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[00:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:32] <exec> 08└─I use fdroid and used to be able to disable Google play completely, no more. What other mobile OS is there that will work with all carriers and doesn't have a backchannel to the Googleplex?
[00:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:04] <exec> 08└─I agree with enough of your picks to say I want to try the ones that I haven't played. And you're spot on with MaB:WB. It's a hugely underrated gem of genius that most people never play deep enough to understand how addictively compelling the later stage modes can be. I've wasted as much time on it...
[00:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:05] <exec> 08└─I completely disagree with your list. Some of those games are great games: you don't have to buy the loot boxes.
[00:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:08] <exec> 08└─Reaction time is not affected much by age. I have top spots in the casual games and even some duel won against pros and I am almost 50. What slows down a lot after 35: the time to adapt to new games. As for the topic, the games seems slow because they are. Get into emulation of pre 1984 games, or in...
[00:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:10] <exec> 08└─Yours is a good perspective, but "The world is vast and varried. And the more you discover, the more things you do, the less and less spendings hours sitting on your ass in front of a screen seems like an interesting way of spending your time" is not quite as true as you would think. If you have TON...
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Side-Channel Leak: Researchers Attack Operating System Page Caches - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:22] <exec> 08└─Did you take tips from Tim the Toolman Taylor? 'cause I don't think your Refrigerator is supposed to be throwing things.
[00:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_info4.shtml [erowid.org] https://www.erowid.org [erowid.org] Most people grow them in ideal conditions indoors instead of picking them outside. Almost all of the shrooms people grow are Psilocybe cubensis variant...
[00:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─to me there is a weird uncomfortable region between . 5 and .8g. I find a +3g trip "my mind is melting into the universe and I am a retard " more enjoyable than the introspection from hell I get from low dose
[00:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:52] <exec> 08└─I fought my depression with shroom in high school, it saved my life. a dose every 3 weeks erased my anxiety and depression. it took me 8 months of forced abstinence (I moved) to get bought to a mental health doctor by friends who cared about me
[00:36:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:06] <exec> 08└─> I see shoddy products The quality of any products is as good as the QA process that vets it. Which is (should be) owned by the company that commissioned the product, i.e. the Western design/engineering outfits like Apple, etc.
[00:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:19] <exec> 08└─THIS I have been involved in manufacturing in China, the thing that Americans don't necessarily understand at first is that they view QA as 100% your responsibility, almost as if they are mandated to cut every corner that they can. Of course this cuts both ways, if you lock your spec and QA down sup...
[00:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 2561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:21] <exec> 08└─"As fir goods produced, I see shoddy products that are dangerous, fraudulent, and break after first use. I'm sure someone will tell me, "But look at the iPhone, they can make quality goods!" which is really an argument about the exception more than the general case." No, it's actually a bit more tha...
[00:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:23] <exec> 08└─In the 15th century, China was the most powerful and advanced country in the world. Odds are good that they'll be in that position again by the end of this century.
[00:37:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:09] <exec> 08└─Have the passengers walk by an explosive sniffing dog, say hello to someone as they show their boarding pass, and then through a metal detector. It is 10x faster and just as safe.
[00:37:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:44] <exec> 08└─"Welcome to Whose Bag Is This Anyway?, where the rules are made up and the X-Rays don't matter!"
[00:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Streaming Services set for Cambrian Explosion - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:39] <exec> 08└─The inspiration for the title is about 2/3 of the way through the article: Forrester analyst Jim Nail compares this moment to the "Cambrian explosion," a historic era when plant and animal species rapidly multiplied after Ice Age glaciers receded.
[00:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Streaming Services set for Cambrian Explosion - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:41] <exec> 08└─I dunno, man - that sounds like an excellent playlist to me. The last several tunes picked by the randomizer from my library are: If You Have To Know - Lonnie Mack, Tim Drummond Long Way To Go - Carolyn Wonderland Orere - Babatunde Olatunji Trouble Blues - Charles Brown J'Ai Conet, C'Est Pas Ma Fem...
[00:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Sonic Attack" Recording Made by Diplomats is Actually a Recording of Crickets - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:43] <exec> 08└─... the crickets, I mean. They're just chattering about the fine sonic weapon they developed. Who better an expert?
[00:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610% of US Adults Has Food Allergy; Nearly 1 in 5 Think They Do; Nearly Half Developed as Adults - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:37] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is that cut and dry. It is super-easy to eat too much pasta and feel very full. The basic process is: 1 - It is *really* easy to move from "a bowl of pasta makes me feel tired and bloated after eating it" to "I have a slight allergy to gluten, let's test it and see". 2 - They don't...
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[01:33:25] <exec> 08└─And the POV-Ray fans rejoiced!
[01:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:38] <exec> 08└─iOS.
[01:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:39] <exec> 08└─I think it's worse than that. A lot of people don't differentiate between million, billion, and trillion in isolation. Sure, as the graph notes, if there's a billion versus a million, they know the former is bigger. But when there isn't such a side by side comparison it's all illions, which are big.
[01:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:42] <exec> 08└─SailfishOS - it's remarkably good but only runs on a few devices
[01:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:44] <exec> 08└─and feature phones are next
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─You could save a lot of effort by just carrying a container of dry ice or liquid nitrogen, you know. The fog that follows you is a nice bonus, except on planes.
[01:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─Just remember, kids: every dollar AMD gives to GlobalFoundaries goes to support state sanctioned human rights violations in Abu Dhabi.
[01:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─The A6-9220C is the best processor
[01:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:23] <exec> 08└─I on the other hand found it innovative and fun. It involved slowly and carefully sneaking up behind unsuspecting guards and whacking them on the head, or alternately sneaking through areas robbing everybody blind and leaving without anybody even noticing. Oh, and there were ways of recovering from...
[01:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:25] <exec> 08└─Go here: https://steamdb.info [steamdb.info] or here: https://steamdb.info [steamdb.info] That is a link to the games with the most concurrent players followed by the ones with the highest ratings. By default, they only show the top 25 and you can page to the next 25. Also...
[01:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:27] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention... I am a gamer, but the last 10 years only linux has been installed in my house. In my parent post, every single game I mentioned except for Civ III & IV are playable in native linux. (I believe that both III and IV can be played in WINE, Civ V and VI both have native linux buil...
[01:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the job thing always took top billing with my time too. I considered playing games so unproductive when I had my projects to work on, but admittedly a lot of my priorities changed when the micromanagers took over, and the investors made it quite clear they valued micromanagement more than me b...
[01:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are becoming more creative and are seeking out creative outlets and hobbies. Games don't really provide much room for creativity. There are some strong exceptions to this, but in general most games are restrictive and actually fairly simple systems not capable of much creative expression o...
[01:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:17] <exec> 08└─Are you now, or have you ever been a member, of the John Smith party of the United States? [wikipedia.org] And do you know any people who are members of this party?
[01:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:00] <exec> 08└─I feel I should at least attempt a response. And the united states is in like 30 states of emergency (most of them for many years), with about half of them allowing the president extra powers over the military. This has nothing to do with trump.
[01:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG Announces its 2019 OLED TV Lineup, Plus an 8K Monstrosity - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:59] <exec> 08└─Wrap some tinfoil over it?... or maybe block it at your router, change your wpa key, etc. If it has a camera, put some duct tape or pokemon stickers over it, etc. It is ironic though, that these are paid features that we have to then disable...
[01:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Video Streaming Services set for Cambrian Explosion - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:02] <exec> 08└─Bit lighter overall than I like most of my playlists but solid choices all around.
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[02:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Can Now Reverse-Engineer 3D Models - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:31] <exec> 08└─Turning a triangle mesh in to a CSG tree is very cool, quite useful, and damn impressive.. However it is in no way related to 'Reverse-Engineering' a 3D model.. Who says the 3D model was build from CSG in the first place? many/most are not. And having a CSG tree is not always a great advantage to ha...
[02:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─How about the acoustic sensor aka microphone? Do you have a solution that keeps it not open all the time? I'd love one of those.
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:49] <exec> 08└─I have no interest in shouting commands at TVs, phones, or "smart" speakers. I am very happy to use buttons or type. Plus, I've never found voice recognition to be more than half-ways reliable. Maybe I need a SoCal accent? What I haven't managed to do is just kill off the endlessly popping-up Google...
[02:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:51] <exec> 08└─We'll see. You might have a good year or two before they can push this, or longer if at least some phones targeted for developing countries do not pick up the feature. I'm guessing they will zero-rate any requests made through the service. They'll probably add more languages, too; it's currently ava...
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─I have no interest in shouting commands at TVs, phones, or "smart" speakers.
[02:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:56] <exec> 08└─Can you do that on a non-rooted phone?
[02:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:58] <exec> 08└─I don't have any constantly running apps that even have the capacity to read from it, much less the permissions. The ones that are only occasionally open I grant or deny permission as I see fit.
[02:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:00] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, I have no idea. Why would anyone here buy a phone you can't easily root though?
[02:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a good place to start is to ask yourself, what basic drives did/does a game fulfill for you? And how have the changes in your real life satisfied those drives with something more substantial? And, if you want ideas for genres that might appeal - what drives are currently not as fulfilled as...
[02:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:49] <exec> 08└─Superpowers - especially in TV series - why does every (non-laughtrack driven) TV series have to have characters with superpowers?
[02:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:51] <exec> 08└─Meh, if you don't sweat, it's not a sport.
[02:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:32] <exec> 08└─They're free in most any cow pasture if the climate is right.
[02:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:34] <exec> 08└─Ha! That's funny, that is. It's something you just sort of pick up in most of the areas they're prevalent. Usually around the time your oldest buddy can start driving. Unless one of your friends has cattle on their land, in which case it could be significantly earlier.
[02:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:36] <exec> 08└─I'm a country boy, and most of my mates were dairy farmers, so no shortage of cows, but also no magic mushrooms. Maybe the winters weren't cold enough or something, because as I said about 4 hours south of us they did grow, quite well in fact. Not that I ever tried any because it turns out I don't...
[02:38:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:23] <exec> 08└─Its called voting. Never vote for the incumbent.
[02:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:26] <exec> 08└─If the terrorists know we aren't looking for their bombs, they won't leave their bombs at home!!!
[02:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:27] <exec> 08└─Why do you give "troops in the military" a free pass? For one, these are the federal employees who are _most_ likely to be getting free food and lodging, so are less likely to be evicted, starve etc if they don't get paid. Secondly, this isn't the Vietnam war - they are not conscripts. They signed u...
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[02:41:31] <exec> 08└─I currently subscribe to Amazon Prime Video, CBS All Access (for Star Trek of course), CuriosityStream, Philo, WWE Network, and YouTube Premium for a combined $68 per month. That's more than enough. No more video streaming services for me, thanks.
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[03:33:27] <exec> 08└─On a related page SAE says, With 100 million lines of code and counting (that’s 40% more code than runs Facebook) and 100 million electronic control units, the modern automobile presents challenges for developers and opportunity for hackers. In its eighth year, the 2019 SAE CyberAuto Challenge™...
[03:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:29] <exec> 08└─Sure you can. Paranoia and attention to detail can both be acquired as skills. They just take work like any other skills. The creativity that marks a genius rather than a clock puncher, that's another matter entirely.
[03:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:31] <exec> 08└─Not in a car they don't. That's entirely too many places to hide really unfortunate bugs. The only complex electronics on my next car are going to be housed in the radio. Yes, radio not touchscreen infotainment center. Thankfully, I'm capable of making that happen my own damned self even if the thin...
[03:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Can Now Reverse-Engineer 3D Models - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:40] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[03:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─Last January, we were hearing so much about the Spectre. And, the Meltdown. Does anyone remember those? We don't hear about those anymore. Because our Digital Manufacturers got very tough. And very smart about the Cyber Security. American ingenuity!!!
[03:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:21] <exec> 08└─As stated, AMD is Advanced Micro Devices, not American Micro Devices.
[03:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:55] <exec> 08└─Keynesians 311 When I was a child I Walked like libertarian thought like a libertarian reasoned like a libertarian When I became a man I put childish things behind me *Incoming butthurt Meme
[03:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:57] <exec> 08└─Moreover, both light and sound factor into gameplay, it encourages players to avoid confrontations, it has an excellent soundtrack and ambient sounds, and the community has created hundreds of fan missions for the engine over two decades (along with modernizing the engine).
[03:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:59] <exec> 08└─I quit the Ultimas after 6 proved unplayably buggy. They came out with a patch, but I didn't feel like starting over like I had to do in Ultima 5 because I entered the final dungeon without a crucial item, only to discover it couldn't be exited. Wouldn't have been a big deal, but couldn't have multi...
[03:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 2232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:01] <exec> 08└─Excellent list. Here are some of the games that captured me over the years amongst many that I played a bit and were bored before I got anywhere near to completing them: On my C-64 back in the day: Old school arcade style that have an actual ending: Impossible Mission, Fort Apocalypse, Lode Runner,...
[03:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:45] <exec> 08└─Rainfall I expect. Maybe winters less harsh. They need warmth and humidity like most any fungus. They didn't grow all that great in OK but in LA they're as common as grass.
[03:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:38] <exec> 08└─Everybody I know is aware of this. Did you just find this out or something?
[03:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:40] <exec> 08└─Private security didn't seem to work real well in the 1900's. Hijacking seemed to be a popular sport, with almost routine hijackings to Cuba, and less routine hijackings to other destinations. The industry standard response was "Meet the hijacker's demands, and we'll recover later." Another issue, a...
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[04:33:35] <exec> 08└─Anyone who is concerned with security has probably heard or read that, and often. Security is a Process, not a Product. One problem seems to be that boards of directors and accountants and xOO's are only concerned with selling products. Security in the military is a process. No one sets up a couple...
[04:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:09] <exec> 08└─Eh that's still software gating the microphone which I don't like. That all requires operating system security and those terms are oxymorons. Though not having apps reduces the surface area of attack at least.
[04:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:27] <exec> 08└─Your point being...?
[04:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:29] <exec> 08└─I am waiting for something to replace this piece of shit intel chip I have. yeah, it was nice, before the sploits and all. 35w i7 chip that is truly fanless (not laptop, just heatpipe cooled). there is a 45w version in previous i7 tech. what I NEED is onboard video (not game video, but workstation v...
[04:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:31] <exec> 08└─AMD is likely doubling core counts on desktop Ryzen to 16 (we should find out within the next 48 hours). Hopefully, they will double the next generation of mobile Ryzen to 8 cores. But we'll have to wait as long as a year to find out.
[04:35:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:07] <exec> 08└─I've probably not spent more than $1500
[04:35:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 935 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:42] <exec> 08└─>they sucked a lot more than modern games I'm not so sure. You're dealing with a big perceptual filter there that skews your judgement: old games look bad by modern standards, and we subconsciously project "ugliness" to also possessing lots of other negative qualities. A great game can become engros...
[04:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:09] <exec> 08└─If you're on steam, check out Portal. Great FPS concept without the actual shooting. Well, you get a portal gun, but you don't blow things up with it. Very clever concept and great gameplay.
[04:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:10] <exec> 08└─I’ve found Sturgeon’s law to hold true for video games: “90% of everything is crap.” So I usually wait at least a year or two before trying any games. If people still think it is excellent, after the the new and shiny phase wears off, it might be worth spending time on. Also usually cost at...
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[04:42:33] <exec> 08└─Too stimulating.
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[05:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Largest Semi-Annual Speed-Gaming Marathon -- Awesome Games Done Quick -- is Running Now - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:25] <exec> 08└─Please ignore.
[05:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest Semi-Annual Speed-Gaming Marathon -- Awesome Games Done Quick -- is Running Now - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:26] <exec> 08└─but is definitely interesting to many "nerds," and one of those "why did nobody tell me these things"
[05:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:29] <exec> 08└─The same could be said about America, a country notorious for its human rights abuses. Let he who is without sin start the first boycott.
[05:35:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are becoming more creative and are seeking out creative outlets and hobbies. Games don't really provide much room for creativity. There are some strong exceptions to this, but in general most games are restrictive and actually fairly simple systems not capable of much creative expression o...
[05:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Side-Channel Leak: Researchers Attack Operating System Page Caches - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:24] <exec> 08└─Meteor strike?
[05:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:25] <exec> 08└─Fortunately the entire internet is not filtered through Facebook. Your ISP is far more dangerous.
[05:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:27] <exec> 08└─The guy sees the horrors committed by the state, and says, *Cool! Where do I sign?*
[05:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:07] <exec> 08└─Make : Apple? Ah, then don't worry. What goes in your iPhone stays in your iPhone...
[05:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:55] <exec> 08└─Be scared, be very scared. If anything happens, Trump will declare an "emergency" and he is mad enough to declare martial law. We will need a military coup to stop and remove him.
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[06:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:27] <exec> 08└─You don't have to ignore this one (but you can!).
[06:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:29] <exec> 08└─It's not like they don't know that product sales ultimately decline. Surely they've got _something_ planned for that billion dollar new Austin campus. Today and yesterday I listed dozens of locations where Apple is hiring college student customer support. I contemplated not doing so but concluded th...
[06:34:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:03] <exec> 08└─Jeff> Alexa, buy olives from Whole Foods. Alexa> Ok. Buying all of Whole Foods. The rest is history. [nytimes.com] Actually going through with it sure was an expensive way to cover up that automated transcription mistake.
[06:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:21] <exec> 08└─[...] Plus, I've never found voice recognition to be more than half-ways reliable. Maybe I need a SoCal accent? [...]
[06:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:22] <exec> 08└─They are not expected to first buy and then carry around a personal tracking device for the rest of their lives ... yet. Fuck google and the rest of the slave masters. We must fight them while we still have a theoretical chance to do so.
[06:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 1181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:25] <exec> 08└─I used to beat the crap out of teenagers in CS:GO even with my slow reflexes by being better at reading my enemies. Then one day some asshole started abusing me for my rather thin voice, and when he failed to provoke me, spent rest of the sulking and not contributing to the team until in the last ro...
[06:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:23] <exec> 08└─Or for Windows, a marvelous tool, JPEGsnoop. https://www.impulseadventure.com [impulseadventure.com] https://github.com [github.com]
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[07:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:29] <exec> 08└─Would not a nice and soothing intellectual aristarchus submission be preferable to this Musk level pump-and-dump stock market manipulation fare, of which SoylentNews should be free? I mean, we are all either communists or true libertarians (if there could be such a thing), so the pumping-dumping thi...
[07:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:30] <exec> 08└─Trump.
[07:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:33] <exec> 08└─The Trump market is decidedly down, as the spawn have borked the hotel business, and real estate is only real if it is imaginary, as in speculative. So expect a crash. It is inevitable. Make your market decisions based on my wisdom. At least I am not Cramer!
[07:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:35] <exec> 08└─And possibly, I will. Because he's got a huge antitrust problem. Because he's controlling so much. Amazon is controlling so much of what they are doing. He's using the Washington Post, which is peanuts. He's using that for political purposes to save Amazon in terms of taxes and in terms of antitrust...
[07:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:53] <exec> 08└─True or niot, 100 million seems to be what everyone quotes.. http://desigeek.com [desigeek.com]
[07:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Can Now Reverse-Engineer 3D Models - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:04] <exec> 08└─In addition, engineers have been reverse engineering parts forever, whether there's a triangle mesh of it or not. Many CAD programs have had automatic feature recognition for decades; this is merely an improvement on that, not an entirely new thing.
[07:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Can Now Reverse-Engineer 3D Models - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:05] <exec> 08└─And, it doesn't look like a model to me.
[07:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:32] <exec> 08└─Google has been careless/greedy with my online data before. Fukem!
[07:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:35] <exec> 08└─A lot of what the author reports rings true with me. Searching my own feelings about it, I realize the things I enjoy most about games now are not the graphics or adrenaline factor. Rather, it's attention to detail, depth, and story. Playing GTA V, I realized the character development and fine writi...
[07:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:36] <exec> 08└─if (game.hasLootBox() === true) garbage.put(game)
[07:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:39] <exec> 08└─A lot of what the author reports rings true with me. Searching my own feelings about it, I realize the things I enjoy most about games now are not the graphics or adrenaline factor. Rather, it's attention to detail, depth, and story.
[07:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Utility PG&E Considers Filing for Bankruptcy - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:53] <exec> 08└─The best forest management might well set the forest deliberately ablaze every year or two. But this would freak out the greenies, who fail to understand that fires are part and parcel of the nature they claim to love.
[07:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Utility PG&E Considers Filing for Bankruptcy - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:54] <exec> 08└─On the bright side, the higher the utility jacks up the prices the quicker the break-even for you becomes. I dunno if California has net metering now, but if they do you will enjoy selling your excess power back to the grid such that they have to cut you a check every month. I know I would; I'd use...
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[08:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:42] <exec> 08└─If you look at their price-to-earning ratios, though, Microsoft is 25-ish and Apple is 15-ish, meaning that their stock valuation is something like 15-25 times their yearly earnings. Amazon, on the other hand ... I'll let you google it. Frankly, I don't know how Amazon sustains a price like that.
[08:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/070214/how-can-pricetoearnings-pe-ratio-mislead-investors.asp [investopedia.com]
[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─He's using that for political purposes to save Amazon in terms of taxes and in terms of antitrust. Every hour we're getting calls from reporters from the Washington Post asking RIDICULOUS questions.
[08:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:48] <exec> 08└─Except that, 1. MSFT is growing via Azure and cloud. Apple not. 2. Apple relies on gadgets to end-users... market saturation? 3. Amazon, have you seen their growth? No sign of slowing down. Amazon is becoming *the* marketplace to buy things online. Even bigger with cloud business than MSFT. So yeah,...
[08:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:50] <exec> 08└─So does Buffet, but Buffet's always had a hard-on for Apple (he is somewhat superficial when it comes to his view of tech stocks). It's only lost BH a few billion this year (but he's smart enough to have hedged elsewhere to make up for that). Personally, I'd look at whoever's een doing massive share...
[08:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:09] <exec> 08└─The most likely to be doxxed (from really stupid detail disclosures) Soylentil has this to say? We have your natsav trajectory, Runaway of too many specifics. Best STFU before your employer or your wife's church group finds out who you really are, and sequestors your artillery, so to speak.
[08:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:08] <exec> 08└─The abbr tag has the wrong text.
[08:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 1851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:54] <exec> 08└─A rooted Nintendo 3DS. Hardly any load times, and access to the HUGE library of all Nintendo handheld games. Since it's small enough to go in the laptop bag, it's there for those brief ten minutes I'm not being micromanaged by some asshole or another. I'm currently playing a pir8 copy of Dragon Ques...
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[09:33:34] <exec> 08└─Today: "Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be..." "Google Assistant Could be ..." I feel like, in average, there's at least one 'could' effing title per day on S/N. Dam' you! I'm still waiting for my Jetsons-like flying car, you hear me? Missing that, strong AI or controlled fusion will do. Eh, both of th...
[09:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:36] <exec> 08└─The orbital velocity of Pluto is 4.67 km/s (16,812 km/hr).[1] Half that is 2.335 m/s (8,406 km/hr). Plenty of spacecraft have moved faster than that, the fastest being the parker solar probe at 343,112 km/hr (~40x faster).[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] [2] https://en.wik...
[09:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:38] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, brace for two more 'could' titles in the pending stories.
[09:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:55] <exec> 08└─There is some truth that a report about what was considered a trillion dollar company back in september (by idiots who don't realise that as soon as more than tiny portion of that is monetised, the value tanks) reaching the mighty value of way less than a trillion is a non-story. However, it's one o...
[09:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:57] <exec> 08└─OTOH, you could just hypothetically perform as you suggest - and be astounded by how wrong you were. May I challenge you to post your suggestions on your journal for everyone to check up on?
[09:35:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:26] <exec> 08└─Controllers suck. Use a mouse and keyboard. Why aren't you picking up X? Because most games made these days suck. One of the best games ever came out in 1998 and it still holds up better than many new titles. Other time and money sinks are arguably of more benefit to you. Why not fix up your house,...
[09:39:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:46] <exec> 08└─It's not so much "when" but rather "where" -- "calling out" is a regional variant, most popular in the greater New York area [quickanddirtytips.com].
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[09:43:34] <exec> 08└─Correct, "Trans-miso-gyny" would be trans hating women, where what we want is women hating trans-um-persons. So you meant to say "miso-transgyny" , which would be the hatred of ground fermented soybeans and persons who have transitioned to gyny, or female. Soybeans aside, and do NOT get me started...
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[10:33:39] <exec> 08└─While I very much share your general criticism (I'm f***ing sick of these clickbait wordings!!!), I'm a friend of the constructive variant. So, @Editors, to help you think up less clickbaity ideas, how about in this case: "Fast-Moving Spacecraft Proposed to Study a Kuiper Belt Object" Same message....
[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 2568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─The debt-laden major economies are busy devaluing their own fiat currencies, and one might even take the leap to say that repeated inflation of the money supply, such as QEs 1, 2, and 3, were debasing the currency. Almost everything else is looking like a bubble. So that doesn't leave many options....
[10:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:57] <exec> 08└─Even worse, some use short scale and some use long scale values. Looking at wikipedia, it seems a almost a tie between pure long scale and pure short scale (just looking at the map, did not count the countries or population), but then there's a lot that use a mix, some use both and few that use anot...
[10:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:58] <exec> 08└─I shout at computers and TVs and phones and i don't even have any kind of smart speaker or similar feature (atleast not enabled) in them.
[10:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 1836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, I noticed Portal 2 on the top 250 games currently played. I bought both Portal and Portal 2 during a steam sale at least 2 years ago for less than $5 for both. However, I have more games in my library than I actually have time to play and have yet to get around to playing either Portal. Ye...
[10:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 2474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:07] <exec> 08└─In 1980s, when computers got really popular, the most important argument for introducing these somewhat clunky machines into offices was that it saves time. Well, here we see that it's not true, just requirements got bigger and time consumption by work vs rest of life has generally increased. So we'...
[10:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:25] <exec> 08└─Nb: This is my experience everywhere - not just china. If you don't test it, it doesn't work (I am mostly a software guy).
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[11:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Spell Trouble for Northrop Grumman - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:27] <exec> 08└─You say that like it’s a bad thing.
[11:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Spell Trouble for Northrop Grumman - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:28] <exec> 08└─If the competitor doesn't consider the market big enough for the both of you. In the old days, at least in some industries, it used to be possible for multiple companies to compete in the same market, even sometimes forgoing a project to allow a struggling competitor to have it, because they had eno...
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[11:33:30] <exec> 08└─There it is: yet another 'could' title [soylentnews.org]. Reply: "Bullshit, it won't happen!". Simple explanation: highly diversified, with good cash flow, Northrop Grumman [wikipedia.org] needs only to buy the controlling stock in SNC to profit from and/or control it. The company was the fifth-larg...
[11:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 2297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:38] <exec> 08└─I mean I'm all for more GPU power, but at this point in time, the GPU's RAM is a lot more important to me than the core itself, because most software outstrips the RAM at a much higher rate than it outstrips the actual GPU core. I'm still running a 2010 era HD4770 512M GDDR5 and a 2012-2013 era GT72...
[11:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:41] <exec> 08└─Having looked up the RTX2060 specs on wikipedia, if you're using FP16 tensor processing, the 50TFLOP of Tensor FP16, and 13GFLOP of half precision FP16 make it a peerless alternative to the AMD cards. But the VRAM limitations of the card are even more likely to become an issue with any sort of machi...
[11:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:43] <exec> 08└─While it doesn't have the 50TFLOP of Tensor processing or the Raytracing extensios, it hits all the same numbers as the GT2060 for about the same price. It also has the funky signed firmware DRM like the Nvidia cards, but at least has some open source graphics support, unlike the GM2xx+ Nvidia hardw...
[11:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:53] <exec> 08└─"Could" is so much easier than "Does". Year by year, it seems like "Does" is getting harder, because it's all been "Done"
[11:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:15] <exec> 08└─For those who aren't quite following all this financial talk, this illustration [wp.com] may help to clarify what's being discussed.
[11:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:17] <exec> 08└─this Musk level pump-and-dump
[11:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:17] <exec> 08└─BlackBerry 10 devices are available for all US carriers and are still functional. Android 4.3 compatibility, no Google services. Getting a little long in the tooth, BlackBerry World (application marketplace) has shutdown (not that it had much), some community support (GCC port, etc). Later releases...
[11:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:27] <exec> 08└─You should have a look at Factorio.
[11:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:14] <exec> 08└─You can't really be sure by look. The only way to be sure is a spore print. The spores should look metallic purple. Anything else and you have a high risk of poisoning yourself.
[11:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 2476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:15] <exec> 08└─I grew my own a few years back. (Pretty easy, make rice cakes, inject spore solution, put in a terrarium with perlite soaked in water, leave until the fruit) I was very excited about my first grow, but misread 5 grams as 5 mushrooms. What a hell of an experience. Within 20 mins I couldn't see proper...
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[12:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:14] <exec> 08└─90% of the movement of value in the world is the movement of bits of paper containing nothing but promises, not actual things. It's wise to familiarise yourself with how that system works, because it affects everyone in the world. If you're not familiar with the concept of debasement, for example, y...
[12:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:16] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is that we should invest in honey?
[12:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:40] <exec> 08└─MAMDGA Make American Micro Devices Great Again.
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[13:33:26] <exec> 08└─
[13:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:28] <exec> 08└─Maury forged the paternity tests to hide the fact that he knocked up every woman on his show.
[13:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:30] <exec> 08└─There's a gene for the kind of people that will screw everything with a heartbeat.
[13:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:23] <exec> 08└─Why invest in bullion when you can invest in gold miners?
[13:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:44] <exec> 08└─> The only complex electronics on my next car are going to be housed in the radio. Not sure about your state, but to pass a NY annual vehicle inspection (required) they plug in an OBDII tester and look for any emission system faults including system modifications. I tried once with a car that just h...
[13:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:46] <exec> 08└─> Security is a Process ... Well put. How is this going to work with an automated highway, where my car has to make many secure connections with other traffic and the road (infrastructure), on a sub-one-second time scale. This is for things like the negotiation for a lane to move over toward the upc...
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[14:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:33] <exec> 08└─Spicy tomatoes are a waste of good capsaicin.
[14:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─The tomato is creating the capsaicin. Maybe you would prefer a tomacco?
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:45] <exec> 08└─Throw them in the Army. When President Warren starts world war 3, those incels will get set Straight. Only the Blood of the enemies of America can fix incels.
[14:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─My wife claims that it's the whole Y chromosome.
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─I read an article once that claimed that there is such a gene. Which people may have none, one or two copies of (from their parents). People who don't have this gene tend to be monogamous. People who have two copies tend to be polygamous, but are also more likely to be thrill seekers (they like extr...
[14:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:51] <exec> 08└─my impression is that human males are naturally monogamous for a period of time long enough to raise a couple of kids to puberty, as long as the mother is still sexually available to them. and then various cultural/intellectual things happen on top of that basic drive. I'm not sure whether this shou...
[14:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─Did you pleasure another woman within a week of your wife whipping that one out?
[14:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Spell Trouble for Northrop Grumman - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:04] <exec> 08└─An Atlas V launch costs a lot more than a Falcon 9 or an Antares. Heck, when an Antares blew up OrbitalATK had to launch Cygnus on top of an Atlas V, and just a couple of years they are getting bought by Northrup Grumman. Probably not a coincidence. Antares is just a toy for military contractor comp...
[14:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_700_series [wikipedia.org] 6 GB was pretty high circa 2015 (GTX 980 Ti). If you aren't running 4K resolution, does it matter? Does it matter even with 4K resolution? (I would assume that the ray-tracing capabilties on RTX...
[14:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:27] <exec> 08└─Is still out there NOW, there must be something else to send it to.
[14:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─Most likely only small, currently undiscovered objects like the one it just visited. It may even miss a candidate or two as it takes 20 months to upload all of the flyby data.
[14:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:31] <exec> 08└─Could This Be c0lo's Biggest Boo-Hoo Moment of January 8th, 2019?
[14:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:59] <exec> 08└─https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ And of course my legacy Nokia N900 and N9.
[14:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─In order to have a hardware keyboard on it. Blackberry make android phones with keyboards (that aren't out of my price range) but they also make a business out of ultra-securing their bootloader so you can't root them. I thought long and hard before eventually getting one.
[14:38:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:42] <exec> 08└─Yea, I hate to tell you this, but the drugs that doctors subscribe kill more people than all the street drugs combined...
[14:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:34] <exec> 08└─Once you find out you live somewhere such things happen, and you learn the truth - wouldn't everything else seem kind of shallow in comparison?
[14:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:35] <exec> 08└─We watched Katyń last night. Kind of a depressing film, but interesting to see how first the Germans used the news of the massacre of Polish officers as propaganda, and then the Soviets did, blaming the massacre on the Germans. For nearly 50 years, if you mentioned that a Polish officer was killed...
[14:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:38] <exec> 08└─Oops. Included the URL, but it got stripped because I did it wrong. https://en.wikipedia.orgń_(film) [wikipedia.org]
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[15:33:30] <exec> 08└─I would prefer they develop an edible tomato.
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:32] <exec> 08└─The American finds immense pride in his diet of processed foods.
[15:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:34] <exec> 08└─Genetically engineer tomatoes to produce salsa. Use genetic engineering to develop nice plants producing fully formed burritos? Immigrants could pick the burritos from the trees and package the salsa. I still want my taco truck on every street corner. Trump promised a taco truck on every street corn...
[15:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139972669/the-unsavory-story-of-industrially-grown-tomatoes [npr.org] If you dislike the tomatoes available to you, it probably has nothing to do with a tomato's genes, and everything to do with artificial ripening using ethylene gas.
[15:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:38] <exec> 08└─I would prefer they develop an edible tomato.
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─She once told me she’d been with a thousand different people. She’s also a skydiver
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─and sometimes feel sorry for polygamous people, who may never experience a long lasting, meaningful relationship.
[15:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Spell Trouble for Northrop Grumman - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Sierra Nevada and SpaceX are not competitors of Northrup Grumman. Boeing and Lockheed are. They bought OrbitalATK for their military contracts. I am willing to be that once the ISS contract is complete, Antares will never fly again.
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Spell Trouble for Northrop Grumman - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe the competitor (SpaceX) would not be interested in money from SNC? Why should SpaceX launch a competitor's cargo capsule when SpaceX already has its own cargo capsule and can directly compete for the ENTIRE contract for ISS resupply missions? The alternative would be that SNC gets the entire c...
[15:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─The RTX 2080 can barely manage the fake raytracing at 30fps in 1080p
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:34] <exec> 08└─"Could" is not clickbait. It's more like the opposite of clickbait. I have no plans to stop submitting headlines with "could", "may", etc. in them.
[15:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:36] <exec> 08└─Trouble is, NH is aimed through the belt, not along it, because, you know, we wanted to get to it in a reasonable amount of time. Hanging a hard left in space isn't easy. Usually, this requires a Jupiter, which are rare in the Kuiper Belt.
[15:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:02] <exec> 08└─It is true that it it might be hard to compare a decades old company (Apple, MS) with a relative new comer (Amazon) and expect that P/E should match. The current heavies are bumping their heads on market saturation, while Amazon has room to grow.
[15:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Largest Semi-Annual Speed-Gaming Marathon -- Awesome Games Done Quick -- is Running Now - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:11] <exec> 08└─If you're new to this kind of thing, I'd take a look at the schedule and see if there's something on that list that you've at least played. If you have, I think you'll get more enjoyment out of the run. Oh, and the TASBot block on Friday is always pretty entertaining even if you aren't much for vide...
[15:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:26] <exec> 08└─For you, the individual human being chauffered around by a robot, the process should have been ongoing before you committed your life to that robot. You should be aware that BrandX Highway Robots have been exploited repeatedly in recent months - and updated, upgraded, or changed to BrandZ. Or, just...
[15:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Can Now Reverse-Engineer 3D Models - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─So this is like a 3D model de-compiler?
[15:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:11] <exec> 08└─You just want the Alphabet matrix to pay your cell carrier to obtain it instead.
[15:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:13] <exec> 08└─I get so sick and tired of Siri misunderstanding what I say, and I think it's because I don't speak in patterns that Siri really understands. (And don't get me started that it cuts me off mid-thought thinking I'm done). The other day I was sending a simple one sentence message (replacing the recipie...
[15:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─But there is no way for Google to make increased profits if they're careful with your online data and not greedy about whoring it out. And if they don't increase their profits they die.
[15:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:17] <exec> 08└─I, too, thought I was safe.
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─yeah and the "specifically on feature phones" is a threat to your and my desires to avoid this iteration of the borg menace. At least windows 10 is confined to pcs.
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[16:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:45] <exec> 08└─artificial ripening using ethylene gas.
[16:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:47] <exec> 08└─If your idea of Italian Cooking is Olive Garden then you have bigger problems than not being able to taste the difference between heritage tomatoes and the those sold in the stores.
[16:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:49] <exec> 08└─... or the fruit salad tree from Futurama? (although those are almost available already just by grafting... :) )
[16:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─Usually, this requires a Jupiter, which are rare in the Kuiper Belt.
[16:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:45] <exec> 08└─Yes master, we bow to your steely-eyed doubleplusgood steadfastness.
[16:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─Good, work that tongue.
[16:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:50] <exec> 08└─Applicable xkcd https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com] Sometimes, you just need to know how to translate.
[16:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:52] <exec> 08└─I would say almost certainly, we would have probably noticed at least one object the size of Jupiter, if they weren't rare. It's also possible there's nothing the size of Jupiter in the Kuiper Belt.
[16:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:19] <exec> 08└─A high P/E in Amazon's case means a lot of R&D spending, it doesn't necessarily mean that their stock is overvalued, if you think they're investing in the right innovations.
[16:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:20] <exec> 08└─Amazon finally has earnings?
[16:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:36] <exec> 08└─How about the acoustic sensor aka microphone? Do you have a solution that keeps it not open all the time? I'd love one of those.
[16:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:37] <exec> 08└─Yes that is how physically the microphone can be electrically disconnected using a dirty cheap mass produced product. How about fitting all of that into the phone case where there is no room? Where does it sit? On the back plate? How do you touch it? On the sides? Is there a micropushbutton small en...
[16:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:39] <exec> 08└─That's 900 million more than the number Amazon just gave us for Alexa
[16:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:42] <exec> 08└─How about fitting all of that into the phone case where there is no room?
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─Cool! I'm glad it's easy. It wasn't but then you said I'm stupid and now it is. Yay.
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[17:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:39] <exec> 08└─Looks seriously improved from this end. Kudos! -- Cats have 32 muscles in each ear to ignore you with
[17:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:40] <exec> 08└─Please put in a 30-second page load delay thanks. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Actually, let's switch to Google AMP.
[17:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:43] <exec> 08└─Not all heros wear capes, but I feel that TMB does from time to time.
[17:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─Naw, my Underoos are all SpiderMan until I feel like finding and shelling out the cash for some Deadpool ones.
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─Nosql is the clear answer. Group by clauses, set theory, and the relational model are for old white incels. Soylent should be hip and diverse and web-scale!
[17:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─If your idea of Italian Cooking is Olive Garden then you have bigger problems than not being able to taste the difference between heritage tomatoes and the those sold in the stores.
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─Hard mode: Fazoli's [wikipedia.org].
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─There was another middle-grade Italian-American restaurant, y'clept Johnny Carino's (and now defunct as far as I know), we used to go to that had some decent stuff. They made a pasta sauce that was quite good, and they had a salad dressing they made with Gorgonzola instead of Bleu Cheese that was al...
[17:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:15] <exec> 08└─Genetically edited tomatoes: okay. (but once was unthinkable) Genetically edited animals: okay as long as there is profit to be had. Genetically edited humans: everyone wants to pretend this is not okay, but corporations will do anything for profit, including manipulating laws and conditioning the p...
[17:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─Jesus likes to curse fruit trees. [wikipedia.org] He just didn't give a fig about them. -- "Faith": The possessive form of "Superstition."
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─Genetically edited humans: everyone wants to pretend this is not okay
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─The PR department tells the American, from birth, that what they have is the best that could be had, and nobody else has it as good. It explains a lot of things.
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─I've already considered exactly what you say. While I have a certain internal reaction that this tampering is scary, I also have a reaction that as long as it actually works and doesn't have some other dire consequences (either individually or as a species) then it would be an improvement. I'm not s...
[17:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:42] <exec> 08└─With the exception of animals like preying manti that die after getting it on, lots of animals that appear to be monogamous are cheating on their partners. This is a useful adaptation, hedging bets that the primary partner is genetically a good combination with their own genes. And I used the term "...
[17:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:43] <exec> 08└─Well, there is known to be such a gene among prairie voles. IIRC those on one side of some particular river have it, and those on the other side don't. And it regulates (among other things) oxytocin. This, of course, doesn't imply that oxytocin regulation is what makes the difference, but it's groun...
[17:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─Does "jump into bed" and "skydive into bed" mean the same thing?
[17:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─The idea that animal monogamy is perfect is the result of wishful thinking combined with imperfect observation. Genetic studies have shown that it isn't. (So did many observational studies that people tended to ignore.) Perfection is not a feature of the world above the quantum level...and who knows...
[17:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer [wikipedia.org] WISE was not able to detect Kuiper belt objects, because their temperatures are too low. It was able to detect any objects warmer than 70–100 K. A Neptune-sized object would be detectable out to 700 AU, a Jupiter-mass object out to 1 light year (...
[17:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─Well, you could submit stories that meet your sans-could requirements.
[17:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:36] <exec> 08└─Considering your resounding NO! a few posts up, that seems like the only avenue left to a powerless AC. That, or simply shutting up in meek acceptance. But I'd rather work my tongue than offer my ass.
[17:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:05] <exec> 08└─Actually, I believe that debasing currency is nearly as old as currency. IIUC it dates back to the times before coining money was practiced...though in that time it was mainly unofficial actions of officials. Shaving bars of gold that had the king's seal on them, mixing in other metals, etc. OTOH, t...
[17:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:32] <exec> 08└─No personal vehicle inspections in TN. Or in OK for that matter. I'm all good even if I move back some time in the future.
[17:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:33] <exec> 08└─Well, that puts a little perspective on a future incarnation of Soylent News -- keeping track of the source bodies soon to be processed into new soylent... I think I'll keep driving my own car and avoid (to the extent possible) areas that are infested with robot cars.
[17:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:28] <exec> 08└─but then you said I'm stupid
[17:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:28] <exec> 08└─I don't know where you're getting your statistics, but they seem way off. The total is well over 60,000, according to the CDC [nytimes.com]. And that is ONLY for overdoses. MANY deaths are also caused by adverse drug reactions and allergies, combinations of prescriptions that cause adverse reactions...
[17:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:30] <exec> 08└─Your article is about all overdose deaths including illegal ones.
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[18:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:28] <exec> 08└─Because there's nothing more private than what country you're a citizen of. Nobody's business but your own!!
[18:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:30] <exec> 08└─The answer to the question in the headline is "No". Not because the equations are flawed, mind you, but because the people who are in theory going to be applying said equations will screw it up at least some of the time, and there will also be malicious actors trying to get at the data in question.
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean, they should find some way to use an excel spreadsheet for all their database needs?
[18:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─artificial ripening using ethylene gas.
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─OK. But their food is only adequate in quality. I've had lots worse, but I've also had a lot better. That said, these days I avoid both due to starches. And they could have either improved or deteriorated...but I doubt it, as they were pretty much at "commodity level". OTOH, I can't really judge the...
[18:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:15] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the error rate is currently too high. There's also the problem of ignorance and secondary effects, but mutations have that problem even worse. Still...getting rid of, say, muscular dystrophy, would be highly defensible...and the normal form of the gene is known. So in that kind o...
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[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─That's a very interesting story to remember. I always remember that it happened in the early spring, and to blame a fruit tree for not carrying fruit in the early spring is rather foolish. (Perhaps the fig trees as far south as Israel have a different idea of the weather, however. A quick google yie...
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─Capsaicin is a natural pesticide humans can, and choose to eat freely. It would help yields and reduce artificial pesticide use.
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─I've had lots worse, but I've also had a lot better.
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─In the short term we could more easily fix stupid by simply investing in education.
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─It will probably be impossible to reach a consistent zero write errors, but maybe synthetically created embryos will one day have less write errors than naturally created embryos. And then we'll have to ban impregnation by sexual intercourse. :-)
[18:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:47] <exec> 08└─A lot of cultures allow/tolerate polygamy. Sometimes for the elites but not for the poor. A lot of people in cultures that don't, still practice it, without the paperwork or the permanency. Our closest genetic cousins the apes almost all practice polygamy (or, for the bonobos, "everything goes"), an...
[18:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:49] <exec> 08└─I wasn't trying to judge, polygamy just isn't my thing. I'm sure that polygamous people can be happy with it, that's even logical. I just have a very different frame of reference.
[18:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Spell Trouble for Northrop Grumman - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:02] <exec> 08└─If NASA mandates two spacecraft suppliers, then SpaceX launching both makes a lot of sense for SpaceX, while saving money for SNC, and therefore for NASA on the next bid round. That requires two things: 1) NASA is ok with an almost-exclusive first stage, defeating redundancy if the competitors remov...
[18:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:14] <exec> 08└─Follows the rule of First Gen Of Cool New Feature.
[18:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:40] <exec> 08└─I didn't post the submission, I just submitted it. You can take up the use of "could" with the editor, because I don't care about that pedantic nonsense.
[18:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─That, dear sir, is *exactly* what had already been done in the first comment that you found it neccessary to reply to. Scroll up and reread comment #78603, if you will, which is very explicitly addressed at the editors. Isn't it? PS: sorry for pedantically annoying you once more
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─Of course. I out-pedanted myself by getting the comment ID wrong. You'll find it anyway, you're a smart guy.
[18:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:45] <exec> 08└─> I'd rather work my tongue than offer my ass. Some silly designer went and put all kind of sensory organs all over my head.
[18:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:11] <exec> 08└─Odds are, by 2030.
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─I'm sure someone will tell me, "But look at the iPhone, they can make quality goods!" which is really an argument about the exception more than the general case.
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[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:36] <exec> 08└─The census as currently conducted typically reports a large amount of information about individuals, demographics, job, family relationships, whether you've spent time in school or in jail in the last year, all of which one might imagine would be private to some people But the census before the most...
[19:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:38] <exec> 08└─And there's the fact that over-anonymizing damages data utility for some kinds of research. At a certain point, you just gotta hope that stalkers aren't gonna be clever enough to pour over census data to say "a woman age 31, two children ages 3 and 5, that's my BITCH EX'S HOUSE"
[19:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:40] <exec> 08└─I remember an ancient SNL census skit which I cannot find. The following question is for statistical purposes only. If Immigration were at your front door, where in your house would you hide?
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─I haven't had a slowdown, but just now I had a couple loads where it looked like a 1998 web page with no formatting. I hit ctrl-refresh a couple times and it didn't work. I went to my profile and it was properly formatted, then went back to the front page and it was OK. Maybe the bad query was in my...
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─it works as it should on my android device
[19:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:58] <exec> 08└─#metoo: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─Same here, right after I submitted a comment. Even got a weird message that my comment had been moved "here".
[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:02] <exec> 08└─I'd like the "Invalid form key" errors to go away. I'm not behind a proxy or firewall (unless my ISP is doing weird things), nor did I did the damn back key. I can not determin any pattern on my end for when the errors occur. It is quite frustrating. I wonder if it only happens to those of us postin...
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:40] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you can fix stupid with genetic engineering.
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─It has always been too fucking difficult to add spices post plucking your tomatoes.
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─Fazoli's looks awful. Is it cheap? It must be cheap.
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─"There is the fun side – you just do it … because we can, ... "
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:48] <exec> 08└─When I say in the short term we can fix stupid by investing in education: * We can't fix a biological mental defect * We CAN fix a lot of the stupid which we currently have in our society * We cannot turn everyone into gifted geniuses That's all I meant. I have a mild form of aspbergers. I can hyper...
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─No virgins on either :) And thanks for the story, it is interesting to hear from people who have some odd man out feature to them :)
[19:35:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:01] <exec> 08└─My wife claims that it's the whole Y chromosome.
[19:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:13] <exec> 08└─Well, there's traditional polygamy where some guy marries multiple wives, and then there's the modern reinvention of it called polyamory which is done by Millenials and some guy named Warren Buffet and old hippies nobody else cares about*. The two actually have very little to do with each other; pol...
[19:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─Therein lies the distinction between social monogamy (long-term pair-bonding, common in many species) and sexual monogamy (not practiced by any species) The problem occurs when an intellectual takes animal takes their bias for the former as as evidence of the desirability of the latter. Of course, t...
[19:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:17] <exec> 08└─Given that there are both men and women that can run around like they're in heat 24/7, and there are plenty of men that stay loyal their entire lives, I'd more likely claim it's a defective gene on the X chromosome. Women have two X's so it helps reduce the chance of the defective behavior from surf...
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Spell Trouble for Northrop Grumman - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─You make a good point that SpaceX launching both Dragon and Dream Chaser payloads eliminates the 1st stage redundancy -- which is probably a bad thing. It would be good for us as a nation to have more redundancy, not less. But only so much redundancy as can be paid for by the available launch contra...
[19:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:43] <exec> 08└─Guess that "RTX" stands for "Ray Tracing eXtreme", and that the name is more of a wishful goal and not an accomplishment? But then, ray tracing takes an awful lot of computation.
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─fuck you nvidia!
[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SAE CyberAuto Challenge - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─are these people using and creating Free Software or is this just a bunch of enslaveWare peddling whores misguiding the future generation to perpetuate their strangelhold on the industry?
[19:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:29] <exec> 08└─I'm dealing with the ongoing fallout every day. It's just not front-page worthy anymore.
[19:39:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Tales of an Aging Gamer: Why Don’t I Pick up a Controller as Often as I Used to? - 513 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:56] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention... I am a gamer, but the last 10 years only linux has been installed in my house. In my parent post, every single game I mentioned except for Civ III & IV are playable in native linux. (I believe that both III and IV can be played in WINE, Civ V and VI both have native linux buil...
[19:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Side-Channel Leak: Researchers Attack Operating System Page Caches - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:33] <exec> 08└─Would you like to do the math?
[19:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:09] <exec> 08└─this is similar to my experience with shrooms in high school . we had picked 82 shrooms and made a tea. it was powerful. afterwards i was quite "zen" about things.
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[20:33:37] <exec> 08└─St. Peter: "Hey you angels! what are those funny looking instruments? where are your harps?" Angels: "A special guy is coming up, besides, we merely dropped an H"
[20:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARP Founder Alan R. Pearlman Has Died - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─We had an ARP at school, when I was a kid many years ago. I have no idea what model it was, and no-one seemed to know what to do with it until a friend and I set it up and got it sounding better than the entire string section from the school orchestra. That really did not go down well actually. My...
[20:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─And of course just because someone is considered authorized personnel working for the Census Bureau does not mean that they aren't going to do that. There's substantial evidence that cops and people working for the Three-Letter Agencies abuse the data they've collected all the time.
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeminiDomino [661] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─I got all of those, and whether or not the threading was indented or not seemed to be determined entirely at random on page load. I thought it was my uMatrix or cookie autodelete.
[20:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─Should be cleared up. Apache on fluorine had temporarily lost its mind but a bounce of the process seems to have cleared it up. My BOFH excuse is cosmic rays randomly flipping bits in ram until something useful shows up in the error_log.
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─+1 for the BOFH reference.
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─> there are several males with *no* females That small problem has typically been solved by sending men off to do dangerous jobs, or to war. We've gotten soft. even good ol' human sacrifices are frowned upon, just because we don't have as many spare children and slaves as we used to.
[20:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─When someone mentions polygamy I tend to think of places like Colorado City [wikipedia.org] which sounds like an absolute hellhole if you're not one of the chosen few. Or a woman.
[20:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spacecraft Could Spell Trouble for Northrop Grumman - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:41] <exec> 08└─>If Blue Origin ever gets their big New Glenn rocket flying, Dream Chaser could easily fly on that. Supposedly it could beat even Falcon Heavy on price, but that is easy to say when it hasn't even flown yet. And unfortunately the problem for them is that by the time they get it flying, they probably...
[20:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─Launch a satellite “carrier” which is a big satellite containing micro satellites. As the carrier passes objects of interest it uses a rail gun to fire off the micro satellites for a closer look.
[20:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─The outer planets have to be in a good alignment for gravity-assist to work well, don't they? New Horizons used gravity assist from Jupiter to gain speed. The other planets have a smaller pull than Jupiter such that it doesn't seem like they'll make enough difference.
[20:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:28] <exec> 08└─But you cannot put enough instruments on a micro-probe. If you could, then why not skip the middle-man and send the micro-probe(s) to the targets directly?
[20:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:58] <exec> 08└─Apple relies on gadgets to end-users... market saturation?
[20:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:21] <exec> 08└─Oh then the personal problem I have is? I figured it was because I don't know what I'm doing and should just get better. It seems you've got a larger problem I have in mind though. Now I'm all ears.
[20:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:23] <exec> 08└─What we have here is a failure to communicate. You said: I modify electronics. Just because I know how doesn't mean it's clear on how to do it for every device.
[20:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Shrooms Safest, Comparatively Speaking - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:32] <exec> 08└─Don't know about Screaming Chocolate, but do know about eigenfunctions. You studied functional analysis? -- hendrik
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[21:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New BGU System Produces High-Res Images at Low Cost - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─BGU is the new black of block chain.
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06New BGU System Produces High-Res Images at Low Cost - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─"We found that you don't need the entire telescope lens to obtain the right images. Even by using a partial aperture area of a lens, as low as 0.43%, we managed to obtain a similar image resolution to the full aperture area of mirror or lens-based imaging system.
[21:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New BGU System Produces High-Res Images at Low Cost - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:32] <exec> 08└─The primary advantage of using a single larger telescope is not resolution, but the greater aperture allows imaging of dimmer objects.
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scottingham [5593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ARP Founder Alan R. Pearlman Has Died - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─What an Odyssey of a life.
[21:34:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─Looks seriously improved from this end. Kudos! -- Cats have 32 muscles in each ear to ignore you with
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─If it's good enough for Eve Online, it's good enough for SoylentNews!
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─CSV works for me!
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:01] <exec> 08└─Fazoli's is awful but I love it anyway (though have gone a grand total of one time this last entire year because hurr hurr low-carb diet). It's basically what happens if Olive Garden and McDonalds have mutant babies.
[21:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:03] <exec> 08└─Well...there's the size of the bucket (native capacity for intelligence, "g-factor") and then there's the effort put into filling said bucket. I have no doubt that millions of geniuses have lived and died behind a ploughshare somewhere, and equally that plenty of people are holding positions and bei...
[21:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:05] <exec> 08└─I'm all over this. Sriracha on the vine! Pre-packed natural salsa! Assuming this doesn't have other unforeseen deleterious effects of course.
[21:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:07] <exec> 08└─I guess it will keep the fucking deer from eating it.
[21:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:36] <exec> 08└─Also very suboptimal, as it means all the resources required to raise such "canon fodder" to adulthood were basically wasted. It also means throwing away a substantial fraction of your nation's potential productivity just so a few men can have harems.
[21:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:37] <exec> 08└─Not really wasted, if the cannon fodder allows both the harems and more territory for the harem owners. It's all a matter of perspective, really.
[21:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:40] <exec> 08└─You're trying to apply human concepts to animals. They don't "appear to be" monogamous - they *are* monogamous, *socially* monogamous. Virtually no species on Earth is sexually monogamous - not even preying mantises, where contrary to popular myth, most males will survive any particular copulation....
[21:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:42] <exec> 08└─Productivity or harems. Which would you choose? How much more defense spending and spreading democracy do we need before we get harems?
[21:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:44] <exec> 08└─octopus praying mantis black widow naked mole rat honeybee
[21:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:46] <exec> 08└─Some non-human species (admittedly closely related to humans) try to hide their infidelities: - gelada monkeys [futurity.org] - baboons [cbsnews.com]
[21:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:15] <exec> 08└─So I take it that whatever you are running is choking on the 512MB of video memory? It's hard to see how those cards could be comparable otherwise. GT720 has only half the memory bus, half the shaders/TMUs/ROPs compared to a GT640, and the latter is roughly tied with a 4770 in old benchmarks. The 47...
[21:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 2060 GPU - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:16] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean MDC?
[21:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:42] <exec> 08└─So basically at the end of this the information you contributed is at best a NOOP. What information do you have for the assertion that it's easy? You did say that or am I misunderstanding that too? I was assuming you were just being a jerk and knew something I didn't know like you modified your phon...
[21:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:08] <exec> 08└─Any idea how any of these processors deal with Spectre, Meltdown, and whatever problems the AMD equivalent to Intel's Management Engine has?
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[22:33:57] <exec> 08└─as long as the japs can be rounded up, it's all good.
[22:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:21] <exec> 08└─The site was seriously slow for weeks now, and suddenly it's back to a usable state. Thanks!
[22:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:46] <exec> 08└─http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/meetings/misc/trieste_may02_mtg/McNutt_Ralph.pdf [usra.edu] Reach a significant penetration into the Very Local Interstellar Medium—out to ~1000 AU—within the working lifetime of the probe developers (<50 years) To reach high escape speed, use a solar gravi...
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[23:33:29] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31040¬e=&title=CES+2019%3A+Intel+and+Dell+demo+new+laptop+with+infinite+battery+life [soylentnews.org]
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─If you ever work with census data you notice the government has a really bizarre obsession with "hispanics". There are all these levels of distinction between hispanics, like Eskimos have with snow. They merit more entries/columns in the tables than any other "race" by far. In general the obsession...
[23:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:25] <exec> 08└─I see those once in 50 posts or so. I don't know why it would happen more with others, when I am using a Frankenbrowser.
[23:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:52] <exec> 08└─Is this a title? 'cause... translation.
[23:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:53] <exec> 08└─I see your poke and raise a Betteridge's law. Careful with question marks (grin)
[23:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:26] <exec> 08└─If Amazon ever had to pay fair taxes, its stock would crash and it would crumble like a paper bag. The Washington Post scam is saving it!
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[23:37:54] <exec> 08└─Now, that's one of the main drivers behind why I bought and am renovating a 25 year old Ford / International 7.3L IDI Diesel van, even though I could have purchased a brand new machine. By now, I am pretty well conditioned to accept that " advanced technology" is the buzzword businesses use to mean...
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