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[00:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:12] <exec> 08└─Mechanically, is looks sound. Thermal insulation? Not based on the skeleton alone.
[00:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:13] <exec> 08└─Ugh, has no one seen Stargate?!
[00:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─Instead of fighting all the time because someone expresses a different social, political or religious belief...
[00:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:30] <exec> 08└─> Instead of fighting all the time ... I've been on board as a pacifist all my life. When a neighborhood bully decided to beat me up for no apparent reason (middle school), I just sat down and he didn't know what to do next. I remember that as a very stressful event, but one with a good outcome (luc...
[00:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 2355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:32] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. There are still the tech hurdles to work out, the differences in time, and the impossibility of visiting most super earths. Assuming some tech hurdles are worked out, it will be you launching the vehicle, and your great-great-grandchild inspecting the datastreams once there, and then a gre...
[00:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:34] <exec> 08└─Independent verification is most likely impossible for the foreseeable future, and possibly all of humanity's future. That being said, we can definitely tell it is an object. There is no way for the flickering starlight to be flickering simply because of the star. That would be some rather extreme b...
[00:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:36] <exec> 08└─How do you expect them to detect a planet other than by starlight?
[00:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clip-On L'Oréal Sensor Measures Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:55] <exec> 08└─Yea surprised there wasn't a mention. Should point out though, one of those is still vaporware, and the other two are more expensive than this one.
[00:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clip-On L'Oréal Sensor Measures Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─Wait it costs money? I thought it was a promotional give away since it blankets you with adverts and all
[00:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against ROM Sites, Defendants Agree to Pay $12.23 Million - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:26] <exec> 08└─If Nintendo was going to take action, they should have done so years earlier. It's not like these sites were hidden somewhere that isn't easily accessible via a quick web search. An organization the size of Nintendo could easily afford to have somebody checking this out on a regular basis.
[00:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against ROM Sites, Defendants Agree to Pay $12.23 Million - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:27] <exec> 08└─No, copyright is about the right to make and distribute copies. Which is as it should be. You can't control who downloads publicly accessible files, but you can generally control what you upload.
[00:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Labs Releases "Squoosh" Image Optimization Tool - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:55] <exec> 08└─Extra clicks, but searching for convert .webp to png (or jpg) generates plenty of hits.
[00:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:35] <exec> 08└─And white skin: https://abc7ny.com [abc7ny.com]
[00:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:37] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, since there seems to be a lot of doubt in some comments here -- yes, white people were lynched as well as black people, and not an insignificant number. From the NAACP [naacp.org]: From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,44...
[00:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Causing More Severe Wildfires, Larger Insect Outbreaks in Temperate Forests - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:00] <exec> 08└─Thanks
[00:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Causing More Severe Wildfires, Larger Insect Outbreaks in Temperate Forests - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:02] <exec> 08└─This isn't an argument against climate change, it's one for it. Because the climate changes, and you cannot prove it doesn't change. That's why global warming doesn't exist anymore, since the climate changed. It's one of those goal post moves. We cannot prove global warming is bad, so we redefine it...
[00:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y Combinator Unveils Another Climate Change "Moonshot": Flood a Desert - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:15] <exec> 08└─let the sun do the work of desalination Because salt evaporates? The salton sea is what will happen to this experiment once the money runs out.
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[01:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:48] <exec> 08└─A company that bets it's reputation on making accurate 3-D models, joins forces with a, um, hmmm. Customer. Yeah, that works. They get with a customer that is known for making very reliable one-offs. Just because your latest marketing materials yell AI at every point, it won't stop me from thinking...
[01:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 1549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:49] <exec> 08└─"She looked at me first!" "No, she looked in my general direction before she ever looked at you!" Screaming. One could hear two men screaming at one another. It would be difficult to tell what exactly they were arguing about just by listening to them yell, but inspecting their surroundings would qui...
[01:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:52] <exec> 08└─The original design for the Lunar Lander came out twice as heavy as NASA had budgeted for it. Designing the too-heavy model had taken up some precious time - they took JFK's "Before The Decade Is Out" challenge seriously. NASA proceeded with SWIP. They did such things as determine how many layers of...
[01:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─http://kr5ddit.com/ [kr5ddit.com] is the site for you
[01:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:11] <exec> 08└─Problem with your plan is we get to those diverse solar systems and then they get invested by Muslim immigrants. Better to fix those problems here on earth first.
[01:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:12] <exec> 08└─How do you expect them to detect a planet other than by starlight?
[01:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:14] <exec> 08└─"This method has never been independently verified." No method has been, or can be, until we manage to visit one of the stars in question.
[01:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:16] <exec> 08└─Yep, someone has to go visit one of these planets and send a pic back to see how right they were.
[01:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:19] <exec> 08└─Independent verification is most likely impossible for the foreseeable future
[01:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:21] <exec> 08└─That's what they were using the Mt. Wilson Sixty Inch for when I was at Tech. The objective was to infer sunspot activity. I expect planet transits are different from sunspots because the spectrum doesn't change. Sunspots appear black because they are cooler; that would also shift their Blackbody Sp...
[01:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:23] <exec> 08└─I used to get beat up all the time but then I somehow figured out how to knock someone flat with just one punch.
[01:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:25] <exec> 08└─Antimatter drives are no science fiction: CERN is actively working on them. So far they can hold a few highly-cooled (slow) antiprotons in a magnetic bottle for a very brief time. It's not the gas, it's the gas tank: if antimatter comes into contact with regular matter you set your starship up The B...
[01:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:29] <exec> 08└─Same here (including ~35 years). Not tempted by FB at all.
[01:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:31] <exec> 08└─My local news paper published a sex offender map of the area supposedly provided by police right before this Halloween.
[01:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:33] <exec> 08└─From the article : "Because of WhatsApp's ironclad end-to-end encryption, the origin of anything shared on the app is impossible to trace. The company resisted calls in July from the Indian government to break its encryption and allow authorities to track messages". I guess this is the subtle thrust...
[01:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:35] <exec> 08└─I presume you include wearpons technology in your analysys as well.
[01:42:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Bill Godbout, A Legend in the S-100 Community, Perishes in California's Camp Fire at Age 79 - 1169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:23] <exec> 08└─I remember the S-100 bus. I remember the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. And soon after BYTE magazine. I never had an S-100 bus, as I could never afford one as a young teenager. By 1978 I had a loaner TRS-80 from a Radio Shack store, so I could write some software for them. Had it for alm...
[01:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Supreme Court Ruling Could Lead to Tossing of Up to 20,667 Drunk Driving Convictions - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:59] <exec> 08└─Because police is paid by the number and severity of convictions.
[01:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Supreme Court Ruling Could Lead to Tossing of Up to 20,667 Drunk Driving Convictions - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:00] <exec> 08└─It's a tax and as such has nothing to do with guilt.
[01:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apollo 11 Supplementary Communications Have Been Unearthed, Digitized, and Published - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:54] <exec> 08└─It's very interesting how things can seem so important in the moment, yet we assume the neglect of their memory won't be a point of contention later on...we write journals, take photographs, reminisce, but send a man to the moon? "Eh, I wouldn't worry about it..."
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[02:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:57] <exec> 08└─does the eu and its puppet governments apply the gdpr to themselves?
[02:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't it always funny how when regulations come in, it's such a chore to business and companies - making the slightest change to their business model or procedures is wrought with hardship and challenge. Of course, when it comes to making a profit or bringing a new product to market, they are the ni...
[02:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:00] <exec> 08└─What if your local police department is accessing all of that data? Is that a "good thing" for you? (We already know that many police departments have a Facebook presence.) What about your local grocer? Do you want him accessing everything the data giants have amassed on you? Your local school board...
[02:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:02] <exec> 08└─Here in the office we know that we can't implement that without everybody implementing it - we'll loose the competition. So the decision was to wait till EU finds an example to fry and see how badly it will be damaged and then adjust accordingly. The idea was that we are relatively less obvious targ...
[02:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:45] <exec> 08└─They probably have to send a probe to the nearest one, predict what it should look like, image the planet, then send back the image. If the guess at what it looks like (and it even exists) is good, then great.
[02:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clip-On L'Oréal Sensor Measures Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure who is sillier, people worried about too much sun, or that everyone in my farming community with an outside job expects they will get skin cancer, just like all the old guys.
[02:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Labs Releases "Squoosh" Image Optimization Tool - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:11] <exec> 08└─Supporting a variety of web formats [...] and traditional ones like PNG
[02:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Labs Releases "Squoosh" Image Optimization Tool - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:12] <exec> 08└─Agree uMatrix is great
[02:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:01] <exec> 08└─And WE are THE most intelligent species on Earth. Wow.
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[03:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:20] <exec> 08└─Careful, Fluffeh will give you more regulations! Loose lips sink ships!
[03:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:21] <exec> 08└─I'm able to change my personal workflow fairly easily, but when ms or google changes how their products work it really throws me off for a while
[03:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─Any site with up/down voting is going to suck.
[03:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─Interplanetary lander? Why use all of those syllables? In context, it's going to be known as "the lander". Besides, that buzzword is inaccurate. Unless your lander returns to the "mother ship", to be transported to other planet(s) then the lander isn't exactly "interplanetary". There will probably b...
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:39] <exec> 08└─The problem is that kr5ddit.com's proprietor is on the dole and so can't afford much of a server.
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─It's both really. Yes, antimatter makes CIF3 look noble, however the fuel itself is also crazy difficult and expensive to manufacture as well. Still....want antimatter drive NOW!
[03:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 1972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:10] <exec> 08└─Not insightful. Dumb. If you beat your sword into a plowshare you will plow for those who didn't. And in America today, when you have two utterly incompatible philosophies occupying the same territory, peace is not a long term option. Now consider that one side aims to enslave, parasitize and eventu...
[03:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:12] <exec> 08└─What's the problem with Muslim investors? I don't think the Anunnaki would accept investments denominated in Riyals anyway. Gold-pressed latinum is the only way to conduct inter-civilizational trade.
[03:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:14] <exec> 08└─The arrogance and small-mindedness is astounding. As if the successful realization of a world-wide October Revolution would, for reasons only jmorris understands, continue to exist within the context of the antiquated nation-state system!
[03:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:16] <exec> 08└─If you beat your sword into a plowshare you will plow for those who didn't.
[03:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:18] <exec> 08└─-t. Some of them have pointy ears. All the pointy-eared ones are also wearing green facepaint. As they approach you can see that their holding up brightly hand-painted signs. Then you can hear them shouting. From a distance at first, but when two blocks away you can just make it out: "WHAT DO WE WAN...
[03:40:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 799 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with technology is that it acts as an amplifier for what's already there. Technology cannot, and cannot be expected to, be able to correct fundamentally human problems like willful ignorance or, in this case, hysteria. Before technology was around, rumors spread more slowly, and there wa...
[03:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Y Combinator Unveils Another Climate Change "Moonshot": Flood a Desert - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:09] <exec> 08└─Who needs to do the hard thing when there is always the "oh shit" button?
[03:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Y Combinator Unveils Another Climate Change "Moonshot": Flood a Desert - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:10] <exec> 08└─There is evidence that the Sahara was once underwater, and Atlantis may have once been there.
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[04:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:33] <exec> 08└─With language like that coming from the Five Eyes' paper of record, I almost wonder if Zuckerfuck is offering them resistance. It might also be that the Five Eyes are determined to tear Failbook down regardless of how much they acquiesce to the demands for bourgeois censorship. Of course, there is l...
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:34] <exec> 08└─I can't believe that the all powerful totally-worth-the-salary CEOs could possibly do wrong.
[04:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:36] <exec> 08└─well at least he kow-towed to Congress. Would they have griped at him more sternly had he showed up in his Grey T-Shirt(TM)?
[04:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:38] <exec> 08└─A couple of months ago Zuckerberg said that holocaust denial was just a difference of opinion. And now we find out that dumbass was using Soros conspiracy theories to discredit critics of facebook. For those who have not been paying attention, all Soros conspiracy theories are just anti-semitic dogw...
[04:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:41] <exec> 08└─blah, blah, blah conspiracy theories about deep state and censorship of the people blah, blah
[04:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:56] <exec> 08└─From the PDF - http://crackedlabs.org [crackedlabs.org] This is one of the darker aspects, that few if any have even thought of. A prominent example of a digital publisher that sells data about its users is the streaming platform Spotify. Since 2016,...
[04:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:57] <exec> 08└─Except when political campaigns do it. The law specifically grants politicians the right to spam your phone with recorded messages at all hours of the day or not. Most labor laws here in the US don't apply to Congress. I would expect the EU Parliament to be similarly forward-thinking.
[04:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:59] <exec> 08└─Whenever I rant about tracking pixels, I usually include "consider the challenges faced by closeted gay right-wing politicians". One such, a California legislature, was stopped for a citation while driving home from a gay bar. He resigned which I regard as unfortunate: gay right wing politicians wou...
[04:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:01] <exec> 08└─... is why I blocked all EU IPs from my little itty bitty online forum, and added a bullet to the user registration agreement where people have to agree that they are not citizens of the EU should they get around the EU IP block. I've seen what it's done to other small online forums with people insi...
[04:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:55] <exec> 08└─A worldwide Socialist Revolution would almost instantly collapse. Read "The Impossibility of Socialist Calculation" by Hayek or "Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth" by Mises for the proof. Yes proof, in the strict sense. Serious Socialist thinkers have even conceded the point and beg...
[04:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:56] <exec> 08└─Which makes them too dangerous to use. At least not without putting the engine really really realllly far behind or in front of the main part of the ship. How big is the blast wave from one of these antimatter storage pods? You need to be at least that far away. Star Trek science sounds great and al...
[04:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against ROM Sites, Defendants Agree to Pay $12.23 Million - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:51] <exec> 08└─I've heard that there is often a big gap between winning a huge judgment and actually collecting. Defendants can appeal, and there is of course settling. If worst comes to worst they could probably declare bankruptcy, or even leave the country. If they actually have that much money, they could just...
[04:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:12] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, people we consider "white" now were not white until very recently. Poles, germans, irish, italians - not white. They weren't black, but they sure weren't white either. Especially if they weren't catholic. And before some dumbshit reactionary racist like buzzard or runaway comes along sc...
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[04:42:14] <exec> 08└─the opposite to "lynching"? that's easy. it's called "voting".
[04:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y Combinator Unveils Another Climate Change "Moonshot": Flood a Desert - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:00] <exec> 08└─What? Acid makes me horny as hell every time. I'm too weird off of it though so I just end up jerking off a thousand times.
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[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─Its not a hack if you leave your server wide open and charge people for access, then someone tells Russians the ip address and log-in.
[05:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 2084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:08] <exec> 08└─We live in the age of the Internet Troll moved to real life. Trump is a major troll, Putin is pretty much the same now. And it is spreading. All the old rules of politics are falling before this new era of Troll Kings. The way we expected leader to behave before is done, and it is probably a good t...
[05:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:20] <exec> 08└─Calling it "bullshit" doesn't make it wrong. He has publicly said (in an interview) that the best years of his life were when under Nazi rule he got to help get rid of Jews. If you're thinking "But he is a Jew!", please note that Hitler's grandmother was too. Oh, in case you need a reminder, those 1...
[05:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:22] <exec> 08└─Russians spent about $200,000 in an election that cost the candidates $2,000,000,000. That is a factor of 10,000. That is 0.01% of the total being spent by Russia.
[05:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:24] <exec> 08└─george soros best years of my life nazi https://www.independent.co.uk [independent.co.uk] He quite his job rather than instruct a bunch of jewish people to go somewhere that they'd be arrested. He then spent the...
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[05:37:26] <exec> 08└─That is a factor of 10,000. That is 0.01% of the total being spent by Russia.
[05:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:43] <exec> 08└─...people insisting that they have the right to delete their accounts...
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[05:38:34] <exec> 08└─Shockwaves in space go down in intensity with the square of the distance. Shockwaves propagating through the superstructure don't. Shrapnel will hit you at full speed regardless of distance, but shrapnel density also goes down with the square of the distance. You gotta need a bigger ship. With a hug...
[05:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:49] <exec> 08└─To say that "facebook caused a lynching" is like saying "guns caused a massacre."
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[06:37:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, we know [blogspot.com]. But the democrats have to play this little game to distract people from their corrupt bullshit. And it worked to a small degree. They won some seats back. The republicans were ready to do the same if they lost. Trump talked about it before the election. So, here we are ,...
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[06:37:10] <exec> 08└─Pot calling the kettle black?
[06:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:12] <exec> 08└─And if your party's queen grandee decides to use her shadow IT for communications.
[06:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:14] <exec> 08└─leaders duckspeaking for an hour and saying absolutely nothing because every word they said was so carefully focus group tested, analyzed by both friend and foe for every subtle nuance and knowing that carefully pre-written by large staffs of speechwriters so that no diplomatic ripples would be rais...
[06:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:32] <exec> 08└─Sadly, a lot of people really, really want to believe the infallibility of the powerful, want them to be their heroes. These sorts of boneheaded mistakes happen over and over, thanks to worship of The Man. There aren't enough hours in the day for a CEO of a large company to attend to every matter th...
[06:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:53] <exec> 08└─However it's legal for US telcos to accept forged Caller-ID info from robocallers. So, are they doing the same thing they did with spammers? aka getting paid to look the other way and/or facilitate the telemarketing to folks on the do not call list?
[06:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:54] <exec> 08└─Almost need a +0 Depressing mod.
[06:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:56] <exec> 08└─Life, plus 70 years. Make it match mouse rules. Or, if you're really mean, make it include you children, and your children's children, (plus 70 years, for the hell of it)
[06:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they'll sue for copyright infringement?
[06:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:52] <exec> 08└─The planet's mass is thought to be more than three times that of our own
[06:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LAV8.ORg [6653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Chrome Labs Releases "Squoosh" Image Optimization Tool - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:17] <exec> 08└─I roll my own fractal art, so no shortage of large, maximally detailed images to test it with. Unfortunately it seems they didn't bother to code for actually large images (you know, the ones that really need compressing); it calls any image in the hundreds of MB invalid, and for the tens of MB it is...
[06:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Labs Releases "Squoosh" Image Optimization Tool - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:18] <exec> 08└─Specifically, uMatrix offers the granular control I crave.
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[07:37:40] <exec> 08└─The point goes outside the scope of my narrow view. WHATABOUTISM!!!
[07:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:41] <exec> 08└─or maybe it just means, that the world has turned into a dog-eat-dog world. lies are not frowned upon anymore. what comes out of someones mouth might as well be regular hot air. it seems only LAWS and SIGNATURES really count ... stuff that "lasts" ... so to speak. it implies that "real" information...
[07:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:43] <exec> 08└─or maybe it just means, that the world has turned into a dog-eat-dog world.
[07:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:45] <exec> 08└─Both sides!!! I guess this is the slow process of conservatives reintegrating with reality.
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[07:37:48] <exec> 08└─All the old rules of politics are falling before this new era of Troll Kings.
[07:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:06] <exec> 08└─He has publicly said (in an interview) that the best years of his life were when under Nazi rule he got to help get rid of Jews.
[07:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:08] <exec> 08└─Russians spent about $200,000
[07:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:30] <exec> 08└─California passed its own mini-GDPR earlier this year, which includes the right to have one's data deleted. Perhaps you need to block Californians too.
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[07:38:47] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting here with Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, one doesn't need to SWIP (Super Weight Improvement Program) as hard. That saves a lot of cost since you're not optimizing weight of the vehicle as much at the expense of cost.
[07:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clip-On L'Oréal Sensor Measures Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:48] <exec> 08└─1. Put the function in all smartwatches. 2. Add a dosimeter, very useful feature for the post-WW3 world.
[07:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Godbout, A Legend in the S-100 Community, Perishes in California's Camp Fire at Age 79 - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:43] <exec> 08└─Most of the deaths most likely took place in the first couple of days of the fire. Fire alerts were only sent out through an opt-in setup rather than through a mass broadcast, and the fire spread at an absolutely shocking speed, so a lot of people had no idea it was coming until it was almost upon t...
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[08:38:25] <exec> 08└─He speaks his mind, he tweets from the crapper if the mood strikes.
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[08:38:27] <exec> 08└─Focus on my enemy and agree with me or you’re a bigot racist nazi!!! Guess this is what we have to put up with until the Larpers grow up.
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[08:38:49] <exec> 08└─If their purpose was to spread FUD, then they have succeeded beyond their wildest imaginations. Even if they failed to incite a race war [cnn.com], the Russians have gotten a lot of bang for their ruble just from the reaction to their efforts. They will be spending more money to interfere with the 2...
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[08:39:15] <exec> 08└─God forbid people want to delete their accounts ..... oh noes!! Speaking about deleting accounts, can you delete accounts on SoylentNews?
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[08:39:33] <exec> 08└─BFR will dial that up a notch. However, if you do optimize weight, you can launch the object at a higher velocity, or perhaps put more of them on one vehicle and send them in different directions. One of the supposed reasons for launching Europa Clipper on the SLS is to ensure that it can get to Jup...
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[08:42:43] <exec> 08└─Classic example: Paediatrician driven out of her home because a mob didn't know the difference between paedophile and paediatrician [theguardian.com]
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[09:38:17] <exec> 08└─The days of leaders duckspeaking for an hour and saying absolutely nothing because every word they said was so carefully focus group tested, analyzed by both friend and foe for every subtle nuance
[09:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:06] <exec> 08└─I've tried deleting "Anonymous Coward", but it didn't work.
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[09:40:29] <exec> 08└─Except I heard a radio interview a couple of weeks ago saying that it was rated such that users could/should apply sunscreen directly to the device and see the difference/lack of. One of the many BBC science podcasts I regularly listen to.
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[10:37:46] <exec> 08└─a $10bn decade-long contract to overhaul the DoD's entire IT infrastructure
[10:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:55] <exec> 08└─There's a pending submission [soylentnews.org] about it. The full text is paywalled.
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[10:37:57] <exec> 08└─It's typical that many papers have invalid error analysis. That's why you have physics - the science of measurement (of random and systemic errors). But in other disciplines, there tends to be a more laissez-faire approach to error analysis where in many cases that means no analysis. Medical and bio...
[10:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:38] <exec> 08└─I'm sure some proto-nazi will come along to say but "Soros really is a bad guy" - fuck off with bullshit because you can't actually name one thing he's done that is even remotely on par with the hate directed at him. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet don't get that shit but they do basically the same stu...
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[10:38:39] <exec> 08└─bzipitidoo wrote : There aren't enough hours in the day for a CEO of a large company to attend to every matter that might be important.
[10:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:05] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the age of the personalized ads and customized efforts to modify your behavior. Brought to you by our centralized internet and clueless, reckless consumers. Russian trolls (among others) need to know your state of mind so they can craft their attack accordingly.
[10:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against ROM Sites, Defendants Agree to Pay $12.23 Million - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:00] <exec> 08└─It seems fucked up that the law doesn't actually specify what is and isn't illegal precisely enough that a lawyer can tell prior to a court judgment.
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[11:37:36] <exec> 08└─Dave: Echo, can you translate Amazon's statement? Echo: Sure Dave. "We at Amazon are more than happy to help the government record the daily lives of any and all Amazon customers. Just don't make us look bad by asking us to fork over the recordings and data without a court order." Dave: Thanks, Echo...
[11:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:38] <exec> 08└─Just like some things cannot be unseen, some things cannot be unheard...
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[11:37:40] <exec> 08└─If Amazon didn't save any recordings in the first place, it wouldn't matter whether there's a court order or not. You cannot give out what you don't have. And it is the very existence of those recordings that is the troublesome part. And no, the big problem is not that they might give it to the gove...
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[11:37:42] <exec> 08└─-cy. But at the same time it quite clearly stated - might have even been Tim Cook who stated - they will hand over iCloud data with a warrant. Seems to me that would not be a problem were iCloud to use end-to-end encryption. And for all it's high-sounding privacy rhetoric, one _cannot_ anonymously d...
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[11:37:44] <exec> 08└─Last time I checked Amazon only saved small snippets of when a user gives the wake word and a command. Unless the alleged murderer paused to use Alexa during a killing, it won't help other than to establish that someone was using the device at a certain time.
[11:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle's JEDI Mind-Meld Doesn't Work on Uncle Sam's Auditors - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:53] <exec> 08└─The "single supplier" stipulation would have been just fine with Oracle if they would have won the contract. Now, I'm not sure how much "Oracle" you can get for only $10bn, but I bet it would require driverless' post above to recalculate its joke.
[11:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle's JEDI Mind-Meld Doesn't Work on Uncle Sam's Auditors - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:55] <exec> 08└─I think you mean "near bottemless pit filled with money" to "modify the entire DOD IT infrastructure to ensure vendor support is required for continuous patchingsupport until the end of time"
[11:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle's JEDI Mind-Meld Doesn't Work on Uncle Sam's Auditors - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:58] <exec> 08└─Consider the FAA's entire air traffic control infrastructure. Surely that was a much smaller task to overhaul? No. A friend worked on it over a summer when he and I were UCSC students. He told me their new code had been in development by then for twenty years. I would be quite unsurprised to learn t...
[11:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle's JEDI Mind-Meld Doesn't Work on Uncle Sam's Auditors - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:59] <exec> 08└─Some of them are twenty-four hours. Likely that particular one was. He put thirty-five grand worth of private dances on the Oracle company credit card. While Oracle refused to pay, my understanding is that Oracle could be legally compelled to. If Oracle had a problem with that guy's recreational pre...
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[11:38:02] <exec> 08└─Just two words: "Cover Oregon". Enough said.
[11:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:30] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[11:39:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 657 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:00] <exec> 08└─Isn't it always funny how when regulations come in, it's such a chore to business and companies - making the slightest change to their business model or procedures is wrought with hardship and challenge. Of course, when it comes to making a profit or bringing a new product to market, they are the ni...
[11:39:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:06] <exec> 08└─From the PDF - http://crackedlabs.org [crackedlabs.org] This is one of the darker aspects, that few if any have even thought of. A prominent example of a digital publisher that sells data about its users is the streaming platform Spotify. Since 2016,...
[11:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:18] <exec> 08└─Make that a +0 Depressing mood. :-)
[11:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:15] <exec> 08└─The plans are at the local planning department on Alpha Centauri. Barnard's star is just the nearest hyperspace junction.
[11:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:16] <exec> 08└─While containment is indeed one of the problems with antimatter, it is by far not the only one. For example, when matter and antimatter collide, you get the energy mostly in the form of gamma radiation. Turning undirected gamma radiation into thrust is a non-trivial problem; doing do without killing...
[11:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:18] <exec> 08└─Every self-respecting Trekkie knowns that the Warp drive will be invented in the 2060s by Zefram Cochrane.
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[12:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:49] <exec> 08└─Government agencies sell items at auction all the time. Including cop cars. Voter information is, and should be, publicly available. I wouldn't want a secret election controlled by a select few.
[12:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:50] <exec> 08└─Hey! Don't be disrespecting Diebold! Those guys deliver [boingboing.net]!
[12:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:52] <exec> 08└─That it's not an even more locked down proprietary system than it already is? It sounds like this article tries to claim that security-through-obscurity is desireable.
[12:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:54] <exec> 08└─direct-recording
[12:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:06] <exec> 08└─How would a judge go about holding a company in contempt? Or would they pierce the corporate veil?
[12:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:08] <exec> 08└─...Amazon only saved small snippets of when a user gives the wake word and a command.
[12:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle's JEDI Mind-Meld Doesn't Work on Uncle Sam's Auditors - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:23] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is in the running? O.M.G. I'd rather have Moss and Roy do the whole damn thing: at least it would be funny to watch! Instead, it would just turn into a tear-jerker. Again, WTF? If MS wins, you all just better move to Canada.
[12:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle's JEDI Mind-Meld Doesn't Work on Uncle Sam's Auditors - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:25] <exec> 08└─Quote from Silicon valley "If you aren't mortally embarrassed by the quality of your initial release, you've released too late".
[12:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 1856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:36] <exec> 08└─I found it while puzzling over how well its PRNG worked, because I depended heavily on it for my Monte Carlo calculation of an important quantity having to do with our experiment's particle detector. _Every_ PRNG I expect other than cryptographically useful ones have a period, that is, they repeat t...
[12:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:59] <exec> 08└─"LARP": Live Action Role-Playing Game. They players physically act out their characters. Rather like the Renaissance Fair I expect, or the Libertarian Party.
[12:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:00] <exec> 08└─The correct response when a nuclear state's military attacks us is to put every man woman child cat dog rosebush and bumblebee to death, as well as to wipe out all over life on Earth forever. But really I exaggerate: recall that million-year extinction that resulted from a comet strike back in the d...
[12:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:25] <exec> 08└─Didn't the Zuck advocate for and give facebooks data to the obama administration [investors.com] when Obama was running for reelection? Didn't seem to be a problem then. It's not like it's illegal for other countries to run political ads on facebook, or cnn, or whatever medium either. Nothing illeg...
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[12:38:26] <exec> 08└─spending more money to interfere with the 2020 elections
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[13:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:12] <exec> 08└─does any form of the word 'surprised' appear. Surely, I thought, these machines would have strict guidelines for lifecycle control like other sensitive equipment, like medical devices. I was wrong.
[13:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:14] <exec> 08└─A) They didn't wept data. Bad, bad, bad. That is something you should do when ever you sell an storage device. B) He has discovered that its easily hackeable. Are you worried by Russian interfering in USA elections by Facebook? Forget it, next election they will tamper voting machines... it is easy.
[13:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:16] <exec> 08└─How do you know that they didn't already do it this election?
[13:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:18] <exec> 08└─The best: box, paper and manual counting. Machines are black boxes. No one, or at least most people, has the technical knowledge to tell if the aggregated results have been modified. With paper votes, any regular guy that can count can check results. And if you don't use aggregate results, the secre...
[13:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:20] <exec> 08└─You are answering to A). Ok if there is no data voter, just aggregate sums. What about B)?
[13:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:22] <exec> 08└─Recently poll results have started to be used as propaganda in themselves unlike just a few years ago, leading to ridiculous "Hillary has a 99% chance of winning" headlines and all that. To some extent, candidates purchasing fake poll results is being interpreted as outside meddling. There are somew...
[13:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:25] <exec> 08└─Replacing handwriting analysis humans with "fill in the dot" machines is basically the optical scan machines I mentioned. My ballot goes in the box at the end of the scanner and humans later use the physical ballots to audit the machines, although the machines historically are never wrong and machin...
[13:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the fact that you can buy them is not "alarming". The public has a right to know and inspect how the voting process works, and what better way is there than being able to buy an old voting machine and examine it yourself? This is how vulnerabilities are found...and preventing this does not pre...
[13:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─> If your state wants a fair election your state will mandate optical scan readers like where I live. Same here. NY State went from the old mechanical lever machines (they really were security by obscurity, I understand they were fairly time consuming to set up) directly to optical scanners. In our...
[13:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:42] <exec> 08└─Last time I checked Amazon only saved small snippets of when a user gives the wake word and a command.
[13:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:44] <exec> 08└─If people would not bring these evil spying devices in to their own home it wouldn't matter whether there's a court order or not. You cannot give out what you don't have.
[13:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:46] <exec> 08└─Their terms and conditions do indeed say that Alexa is only cloud-active when lit up, after you've said the wake word or pressed the button. However, don't think of what they DO do. Think of what they CAN do. Those terms and conditions can change at any point. Are you always reading them thoroughly...
[13:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:12] <exec> 08└─_Every_ PRNG I expect other than cryptographically useful ones have a period
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[13:38:39] <exec> 08└─2018, an amazing time to be alive. The clown show is just unreal. And im afraid the show is just beginning....
[13:40:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 731 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:12] <exec> 08└─Independent verification is most likely impossible for the foreseeable future, and possibly all of humanity's future. That being said, we can definitely tell it is an object. There is no way for the flickering starlight to be flickering simply because of the star. That would be some rather extreme b...
[13:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against ROM Sites, Defendants Agree to Pay $12.23 Million - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:33] <exec> 08└─It's true that Nintendo today sells crappyemulators with old games. the interest of people for those antiques is mainly consequence of those pirate sites spreading them. I seriously doubt that nowadays could be such level of attention on old games if not for this type of sites. Then Nintendo capital...
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[14:37:23] <exec> 08└─There is a large gap between US and Chinese regulations for crash, emissions and probably many other details. They might send some SUVs here, but my guess is the first few batches will be sent back for non-compliance. It will take more than a couple of years to satisfy the USA rules. There will also...
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[14:37:40] <exec> 08└─The best: box, paper and manual counting. Machines are black boxes. No one, or at least most people, has the technical knowledge to tell if the aggregated results have been modified. With paper votes, any regular guy that can count can check results. And if you don't use aggregate results, the secre...
[14:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:47] <exec> 08└─The point is, every single count should be manually verified anyhow. And manual counting is *simplistic*. All parties present and involved, all you have to do per polling station is count a few thousand votes. It's child's play. Simple. There's no, zero, nada, no reason ever ever to use anything but...
[14:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:49] <exec> 08└─Another thing I thought alarmist was the wailing about the lack of encryption. Paper ballots really can't be encrypted, so how is unencrypted "on a computer" worse? And, what "voter information" was on the machines? The article didn't say any personal info was present. And why should there be? I've...
[14:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:51] <exec> 08└─It seems polls are being used for voter suppression. There's also the added complication that how they used to conduct polls is how they still do, but people have stopped using those channels. As for actual voting, Oregon uses paper ballots and you can vote by mail. It's retro, but seems less prone...
[14:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:11] <exec> 08└─I murdered a guy with an Echo in the room.
[14:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:12] <exec> 08└─This isn't the first murder investigation Amazon has been involved in. $5,000 says they get no audio recording of the killing.
[14:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:08] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, your theory is that the CIA was directed by Obama to hack the DNC and frame the Russians. Then the CIA released the data to the Trump campaign through Wikileaks. And this was all an elaborate ruse because they expected the "dirt" to get out eventually and they wanted to have someth...
[14:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─Well, sure. They are meant to be nothing more than sock puppets for the Uniparty. The Uniparty doesn't like anyone to make waves, to cause unexpected things to happen. They like being able to predictably fleece the rubes year in, year out. They have gone to great time, trouble, and expense to set up...
[14:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:11] <exec> 08└─Takes a while, it isn't quite immediate.
[14:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:14] <exec> 08└─Now they have learned that people don't remember what politicians have said a month ago (let alone four years ago), and/or probably don't care. They have learned that people want showmen, entertainment and not to think too much about the consequences of what would happen if politicians really did wh...
[14:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 3607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:39] <exec> 08└─> It's not like it's illegal for other countries to run political ads on facebook, or cnn, or whatever medium either. Nothing illegal happened. WRONG!! Time for you to take a civics class (again?) See this page for the actual rules: https://www.fec.gov
[14:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:41] <exec> 08└─the Russians have gotten a lot of bang for their ruble just from the reaction to their efforts.
[14:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 2923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:09] <exec> 08└─I don't think there is any question this is going on. Clearly it is already being used for commercial manipulation, at the very least to encourage subscriptions. An easy way to test is to search for music when signed in, vs. not signed in to a site. I listen to a lot of classical. If I don't sign in...
[14:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:31] <exec> 08└─However, if you do optimize weight, you can launch the object at a higher velocity, or perhaps put more of them on one vehicle and send them in different directions.
[14:46:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Diabetics Are Hacking Their Own Insulin Pumps - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:11] <exec> 08└─The original submission links to https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com], not whatever video https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] points to.
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[15:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:18] <exec> 08└─There is a large gap between US and Chinese regulations for crash, emissions and probably many other details. They might send some SUVs here, but my guess is the first few batches will be sent back for non-compliance. It will take more than a couple of years to satisfy the USA rules.
[15:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─The best: box, paper and manual counting.
[15:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:44] <exec> 08└─The public has a right to know and inspect how the voting process works
[15:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 2316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:46] <exec> 08└─Can you please point me to a reputable source that shows they are "finding" votes? This seems to be totally false information - provisional ballots that were simply not counted initially is not "finding" anything. Provisional ballots are never counted on election night. "A provisional ballot is vote...
[15:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:48] <exec> 08└─This isn't security at all, this is a simple adding machine wrapped up in an operating system with well known vulnerabilities. At a minimum, the system should require a password which unlocks the encrypted drive, and upon sale of the device the password should be changed/destroyed, requiring the dev...
[15:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the fact that you can buy them is not "alarming".
[15:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:52] <exec> 08└─subject is what i thought about the net in the mid nineties. Why? because I thought that instantaneous communication and access to whatever amount of data meant direct democracy was feasible, and I figured out whoever was in charge preferred to continue being the middleman between the voter and the...
[15:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:12] <exec> 08└─Do you believe in the tooth fairy and the easter bunny too?
[15:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:13] <exec> 08└─Next time you'll know to have a Google Home instead. It is the preferred assistant for such activities.
[15:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:15] <exec> 08└─Judge: I hold you in contempt and fine you $XXX amount to be paid to my re-election campaign.
[15:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:17] <exec> 08└─The big problem is that they have it and can use it for their own purposes as they see fit.
[15:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle's JEDI Mind-Meld Doesn't Work on Uncle Sam's Auditors - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─Cyberdyne Corporation, naturally.
[15:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:43] <exec> 08└─Just what we don't need as this can now be used as FUD by climate change deniers . Anything related to climate change needs to be triple checked for accuracy .
[15:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:45] <exec> 08└─To elaborate, any deterministic method for generating pseudorandom numbers has a period. Period.
[15:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:47] <exec> 08└─Really? Because I would use this as evidence that mainstream climate scientists do have a healthy process for weeding out bad results. It didn't even take long for this mistake to be observed, called out, and published. I find it doubly impressive that the criticism was not summarily dismissed despi...
[15:38:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 2084 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:56] <exec> 08└─We live in the age of the Internet Troll moved to real life. Trump is a major troll, Putin is pretty much the same now. And it is spreading. All the old rules of politics are falling before this new era of Troll Kings. The way we expected leader to behave before is done, and it is probably a good t...
[15:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:17] <exec> 08└─Right here in this thread we have on display the stark devolution of "discourse via talking points." Does no one else find this dynamic tedious and unproductive? Does it get anyone to any place that helps anyone? Branding counter-examples as "whataboutism" is a curt, anti-intellectual wave of the ha...
[15:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:18] <exec> 08└─No, 1223 was a year to be alive. I don't think anyone will ever take the crown from the Mongols.
[15:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:21] <exec> 08└─And it's not stealing if you leave your house's door unlocked or forget to lock your car. Got it. I'll remember that.
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─There's some thing you seem to miss through your sarcasm-tinted glasses: The human species are doing it knowingly.
[15:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─The clown show is just unreal.
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─orange man
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─A couple of months ago Zuckerberg said that holocaust denial was just a difference of opinion. And now we find out that dumbass was using Soros conspiracy theories to discredit critics of facebook.
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:55] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the electoral college.
[15:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:22] <exec> 08└─What do you care about a gay right-wing politician? I don't much like any of those Republicans. Oh - wait. Are there still a couple left who are NOT queer? Hmmmm - imagine that. I suppose anything is possible. I have heard that some of the Libertarians aren't queer. I don't know which ones, or anyth...
[15:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clip-On L'Oréal Sensor Measures Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:52] <exec> 08└─Pre-requisite: make smartwatches with batteries that last for months, not hours.
[15:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clip-On L'Oréal Sensor Measures Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─Except: the device doesn't sweat or rub itself...
[15:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clip-On L'Oréal Sensor Measures Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:55] <exec> 08└─I would strongly prefer a clip on L'Oréal sensor censor that measures exposure to politically incorrect speech which may be offensive. Such a device could be medically necessary for the mental well being of highly sensitive individuals. There needs to be a government program to pay for this.
[15:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Labs Releases "Squoosh" Image Optimization Tool - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:06] <exec> 08└─yeah but that isnt sponsored by google and being pushed for use in their chrome browser that most consumers needing to be marketed to are using as their default browser, for some reason. which means anything better won't be considered because it requires too much effort than automatic and free.
[15:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Labs Releases "Squoosh" Image Optimization Tool - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:07] <exec> 08└─. . . without the UI sugars that are not good for you. I strongly prefer uMatrix. On Chrome and Firefox.
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[16:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:06] <exec> 08└─The Trojan war was sometime around 12th century BC, and these remains date to no older than 4th century BC? Something is missing here. Archaeologists have not dug up much yet, and expect to find older remains, I suppose?
[16:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:08] <exec> 08└─Little is known about Tenea, but legend has it that it was founded by Trojans who had been captured by King Agamemnon of Mycenae during his war with Troy in the 12th or 13th Century BC.
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:18] <exec> 08└─The Chinese are good at making cheap products in large quantities, they aren't however known for producing high end high quality products. They can't compete with the used car market if they go ultra cheap, and they can't compete on a quality basis with existing auto makers at the higher end. Add th...
[16:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:20] <exec> 08└─> This business will be quite aware that it can't just drop a bunch of vehicles off a ship and expect them to be street legal. Agreed. But being aware of the regs and actually meeting them are two different things. This article has some history of recent attempts by Chinese car companies to sell in...
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─the "Property Of" government labels were still attached, meaning someone had sold government property filled with voter information and location data online, at a low cost, with no consequences. It would be the equivalent of buying a surplus police car with the logos still on it.
[16:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 1798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:52] <exec> 08└─>There's no real need for manual counting as long as you can audit the machines result using paper ballots, and the machines historically have proven very accurate. Correction - so long as you *do* audit the machines - a machine that can be audited, but isn't, still can't be trusted. Doesn't matter...
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:54] <exec> 08└─They don't want it. Another example is the difference in security employed on Slot machines versus Voting machines. Night and Day. Solutions exist, but "they" don't want to use them.
[16:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:56] <exec> 08└─Statistical samples are of dubious value though, especially when elections are close. And all the other things that *could* be done, are only of value if they *are* done. Which they rarely are. And if the manual counting is the official result, then what exactly is the point of having an early resul...
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:58] <exec> 08└─Wow. Do you really mean never [wikipedia.org]?
[16:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:00] <exec> 08└─It would even be possible to take the entire box of ballots and feed them through a 2nd counting machine to check the results.
[16:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:02] <exec> 08└─More honest poll analysis had her at a 65% chance of winning. and 35% chances happen a lot.
[16:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:00] <exec> 08└─That's why you have physics - the science of measurement (of random and systemic errors)
[16:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:02] <exec> 08└─They get so excited they can pull one over on the deniers that they blow their wad early and rush to the press to publish their doomsday predictions, then blame the deniers when they are found to be lying.
[16:39:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, we know [blogspot.com]. But the democrats have to play this little game to distract people from their corrupt bullshit. And it worked to a small degree. They won some seats back. The republicans were ready to do the same if they lost. Trump talked about it before the election. So, here we are ,...
[16:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:40] <exec> 08└─If you send an add to every household of the world with an invitation - please come to my house and take the goods - it is not a stealing.
[16:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:42] <exec> 08└─At least 13 more countries plan to buy Russian air defense systems, Saudis included, screw the US sanctions style. China, India and Turkey already did. https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com]
[16:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:44] <exec> 08└─that preceded them by pumping all that oxygen into the atmosphere
[16:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:46] <exec> 08└─Whataboutism is when someone brings up "counter examples" in order to distract from the original point. Famously highlighted by the STILL on going "but her emails!" Getting talked down to hy you? Lol, sounds from your tone that you are finally dropping some of your original pretense. I will listen t...
[16:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:48] <exec> 08└─Bigoted racist uses insults instead of real points to tear down opponents. News at 11.
[16:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:21] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much Russia spent to sneak the Electoral College in. You'd think someone would notice something like that.
[16:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:23] <exec> 08└─... GOP ... GOP ...
[16:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:25] <exec> 08└─The law refers to foreign nationals not foreign countries. It remains quite legal, via sovereign immunity, for countries to play these games.
[16:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:27] <exec> 08└─There is the crazy again. At leadt conservatives are coming back to their senses after two years of suddenly loving Russia for some strange homoerotoc readon. What you think Putin's shirtless pics were not cas refully crafted intentional pieces? Just look at VLM getting all red and sweaty.
[16:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:57] <exec> 08└─Some of us here may be less susceptible to that sort of manipulation - but none of us is completely immune.
[16:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:20] <exec> 08└─Interplanetary lander? Why use all of those syllables?
[16:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:34] <exec> 08└─>The origin of anything shared on the app is impossible to trace. I am sure that if the balls of zuckerberg or the phone maker or alphabet's CEO depended on the decryption of a wa message, it would get done NP. But this is beside the point. What police should do: round up all phones that were nearby...
[16:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:35] <exec> 08└─My grandma was pretty racist, my mom less so. I would like to think I am continuing that trend downwards.
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[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:05] <exec> 08└─"Sharp-tongued Hyman Rickover spurred his men to exhaustion, ripped through red tape, drove contractors into rages. He went on making enemies, but by the end of the war he had won the rank of captain. He had also won a reputation as a man who gets things done." He is widely regarded as The Father Of...
[17:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:06] <exec> 08└─If Athens can still be around 2600 years after what is generally called Classical Athens, I think it's not unreasonable to think that another city-state was around for a mere 800 years. It's quite possible that 400 BCE Tenea is on top of 1000 BCE Tenea, because a fairly common occurrence is a city's...
[17:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:08] <exec> 08└─fuck [my 3 initials]: 3,100,000 hits on Google.
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─Remember when the same was true with Japanese automakers?
[17:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:21] <exec> 08└─Chinese companies are perfectly able to produce to any price/quality point that any other country in the world can. What most people have experience with is cheap crap from walmazbay designed to be built for pennies.
[17:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:24] <exec> 08└─Remember when the same was true with Japanese/Korean automakers? (this is gonna be a fun thread. You guys seem to ignore that Chinese manufacturers were selling in Europe over 10 years ago, and you're talking as if they were just born, not some of the biggest companies on the planet)
[17:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:26] <exec> 08└─Chinese automaker Zotye plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. market WHEN TRUMP LEAVES OFFICE
[17:37:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─The best: box, paper and manual counting.
[17:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:03] <exec> 08└─Bonus points if you create a system with multiple user accounts and access logging.
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:04] <exec> 08└─Face it, if the system can reasonably secure financial transactions it can also secure votes.
[17:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:06] <exec> 08└─And manual counting is *simplistic*. All parties present and involved, all you have to do per polling station is count a few thousand votes.
[17:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:08] <exec> 08└─Face it, if the system can reasonably secure financial transactions it can also secure votes.
[17:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:10] <exec> 08└─and 35% chances happen a lot.
[17:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:13] <exec> 08└─0. What's the hurry? You're going to have those new electees for four years or so, a day or two more for counting does no harm. My ballot had: US Senate, US House, State Senate, State House, Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Atty General, County Commissioner, County Sheriff, County...
[17:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:15] <exec> 08└─No one, or at least most people, has the technical knowledge to tell if the aggregated results have been modified.
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:38] <exec> 08└─http://pbfcomics.com/comics/way-too-much/ [pbfcomics.com]
[17:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:39] <exec> 08└─> the government is seeking their data from Amazon, especially when that data may include expressive content protected by the First Amendment IANAL, but that seems constitutionaly wrong. People talk. The govt can't prevent them - First Amazon records people who agree to be spied on - None Govt want...
[17:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:15] <exec> 08└─To elaborate, any deterministic method for generating pseudorandom numbers has a period. Period.
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks for posting. I found it genuinely interesting.
[17:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:18] <exec> 08└─Consider that the Smiling Poop emoji is a Unicode character
[17:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:58] <exec> 08└─Or maybe some people have learned not to listen to what politicians say and politicians have learned to talk just to the other people, those who just want to listen a clear message with clear black and white colors, a message with the promise of solving complex problems with an easy definitive solut...
[17:40:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:11] <exec> 08└─blah, blah, blah conspiracy theories about deep state and censorship of the people blah, blah
[17:40:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 1203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:44] <exec> 08└─What if your local police department is accessing all of that data? Is that a "good thing" for you? (We already know that many police departments have a Facebook presence.) What about your local grocer? Do you want him accessing everything the data giants have amassed on you? Your local school board...
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:05] <exec> 08└─Are you married? Have you never once felt the complete fool, for having allowed yourself to be manipulated yet again?
[17:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:06] <exec> 08└─The Zetas did [armywarcollege.edu] by credit card and expenses data (in Mexico), to identify interesting prospects.
[17:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPL and Autodesk Design Spider-Like Interplanetary Lander - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:30] <exec> 08└─A "lander" by definition will "land" on land. If some similar device comes down on ice, then it will be an "icer". And, if it comes down in water, then it can be part of a baseball team, as the "waterer", or more coloquially, as the "water boy". But, on to the return capability. You've hit it on the...
[17:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 2621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:13] <exec> 08└─Not really - if the fuel tank explodes, everybody's dead anyway - doesn't really make much difference if it's instantly or after they run out of supplies. Earth (or anywhere a rescue ship could reach in time) is a special case - anywhere else your long-term survival depends on that fuel, so all othe...
[17:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 2011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:14] <exec> 08└─Actually, planetary detection methods HAVE seen independent confirmation. Well, I couldn't swear to *this* method since they didn't mention what it was, but there are several different, completely independent techniques used to detect exoplanets, and they have all independently verified the existenc...
[17:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:16] <exec> 08└─There are some that have been directly observed. These are exoplanets larger than Jupiter however. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:46] <exec> 08└─Facebook has also been complicit in allowing genocide in Myanmar to occur.
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[18:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─The RasPi 3B+ only cost $10 more and has 2X the RAM a much more usable 1GB of RAM as opposed to a mere 512MB of RAM. At that point, you should seriously consider a RapPi Zero W instead, which only has a single-core 1GHZ processor, but the same 512MB RAM in an even smaller form factor. The Rasberry P...
[18:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:00] <exec> 08└─Sure, these are embedded deices and are not meant as desktops ( hear me, rerto pi? ) but still, for about the same price you can get far better hardware.
[18:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:02] <exec> 08└─Even with NoScript and uBlock, my 4-yr old Android tablet with 512M of RAM can barely keep 4 mostly-text tabs open. It's pretty amazing how wasteful modern browsers and websites are, when I see how much processing we can achieve with half that much RAM in our embedded systems.
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:05] <exec> 08└─I'm interested on what the RasPi foundation is going to do next. Looking for another SoC they say? Interesting. How about no proprietary blobs. I wish there were some kind of "mother" board into which you could plug a bunch of Pi zeros.
[18:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:07] <exec> 08└─There are a couple of 'cluster boards' for zeros out there. Non proprietary blobs in the future? Don't hold your breath.
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:09] <exec> 08└─Bout time to go to 16 GB minimum. Too bad prices are 200% inflated or whatever it is.
[18:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:11] <exec> 08└─RaspberryPi ClusterHat, here [clusterhat.com]. Four PiZeros on a Pi. Sweet for playing with openmpi, libgaul, repast, docker swarms, ansible etc.
[18:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, I do remember that, and it was just as true at the time as it is for the Chinese now. I fully expect that to eventually turn around, but that may take a decade or more. Right now there are no ethics involved in most manufacturing over there - the money makers are all about manufacturing th...
[18:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:40] <exec> 08└─But the cynic in me says he'll be re-elected ...
[18:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─So why not open source all the code?
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:27] <exec> 08└─Yep, with close results, do full recounts. The machine count provides the election night results that everyone so desperately wants and needs.
[18:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:29] <exec> 08└─You mention something that I failed to mention. The voting machines I talk about are NOT connected to the internet. Ever. They don't need to be. The results can be sent by a human over the internet or some other way. Another thing about passing the ballots through multiple machines to verify the cou...
[18:39:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 1856 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:23] <exec> 08└─I found it while puzzling over how well its PRNG worked, because I depended heavily on it for my Monte Carlo calculation of an important quantity having to do with our experiment's particle detector. _Every_ PRNG I expect other than cryptographically useful ones have a period, that is, they repeat t...
[18:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:15] <exec> 08└─Why did send the progressives under the bus, after all they did for you in the cold war days? ungrateful people, these russians.
[18:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:16] <exec> 08└─- NO! now is better! - Ha, prove it! - HD PORN!!! - JUSTIN BIEBER!!! - Damn. Well played.
[18:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:18] <exec> 08└─Not clowns, marionettes. The difference is key.
[18:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:20] <exec> 08└─>If he misspeaks or gets something wrong he simply course corrects and continues He should also utter the magical phrase "i have been misunderstood". Worked for Berlusconi for 20+ years, no matter if what he had said was recorded and televised. Get to our level :D
[18:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:22] <exec> 08└─That article jumps to a conclusion without supporting evidence. It shows a string obfuscator that supports Unicode. It shows a test of the obfuscator, using multiple languages with a variety of unicode characters. The author then concludes that the purpose of this tool is to impersonate foreign auth...
[18:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:25] <exec> 08└─This shows that there can be no meaningful evidence because all "hackers" tend to reuse tools from any source and tools are not tied to any particular nationality, government structure or corporation. All this DNC hack bullshit is made from pure russophobia and can be taken at face value only by peo...
[18:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:00] <exec> 08└─The thing is that he's no worse than the lot. But he's the one they fixate on. Fox is all in on soros nazi-signalling, its so bad that even senators are getting high [forward.com] on their own supply [youtube.com] now. And while the left has its problems with anti-semitism, its orders of magnitude l...
[18:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:02] <exec> 08└─callow stilling making bad takes to diddle himself in public. furthermore proof that you can't fix stupid.
[18:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against ROM Sites, Defendants Agree to Pay $12.23 Million - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:51] <exec> 08└─I agree... It does seem odd to me as well. But based on TF, it seems that they are willing to accept lets say $1m(completely random guess) of real money in the agreement for the privilege of saying that they got a lot more in court documents. I assume this is to scare future defendants with paying u...
[18:46:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp - 672 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:08] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, since there seems to be a lot of doubt in some comments here -- yes, white people were lynched as well as black people, and not an insignificant number. From the NAACP [naacp.org]: From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,44...
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[19:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks to Tie its Record (18) for Most Launches in a Year Today (20:46 UTC; 15:46 EST) - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:49] <exec> 08└─Well, they are set to break their record in 4 days or so, with a launch that will be much more interesting than this one: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://spaceflight.com [spaceflight.com] The custom payload a...
[19:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks to Tie its Record (18) for Most Launches in a Year Today (20:46 UTC; 15:46 EST) - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:50] <exec> 08└─The 18 count also includes the Falcon Heavy + Tesla Roadster. So only 16 launches so far this year that have been for customers, the 17th today, 18th in 4 days, and then another 3 planned through December 30. Subtract the Dec. 30th one since it could easily be delayed into 2019, and then subtract th...
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks to Tie its Record (18) for Most Launches in a Year Today (20:46 UTC; 15:46 EST) - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─I wonder what all of the armchair rocket scientists who ten years ago fought that non government space was an impossibility think now.
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:08] <exec> 08└─while i agree its small, if you need 16gb on what is in reality an embedded board, you got some code bloat going on.
[19:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:21] <exec> 08└─Where is the dirt coming from to bury all this stuff? Is constant tiny bombardment from space making the earth grow thicker?
[19:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:41] <exec> 08└─This is actually not the case because the basic mass produced materials like steel and plastics are sub quality, and that's driven entirely by price. And even if they found a way to build at a high quality they would be unable to make it attractive to US buyers due to both reputation and the expense...
[19:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:42] <exec> 08└─Why, yes, I do. Per Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Nissan/Datsun produced it's first car(s) in 1914. Started export to USA in the late 1950s and were not recognized as making reasonable quality cars (subjectively) until about 1970 with the 510 sedan (we had one in the fami...
[19:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:44] <exec> 08└─If he's re-elected the tariffs will stay and Chinese cars will be at 25% - not so attractive anymore...
[19:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:35] <exec> 08└─Have you done some probablity calculations on your question? Here is a quote from Probability for Dummies: The subjective approach to probability is the most vague and the least scientific. It's based mostly on opinions, feelings, or hopes, meaning that you typically don't use this type of probabili...
[19:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:37] <exec> 08└─538 had him within the error margins 1 week before the election [fivethirtyeight.com]
[19:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:39] <exec> 08└─Pre-electoral / campaign silence laws are ancient and were introduced for a reason. The pro/con are mostly about limiting the power of the media and the money the controls it in manipulating public opinion on emotional grounds using smear tactics when the opposition can't react in time with facts. T...
[19:39:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:36] <exec> 08└─Really? Because I would use this as evidence that mainstream climate scientists do have a healthy process for weeding out bad results. It didn't even take long for this mistake to be observed, called out, and published. I find it doubly impressive that the criticism was not summarily dismissed despi...
[19:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:42] <exec> 08└─This is not true in general. It is only true if the internal state of the generator is bounded (i.e., for finite state machines only). Most practical RNGs meet this condition
[19:40:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:00] <exec> 08└─or maybe it just means, that the world has turned into a dog-eat-dog world.
[19:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:32] <exec> 08└─How dare she follow a very common, legal, practice that resulted in hers being the only server to NOT get hacked.
[19:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:10] <exec> 08└─Russians spent about $200,000 in an election that cost the candidates $2,000,000,000. It's illegal for Russia to spend even $1 to affect an election.
[19:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:12] <exec> 08└─So silly to get partisan at this point. Democrats want more people to vote. Republicans want fewer people to vote. It's really that simple...
[19:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:14] <exec> 08└─It's not like it's illegal for other countries to run political ads on facebook, or cnn, or whatever medium either. Yes, it absolutely is illegal for foreign nationals to run political ads in a US election. Foreign nationals [fec.gov] The Act and Commission regulations include a broad prohibition on...
[19:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:16] <exec> 08└─The law refers to foreign nationals not foreign countries. It remains quite legal, via sovereign immunity, for countries to play these games. Nope, wrong again. Foreign nationals [fec.gov] Definition The following groups and individuals are considered "foreign nationals" and are subject to the prohi...
[19:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:48] <exec> 08└─Looking at the Equifax case [ftc.gov], your company must feel pretty comfy then: loosing the private data of 143m Americans seems to have had no effect on their stock price, though the latest estimates [marketwatch.com] put the potential fine at around $275m. Coincidentally, that must mean your per...
[19:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Testing the GDPR Where it Counts - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, it did work. We just spawn faster than you can delete.
[19:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Against ROM Sites, Defendants Agree to Pay $12.23 Million - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:00] <exec> 08└─There are lots of torrents with these collections. Most ROM sites (emuparadise) included don't dare have anything with Mario in the name. Nintendo is a bitch. If you need anything, just ask. Sincerely, A diagnosed data-hoarder.
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[20:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:03] <exec> 08└─Not using computers is a life choice. He should proudly martyr himself in the name of diversity! On the other hand, those that nominated and accepted him for that position should go lie down in their graves and roll in it. Wouldn't be too much of a loss if they just stayed there, I gather.
[20:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:05] <exec> 08└─those that nominated and accepted him for that position should go lie down in their graves and roll in it
[20:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks to Tie its Record (18) for Most Launches in a Year Today (20:46 UTC; 15:46 EST) - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe: "If it weren't for government subsidies.." "If it weren't for NASA's incompetence.." "If it weren't for government intefering in NASA..." And probably many are saying "yes, but SpaceX hasn't made it to the moon, so they aren't as good as NASA"
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─While $10 doesn't sound a lot, it has a lot of value in 3rd world countries.
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─A company you might have heard of -- called Hyundai, wanted to enter the North American market years ago. Mid-80s, and I recall my friend's Dad pondering it. The 2-for-1 sale caught his eye. Literally, they advertised "2-for-1", and sold two Hyundai Ponies for $6k+. Crazy. The cars weren't bad, in t...
[20:38:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─Hey! Don't be disrespecting Diebold! Those guys deliver [boingboing.net]!
[20:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:05] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the voice of reason shouting into a tornado of stupid. I do hope some of your points sink in.
[20:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:11] <exec> 08└─Not most. All. Simply because all machines we've ever built are physically finite. And a physically finite machine has only finitely many reliably distinguishable states.
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[20:41:03] <exec> 08└─Enjoy [youtube.com] (instrumental, 2:22)
[20:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:04] <exec> 08└─Thanks for proving my point.
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[21:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:03] <exec> 08└─I was bout to say something sarcastic, then remembered who Putin put into office in America. Mr. Sakurada, you are not alone in being woefully unsuited for the job :)
[21:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:05] <exec> 08└─In my experience, rarely a politician or politically-appointed person has qualifications for the job. In private industry it is about the same, the CEO is a guy/gal from sales who has no fucking idea what happens in the factory floor. At those high levels, it is more about attending meetings and sec...
[21:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:07] <exec> 08└─And his comments provoked a firestorm online. "Doesn't he feel ashamed?" wrote one Twitter user.
[21:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:09] <exec> 08└─I don't really find it all that odd, after all he is just the minister, the public figure or talking head, or deputy chief on a strategic level. Most ministers, or just politicians in general, don't seem to know anything about their area of responsibility. That is why they have a staff and experts,...
[21:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─ebay probably has some sepuku knives on sale right now.
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─But who will order them for him ... his secretary?
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─I don't really find it all that odd, after all he is just the minister, the public figure or talking head, or deputy chief on a strategic level.
[21:37:17] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 1196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I can understand knocking a guy for being incompetent at his job, but this guys job is about leadership and being able to delegate technical tasks and questions to professionals with in-depth knowledge. Not to come up with half-arsed solutions by himself. Laughing at him because he doesn...
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─Sure we could turn this into a "what is a computer" question, when he says computer he might be referring to a "PC" or "Mac" or whatnot only. That could very well be the case. He might be just using a smartphone, but if he does it wouldn't surprise me if he only uses it for voice calls. I doubt he i...
[21:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:22] <exec> 08└─I was going to respond to the idiot(s) who are saying some variation of "having no clue what he is in charge of is not important for a management position"--(really? incompetence is a plus?)--but there are just too many of them. So... if you said, above, or if you plan to say, somewhere, below, that...
[21:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks to Tie its Record (18) for Most Launches in a Year Today (20:46 UTC; 15:46 EST) - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:36] <exec> 08└─Booster landed on drone ship, payload deployed. See you in 4 days.
[21:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:54] <exec> 08└─The RasPi 3B+ only cost $10 more
[21:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:23] <exec> 08└─Votes are not public information, Troll. Nice try, but the facts are a little inconvenient for you here. Also, nice try glossing over the incredibly low levels of security and how the candidate name can be changed to anything you want. I think that explains how Trump got elected. Direct manipulation...
[21:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:24] <exec> 08└─Considering the fact that nobody has demonstrated a truly tamper-proof infallible system for voting, it should be highly highly highly highly highly fucking illegal to vote with anything BUT PAPER. Paper ballots are far more secure than anything electronic. I remember talking about different systems...
[21:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:26] <exec> 08└─I'll mention it again here, but you don't need scantron machines either. It could be aluminum punch outs. Insert a blank aluminum sheet into the machine, choose your votes, then watch it be printed onto the aluminum, punch outs created, and then ejected back to the voter for their own verification....
[21:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:28] <exec> 08└─Yes. I fail to see what your wikipedia link has to do, with not using paper ballots and pen. The issue had to do with "found" ballots, which will NOT happen if an election is run and managed properly.
[21:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting. We just vote for the party rep here. From our viewpoint, you're hiring the person to manage / run the government. Their job, is to become intimately familiar with "many things", and vote/decide those things. People don't have time to investigate and decide on 100 people, in depth, per e...
[21:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:37] <exec> 08└─The Thue-Morse sequence is not only has a finite alphabet and no period, but it was famously used to construct an infinite squarefree sequence over a finite alphabet which is an even stronger property: such a sequence has no consecutive repeating subsequences whatsoever (this necessarily requires mo...
[21:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:12] <exec> 08└─And you continue to NOT name a single thing he's done wrong.
[21:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:58] <exec> 08└─The right telescope should work to verify a planet is actually there. What it looks like is outside of the scope of these discoveries.
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[22:37:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:29] <exec> 08└─In my experience, rarely a politician or politically-appointed person has qualifications for the job. In private industry it is about the same, the CEO is a guy/gal from sales who has no fucking idea what happens in the factory floor. At those high levels, it is more about attending meetings and sec...
[22:37:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:30] <exec> 08└─And his comments provoked a firestorm online. "Doesn't he feel ashamed?" wrote one Twitter user.
[22:37:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 1689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:38] <exec> 08└─I was going to respond to the idiot(s) who are saying some variation of "having no clue what he is in charge of is not important for a management position"--(really? incompetence is a plus?)--but there are just too many of them. So... if you said, above, or if you plan to say, somewhere, below, that...
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:40] <exec> 08└─OK, let's assume you are right. What is that he supposed to do besides delegating to experts? And while we are at it, how the fuck does he know who the experts are?
[22:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:42] <exec> 08└─Laughing at him because he doesn't know what a USB is...
[22:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe he would, if his secretary printed out the tweets for him.
[22:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:47] <exec> 08└─"Since the age of 25, I have instructed my employees and secretaries, so I don't use computers myself,"
[22:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:49] <exec> 08└─I would rather a politician openly knew nothing and relied on domain experts to provide them the reports they need to make informed decisions, than if they considered themselves knowledgeable and acted on their "knowledge" in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary. The world has far too many...
[22:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:51] <exec> 08└─Looorg wrote :- they bring the knowledge and he remains the "pretty" face
[22:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:53] <exec> 08└─Fully agreed that somebody who is "a good manager and leader but bad technical skills" is better in this role than somebody who is "technically adept but bad with people." On the other hand, I think everybody would agree that it's better to have somebody who is both technically adept (or at least kn...
[22:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:55] <exec> 08└─Oh good lord A/C, we know what he meant, and so did you. Relax man, you'll live longer.
[22:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:28] <exec> 08└─Given that the uSD subsystem is utterly terrible, page caching makes RAM gold dust.
[22:38:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Archaeologists Find Possible Ruins of Ancient Greek City of Tenea - 830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:40] <exec> 08└─If Athens can still be around 2600 years after what is generally called Classical Athens, I think it's not unreasonable to think that another city-state was around for a mere 800 years. It's quite possible that 400 BCE Tenea is on top of 1000 BCE Tenea, because a fairly common occurrence is a city's...
[22:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:02] <exec> 08└─Better would have been "...with the suspects still in the back."
[22:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:03] <exec> 08└─I've polled in a bunch of different places, and the median age of poll workers around the country, based on that experience, seems to be about 72. Most of these poll workers seem barely capable of using the computer systems they have been trained on, much less understand how they work. Now, this cut...
[22:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away - 1743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:31] <exec> 08└─Too much risk that a fuel tank will explode, and like you say, you are very very far away from supplies. I was thinking multiple engines and fuel tanks though, all kept far away from the main ship. One engine tows you from the front, and the trailing engines are towed behind you. If those trailing e...
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[23:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:09] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong?
[23:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Keldysh Research Center Plans Nuclear-Powered Rocket - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:10] <exec> 08└─You know, there's just something amusing about Russia smack talking a US guy about how to capitalism. Even more so if they turn out to be right.
[23:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:18] <exec> 08└─apparently a bug ridden, pawned, shitty ass product hasn't reduced demand.
[23:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:20] <exec> 08└─It's not really unexplained. In order to compete with AMD's offerings they have to keep releasing parts that have: a) higher requirements for maximum frequency so their already stretched 14nm+++ process can deliver even higher performance (while using WAY too much power) b) server dies for HEDT in o...
[23:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel CPU Shortages to Continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:22] <exec> 08└─I would suspect the larger issue is they forecasted to have fabs producing 10nm chips by now. So instead of having processors on 10nm and chipsets/other lower-priority components on 14nm, everything has advanced to 14nm but little/no new capacity has been built for 14nm chips.
[23:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:51] <exec> 08└─It's easy to demonstrate that he's doing a shitty job because he hasn't bothered learning even the basics you'd get from a CISSP. Which is by the way not technical, it's a security exam meant for managers and policy makers. He can't communicate with technical managers if he can't use the term "Threa...
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:52] <exec> 08└─Technical competence has always been a route to an under-paying, possibly menial position. Management are usually smart/mean enough not to promote the Person Who Knows How.
[23:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:54] <exec> 08└─"Pretty". No I didn't watch the pictures. But beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all of that, he might be like catnip to little old 70+ year old Japanese ladies for all I know.
[23:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:56] <exec> 08└─The former will become the latter the second the wrong guy has this fuckface's ear. Besides with Japan's culture subordinates will be even less likely to correct him or tell him no.
[23:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:59] <exec> 08└─This guy is a deep bootlicker who accepts the reasoning of the ruling class without question. "It's not about technology it's about people" -- says guy who doesn't know technology.
[23:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX45hc0aZt0 [youtube.com]
[23:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:03] <exec> 08└─Now, he needs to be fired immediately as he is not qualified for the job. But good for him for making his choices and sticking to it.
[23:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:05] <exec> 08└─In depth knowledge is of course not required to be a manager and one could argue not the best of ideas anyway, as you lose visibility of the forest from the trees and become too focused on the 'small stuff'. However *basic* knowledge of what you oversee, is. This is appalling.
[23:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:08] <exec> 08└─The question could just as easily have been about some obscure complex nuclearflubamajigomatic that only five people in the world understand. If this guy really has the skills he needs to be in this position, then he would be able to put you in touch with one of those five people. Besides why are th...
[23:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:10] <exec> 08└─I can't be elected as a judge without credentials.
[23:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Olympics and Cybersecurity Minister Doesn't Use Computers - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:12] <exec> 08└─You have a valid point, however there is a difference between a widget company, and something that involves security and risk, which are often intimately intertwined. I would absolutely expect that the CEO of a security firm have indepth knowledge of the field. Along with the top people in the compa...
[23:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I was thinking of more than four Pi Zeros. Maybe a dozen or sixteen.
[23:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Unveiled - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:46] <exec> 08└─Sure, these are embedded deices and are not meant as desktops ( hear me, rerto pi? ) but still, for about the same price you can get far better hardware.
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Automaker Zotye Plans 2020 Entrance into the U.S. Market - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:26] <exec> 08└─"The Chinese are good at making cheap products in large quantities, they aren't however known for producing high end high quality products." I'm afraid you're wrong about that. Chinese manufacturers are making a ton of high end products. They just don't put their own names on them. But they're still...
[23:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:27] <exec> 08└─The worst part is that they're filled with proprietary software. Our tax money should never be used to pay for proprietary software, which is anti-education, anti-freedom, and anti-independence. However, the best solution would be to switch to paper ballots entirely.
[23:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:28] <exec> 08└─>And manual counting is *simplistic* It is also slow and expensive, subject to human error, and subject to its own security issues. Say polling station A we can assume truly did count X votes correctly, how do you get that X number to a centralized location to be merged with other polling stations,...
[23:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders Amazon to Hand Over Echo Data - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:55] <exec> 08└─If you have an Internet connected computer, you have a mic with an Internet connection (speakers can be used as microphones too). Unless you have personally designed and fabricated all of your hardware, you are always at the mercy of dozens of manufacturers. It's just a question of which dozen you c...
[23:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Ocean Warming Study Conclusions Walked Back - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:38] <exec> 08└─What FUD? The retraction conclusively demonstrates that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by innumerate millennial "scientists" who start with a conclusion and massage the data until it fits their latest SJW fad.
[23:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia: We did not Hack the US Democrats. But *if* we Did, We're Immune From Prosecution - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but he "Russia hacked the DNC" thing doesn't come from analysis of the malware. That's probably the weakest possible evidence for exactly the reasons you say. It comes from the source IPs used to launch the attacks, plus the timing and targets of the attacks, plus the Russians posting anti-Hil...
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