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[00:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 2454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:06] <exec> 08└─Quickly, quickly! There was no time to waste. They had to get everything ready before next month, or it would be too late. Yes, these three men firmly believed this to be the case; they firmly believed that the apocalypse was imminent. The apocalypse. To them, it was only 35 days away, and so their...
[00:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:07] <exec> 08└─How about an explicit exemption for non-profit schools, dear IP leeches ? Besides that, it's pretty natural that "he did it first" is not an excuse to profit from someone's work without permission. And since everyone has cameras, and there's a lot of CC stuff, and there are multiple image banks, it'...
[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:09] <exec> 08└─But we had a very young intern who was doing the pictures for my campaign, for the digital. And our intern was using stock pictures. Very nice, right, very fair. But it wasn't so nice. Because we wanted to honor our great, and very brave soldiers. But a picture of Fake Nazis slipped in there by mist...
[00:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:18] <exec> 08└─This article has sparingly little meaning as-is. What are we paying the editors for?
[00:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:20] <exec> 08└─So a group of 'self' programmed aim bots win at a controlled slice of a game ? I wonder how they would do at a real scenario open ended game like a WoW boss battle or such. I'd assume they would eventually learn by trial and error each step but would they figure out the best way and the better pay-o...
[00:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 2382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:23] <exec> 08└─Quickly, quickly! There was no time to waste. They had to get everything ready before next month, or it would be too late. Yes, these three men firmly believed this to be the case; they firmly believed that the apocalypse was imminent. The apocalypse. To them, it was only 35 days away, and so their...
[00:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:25] <exec> 08└─I imagine it would it be kind of like asking a chess champion to play a game where he can only move his pawns? The AI might play a better game just because it's learned to play that way, while the champ would have to relearn how to play restricted chess.
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─If he does this, he's likely to run it out of business in the near future. We're not talking about whims here, we're talking about a car company that's being run in a horribly inept way that's dependent upon loans in order to cover the cost of production because the guy at the top has a large mouth...
[00:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─I think is objective is to stop quarterly financial reports. He has insulted investors multiple times and probably wants to have zero accountability.
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:49] <exec> 08└─Do YOU know the origin and significance of 420 ? I was in high school in the Bay Area in the 70's and can recall hearing the term long before it ever made the news. From Wikipedia... In 1971, five high school students – Steve Capper, Dave Reddix, Jeffrey Noel, Larry Schwartz, and Mark Gravich [4]...
[00:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─Right now they can not make the cars fast enough. Ask ford/bmw/Chrysler/Toyota if they would like to have that problem. Every car they make has already been sold for months. It is a status symbol like the iphone. Not exactly the best car on the road but not exactly the worst either. It is a show off...
[00:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:53] <exec> 08└─BINGO !! The market volatility and short sightedness of day traders, combined with the influence of currency speculation make long term planning and development almost impossible. https://www.quora.com [quora.com]
[00:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:56] <exec> 08└─Yabbut - Dylan's song "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" was recorded in 1966 - and 12 * 35 = (wait for it) 420. Far out, man.
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─http://time.com/4292844/420-april-20-marijuana-pot-holiday-history/ [time.com] While what you speak of is possible don't you think Dylan would have spoken up by now ? This is just my opinion of course, YMMV.
[00:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:38] <exec> 08└─This was the pedagogical position among mathematics lecturers right up until computer assisted proves forced them to accept derivation is just a more computationally intensive stat based pattern matching algorithm that, despite previous claims to "understanding", merely demands even more practice an...
[00:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:39] <exec> 08└─Fine. Either you can do that pattern matching, or you can't. What's your point?
[00:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:42] <exec> 08└─Also, I doubt you approached any of those computing problems in the way that a student of mathematics or even computer science would. I suspect you basically looked around for software or formulas or excel sheets or StackOverflow posts, etc., that gave you readily applicable (and perhaps parameteriz...
[00:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:15] <exec> 08└─Who's the dipshit who decided a primary key should be a zooper secret password, anyhow? Help! People can see my uid! They're gonna steal all muh soykarmas!
[00:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:17] <exec> 08└─Dude, it's your secret access token to the world's largest ponzi scheme. The minimum age is going to be 175 by the time you retire and your benefits will have been cut to just enough for a bag of legal weed a month so you're too stupid to care.
[00:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:57] <exec> 08└─Ticks have equal right too you know. They come in "peace."
[00:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:31] <exec> 08└─Stop blaming the poor cows and the poor Mexicanos. The problem was caused by H1B visas... I'm sure that the e. coli was an Indian strain.
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:40] <exec> 08└─It is true, though, that people should stop giving Nintendo and companies like it money.
[00:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:41] <exec> 08└─I do have an objection to opting out. These things should be archived regardless of the wishes of the "owners," since they are part of culture. Copyright durations should be from 5-14 years at most, given how easy it is to replicate and spread art in the digital age. The entire point of copyright is...
[00:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:24] <exec> 08└─Couldn't find anything about cleaning rails on either of those links to industrial accident reports. The word "rail" appears once on each page, the China page has a link to another story about a new rail line in Hong Kong and the Japan article has a link about an overhead crane on rails in a foundry...
[00:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:25] <exec> 08└─4.1% growth this quarter. Record high stock market, record low unemployment. No, we're not. You fucking have to cherrypick this shit little company that nobody ever heard of to make your point. Sorry that Trump doesn't want your kind in the military, but that's no reason to spread lies and propagand...
[00:17:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 2104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:06] <exec> 08└─John Oliver — the British host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight — focused on voter ID laws during his Sunday show. And it turns out the U.S. does have a voter fraud problem, but it’s not the one that you think. Oliver — who is rightfully mystified by the idiosyncrasies of American politics — p...
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[01:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:11] <exec> 08└─This is true. 10 years ago I took over control of a few systems, including the website, of a medium sized business. I worked with the web developer to remove all images that we couldn't prove we own. That proof had to be that it was available online, with explicit royalty free permissions for others...
[01:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:12] <exec> 08└─From an American point of view, this decision doesn't look really great. But, what about licenses like Creative Commons? It doesn't seem to great a burden, all things considered, to only use images that are actually licensed for public use. Although, fair use seems a lot better. At least as long as...
[01:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:24] <exec> 08└─Finally, I can buy video games and enjoy them even if I don't have time to play them. I'll simply buy my console's AI DLC and let it play for me. [10 minutes later] Wow, I'm so much better than I used to be. I really like this game.
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:52] <exec> 08└─I reckon they are already blown up, what he's writing is consistent with the hypothesis
[01:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:54] <exec> 08└─April 20 is Adolf Hitlers birthday.
[01:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:56] <exec> 08└─He offers to buy for 420. But not everyone wants to sell, hoping that Tesla can do more. Musk spends little money buying from doubters, and raises the share value to 420 from 3xx that it is now.
[01:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:12] <exec> 08└─They are talking pirate P2P vs pirate streaming. No dollars involved here.
[01:11:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:43] <exec> 08└─Really? Imagine the amount of annoyance most guys get from 1 partner, then multiply that by 400! Sure, you get laid a lot, but you also now have to fix 400 appliances and open 12000 jars every week.
[01:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:17] <exec> 08└─350km/h = 97 m/s Bit faster than most people can notice/react/jump out of the way. Www.caixingglobal.com/2017-03-27/101071006.html
[01:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it was my understanding that the multiple "we're broke, file for bankruptcy!" incidents were in actuality merely ways to try to protect the assets that remained in the company - so that any future lawsuits had nothing to assault? Also, being fired from the company doesn't mean he lost his s...
[01:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─That's fairly disingenuous. The actual Republicans who have been in office certainly are. And such a fine job they did!
[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─The point is even a commission looking for voter fraud and determined to find it even if it's not there couldn't find anything credible enough even for their intended sham.
[01:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:28] <exec> 08└─One senator switched parties. One representative switched parties. Fundamentally, the "party switch" concept is false. It's public relations nonsense. Democrats don't want to admit that they have an uninterrupted history that goes back to when they fought against civil rights. Tell a lie often enoug...
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[02:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Think Microbes Could be Tunneling Through Garnet Minerals - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:08] <exec> 08└─It's Peter Capaldi punching his way through another bad episode written for him. Poor Peter: here's hoping the new wee lass gets better treatment.
[02:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Think Microbes Could be Tunneling Through Garnet Minerals - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:09] <exec> 08└─FTFA: The team did not try to extract living organisms from the stone this time around, and indeed is not sure whether the creatures that made the tunnels would still be present within. They also don’t know whether the process may have occurred millions of years ago in the gems where it is seen, o...
[02:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Think Microbes Could be Tunneling Through Garnet Minerals - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:11] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there a theory about why the stones in the Pyramids (Egypt) now fit so tightly, something about lichens (etc) munching in the original gaps until the stones were mated "perfectly" to each other?
[02:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Think Microbes Could be Tunneling Through Garnet Minerals - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:13] <exec> 08└─They just made limestone gravel then mixed it into a concrete and poured it in place.
[02:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:26] <exec> 08└─That's certainly how I learned good manners -- ask permission first before using other's work. Certainly in the USA and many other countries, copyright rests with the author/creator unless specific contract language such as "work for hire" is in place. In the engineering books I've been involved wit...
[02:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:27] <exec> 08└─Reading German media, a pupil took a nice picture from a website (no restrictions on downloading) of a nice place, made by a professional photographer, and pasted that into his school report. The school then put that school report, with the picture visible, on their own web page, as part of a "cool...
[02:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:29] <exec> 08└─At first glance I saw Euro Cunt.
[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─Parents are paying tutors to stop their kids getting owned at Fortnite: Coaches are paid up to $25 an hour to help improve the skills of people embarrassed by their gameplay [theguardian.com]
[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:42] <exec> 08└─For every example of a first time occurrence of AI being able to do something better than humans, we are reminded of numerous examples of trivial human tasks where the field of AI is no where near solving. What are some games that will not fall to AI for some time?
[02:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:14] <exec> 08└─I suggest celebrating in privste, you are already associated too closely with the KKK.
[02:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:15] <exec> 08└─So if current share holders don't sell, do they become partners in a privately held company? I seem to remember that there are rules for who can buy shares of non-public companies and this isn't open to investors/gamblers of average means.
[02:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:17] <exec> 08└─That is a valid and open question, anon. I and a great many others want to own TSLA$, and are not "qualified investors".
[02:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:59] <exec> 08└─The students who already do well in mathematics probably don't need high school-level instruction and likely consider it to be a bird course.
[02:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:01] <exec> 08└─He didn't say that math is useless, only that schools teach it very poorly by not having students solve real, practical problems.
[02:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:03] <exec> 08└─I been working in high-tech gadgetry for 15 goddamn years and ain't ever seen a mathematician at all. I've worked with physicists, engineers, comp-sci monkeys, Ph.D oceanographers, technical people who studied Mandarin in college, and talented salaried autodidacts -- but not once have I seen a singl...
[02:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:05] <exec> 08└─It's not just that, I'd modify the quote to: Contrary to widely-held opinion, taking high school calculus isn't necessary for success later
[02:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:41] <exec> 08└─What if I don't want to fucking stream, I want a copy of the warez to watch when I'm offline?
[02:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:22] <exec> 08└─This tick spreads encephalitis. We shall hope to never find out how it feels.
[02:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:24] <exec> 08└─Those ticks can hold sperm, I guess. Consider the fate of American water turtles. Females need to mate perhaps 2-3 times over the lifetime as they can store sperm for years. However, when they migrate to special children bearing ponds, they are ambushed and repeatedly raped by males; pregnant alrea...
[02:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:26] <exec> 08└─It's hunter2, everyone knows that.
[02:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:00] <exec> 08└─Indian cows are holy, so its impossible for them to produce any evil poo. You should call it a bless.
[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:33] <exec> 08└─You sound like the sort of person who frequents the TSA check-in lines. You may have no intentions of flying, but you'll drive to the airport to get into a queue to be groped.
[02:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:55] <exec> 08└─Found one recent apparent suicide in Japan, https://www.japantimes.co.jp [japantimes.co.jp] More people were hit by bullet trains in other countries, but nothing like the big numbers of industrial accidents noted...
[02:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:57] <exec> 08└─The US is a banana republic with nukes and no bananas.
[02:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:52] <exec> 08└─Are we going to get it as well? Would be the most nutritious, I guess. How about my steak made from my own butt? Do I have a right to do whatever I want to my body including eating it? People eat their nails all the time, you know. Should be less controversial than abortions.
[02:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:02] <exec> 08└─If you think the stock market represents the economy at large, or that you're being shown the actual unemployment rate (hint: U3 and U6 are very different numbers...) *you're* the one who's fallen victim to propaganda. I am closer to the street, uncomfortably so in many cases, than most people, and...
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[03:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:59] <exec> 08└─Beautiful speech by @VP [twitter.com] Pence. We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force -- separate but equal. It's going to be the sixth branch of my armed forces. That's a big step. It is going to be something so important. We must have American dominance in space....
[03:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:00] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. The current armed forces already have all of the necessary skills, expertise, knowledge, and whatever else you might wish for. The Navy has long experience with solitary missions that last for months, and even years further back in history. The Marines have always been the Navy's muscle -...
[03:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Researchers Think Microbes Could be Tunneling Through Garnet Minerals - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:12] <exec> 08└─What, Peter "I’m gonna need all of my fucking energy to fucking rip all of your bodies to bits with my bare hands and sell-off your fucking flayed skin as a sleeping bag to a fucking normal person” Capaldi? Yeah, I could definitely see him eating through solid garnet without even pausing to chew...
[03:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Think Microbes Could be Tunneling Through Garnet Minerals - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:13] <exec> 08└─I heard they used ancient technology from the pyramids to melt the rock and make it flow in order to built the pyramids... oh, hang on a sec, I think I see a problem.
[03:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Think Microbes Could be Tunneling Through Garnet Minerals - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:15] <exec> 08└─Theres no melting of stone involved. The guy who came up with this in the 1970s cast limestone and sent samples to geologists who couldnt tell the difference unless they knew to look: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] He also did a documentary where he cast some blocks with...
[03:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:30] <exec> 08└─You're going blind, and I can guess why.
[03:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:17] <exec> 08└─I think we're parked, man.
[03:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:40] <exec> 08└─Torrent streaming still downloads the complete file(s) to your computer. If you don't want to watch it the moment you start downloading it, then you don't need to check any options that prioritize the initial parts and play it automatically.
[03:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:08] <exec> 08└─Basically every article I've seen about Nintendo's retro consoles have comments full of 'lol just get a Raspberry Pi and download all the roms here's how you do it it's easy'. I could see that pissing someone off to step up enforcement against ROM sites. Nintendo has always been against them, but th...
[03:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:10] <exec> 08└─I recently built a retropie with a handful of games on it, but when I read about the first cease and desists going out, I went on a download spree at Emuparadise. Nice knowing 'em!
[03:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:32] <exec> 08└─While I appreciate your overall point, I think your evaluation here is very personal and a bit eclectic. in some cases, you seem to be highlighting popular films that were snubbed and in other cases you're talking about genre films, films that were niche or had (or only later had) a cult following,...
[03:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:02] <exec> 08└─Finished items are mostly made of parts produced outside of China. It would be unfair to charge Chinese for reexport. On the other hand, parts are more likely to be really made in China. The whole thing is complicated because deficit is counted on the face value of finished product. Say (lazy to act...
[03:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:03] <exec> 08└─Yes and no. Many "Samsung" and most Sony panels say "Made in China" on them. I've worked on a few dozen. I forget about LG...
[03:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:05] <exec> 08└─There are some, but rare. I recently bought such a jacket - leather A-2 military flight jacket - the one ground support aviation was using during WWII. Not a Chinese one, but a real original cut deal with union label. (the whole back of the jacket is made from one piece of leather; not sewed chunks....
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[04:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:17] <exec> 08└─Right but does service guarantee citizenship?
[04:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:19] <exec> 08└─I'm doing my part!
[04:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:21] <exec> 08└─What a socialist idea! Surely all the funds will be appropriated by private enterprises.
[04:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:23] <exec> 08└─"Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned. [apnews.com]"
[04:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:25] <exec> 08└─"It would make the MOST SENSE to just create a Space Navy, add some Marines, and the job is done." Yeah, right. Next you're gonna suggest they'll need some kind of space ships as well. Hah!
[04:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:28] <exec> 08└─Old [theguardian.com]story [disclose.tv] Considering the propensity that governments have for announcing 'new' military projects which in reality have existed for years/decades in a black form, it would pain me to think that this [wikipedia.org] nutjob was even partially telling the truth about the...
[04:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:30] <exec> 08└─The Space Force proposal is about moving functions currently performed by the Air Force into a new branch. So if the Air Force is operating stargates or space fleets, those can be put into the Space Force alongside the boring satellite stuff.
[04:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Think Microbes Could be Tunneling Through Garnet Minerals - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I could definitely see him eating through solid garnet without even pausing to chew.
[04:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:01] <exec> 08└─Also the title is needlessly clickbaity. The photographer asked the school not to post the image, not the child. If it had never been posted, nobody would have cared.
[04:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─-er. A professional photographer took a photo at burning man that later went viral on some other guy's website. The actual photographer never got any credit for it. There's a certain nature photographer who devotes quite a lot of time and effort to locating unlicensed copies of his works. He really...
[04:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:18] <exec> 08└─So General AI isn't quite here yet, but at least we're throwing our narrow AI computing resources at things that benefit mankind, like curing(or at least diagnosing) cancer. Sorry, I meant stuff that benefits shareholders(like predicting stock markets), as proper shareholders only believe in short-t...
[04:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:19] <exec> 08└─1. AI != robot. There are mechanical engineering challenges, not just programming/machine learning challenges, involved that make it harder for robots to perform human-like movements. 2. Robots can fold towels [youtube.com]. Just not that fast. If you're referring to the Dota AI, I'm not sure why we...
[04:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:21] <exec> 08└─So General AI isn't quite here yet, but at least we're throwing our narrow AI computing resources at things that benefit mankind, like curing(or at least diagnosing) cancer.
[04:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:02] <exec> 08└─Community Services Northwest has done me a lot of good to the extent they weren't letting their laptops get stolen.
[04:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:42] <exec> 08└─The method of calculation of unemployment did not change under Trump and the numbers are way better. The GDP numbers are better than even the wildest projections of Republicans. As per BS in unemployment calculations, it was introduced by the bitch's husband president Clinton. He also ended welfare...
[04:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:47] <exec> 08└─Here on Earth we've got cheap fossil fuel energy to make that possible. On Mars, *if* you've got a lot of surplus nuclear power that's great - but if you assume power is at a premium it's a much less rosy picture. High-end commercial LEDs are pushing 81% efficiency. The most efficient commercial sol...
[04:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:48] <exec> 08└─Read my comment again. More carefully this time.
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[05:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:03] <exec> 08└─A better title might have been, "Hundreds of US News Sites Operating Illegally Via the US Two Months After GDPR". The sites where shown where they were breaking the law and how to come into compliance. They had several years to comply but chose not to. This is not about sites being blocked but of co...
[05:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:04] <exec> 08└─Why are they so afraid?
[05:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:07] <exec> 08└─If sites like Facebook, which are privacy nightmares even for users and non-users alike, are still allowed to exist as they are, then even the GDPR doesn't go far enough. I wish the US could do something similar to Europe, but as we all know, it's a fundamental right to violate others' privacy on a...
[05:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:09] <exec> 08└─If they start offering a better class of service to European visitors, then they'd lose reputation and support from US visitors which would affect their bottom line even more. They're already taking a small hit by cutting out some of their market, those in the EU. However, mostly it comes down to MB...
[05:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:11] <exec> 08└─Are you claiming that the sites that block access from the EU are violating the GDPR? Their lawyers seem to disagree. Let's not forget the laws of the United States, of China, of Saudi Arabia, etc. Some European websites, I'm sure, are "still operating illegally" according to those laws and your app...
[05:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:13] <exec> 08└─They are self blocking, probably trying to put pressure (haha, motherfuckers, you visit Brussels for that, and suck some cocks/cunts, or you thought DC was enough? And bad news, you many need to visit Beijing later). Or to avoid other people to demand similar treatment (the horror, USA caring about...
[05:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:16] <exec> 08└─The NPR page is non-functional for me. With JavaScript, perhaps it would work.
[05:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:18] <exec> 08└─Here is what you missed in US media: "Trump! Trump! Wildfires in California. Is this because of climate change? Trump! doesn't believe in climate change. People sneaking into the country are really asylum seekers, and Trump! is cruelly arresting them. And if they bring children along, the Trump! gov...
[05:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:20] <exec> 08└─I live in Trump country. Be nice to have a plugin that, when I tried to access a site, told me "GDPR Failure". It would have to have a "sigh. show it to me anyway" button, but it would be nice to know.
[05:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:37] <exec> 08└─Nuking from orbit used to be a funny phrase. Pretty soon you might get in trouble if you use it.
[05:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:38] <exec> 08└─Or you might get a medal.
[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Space_Command [wikipedia.org] Spacelift operations at the East and West Coast launch bases provide services, facilities and range safety control for the conduct of DOD, NASA and commercial launches. Through the command and control of all DOD satellites, satell...
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─No medals from me. Nuking anything for real sure seems like it must be a net loss to humanity.
[05:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:45] <exec> 08└─So if the Air Force is operating stargates or space fleets
[05:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:17] <exec> 08└─for images, search with tineye.com I've had very good luck with this image search engine.
[05:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:08] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you want to gamble on Tesla being able to make cars in high volume? Here's a column from a few weeks ago that comes with many years of experience in the auto industry -- http://www.autoextremist.com [autoextremist.com]
[05:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 4979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:55] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll admit to being genuinely confused by what the point of this study is. TFA seems to spend an inordinate amount of time setting up a conflict between high-school math teachers and college professors. To paraphrase: "The high school teachers want to believe their calculus courses are useful,...
[05:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 1908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:56] <exec> 08└─Also, I'd encourage everyone to take a look at the authors' figure 3 on page 58 of the PDF I linked in my previous post, and see if you can figure out how that's supposed to square with their conclusions. Basically, at every level of prior math performance, students who enrolled in high school calc...
[05:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:35] <exec> 08└─From a company that derives its value from the fiction that online piracy is a huge and pricey problem, a desperate bid to remain relevant...
[05:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:51] <exec> 08└─China, like Europe, is investing in infrastructure. Quality of life and business desirability over raw ROI.
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[06:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.torproject.org/ [torproject.org] The Tor Browser is designed to give you anonymity from your ISP, from websites, and from everyone in between. It happens that often, Tor exit nodes are in the EU.
[06:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:21] <exec> 08└─yet they never make any mention whatsoever about their tracking pixels? Protect Your Family And Yourself From Web Analytics: 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
[06:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:23] <exec> 08└─For reasons that must make sense to the management, NedSpace has a HUGE projection TV in a lounge that I would otherwise avail myself of. No one ever watches it. Well someone does from time to time, because once a week or so it will have a different channel. But no one ever turns the damn thing off....
[06:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:44] <exec> 08└─Well, another international treaty down the tubes. The US ratified in 1967 the “Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies” [un.org] which expressly forbids the militarization of Space. Article...
[06:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:45] <exec> 08└─My Space Force will be Separate but Equal
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:48] <exec> 08└─The reason their rockets can orbit heavier payloads is because during the cold war they were less accurate than US ICBMs. If the US really _does_ create a Space Command, you can be damn sure that Soviet Union and the PRC will orbit far far more powerful forces. The PRC has only been making baby step...
[06:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:21] <exec> 08└─I am absolutely serious. I was quite puzzled that I couldn't just pop in my payment card number. Rather I entered my email so that a week or two later a sales rep emailed me. She wanted to know what I planned to use their strip for - local, national, worldwide, dead-trees or online. I told her my we...
[06:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:22] <exec> 08└─In the Netherlands there is an exemption for education. But it doesn't apply to the public internet, it applies to the classroom. There is no objection to using the kid's presentation in the classroom, but publishing anything on the internet needs permission from the copyright holder. As copyright l...
[06:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:15] <exec> 08└─I doubt the KKK would give much credit or respect to a half breed Indian like myself. Nor would I associate with an inbred wance like you come off as. I could be misinterpreting something here but I doubt it. Da-wee-cha-sun coo-sah-oh-na-ah-nit ha-bah-ha-ca-yah-ha-sah wehit
[06:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:04] <exec> 08└─I've seen one, with phd even, but working as an engineer...tracking parts and QA test results I think. Good friend from undergrad got a full ride NSF scholarship to anywhere in the world, went to podunk state college, started working on elliptical integrals, dropped out a semester later to go to wal...
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[06:13:28] <exec> 08└─You are describing my old girlfriend.
[06:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:02] <exec> 08└─Called it: "Roads are a waste of money, unless you put tolls."
[06:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:40] <exec> 08└─I basically agree with your comments, but some of your examples are questionable. Hunger Games? Not good. Who still enjoys that movie? Avatar? Although a technical achievement, the story was formulatic. It has no rewatch value. Fury Road? Still have not figured out why so many people liked the film....
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[07:08:59] <exec> 08└─...the QSL card.
[07:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Report the Most Distant Radio Galaxy Ever Discovered - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:01] <exec> 08└─As old as aristarchus! At least on radio frequency.
[07:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:20] <exec> 08└─You are not missing anything.
[07:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:22] <exec> 08└─That works until google starts to use foo12345.1e100.net
[07:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:24] <exec> 08└─Very biased, the Fake News MSM doesn't report the great economic news. 157,000 new jobs in July, prices VERY STABLE, millions dropping Food Stamps. Much better reporting from Fox News, Sinclair & OANN!!!
[07:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:26] <exec> 08└─If they do that then we won. The Google Analytics hostnames are hard-coded on tens of millions of websites.
[07:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:51] <exec> 08└─Everything the Space Force would do is already being done by the Air Force Space Command. Give General John W. Raymond [wikipedia.org] a call, maybe he'll tell you about it. If the plan to create a Space Force fizzles, the Air Force will continue doing it instead. And "it" probably means development...
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[07:09:52] <exec> 08└─"no one trusts the US anymore" FTFY
[07:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 1808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:54] <exec> 08└─Russia's space program is decaying, and China's current rocket plans would give them something better than SLS but far worse than SpaceX's BFR (on cost) around 2030. Russia’s Space Program Is Struggling Mightily [slate.com] How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program [bloomberg.com] China main Space...
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[07:12:11] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem I've seen with calculus is recognizing when it can be applied to a problem, and then understanding how to apply it. It's also rather easy to do without. You can do a sort of brute force calculus with computers. For instance, make a computer actually calculate the area of each ver...
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[07:17:03] <exec> 08└─No, you're confusing English, the language I use, with Latin or Greek, the origins of part of the word. The actual origin of this precise current word is the historical haematoglobulin.
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[08:09:39] <exec> 08└─We know. Thank you. Yours, Europe
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[08:13:04] <exec> 08└─Google play music streams albums.
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[09:09:32] <exec> 08└─Haven't you guys kicked that guy out yet?!??? I sure hope you have a POTUS candidate that isn't just stupid for next time. Damn. Right, yes. We Europeans have moved on already since a few months. This circus show in the US was just too stupid. That BTW doesn't mean you need to start organizing witch...
[09:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:34] <exec> 08└─No, I read it as US news sites are exploiting the data of anyone who accesses their site. However, as they cannot do that with the data of EU citizens, they simply don't give them access. The fact that Americans are happy for this state of affairs to exist is not a problem for Europeans.
[09:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:02] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't the US just create a "Separate, but Equal" wing of the armed forces and call it "Money Force" or "Contractor Corp" Then all the other parts of the armed forces could be contracted or outsourced, and "Contractor Corp" could manage all the contracts.
[09:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:03] <exec> 08└─They separate nicely, at escape velocity* *YMMV, launch location, direction and weather may impede attempts to join "Space Force"
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[09:10:20] <exec> 08└─"What is little, green and eats rocks?" "??" "Little green rock-eater, of course! And what is little, green and eats gravel?" "Little green gravel-eater, I suppose?" "No. Little green rock-eater, on a diet!"
[09:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:23] <exec> 08└─I sometimes think how getting a degree in applied mathematics was almost a complete waste
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[09:13:49] <exec> 08└─You joke, but I'm way more worried about lyme disease and rocky mountain spotted fever than I am about not noticing a tick before I literally exsanguinate.
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[10:09:21] <exec> 08└─No matter how cheap the satellites are, you still have to launch them into space. And if they are short-lived and thus have to replaced frequently, I'd expect that cost to be quite significant.
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[10:09:55] <exec> 08└─No, I read it as US news sites are exploiting the data of anyone who accesses their site. However, as they cannot do that with the data of EU citizens, they simply don't give them access. The fact that Americans are happy for this state of affairs to exist is not a problem for Europeans.
[10:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:26] <exec> 08└─Informative? I was aiming for Funny..
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[10:10:28] <exec> 08└─-es: Use a phased array of masers to melt some of their solder joints. That there is no air in space results in the only way to cool something in it is to emit blackbody radiation. That wouldn't be enough if you heated a satellite each time it passed within view. After a few such passes you'll get i...
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[10:10:30] <exec> 08└─The Space Force proposal is about moving functions currently performed by the Air Force into a new branch.
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[10:10:32] <exec> 08└─Nukes? Far too messy, try "Hypervelocity rod bundles".. [af.mil]
[10:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:25] <exec> 08└─What are some games that will not fall to AI for some time?
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[11:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Did CRISPR Really Fix a Genetic Mutation in These Human Embryos? - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:15] <exec> 08└─- First. Genetic Counselors don't do DNA tests. They ask lots of odd questions such as what color hair the women in your family tend to have. In the case of Lorenzo Odone, all the women in his mother's family had red hair. That and some other traits enabled a genetic counselor to diagnose Lorenzo's...
[11:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did CRISPR Really Fix a Genetic Mutation in These Human Embryos? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:16] <exec> 08└─Not fixing something like downs syndrome is morally equivalent to genetically engineering your child to have it.
[11:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did CRISPR Really Fix a Genetic Mutation in These Human Embryos? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:18] <exec> 08└─I doubt you could fix Down's with CRISPR since it is more than just a bad gene. Instead it's an entire chromosome that is duplicated (present as a triple).
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[11:09:27] <exec> 08└─that pays for your replacement satellite.
[11:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:29] <exec> 08└─that was in the news when I was in high school. I think it was Spielberg anyway. But he wouldn't tell anyone what he was going to orbit. I was made a Student Shop foreman at Caltech so I could qualify for the key to the expensive and delicate tools cabinet and so stop pestering the guy who ran the p...
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[11:10:03] <exec> 08└─MSNBC has turned into the anti-trump channel ... which may explain why its rating are up the last two years.
[11:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:05] <exec> 08└─Dear Europe, We miss you(r data). Come back soon. Sincerely, Unscrupulous Data Whores
[11:10:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 1150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:26] <exec> 08└─Well, another international treaty down the tubes. The US ratified in 1967 the “Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies” [un.org] which expressly forbids the militarization of Space. Article...
[11:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:39] <exec> 08└─I believe Pence and Trump are thinking Space Marines like in the Alien Series and think..how hard can that be? Yeah, we can do that..... Because launching people and equipment into space is so easy, we've been doing it for years! Just gotta add MOAR BOOSTERS! Fuck it, back to KSP.....
[11:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:40] <exec> 08└─And of course, there is always the possibility of an unplanned, spontaneous disassembly event. Make sure your insurance is paid up!
[11:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:43] <exec> 08└─no one trusts the US anymore
[11:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:45] <exec> 08└─ar too messy, try "Hypervelocity rod bundles".. [af.mil]
[11:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:44] <exec> 08└─Your winnings sir....
[11:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:31] <exec> 08└─Really? Imagine the amount of annoyance most guys get from 1 partner
[11:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's a flaw in this thinking. I had the opportunity to buy and play old games on a nintendo device. They wanted $15 or more from memory. I was thinking '$15? You have got to be kidding". I plunked $100 or so down for a mini nes and mini snes and enjoy them greatly. But, pay $15 for old old...
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[11:16:20] <exec> 08└─There is an easy solution for that. If you are speaking in another language then it is deemed you are not working. If you were, you would be speaking in English so collaboration can happen in the office. Other language equals on a break or goofing off. Do it too much and expect your next review to h...
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[11:16:22] <exec> 08└─Is this a subtle reference to the US ripping through NZ law to get Mega?
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[12:09:21] <exec> 08└─The paper in question was reported here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] And critique here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Also, here is what I said within an hour of seeing it: Using sperm from a man with hypertr...
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[12:09:23] <exec> 08└─Good point, but I didn't specifically intend to make a point about either down's or CRISPR. At present off target effects provide sufficient concern to make using CRISPR on cells which will become gametes a bad idea anyway. The intended point applies just as much to screening for the sake of abortio...
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[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─For anyone interested that was a Plant Gravireception and Liquid Dispersion experiment G-033 on STS-7 https://archive.org [archive.org] https://spaceflight.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[12:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 1906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:35] <exec> 08└─What a horrible PR disaster for Amateur Radio, which has been launching cubsats and similar microsat designs for at least a quarter century. They even carefully kept the google-able term"cubesat" out of the article. Awful, just awful. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Something I...
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[12:10:07] <exec> 08└─We know. Thank you. Yours, Europe
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[12:16:26] <exec> 08└─Luckily they have a swath of morons at the border trained to squeeze nuts just enough that it hurts but not enough to cause damage so the airplane traveller can sue. They are also good at feeling up children.
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[13:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CVS Partners with Teladoc Health to Offer Virtual Clinic Appointments - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:02] <exec> 08└─How long untill this doctor appintments start to leak in torrents. Get medical advice for free.
[13:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:33] <exec> 08└─Rockets are the new mass transit and when you ride share, instead of launching a concrete ballast block they get like $100K or so for a 1U sat. Obviously this varies WILDLY with how many ham radio operators the launcher company employs and so forth. amsat.org has launched a lot simply off donations....
[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Report the Most Distant Radio Galaxy Ever Discovered - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:42] <exec> 08└─How could a photon travel that far and long without interacting with anything? Eventually it would be absorbed and reemitted by some molecule.
[13:09:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 546 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:51] <exec> 08└─A better title might have been, "Hundreds of US News Sites Operating Illegally Via the US Two Months After GDPR". The sites where shown where they were breaking the law and how to come into compliance. They had several years to comply but chose not to. This is not about sites being blocked but of co...
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[13:10:13] <exec> 08└─They are bombing kids in Yemen with US made and supplied bombs. For example. But no news for American consumption.
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[13:10:52] <exec> 08└─But: "Take off and rod them from orbit - its the only way to be sure!" at best sounds like you're going to unblock their drains...
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[13:11:08] <exec> 08└─And the pyramids are made of mostly limestone with some granite in the center as well. Not sure why this is labeled sandstone? Because you associate egypt with sand?
[13:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:30] <exec> 08└─In the Netherlands there is an exemption for education. But it doesn't apply to the public internet, it applies to the classroom. There is no objection to using the kid's presentation in the classroom,
[13:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:26] <exec> 08└─You mean Amazon is a whimsy company? Or IBM, or Microsoft, or GM, or ... ?
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[13:17:22] <exec> 08└─You can make a lot of money off the economic growth roads provide. On the other hand, if you engineer and build a "50M per year" choo choo in an essentially fully developed area and less than 10M per year ever ride it, then you're just a really bad engineer/manager. Can you engineer a high speed rai...
[13:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 2294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:24] <exec> 08└─First, you didn't call it in this thread (a quote which strangely enough appears nowhere in the discussion nor in a modest amount of google searching I did on the subject of tolls and bob_super in SN). And just because my argument is predictable (though not in the way you did mischaracterized it), d...
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[13:17:26] <exec> 08└─business desirability
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[13:17:28] <exec> 08└─operate completely robotic elevated light rail that comes every six minutes during rush hour
[13:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:31] <exec> 08└─"Level Crossing" is the railroad employee term you can google for, and its SUPER American/USA, in that only the USA doesn't care and does them all the time, most countries go to some effort to avoid them. A good SN car analogy is in most countries, a pig iron blast furnace is pretty safe from old la...
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[13:18:09] <exec> 08└─very, very embarrassing for the Academy if it walked away with a couple of "Best Make-Up" type awards.
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[13:18:11] <exec> 08└─I also saw that. It was unique, I usually complain about stereotypical formulaic movies but this was unusual, like how did this get past the gatekeepers who've been keeping things mediocre? Its not amazing or fantastic but it was better than average for sure.
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[14:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:08] <exec> 08└─The following insects(and arachnids) are doing fine and expanding territory: Mosquitoes Ticks Cockroaches Africanized Honeybees (i.e. "killer bees") Bedbugs Who cares if we lose "primary pollinators" and "bases of the food chain", we can still get all the zika and malaria we want.
[14:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tribune Media Withdraws from Sinclair Merger; Sues for $1 Billion - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:24] <exec> 08└─So Sinclair withheld important and relevant information during a merger? Not surprising from a broadcast company that spews propaganda that measures less than truthful. The fish rots from the head.
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03xhedit [6669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:48] <exec> 08└─All of us new hams just FT8, OM appliance operator ragchews about health issues on 80m have exactly zero appeal.
[14:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:29] <exec> 08└─The thing is, the new law should allow you to force Facebook to delete every detail they have on you. Right to be forgotten may primarily have been used by unscrupulous people trying to cover up their past misdeeds, but it's supposed to let you escape the claws of facebook should you decide to do so...
[14:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:08] <exec> 08└─Canada is legalising marijuana. We will have the best spaced-out force EVER! #MCG! Make Canada Greater!
[14:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:10] <exec> 08└─Hypervelocity rods are overrated ... thats what she said!
[14:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:12] <exec> 08└─Anyway, the idea (hypervelocity penetrators destroying underground facilities) is not even a sound one - the rod would heat up and lose its necessary mechanical integrity, and it would disintegrate upon contact with planet surface. The damage (remaining energy transfer) would be decreasing with dept...
[14:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:14] <exec> 08└─That's pretty much what the NRO is. The Chair Force brass couldn't manage early satellite projects early or on budget, so satellites were taken from them and given to the NRO, which also works for the CIA and NSA. The NRO's tiny staff is mostly Air Force, but all the actual work is done by contracto...
[14:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:17] <exec> 08└─May I draw your attention to bolded text: States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any othe...
[14:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:50] <exec> 08└─... and in a corner. The way things stand now, Musk has to come up with a buy-out. If he doesn't, it will be market manipulation. If he does -- if he has serious interest of private investors to take the company private -- he's over a barrel now: he has to agree to any offer, terms and conditions th...
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─Time to start farming opossums. Wonder how their meat tastes.
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[15:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:07] <exec> 08└─it's doing it's job. if a lack of insects is a problem, then the solution is simple.
[15:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:08] <exec> 08└─I've noticed a sharp decline in the number of moths I see around my house lights at night nowadays. Wasn't sure if was something like this or maybe the light frequency of the LED and CFC bulbs don't attract as many. Or maybe both. This is Europe and I'm in the US, but if it's due to human activity i...
[15:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:10] <exec> 08└─The problem is that most crickets are omnivores and shouldn't be this sensitive so whatever killing them can't be good.
[15:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:13] <exec> 08└─as it smacks into your windshield? Its asshole. Could it be that's it's the windshields? https://www.inverse.com [inverse.com]
[15:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:15] <exec> 08└─Honey bees? Wasn't it just a few years ago we were all shitting our pants because of Colony Collapse Disorder
[15:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:17] <exec> 08└─It'll start a flame war to say it's climate change, but given the Europe has had the most dramatic climate changes, it's totally 100% climate change.
[15:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:19] <exec> 08└─CCD continues only slightly abated, and honey bee populations have not recovered, but "africanized honeybees" do not do the useful things honeybees do. Nor have they been affected by CCD.
[15:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:22] <exec> 08└─did you read the killer part?
[15:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Partners with Teladoc Health to Offer Virtual Clinic Appointments - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:31] <exec> 08└─If we lived in those backwards socialist "every other first world nation", we'd never get innovation like this. We'd just "go to an actual doctor". But now, here in America, we can innovate, and pay several hundred dollars on top of our insurance and use cool new technologies like Skype. And all we...
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did CRISPR Really Fix a Genetic Mutation in These Human Embryos? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─I hope for their sakes that the donors of the sperm were dead. Unconditional child support liability being created in the lab here.
[15:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Report the Most Distant Radio Galaxy Ever Discovered - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:13] <exec> 08└─Yep, it did that when it hit the radio telescope that we used to pick it up. But, some of it's brothers are still out there and have passed us by already.
[15:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:44] <exec> 08└─Why would we kick the guy out? He was elected and his current term goes to 2021.
[15:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─No reason they should be static on most websites. Nor that Google Analytics has to be served from Google.
[15:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:48] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone expect any other reaction from U.S. companies. A government forcing them to do something that is complicated, expensive and unprofitable. It's a very simple cost-benefit analysis. What is the cost of ignoring GDRP? (fines) call this A. What is the cost of implementing what they want...
[15:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:50] <exec> 08└─Most people became convinced that to maintain a hobby website you need not only a tech and editor, but also a lawyer.
[15:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:53] <exec> 08└─Large information/disinformation sites went through it with no effect,
[15:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:55] <exec> 08└─I guess you're right. Just don't do anything really stupid.
[15:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:40] <exec> 08└─Religious tax payers don't like pentagons; this will please them after we spend a few billion creating The Hexagon for this new equal branch... For trump's 2nd term. Space Force not only sounds stupid, it's a big waste of money and adds more bureaucracy. If anything should be redone it's merging the...
[15:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:41] <exec> 08└─Depends on your definition of "trouble". If it pisses off libbies, then it's all good. If it triggers the FBI/CIA/NSA/etc then it's even better. Fek 'em if they can't take a joke.
[15:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:43] <exec> 08└─Are you sure enough of that idea, that you're willing to stand at ground zero when the prototype is tested? Let me warn you that we will be testing a two ton rod, with some heat ablative tiles, and guidance fins. The guidance isn't anything to brag about, we just want to get the rod within a couple...
[15:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:46] <exec> 08└─That particular treaty was never worth the paper it was printed on. Every nation or state on earth knew that at the first opportunity, it would wipe it's figurative arse with that treaty. Anyone who ever took it seriously was deluding himself.
[15:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 1225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:48] <exec> 08└─Merging branches? Up to a point. Put the Air Force back into the Army. Making a separate Air Force was nothing more, and nothing less, than a political maneuver. Marines and Navy go together like beer and football, so no problems, again. But, you can't merge those two remaining forces very well. The...
[15:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:50] <exec> 08└─"Re:what would it do?" Perpetrate kickback fraud. It will demand millions of dollars of shit nobody wants, be built by long established military contractors, who will funnel revenues from those projects back through PACs into political campaigns. But in the mean time, they will get in everybody else...
[15:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─For instance, make a computer actually calculate the area of each very narrow slice, rather than simply integrate the function.
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[16:09:12] <exec> 08└─Trade it for 3 cigarettes and a no-rape card for august.
[16:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:14] <exec> 08└─[No] drugs or shivs hidden in mine (would be a bit hard, given the cases are clear)... If anyone has any ideas of where...
[16:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:16] <exec> 08└─Hey, this card is already stamped "expired"!
[16:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:18] <exec> 08└─If he's lucky, he'll find a choice toilet paper shiv or some spice [wikipedia.org].
[16:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:20] <exec> 08└─I had a similar thing with industrial computer. A cute aluminum casing and inside every block from another factory. Nice ~5-inch LCD, floppy disk drive and a small Intel computer inside. Unfortunately the display was connected using some proprietary interface, while still having a nice composite inp...
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[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─You have more than 1 right? The HDMI and VGA don't work on any of them? Your best bet would be opening the case up, and looking for part numbers on the boards. Chances are some other TV/monitor will use those same parts, and you can find firmware images for them. You might want to see if you can acc...
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─if climate change is lighting europe on fire im all for it
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─Mostly this is because africanized honeybees haven't been bred to be dirty, lazy, honey-producers. Africanized bees have strong grooming and cleanliness, which prevents mites from affecting the health of the hive. They are also not shipped all around to agricultural hotspots that are covered in pest...
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Partners with Teladoc Health to Offer Virtual Clinic Appointments - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─With virtual visits, known in the industry as telehealth or telemedicine, CVS can reach people who may not be able to visit [a location in person].
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Partners with Teladoc Health to Offer Virtual Clinic Appointments - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─Here's how it will go down 9/10 times: [patient rattles or shows off symptoms on grainy webcam] Virtual doc: "Ok, now you have to come in to our meatspace clinic before we can prescribe you opioids."
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did CRISPR Really Fix a Genetic Mutation in These Human Embryos? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─There was only one bonor: sperm from a man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
[16:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 1881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:27] <exec> 08└─BFR is going to drop launch costs dramatically. But before BFR flies (as well as after), ridesharing can already make space accessible [theverge.com] for cheap, small payloads: Later this year, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch more than 70 satellites into orbit — the largest batch of satellite...
[16:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:28] <exec> 08└─You can tell how smart a person is by whether they got fooled into calling it "ride sharing" or not. Hint - if you pay for something, it isn't really sharing. Hint #2 - corporations usually don't share things, they sell or rent things.
[16:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/rocket-report-tons-of-new-boosters-spacex-soars-new-glenn-may-be-late/ [arstechnica.com] New report quantifies surge in small rockets. In an updated report [usu.edu] on the state of the small-satellite launch industry, Carlos Niederstrasser quantifies the incr...
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─sharing verb use, occupy, or enjoy (something) jointly with another or others. Crack open a dictionary. They are sharing the same payload fairing, and the same ride.
[16:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, he's done that already. They may even devote a full chapter, called, "This Can Never Be Allowed to Happen Again".
[16:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:50] <exec> 08└─sometimes the courts are just plain dumb! TECHNICALLY the internet only works because copies can be made. any law against the "very nature of the internet" is just plain dumb! a book can be copied but for a book to work it doesn't need to be copiable . i find laws offensive that go against the natur...
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─And they lose money on each sale due to incompetent management. It's not particularly hard to create a rare car that loses money. They're losing money trying to ramp up production to levels based purely on Musk's ego rather than on targets based on what the engineering and logistical projections all...
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─There's ways of managing that though. Issuing fewer shares for larger sums of money tends to cut down on that sort of thing. Normally dividends do as well, but you have to be profitable and have something resembling a business plan for that to work. The big problem in this case isn't the shareholder...
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[17:09:02] <exec> 08└─It's not the actual algorithm that NSA cares about. They don't even care about getting their algorithm into the kernel. What NSA wants is to get their implementation of anything complex into the kernel. Large complex and obscure code is a great place to hide exploits. Even if it is not in the initia...
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[17:09:03] <exec> 08└─You might be right, but still: You're just saying.
[17:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03unitron [70] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:17] <exec> 08└─Look for FCC ID numbers any and everywhere on the unit and Google what you find. Also plug it into the FCC's own database--there's a web page somewhere. You might discover a consumer market version of it that will lead you to service info.
[17:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:18] <exec> 08└─Ignoring the challenge of getting these working, and the neat clear case...if you just want a smaller monitor, check out any municipal electronics recycling event. Last one I went to had a large dumpster full of flat screens, many with VGA interface -- recycled because newer laptops don't come with...
[17:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:20] <exec> 08└─Third picture down, in your imgur link. It clearly states, "Don't Touch". I presume you have touched it? Well, that's that. I'll bet you ignored all those warnings on forms years ago - "Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate." And, you probably tear those "Do not remove" tags off your mattresses. *sigh*...
[17:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:23] <exec> 08└─Does it have a remote sensor? if it does you can probably get in that way. Get a good universal and send all 256 codes at it, one of them is probably service mode. I put up a guide to hacking my LG a few years ago and documented all of its internal menus. It has a "Public Display Settings" submenu t...
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:40] <exec> 08└─Insecticides have been around far longer than 25 years. If it's insecticides, did they recently become less specific, more lethal, or more heavily used?
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─Can't you just get an app that plays cricket sounds? Problem solved! Create a wavetable sound font that plays a cricket at any midi pitch.
[17:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Partners with Teladoc Health to Offer Virtual Clinic Appointments - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─You forgot the "that'll be $150"
[17:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─It is easy to fall for corporate psychological tricks. They can literally change your mind (the way you think) by choosing the words that they use to communicate with you. Normalize the use of words such as "sharing" and "like" to mean whatever they want them to mean. Eg. - What?! You don't "love" A...
[17:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:23] <exec> 08└─The OP makes the unsupported claim that the sites are "operating illegally." I want to know exactly what they're doing that's supposedly illegal. Your response doesn't answer that, unless you're implying that for a U.S. website to gather data on non-EU people violates the...
[17:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:24] <exec> 08└─The key claim the OP is making is that the sites are "operating illegally." The OP offered no support for the claim. I asked for at least a clarification of it. Exactly what are these websites doing that's supposedly illegal? The site owners, presumably, think that blocking access from Europe puts t...
[17:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:16] <exec> 08└─Job One for the Space Farce should be to investigate the empty space between your ears.
[17:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:18] <exec> 08└─It would make the MOST SENSE to just create a Space Navy, add some Marines, and the job is done. hire Chuck Norris. FTFY
[17:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:20] <exec> 08└─a Carry on Rodding film Please mister, can I have one too?
[17:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:18] <exec> 08└─Where's the facepalm mod?
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[18:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:05] <exec> 08└─The actual question(s) should be: Can I compile my own kernel without any part of this easily (i.e. a simple flag such as SPEC_AND_SIMON=NO) Is this implemented entirely as a KLM (that I can block/remove/disable)? If not, why not?
[18:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:06] <exec> 08└─Can I compile my own kernel without any part of this easily (i.e. a simple flag such as SPEC_AND_SIMON=NO)
[18:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:08] <exec> 08└─The article mentions blacklisting the module, so it would appear to be built/buildable as one. And given that there's a flag for every other encryption algorithm that can be built into the kernel I'd assume there's one for speck as well, but I haven't built a 4.17 kernel yet so it's still just an AC...
[18:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:11] <exec> 08└─It's not the actual algorithm that NSA cares about. They don't even care about getting their algorithm into the kernel. What NSA wants is to get their implementation of anything complex into the kernel. Large complex and obscure code is a great place to hide exploits.
[18:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:13] <exec> 08└─In late 2002 I implemented AES about the Oxford Semiconductor OXFW911 IDE/Firewire bridge chip. At the time the 911 was popular for external Firewire drive enclosures. I used a hand-tuned blend of ARM and Thumb assembler. The controller on the 911 was a 49 MHz ARM7TDMI. I also copied the crypto from...
[18:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:15] <exec> 08└─At the risk of being paranoid, the fact that you can choose not to compile it does not speak to my concerns. I don't want to support bad encryption at any level, look at all the trouble "export" encryption caused us 20 years later, even though it was ostensibly totally unused and only included for c...
[18:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─NSA tried to aggressively push this algorithm to an extent that some cryptographer alleged bullying and harassment at the hands of NSA.
[18:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:20] <exec> 08└─ChaCha20 and related ciphers are stronger and faster than AES. Sure it requires a nonce and such, but can't we manage that?
[18:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:36] <exec> 08└─Why yes, it is HILARIOUS that we don't consider a system where rape is a regular occurrence to be cruel and unusual punishment.
[18:09:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:44] <exec> 08└─The following insects(and arachnids) are doing fine and expanding territory: Mosquitoes Ticks Cockroaches Africanized Honeybees (i.e. "killer bees") Bedbugs Who cares if we lose "primary pollinators" and "bases of the food chain", we can still get all the zika and malaria we want.
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─did you read the killer part?
[18:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─Insecticides have been around far longer than 25 years. If it's insecticides, did they recently become less specific, more lethal, or more heavily used?
[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:01] <exec> 08└─I expect you'll be unsurprised to learn that Cheeto is loosening up regulations on the insecticides that cause Colony Collapse Disorder.
[18:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─I doubt climate change is to blame, insects thrive in all sorts of weather and droughts haven't been that widespread. 25 years ago eh? My guess is on the agricultural pesticides being so over used they have spread into all sorts of ecological food chains.
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─It really does seem like he is the Devil, if you go in for that sort of woo woo. But seriously, how fucked can he make this country before we put the brakes on him?
[18:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tribune Media Withdraws from Sinclair Merger; Sues for $1 Billion - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:25] <exec> 08└─So corrupt even the Trump admin wouldn't touch it! Makes you wonder what they are hiding....
[18:10:26] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Tribune Media Withdraws from Sinclair Merger; Sues for $1 Billion - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:26] <exec> 08└─Can't wait until uncomfortable anchors nationwide have to read a bad script about the threat to civilization represented by descendants of immigrants, like Ajit Pai. He probably had Verizon cleaners check his closets for skeletons, before that vote.
[18:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tribune Media Withdraws from Sinclair Merger; Sues for $1 Billion - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:29] <exec> 08└─Terrible terrible news. But I don't blame Tribune, I blame FCC. So sad & unfair that the FCC killed the Sinclair Broadcast merger with Tribune Media. They absolutely killed it. Would have been a TERRIFIC conservative voice or and of the People. Liberal Fake News NBC and Comcast gets approved, much b...
[18:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tribune Media Withdraws from Sinclair Merger; Sues for $1 Billion - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:31] <exec> 08└─Looks like another of your appointees turned out to be a deep state operative with a time machine!
[18:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tribune Media Withdraws from Sinclair Merger; Sues for $1 Billion - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:33] <exec> 08└─Horrible and very 'cowardly' way to stop the merger. Ajit didn't tell them "no," he sent them to a Judge. So they could spend YEARS in Court. Pathetic! He didn't tell me he would do this. Absolutely did not tell me, not the tiniest hint. People tell me he's Indian. Indian American. Well, he doesn't...
[18:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Report the Most Distant Radio Galaxy Ever Discovered - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:15] <exec> 08└─Space is, as the name implies, largely empty... space.
[18:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:55] <exec> 08└─In case anyone else cares for an actual list of the blocked "news" sites, the source seems to be: https://data.verifiedjoseph.com [verifiedjoseph.com] which is some self proclaimed "activist" in the UK who compiled himself a list. And if my lazy-ass counting is...
[18:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:56] <exec> 08└─The law was announced and came into effect in 2016. However, the EU announced that they would give those holding data on EU citizens would be given time to sort themselves out. Nevertheless, even as the cut off date for the full compliance with the law was reached earlier this year many US companies...
[18:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:58] <exec> 08└─OP is claiming the sites are operating illegally with regards to GDPR - if Europeans can access the sites. From a US standpoint, there is nothing illegal with gathering and selling any and all information about US site visitors. In the US we are simply cattle with valuable data.
[18:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:01] <exec> 08└─What's worse, if we kick him out, is replacement is even worse. Trump is just a stupid, greedy, bigoted traitor. Pence is additionally a religious maniac.
[18:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:56] <exec> 08└─A neighbor joined the Coast Guard during the Vietnam War only to serve in Riverine Patrol in that country. The Coast Guard provided many of the coxswains for the landing craft in WWII. Show a little respect.
[18:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:57] <exec> 08└─And that's the best-case-scenario chapter!
[18:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:00] <exec> 08└─I meant no disrespect - I only pointed out that the Coasties have a carefully maintained legal status, entirely separate from the DoD. They won't want to lose that status, because it would complicate their law enforcement mission. It could even adversely affect their safety and rescue missions if th...
[18:13:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 1173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:27] <exec> 08└─This is true. 10 years ago I took over control of a few systems, including the website, of a medium sized business. I worked with the web developer to remove all images that we couldn't prove we own. That proof had to be that it was available online, with explicit royalty free permissions for others...
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[19:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:06] <exec> 08└─Hololens really captured my attention, but with the price tag I couldn't justify getting it without one o dem "good reasons". I really think AR could be a huge improvement on productivity for me, but I don't know that, so I'm really hesitant to jump in. Shaving $700 off the price sounds really good,...
[19:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:07] <exec> 08└─To clarify why I feel that way, after it came out it became apparent that Google Glass wouldn't solve any sort of real world problem that a cell phone won't. I don't know if the better tech does any better.
[19:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:10] <exec> 08└─CREATOR edition! That makes me feel important! I must dump $2k+ into this RIGHT NOW! Of course there are going to be use cases, but mostly this is just a toy. When you can have a seemingly regular pair of glasses, or close enough, powered by your mobile then this is going nowhere. Hololens was bulky...
[19:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:26] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer to have to charge or replace devices' batteries far more often so that they can run high-grade encryption?
[19:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer to have the option of buying a device where I get to make that choice. And as long as we're talking about battery life, get rid of the stupid touch-screen and the google adware and your time between charge will go down dramatically.
[19:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─Uh, I hate to break this to you, but there's been plenty NSA code in the Linux kernel for years. https://access.redhat.com [redhat.com] Thankfully it looks like Spec will be just another module, so we can...
[19:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:32] <exec> 08└─where are the links for the claims of harassment and bullying? this community should be sure to disseminate that info or else we are being derelict in our duties as we should know from the aaron swartz travesty that if the NSA is anything like the seditious pigs at the FBI they aren't above bullying...
[19:10:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─CCD continues only slightly abated, and honey bee populations have not recovered, but "africanized honeybees" do not do the useful things honeybees do. Nor have they been affected by CCD.
[19:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─if a lack of insects is a problem
[19:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:12] <exec> 08└─Does the dictionary say that sharing means you have to pay to use the something? Seems more like rent is the word you're looking for.
[19:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Report the Most Distant Radio Galaxy Ever Discovered - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:25] <exec> 08└─"Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space."
[19:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:09] <exec> 08└─First sentence of the summary says that European visitors are blocked. The website operators are doing the blocking. That's the gist of the story. We all know that blocks can be circumvented. That doesn't mean the site operators aren't making a good-faith effort. Where's the evidence that they're no...
[19:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:10] <exec> 08└─Did MSNBC report that? It's in the record too; the judge pointed it out. The dude was seriously crying because his case against Manafort is a failing mess. Here it is, highlighted: https://threadreaderapp.com [threadreaderapp.com] (search for one of: tears, watery, cr...
[19:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:12] <exec> 08└─"Because it seems quite strange to us in the rest of the world that US citizens view the abuse of their personal data as something that they have to accept and is entirely normal. " europeans: the original patronizing yankees. yes, we have a certain unfortunate percentage of ignorant bleeting sheopl...
[19:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:15] <exec> 08└─we can't have bad coverage of the greater israel project, courtesy of the war on terror and 9/11.
[19:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:09] <exec> 08└─That's what they always say. It was only a few years between an AI (pre-machine learning advances) beating a Go player with a significant handicap to beating a low dan Go player evenly, then a few month to beating the best human player. Especially with machine learning, AI has been shown to improve...
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[20:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:02] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants a puck-computer they have to wear unless they are already wearing a lot of equipment (e.g. military). So more computing power needs to be miniaturized with lower power consumption, which may be possible on upcoming 7nm, 5, 3, 2.5, 1.5 [semiengineering.com], etc. nodes. Connecting to a p...
[20:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:04] <exec> 08└─Easier than some mixed lens stuff, just use a camera on a VR headset to display "reality" on the screen.
[20:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:06] <exec> 08└─I don't think your use cases: coding, web browsing, watching videos, ugh spreadsheets
[20:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 2770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:08] <exec> 08└─It's a product for developers, who could make their money back by writing software for it, and early adopters, who have money to blow on an inferior Gen. 1 product. There could be plenty of use cases for it, but it probably has to exist for a while before we see any killer apps. I'd point to stuff a...
[20:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:11] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, yeah. On the other hand, there's something Orwellian there that makes me feel like I'd go mad if I were a nurse. Being micromanaged by an algorithm all the time sounds exhausting.
[20:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:13] <exec> 08└─I was just in a hospital. They already do it, but with a computer that they have to go back to repeatedly. And they have to scan the patient's armband and ask them their name and DOB every time they give drugs. They can call other personnel with a voice-activated device. They also had a low-tech whi...
[20:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:15] <exec> 08└─I'm aware of that, but I'm not convinced it's the best long-term solution (10+ years from now). You don't have to deal with the latency added by the camera if you can just let in light from outside. And it's possible that we could come up with something that looks pretty much like normal glasses in...
[20:09:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 857 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:24] <exec> 08└─It's not the actual algorithm that NSA cares about. They don't even care about getting their algorithm into the kernel. What NSA wants is to get their implementation of anything complex into the kernel. Large complex and obscure code is a great place to hide exploits. Even if it is not in the initia...
[20:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:37] <exec> 08└─Even if your false equivalence was accurate, the answer would be a resounding yes.
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:39] <exec> 08└─He may be just saying, but he's saying it about the NSA. They deserve absolutely zero trust, and extreme suspicion for any of their activities. It's like saying that some guy likely wants to abuse a child for X reason, and you point out the hearsay and lack of evidence while completely ignoring that...
[20:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─SELinux has been around for quite awhile now. Countless people have evaluated it, some quite rigorously, others less so. To date, SELinux has passed muster with just about everyone. And, all of that has nothing to do with the fact that government in general, and the NSA in particular, abhor privacy...
[20:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:43] <exec> 08└─That may be the wrong question. If this particular encryption is widely accepted for phones and other devices with limited power - then people are going to assume that it must be pretty good encryption. These encryption standards will then be adopted for use pretty much everywhere. The exceptions wi...
[20:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:45] <exec> 08└─I just looked up the AES speed of an STM32. Found measurements of a 50 MHz ARM Cortex M3 for one implementation: https://realtimelogic.com [realtimelogic.com] Between 250 (slowest mode) and 750 (fastest mode) KB/sec. That's the baseline of the cheapest CPU available for...
[20:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─Hi, rest of the world here. Fuck you and go vote for someone who's neither D nor R if you want change. The NSA at least has the courtesy to call their good chums at GCHQ to do the actual spying on you Murricans, because of your inalienable rights. These are magically invalid for the rest of the worl...
[20:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─> SELinux has been around for quite awhile now. Countless people have evaluated it, some quite rigorously, > others less so. To date, SELinux has passed muster with just about everyone. Don't you know that the Illuminati Masons - Lizard Branch arranged for all those people to lie to you about the ba...
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─The many eyes argument died with Heartbleed.
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─Seems simple enough to switch out the NSA module for people who aren't using the Google products that depend on it. All in all, this feels to me like putting a page with a giant swastika on it into the Talmud... harmless, even if it is offensive.
[20:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─LOL you Murricans are so funny with your "defense" talk. There is about one thing in your country that is defensive: nuclear bombs. A shiv is about as defensive as a stealth bomber. It's OK to be a stabby psychopath, most world leaders would qualify. Human nature. But don't try to pretend to be the...
[20:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:40] <exec> 08└─Just like St. Reagan before him, Trump! Trump! Trump! will be here for 6 more years. :-(
[20:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:41] <exec> 08└─Funny you should say that. BEHOLD: It Must Not Happen Here [warplife.com] While a work in progress it's far enough along that you should be able to see where I'm going with it.
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:43] <exec> 08└─Why not one of these? [amazon.com]
[20:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tribune Media Withdraws from Sinclair Merger; Sues for $1 Billion - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:09] <exec> 08└─Is that like TRONC? Well let me as a European say: good riddance! Trollplon[c].
[20:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did CRISPR Really Fix a Genetic Mutation in These Human Embryos? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:24] <exec> 08└─Anticlimactic sonofabitch.
[20:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:45] <exec> 08└─Does the dictionary say you have not to pay when you share? What about sharing the cost?
[20:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Report the Most Distant Radio Galaxy Ever Discovered - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:59] <exec> 08└─And you thought regular geeks could spend an eternity without interacting with anyone ...
[20:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:48] <exec> 08└─i go out of my way to protect privacy in my applications. they only require data that is needed for basic functionality or any opt-in functionality. like email and username required for ;login and password reset, plus any data needed if you choose to use optional features. from my reading of the GDP...
[20:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:49] <exec> 08└─UID 6614! UID 6614! UID 6614!
[20:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:51] <exec> 08└─How does a US based site operate illegally in another country?
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:28] <exec> 08└─photographers who wish to enforce this are basically just slaveware peddlers. they could get paid once by a party to take some pictures, but that's not good enough for these masonic fuckers. they just want to take one picture then get paid for every copy forever. fuck them and their stupid pictures.
[20:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─the people behind the flagging claimed ownership, but were too fucking stupid to realize they were going after all the legal users as well as the IP infringers.
[20:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─Schools already have an exception for educational usage. They do not have an exception for marketing usage, which was the purpose of the website.
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court: No, You Can't Steal Images From Other Websites, Even if You Are a Schoolchild - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─No you moran. It's not "stealing". It's "unauthorized use" which magically becomes "fair use" when you do it for education, which is why this verdict is a farce.
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[21:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Botnet of Smart Irrigation Systems Can Deplete a City's Water Supply - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:03] <exec> 08└─Whenever there is a flooding situation, just botnet all the sprinklers in the area and drain the flooded area: problem solved. ... ... ... Right?
[21:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─Your cheap jab at "conspiracy theorists" is misplaced. Snowden docs proved that "conspiracy theories" about the NSA were not just true, but that reality was worse than some of the wildest speculations. Are you asserting that underhanded code hidden in something as large and complex as SELinux would...
[21:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:51] <exec> 08└─time between charge will go down
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─Come on Runaway, no-one uses ROT13 anymore, we all went digital and use XOR 0xFF instead.
[21:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:56] <exec> 08└─As was once said; "Your only paranoid if they are NOT out to get you". As we have seen lately the NSA and other TLAs seem Hells bent on getting everyone they can, so unless you also think the door knobs or "Welcome" mats are out to get you as well you are most definitely not paranoid. You've jus...
[21:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─Also, it is not uncommon for SoC to have AES hardware engine for offloading encryption.
[21:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:16] <exec> 08└─LOL you Murricans
[21:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:18] <exec> 08└─Shivs aren't even often used for killing - most people in prison will get out eventually and don't want murder charges. People get "poked" in retalition, as a lesson, or in self-defense, but most don't die, it just hurts and leaves some nasty scars. Prison stuff is pretty much all rituals for establ...
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─Here's one of the best known examples of how un-funny it is: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:49] <exec> 08└─Or make your own crickets. https://www.jameco.com [jameco.com]
[21:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:50] <exec> 08└─I did. You are aware that killer bees still pollinate right? They're not supernatural killer insects that don't eat anything but humans.
[21:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─Yup, but for now, it might have been a handicap for the real players. Makes you wonder if there will be any South Koreans earning the six figure incomes in the future when they can be easily beat by a program. I'd be looking for a new job if i were them.
[21:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:25] <exec> 08└─Just in case anyone else happens to read this -- I apologize for the tone of my post. It was late, I was tired. And bad science really annoys me, particularly when data is manipulated by people claiming to be math educators. But everything I said seems to be true of their study. Disappointing.
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[22:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:10] <exec> 08└─Theres no requirement to use this feature.
[22:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:11] <exec> 08└─Look, I know this place is all anti big-brother like I am, but you are doing work. Most normal people can survive 8 hours a day without jacking off or smoking dope. Nobody who is guaranteed to be paid using this platform should be bitching about this. Every employer and their grandma has multiple "n...
[22:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:13] <exec> 08└─Who are you and what have you done with the real Eth? (And whatever it is, *please* tell me it's permanent...)
[22:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:16] <exec> 08└─[Upwork] counts keystrokes to measure how "productive" [freelancers] are and takes screenshots of their computer screens to determine whether they're actually doing the work they say they're doing.
[22:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Botnet of Smart Irrigation Systems Can Deplete a City's Water Supply - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:24] <exec> 08└─Okay. Here's what happened. researchers [found exploits for] smart irrigation systems, which enable attackers to remotely turn watering systems on and off...
[22:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:41] <exec> 08└─So true. And you can tweak reality before presenting it to the user. As a bonus, it bypasses the inevitable patents and licensing fees this new magic thingie has.
[22:10:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 1531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:04] <exec> 08└─He may be just saying, but he's saying it about the NSA. They deserve absolutely zero trust, and extreme suspicion for any of their activities. It's like saying that some guy likely wants to abuse a child for X reason, and you point out the hearsay and lack of evidence while completely ignoring that...
[22:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:18] <exec> 08└─What a sad, sad deluded individual you are. You live in a bubble that you think you represent the rest of Americans. Take your own advice.
[22:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 2099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:41] <exec> 08└─You really don't understand, do you? A "defensive" weapon is meant to deter. Something like mace is a defensive weapon. Someone comes at you with a knife, you pull out and point your mace, they will think twice about getting their eyes stung out for hours and likely leave you be. I'll give you that...
[22:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:13] <exec> 08└─I was just noticing how there seemed to be more crickets and insects in general around.
[22:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:14] <exec> 08└─Still a better movie than The Meg
[22:11:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06CVS Partners with Teladoc Health to Offer Virtual Clinic Appointments - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:24] <exec> 08└─With virtual visits, known in the industry as telehealth or telemedicine, CVS can reach people who may not be able to visit [a location in person].
[22:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:18] <exec> 08└─Some have operations in many countries even if their primary point of presence is in the U.S. Which means transnationals now operate under an increasing disadvantage of having to obey the union set of every insane law in every jurisdiction they have a presence in. Great for giving a boost to smaller...
[22:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The OpenAI Dota 2 Bots Defeated a Team of Former Pros - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:21] <exec> 08└─Understanding women? That's a game i regularly fail at, but like a trooper i get back up, dust myself off and try try try. I love my wife, but she DOES NOT come from the planet Vulcan.
[22:15:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:29] <exec> 08└─The real donald trump didn't write that, not once does it complain about immigrants, liberals, or the investigation into his and his family activities.
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[23:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:07] <exec> 08└─That's just horse shit. They are being paid by the "gig", not by the "hour".
[23:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:09] <exec> 08└─Depends on the job and description of work. Sometimes I work on producing an object, device or program, other times I am monitoring or testing and the time put in applies directly to payment. I think it would be simple enough to macro or script mouse movements, clicks and some random keystrokes with...
[23:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:11] <exec> 08└─Eh fuck off with that. Grinding people into dust is a big problem, otherwise they wouldnt need suicide nets outside the worst places. Having your every action monitored is a recipe for mental disorders. But go ahead, trot out that bullshit rationale. Better method: have competent managers who can ev...
[23:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:13] <exec> 08└─Well I don't jerk it at work, but I do spend a lot of time here... Probably too much. This place keeps me from hating my job.
[23:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:16] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? This is 100% in character for him except that it is probably too early in the day for him to be drunk so he didn't have that urge to embed his usual racist crap. Maybe this is just one of his actually serious postings, and of course it still has some latent rage against dope smoking...
[23:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:18] <exec> 08└─If you shoulder the financial risk yourself then you're a contractor. I toyed around a little bit with Upwork. Most of the "gigs" I expect would work well for someone who actually lived in a developing company. I found a contract that paid reasonably well but the client wasn't willing to pay for pre...
[23:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:20] <exec> 08└─Just now I stepped out for a blowjob from a complete stranger through a Glory Hole. No jacking off whatsoever. I'll be back to coding once I'm done checking SN.
[23:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:23] <exec> 08└─If they want to succeed in Korea that's where the camera should be pointed.
[23:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:25] <exec> 08└─Don't tell me you've gotten the S U C C while reading SoylentNews. Srsly. Don't.
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:27] <exec> 08└─Parent is topical AF, good job. https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[23:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:29] <exec> 08└─EF is a very obvious troll and if you take him seriously, then you are the only moron here.
[23:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Upwork's "Creepy" Time-Tracking Software is Like Having Your Boss Watch You Every Second - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:32] <exec> 08└─EF - When just looking stupid isn't enough.
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Botnet of Smart Irrigation Systems Can Deplete a City's Water Supply - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─The botnet is a cloud of IoT devices using swarm technology and machine learning to revolutionize token-based security systems secured using blockchain technology. Wait, are you saying it's just a light-switch for water. I like my line better.
[23:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:00] <exec> 08└─I really think AR could be a huge improvement on productivity for me
[23:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─after it came out it became apparent that Google Glass wouldn't solve any sort of real world problem that a cell phone won't.
[23:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic Leap Opens Up Orders for $2,295 "Creator Edition" Augmented Reality Headset - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:04] <exec> 08└─latency added by the camera
[23:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:41] <exec> 08└─go vote for someone who's neither D nor R if you want change. BTW please tell your non-D or R rep you want the NSA to take the FBI and DEA with them on the way out.
[23:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:43] <exec> 08└─Funny how we can agree here while stabbing each others with shivs in that other discussion. Ah, the joys of AC :)
[23:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:45] <exec> 08└─And, all of that has nothing to do with the fact that government in general, and the NSA in particular, abhor privacy and secrecy among the population at large. Privacy and secrecy are only for government, and for a small number of elite individuals.
[23:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:47] <exec> 08└─When you're right, you're right; I'd agree with you here even if both threads were under your name. I was serious in thanking you for your cultural perspective.
[23:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA’s Encryption Algorithm in Linux Kernel is Creating Unease in the Community - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:50] <exec> 08└─did someone say buttes?
[23:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SN: Hacking Ex-Correctional Facility Monitors - SLTV-1519AP-3S - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:13] <exec> 08└─Prison stuff is pretty much all rituals for establishing dominance
[23:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:47] <exec> 08└─Same here. Wrong week for that news, as we're essentially cheering for the birds, lizards and black widows to do their job and eat faster. Darn crickets everywhere for the last few days (here and now, average people's own mileage will unquestionably be more typical)
[23:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:49] <exec> 08└─Pesticide use is important. Large monoculture fields are also important. Many insects can only eat a certain range of foods, or only live in a certain range of habitats. And if it's habitat that's most important, that explains why cockroaches are doing well. P.S.: Mosquitoes could be a crucial gener...
[23:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:51] <exec> 08└─Same here. Difference between here and Europe is muslim immigrants. Probably the muzzies are eating crickets to build up strength for the jihad.
[23:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:53] <exec> 08└─Already read it, sorry to ruin your showmanship flair :P I guess it just pairs well with the uneducated troglodytes who value money and profit over everything and have zero clue how fragile the ecosystem really is. Like the one old fart I talked to who likened CO2 emissions to dog poop on the lawn....
[23:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why The Summer Sound Of Noisy Crickets Is Growing Fainter - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:56] <exec> 08└─I grill those hoppers up in a a veggie/insect hybrid burger. Such mileage, much flavor.
[23:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Did CRISPR Really Fix a Genetic Mutation in These Human Embryos? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:36] <exec> 08└─Using your logic, we're a generation away from a negro-free Anerica?
[23:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Wave Of Satellites In Orbit: Cheap And Tiny, With Short Lifespans - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:58] <exec> 08└─MDC, really... write a book about your life. I'd be interested, there seems to be a lot of interesting shit going on :D
[23:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of US News Sites Unavailable in Europe Two Months After GDPR - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:04] <exec> 08└─Right to be forgotten may primarily have been used by unscrupulous people trying to cover up their past misdeeds (...)
[23:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Vice President Pence Details Plan to Establish a Space Force by 2020 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─...noone can hear me fart. Here, let me show you: *prrrffffft* *pffffffrrrrrrrrt* *pffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt* See?
[23:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:48] <exec> 08└─Has anybody actually verified that he actually was the author of that tweet? It may have been his account, but it's twitter. How secure could his account possibly be? Sufficed to say that sources like Arstechnica are using the opportunity to fling poo. But since their corporate owned by a media comp...
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