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[00:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:01] <exec> 08└─Have these "scientists" considered the possibility that if we find aliens, they'll trace the beams back to earth and then wipe everyone out (no exceptions) with a nasty brain-melting ray?
[00:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Will Adopt Western Digital's Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording Approach for Hard Drives - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:12] <exec> 08└─Mid to late 90s, Someone had a 50 Meg, might have been 500 Meg, I've forgotten, hard drive. For $100. This was a helluva deal and I shot right down and bought one. Put in a drawer thinking that, in 6-12 months when my current drive filled up I'd open up the case and install it. Fast forward 6-12 mon...
[00:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Will Adopt Western Digital's Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording Approach for Hard Drives - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:13] <exec> 08└─(this might have been for Half Life 3,
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─How many Kessel runs is that?
[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:39] <exec> 08└─four
[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─More than 4.9e-5
[00:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:44] <exec> 08└─I'm sure she's up there, somewhere, shouting down how much she loves us, wondering why we can't hear her.
[00:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:46] <exec> 08└─I think all you have to do point at the sun.
[00:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:48] <exec> 08└─TOS scale or TNG scale?
[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─Not to be a pedant, but warp 1 is speed of light, warp 10 is infinite velocity (TNG rules) or 6^3 * C (TOS rules): http://www.anycalculator.com [anycalculator.com] At speed C, 16.5 minutes to Voyager 2TNG Warp 6: 392 * C or 2.5 seconds to Voyager 2TOS Warp 6: 216 * C or 4.6 secon...
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─"6^3 * C" should read: W^3 * C
[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─I wonder what'd happen if voyager patches were publicly done online through github or something. I bet lots of really smart programmers would jump at the chance to push code to voyager.
[00:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:57] <exec> 08└─Duh, they've been faking the whole thing. The data is created in North Hampford, Sussex, then bounced off the moon and picked up by a receiver in New Zealand from which it is fed into a delay circuit to simulate distance from earth before being rebroadcast one last time. Similar to how they did the...
[00:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:43] <exec> 08└─Add politics to your list. Equally inconsequential, I bet generates even more "Sturm and Drang" than religion.
[00:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─dispute that claim as being magical
[00:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─Capitalism can only measure the consent of the well to do, one dollar, one "vote". The election results measure a far wider range of the population. But likely in both, the bottom 49% are screwed. The more you think about it, the most similarities you will find.
[00:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:45] <exec> 08└─How is it warped? He (assuming this is a he, here...) has a very solid point.
[00:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:47] <exec> 08└─Daily reminder that your worldview's fatal flaw is assuming government and business don't overlap. Get either one strong enough, and they become the same thing. And I'm gonna keep pushing this in your ignorant fucking face until you get it.
[00:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:07] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked!
[00:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03easyTree [6882] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:26] <exec> 08└─https://sci-hub.tw/ [sci-hub.tw]
[00:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:53] <exec> 08└─Look up the story of Lord Shang Yang [wikipedia.org], who devised the surveillance system for the state of Qin, but when he was forced to flee after judging the king's son just as if he were a commoner (see "My father is Li Gang" [wikipedia.org]), was caught by the system he himself designed, and wa...
[00:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:07] <exec> 08└─STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Your history is about coders that translate algorithms into machine code. Nowadays we call those "compilers". Meanwhile, actual STEM has always been dominated by men. Even though women used to be an integral part of the Technology quadrant, th...
[00:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:08] <exec> 08└─I smell cognitive dissonance. Ignore the whole point fixate on one point of something slightly wrong. This is their brain saying 'ignore everything'. Give it a couple of days and come back.
[00:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:04] <exec> 08└─It is like pulling teeth watching the fools slowly wise up.
[00:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:28] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with that. Do they tell you who you can vote for? Or can you nominate candidates through petitioning, like in the U.S.?
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[01:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:42] <exec> 08└─Have these "scientists" considered the possibility that if we find aliens, they'll trace the beams back to earth and then wipe everyone out (no exceptions) with a nasty brain-melting ray?
[01:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:43] <exec> 08└─> a nasty brain-melting ray? Look around. We're obviously working hard to counter the threat by making as little use of our brains as possible.
[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─The photons are coming. You can either check them out or ignore them at your own peril.
[01:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:48] <exec> 08└─That's what they said about HAL, and now we have Facebook.
[01:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah but within two weeks the Ruby on Rails code pushed by a millennial programmer would break because of a dependency problem and then the Voyager would be lost forever.
[01:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:33] <exec> 08└─She knows why you can't hear her. It's because men never listen.
[01:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:35] <exec> 08└─Nope
[01:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:37] <exec> 08└─Because it makes your head explode ...
[01:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:39] <exec> 08└─It would be nice to look at... but meantime one could get a job. The requirements are assembler, Fortran (without numbers:) and, believe it or not, COBOL https://www.geek.com [geek.com] I am, or should I say used...
[01:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:42] <exec> 08└─Alternate version is the following reply: Dear humans, We got your mix tape, and while we're trying to be nice about this, packaging it with directions to your house is more than a bit creepy. Please knock it off. Sincerely, Emperor Fexhagwotmark III, Ruler of Zebnok V
[01:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:44] <exec> 08└─Well, since the directions to the house are wrong [forbes.com], we're safe from ending up on a shit list.
[01:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:36] <exec> 08└─I'm all on board with that, just point me to the infinite stack of contract-enforcing angels :)
[01:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:36] <exec> 08└─Eh, no worse than yours, or any other of the 7.5 billion's.
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:37] <exec> 08└─*sigh* such a weak tiresome old game... not worth the time
[01:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:47] <exec> 08└─the company's mission of connecting the world
[01:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:12] <exec> 08└─The gunshot trackers could possibly (depending on density and sensitivity) be used to track people walking round the neighbourhood. (Gasp! Did I just give them a new idea? Nah, probably not.)
[01:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:06] <exec> 08└─The whole study is broken due to selection bias, pretty much by definition.. These people are taking a big pile of existing data and trying to manipulate/interpret it to fit their agenda, not do actual research. It is quite similar to how you will find that male nurses and teachers these days tend t...
[01:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:00] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confusing global climate change regulation with peak oil. The fear is not that the crude oil will run out and thus become really expensive, it's that crude oil will be awash in the market but it will be illegal to sell all of it. So they're selling it now, while they can.
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[02:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:41] <exec> 08└─There's a point where it is the physics itself rather than technological limitations that force heat production during computation. That is when information is destroyed. Each bit of destroyed information corresponds to an amount of heat production.
[02:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.speculoos.uliege.be/cms/c_4549250/en/speculnew-team [uliege.be] You can email them.
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:58] <exec> 08└─But what if it's like 'male gaze' - committing an assault by having your photoreceptors accept photons that were fired at you.
[02:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:00] <exec> 08└─then wipe everyone out (no exceptions) with a nasty brain-melting ray? Well, as long as they don't come down and kick us in the balls first, I guess I can accept that.
[02:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:02] <exec> 08└─I _think_ it was the hundred inch, but possibly the Palomar two hundred inch. Scopes that big don't need eyepieces to view planets, the passage I read said that the image of Jupiter was I think four inches across. You can just stand on a latter - or in the case of the Palomar scope, sit in the Prime...
[02:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:05] <exec> 08└─... said the 200 inch night assistant - big scopes are _always_ moved around by trained night assistants, never the researchers. "... that was canned before Christ." I'd puzzled over that same can of chili myself. Just the regulation fifteen-ounce can, with each end bulging out a good quarter inch....
[02:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:07] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure I know the narrator to the orbiting brain laser animation, but I stopped looking through the hits upon stumbling across: Pentagon report investigated lasers that put voices in your head [phys.org]
[02:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toshiba Will Adopt Western Digital's Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording Approach for Hard Drives - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:20] <exec> 08└─Tell me about how fast tech advances... I still remember my excitement of discovering a pair of CalComp model 100 eight inch floppy drives at a swap meet... Then just as I finally got it running on my IMSAI, I was on the PC wagon.
[02:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:51] <exec> 08└─Good troll, well done *golf clap*
[02:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:52] <exec> 08└─It's not a half second. Most martial artists I know are in the quarter second range.
[02:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:54] <exec> 08└─Reading that made me want to drive over and punch the Governer in the face. After the referendum had a huge majority wanting to get rid of the cameras, the prick decides to veto the change due to the significant revenue it brings in. Seriously, how is that clown still in office.
[02:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:55] <exec> 08└─Your comment makes no sense. Not only does capitalism measure the consent of the poor (better than democracy, mind you), but it also measures society's consent to the poor; under capitalism, if you're poor, that's a signal that you're not much worth to society—the few who can't help it will be hel...
[02:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:57] <exec> 08└─It is YOUR world view that ignores the problem with a monopoly, especially a monopoly that is violently imposed (e.g., the one you call "government"). Thank the gods that there has never been One World Government; it is the competition between nation states that has saved our planet from global tyra...
[02:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:59] <exec> 08└─I do not envy the task Azuma has set before herself. To your credit, you are the one person who was capable, though our debates, of helping me realize the inherent contradictions of capitalism; spend some quality time with Marx, Engels, and Trotsky; and move on from libertarianism to socialism.
[02:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:02] <exec> 08└─Do you think that the nation-state system is compatible with anarcho-capitalism? To put it a different way, if we implemented anarcho-capitalism tomorrow, would we still have national boundaries?
[02:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:04] <exec> 08└─He was elected!
[02:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:06] <exec> 08└─As a result, you can't just set up your own email server easily; not only will you have to manage incoming spam, but other email services will just discard the mail you send as spam, and so the only way to communicate via email effectively is to use Gmail and the like.
[02:39:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:37] <exec> 08└─It's probably a good thing the people doing this study don't work for Google. They might be out of a job.
[02:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drinking Water Sucked from Dusty Desert Air Using Hybrid Hydrogel - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:20] <exec> 08└─Beautiful Clean Coal is our answer to Climate Change, otherwise known as the Global Warming. And it's our answer to many things. Because Clean Coal from West Virginia is a great source of Graphene. Big thanks to our West Virginia Clean Coal miners!!
[02:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create a Rechargeable Fluoride-Ion Battery That Works at Room Temperature - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:40] <exec> 08└─Those without garages are likely to end up with power outlets in their apartment/townhouse/condo parking spaces, even if it's just (in the US) 120V/15A, or there will be power outlets at their place of work (common in CA at the moment). Solving the problem of adding electrical outlets isn't rocket s...
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[03:33:58] <exec> 08└─Nothing that cant be overcome using clever engineering.
[03:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:18] <exec> 08└─There are excellent mail servers that are fairly simple to implement I'll bite. Which ones, and how do you define "fairly simple"? Think of the 98% of the population that don't have access to a server, have never used a command line, and sure as heck aren't likely to mess with config files. Now, if...
[03:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:33] <exec> 08└─Is it really paranoia if you helped build the surveillance system that's spying on you?
[03:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paranoid Facebook Employees Using Anonymity Apps and Burner Phones to Talk to Each Other - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:34] <exec> 08└─I would think using the force of the Orcs against Men and Elves would count, even if the only action they were compelled to was dying. Still, I suppose there are a few technicalities in there they might squeeze through, if the god(s?) were pedantic about their rules. I really should get around to re...
[03:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:49] <exec> 08└─I explained why. Mitigation has a bad track record and too many of its advocates don't get that poor people have higher fertility and hence, are going to be responsible for generating future population surges from any large scale mitigation failures.
[03:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:16] <exec> 08└─Or can you nominate candidates through petitioning, like in the U.S.?
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[04:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:07] <exec> 08└─Microscopic level? Since TFS/TFA is about electrons, then you're talking about an electron microscope to see any movement. We may need to parse words, and establish some definitions, but yes, it seems there is some movement, which will generate some amount of heat. Maybe TFA should be more clear tha...
[04:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:09] <exec> 08└─How about you just move the heat produced away and put it to productive use? I know it's fun to figure out new ways to do things you thought were impossible but that's also the difference between a scientist and an engineer. The former thinks pie in the sky thoughts for the sheer sake of thinking th...
[04:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:11] <exec> 08└─https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/superpowers-superconductors [northwestern.edu]
[04:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:34] <exec> 08└─Not a good link for you to find. I wonder how much progress has been made in 20 years.
[04:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:26] <exec> 08└─The only honest money left since the voyager project began is the nickle. Quarters, dimes, half dollars, dollars should all be silver, and all higher denominations gold.
[04:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:36] <exec> 08└─Lot of moral prose, and some java. They've got some source on git-whatever. Not going to read the source to figure out what they are up to, and poking around the websites sure didn't tell me what they were up to. Choosing Java: strike 1. Not have a draft on the actual spec within one link of the top...
[04:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:38] <exec> 08└─More reading material: https://www.gutenberg.org [gutenberg.org]
[04:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:20] <exec> 08└─Time for me to learn Mandarin. And consider moving to China. I mean they're fucked up but at least they're headed in the right direction unlike the U.S..
[04:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:17] <exec> 08└─Bzzzzt! I enjoy the company of women. I in fact believe they should be free to do whatever the fuck they're capable of and feel like doing. I do not believe they should be forced to conform to the current feminist ideology against their natural, cultural, and personal inclinations though. Short of u...
[04:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:13] <exec> 08└─You're still a hysterical idiot if the sky isn't actually falling when you say it is.
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[05:36:59] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. The anarchists came up during my reading on the Russian Revolution.
[05:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 2189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:55] <exec> 08└─To nominate yourself for the vote, candidates for either house must formally nominate with the Electoral Commission. The nomination for a party-endorsed candidate must be signed by the Registered Officer of a party registered under the Electoral Act. Fifty signatures of eligible voters are required...
[05:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:56] <exec> 08└─It's a bit weird that you can propose someone who has no intention to run It's really better that way. We shouldn't vote for people that want the job. We should conscript the ones that don't, make it like jury duty, then they go *back to the farm* after they serve their time.
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[06:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:10] <exec> 08└─-l? I was all set up to donate my dead body to a Portland company. But I don't want it sold, I want it to go to a research hospital. My kidney got donated to a medical school but I want the rest to go specifically for research
[06:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:11] <exec> 08└─Psst! Runaway! Your severed head is worth $500! What's stopping you from cashing in on this bonanza? Obviously, you are not using it now! But seriously, I recommend the movie "Pretty Dirty Things", (2002) [imdb.com], starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, for an insight into the European black market on body pa...
[06:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:13] <exec> 08└─When it does come time for my cadaver to go to research, I'll suggest it be used for the respiratory variety.
[06:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:16] <exec> 08└─I want Nixon's... Got my own jar
[06:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:18] <exec> 08└─I was all set up to donate my dead body to a Portland company. Gonna make some cement?
[06:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:20] <exec> 08└─Nah. Trump's head would be worth at least a few thousand, assuming he would donate his body, just for the neurological study of narcissistic sociopaths of that magnitude. Likewise, I suspect the market to adjust for Runaway's comment history. I suspect many, many, many, many, many, many, different p...
[06:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:22] <exec> 08└─Ive never read a comment quite like this one. Thanks.
[06:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:24] <exec> 08└─A whole head, of dark matter! Or at least, the absence of brains! How did he function? Oh, wait. . .
[06:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:27] <exec> 08└─Doctors have discovered that government bureaucrats and mathematics students may lack a brain. https://www.iflscience.com [iflscience.com] https://www.irishtimes.com [irishtimes.com]
[06:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:29] <exec> 08└─I'd take the arms and legs, but that's all we use to test our products.
[06:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:52] <exec> 08└─I never read their actual paper but they concluded that while the energy required to compute could be made very small it was nonzero A while back I was looking into conserving energy by refactoring source. No one at kuro5hin believed it was even possible, to which I replied "Why do you need to plug...
[06:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:54] <exec> 08└─My office buildings management shuts off the heat on weekends. Already I have to wear my beanie when I'm there. They also specifically forbid space heaters so I'm just going to bring my Xeon box to work. Problem Solved.
[06:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:10] <exec> 08└─dense interstellar medium Who writes this stuff? The Voyagers are amazing, the PR flaks less so...
[06:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:05] <exec> 08└─I didn't use the word equivalent. and it matters whether you introduce your name for the high score after playing asteroids, or at the beginning (I know for sure that some games allow you to put in the name after you reach a high score).
[06:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:07] <exec> 08└─Check this out: https://www.humanbenchmark.com [humanbenchmark.com] Looks like most people are at around a quarter second.
[06:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:22] <exec> 08└─Capitalism (and most of society) sees the poor as a mule. Its consent (or lack thereof) is irrelevant.
[06:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0622 Apps With 2 Million+ Google Play Downloads Had a Malicious Backdoor - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:35] <exec> 08└─"Noroot firewall" It is a VPN like app that blocks internet connections unless allowed.
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[07:35:49] <exec> 08└─TOS
[07:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:51] <exec> 08└─It's 16 hours to V2, not minutes
[07:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:50] <exec> 08└─Seems like something that would come out of a gamer society. Boosting doesn't matter to me when done in non-competitive games. But it really blows to get someone on your team that was boosted up to your competitive rank. Why? Because they are going to plummet in rank and they are going to drag other...
[07:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:07] <exec> 08└─The owners of "private" property tend not to like trespassing.
[07:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:09] <exec> 08└─Have a read of cognitive dissonance. It's very well established in the literature Simply put, most people have a far higher opinion of themselves than they really deserve
[07:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:30] <exec> 08└─* The irony is that suicide is both illegal and something you'll be caught having done.
[07:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:21] <exec> 08└─That's forced labor in disguise under the name of "conscription". Paid forced labor, but forced anyway.
[07:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:22] <exec> 08└─:-) We could make it a condition of parole. Otherwise let's just call it "community service". If we are going to have "forced labor", could it be in a better place? We need qualified people. At the very least we need to hang a real Sword of Damocles over their heads.
[07:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Urge FCC to Preserve Neutrality Protections for Text Messages - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:25] <exec> 08└─:-) We could make it a condition of parole.
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[08:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:22] <exec> 08└─When I got googles notice I figured I'd been pwned but no those URLs were never at my site. I also checked wayback. I filed a counterclaim with a very oblique worded letter in hopes that they sue me. If they do I'm going to press a barratry complaint against their ambulance chasers The "plaintiff" w...
[08:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:24] <exec> 08└─That doesn't make it any less illegal. Sue em.
[08:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:44] <exec> 08└─I have a similar mindset. But now I want some transparency. If I croak, I'm fine with my body being sold off, but those profits should be distributed according to my will. I doubt this will be an option so I'm asking the same question as you.
[08:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:56] <exec> 08└─Quit your job I once met a man who'd been homeless for thirty years. He was one of my neighbors under a highway overpass "Surely you qualify for housing?" "It is my choice! Jesus did it, I can too!"
[08:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0622 Apps With 2 Million+ Google Play Downloads Had a Malicious Backdoor - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:10] <exec> 08└─FDroid is a good place to start. They are trustworthy.
[08:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:38] <exec> 08└─omg a long break-down post... now we are really getting somewhere people. revolution in teh brewing, i tell ya
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[09:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Will Adopt Western Digital's Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording Approach for Hard Drives - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:30] <exec> 08└─Some background: Toshiba and WD are pretty close thanks to their SanDisk Joint Venture. I doubt the share much regarding HDD manufacturing, but it probably made the conversation for MAMR adoption easier. Today there is only three players making spinning disks: Seagate, WD, and Toshiba. I seem to rem...
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[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─If their lawyers charge two thousand Samoleons an hour, then I can too.
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:00] <exec> 08└─You've just won a Rolex watch, click HERE [scams-r-us.com]
[10:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:22] <exec> 08└─I figure it would help to wear a stainless steel bracelet that says "Whole Body Donation See Wallet" and to carry a card with the instructions in my wallet. HOWEVER. I would _still_ need to make arrangements ahead of time.
[10:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:44] <exec> 08└─you've already failed.
[10:35:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:35] <exec> 08└─What really impresses me, aside from the longevity of these probes and the solid engineering that must've gone into them, is that it's still managing to transmit data back to us across these distances. With that directional dish I imagine it wouldn't take more than a sliver of a degree of error to c...
[10:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:05] <exec> 08└─From South Korea?
[10:37:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 1110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:39] <exec> 08└─Let's get that dictionary: LOLROFLLMOAWTFBBQ ! (did I do it right?) The US government has just allowed surveillance to move all the way to the edge. Your giant ISP can now spy on you at will, block you from using VPNs, MITM your encryption, and ISP alternates are being roadblocked. That's not all in...
[10:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:24] <exec> 08└─There is a 1 in the summary that doesn't point anywhere.
[10:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:25] <exec> 08└─How do you define server?
[10:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, and that is the issue. The data, the way the data is collected, and even the standards themselves (grades, test scores) are junk.
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[10:42:11] <exec> 08└─The real question is why people worship grades and test scores when the standards are so obviously low to begin with. The fact that the standards themselves are abysmal means that meeting or exceeding them is just not impressive. Our school system is a disaster, so excelling within it is no accompli...
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[11:34:10] <exec> 08└─Please permit me to whore the link to my tribute to my father [warplife.com]. Sometime soon I'll be adding the eulogy I gave at his funeral. No one in attendance had the first clue what I was saying as I was screaming the whole time, however my Aunt Peggy asked me for a PDF that she could send to ou...
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[11:34:49] <exec> 08└─I feel so ashamed... I read the story the other day and later thought it was interesting enough for this site to submit it. I completely ignored all Futurama [fandom.com] references [fandom.com] until I saw your comment. How could I have missed the obvious... :(
[11:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:17] <exec> 08└─Or you could use the unheated building as a place to dump heat from the server room, thus saving on conditioning the air of both areas.
[11:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:19] <exec> 08└─There's a whole data center upstairs. My office has a door to the outside, for access to the fire escape stairway. Or perhaps I can somehow get the building management to give permission for me to bore a hole in my ceiling. There's a really easy way to do that, but I'd have to go upstairs then bore...
[11:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:11] <exec> 08└─Adopt I2P, or FreeNet.
[11:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:55] <exec> 08└─We forgot to add blockchain and crispr. Sorry for the omission. -- Hacker
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[11:41:29] <exec> 08└─A Fleshlight should only require I/O!
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[12:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topology Can Help Us Find Patterns in Weather - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:25] <exec> 08└─What's the betting they keep finding hockey sticks?
[12:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topology Can Help Us Find Patterns in Weather - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:27] <exec> 08└─"The model was working great until we hit the San Andreas fault... then the whole thing imploded. We tried gluing it back together to no avail. Thankfully someone from the geometry department came by and got us back up and running."
[12:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:01] <exec> 08└─After they stop importing human body parts, are they going to start importing whole live humans instead?
[12:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:09] <exec> 08└─If you are interested in some commented chess games of AlphaZero you can find them here https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[12:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:11] <exec> 08└─One step closer to general AI.
[12:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:53] <exec> 08└─Do you mean the chili was canned prior to canning Christ, or was the chili canned in Christ's presence?
[12:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:54] <exec> 08└─> But the Palomar scope of Corning Pyrex... The first attempt is housed at the Corning Museum of Glass [cmog.org].
[12:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:54] <exec> 08└─You mean the PR flaks are... dense? =)
[12:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:13] <exec> 08└─amazon primary income does not come from advertising/spying revenue. Amazon does not have analytics cookies everywhere, that's google.
[12:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:15] <exec> 08└─Google and yahoo have repeatedly failed to build a social network to fight friendface. Perhaps someone should adopt one of these decentralised technologies to give them an edge; i.e. a marketplace of server providers can be part of the sales pitch to pull people from friendface. Lots of people know...
[12:41:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 474 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:43] <exec> 08└─Women cluster around average intelligence, as proved again by this study and others before it. Well, no wonder they excel at boring, school, busy work. That's the domain of average folk. The boys, on the other hand, while largely average, have 2 other not-insignificant groups: The dumbells and the g...
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[13:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:29] <exec> 08└─This sure looks like lawyers and IP owners seeing a large pile of money and an opening, and deciding to go for it. Smaller fish aren't pursued, not because they are any less culpable, but because they aren't worth enough. Doesn't seem that the advertisers did anything wrong. Should they have to judg...
[13:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASML Says Fire at Supplier Prodrive Will Lead to Delays Early Next Year - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:39] <exec> 08└─Video (not mine): Prodrive fire [youtube.com] Prodrive fire [youtube.com]
[13:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASML Says Fire at Supplier Prodrive Will Lead to Delays Early Next Year - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:41] <exec> 08└─Hope it doesn't delay TSMC. They ought to have the equipment by now?
[13:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:38] <exec> 08└─Finding cancer... the game! Publishing science papers... the game! ...the game!
[13:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 1760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:25] <exec> 08└─I heard Korean guy talking about it while he should have been working, and the main problem seems to be people trying to get police and lawyers involved when boosters are, perhaps, 50% scammers. Or 90%. Or 1%. But whatever the percentage, its too high. Typical scams include your account password is...
[13:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:54] <exec> 08└─Well, it may not be their primary income, but they still do a hell of a lot of it. At this point they're doing physical surveillance too, setting up cameras in airports and providing software to local police across the country. But that's not really the point. Surveillance isn't the root issue, cont...
[13:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:55] <exec> 08└─Capitalism has a good bit of control over the election results though. Poor people tend to vote less, because they can't get off work to go stand in line at the polls, or because they can't get a ride to one of the two remaining DMVs in their state to get a newly required photo ID. And that's not ev...
[13:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Motor Chairman and Others Set to be Indicted - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:18] <exec> 08└─Usually the Japanese govt cooperates very closely with Japanese industry in situations like this; obviously he must have some something to offend someone in the Japanese equivalent of the deep state. I haven't found anything obvious in the financial news, yet. Your theory about culture is not totall...
[13:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:42] <exec> 08└─> ... Fred Dibner (the UK guys will know who I mean) ... Did you mean Fred Dibnah [wikipedia.org]? Even as an American I know who he was.
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[14:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:12] <exec> 08└─To be true they might know where my phone was last night, which may or may not be at the same location I was at. Since contrary to common beliefs, or their ideas, I can apparently actually put my phone in one location and then leave it there. It must be really confusing for them since if you have mo...
[14:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:13] <exec> 08└─It must be really confusing for them since if you have more then one phone (say a work phone and a private phone and possibly a third burner phone for all your shady business) it could become weird from a data perspective
[14:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:24] <exec> 08└─If the gas station owner knew they were bank robbers on the way to a bank robbery, and yet willingly allowed them to fill their escape car at his gas station, then yes, I think he's liable (IANAL, however).
[14:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:26] <exec> 08└─Salty Spice is right: I'm in the wrong line of work.
[14:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:49] <exec> 08└─Now you're thinking, that's not allowed here (here being the corporate office building.) Please direct your innovative ideas to the innovative ideas bin, ahem, evaluation center for further consideration.
[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, dear.
[14:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:17] <exec> 08└─Sure. Unfortunately He sent it in a form unsuitable for human consumption, and trying to incorporate it into the human mind caused it to be converted into hate. Hopefully He has learned from His mistake and uses a more suitable form of love in further attempts.
[14:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:19] <exec> 08└─Should have put the naked pictures on the record. Then it would have been clear that our intentions were not creepy!
[14:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:21] <exec> 08└─But not the poor inhabitants of the planet which the aliens will wrongly identify as the source based on that map ...
[14:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:23] <exec> 08└─Or 1.1·1048 Planck lengths. BTW, given that 18 billion kilometers has only two significant digits, identifying it with 120.3 AU is simply wrong. It's just 120 AU.
[14:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:26] <exec> 08└─Compared with the intergalactic medium, the interstellar medium is dense. Just as compared with the interstellar medium, the best vacuum we can achieve on Earth is still dense. Not that I think that's what the writers of the article had in mind, though.
[14:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are some people that choose a closed source program over open source precisely to have somebody to blame when support is insufficient.
[14:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:57] <exec> 08└─Quit your job
[14:42:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Girls vs Boys in STEM and non-STEM - 1717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:03] <exec> 08└─OK, so what the study confirms is that: (i) Girls on average get better grades than boys. (ii) Boys grades exhibit greater variability from the boys average than girls variability from the girls average. (iii) The difference between the average grade results is smaller in STEM subjects than non-STEM...
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[15:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:46] <exec> 08└─“It’s not right to have consumers kept in the dark about how their data is sold and shared and then leave them unable to do anything about it,”
[15:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:48] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─Before reading this news item, I didn't know of any pirate sites. Now I know two.
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASML Says Fire at Supplier Prodrive Will Lead to Delays Early Next Year - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks, any info on what room was at the center?
[15:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topology Can Help Us Find Patterns in Weather - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:26] <exec> 08└─While he mostly likes living in Portland the cold and damp are very hard on him so he's been planning to move south for a while. He even found a lady in South Carolina; I'm going to build their house for them But he was downfallen when she stopped calling him. But she made his whole day when she fin...
[15:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Topology Can Help Us Find Patterns in Weather - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─Topology––the study of shapes
[15:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:16] <exec> 08└─This is an impressive achievement. That said, I'd love to see a program that can play Myst.
[15:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:17] <exec> 08└─I want to see the same system playing Go, Myst, Thief, and Starcraft 2 at the same time, while analyzing astronomy images to look for exoplanets.
[15:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:19] <exec> 08└─When it can teach itself to get modded Funny, then I'll be impressed.
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─The amount of energy involved in a bit of information depends on the ambient temperature, and is greater at higher temperatures. After all, a 'bit' is a unit of entropy. I once saw a calculation that there were ultimate limits on computation speed because the mass-energy involved in the information...
[15:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─Might work in space?
[15:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:46] <exec> 08└─For example, designing computations that are completely reversible so that no bit of information is ever destroyed. This might be quantum computation -- until the moment you observe the output of the computation.
[15:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:17] <exec> 08└─*Citation needed* (not from fairy tales books)
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:21] <exec> 08└─I stand corrected. Just looked up the dollar bill "test" again, and apparently I misremembered 0.2 seconds as 1/2 second.
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─Basically people need to become and stay more self motivated, and not wait for everything to be spoon fed. Abundance is spoiling us, making us bored, lazy and complacent, quick to believe anything flashed on the screen.
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─"A decentralized network will never work, people tend to centralize." Funny how quickly people concede a premise. I can think of a half dozen off the top of my head: DNS, NNTP, Torrent, Freenet, LDAP, ARP, Multicast, all routing protocols, and really all cloud services are decentralized in administr...
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[16:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:16] <exec> 08└─replace these turds with an algorithm.
[16:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─I’m not a doctor but I’ve been seen and examined by quite a few of them, both male and female. Long long ago I realized it was just a lot easier, simpler, and less embarrassing to just be naked during the exam. No pulling up gowns, no pulling down undershorts. They’re going to look at and touc...
[16:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 2237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─Imagine that. I may blow some minds here. I do advocate for open source software. Free beer, free libre, free, free, free. I believe in some other things, like file sharing, that some of our more capitalistic members hate. I believe that copyright law needs to be chopped back to ten or fifteen years...
[16:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:30] <exec> 08└─My apps think I never leave home. The ones I allow to touch location data anyway. This isn't your garden variety privacy concern, mind you. Let any old chucklehead know where your best fishing holes are and you end up having to share.
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:32] <exec> 08└─Your local cocaine dealer would like to know when you visit his strip clubs... Sure, you leave your phone home sometimes, but when your phone goes to the strip club, who do we think took it there?
[16:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:34] <exec> 08└─Problem is consumers WANT to be in the dark.
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─According to Google Takeout, their tracking data is so coarse and inaccurate that anybody trying to find fishing spots using it is going to have a bad time. We went sailing for 6 hours the other day, according to Google location tracking we traveled 60 miles in those 6 hours, in a boat with a hull s...
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─"Communicate only with your One True Device" The phone companies call it "My precious....AAAHHHHH!!!!!, give me my precious you nasty, wormy hobbitses"
[16:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:50] <exec> 08└─people need to stop sucking up to the establishment goons and quit registering your companies and quit funding them through income taxes. we need to operate with privacy coins and decentralized exchanges. develop coop protection forces to keep them out of our business. fuck the "authorities" of the...
[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah! Obviously we'll need to pay the coop protection forces somehow. I understand the mob calls it protection money, so that's bad. Governments call it tax, so that's bad. Maybe we should call it "Contribution to Organized Anarchy Protocol". Then when people ask how you are dealing with the lack of...
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Topology Can Help Us Find Patterns in Weather - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:16] <exec> 08└─Let's see. Topology --- the study of something that still keeps the same when we continuously deform that shape into a different one. I don't think that fits on a T-shirt.
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─Why should a "(looks somewhat vaguely like it) violates my copyrights by virtue of it being an exact copy" claim be different from a "(looks somewhat vaguely like it) violates my copyrights by virtue of it being a copy that's been modified" claim? What was the "logic" beind codifying that into the l...
[16:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:51] <exec> 08└─I was going to donate my body to a University in Canada but they can reject it if it doesn't meet their requirements, thus leaving the family to scramble and find alternative burial/cremation/? options. I'm leaning towards green burial, aka old traditional burial: wrap me in a shroud and put me in t...
[16:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:53] <exec> 08└─I want JFK's, but good luck there...Johnson probably ate it.
[16:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─It is indeed impressive. And I don't mean to downplay it. But like the magician's trick, once you know how the trick works, it quickly becomes normalized. Look at the rapid normalization of other technology miracles: * [things on recent SN poll] * automobiles * x-rays * radio, tv (which must have se...
[16:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:10] <exec> 08└─sudo mod funny
[16:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:37] <exec> 08└─They're the ones having to pay to dump waste heat outside. Let them figure it out.
[16:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercomputers without Waste Heat - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:38] <exec> 08└─I envision a guy in tights and a cape waving a stick up in front of an orchestra.
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Light for SPECULOOS Southern Observatory - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:04] <exec> 08└─I also always used to love speculaaspasta, and immediately recognised the spicy little word play in the name. However, recognising that makes it obvious that this announcement is not really an important one - "starting in earnest in January" kind of gives it away - they're just whoring for attention...
[16:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─Which is 7406032787 Rob Furlongs [wikipedia.org]. It's a much larger number of Edward Furlongs [wikipedia.org], which is only a measure of how fast one can descend.
[16:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:49] <exec> 08└─Submissiveness is not an option if they want anything to happen. It's still up to the voters. You know, with all the excuses being made, I really wonder what people have to offer in place of voters taking their own initiative.
[16:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, I absolutely am not suggesting "submissiveness" as a viable option; I'm merely pointing out that voting isn't necessarily a reliable indicator of peoples' preferences any more than a random sampling of TV commercials would be. Plenty of alternative means of taking action are still available thou...
[16:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:52] <exec> 08└─> But when is the last time someone invested hundreds of millions in an email provider? Google must dump loads of money into gmail. Remember when having a gmail account was cool? When iphone was new and google announced email with unlimited (or it seemed so at the time) storage. Nowadays gmail is st...
[16:41:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] 02 - 06All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things - 1692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:17] <exec> 08└─This, as so many other AI-based technologies, can cut two ways. The examples given seem quite benign, but what is hidden below? Tracing gunshots in a city where there ideally should be none: Great! Improving X-ray scanning for medical purposes: Yay! Warning about pollution: Absolutely! They all look...
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[17:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Form-Fitting, Nanoscale Sensors Now Make Sense - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:17] <exec> 08└─"What if a sensor sensing a thing could be part of the thing itself?" Any thing that always returns the reading different from what would be read in its absense satisfies that requirement, simply by taking that returned reading to mean "the thing is being sensed", tautologically. It doesn't even nee...
[17:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:28] <exec> 08└─So the SOP was to auction worldly public assets in private, hush hush, with proceeds going into private hands. Wow! Now a company bought this public asset and insists the proceeds should go to the multi-stakeholder semi private entity. This sounds like an improvement to me, what's the catch??
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─(Which mostly boils down to, not using that app.)
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─Mah hero!....in a manly way. :| :)
[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:51] <exec> 08└─My favorites are the ones who think app permissions are the only gateway to being tracked. And not shit like "free wifi", the cell phone network itself, built in apps that you never use(yeah the facebook app you never signed into that your provider stuck on your phone for convenience still tracks yo...
[17:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:43] <exec> 08└─If it were an open-source product the former wouldn't actually be illegal. But yeah, for AAA games that is unlikely to matter. Interestingly, this is one time where just quoting the first paragraph of the article makes things a lot clearer. Scammers are abusing Google's takedown system to remove pop...
[17:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:44] <exec> 08└─*simoleon
[17:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scammers Hit Pirate Game Sites With 'Irreversible' Google Takedowns - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:46] <exec> 08└─Now is the time for Salty Spice to stop being such a fucking Prima Donna.
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─Dangerous to obtain, though.. they'd have to sneak up to the White House fence at night, and pry it loose from its "pride of place" ironwork spike without any of the revellers and tourists complaining ;-)
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:31] <exec> 08└─Must... resist...
[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─I would bet sooner than we think, AI "coprocessors" will become a thing in mainstream PCs.
[17:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─[2)] But over time, pulsars can newly appear or disappear, which we've actually seen happen since the Voyager probes were launched. As objects rotate and orbit in space, their relative orientations change, so the pulsars that are pointing at us today won't be pointing at us millions of years in the...
[17:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:33] <exec> 08└─I think the point is that those pulsars will not look exactly the same from someone else's standpoint, and it's therefore easy to misidentify which of the billions we tried to refer to. Having 14 on the map makes it more likely that a partial match will be found anyway, but that depends on their obs...
[17:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:08] <exec> 08└─I do not think it means what you think it means.
[17:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:09] <exec> 08└─And what exactly do you think capitalism + globalism is leading up to? You don't get it: government is not a first-order phenomenon. It emerges from sufficient centralization of power, wealth, and resources. Government and business are two forms of the same thing when they get powerful enough.
[17:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:11] <exec> 08└─Choosing a vendor because they have enterprise support is not the same thing as choosing them so you can pass the blame. That concept flies a tiny bit with an OS vendor but not at all with FB. All i was saying is people are not using a centralized soci media service so they can blame anyone, that is...
[17:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:14] <exec> 08└─Eh...gmail was popular initially because it was legitimately that much better. I used to switch email accounts about once a year, shuffling around to find who was offering the most storage this year. 2MB accounts to 5MB to 10MB to 20MB...and then all of a sudden someone starts offering 1GB plus? Of...
[17:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:16] <exec> 08└─Ok back up that claim, what is your reasoning to support the claim that people use FB because they could blame them for, what exactly?
[17:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:18] <exec> 08└─Dont sweat downmods around here, sometimes it is just one person with bad reading skills.
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[18:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:41] <exec> 08└─They said comets would be dirty snowballs, but they're hard, desiccated rock. They said asteroids would be hard, desiccated rock, but they've got water. Oh, and by the way, the Universe is 96% dark energy matter liquid that is non-falsifiable and must be there, because, you know, that's the only way...
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─I just found evidence of salt in your comment.
[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:45] <exec> 08└─Alas, in our present culture, blandness is apparently the height of sophistication.
[18:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:47] <exec> 08└─Water is the third most common molecule in the universe; it's shouldn't be surprising to anyone that we're finding it basically everywhere.
[18:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:49] <exec> 08└─Nothing says "science illiterate" like claiming that scientists speak in absolutes.
[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Form-Fitting, Nanoscale Sensors Now Make Sense - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─"Ah yes, if we remove all useful information, then the idea of a sensor is a tautology". Yeah, they're making useful things like photodetectors(i.e. camera without a lens). This is not buried deep in the article. You were one click away from it.
[18:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Form-Fitting, Nanoscale Sensors Now Make Sense - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─What is this "article" of which you speak?
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─That means it's far more expensive for _everybody_ to defend the domains they've got. Consider realdonaldtrump.xxx. HOWEVER! It's also pulled the rug out from under the "Domaining"... uh... "industry", with the result that there are all manner of tasty domains for me to register for ten solid years...
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─Don't Say I Never Did Nothin' Fer Ya.
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─Dr. Demento and Dr. Kildare.
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─Eww. Just Eww. At least it's not soggymike.xxx or moistmike
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─N/T
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:57] <exec> 08└─Okay, that's your opinion. Try to think it as far as it goes and see if any problems with that viewpoint arise. No matter what. I'm interested in knowing which law applies in the case of these advertisement brokers.
[18:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:03] <exec> 08└─You're gonna need a bigger lab.
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:28] <exec> 08└─For MIT grads, that's about 10.6x10^12 smoots.
[18:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:32] <exec> 08└─Add politics to your list. Equally inconsequential, I bet generates even more "Sturm and Drang" than religion.
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:14] <exec> 08└─The people have what tjey asked for? Ok, no more arguing with you, you are almost as bad as buzzy boy.
[18:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:15] <exec> 08└─Oregon has _no_ sales tax of any sort.
[18:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:17] <exec> 08└─It's easy enough to set up your own blog at your own website, but were you to do that you'd have to accept the blame for fucking it up.
[18:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:19] <exec> 08└─Let ua bring this back to your post that started this: people tend to centralize. They need something to blame, outside themselves, when things go wrong.
[18:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:22] <exec> 08└─I think this whole argument is just two sides of the same coin. I still maintain people are making their choices out of convenience, not the more negative aspect of being able to blame the service if things go wrong; but you could say that blaming the service IS the convenience. I think you are conf...
[18:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Backs "Plan S" for Open-Access Research - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:08] <exec> 08└─Academic publishers were for disseminating research, and protecting researchers from exploitation and distraction. Now, they're among the worst offenders. They weren't supposed to gouge anyone for access, they were supposed to charge only enough to cover their expenses. They weren't about profit, th...
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[19:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:29] <exec> 08└─Literally NO PEOPLE were involved. A cell is not a person; a clump of cells is not a person.
[19:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:43] <exec> 08└─The expert said "This is a great surprise". What don't you get about that?
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:45] <exec> 08└─At what point do you admit that you've given up empirical evidence in favor of theory?
[19:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─if you were to scoop a huge piece of stuff from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Huge hunk of clay, in a near earth orbit? Tell me that it's not possible that it came from earth. A huge impact, and stuff goes flying. Eventually, some of it falls back to earth. Some of it takes a lot longer than oth...
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:49] <exec> 08└─So, you're in favor of empire?
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:51] <exec> 08└─Theory is _never_ accepted until it's survived falsification _repeatedly_. That's why theoreticians don't get Nobel prizes until their predictions are confirmed
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─How about you provide some empirical evidence of a scientist ever saying an asteroid could never have any water on it.
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─It's almost like hydrogen and oxygen are really fucking common elements, super reactive(especially with eachother) in their pure forms, and one of their most stable chemical configurations is 1 O stuck to two H. I know it's cool to find water and all, but I also wonder what astronomers think happen...
[19:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:58] <exec> 08└─-r. There is water in permanent shadows on the moon, but I expect it would cost less to dehydrate this minerals than to land on the moon then reach lunar escape velocity with your cool, refreshing beverage.
[19:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─You present it as some kind of dichotomy. How can you have science without both?
[19:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─The Epicycles of Mars an a powerfully predictive tool; they work. Yet, they're wrong.
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─Anyway, read about the "standard" theory of star-system formation, particular the theory of the solar system's formation. The evidence keeps proving it wrong.
[19:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─There's no way to interpret the AC's remarks as presenting a dichotomy.
[19:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:09] <exec> 08└─According to standard ideas, the orbit of the asteroid cannot be traced to an origin on Earth; indeed, any such impact large enough to hurl material of that amount would not produce a large, cohesive chunk anyway. Your idea is fun, but it appears to have no basis in the way the universe works, as fa...
[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:11] <exec> 08└─Not just a near earth orbit, but one that is one of the most likely of any known to impact earth. They also found boulders standing on the surface with a diameter a significant fraction (~3% 15m/500m) of Bennu's total diameter, not sure if that helps or hurts the Runaway ejecta theory. Would be nove...
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Form-Fitting, Nanoscale Sensors Now Make Sense - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─To be fair, there were like 30 links in the summary no one would want to click on, and one that was useful.
[19:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─Just kill me, wtf is this shit?
[19:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:00] <exec> 08└─That's why I turn off my phone when I visit my local legal pot store. I also use the car that doesn't have location tracking.
[19:36:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Dutch Hospitals to Drop U.S. Body Brokers - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:10] <exec> 08└─Nah. Trump's head would be worth at least a few thousand, assuming he would donate his body, just for the neurological study of narcissistic sociopaths of that magnitude. Likewise, I suspect the market to adjust for Runaway's comment history. I suspect many, many, many, many, many, many, different p...
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzuYEStsQxc [youtube.com] If we are to call our learner intelligent, then we need one algorithm which is able to solve a large number of different problems. If we need to reprogram it for every game, that's just a narrow intelligence.
[19:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:34] <exec> 08└─PS: you run scripts to check for replies? last I checked SN doesn't notify you of AC replies.
[19:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:36] <exec> 08└─Now is the time for Salty Spice to sell boiled peanuts on the street corner.
[19:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:38] <exec> 08└─Ok, no more arguing with you Excellent! I'm not looking for one. Especially from people who don't want to read correctly what was posted.
[19:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:40] <exec> 08└─Bla bla bla, if this is a party, where's my beer?? Please, enough of your silly games, just read and at least make a feeble effort to comprehend what was written to avoid needless repetition. Fundamentals are important.
[19:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:42] <exec> 08└─Jeezus! It's psych 101. People look for authority figures so they can become blobs and let somebody else take the fall. Are you so willfully blind to basics?
[19:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:44] <exec> 08└─Take that libertarian trash somewhere else.
[19:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:47] <exec> 08└─And I don't want to argue with riled up libertarians with misplaced superiority complexes.
[19:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:49] <exec> 08└─Pfft! Oh! sorry, did I do that? C'mon man. Try to cough up something better than that
[19:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─Who's forcing you to stay?? Be off! You cease to amuse me
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[20:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:10] <exec> 08└─If they wanted to do the research, they could have just done the gene editing, confirmed that it was successful, and then destroyed the clump of cells. Instead they let it grow into a person (actually two or three of them). But I'm on Team Jiankui so whatever.
[20:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:11] <exec> 08└─What if the problem is that this guy isn't actually the first to implant CRISPR-edited children? Maybe China has been doing this for years. That would open up some alternate explanations: Maybe he didn't know there was a secret project, and by revealing his project he risks exposing the secret proje...
[20:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:13] <exec> 08└─How the fuck does a university have that power?
[20:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:16] <exec> 08└─His parents forgot to have him gene-edited for higher resistance to Embarrassed Government Officials Syndrome.
[20:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:18] <exec> 08└─From the Wikipedia article: One day later, on 4 December, the Associated Press reported he had reached out to them to reveal the government of China had removed his license to do any future experiments and he could "not touch a test tube", but that he was not under house arrest or missing. [citation...
[20:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:20] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're doing that or that it would be very beneficial at this time. But if you want to beef up your conspiracy theory I would add this: https://www.vice.com [vice.com] https://singularityhub.c...
[20:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:22] <exec> 08└─Seems like traditional methods of gene editing are even less ethical.
[20:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:25] <exec> 08└─Recall the Mao Suit. IIRC evolution would result in ever smaller Chinese citizens, eventually leading the People's Liberation Army to invade the US in a matchbox full of green dust.
[20:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:27] <exec> 08└─China is not a federalist country. Legally, there's only one government with lots of departments. And it's frequently accused of having an inconsistent and non-specific jurisprudence; that is to say that critics say there's no equivalent to "common law" where laws and enforcement work in the same wa...
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry to sound like an asshole, but what part of "evidence of LIQUID water" didn't all of you understand ? All the comments I read so far are in the line of "Well duh, H2O is one of the most abundant molecule in the solar system and blah blah blah". Doesn't any of you know what "hydrated minerals" a...
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:25] <exec> 08└─til: "dot word" hotness is the new tld. nb: (shakes fist in air) you kids get off my internets.
[20:34:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 2237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Imagine that. I may blow some minds here. I do advocate for open source software. Free beer, free libre, free, free, free. I believe in some other things, like file sharing, that some of our more capitalistic members hate. I believe that copyright law needs to be chopped back to ten or fifteen years...
[20:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─Of course, one of the things they want to know is your home address. So leaving it home is a good thing for them. And unless you leave it some place different every night, they will learn your home address. The advertisers get your home address and they use public records to tie a name to the phone....
[20:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:52] <exec> 08└─And you pop the battery out to make sure it's off, right? Because if you can't do that, you're really best just leaving it home.
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─Battery??! What about the SECOND battery??!!! Joking aside, you could put it in "airplane mode", turn it off, and then wrap the phone in a sleeve aluminum foil, which should kill the signal(s). X years from now, maybe we will have neutrino routers in every computing device phoning home using a backu...
[20:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:57] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't with one or two apps, it is the whole app eco-system. All it takes is one app with location permissions... Perhaps a weather app, after all, what good is weather if it doesn't know where you are located. And the thinking is how can one app matter.... it is not like everyone knows w...
[20:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:59] <exec> 08└─For about 340 days of the year, I spend my nights at home. The other 25 or so, I leave while my phone spends the night at home. It's not very interesting data. The only thing they might mine out of that would be that I have no friends. That's probably a useful statistic in some academic study somewh...
[20:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not worried about the NSA tracking me, so no: I don't remove the battery.
[20:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Topology Can Help Us Find Patterns in Weather - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─Isn't this data mining?
[20:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Move Over AlphaGo: AlphaZero Taught Itself to Play Three Different Games - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <exec> 08└─I lost the game.
[20:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Small Steps Towards Ending Surveillance Capitalism - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:45] <exec> 08└─I am off, this is just another symptom of your multiple personality disorder. Apologies for the hard drop but you aren't really Jesus either.
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[21:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:03] <exec> 08└─In other news, hostile foreign governments interfering in US regulatory processes totally fine, Republicans declare.
[21:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:05] <exec> 08└─That's really about all my thoughts on this matter. Great that an investigation is being brought to order, I hope that it gets to the bottom of who did what - and then most importantly WHY they did it. Was it to further their own goals, was it to further the goals of their donors or friends or was i...
[21:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:07] <exec> 08└─Poll: 83 percent of voters support keeping FCC's net neutrality rules [thehill.com]
[21:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:09] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, what's at least as likely is that there will be a "thorough" investigation that concludes that they can't figure out who was responsible. Ajit Pai made the decision he wanted to make, and the main reason we know this is that his job before running the FCC was lobbying for telecoms to...
[21:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:11] <exec> 08└─text goes here.
[21:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:14] <exec> 08└─Certain it was foreigners? Why would they care about the FCC when American companies actually have something to lose? Doesn't make sense. It's kinda like blaming Iraq for 9/11. Or what, this time they're telling the truth?
[21:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:31] <exec> 08└─Like Takyon said, these developed into children that now have to live full lives with whatever hack job the scientist did on their genes. I do have a problem with that, and it's effectively experimenting on human beings. Just because it is at the very start of life is irrelevant, and doesn't make it...
[21:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:33] <exec> 08└─Where do stereotypes come from? Why does the west generally think of Asians as short? I live near a college town with a large population of Chinese students, and none of them are short. I am 6'1" and the Chinese I come across when walking downtown are my height or taller, this would not give rise to...
[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─Chinese students in America are likely to be richer than the average Chinese. Their families could have afforded milk and other nutritious stuff when they were growing up. But I haven't really seen a rash of tall Chinese students wandering around. Maybe your evidence is merely anecdotal?
[21:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:37] <exec> 08└─I read that wrong, was looking at the column for female height. Still seems odd because the Chinese women i see around are very tall. Chinese average height appears to be different by location in China, possibly due to wealth. The non-location distinct "China" is said to be 5'8".
[21:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:39] <exec> 08└─"other scientists concerned that it raises ethical questions that will taint other work in the field" Riiiight... They're just bitchy because they wanted to be first and a scientific nobody jumped the line to be first. He will forever be famous, and they won't be. There was a complicated political f...
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─I don't know about any of these, but I personally like the theory that the Chinese government kidnapped him and he's now being forced to carry out his research in some secret underground facility somewhere. He'll resurface in about 20 years with a genetically engineered army of super-soldiers.
[21:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─There's definitely a "WHO's/He's on first" joke in there somewhere. Of course, it wouldn't be even slightly funny, but it's there!
[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but think of all the minutes it would take to write that joke. WHO even cares?
[21:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─You can't use the abortion "it's just a clump of cells; it's not a person" argument when the abortion doesn't happen and the child is subsequently born.
[21:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:51] <exec> 08└─He claims 80% efficiency and actually *more* embryos survived than usual if treated with the DNA chopping enzyme: https://drive.google.com [google.com] This study is BS.
[21:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:53] <exec> 08└─What if he edited the genes, and then sampled the result to conclude that only the desired, well-understood edits were made? Then, the experiment is not the resulting genome, but rather the means by which to produce the resulting genome—if an unexpected genome resulted, the embryos could be destro...
[21:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:23] <exec> 08└─And Mars https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Almost all water on Mars today exists as ice, though it also exists in small quantities as vapor in the atmosphere,[4] and occasionally as low-volume liquid brines in shallow Martian soil.
[21:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─"This is a great surprise" was in reference to LIQUID water. Yes, there's plenty of water in space. There's plenty of ice everywhere, cause oxygen and hydrogen are among the most abundant elements in the universe. But you can't make a CLAY out of ice. That is actually a rather slow process and one t...
[21:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:54] <exec> 08└─Where have you been, under a rock for the last several years? This is not new news. A fourth version of the draft applicant guidebook (DAG4) was published in May 2011.[14] On June 20, 2011, ICANN's board voted to end most restrictions on the creation of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) -- at w...
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:56] <exec> 08└─I know about the new TLDs, I didn't know 'dot-word' was being used to mean 'TLD'.
[21:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:58] <exec> 08└─Thinking of getting it, using deep fakes, and creating submissive gay bondage porn between Trump and Putin :)
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:31] <exec> 08└─I'm coming to the conclusion that travel, whether at 550mph at 30,000 feet, or at 5 knots at sea level, is travel - and being on our own boat, not crammed into a human filled sardine can with exotic diseases collected from around the globe is usually a lot more pleasant. We've lived in "vacation des...
[21:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─You have apps? I don't use anything like that, or have my phone setup. I removed and deleted just about everything I could, and like you, I don't take it anywhere sensitive anyways. I never take pictures with it either. It's a burner phone. The only apps that access to sensitive data are FOSS apps t...
[21:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 2463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:34] <exec> 08└─Heh, that's even funnier. Where I live, nobody, not even government, knows about it. Anything associated with the address is going to be associated with the property owner, not me. There are no records of any kind that have my name attached to that property. Not even pizza delivery, and for that, I...
[21:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Sentenced For Placing Advertising on Pirate Sites - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:51] <exec> 08└─No, but if the Gas Station owner, knew there was a certain banker robber clientele and setup advertisements for them specifically. Sure, I might could see them being culpable. How hard is it to not sell your advertisements on "The Pirate Bay" or whatever is trendy in the "Pirate" world? Pirate sites...
[21:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Will Adopt Western Digital's Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording Approach for Hard Drives - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:26] <exec> 08└─I've had nothing, but bad experiences with Seagate. Also, the only person I know who got a hybrid SSHD (also from Seagate), had it die on them. On the other hand, I've had WD and Toshiba drives and have had 0 failures.
[21:39:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:52] <exec> 08└─> If you pay me in Bitcoin, I will post comments for you using your SN login. Funny, most of those e-mails I get promise to post stuff if I *don't* give them Bitcoin.
[21:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:30] <exec> 08└─Also, "Gone in 60 seconds" the movie taught me that's the term for stealing a car. Though, I guess just stealing in general.
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[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─You promise to be online every time I have a question? It is clear that only you are capable of divining Universal Truth.
[22:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─Even if they show that various cable-friendly trade groups and organizations illegally submitted thousands of anti-net neutrality comments, I do not see this changing anything. Trump, Ajit Pai, and their allies got the result they wanted, and I do not see them admitting anything being wrong. They su...
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:48] <exec> 08└─Am hume.
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─You promise to be online every time I have a question? Nope. You're on your own, kid...
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─I have yet to see a Pai decision that is negative for Verizon. Some decision may be Verizon-neutral (if not involved at all), but most can be directly traced to a benefit for Verizon. Trump must really admire his loyalty to his masters. Maybe he'll get the Chief of Staff job.
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─Nothing will happen to anybody involved in this, because why would it? The people who stand to benefit the most from this are the same people who fund the people who make the rules.
[22:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:57] <exec> 08└─Let's look at that, shall we? Ajit Pai said it was a "fact" that there was Russian interference...
[22:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:59] <exec> 08└─I do not see this changing anything. It's not going to reverse the FCC decision. Democrats are going to need to fix that. What is will do is hold the people who committed identity theft and defrauded the regulatory process responsible for their crimes. That's a good thing by itself.
[22:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─Well, shame on me for not following through! From the actual court filing apparently is this: the commission remains unconvinced of any meddling by Russian bots, residents, or government officials in the FCC comment system.
[22:34:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mobydisk [5472] 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 969 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─What if the problem is that this guy isn't actually the first to implant CRISPR-edited children? Maybe China has been doing this for years. That would open up some alternate explanations: Maybe he didn't know there was a secret project, and by revealing his project he risks exposing the secret proje...
[22:34:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 807 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:22] <exec> 08└─Like Takyon said, these developed into children that now have to live full lives with whatever hack job the scientist did on their genes. I do have a problem with that, and it's effectively experimenting on human beings. Just because it is at the very start of life is irrelevant, and doesn't make it...
[22:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─It's possible to determine exactly what changes were made. The experiment is not the resulting genome; the experiment is whether the technique will produce the desired genome. Take a random sperm and a random egg, and use them to make genome G—this is the age-old way (i.e., fucking) of creating a...
[22:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─We understand very little, how one's DNA works and what chopping out one bit of DNA would actually do to someone. Sure, we can speculate, but what if that bit of DNA also does something that we didn't know? At what point are you doing science and at what point are you doing Dr. Evil "science"?
[22:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:37] <exec> 08└─You're assuming that which is to be proved: That the experiment is the resulting genome, not the editing technique. In other words, it's not enough to say that this guy did something unethical; the burden of proof is on the people to lay out objective criteria and then apply them. The reason nobody...
[22:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:39] <exec> 08└─> which will basically give the OK to start making designer people, whom the powers-that-be fear. The power-that-be are the ones who can afford designer babies. Did the mother carrying those twins inside her for 9 months know that any unexpected CRISPR side-effects would have put her in danger, sinc...
[22:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:41] <exec> 08└─Or Captain China, like in Captain America The First Avenger... this might be the universe in Marvel's multi-verse where the super heroes are predominantly oriental instead of predominantly anglo.
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:44] <exec> 08└─He does!
[22:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:46] <exec> 08└─Anecdotally, taking the subway in Taipei, at not even 6 feet, I tower over most people over 40, but people in their teens/twenties are often the same height as westerners. I do believe that nutrition changes (good and bad) as the place got much richer are resulting in quickly catching up in height,...
[22:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:48] <exec> 08└─Put another way: You can say the same about a traditionally created fetus; the problem is even worse, because you are literally just mixing sperm and eggs and hoping for the best.
[22:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:50] <exec> 08└─(I"m not doing anything "again", check thread names) The natural process has its imperfections, most of which result in miscarriages, as would most major CRISPR mishaps. But "just mixing sperm and eggs and hoping for the best" has been done billions of time, and does not technically involve slicing...
[22:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:53] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree, but that's the whole point: Where are the objective criteria for what is ethical, so that everyone may proceed with the game in confidence? In my opinion, trying to add improvements or trying to remove problems is much more ethical than squirting semen into a random woman during a...
[22:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:55] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, I played rugby against the Patumahoe School rugby team. Their front row was made up of three Chinese brothers whose great-great-grandfathers came over here to mine gold, then became market gardeners when the gold ran out. Huge dudes, because they ate a nutritious western diet and...
[22:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─Go to NASA and look at the the gif of this object: https://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] It looks like dice from a satanic role playing game. God does not play dice, this is man/demon made.
[22:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:26] <exec> 08└─Your parent is explaining exactly that point to his parent comment.
[22:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:28] <exec> 08└─And that's why most mornings.... I don't post before I've had a coffee and taken a moment to compose myself for the day. I need to keep doing that I think.
[22:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:02] <exec> 08└─I replied elsewhere, but it may not be visible: dot-words are a subclass of TLDs. Specifically, they refer to the latest batch of gTLDs issued by ICANN. This is to differentiate them from the other categories of gTLD, as the ones at the bidding process were supposed to be commonly used words, phrase...
[22:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Curious Tale of ICANN, Verisign, Claims of Subterfuge, and the $135m .Web Dot-word - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks for correcting my incorrect assumption.
[22:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:40] <exec> 08└─For about 340 days of the year, I spend my nights at home. The other 25 or so, I leave while my phone spends the night at home. It's not very interesting data.
[22:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:42] <exec> 08└─Embrace the tracking from multiple directions, corrupt the data, wash, rinse, repeat. It's not easy, but it's worth it.
[22:40:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah but within two weeks the Ruby on Rails code pushed by a millennial programmer would break because of a dependency problem and then the Voyager would be lost forever.
[22:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:36] <exec> 08└─Oblig xkcd [xkcd.com] about its brother.
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[23:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:25] <exec> 08└─Seems like murdering a journalist would be something the people who are always going on about free speech would be opposed to...
[23:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:27] <exec> 08└─Most people who are going on about free speech aren't murdering journalists.
[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:29] <exec> 08└─But they are giving cover to the ones that are.
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─You are painting with your broad brush again. How about you identify the group you are trying to whine about?
[23:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:33] <exec> 08└─You can tell by the President's body language that either they ordered, or knew about the murderous act. The administration is in shambles and only the opposition in the media and congress can save us.
[23:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:35] <exec> 08└─How's that? I, too, need an example...
[23:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:38] <exec> 08└─dude hung out with terrorists (even Osama himself) and is thought to have funded them
[23:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:40] <exec> 08└─a few years ago. Overrated IMO
[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─Murder is a rather specific type of killing. Most importantly, it is a killing that is not sanctioned by the state. You could call this one an execution. A funny thing about Saudi Arabia is that the leader, being an absolute monarch, can't possibly commit a crime. Well, at least he can't commit a cr...
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Time Magazine Person(s) of the Year 2018: The Media "Guardians" - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─#freearistarchus!!!
[23:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, didn't he say there was nothing wrong with the comments 2 years ago?
[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:14] <exec> 08└─I hope all of that comes to light in a simple, easy to read document that gets the air-time it deserves.
[23:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─I do not see this changing anything.
[23:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─That's what he said in court. He's apparently giving the tabloids a different story. Either way, there is still the small problem of actual, verifiable, admissible evidence.
[23:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─It's very convenient to blame someone within a sovereign foreign government when the subpoenas start getting served. If it's anyone in the US stealing identities and committing basic fraud and wire fraud that's who's going to be compelled to appear and potentially serve a sentence.
[23:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─Why is "fact" in quotes? Because it's a quote.
[23:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:25] <exec> 08└─The FBI should be investigating the FCC and Pai himself for withholding evidence [arstechnica.com] of this. As I understand it, he did so even when requested by state prosecutors. That is obstruction of justice in every sense of the fucking word.
[23:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─By him. They could have actually quoted the whole sentence. What was the reason not to? Anyway, the story is bullshit, a distraction. And contrary to your faith, the democrats will be of no help. The distraction is for their benefit. SNAFU
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─Something may still happen: 'discovering' that those who stand to benefit were 'not involved' and they are as white as the wash. Magic!
[23:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Investigating Public Comments on Net Neutrality Repeal - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:31] <exec> 08└─Why would Trump want someone loyal to Verizon as his chief of staff? Or are you assuming his loyalties will change with the job change this time?
[23:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:16] <exec> 08└─Oh gods that sounds tedious. Just like the last 50 cheap superhero movies Marvel have rolled out. Will probably get made.
[23:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:17] <exec> 08└─How do you like when people are disappeared by governments? Would you yourself like to end up disappeared? Your mother, brother, daughter? Honest nations who don't do this should condemn such practices with the harshest possible language. And people everywhere should stand for human rights.
[23:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:19] <exec> 08└─...assuming all the techniques you used worked perfectly and there are no side effects, yes. Considering this is basically the first alpha of the product I am very skeptical of that claim. I'm not arguing that there are ethical questions; I'm saying you can't dismiss one entire side of the discussio...
[23:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:22] <exec> 08└─Common Law is called that because it only applies to the common people. I am not a lawyer, but I do play one on the Internet.
[23:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database (Plus: He Jiankui is Missing) - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:24] <exec> 08└─This is pre-alpha shit, with the children having to suffer that.
[23:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:13] <exec> 08└─Not the biggest problem. The wireless carriers are gathering location information themselves, from the towers, in accordance with e911 laws, in five second increments. About as often as your phone polls the cell tower, there is a location record attached to your account in their databases. Verizon a...
[23:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:09] <exec> 08└─Thanks.
[23:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Exited the Heliosphere - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:11] <exec> 08└─*Citation needed*
[23:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06South Korea Criminalizes "Boosting" (Playing on Another Person's Game Account) - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:17] <exec> 08└─Has discussions about it brought anything of value lately?
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