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[00:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:23] <exec> 08└─I don't want your patent for systemd.
[00:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:25] <exec> 08└─One day soon, we may wake up to the announcement that Microsoft Linux Version 1.0 is ready for download. Two versions, one for The Cloud (and customized for Azure), and one for the desktop. The desktop version will have Word (hey, if they can port/release an SQL server...), and a variety of other ap...
[00:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:08] <exec> 08└─This was exclusively obtained by Breitbart. Why not mention that?
[00:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:09] <exec> 08└─There's a great topic for a Soylent poll... Should we round up Muslims the world over and put them in gulags? [] Yes [] Inshallah [] Only the terrorist ones [] is Guantanamo full already? [] Let's ask Google
[00:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:06] <exec> 08└─Depends. For a 80 cols card used with FORTRAN - if it's DATA or COMMENT section, you can use 78 characters/card - if it's code section, only 72 characters/card, reserve 8 for jump label and continuation character. Then you'll need to choose your MU to make sense for the layman - probably assume a ce...
[00:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─I don't remember knowing what database you're using, but if it's MySQL, have you tried phpMyAdmin?
[00:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:37] <exec> 08└─Install PHP on critical servers? Are you mad?
[00:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:34] <exec> 08└─We never hear about the alt-right from aristarchus when it's relevant.
[00:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:35] <exec> 08└─Don't even THINK about bringing up "counter-clockwise".
[00:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:37] <exec> 08└─No. Stellar black holes definitely exist. Of course, you can't see them by emitted light, but the evidence for their existence is overwhelming. X-ray observations of supernovae point clearly to black hole formation, and black holes of the appropriate mass have been definitively detected by LIGO.
[00:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:38] <exec> 08└─Nothing that you said refutes what I said, so not sure why you began with "No".
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[01:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:01] <exec> 08└─ICE will find aliens, expand the scope of the agency.
[01:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:03] <exec> 08└─I have always hoped that we haven't found aliens because we put almost no effort into looking, but of course there are son many variables involved that maybe there is not much point. Also, we have hardly even explored our own solar system, let alone any others. It's like doing stocktake in a huge w...
[01:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:05] <exec> 08└─Watch out, Anunnaki-Americans! We're coming for you!
[01:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:07] <exec> 08└─Our SETI technology is not actually all that sensitive. Sure, we could detect a powerful beacon sent at us from some highly advanced civilization that really wanted to make contact. But if there was an identical copy of our planet and civilization at Alpha Centauri, we'd barely be able to hear it. A...
[01:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:09] <exec> 08└─Technologically advanced aliens would naturally follow the same progression
[01:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:22] <exec> 08└─I'm actually surprised it hasn't happened yet: shows you how slow MS moves. Yes, I agree it will happen, just when.
[01:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:24] <exec> 08└─Very possible, because Windows doesn't make them much money outside the business sector. Since Linux is free...
[01:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:26] <exec> 08└─So no more Microsoft tax on every Android sold? Really?
[01:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:28] <exec> 08└─Probably dependent on every single hand held manufacturer and whether they are also a member. I just scrolled through the members shown here: https://www.openinventionnetwork.com [openinventionnetwork.com] and only saw two mobile phone manufacturers. Google Sony
[01:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:30] <exec> 08└─All the largest corporations agree not to sue each other. But, the little guy with a cool idea? Fair game to all members.
[01:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:48] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered whether the scale could have been reduced a lot faster. Once the basic transistor technology was proven in the 1960s, what was to stop us from reaching 22nm in the 1990s, the moment the blue LED was developed? But I suppose there were a lot of little improvements that depended o...
[01:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:50] <exec> 08└─22nm is abuit 1/20th the length of a wave of blue light. "EUV" itself is rather euphemistic; we're in hard X-ray territory here, with all that that implies.
[01:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:19] <exec> 08└─People laughed at Alex Jones when he has been saying Google is in league with the Chinese, for a while now. Cospiracy Theory my ass. With all tge sp called Conspiracy Theories I witnessed since 2016, just wondering how many more are true.
[01:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:20] <exec> 08└─Truth triggers (American) liberals, can't have that now. They'll just dismiss it as fakenews.
[01:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:24] <exec> 08└─Everybody forgets reliability factor. How many copies of that floppies one needs? I still have software and data on 4 bit paper rolls that are in perfect condition to run (inherited from my mother). My own punch cards? They are forever.
[01:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:25] <exec> 08└─That's probably for advance (predefined) targeting. I am sure manually entering coordinates works just fine.
[01:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:27] <exec> 08└─It's worse. Modern way is to ignore: "no way Russia has it, forgetaboutit", "China is a bunch of stealing idiots". The US is a giant on clay legs at this point. The US have not faced a sophisticated adversary for three generations. Any half modern but determinate state can defeat it just like that.
[01:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:30] <exec> 08└─So, what if a military guy of relatively low rank gets pissed off with liberals and decides to nuke NY? Is is feasible?
[01:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:00] <exec> 08└─It should if you try to insert a row into a table that suddenly has fewer columns or more columns that can't be null but default to null to keep screwed up rows from being inserted. Or if you try to pull data from a missing column
[01:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:02] <exec> 08└─Hopping! I inherited WordPress servers, so... It hasn't hurt me in 10 years. Maybe I gots magic. :)
[01:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:04] <exec> 08└─BTW, you could rsync the db to a cloned but otherwise offline server (2nd Ethernet if you're really paranoid) and run phpMyAdmin on that box.
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[02:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:51] <exec> 08└─It's not :(
[02:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:52] <exec> 08└─These guys need to be listening in on sub-space if they want to hear aliens.
[02:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:54] <exec> 08└─-s About three light years - the closest star is 4.3. Our most powerful signal is the US/Canada Distant Early Warning Line radar The fellow explained that SETI was dependent on a more advanced civilization that wanted to be found Consider that a more advanced civilization would be more efficient. He...
[02:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:56] <exec> 08└─Once a species starts colonizing space it expands remarkably fast, colonizing a whole galaxy in only a million years which is short by cosmic timelines.
[02:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:59] <exec> 08└─ETs picked up on of our TV broadcasts and were very excited. Unfortunately, that TV broadcast was Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and decided they wanted to have absolutely nothing to do with us.
[02:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:01] <exec> 08└─Any assumptions about things you don't know in there? What's the practical interstellar speed limit if you want a 90%+ chance of arrival at your light years distant destination without fatal damage? Hint: it ain't even close to 0.9C.
[02:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:19] <exec> 08└─windows as a service prolly a couple of years away.
[02:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:20] <exec> 08└─The benefits of this move, aside from PR and spin, are negated by their Azure Advantage program [pcworld.com].. There are two reasons for that. The first is that OIN only applies to patents that Microsoft is granted. If a non-practicing entity, nominally a patent troll, waltzes in with their own pat...
[02:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:09] <exec> 08└─Google skews its search results outside of China already to suit its ideology. Why not skew it as its newest customer wishes? Google is already in the business of controlling information access.
[02:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:11] <exec> 08└─But it's not. There Oughta Be A Law that penalize US companies that facilitate human rights abuses: Cisco supplied the routers for The Great Firewall, Apple removes apps from its Cihense stores upon government request and back in the day a US company supplied I think it was the Indonesian police wit...
[02:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:13] <exec> 08└─During my more-conservative moments anyway I heartily commend the liberal young man who wrote Glenn Beck to thank him for speaking out against today's divisive political climate. Beck pointed out that among other things we all support the bill of rights
[02:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:15] <exec> 08└─That's why I use their Tor Hidden Service But tor is a pita so mostly I use Google in the clear
[02:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:17] <exec> 08└─This weekend I will prioritize fixing whatever is wrong with my outgoing mail server Rather than fix it when it failed, I took The Proud American's Way Out by signing up for G Suite.
[02:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:22] <exec> 08└─Everybody forgets reliability factor. How many copies of that floppies one needs? I still have software and data on 4 bit paper rolls that are in perfect condition to run (inherited from my mother). My own punch cards? They are forever.
[02:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:23] <exec> 08└─All it takes is a service person with a conscience to be tricked into putting a USB drive in the right port.
[02:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:55] <exec> 08└─Data mining much?
[02:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:56] <exec> 08└─Different Anon here - That is pretty cool, and one implementation I would use as well.
[02:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:54] <exec> 08└─If you think the only difference between Disney World and New Orleans is the skin color of the people there, I suspect you've never been to either.
[02:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:56] <exec> 08└─CAT4+ hurricanes are nothing to sneeze at.
[02:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:19] <exec> 08└─The 6502's instruction set makes it impractical to generate native code for it, so a compact intermediate format is the only way to go at all.
[02:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:21] <exec> 08└─Also the reason Borland "Turbo" compiler products swept the field was their compiler was fast.
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[03:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Rainbows End by Rudy Rucker - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:20] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure you mean Vernor Vinge.
[03:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:39] <exec> 08└─I was thinking along the same lines. If I'm running a SETI program in the Alpha Centauri system, and I'm listening to the Sol system, I might only have 200 or so years before the humans stop being so noisy. But the universe doesn't revolve around the humans, so I might be starting my SETI program ar...
[03:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 2066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:41] <exec> 08└─There's a half acre of grass back there, all within 300' of my door, and I see evidence of moles, but only twice in five years have I ever actually seen a mole (and those only because our cat caught them...) Also underground are wasps, once a hive of bees, and all manner of other things that I can o...
[03:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:43] <exec> 08└─Also as other comments have pointed out,
[03:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:45] <exec> 08└─Why should we even spend much time and resources to look that hard? It's just idle curiosity at this point. With our current tech we wouldn't even be able to detect a civilization like ours in a planet far away. And so what if we managed to? What should we do? We are unlikely to even be able to comm...
[03:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:04] <exec> 08└─According to the FSF's statement [fsf.org]: OIN's nonaggression agreement only covers a defined list of free software packages, and any OIN member, including Microsoft, can withdraw completely with thirty days notice.
[03:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:05] <exec> 08└─So, Extend, Embrace, Sue. Nice.
[03:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:33] <exec> 08└─I've been to DW and I'm betting they'd get Federal aid faster than New O did. Not because BLACK (or not simply because Black) but because money...rich people get government money before poor people. It wasn't Americans who were too big to fail, it was rich bankers and rich automobile executives. Poo...
[03:50:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tibman [134] 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 833 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:05] <exec> 08└─Oh! you said if absolutely anyone else wrote the article you'd trust it far more? Here you go: https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] https://www.dsogaming.com
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[04:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:05] <exec> 08└─Suppose it picked out those points to reflect a bad candidate. This is auto-discovery based on similarity of candidates, this isn't gender discrimination. It just so happens that bad candidates tend to have these traits in common. So if a statistical program used to look at candidates' attributes an...
[04:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:06] <exec> 08└─Was the male-to-female ratio of applicants different to the selected ratio? Did any women even apply?
[04:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:08] <exec> 08└─You can't trust ANYTHING that bleeds for a week and doesn't die. Anyone with any sense will hire a man rather than a woman if traits like stability and reliability are important. This post will be down-modded but don't make the mistake of assuming that means it is not true.
[04:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:11] <exec> 08└─So they replaced the possibly-biased AI with possibly-biased humans.
[04:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:13] <exec> 08└─I bet an AI draft picker would be racist.
[04:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:47] <exec> 08└─If there are very obvious alien civilizations nearby, building Dyson swarms, then maybe the "technosignatures" group will be able to find them. Otherwise, we could be able to find them by detecting anomalies in exoplanet atmospheres. If that doesn't work, we can fall back on looking for liquid water...
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[04:43:49] <exec> 08└─Just wait for discussion of the "Three body problem" trilogy. It's all there.
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[04:46:06] <exec> 08└─IIRC, launching a nuke generally requires two people operating controls on opposite sides of the room at the same time.
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[05:43:21] <exec> 08└─That is the problem with the current "AI" - they learn "what is the past" and can drive you on based on that past. Nothing more than sophisticated "statistical correlation" machines. Yes, maybe they learn things from correlations not yet detected by humans, but they will not discover new experiences...
[05:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:22] <exec> 08└─Was the male-to-female ratio of applicants different to the selected ratio?
[05:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Rainbows End by Rudy Rucker - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:31] <exec> 08└─A Fire Upon the Deep is good. At the risk of spoiling it a little, A Fire Upon the Deep is somewhat similar to the old Star Trek episode, the Doomsday Machine, only it's a Doomsday Computer Virus rather than a machine. Though it's ambiguous and unknown whether that particular virus could be consider...
[05:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:20] <exec> 08└─Joining OIN would have been a great symbolic move well before Azure.
[05:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:38] <exec> 08└─ASML has come up with "standard node", and ASML should know process nodes better than anyone: they are making the litho tools after all! The formula is contacted poly pitch (CPP) multiplied by minimum metal pitch (MMP), and here is an article discussing it (and the author's alternative which adds tr...
[05:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:11] <exec> 08└─Have you e-mailed anyone @gmail.com recently? Does that ecommerce site use Google for their e-mail? (how about your office?)
[05:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:18] <exec> 08└─I suspect you don't think like one of the people who *do* break into systems. That is couldn't be done in the ways you guarded against isn't real evidence that it couldn't be done. Social engineering, much less unexpected bugs, has repeatedly demonstrated that systems presumed secure aren't. So I'm...
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[05:47:55] <exec> 08└─Due to the evacuation of the Weather Channel HQ, there will be no weather today.
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[06:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:42] <exec> 08└─It's not clear that SpaceX made a bid. And the Air Force wants multiple companies that can provide it launches, so that it has options to fall back on. Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are already available. The Air Force is one of the few entities that has paid for a Falcon Heavy launch. The real travesty...
[06:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:43] <exec> 08└─it's a good thing that SpaceX is not public. Diverting so much money from the cash cow Falcon9 to a BFR which doesn't have customers lining up, would be difficult if shareholders were involved.
[06:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:58] <exec> 08└─They're both biased. The AI has the bias of historical measures, with learning-based extrapolation. The humans have the bias of oh-please-don't-sue. Pick one, I guess.
[06:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:00] <exec> 08└─Well, it's kind of little-AI rather than big-AI. Maybe they should train it on: "Which outcome will make our lawyers smile?" At least then they can step up and proudly say that they don't give a toss about merit, skills, any of that crap. Just hiring decisions made in the courtroom. You know, the US...
[06:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:02] <exec> 08└─All right.
[06:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:04] <exec> 08└─The problem with "AI" is simply that it's not intelligent. It's still exactly what it's always been - a number distilling a ruleset in the mind of a programmer into computer language. Nothing more, nothing less. The original programmer is, presumably, intelligent. If he ran into a situation that cle...
[06:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:06] <exec> 08└─Take it easy, pal, or... I'll sue ya [youtube.com] (I'll sue Ben Afleck... aw, do I even need a reason? Ughh.)
[06:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:09] <exec> 08└─"What the hell does it matter if there is an unequal total number of females vs males?" Oh, it matters. Imagine if you will. You are hiring for 100 positions. You get 300 applicants. You go through them judging strictly on the merits and select the best 100. You're so dead set on getting this right...
[06:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:47] <exec> 08└─space is big. space is dark. it's hard to find a place to park.
[06:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:49] <exec> 08└─Not true. Obligatory The Orville [youtube.com]
[06:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:41] <exec> 08└─We've always been at war with EastAsia
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[07:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Publisher Drops Tronc Name, Reverts to Tribune Publishing - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:30] <exec> 08└─I was once in washington dc and they had a display of todays front page from one newspaper from each state. The LA times was the only one that seemed like they were covering real news. Now that its owned by some tech billionaire I guess that may change? Is it going to be like the washington post in...
[07:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:43] <exec> 08└─Essentially the US Air Force, which launches more complex, heavy payloads than any other entity in the world, believes these boosters will have a significant role to play in those missions during the next decade.
[07:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:44] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is the ultimate democracy. Maybe we'll try it some day.
[07:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:46] <exec> 08└─The latest launch seems to have been this argentinian satellite whose mission is "the benefit of society, emergency management and economic development." https://www.afspc.af.mil [af.mil] https://en.m.wikipedia.org
[07:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:48] <exec> 08└─What complex, heavy payloads are they launching? Are they building something up there?
[07:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:51] <exec> 08└─They regularly team up with the NRO. Nobody builds anything more complex than the NRO, outside of maybe the ISS.
[07:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:53] <exec> 08└─if SpaceX applied... For one, SpaceX has already built and flown a rocket that can reach all of the Air Force's reference orbits—the Falcon Heavy. Moreover, the Falcon Heavy is already certified for the Air Force and has won contracts. Air Force officials may also feel that, through NASA contracts...
[07:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:13] <exec> 08└─That is the problem with the current "AI" - they learn "what is the past" and can drive you on based on that past. Nothing more than sophisticated "statistical correlation" machines.
[07:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:14] <exec> 08└─I mean, they keep scrapping these systems whenever they produce results that do not meet their assumptions. The Australia government had a similar program, and scrapped it because even more men than women were being hired. This is like shopping around for a doctor who will finally tell you what you...
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[07:44:16] <exec> 08└─The program itself was not biased, it was trained: someone informed it "this is a good candidate" or "this is a bad candidate" and the program learned commonalities based on those decisions. Just for example: if it turned out that graduates from those two women's colleges were always rated poorly, t...
[07:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:18] <exec> 08└─Let me play devil's advocate here, in defense of the machines. The problem with "AI" is simply that it's not intelligent. It's still exactly what it's always been - a number distilling a ruleset in the mind of a programmer into computer language. Nothing more, nothing less.
[07:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:21] <exec> 08└─It may be, to some degree. But it's also not AI. It's tuning a computer to search a database for statistical judgements based on past results, using those judgements in hiring, then discovering that this only reënforces historical prejudices. Doh.
[07:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:55] <exec> 08└─The benefits for biology would be huge if we would discover any (intelligent or not) alien life form. It would be interesting how evolution would progress in two isolated systems, even if a few variables would be slightly different. Is it mostly the same (restricted by same physics/chemistry)? Or co...
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[07:44:57] <exec> 08└─So, do the SETI initiatives just randomly scan the sky, or do they point to the centre of the Milky way? To me it seems that if we have a hard time to scan the complete sky, it might be better to point at the centre of our galaxy, to potentially get more signals passing by in our view (on both sides...
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[08:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 2338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:06] <exec> 08└─Consider things like their X-37B [wikipedia.org] series of space ships. These launches are not classified, though the payloads and purpose are. And they are big, and are probably only going to get bigger in the future. Or consider things like the NRO, national reconnaissance office (spy sats), back...
[08:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:08] <exec> 08└─So you think thats the next bubble? Makes some sense.
[08:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:10] <exec> 08└─Diverting so much money from the cash cow Falcon9 to a BFR which doesn't have customers lining up, would be difficult if shareholders were involved.
[08:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:37] <exec> 08└─Given the opportunity, I like to ask fans of diversity if they know how many of their STEM employees have blue eyes. You get this mystified look - I mean, why would you care? That's how it ought to be with gender: your genitals should completely irrelevant to the job.
[08:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:38] <exec> 08└─"a lot of inequities were baked right into the law, and reinforced by cultural norms. Surely we agree that existed and was a problem" Yes, agreed. It was a problem. And I agree that we need to be aware of the potential for perpetuating such problems. Hence: "treat each individual fairly". "Whether o...
[08:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:40] <exec> 08└─No-one has yet produced intelligent 'HR'. Only biological stupidity.
[08:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:42] <exec> 08└─That's how it ought to be with gender: your genitals should completely irrelevant to the job.
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[08:44:54] <exec> 08└─A Deepness in the Sky
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[08:45:25] <exec> 08└─There are really three categories to consider: - A technological civilization that actively wants to be found. They would broadcast high-powered, focused signals at specific wavelengths dictated by physics. They would broadcast to all nearby stars. Our current SETI programs would almost certainly de...
[08:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:49] <exec> 08└─You missed Purism, and of course some carriers rebrand phones - I did notice a couple of carriers there. Lots of noticeable absentees there, certainly. Given Samsung and its Tizen were pushing for openness (though not for the purest of motives, I detected whilst I was working there), that's a huge g...
[08:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when people like sony and microsoft sit at the table with a pile of patents in front of them, saying "we can all play nicely together here, can't we .... /can't we/ >wink< ?" the first thing that goes through my mind is the GSM mafia. That "community" I know, from having worked in a 2nd-3rd-di...
[08:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:52] <exec> 08└─I'll stick to Linux releases without "telemetry."
[08:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:47] <exec> 08└─They are assholes -- BIG TIME!!! Especially @DaveHogue [twitter.com]. Antitrust?
[08:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:49] <exec> 08└─Believe me, it ain't just Google that censors. What about the 2 Subs in the Subs Queue. From Anonymous. They're "Pending." Supposedly. They call it pending, it's not pending. It looks like IGNORE. It looks like, didn't read. But, maybe the Editors made VERY SECRET TWEETS about them. And they'll say,...
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[08:49:39] <exec> 08└─if you have ever in-sneezed, you know it's no laughing matter.
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[09:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:04] <exec> 08└─Airlines seem to be engaged in a "race to the bottom". Who can have the least comfortable planes with the worst service? Since the industry apparently cannot fix itself, it's all well and good for the regulators to step in. However. This American tendency to pack everything into huge omnibus bills i...
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[09:44:06] <exec> 08└─This is in your best interest. Smaller seats means you can pack more passengers in each flight, which means fewer flights, which means less CO2 emissions, which means protecting you from global warming.
[09:44:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 1252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:57] <exec> 08└─The program itself was not biased, it was trained: someone informed it "this is a good candidate" or "this is a bad candidate" and the program learned commonalities based on those decisions. Just for example: if it turned out that graduates from those two women's colleges were always rated poorly, t...
[09:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:04] <exec> 08└─Correct, "biased against women" here is progressive code for "biased in favor of the better candidate". I suspect the womxn naturally inclined towards STEM fields always did well before forced "diversity" pulled the statistical average down for them.
[09:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:07] <exec> 08└─Men and women are, factually, different. Everyone is happy to accept that there aren't so many women in construction, because of obvious differences in physical strength.
[09:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:09] <exec> 08└─No-one has yet produced intelligent 'HR'. Only biological stupidity.
[09:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:11] <exec> 08└─Intelligence is always in hindsight ;-)
[09:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:13] <exec> 08└─Yes. And the blind, simplistic claim that achieving a 50/50 distribution represents equality - that is also a way of refusing to examine the situation. It's perhaps a very poor way to examine the situation, but it beats pretending its already solved. It beats handwaving that men are more muscular an...
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[09:45:53] <exec> 08└─do they point to the centre of the Milky way?
[09:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:54] <exec> 08└─This show makes no sense! Why does Ross, the biggest friend simply not eat the others?
[09:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:20] <exec> 08└─Wasn't really aware of them. Their phone doesn't appear to exist yet, although there is a pre-order button, it's basically a gofundme/kickstarter looking page. for $599 you can hope for one in April 2019. . Looks like they roll their own OS based on Linux rather than using Android anyway.
[09:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:15] <exec> 08└─You mean like the Conspiracy Theory that Russia meddled with the US 2016 election?
[09:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:28] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. As a potential hire when the missile silos personnel retire.
[09:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, until someone wires a car battery so they don't have to? Or so they have all 0000000 for launch codes, just so they don't forget? Right? We are fucking lucky we are still alive.
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[10:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:14] <exec> 08└─You have to be kidding me that this whole robocaller thing is due to the government preventing phone companies from shutting this down. What was the real reason? Put people on watchlists in charge of calling every known number so that the entire population can be classified as an associate?
[10:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:26] <exec> 08└─Alternatively: smaller seats mean lower prices, mean more people flying places they don't really need to go, mean more flights, mean more CO2, mean more global warming. Seriously. I'm not a fan of the global warming frenzy, but if we're serious about reducing CO2, the place to start is on long-haul...
[10:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:27] <exec> 08└─You need a heavy truck to haul yo ass around, huge seats everywhere and ambulance crews who consist of semi-professional weight lifters... Maybe try drinking something else besides your sodas.
[10:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:29] <exec> 08└─I think its something like 8 ships bringing cheap crap to the US from china produce as much pollution as all the cars in the world. Trumps tariffs may end up being the most environmentally friendly policy implemented yet.
[10:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:32] <exec> 08└─At least American flights still have seats. Those crazy Europeans want to make their passengers stand like on a bus: https://nypost.com [nypost.com]
[10:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:34] <exec> 08└─Vodka's a good drink.
[10:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:36] <exec> 08└─Beer?
[10:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:38] <exec> 08└─Cheap vodka's a good window cleaner. Now the FAA can regulate seats, will the lobbyists manage to make the minimum the size of a small child?
[10:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:40] <exec> 08└─Don't believe a word of it. RyanAir boss Michael Whatsisname regularly announces outrageous "cost cutting" plans in order to get headlines and associate his brand name with low prices, for example charging customers to use the toilet in flight. Nothing ever comes of these ridiculous plans, it's pure...
[10:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:43] <exec> 08└─Only if you don't drink too much [webmd.com] Make mine a stout [ratebeer.com]
[10:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:45] <exec> 08└─That page is bs. I switched to spiked seltzers from beer which have about the same calories but much fewer carbs. The carbs in beer make you hungry, so you eat more while drinking or the next day.
[10:44:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 855 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:07] <exec> 08└─if SpaceX applied... For one, SpaceX has already built and flown a rocket that can reach all of the Air Force's reference orbits—the Falcon Heavy. Moreover, the Falcon Heavy is already certified for the Air Force and has won contracts. Air Force officials may also feel that, through NASA contracts...
[10:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:11] <exec> 08└─Second thing is that as the rest of the world starts to achieve space successes of their own, it's going to become more of a pissing contest in space. This is going to be incredible for progress in space tech and will also mean we're going to see a lot more stuff going up. We'll even eventually need...
[10:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:13] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting that money comes with strings attached. That might have outweighed the money for SpaceX.
[10:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:51] <exec> 08└─I meant HR as in Resource Dept and no, I wasn't being ironic. I've never seen anything but biologic stupidity from any HR dept I worked with.
[10:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:53] <exec> 08└─But how much of that is due to the cultural gender norms under which females are raised?
[10:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:55] <exec> 08└─Good, me neither. Unless ass-covering by rote counts as a form intelligence.
[10:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:57] <exec> 08└─I wasn't being ironic.
[10:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:59] <exec> 08└─but I'm affraid this will remain forever a mystery of the Universe
[10:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:01] <exec> 08└─None of it! [sciencedirect.com] How many times does science have to disprove this? [nih.gov] Repeatedy? [city.ac.uk]
[10:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:04] <exec> 08└─But how much of that is due to the cultural gender norms under which females are raised?
[10:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:06] <exec> 08└─Better start typing in that 'disgruntled employee' rule set, so that we can create a machine that powers itself back up again and attacks the person who powered it down in the first place.
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[11:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:59] <exec> 08└─Cheap vodka's a good window cleaner
[11:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:01] <exec> 08└─Airlines seem to be engaged in a "race to the bottom". Who can have the least comfortable planes with the worst service? Since the industry apparently cannot fix itself, it's all well and good for the regulators to step in.
[11:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:14] <exec> 08└─Ah, there'd have been a grin, wouldn't there?
[11:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:15] <exec> 08└─Too much free time in you hand, eh?
[11:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:18] <exec> 08└─It's not the employer's responsibility to fix applicants' cultural gender norm issues.
[11:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:20] <exec> 08└─then discovering that this only reënforces historical prejudices.
[11:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:22] <exec> 08└─Then one of the vital hiring characteristics is gender, and you're _requiring_ discrimination by gender (a federally protected class) in your hiring process. I do not feel that your conclusion is incorrect.
[11:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:05] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter. Any species which sends colonists to other stars at even 0.01 C will colonise the whole galaxy remarkably quickly. It's a bit like evolution, there's a selection effect. Some won't get there. Doesn't matter. Others will. Some that get there won't send any further colonies. Doesn't ma...
[11:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:31] <exec> 08└─It won't be called Linux. It'll be called 'Visual L++' and will add all kinds of proprietary enhancements. Linus will then sue Microsoft, and Microsoft will be ordered to discontinue the product and will be enjoined from making any Linux products in future. A couple of years later Microsoft will rel...
[11:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:18] <exec> 08└─Satellite observations continue... They do cool data visualizations of enormous data sets, here's a tour of a dataset, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:51] <exec> 08└─What about Deep Blue C, available on the Atari 800 series? Our company, Innovision, made at least one product (Plexus, a BBS) using it
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[12:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:38] <exec> 08└─Had no idea that these low prices per kWh were being offered, thanks for digging this out. At least some of the low price must be due to high utilization (for lack of a better word), lots of clear days and near equator for minimum atmospheric losses when sun is nearly overhead. Future fantasy -- the...
[12:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:49] <exec> 08└─Not only do I get several of these "neighbor spoofing" calls per day (spoofing my cell area code and exchange), I get several calls per week from people asking why I (meaning my cell number) called them. I also get several calls from out of the area, or out of state, per day. Ignoring robocalls does...
[12:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 1926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:50] <exec> 08└─I retired from managing a regional 18 location 911 system and know how it works. When the number is dialed they have the ability to shut it down. Now we have IP Internet phones when the lack of technology and oversight allows them to spoof the CID. Fixing that got shit canned this year when AhShit P...
[12:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:52] <exec> 08└─Now the Federal Trade Commission is in charge and they have no ability to regulate this.
[12:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:17] <exec> 08└─At least American flights still have seats. Those crazy Europeans want to make their passengers stand like on a bus: https://nypost.com [nypost.com] [nypost.com]
[12:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Publisher Drops Tronc Name, Reverts to Tribune Publishing - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:27] <exec> 08└─Is it going to be like the washington post every other partisan rag in which practically everything they print is based on anonymous sources and is incorrect?
[12:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:42] <exec> 08└─I don't much care whose responsibility it is as long as someone takes responsibility (really everyone has a responsibility to be fair).
[12:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:44] <exec> 08└─I suspect the womxn naturally inclined towards STEM fields always did well before forced "diversity" pulled the statistical average down for them.
[12:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:28] <exec> 08└─The GP's million years is probably about right.
[12:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:29] <exec> 08└─The centre of the galaxy may well produce enough noise that signals are drowned out.
[12:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:18] <exec> 08└─Isp on a rocket motor is much simpler and more useful than that. It is basically how many pounds of thrust you get for each pound of fuel you burn per second. Isp = Thrust (pounds) /Fuel consumption (pounds/sec) The reason pounds are still used is that they cancel out nicely*, leaving you with a sin...
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[13:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:17] <exec> 08└─And I don't know if it's $5 a day. Or $5 a week. Look, our wonderful prisoners work for much less than that. If we wanted to do Solar, we could do it VERY CHEAPLY. We don't want to -- we want our Country to be SAFE. And we want our Energy Grid to be there for us all the time. 100%. If there's a hurr...
[13:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:18] <exec> 08└─Sweihan will build out 1,177MW
[13:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:20] <exec> 08└─That's not really possible. My understanding is that Silicon wafers need a certain type of sand - a particular chemical composition, as it were. Most places, like deserts, either do not have the right type of sand, or the sand is contaminated by impurities. One wouldn't think it possible, but we're...
[13:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:22] <exec> 08└─Then put your $ where your mouth is and bury the wires. Do it well, for the long-haul. Your coal plant's power can't get to society when the wires go down in storms. For the record, I vote for as much solar and wind as possible with energy storage (PowerWall, etc.) in homes and larger installations.
[13:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:35] <exec> 08└─"You have to be kidding me that this whole robocaller thing is due to the government preventing phone companies from shutting this down." Actually yes. Making callerid unspoofable is literally one line of code in an SS7 switch, and has been for over 30 years now. Robocalls are an introduced problem....
[13:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:01] <exec> 08└─A market failure due to lack of competition?
[13:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:34] <exec> 08└─SpaceX conducts launches from Vandenberg under an agreement they have with the Air Force. So of course the USAF is going to "watch the skies" or whatever it does to support the mission.
[13:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:36] <exec> 08└─They'll want to be able to fly "sharks with fricken laserbeams on their heads". Wouldn't you say "Sure thing dude" for $500M? Of course they'll only get a few ill tempered sea bass. But that isn't the point.
[13:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:27] <exec> 08└─you're just as wrong to claim that it's entirely due to nature rather than nurture.
[13:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:29] <exec> 08└─No, the actual problem is the fantasy that women are just as capable as men.
[13:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:31] <exec> 08└─When would that have been?
[13:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:18] <exec> 08└─If a civilization actively wants to be found
[13:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:20] <exec> 08└─Bump it down to 0.001c. If an intelligent civilization formed billions of years ago, such as on an older planet than Earth, then it would have the time to spread. The mystery remains.
[13:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know what past SETI projects tend to look at, but there's a recognizance that some locations may be better than others: Narrow SETI Targets by Looking at Places Where Earth Transits can be Seen [soylentnews.org] Also consider that our solar system may be in a "quiet" part of the Milky Way th...
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[13:48:30] <exec> 08└─21 DVDs (or 11 double-layer ones) didn't look like enough stolen information.
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[13:50:31] <exec> 08└─Nope. You just have to worry about being crushed by your collapsing house or drowning in the storm surge.
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[14:42:43] <exec> 08└─Post.
[14:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 2587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:45] <exec> 08└─Well, that's not a problem is it? You implement the clauses you wrote into multi-billion dollar contracts that say that each day it's over-target Boeing have to pay you money back. You know - non-delivery clauses, and "reasonable timescale" clauses, etc. etc. Or do you mean that you signed a multi-b...
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[14:42:48] <exec> 08└─I'm at a fortune 500 company working on a project delayed by months b/c of red tape and bureaucracy; I cannot fathom what it takes to do a billion dollar business with the government. Not that Boeing isn't culpable too ... just consider all sides to this.
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 1738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/03/nasa-wants-to-waste-tens-of-billions-on-sls-despite-proven-spacex-falcon-heavy.html [nextbigfuture.com] 1. You can't lift that much to orbit (63 metric tons) without expending the entire Falcon Heavy. Although if you are putting the cost at $250m that should be...
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[14:43:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah... about the same time that we can just stick a robot down a mine and out churns pre-fab diamond rings. You need 99.9999999% purity silicon, plus a bunch of other stuff, in a hermetically-sealed environment and even then you could end up throwing away 40-60% of everything you make. Plus, silico...
[14:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:14] <exec> 08└─OP is saying that since the cell carriers are no longer governed as "providers" the FCC is limited in what they can do. Thus, the responsibility of regulating this falls on the FTC (who will do less than the FCC). Either way, waiting for the US government to do anything that is in the best interest...
[14:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─Making callerid unspoofable is literally one line of code in an SS7 switch
[14:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:17] <exec> 08└─SENTRY 3.1 Call Screener
[14:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:19] <exec> 08└─A neighbor-spoofed call will commonly appear on a consumer's caller ID with the same area code and local exchange as the consumer
[14:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. Thanks. Bye.
[14:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:14] <exec> 08└─I built an AI to determine if a person could potentially give birth to a baby. Stupid AI was biased and didn't include any men. The code was pretty simple: if person.sex == 'F': can_potentially_give_birth = 1 else: can_potentially_give_birth = 0 Fucking AI is sexist.
[14:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:15] <exec> 08└─Boys and girls behave differently from birth.
[14:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:17] <exec> 08└─My artificial womb would like a word with you.
[14:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:19] <exec> 08└─If there was not a field fed to the AI for gender then it could not bias against gender. It could bias against something else, a particular skill, or combination of traits, that across that spectrum happened to somewhat correlate with gender. It is like having an AI pick your basketball team; it sho...
[14:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Rainbows End by Rudy Rucker - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:30] <exec> 08└─You should read it even if all the building blocks it uses are not something you are not already familiar with. Or maybe because of that.
[14:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─Oh, these orders of magnitudes! The universe is ~12 Bio yrs old. Life needs 2nd generation stars (heavy elements or metals how the astronomers say; ~ 2 bio yrs) + planet formation (1 bio yrs) + evolution of life to intelligence (~4 bio yrs). If you toss in a 3rd generation (more heavy elements) you...
[14:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:19] <exec> 08└─The transparency and meta updates keep this site reputation tops in my book, thanks!
[14:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:21] <exec> 08└─That's why you should say “won't work”. Then the only way it can go wrong is by actually working.
[14:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:28] <exec> 08└─Good point. I didn't catch that it was a quote from the article.
[14:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:00] <exec> 08└─Nostalgia time... I also remember great (for the era) graphics libraries and stuff like that. Always a trade off, be super portable and run anywhere, or run super well but only on PC-XT with CGA card or whatever.
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[15:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:11] <exec> 08└─I don't know why anyone is surprised that Australians are capable of being as colossally stupid as American have shown themselves to be. After all, Australia gave us Rupert Murdoch, who gave us Fox, the British tabloid press, etc., which in turn gave us Trump and Brexit. In a way, you could make a s...
[15:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:12] <exec> 08└─It's certainly not settled science—there are respectable, qualified people who disagree vehemently with the "climate change" message, and who call into question the methodology and conclusions of research which supports it. Folks, society should NOT spend trillions of dollars re-jiggering itself...
[15:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:15] <exec> 08└─Ukrainian doesn't have a word for "the"
[15:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─...you cannot get any dryer. Screw the climate! Pave the Earth, baby!
[15:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:19] <exec> 08└─Retiring coal-fired power plants is a significant action that could limit our race toward an unstable future.
[15:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:30] <exec> 08└─They better hurry up and build this thing or the SEC guys will have no ride when they want to search warrant raid Elon's mars base.
[15:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:32] <exec> 08└─The usual suspects haven’t gotten around to defending the “free market” on this or similar cases; the F-35 comes to mind for example. And the truth is, there is no free market in Military Industrial Complex, never has and never will. When I was a kid, I watched the Apollo launches on TV and I...
[15:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:34] <exec> 08└─This kind of thing seems to be standard from the major defense contractors, of which Boeing definitely is one. See also the F-35, the most expensive airplane ever, that is about 10 years behind schedule and sucks so much that they just grounded the entire fleet [bbc.com]. Isn't it strange, though, t...
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─So, I have to ask: What can the SLS accomplish that one or more FH/BFR launches cannot?
[15:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:38] <exec> 08└─The entire point of the contract was to give Boeing money. Having penalty clauses would defeat this purpose. The fact that they are also building a rocket is a byproduct.
[15:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:40] <exec> 08└─-ant: "It's no longer an aircraft company. It's a finance company that happens to make airplanes."
[15:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:42] <exec> 08└─Isn't it strange, though, that the people that harp on US government budget concerns never even remotely consider cutting back on buying new ridiculously overpriced toys?
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:45] <exec> 08└─The usual suspects haven’t gotten around to defending the “free market” on this or similar cases; the F-35 comes to mind for example.
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03woodcruft [6528] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:47] <exec> 08└─Well, that's not a problem is it? You implement the clauses you wrote into multi-billion dollar contracts that say that each day it's over-target Boeing have to pay you money back. You know - non-delivery clauses, and "reasonable timescale" clauses, etc. etc.
[15:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─Betteridge was right. These solar systems are not loss leaders.
[15:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:18] <exec> 08└─The generation that uses POTS lines is dying off rapidly
[15:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:20] <exec> 08└─Oh yea, and while I'm sitting inside in my comfortable air conditioned room making calls on my nice stable POTS line, I see my neighbors sitting in their cars or outside on their decks so they can make calls without constant signal drops. And this is in a freaking metro area. Duuuh, but we have to u...
[15:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:22] <exec> 08└─I thought the phone companies made money off of robocalls. Or that the robocallers were paying the companies to allow them through.
[15:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:24] <exec> 08└─For me, it has the exact opposite of the intended effect. I haven't lived in the actual area of my cell's area code for over eight years, and the few people from that area I'm still in contact with are already in my contact list. So obviously any incoming calls from unknown numbers from my area code...
[15:44:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 664 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:34] <exec> 08└─Alternatively: smaller seats mean lower prices, mean more people flying places they don't really need to go, mean more flights, mean more CO2, mean more global warming. Seriously. I'm not a fan of the global warming frenzy, but if we're serious about reducing CO2, the place to start is on long-haul...
[15:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:23] <exec> 08└─NRO satellites, aka spy satellites, are not small payloads. Like any telescope their imaging capabilities are directly related to mirror size. Bigger mirrors=Better images. Add to that their life is limited by fuel. More fuel means a longer life in the same orbit, or the same life in a lower (better...
[15:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:24] <exec> 08└─investing in new technology like BFR is essential for their success.
[15:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:23] <exec> 08└─Agree. Cisgender women have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
[15:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:19] <exec> 08└─Bump it down to 0.001c. If an intelligent civilization formed billions of years ago, such as on an older planet than Earth, then it would have the time to spread.
[15:47:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 1339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:40] <exec> 08└─The benefits of this move, aside from PR and spin, are negated by their Azure Advantage program [pcworld.com].. There are two reasons for that. The first is that OIN only applies to patents that Microsoft is granted. If a non-practicing entity, nominally a patent troll, waltzes in with their own pat...
[15:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:49] <exec> 08└─How about a patent for a method and system to perform an OS update without deleting users data. An OS update that deletes users data is okay. But the way to do an OS update without deleting users' data is patented.
[15:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:09] <exec> 08└─For ages I've occasionally heard CPU power expressed (without numbers) in horsepower. "We need a box with more horsepower." "The new processors have more horsepower." Etc. I suppose that would be the amount of computing that one horse can do in one day? Or somesuch definition.
[15:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:01] <exec> 08└─This kind of thing comes up a lot in world building military sci fi type discussions and there's a lot of unclassified info. Its very unlikely to work in practice. In the sense that in theory after a zombie apocalypse I or someone similar to me could break into a nuclear power plant and turn it up a...
[15:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:37] <exec> 08└─DannyB sounds kind of like VisualB
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[16:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:46] <exec> 08└─And, it's known widely as "The Ukraine", despite what some people claim.
[16:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:47] <exec> 08└─I don't mean that this applies only to the present story (or context for that matter), but I can't help but wonder how people who say these things can look at their kids and not think that they are screwing up with their future lives? Before I had kids, this was not too much of a concern of mine, al...
[16:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:50] <exec> 08└─will make it unbearable
[16:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:52] <exec> 08└─Censored already? Time to repost... It's certainly not settled science—there are respectable, qualified people who disagree vehemently with the "climate change" message, and who call into question the methodology and conclusions of research which supports it. Folks, society should NOT spend trill...
[16:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:55] <exec> 08└─What always kills me is the "It's so hot I'll crank up the AC even more!" without considering that this actually contributes to the larger problem as we get more accustomed to it... I know there are places where it is a necessity, but when it's 25C and people turn on the AC everywhere because anythi...
[16:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:57] <exec> 08└─Censored again? Time to repost... It's certainly not settled science—there are respectable, qualified people who disagree vehemently with the "climate change" message, and who call into question the methodology and conclusions of research which supports it. Folks, society should NOT spend trillion...
[16:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─I don't mean that this applies only to the present story (or context for that matter), but I can't help but wonder how people who say these things can look at their kids and not think that they are screwing up with their future lives?
[16:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:01] <exec> 08└─Someone Bought Me A Wall Wart!
[16:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:03] <exec> 08└─Folks, society should NOT spend trillions of dollars re-jiggering itself based on the nuttery of unhinged people chanting in the streets and hugging who want to cut down all the trees.
[16:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:05] <exec> 08└─Doesn't sound like much of a problem. Energy is cheap.
[16:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:08] <exec> 08└─This type of thinking doesn't help anyone. We are all in this together. If everyone points to the other guy and then carries on 'because the other guy is worse', it will end in disaster. In Alberta here, there are a lot of people that don't think that Canada should work towards reducing CO2 emission...
[16:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─Ask the environmentalists of the Amazon, who have developed an amazing insight: Trees get cut down when nobody officially owns them; it's a Tragedy of the Commons.Trees get and their ecosystems get conserved while being responsibility harvested when somebody officially owns them. Should the Governme...
[16:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:33] <exec> 08└─You seem to think that the wasted time and money on SLS is somehow a problem rather than a goal to be achieved. How many states make some part of the SLS again? Most of them? Surely that is not by accident. The pork must flow.
[16:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:34] <exec> 08└─It almost sounds like you accept "cost plus" as normal. I can't accept that. Congress and it's agencies act like spoiled children with bottomless credit cards. Dozens of project, mostly for the military, but not all, have spiraled out of control, because congress has no discipline. Take the F-35, fo...
[16:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:50] <exec> 08└─I don't really buy your argument, but I do agree that current techniques won't work and can't be reasonably adapted. E.g., I'm rather certain that the reason coke is needed has to do with the cost of that step. And refining to any desired degree of purity is possible, though wildly uneconomic, with...
[16:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 1426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:12] <exec> 08└─As VLM already explained, it is a feature people who actually use phones need. Misuse of it is not a problem technology can fix while still retaining the useful feature. As usual the discussion turns to tech fixes to people problems. And as usual I have been beating this drum for years with a soluti...
[16:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:40] <exec> 08└─These stories all seem to be thinly veiled ads for https://www.jetcards.org [jetcards.org] or similar in the sense of having a gigantic heavily advertised multinational corporation turns out to provide worse more expensive service than less well known smaller alternatives. A little Cessna Citation...
[16:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:42] <exec> 08└─I'd rephrase it as all the airlines are trying to be the "McDonalds of air travel" and the real problem is there's absolutely nobody out there trying to be the "Culvers of air travel". Heck I'd tolerate the "Applebees of air travel". The situation is either you buy soy and pink slime fake meat stuff...
[16:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:44] <exec> 08└─Give everyone a pot brownie while they're in line at the insecurity groping checkpoint. If everyone on the flight is baked they won't care how small the seats are. Cheap, easy, effective. As opposed to their proposed regulation, which is none of the above.
[16:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-16-ships-create-pollution-cars-world.html [dailymail.co.uk]
[16:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Publisher Drops Tronc Name, Reverts to Tribune Publishing - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:57] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Tribune Publishing faces a difficult road in an industry struggling to adapt to a digital world.
[16:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:24] <exec> 08└─If you've got a working artificial womb, I'll go round up some investors and we'd all like a word with you.
[16:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:48] <exec> 08└─Never trust them.
[16:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:29] <exec> 08└─This was the entire problem with the switch to 8 pin SPI. The write protect jumper never actually write protected the hardware. And due to the design they are all soft protected only *AFTER* the system has initialized, the write protect jumper is shorted AND the write protect enable command is then...
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[17:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:56] <exec> 08└─Experian, corporate America's poster child for "hold my beer".
[17:43:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:12] <exec> 08└─will make it unbearable
[17:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:22] <exec> 08└─Ukraine is game to you?!
[17:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:24] <exec> 08└─Energy is cheap because CO2 emission costs are not factored into the cost of energy production. Companies are able to crap up the air you breathe for 0$. Pollution should be taxed.
[17:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:26] <exec> 08└─Pointing out that the name of the country is Ukraine is totally valid. You don't have to wrap it in bullshit linguistics. What is next, arguing that we shouldn't say Switzerland because it is the Swiss Confederation, er Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft/Confédération suisse/Confederazione Svizzera/...
[17:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:28] <exec> 08└─So, there you have it. You want to save the world? Privatize it.
[17:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─... they should build tons of nuclear reactors, and design a well-studied program for dealing with the nuclear waste. But, no. You crazy fucks won't allow that either. So, FUCK YOU.
[17:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─Doesn't sound like much of a problem. Energy is cheap.
[17:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:35] <exec> 08└─Tax monies go to the government coffers. Why should the government get that money? WHY?!
[17:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe to provide health care services to deal with the increased health problems that pollution brings? Maybe the gov't can use the money to build a seawall around Florida so it's not underwater in a few decades? Maybe the government can use the money to send a helicopter in to save your ass after b...
[17:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:39] <exec> 08└─Someone has to lead the charge for a low carbon future. Why shouldn't it be richer first world countries that lead by example?
[17:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:41] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that these are largely the same people who say "But what about Hillary?" to justify gross corruption and dereliction of duties of constitutional oversight.
[17:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:43] <exec> 08└─Who do you suggest should get the money?
[17:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:46] <exec> 08└─Global new coal plant pipeline keeps shrinking [endcoal.org] India and China going cold on most new coal Most of the recent cuts to new coal plant capacity are due to dramatic policy changes in China and India.
[17:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:48] <exec> 08└─Those are issues for The People to figure out amongst themselves; in a free society, people figure out those things through voluntary interaction, not mandate at the point of a gun.
[17:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how to solve the problem, but an externality (like pollution) is usually a sign that property rights are not well defined enough. Why can't you, as an individual, successfully sue the coal power plant owners for dirtying your air? Why can't you and others join a class action lawsuit on...
[17:44:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:06] <exec> 08└─-ant: "It's no longer an aircraft company. It's a finance company that happens to make airplanes."
[17:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:12] <exec> 08└─The Bigelow habitat hasn't yet been proven, but in essence you're right. Just don't be too risk taking, as that's as bad as being too risk averse.
[17:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:15] <exec> 08└─I have been pretty consistent in my desire to cut costs also extending to military and military projects. There was a time when military research also gave all sorts of cool inventions to the common man. I presume the difference now is that companies know that once they are under contract they can s...
[17:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:17] <exec> 08└─Spoken like somebody who doesn't know how government contracting works. Let me rephrase what you propose in more plain English. Government: "I'd like somebody to make a space launch system for me. I'm not sure how much it should lift. I'm not sure what the size and dimensions of it should be. I'm no...
[17:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:32] <exec> 08└─> the cost of solar panels has obviously been tumbling, especially after the Chinese government recently cancelled > a subsidy program for solar panels in that country, causing demand in China to drop Yay ! Cheap panels for every roof ! > The cost of labor is another factor Oh ... Right. The install...
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[17:44:54] <exec> 08└─As did I, but here is what it says in the summary: The FCC last year authorized voice service providers to block more types of calls in which the Caller ID has been spoofed or in which the number on the Caller ID is invalid...The attorneys general said they "encourage the FCC to adopt rules authoriz...
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[17:44:55] <exec> 08└─Your post complete ignores what it says in the summary: The FCC last year authorized voice service providers to block more types of calls in which the Caller ID has been spoofed or in which the number on the Caller ID is invalid...The attorneys general said they "encourage the FCC to adopt rules aut...
[17:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:25] <exec> 08└─A good chunk of travel is business travel, which I wouldn't necessarily view as a voluntary thing. I recall many years ago (maybe in the 90s) an interview with one of the heads of a major airline (I think it was American). He was asked about these issues and he said that they tried all kinds of thin...
[17:46:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 1230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:21] <exec> 08└─"What the hell does it matter if there is an unequal total number of females vs males?" Oh, it matters. Imagine if you will. You are hiring for 100 positions. You get 300 applicants. You go through them judging strictly on the merits and select the best 100. You're so dead set on getting this right...
[17:46:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:25] <exec> 08└─Let me play devil's advocate here, in defense of the machines. The problem with "AI" is simply that it's not intelligent. It's still exactly what it's always been - a number distilling a ruleset in the mind of a programmer into computer language. Nothing more, nothing less.
[17:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:01] <exec> 08└─This post will be down-modded but don't make the mistake of assuming that means it is not true. Modding has nothing to do with it. I'm assuming it's not true because it's on the internet.
[17:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:02] <exec> 08└─statistical judgements based on past results
[17:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:04] <exec> 08└─I don't much care whose responsibility it is as long as someone takes responsibility.
[17:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:06] <exec> 08└─Correct, "biased against women" here is progressive code for "biased in favor of the better candidate". So you assume, based on no evidence, that the woman is the worse candidate. No bias there!
[17:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:09] <exec> 08└─I will say that male fashion designers and male movie makers have a fair amount of influence on shaping female role models according to their own preferences which may not have naturally been the females'.
[17:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:35] <exec> 08└─fuck your "preferred nomenclature" and your pronouns.
[17:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:23] <exec> 08└─I have not yet noticed sluggishness. And yes I disable js/cross-site loads, so it's not that the rest of the world has gotten slower, faster. It's that SN hasn't yet crossed the 100-300ms detection threshold, for my queries/use cases. Much love to the soylentils who keep infrastructure going. Y'all...
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[18:42:41] <exec> 08└─does that include porn star faces?
[18:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:43] <exec> 08└─All your porn faces belong to me! I dunno...my 'monkey circle' is pretty small. I'm probably closer to the 1000 faces people.
[18:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:54] <exec> 08└─If the banks would do their jobs and verify those to whom they give credit, we wouldn't need to freeze our credit.........Lake
[18:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:35] <exec> 08└─Oh, okay. Can you provide an example of that working on a country sized scale?
[18:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:37] <exec> 08└─The only people that win in a class action is the lawyers. Your example solution doens't solve anything though. It only (maybe) gives you money after you have already been harmed. Wouldn't it be better to not be harmed in the first place?
[18:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe since most other problems have been solved it's about giving their kids something to do besides sitting around playing video games and posting on fb. “We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual wa...
[18:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:41] <exec> 08└─Ukrain Ikraine, what's the difference anyway?
[18:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:43] <exec> 08└─He can disagree all he wants - it's a free country - well, not his, but ours is.
[18:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:45] <exec> 08└─My AC runs from the solar panels in my back yard. It's a small 500W window AC, but does a good job. Heating is far more energy intensive.
[18:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:48] <exec> 08└─Keep being ignorant and braonwashed, i think you are bexoming the new court jester round here.
[18:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:50] <exec> 08└─Hillary was right, "deplorables".
[18:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:52] <exec> 08└─You haven't countered my point; you are just helping me identify the problem: Despite it being the explicit goal of the Founders, the various governments of the United States do a pretty poor job of protecting the rights of individuals. I agree with you; the compensation of lawyers is part of the dy...
[18:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:54] <exec> 08└─China has cancelled more coal plants than Australia has. GP's numbers are almost perfect to show that China is doing better: what's the population ratio ?
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:56] <exec> 08└─I wish that was true. In my area there have been some infamous cases of 100% privately owned, beautiful healthy very very old trees which were cut down for stupid power lines. Could have moved the lines, including underground, but nope. Owners tried to fight it but "eminent domain", "right of way",...
[18:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:58] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Australia is calling someones bluff.
[18:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:01] <exec> 08└─You're almost there, just try an inverting heat pump. As long as your winter doesn't drop much below freezing, those work great and you get 3x more heat for your panel buck.
[18:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:03] <exec> 08└─"there are..." This story is based on a specific report, signed by a specific organization with specific authors and specific data sets. Your statement, meanwhile, provides absolutely zero assertions about climate science and zero names associated with those assertions. If you're wondering why peopl...
[18:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:05] <exec> 08└─Look around you. The only reason any society can be maintained for any appreciable amount of time is because of Capitalism. This is even true of, for example, North Korea, where "black" markets are the only thing that actually keeps people alive. You see, your problem is that you think in terms of s...
[18:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:07] <exec> 08└─Well, that's the thing, isn't it? Q: What country has the highest percentage of desert, which is the best land for large solar energy production operations? A: Australia! However, lots of desert works in other ways. For one, it's an all too handy place to dump trash. No one cares much if a desert ge...
[18:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:09] <exec> 08└─"Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change" That entails a specific claim that is in major dispute. One side wants more money and more power over your life. The other side is in danger of losing careers, family, and friends just for speaking up. I think I know whic...
[18:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you say above. The free market is perhaps the best problem solver we have. The government should play the role of the "Intelligent Designer". The government should set conditions to reward good things and punish bad things. Taxes are a tool to that end. Don't like carbon emissions?...
[18:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:39] <exec> 08└─From 2009 to 2016, a contracting officer exceeded his $2.5 million warrant by making multiple unauthorized commitments in the amount of $318 million for contracts for Michoud operations, Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage production, and advanced booster development. This individual was also the pri...
[18:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:41] <exec> 08└─It is obvious you have NEVER worked on a defense contract and are talking out your ass. Why do you think this always happens with GOVT projects? They are the one constant party in this. I don't have time now to list the reasons, but presumably others will chime in.
[18:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:43] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Expandable_Activity_Module [wikipedia.org] If you mean the larger, non-test models, I'd like to see them launched immediately. But the concept works.
[18:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:45] <exec> 08└─Now ask yourself what a govt manager who grossly mismanages or blocks progress on a project has to do to get fired. The answer is: THEY NEVER ARE. The govt is unaccountable because what is going to happen to them, will they go out of business?
[18:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 1911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:26] <exec> 08└─Not at all. I simply assume that, being essentially a press release, it is full of crap. Industry blames the FCC, FCC blames industry, both are generally on the same side since industry long ago achieved regulatory capture. Lots of blame, lots of white papers get written and year after year nothing...
[18:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:27] <exec> 08└─OP is saying that since the cell carriers are no longer governed as "providers" the FCC is limited in what they can do. Thus, the responsibility of regulating this falls on the FTC (who will do less than the FCC).
[18:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:39] <exec> 08└─No, I assume based on diversity quota hiring and it's a safe assumption.
[18:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─Yes. Choose people based on evaluation of only *relevant* criteria.
[18:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:44] <exec> 08└─I think the current strategy is to at least pretend that you're not prejudiced. Thanks for the honesty, I guess.
[18:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:01] <exec> 08└─Bah... summers are hot enough up here too. High 90s and humid is not unusual. Certainly not as hot as down there, but hot enough. No thanks!
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[19:42:57] <exec> 08└─Mine only includes porn star faces.
[19:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:58] <exec> 08└─Think about it for a bit. What is a "face"? Your face in 20s, 30s 40s all different. Identical twins have same/different "faces". A "face" looks different if you view from the left, right, top, bottom, left-bottom, right-top, when smile from the left, when smirking from the right top, when ... How t...
[19:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dast [1633] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:09] <exec> 08└─I mean seriously? SRSLY! How the fuck does Experian even still exist as a business? Do they do anything OTHER than leak our data?
[19:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:10] <exec> 08└─GP's numbers are almost perfect to show that China is doing better: what's the population ratio ?
[19:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:12] <exec> 08└─When I look around, all I see countries which tax their citizens/businesses to fund services. In places with little/no government you don't get this free market utopian dream. You get a place like Somalia, one of the only places on the planet that lacks the structure of government.
[19:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:14] <exec> 08└─So you admit there is a problem? Just need to be able to rage out on something in order to do so? Or are you just getting your rage on using the subterfuge of caring about the problem?
[19:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:16] <exec> 08└─Lol, so if we are absolutists then we're impractical idiots who don't care about reality. If we do care about reality and how to practically make headway on the problem then we're just SJW idiots with an agenda. You're a self-imposed moron, there is nothing left to debate at this point. You're proba...
[19:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:18] <exec> 08└─We were promised it was the "final call" just a few days ago.
[19:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:21] <exec> 08└─Woah now check your privilege! You can't just drop truth bombs on idiots, either their minds will implode or they'll just dig deeper into denial.
[19:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:23] <exec> 08└─Thinking along these lines, I wonder if success isn't its own worst enemy. Perhaps life proceeds in a virtue to vice to virtue cycle? Success -> complacency -> decline -> failure. Trouble is, to get from failure back to success is a whole lot harder than the other direction, in which all you have to...
[19:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:25] <exec> 08└─Government control *REEEEEE* violently imposed monopoly REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE taxes...theft....freedumbs.....REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...
[19:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the stupid side. Like really stupid. History will judge you assholes accordingly if any such records persist. Maybe our society will be referred to as the "arrogant stupid ancients" that destroyed the world. I have little doubt that humanity will survive pretty much whatever, but I'd prefer if...
[19:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:29] <exec> 08└─...than to speak out and remove all doubt.
[19:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:31] <exec> 08└─China. The problem is not plastic shopping bags that get thrown into landfills. The problem is the completely unfilitered and extremely poisonous runoff from China, combined with their complete lack of regulation. Every "climate voter" should have voted Trump, because manufacturing coming back to th...
[19:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:34] <exec> 08└─The address I gave was the homeless day center in Oldtown Portland. I figure it should be here by then
[19:44:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 2587 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:44] <exec> 08└─Well, that's not a problem is it? You implement the clauses you wrote into multi-billion dollar contracts that say that each day it's over-target Boeing have to pay you money back. You know - non-delivery clauses, and "reasonable timescale" clauses, etc. etc. Or do you mean that you signed a multi-b...
[19:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─In the past, Congress has largely ignored criticism of the SLS rocket, even from official sources. After all, the vehicle has 1,100 contractors in 43 states, covering a lot of legislative districts. https://arstechnica.com
[19:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:07] <exec> 08└─And reset the $ clock whenever the government fails to make its specifications clear enough to proceed. I have no doubt Boeing is responsible for the lion's share of the overruns. But we have also seen other projects from the government which sounded really good but then government specs kept on enc...
[19:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:09] <exec> 08└─Because crony capitalism as exists in America (and Russia) is conflated with "free markets." Any mention of regulation or oversight of corporations is seen as "socialist" or worse, pure communism. I'm all for free markets but I believe bad actors need to pay a high price. Examples: Volkswagen, Wells...
[19:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:11] <exec> 08└─> Why is it that such agencies, such projects, and large governmental-scale things never do this? Because otherwise the risk would be such that no-one would bid on the contract. 12 billion is enough to shut down Boeing. The risk would be way too great if there were penalty clauses.
[19:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Super-Cheap Solar Fields in the Middle East Just Loss-Leaders? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:28] <exec> 08└─Topologically, solar panels look like drywall. Maybe they can modify that drywall-hanging robot to do the installs and cut that labor margin down to 1/2 (that other half is for administrative overhead, of course).
[19:45:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 1926 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:38] <exec> 08└─I retired from managing a regional 18 location 911 system and know how it works. When the number is dialed they have the ability to shut it down. Now we have IP Internet phones when the lack of technology and oversight allows them to spoof the CID. Fixing that got shit canned this year when AhShit P...
[19:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─In my case [slashdot.org], it was just a good guess that they would ever pass (yet to pass in the Senate, though) something like this. I swear on my life.
[19:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:25] <exec> 08└─Not quite. Air travel is very, very far from a free market. Sure it was all 'deregulated' and stuff way back in the day, but in reality all it really meant was that it was about as deregulated as the NYC cab industry, which is to say not at all.
[19:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:10] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what they did?
[19:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:32] <exec> 08└─I just wish DDG's image search wasn't somehow actually shittier than Bing.
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[20:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:12] <exec> 08└─First a hole in a Soyuz transport. Now, this. Anyone have any theories as to what's going on? I'll make an opening bid of it being Russian(s) interested in discrediting their corrupt government.
[20:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:13] <exec> 08└─Raise you on Russian government blames NASA for sabotaging Soyuz; uses it as political leverage against US
[20:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:15] <exec> 08└─iWantToKeepAnon asks: Does anyone know why there were only 2 crew member aboard?
[20:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:17] <exec> 08└─Is it statistically significant? If not then who cares?
[20:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:19] <exec> 08└─But the escape craft up there has a hole in it. Don't they have to send another one up to get them home?
[20:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:22] <exec> 08└─Does it get CLICKS? That's who cares! (I wish I had known beforehand that it's a bad idea to roll a joint with flash paper.)
[20:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:24] <exec> 08└─What leverage? The USG and Putin have had bad relations for years, even under President Trump. And soon, SpaceX and Boeing will be carrying astronauts to the ISS. Although the timeline probably won't speed up too much: https://arstechnica.com
[20:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:26] <exec> 08└─As we all know all things bad and wrong are Russians. Even if the action does not expressly benefit Russia it is safe to assume that this was done by Russians to spite other Russians to in some way help Mother Russia. My take is that chances are everyone onboard the ISS are Russians or [[[AINO]]] (A...
[20:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:28] <exec> 08└─The hole is in the orbital module, not the descent stage. However, I would not want to be the one returning to Earth in the holey spacecraft. Who knows what else is wrong with it.
[20:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:30] <exec> 08└─When is the soonest that a Dragon authorized for crew is able to get up there?
[20:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.space.com/42009-nasa-space-station-soyuz-air-leak-update.html [space.com] The air leak was detected on Aug. 29 after a slight drop in pressure aboard the station, which was then traced to a 0.08-inch-wide (2 millimeters) hole in a Soyuz capsule that docked to the space station in June an...
[20:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:35] <exec> 08└─The Russians can blame the Chinese. The Chinese can blame the US. Trump can tweet about how the Russians are our best friends. The very best. You've never seen a friend as good as Russia. And believe me, I know who to make friends with. We have the best chemistry. The very best. While China is hacki...
[20:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:37] <exec> 08└─Under the current plans, they would get there in June 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The first orbital test of Crew Dragon 2 will be an uncrewed mission, designated SpX-DM1 and scheduled, as of October 2018, for January 2019. The spacecraft will test the...
[20:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:39] <exec> 08└─I think right now the Chinese have the most to gain between increased US-Russian tensions. Doesn't mean we should be overly friendly with Russia, but if I had to choose one or the other I would rather be on the side with Russia.
[20:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:51] <exec> 08└─I probably know 10000 faces ... and would be hard pressed to match them to 100 names. But hey, I can name almost every country capital in the world ! Weird brain.
[20:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:53] <exec> 08└─Faces I remember. Names? Unless I happen to use them on a regular basis I will forget them. You can tell me your name and I'll have forgotten it a few seconds later. I'll run into people I've met only a few times, and I'll think "they look familiar" but 9 times out of 10 I won't remember their name.
[20:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 1564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:05] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as identity theft. There is only fraud. That is, someone claiming to be me convinces a bank to give them a load of money with little to no verification (certainly not effective verification). From a legal perspective, that's between the bank and the fraudster. I am not involve...
[20:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:06] <exec> 08└─518-92-8663
[20:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:08] <exec> 08└─I figured it would be good for a few laughs but they never sent it
[20:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:22] <exec> 08└─Trump said that Trump has "bravery" for tackling climate issues, while Trump returned the compliment, saying Trump "can speak for me any time he wants. he’s a smart cookie. He gets it."
[20:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:24] <exec> 08└─How is that "100% privately owned"? It sounds NOTHING Like "100% privately owned", unless you consider the government to be the private owner. How do you people even tie your shoes? Seriously. It's like you don't even understand what you're saying.
[20:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:26] <exec> 08└─It's not surprising that warlords arise in the fall of an authoritarian culture. People's lives have improved immensely (even outpacing the quality of life in nearby "stable" countries) since the fall of Communism. Indeed, one of the reasons for this improvement is that old quasi-capitalist tribal r...
[20:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:28] <exec> 08└─... and welfare rewards failure. That's what you're saying.
[20:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:30] <exec> 08└─The FedEx tracking says it was delivered yesterday.
[20:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:32] <exec> 08└─I would go pick it up today but I'm still not feeling right in the head. I figure I should stay home one more day.
[20:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:34] <exec> 08└─How is that "100% privately owned"? It sounds NOTHING Like "100% privately owned", unless you consider the government to be the private owner. How do you people even tie your shoes? Seriously. It's like you don't even understand what you're saying.
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:09] <exec> 08└─You can thank one place for NASA's politics and pork: Congress.
[20:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built for the Next Decade - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:03] <exec> 08└─> Capitalism is the ultimate democracy. Maybe we'll try it some day. We can't afford it.
[20:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:14] <exec> 08└─... of the users they will be shown to This has been reported in the press yet strangely no one cares, meanwhile our republican Congresscritters are raining hellfire and brimstone down on the liberals who run Silicon Valley While the FB job ads are built on the same code as all their "Boosted Posts"...
[20:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:15] <exec> 08└─There were only two resumes with that word in it so the AI figured they were undesirable
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[21:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO, CNN, DC Comics, and More Could Join a Streaming Video Service Under AT&T - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:19] <exec> 08└─According to a report in July shortly after the AT&T acquisition, it didn't take long for the company to start talking about plans to shake things up at the boutique channel. AT&T executives said then that they want to move HBO towards creating more content with distribution to mobile devices in min...
[21:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO, CNN, DC Comics, and More Could Join a Streaming Video Service Under AT&T - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:21] <exec> 08└─There is only Kodi.
[21:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:44] <exec> 08└─That's true. Due to its crappy economy and demographics, Russia will never have the same power and influence it had before the collapse of the Soviet Union. China on the other hand has almost everything it needs or more to compete with the U.S. on the world stage. The problem is that Russia is run b...
[21:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:45] <exec> 08└─This is apparently the first time one of these abort systems has been used to save astronauts
[21:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:47] <exec> 08└─"We lifted off, so it still counts, thanks. By the way, I'm not going back in there". Their poor families too holy crap...
[21:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:02] <exec> 08└─A couple of years ago I met someone who has prosopagnosia, commonly known as "face blindness". This woman, who is nearing 50, has had this all her life and learned from an early age how to use other indicators in order to distinguish people close to her. For instance, she remembers that one daughter...
[21:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:04] <exec> 08└─I have the same problem. It helps if I repeat their name when I first meet them, but even then it's a struggle. I marvel at the people who seem to be able to remember everyone they meet. I met former Missouri Governor (and later Senator) Kit Bond once when I was 17. I saw him again something like tw...
[21:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:18] <exec> 08└─Identity theft is simply one kind of fraud. And it can be more than just obtaining a fraudulent loan - for instance, a convicted criminal could steal someone else's identity in order to get a job or avoid the consequences of being on the sex offender registry by pretending to be someone with a clean...
[21:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:41] <exec> 08└─Pave the Earth, baby!
[21:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:43] <exec> 08└─How is that "100% privately owned"? It sounds NOTHING Like "100% privately owned", unless you consider the government to be the private owner. How do you people even tie your shoes? Seriously. It's like you don't even understand what you're saying.
[21:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:45] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer if we built a better more resilient society.
[21:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:47] <exec> 08└─Blah blah climate change guilt superiority blah blah: ...unless governments of the world coordinate to implement multiple long-term changes, we risk...ecosystem damage, increasingly dramatic heat waves and previously-irregular weather patterns in different regions, and subsequent health impacts for...
[21:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:49] <exec> 08└─English speakers tell non-English speakers how something is anglicized. A lot of English speakers say "the Ukraine".
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:27] <exec> 08└─A lot of what I saw going on around NASA Houston was: buildings full of people working on projects, with big corporate names virtually velcroed to the top. Every few years management would be shifted from one major corporation to another, the building-top sign would change, but 95+% of the workforce...
[21:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:28] <exec> 08└─You will find zero bidders at fixed price for anything even vaguely new. A contractor would have to be out of their mind to take such a deal unless the fixed price was an order of magnitude above the expected actual cost and the contract penalized the government heavily for any delays whatsoever whe...
[21:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocallers "Evolved" to Sidestep New Call Blocking Rules, 35 State AGs Tell FCC - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:13] <exec> 08└─I like this foghorn idea. It would be more convenient though if phones just had a foghorn button on them.
[21:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:49] <exec> 08└─Having a minimum standard for airline seating is not unreasonable, however I question the thought process which leads to proposing new rules while noting that there is already a rule and the study which is to examine compliance with that rule has not been done yet. Can planes be evacuated in 90 seco...
[21:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Passes Bill to Require Minimum Standards for Airplane Seat Size, Legroom - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:50] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't help this guy [youtube.com], but better late than never.
[21:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:43] <exec> 08└─-k. Consider admiral hopper or apollo's head coder. Computer programming was once regarded as clerical work. It transitioned to mostly male around the mid seventies
[21:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:44] <exec> 08└─Those same differences were cited by those who opposed women in combat, until some general testified before congress that "women were just as lethal as men" It happens that the very last combat role that women were not permitted to perform was machine gunner. I expect that wasn't due to strength dif...
[21:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:47] <exec> 08└─We don't know how this "AI" was trained but the question remains, how could a statistical model that doesn't factor gender be biased on the basis of gender? There was a similar story out of (I think Australia) earlier this year where they removed gender from applications before consideration and fou...
[21:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:49] <exec> 08└─Nobody should have the power to impose their preferred cultural norms over anyone else's.
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[22:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO, CNN, DC Comics, and More Could Join a Streaming Video Service Under AT&T - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:21] <exec> 08└─It's the same stuff over and over. Do something else with your time, even if its just drinking beer and staring at the night sky.
[22:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06HBO, CNN, DC Comics, and More Could Join a Streaming Video Service Under AT&T - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:23] <exec> 08└─... that you can avoid by torrenting.
[22:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO, CNN, DC Comics, and More Could Join a Streaming Video Service Under AT&T - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:25] <exec> 08└─1 or 2 years? I thought we went past Peak Entertainment some years ago, actually.
[22:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:53] <exec> 08└─The hole is in the orbital module, not the descent stage.
[22:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:54] <exec> 08└─What a wild ride. A very rare, unique human experience. These two will have a cool story to tell.
[22:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:57] <exec> 08└─OTOH, the choices are finish the salad they have inspected, another salad from the same kitchen with less time to inspect it, or wait for the guy who has never prepared food for human consumption before to finish building his kitchen and get it inspected. The first and third option are less likely t...
[22:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:13] <exec> 08└─My face from 3/4 left is the same face as my face from the front, and as my face from 3/4 right. People who recognise those three things recognise exactly one face. Looks like we've got a flat-facer troll
[22:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:14] <exec> 08└─If you're looking at their faces, you're doing it wrong.
[22:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:31] <exec> 08└─2 factors combine to make them basically immune from consequences for this stupidity: 1. The data they're leaking isn't customer data. Instead, the data in question is their product. 2. The victims of the leaked data either don't know enough to do anything about it, accept a crappy insurance plan, o...
[22:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PINs and Needled: Experian Site Blabbed Codes to Unlock Credit Accounts for Fraudsters - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:32] <exec> 08└─The trickery is that by claiming that the simple fraud is somehow "identity theft" against the 3rd party that still has their identity and knew nothing about it, it pushes the losses their way instead of keeping them firmly between the fraudster and the negligent company that was defrauded. I used b...
[22:44:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 890 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know why anyone is surprised that Australians are capable of being as colossally stupid as American have shown themselves to be. After all, Australia gave us Rupert Murdoch, who gave us Fox, the British tabloid press, etc., which in turn gave us Trump and Brexit. In a way, you could make a s...
[22:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:02] <exec> 08└─Nope. Not what I said at all.
[22:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:04] <exec> 08└─It will wait. Do what is right for you. Your health takes priority over everything.
[22:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─Then why do you keep posting?
[22:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:08] <exec> 08└─Wrong. That kind of statement is what makes people regard you as stupid. I doubt you're actually stupid, just propagandized and clueless.
[22:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:10] <exec> 08└─With 6 chambers loaded.
[22:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:12] <exec> 08└─How is that "100% privately owned"? It sounds NOTHING Like "100% privately owned", unless you consider the government to be the private owner. How do you people even tie your shoes? Seriously. It's like you don't even understand what you're saying.
[22:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:53] <exec> 08└─Nah, the whole point of the SLS was to re-use all the garbage they used on the Shuttle, so they could keep the pork going to the same districts. There's not much new here except in terms of scale, which I grant is a problem all it's own, but when the project is sold as "re-use all the Shuttle know-h...
[22:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SETI: Not Successful Because We Are Barely Even Looking? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:08] <exec> 08└─Please, show me a culture on Earth that started with high-speed digital communications and migrated to low-resolution analog ones. Or were you just trying to show off your superiority by regurgitating the old "we don't know what aliens will do!" line without bothering with any actual thoughts? You d...
[22:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:30] <exec> 08└─Just wanted to plug in a quick sign of appreciation too. The old place was nice until it wasn't. SN is very nice.
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[23:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Firefox Lightbeam for Visualizing On-the-Fly the Benefits of Privacy - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:50] <exec> 08└─Use PaleMoon and you'll realize why Firefox jumped the shark when the pink-haired CoC dingbats took over and used all the R+D funding for gender-neutral bathrooms.
[23:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO, CNN, DC Comics, and More Could Join a Streaming Video Service Under AT&T - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:05] <exec> 08└─how much of that crap is worth torrenting?
[23:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO, CNN, DC Comics, and More Could Join a Streaming Video Service Under AT&T - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:07] <exec> 08└─I heard that "Batman meets Ms Captain America, the Prequel" is at least as good as anything you'll find on HBO these days.
[23:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:39] <exec> 08└─That is interesting.. Would having a positive relationship with one-party Russia harm or hurt us when/if they finally break free? I recall articles from a while back where Russia was working on their own great firewall, this could significantly hamper their chances to break free I would assume.
[23:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:40] <exec> 08└─#CrookedHillary should not be ruled out... she has it in for the Russkies.
[23:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Crew Vehicle Fails Mid-Flight, Astronauts OK - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:42] <exec> 08└─I don't think we'll have any problem with that at this point. Like I said, even Trump has not brought the two nations much closer together. We've repeatedly imposed sanctions on Russia this year. Other Western countries are pretty much on the same page. For example, the UK [bellingcat.com]. I don't...
[23:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Suggests People Know an Average of 5,000 Faces - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:01] <exec> 08└─I think it's a matter of resource allocation. In my experience the more technical knowledge a person has the less social, and vice versa.
[23:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:55] <exec> 08└─A tax on "vice" is indistinguishable from a tax on productive work. And, you know what? WHY SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT GET THAT MONEY, ANYWAY?
[23:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:56] <exec> 08└─I agree with you; the compensation of lawyers is part of the dysfunction.
[23:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:58] <exec> 08└─Implicit assumption: we can't get out of poverty without hearing the climate. Care to demonstrate this assumption? Otherwise, you are proposing a false dillema.
[23:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:01] <exec> 08└─Thinking along these lines, I wonder if success isn't its own worst enemy.
[23:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:03] <exec> 08└─Mother Nature deals in ABSOLUTES. Any blabbing about "ratios" just gives away your SJW agenda.
[23:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:05] <exec> 08└─Sorta. With state governments calling off the bluff of the inept federal govt [energymatters.com.au]
[23:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:07] <exec> 08└─Idiotic. Even for a troll post. Almost insultingly so. Grow up, pal.
[23:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:09] <exec> 08└─* Trees grow back,
[23:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:12] <exec> 08└─Just once in your sad SJW life
[23:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Doesn't Care to Break its Coal Habit in the Face of Climate Change - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:14] <exec> 08└─carbon:population is a (very rough) estimate of how hard any society needs to work to reduce total carbon.
[23:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's a New Report on SLS Rocket Management, and It's Pretty Brutal - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:54] <exec> 08└─This is a good summary. The leverage the customer, in this case NASA, has is bagging them publicly like this when they perform inadequately. The contractors depend on reputation a lot as they depend on big projects like this, to stay alive.
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