distain IPV6, or is it the other way around?
[03:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:22] <exec> 08└─But but but my swipe to unlock dohacky is pure innovation the result of years of research millions of dollars so many test cases and lots and lots of alcohol WHAT ABOUT MY INVESTMENT???
[03:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:44] <exec> 08└─We don't know what's likely or not, because we have only one example to go on which is us of course.
[03:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Multiple Suns Doesn't Doom a Planet to an Early Death - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:45] <exec> 08└─It's a fun discussion though. The possibilites are endless, which is why I have been reading Science fiction for ~40 years.
[03:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:41] <exec> 08└─For example, most programmers, if asked the percentage complete for their portion of the project periodically will give answers that look something like: "50%", "90%", "95%", "96%", "98%", "99%", "99.5%", ...
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[03:40:54] <exec> 08└─When you say "fasting", is that all she cut out?
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[04:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:10] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness there are alternatives in FedEx, DHL, and the USPS. They ought to take the opportunity to grab market share from UPS. They certainly have the logistical chops to manage it.
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[04:33:37] <exec> 08└─That's a tight hole.
[04:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:12] <exec> 08└─Sounds a lot like the reasons people give for hunting with a bit w or muzzle loader. They're more interested in the challenge than achieving the goal.
[04:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:13] <exec> 08└─*Bow. Phone typing.
[04:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:15] <exec> 08└─Also without pay phones it's impossible to make an anonymous phone call.
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[04:35:04] <exec> 08└─Not the GP, but MakeMKV followed by HandBrake seems to be the choice lately.
[04:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:35] <exec> 08└─I remember it via The Office [youtube.com]
[04:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 2057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:25] <exec> 08└─To add to this lucid analysis, we could as well start from a different position entirely, if we want to be fair, that is, and if we accept that the only useful patent law is the one which actually benefits the public, as opposed to a very small percentage of individual inventors and a few patent-hoa...
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[04:38:19] <exec> 08└─There are "ultrasonic ozone vegetable washer" marketed for homes and restaurants so I won't be surprised if some embassies might be using those sort of cleaners [wikipedia.org] in the mail room, water treatment or kitchen.
[04:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Big Analysis Of Environmental Data Strengthens The Case For Plant-Based Diets - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:57] <exec> 08└─Understood. Sorry, I wasn't aware. I figure vegans probably need to eat a lot more food than normal to keep up their health as a general rule, but I'm no health expert. I used to skip breakfast for years (but would easily make up for it in other meals). These days though, with all the running I've b...
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[04:40:59] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I wasn't aware.
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[05:33:17] <exec> 08└─As long as the employees get a reasonable work week, it shouldn't matter if they are M-F 9-5 or F-M 8-6. Of course, the actual work culture isn't humane and the pay is shit, so 60+ hour work weeks with pressure from management to only clock for 55 (If you don't do it, I'll hire somebody who will...)...
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[05:33:18] <exec> 08└─Together, we can duly reward the means of distribution.
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[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─We must assume people are too stupid to look after themselves; we must protect people from themselves; basically, Tyranny is the solution. Won't somebody think of the children?! Employees of a violently imposed monopoly are about as worthy as one would expect.
[05:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:23] <exec> 08└─What the fuck have all the 3 points above to do with the employees of a private company deciding to take a action towards negotiating their work conditions?
[05:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:25] <exec> 08└─Don't get too worked up about that post. It's just another (or the same) Russian bot looking to create dissension.
[05:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:27] <exec> 08└─Have to keep those Amazon packages moving. God forbid that people might have to actually go out to shop for their stuff.
[05:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:29] <exec> 08└─It's just the same ancap AC troll who always starts their comment in the subject line and baits tons of people into replying. Usually, when you collapse the entire discussion, there are barely any comments remaining in the article.
[05:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:32] <exec> 08└─But all our USPS workers are generally of fit build. Sizeable number of the newer ones are ex-military, and even the ones that aren't tend to be in shape, but then again there are lots of neighborhoods around here that are foot only if you want to get your route done.
[05:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:34] <exec> 08└─I used to go out and shop for stuff. Salespeople then knew what the products were and could help you find the right one. Now, nobody has the first clue so in the middle of the store you find yourself pulling out your phone and ordering the damn thing online anyway (this has happened to me several ti...
[05:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:36] <exec> 08└─I'm forced to buy things from a local store, since I can pay cash and preserve my anonymity and privacy to a greater degree. We'll see how long it takes for facial recognition to be ubiquitous. Too bad we don't have real privacy laws in this country.
[05:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Could Have Years of its Users' Browsing Histories - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:45] <exec> 08└─Relaaaaxxx... if you know you're screwed and you can't beat em, there's always the option to join em. The cartel takes care of their own...
[05:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:57] <exec> 08└─Welsh is pretty healthy relative to world languages. Manx and Cornish are closer to being extinct, though I think Manx and Cornishmen have been trying to revive those tongues. The BBC has world service in Welsh as well as a whole series of lessons in Welsh. Its pronunciation is pretty straightforwar...
[05:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:58] <exec> 08└─Germans preen about their long word, "Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft," too, but it's not a big deal when you know how to chunk it: "Donau dampfschifffahrts elektrizitäten hauptbetriebswerkbau unterbeamten gesellschaft."
[05:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GW170817/GRB Neutron Star Collision may have Created the Smallest Known Black Hole - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:09] <exec> 08└─And thus the Microsoft Technical Support Help Line was born...
[05:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GW170817/GRB Neutron Star Collision may have Created the Smallest Known Black Hole - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:11] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it's smaller than Uranus (but much more massive).
[05:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GW170817/GRB Neutron Star Collision may have Created the Smallest Known Black Hole - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:13] <exec> 08└─You are full of shit. How tight is Uranus?
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[05:38:55] <exec> 08└─That is an impressive display of a crypto-conservative stream of consciousness. The State Department is the last bastion of the White Man's Burden, its diplomats being nearly all horrible white people and horrible WASP blue-bloods at that. They game the numbers by hiring mainly black and brown peopl...
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[06:33:16] <exec> 08└─The Universe is Electric? [youtube.com]
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[06:33:35] <exec> 08└─Get it yet?
[06:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:36] <exec> 08└─I thought they sucked (which they do). However, not having them sucks even more. My last job (I work IT) there was no union. We were working on projects on weekends, up at 2AM regularly calling from home with conference calls to India (and then 8AM again for onshore US calls at the office). Of cours...
[06:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:38] <exec> 08└─I have a nice job, too. No union.
[06:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:41] <exec> 08└─Get it yet?
[06:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Could Have Years of its Users' Browsing Histories - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:51] <exec> 08└─Mi iFone will eventually stop asking me to login after I dismiss the alert a few times But the iMac just won't take no for an answer so I move it's alert mostly offscreen where it can't be a pest
[06:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 3524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:53] <exec> 08└─After a couple of events in my life i went back to shot B/W rolls on my "old old" fully mechanical SLR. (basically, my DSLR was not mine anymore, and after a move i found again the old bag with my old analogue camera bodies, 1+1 = why not?) Well, it blew my mind. After 10+ years of digital, shooting...
[06:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:25] <exec> 08└─Sales pitches and reality generally don't match. Actual developers quickly turned that slogan into "write once, debug everywhere."
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[06:37:26] <exec> 08└─White people came late to slavery
[06:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:28] <exec> 08└─By the time of what most people think of as the "slave trade", Europeans only supported the idea of indentured servants, who signed contracts of employment; at the expiration of such a contract, the servant would become a free man, and would maybe even be given a parcel of land of his own, etc. True...
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[07:34:50] <exec> 08└─(Which is not to say that there aren't photographers shooting phenomenal work on digital, but you'll find that the best of them almost always started with film.)
[07:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:51] <exec> 08└─Bakelite $Everything Think about it - when was the last time you saw the plastic handle of a pan/pot being shattered, and when was the last time you saw the shell of a smartphone being shattered. Now consider the average age of those things in the households you frequent
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[07:34:54] <exec> 08└─laptops with 4:3 screen
[07:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:56] <exec> 08└─MF may still be trumping digital sensors in terms of raw resolution for a few more years, but the graining noise is terrible - in my opinion. To look at, I'm prefering digital already, and have done for several years. Large format still trumps digital though, but it will go the same way as MF eventu...
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[07:37:31] <exec> 08└─DNS is an unfriendly system that can be censored or used to spy on you. We have this lovely system called a "bookmarks folder" that allows us to store URLs so we don't have to remember them.
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[08:33:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro [youtube.com]
[08:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:01] <exec> 08└─How Mozilla thinks: - Firefox users are leaving, and we don't have money to fix the problems. - Let's spend money on building an OS. - Now we have even less money to fix the browser, and even more users are leaving. - Let's spend money on a voice assistant.
[08:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:56] <exec> 08└─As someone who built his first 10 computers from components, I was of the firm belief that if you didn't offer them a blood sacrifice, they'd not work first time. If course, if on failure you yank it open to reseat the SIMMs or the VGA card, or simply to see the POST failure blinking pattern, there'...
[08:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:46] <exec> 08└─massively multi-threaded processing for many things (think: processing NPC logic and decisions),
[08:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:19] <exec> 08└─Any song from Pink Floyd?
[08:37:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:52] <exec> 08└─There are *exceedingly* few bits of software where I think to myself "I have no Idea how that's done". That's me. I do business software, scientific, database stuff, web stuff, a bit of hardware, etc. Someone who does video processing, pattern recognition, etc would cover another *huge* swath of sof...
[08:37:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03exaeta [6957] 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:56] <exec> 08└─Ok speaking as a software developer... you're wrong. The idea is the EASY part. The code is the HARD part. Because this is the way software works, patents are terrible. I think you're a patent troll, own any patents yourself? Eh?
[08:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:15] <exec> 08└─How would it restrict even paper-printed book authorship if every phrase used was subject to copyright, and even worse, submarine patent, and all sorts of attribution had to be applied to use the phrase. All this copyright crap has done is result in a bunch of stuff where no-one knows what's under...
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[09:33:20] <exec> 08└─Wailing. The woman wailed in agony. In response, those men - those brave, courageous men - merely slurped their chops, thus rendering her rebellion obsolete. What a delightful intervention. What riddles will this resolve...?
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[09:33:22] <exec> 08└─2018 ran out of germans 2018, july: a NASA in shambles closes shop JK we have asians nao
[09:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last of the Operation Paperclip Moon Rocket Scientists, Dies at 104 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:24] <exec> 08└─They ran out of Nazi scientists long ago that's why NASA has been stuck doing reruns and reboots with flashier tech instead of making real significant progress in aerospace.
[09:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GW170817/GRB Neutron Star Collision may have Created the Smallest Known Black Hole - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:28] <exec> 08└─You're failing to take relativity into account. If it takes 6 minutes to get your message out, which is still considered low latency in the field, then other people will think you detected it later, even if you detected it 2 seconds before. Fermi's little more than a geiger counter in comparison to...
[09:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:02] <exec> 08└─It's still possible if you only had a few intelligent NPCs that sent their actions similar to the players.
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[09:36:36] <exec> 08└─100-120 beat
[09:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jazz director [6875] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:38] <exec> 08└─I prefer the Simpsons [youtube.com] take on this.
[09:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 573 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:07] <exec> 08└─What's the advantage of this patent red tape compared to defensive publication? You'd have to act like patent troll to monetize it in any way. Otherwise your patent will be just a part of some patent "war chest" that is cross-licensed to everyone anyway. In practice this only prevents new entrants o...
[09:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:34] <exec> 08└─Standards should not be patentable. Dammit, the whole purpose of standards is interoperability. Employers would be furious if workmen took to using unique languages to communicate with each other on the job, even if they communicated with their supervisor in English. I've seen employers here in Sout...
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[09:38:35] <exec> 08└─At least copyright is for the specific work. Patents on books would be something like "method of writing a love story".
[09:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:37] <exec> 08└─To me, "one click purchase" isn't much different from the HTML checkbox. Click it once, its not ticked. Click it again, off. As far as I am concerned, a pure "one click purchase" can be deadly, as one can mistakenly click when attempting to scroll the page or the like, especially on touch tablets. G...
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[09:38:40] <exec> 08└─Sure would like to backbill that swipe to unlock rightsholder for all my butt-dialed calls.
[09:39:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:10] <exec> 08└─So is it identical issues to the once on Cuba or are they different? If they are not different it would seem likely that there is something the US brings with it to the various countries instead of something someone is doing to them. That is unless China and Cuba are now in secret developing surveil...
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[10:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:11] <exec> 08└─Just in case you missed it above, I want to point out that our esteemed Editor-in-Chief, janrinok, just passed the milestone of 4,000 stories posted to SoylentNews! (https://soylentnews.org/hof.pl [soylentnews.org]). Please join me in congratulating him on his achievement. He's a modest fellow, but...
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[10:33:29] <exec> 08└─That this isn't the *mission* being extended at all - it's just the deadline to achieve the mission has been pushed back, and they've not run up against a sunk-cost nazi.
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[10:35:26] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make sense. If they were infringing a patent... and then changed it to presumably avoid that patent... it can now be open-sourced whereas before it couldn't. What you are implying, I think, is that they may have infringed on other patents which, by revealing their code, they might be su...
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[10:38:37] <exec> 08└─Yep. Furthermore there are only a few basic plots in literature [ipl.org]. It would be within reach economically to patent them, since the US now allows software and business methods to be patented. Some corporation or individual could go out and file a patent on each one and then go after the small...
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[10:39:33] <exec> 08└─sonic attacks do not exist. if they existed, every justin bieber album would be a slaughter.
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[11:33:17] <exec> 08└─All I've ever seen is pictures of your fat ass: All I see in the Rorschach test is your fat ass. I wonder why? REALLY, MIT?
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[11:33:18] <exec> 08└─Psychiatrist: "What does this picture make you think of?" Patient: "Sex" Psychiatrist: "And this one?" Patient: "Sex" Psychiatrist: "And this one?" Patient: "Sex" Psychiatrist: "You are obsessed with sex, aren't you?" Patient: "No, you're the one showing me the latest issue of Hustler instead of tho...
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[11:33:20] <exec> 08└─Him, or in the other word, the man, shrugged his chops. It was not of the interest in the moment. So, the man did depart, leaving in his behind a small naked child to be rotted in the months.
[11:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:29] <exec> 08└─I posted this in the last story about fundraising, but was perhaps too late to the discussion: I have the SN t-shirt and baseball cap. I'm thinking the logo could use an update, though. Anyone interested in hopping onto IRC to brainstorm one? Also, thanks to everyone who make SN work!
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[11:33:32] <exec> 08└─Don't really have the words: Thanks JR, and thanks to everyone who contributes soooooo much. We have something REALLY nice here and it is run with intelligence.... ...the internet needs MORE intelligence. So thanks to all. Home is where the body count climbs! :)
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[11:34:12] <exec> 08└─The labour movement in UK made a huge difference to the working lives of the people living there. Look up the Great Strike 1926. I don't vote labour very often, but I am glad they exist. The effect was to force the government to manage massive unemployment and huge social problems following the firs...
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[11:34:37] <exec> 08└─Including Welsh isn't necessarily such a random thing to do. There is well-established research into interfacing technology with Welsh speech, see here [techiaith.cymru] or here [bbc.co.uk] for examples of recent work. There's also the fact that as a Celtic language, it is relatively unrelated to Ge...
[11:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:38] <exec> 08└─Ond rwyt ti'n ei defnyddio hi, felly sut allai fod yn farw? Neu efallai dy fod ti yn farw, ac yn siarad yr iaith. Help, Sombîs!
[11:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:40] <exec> 08└─... making [Welsh] the only language that is de jure official in any part of the United Kingdom, with English being de facto official.
[11:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:42] <exec> 08└─Let me help you chunk it then: Llanfair-pwll-gwyn-gyll-go-ger-y-chwyrn-drobwll-llantysilio-gogo-goch. Or if you want it split per syllable: Llan-fair-pwll-gwyn-gyll-go-ger-y-chwyrn-dro-bwll-llan-ty-silio-go-go-goch. (You may already know that it is a contrived lengthening of the original name Llanfa...
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[11:36:31] <exec> 08└─I am on Linux, but everything I'm doing can be done on Windows. I use MakeMKV to rip films as-is and then ffmpeg to convert to H.265 video and AAC audio. AAC is the audio codec on DVDs and it's lower quality than the audio codecs on Blu Rays, but I can't hear any differences with my mediocre sound s...
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[12:33:29] <exec> 08└─fails human test. Did I read it wrong? /s
[12:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─I have to now redirect all Reddit links to old.Reddit.com or i.Reddit.com. The default site has become unusable, then they added full screen nags telling me about the new layout! It even crashed the browser on my phone once... its just supposed to load some text but they are adding more and more jun...
[12:33:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:39] <exec> 08└─Just in case you missed it above, I want to point out that our esteemed Editor-in-Chief, janrinok, just passed the milestone of 4,000 stories posted to SoylentNews! (https://soylentnews.org/hof.pl [soylentnews.org]). Please join me in congratulating him on his achievement. He's a modest fellow, but...
[12:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mainframe Bloke [1665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is an island of freshness in the ocean of rubbish. Always find something to think about here. Thanks heaps for keeping it real and online, nothing good happens without dedication and you have gone above and beyond.
[12:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:45] <exec> 08└─Brought to us by the editor that recently posted his 5200th story! A big thank you to you as well martyb for all that you do for this site and for us!
[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:47] <exec> 08└─Thank you, all editors, for feeding this site and keeping it alive. Thank you, martyb, janrinok, takyon, everyone! P.S. Great to find there are people in this site who respond on such fundraising calls.
[12:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last of the Operation Paperclip Moon Rocket Scientists, Dies at 104 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:58] <exec> 08└─No, it's that the easy stuff has been done already. Great science is being done still, just not with manned spacecraft.
[12:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last of the Operation Paperclip Moon Rocket Scientists, Dies at 104 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:00] <exec> 08└─So great science requires a bit of a holocaust and some pure aryan brainpower? Aristarchus is not going to be happy about that.
[12:34:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edinlinux [4637] 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:26] <exec> 08└─I thought they sucked (which they do). However, not having them sucks even more. My last job (I work IT) there was no union. We were working on projects on weekends, up at 2AM regularly calling from home with conference calls to India (and then 8AM again for onshore US calls at the office). Of cours...
[12:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:32] <exec> 08└─No need for unions, just change job</sarcasm>
[12:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:34] <exec> 08└─And it is luck
[12:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:36] <exec> 08└─Another poster straining hard to be sarcastic. But you are right, that is all one needs. Enough turnover and those unpopular workplaces either improve or get overtaken by workplaces that offer better.
[12:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:38] <exec> 08└─Well in that case the shareholders of UPS had better pay what their drivers are worth.
[12:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:41] <exec> 08└─Of course, the actual work culture isn't humane and the pay is shit [...] "needs to find a job they actually don't despise."
[12:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GW170817/GRB Neutron Star Collision may have Created the Smallest Known Black Hole - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:21] <exec> 08└─That's not the point. The point is they want it to seem like ligo detected this then told other scientists "go check this out", thus proving ligo is useful and works. That's what we all wish happened but unfortunately no. The other teams had to tell ligo to go dig through their data and see if they...
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[13:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:31] <exec> 08└─They're trying to turn you into a psychopath.
[13:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:32] <exec> 08└─We really need to change your training set.
[13:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:34] <exec> 08└─This isn't AI...
[13:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:36] <exec> 08└─Looks like the spammer is becoming a lazy psychopath.
[13:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last of the Operation Paperclip Moon Rocket Scientists, Dies at 104 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:01] <exec> 08└─Some of the Paperclippers were covertly flown into Mexico in 1950, then openly cleared US Customs & Immigration at Juarez to create legal immigration papers.
[13:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:38] <exec> 08└─crap, I just realized I misread "USPS" as "UPS". My point stands, though (for any industry).
[13:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:40] <exec> 08└─Except in reality that doesn't, because in reality most people don't have a choice
[13:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:42] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness there are alternatives in FedEx, DHL, and the USPS. DHL pulled out of domestic deliveries a while ago. They only do international deliveries IIRC.
[13:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:44] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with having stuff delivered and paying for that service? Do these people not want the jobs? If UPS wants to deliver more days of the week, the answer seems pretty simple: increase staffing. Delivering packages and driving a box truck doesn't require a college degree; there should be ple...
[13:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:47] <exec> 08└─Far from all our USPS workers are of fit build. The ones that are seem happy to have the job and do it well. The ones I have trouble with tend to be older, heavier, women who move like they've got serious arthritis, gout, or both. My comment was prompted by our latest display of "I HATE MY FUCKING J...
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[13:34:49] <exec> 08└─They did, but they also recently announced they are re-entering the domestic market in the US starting with same-day and next-day service in several major Cities. I've kind of missed them. The old DHL driver on my house's route was awesome. Only service I've ever had that would re-attempt delivery t...
[13:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:43] <exec> 08└─I like what Thomas Jefferson said on this subject. It's chiseled in stone on his monument: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Software patents are a form of tyranny over the mind.
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[14:33:25] <exec> 08└─Front lines of old-style ground wars are inherently hard on the local population. What will be impressive is when enough of the world's historical information is digitized that a similar analysis can be done on groups of people not defined by a physical location: follow a population as it disperses...
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 1944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:47] <exec> 08└─Newton Crosby: Number 5, What do you make of this? [hands Number 5 a Rorschach blot he just made using tomato soup] Number 5: Hmmm... Wood pulp, plant - vegetable - tomato, water, salt, monosodium glutamate... Newton Crosby: Okay, thank you. Now you're talking like a robot. Number 5: ...and resemble...
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─Your kids have been playing with an inkpot?
[14:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:51] <exec> 08└─The APA designed the DSM-5 for Big Pharma [psychologytoday.com], so why not "Big Tech" next? For the DSM-6 one of the diagnostic criteria for "psycopath" will be "visits reddit.com less than 10 times a week".
[14:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─I think that actually is rather revealing about you. Whats an inkpot? I can imagine ("pot" of ink, like where ben franklin put the feather?), but I've never seen that word before and would never think to use it.
[14:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─"The turtoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without for your help. But you're not helping."
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─Good job, everyone involved. I might typically only lurk, but I visit the site daily, and I would miss it if it were gone.
[14:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─Might be a good time for another little push by us regular users to friends and acquaintances on social media, etc. This is a nice place, let's tell people about it.
[14:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last of the Operation Paperclip Moon Rocket Scientists, Dies at 104 - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─That's all.
[14:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last of the Operation Paperclip Moon Rocket Scientists, Dies at 104 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:25] <exec> 08└─I think most of those scientists would disagree about the Aryan thing.
[14:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter Extended for 3 Years - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:35] <exec> 08└─The Universe is Electric? [youtube.com]
[14:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:11] <exec> 08└─Welcome aboard. When I was a kid my dad, a member of United Steelworkers, talked about his union in a way that made me think that he didn't like unions. But when I asked him if he wanted to be non-union, he said, "Oh, hell no. Things are much better since the union got in. I hope when you grow up yo...
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[14:35:12] <exec> 08└─Get it yet?
[14:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:14] <exec> 08└─Why are you angry at the factory owner for providing an opportunity to live? Instead, be angry at your parents for conjuring you into a shitty world of limited resources.
[14:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:42] <exec> 08└─I was wondering where the 500M / year in finding has been going to. Mozilla is a jobs program for a bunch of people out in the Valley. Browsers are not interesting or being funded by VC anymore; all the funding is going to AI and Voice Assistants so the people at Mozilla are padding their resumes fo...
[14:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:40] <exec> 08└─Hey, when you've been to the Dells and rode the duck boats, you GOTTA show that off!
[14:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:24] <exec> 08└─So do a lot of things. But good luck with that. Java is going to be around a long time. Nothing is perfect. Everything has warts. If there were one perfect language, everyone would already be using it. I am genuinely curious though, what is it that gives you such passion about Java?
[14:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:26] <exec> 08└─It's a fixed width field, why bother with a variable width encoding, why not just stick raw code point values in there instead?
[14:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:28] <exec> 08└─I think you are mistaking my comment for a well thought out proposal. Keep it variable width and you can put more characters in there. Like using 4 Latin characters or numbers instead of emogees, or mixing them.
[14:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 1867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:30] <exec> 08└─My comments below are directed at SMBs because large organizations will do or do not for their own specific reasons with little relation to larger industry trends. For better or worse, most network admins hate changing address space. Even with DHCP now working correctly for IPv6, most admins are sim...
[14:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:17] <exec> 08└─Oh you cynic - patents are way more complex than that. Claim 1) Method for having a boy meet a girl Claim 2) Method for having a boy fall in love with a girl Claim 3) Method and aparatus for having a girl fall in love with a boy Claim 4) ...
[14:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for the Total Abolition of Software Patents - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:19] <exec> 08└─> Without the MP3 patents - there were I think three dozen of them - we wouldn't have Ogg Vorbis. Unfounded assertion. You seem to be implying that in a field which isn't hamstrung by patents innovation would halt, but there's absolutely no reason why that should be the case at all.
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[14:41:41] <exec> 08└─Presumably, managers are using those estimates under the assumption that the describe something vaguely close to reality. The pattern I just described makes the "50%" not even remotely close. A lot of programmers I've known give bogus estimates. Not just because of honest mistakes, either: If they g...
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[15:33:22] <exec> 08└─I clicked thru, its not what I expected. I thought it was basically a boom box sized obese version of an existing shipping product the "echo show", sorta NeXT cube sized, which would look nice on my desk, so I can watch star trek episodes while "working". Instead its more of a merger of an echo dot...
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[15:33:30] <exec> 08└─I forget.
[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:32] <exec> 08└─> old-style ground wars why old-style?
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firmware Vulnerabilities in Supermicro Systems - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:40] <exec> 08└─TFA specifically mentions "Intel based systems". Doesn't mention AMD at all. Doesn't mention Nvidia. It isn't clear whether I've dodged the bullet with this one - or all Supermicro systems are affected. Only three specific boards are mentioned, none of which are in the same family as my board. This...
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─This type of "AI" is totally determined by its training data. There is no originality coming out of it. So they train it on violent imagery and express surprise when it classifies things as violent images? That is its "vocabulary" so to speak.
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─So the researchers expected to get whack results from their AI after using skewed training data, and this was just a PR stunt to show biased training data gives biased outputs. Conclusion: scrub all your data to fit your own biases before using it to train the AI so the AI generates results you like...
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─macabre Reddit images of gruesome deaths and violence
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Spam is always highly ontopic while discussing AI. After all it's the original sin and the killer app.
[15:34:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:16] <exec> 08└─Brought to us by the editor that recently posted his 5200th story! A big thank you to you as well martyb for all that you do for this site and for us!
[15:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03conn8d [6887] (Score: 1) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:21] <exec> 08└─JR, Thanks for all your efforts! We truly appreciate you. If I was a chick, I would have baby with you and call him JR Jr.
[15:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:23] <exec> 08└─Why are you defending the factory owner who s**ts all over you to gild his spoons?
[15:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, WSWS closes with advocacy for the socialist solution. But it bears mention that much like the original Communist Manifesto, this is not necessarily a prediction. It is a threat. As long as there is a threat of Big Government stepping in and taking over, the corporation will do whatever it must...
[15:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:27] <exec> 08└─Wait - dissension? Weak-ass Americans can't create enough dissension, so the Russkies have to help out?
[15:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03conn8d [6887] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:29] <exec> 08└─Brazil had a strike affecting delivery truckers [theintercept.com] that ran for two weeks. The country pretty much stopped and the government had to bow down to their demands on diesel subsidies [reuters.com]. General strikes can be extremely hard on the general public, specially when we don't have...
[15:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 1579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─We've had good and bad here. My favorite was Dave - a black guy just a little older than I, maybe 5'10", mild and meek, but a well built, solid guy. The man would deliver ANYTHING. A hundred pound package? No problem. And he didn't throw it at the end of the driveway, either - if you had a quarter m...
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:33] <exec> 08└─Disagree. A few decades ago, turnover was a metric among all the other metrics by which management was judged. Today - not at all. People are disposable. Turnover means just about nothing. Bring them in the door today, kick them back out tomorrow. Or, let them stay a few weeks, or a few months. It's...
[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:56] <exec> 08└─Why not use OpenCL to run it on a GPU?
[15:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:57] <exec> 08└─You mistyped "why not?" What can I say, you get addicted to the virtualization lifestyle at work, next thing you know you got a cluster in the basement. All legal if for non-commercial use and the ESX-experience VMUG deal. I spend a lot more on electricity and hardware than I do on VMUG membership,...
[15:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:37] <exec> 08└─Well, what do you do when any other religion dies, push such that the next one isn't messed up, etc. And don't suggest something from the 19th or 20th century that we already tried and that didn't work then, either.
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[16:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:21] <exec> 08└─But did they use AI to find it?!
[16:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Announces Fire TV Cube - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─All I really care about is a nice device for Kodi. 4K and HDR support are nice, but there are a few downsides to the Cube: * Fire TV Gen 2 had more powerful ARM cores and GPU (except video?) than current, as far as I can tell. * Amazon's device can now either spy on you or decide to kill unauthorize...
[16:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─Here in flyover country USA, people are continually amazed to hear that the Lakota started out in the Ohio Valley. Pretty much anything involving humans is messy and complicated.
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─We're doing the precision bombing, otherwise known as the smart bomb or surgical strike. Because it's like an incredibly smart doctor going in there with very sharp knives and cutting. Like Ben Carson going into your brain and cutting out the bad, or sick, parts. We blow up the bad dudes, we take ou...
[16:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firmware Vulnerabilities in Supermicro Systems - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:49] <exec> 08└─TFA suggests you get and run "CHIPSEC framework" https://github.com [github.com] to test for the vulnerability. I would try it on _any_ system, just in case... This article lists SuperMicro models affected: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com
[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firmware Vulnerabilities in Supermicro Systems - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─It appears that Supermicro servers [soylentnews.org] were already discovered to have these types of vulnerabilities.
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:16] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you know what ink is. Probably thanks to tattoos. And you've managed to figure out an inkwell as well. Now would you mind getting off the lawn this instant!
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:18] <exec> 08└─This type of "AI" is totally determined by its training data.
[16:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:20] <exec> 08└─Inkpots are too messy for kids. They tend to fall over acidentally or "accidentally". Now imagine a wooden school desk, with a round hole in one of the corners away from you, where a small metal inkpot can be put, filled with only very little ink. Then when you accidentally shove one of your books o...
[16:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:22] <exec> 08└─reply to self: I've just discovered, that it's called an "inkwell [wikipedia.org]" in English.
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─Yes. Inborn intelligence is different. In machine intelligence, this would be a rules-based system. The rules are hardcoded by people; there is no training on data. In biological organisms, this would be "instinct." Again, hardwired.
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[16:34:40] <exec> 08└─Hit up a philanthropist, celebrity, etc and offer them $something if they will help sponsor the site or at least match contributions. SN is in my top 3 websites (along with /. and Fark) to visit daily, and I wouldn't like to see it go out like Kuro5hin did. Heck, hire somebody who knows how to drum...
[16:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─I have the T-shirt. When people ask "What's solylentnews?" I reply "Imagine slashdot with less suck."
[16:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:51] <exec> 08└─Get it yet?
[16:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:52] <exec> 08└─Also, now you have to fight traffic so what used to be a 10-minute drive takes an hour fifteen because retards don't know how to put their phones down and look at the road, such that they get into accidents constantly.
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:22] <exec> 08└─> but the graining noise is terrible - in my opinion. True. Conversely, thick brush strokes with too much paint haven't exactly hurt the value of Van Gogh paintings, and I really wish recent hollywood offerings had less perfect visuals in exchange for more scenario (the insane cost of the perfect vi...
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 1641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Grain noise is highly dependent on the film stock used. My basic take on film grain is as follows Fuji Velvia has basically none, it's amazing stuff. I just shot my first roll, so we'll see how it works for me. Ken Rockwell (love him or hate him) has a decent display of Velvia MF shots here: https:/...
[16:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:13] <exec> 08└─How does one find the ip for humpinggrannies.com in the first place? Ipv4 addresses are doable as a url but ipv6? No way
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[17:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:25] <exec> 08└─Organic Matter? Was it dark matter? Did they FINALLY find dark matter? Yay! Now we can start to put that bunk behind us. :P
[17:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the spot it was found was the front line in some Martian war?
[17:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:29] <exec> 08└─How many stories have there been about methane found on mars? Oodles! From what we know, mars was once much nicer than it is now. On Earth, we find life virtually everywhere. I suspect that once we can get some samples back from mars (or have an actual lab on mars), we will find life there too. I wo...
[17:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:31] <exec> 08└─With these new findings, Mars is telling us to stay the course..." said Thomas Zurbuchen... at NASA Headquarters, in Washington.
[17:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:33] <exec> 08└─LOL - Mars has spoken to a lot of people over the centuries. He is the God of War, after all.
[17:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:35] <exec> 08└─I dunno, but I've got plenty of dark matter in my garden.
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, and they beat it up and arrested it.
[17:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:40] <exec> 08└─Basically, TFS and TFA say, "Hey, we found a hydrocarbon on Mars!" An indicator that we already knew existed. Now - if/when they find CHO compounds undergoing some chemical changes, some excitement may be justified. Maybe. A CHO compound is probably an indicator that there is life around, and watchi...
[17:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─Well for the polar lander, the Wikipedia page says that chronic underfunding and mismanagement were the underlying causes of failure there. So maybe Mars is telling us to stop being so incompetent about management and funding. And the climate orbiter I think was the one that failed because the teams...
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─There are lakes of hydrocarbon on Titan. https://principia-scientific.org [principia-scientific.org]
[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Announces Fire TV Cube - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─So Alexa would be nice for a digital picture frame, but not for a streaming TV settop.
[17:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Announces Fire TV Cube - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:57] <exec> 08└─It has their spying technology on it, and I'm not aware of anybody getting full root on one of these devices allowing a different OS, so it's completely fucking useless. That is, unless being spied on by Amazon 24/7 bothers you. Otherwise, enjoy.
[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─Where was the "front line" when the Pentagon and WTC were bombed? For that matter, were there any stationary lines of conflict in the Gulf War either? As opposed to WW1 where the opposing sides dug trenches and mortared, shot and gassed each other in-situ for months and years.
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─precision bombing... surgical strike...
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─"Where was the "front line" when the Pentagon and WTC were bombed?"
[17:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:50] <exec> 08└─This is just like those two Google AIs that were trained to murder each other.
[17:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:51] <exec> 08└─It doesn't look like anything to me.
[17:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:54] <exec> 08└─TIL: old.reddit.com is a thing. Thanks! Have some gold.
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─Anything involving a computer is now classified as AI.
[17:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─I concluded that most users of reddit have some sort of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. This would just be another data point to support that conclusion.
[17:36:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:02] <exec> 08└─Lucky you. And it is luck, because there is no one to help if things go wrong. But this is the US we are talking about! Individuals Rule! If you can't do it on your own, you are a loser, and deserve to fail! Right?
[17:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 1098 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:03] <exec> 08└─The labour movement in UK made a huge difference to the working lives of the people living there. Look up the Great Strike 1926. I don't vote labour very often, but I am glad they exist. The effect was to force the government to manage massive unemployment and huge social problems following the firs...
[17:36:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─Except in reality that doesn't, because in reality most people don't have a choice
[17:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─So, I, personally, haven't observed the super-bad attitudes within UPS, and I agree that they should have decent pay and working conditions to enable most of them to have a good feeling about their work and a good attitude while doing it. As for USPS, most of them are good, too, but over the years I...
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─They never left. I'm glad the internet is finally wising up to their benefits, though!
[17:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:31] <exec> 08└─But this is the US we are talking about! Individuals Rule! .. I know you're trying hard to be sarcastic and cynical here, but yes, that's pretty much true.
[17:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:33] <exec> 08└─A warm body with a clean driving record. And yes I personally know a UPS truck driver and she says they are the laziest people on Earth. (And she's getting a back pay settlement on the 26th from UPS)
[17:37:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─Hipsters gotta hipst.
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:04] <exec> 08└─You might want to consider the Purism phone. It's focused on security and privacy. Likely to be out sometime next year.
[17:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 1706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:02] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what the real bottleneck for performance on my current machine is, but I'm thinking its' got a whole lot more to do with developers who can't code a stable piece of software. As opposed to them legitimately maxing out my CPU, RAM or GPU. Could be that my 8GB RX480 is having issues, but...
[17:39:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:12] <exec> 08└─"Oh shit! He needs CPR!" "Hmm... I read a story that there was a new app for that. Let's see here... Where is that app store icon? Oh there it is! Search for "CPR". Hmm... I don't see it here... Oh! There it is! Installing now.. ... ... ... ... ... ... Done! It needs permissions. Camera. GPS. Contac...
[17:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Improving CPR Using the Song 'La Macarena' or Using a Smartphone App - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:38] <exec> 08└─I might actually know all the words to Soft Kitty. Assuming you're thinking about the one I am. I'm thinking that would definitely get some stares, if you were singing that under your breath while performing CPR.
[17:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:44] <exec> 08└─Flouride you mean.
[17:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:46] <exec> 08└─yer old.
[17:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two US Diplomats Evacuated From China Amid 'Sonic Attack' Concerns - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:48] <exec> 08└─what said it wasn't?
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[18:33:22] <exec> 08└─Governments want to get rid of Telegram and Signal. Step One. Demonize. Step two. Search warrants for mere presence [cnbc.com] of the app. Step Three. Block them all [theguardian.com] and let god sort it out. Step four. Hire the Israelis to hack it [southfront.org] some how. Step five. Start seizing...
[18:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybercrooks are Switching to Telegram - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:24] <exec> 08└─That one ancap troll is actually just sending out coded orders! Occasionally they need multiple orders which is why you see the same comment spammed multiple times. Hiding in plain is often quite effective.
[18:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cybercrooks are Switching to Telegram - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:26] <exec> 08└─Doesn't WhatsApp have secure endpoint encryption that such people could rely on? Or no longer after Facebook bought it? Just like what Microsoft did to Skype? ;) Is that where some of the trillions of missing military spending go to? Facebook and Google "ads"? ;)
[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:44] <exec> 08└─"With these new findings, Mars is telling us to stay the course and keep searching for evidence of life," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, in Washington.
[18:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:45] <exec> 08└─Mars is telling us to not be stupid and to stop using archaic measurement systems
[18:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─Do you really? After all, you're just a bunch of molecules...
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─Well for the polar lander [due to] underfunding and mismanagement [then] maybe Mars is telling us to stop being so incompetent about management and funding...And the climate [due to metric/english units] maybe Mars is telling us to not be stupid and to stop using archaic measurement systems and to a...
[18:34:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 9 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:07] <exec> 08└─I forget.
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─On the planet of the article, not only did the front lines of conflict settle in the town in question and effectively evict all the non-combatants, but also post-conflict additional stationary lines of physical/political division were drawn right through the town. So, point being, if a "front line"...
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─And we know ISIS had nothing to do with those deaths don't we. Because they wouldn't lie. They were the religion of peace.
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Lost world? There are far older sources in the Spanish Archives, and the British Navel histories. Huge portions of which lay untouched for centuries. Only recently have some of these been made available. https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu [byu.edu]
[18:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firmware Vulnerabilities in Supermicro Systems - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:30] <exec> 08└─Good security practice would be to set the least privilege required. In some cases, however, the descriptor itself is writable by software executing on the host processor. In this case, the mechanism doesn’t protect anything at all! Malware can simply modify the permissions and bypass any protecti...
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:04] <exec> 08└─What? That doesn't seem right, shouldn't it be visits reddit MORE than 10 times a week? Or is it just a new marketing technique, "use our site more or you'll be diagnosed as a psycho!!"?
[18:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:23] <exec> 08└─> If I was a chick, I would have baby with you... I guess this is meant to be positive? But I would be tempted by a -1 Creepy mod if such existed.
[18:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:25] <exec> 08└─My $.02 -- set up a separate fund for the endowment. Initially this could be earmarked funds in the accounting system, but eventually it might be easier to keep track of with a separate bank/investment account. On the subscription page, make it clear that regular donations should be made to the curr...
[18:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last of the Operation Paperclip Moon Rocket Scientists, Dies at 104 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it was real easy getting people to the Moon and back with 1960s technology.
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:41] <exec> 08└─Nobody has a choice. Science has proven many times there is no such thing as free will. Of course this applies to the business owners also. They have no choice either. It's their fate to be rich and it is your fate to have a miserable life, dying alone in the gutter, cursing the universe. Enjoy what...
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─"into publicly owned utilities under the democratic control of the working class." lmao! control? working class? yeah right. parasites feeding from production until it dies, more like.
[18:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla's Common Voice Collecting French, German, and Welsh Samples, Prepping 40 More Languages - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:13] <exec> 08└─So now I have to worry about my web browser listening to my personal conversations? It's not like i can talk faster than I can type, so what's the point? I'm going to have to cut all the speaker and mic wires whenever I buy a new computer.
[18:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:16] <exec> 08└─IBM A21m form factor with updated internals. It's hard to find quality keyboards in a laptop and I still find the touchpad, joystick, buttons to be useful. Also, the built-in light is a nice feature. Sure, there are keyboards with back-lit keys, but it's been quite some time since I've needed to loo...
[18:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:17] <exec> 08└─Beige is that ugly color your parents computers and monitors had. All old beige equipment I've seen looks like trash. The yellowing from age thing just killed the entire beige market. Out with the beige! In with the black! I'd also go with Tie-Dyed looking cases, before I would a beige one.
[18:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steve Jobs Promised to Make FaceTime Open Source. It's Time. - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─only slaves use any of that shit.
[18:38:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 1018 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:54] <exec> 08└─If they develop their games on workstations, and test them on both the workstations and dual or quad-core PCs, they should be able to design engines/games that use even as many as 64 threads. Games like Skyrim ran pretty well on low-end systems as well as high-end systems. That's the way it should w...
[18:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:17] <exec> 08└─Intelligent NPC, now there's an Oxymoron, if I ever saw one.
[18:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:19] <exec> 08└─i suspect kedenlive could.
[18:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:21] <exec> 08└─what a nerd...
[18:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Spacious Next-Gen Internet is Finally Catching on as IPv6 Spreads - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:18] <exec> 08└─>>For better or worse, most network admins hate changing address space. Even with DHCP now working correctly for IPv6, most admins are simply not going to manage or do anything with it because it offers them no benefit >>For example, even with the carrier-level NAT hardware they had, the last large...
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[19:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:19] <exec> 08└─between the rising suicide rates and more frequent school shootings. School shootings have been going on for less than 20 years, now they're a weekly occurrence. IMHO, something is changing. I don't know what, but look at our dysfunctional political system up and down the spectrum, suicides, school...
[19:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:21] <exec> 08└─Seriously. I think that Tinder is is a large cause of increasing suicide rates. Have any of you ever used Tinder/Bumble/CMB/whatever. It can be super depressing. Read my journals. It made me feel like shit. I feel much better now that I don't have time to use those apps. But... you gotta play the ga...
[19:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:23] <exec> 08└─IMHO, something is changing. I don't know what, but look at our dysfunctional political system up and down the spectrum, suicides, school shootings, etc etc. Dammit Jim! I'm a software engineer, not a psychiatrist! I'd like to point out that that's another thing that's completely different. Star Tre...
[19:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:25] <exec> 08└─I don't know about this. I don't see how it's any worse there than in the "old days": men still went after women way out of their league, and 80% of women chased after 20% of the men. I suggest trying OKCupid instead. At least you can screen based on important compatibility factors there (religion,...
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─I can't trust the results unless it's on a blockchain!
[19:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:57] <exec> 08└─You use units in binary encoded transmissions? So 4 bytes for the value and ?? bytes for the unit name? ouch.
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:59] <exec> 08└─(beat me to it) We're investing billions to find life on Mars, because The Street demands growth and we're gonna run out of humans to fill social media behavior databases.
[19:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06THANK-YOU! Base Funding Goal Reached, and More! - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:32] <exec> 08└─The "most active" hall of fame is a scary reminder of what we argue about: 1 stories about assholes mowing crowds, 1 about US guns, 1 about potential violence because of an extremist, 1 about inequality, and 2 about the site name. Diversity needed: We need a story about a school book about Trump's l...
[19:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Georg von Tiesenhausen, Last of the Operation Paperclip Moon Rocket Scientists, Dies at 104 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:49] <exec> 08└─After they renamed the local dive bar The Moon, it sure was easy to get there. But getting home felt occasionally harder than Apollo 13...
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─You are doing it wrong. Right now you are red-flagging yourself. In a society of total surveillance you do not want to be anonymous; you want to be uninteresting.
[19:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:53] <exec> 08└─Butbutbutbut COMMIES!!!1111eleventyone. Seriously. Not even trolling. It's bloody *amazing* how willing the supposed liberty-and-freedom crowd is to trample all over our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights when you get them scared.
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─Because he's got "temporarily-embarrassed millionaire syndrome." Well, that, or he's a troll account, but I'd wager the money I don't actually have it's the first.
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─As long as there is a threat of Big Government stepping in and taking over, the corporation will do whatever it must to avoid that conclusion David Macaray, a writer I like, makes a similar argument about unions--in particular, in The Deep South. Here's the bottom line, boss. If you don't pay us clo...
[19:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:00] <exec> 08└─Glad to known that you're so satisfied with your awesome privately-owned ISP's service. If you go spouting your anti-public ownership nonsense in Chattanooga or Wilson, NC or Sandy, OR or Longmont, CO or several hundred other places, [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [broadbandnow.com] expect to be cus...
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Could Have Years of its Users' Browsing Histories - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:10] <exec> 08└─The problem with all this invasion of privacy, is that not enough of it makes it to the public domain, where it could be used to really purge the hypocrites in power.
[19:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:36] <exec> 08└─Beige is not ugly. What color is your couch? Solid black? How about your kitchen table? Solid black? How about your potted plants? Solid black pots with blue LEDs? The original darker "beige" is an earth tone that is generally pleasing to the eye. A lot of research went in to that when Apple release...
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[20:33:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 755 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:24] <exec> 08└─IMHO, something is changing. I don't know what, but look at our dysfunctional political system up and down the spectrum, suicides, school shootings, etc etc. Dammit Jim! I'm a software engineer, not a psychiatrist! I'd like to point out that that's another thing that's completely different. Star Tre...
[20:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:27] <exec> 08└─two of them succeeded, third went on treatment for depression and didn't try again. one who succeeded had serious mental problems (hallucinations etc). this was not in the US. personally, I felt lonely a lot when I was younger, but i don't think i ever seriously considered suicide. maybe I wasn't as...
[20:33:28] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:29] <exec> 08└─Why do you think suicide rates are on the rise?
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:31] <exec> 08└─I got most of my dates from OKC. That site has gone to shit though since they got bought by Match. I think it's still better than Tinder, but not by much. Ya, you are probably right, dating has always been tough. Instead of one rejection that you had to really pump yourself up for, you now get 100 m...
[20:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:34] <exec> 08└─So, should we blame Batman Begins for ushering in an era of dark shows, where the TV/stream doesn't compensate for the daily grind ? I'll drop in FaceBook et al., for showing you how much better all your "friends" lives are, and amplifying conflicts (something fragile people don't need). Add a sprin...
[20:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:36] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be the next poll topic, then?
[20:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─Religious people often believe that suicide is an immediate ticket to hell. Sometimes I think the world would be better off without religion. But in the absence of that fear, suicide may seem preferable to suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
[20:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:40] <exec> 08└─Oh gee I don't know why the youngest generation would want to kill themselves. Just look at 1990 vs today and tell me its worth trying. Since 1990 the cost of a college degree has more than doubled (adjusted for inflation) Since 1990 the average income for someone with a college degree (adjusted for...
[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:43] <exec> 08└─flat wages: less money is less opportunity, less opportunity is less comunity, all the strife might come down to less opportunity to get it right, more time struggking with what ever is left to play with
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:45] <exec> 08└─And as Anthony Bourdain [businessinsider.com] demonstrates, you can have what appears to be a perfect life but still suffer from depression bad enough to off yourself. It's tempting to look only to external influences like poverty as the cause but there's clearly something else going on as well.
[20:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:47] <exec> 08└─It's the fluoride in the water messing with our precious bodily fluids.
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─Since 1990? I came of age a decade earlier, during the Reagan administration. I remember a local news show talking about a new restaurant opening that was hiring 15 waiters and having 500 people show up to apply. The problem is that somewhere along the line America became the land of greed. Why it s...
[20:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 2944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─In an innumerate age, doing arithmetic like calculating ratios and percentages is an act of political rebellion. So, on with some Treason: Death by suicide is about 1000 times more likely than death in a school shooting, even in the supposedly violent USA, so its an irrelevant rounding error as an a...
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─Idiot!
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─gross disparity
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─The boomers do suck, but most of your list is merely a result of too many people too few jobs means redefinition of the basic standard. My grannie (Think WWII gen not boomer) worked in payroll, and the work isn't any harder now but magically you need a CPA and BS in accounting because of competition...
[20:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─If that is a poll topic I'd like to know the percentage of visits from Tor exit nodes before that topic, during that topic, and after that topic. Also, the percentage of Tor exit nodes that vote "yes" vs the percent that vote "no" or any other options. Seriously. Saying you're feeling suicidal is th...
[20:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is all legacy TV is like that. The problem isn't Trek. Some of the problem is all boomers watched MASH or All in the Family, for example, but all organizations get weird and extremist as they implode and die, all. Think of any dying company you ever worked at, or dying industry, its alwa...
[20:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:05] <exec> 08└─magically you need a CPA and BS in accounting because of competition for too few jobs.
[20:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─NASA believes in vitalism [wikipedia.org] now?
[20:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:41] <exec> 08└─If somehow a human were to come into contact with organic life from Mars, what are the possibilities that it can have a detrimental effect on human life?
[20:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:43] <exec> 08└─It could be CO2 ("organic" just means "has carbon in it"), in which case it would bake them to a crisp upon contact.
[20:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Announces Fire TV Cube - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─That ecological niche is already filled by Facebook and Twatter
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─Or is it just a new marketing technique, "use our site more or you'll be diagnosed as a psycho!!"?
[20:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:59] <exec> 08└─Its not really new, it's just: "You'd be CRAZY to pass up these deals!", except now they got the APA to say it.
[20:36:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 1136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─As long as the employees get a reasonable work week, it shouldn't matter if they are M-F 9-5 or F-M 8-6. Of course, the actual work culture isn't humane and the pay is shit, so 60+ hour work weeks with pressure from management to only clock for 55 (If you don't do it, I'll hire somebody who will...)...
[20:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:44] <exec> 08└─There is the shithole bootstrapper! Its been a while and too many decent articles, I'm glad you found a topic you could pooptificate on.
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[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─It also concludes that although the rice contains higher amounts of ß-carotene than non-modified rice, people in the U.S. are unlikely to eat much of it
[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:19] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It was never intended for the US market. In the US We don't eat that much rice. Because of this Rice has a long shelf life. We can get carrots all year around - cheap. In other parts of the world: They eat a lot of rice. Rice is consumed very quickly - not stockpiled, harvested year around....
[21:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:21] <exec> 08└─Here's what the report actually says: Assuming 100 percent of rice consumed in the United States is replaced with GR2E rice, IRRI used current dietary rice intake (11.8 kg per capita annually) and the highest value of beta-carotene measured in samples of milled GR2E rice [...] IRRI estimated the pot...
[21:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:23] <exec> 08└─Aesthetic value counts for something, right? BTW, I heard there are rice varieties with various colors.
[21:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:26] <exec> 08└─People don't know this, gold is not a vitamin. But I love to eat gold. And many people love eating it. In New York we have the Serendipity ice cream shop. And there's one in Vegas too. At Caesar's Palace, unfortunately. And they serve my favorite dessert, the Golden Opulence Sundae. It costs $1,000....
[21:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 1519 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:43] <exec> 08└─Oh gee I don't know why the youngest generation would want to kill themselves. Just look at 1990 vs today and tell me its worth trying. Since 1990 the cost of a college degree has more than doubled (adjusted for inflation) Since 1990 the average income for someone with a college degree (adjusted for...
[21:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─Dating has always been hard I think.
[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:56] <exec> 08└─There's currently more jobs than employees to fill them
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:59] <exec> 08└─Wha, wha! Grumpy guy that is unmotivated or missed the boat, drunk at a frat party, is crying. Look around. You sure do have it hard. Look at the people this generation has made their heroes - it explains a lot.
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:01] <exec> 08└─Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain chose to end their lives, and now we have a "rising suicide rate problem"? Is someone aiming to ban ropes?
[21:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:03] <exec> 08└─School shootings have been going on for less than 20 years, now they're a weekly occurrence.
[21:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:05] <exec> 08└─Are any Soylentils contemplating suicide?
[21:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:08] <exec> 08└─The world needs a quick infusion of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. Cancel Family Guy and replace it with Ponies. Uh oh... here it comes... people born with penises are REQUIRED to watch mindless fart jokes and people getting their guts blown out all over the sidewalk. Because.... because... pen...
[21:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:10] <exec> 08└─In the end, Women get the men they prefer. You want to know why there are so many "bad boys"? Ask the girls. Antisocial assholes, who women know will eventually dump them, still hold a strong attraction for a very large percentage of women. Women scream metoo, but they put themselves in these situat...
[21:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:12] <exec> 08└─The cops would probably hate that. A rope suicide is one of the cleanest abrupt-death scenes to deal with. Most other methods are a mess.
[21:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:14] <exec> 08└─I don't know. Seems like Religion has sent an awful lot of people marching off to war. Some religions are worse than others. Wherever men can have multiple wives, you end up with an excess of males that have to be gotten rid of at least once a generation.
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─every productive employee has to pay the salary of someone in the diversity department or whatever.
[21:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:19] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Saying you're feeling suicidal is the fastest method I've seen for ending up deprived of your freedom. It's no wonder people don't want to talk about it.
[21:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:21] <exec> 08└─I've been suicidal many times. There's still many days where I wish I didn't have responsibilities so I *could* die, but that's not the case. I am necessary, and I must keep myself alive until that's no longer true, at which point, in several years, my stance might change.
[21:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:23] <exec> 08└─I would trust TMB not to rat me out to the authorities if I answered yes. As a side note, I always pictured TMB to look like this, but with longer, less flat hair: https://pbs.twimg.com [twimg.com]
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:26] <exec> 08└─I thought this was hell. You mean it gets worse?
[21:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─In the end, Women get the men they prefer.
[21:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:30] <exec> 08└─Again, the local lesbian pops in to ask, how in the unholy hell are there 7.5+ billion of us if this is what you breeders think of one another?
[21:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:32] <exec> 08└─I think you are a great member of this community. I like having you around.
[21:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:35] <exec> 08└─I genuinely appreciate that sentiment. Thank you.
[21:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:37] <exec> 08└─I mean, lets be serious, someone sucking on a cigarette isn't really all that different than someone sucking on a gun barrel...
[21:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:39] <exec> 08└─Sorry, once they put wings on Twilight Sparkle, the show just wasn't the same.
[21:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:41] <exec> 08└─Broken condoms, incorrectly taken birth control, bad pull out game, and in the third world, rape, no birth control, boredom, cultural expectations coupled with prohibited divorce.
[21:34:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Cybercrooks are Switching to Telegram - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:49] <exec> 08└─Governments want to get rid of Telegram and Signal. Step One. Demonize. Step two. Search warrants for mere presence [cnbc.com] of the app. Step Three. Block them all [theguardian.com] and let god sort it out. Step four. Hire the Israelis to hack it [southfront.org] some how. Step five. Start seizing...
[21:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:18] <exec> 08└─He is the God of War
[21:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:20] <exec> 08└─DannyB said organic life, not organic matter/molecules. My guess is that interplanetary microbes that haven't evolved near humans won't be harmful. The diseases that isolated human populations have spread between themselves throughout history were still evolving alongside humans on either end.
[21:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:22] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be funny if after all this time, the lander is dead and they've got an AI computer in some room feeding the other computers fake data showing results. NASA: "Yeah...we got nothing, but we gotta keep funding coming, sooooooo....." plugs in computer. Roy: "We set up a voice activation syst...
[21:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Announces Fire TV Cube - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, the majority of the tech people here are going to knock this. Obviously, I am one of those agreeing with that assessment. As I said on a previous post here on SN, These POS speakers are not created to make your life easier, their purpose is to sell you shit from amazon (or google, apple, etc) a...
[21:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:52] <exec> 08└─Doubleplusgood duckspeaking, comrade! Plusgood bellyfeel!
[21:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:54] <exec> 08└─(cont) Possibly Slovakia. It's one of those.
[21:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:56] <exec> 08└─You forgot how to spell her name too, dotard.
[21:36:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Firmware Vulnerabilities in Supermicro Systems - 465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:05] <exec> 08└─TFA suggests you get and run "CHIPSEC framework" https://github.com [github.com] to test for the vulnerability. I would try it on _any_ system, just in case... This article lists SuperMicro models affected: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com
[21:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter Extended for 3 Years - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:31] <exec> 08└─The Universe is Electric? [youtube.com]
[21:38:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 505 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:06] <exec> 08└─Welcome aboard. When I was a kid my dad, a member of United Steelworkers, talked about his union in a way that made me think that he didn't like unions. But when I asked him if he wanted to be non-union, he said, "Oh, hell no. Things are much better since the union got in. I hope when you grow up yo...
[21:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:30] <exec> 08└─Get it yet?
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[22:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Defeat of Reason: A Review of Two Books - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:18] <exec> 08└─Reason and critical thinking are anti-evolution and thus anti-scientific concepts. Like evolution all we need to do is run craploads of AB tests and then communicate the results to each other to take a vote on the best course of action. The most popular option wins.
[22:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:31] <exec> 08└─has the realdonaldtrump gone anon?
[22:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:32] <exec> 08└─The big qualifier is "in the United States". Rice isn't the dietary staple in the US to the same extent it is in other places around the world. I'd be more curious about the impact it would or wouldn't have in the areas it was created for.
[22:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:34] <exec> 08└─I tweeted but it says Anonymous Coward on my tweet, why? It could be Obama's FBI infiltrators doing another wiretapp. And it could be Chinese hackers. Or Russia. Or someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. The whole Age of Computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what's going on.
[22:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:36] <exec> 08└─From the FDA letter listed in the article, the contents of regular rice measurement was "0.07 mg/kg dry weight" whereas the modified rice was "1.26 mg/kg DW (range = 0.504 to 2.35 mg/kg DW)". Not bad, at about 18x as much as regular rice. According to WolframAlpha, a serving of rice is 7.1oz(200 gra...
[22:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:39] <exec> 08└─[Outside USA,] Rice is [..] harvested year around. Carrots and other out-of-season crops are simply not available Any farmers|folks in flyover country who can verify that grain -will- grow at a time of year when veggies won't? Is there a change in the yield with season? TFA also mentions that even a...
[22:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:41] <exec> 08└─Just because the average person eats 11.8 kg of rice annually doesn't mean I or you do, so I don't see why any nutritional finding should be based on that. Personally I eat almost no rice.
[22:34:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─gross disparity
[22:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Saying you're feeling suicidal is the fastest method I've seen for ending up deprived of your freedom. It's no wonder people don't want to talk about it.
[22:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─thrown in a mental ward and tortured for a while
[22:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:37] <exec> 08└─the link says he struggled with drug use. I didn't really watch him much, but what i saw was a drinker. Maybe he didn't really like doing the show: maybe he just wasn't happy and should have quit and done something else? Who knows. As i said, didn't watch him much: maybe 3 episodes.
[22:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:39] <exec> 08└─"I mean, lets be serious, someone sucking on a cigarette isn't really all that different than someone sucking on a gun barrel..."....and pulling the trigger REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REA...
[22:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:41] <exec> 08└─I think if i was single again (touch wood... HELLO, PENIS!), I'd probably just not use those apps and just go down to the local games shop or comic book store or something and try to find a nice geek girl/woman that way. Those apps, i heard from my daughter, are as you say: DEPRESSING AS HELL. I'd h...
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:43] <exec> 08└─Because our monkey brains are wired to want sex.
[22:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:46] <exec> 08└─Meet girls at the game shop? I hope you can roll a +65 charisma, +8300 luck, and +42 chad.
[22:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atatsu [4251] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:48] <exec> 08└─Idiot! It turns the frogs gay!
[22:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:50] <exec> 08└─"Politically correct" is the bogey man and the monster under the bed for people who want to sound like mavericks. Give it up. A guy can be pro-feminist and pro-sex (with women) without selling his guns, giving up his favorite sports, canceling his gym membership, and trading in his truck or whatever...
[22:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:53] <exec> 08└─The trend has been there since 1999, when Clinton was president, all through Bush, all through Obama.
[22:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:55] <exec> 08└─I'm technically in poverty, but think I have a pretty awesome life and have been able to do quite a bit with what little money that I do make. But then only 5% of Americans are financially literate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_literacy).
[22:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:57] <exec> 08└─How some you fooled some woman to stick around is beyond me. The only thing I can figure is that you're just another typical internet tough guy who spews his most vile shit online but in reality you're a total dip.
[22:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:59] <exec> 08└─A long (very long) time ago, I asked one of my best friends about this and she said "the roller coaster is exciting". It's all I have to add.
[22:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:02] <exec> 08└─He might even encourage some of us.
[22:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:04] <exec> 08└─You're blaming the idiot masses? Why not blame the leaders who orchestrated the whole thing? The politicians and super rich.
[22:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:06] <exec> 08└─True enough. Between that and the new "castle" you could just about hear some corporate suit screaming "buy our new merch, bitches!" But it has still been over all better than most other shows out there. Which says more about the other shows.
[22:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:08] <exec> 08└─Your grannie was very likely literate. Now you can graduate high school without being able to read. Crap, a friend was showing me some resumes for a job opening she had. I think you can now graduate college without being able to write a coherent sentence.
[22:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:11] <exec> 08└─In an innumerate age, doing arithmetic like calculating ratios and percentages is an act of political rebellion. ... Around 3 people are shot to death for every drowning. ... despite it being a hell of a lot more likely an inner city kid will drown than get shot. ...
[22:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:13] <exec> 08└─Less money, but most things that you buy are a lot less expensive now, both relatively and absolutely, than they were fifty years ago.
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:52] <exec> 08└─> My guess is that interplanetary microbes that haven't evolved near humans won't be harmful. My guess is that they won't be "directly" harmful because they haven't evolved near earth-life, however, precisely _because_ they haven't evolved along with earth life or in earth environment they may have...
[22:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:54] <exec> 08└─That isn't a garden. It's Uranus!
[22:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Organic Matter Found on Mars - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:56] <exec> 08└─One fine day a fucking dog will appear barking at the rover's camera with the highest resolution and NASA will say they can't confirm or deny the presence of life on Mars
[22:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:16] <exec> 08└─yeah, but... for how long?
[22:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─Cleverbot is an online AI that supposedly learns from its conversations with people on the internet. I "conversed" with it a few times and came away with the idea that it was being turned into a sarcastic, cynical, depressed thing. I would be curious to see what would happen to the AI in the study i...
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[22:39:05] <exec> 08└─The problem is that kind of information is all logged and stored on a computer somewhere. You have no idea when something that happened ages ago may suddenly become "interesting".
[22:40:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mechanicjay [7] 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 1513 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:19] <exec> 08└─Film. Hollywood still burns through miles of the stuff everyday, though that is slowing changing as digital continues to improve. Serious landscape photography is still a realm of film, largely 4x6 or 810 view cameras. Though again, the new large sensors are going to be giving those film formats a...
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[23:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Defeat of Reason: A Review of Two Books - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:23] <exec> 08└─Humans alone, he tells us, have logos: reason. Man, according to the Stoics, is zoön logikon, the reasoning animal. But on reflection, the first set of characteristics arises from the second. It is only because we reason and think and use language that we can be hoodwinked.
[23:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Defeat of Reason: A Review of Two Books - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:25] <exec> 08└─A sucker may be born every minute, but somehow that sucker is never oneself.
[23:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Defeat of Reason: A Review of Two Books - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:27] <exec> 08└─This only works when you can run craploads of AB tests. It's not always an option.
[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Defeat of Reason: A Review of Two Books - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:29] <exec> 08└─> Humans alone, he tells us, have logos: reason. Man, according to the Stoics, is zoön logikon, the reasoning animal. I'm pretty sure that that seagull I saw at lunch today, hanging out next to the kids having fries would disagree. Cars passing by two feet away? Classified as harmless as long as it...
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Defeat of Reason: A Review of Two Books - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─Look what they just did in High Tax, High Crime California. If you read Breitbart, if you read @FoxNews [twitter.com] you know what I'm going to say. They rigged the election by taking almost 120,000 voters off the list. Off the voter roles. Folks signed up to vote, they got the mail saying "you can...
[23:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─Rice Consumption Per Capita by Country. Based on a comparison of 158 countries in 2013, Bangladesh ranked the highest in rice consumption per capita with 173 kg followed by Laos and Cambodia.
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─It's usually sold mixed with white rice. Pure brown rice is very expensive.
[23:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:53] <exec> 08└─"people in the U.S. are unlikely to eat much of it". When a Filipino immigrant and I rented a house together, he said "I'm going to buy some rice". "Oh, I've already got some rice," showing him a partially consumed one-pound bag. "No. I'm going to buy a bag of rice." Then he went out and bought a fi...
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:55] <exec> 08└─... Mr. President.
[23:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Or Russia.
[23:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA: Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─In the parts where such wheat is grown it often snows but not so much that the ground stays covered with it. (I lived in Moscow when my Dad was a grad student at the U of I.)
[23:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:12] <exec> 08└─Good point. Can't blame the 18.9% that voted for Perot. The people voted for the politicians who killed the unions. The people voted for the politicians that put in the trade deals that aided job exportation. The people voted for the politicians that provide H1Bs. The people voted for the politician...
[23:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/bourdain-obama-episode-w521293 [rollingstone.com]
[23:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:15] <exec> 08└─There is a common misconception that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a nihilist. You can find this assertion in both popular and academic literature, yet as widespread as it is, it isn't really an accurate portrayal of his work. Nietzsche wrote a great deal about nihilism, it is true,...
[23:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:18] <exec> 08└─> Wherever men can have multiple wives, you end up with an excess of males that have to be gotten rid of at least once a generation. Monogamist Europe had wars every few years from the beginning of recorded history until very recently. In the book I'll never publish, one of the background elements i...
[23:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Reports Rising Suicide Rates In US - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:20] <exec> 08└─You've had sex, marriage, and a daughter. Incels don't even have the privilege of getting cucked like you did. Check your privilege!
[23:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Corner Of Europe Brought Back To Life Thanks To Artificial Intelligence - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:35] <exec> 08└─"Taking a look at Syria, how's the local nightlife? Culture? Community? as compared to what it was before the front lines and sieges set in." In Raqqa ? ISIL executed piles of people who they suspected weren't aligned with them. The Christian population there (as much as 10% of the city pre-war) is...
[23:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─So you're a bit younger than me. I did use a 'kroontjespen' and inkpot during the first couple of years in primary school.
[23:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─Too bad they didn't use 4chan, the AI would have become Norman Bates.
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─Until the 'fuck beta' movement gets to reddit and the old is new again.
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reddit-Trained AI Answers Rorschach Test Like a Psychopath - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─Nicknamed Norman after Anthony Perkins' character in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho
[23:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Teamsters are Preparing for what Could be the Nation's Largest Strike in Decades - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:19] <exec> 08└─I did not need a union to pull that off. I shopped around and got a decent job at a decent place. Whenever OT popped up it was "a #1" priority to get fixed the next iteration or whatever we called it. OT is a symptom of something is broken. It is not physical it is organizational. It is not even har...
[23:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodak Ektachrome 100.... Making a Comeback? - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:57] <exec> 08└─If one is trying to get a perfect image as a representation of something, say a flower image for a field guide, I think digital beats film hands down. An awful lot of photography though is people trying to create "art", whether they (or anyone else) calls it that or not. Images are edited to look li...
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