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[00:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New, Highly Effective And Selective Molecule To Fight Malaria - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:05] <exec> 08└─They claim it is an antimalarisl, but perhaps the molecule induces immortality in mice?
[00:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New, Highly Effective And Selective Molecule To Fight Malaria - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:07] <exec> 08└─Two liters of tonic water a day keep the malaria away.
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─There's very little chance of this passing, as the Australian Senate is not controlled by the current government. This is pretty much just the current ruling coalition pandering to a weird, authoritarian wing of their own base. I work for a massive US-owned multinational with extensive manufacturi...
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─These sort of schemes fall under mutual authentication. Best known example is kerberos. Some blockchain designs are there explicitly to further decentralize such ticketing servers. Most self-destructing messages are implemented in a similar way.
[00:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:48] <exec> 08└─Can we call this 'Turtle encryption'?
[00:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:50] <exec> 08└─Two somewhat recent things have caused crime to shoot way up
[00:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not worried yet. The moment Apple tells the Government that they won't be complying, and would have to pull out of the country, will be the moment the politicians realise they would be voted into oblivion and the plan is DOA.
[00:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:54] <exec> 08└─I would have said "based on the power block" rather than "based on the state". And the results aren't really the same.
[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah. And Trump never had a chance, and neither did BREXIT.
[00:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:23] <exec> 08└─Since Macs comprise something of like 5% of the PC market, I'm not sure how Apple doing this would undermine anyone's market.
[00:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:24] <exec> 08└─Apple's money doesn't come from advertising. It comes from selling products to its customers, not selling its customers to marketers. Now that Apple is using this as a differentiator in the market, there is a disincentive for Apple to track their users in the way that FB and Google do. See also: App...
[00:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Def Con 26 Voting Village Sees an 11-Year-Old Crack a Voting Machine - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:27] <exec> 08└─It's hard not to see it that way. You get money from the ATM, you get a receipt. You buy gas, you get a receipt. You buy a single glazed donut, you get a receipt. Vote on the leader of the free world for the next 4 years? You get a sticker that says you voted.
[00:12:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fishybell [3156] 02 - 06mRNA Methylation: A Novel Mechanistic Link Between Stress Regulation and Psychiatric Disorders - 636 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:22] <exec> 08└─As someone who takes psychiatric medication, let me just say this: I would have loved if someone had told me to take these drugs. They completely changed my life, in the best of ways. Instead I had to find figure it out on my own, which meant I was unmedicated from the onset of symptoms in my early...
[00:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06mRNA Methylation: A Novel Mechanistic Link Between Stress Regulation and Psychiatric Disorders - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:25] <exec> 08└─And this is the message I am (so far) failing to deliver to my 22 year old son who is experiencing mania, psychosis, paranoia and dis-associative thinking. Diagnosed as schizotypal at a young age, he had a nine month course of very low dose anti-psychotic drugs at 18 and they proved very effective a...
[00:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Passes Blame Over Lying About Public Comment System Being DDoSed - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:08] <exec> 08└─Remember, "it's just a goddamn piece of paper." I'm told Dubya didn't actually say that, but the poor thing's covered in chimpanzee shit stains, and actions speak louder than words...
[00:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Passes Blame Over Lying About Public Comment System Being DDoSed - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:10] <exec> 08└─Here's a rather mind-numbing list for anyone who's counting: https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
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[01:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:00] <exec> 08└─There has been an explosion of "disability". Most of this is fake. For tests, it gets people more time and food. Hey, I want that too! Be fair now. Can I haz disable? Outside college admissions, it has become the new welfare. Lots of people (my brother even -- this shit is real) are claiming disabil...
[01:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:01] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the overlap between SAT and ACT isn't too large. You take one or the other (probably for free/paid for by the state) depending on the region you're in (ie, which one bribes the education people in your state), and pretty much every school accepts both.
[01:09:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:32] <exec> 08└─The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. — H. L. Mencken
[01:09:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:38] <exec> 08└─You forgot that pesky little $50k for individuals caught using end-to-end encryption. The corporations aren't exactly absolved of liability either. Since they chose end-to-end encryption, it will still be on them to provide the cops access. Saying they don't have the keys will not be a defense. The...
[01:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─The claim TFS doesn't seem to match the bill itself. Reading through it, all it is proposing is companies that have the ability to decrypt must assist law enforcement. There was an explicit paragraph that states it is not about making companies design back-doors into their solutions, i.e. design new...
[01:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:56] <exec> 08└─Neither of which happened in Australia.
[01:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:59] <exec> 08└─Australia's promised “not-a-backdoor” crypto-busting bill is out
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:01] <exec> 08└─let us be aware that Oz law has little in common with US law.
[01:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:07] <exec> 08└─SC?
[01:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:08] <exec> 08└─Scientists do all the hardwork, and publishers are just there to profit. Heck scientists even have to pay to reach more readers. And scientist also do the difficult reviews, for free. Considering how difficult research is, publishers are just those "smart" greedy bastards taking advantage of scienti...
[01:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigating Global Air Pollution - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:29] <exec> 08└─I used to come to SoylentNews for the comments. Then I kept coming to SoylentNews for the People. But then I found SoylentGreen, and it was not people. So now I hardly ever come to SoylentNews. Anymore.
[01:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google May Allow Windows 10 to Dual-Boot or Run Alongside ChromeOS on Chromebooks - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:09] <exec> 08└─Started with an Acer Chromebook 15" CB5-571. Upgraded the firmware to avoid boot warning with "press space to erase": https://mrchromebox.tech [mrchromebox.tech] Upgraded with: ZTC 128GB Armor 42mm M.2 NGFF 6G SSD Solid State Drive. Model ZTC-SM201-128G. Installed GalliumOS. https://galliumos.org
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[02:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New, Highly Effective And Selective Molecule To Fight Malaria - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:22] <exec> 08└─wasn't the Gates Foundation working on malaria? If my memory is correct, then this must be fake news...if Bill Gates is doing it, no one else is allowed to compete...
[02:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:38] <exec> 08└─Apple will defeat browser fingerprinting by making all Mac users look alike
[02:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:39] <exec> 08└─That's not evidence - that's reasoning. Sound perhaps, but still not evidence. And we are talking about one of the very few tech companies in the world that has actively fought government spying on citizens, rather than bending over backwards to make it easier for them like most do. And yes - it wou...
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[03:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:30] <exec> 08└─The real test is the SAT. The ACT is just the blue collar mass-marketed test being sold to suckers.
[03:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─Are you so stupid you cannot figure out that this is because the elites keep tightening the screws on the working class, who are collectively capable of doing something about it but too lazy to. There is your proof that the working class is lazy. Every. Single. Fucking. Number continues to show that...
[03:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─I knew which school I wanted. It took both. ACT was half the price. So I took the ACT had enough to get in. Done. Would do it again.
[03:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─Genuine question here - do your scores in High School count _at all_ toward your college entry? Or is it entirely based on your SAT/ACT score? In other words, would you potentially be able to coast through High School on straight D's, then ace the SAT and end up in a good college? I ask because my c...
[03:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─Well this was 25 years ago. So at the time it was the score and HS plus a battery of tests. The tests were to see which level of math/English you plugged into. This was also when getting a 1600 on the SAT or 35 on ACT meant you could write your ticket to any college. Think they wildly changed the sc...
[03:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New, Highly Effective And Selective Molecule To Fight Malaria - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:49] <exec> 08└─Big money promised, ota of projects.. http://fortune.com [fortune.com] https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[03:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New, Highly Effective And Selective Molecule To Fight Malaria - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:51] <exec> 08└─ota = ???
[03:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:39] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, child rape is way up.
[03:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:41] <exec> 08└─Citation?
[03:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:43] <exec> 08└─Crime? As I keep saying, Authoritarianism is the new black. Governments and the media are spreading the fear that makes a large percentage of the populace want it.
[03:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:14] <exec> 08└─Every other font that a document wants to use needs to be supplied as a downloadable woff?
[03:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google May Allow Windows 10 to Dual-Boot or Run Alongside ChromeOS on Chromebooks - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:00] <exec> 08└─Embrace, extend and extinguish. Nice move Google! Why buy a Win10 laptop when you can buy a ChromeOS and Win10 laptop. Hopefully overtime one sees the light and stops booting to win10/11/12 Talk about weaning off thy sucketh tits! Well played!
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[04:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe the next rover can have a spring loaded wiper it sets before power runs out that brushes the dust off when the sun returns.
[04:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03noirmaru [6701] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:12] <exec> 08└─those NASA dust storms are the worst
[04:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:15] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to picture that, and I can't decide if it's absolute genius, or completely stupid. Maybe it's both.
[04:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:17] <exec> 08└─our tax dollars at work!
[04:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:26] <exec> 08└─When I saw this pop up I predicted this exact thing. https://github.com [github.com] Intel and AMD should have already been doing this years ago. Most of what I am seeing is the exact same mistakes the software guys have been working around for years. Buffer overflows and und...
[04:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:40] <exec> 08└─...thought this would be a story about Canberra. Am disappointed.
[04:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:44] <exec> 08└─The moment Apple tells the Government that they won't be complying, and would have to pull out of the country...
[04:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:46] <exec> 08└─A hole is a hole. And if there is a hole it can be used to fuck you. I don't trust any government to have security professionals and protocols sufficiently good to be able to keep any backdoor a secret for long.
[04:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:48] <exec> 08└─USA got Trump after multiple "will not win there", "will not win here" and the final "will not win against Hilary" or "electoral college was created to avoid clowns like this". Great Britain got Brexit from a consultive referendum that was pretty close and with fuzzy conditions (and lies, we learnt...
[04:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:50] <exec> 08└─In real life cases like this officers continue to interrogate you even if you opened everything as there is no poof that you did it. Using an encryption system where one can not prove that he gave up all the layers may become very unpleasant.
[04:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:53] <exec> 08└─Most serious businesses are back-doored already anyway. They can not risk scenario "our admin lost the password so we are out of business". Hence the logic "why Joe should be more secure?".
[04:11:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 1041 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:14] <exec> 08└─Others have already asked for citations about Apple tracking it's users. I don't know - I've never heard of it. I've avoided Apple products, primarily because they are expensive compared to comparable stuff. But - Apple recently stood up to Gubbermint over the case of the Inland shooter. The G-men s...
[04:11:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:17] <exec> 08└─127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
[04:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06mRNA Methylation: A Novel Mechanistic Link Between Stress Regulation and Psychiatric Disorders - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:17] <exec> 08└─> I would give anything to be able to get his head around your very experience fishybell. Seconded. My sister tried stopping her meds a few times in her 20s, when she was feeling pretty normal, but each time descended into a dark place. The last time she was nearly catatonic for a month, didn't talk...
[04:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google May Allow Windows 10 to Dual-Boot or Run Alongside ChromeOS on Chromebooks - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:08] <exec> 08└─"Back to the topic: Maybe it would be possible to run React OS in a VM in the same way that Crostini will run a Linux in a VM sandbox" Might be possible but it's not really the right application. For most things where you might want a VM running windows or ReactOS you would be better off to use WINE...
[04:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPS Satellite Essential to Space Force Has Been Delayed Again - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:27] <exec> 08└─Just to complete our pointed star chart. The 4-pointed star is associated with Ninjas who are neither good or bad but can also be good or bad.
[04:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Passes Blame Over Lying About Public Comment System Being DDoSed - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:07] <exec> 08└─Umm... so you use popularity contest as a measure of an administration's success? A bit juvenile don't you think? Why don't you use things like body count, violations of human rights, economic & social impact to its citizens, etc.? That dumb kid might just surprise you if you hold an open unprejudic...
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[05:09:20] <exec> 08└─Very reliable, always work, guaranteed to fix all routers...
[05:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder if another season of winds could bring it back online. If there wasn't enough wind or, it was blowing too much dust this year, would next year possibly bring it back? Or would it be offline for too long and never be able to come back? I don't know very much about the engineering of the elec...
[05:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:31] <exec> 08└─The problem is it's unfree, heck, positively opaque. Who knows how many other bugs are waiting to be discovered?
[05:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:47] <exec> 08└─Depends on the college. There's no general standard. Most colleges will look at both. But high school standards can vary widely, hence the "standardized" score offered by SAT or ACT. Many big colleges with overall high acceptance rate will sometimes have a minimum of X score on SAT/ACT *or* minimum...
[05:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover Supermassive Black Hole In An Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxy - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:10] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/OgvLej8ln2w [youtu.be]
[05:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:55] <exec> 08└─There's very little chance of this passing, as the Australian Senate is not controlled by the current government.
[05:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:07] <exec> 08└─Research is financed by grants and universities take a sizable chunk of it for the "services". That's where money come from. BTW, scientists have no word whatsoever in determining how much they have to "share". However, they are expected to find the grants themselves and may be punished for under-pe...
[05:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:08] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan [wikipedia.org] She was 22 when she did it. I am also surprised she has not been labeled Russian Enemy of the Democracy and Free American People (not yet anyway, but check her biography).
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[06:09:25] <exec> 08└─Multithreaded code may well be Rocket Science, but are we not Rocket Scientists?
[06:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:26] <exec> 08└─Software developers are indeed a danger to society.
[06:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:43] <exec> 08└─My high school GPA was 3.6. The valedictorian of the other high school in my town didn't even get interviewed. The reason I got such low grades was that I regarded most of my high school classes to be a complete waste of my valuable time. Instead, I was heavily into the theatre. I was a very poor ac...
[06:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New, Highly Effective And Selective Molecule To Fight Malaria - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:56] <exec> 08└─ota .. hmm. "lots" On-screen keyboards on tablets suck. Sorry.
[06:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:26] <exec> 08└─Mozilla has been doing a bit in this direction for a while. E.g. accepting anti-fingerprinting patches from the Tor project (Tor's "uplift" project to get as much of Tor browser into upstream Firefox as they can).
[06:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Def Con 26 Voting Village Sees an 11-Year-Old Crack a Voting Machine - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:23] <exec> 08└─WE MADE IT, WE'RE MAINSTREAM MEDIA NOW! \o/
[06:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:12] <exec> 08└─She also deserves to pay the $20 million in judgments levied against SciHub. Including the $5 million that was awarded by default because she didn't feel a need to respond to the lawsuit. (Which, anywhere, is regarded as conceding guilt.) She's not Edward Snowden, as much as some people would like t...
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[07:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:22] <exec> 08└─Did they ditch the Bush-loving asshole that was the CEO of Home Despot? He talked down to investors, never a good idea, and fucked over his employees, only sometimes a good idea. But in any case, I never will shop there, given the political orientation of the corporation. Lowe's all the way! Costc...
[07:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tbx6 Revealed As Crucial To Heart And Skeleton Formation From Stem Cells - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:29] <exec> 08└─A mere form of a comment, to be posted by one of more substantial chemistry, and right-wing spermology. Yes, at some point they will prove the superiority of the White Race, and put TMB back on the fucking res. Prairie N******. Opps.
[07:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:42] <exec> 08└─Or it should detect low-visibility dist storms, where the PVs won't harvest much, and just prop the PV panel up vertical, pop out a wind vane on one side, and disconnect drive to it, so it collects no dust. Of course, it relies on a bit of luck to catch the sun again. Maybe it should have a super-lo...
[07:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:44] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. Musk will probably go pick it up himself so he can keep Oppy as a trophy ;)
[07:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 1600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:46] <exec> 08└─It seems like it could work to me, and probably wouldn't weight all that much either - a battery, a bit of electronics, a small motors, carbon fibre supports etc., and the brush/wiper. Keeping some power back in a rechargeable battery for quick brush over the panels once the storm passes might be ab...
[07:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:22] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that it'll happen if Putin wants it to happen?
[07:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:23] <exec> 08└─Using an encryption system where one can not prove that he gave up all the layers may become very unpleasant.
[07:12:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Def Con 26 Voting Village Sees an 11-Year-Old Crack a Voting Machine - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:23] <exec> 08└─While I find electronic voting to be a ludicrous idea and have known the current vendors are security sieves from the start, the headline here is garbage. The 11-year-old hacked a website, not a voting machine (and it wasn't even the real website). Basic mistakes like this are what lost the mainstre...
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[08:09:39] <exec> 08└─Multithreaded code may well be Rocket Science, but are we not Rocket Scientists?
[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:40] <exec> 08└─What got me thinking is how much energy is wasted through this speculative execution? The values do get calculated (costs energy), but discarded afterwards. To me this seems in terms of energy efficiency very poor efficiency. On a single system it might not be much (a few milli-/nanowatts maybe), bu...
[08:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Discover Supermassive Black Hole In An Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it is time for another renormalization of science terms?
[08:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Passes Blame Over Lying About Public Comment System Being DDoSed - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:33] <exec> 08└─The current administration just does the "make the lie believable and unoffensive" part very, very poorly
[08:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kodi Addon Repo Operator Shuts Down Following Threats from BREIN - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:02] <exec> 08└─The first thing it wants me to do is to notice that my library is empty (I don't want a library, I want to see how this program works as a media player, to see if I want to bother with it) and to have me choose a source, which, being a beginner, I have no idea what it is. Kodi assumes that I want to...
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[09:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:58] <exec> 08└─That's not Mark Watney, that's Matt Damon, you bastard.
[09:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:59] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they considered a "windshield wiper" type of approach, but the original plans were for Opportunity to last 90 Martian sols. Since they didn't expect either Opportunity or Spirit to last long enough to become victims of dust storms they probably decided not to add the extra weight.
[09:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:02] <exec> 08└─I wonder if another season of winds could bring it back online.
[09:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe the next rover will have a "repair rovers tool kit". It makes sense to, if you are serially sending rovers to same celestial body, also send along one to do the maintenance of all of the other ones. A rover brought back on line is like a new rover sent, only less expensive (and with no risk of...
[09:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:50] <exec> 08└─Given that Australian law trumps the laws of mathematics
[09:13:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Def Con 26 Voting Village Sees an 11-Year-Old Crack a Voting Machine - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:05] <exec> 08└─The way you will buy them is because the state, in cooperation with the feds, is going to offer a program of free money for your county elections board to buy these machines. No one is going to refuse free money. Democrats wanted to give them money to buy machines with paper trails. Republicans, of...
[09:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:06] <exec> 08└─Perhaps Google should? ... but make profit Google style. There's already Google Scholar which is a foot in the door. They have the name and reputation, the prestige, so they wouldn't look like those obscure, questionable publishing names. They have the budget and resources. The question is whether t...
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[09:14:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry, SH. Yes, written too late at night.
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[10:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:06] <exec> 08└─chip manufaturer Chip testing Firmware - possibly from different sources, for different bits of hardware Carrier firmware/apps Any one of these could introduce vulnerabilities. Trust? Pray?
[10:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:08] <exec> 08└─Cry. Resign. Drink. Laugh.
[10:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack Causes Pacemakers to Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:17] <exec> 08└─Nice to see people picking up the mantle. The last time I remember this being raised was back in 2012 by Barnaby Jack who then died under suspicious circumstances just before he had chance to present at Defcon 2013.
[10:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack Causes Pacemakers to Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:19] <exec> 08└─Sure, encrypting the firmware and requiring HTTPS seems like a no-brainer, but as per the relevant XKCD (https://xkcd.com/1958/) why do you need to hack someone's pacemaker to murder them? What scenario are people envisaging where this is the best method of murdering someone? So the murder weapon be...
[10:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack Causes Pacemakers to Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:21] <exec> 08└─Extortion.. Kill one or two, ask for money or btc from a few others..
[10:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack Causes Pacemakers to Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:24] <exec> 08└─We've covered this topic extensively: A Doctor Trying to Save Medical Devices from Hackers [soylentnews.org] Security Researcher Hacks Her Own Pacemaker [soylentnews.org] Updated: University of Michigan Says Flaws That MedSec Reported Aren't That Serious [soylentnews.org] Fatal Flaws in Ten Pacemake...
[10:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack Causes Pacemakers to Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:26] <exec> 08└─If someone wants to kill someone who is fitted with a pacemaker, is installing a malicious firmware update really the best way to do it?
[10:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:14] <exec> 08└─Seems to be quickly becoming clear you can have caching or you can have speculative execution but it is proving to be all but impossible to have both.
[10:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pD-brane [6728] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:47] <exec> 08└─We can keep on using secure encryption for the wrong reasons. But at least we can keep on using secure encryption.
[10:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:21] <exec> 08└─127.0.0.1? How about using 0.0.0.0?
[10:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aboard The ISS, Researchers Investigate Complex Dust Behavior In Plasmas - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:39] <exec> 08└─Translation: Researchers aboard the ISS have nothing better to do than watch dust.
[10:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Def Con 26 Voting Village Sees an 11-Year-Old Crack a Voting Machine - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:19] <exec> 08└─RTFS. The kids were all hacking into replicas, not live government-run servers.
[10:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:12] <exec> 08└─OK, trolls gotta eat, so... In other words, the system exists as it is for a reason.
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[11:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sce7mjm [809] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:34] <exec> 08└─A bit like bitcoin?
[11:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:35] <exec> 08└─More like a burning light on a place where nobody is.
[11:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:54] <exec> 08└─Sure, Comrade. Revolution when?
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[11:11:35] <exec> 08└─The more precise way to say it, is that they want key-escrow. The FBI had already proposed this more than a couple of times I think, and tried to get key-escrow made into law. However, it is still a backdoor. That's because Alice and Bob are trying to have a conversation, so Mallory is given copies...
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[12:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:10] <exec> 08└─what would happen is that you would lose your job, because instead of doing your job you're doing the city's job. what you should do is publicize the story (as you are already doing), and tell the city that if they don't have someone doing this for a living, they should. in the sense that you gather...
[12:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:05] <exec> 08└─Plus, the dust is extremely fine and sticks to the panels via electrostatic attraction - a wiper will not remove that dust; it will only grind the glass as it swipes larger particles around.
[12:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:06] <exec> 08└─Or maybe at least one of the engineers at NASA already thought of that, but it had to be rejected for a fairly good reason, like weight concerns, or (as mentioned in a sibling post) the problem that it was tested here on Earth and turned out not to solve the problem.
[12:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, everyone knows that Mars didn't have dust storm problems until government got involved. They screw up everything!
[12:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:29] <exec> 08└─Others have already asked for citations about Apple tracking it's users.
[12:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Def Con 26 Voting Village Sees an 11-Year-Old Crack a Voting Machine - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:29] <exec> 08└─> It is predominantly one side and one side only. Sure, you'll find crooked politicians in both parties, and in some local races you'll find cheating on either side, but when taken as a whole, there is one party that has made cheating a part of its core strategy, and another that has not. And in cas...
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[13:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:59] <exec> 08└─There is certainly someone responsible in city government for doing this work. They just are not doing it.
[13:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:01] <exec> 08└─what would happen is that you would lose your job
[13:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:03] <exec> 08└─> There is certainly someone responsible in city government for doing this work. They just are not doing it. Because if they actually did it like this guy did, they would be fired. You think a 50% reduction in income would make your superiors happy? Quite frankly you would be more successful in gove...
[13:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:05] <exec> 08└─And that, in my humble opinion, is the core of today's problems with govt: we think we can go on living life, trusting that govt. workers are doing their jobs at all, let alone correctly, thoroughly, and to We the People's satisfaction. Right now, loosely through youtube, twitter, facebroke, etc., g...
[13:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:15] <exec> 08└─I'll keep my flip phone, thank you.
[13:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:35] <exec> 08└─There's nothing like a good Aristarchus submission to get the alt-wrong and their sympathisers all worked up into an entertaining tantrum.
[13:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:22] <exec> 08└─Cue speculative blockchain implementation jokes...
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[14:09:08] <exec> 08└─Data-Dependent Hashing via Nonlinear Spectral Gaps [ilyaraz.org] and Hölder Homeomorphisms and Approximate Nearest Neighbors [ilyaraz.org] Happy reading.
[14:09:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 1012 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:18] <exec> 08└─> There is certainly someone responsible in city government for doing this work. They just are not doing it. Because if they actually did it like this guy did, they would be fired. You think a 50% reduction in income would make your superiors happy? Quite frankly you would be more successful in gove...
[14:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:21] <exec> 08└─And that is why I have point #2! Grumbling in the government due to loss of revenue often leads to someone being punished or fired. Power has to be used and protected! From the article it was about $60k/year reduction in revenue. That is a LOT of money someone is no longer pocketing.
[14:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:23] <exec> 08└─You think a 50% reduction in income would make your superiors happy? Quite frankly you would be more successful in government if you found a way to increase ticket revenue (without making it blatant to the public).
[14:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:25] <exec> 08└─Only in Australia - https://www.news.com.au [news.com.au] Take a chill pill and have a kit kat [twitter.com]
[14:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:37] <exec> 08└─We all have root access to our phone. We can just install software to fix these issues or patch whatever is needed. No problem at all. It's just like a PC.
[14:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:29] <exec> 08└─Just need a drunk Martian to come along and piss on it. .....AAANY day now.....
[14:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─How about a small copv and compressor to blow them off? In either case the hard part is reliably activating the device without power and when cold, and after the proper amount of time.
[14:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:24] <exec> 08└─There is no encryption system which can "prove" that you haven't hidden another message in it.
[14:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:00] <exec> 08└─Why? So users of free browsers can get reduced-functionality versions of web applications that limit themselves to the subset of web APIs that Safari supports? Some video hosts whose server software is free software will refuse to serve video to Safari because Safari for macOS and Safari for iOS sup...
[14:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:02] <exec> 08└─For the same reason you lock your car doors when you park it. There's nothing stopping anyone from easily breaking a window but it does make the job of screwing you slightly more difficult. I'm very much in favor of making it as difficult as practically possible to follow my every movement and fuck...
[14:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:04] <exec> 08└─No longer being updated for Palemoon, unfortunately. Doesn't mean it won't work fine for a while but known bugs will absolutely pile up over time.
[14:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google May Allow Windows 10 to Dual-Boot or Run Alongside ChromeOS on Chromebooks - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:01] <exec> 08└─Some Android apps are good. Not all Android apps work best on Chrome OS -- either in a technical sense, or a UI sense. But you can pick and chews which ones you like. For example, computer algebra systems (CAS). Under Linux Xfce on pixelbook I can run wxMaxima. But on Android I also have two paid ap...
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[14:16:02] <exec> 08└─That is a very good explanation. Also a good justification why React OS in a VM is probably less desirable than WINE (probably). I had not realized it before. But big selling point of React OS is probably device drivers. I had been under the impression that it might have better Windows compatibility...
[14:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google May Allow Windows 10 to Dual-Boot or Run Alongside ChromeOS on Chromebooks - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:04] <exec> 08└─Chrome OS is locked down. Yet it offers you "developer mode" to unlock it and not have verified boot. Chromebooks make it very clear, unavoidably clear, at boot time that you are NOT using verified boot.
[14:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google May Allow Windows 10 to Dual-Boot or Run Alongside ChromeOS on Chromebooks - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:06] <exec> 08└─There is one possible reason I can conceivably imagine that I would set up my Pixelbook to dual boot with Windows. But I doubt, in practice, that I will ever do this. Corporate applications. I could run Windows as a dual boot option. Then install all of the corporate crap so I could use my Pixelbook...
[14:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google May Allow Windows 10 to Dual-Boot or Run Alongside ChromeOS on Chromebooks - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:09] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of WINE specifically. I doubt the Android version is the best pick, although I could be wrong, or it could be the best choice for ChromeOS. I'll note that VideoLAN has released no less than THREE versions of VLC that could run on Pixel machines: Linux, Android, and ChromeOS (either re...
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[15:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:11] <exec> 08└─People still ate while reading books. That soy sauce spilled on the text is part of the experience. Oh, just a hair?
[15:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:12] <exec> 08└─I'm more worried about the outhouse stains than the food stains.
[15:09:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:20] <exec> 08└─Data-Dependent Hashing via Nonlinear Spectral Gaps [ilyaraz.org] and Hölder Homeomorphisms and Approximate Nearest Neighbors [ilyaraz.org] Happy reading.
[15:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:23] <exec> 08└─and if not, why not
[15:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:25] <exec> 08└─Why solve when you can buy?
[15:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:27] <exec> 08└─Well, the graph theory version of the problem actually has intractable cases, so-called expander graphs that are both highly connected (you have to remove a lot of vertices or edges to split the graph in two pieces) and with low average degree (most vertices aren’t connected to many others).
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─When I find I'm having too much trouble sorting data sets I just send it all to /dev/null. It may not make the boss too happy but it damn sure relieves my stress, at least until the next job hunt begins. :P
[15:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─Chicago sold off its parking space to private interests for 50 years. If ticket revenue is no longer going to the city, they have no more interest in confusing signage.
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─The person who designs where to put parking signs is not paid by the revenue of parking tickets. Otherwise that would be a bit of a conflict of interest. They are probably just a general civil engineer on the municipality's staff, or a contractor in places with no need for a full time engineer.
[15:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─1. How much more effective has that corner become? 2. Who's grumbling about the loss of revenue? 3. What would happen if more of us did this very thing?
[15:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:51] <exec> 08└─If the confusing signage is impacting residents, they may well vote the people allowing such a situation out. Also, more subtle effects, like in my township, there was a confusingly labeled no-parking spot near a corner. This caused the garbage truck not to be able to get on to the street, meaning g...
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─I enjoy that it is "four-hour parking from 6pm to 10pm", when there are only 4 hours between 6pm and 10pm.
[15:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─> It's just like reporting pot holes, This. I report pot holes in my vicinity, in particular ones along the edge of the road where I bicycle. When they get fixed (usually a week or two, weather depending), I send a short "thanks" email to the guy I've found at the Department of Transportation.
[15:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:25] <exec> 08└─Playing right along with the Home Depot survey results... After 10 years living in our 1960's ranch, we are looking at some major renos. The kitchen was last done in the mid-80s, based on the paperwork left from the original owners and the age of the built-in range/oven. Currently the laundry is in...
[15:10:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:42] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to picture that, and I can't decide if it's absolute genius, or completely stupid. Maybe it's both.
[15:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:58] <exec> 08└─I don't know very much about the engineering of the electrical system. I imagine the batteries would get very cold for very long, would that permanently disable them even if the PVCs started feeding them juice in the future when they get cleaned off?
[15:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:00] <exec> 08└─Air jets would probably be a better idea. Mechanical wipers would accumulate Mars dust. Plus would wiping the dust off cause crashes on the glass of the solar panels, making them increasingly less efficient.
[15:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:02] <exec> 08└─Time to deploy a laser-equipped satellite in orbit around Mars it seems. I'm half serious here. But wouldn't it be possible to set up a satellite with a decent enough laser to either power through or knock off the dust? Would if nothing else be a cool addon (and test the thing about weapons in space...
[15:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:04] <exec> 08└─Frying Rovers since 2020.
[15:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:39] <exec> 08└─There is even a person flying passenger jets with a missing arm, which we know about because an FAA incident report mentions that it fell off while he was operating the plane.
[15:12:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 742 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:15] <exec> 08└─Australia's promised “not-a-backdoor” crypto-busting bill is out and the government has kept its word - it doesn't want a backdoor, just the keys to your front one. Moral of the story: don't do business with any country whose government that requires this. At least until a critical mass do, this...
[15:12:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not worried yet. The moment Apple tells the Government that they won't be complying, and would have to pull out of the country, will be the moment the politicians realise they would be voted into oblivion and the plan is DOA.
[15:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:59] <exec> 08└─I dont understand why the burden is placed on manufacturers. just ask the person owning the data to decrypt it(*). related, were technical limitations in old-skool safe construction also governed by the law? probably this is bankrolled by some for-profit-no-service OS manufacturer. testing the idea,...
[15:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:00] <exec> 08└─The problem is widespread, for example: Encryption impacts at least nine out of every ten of ASIO’s priority cases. Over 90 per cent of data being lawfully intercepted by the AFP now use some form of encryption. Effectively all communications among terrorists a...
[15:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─Palemoon has had inbuilt canvas poisoning for a long time.
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─if a online service is financed by advertisement/tracking and has enough money to buy spare hardware to do all this fingerprinting then surely this service is WAAAYYY to expensive. ofc, trying to sell crap does require to catch the would-be customer in a weak moment. crap doesn't sell well.
[15:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:43] <exec> 08└─why?
[15:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─Your link is informative. But, some of that has to be salted a little. It is gnu.org, after all. The gnu philosophy is preferable to MS and many other major actors in the field of software. But, these guys might be considered extremists in regards to libre software. They're pretty good hearted, and...
[15:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:47] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. I know the url for pornhub by heart. How will advertizing help here?
[15:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:38] <exec> 08└─Anybody can self-publish, but it's akin to selling your DangDongSki car to rich people who want the proven reliability of a Lexus.
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[16:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─I suggest you pipe to /dev/random next time. For starters, you safe the world from global warming by providing free random numbers (they are not sorted, you said) to others. If they data is from HR or marketing, they can even be used for cryptographic purposes (undistinguishable from pure white nois...
[16:09:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─And that, in my humble opinion, is the core of today's problems with govt: we think we can go on living life, trusting that govt. workers are doing their jobs at all, let alone correctly, thoroughly, and to We the People's satisfaction. Right now, loosely through youtube, twitter, facebroke, etc., g...
[16:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─what would happen is that you would lose your job, because instead of doing your job you're doing the city's job. And thus dies civic-mindedness (and pretty much any sense of community that once helped glue us together as a people), as we all crawl into our little corners, cover our eyes, and ignore...
[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─and there is a typo
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be strange if the opposite became true, some other location in the city became 50% more profitable due new parking signs put in strategic confusing way. And the good will of this man has enlighted the authority and helped them to increase the parking ticket revenue.
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─A) there are plenty of retired, semi-retired, etc. in the world who are more than capable of doing this kind of thing B) you are suggesting that the city should put someone on payroll to go out and reduce revenues? C) gather signatures, I suppose you think we should all wait for elections to effect...
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─other such "profit spots" will be discovered by the public
[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:56] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/U8_AYuMZn4U?t=32 [youtu.be]
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Exactly, last time it (likely) happened by accident, but now that he's pointed out how to do it they can replicate this strategy, all over the world.
[16:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─So undisclosed vulns in undisclosed phones by undisclosed manufacturers. But you're probably affected, so panic! But the article definitely isn't clickbait!
[16:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:11] <exec> 08└─Yep, just like a PC, where you have to rely on third part devs to create drivers, so your display will function . . .
[16:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:34] <exec> 08└─Some told me that there are more empty houses than there are homeless people. Can I find a [needed citation]? Here's one [mintpressnews.com]: “Since 2007, banks have foreclosed around eight million homes. It is estimated that another eight to ten million homes will be foreclosed before the financi...
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─I live in a second floor apartment. I own a piano that is in storage that my mother has been paying for. I'm going to get it shipped to my home soon, where I plan to put it in my garage until I can find a first-floor apartment.
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:37] <exec> 08└─And if we sell, single floor living seems to be a good selling point.
[16:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:39] <exec> 08└─What I fail to understand is why the banks don't rent them out.
[16:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:41] <exec> 08└─What I fail to understand is why the banks don't rent them out. Among the causes of homelessness is that there just aren't enough rentals.
[16:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:19] <exec> 08└─It's an old rover, many things could have gone wrong.
[16:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 3996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:57] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting here that the word "disability" may not refer to what most people immediately think of when they see "disability." Yes, there may be some who are blind (or severely visually-impaired), deaf (or severely impaired), have major dyslexia or other conditions that make learning in a "tra...
[16:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:59] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't surprise me. The wealthy have been doing similar things trying to cheat their way into gifted programs for which their children aren't ready for for years. It's not unusual for them to hire consultants to figure out how to bully their way past the testing procedures that apply to everybody...
[16:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:21] <exec> 08└─The people who can't kick us out or secure the country if we left: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] They don't report on the muzzies much here if it can be helped Elsewhere, not s...
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[17:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:21] <exec> 08└─From the original research article: All examined [hair] fragments were human, which is reasonable both in the case of accidental mixed-in and intentionally blending, since human hairs should have been most abundant in the cities.
[17:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:23] <exec> 08└─Not trying to condescend, but asking rhetorically: do you understand how paper holds together in the first place? It's a big admixture of ultra-fine plant fibers soaked to make pliable, then pressed flat. It's like if you ran a steamroller over your tangled christmas lights, they'd still be tangled...
[17:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:25] <exec> 08└─I am also surprised. I would expect that animal hair would be more readily available.
[17:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:27] <exec> 08└─Not trying to condescend, but asking rhetorically: do you understand how paper holds together in the first place?
[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─Probably they didn't seek out human hair, but bought all fibrous waste materials they could? If someone saw a bit of profit in collecting hair from all the barbers in the city, I bet it would happen. I imagine old clothing and many other products were also used, the sole condition being that they ar...
[17:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─When I find I'm having too much trouble sorting data sets I just send it all to /dev/null.
[17:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:12] <exec> 08└─You have to be careful in some place for doing things not in your job description due to safety concerns, unions, liability. I went to the dmv 20 years ago and after waiting in line for two hours, was told that I had to have a card filled out and that I'd have to wait another two hours. Thankfully,...
[17:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 6013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:53] <exec> 08└─I made a Sub about our wonderful Economy. About the 157,000 NEW JOBS in July. That's according to my Bureau of Labor Statistics, my BLS. Straight from the horse's mouth. Can we call that a mouth? Why not! But, rejected by @janrinok because of "political bias" and "unnecessary '!' characters in your...
[17:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:54] <exec> 08└─(cont) Here's the link to my BLS. With the VERY POSITIVE news about the 157,000 NEW JOBS in July. They call it nonfarm. Because our Farmers, they have a lot of work in the spring. A lot in the summer. Some in the fall. Not much in winter. It goes up and down, up and down with our beautiful Seasons....
[17:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:11] <exec> 08└─One specific example: to get into the elementary gifted program in my local district the child takes a test. The gifted teacher administers the test, scores it and registers the result. A kid with a score under but close to the cutoff can appeal. Looks objective, but there's a workaround for aggress...
[17:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:07] <exec> 08└─You notice that I did put all the weasel words to show that what the system is supposed to be, knowing well that it's barely passable in practice.
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[18:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:08] <exec> 08└─We see again and again that innovation comes from the small guy—the underdog who is forced by "naivete" and limited resources to look in places where the Big Boys wouldn't even deign to consider. This is why Capitalism is essential to the betterment of mankind; there must always be the freedom for...
[18:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenSSL (1.1.0g) Key Sniffed From Radio Signal - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:15] <exec> 08└─Alright, let me run out and build the latest openssl source... oh wait, the vulnerability is on my phone? can't update that! (besides, its probably stuck on a version from years ago still, were those vulnerable?)
[18:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06OpenSSL (1.1.0g) Key Sniffed From Radio Signal - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─You are funding that which you don't like. Live your principles, man. Go without, or help crowd-fund some overly expensive device that supports your desired Freedom.
[18:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:32] <exec> 08└─I was thinking this as well - it's garbage otherwise, so why not throw it in? Plant fiber is useful for other things, especially to an island nation. One thing you need a lot of when dealing with fishing/ships is cordage.
[18:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:33] <exec> 08└─Short animal hair, yes. Longer animal hair comes with more noble and expensive animals, while you can find plenty of humans trying to periodically get rid of long hair. Could have even started as an insult to someone, after cutting their hair for some disgrace and realizing it worked well.
[18:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:35] <exec> 08└─That's a more reasonable reply, though it raises the question of why this practice was not more widespread elsewhere. Yes, everything was recycled in old times. (And subsequent searches have told me that Japan apparently started requiring paper recycling in the eleventh century, so they obviously ha...
[18:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─Also, longer animal hair sometimes has an important practical use, such as wool clothing.
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─Oh, and for those who don't know this: fun fact, but the more common wearing of underwear was largely responsible for the growth of mass paper and book production in Europe. In big cities in medieval Europe, people started wearing underwear more frequently, which was considered more disposable (orig...
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:54] <exec> 08└─Remember, folks: You need to optimize finding the nearest neighbor, so you know where to build your wall. Everyone else, you can handle with tariffs and insults.
[18:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't you wipe incriminating emails with a cloth instead?
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─Why buy when you can steal?
[18:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:27] <exec> 08└─Some people have hobbies. For some its goats and sheep, for some it's analyzing parking tickets in their cities.
[18:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:07] <exec> 08└─Define "empty". There are millions of homes used less than a month per year. Some of them are really big and expensive, too.
[18:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:46] <exec> 08└─Now, now ... this sounds like a job for Space Force!
[18:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:05] <exec> 08└─I disagree that "Clock speeds do not appear possible to ramp up enough to make up the loss and rededicating the silicon from speculative execution to more execution units is not a solution since few software developers can manage to keep the ones we have now busy, hence SpeedBoost.". It requires a d...
[18:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:06] <exec> 08└─Try both. The microcode is buggy, and needs to be fixed, and the microcode is not going to be subject to "many eyes" because it's quite difficult to understand compared to assembler code. Open Source would help, because then a few more people would have an idea of just how trustworthy the code was,...
[18:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:08] <exec> 08└─It can't be *that* bad, because Intel chips have the reputation of running cooler than AMD chips. Or maybe that's the energy they save by not doing security checks properly.
[18:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:31] <exec> 08└─I graduated with a 2.1 GPA. My ACT scores were good though (perfect scores on English sections, near perfect science, 30 in math I think?), so I still got accepted everywhere I applied. Ultimately, finances were the deciding factor for choosing where to attend.
[18:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:33] <exec> 08└─Heh, no, it was an obviously ill-fitted prosthetic.
[18:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:35] <exec> 08└─The overwhelming determinant of student success is their family's level of achievement or motivation. You would have to provide a stable family where education and behaving properly are valued and reinforced by the parents. You don't have to be rich to have this, but you can't be really ghetto eithe...
[18:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:37] <exec> 08└─The revolution won't.
[18:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─Half of my class had 4.0 GPAs in high school. Some schools count pluses and minuses in their GPAs, so there were also lots of people who had 4.25 GPAs. Oddly, many of my class were _required_ to attend a summer class before we started the regular school year. That class taught writing - despite havi...
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[19:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─No need to stuff "freedom for the individual to allocate his own capital however he sees fit" in BIG C capitalism. Nothing like simplistic scenarios to bolster your ideology.
[19:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:03] <exec> 08└─I know which side I want to prevail.
[19:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:05] <exec> 08└─If you don't believe me, fetch some magnet links from The Pirate Bay without using Tor, then torrent them from home or work without using a VPN.
[19:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:08] <exec> 08└─Capitalism: The rules of interaction are negotiated in advance. Non-Capitalism: The rules of interaction are decreed and imposed. You guys can't have it both ways. You can't decry capitalism for its supposed lack of regulation,* and then turn around and complain about the order that emerges from the...
[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:36] <exec> 08└─It's rice, soy and fish. [please mod redundant]
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─A few researchers set out to prove that there was no universal way to solve it.
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─Why steal when you can control?
[19:10:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─You think a 50% reduction in income would make your superiors happy? Quite frankly you would be more successful in government if you found a way to increase ticket revenue (without making it blatant to the public).
[19:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─Have you seen parking in Southern Europe, South America, Africa, or most of Asia ? I wouldn't be surprised if trying Byzantine rules as you see in the US resulted in all signs being systematically destroyed/removed, and cops looked the other way because they have better things to do than participate...
[19:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:40] <exec> 08└─How about "don't do financial transactions over your phone", and "avoid saying anything sensitive". The first is probably more important for most people, as it removed the incentive for attacks. The second one is important mainly for attacks that are targeted.
[19:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:41] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say the article was clickbait, but "Homeland Security" is a totally different matter, though clickbait might not be the correct term to use in describing their actions. But it was "Homeland Security" that warned of danger without being explicit about who. OTOH, perhaps it's a good general...
[19:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Bugs Leave Millions of Phones Vulnerable to Hackers - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:43] <exec> 08└─Well, each individual flaw is just so boring and technical and I don't get it and what's new on Facebook have you seen my instagram such a cute puppy I can't believe John cheated on Sophie and let me check my bank account again oh wait where's all my money gone ? We could use even more generic artic...
[19:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hack Causes Pacemakers to Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:56] <exec> 08└─I think that's the wrong argument. The real reason not to use encryption on pacemakers is so that in an emergency any emergency room can adjust them. That said, *this* hack isn't of the pacemaker itself, but rather of the machine in the doctor's office that is used to adjust it. That *should* be bet...
[19:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hack Causes Pacemakers to Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:58] <exec> 08└─I'm really torn about this. On the one hand it's appalling to disregard security for these kinds of things. On the other hand, murder is murder, and doing this kind of hack would be murder. I mean that in that "it's really easy to kill somebody, just stick a sharp piece of metal into them, or hold t...
[19:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:42] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting here that the word "disability" may not refer to what most people immediately think of when they see "disability." Yes, there may be some who are blind (or severely visually-impaired), deaf (or severely impaired), have major dyslexia or other conditions that make learning in a "tra...
[19:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:04] <exec> 08└─...wouldn't not selling in the U.S. also deal a massive blow to Apple's profits? Bit of a vacuous truth [wikipedia.org] argument.
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[20:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:00] <exec> 08└─Congress can basically only tell government what to do. Of course, a lot of businesses (and especially Big Businesses) depend on those government agencies and must therefore also bow to the law, but the rest of the The People can thumb their noses at Congress and do business as they see fit.
[20:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:01] <exec> 08└─The world has become an oroboros (or maybe a human centipede is a better analogy) of backdooring. We shouldn't be buying ZTE and Huawei anymore than the slopes should be buying Cisco.
[20:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:03] <exec> 08└─All their network infrastructure products (for the ISP and corporate markets) are free open source and been verified by multiple governments and corporations. Their main competitor - US owned Cisco - has a closed source proprietary OS and a history of NSA requested (and delivered) backdoors.
[20:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:15] <exec> 08└─I do so daily, haven't received so much as a warning. I live in the US. I don't watch movies, and only a select few TV shows, but I do have a large and growing music library.
[20:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:16] <exec> 08└─> The Fast.ai team was able to produce something even faster, on roughly equivalent hardware (custom-built collection [of Google's] own chips designed specifically for machine learning). So only as accessible as Google makes its custom built machine learning chips, then.
[20:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:18] <exec> 08└─The Berne Copyright Convention was negotiated by representatives from each of its signatory states. The US representative I expect was appointed by the president, or perhaps the secretary of state. That president was elected. If you've got a gripe with copyright law, elect a different kind of presid...
[20:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:21] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is far more fundamental than America's "representative" governance. What is being described here transcends law by legislation; capitalism is law by contracts. Even if you disagree with copyright law, the fact remains that producers are telling you in advance that they may fuck you up if...
[20:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─This kind of action is particularly effective, especially the thank you note.
[20:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:38] <exec> 08└─Cops are weird - in Miami they were too good to chase (or even attempt to catch by any method) car thieves, even when said thieves were doing hit and runs with their stolen cars and toting a little unbuckled kid down the boulevard at 70mph... when I told the cops I saw these clowns coming out of the...
[20:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hack Causes Pacemakers to Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:10] <exec> 08└─"The real reason not to use encryption on pacemakers is so that in an emergency any emergency room can adjust them." Tattoo the password on the patient's chest.
[20:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:29] <exec> 08└─A friend of the family's adopted kid has fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). The majority of homeless people have FAS (https://www.fasworld.com/fasd-facts/). This family has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on them. Various government programs have spent at least half a million dollars. Nothing is g...
[20:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnjb78/how-to-claim-squatters-rights-to-stop-paying-your-rent [vice.com] http://www.independent.org [independent.org] Being a landlord is a huge pain in the ass in many U.S. states, but at least a landlord might have the option to physicall...
[20:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:32] <exec> 08└─I bought a house that was trashed by renters and paid 1/3rd of what it would otherwise have been worth.
[20:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:32] <exec> 08└─People like you have been saying this for a couple of decades now. If it were easy you guys keep saying it would have happened by now. Parallel programming is hard and filled with subtle errors and security exploits.
[20:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest Apple Release to Defeat Browser Fingerprinting in Safari - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not clear as to how that relates to the RFCs. If you run a personal webserver as I do, to map a bunch of domains to 127.0.0.1 will result in your local webserver's log being stuffed chock full o' 404s. That's somewhat annoying when I'm trying to debug a local server's config. All my boxen have l...
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[21:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:02] <exec> 08└─GTFO
[21:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:03] <exec> 08└─Well, there's that, but also we've got a mental baby running a trade war with the vague intention of "winning" whose only card is just more and more escalation. I'm not saying your thing is wrong, just there's another explanation where everyone and everything in 2018 is the dumbest, stupidest shit p...
[21:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:05] <exec> 08└─Back when Huawei cloud app was leaking positional data to their clouds in China, some guy posted a sniffer report of how the Chinese servers were seeing two dozen kilobyte per hour of GPS and wifi hotspots data while the American Google servers are seeing megabytes of everything from how many second...
[21:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:22] <exec> 08└─Who would have thought... It seems that roughly 20 years ago, some small guy had a search engine algorithm that turned everyone else's results to shit... I wonder who that was... /s
[21:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Small Team of Student AI Coders Beats Google's Machine-Learning Code - 1313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:23] <exec> 08└─In many cases that works really well. For example my own creative commons piano EP [soggywizards.com]. We also have Vim and - dare I admit to it? - Emacs. There is GDB, GCC and the Linux kernel. But then we have gEdit as I experienced it the first time I tried to use it: It was only capable of holdi...
[21:09:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 816 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─Not trying to condescend, but asking rhetorically: do you understand how paper holds together in the first place? It's a big admixture of ultra-fine plant fibers soaked to make pliable, then pressed flat. It's like if you ran a steamroller over your tangled christmas lights, they'd still be tangled...
[21:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─*places parking ticket on illegally parked goat*
[21:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:37] <exec> 08└─At least there were at the time I read about it. _Some_ of those squatters could have been responsible tenants. I've done a good job of taking care of my taxpayer-subsidized apartment, as well as paying my portion of its rent. I expect that the next time my rent is recalculated I'll start paying all...
[21:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:39] <exec> 08└─Following this line of reasoning, there is near "infinite" space available at night in all those big office buildings--they just sit empty until 8am the next morning. Why don't people live there (when they aren't working)? (I first saw this in Bucky Fuller's writing)
[21:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:18] <exec> 08└─Send a robot maid
[21:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Discloses a Speculative Execution Attack in Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:41] <exec> 08└─It's not so simple. By completing the computation faster, you free the CPU earlier, and the system can low-power idle earlier. I saw this at the macro scale with a pretty stable load when tuning machines to a "hotter" configuration (faster multiplier, higher vcore) led to less wall power (the system...
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[22:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Could Launch Japanese and European Payloads to Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:20] <exec> 08└─Charged particles from the Sun mostly, also the full energy of Cosmic Rays. (The Cosmic Rays that reach the ground are the products of scattering and so have lower energies than the original particles.) The Apollo astronauts could see the insides of their eyes sparkling when they closed them, then w...
[22:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Could Launch Japanese and European Payloads to Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:22] <exec> 08└─Using CRISPR / genetic engineering they're breeding radiation-hardened humans. At least that's the official statement. (I'm kidding for those who are confused... but you never know- some people survive "deadly" radiation exposure.)
[22:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─My coworker bought surveillance gear for his home. He didn't want Chinese gear, so he bought something from a Canadian company... or so he thought. Picking apart the web interface source he finds "Hikvision". It's the same with lots of stuff. Dell makes printers... or do they? No, they don't. The se...
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─Well the Chinese can't throw me into prison without a trial or just come to my home and shoot me if I step out of line. I think I choose their backdoors over our domestic government's backdoors.
[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─We have been in a trade war for a very long time, arguably since Nixon. It is wrong to say that previous presidents weren't in a trade war. They were retreating and losing, failing to put up a fight, but that doesn't mean there was peace. That is just failure. Your "escalation" is just basic self-de...
[22:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Law Bans U.S. Government From Buying Equipment From Chinese Telecom Giants ZTE and Huawei - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─Suppose they reveal that they know some dark secret in your personal life. They offer to keep quiet about it... if you provide some help. You thus become a spy. Think you don't have a dark secret? They can provide one! All they have to do is fill your computer with child porn and then tip off the FB...
[22:11:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Systematic Analysis Reduces One Chicago Location's Parking Tickets by 50% - 1447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:06] <exec> 08└─what would happen is that you would lose your job, because instead of doing your job you're doing the city's job. And thus dies civic-mindedness (and pretty much any sense of community that once helped glue us together as a people), as we all crawl into our little corners, cover our eyes, and ignore...
[22:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Home Depot Q2 2018 Results Shed Light on U.S. Economy - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:13] <exec> 08└─I'm all for it. It would only affect us if you found a homeless guy willing to move in between 1AM, when the last two guys left last night and 6:30AM, when one came back this morning. I need a new job.
[22:12:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:41] <exec> 08└─Plus, the dust is extremely fine and sticks to the panels via electrostatic attraction - a wiper will not remove that dust; it will only grind the glass as it swipes larger particles around.
[22:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:54] <exec> 08└─Someone told me another problem is that the wiper would rub the dust across the panels, scratching them up, which would lead to even more light loss than if the wind just blew them clean.
[22:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:55] <exec> 08└─"repair rovers tool kit" - aka an astronaut. That'll be a bit more costly. (You can't conceivably prepare a robot to do any conceivable repair without running into scaling expenses that wouldn't make it worthwhile. You could make a robot that can handle certain "popular" repairs.) But seriously, a...
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[23:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Could Launch Japanese and European Payloads to Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:35] <exec> 08└─My father was a civil service EE at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California. He told me that when they drained the reactor coolant there, they cut a hole in the hull of the submarines, then ran a pipe out that hole, on the end of which is welded a flange. That flange is bolted to another f...
[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Could Launch Japanese and European Payloads to Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:36] <exec> 08└─Fund [nextbigfuture.com] SENS [nextbigfuture.com]. Anti-aging technologies could allow us to repair some of the damage caused by radiation. That being said, the amount of radiation exposure in a shielded spacecraft isn't *that* bad and NASA's definition of acceptable radiation risk is ridiculously s...
[23:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Could Launch Japanese and European Payloads to Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:38] <exec> 08└─Is a 3.5% risk of death due to radiation exposure (including cancer, etc.) on a months-long Mars mission unacceptable? It is according to NASA [nasa.gov]. It's entirely possible that a 30-something-year-old astronaut could walk on Mars, return to Earth, and see all or most cancers cured by the time...
[23:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Japanese Eating Habits Gleaned From Hairs In Old Books - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:40] <exec> 08└─It's rice, soy and fish.
[23:10:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kalas [4247] 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:51] <exec> 08└─When I find I'm having too much trouble sorting data sets I just send it all to /dev/null. It may not make the boss too happy but it damn sure relieves my stress, at least until the next job hunt begins. :P
[23:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:59] <exec> 08└─hen I find I'm having too much trouble sorting data sets I just send it all to /dev/null. It may not make the boss too happy but it damn sure relieves my stress, at least until the next job hunt begins. :P
[23:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:02] <exec> 08└─Why control when you can simply disenfranchise?
[23:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:04] <exec> 08└─As TFS indicated, data sets can differ significantly on what "near" is. For instance, geographically near doesn't mean near by road. The other side of Ft. Peck Lake here is only a couple miles away from where I am right now... but requires almost 200 miles of driving over some of the worst roads you...
[23:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opportunity Rover Hasn’t Woken Up and Engineers Are Getting Nervous - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:14] <exec> 08└─Point being that whatever the reason, I'm pretty sure it's not "Those dumbasses at NASA never considered it, but I, the Soylentil with no training or experience whatsoever in the kinds of engineering being done on these things, know precisely the solution to their problem!"
[23:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:28] <exec> 08└─I would not go as far as to call it impossible. We definitely need one and perhaps should work on it. Outside of high tech life this system definitely exists. One just gives the data to an attorney and refuses to give it to the authorities. At some point the data can be obtained from the attorney an...
[23:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When's A Backdoor Not A Backdoor? When The Oz Government Says It Isn't - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:30] <exec> 08└─Come to think about it, perhaps it is exactly what authorities want when they ask for so called back doors. They want an ability to get to the data given a due legal process. Looks like a reasonable wish and our job is to provide a reasonable solution. Otherwise we'll end up in dark ages of investig...
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