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[00:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:49] <exec> 08└─Outdated... needs to be changed...doesn't mention anything about transsexuals.
[00:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:51] <exec> 08└─Did they submit feedback about this? Seems like Google would be interested in getting their accessibilty correct to avoid having another laser sight on the regulator-supplied bullseye on their chest. Unless nobody in Washington cares about the disabled (which is possible).
[00:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:53] <exec> 08└─How would they submit feedback? The only obvious feedback method is when the browser crashes.
[00:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:55] <exec> 08└─Sounds very unhealthy. I never knew ROKUs had mouths.
[00:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:57] <exec> 08└─Most IT techs are built by (relatively speaking) emotionally "handicapped" nerds. You frame the request right, and you may get the result you want. But then how far do you want to go, where do you draw a line, e.g. lgbtq-xyz?
[00:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:00] <exec> 08└─When you lose customers you lose money. When you do it without good reason, you're a fucking moron. That preempts any need for debate of morality.
[00:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:02] <exec> 08└─Hostility towards disabled people, sure, but also hostility to users in general. It's become a cultural thing for software makers to give their user base the finger. I think part of it is the dumbing down of the software makers' skills over time, too. What moron buys a monitor that brags about its c...
[00:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:04] <exec> 08└─When you lose customers you lose money. When you do it without good reason, you're Google Hint, YOU aren't the customer, and they could care less about your opinion.
[00:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:06] <exec> 08└─My question to you all, "What is TECH's responsibility to the Handicapped?".
[00:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:41] <exec> 08└─I've used COTS zwave stuff and it works pretty well. You can even get a daughterboard/shield/wtf its called for a raspi to speak zwave protocol.
[00:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:43] <exec> 08└─Of course it has to talk to something, and even if you play raspi type games the total wattage of "thingie plus what it uplinks to" is usually greater for BT than for "just another wifi device" With a side dish of you can spec the BT scenario into incredible detail resulting in it beating a generic...
[00:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:45] <exec> 08└─My experience with a ESP8266 is you actually need to set up a for loop to do that about 96 times and then software reset the device to handle memory leaks or WTF is wrong with it, but yeah, to a first approximation you're correct. Also extra bonus hilarity for waking that sucker up then waiting for...
[00:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:47] <exec> 08└─Haven't read the article(s), but if they're only getting a week out of it, they're doing it wrong. At $work we're using the ESP8266 for one of our products, and on a standard (good quality) 18650 battery we get a year, sampling every 30sec, uploading once an hour or so. If we upload less frequently,...
[00:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Mission for NASA Successfully Launches 13 CubeSats - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:04] <exec> 08└─Nonsense! It is precisely the demonstrated ability to completely alter the entire ecosystem, atmosphere and weather patterns on this planet that we can be convinced we can pull it off on another one!
[00:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Mission for NASA Successfully Launches 13 CubeSats - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:06] <exec> 08└─eradicate worldwide poverty
[00:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─there's been some pretty serious talk about term limits for them, for instance.
[00:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 1713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:57] <exec> 08└─I worked for Accenture for a few years - some of your comments are spot on, but there are a couple of things I think need clarification: The rebrand from Andersen Consulting was due to a fight with their sibling company Arthur Andersen on partner profit shares. It ended up being incredibly good luck...
[00:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:59] <exec> 08└─Can you find one example?
[00:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:01] <exec> 08└─But 10 months into the first year of a five-year contract Accenture had only processed "two accepted job offers," according to the report.
[00:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:04] <exec> 08└─How hard can it be?
[00:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:06] <exec> 08└─I'm equally sure you have absolutely no faith in your position, as you refuse to even log in to identify yourself. Or debate in good faith.
[00:40:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:17] <exec> 08└─So he denies a small percentage of the oil but we take away all of his oil? What about non-oil sources of grid electricity? Nice revenge fantasy, loser.
[00:40:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:35] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but from what I understand the law says that the government is required to do an environmental study before allowing a project such as this to go through. The Trump Administration tried to do this by "phoning it in". Not good enough. To speak for myself, I'd much rather have judges who rule f...
[00:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Panel Wants to Tax Internet-using Businesses and Give the Money to ISPs - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:44] <exec> 08└─They get around that problem by merely proposing this as "model legislation" to the various states - clearly state legislatures can impose taxes on businesses in their states.
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[01:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:03] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting that the Oort Cloud is a theoretical construction.
[01:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:26] <exec> 08└─Unless nobody in Washington cares about the disabled (which is possible).
[01:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:27] <exec> 08└─"would you like cookies?" NO. HELLS NO. FUCK YOUR COOKIES. and stop taking up my vertical screen space. oh, wait. that's an eu thing. worldwide. perhaps less intrusiveness all around?
[01:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:29] <exec> 08└─> Light and Dark gray color palate. White text on light gray background Probably the ultimate sin. Either white on black, or black on white. Perhaps an "off white" as the background is permissible. I bet this change was coupled with a lightweight font. > a backdoor method allowing those with usabili...
[01:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:31] <exec> 08└─When you lose customers you lose money. When you do it without good reason, you're a fucking moron.
[01:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:34] <exec> 08└─"When the interests of multiple groups conflict, the needs of those less advantaged should be given increased attention and priority." Alas, that would seem to cover the shitty "oh sorry, we made those changes without even thinking of you, I guess we could tweak something to undo the mess we created...
[01:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:36] <exec> 08└─False, trollboy. "Computing professionals should consider whether the results of their efforts will respect diversity, will be used in socially responsible ways, will meet social needs, and will be broadly accessible." Respecting diversity is respecting diversity. *Enumerating* diversities is retard...
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:38] <exec> 08└─How does Joe Concerned "buy" a newswire? Some things only make sense as subscription services.
[01:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:40] <exec> 08└─Even as a paid-up Google Apps user, there isn't (or at least wasn't) any way of getting in touch with them. No support other than the all-users forum, which as far as I could tell wasn't actually frequented by any Google employees.
[01:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:42] <exec> 08└─So again, asked differently, what is TECH's moral responsibility?
[01:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:01] <exec> 08└─LOL. His last job was womens rights advocate with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
[01:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:41] <exec> 08└─I'm doing Facial at my Washington White House. Something you'll never hear from Soylent News -- yet another censored story. But I'm testing it out with my Secret Service folks. It's working out magnificently so far. And if it keeps working out we're going to put it on the Wall. At my other White Hou...
[01:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:23] <exec> 08└─My position is that NO ONE ("republican" or not) has ever claimed: "it would be completely impossible for a private entity have an equally screwed process." Go ahead, you can disprove it with one counter example.
[01:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:24] <exec> 08└─And my position is the Republicans have always argued that governments always do things so badly that they should get out of the way of private enterprise, who always do things better. Even though it is untrue.
[01:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:26] <exec> 08└─So your position has nothing to do with the original claim, which was a strawman. Yes, good we are in agreement.
[01:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:29] <exec> 08└─Nope. My position is that the original claim is hyperbole.
[01:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:35] <exec> 08└─Perception is all there is.
[01:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:37] <exec> 08└─At least two of your examples are bogus: BPA and CO2. Can you come up with anywhere near that many examples of corporations being responsible and voluntarily ending the use of problematic substances and methods long before public outcry and new regulations would have forced them to?
[01:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:39] <exec> 08└─If perception is the problem, then perceive differently.
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[02:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:37] <exec> 08└─"Yes. Not all scientists agree that it exists, there no consensus out-there; the Oort Cloud skeptics have their right to free speech and public attention." So, Ok, the above being said, what's the next move?
[02:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:08] <exec> 08└─Migrating from contrast colours into blurry, gray-on-gray colour palette is designed to make advertisements more visible. It always ends this way. It's customer's choice will it be accepted, usually is.
[02:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:09] <exec> 08└─More properly, you should be asking, "What moral responsibility do individuals who work in tech have?" Given that corporations have no morality and no goal other than to enrich themselves and their investors/stockholders. for corporations your question is moot. Morality is only relevant to individua...
[02:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:11] <exec> 08└─Is that better or worse than firefox which offers a sad face or happy face? https://qsurvey.mozilla.com [mozilla.com]
[02:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:14] <exec> 08└─I think it's ok to move some features that are not used much
[02:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:16] <exec> 08└─My question to you all, "What is TECH's responsibility to the Handicapped?".
[02:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:18] <exec> 08└─For an example of version-to-version disruption, I'll just point at Photoshop, which has utterly confused its users time and time gain to such a degree that it is mind-boggling.
[02:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:35] <exec> 08└─That's funny, this page, https://www.crunchbase.com [crunchbase.com] says he raises chickens... while talking about security non-stop (the chickens are bored to tears).
[02:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:57] <exec> 08└─You said "deep dive"! 5 points for me.
[02:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:59] <exec> 08└─Definitely worth the read. Very clear about methodologies and results. More of this will always be welcome in my books (even if everyone is right, and low power and wifi were never meant to be mixed).
[02:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:01] <exec> 08└─And from the "plug-it-in" department. What is this world coming to‽
[02:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:23] <exec> 08└─Can you do something about your hair and your gut?
[02:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:10] <exec> 08└─Your position just changed three times in the last hour or so?
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:49] <exec> 08└─Follow the money of who does not want it. You will find at the end of it 2 billionaires that own railroads.
[02:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Union Established for Video Game Workers in the UK - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:14] <exec> 08└─I agree that it doesn't have to be the case. The problem is that it is the case, and unions have (in the US, anyway) largely walled themselves into this corner. This is why the contracting firm model seems to work better; for one thing, if one contracting firm is a collection of peckerheads, the com...
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[03:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:00] <exec> 08└─"All that we currently know about 2018 VG18 is its extreme distance from the sun, its approximate diameter, and its color,"
[03:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:02] <exec> 08└─They also taught everyone for 70 years that a comet is a dirty snowball, but surface observation from the last decade has revealed there's a snowball's chance in hell that this is true. Why can't scientist and their minions in the press actually respect the Scientific Method by using more precise la...
[03:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:04] <exec> 08└─"nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"
[03:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:06] <exec> 08└─Ripley
[03:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:08] <exec> 08└─You really thought that comets are literally packed snow? Like, not ice and rock? Just packed snow with some silicate dust?
[03:36:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:40] <exec> 08└─I think it's ok to move some features that are not used much
[03:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:43] <exec> 08└─Why do you think girls who like girls are handicapped? Have you been huffing systemd? Try some of the legal weed for the emotional handicap instead.
[03:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:45] <exec> 08└─You think so? You really might want to put more thought into that. Whether you consider people the product or the customer, losing either loses you money.
[03:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:48] <exec> 08└─It's happening. Most people are sheep and will take what is forced upon them but not all people.
[03:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:50] <exec> 08└─Trump could help (hes not a fan of google) but hes under sealed grand jury investigation for questioning the validity of the national debt during the 2016 campaign. This is highly illegal according to the 14th amendment: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, inclu...
[03:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:14] <exec> 08└─Magic mushrooms, given that the writeup contains phrases like "up to more than 20 feet tall and a yard wide".
[03:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:04] <exec> 08└─I see a lot of researchers working on ways to help governments and corporations conduct mass surveillance on the populace, but very few working on ways to thwart that very same surveillance. Researchers who directly help build systems of oppression should be ridiculed and ostracized in society, not...
[03:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:05] <exec> 08└─If you really get the police riled up enough to put the resources into it, I wouldn't put too much faith in those sunglasses and medical masks. Partial face matches may be sufficient for identification (https://www.seeker.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/this-artificial-intelligence-system-can-id-fa...
[03:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:53] <exec> 08└─No
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[03:42:50] <exec> 08└─No, the evidence is against them. Corporations have concealed problems for decades. Smoking was known to cause health problems in the 1960s, and tobacco companies were forced to put warning labels on their products in the 1970s, but in 1994, they were still lying. Every one of them said that they be...
[03:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:03] <exec> 08└─the perception of all the people who matter.
[03:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:04] <exec> 08└─As an aside, that's the third narrative you've introduced in this discussion. First, there was the babble about the Gerontocracy [soylentnews.org] keeping a lid on the bad news because they don't care what happens in ten years. Then it was researchers [soylentnews.org] and their dark masters publish...
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[04:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX, Blue Origin to Launch Within Minutes of Each Other on Tuesday - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/gps.html [lockheedmartin.com] 3x more accurate Stronger and 8x harder to jam military signal (Russia...Norway....etc.) https://www.airforcetimes.com [airforcetim...
[04:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX, Blue Origin to Launch Within Minutes of Each Other on Tuesday - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:48] <exec> 08└─Still, 3x higher accuracy is going to ruin the whole bounce around the area approach to playing Ingress.
[04:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:05] <exec> 08└─These might be more to your liking: - Rosetta spacecraft becomes first manmade probe to orbit a comet [wsws.org] - Rosetta spacecraft completes mission with crash landing into comet [wsws.org]
[04:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:06] <exec> 08└─I absolutely agree. The sad fact is that science usually needs funding, and a whole funding machine has evolved that of course includes enticements.
[04:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:08] <exec> 08└─You call it a travesty, I call it a nitpick.
[04:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:48] <exec> 08└─I better incorporate my handicapped corporation before everyone else jumps in. It is wealth-challenged and very sensitive about it!
[04:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:50] <exec> 08└─When you lose customers you lose money.
[04:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:52] <exec> 08└─Damn it! Once you know, you can never unknow. Thanks, I think.
[04:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:12] <exec> 08└─It's a package manager for javascript. In other words, it's the thing that should never be, that should never be.
[04:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered by Yahoo Mail and Gmail - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:22] <exec> 08└─If the two-factor authentication is there to identify the user, you'll still need something like it to identify the server. Any ideas?
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[05:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:27] <exec> 08└─Just read/watch this and think about how its from the same people who must approve of this china censorship project: https://www.abc15.com [abc15.com] Scary stuff.
[05:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:29] <exec> 08└─Google simply can't not be evil. One of these days, Goog will be synonymous with Nazi.
[05:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:31] <exec> 08└─Jews are the real Nazis tbqhfam.
[05:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:58] <exec> 08└─When they sent a probe to land on a comet, they put spikes on its feet, so that it would stick more readily to the surface. Meanwhile, a "crazy nut" told them that it would be just like an asteroid and therefore bounce off the surface in an unintended fashion, which turned out to be an accurate desc...
[05:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:00] <exec> 08└─So its basiclly the same stuff as arctic ice cap?
[05:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe Google should put more thought into it, considering they seem hellbent on ruining every single 'service' (really, they're disservices at this point) they have. Same with so many other large corporations.
[05:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:47] <exec> 08└─You could start by thinking about why you default to the description of someone as 'handicapped' rather than something like 'people with a disability'
[05:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marvin [3019] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:05] <exec> 08└─Good news is, the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of forty-four point six years, so if you're thirty or older, you're laughing. Worst case scenario, you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch thos...
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[06:35:41] <exec> 08└─Jewish Nazis are most successful Nazis just like Michael David Crawford is most successful MDC. Fuck MDC
[06:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX, Blue Origin to Launch Within Minutes of Each Other on Tuesday - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:50] <exec> 08└─Will it ever stop? Yo I don't know
[06:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:56] <exec> 08└─How much of an obligation people have to help others has no definite answer. All you can say is that if enough people feel like they are getting the short end of the stick, they will force society to accommodate them.
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[07:36:04] <exec> 08└─Stronger and 8x harder to jam military signal (Russia...Norway....etc.)
[07:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:56] <exec> 08└─ZigBee has been common but is fading. You have the 6LoWPAN [link-labs.com] alternative as a better choice than ZigBee. ZigBee is encumbered by many patents, 6LoWPAN is an open standard [electronics-notes.com] and can be implemented freely. In fact, ZigBee is only royalty-free if used non-commerciall...
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[08:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:44] <exec> 08└─Google has become so big and unavoidable, it's more a do-as-I-say-or-else kind of a strategy. Access to most of the internet depends on talking to Google servers, and people will use whatever browser "just works". If browser makers don't implement SPDY, they'll lose market share. So they obey even i...
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[08:38:17] <exec> 08└─Well, fuck. At least now it makes sense.
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[09:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, in that and many other ways, Google is the new Microsoft. Google pumps out crap software they abandon regularly, just like Microsoft. It's the arrogance of being a giant, rich company with a captive audience.
[09:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:22] <exec> 08└─We should know better than to trust google. But what do we trust instead, mozilla with their DRM encumbered browser? lol.
[09:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:24] <exec> 08└─And in its day, MS deliberately served broken stylesheets to Opera and other non-MS browsers to make it look shitty. Turnabout is fair play. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Etc.
[09:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:38] <exec> 08└─Can we call it collaboration at this point? I mean, what the hell else is it? Two-faced, money-grubbing sacks of crap.
[09:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah! How about 'differently abled' instead of 'disabled', you insensitive clod! (grin)
[09:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:21] <exec> 08└─Being necessary, it doesn't mean it will be sufficient. I.e. the brexit may still happen without the immigration going down.
[09:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:22] <exec> 08└─Your 3 dimensional cube has 3 interconnects per node. Your 20 dimensional hypercube has 20 interconnects per node. What makes you so unwaveringly sure that his architecture with 4 interconnects per node wasn't 4 dimensional? OP has been fairly ambiguous about what processor he's talking about, there...
[09:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:23] <exec> 08└─Linear ones are, but everything linear is just a matrix operation. Most ANNs are non-linear, a bit of hysteresis seems to improve performance.
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[10:36:32] <exec> 08└─And a credible one, instead of one that peddles DRM.
[10:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:34] <exec> 08└─Two takeaways from TFS: 1) Google's intentions to "speed up the web" are actually intended to only benefit Google. 2) Microsoft doesn't like being on the receiving end of these types of acts, which is too bad because, you know, hypocrisy is ironically delicious. Fuck both of these companies. I'm sti...
[10:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:49] <exec> 08└─Do we really believe that Google is giving up on this marketunity? I would not put it past them to pass it along to another Alphabet subsidiary or to hide it in the bowels of Google HQ. The fact that Google willingly agreed to develop this censor engine for China means they already weighed the pros...
[10:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:50] <exec> 08└─Salty Spice! I haven't seen any of your posts for a while. I was hoping you were quiet because you were in inpatient attitude rehab. I guess not. Salt on, Salty Spice!
[10:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:20] <exec> 08└─this is what you should expect.
[10:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:21] <exec> 08└─The problem with "differently abled" is that the term implies different abilities, which may be upsetting. How about "equally abled", or "eqabled (e-cabled)"?
[10:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:43] <exec> 08└─Secure javascript over a hacked server or a MITMed connection or a hacked browser is irrelevant. But at least they try not to be the vector themselves.
[10:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:45] <exec> 08└─Too late. I had already employed my advanced AI acronym solver, which yielded the most likely "Naked Purple Midget" which returns sufficiently meaningful hits on google. I'll be back in 3/5 minutes.
[10:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Paid Firm $13.6 Million to Hire 7500 Recruits; It Hired 2 - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:32] <exec> 08└─Try applying for a mobile phone in Australia. They ask you to scan your license, cards etc, enough ID to steal your identity, and upload it to a server in another country so someone on the other side of the world can verify that you are you. Just to get a mobile phone account.
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[11:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:39] <exec> 08└─Sneaking satire into articles is not OK, is that what you're saying? Then how do you explain this in yours: "the leader of the free world"
[11:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:41] <exec> 08└─So nature itself now investigates the content of papers? Oh, wait, it's Nature, the journal (or rather its publisher). But then, why would Nature investigate a Science paper? Wouldn't that be the job of Science? Oh wait, this time it's not a Science paper, that is paper published in the journal Scie...
[11:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:44] <exec> 08└─If you want to see the image without enabling JavaScript, here it is. [twimg.com]
[11:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:46] <exec> 08└─Science, for being what it is, might investigate science or Science, being what that would be. Nature, however, would still take its, well, natural cause, right? Put another way: shit happens, and that was one of the natural (side) conclusions in a scientific paper (or were these NATURAL conclusions...
[11:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:48] <exec> 08└─Used to be, the reputations of scholarly journals were above reproach but lately they've really wrecked em. They should have wiped it as soon as it was discovered. Now the only question is how long do we rub their noses in it.
[11:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:04] <exec> 08└─It goes back even further than that: I remember things like "DOS ain't done, till Lotus 123 won't run", or even all the "improvements" that just happened to cause software to break when users tried to run it on DR DOS. While I think that if Google is indeed doing this kind of thing deliberately it's...
[11:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:06] <exec> 08└─Following recommendations off this site, I installed umatrix and was shocked at how pervasive google APIs are... I expect them in google obv, even places whose revenue comes from advertising (tumblr, etc). But they are *everywhere*. Even on corporate websites with nothing to do with google. Maybe 90...
[11:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:08] <exec> 08└─Judge ruled that yes, the NFL was a monopoly, but that the USFL's problems were of its own making. Awarded them $3 in damages, which was a few million short of what the league needed to survive. Similarly, regardless of Google's behaviour, Edge is still shit.
[11:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:10] <exec> 08└─Waterfox. I've not yet seen anything that makes me distrust that.
[11:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:27] <exec> 08└─They should invest in a Baidu competitor and buy them outright if the political situation in China ever changes. Then either slap the Google logo on it or operate both brands.
[11:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:28] <exec> 08└─They should just buy China.
[11:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX, Blue Origin to Launch Within Minutes of Each Other on Tuesday - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:44] <exec> 08└─GPS III also will provide a new civilian signal compatible with other countries' navigation satellites, such as the European Union's Galileo system. That means civilian receivers capable of receiving the new signal will have more satellites to lock in on, improving accuracy.
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[11:38:06] <exec> 08└─They also taught everyone for 70 years that a comet is a dirty snowball, but surface observation from the last decade has revealed there's a snowball's chance in hell that this is true.
[11:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:00] <exec> 08└─I'm Spasticus! Spasticus! Spasticus! Autisticus!
[11:40:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:22] <exec> 08└─PBS Eons has a great YouTube video [youtu.be] on these giant fungi.
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[12:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:32] <exec> 08└─November 3rd, 2020 seems apropos. Or, if they are really unlucky, November 5th, 2024.
[12:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:33] <exec> 08└─Don't take the following as said with derision, it's meant to be read in camaraderie with a cheesy grin. Whoosh!
[12:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:36] <exec> 08└─Jesus on toast [google.com], Trump on a turd, it's not that miraculous, it even has a scientific name: pareidolia [wikipedia.org]. (grin)
[12:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:38] <exec> 08└─I saw a turd with a guy's face on it. And a 2nd turd with the face of a dog. Named Kenny and Christina. Real mature, folks! It's not mature, it's the opposite. So disapointing that somebody from my alma mater was part of this one. Too bad for Penn State. Because they won't be seeing my magnificent "...
[12:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:40] <exec> 08└─Should see their government grants revoked and their home institutions nonprofit status seriously reconsidered.
[12:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:00] <exec> 08└─I'm also wondering how much of this might actually be sour grapes
[12:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:01] <exec> 08└─I'm sticking with Apple because they never hurt anyone.
[12:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:04] <exec> 08└─Stigginit to the man! Two wrongs always make a right, amiright? Sounds like a true Trumpster's philosophy. Users are caught up in this sort of crap, and it has no place in a technological world. Microsoft, for its part, has gone quite a long way toward repenting its ways, but hey, never forget that...
[12:37:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:32] <exec> 08└─My question to you all, "What is TECH's responsibility to the Handicapped?".
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[13:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:23] <exec> 08└─If you look at the paper, there is absolutely no way that you would ever notice this. It's a small bit of a small bit of the illustration. Hence, the authors themselves must have called attention to it. Funny, ha ha, at a grade school level. This ought to result in disciplinary action from their uni...
[13:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:25] <exec> 08└─They hid the face of Obama on a brown turd too, but can't make out where it is anymore. (there, you all thought something similar to this, but were afraid to post. Chickens)
[13:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:27] <exec> 08└─It's low-class and juvenile. Not something to be punished for through their employment or government. The science community, their peers, know what they are now though: petty, unprofessional, and lacking a developed sense of humor. Act like petty children - be treated like petty children by your pee...
[13:36:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 1054 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:40] <exec> 08└─It goes back even further than that: I remember things like "DOS ain't done, till Lotus 123 won't run", or even all the "improvements" that just happened to cause software to break when users tried to run it on DR DOS. While I think that if Google is indeed doing this kind of thing deliberately it's...
[13:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:48] <exec> 08└─Wow, just about the first time ever: a question in an article title, where the answer is "yes". Allow me to digress: I just discovered another way that Google and stupid UX designers haved screwed up again. Go to Google Maps. Zoom in on a town until some business pops up, one that has a website. Cli...
[13:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:50] <exec> 08└─Nice story, but it's simply not true; google still supports good old HTTP 1.x, same as always. Everyone adopted SPDY because it was faster, not because it was required for any content, google or otherwise.
[13:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:52] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that Google is bad in every way that Microsoft was (is), but additionally they are actively fighting free speech (a basic human right) and pushing hard on regressive social and political agendas. They are far more evil.
[13:38:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:22] <exec> 08└─For an example of version-to-version disruption, I'll just point at Photoshop, which has utterly confused its users time and time gain to such a degree that it is mind-boggling.
[13:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:39] <exec> 08└─...just because some latte-sipping hipster cretin at Google has decided they need to rearrange the UI deckchairs yet again.
[13:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:07] <exec> 08└─Those people don't matter to me.
[13:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reuters Reports That Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:08] <exec> 08└─You're looking for consistency? This isn't consistency, this is abuse - for consistency please refer to the information desk. Best of luck.
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[14:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:03] <exec> 08└─Sneaking satire into articles is not OK, is that what you're saying? Then how do you explain this in yours: "the leader of the free world"
[14:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:16] <exec> 08└─It's low-class and juvenile.
[14:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:18] <exec> 08└─https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdBrlu7nUhs&feature=youtu.be [youtube.com]
[14:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:43] <exec> 08└─Javascript was a mistake. We need a web standards committee that has an open and free web as it's core goal. The web browser should not be a second-class OS.
[14:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:02] <exec> 08└─..if the political situation in China ever changes
[14:37:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 397 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:50] <exec> 08└─I've long said that you never remove functionality from your software, especially if it's commercial. You never know how people are using it. I know this from both a developer and end user point of view. I think it's ok to move some features that are not used much but be prepared to educate your use...
[14:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:33] <exec> 08└─I'm Spasticus! Spasticus! Spasticus! Autisticus! For anyone who does not get the reference: Ian Dury [wikipedia.org] and Youtube video:The song [youtube.com]YouTube:Ian Dury talking about the song [youtube.com].
[14:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:35] <exec> 08└─That's generally what happens when you put an MBA in charge of a company that was made successful by actual innovators. They don't generally have the ability to generate quality, only to seek rent and capture income via regulation.
[14:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:37] <exec> 08└─Depends on the billionaire. If they want to lose money, that's absolutely their right though.
[14:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:39] <exec> 08└─What does "respect diversity" mean? It's poor wording. We should respect other individuals that have earned it. We should extend common courtesy to anyone and everyone who does the same. We should value basic human rights, pledge our support for them, and actively defend them when needed. Diversity...
[14:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:01] <exec> 08└─Your sarcasm detector needs servicing.
[14:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:09] <exec> 08└─It was way back in the day. My memory could be failing. But I seem to recall that the dimension of the cube determined the number of processors, and maybe the interconnects as a result. But I would be happy to be corrected on that point if I misunderstood or misremember.
[14:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, that. On a modern computer with say, 8 cores, or a dozen cores, or more, it is difficult to make operations efficient. Create multiple threads, so that you keep all your processors busy. But don't create too many or they all run and you get small inefficiencies due to context switching. Create...
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[15:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Data Exposes Looting of Archaeological Sites - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:15] <exec> 08└─I disapprove of the looting but I always find the moral philosophy a little odd when we're told "It belongs in a museum". Surely, ideally, the contents of the tomb belong in the tomb? That's where those who filled the tomb wanted its contents to stay. Is there some cut-off number of years after whic...
[15:35:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:30] <exec> 08└─November 3rd, 2020 seems apropos. Or, if they are really unlucky, November 5th, 2024.
[15:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─"It's low-class and juvenile. Not something to be punished for through their employment" Sure it is. They did this while working for their employers. If you misbehave at your job, you should expect consequences from your employer. It's not a firing offense, but I could certainly see denying them, sa...
[15:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─No, as a matter of fact, "we" did not. You did. Stop trying to drag "us" down to your level, shithead.
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it! I was going to sarcastically post that the trump face on a turd could be naturally occurring just as images of Jesus on a piece of toast or the wood grain of a door. It's a Miracle! Tickets for a viewing are on sale now!
[15:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:46] <exec> 08└─Be sure to check carefully. People say that it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between a face on a turd and a turd on a face.
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:48] <exec> 08└─Wait . . . so you don't think this miraculous face on a turd is a significant enough discovery to warrant an increased grant for further study?
[15:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:50] <exec> 08└─the same level of maturity as poop-throwing baboons.
[15:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:52] <exec> 08└─But what if their peers are just as juvenile, petty and afflicted with TDS?
[15:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:55] <exec> 08└─You kidding? They love eavesdropping, Gitmo-keeping, warmongering, weak sauce president Obama. The juvenile insults to Trump's person are still shocking to me, but really are normal in America. It's just that for 8 years after the "smirking chimp" left office, such insults were taboo outside groups...
[15:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:57] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's unusual that some third party would have decided to read the paper, noticed the tiny turd illustration, found that amusing, and then zoomed in on it to get a closer look, finally finding the face on it.
[15:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:59] <exec> 08└─It does not seem normal to me to think that it is okay to act like a child when you are doing the most important work that mankind can do (research). Bad behavior does not justify bad behavior. I kind of expect our presidents to be shitheads between Trump being himself, Bill gettiin blowjobs, Kenned...
[15:36:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:09] <exec> 08└─And in its day, MS deliberately served broken stylesheets to Opera and other non-MS browsers to make it look shitty. Turnabout is fair play. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Etc.
[15:36:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 417 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:14] <exec> 08└─Following recommendations off this site, I installed umatrix and was shocked at how pervasive google APIs are... I expect them in google obv, even places whose revenue comes from advertising (tumblr, etc). But they are *everywhere*. Even on corporate websites with nothing to do with google. Maybe 90...
[15:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:24] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon, Waterfox, Falkon, Iridium...
[15:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:25] <exec> 08└─Google changed YouTube to add a hidden, empty HTML element that overlaid each video. This element disabled Edge's fastest, most efficient hardware accelerated video decoding. It hurt Edge's battery-life performance and took it below Chrome's. The change didn't improve Chrome's performance and didn't...
[15:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:28] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, in time some new type of standardized vendor neutral platform will emerge that runs on top of all of the web browsers. Then corporations will fight over it, one will win, and then some newer open platform will be developed which runs on top of the previous platform. Eventually you have...
[15:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─Their tragedy is working for most people. Tip: Visit some web site. See another domain such as doubleclick that you would like to make red, or a domain that you might like to make green such as jquery.com. In uMatrix, click the asterisk directly to the right of the web site's domain name, at the top...
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:32] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, at the end of the day both Microsoft's and Google's anti-competitive practices aren't just attacks on the competition - they're also attacks on the entire population of internet users, who will inevitably suffer from abuse and neglect by the monopoly du jour.
[15:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:34] <exec> 08└─Really? I don't think I've ever seen requests use it, nor seen configuration options in web servers for it. It always seemed to be one of a hundred other google brain farts that they eventually abandon.
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:54] <exec> 08└─China should buy Google.
[15:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─I hope they do buy Baidu for billions. Then get expropriated by the Chinese government, and all their non-US markets ruined by Chinese competitors.
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─It says "effectively ended". It DID NOT end.
[15:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─In my experience, software developers and devops people make the choices they do not for the users or their employer, but to enhance their resumes in anticipation of their next gig. A cool-lloking UI helps no one, but it does get you an interview with a cooler company, and hat's all that matters. I...
[15:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:33] <exec> 08└─And yet, the tech industry has routinely done things that serve no particular purpose, but still represent a massive issue for the disabled. Those flash sites are a pretty good example, the blind cannot use them and yet since they're pretty they were very popular for a while. Making things disabled...
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:36] <exec> 08└─Oh please! This is now an endemic problem, free or non-free!
[15:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:38] <exec> 08└─This worked better when there were options. In many cases, there really aren't alternatives out there. As evil as FB is, there haven't really been other options that had the number of people on. Meaning that until FB got caught doing all those horrible things, there wasn't much reason for most peopl...
[15:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:05] <exec> 08└─toads?
[15:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:02] <exec> 08└─Back in they day we weren't that imaginitve, and organised everything as cubes, cylinders (which includes token ring as a height-1 cylinder), or tori, and higher-dimension equivalents and there was a very simple relation between number of nodes, diameter, and number of connections - put one number i...
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[16:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces more than $1 Billion Expansion in New York City - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─I expect you know the drill by now.
[16:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:18] <exec> 08└─I need some specifics for my daydreaming. How much money would I have to aquire to have my chip produced at a Fab?
[16:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:20] <exec> 08└─https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7042/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-custom-asic-made [stackexchange.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:22] <exec> 08└─In the 1980s, the PC was the most open computer. PC clones were everywhere. In contrast, Apple jealously guarded their intellectual "properties" as if those ideas were gold. Others weren't any better. The Commodore Amiga was proprietary to the hilt. Commodore died and Apple declined to 5% market sha...
[16:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Satellite Data Exposes Looting of Archaeological Sites - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:31] <exec> 08└─"What are they good for, absolutely nothing"
[16:35:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:47] <exec> 08└─Jesus on toast [google.com], Trump on a turd, it's not that miraculous, it even has a scientific name: pareidolia [wikipedia.org]. (grin)
[16:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:06] <exec> 08└─The fine summary (I didn't read the full linked article) offers no proof that one or both the authors buried the easter egg, and everyone seems to have convicted them in the court of public opinion. It even ends with the publisher saying they are going to investigate further. There are other minds a...
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─such insults were taboo outside groups of racists.
[16:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:09] <exec> 08└─There's Rule #34 proving such too.
[16:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:12] <exec> 08└─That's not the most important work mankind can do. Fermenting grain is.
[16:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:14] <exec> 08└─Postdocs are already living on rice and bean salaries. Professors get their funding from government grants, personally. The university can't order them to do anything, it would have to be the faculty senate or something like that who could threaten denial of tenure. If they have tenure, they will us...
[16:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:16] <exec> 08└─Why are you then allowed to drag us "up". You are both playing the same game.
[16:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 1279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:48] <exec> 08└─Ditto. I laughed when I read this: "A person claiming to be a former Microsoft Edge developer" If they want to talk about proprietary formats on the WWW, I've only got one thing to say about that: "PNG Transparency". This was a standard that everybody else complied with, except MS. Hell, probably ha...
[16:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 2897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─About half of the article and comments seem to be focusing on the unilateral introduction of new browser features, and painting that action as a bad thing. That seems short-sighted, given the history of the Web and how the standards we all use now came to be. From the beginning of the Web the standa...
[16:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─I've been a Firefox user since near it's beginning. I'm not going to change now. I had a brief dalliance with Chrome when it was still pretty new, but ended up reverting to Firefox. Firefox is a true open source project and don't have the same monetary incentives that Microsoft and Google have/had....
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:54] <exec> 08└─"Everyone" meaning web browsers, since those are the ones that google supposedly forced into using it. Most non-google sites never adopted SPDY (eithr not caring at all, or waiting for HTTP 2.0 instead), and google abandoned it once HTTP 2.0 was finalized.
[16:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:56] <exec> 08└─Surface and Windows devices. People using Windows and relying on Edge are not sending sufficient personal details and telemetry to Google's servers when they use Edge. They can't collect sufficient data from those folks. Google even launched a marketing campaign [betanews.com] based on battery usag...
[16:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:58] <exec> 08└─While I don't want to dispute your general premise, I think this case is slightly different. In this case: 1. Microsoft puts optimizations into its browser that are very specifically targeted to Youtube. 2. Google changes Youtube in a manner that is valid HTML, but breaks Microsoft's optimization. I...
[16:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:56] <exec> 08└─KDE isn't proprietary and they still had grey fetish nonetheless at one point.
[16:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:57] <exec> 08└─Oh please right back at you! If a free software project does something you disagree with, you can always fix it or even fork it.
[16:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:59] <exec> 08└─Mine has flourished for the same reasons. I guess we're marketing our skills to entirely different customers.
[16:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:01] <exec> 08└─Stupid terminology. My color vision, as well as my poor vision, is indeed a handicap. It is not a disability, or Uncle Sam would offer me some disability pay. In golf, you get a handicap, not a disability. Screw that politically correct nonsense.
[16:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:03] <exec> 08└─Why not both? Fix it and fork it too? It's kinda like getting married, right?
[16:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's how NPM Plans to Improve Security and Reliability in 2019 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:28] <exec> 08└─Your exploits are pratically GUARANTEED to work!
[16:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:02] <exec> 08└─Term limits for SCOTUS will happen if it becomes clear that anti-aging could make them functionally immortal. It won't happen within the next 20 years or so, so it won't be soon enough to turn a conservative SCOTUS into a liberal one in the near term. I could also imagine that the amendment would sp...
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[17:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─That is very impressive! Now, people can... uh... they can... umm, take larger pictures of their dicks! It's worth about 4,398 yawns alright. $640 should be enough for anybody. :P
[17:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:18] <exec> 08└─"Slider" had me excited for a moment; I thought keyboards were coming back. If not full QWERTY, at least maybe dedicated numeric under the screen, and maybe with function keys on the top/left side ala Nokia N96? Don't get your hopes up like me. The only thing sliding out from under this screen is th...
[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Announces more than $1 Billion Expansion in New York City - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:28] <exec> 08└─MDC terk er jerbs! :-)
[17:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Announces more than $1 Billion Expansion in New York City - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:29] <exec> 08└─That puts it in the Hudson Yards project [wikipedia.org], which is a great location. It's at the top of the High Line [thehighline.org], NYC's new elevated park, so a person living downtown could walk to work through one of the city's best new features. It's next to the West Side Highway and Hudson...
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Announces more than $1 Billion Expansion in New York City - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─This business expansion will spring full formed from the cranium of MDC with not a job created. There will be no jobs ever in NYC. It'll be overrun by unemployed radioactive zombies from the sewers and/or New Jersey.
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:43] <exec> 08└─Tell me, what was open about Intel's x86 CPUs?
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:45] <exec> 08└─what does that have to do with what the op said? the op listed computing platform vendors not cpu vendors...
[17:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:47] <exec> 08└─i guess it took riscV to do it first for mips peeps to see the writing on the wall/prove the viability, but better late than never i guess. maybe if open embedded stuff takes off, the pointy hairs at intel and amd will put a couple lunches towards planning how to open up some. hopefully open power w...
[17:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:49] <exec> 08└─He said "most open", not "completely open". Obviously the PC's processor design was not open (nor was the standard OS delivered with it). Anyway, arguably the x86 design was more open in the sense that at least one other company had an official license to use the design for making processor clones (...
[17:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Data Exposes Looting of Archaeological Sites - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:59] <exec> 08└─I thought that was "WAR!"? ... "say it again, y'all"
[17:36:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:37] <exec> 08└─That's not the most important work mankind can do. Fermenting grain is.
[17:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:40] <exec> 08└─Good Lord, no, that's not even close to the same thing. What kind of diseased thought process led you to post that?
[17:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:43] <exec> 08└─First the Sandusky ( fucking young boys who didn't want to be fucked ) mess, now this. Obviously the standards for employees, students, or faculty at Penn State are rather low. Pennsylvania is a lousy state anyway. Every time I've driven through PA I have encountered people driving in an insane and...
[17:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:45] <exec> 08└─Shut the fuck up, you stupid arrogant cunt. Better yet, get cervical cancer and DIE.
[17:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:47] <exec> 08└─When are you Americans going to get over yourselves?
[17:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:49] <exec> 08└─Whack-a-molcel
[17:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:52] <exec> 08└─Some of us are trying, but you see what kind of people we live with ^
[17:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:30] <exec> 08└─I'll stick with my Amiga. It can do everything I want it to, even if the software is old.
[17:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:29] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for the next really distant object to be names, "SpaceNuts".
[17:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─don't be a moron. you can still report bugs via the tracker. the happy/sad face is just for sending random feedback. one way.
[17:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:37] <exec> 08└─oh no, it's racist not to reverse discriminate to prove how unracist you are. also, everyone is equal but somehow having people of different races, sexual orientation or flavor of gender dimorphism is better for the project.
[17:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:39] <exec> 08└─you want to fund closed source shit then act surprised when they screw you in a different way? you fund the enemy of free humanity but have the gall to whine? who gives a shit about your fucking entertainment gui. use kody, you silly fucker. i don't know if it's accessible but they would probably be...
[17:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:28] <exec> 08└─ZigBee has been common but is fading
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[18:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:33] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking ramdrive, or with the right connector/connectivity, a portable desktop replacement. Or you could just use it to load more spyware-ridden apps.
[18:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:34] <exec> 08└─Think of all the huge unnecessarily overloaded webpages I can view now.
[18:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:37] <exec> 08└─I used to have a crummy slider phone with small keyboard. I liked how you could "lock and load" to more quickly turn it on than finding the power button. This new slider-instead-of-notch isn't too bad but it probably won't live long given the new "in-screen hole punch" [digitaltrends.com] design [di...
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─It's entirely possible to use uBlock, Adblock, etc. on your phone. Then you have to figure out what to do with the extra 8+ GB of RAM.
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─That's a good point, but I have 30 "legitimate" AJAX calls I need to resolve and store before I can answer you.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─Don't forget NoScript. Since Apple allowed adblockers, more and more sites have been adding blocking detectors ... which mostly seem to be client-side scripts. Every time I open the same link as someone else at work, it reminds me why I go through the inconvenience of NoScript...
[18:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Data Exposes Looting of Archaeological Sites - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─the chinese government probably knows the mounds have the corpses of ancient white noblemen in them so they let them get looted on purpose.
[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Data Exposes Looting of Archaeological Sites - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─what do you know: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Data Exposes Looting of Archaeological Sites - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─"The rich burials of Scythian kings in tumuli (often known by the Turkic name kurgan) is evidence for the existence of a powerful elite. While an elite clan is named in some classical sources[which?] as the "Royal Dahae", the Dahae proper are generally regarded as an extinct Indo-European people, wh...
[18:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:14] <exec> 08└─You both talk on behalf of others as if your words had any merit. The content of your comments had no value in themselves. Bot made a poor attempt at a joke and yours was a useless offended response.
[18:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:16] <exec> 08└─It's not even unusual for someone to extract the drawing from the PDF to an SVG file when they read the story on Soylentnews. http://www.bumpermajn.tk [bumpermajn.tk]
[18:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:56] <exec> 08└─True, but I think a nice holy war might just be a good way to get the masses to slap some sense into themselves and realise that they're being abused, and that the big companies really aren't their friends. I've known this since google shat on usenet using a the technique of embracing, extending, an...
[18:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:58] <exec> 08└─Not sure about the network protocol stuff, but Google's EEE has been discussed a number of times as it relates to Android, and it seems pretty accurate there. They release it open source, with a bunch of open source apps. Then they start slowly replacing all the open source apps with their own close...
[18:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─Often the abandoning of a project *is* part of the EEE strategy. They use open source in order to get people to adopt their technology, but they can't do the extend/extinguish if the code is kept open source. So they build the product, get people using it, then announce that it's being killed to be...
[18:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those are what to use. Never use Mozilla directly. But I do think the original point outs are probably hoping people go to Mozilla. Which is not a solution and if anything can only be worse because people don't see it.
[18:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:04] <exec> 08└─the op meant http2 when they said spdy, obviously...
[18:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:07] <exec> 08└─I hate to stack a second anonymous coward on this. It's exactly the problem. W3C credibility is zero and they have no desire to solve the problem. I can prove that easily because they have not removed DRM from the HTML5 standard for all their recent talks. I am also concerned about IETF since TLS 1....
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─lmao. fuck microsoft.
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:11] <exec> 08└─stop visiting sites run by scumbags.
[18:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:13] <exec> 08└─Just add these to your firewall blocklist; that ought to get most of it: https://api.hackertarget.com [hackertarget.com] Life without Google is pretty nice. Helps if you add some generic ad server lists too. Personally I also like to add the Bluetack level 1 and 2 lists (htt...
[18:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:16] <exec> 08└─Speaking of trusting google with things.. this is probably not a good time to be worrying about market share if we think google will (and have) ruin the web. IETF has handed them the transport layer from the looks of it: https://www.zdnet.com [zdnet.com]
[18:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:23] <exec> 08└─Overall a nice posting, and I like your use of abbr tags, but... This isn't just an IMHO of mine.
[18:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:51] <exec> 08└─focuses on digesting everything in reach, and reaching as far as possible.
[18:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:53] <exec> 08└─A computer is on the menu [ripleys.com]
[18:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:42] <exec> 08└─Other than over there in Asia, where is China?
[18:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Halts Keystone Pipeline - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:16] <exec> 08└─I can't disagree with most of your sentiment. But please note, ruling only from the letter of the law is just as easily turned to tyranny as ruling from the spirit. Legislation can always be changed, provided there is enough incentive to do so, same with judge's rulings. You would think that people...
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[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:44] <exec> 08└─This does not seem wise. I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Booby traps are generally not legal to leave around even if someone will encounter them in the furtherance of a crime at least to my understanding. While on the surface this may seem closer to a prank than a trap and has a low risk...
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─What is the demographics of these package thieves, or is it even known?
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:47] <exec> 08└─You can let AMazon into your home in multiple ways https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Doesn't say it was specifically Amazon but 10 to 1 it was
[19:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:50] <exec> 08└─He was a NASA guy. Wise doesn't necessarily even get a cameo when nerds get their project on and NASA guys are some of the nerdiest.
[19:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:52] <exec> 08└─1st) there is no such thing, 2nd) it failed to capture video in one instance (see #1)
[19:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:07] <exec> 08└─Or you could just use it to load more spyware-ridden apps.
[19:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:08] <exec> 08└─uMatrix is good. It allows you a finer degree of control than all or nothing. Something interfered with this web page loading.
[19:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces more than $1 Billion Expansion in New York City - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:20] <exec> 08└─smart move. it's like erecting a fish tank around fish to be observed but instead of catching the fish and moving them into the tank, you slowly build the tank around the fish! N.Y.C.: best place to observe fish!
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces more than $1 Billion Expansion in New York City - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─It'll be overrun by unemployed radioactive zombies from the sewers and/or New Jersey.
[19:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─isn't MIPS the rolls-royce of networking gear? ARM being the high bred race horse, that does laps in lightning speed but fails at everything else?
[19:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know, but my old Playstations have a MIPS R3000.
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Data Exposes Looting of Archaeological Sites - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:54] <exec> 08└─"Archaeological site": a site where corresponding land title deed is buried with the owner.
[19:37:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:19] <exec> 08└─It's low-class and juvenile.
[19:37:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:25] <exec> 08└─Wait . . . so you don't think this miraculous face on a turd is a significant enough discovery to warrant an increased grant for further study?
[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:45] <exec> 08└─...offers no proof... Proof is only required when conservatives do bad things, silly!
[19:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:47] <exec> 08└─Why can't all you other 96%1 of the world's population just quiet down and accept how great we obviously are? We are the best. At every possible thing. The very best. I promise. We are so great that we need to become great again. Trust me. 1Google for US population. Push onto stack. Google for World...
[19:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─and even with proof, they suffer no consequences, may even get rewarded (e.g. pussy-grabber-n-chief)
[19:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:51] <exec> 08└─This in no way impacts the quality or value of this scientific report, and is basically unnoticeable until pointed out. Why in the fucking hell does it matter?
[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─I for one enjoy following your crazy country (or federation). I never understood what it is. Are the States the countries in the Federation or.. is it like a country with regions? I consider America the teenager kid of Europe, with a lot of party and crazy things going on. Mother Europe hope you don...
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:56] <exec> 08└─Duh, it doesn't, but what else are we going to talk about on the internet?
[19:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:58] <exec> 08└─appropriate editorial action will be taken....when we stop laughing.
[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:51] <exec> 08└─You can't say that! Conservatives are already complaining that Google and the intarwebs are biased and don't give them enough traffic.
[19:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:14] <exec> 08└─How dare Americans express political opinions AC disagrees with! Free speech is so unamerican!
[19:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:16] <exec> 08└─Is every post of yours a strawman? Obviously this one is about how the same executives who are so concerned about: xenophobia, hatred, and a desire for answers that may or may not be there. It's fueling distrust of experts and disregard of traditional institutions
[19:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Farout": Most Distant Known Solar System Object Spotted, at 120 AU - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should take a real Astronomy course instead of getting all your info from Bill Nye the Science Guy. He's entertaining and all but it's all first-approximation stuff with that guy (mostly 'cause he's teaching morons, AKA children).
[19:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:55] <exec> 08└─My *standard* bluetooth devices usually have trouble reaching more than five or ten feet away...so with BLE I should expect to get two feet of range in my apartment on a good day? If I need less than five feet of range I'm just gonna run a damn cable. Faster, easier, cheaper, and *far* more reliable...
[19:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:38] <exec> 08└─That's right, you heard it here last!
[19:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Record Police Activities in Public Advances in U.S. District Court Win - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:08] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I might get on board with some Weihnachtsgans.
[19:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:45] <exec> 08└─We were arguing about what the name of the company should be when Richard walked in, saluted, and said, "Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what's my assignment?" The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded. After a hurried private discussion ("I don't know, you...
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[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but if I were on the jury I'd never vote to convict. Glitter bomb would not have been left out if those asshole thieves weren't out stealing packages.
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─Ponder if the thief opens the package in a car, the glitter goes off, gets in the thief's eyes, they crash into another car and some unrelated third party dies.
[20:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─Stupid.
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:28] <exec> 08└─Its not stupid if they rarely get caught.
[20:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─They caught him leaving booby traps on NASA instruments, to keep meddling aliens at bay.
[20:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─When they don't show pictures or describe ethnicity, then you know exactly what the demographic is (or is not).
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the thief cannot report you at all without confessing to a crime. In many jurisdictions, any liability for harm that comes to anybody in the commission of a crime falls upon the criminal(s). The booby traps that are illegal are generally things such as bombs, shotgun wired to a do...
[20:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─Funny, I don't have these issues with Amazon....because the last few orders I placed never got delivered at all. Called UPS three times, emailed them twice, contacted Amazon three times as well, and the only solution offered was for me to quit my job so I could sit at home all day waiting for my pac...
[20:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:40] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, there's a guy around where I live that will now suffer the humiliation of doing time for stealing a jumbo pack of toilet paper.
[20:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:42] <exec> 08└─From the video most were opened in cars, sometimes by an accomplice not the driver. A glitter / fart bomb is certainly enough to distract attention, which could cause a fatal accident if opened while driving. Not to say I'm non their side or anything, I think this is rad. It just could have gone poo...
[20:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:45] <exec> 08└─And stop buying glitter. My dislike for thieves makes me inclined to side with this Hacker, but glitter is well on its way to becoming a polluting microplastic. It used to be metal--it's people like this with a liking for throwing it at other people that prompted the switch to plastic in the first p...
[20:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:47] <exec> 08└─They did show pictures you dumbass, and some of the thieves were white. Racist fucks around here with functional pattern matching neural networks but broken pre-frontal cortex.
[20:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:49] <exec> 08└─Are you saying the white ones are the stupid ones that got caught? You cant base the demographics on such a biased sample.
[20:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:51] <exec> 08└─should I sub this? https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com]
[20:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:45] <exec> 08└─The article is about open sourcing a CPU instruction set. Tell me who is on topic...
[20:37:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:30] <exec> 08└─the same level of maturity as poop-throwing baboons.
[20:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:56] <exec> 08└─Oh hell there's a Trump one. That's the most horrifying toast I've ever seen.
[20:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:58] <exec> 08└─When I go to a Twitter link, it asks me if I want to go to legacy Twitter because Javascript is disabled (Firefox with NoScript) . I like that feature.
[20:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:00] <exec> 08└─Fermenting grain is.
[20:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:02] <exec> 08└─One word: Publicity. I'll bet this will increase the number of reads of this paper a thousand fold.
[20:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:04] <exec> 08└─You're seventh in literacy. Twenty-seventh in math. Twenty-second in science. Forty-ninth in life expectancy. A hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality. Third in median household income. Number four in labor force and number four in exports. You lead the world in only three categories: Number...
[20:38:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, in that and many other ways, Google is the new Microsoft. Google pumps out crap software they abandon regularly, just like Microsoft. It's the arrogance of being a giant, rich company with a captive audience.
[20:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:55] <exec> 08└─Indeed, just like Microsoft wants people using Edge, Windows 10, and Office 365 for a reason.
[20:40:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:15] <exec> 08└─Hostility towards disabled people, sure, but also hostility to users in general. It's become a cultural thing for software makers to give their user base the finger. I think part of it is the dumbing down of the software makers' skills over time, too. What moron buys a monitor that brags about its c...
[20:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:07] <exec> 08└─We should respect other individuals that have earned it.
[20:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:08] <exec> 08└─It's not just handicapped people, although they are overwhelmingly affected. The problem is why has the tech industry at large decided that idiotic design patterns trumped good sense? We had this all figured out a couple decades ago. Since then, what do we have? Playstation button icons have replace...
[20:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:10] <exec> 08└─Oh please. If Open Source is so great, why is Gnome so moronic? Have they checked behind their couch cushions yet to figure out where they misplaced their missing maximize button yet? The problem is that developers no longer care about what the user wants or needs. They only care about what is conve...
[20:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:04] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy [wikipedia.org] Compared to Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy is intended to provide considerably reduced power consumption and cost while maintaining a similar communication range.
[20:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:40] <exec> 08└─"and these people are also extremely fertile relative to the native population" Their so FERTILE Steve! You don't even know. I once looked at one of those dark hairy men and became impregnated on the spot!! I'm still not sure why they think my name is Sharia.
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[21:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─> scientifically proven to be 50% stronger, 50% more elastic and 50% harder wearing. the 90s called and want their marketing cliché back.
[21:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─Is it like those "iridium" sparkplugs that contain 0% iridium, even when placed in a spectrograph? Or is it like those "titanium" products that have some measurable amount of titanium, but it makes absolutely no difference.
[21:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:11] <exec> 08└─I'm getting the impression they just mixed small bits of imperfect graphene (torn-up sheets) into rubber. It could be a lot easier to do this than make a graphene desalination filter for example. Also where is this stuff [wikipedia.org]?
[21:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:13] <exec> 08└─I think they just like to say 50%. Also from the article: incorporate graphene into 50% of our range
[21:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:15] <exec> 08└─Every graphene and nanotube researcher I've heard has said "we don't know the toxicity of graphene exposure yet so be careful" but why not just stick a ton of it on your skin all day.
[21:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:18] <exec> 08└─How about "a market producing crap that falls apart in less than a year" Modern shoes are a prime example of "The Triumph of Crapitalism"
[21:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:20] <exec> 08└─You may be right. And we actually already have a special name for small pieces of torn of graphene - graphite. Congratulations, they invented the pencil-sole shoe. I'm sure floor maintenance people around the world will be jubilant to hear it.
[21:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:22] <exec> 08└─Just one atom thick and stronger than steel, graphene has been infused into the rubber
[21:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah but the real question is can I get graphene coated 5g antennas
[21:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:27] <exec> 08└─I thought SN don't do ads.
[21:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:29] <exec> 08└─the 90s called and want their marketing cliché back. Yeah that's right. Graphene is so yesterday. Seriously, in 2018, I expected the boots to be blockchain-powered also. So disapppointing...
[21:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─It's harmless because it's embedded in rubber. As harmless as asbestos as long as it's packaged into a material that doesn't let the stuff fly around freely.
[21:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:34] <exec> 08└─These are $175 sneakers. I don't think SN posters are part of the fashion sneaker crowd.
[21:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:36] <exec> 08└─Or melamine in baby food "It's harmless because it's embedded in rubber" And what happens to that graphine impregnated rubber as the shoe wears?
[21:36:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but if I were on the jury I'd never vote to convict. Glitter bomb would not have been left out if those asshole thieves weren't out stealing packages.
[21:37:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:00] <exec> 08└─And stop buying glitter. My dislike for thieves makes me inclined to side with this Hacker, but glitter is well on its way to becoming a polluting microplastic. It used to be metal--it's people like this with a liking for throwing it at other people that prompted the switch to plastic in the first p...
[21:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:04] <exec> 08└─If there was a time for jury nullification, this would be it.
[21:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:06] <exec> 08└─That was well worth the read for the video link named great backing track [youtube.com]. Happy 1950s sounding music telling people how they may be accidentally poisoning people they know.
[21:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:09] <exec> 08└─Newegg also has better search filters and usually better metadata on the items they list.
[21:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─Glitter or Confetti? Here's a good idea, instead of throwing glitter / confetti or the traditional rice (generally for weddings). Try throwing bird seed, generally shouldn't be a problem for the bride, groom, graduate, and won't cause pollution or make the birds explode. Win / win / win.
[21:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is marketing people hyped up this cool cake glitter and put non-toxic on it. Then, people that don't have a clue, buy it and eat it. Instead of treating it like crayons. Non-toxic, is good, but that definitely doesn't mean edible.
[21:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─My neighbor feeds the doves by the hundreds with birdseed feeders all over her property. She is such a sweet lady but OMG I'm so tired of the bird shit on everything. I have a flat top roof with an observation deck and my telescope there and I have to cover everything and clean literally pounds of d...
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:17] <exec> 08└─In the law, you need to prove more than the sine qua non, you also need to prove legal causation. In that regard, the glitter/fart bomb, is less proximate than the behavior of the driver, an accident or injury is not reasonably foreseeable despite the heightened risk due to the required intervention...
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're going to start stealing shit...
[21:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:26] <exec> 08└─Its a shitty picture of Trump, why would I want to see that?
[21:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:20] <exec> 08└─It's a strange world we live in where Microsoft tries to cheat and finds it does not have market power to succeed anymore.
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[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:06] <exec> 08└─why not just stick a ton of it on your skin all day.
[22:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:08] <exec> 08└─I ain't buying none them boots without no AI on them !
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─What are say- *pant* *pant* *pant* -ing I don't *pant* *pant* go hiking *pant* very often? *pause-to-catch-breath* I'm in great *pant* *pant* shape!
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.polyarchive.com/shoe-event-horizon/ [polyarchive.com]
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/31/3554997.htm [abc.net.au] https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] It is breathed in as dust,...
[22:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─A torn 1- or several atom thick sheet of graphene should still have some of the properties of graphene. Although maybe not if it gets wadded up and chemically bonds to itself...
[22:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─Wait some years, when this shit will start apperaring at rivers and ocean.
[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:21] <exec> 08└─I spend a much larger time at my local Bass Pro than the average American but I don't have any love for something trying to be a hiking boot when it's really a sneaker. No, not even if it's a high-top sneaker. Vans or a boot you can kick someone to death with in under a minute for me, thanks.
[22:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:23] <exec> 08└─It might even be worth looking like a complete social outcast
[22:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:26] <exec> 08└─Sure. And even low-grade graphene sections are likely to be much larger than your typical graphite flake. Chemically though, they are exactly the same thing - in fact peeling tape off of graphite blocks was one of the early ways to produce small sheets of graphene. The only difference is scale - tho...
[22:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:28] <exec> 08└─Graphene is a single atom thick, anything else is graphite. [graphene-supermarket.com]
[22:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilayer_graphene [wikipedia.org] https://www.researchgate.net [researchgate.net]
[22:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:06] <exec> 08└─Add in the fact that he contacted the police first, and they said they couldn't help him. So it's not like the prosecutor can say, "You should have called the police!"
[22:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:08] <exec> 08└─SN holiday joy: come for the glitter bomb, stay for the dove rant
[22:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:10] <exec> 08└─If the cops won't do anything even with clear video evidence of them and their crime, then it's not exactly their brilliance keeping them from being caught.
[22:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:12] <exec> 08└─It worked, didn't it?
[22:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:14] <exec> 08└─Let me know when I can have you on my jury.
[22:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─RTFS: this new Android phone (...)
[22:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces a Smartphone With Up to 12 GB of RAM - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:36] <exec> 08└─How about instead, give us some options for a phone which aren't the size of a laptop with 6 hours of battery life? When will this "flagship" madness end? When will there be at least an OPTION for a very small phone with a physical keyboard? Why must every phone be identical*, and if the design does...
[22:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:28] <exec> 08└─You're seventh in literacy. Twenty-seventh in math. Twenty-second in science. Forty-ninth in life expectancy. A hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality. Third in median household income. Number four in labor force and number four in exports. You lead the world in only three categories: Number...
[22:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:31] <exec> 08└─It's the will of the electoral college people.
[22:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:33] <exec> 08└─Our stats for detecting sarcasm are probably pretty terrible, too!
[22:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:35] <exec> 08└─According to the article the image morphed from the leader of the free world, Angela Merkel, into a picture of Trump. So apparently it's animated too!
[22:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:32] <exec> 08└─Many sites are using Google's Javascript code as part of their Google Analytics service as it's easier to let that call out to Google than to build comprehensive traffic analytics gathering for yourself. It's not necessarily nefarious on the part of the site, just expedient. They're already having...
[22:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Google Using an "Embrace, Extend..." Strategy? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think Microsoft was trying to cheat. They were just trying to reach max performance. That's not cheating, there is nothing in web standards that says, "Browsers may not use GPU acceleration on pages with the following elements." Microsoft are not the heroes of the story, they're still Micros...
[22:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is the Responsibility of TECH to Handicapped People? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:54] <exec> 08└─I've always heard it the other way. I've added that to the IMHO definition. Thanks! -- I may be apathetic, but I don't care.
[22:43:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:28] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree. And when we need more range than bluetooth, we use ultra low power LoRa Wan AVRs like this one: https://wisen.com.au [wisen.com.au] (which really will run on a battery for months) to solve that same problem. Of course, we then have to cont...
[22:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. I am always on the lookout for stuff that may remain dormant for decades, but work when you need it.f
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[23:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristive Devices Could Act as Better Models of Synapses - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:13] <exec> 08└─A decent memristor. Finally.
[23:36:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:31] <exec> 08└─You may be right. And we actually already have a special name for small pieces of torn of graphene - graphite. Congratulations, they invented the pencil-sole shoe. I'm sure floor maintenance people around the world will be jubilant to hear it.
[23:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:51] <exec> 08└─also 50% less recyclable
[23:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:53] <exec> 08└─Stacked single atom thickness layers, otherwise graphite [graphenea.com]
[23:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:55] <exec> 08└─Someone hasn't discovered Crocs yet
[23:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:57] <exec> 08└─Hopefully we don't end up with some kind of environmental mystery that's ultimately solved when we find graphene particles in the systems of several hundred extinct species, formerly found in preserves that could only be reached by hiking in.
[23:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:41] <exec> 08└─Let us know when you need one.
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:43] <exec> 08└─So is it little kids? I guess they must be 16 if theyre driving.
[23:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:45] <exec> 08└─Great response- are you an attorney? I'm not, but I would argue that the package contents were known to the addressee, so anyone else who opens it assumes all risks and consequences.
[23:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:47] <exec> 08└─I am glad to have made you happy :) Hope you have a great holiday season. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Makes a Flawless Booby Trap, Strikes Back Against Package Thieves - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:49] <exec> 08└─Nothing, unless the secret ingredient in dove soap is doves.
[23:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Announces more than $1 Billion Expansion in New York City - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:26] <exec> 08└─You say that as if it is a bad thing.
[23:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIPS CPU Architecture to Become Open Source Hardware in 2019 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:46] <exec> 08└─I could get clones from NEC, Cyrix, AMD etc.
[23:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Data Exposes Looting of Archaeological Sites - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:01] <exec> 08└─No. There's no cut-off. The first archaeologists were just pot-hunters from the aristocracy. It's OK for some British lord to hire locals on digging sites and cart history away, but it's not OK for locals to sell the loot to the museum. Hypocrisy reigns over archeology from its inception.
[23:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Sneak President's Face Into Science Paper, Nature Investigates - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:08] <exec> 08└─Hmm... are you implying that climate change is a bad thing perpetrated by conservatives?
[23:44:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06A Deep Dive into Low Power WiFi Microcontrollers - 861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:08] <exec> 08└─Haven't read the article(s), but if they're only getting a week out of it, they're doing it wrong. At $work we're using the ESP8266 for one of our products, and on a standard (good quality) 18650 battery we get a year, sampling every 30sec, uploading once an hour or so. If we upload less frequently,...
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