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[00:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:41] <exec> 08└─John F. Kennedy said September 12, 1962 : "We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things,..... " On July 20, 1969 we made it. Saturn V - On time.
[00:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:58] <exec> 08└─That's some wicked spin to suggest ads are opportunities. 99% of ads I have ever seen are pure consumerism if not outright spam. Waste your money on some product or service you do not need! Even those that might be genuine opportunities such as the help wanted ads-- the ones that aren't obvious scam...
[00:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:59] <exec> 08└─This story reminds me of Gibson's Neuromancer. We are like frogs on slowly heated \frying pan, and it looks like we the nerds are the Eichmans of this plot.
[00:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:01] <exec> 08└─Since all so called male products are designed by queers, I am not sure what you are missing.
[00:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:03] <exec> 08└─not all of us - remember the Unabomber.
[00:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:16] <exec> 08└─As anybody who has worked with automated computer language translation can tell you, this will be fairly bad. I imagine it will be better with a "dead" language, but still, natural language processing is one of the harder aspects of artificial intelligence. As such, I'm sure their automated translat...
[00:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:08] <exec> 08└─> Many of the rich may indeed be awful greedy fucks - but so are many of the poor. And some of the poor (and not so poor) are in the cash economy, not paying taxes the old fashioned way by not reporting income. Any idea how much money is "off the books" in USA? This https://www.npr.org
[00:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:09] <exec> 08└─Non-existent people don't matter.
[00:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:21] <exec> 08└─Errr, while I see the evils of censorship and tracking it doesn't quite compare to a business literally built on death and destruction. It is quite apparent to anyone who cares to look that most of the US military actions are unnecessary and done for-profit. You can fuck right off with your equivale...
[00:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying there is equivalency. I'm saying the tech industry is where the evil is. Defense contractors support their country, while the tech industry prefers to spy on it and sell it out. Death and destruction can be beneficial. This is how nations resolve conflicts. Adults accept this. I would...
[00:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:53] <exec> 08└─PC Magazine is still a thing?
[00:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:32] <exec> 08└─OK. How about instead I say "I would never touch something obtained from a drug dealer no matter what they claimed it was"? Though, to be honest, recreational drugs are not my thing anyway even if 'safe'. I did come to this conclusion watching many friends get messed up on various drugs, and lost th...
[00:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:33] <exec> 08└─Certain occupations have stricter requirements; say medical or financial personal. In fact there are very few professions of upper middle class level without that kind of restrictions.
[00:53:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Apple Speaks Out Against Australian Anti-Encryption Law; Police Advised Not to Trigger Face ID - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:09] <exec> 08└─I want a phone that has physical switches for each part (not just momentary switches which software interprets as a signal to shutdown, but the type that psychically breaks the connection). A bunch of dip switches under a little cover to control bluetooth, wifi, cell, gps, camera, mic, sound, and of...
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[01:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 2724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:27] <exec> 08└─"No." It's a simple - yet powerful - word. Yet, despite this, the latest generations did not grasp this word's meaning, having never been told, "No." This has resulted in an entire generation of people who are whiny, entitled, and do not understand boundaries. This is all too simple to see, but what...
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[01:43:28] <exec> 08└─You used to make good calculators, now you just leak trade secrets.
[01:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:31] <exec> 08└─They used to make a number of good things besides calculators. Mini computers, electronic test instruments, bulletproof laser printers....
[01:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:42] <exec> 08└─At this point it looks like Boeing is just a way for politicians to give US taxpayers money away. If a useful product comes out the other end, that's nice bonus. The important thing is a bunch of jobs the Senator or Congressman can point to.
[01:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:43] <exec> 08└─"Why be on time if you're paid more when you're late?" - Anonymous Government Contractor Inc
[01:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:45] <exec> 08└─Shills? More fairly unbalanced than an aristarchus submission. Guess editorship has its privilege.
[01:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 2848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:47] <exec> 08└─"No." It's a simple - yet powerful - word. Yet, despite this, the latest generations did not grasp this word's meaning, having never been told, "No." This has resulted in an entire generation of people who are whiny, entitled, and do not understand boundaries. This is all too simple to see, but what...
[01:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:49] <exec> 08└─If a useful product comes out the other end, that's nice bonusmoney that could have been spent on bigger bonuses.
[01:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:52] <exec> 08└─That put the first human on the moon. On the fing moon. On time. Whereas Boeing has the lead in creating a "bloated, grounded, peice of vaporvessel built with 2010s pork and mirrors." And lel at the astronomer smack: 'Perhaps NASA astronomers will soon be able to judge exactly how many "light years...
[01:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:54] <exec> 08└─No, the rickety metal bucket put the "astronauts" on a soundstage... flags don't flutter on the real moon.
[01:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:56] <exec> 08└─At least Boeing has a Chairman.
[01:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:58] <exec> 08└─Ha! You are indeed MostCynical.
[01:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:21] <exec> 08└─I'll have to work harder: http://www.pixelbegone.org [pixelbegone.org] I had a great hosts file on my Mom's iMac before I hid all her desktop documents, set Conie kneeling from kindgirls as her desktop photo the converted Adequacy.org's "Your Son May Be A Computer Hacker" to PDF then left it on her...
[01:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:22] <exec> 08└─worse, the ads can be for items that you've researched, that you have no intention of every buying (friend buys x, is it any good? Someone asks what item you recommend, so you look at what is available.. a child uses your computer and now you see ads for paw patrol toys..) it is always disconcerting...
[01:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:24] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be an asymptote in this case?
[01:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Serialized Fiction Review: DeathWorlders - 2498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:49] <exec> 08└─Ive read up to the chapters publish back in August, couple of notes for interested readers. A) It has a particularly American rightwing bent (This may be a deal breaker, it was for me in the end as it just became too obnoxious to continue to enjoy the story otherwise) i) Glorification of the Mil...
[01:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:45] <exec> 08└─Wasn't Lockheed-Martin Marietta the biggest merger?
[01:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:07] <exec> 08└─I can envision them shooting down "harmless" drones that are filming police protests from the air.
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[02:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:30] <exec> 08└─What's with all this DDR4 shit? Where is the DDR5?
[02:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:32] <exec> 08└─At work, the laptops are fairly new. Yet, they've been castrated at the memory level. I won't even mess with them, because they rely on virtual memory in place of memory. People sit and stare at their screen, waiting, and waiting, and waiting for a document to load. Installing just 8 gig of memory w...
[02:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:50] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like aristarchus needs to unplug, man. You know, get some R and R?
[02:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:52] <exec> 08└─IDK, the right plug might help out a lot.
[02:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:54] <exec> 08└─Good Lord! What's next, a Flat Earther on SoylentNews? Unless that's some kind of joke. In which case: well played sir!
[02:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:56] <exec> 08└─Flat Earth, electric universe, you name it. But I think we need more weather war. In fact, the flag fluttering on the moon is proof of a lunar atmosphere that NOAA doesn't want us to know about! (Clearly!) NOAA is planning to use chemtrails and artificial hail storms against anyone who tries to set...
[02:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't that why the GAO was created? One would think the GOA would mosie on over to NASA, and instruct them that if they don't demand the fucking bonus checks back, somebody is going to jail. Because when the federal government pays for shit it didn't get, that is called fraud, and it is a felony. Of...
[02:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:23] <exec> 08└─He's very well named. He may be, weight for weight, the single most corrosive commenter on the entire site. Uzzard is at least occasionally funny, and most of what he posts is just him demonstrating how far he can shove his beak up his cloaca. Entropy, though, posts hateful content-free shit like th...
[02:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:24] <exec> 08└─Not trying real hard eh? Once you've considered all of the buyers and sellers of unconsensually obtained surveillance data, you've pretty much impacted most facets of most peoples lives in some way. The question isn't how many ways people are being harmed. The question is: "What parts of peoples liv...
[02:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:26] <exec> 08└─Techs and nerds see advertising? Why? Is it part of the job? Is it in your contract, that you must permit advertiser's access to your desktop? How about your servers? I see no advertising on my desktop. I've blocked the majority of ad servers at the router, and all of my browsers have uBlock and oth...
[02:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:29] <exec> 08└─What ads? I block like EVERYTHING. It's a lovely adless existance. Yes some pages do look a bit wonky, or won't display at all, but I have yet to feel I'm missing out so much that I'll stop the blocking. The other issue tho, how many things you type and leave behind? Well I'm not going to be running...
[02:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Serialized Fiction Review: DeathWorlders - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:50] <exec> 08└─That's more story than I'd want to start reading, but its cool to hear people are having fun on the internet!
[02:45:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 716 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:03] <exec> 08└─"Because the rich are awful greedy fucks who no one holds to account, us regular people are gonna end up killing each other." That's a shitty way of looking at it, and clearly untrue. Many of the rich may indeed be awful greedy fucks - but so are many of the poor. Don't fall into the fallacy of the...
[02:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:33] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck thinks Trump is anything but an artifact of increasingly terrible material conditions for most people plus stupid as fuck voters who can't see who actually caused their problems?
[02:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:34] <exec> 08└─"The non-rich's I-really-want-money is focused on things like "how the hell am I going to pay my rent and eat and get medical care." And, in some cases, how am I going to get drugs and party the night away... as another already pointed out, there are a LOT more poor people, and some of them do indee...
[02:47:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 1208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:01] <exec> 08└─RSS *doesn't* update automatically. It's just the same content as the website, delivered through the same mechanisms, but in a more machine readable format. RSS is awesome precisely because it lets you ignore all of the Javascript and all of the auto-refresh and auto-movement and obnoxious styleshee...
[02:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:15] <exec> 08└─If entries get a datestamp and your rss reader keeps a list of the last datestamp checked, then you can easily filter results based on when the entries were last updated. As an added bonus, if entries are updated later and still in the feed you can get the fresh entries, plus the updated entries, fo...
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[03:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:23] <exec> 08└─From wikipedia Until the release of Winamp in 1997, WinPlay3 was the sole option for playing MP3-compressed music on Microsoft Windows.
[03:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:25] <exec> 08└─Why would I need a new one? v2.95 still works. It's quite small to.
[03:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR5_SDRAM [wikipedia.org] 2019-2020.
[03:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:41] <exec> 08└─That's what my Xeon box has. FB-DIMM too, so Mom once asked me, "Mike, could you show me how to do an orderly shutdown of your space heater?" This because she knows that it's unsafe to leave a space heater on when one is asleep. I've loaded that box quite heavily yet there's never been any paging. M...
[03:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:43] <exec> 08└─My MacBook Pro has 16 GB, but I think that's DDR5 or so.
[03:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:07] <exec> 08└─Who is this aristarchus of whom you speak? Does he have a fixation on the SLS?
[03:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:36] <exec> 08└─I think it was Tuesday anyway. So I told my five thousand facebook friends what SN has known all along: When AC applies stern and just punishment for my creation of Soggy Jobs, William Jefferson Clinton stands at attention. I got lots of likes on that post.
[03:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:37] <exec> 08└─It's Because I Am A Shameless Whore [pixelbegone.com]. Yes, ad servers enable tracking but ad servers alone won't be as precise as tracking pixels are. There are a few native ad companies, they serve ads to your server, your server serve ads already embedded in its content. While in principle track...
[03:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:39] <exec> 08└─OK I fixed it. I fixed it good.
[03:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:42] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious. The ad was for an institution of higher learning that enables CIA agents to advance in their careers. I took a screen shot but I don't have a clue where I put it. Between that ad and my really having applied for the USAF Cyber Command in 2008 got mixed together with the Clar...
[03:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:50] <exec> 08└─Depends on what percentage you use. If you go by % of people who are rich*, you are right. If you go by % of wealth owned by rich people, you are dead wrong. *Let's define rich as having 1000 times the median wealth. I would bet serious money that the 0% of people who are 'rich' own more than 80% of...
[03:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:06] <exec> 08└─Lockheed and Martin Marietta Set to Merge in $10 Billion Deal [nytimes.com] (1994) Guess it depends on how you measure it.
[03:50:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:21] <exec> 08└─How about this marketing campaign: With 5G, you can reach your arbitrarily imposed bandwidth cap 5x faster!
[03:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From 'problem Child' to 'prodigy'? LSD Turns 75 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the Feds still consider it to be illegal. That has lots of knock-on effects, such as high prices.
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[04:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:50] <exec> 08└─Feeling old.
[04:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:52] <exec> 08└─Running on my Win 10 desktop at work, at this very moment.
[04:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:08] <exec> 08└─Revive me when they reach DDR64 spec, will ye?
[04:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:09] <exec> 08└─2 gigs is probably MORE than enough for your work; you've just got crappy software.
[04:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:35] <exec> 08└─-1 Incomprehendable?
[04:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:10] <exec> 08└─This is interesting to me because right now I am -the- most valuable market segment: young, working professional woman planning a wedding and expecting her first child shortly. Aside from absolutely breathless email marketing from companies at which I have actually bought products, I have not notice...
[04:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe, once they get the tech nailed down, they can turn their attention to the modern hieroglyphics known as emoji. Whenever I see them, I can't help thinking that the poster is saying "look at me, I'm an illiterate baboon".
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[05:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory Fixed - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:17] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[05:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory Fixed - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:18] <exec> 08└─I like naughty but can't stand bad. So, yeah, there you have it.
[05:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:50] <exec> 08└─Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
[05:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:51] <exec> 08└─The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.
[05:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:43] <exec> 08└─What no-one seems to have mentioned so far is what happens when they actually shoot down the drone, or whatever. These things are typically flown over heavily-populated areas, and the "shoot it down" proposal would involve either filling the air with lots of lead, lots of small explosive projectiles...
[05:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:47] <exec> 08└─MOAR POCKET MOAR MOAR MOAR!!!
[05:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:06] <exec> 08└─You're right, politically neutral is a hollow slogan that is neither meaningful nor possible. Everyone is biased, and the bias of those in charge of a company can't help but bleed through. Republicans, Democrat, Libertarian, simply doesn't matter. It's one biased viewpoint pointing at the other bias...
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[06:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:40] <exec> 08└─The reason to use Winamp is precisely because it isn't a "complete listening experience": I don't have to sign into it. Winamp doesn't molest my library. Winamp doesn't upload files it finds. Winamp doesn't try to sell me things. Winamp stays out of the way and plays the music I want it to. If I wan...
[06:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:00] <exec> 08└─The 'internet statue of limitations' is covered with pigeon shit, graffiti, and someone cut its balls off in an end-of-year college prank. Sadly there's no statute to enforce any limitations either.
[06:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:17] <exec> 08└─🤦‍♂️
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[07:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:14] <exec> 08└─Nothing at all about any BASIC interpreters that he wrote on government timesharing boxen at harvard.
[07:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:34] <exec> 08└─I encouraged downloads but no one could actually play them. http://mike.soggywizards.com [soggywizards.com] http://mike.soggywizards.com
[07:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:55] <exec> 08└─Azerty
[07:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:23] <exec> 08└─"It's a finance company that just happens to make airplanes." He offered me the use of his 3D printer but I have no clue what to make with it.
[07:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:24] <exec> 08└─That's how I requested a defense contractor release me from an unclassified subcontract of their classified one. They actually went so far as to have prototype hardware built with THE WRONG PART soldered right in, despite that they knew damn well I'd spent six weeks trying to work around a mask erro...
[07:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:50] <exec> 08└─So, let me get what you are saying: 5G is a chinese plot to infiltrate our good American Gonads, and make them only attractive to Chinese women, who are spies for the Communist Partiee of China? I can go with that. As long as "Dancing With Rich Republcan Biatches loads and executes (if you know wha...
[07:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:52] <exec> 08└─I'm aware of all of this. But... don't you ever stop to think that you're being rather blazé about the rightness of your opinion and that maybe, just maybe, there may be some subtlety we've not noticed? One thing doing a PhD did was give me a big dose of humility. It made me realise that no matter...
[07:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 8927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:54] <exec> 08└─"*we don't know the long term problems" But we do. We have studied them for decades. They are USED IN MEDICAL TREATMENTS. That's my point. We know quite a lot about them, and have zero reason to suspect anything untoward. A lack of evidence in the case of looking means that there's no immediate need...
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[08:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Effective at Spotting Breast Cancer - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:42] <exec> 08└─Take a state with a million women such as Nebraska. 2000 will get breast cancer each year. 998000 won't. The above description doesn't distinguish between type I and type II errors, so let's accept the 99% figure for both. 1% of 998000 is 9980. So this test will say "positive" to 11960 women, of whi...
[08:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Effective at Spotting Breast Cancer - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:44] <exec> 08└─My "mass" was discovered in an abdominal CT scan in June. I've been since June trying to get a biopsy appointment. Well I saw the right kind of doctor last week - a urologist, not a nephrologist that's different - and he gave me a guided tour through my CT scan. When I asked he told me to go to the...
[08:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:55] <exec> 08└─to promote Xenix as the next generation Microsoft OS to replace DOS, his departure leading to Windows and eventually OS/2, and then NT development, and the mess microsoft made of things after it. Allen was Microsoft's Woz in much the same way Bill Gates was Microsoft's Steve Jobs.
[08:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:56] <exec> 08└─I never actually used it but someone sent me a book about it when I was in the slammer. It had standard input, output and error. For OS/2 to have succeeded, it should not in any way have tried to be Just Like $OS But Better. It should have been a better OS unto its own.
[08:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:58] <exec> 08└─Allen has probably left behind a much greater legacy than Woz with his philanthrophy and science/AI institutes. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It will be interesting to see...
[08:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory Fixed - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:09] <exec> 08└─... that there are still some software engineers building high quality products that don't rely on blue-sky assumptions. Anyone working on that - pat yourself on the back, the world needs more of the likes of you, no matter what your shirt patterns are.
[08:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:23] <exec> 08└─Why would I need any MP3 player? I listen to music via youtube now.
[08:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:24] <exec> 08└─> I don't have to sign into it. Which is nothing to do with the experience of listening to music > Winamp doesn't molest my library. Which is nothing to do with the experience of listening to music > Winamp doesn't upload files it finds. Which is nothing to do with the experience of listening to mus...
[08:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:45] <exec> 08└─Here's an example of double height, double capacity 32 GB memory modules from G.Skill, which uses 8 Gb DRAM chips.
[08:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:15] <exec> 08└─I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Dildos. There's a great future in dildos. Think about it. Will you think about it?
[08:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soyuz Failure Narrowed Down to Collision Between Booster and Core Stage - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:18] <exec> 08└─Nice presentation by an enthusiast, giving a plausible explanation of what happened. Uses beer bottle as a prop. YouTube: Scott Manley:Soyuz MS-10 Failure - Updates & Answers To Your Questions [youtube.com] He states the guaranteed lifetime in orbit of the Soyuz is determined by the rate of self-dec...
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[09:44:02] <exec> 08└─Brace yourselves for a media bullshit-storm. It will be nothing compared whth when Gates goes though. Here we go, from the Guardian article : ... innovator of the personal computer
[09:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:03] <exec> 08└─News to me that OS/2 was trying to be like Unix, and I've used both. It was more like DOS/Windows, but better. It failed because IBM's heart wasn't in it, and it lacked a personality cult behind it, like Windows had Gates (the supposedly lovable geek) and Mac had Jobs (the supposedly lovable salesma...
[09:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:05] <exec> 08└─Xenix, MS's version of Unix, was a Microsoft aim from early days. As a project it pre-dated DOS, which was bought only as a stopgap to secure the foothold on the IBM PC, and Xenix as the successor to DOS remained an aim until superseded by the OS/2 project. Unfortunately the public just continued to...
[09:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:07] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the public just continued to suck up DOS, so in the end MS just decided to put a GUI on DOS, which, in its earlier days, was the can of worms called WIndows.
[09:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:36] <exec> 08└─What does a UI have to do with listening to music? Try mplayer or mpg123.
[09:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:04] <exec> 08└─Thankfully we have you to point this all out and add so much content! Thanks.
[09:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:21] <exec> 08└─Depends on what percentage you use. If you go by % of people who are rich*, you are right. If you go by % of wealth owned by rich people, you are dead wrong. *Let's define rich as having 1000 times the median wealth. I would bet serious money that the 0% of people who are 'rich' own more than 80% of...
[09:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies Plan to Merge and Become the Sixth Largest U.S. Defense Contractor - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:40] <exec> 08└─Hm... The Lockheed-Martin merger in the 90s, producing the biggest defense contractor in the world, is valued at $10B, while this merger producing still a second-tier player is valued at three times that only two decades later. What do you know, the defense market did indeed grow a huge amount sinc...
[09:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:26] <exec> 08└─I thought PC gaming market was rising above and beyond console last year? This year it is flat. Could it be because GFX prices are yet to crash as much as bitcoin? Every year seems a little too fine grained for a market as big as PC.
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[10:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Effective at Spotting Breast Cancer - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:02] <exec> 08└─I guess I might as well take down my "Free amateur breast exams" sign from the front yard then.
[10:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:49] <exec> 08└─Mostly because it's easier to queue up a day's playlist, crank the volume, and get busy doing household chores than it is in youtube. For individual songs or stumbling around though, you're absolutely right.
[10:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:50] <exec> 08└─Drag and drop's easier for making a large playlist. GUIs do have their limited uses.
[10:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:52] <exec> 08└─Agreed on Qmmp. It's a damned fine spiritual successor to Winamp.
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[10:44:15] <exec> 08└─Dvorak
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[11:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:51] <exec> 08└─The Apple Watch is being used to study joint replacement patients [engadget.com]
[11:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Effective at Spotting Breast Cancer - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:09] <exec> 08└─The test is for biopsy slides. Women who have been screened because they are considered at substantial risk, tested positive, then were biopsied.
[11:44:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:23] <exec> 08└─Brace yourselves for a media bullshit-storm. It will be nothing compared whth when Gates goes though. Here we go, from the Guardian article : ... innovator of the personal computer
[11:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:28] <exec> 08└─I visited friends that worked at Interval Research Corp (a Paul Allen company) in the 1990s. Attended one of their internal symposiums which I understood were very frequent. After the presentation it turned into a brainstorming session with ~30 really bright people. That day the topic was "agents" o...
[11:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:30] <exec> 08└─At Interval, I remember asking if the Internet could support an agent that would watch for my name or other key words across the whole network, something like an automatic citation search. While Allen's Interval company never profited from it, something like 10 years later Google Alerts was introduc...
[11:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:32] <exec> 08└─It's remarkable that there isn't more discussion about this. Paul Allen was one of the main dudes at Microsoft, the company that many of us loved to hate for decades. Windows still runs on the majority of the world's computers. Does the lack of interest indicate, however, that Microsoft and Windows...
[11:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:34] <exec> 08└─Probably not. It was just as likely they came up with the idea independently. Or they had been inspired by Kibo from Usenet [wikipedia.org]. Or all three at once. Kibo (James Perry) had some scripts that monitored all of Usent for his user name, "kibo", and popped in soon after to leave some nonseq...
[11:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:37] <exec> 08└─I remarked that they should make entertainment with branching narratives that they can add to at will and let the audience choose which branch to follow as they watch. If you have a rich universe like Tolkien or Star Trek or something you can produce spin-offs that hook into the main storyline ad in...
[11:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory Fixed - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:48] <exec> 08└─is it just me or does one hear about glitchy gyros on spacecrafts rather often? then again it would be interesting to know how many "kilometers" ( 2 * r(adius) * PI * total-rvolution) these things acctually go before acting up?
[11:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubisoft Promises to Release Hieroglyphics Initiative Tools as Open Source - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:55] <exec> 08└─Wait until they offer the prime features as paid DLC.
[11:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe the market's flat because they've stopped selling machines with increasingly great specs. I went into Micro Center a couple months ago to get some peripherals, and for giggles wandered through the computer section. Every single machine for sale had worse specs than what I bought 5 years ago. I...
[11:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:01] <exec> 08└─The problem is you're looking at it from a generalist perspective vs my EE-ish perspective. The existing physics simply will not be denied... if cell phones caused cancer (via ... what biochemical path? There doesn't seem to be one...) then the average lifespan of a transmission site broadcast engin...
[11:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:02] <exec> 08└─Every year they put up more towers, and as a direct result every year I age one more year older. Its Russian meddling with the aging process, I tell ya.
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[12:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polarity Governs Atomic Interaction Through Two-Dimensional Materials - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:10] <exec> 08└─There are other inherent problems. Off the top of my head for GaAs... Can't do CMOS designs because they can't make P-type transistors or maybe it was N-type something to do with ridiculous ratio of electron/hole mobility. Can't make an oxide layer (for MOS transistors) by spraying oxygen and lettin...
[12:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Polarity Governs Atomic Interaction Through Two-Dimensional Materials - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:11] <exec> 08└─Pixel Be Gone [pixelbegone.org] I'm working my way through Wikipedia's list of gubernatorial races. When I get those done I'll take a break by visiting some of Rupert Murdoch's properties, also a few Websites Of Ill Repute: # Google Analytics 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 www.google...
[12:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:22] <exec> 08└─Not as fancy as an Apple watch, but I installed one of those dollar store window alarms on the driver's side window to help with my binge eating. That way whenever I go to a drive-up window it goes off. It's not quote the deterrent that I thought it would be, but it certainly is a conversation start...
[12:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:23] <exec> 08└─At £400 each, I'm fairly sure you'd just do more good by giving the university researchers £400,000. (or whatever US equivalent)
[12:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:32] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, after reading TFA, my intertubes and antisocial media skills have rated it as fake news.
[12:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:34] <exec> 08└─Minor typo, when they were told they came from The New York Times or NPR, or other known news organizations.
[12:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:36] <exec> 08└─But the source of the images
[12:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:39] <exec> 08└─I looked at TFA but it only has one picture. Any source with all the pictures so I can judge them?
[12:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:41] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid growing up in sub-saharan Africa in the 1980s, many of the adults I talked to around me believed that what they saw on Western TV and movies really happened. They were outraged that Americans and Brits would kill people and film it for others' entertainment. These were people withou...
[12:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'll get down modded for this, but ... will his casket be blue with mostly indecipherable white text on it?
[12:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:13] <exec> 08└─I was very deeply invested in this at the time and you're correct about how things went down. I'm guessing, based on experience at other companies, is because of factions within IBM trying to kill it and other company politics. And also that ms was a more nimble competitor acting like it was trying...
[12:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:15] <exec> 08└─Dragon's Lair ftw
[12:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:18] <exec> 08└─Probably, but also younger generations didn't live through it.
[12:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:20] <exec> 08└─Thing is, I don't know if the DVD ever actually had those different angles, because I, like 99% of people, just wanted to go with whatever the director decided was the best camera angle. After all, he is the professional, and is paid big money to get it right. Why would I override his cinematic choi...
[12:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:22] <exec> 08└─Probably more related to people refraining from speaking ill of the dead, like how he robbed the public for his own benefit: https://blog.generationopportunity.org [generationopportunity.org]
[12:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:24] <exec> 08└─My business partner and I bought a 386 box back around 1990, we also bought windows 3.1. I'm not sure of the Win version but for sure it was 1990. Chuck was having a grand old time exploring what he could do with Windows. He took exceptional delight in the multitasking of the fireworks screensaver....
[12:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 1929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:26] <exec> 08└─My personal experience with OS/2 Warp was not good. The cool part was that it could run DOS programs noticeably faster than DOS could. Paid $80 for it, only to learn after I'd opened the package that networking was not included. If I wanted networking, that would be an additional package for another...
[12:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory Fixed - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, many of us software engineers are like that. Or would be, if we possibly could. You should be very thankful that we at least manage to keep resisting the blatantly fraudulent and the otherwise illegal - at great personal frustration and to maximized institutional contempt. What you make ou...
[12:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:59] <exec> 08└─I just switched to mpd (https://www.musicpd.org/), which allowed a choice of cmdline, API, or GUI interfaces, and has a library, playlist, and the basics I needed. Indeed after winamp went away (the original, before Justin and NULLSOFT got bought out and left development), I switched to that, and ha...
[12:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:01] <exec> 08└─That approach has its merits and downsides but running a (possibly second) system daemon for playing audio fundamentally disturbs me. It very much belongs in userspace by my way of thinking.
[12:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:24] <exec> 08└─Alex, I'd like what they're having for $200.
[12:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:25] <exec> 08└─I found plenty of photos [tomshardware.com] of double height modules posing, but no nudes. Actually this [guru3d.com] might be one: https://www.guru3d.com [guru3d.com]
[12:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:54] <exec> 08└─But if Boeing built one it would be the size of a 747 fuselage. That would sure as hell make your eyes water.
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[13:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:42] <exec> 08└─Hold up. They might be peddling them for 400 of your British funny money, but it only costs them ~$80 to make one (or $160, tops [mobileforward.net]).
[13:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:43] <exec> 08└─Just roached my spliff. May I have it replaced and the Apple Watch, please?
[13:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:45] <exec> 08└─I wonder what's more effective at treating bulimia nervosa, an Apple Watch or 81 blunts...
[13:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:00] <exec> 08└─Seeing is no longer believing. You need another source of discernment of truth.
[13:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:02] <exec> 08└─It must have been fun when Jurassic Park came out :)
[13:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:04] <exec> 08└─You need another source of discernment of truth.
[13:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:06] <exec> 08└─I believe in masturbating. So is masturbating the new believing? :)
[13:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:08] <exec> 08└─Most people seem to be evaluating the image itself rather than some whisperings of who the source of the image is - and people seem to be getting better at it. That's good! That's exactly how it should be. If we're going to survive the internet age with free speech intact we'll need to get better at...
[13:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Effective at Spotting Breast Cancer - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:22] <exec> 08└─Then raise the improved one, with "Free amateur breast exams - now with extra Google algorithm"
[13:44:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:41] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately the public just continued to suck up DOS, so in the end MS just decided to put a GUI on DOS, which, in its earlier days, was the can of worms called WIndows.
[13:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:56] <exec> 08└─It was push and pull. DOS and Windows were generally pre-installed, so the buyer bought apps that ran on DOS or Windows, and after that the buyer resisted any change of OS that broke their apps. Eg, Windows 9x was only kept going for years because so many games and consumer-grade printers* would not...
[13:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:57] <exec> 08└─as Microsoft themselves bumbled about and sneered at networking as something that end users didn't really need.
[13:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:35] <exec> 08└─I am quite pleased with mixxx, as whatever file you throw at it gets analyzed (most importantly gain, but bpm is useful too), has crates (akin to tagging, it has playlists too ofc), master gain and eq. The big problems with other players is the gain difference between tracks, sometimes even when rep...
[13:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:36] <exec> 08└─Now that I think of it I should list mixcloud among my music players. Like spotify, but complete mixes, no ads. It is also legal as they pay they royalties (I guess they sell listener data to make up for it or something)
[13:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:35] <exec> 08└─We'll make it fit.
[13:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:37] <exec> 08└─Hmm, from what I've gathered in this thread, it sounds like he may be homosexual, and thus likely a member of the alt-right.
[13:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:39] <exec> 08└─Damn. This is why we need more conspiracy theory innovation! Weather war is just asking for greenfield development. Should I have made the moon hollow and put the atmosphere on the inside?
[13:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:20] <exec> 08└─You're very welcome! Compared to him I'm a veritable goldmine of information and insight. Then again, compared to him, so are things that live under rocks...
[13:49:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:28] <exec> 08└─What, exactly, is wrong with a "flat market"? I can understand that a flat market isn't going to make huge, dramatic profits from one quarter to the next. But - it's still a market. It's worth investing in, because it isn't going away. "Flat" is almost synonymous with "stable". No one sensible inves...
[13:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:40] <exec> 08└─I think if you restricted the figures to consumers who had bought one by choice, and excluded employees who had had one foisted on them as part of a corporate strategy, then (as with their phones) Microsoft's market percentage would disappear into a rounding error.
[13:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Demand Answers About Google+ Breach; Project Dragonfly Undermines Google's Neutrality - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:47] <exec> 08└─Whoosh! There's that smell of burning straw again. Just because Google are wrong doesn't mean the alt-right are right. (Ask any Greek; by this logic, they are all Socrates.)
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[14:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:12] <exec> 08└─Even our users are assholes.
[14:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:13] <exec> 08└─A spokesdroid sez . . . Microsoft wants to assure you that it takes these reports very seriously. Microsoft will investigate this with the same carefulness with which we develop our operating system and other software products. We are proud of Bing and want it to reflect Microsoft's core values.
[14:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─This proves the point [bing.com]
[14:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:18] <exec> 08└─Microsoft can’t just turn a platform loose on the world and ignore it. Companies like Microsoft and Google have a responsibility to moderate their platforms and keep the horror at bay.
[14:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:20] <exec> 08└─Now we know what search engine our eth is using.
[14:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─1) Safesearch disabled should be completely neutral. If you don't want this don't disable SafeSearch 2) Suggestions? I'm trying to think of when i've ever changed what i was searching for based on that suggestion blather (when it actually correctly fixed a typo maybe?) If you want to fix this,...
[14:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:25] <exec> 08└─nough' said.
[14:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:27] <exec> 08└─2) Suggestions? I'm trying to think of when i've ever changed what i was searching for based on that suggestion blather (when it actually correctly fixed a typo maybe?)
[14:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:29] <exec> 08└─But who populated the vile search terms?
[14:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:31] <exec> 08└─Trust me, these aren't the worst things I can imagine. ... headlines aside, the internet is all of humanity, including the dark bits. Bing, with safe search off, seems to be searching the real thing rather than the idealized version that Google searches.
[14:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:56] <exec> 08└─At £400 each . . .
[14:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:16] <exec> 08└─By training human screeners to get better at detecting fake images, we can then use those results to better train deep-fake AI algorithms to create better fake images.
[14:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:03] <exec> 08└─Paul Allen was one of the partners in one of the biggest patent trolls [seattletimes.com] of all time. Intellectual Vultures. [intellectualventures.com] Er . . . um, I mean . . . Intellectual Ventures. One of the patents in the suit involves the concept of automatically showing related information o...
[14:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:04] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, even if MS was on board with LANs, circa 1992 they were definitely pooh poohing the whole idea of the Internet. Supposedly Bill Gates himself was the person who realized that attitude was wrong and lead the change in opinion, turned MS around. But that may be giving Gates too much credit, an...
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[14:45:42] <exec> 08└─I agree I found it odd at first, however my desktop was always on, so rather than have to fire up the media player all the time, just have in the background, library updates are handled by cron, hosted on my file server via NFS share, any new media placed on the server gets synched quickly. Also, I...
[14:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:08] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, crappy software. Microsoft. What would you expect? But, I'll never talk those fools into upgrading to Linux, or BSD, or any other sensible system. Microsoft Office accounts for the vast majority of our documents. Then there is JD Edwards, which mostly loads faster than anything in Office....
[14:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─$323 million? I think a false claims act suite might be appropriate. After all the negotiation is done, there could be a whole new space company born just from the juice on litigating the bonus's.
[14:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─There is no Sad But True mod.
[14:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:22] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, on the wedding and the baby. And, congratulations again for taking control of your computer, and the advertising. Apparently, you've got it working like it should be working! As for the baby, let me assure you that he/she will never work the way you expect. The husband probably won'...
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:23] <exec> 08└─Runway said it best, +1 Congratulations Mod (to fit in the spirit of Soylent :-) )
[14:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:39] <exec> 08└─If they're genuinely poor it's going to take way more than few million of them for their unpaid taxes per year to be equivalent to Apple's "tax savings" per year. So I'm not going to care about how little the poor pay in taxes. Some might say it's fine for companies to avoid taxes if they can but to...
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[15:43:35] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I still use Google, because they are apparently the masters of search. But, before I resort to Google, I use the duck, and yandex. The only times I have ever used either Bing or Yahoo, was after installing a browser which used them by default. It only takes one search, and I'm changing the d...
[15:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─Bing suggests horrifying images.
[15:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:38] <exec> 08└─...even if they didn't create, host, or endorse the content?
[15:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:40] <exec> 08└─We are microsoft, we will assholinate you.
[15:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:42] <exec> 08└─Is this real racism, or things that libtards just don't agree with and want to silence?
[15:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:45] <exec> 08└─That puts it under the purview of the government, who has a responsibility to ensure that extremist voices do not overcome the bulk of society.
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:47] <exec> 08└─>> Microsoft can’t just turn a platform loose on the world and ignore it... "Turn a platform loose on the world" describes every MS windows release till now. As for what parent says, we indeed need to strike a balance, because if we get too lenient towards search engines and aggregator we get to t...
[15:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:11] <exec> 08└─I wonder what's more effective at redirecting wealth from the working class to big pharma for pseudo-science and quackery that doesn't work, making billions of dollars per year off human misery and sickness that could be easily treated with a blunt a day, an Apple Watch or 81 blunts...
[15:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Effective at Spotting Breast Cancer - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:44] <exec> 08└─Don't waste your money on Doctors (liberal elites). Mike Pence's wife will lead a prayer warrior gathering to fight cancer, right after they rid the world of homos.
[15:45:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:16] <exec> 08└─Paul Allen was one of the partners in one of the biggest patent trolls [seattletimes.com] of all time. Intellectual Vultures. [intellectualventures.com] Er . . . um, I mean . . . Intellectual Ventures. One of the patents in the suit involves the concept of automatically showing related information o...
[15:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:19] <exec> 08└─Let's not get too deep ino M$ revisionism. Those "Designed for Windows 95" stickers came with a lot of strings attached, at least for the software packages sprouting such nonsense. In order to develop for Windows 95 you had to also sign a contract to also develop for Windows NT. The latter contract...
[15:46:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:33] <exec> 08└─"Why be on time if you're paid more when you're late?" - Anonymous Government Contractor Inc
[15:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:51] <exec> 08└─generally immoral actions of the last 18 years
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[16:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ganymede Was Shaped by Past Tectonic Activity - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:17] <exec> 08└─"Ganymede Volcanoes" Did you mean "Man, he peed on all those hoes" Wait, how did this joke post turn political?
[16:43:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:28] <exec> 08└─Microsoft can’t just turn a platform loose on the world and ignore it. Companies like Microsoft and Google have a responsibility to moderate their platforms and keep the horror at bay.
[16:43:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:30] <exec> 08└─1) Safesearch disabled should be completely neutral. If you don't want this don't disable SafeSearch 2) Suggestions? I'm trying to think of when i've ever changed what i was searching for based on that suggestion blather (when it actually correctly fixed a typo maybe?) If you want to fix this,...
[16:43:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheFool [7105] 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:35] <exec> 08└─Trust me, these aren't the worst things I can imagine. ... headlines aside, the internet is all of humanity, including the dark bits. Bing, with safe search off, seems to be searching the real thing rather than the idealized version that Google searches.
[16:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:44] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[16:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:47] <exec> 08└─And, I'm an idiot - I meant to reference the first amendment, not article 1. #needmorecoffee
[16:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:49] <exec> 08└─Sometimes it's hard to tell. Put enough lipstick on a pig, and she's hard to distinguish from some people's mothers. Note that the people most easily fooled are progressives, which may or may not reflect on their mother's appearance.
[16:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:51] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they blocked the illegal content from actually showing up when you searched for it. A certain group of internet trolls finds it funny that bing will suggest whatever people are searching, no matter what that is. So they search for offensive things because it's amusing to make it show...
[16:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:53] <exec> 08└─Chan trolls, most likely.
[16:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:55] <exec> 08└─Most mainstreet corporations do not want the bad publicity, because it can impair revenue. A government is tasked with keeping the peace (internally) and protect the community it serves. Most governments in the world consider that moderating extremist voices, and censoring harmful lies, prevents unr...
[16:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:57] <exec> 08└─The article reads like an ad for Bing targeted at people with unpopular tastes. I can't imagine why they would have come to the conclusion that there's a huge market to serve /s
[16:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:00] <exec> 08└─Microsoft can’t just turn a platform loose on the world and ignore it. Companies like Microsoft and Google have a responsibility to moderate their platforms and keep the horror at bay.
[16:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:02] <exec> 08└─Are you fat shaming people's mothers?
[16:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:04] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they blocked the illegal content from actually showing up when you searched for it.
[16:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:06] <exec> 08└─Not to worry, I would only fat shame the fat mothers. You should also note that not all pigs are especially fat. As a rule, pigs scheduled for slaughter are fed a special die to fatten them before sale. Many mothers eat similar special diets designed to fatten them.
[16:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:08] <exec> 08└─That's the thing: search results are a kind of endorsement.
[16:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:11] <exec> 08└─I still use Google [sometimes, but] before I resort to Google, I use the duck, and yandex.
[16:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:13] <exec> 08└─The phrase "keep the horror at bay" is particularly telling, because it doesn't answer the following question: Who decides what qualifies as "the horror"? And no, you can't avoid the problem by saying "an algorithm will do that", because computer algorithms are ultimately controlled by people (at le...
[16:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:57] <exec> 08└─The problem with a shopped image goes beyond acceptance. If the viewer realizes the image is untruthful do they unsee it? That image left a certain impression at first glimpse and that impression lingers in the subconscious. Further, it was a trial. When you look at an image on a screen you don't ra...
[16:45:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Google Algorithm Effective at Spotting Breast Cancer - 1027 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:05] <exec> 08└─Take a state with a million women such as Nebraska. 2000 will get breast cancer each year. 998000 won't. The above description doesn't distinguish between type I and type II errors, so let's accept the 99% figure for both. 1% of 998000 is 9980. So this test will say "positive" to 11960 women, of whi...
[16:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:47] <exec> 08└─And Trumpet Winsock [thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com] - it was Win3.11 with a US Robotics modem and Trumpet that got me to sunsite.unc.edu and/or ftp.funet.fi for the earliest linux floppies. Sometime in 1995 if my memory still serves.
[16:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rockchalkie [7143] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:48] <exec> 08└─Windows does not run on the majority of the world's computers. From wikipedia: "There are three big personal computing platforms.[2] Google claims over 2.7 billion users[3] with Android while Microsoft has claimed over 1.4 billion users for Windows. The third "platform" – or strictly two (or three...
[16:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:23] <exec> 08└─I'll go ask Bing what the market value of real tears is.
[16:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:17] <exec> 08└─Wealth is not as diversely owned as people think. You can have 99% of the money supply but not 99% of wealth. If they were to try to use all of that money at once it would cause inflation. The rich don't have as much wealth as you'd think. They just have more money.
[16:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:18] <exec> 08└─How do you figure [now you are falling into the fallacy of the excluded middle]?
[16:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox 64 Will Remove Support for RSS and Atom Feeds - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:12] <exec> 08└─Years ago, firefox had a "subscribe" option that would allow you to subscribe to an RSS feed as a "live bookmark" (I believe they were called). The few I ever used showed up on the bookmark toolbar, and you'd click it to open a dropdown menu showing the latest feeds from that RSS feed. IIRC it didn'...
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[17:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:02] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[17:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03rockchalkie [7143] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:52] <exec> 08└─It's probably just real racism. Probably the standard racist rantings of our current racist President: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:53] <exec> 08└─"you’re going to see the worst filth..." Nice sales pitch, but still not using it.
[17:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:55] <exec> 08└─Here's how it works. Search for "Hilary Clinton", it suggests - Hilary Clinton Nude Internet Crime Complaint Center. While google really _does_ remove CP from its cache, Bing does not. This is evidenced by Bing Image Search caching CP for _years_ after the original server dropped dead. For quite a w...
[17:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:57] <exec> 08└─It is likely that we have similar training, from similar sources - or exactly the same source. We have learned over the years how to shape and frame a search in Google that will give us the sort of results we expect. Using another search engine, the same "tricks" don't work exactly the same. So, we...
[17:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:00] <exec> 08└─I mean it really is. I figure MS knew they'd never catch up in text search so they focussed on images.
[17:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:02] <exec> 08└─From time to time AC will advocate that CP should be legal as the law criminalizes the possession of mere information. What makes CP illegal in the US is that it depicts actual children in nude and sexualized poses, or engaged in actual sexual activity. Hentai is not regarded as CP in the US, but it...
[17:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:04] <exec> 08└─you could use startpage instead of resorting to google, which uses google search results but proxies out the spying, ostensibly.
[17:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:06] <exec> 08└─It just sounds like a F.U.D. campaign by the Google. "Oh my god! Bing did something unintentional and that shows how bad they are! Censor them! Hate them!"
[17:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:08] <exec> 08└─Here's how it works. Search for "Hilary Clinton", it suggests - Hilary Clinton Nude Internet Crime Complaint Center.
[17:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:11] <exec> 08└─... so as to avoid supplying you with actual CP search terms. About half my post got munched. What I was trying to say about the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center is that I reported two CP sites that were being served by cloudflare. I have since found others. Quite a long time ago the Feds made...
[17:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:13] <exec> 08└─That puts it under the purview of the government, who has a responsibility to ensure that extremist voices do not overcome the bulk of society.
[17:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reminder to sub the Cannabian story by tomorrow.
[17:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:22] <exec> 08└─Youtube automatically makes playlists for you. I just click on one of the mixes it presents and giv'r.
[17:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:23] <exec> 08└─While what you say is true. The fact is that a lot of music apps are doing all of those things. With the side benefit of doing the last thing on your list.
[17:46:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 889 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:36] <exec> 08└─At work, the laptops are fairly new. Yet, they've been castrated at the memory level. I won't even mess with them, because they rely on virtual memory in place of memory. People sit and stare at their screen, waiting, and waiting, and waiting for a document to load. Installing just 8 gig of memory w...
[17:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─One can of dehydrated water coming right up.
[17:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Serialized Fiction Review: DeathWorlders - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:35] <exec> 08└─The warrior cannibals are not pleased with defeat. An advance party attacks Earth. They foolishly decide to attack a televised ice hockey game in Vancouver. They are quickly beaten to pulp with ice hockey sticks.
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[18:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:03] <exec> 08└─At about 1.2km diameter, it could help finish the job started by the two hurricanes. Then again, risking impact would make the absurd "space force" an actual election topic.
[18:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:05] <exec> 08└─Hmm... 1.2km diameter... Chicxulub crater [wikipedia.org]: The Chicxulub crater... was formed by a large asteroid or comet about 10 to 15 kilometres (6.2 to 9.3 miles) in diameter....
[18:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:07] <exec> 08└─Most comets are difficult to capture with a camera; for instance, when I acquired this image [flickr.com], it took a stack of 107 frames to drag out the detail of both the dust and ion tails. It reached magnitude two, but I wasn't able to catch it when it was that bright because of cloud cover here....
[18:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:09] <exec> 08└─" 10th closest" ?
[18:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:09] <exec> 08└─This article author is disgusting. What this piece of shit really wants is for search engines to be forced to interpret people's wrongthink and hide what they were searching for. These algorithms probably do suck, and CP results are fucked up, but what the fuck does that have to do with censoring fo...
[18:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:11] <exec> 08└─"What makes CP illegal in the US is that it depicts actual children in nude and sexualized poses... Hentai is not regarded as CP in the US, but it is in Canada. Most actual arrests for child pornography are the people who create it." We're getting a bit off-topic, but you appear to be wrong on all t...
[18:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that's quite the right term, but "adaptive search terms" will do. It's what happens when the automatic suggestions, and even search results, are influenced - not by web content - but by the search terms being requested. Remember Google bombs? For those to work, people at least had to pu...
[18:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:15] <exec> 08└─Searx is nice. I run a local instance on my laptop.
[18:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:17] <exec> 08└─I think within 200 to 300 years, or maybe within 100 years, search engines will see the same fate before them as that that befell East India Company - outright takeover by the government. The whole trajectory is exactly like this. In fact, may be it will happen within 50 years.
[18:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:19] <exec> 08└─Nattō? Then again, why would anyone eat it?
[18:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─the Weekly World News? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Bat Boy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy_(character) ) has to be almost 40 by now. http://weeklyworldnews.com [weeklyworldnews.com]
[18:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:53] <exec> 08└─Supposedly Bill Gates himself was the person who realized that attitude was wrong and lead the change in opinion, turned MS around. But that may be giving Gates too much credit,
[18:46:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:15] <exec> 08└─Why would I need a new one? v2.95 still works. It's quite small to.
[18:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 3549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:31] <exec> 08└─In other words you missed my point, and now try to claim it as your own? Yes, it's a false dichotomy, *as I pointed out* by calling it /the fallacy of the excluded middle/. As you then pointed out, the terms are essentially synonymous. "There's the "everyone who is rich got it legitimately" one, the...
[18:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:32] <exec> 08└─only sellouts, cowards and idiots pay income tax.
[18:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:34] <exec> 08└─"to the government services that help make our society work" lmao! yeah right. wake the fuck up!
[18:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:37] <exec> 08└─Every politician in history shares some of the blame for putting us where we are. 2000 was a big tipping point when the election was stolen from Al Gore and everyone went "guess that is the system at work!" and then 2001 shot us off into cowardly and angry dystopia-land where the government took a L...
[18:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:39] <exec> 08└─yeah, so they can rape and sex worker traffic with global impunity! yay!
[18:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moneyland - the Country You Never Heard of... and Will Never Visit. - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:41] <exec> 08└─In other words you missed my point, and now try to claim it as your own?
[18:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:24] <exec> 08└─For a drone you would want a shot-gun anyway, and BBs aren't coming down with lethal force.
[18:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:25] <exec> 08└─my drone will be set up to shoot your shit down.
[18:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:50] <exec> 08└─"I understood that reference" - Captain America
[18:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:52] <exec> 08└─being made directly by slaveware peddler #1 ought to be a goddamn dealer breaker for you too.
[18:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06PC Market Flat, as Surface Becomes a Top-5 Computer Brand in the US - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:54] <exec> 08└─you couldn't get honorable work instead? by working for these scum you are a slaveware peddler and complicit in the enslavement of your fellow man. sad...
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[19:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:20] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we will finally be able to actually fix stupid. The "you can't fix stupid" problem has been the cause of a great deal of misery on many levels.
[19:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:21] <exec> 08└─As Idiocracy predicts, the first widespread usage will be for hair loss. Or penis related.
[19:44:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 1172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:37] <exec> 08└─"What makes CP illegal in the US is that it depicts actual children in nude and sexualized poses... Hentai is not regarded as CP in the US, but it is in Canada. Most actual arrests for child pornography are the people who create it." We're getting a bit off-topic, but you appear to be wrong on all t...
[19:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:43] <exec> 08└─where our years-long training pays off.
[19:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake or Real? New Study Finds Consumers Wary of Manipulated Photos - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:31] <exec> 08└─The education system has yet to kill off critical thinking - but they're working on it.
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[20:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:01] <exec> 08└─ESL Investments, a hedge fund run by Sears' former chief executive, Eddie Lampert. ESL Investments is also Sears' largest stockholder and creditor.
[20:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:03] <exec> 08└─Eddie was supposed to be the next Warren Buffett and was going to turn Sears into the next Berkshire Hathaway. Yea, that worked out.
[20:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:13] <exec> 08└─"The gene therapy industry requires a range of graduates, with backgrounds in scientific fields like genetics, medicine, molecular biology, virology, bioengineering and chemical engineering, as well as business graduates."
[20:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:15] <exec> 08└─The majority of "stupid" is not genetically based. Thinking is hard, many people opt to not even bother. The real problem comes from the various cultures and families that disrespect education and critical thinking. Genetic modification is unnecessary and dangerous, we really don't know enough about...
[20:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:27] <exec> 08└─That is a pretty good capture, though. Comets are "planetary", as far as imaging goes. You always have to do lots of frames to get a good image. I have been looking for an excuse to buy a new planetary camera, this might just be it. I feel you on clouds though, I missed the one that was bright a cou...
[20:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyperactive Comet Wirtanen to Show off During Historically Close Flyby - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:28] <exec> 08└─Historically bright?
[20:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:37] <exec> 08└─There's also the other possibility -- the companies will take over the government (they are already exerting a great deal of influence in various direct and indirect ways).
[20:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:39] <exec> 08└─I don't want Google's heavily warped view of the world. The censorship there is insane. It looks like some people are very unhappy with Bing letting people escape the censorship. Google is probably behind this. Google knows that their search is starting to suck due to the censorship, and they want t...
[20:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:02] <exec> 08└─Most binge eaters seem to stay away from fruit, so something labelled "apple" should be safe
[20:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Version of Winamp Planned for 2019 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:50] <exec> 08└─Google shall not be the boss of my playlists, thanks just the same. I'll create them myself.
[20:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Serialized Fiction Review: DeathWorlders - 6350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:05] <exec> 08└─As someone who has read the whole series (disclaimer: and supports the patreon), I'd like to offer another viewpoint. I'll work through your comments backwards, avoiding spoilers as much as I can. C) Has a rather odd obsession with body building and physical fitness (Cool, I didnt mind, but it was s...
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[21:43:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:16] <exec> 08└─ESL Investments, a hedge fund run by Sears' former chief executive, Eddie Lampert. ESL Investments is also Sears' largest stockholder and creditor.
[21:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:18] <exec> 08└─It's worked out pretty well for ol' Eddie. He sold all the Sears assets he could, now that there's nothing but a husk left he's shutting it down. Who did he sell the assets to? As much as he could, other companies he either owned or controlled. This guy basically found a sick company, harvested the...
[21:43:19] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 1688 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:20] <exec> 08└─It Was Vulture Capitalism that Killed Sears [prospect.org]: ... Sears is a prime example of how hedge funds and private-equity companies take over retailers, encumber them with debt in order to pay themselves massive windfall profits, and then leave the retailer without adequate operating capital to...
[21:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:22] <exec> 08└─There's an interesting article at the Harvard Business review discussing brick and mortar versus online shopping and how some companies might successfully combine both: https://hbr.org [hbr.org] From that article: (Which I do realize is 2 years ol...
[21:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:25] <exec> 08└─Probably adding a healthy dose of "Plz give bailout money, kthxbye."
[21:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:02] <exec> 08└─That's the thing: search results are a kind of endorsement. Microsoft is endorsing that those results match what you're looking for. Which is fine for a private business to do.
[21:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:03] <exec> 08└─Is curating the internet to keep illegal content (e.g. child pron) or legal-but-hateful content (e.g. white nationalist) away from people Microsoft's responsibility, even if they didn't create, host, or endorse the content?
[21:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Signs Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:20] <exec> 08└─Okay, makes good sense, thanks. Maybe a .410? I'm not really a gun person but I know some. Right now I can here the distant gunshot sounds from a local skeet shooting range.
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[22:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:15] <exec> 08└─When men were men, women were men, and little girls were FBI officers. hawt9thgrade> Hi, guys! I'm lonely. neckbeard42> Good morning, officer!
[22:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:16] <exec> 08└─Before the censorship, before the normies.
[22:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:34] <exec> 08└─Closer to home for me, this also happened to a company called Dick Smith Electronics. Sold to an awful "investment company" who ran it into the ground, then screwed over the creditors. The fashion in which wealthy interests get legislation enacted for their own benefit is amazing. The Glass-Steaga...
[22:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:35] <exec> 08└─Is it legal for someone with fiduciary obligation to Company A to mortgage A's assets to Company B, which he also controls, and then bleed A to bankruptcy? It sounds like theft from the shareholding public.
[22:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:37] <exec> 08└─Really, let's just stop "going private" entirely. It's always a forced tender offer for the shareholders. You can't plan for it. It makes your taxes a mess because you have to declare gains or losses when you weren't planning for it. I'd even settle for a looser version where you can't take the comp...
[22:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:39] <exec> 08└─There won't be anybody up against the walls until the international working class organizes and reappropriates all the wealth stuck at the top for the social good and places it under democratic control. Nobody will do it for us. Maybe we don't even need to kill anybody. The entire city of Detroit fo...
[22:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:42] <exec> 08└─Is it legal for someone with fiduciary obligation to Company A to mortgage A's assets to Company B, which he also controls, and then bleed A to bankruptcy?
[22:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:44] <exec> 08└─Major retailers such as Walmart and Target are transitioning to being both brick and mortar and online presences, trying to grab back a share of what Amazon took from them. A lot of companies won't survive, as you mentioned the leadership is just too clueless to get online in a functionally signific...
[22:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:46] <exec> 08└─Walmart and Target are doing just fine. So is, as mentioned in TFA, hardware chains like Lowe's and the Home Depot. What brick-and-mortar stores offer that online doesn't: 1. Faster response time than online delivery has currently been able manage. If you need it faster than tomorrow, you need to ge...
[22:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:48] <exec> 08└─Eddie Lampert put his heart and soul into turning Sears around. He was almost back to profitability when the SJWs and the cost of their demands for numerous gender-specific bathrooms threw the company into bankruptcy.
[22:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:01] <exec> 08└─They can get a job in gene editing and fast-track the creation of new genders!
[22:45:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─"you’re going to see the worst filth..." Nice sales pitch, but still not using it.
[22:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:27] <exec> 08└─There's also the other possibility -- the companies will take over the government (they are already exerting a great deal of influence in various direct and indirect ways).
[22:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:29] <exec> 08└─I can imagine far worse. Far worse. amateurs.
[22:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Allen Dead at 65 - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:13] <exec> 08└─You mention "greatest thing ever". That reminded me of something I saw like 20 years ago at least. Was visiting this super geek and checking out his pad while he helped me with my issue. He had a ton of really cool stuff that you could basically only get by stealing it at Comdex. In his case, compan...
[22:48:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slap [5764] 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:32] <exec> 08└─John F. Kennedy said September 12, 1962 : "We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things,..... " On July 20, 1969 we made it. Saturn V - On time.
[22:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:00] <exec> 08└─von Braun was a greater man than any who would ever look twice at the nonsense they call writing. The science community should be up in arms.
[22:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Invisible Manipulation: 10 Ways our Data is Being Used Against Us - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:41] <exec> 08└─+1 Congratulations mod
[22:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr. Manhattan [5273] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Serialized Fiction Review: DeathWorlders - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:13] <exec> 08└─The Damned [amazon.com] trilogy. Even including some author philosophy injections.
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[23:43:54] <exec> 08└─Before the dark web, before the Silk Road. I'll take today's internet.
[23:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:55] <exec> 08└─I can't tell you how many times I was slapped in the face by a trout. Damn that hurt!
[23:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Relay Chat Turns 30—and We Remember How It Changed Our Lives - 2804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:57] <exec> 08└─My fondest memories of IRC were noob trolling in the vein of Hunter2. True story, back in the year 2001 I worked for a major ISP that will remain nameless, and we had a "support tool", which was a fancy application that had a chat backend based on IRC. It allowed us to gather all kinds of stats, inc...
[23:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:22] <exec> 08└─It's definitely not an ethical obligation to do that, it's permissible though. There is no law that requires that companies maximize shareholder value at any length necessary. I'm not really sure where people get that idea, but it's not a legal requirement. And such a legal requirement would be craz...
[23:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:24] <exec> 08└─This happened because Sears gave up on customer service, eliminated bonuses for the sales force and merged with Kmart. It's ridiculous that Sears, a company with so much history involved with mail order couldn't figure out how to put out a halfway decent website and continue focusing on that. They a...
[23:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sears files for bankruptcy after years of turmoil - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:26] <exec> 08└─If he didn't spend so much time in the bathrooms he could have saved the company.
[23:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:40] <exec> 08└─Do you really NEED the business graduates tho?
[23:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Jobs Expected to Increase - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:41] <exec> 08└─This is how this world will end, down the drain of one or many of the infinite number of gender specific toilets.
[23:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ganymede Was Shaped by Past Tectonic Activity - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:07] <exec> 08└─Didn't turn political. It even didn't turn into a joke. It's so lame, I won't spend a downmod point; let it remain visible as a reminder for the depth the lameness can reach. True, it can turn even more lame if you try to explain it
[23:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ganymede Was Shaped by Past Tectonic Activity - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:08] <exec> 08└─He should lamesplain it. For example, what do volcanoes have to do with peeing? Lamesplain that!
[23:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'm not going to use bing when I know there is the risk that at any time a disturbing and totally illegal thumbnail could pop up on my screen and into my browser cache. I've ditched forums for the exact same reason. It's not morality, free speech, or whatever. I simply don't want to go to jail...
[23:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bing Is Suggesting the Worst Things You Can Imagine - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:18] <exec> 08└─I think within 200 to 300 years, or maybe within 100 years, search engines will see the same fate before them as that that befell East India Company - outright takeover by the government. The whole trajectory is exactly like this. In fact, may be it will happen within 50 years.
[23:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Donates 1,000 Apple Watches to Binge Eating Study - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:47] <exec> 08└─Yea naah, mate. They just bought themselves about 3years worth of keeping the doctor away.
[23:49:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:37] <exec> 08└─If a useful product comes out the other end, that's nice bonusmoney that could have been spent on bigger bonuses.
[23:49:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Damage Control: Boeing-Sponsored Newsletter Praises Space Launch System (SLS), Trashes Saturn V - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:57] <exec> 08└─There is no Sad But True mod.
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